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Year: 1874

The PHOSPHATE BUSINESS. s.-The competi-
ton in the. phosphate business, now going on,
if it is not the 6 life of trade" IS surely the
spice of advertising And whatever else may
result from the rivalry between the local and
the foreign" manufacturers, we think that
one thing has followed, to wit The cheapen-
ing of fertilizers to the farmers We do not
pretend to know any thing about the quality of
our homemade grades-whether they have
sand In them or whether the foreign" dealers
are merel y trying to throw sand in the eyes Of
the public-but their manufacturers are GER
talnly awarded the credit Of breaking down the
high price combination. They have made a
sufficient market value for their articles to do
this much, if not more. The phosphates now
attracting the most attention in the market
are offered at price one-half lcss-Onc third,
we feel sure-than the old grades have been
selling for, thus reducing, by this much, one
OF the farmer heaviest items of expense. 1t
Is to be hoped now that the purchasers will
not have it to say that it takes their crops to
pay tor their fertilizers, as has been so often
said in times past We are aware that the
value OF the article is estimated by its results
in comparison with the price paid. So arc
the manufacturers, hence we take it for granted
that the stardard is kept up by all respectable
makers of fertilizers, whether at home or
abroad. Any who think they can sell low
grade article because it is low price will only
fool themselves-not the farmers. We refer,
therefore, only to those brands made by firms
who have made their reputation by the quality
of their fertilizers.


With reference to the home made fertili-
zers We note rapid increase in the brands.
There are now no less than five different manu-
facturers in this State below Smyrna, in this
county, and there are others in prospect.
Some of these brands have good reputation,
particularly the one manufactured here.
Year: 1874

We have never known the ladies of any town
OF which We are acquainted to evince better
u as good tastO in the selections of shoes n,
do those OF Smyrna. We candidly believe that
we sell more Button Balls; than any three
dealers (South of WilmngtOn) in the State.
Now how are we enabled to do this. Because
soon after opening we found this class of our
goods to be especially saeable; hence we have
OF fifteen different styles at almost as MANY
prices. We always thought that Button Shoes
are to ladies' what Silk Hats are to gentlemen
they are never fully dressed without them.
Call at Johnson's and examine.
Year: 1874

We recommend all our readers to call on
Wanamaker 4 Brown, at Sixth and Market
Streets Philadelphia, or send to their house
for a suit of clothing being confident that thew
will not be disappointed Their strong points
are elegance, excellence, and cheapness.
Year: 1874

SAM. TOWNSEND AND THE PEACH SHIP
MENTS.-Sam. Townsend's 8 peach railroad res
OlutiOns, passed at Dover last week, in which
he expressed n wish to impose retaatOry
taxes on the Del. r. r. Co. for not taxing
the Maryland farmers for carrying their
fruit, does not meet with favor. A correspOn-
dent OF the Erery Erening, writing from Mid
detOwn, says:


The shippers here say they do not wish the
citizens of Maryland to pay any part of their
tax, and think it would be unjust to make any
such determinations, besides it is a well known
fact that the courts have decided that State
has no right to collect any such taxes.


Aud 1t would be- better to get the Legisla-
ture to repeal tho present tax law compelling
the r., w. Il B. to pay into the State Trea-
sury the sum of $4,000 annually, and sub.
stitute some fair and just tax upon the road
than to make war upon then, for it is we'll
settled fact that while our Legislature will
persist III collecting such an unreasonable
amount from the railroad company the freight.
erS and travellers upon the road must pay it
IN some shape to the company and there is no
way 70 avoid it.


The p, w. Il B. Railroad now pay tax of
$4,000 upon about twenty five miles or less of
road, as no tax can be collected from the Della.
ware Railroad by the terms of its charter, and
so long as this large amount must be paid by
the road the shippers must pay at least one
ceat per basket upon their peaches. They say
it would be much more fair to tax every basket
Of peaches raised in the State, if peaches must
pay the tax.


The foelirg here is that it would have been
much better at this meeting or some other one
to have passed resolution declaring that they
would not send any man to the Legislature
who would not vote for fair and Just tax upon
the road, thereby relieving the peach growers
who ship on the Delaware Railroad. The
fruit growers have it in their own hands to
send to the Legislature who they see proper,
and intend to do so.
Year: 1874




DR.. Livingstone is said to have
expressed the utmost contempt for
lions. "You talk about tho maj
esty of the lion," said he, chatting
one day at a party in London with
Sir Edwin Landseer, "but you do
not know the beast. There is no
more majesty about him in the
forest than there is in that poodle.
1t is all poetry. Lions are arrant
cowards-vcry cowardly, sucaking
beasts. You can hardly tell a lion
from a donkey when you come
upon him in the forest; and If you
come upon a lion suddenly, his
first impulse is to tuck his tail be-
tween his legs and bolt. lie will
spring upon you if he comes upon
you unawarcs and can have time
to crouch, but II . man has the
courage to look lion IN the face,


you need not even cock your rifle. y
Year: 1874

PRESIDENT GRANT seems to have de-
sisted from his exhilerating pastime Of
paying off the national debt" which
the Radical organs went into raptures
about during the Presidential campaign,
aud now either he or somebody else is
piling up again a good deal more than
was taken of for political effect in the
summer Of 1872. 1t may be that upon
JAY CooKEs theory, that "a national
debt is a national blessing" the Presi-
dent designed to give the nation "a
Christmas gift" in the increase CT the
-blsssisg" more than eight millions Of
dollars during the month OF December
Just past. but it should have been re-
membered that many Of Mr.. CookR's
pet theories have been very
rudely dashed to the ground
during the past few months and his
reputation for financial wisdom had
perished even before the fall of his
house. Realizing enormous revenues
from taxation, the present party in
power 10 still increasing the public debt,
and the Secretary OF the Treasury re-
eommends the restoration OF certain
special taxes that were very grievously
borne and excited much complaint
even during the peudency OF the civil
war when the aroused passion OF the
people made them willing 10 submit to
any e1ac,ion no matter how severe
That the finances Of the country are
shsmefully mismsusged aud that the
most outrageous extravegance prevails
in every department. Of the government
needs no stronger proof than is afford
ed BY the monthly increase OF the pub
lie debt.
Year: 1874

ceeds OF general taxation Q free high
school in one locality ip preference to
any other, and it is because the impres'
sion has gone abroad that the present
so-called normal schools are merely
local high schools supported at State
expense and contributing very inade-
oustely to the education of actual
teachers, that the people are becoming
unwilling to make further appropria-
tions for their support.
Year: 1874

TIE TURF,


TIE BUFFALO MEETING.
The following is summary OF the recent
races at Buffalo, which were in every respect
the most remarkable exhibitions of tfo:ting-
speed that have ever been giyeu in this country:
Year: 1874

"Small size this is the echo of most


mems wishes. They want some one to


pet, to fOndle, to protect, they say and


this is truth when they feel good ma


tured. Cynical women say they want


some one they can tyrannize over. but


we are not inclined to take a cynical


view of the subject.


Very few men Willfully tyrannize


over their wives and children, but the
tyranny IS there, nevertheless, and in
tellectual men, such as the world ad-
mlre, are most prone to exercise it.
They are so wrapped in their own plans,
theories and speculatiOns they do not
discover the fact that their own house
holds are famishing for the bread of
love, and fainting for the gushing
springs of sympathy. They are so ac-
customed to adulatlon abroad that the
simple home affection seems tame and
spiritless; as the purest water of the
deepest well is tasteless to one accus-
toned to the sparkling and burning.
but poisonous draughts of intoxication.
In our zeal to vindicate the "lords of
creation" from the charge of wilful
tyranny we are leaving our two bache-
lors and their imaginary wives too long
neglected.


0udIl SIZE is u MAN fancy, not the
knowledge. 1t is an al
most universal fancy. The larger, the
more burly the man, the more
sure lie is to prefer a small-sized woman,
" am determined to have a wife whom
| can pick up in my arms and carry her
over all the. rough Places" said young
farmer, whose sOftest tones sounded
like a clap of thunder. As he spoke he
snatched the largest and heaviest girl
III all his acquaintance, and lifted her
over the brook. His words are echoed
in the selection made by most large
sized and stentorian- voiced men. Their
ideal is of something the reverse of them
selves, and thus fragile figures and low
tones are to- them the perfection of
feminine attraction. Our solution of
the problem lies in the supposition that
it is an uneducated action of philopro
shows in the desire for
some small creature to pet, to f0ndle, to
Those who have watched the
world for fifty years know how often is
enacted the sad tragedy which may be
named, The Bride of Year.
Year: 1874

"A Canada man tied his dog to the end
OF a rear car the other day, and then bet
the beast could keep up with the train.
Strange to say, when they got into De-
trolt, the, dog was ahead-there was
nothing else left of him. "
Year: 1874

How comfortable for young wife to
Eeel that her husband is bounfifnI
DroVfllder, and that she will never want
Tor the necessaries of life. A newly
married man was recently directed hy
us wife to order some yeast, and not
having a very well defined idea of the
lrtIcle, he told the baker to send nm
'hree dollars worth. At nine o'clock
leXt morning three men might have
3een seen tugging q cask of Yeast nm


he front steps Of that mans house.
Year: 1874

Put the negro, as citizen and a voter
as he is, and must remain, and soon par
ties will be divided, not on the color
line, but on principle. Then we shall
have no complaint of sectional inter
ference
Year: 1874

CARE OF HORsEs.-All horses must
not feed IN the same proportions, with
out regard to their ages, their constitu-
tlons and their work. The imDrODrietv
OF such a practice is self-evident; vet It
IS constantly done, and is the basis of
disease OF every kind.


Never use bad hay on account of it's
cheapness, because there is no proper
nOurishment in it.


Damaged cornisexceedinglyini injurious,
because it brings on Inflammation of the
bowels and skin diseases.


Chaffis better for old horses than had.
because they can chew and digest It
better. ~


Mis-, chaff, corn or beans, and do not
give the latter alone, because it makes
the horse chew his food more and digest
it better. '''
Hay or grass alone will not support q
horse under hard work, because there
is not sufficient nutritive body in either
When horse is worked hard its food
should be chiefly oats-if not worked
hard its food should be chiefly hayW
because oats supply more nourishment
and fiesh,malzing material than any
other kind of food hay not so much.
Year: 1874

RAILROAD INTERESTS.


The report of the Railroad Commission
ers gives o detailed account of the pro-
gress and condition of the important rail-
road interests of the State, and makes rec
concentrations to which your attention is
directed. lnasmuch as the Board of Rail-
road Commissioners must, from the grow
Ing Importance OF railroads, be charged
with as high and delicate duties, within
the sphere in which they act, as are oppos-
ed even upon the courts of justice, | suo-
gest whether it would not better comport
with the dignity of the STATE and the inde.
pendence of the office, if the salaries of the
Commissioners should be paid from the
State Treasury, and the State itself should
assess the several railroad corporations
for the amount of the same


Railroads have become SO indispensable
an agency in the material development OF
a state, and exert 50 important an influ-
ence over the public interests, as to make
the laws relating to them worthy Of your
thoughtful attention. The pressing neces-
sity tor the extension of new railroads into
large sections of our State, as yet partially
or wholly destitute Of means of communi.
cation so essential to their convenience and
development, and the partial competition az
fOrded by cOnceptional facilities for wate,
communication, have thus far made re.
strictions on railroad corporations in the
public Interest, seem to be less essential
than IN many other States. The fact thai
such u feeling Of confidence exists to j
great extent, makes the present time pecu
marry favorable for such careful revision
OF our railroad legislation as will, on the
one land, impose upon railway corpora.
Year: 1874

THE weather has been warm for the sea son with some clouds and very light sprinkles of rain. If the frost holds off a couple of days longer, we understand the bean crop in this vicinity will be per rfectly matured. The crop is reported to be quite large
Year: 1874

TIE public will notice that NJ. w. Stew ,Snider & Buck, in the business Of mer- chandising at Camp Grant. They intend to keep first class goods of every Kind needed in the country and sell them at low prices for cash, or any trade they may have use for.
Year: 1874

LATE last week and early this, the visitors from here to the annual feast at Magdalena, returned, all reporting pleas ant time without an accident going or coming and none while there.
Year: 1874

OUR patrons can afford to bear with political matter for two weeks more. It IS profitable to this office, and has a certain kind of interest to the people generally. We know of no document printed for many day, which called out more local remarks than Judge Hayden's address printed last week in THE CITIZEN.
Year: 1874

A BENEVOLENT WoRK.-There is not
much romance but good deal of benev-
olence in work undertaken by two ac-
complished young ladies from Ryegate,
who are now on the second winter of la
Dor in teaching colored people, young
and old, in Alexandra, Va. Leaving
their beautiful home to live in an obscure
part of that not brilliant old city, una
BILE to find board except among the still
"despised," class for whom they came,
they have toiled on, cheered by the mu-
sic of their own piano, and the sweeter
melody of the voices they have trained
to speak the name and sing the praise OF
Him whose love constrains them. They
have more than a hundred pupils, and
have organized several hundred into a
Band of Hope for temperance. One
now "goes to the front" to aid their broth
ers in inaugurating a similar work at
Beaufort, n. C.
Year: 1874

Two SIDES OF THE BRAIN.-We must
admit that the two sides of the brain are
completely alike in their functions, and
that one of the two alone is entirely suf-
ficient to perform the functions attributed
to both. l can show you that the pres
ent mode of education developes only
one-half the brain. 1t is very great
mistake we commit in not teaching our
children to make use of the two sides of
the body indifferentIy. We write with
one hand, we should learn to use both.
We make use of one side of the body
fer great many things, especially in
gestures. 1t is great pity, because in
developing certain sides of the body we
develop certain sides of the brain, and it
would be grest gain if we had two
brains to work with. In that case we
would not then be deprived of the power
of speech through disease of the brain,
for we could use the unaffected side. 1t
is just so with the body.-Dr. Bro,on. Sc
guard.
Year: 1874

A very dangerous, yet very common
winter practice, is that of suddenly
warming when very cold. We frequent
ly read in the papers of little children
falling down dead on suddenly going to
heated stove after a long walk. 9th
ers are often injured seriously who have
no guess at the true cause of the difficult
ty. Every intelligent person knows that
frozen limb will become dead flesh if
suddenly warmed. The temperature
must be raised very slowly. The limb
must be put into cold instead of warm
water, or rubbed with snow. When
limbs are half frozen, they cannot resist
the injurious effect of sudden warming.
Commissions in children occasionally oc-
cur; many more are made suddenly
faint and sick without knowing the
cause the eye-sight is often peculiar y
affected, and people call it snow-blind-
ness. All skin difficulties are greatly
aggravated by sudden warming, and
sometimes very painful ones are induced.
Ii is generally thought that chilblains
are caused by the severe cold, but the
true cause is sudden warming after they
have been very cold. 1t seems as if this
distressing malady were largely on the
increase-even very little children suf.
fer from it. Too great care cannot be
taken in this matter of warming cold
feet slowly, and by friction rather than
putting them near the hot fire.


Sudden warming, too, makes the whole
system SO subject to cold for long time
afterwards that extra garments are al
ways needed, and then the frame shivers
in what was once very comfortable tenn
perature. Physicians have observed this
in their own cases and say that they
have suffered in this way for years from
single such act of imprudence.


Use proper precaution on your own
part, and watch carefully over your
children, who of course follow their nat
ural impulse to rush to the fire when so
very cold.
Year: 1874

Mention was recently made of q gen.
tleman in very feeble health, who had
been for some time at the Butcher
Abattoir in Brighton for medical treat.
ment, simply drinking half tumbler
full of warm blood twice day. This
course Mr.. c. H. Stickney, who is will
ling that his name shall appear, has fol-
lowed until a week ago, having been
there ten weeks, and during that time
gained ten pounds in weight, and to use
his own words, My appetite is good 1
sleep we'll and feel like a new man, and
amsoon to commence business in Boston,"
he also says there are ten or twelve 9TH
ers there drinking the blood, all of
whom are gaining under this treatment.
One gentleman from Boston, a consump-
tive, so feeble that it was with difficulty
that he could get to this abattoir, is now
able to handle an ak skillfully enough to
knock down bullock. A lady from the
city who has been sick six years, strick-
en- with paralysis, is improving wonder
fully by this blood cure. A gratifying
feature of this cure is that it is " without
money and without price" and Mr..
Stickney speaks in praise of the gentle
men in charge Of the establishment and
says strangers visiting the place will find
courteous treatment.-Boston Journal.
Year: 1874

A REMARKABLE ADvENTURE.-Two
men named Melvin and Smith we're
fishing through the ice on Lake Michi-
gan ON Wednesday Dec. 81, and while
thus engaged we're cut off from the shore
by the separation of the portion of the
ice upon which they happened to be at
the time. All their attempts to escape
from their frail raft we're unavailing.
With them they had a few fish, their
spears, handsled and some blankets.
With only these for food and shelter they
we're drifted about on the lake for six
days the ice continually yielding to the
force of the wind and waves. On Mon
day night succeeding their start upon
their involuntary voyage an opportune
increase of severity in the weather form.
ed new ice between the men and the
shore, and bridged the way for the poor
fellows to land and life again. Their feet
were badly frost-bitten and swollen, but
otherwise they we're in pretty good con.
dition after their long exposure. During
their absence their friends had made
vigorous efforts for their rescue, sending
out tug to search for them.
Year: 1874




He was about twenty yards off when
we first saw him. We at once gathered
together; and was about to take aim
and bring him down where he stood,
when Malaouen stopped me saying in a
whisper, not time yet.


We stood, therefore, in silence, gun in
hand. The gorilla looked at us for a
minute or two out of his evil gray eyes,
then beat his breast with his gigantic
arms-and what arms he had then he
gave another howl of defiance and ad-
vanced upon us. How horrible he looked!
l shall never forget it.


Again he stopped, not more than ff-
teen yards away. Still Malaouen said
not yet. Good gracious I! what is to be-
come of us if our guns miss fire, or we
only wound the huge beast Again the
gorilla made an advance upon US. Now
he was not twelve yards off | could see
plainly his ferocious face. 1t was dis
torted with rage; his huge teeth were
ground against each other so that we
could hear the sound; the skin of the
forehead was drawn forward and back
rapidly, which made his hair move up
and down and gave truly devilish ex-
preston to the hideous face. Once more
he gave out roar which seemed to
shake the woods like thunder l could
really feel the earth trembling under my
feet. The gorilla, looking US in the eyes,
and beating his breast advanced again.
Don't fire too soon, said Malaouen; if
you do not kill him he will kill you.


This time he came within eight yards
of us before he stopped. was breathing
fast with excitement as | watched the
huge beast.


Malaouen said only, steady, as the 60
rilla came up. Then he stopped. NAL
aouen said, now and before he could ut
ter the roar for which he was opening
his mouth, three musket balls were in
his body. He fell dead almost without a
struggle.


He was a monstrous beast, indeed,
though not among the tallest. His height
was five feet six inches. His arms had a
spread of seven feet two inches. His
broad, brawny chest measured fifty inch
es and three-quarters in circumference.
His arm seemed like immense punches
of muscle only and his legs and claw
like feet were so we'll fitted for grabbing
and holding, that could see how easy
it was for the negroes to believe that
these animals, when they conceal them
selves in trees and watch for their prey,
can seize and pull up with their feet, any
living thing, leopard, OK or man, that
passes beneath.


The face of this gorilla was intensely
black. The vast chest, which proved
his great power, was bare, and covered
with parchment-like skin. His body
was covered with gray hair. While the
animal approached in its fierce way,
walking on its hind legs, and facing us
as few animals dare face man, it really
seemed to me to be horrible likeness OF
man.
Year: 1874

We are accustomed to use our toes so
very little. that for all the practical pur-
poses of life we might almost as we'll be
without any. They were intended, in
the first place. to give fexibility to the
foot, and to help US in our walking; but
the modern custom of cramping them up
in tight shoes makes them almost as i'm
movable as if they grew together. So
the help they give us in walking is not
so much after all. And as for putting
them to any other use, we never think of
it. We abuse them dreadfully some
times cramp and torture them, and
pinch them out of all likeness to their
original shape, until they would never
be known for the pretty, perfect little
baby toes that we like to cuddle, and
count, and 60 to market with, grown up.
Who, for instance, would ever imagine
that the second toe is intended to be
longer than the first And yet in per-
feet foot it always Is, though we are
obliged to 60 to statues and paintings to
find it out. And who, putting foot and
a modern narrow-toed shoe side by side,
would ever suspect they were intended
for each other2 The fact is, our toes are
our most abused members, and so we
don'tget half the good from them thatwe
might. The Chinese. and the Japanese,
and the Bedouin Arabs, it is said, from
continual practice, use their toes nearly
as well their hands. They can pick up
their tools with them and even work with
them while they do something else with
their hands. Arabs braid ropes with
their fingers and toes working together
in concert Chicago Aduance.