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Year: 1875

ZuxBRorA. AUG. 9.-The wheat har-
vest really commences to-day. The
weather has been very favorable to the
ripening of grain, the cool nights and
occasional showers giving the berry full
time to mature. The southern part of
Goodhue Country will yield crop OF
Scotch fife wheat exceeding that of a
number Of years. In the last two
weeks there have been three heavy
gusts of wind with pouring rain but no
hail, in any part Of the county. In this
vicinity some heavy pieces of sod wheat
have been badly lodged, which will in
crease considerably the labor of harvest
ing, but has not materially damaged the
grain. Oats are about all cut. Help is
abundant. Press.
Year: 1875




one wheat, and is now ready to receive
any amount free Of any charge until
June next, giving the farmer the ad-
vantage of the market when it suits
him. When we tuy will pay the mar.
ket price for No. one wheat, vant no
other kind. Will exchange -four, bran,
shorts, and mill feed for wheat.


A word to the wise is sufficient. Cut
your grain before fully ripe, to obtain
the best -four and plumpest grain.
Cut when in the dough, it will mature
in the shock. By storing your wheat
at your convenience enables you to get
your market price when needed, saves
waste, &C., in bad graneries. Your
wheat receipts will be "a good commod-
ity for exchange and advances in cash
will be paid on them at fair rates. We
will be ready for the new crop and hope
to be enabled to prove ourselves salts
factory to those dealing with US.


EDWA RID MURPHY.
Year: 1875




A Po1soNER.-There may be seen da;-
lv on Chestnut street man dressed in
fauliless apparel. with great diamond
upon his breast, vainly endeavoring to
outelitter the magnificent solitaire on
his finger. In German University he
learned chemistry. and not even Liebis
knows it better. His occupation IS the
mixing and adulteration of liquors.
Give him dozen casks of deodorized
alcohol and the next day each OF them
will represent the name of a genuine
wine or popular spirit. He enters
wholesale drug store bearing a large bas-
ket upon his arm. ;, Eve pounds OF ice-
land moss are first weighed ont to him.
TO raw liquor this imparts degree OF
smoothness and oleaginousnessl that
gives to imitation brandy the giibness
of that which is most matured. An as
tringent called cate thu. that would al
most close the mouth of glass ink
stand, is next in order. A couple OF
ounces of strychnine, next called for, are
quickly conveyed to the vest pocket,
and pound Of white vitrid is as silent
ly placed in the bottom of the basket
The oil of cognac, the sulphuric acid.
and other articles that give fire and body
to the LIQUID poison are always kept In
store.--P Philadelphia Bulletin.
Year: 1875

treachery to secure his own ends regardless Of
the nations welfare. The people are not
slumbering; when their opinion is asked it is
given IN tones that can not be mistaken, as is
shown in the late changes effected in our Con
gress.


Then again we are carried away by words
too often they do not express the true cOndi-
tlcn OF attalrS--often words themselves are in
adequate, actions must be associated with
them. Every age has had its orator who has
hold those to his standard who are pleased with
the sound Of words and the beauty of their
delivery, yet these men who SO delight in
fading beauty, will not confdo their dearest
truSt-their liberty-to their chosen orator,
though lin their eyes, for others he is eminenty
qualified for the management. These orators
come not from the dregs of society, but rank
with the highest; Webster was of this class
The American people could trust him high,
tor in many respects he meant well, yet they
could not trust him on the highest pinnacle !!
Wendell Phillips is another Of this type in our
day, though lacking the grasp and compre-
hension of Webster. Phillips must be classed
with agltatOrs polished orator to be sure
but what more can we say? lie seeks not that
which SHOULD be the aim Of Man-Truth.


4 paper in many respects his supporter, on
this point condemns him, speaking with refer
ence to the invitation of Senator Gordon
extended to Wendell Phillips to visit the
South, it says: knowledge would bring with
it responsibility and that is something which
MIR. Wendell Phillips Sedulously avoids 1t is
not in his line; he does NOT choose to incum-
Der and cripple himself in any such way.
Having once ascertaincd the exact truth about
the South from personal observation and ex-
perience, he would be obliged to confnc him
self to it in his subsequent speeches and letters
He prefers to ''go it blind, thank you. The
country gains in point of rhetoric, and no grca
harm is done; since the number of people
who pay any attention to Mr.. Phillips coun
sells and warnings is very limited. Here il
New England, the great majority of Us woul(
as soon think of regulating our watches by thu
aurora boreals as Of regulating our polite
by Mr.. Wendell Phillips So much for th
grandeur Of Mr.. Phillips late Faneuil Hal
speech


a few, and that few will exist in every age
will desire, from curiosity, to hear such men


but the greater portion desire something NOR
substantial and practical, something nearc


truth, and men adequate to give them tha


truth.


! | see flowers that are pretty but have n


smell; and | see men who are attractive i


their remstenesS and yet have no wisdom no


goodness when you come near them The
are inadequate to fill the void which has pac
In man S very existence.
Year: 1875

Nothing exhibits moro clearly the necessity
of resisting the beginning of evil than con-
temptation of the ruin and misery men bring
upon themselves. 1t is Vainly imagined in
youth that time and opportunities once lost may
be afterward recovered at will, and that, after
having INDUCED in a course of folly, man may
return to virtue and wel-doing when he
pleases. This fallacy leads many impercepti-
bly, from step to step in the downward and
treachsrous steep of vice, till reason and con-
science are alike unheeded, and there is no in
elnation to return. We do not mean to say
there are not many, with strength of mind and
purpose, who resOlutely abandon evil courses
and live exemplary lives but they are so rare
as to otter no lnducement to follow their eX-
amples, and only serve to show as how despe-
rate is the risk they run.


Giving way to sinful courses has been aptly
compared to being carried forward by q current
swiftly, easily, pleasantly. 1t is not till we try
to make headway against it that we find how
hard is the task. Habitual indulgence binds its
votary with chain, the irmness of its grasp
he begins to realize when he attempts to break
it. There is just this difference in the abandon
ment of evil habits: that the longor the effort is
delayed the more difficult the task becomes. 1t
is thus made evident that the best security for a
virtuOus life is to begin betimes. The inclina-
tion being led Alright, early habit makes the
performance Of duty easy and pleasant. The
most casual observation of the wrecks around
US convinces US that indulgence in forbidden
pleasures is the destroyer of peasG and fortune
Of character, and sslf-respect; and that without
a good conscience, properly governed mind
and well.directed life, discomfort and disap
pointment will blast every enjoyment. The
dereict is generally an object Of interest and
concern to some one. In how many houses il
the skeleton a wayward and disobedient son
10 him who knows the right, but still the
wrong pursues," indulgence in forbidden plea
sure does not yield the qualification which i!
promised There is always more or less feel
| ing of degradation and Of set-inficted ostra
cism, which all his boisterous mirth, and the
blindness inspired by the presence and applause
of kindred associates, fail entirely to dissipate
How often is he suddenly arrested by thu
thought of an anxious father, a weepini
mother, or distressed wife Their prayers ant
tears seem to haunt him. The black sheep il
the family, although his name is not Otter
heard, is more an object Of anxiety thai
are steady, stay home, well-todo boys ant
girls who nestle under the parental rooftree
-Ec
Year: 1875

There are two great evils which inevitably
arise from the present state OF things: There is
the fear of publicity, and there is the love of
publicity. AS regards the former, how many
timid and shamefaced persons fear to take the
right course-fear to take the course which
would lead to just results-because of the aver
sion which they have to this demon of pub
licity! On the other hand q still greater
danger turks in the love of publicity, which
comes to be besetting sin, sometimes even of
the greatest minds, and which leads to false
ness, restlsssneSs, and to the most dangerous
desire always to stand well with that public
which is sure very soon to be made acquainted
with all that the lover Of publicity may say or
speak or intend. Publicity is also q great
absorber of that time which might be much
better spent. The desire for knowing every
thing about rybody-what he or she thinks
or says or does on any trivial occason-occupies
now large part of the time of the civilized
world, and must be great hindrance to steady
thought about a man s own concerns, and about
those subjects which ought most deeply to in
terest mankind. A stupid kind of gossip be.
comes the most pleasant and the most absorb.
ing topic for the generality of men. l do not
agree with certain friend of mine, who has
told US that the folly of mankind is a constant
quantity" but do admit that this fulsome
publicity have described is one of the facts
which speaks most in favor of the view he ha,
been taking. If publicity could be perfect
there would be less to be said in its disparage
ment. If every one wore his heart upon hi,
sleeve, we should at least get rid Of all false
ness and the world would know with whom
and with what it was dealing. But studied
publicity is very dangerous. When all people
know that what they may say or do is likely tc
be made public, they will dress up their say
| InUo q fhaIr HOID0a n M fbiS ll1p0
pleasing to the public, though it may be thr
thing of all others which the public ought t.
hear, they will carefully suppress. Socia
Pressure" By the author of Friends IN Coun
cHn
Year: 1875

A thoughtful citizen of New York, unable,
even under favorable conditions, to escape
all the consequences of the rigor of the sea
son, was led to consider the case of those whose
avocations admit little escape from the severity
Of the winter. From the windows of his own
warm residence he watched the street cars con
stantly passing, the drivers and conductors
threshing their arms to keep up the circulation
and stamping with their feet to prevent their
extrsmities from freezing. The average hu.
man individual, under such comfortable
circumstances as this warm citizen at his cozy
window, would congratulate himself that no
necessity was laid upon him to tempt the arctic
exposure. lie would have thought, Poor
fellows; how | pity them" and would have
,OiShcd that only his wish could warm them
How to relieve them would have been to him
simply a Dundreary problem, something that
no fellow could find out" And such, it is
safe to say, is the outcome of many a mans
pitiful thoughts in this pitiful weather. He
looks in figure at man perlshing on an ice
berg, and dreams and theorises how that ice
berg can be molted to relieve the sufferer
and if he is of fairly grand imaginative tenn
permanent he speculates upon the possibility of
preventing the formation of icebergs at their
inception, and thus averting at one grand
sweep all the evil consequences which cebergs
entail. Meanwhile the poor fellow on the ice
|
freezes to death.


But the New York philanthropst was more
practical. He Thought of thing and did ii. "
| He commissioned certain persons to keep on
hand hot coffee, and to send out messengers to
treat the shivering drivers with cups full of
the comforting beverage, himself bearing the
expense. AS each car came before the head
quarters of the Young Mems Christian Associa-
ton, out pushed a cup-bearer with a more
useful beverage than mantling wine or mud
ding whisky, and the grateful drivers drank
and heartily thanked the donor. Certainly, il
there is a blessing upon cup of cold water, a
cup of hot coffee must be included in the
beniNon; and the actors in this thoughtful


charity will not lose their reward. To go back


to the iceberg figure, the man is taken off, and


the mountain of ice is left to melt when the


elements permit.


In the simple act just mentioned, there is q


lesson. Everybody cannot stand provider o1


coffee to whole crowds, but it is in tho power


of all to think of some process equally simple


and moro easily accomplished, by whieh some


one or moro sufferers may be relieved. 1t is
compensation in some degree for the suffering
of a Geld season like the present. to know tha
the weather which freezes tho mercury warm
some hearts which, when the thermomete
. indicates summer heat, are at winter coldness
The best impulses Of humanity are quickenet
r by the rigor Of cold, or tho appeal, which from


any cause, rises to the humane from com


mon necessity. Men are and must be NOR
{ thoughtful OF each other when each man
I compelled TO feel and to think for himself
K Phild. Ledger.
Year: 1875

TooTHAcHE. Nearly everybody has a
cure for the toothache. Try this recipe: Take
equal parts of pulverized alum and salt
Saturate piece of cotton with hartshorn, cover
with this mixture, and put in the tooth.
Sometimes hartshorn alone will give relief.
Year: 1875

TREATMENT OF OvERHEATED HORSES. -
The Secretary of the Society for Prevention Of
Cruelty to Animals recommends the following
preparation for animals suffering from being
oVer.heated TO one pint Of water put one
ounce of chloride of ammonia, one ounce
sweet spirits Of nitro one dram of tlncture
aconite give a tablespoonful every hour or
Year: 1875

INDIAN MEAL PUDDING.-Put a stick of
cinnamon and quarter of pound of butter
into quart of milk, and put it on the fire /;
when it bois, thicken it with four tablespoons.
full of corn meal when COOL: add four eggs,
the whites and yelks beaten separately, and a
cup Of sugar. Pour the batter into baking dish
! and bake till brown.
Year: 1875

LIGHT Corn BREAD.-Scald one quart white
Germ meal with one quart hot water; then add
half cup of mOlasses, one toaspoOnful salt and
one quart cold water. Stir well, and add one
quart meal, half pint yeast. Let rise in a
in the skillet and bake by the fireplace four
hours. If you have not hop yeast, add half
pint salt-raising yeast before putting to bake.
Year: 1875

Colonel James B. Young, Executive Clerk
of the United States Senate, has written answ
poem. in which he says:


again that voice fell on my earl


There was silence on my earl


They tell and died upon my ear


The echo died upon nay ear ~
We advise the poet to cut his ear un in small
pieces, and sell them to the War Department
for army blankets !-iSunday Dispatch
Year: 1875

BIrrERs.-Take bonOset, wild cherry bark
aud poplar bark make an infusion by adding
a quart of warm water, let it cool, and drink
when thirsty. This is certain cure for the
fever and ague. The writer received it from
an Indian, and found it to be the master Of
apup.
Year: 1875

NEW YORK, August 14th.-A menu
Der of the Board of Underwriters says
that the chief consideration which in
fiuenced the Executive Committee to
recommend the reduction of twenty
per cent. in the rates on mercantile
risks was the growing tendency of the
Board Companies to either openly
practice bad faith or to withdraw en-
tirely from the board and begin bus
mess of ofhazardous competition and cut
ting under the schedule rates. The
Board now regards its action in max
ing the reduction as foolish, because
the tendency of this competition was
to cut down the surplus of the compa-
nies, so that property was really low
cred only for ordinary casualties, and
not for the great disasters which might
visit the city at any time.


The creditors of the banking firm of
Turner Brothers, who recently failed
have elected John Castree, President
of the Irving National Bank, Trustee,
and appointed committee to act in
concert with him. Claims amounting
to S225,000 were represented at the
meeting.
Year: 1875

A MEETING of the old Literary
Society has been called to take place
in the City Hall on Wednesday
evening, when it is hoped to organ
ize a new one. Such an exercise
would form an agreeable and bene-
fetal place of resort, and there is
no reason why such cannot be made
success. There are many ambi-
tlous young men here at present
who have been accustomed to such
in other places, and who would unite
with the former members and form
a society that would be profitable
to all. Let all interested attend on
Wednesday evening.
Year: 1875

DID any one notice in the CAron-
tcle of last week reference 10 the
ability OF our paper! If you have.
will you please look on the editorial
page of the same number and find
the leading editorial copied from
the TRIBUNE. However, we do not
propose to dispute with our neigh
Dor, for We surely have no reason to
be jealous of its ability; neither
should there be an cnmity between
Mineral Point and Dodgeville, for
there is room enough OH the prairie
for both. We simply gave the fol-
lowing conundrum "Wbat must
an editor do if his brains give out
before the editorial page is finished"
We alluded to no one directly, but
il seemed to be a dead shot" on
the Chron'cle. Excuse US, Mr..
Editor, for the huge blank of few
weeks ago was quite as entertain
ing as your editorial page usually
is. Hereafter when we .jks on
brainless editors, we will make the
exception. We 10 not wish 10 treat
on facts.
Year: 1875

THE ice on our sidewalks render
them almost impossible; in fact,
those who wish to travel the easiest
choose the street. If all the snow
that falls on the walks is allowed to
lay there, they will he covered with
ice till the middle Of May, and trav-
cling be more disagreeable than it is
now. A little care in clearing of
the snow as soon as it falls would
remedy all this.
Year: 1875

The Panamint freight will hereafter
be shipped through this city, the teams
loading at the Santa Monica wharf.
This will give our freighters something
to do.


Many of our people visited the end
of the railroad at Cotton yesterday and
Sunday. Last night the rails were
laid up to within short distance of
the depot site. -


A slight shock of earthquake was
felt in this city on Sunday night last,
at about 2 O'clock in the morning.
Yesterday was first-class earthquake
weather, and we awaited a shake all
day.


Mr.. J. E. Small has arrived home
again from months visit to the up
per portion of the State. He says that
times have been very quiet there of
late, but people are looking for lively
times soon. The CIups are turning out
better than expected, aud an abundant
yield is probable. He WAS Informed
while coming over the Telegraph stage
line that the Central Pacific Railroad
Company are now working ZOO men
at Tehachepi Pass, and will Increase
the number to $500 in the course of
another month. Ii is the intention of
the company TO complete The entire
road between this city and San Fran
cisco before the first day of July next,
and as all earnest every man will be
crowded on the work at the tunnel.
Year: 1875

If anything could intensity our re-
gret at the untimely loss of Mr.. Gree
ley, it would be the consideration that
he did not live to witness celebration
in Boston of the battle of Bunker Hill,
with the soldiers of the Confederacy
and the soldiers of the Union partici-
pating in the festivities. Now we can
understand how clear, how just and
true and philosophical, how perfecti y
statesinan.ike Were his opinions aud
his desires. Vain and empty now
seems the babble, as venomous as it
was noisy, by which that wise man
was assailed. He lived and thought
and planned few years in advance of
his time, and we have only just now
come up with him.-Neto York 7ri-
bune
Year: 1875

EDITOR CHIEF


Seeing article in late copy Of your paper in regard
the will Of Indel who recently died in Ohio the
question in my mind what lnhdel really
is. Won't you please give your idea oil the matter
think an Infdel is who is untrue Now, all men are
untrue, less In sense, the Mohammedan Is
Christianity and the Christian is untrue to Mo-
hanmedansm The Catholics untrue to the Protestant
theory Of Christianity and And 50 it goes Ev
cry Of isuntrue other religious, other seot 9th
er cres other theories other standards The trouble
comes in getting standard fixed deu do not agree The
only way Of the trouble it to me- Is for each man
TO his standard based EIon his own convictions
of right and truth Then judge him by that II he IS un
true to that he is in Ind,I Differing from another
man. and hence being BE notions does not-eer
tairly make untrue in the legitimate mean
ing of tie term. H,nest god aid true men are
found ia all religions and ofa Where
in the church and church. Every mans con-
vcrion right truth and duly the basis of his rei
gion Now our Methodist Pastor here informed u.s. last
Spring in addressed 70 the ffeess professors
that he thought that who believed and professe
Christianity and yet did il and practice IT, was
worse Inle than he who honestly disbelieved that re-
Hgoa So think. / have brother who is Deacon in
the Presbyterian Church. and sery conservative How
ever he dared after great de Of thought to dsbeleSe
the theory Of six literal days creation and expressed


himself last Fau in his BbIeaass His Pastor then and
there called him an In6 which nearly broke my poor


brothers heart And So in another, thai


naughty term applies to us all. What say youl
| RUFUS.
Year: 1875

OURsELF.-But four persons, thus far, have
discontinued the Chief because We enclosed bills
to them, and informed them that oRr rule was
pay in advance, in the future; while We have
been compelled to erase the names of but very
few, for not coming to time. Many have paid mp
promptly, for arrears and advance; while num-
Der have even sent an extra amount for postage,
saying that it was not fair that we should pay it.
But just as they please about that-we would
cheerfully pay it on the papers of all advance
subscribers. The new arrangement aill come
az easy as any other, when they once get used to
it, and the publishers will not lose much. 1t
is mighty mean man who will get up his
ear and stop his home paper, because he is re-
quired to pay in advance, without any postage,
when he has been compelled to do the same
thing, and has done it without grumbling, when
sending for papers published away from home.
Are strangers entitled to more favor than your
neighbors, who are working with you to build
up the cOuntryi
Year: 1875

RESPECTABLE resident of DesMoines says of
Toward: the man who was lynched by hoodlums
OF that God-forsaken town. that if he had been a
man oil any social PROMISE the jury that convict
ed lIn would have acquitted bin on the evidence
within fifteen minutes.