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Year: 1879




cured III the cock, to supply their wants,
and uniform supply OF finely ground
corn meal. Whatever method OF iced
ing may be adopted, the question In
which the progressive, practical farmer
is the most interested is, 'How can l
produce the most tender, juicy beef IN
the shortest time, at the least possible
expense p"


To RELIEVE CHoKED Cows.-The
proceedings of the Elmira Farmers
Cub, officially reported in the Hus-
bandman, contains .he following; Ay
way is to open the mouth of the chokeo
animal and insert a cleyis wide enough
to keep the jaws distended, and give
space for the passage OF boys hand. l
hold the clevis in place, while my boy
passes his hand through and picks out
the apple or other obstruction. Any
boy whose hand is small enough to pass
without crowding, can easily remove
the trouble with entire safety. L have
tried to DO it myself, but my hand Is too
large. There is no difficulty or DANCE,
if the clevis is firmly held in position.
Another member said that an easy way
to bring relief is to cause the choked
animal TO jump over high bars, as high
as may be leaped with considerable ex-
ertion. It never fails to eject the Of
Tending substance, or cause it to pass
downward. He hsd tried II. many times
and always with success.


NEArNEss on THE FARM.-Nest-
ness Of appearaIScscuhsnces the value OF
articles which one may have for sale.
This is especially true upon the farm,
and we will venture to say that the
farmer who attends to the exterior of
things in general, such as clean stables
| and animals, clean yards and buildings,
and fences in good repair, will obtain five
to ten per cent. more for the products of
his farm than one who neglects such sim
pie matters. Ifanyone doubts the effect
of external appearance upon values in
market or elsewhere, let him try sending
butter TO market in an old weather.
beaten firkin, no matter how good the
butter or clean the vessel msy be inside.
If this does not satisfy, try some stained
or dirty eggs, or hali-plucked poultry.
Producing a good article is one thing
and selling it to advantage is quite
another, and the good salesman generally
makes the most money of the two. The
importance OF fair exterior can hardly
be over-estimatel This principle is
potent in any branch OF trade and in
every grade OF society; therefore it is too
important to be overlooked or passed
unheeded.


| SAVE The TURKEY FEATHERS
5, asonable advice with regard to taking
care of turkey feathers is given by Robt.
Skene, of Louisville, KY, which, as
there is a demand for the feathers for
making brushes aud busters, is called TO
the attention of those who have heretofore
SLOWED them to go to waste. In saving
the feathers Of turkcys. it IS recon-
Year: 1879

A committee consisting of engineers
Of distinction is sitting at Szegedin to
settle the plans for the reconstruction Of
the town and for its protection against
a repetition Of the disaster which befell
it last Spring The foundations of oil
the houses are to be of stone; the walls,
to height Of six feet above the level
of the ground, being also Of stone, and
the higher parts of brick. Formerly the
town was protected from being over
whelmed by the rising Of the waters Of
Thesis by single dyke, but now three
parallel dykes are to be constructed.
The reconstruction will occupy five years.


Wisconsin Journal.
Year: 1879

A few of the newspapers say the
Legislature is thus far failure. We
have only feared it would not fail in
much that it proposes to do. That it
attempts too much is possibly true. 1t
is surely faithful body of sober,
hard-working men, and it is only un-
fortunate that its schemes of legisla-
ton do not constitute an unit. Its
grand failure, if it occur, will be tinan-
clal, and of all matters, this demands
gravest consideration and care. 1t
forgets that the great burdens, and not
the light weights, of the State must
be lessened or removed while the pres
sure of financial contraction begets an
exigency In popular fortunes justifying
resort to extraordinary measures of re-
lief. If the volume of money be
lessened one-half, even so should
burdens of taxations and costs
of government be alleviated.
If the market value of cot
ton, corn and wheat be reduced
one-half, even SO should the cost of
government in. dollars be lessened, and
for the two simple reasons that the
people can pay only half as much now
as four years ago and because half the
original sum of taxation to-day will
buy as much, very nearly, as the whole
IN 1905. But since we must, for q
time, pay six, eight and ten per cent.


interest on State bonds, and we cannot
at once lessen these obligations, the
only recourse left the Legislature to
relieve popular distress is discovered
in the temporary extinction of worth
less free school system and of the un-
necessary military system of the State.


The Senate is belligerent, but we may
hope that the House will incline to
peace until we have floated 4 per cent.


bonds and taken up those calling for
greater interest. When this end is ef-
fected rates of taxation may be re-
duced, even If the worthless schools be
then maintained. But 4 per cent.


bonds cannot be used as par funds un-
less we first extlnguish the schools and


the ferocious standing army of Texas.
Year: 1879

UNDER the militia law of the State,
which goes into effect next September
police force will be utterly unnec-
essary for any purpose. The Adjutant
General can then call into service local
companies, the organization of which
will be effected all over the Stste, and
law and order will be better preserved
than by any other system. The SEN
ate agrees to an appropriation of
$3.50, 900 for the department., when
only enough will be required to pay the
salary of the Adjutant General and for
service of men when absolutely needed
In the field. During the last two
years g large proportion of the expense
maintained for police service, just as
it was under the Davis regime, has
been applied to guards lounging about
tents in the Capitol grounds and about
the streets of Austin.
Year: 1879

The report of the committee, as to
the management of the Deaf and Dumb
Institution, renders the further super
intendency of General McCuIloch dam
aging to its best interests. The array
of charges leaves no doubt in the mind
of the public that the management has
proven detrimental to public charity
that called for not only experienced
administration but most delicate care.
General McCulloch's superintendency,
it is said, win expire on the first of
April, while, under the circumstances,
it is to be regretted that it does not
take place at once. HIS usefulness for
any good to the institution, which is
the proper object to be considered, is
now a greater impossibllity than ever,
and hence an immediate change would
have been proper. Even spartsans of
the present superintendent, connected
with the institution, become incapaci-
tsted for further service in its behalf.
These deaf mutes have most delicate
temperaments. and their management
requires not only studIed assimilation
but long association to fit one for the
Office which is held by General Nc
Culloch. Failure on his part is to be
attributed to reasons of incompetency
and not TO wiifuilness, and the great
error was made in his appointment.
Circumstances have probably driven
from the institution the ablest teachers
it ever possessed, and its crippled con-
dition calls fer the best judgment Of
a succeeding administration.
Year: 1879

THERE should be law of Congress
to protect innocent territories, like
Dakotah, New Mexico and Arizona,
against those practiced csrpet-baggers
who now stuff off from the Senate and
strike out for more innocent constitu-
encies away out west. II these cattle
must wander over western plains, they
should be branded, and the people
notified of the purpose entertained by
nomadic adventurers 10 victimize any
State or territory capable of creating
q public Office. A special police force
should follow them.
Year: 1879

THE representatives of Southern
''chivalry" are notorious as sentimental
gudgeons. They are supposed to give
expression to the South's views and
purposes in Congress. and while South
ern people get not dollar for their
own losses in the late war and from
subsequent political revolution, they
are ready to give bounteously at any
demand made from the North. This
splendid unselfshness of the South as
represented in Congress declares that
no Southern war claims shall be made
or paid, and meanwhile, with lavish
hand, countless millions are wrested
from the South for MANNED and lamed
Union soldiers. Besides this, the
South assents to the expenditure of
millions more in paying all manner of
Northern war CLAIMS. To sentimental
gndgeoDs we are indebted for all the
woes that have befsllen the country.
Year: 1879

A PROPOSITION of MIR. Singletary in
the House to reduce the public free
school fund to one-thousandth of the
general revenue, which was supported
by thirty-three members of the body,
should encourage reconsideration of
any action of the House. If the mis-
srable system must absorb a certain
part of the States revenues, let the
amount be made as small as possible.
If the friends to reduction cannot
carry one proposition let them urge
another and another until something
is saved. Last year 100000 was
thrown away. Suppose this time it be
one or two or three hundred thousand.
Year: 1879

CAPT. MARTIN, ike the rest Of the
more intelligent newspaper men OF
Texas, approves in strong te,ms the
proposition to restrict suffrage to tax
payers. He says: -


''Votes are bought now as much as
they would be should the poll tax
be adopted, the differ
ence being the consideration would go
to the State in the payment of taxes,
where it now goes down the throats of
the ignorant and depraved in the shape
of cheap whisky. Again, government
is, or should be, strictly "a business
concern and he who pays no taxes
should have no vote. The sentiment
IN the Legislature seems in accord with
these views, and the poll tax provision
will be adopted"
Year: 1879

THERE is walling and weeping pain
fully prevalent in the wouli-be county
of Baylor. There was mighty lot of
good fellows over there expecting to
be clerks and sheriffs and county
judges, and an awful quantity of
idlers were to live upon public taxes.
But there are not enough people to
make county, though more than
enough to be taxed terrifcally, and
we tender heartfelt sympathies in two
directions: to taxpayers who escape,
and to placeholders who lost the
power to tax. 1t is altogether the sad
dest story we have written for many a
dow
Year: 1879

SENATOR HAMPTON may not be able
to attend the extra session of Congress.
He says that the House acted night,
and he would be in favor of Congress
sitting forever rather than it should
recede from a correct position. He
does not believe that the President
will have the right to oppose the will
of the people by vetoing amendments
if ifCongress urges them. He thinks the
President acted proper in the Chinese
bill veto, and that Congress ought not
to have yielded to the pressure from
California.
Year: 1879

The Legislature of Kansas would
have the Times within its jurisdiction.
and therefore claims the strip of Mis-
souri, territory in which the Times is
published, and resurvey of the
boundaries of the two States is to be
made at once. 1t would take two
States to give the swelling, resounding
Times proper base of operations, and
we don't see why the two legislatures
of the two States do not agree to hold
the Times in common. II is too big a
thing for either.
Year: 1879

The Legislature should settle every
obligation of the State. Let the debt
issue be met squarely, and appropri-
ations be made for pension certifi-
Gates and every other class of claims
outstanding. To squander a million
on worthless public schools and refuse
to pay debts contracted, for which OBJ
legations have been given, is not only
unreasonable but unjust. Certainly
the Legislature will not repudiate a
single claim that is just and warranted
hV law
Year: 1879

IN THE new Senate Coke will be the
worthy and able chairman of Indian
Affairs and Maxey of the Postoffice
Committee. Mr.. Maxey has studied
the interests of the Postoffice Depart
ment thoroughly and with psinstaking
care, while Senator Coke, in the ablest
speech ever made on the frontier de-
fense question, forced the Senate and
country to confess his eminent fitness
for the position to which he will be as
signed in the new Senate.
Year: 1879

The New York Tribune is pleased to
say that Blackburn is talking in the
widest way about his chances for the
Speakership. he says he is sure of his
election and that Randall would con-
fess himself beaten already if he were
candid man. The trouble with
Blackburn is that he is backed largely
BY wind, while behind Randall stands
the innocent but persuasive figure of
Mr.. Tlden- II the latter whispers in
in the ear Of the solid South thai Ran
DAN is the man. Il. win be the end Of
blackburn Is candidate.
Year: 1879

The Bonham Nescs says if Figures
WON'T lie" it must be conceded that
they stretch the truth. For instance,
during the siege Of Congress in behalf
Of the Texas and Pacific Railroad il
was shown conclusively that the road
was Q paying investment Bat the
other day at Austin, Msjcr Bond, in
behalf OF the same road, assured the
Railroad Committee that the Texas
and Pacific Railroad il dead capital
pairing no interest. "You pays your
money and you takes your choice"
Year: 1879

II Shakespeare had been an American
and had lived in the days Of distillery sta
bles. pleuro-pneumonia, swill milk and dis
cased COW beef we might we'll believe that
lie must have had Blissville in his minds
eye when he wrote his oft-quoted line.
'What's in a name?" A rose called by any
other name would swell rs sweet, and Bliss
vile stenches would ba as offensive if the
place had been christened Baskerville,
Fever Hollow or Scabtown. Still the
pretty, peaceful. honey ysuckle-suggesting
word ''Blissville" suggests to the mind q
vision of Acadia, and we might expect to
meet Evangelino wandering among its
trees and flowers instead of encountering a
swill milk maid with corduroy counte-
nance and a formidable tongue bent on q
felonious attack on respectable physicians S
hat and gloves. Orwe might picture Bliss
Vile as akin to Auburn Sweet Auburn,
loveliest village Of the plain"-and look
among its picturesque scenery for the
quiet parsonage house and the ''man to all
the country DEAR" little anticipating the
appearance instead of gang of crop-haired,
rufianly rowdies, such as are to be found
in certain locality in our own sweet
Auburn.


Now, we can assure the demonstrative
friends of the Blissville stables, who seem
to be anxious to prove to the world that the
residents Of that charming locality are as
unwholesome and offensive as their own
diseased cows, that the HERALD cannot be
deferred from discovering and exposing
such abuses and nuisances by any threats
uttered against its employees. Our report
ers, in the peaceful pursuit of their
legitimate duties, must not be inter-
fered with or molested. II they are,
and the proper authorities are unwilling
or unable to protect them they are fully
capable of protecting themselves, and will
at all times be prepared to do so. They are
always ready, in accordance with their in
structions, to look to the police authorities
and those who exercise official police duties,
for the protection to which all peaceable
and orderly citizens are entitled; but if this
legitimate aid fails them or is wilfully with
held they will not hesitate to defend them
selves against illegal interference. We de-
sire the Blissvillc rowdies to understand this
thoroughly, and, as their cowardice is prob
ably proportionate to their ruffianism, we
have no doubt that they will profit by the
information.
Year: 1879

session in the summer or autumn. it ia
folly and nonsense to threaten stoppage
of the supplies and a dissolution OF the
government, or at least tho expense of an
extra session. as a means OF forcing this
year the repeal of law which, by its own
terms, cannot again come into play until
Presidential electors and a new Congress
are chosen in $780, There has seldom been
q more unreasoning and mistimed display
of political fanaticism and folly.


The absurdity of this attempt is so mani
fest and so fagrant that we are confident
the cooler and wiser part of the democratic
Senators will not countenance or abet it.
They will not concur in the repeal Of the
federal election law in this irregular and
revolutionary way. and when the Appropri-
alton bill shall have been acted upon by a
conference committee sufficient moral in
fuence will be exerted upon reasonable
democrats in the House to cause them to
recede. We are confident that there will
not be an extra session.
Year: 1879

Charles Peace, who was hanged at Leeds.
England. yesterday for murder committed
some years ago, was one of those characters
who, in spite OF IN absolute moral repul-
siveness. attract such attention to their
careers that they pass easily into
what is loosely termed the romance
OF crime. Here was murderer with a price
on his head coolly taking up his residence
in quiet and respectable suburbs of Lon
don, passing himself off as British house
holder ofeasy means and refined tastes-par-
ticularly addicted to costly violins and at
the same time pursuing career OF burglary
which mingled aud .city and success in
equal proportions. Like all criminals OF
his kind, however, he fell at last into the
tolls. He who had baffi I'd all the detectives
and hoodwinked whole communities was
arrested on one of his robbing expeditions
by an ordinary policeman, though after
a desperate struggle. He was some
time in custody before it was
known who he really was He will
recall to Americans the equally strange
career OF the murderer Rulloff, executed at
Bnghamton in this State some eight
years ago, who pursued burglary as a means
of livelihood, not stopping at murder, but
who devoted his spare time to profound
pathological studies and was deeply versed
in the whole body of modern science.
Year: 1879

Responsibility for the Pittsburg Riots.


The press of Pennsylvania is just now en-
gagged in nm animated controversy MS to who
is bound to pay for the great destruction of
property caused by the railroad riots July,
1877. BY the strict letter of the law they
would fall upon the county of Allegheny,
in which Pittsburg is situated, just MS the
great draft riots here had to be compensated
by the city and county of New York. The
people of Pittsburg dispute the justice of
such a rule. They say that tho railroad
riots did not originate in their county; that
they were not planned by people residing
there whom the county authorities could
have controlled, but were the result of n
widespread conspiracy which happened to
be executed in the city ofPittsburg.


1t is not disputed that the sufferers ought
to be compensated, but it is contcndcd that
the losses should be paid out of the Safe
treasury. 1t would bo O heavy and crush
ing burden to the one county which was
the scene Of the riots, but light burden
to the State at large. Had IL been q
mere local disturbance the county
might justly have been held responsible;
but, inasmuch as 1t was o general
conspiracy of raiiroad employees extending
over wide region, and as the destruction
of property did not begin until the State
authorities and State troops had assumed
control, it is maintained, with great ap-
pearance of justice, that the State, and not
the county, should make compensation for
the damages. 'sf "a.
Year: 1879

The APPLICATION of property holders fer the
appointment of commission to lay out rapid
transit routes in the annexed district is an indi
cation that that section is at last to be made
sharer in the advantages Of the steam roads,
The petition, it is understood, is made in the
interest of the Third avenue "L.r
Year: 1879

COMMISSIONER CAMrBELLs annual report
contains some interesting statistical and other
information in regard TO the operation Of his
department during the past year. lie may bc
correct in the opinion that the electric light
cannot be used for street illumination, but that
Is point upon which the public will seek ad-
vice from Mr. Edison rather than from him.
Year: 1879

THE Erronf YESTERDAY to show by DR..
Gray that Commodore Vanderbilt was insane
was o sad failure. 1t may be possible to con.
vince the inmates of lunatic asylum that such
was the fact
Year: 1879

AT THE MEETING Of the Fish Culturists yes
terday Mr.. Roosevelt read an interesting paper
on the habits of cells, which for SO many years
have been wonder and mystery to the ply
siolosists. 1t is probable we shall soon know all


that is to be known about these curious crea-
Year: 1879

WALL STREET YEsTERDAY.-The stock mar
ket was active, but teverish and weak at the
close Government bonds were steady, States
dull and railroads irregular. Money OH call
lent ut pig 3 per cent, advanced to and
closed ut 3 per cent
Year: 1879

II ANY DEPENDENCE can be placed in the
official dispatches the plague in the province OF
Ccara. Brazil, is on the decline. Little hope ID
entertained, however, that the population Of
that section will escape almost total extinction.
Year: 1879

In THE CENSUS BILL as it passed the House
1t is provided that the President shall appoint
the supervisors by and with the advice and
consent of the Senate. When these officers are
nominated the Senate will be democratic.
Year: 1879

ton law at this stage of affairsp The law ap-
plies only to elections in which Representa-
tives in Congress or Presidential electors
are chosen, and in spite OF it the democrats
have elected majority of two successive
Houses Of Representative and Tin their own
opinion) one President. With what face,
then, or with what dccency can they pre-
tolerable IN evil that it is better to disor-
ganize and dissolve the government than
to endure it longer9


But even this irresistible argument does
not fully expose tho indescribable folly of
the present attempt. The capital point to
be considered in this stage Of the contro-
versy is the fact that the federal election
law will be imperative in the elections of
the present year. 10 repeal it now would
have no practical effect and bring no prac-
tical advantage which would not equally at
tend its repeal at the first regular ses-
sion of the next Congress- The dem
ocratic party will have the same
control of both houses then that it would
have in ON extra session. What, then, is.
the good of an extra session. II the fed
eral election law could be applied to the
elections of 1879 the action of the present
House would be ineligible, though not
wise. But since repeal Of the law ayear
hence would accomplish every practical
result that could be expected from its re-
peal either ut this session, or at an extra
Year: 1879

A law just enacted by the New JERSEY
Legislature directs the justices of the
Supreme Court of the State, whenever they
are asked to do so by twenty-five free.
holders, to appoint an investigating COM
mission with full power to examine into
the management of public affairs. This
Will enable the taxpayers of that State to
look into the management of the affairs of
cities, towns and counties in a manner
which, If taken advantage of, will make
future extravaganza and peculation there
in public offices somewhat difficult.
Year: 1879

Five candidates for the Presidency have
convinced themselves that they have Sc
cured the Pacific delegates by voting that
the Chinese must go. Some of them may
discover that they have been deluded.