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Year: 1874

Pu1LoLoG1AN SOCIETY OF RICHMOND Col.
LEGE.-The prize defamation of this Society
came off Friday evening, with credit to the
young gentlemen and the college. One sue
ceeded only because all could not succeed
The satisfaction Of triumph was frightened
and the disappointment of defeat lessenec
by the handsome manner in which the COM
petitors We'd for the palm.
Year: 1874

Pay YOUR LIoENsE.TAx OR BE FINED
The City Collector is now engaged in ma
king up his report to the Police Justice OF
all persons delinquent in the payment OF


their city license taxes. Those interested
should promptly call at the Collectors office
and settle before the report is sent to the Po-
lice Court. The ordinance requires that a
fine of from one to FIVE dollars shall be i'm
Dosed for each day the license-tax remains
Year: 1874

We have already announced The general
result of the late municipal election, and it
only remains this morning for us to publish


the official returns which are received from


the commissioners Of election, who were in
session until late hour on Saturday evening


canvassing the vote:
Year: 1874




Being some 400 miles or more by
rail from our State capital, we are
consequently late in our approval OF
this most praise worthy act of JUS
tice


Being also one of the termini OF
this r. II. at the extreme northwest
end of the grant as we'll as Of the
State, we feel that we have a right
to be heard.


We hold that Gov. Taylor in Civ
ing certificates to this r. r. Co..
stating the fact which no one in the
whole State pretends to deny, per
formed not only an act Of simple
justice, but did nothing more nor
less than the law under which he
acted requires he should do. His
legally constituted adviser (the At
torney GeneraD together with many
Of the ablest lawyers in the State
were carefully consulted before act
ing in this matter. With one ac-
cord they advised him to sign the
certificates. This it seems to us
settles the question as to the legali-
ty of his action, beyond a doubt.
This point being settled, let us see
for d moment as to its policy.


A few small towns, each having
other X. r. facilities near at hand,
located along the south end of this
land grant road, propose to have
this whole through line stopped,
perhaps ultimately destroyed, until
they get every inch of road built
they are now or may hereafter be
entitled to. Like a certain Jew we
read of, they want the last ounce OF
flesh even tho it cost the life OF the
victim itself


We ask these people to look for a
moment at our situation. Place
yourselves here if possible at the
north end of this land grant. Have
we no rights that are to be consid-
ered-or are we bound to wait until
every other point in the State has
all the r. r. facilities they may
choose to acquire. We have wait
Year: 1874

From the Kansas Farmer.


We never could see what voice or deformity is
in HORSES eye thas should n,akelt nocessa, to
cover it over and shut out its owner from ut
least two-thrds Of its rightfu visiou The poets
say that old age looks backward; but VIC mover
heard such ldiosvucrasy charged upon tho
horse. The theory that he is less apt to be
frightened when 6aut out from everything be-
hind him, re suspect to be all falIacv. c1so sad
dlc-horses and Wat. horses would be duly blind
ed. Every horse is ns familiar with his own
cariass as with his own tail, and as far as his
personal" fottitude ia concerned is no moro
disturbed ut being pursued by one than by tho
other As for tho s.arccroms that como
up behind, they are mostly 80 familiar to
tho animal that the more fully the horse can
perceive the more quietly does he submit
to their approach. Then it Is such pity to
cever up one OF tho most brilliant features of
this most brilliant creature. The horse has
borno such hand in the civilization Of this rough
and tumble world, TINT it seems not as much a
cruelty as discourtesy. IS we'll as disgrace, to
hide his form with embarrassing tosgcry. No
wouder We estimate the force Of tue world Us
horse power; no wonder the Romans ind tbs
Germans, each in their own language Designate
their aristocracy as riders; no wonder their
descendants make chrally synonym for their
highest virtues. Let the horse ba given his duo,
and unblnded- The check rein is another
nuisance in harness ware which has almost ell
tirely disappeared from England, the army
having at last given it up By order OF the COM
mandcr-in-chief, Sir George Burgoync, all honor
to him,
Year: 1874

SIAN ABOUT TO ERECT A NEW
n brick building this spring, have re-
moved nay DRUG STORE to Chappels
Block formerly Spragues Drug Store) one
door west of Henry Meyers Shoe store
where | will be pleased to welcome my old
customers and the public in general


Respectfully


K. SCHUBERT


Apothecary and Druggist
Year: 1874

The following letter was recently I'd
dressed by Mark Twain to the London
To- Morning Post, and that paper publishes
il as "curious specimen of transatlantic
pufery:"


SIR Now that my lecturing engage
ment is drawing to its close, / find that
there is one attraction which l forgot to
provide, and that is the attendance Of
some great member Of the Government
to give distinction to my entertainments.
Strictly speaking, did not really forget
this or underrate its Importance, but the
truth was was afraid of it. l was afraid
of it for the reason that those great per-
sonages have so many calls upon their
time that they cannot well spare the time
to sit out an entertainment, and l knew
that if one Of them were to leave his box
while was lecturing it would seriously
embarrass me. l find, however, that
many people think ought not to allow
this lack to exist any longer therefore, l
feel compelled to reveal thing which
had intended to keep a secret. early
applied to party at the East End who is
in the same line Of business as Madame
Tussaud, and he agreed to lend me a
couple of Kings and some nobility, and
he said they would sit out my lecture,
and not only sit it out but they wouldn't
even leave the place when it was done,
but would just stay where they were,
perfectly infatuated, and wait for more.
So l made bargain with him at once,
and was going to ask the newspapers to
mention, in tho usual column, that on
such and such an evening His Majesty
King Henry VIII would honor my en-
tertainment with his presence, and that
on such and such an evening His Majesty
William, the Conquerer, would be pres
ent, and that on the succeeding evening
Moses and Aaron would be there and so
on. I felt encouraged now, an attendance
like that would make my entertainment
all that could be desired, and besides, l
would not be embarrassed by their going
away before my lecture was over. But
now misfortune came. In attempting to
move Henry VIII to my lecture-hall, the
porter fell down stairs and utterly smash
ell him all TO pieces /; in the course of
moving William, the Conquerer, some
thing let go, and all the saw-dust burst
out Of him, and he collapsed and wther-
ed away to nothing before my eyes. Then
we collared some Dukes, but they were
so seedy and decayed that nobody would
ever have believed in their rank and so
l gave them up with almost broken
heart. In my troubles had nothing in
the world to depend on now but just
Moses and Aaron, and l confess to you
that it was all could do to keep the tears
back, when | came to examine those two
images and found that man, in his unap-
proachable ignorance, had been exhibit
ing in Whitechapel for Moses and Aaron
what any educated person could see at q
glance, by the ligature, were only the
Siamese Twins.


You see now, sir, that | have done all
that a man could do to supply com
plained-of lack, and if l have failed l
think ought to be ptied, not blamed.
wish l could get King somewhere,
just only for little while, and l would
take good care of him, and send him
home, and pay the cab myself.


MARK TWAIN.


LONDON. December 10th.
Year: 1874

AT a recent tea party in the Highlands,
young man who had been relating his
more than wonderful exploits in various
parts Of the globe, was not little set
back by the remark of an old traveller :
" Yonng man, are you not ashamed to
talk so when there are older liars at the
table?n
Year: 1874

THE Democrat gets off tho following :
" We observe that our Albany ladies are
doing up their hair in a stack about ten
inches higher than their heads. A lady
of the forrest, in humble imitation of
them, has tied pole up her back so it
will reach yard or two above her head,
and has twined cows tail up the pole.
Year: 1874

OWING TO THE DELAYS that have
" attended the printing and distribution
Of the Reports Of the Commissioners on
Mining SATISFIES, these carefully pre-
pared and otherwise useful publications,
have failed to keep the world duly posted
in regard to the condition and progress of
mining affairs on the, Pacific Coast, the
information conveyed through this me-
the time it reaches the eye of the general
intelligence on mining topics, and bring
ing the history of this great industry down
to the most recent date, the undersigned
will, on or about the first of February
next, issue large octave volume, de-
voted to q consideration of mining mat
ters, as they exist at the present time, in
the States of California and Nevada. In
the fulillment of this purpose the author
will at once visit every important district
and locality in these States that has not
already been lately examined or heard
from through reliable channels, to the
end that the information embodied in this
volume may be recent and authentic.
The great aim will be to fill the book with
live practical matter; wherefore, only
such properties as have been brought to
productive condition, or as have, through
developments made, established for them
selves a good degree of actual or pros
pective merit will receive attention nor
will any notice be bestowed on processes
or appliances other than such as have met
with approval after extended working
tests.


This work will be printed on the best
quality Of paper, and be elegantly and
substantially bound, the design being to
mpart to it such mechanical excellence
as will reflect credit upon the book max
ing art in California.


HENRY DEGROOT.


SAN FRANCISCO, Nov, 1873.
Year: 1874

AN Ohio politician was boasting in a
public speech that he could bring an ar
gument to pint as quick as any other
man. "You can bring quart to a pint
good deal quicker" replied bystander.
Year: 1874

T,Or those who prefer a Ma
Il chine feeding the wOrk away from
the operator, we now have one OF
that description, quiet, easy-running
and having all the other peculiar exc
ceIlencies Of the other style.
Year: 1874

A cat which stuck its head too far
into a tin can in New Jersey town one
night last week, was the innocent cause
of a lively excitement. The family sup
posed q burglar must be in the kitchen,
and while the ladies very properly
tainted, the gentlemen armed them
selves and began firing wildly out
of the windows, to let the supposed
marauders know there we're fire arms in
the house. The police and members OF
the fire department were anything but
complimentary in their remarks as they
journeyed homeward.
Year: 1874

A maiden employed as domestic as
sistant in Chicago, who was strangely
addicted to the smashing of croekery
was sent to a lunatie asylum on the GER
ti6cate Of two physicians. 1t was feared
that her destructive mania was danger
Gus to the community.
Year: 1874

Five times each day, from where the waters ol


the Atlantic and Mediterranean mingle to tht


banks Of the~lndus ana the oan9ss, ring oul


upon fhe air from the n2iparels OF the myriad


MOSQUES this call: "To prayer, 10 prayer. There


is no God but God, and Mahomet is his prophet


And at the words more than o hundred millions


of our race bow In alteration. Who is this msn


who, In the minds of 30 many, Is SO closely asso.


ciated with the name of God, and from whom


they derive the knowledge of the one Eternal


Being? We hear their answer that be is q proph-
ct. The answer that Christendom often returns
IS that he is an imposter, spiritual juggler who
palms off shams as realities. To quote tho words
of modern writer "a large part OF the world
meant that there was much of error in the creed
Of Mahomet, no ons would question the state
ment but II 1t meant that there was no truth In
his system, then the falsehood lay in the asser-
tlons and not in the religion. 1t was not because
Mahomet was skilful imposter, but because he
brought God nearer to men, that he was received
as leader and teacher by his people There is
no defense for the son of the desert and yet after
We see the work he accomplished we shall say
with the devoutest Mussulman, "Mahomet Is
prophet of God" Not the noblest of them, yet
one to whom his Lord impaired message oil
truth for his people, and who so inspired those
about him with mighty enthusiasm. Ihree de-
fscts in Mahometanism insure its ultimate decay.
First, its absolute fatalsm second, its sensual
aud degrading idea Of the future life; third, Its
want of principle of expansion and growth. But
with all its defects Mahometanism was an ad-
vance for the people of Arabia from their former
and we owe to 1t a debt of gratitude
for preserving to us during the centuries in which
Europe sank into barbarsm the literature and
science OF former age.
Year: 1874

The following is description of shad fishing
in the Susquehanna half century ago: The
fish nets we're made of strong faxen twine spun
upon small wheels. They were about twelve
wide and generally from 40 to so rods long
with weights or sinkers on canoes manned by
six or eight men, were deemed q sufficient force
for nights fishing. Across each end of the
nets were long poles called brails To these
we're attached long ropes. The net was placed
in large canoe with about fosr men TO push or
row it aud one to pay out the net. They would
push the canoe up on the shore side, then strike
across and down the river while the net was be-
ing paid out at the same time The leads would
cause one side TO sink and the corks the other
side TO float. After the net was all thrown out
they would make for the shore as fast as they
could and commence drawing in, the fishermen
jumping into the water up to their middle, in
order 10 hold the lead line down, 80 that the
shad should not pass under the net Generally
in the early part fof the evening three or four
hauls would be made as fast as i, could be done.
Then an interval of an hour or so would take
place.
Year: 1874

know what to do but stood staring


about as If [ expected next to see thG


little darling come running up AGAR


unhurt.


"Try there, says the sergeant.


Then he turned on his light into s


dark corner, where the bits of wood
lay, and I darted across and threw bach


two or three places, when gave a CRY
and fell on my knees again. For there


was no mistake this time I had un,
covered little foot, and there was the
| little white sock all bloOd-stained and
/ I felt q great SOD rise from my breast sc
| I stopped down and kissed the little red
spot


Steady" said the sergeant and
| then quickly, asI knelt there, they
reached over me, and lifted piece after
piece away, till there, In the gray light
of the morning, was looking upon
the little motionless figure lying there
with her golden hair, as had fancied,
dabbled in blood from a cut in her little
white forehead, where the blood had
run, but now lay hard and dry. Covered
with blood and scraps of mortar, she lay
sire ched out there, and felt as if my
heart would break to see the little peace
full face almost with a smile upon it
while, as If out of respect to my feelings,
the men all drew back, till kneIt there
all alone.


And now far up in the sky the warm
light of the rising sun shone, and 1t
was reflected down upon that tiny face
lighting it up With almost heavenly
beauty and as knelt there in the still
silence of the early morn, could hear
again and again a half-stified sob
from those looking on.


With trembling hands / leaned for
ward and raised her head then, passing
one beneath her, rose on my knees to
bear her out, when 1 stopped as if turn
ed to stone, then let go, and clasped
both of my raw and bleeding hands TO
my blackened forehead, as shrieking
out, by God, she's alive - I fell
back insensible; for those little blue
eyes were opened at my touch, and
voice, like the faintest wind in summer,
whispered the one word,


'f Father I"


That's her, sir. Fine girl she's grown,
amt she ? But she was beautiful as q /
child. Hair ever so many shades light /
er; and, unless you went close up, you /
couldn't see the mark of that cut, though /
it was some time before the scar gave /
over looking red.


But really, you know, sir, there ought |
to be something done about these bill i
ers for the rate at which they're a.
bustin's fearful.-Once q Week.
Year: 1874

The New York correspondent of the
Boston Advertiser writes "The sad
end of the career of a brilliant writer
may well ehasten the aspirations Of
even lI-paid literary men for unearned
wealth. To-day one of our lately most
promising magszinists was to be SEN
fenced to felOn's cell for a crime to
which he would never have been tempted
if he had not had the supposed good
fortune to marry a rich wife and become
independent Of his pen. James r. Gil
more, better known by his magazine
name of Edmund Kirke, having woOed
and won the widow of a rich Newark
merchant named Burnett, withdrew
from literature some years since, and
devoted himself TO the ownership and
N management of real estate, a business
which another brilliant literary man,
the poet Willes, used TO say he would
like TO have been born to, evidently
meaning In his simplicity, that 1t was
not a very arduCus avOcation. Poor rich
Mr.. Gilmore found it too much for him,
however, as many others have. Whether
drink led him into bad ventures, or had
ventures into drink, I am not informed,
but both together led him into obtain
ing money on heavily mOrtgagea land
under the pretense that it was unen-
enmbered and for a series Of swindling
acts of this kind he Is now probably 70
end his days in prison.
Year: 1874

II the third term business becomes serious the
President will hear from the people in tones that
he will not be able to misunderstand Already
there is something OF seriousness In this matter.
Governor Dix was called upon by the people In
New York CITY on Monday evening to define his
the call was not joke, he responded that he was
against the third term. Alter this the President
IN gnt have spoken without damaging his dignity !;
indeed, he did speak at the Cabinet meeting
yesterday. but only to express his contempt for
newspaper clamor. IL would have been easy for
him to say that hts ambition would be satisfied
with term OF service in the highest ONCE equal
to that OF Washington, Jefferson and Jackson. The
fact tnat he did not will exercise an unfavorable
influence upon the republican party In New York.
Year: 1874




DEAR S1R:-Seeing an invitation to
your friends for contributions to vour
noble paper, permit ME through
the columns of the same, to inform Won
how Burns Grange: No. 284, is prosper.
ing SO far as mind or muscle is con.
cerned We have nothing to boast and
only one thing Of which We are at al
proud, that is, our existence AZ a little
twig Of the great tree of Liberty, known
as the P. Of H.. an order that we krow
t" be the back bone and marrow Of the
'''lon. power that will at no very re.
mote day compel monopolists of everv
shade and grade to acknowledge the
poor down trodden farmer to be a man
and his wife Il woman, and treat them as
such; power that will compel the
magnates of earth, to acknowledge the
producer their equals in mind or muscle.
and in morality by far their superiors.
but as we believe this to be an establish.
ca fact: at least in the mind of the
farmer: We will not trespass on your
time further upon this point.


Living as we do, out here in the
we<ter" wilds, and not having an over
STOCK OF brains to commence with, and
what little we have on hand almost fro
zen tight to the cavity, we, are rather
slow OF understanding, therefore would
some kind brother or sister Of our order
INFORM US Of what real advantage a
County Agent will be to the Oranges
Of his county.
Year: 1874

We are of the opinion that the sec-
retary of each Subordinate Grange ,a, can,
transact the business of his Graoya
with the State Agent, and thus save
expenses of County Agents. It appears
to me while we are engaged in pulling
down monopoly with one hand. we
ought to guard against building it up
with the other; the cure in some Of
these cases will soon prove to be as fatal
as the disease.


One itea, more that we seek inforna-
tlon on, is the little matter Of a $500
loan from each of the Subordinate
oranges throughout the State. asked
oy the leading members of State Grange,
when we are we'll aware that Il large
amount OF money is now in our State
treasury, gathering mold for wan, of
use ; why not draw on this fund instead
OF the aforesaid method. We know Of
no reason. except it is the object of our
leading men to collect all the available
surplus money OF our country aud pile
1t up IN one place for some unseen ener.
gency and thereby build up a monopoly
IN our own midst. Whereby the last
case OF this man is worse than the first.
fhe Burns Grange contcmplateS build
Ing Grange Touring mill the coming
season.


Yours Respectfully,


A BURNS GRANGER.
Year: 1874

Editors Of Tn" Gyonyc Adrouce:


In one Of your issues, see that a
friend in Stanton, in this county takes
exceptions to my views of the fence
question, and sets out by calling it class
legislation. We hear great deal
OF that kind of legislation now days,
and if my friend thinks no legislation
at all to be that kind, why then per.
haps he can make it appear that l
stand up for such legislation. The
Grand Master Of the Universe left this
matter about right, and in the absence
OF any Legislation every man takes care
OF all that is his own. whether it be
stock or something else.


Friend G.. says this is all right
What is it to take care Of his own
stock? Is to feed them in winter from
your own supply Of food: and let them
run on your neighbor's in summer, un.
less he will help to fence them in ?
Why not ask him to help you build
your barn, or to furnish half the feed
to keep your stock through the winter ?
He says that every one wants to keep
stock. This is a mistake, and if it were
the case, it's not likely that all would keep
the same number. If I wish to keep
three COWS and friend G. has farm
where it will pay to keep one hundred
| say to G. II will fence my own stock,
you fence yours and all be right.
Will take care Of myself without any
law But" says G.. II want law
to make you put your share of line
fence between us, because raise stock
| only ask you to make one-half of the
fence and this is fair" reply, that
Il can raise grain without any fence or
law either, if you will take care of your
stock" Now where does this class lee-
is!ation come in? Is it not that which
works against the class who would raise
grain and in favor of those who would
raise stock? Now I think that friend
G. is a Granger and we all want to fight
class Legislation, of which we have all
had a great deal too much in times past,
But first, let US adopt David Crocket's
motto, Be sure you are right and
then go ahead and give them goudy"


f. 6. WRIGHT
Year: 1874

CAUSES FOR TRIAL AND ARGUMENT
At the November Term, in the year Of Lord one
thousand eight hundred and seventy four before the
Superior Court to be held ia New Castle in and for
Newcastle County, Del.