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Year: 1874

A meeting of cOlored citizens who
have been sufferers by the late tl00d
was held at the Courthouse on Tues
day evening, for the purpose as ex-
pressed in their resolutions, of ask
ing aid from their FELLOW citizens, on
failing to secure from this source
what they consider as an amount
necessary for their relief, Of seeking
through an application TO the Pub
lie treasury an involuntary contn
button from the already heavily bnr-
dened tax payers of this county.
A review of the course suggested
at this meeting calls up some reflec-
tions upon the heaven-distilled quail
ty of charity, the manner in which it
should be dispensed, and the extent
to which christian people are bound
to extend or self-reliant men would
be willing to receive it We start
out with the proposition that no COM
munity is moro alive 10 this duty
than the one in which We live, and
that none respond more freely or
more literally when once convinced
that the necessity exists. But at
the same time we contend that where
there are so many deserving objects
cOnfded to our care and protection,
calls should not be made for more
assistance than is absolutely neces-
sary. While we sympathize deeply
in the misfortunes of our neighbOrs,
we think they should show not only a
willingness, but an anxiety to help
themselves. They should first put
their own shoulders to the wheel be.
fore calling upon Hercules for help.


In our broad, rich prairies where
Tabor is so much needed, and would
be so gladly welcomed, there is room
enough for all; we can see no neces-
sity except in occasional instances to
give anything more than Opportuni-
ty to work for prompt aud full wages,
each one thus doing his duty towards
developing the resources and increas-
ing the productions of our country.
As we understand, there was pres
ent at the meeting which suggested
this card, a planter from this section
anxious to secure wOrkmen and will
ing 10 pay full value for the services
he sought, but his applications were
unheeded and not one stepped for
ward as willing to help themselves.
A proper and manly course we think
would he to instruct. these commit
tees that their first efforts should be
directed to securing work for all
able bodied sufferers, and. after all
efforts in this direction had failed
to apply for the charity which will
never be refused. No man honestly
anxious to make a living but would
gladly embrace the offer Of honorable
work, and be that would accept chart
ty except as a dernier resort, feeling
deeply the humiliation, is no worthy
object.


We have jOtted down these crude
reflections as one of Il community
willing to do all its duty in the
premises, but believing that unneces-
sary help Will do no real good, but
will be IN encouragement of idle
ness.


Let those who are willing to work
step forward and we venture the
guarantee that a place will be found
for every one of them. Those who
are unable to provide for themselves
can be with perfect safety confded
to the charities of a sympathetic pub
lie and to the public funds set aside
for this purpose.


nInI I'M
Year: 1874

Superintendent Scranton thinks
that the PaScagOula breaks Oh this
road will be closed within the week,
as he has large force of hands at
work there. The flood at Pearl river
has subsidized enough to permit it,
and work will soon be begun at that
point. 1t will require about thirty
days to complete repairs there. MIR.
Scranton is confident that the entire
line will be in perfect condition by
June 1st.-MObile Register
Year: 1874

a Some Radical papers express
surprise that Grant vetoed the In
flation bill. They forget that Grant
was a sound Democrat until he was
nominated military candidate for
President by the war Republicans
of the North, and some of his old
principles can't help sticking out
sometimes, you know.
Year: 1874

Give the South half a chance.
Give us our limbs free to work, call
off your dogs from our throats,
whether they be brigand Congress,
President who wields his power
for his party, or a locust brood Of
carpet-bag satellites who consume
our substance in the name of liberty,
union and "the best government, y
etc. and with the power of on obe-
dent army of black slaves, and Gov.
Curtin will find that there is Amcri-
can spirit left in this people and life
in the old land yet" The best medi-
cine for our case is that that was
recently prescribed by Ohio, New
Hampshire and Connecticut. Call
off your dogs we say If you do not
before long, the civilized world will
be pitying you as you now do U.S.
Mobile Register.
Year: 1874

A PRovIDENTIAL MAN-This title now
justly belongs to physician who has ad-
ded to the list of medicines new remedy,
which appears to include all that is most
valuable in the old pharmacopea, and not
to include any of the drawbacks with which
the so-called specifies of the Faculty are
chargeable. The Providential man is Dr.


JOSEPH WALKER, of California, whose
VINEGAR BITTERs have achieved, in the
short space of two years degree Of pop
ularity never before attained by any ad-
vertised preparation in this country. We
have too much confidence in the shrewd
ness of the American people to suppose
that this sudden and surprising celebrity
is the outgrowth of delusiOn. Indeed,
we have reason to know that it Is founded
on innumerable and well authenticated
cures Of almost all the bodily ills that flesh
is heir to- Not the least among the merits
of the famous Tonic and Restorative, is its
entire freedom from alcohol, as we'll as from
all mineral drugs. 1t is composed eXclu


sively of rare vegetable extracts.
Year: 1874

Pennsylvania supreme court, fell dead in the
supreme courtroom yesterday morning. The
deceased was argEing before the supreme
court In a case of tax-titleS. He had spoken
but about five minutes. An opposing lawyer
had said that ] Judge Elweu was better Judge
ON tax-titles than he. Here he made the re-
mark that il was amusing that the opposite
counsel should remark this, and then went on
to refer 10 the fact that that decision was not
made by himself. Judge Thompson was going
on with his argument, and was leaning over
the table, when he dropped down, and In i've
minutes ceased to live. The court immedi-
ately adjourned.
Year: 1874

Miss Henrietta James has charge OF the
hat stand, where il will be convenient for
every gentleman TO deposit his chGpeGU upon
entering the hall, and unless you Immediate
" hasten away you may also leave your
heart.
Year: 1874

ly ms the burial facilities permitted. One
poor fellow worked alone for an hour
around the wreck of his own house
which was carried away a half mile from
its place. He lifted up the boards and
TIM bers very carefully, peering inside OF
them so anxiously that a throng soon
ass embled around TO watch his move
ments.


''I'sI HUNTING FOR MY WIFE"
he said, when questioned; "she was in
the house when the flood came, and che
must be near it now" Those who tried
to help him were scarcely able to do 90,
because he would have each board lifted
as carefully as If the body lay below. He
worked until late in the evening before
he learned that ber body was among
those found on Warmers flats. The
gate keeper of the reservoir says he has
lived in constant expectation Of break,
and has often called-Sae attention OF his
superiors to its unsafe condition. The
accident has caused great apprehension
among the residents along the west
branch of Mill river, of which


THE GOSHEN RESERVOIR


is the head and which joins the east
branch at Williamsburg. 1t is in all
respects similar to the Williamsburg
reservoir. To-day a petition numerously
signed, was sent to the company
owing it, asking to have it emptied at
once and the dam strengthened. Pop
ular apprehension run so high that the
citizens threatened to take the matter
into their own hands and break the dam.
The company promised to do whatever
is necessary at once.
Year: 1874

A man OF horseback gave warning
through the upper half of the valley,
but some would not hear, and some
turned to their houses and to the great
factories for protection. One man at the
HaydenviIle factory saved his life by
sticking to the house, but he was mar
velous exception He ran into closet
that stood against the grsat chimney of
the factory, and when the factory was
crushed the chimney stood and his closet
stuck to it like lantern against wall,
with him waving his arm for help out
of breach he made ir its wall. But
man and pirl ran outat the
Year: 1874

"A Woman" in the Woman's Jour-
nal, writes: "Girls in treating dissi-
pated young men as equals, do a
wrong that they can scarcely realize.
Such men should be made to feel
that until they redeem themselves,
until they walk with correctness and
honor in the path of right, good
people will stand aloof from them.
Girls who respect themselves will
not be seen with such young men,
and will decline to receive them on
the familiar footing Of friendship.
It is a mistaken kindness to poul-
tice when caustic is needed, and I
am irclined to think that a little
decision on the part of the girls OF
to-day wocld go far to correct the
general looseness of the morality
among young men,"
Year: 1874

How TO KEEP A S1ruAT1oN.-Be
ready to throw in an odd half-hour
or an hours time when it is an ae-
commodation, and don't seem to
make merit of it. Do it heartily.
Though not q word be said, your
employer will make q note Of it.
Make yourself indispensable to him
and he will lose many Of the oppo-
site kind before he viii part with
you.-Those young men who watch
clock to see the very second their
working hour is up-who leave, no
matter what state the work may be
in, at precisely the instant-who
calculate the extra amount they can
slight their work, and yet not got
reproved-who are lavish OF their
employers goods-will always be
the first to receive notice when times
are dull, that their services are no:
longer required. -. -
Year: 1874

Editors are subjected to peculiar
temptations. They sit at the focal
point where politics and religion
and commerce meet. They have
priced favors to grant which are
hidden for by all the sensitiveness
Of appeals to principle and appeals
to meaner motives. They are lauded
and cursed. Mirrors Of popular
sentiment, they become more or
less its creators. Every vice at
tacks their exposed freedom. All
the temptations ,lay them which
come Of night work, emergency,
pressure, glowing occupation, and
varied associations with the highest
and lowest. It is not affectation to
plead lack of time for the calmer
culture of character for religious
exercises, for Sabbath rest. Tho
American editor is not bad material.
He is Intellectually peer with his
brethren of either of the learned
professions. His industry is heroic
the range of topics he discusses
limited only by the civilization of
the day-his power for good or i'll
simply incalculable. So far from
his intimacy with the current world
being any hindrance to piety, it
teaches him to discriminate between
shams and realities. He ought,
from his knowledge of present hu-
man nature and the nature of affairs,
to take the place Of the ancient pro-
phet-warn and exhort, and set the
example in all holiness. Pray for
the weary, tempted, pre-eccupied
editor-that his pen may be ever
dippedin truth, his soul warmed by
the love of Him who stimulated
humane thought. There is no class
of men whom the church of Christ
more needs to hasten the coming Of
the kingdom Of God.-lChicago
Advance.
Year: 1874

Too much stress can not be laid
upon the fundamental importance
Of perfect command over thought.
How many Q student finds a lack Of
this power the chief hindrance to
progressl How manv : page must
be re-read, how many lessons
conned over and over to compen-
aate for lapse of thought In the
possession or absence of this power
over mind lies the chief difference
between mental strength and men
tai weakness. Some men think as
a child plays with a hammer, strik-
ing little blows here, there, any
where, at any object within reach.
The action Of a strong mind may be
compared to the stone breakers
sledge hammer, dealinge stubborn
blows successively upon one spot
till the hard rock cracks and yields.


The power to classify and ar
range ideas in proper order is one
that comes more or less slowly to
even the best of minds. In proper
ton as this faculty is strengthened,
desultory and wasted effort dimin-
ishes. When the mind acts, it acts
to some purpose, and can begin
where it left off without going over
the whole ground again to take up
the threads of it's ratiocinations.
Concentration and system are thus
seen to be the chief elements in the
art of thinking. To cultivate the
first, constant watchfulness, to de-
tect the least wandering, and the
immediate exertion of the will to
call back and hold the mind upon
the subject under consideration,
should be vigilantly exercised. To
secure the latter, the practice OF
analyzing and considering the dif-
ferent parts Of a subject, first sepa-
ratelv and then in their relations to
each other, is a discipline to which
every young mind should be subjec-
ted, and which, we are sorry to say
is much neglected in most methods
Of instruction.
Year: 1874

thousands of dollars.-San Fran
cisco Bulletin.


OUR COUNIRYS SHAME. :


An accomplished violinist, with
ability not excelled by the great Ole
Bull, came to this country from
Mexico last fall and performed in
New. York City and Washington:
The competent critics of these cities
pronounced him a wonder as a vio-
linist. It was his intention to travel
in the United States and appear be-
fore the pablic in our principal
cities, but that insane American
prejudice against gentleman, il he
has negro blood coursing in his
veins, drove the violinist, Delgado,
back to Mexico. He was an edu-
Gated gentleman Of Negro and In
dian descent, spoke fluently the
French, as we'll as the Spanish Ian
guage, but, unfortunately, did not
understand the English tongue. In
his native Mexico he was Q free man
respected and honored.z In Eu-
RIPE he Travelled without an insult.
finding himself respected and en-
tertained by the nobility, from
whom he received many admirable
presents. In the United States re-
fused admission into hotels, forced
into smoking cars, and constantly
made to feel that he was being
stunned as something loathsome.
Depressed and disgusted he left the
country and made his way through
Texas to his native land. there to
reflect on the barbarian of "the
home of the free and the land OF
the brave" Our nations shame
and disgrace is that no gentleman
or lady, Notwithstanding they may
be cultivated, refined and enlight-
ened, If they have African blood in
their veins, can be protected in the
enjoyment or exercise of rights and
privileges. that the most ignorant
and dissolute white person can en-
joy.


The Jubilee singers, who have
for some time been travelling in
England, and where they have not
only been well received, but by the
highest and best in the land, will,
in a few days return to this country
to be reminded by separate cars,
separate schools, no admission into
hotels, no trial by jury of his peers
for the negro, that the freedom they
enjoyed in a land of which they
were not citizens, deserved more the
name of freedom than does the
boasted liberty of the great Ameri-
can Republic.


The intelligence and nobility OF
the people OF the United States
should be respected in their laws,
and we feel sure that those Ameri-
cans who rise above a narrow pre-
iudice based on color, and who can
but feel ashamed at the treatment
accorded colored ladies and gentle
men in this country, will welcome
any legislation on the part OF Con-
gress that will have a tendency to
relieve, not only colored people
from injustice and oppression, but
at the same time prevent white
people from becoming barbarians'


If Congress will only give us the
Supplementary. Civil Rights Bill,
and the courts execute it, the work
of bringing the United States up to
as grand a height of civilization in
the matter of personal liberty as is
enjoyed in England, will have been
well inaugurated. National Era


Every man desires to live long;
but no man would be old.-Switt.
Year: 1874

The power Of money is on the
whole over-estimated. The great
est things which have been done
for the world have not been accom-
plshed by rich men, or by subscrip-
tion lists, but by men generally OF
small means. The greatest think
ers, discoverers, inventors, and ar
lists, have been men of moderate
wealth, many Of them little raised
above the condition of manual
laborers, in point Of worldly circum-
stances.


And it will always be so. Riches
are oftener an impediment than a
stimulus to action and in many
cases they are quite as much a mis-
fortune as a blessing. The youth
who inherits wealth is apt to have
Lite made too easy for him, and he
soon grows sated with it, because he
has nothing left to desire. Having
no special object to struggle for, he
hnds time heavy on his hands;
remains morally and mentally asleep
and his position in society is often
no higher than that Of a polypus
over which the tide floats.
Year: 1874

In an address before the New York
State Agricultural Society, DR.. Sturte-
want gave his ideas as to land adapted
to grazing ana dairying. as follows !:
when levels or undulations are united
with rich heritage and a temperate
cline, we have the natural conditions
for grazing herd. 1t is we'll UNDER
stood at present that no change c" n &C.
cur in an animal without an equivalent
expenditure of force. The animal which
has to devote large portion of the in
taken food with supplying the waste of
force expanded in constant wanderings
over a scant pasture, or an overcoming
quantity in ascending hills and steep
places, is at disadvantage in storing
fat or increasing growth, with another
animal Of whom these efforts are not
required. Hills check the production
Of fat by increasing the labors Of the
animal, the respiration is excited, oxy-
gen in excess passes into the lungs, and
a portion Of the carbon, which might
otherwise become fixed in the formation
of tat, uniting with the oxygen, disap-
pears. The art of breeding, in so far as
it is the art of economizing forces, is
shown to be with the breeder who best
adjusts his breed to that locality.
Year: 1874

the soil free use of bones and potash
will speedily restore it to its original
fertility. In sandy soils organic matter
in the form of peat, muck, or leaf meld
should be combined with the bones and
potash. The finer the bones are ground
the more speedy their action. If the
bones are ground in raw state, that is
without steaming or burning, and
ground very fine and mixed with three
times their weight Of fine muck or peat
or leaf mold, and kept moist for three
weeks before being used, they will gen.
crate all the ammonia necessary to the
rapid growth of wheat or other grow
ing crops, without the addition of
other substances.
Year: 1874

The Boston Cultivator says: Ex-
perience, much observation, with read
ing and much conversation with farm.
ers and millers on the subject, upon the
best way or method of harvesting In.
dian corn, have altogether led us to
conclude, that the heaviest, hailest and
soundcst corn is produced by letting it
remain and ripen on the hill with uncut
stalks, provided the season be long
enough to fully ripen it. The next best
method is to cut the stalks below the
first joint above the ear, cure the stalks
in capped stocks, and let the corn ripen
on the hill. Said a miller, who ground
much corn in the valley of the Connec-
ticnt river, 81 can tell as soon as turn
a bag of corn into the hopper whether
it was cut Up too dry, or whether it
ripe1,ed on the hill, both by the looks,
and by the handling of it, As the corn
is decidedly better when it ripens on
the hill This has always seemed to
us sensible and ergo, reasonable.
Year: 1874

The roots of the raspberry are peren-
nial, while the stems or canes are bien-
nial. The canes that bore fruit the
past summer sprang from the ground
the previous season, and the canes that
will produce the crop next season
sprang from the ground during the
growing season of 1874. All varieties
of the raspberry may be prcpogated by
planting the seed, by planting pieces Of
roots' and by burying the ends of the
canes in mellow soil, when they will
take root and thus form complete
arch like the letter u inverted thus n
with both ends thoroughly rooted in
the ground. After the top ends have
taken root the cane may be severed
from the parent root and be trans
planted. So much for the habits of
the raspberry, whether the fruit is red
or black.
Year: 1874

Jew" Svo Paper, so eeDtA


BY the author Of Joseph the Jew story Of
promise fail be received With by the reading
public No purely higher claims popularity than


"A Sack OF Gold" The plot original and striking the characters
interesting varied well while the narrative IN which
story Gufoed the reader from beginning
will greatly enhance the aubos reputation and place
her in the foremost rank Of American writers Of fiction.
Year: 1874

and / really believe the taste dis.
played woull give Madame Demo.
rest commissions If not paralysis--they
sit and sit and do nothing else again.
Sometimes they speak. and it's wonder
full what commonplaces can be uttered
and how little can be said when the
Brazilian mouth does open. So far as
female employment is concerned; Bra
lillian girl labor for her support No.
indeedl She would rather have but one
dress and turn it on holidays. Her
father would sell his shirt first, and then
button up his seedy coat. Her mother
would die of modification. And SO they
live, poor and vain, aping an aristocracy
by mock attempt and show, the cheap
and tawdry emptiness Of what is ridicu-
lous. The wealthier, and not less vain,
are surrounded with an atmosphere Of
frigid hauteur, through which only mem
bers Of the clique have the courage to
attempt to penetrate. The Brazilian
woman develops and natures young, and
becomes old while still young. Her moral
sensibilities become obscured by the life
which exists about her, and into which
she may possibly at times get a glance
through the customs Of her father or her
brothers.
Year: 1874

From the Commerce (Mo.) Dispatch.l


A young man, an acquaintance o.
ours, was some three weeks ago visiting
some friends at Cape Girrdeau. While
there frolcking young lady OF the city
and himse If engaged in scnffie. To extrl
cate herself from his fearful grasp she
was compelled to bite him. The bite
was only sufficient to start the blood a
little, aud he brushed it of, deeming it
more a work of affection than evidence
of any NAL a pense.


For day or two his hand was ex'
posed to the cold air, and the result was
he was compelled to go to bed and nurse
a swelled and inaamed arm. For four
long weeks he was compelled 70 remain
there, and in the moments of his deli
rum he would exclaim


I" / would ten times rather be bit by
the rattlesnake that bit the man at the
Cape fair than be bit by woman" a