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Year: 1874

Yesterday morning Frank Schultz, a child OF two
years, while IN COMMISSIONS fell from the third
story window OF No. 239 South Fifth street, and
fatally fractured It's skull.


On Tuesday night, at late hour, Robert Mar
tin, a mason, seventy years of age. fell from the
second story window OF his residence, No. 2,3
Third street, and died from the injuries yesterday.


Alderman Bergen has sent a letter TO the men-
bers of the joint committee on the budget calling
their attention to the fact that meeting VIII be
held next week, so that final actlon may be taken
on the lax levy oil 1874 without unnecessary delay.


strange man was observed wandering about
India wharf Atlantic DOCK at late hour last
night in nude state. Yesterday morning suit
clothes found on the dock, and it is believed
that they belonged 10 the individual, who was
dopbtless drowned.


Tne work on the Brooklyn bridge tower was sus-
pended for some reason yesterday, and the men
loitered about the dock. 1t is SAID there was
scarcity OF stone. 1t also intimated that 1t
was occasioned by the fact OF the funds not being
available until the organization OF the Board takes
place, as provided by law.


Frederick Rubens, proprietor OF grocery store,
at the corner OF Tlllary and Duiield streets, COM
mitted suicide yesterday morning by hanging him.
self from gas fixture with the aid Of a clothes
line. Lie was totally extinct when the body
was found. Deceased who was man or lntem-
perate habits had frequently threatened to COM
init suicide. lie was iorty-four years OF age and
leaves wife and three children.


The special committee OF the Common Council
of the city of Brooklyn met yesterday for the pur.
pose OF devising measures looking to the speedy
re-empoyment of the poor workmen who were
thrown out OF work by reason OF the exhaustion OF
the fund applicable for street repairs Mayor
Hunter was present at the conference, and said,
DON'T let us act with the idea that we have got
to find employment for men out OF work. Let ms
40 all the the city needs and employ men to
DO 1t and let US get the worth OF our money!
Alderman Ropes remarked that certainly 100000
year to keep the streets In repair IL not au ex-
n
that money. The streets being In dangerous
condition the city is liable TO be mulcted IN
damages" The Mayor said ne was willing to do
anything that Is necessary for the city to DO, but
he does not want TO 90 beyond that. The confer
ence adjourned, without having arrived at any
conclusion, to meet again on Friday when Comp
trOller Schroeder Will be present.
Year: 1874

The DEMOCRATIC COUNTY CONVENTION for
New Castle county was held at New Castle on
Saturday, and ticket was made out, which
we give in our local column. The platform
adopted shows that the party had to get into
the Republican rut on the representation and
labor question. On the first. named question.
which Is vital one in New Castle county with
all voters, the Convention resolved that 1.-THE
representation of New Castle County. in both
branches of our State Legislature is upiustIv
appOrtloned and should be increased and that
our candidates for the next General Assembly
are hereby instructed to make every effort and
use every honorable means at its next session
to accomplish this just and desirable end. y
On the labor question they resolved to favor
the increasing Of the amount exempted from
execution from 800 to about $500; and to ad
vocate the total repeal of all laws for the at.
tachment of wages, and all such further lepis-
latlVe and constitutional reforms as the exigen.
cies of the times may require.


In Kent and Sussex these measures find no
favor with the Democrats and the State Con
ventlon at Dover, to get out Of saying anything
about them, ignored State issues and confined
the platform to national questions. 1t was
well enough for the New Castle Democracy to
pass these resolutions, indeed, it was absolutely
necessary, to keep their labor members out OF
the Republican ranks, but what will it amount
to- with the members of the party in the other
two counties against them?
Year: 1874

Mark Twain produces one of the most
striking cases of meanness ON record Ho USS no',S
he knows an incorporated society which hired
man to blast rock, and he was nuncb;nG
powder IN it with a crowbar, when a premature
explosion followed, sending the man and crow.
bar out OF sight. Both came down ali r;gbt
ana the man went to work again promntIv


put though he was gone only fifteen minptes
the company dOcked him for lost time
Year: 1874

A Paris letter says the Empress Eu-
genie has aged sadly. There are deep
lines at each side of her mouth and her
whole face looks drawn and haggard.
The little fat Grape hat which she wears
pushed back from her temples seems too
youthful for her worn face, but it is re-
lief not to see her lips set in that stiff
smile, artificial as the gold of her tresses
or the roses in her bonnet, wherewith
she used to greet her subjects Of Paris
in other days. The young Prince I'm
perial is her very image, but the slight
mustashe just budding on his upper
lip will soon mar the present perfection
of the resemblance.
Year: 1874

An exchange refers to an economical
couple who had their mouths
put in order tor new sets OF teeth, last
fall, but as the panic come on had only
one set made, which they use alternately.
That frugal couple evidently believe that
the phrase you pays your money and
you takes your chaws doesn't imply
much money.
Year: 1874

GarA lady mentioned by an exchange is a
mother of large family of children, and they
are all rather diminutive. A few days after the
birth of the youngest, not long since, little
niece Of the lady called to see the baby. After
looking at the tiny specimen for a few minutes,
the little girl said, 'AuEt Maria, don't you think
it would be better to have less of 'em and have
'em bigger p
Year: 1874

Plymouth Church was well nlIeu IaSC eVen-
ing a the regular Friday evening exercises Mr. Beecner
spoke OF fear as moral element. Fear he regarded as
an indispensable necessity, moral instrument and
yet he was not at all certain tina: Gods work In the
world was be done by fear 1t might be severe and
aborious, and 1t might take the nature OF
solcitude. Fear gives coloring to all OF the
higher feelings of mans nature. 1 don't fear God
said be- as / fear the devil. 1t would be no credit
either TO me or to you II should. Some say that If
YOU preach love, or what some men call moral gush,
YOU do no thorough work but believe that many men
need according to the oldfashoned practice, tartar
emetic and dose Of calomel TO work immediate
results Growth In grace ought to be the de-
velopment Of the higher forms OF feeling and
not the lower forms. 1t is not half so
important how dies as how he lives Speaking OF
himself Mr. Beecher said he was buoyant as boy, full
OF animal spirits but not vicious. His father mad Is
children in governing them 1t was easier Tor llm 10
cuff tneIr than 10 DO anything else. never Knew
what it 10 look up into mOther's eyes. III had
had love and sympathy they could have led me TO
Canaan. The keynote OF my life and ministry has been
rescue others from their sins. .


Many questions asked regarding the training
and punishment OF children. Mr. Beecher did not be-


eve such punishment in school or at home as would
make the sufferer martyr and hero. The object aud
end discipline should be submissive, and any punish
neBt that does not tend to that Is radically wrong.
Year: 1874

The Trans Atlantic steamship companies have
recently resolved decrease the OF 'ongshoremen
who are the men who engaged in loading and un-
loading ships at the wharves from 40 cents to IS cents
per hour day work. and from 80 cents to As cents per
hour for night work The rates to 90 into effect
on Nov l6 This action Of the steamship companies is
received with little favor among the workmen many Of
whom openly declare that they Will strike If the lower
rates 20 into effect. Some OF them work all night. and
they consider their work Of fatigung a character
that the pay which they now receive Is small
enough. The steamship companies claim that the
reduction ought to be made because they nave been
Obliged to their freight rates so far that their
Income has been seriously affected. and their business
gives OF recovery from its present
stagnaOn The wages Of longshorcmen are, they say,
as high as they during the war, when there was
plenty OF steamship business TIE laborers, the other
hand say that the times hard the OF rent and
living high and II any reduction Is made In their
wages they w scarcely be able TO support themselves
and their families Some of them are III favor of calling
"a meeting and organizing Immediately IN order 70 be
able to Withstand the demands or tler employers. The
wages OF those engaged sailing vessels, it appears,
will not be affected. Most Of those interested are enl-
ployed along the North River.
Year: 1874




Three different attempts were made
last night to burn the town of Reno. The
first was about half past ten o'clock, and
the other two at about three O'Clock this
morning. The fires were discovered in
time and promptly put out.


Deputy Sheriff Allen brought up from
Wadsworth this morning a man named
Rodgers who is accused OF having stolen
a Lorse. A reward OF $50 was sometime
ago offered for his arrest.


The storm which started up on last
Saturday evening continued for two or
three days, completely stopping travel
by rail, until this morning when the
trains arrived on time. The west bound
passenger trains were compelled to re-
main at Reno during all this time and
for the time being Reno presented an
unusually lively appearance, and cor
rallied quite u number of greenbacks of
various denominations.
Year: 1874

IT is gratifying to be able to state, re-
marks the Austin Reveille. that at no
time in the history OF the Reese River
District has the mining outlook appeared
as hattering as at present. The mines
on Lander Hill are turning out large
amount Of rich ore and have large quar-
titles in sight. At Yankee Blade, New
York Canyon, ETC., great deal of good
ore is being produced, and, as a rule,
chloriders are doing well and making
money. We are safe in saying that the
bullion produced for 1874 will exceed
that of 1873 by fully one-half.
Year: 1874

A CORRESPONDENT from Marysville
writes to the Sacramento Union: "We are
soon to have an opposition in carrying
freight between San Francisco and this
city by water" He further states that
opposition will continue for a year at
least
Year: 1874

GERRIT SMITH expresses the opin-
ion that the civil rights bill will fail
to become asIaw, and its failure viii
be the death Of the Republican party.
There are other Republicans who are
equally sanguine that its becoming
law will be the death of their
party. So there is hope the civil
rights bill will accomplish some good
in killing off the Republican party.
Year: 1874




A paragraph in the March number of
Dillon & Co., of Normal, Illinois, had
sold four colts, the produce of one brood
mare, for $5,500 and we now allude to
it for the purpose of stating that this is
not, by any means, an exceptional case.
On the contrary, it has been demonstrat-
ed over and over again that it is scarcely
possible for the general farmer to keep
any kind of stock on his farm that will
prove so uniformly profitable as a good
brood mare. Instances are numerous
where single brood mare, we'll and
fashiOnably bred, and coupled for series
OF years with popular sires, has, by her
produce, made handsome fortune for
her owner; and in almost every neigh
bOrhOOd can be found mares whose
produce are uniformly of more than an
average value. The prudent, wide
awake farmer will be on the lookout
for such mares, and whenever he can
purchase them at reasonable prices he
will not fail to do so. Such an invest
ment can not fail to be better than
money. at compound interest, if the
mares be coupled with the right sort Of
ready sale at high prices-the scrubs
only are drug in the market-and a
colt can be raised as cheaply as steer.
To make horse breeding profitable, you
must start right. Horses are not sold
at SO much per pound in the market like
cattle or hogs; it is the quality that
determines the price, and quality is a
thing OF inheritance, derived from the
sire or dam, or from both. If the foal,
when dropped, has not inherited those
characteristics which give value to q
horse, no amount of after-care and at
tentl0n can compensate for the lack of
organic quality. 1t costs no more time
or money to raise a good colt than
poor one, excepting, perhaps, in the
original investment-tle difference in
cost Of good brood mare and a poor
one, the service OF first-class stallion
and scrub-and herein lies the secret
Year: 1874

How TO FIGHT HARD TTMEs.-The
Christianburg, Va, Messenger says:


" We once rode up to a farm house in
this country to spend the day. We found
the farmers wife alone in the kitchen
preparing dinner. The farmer was in
his lanyard hard at work. The two
sons were in the field gathering corn and
running the farm. One daughter was in
the weaving room making materials for
family wear. The other daughter clean
ing up the house and then to the sewing.
There was no hireling upon the farm, no
man servant nor maid servant, no boy or
girl. The work of the whole farm and
family was done without paying any
thing to others. This is the way to get
out of debt and get along. This is the
wayt0 have thrifty farms and yeomanry.
This is the way to live and be happy.
We're this the rule instead of remark
able exception is this State, Virginia
would soon become as rich as any North
ern State
Year: 1874

Let each Grange require every mem
ber to plant out one or more fruit trees
or grapevines (Which duty might be held
as debt against the member until the
proper season occnrs.) If the custom is
permanently fixed, that there shall be as
many fruit trees set out as there are
meetings of the Grange, it will convert
even fence-cOrners into places of profit,
and supply an immense amount OF fruit
to the country without feeling it pecu-
niarily or otherwise. On old fields, where
scarcely anything else will grow, peaches
and grapes, .plums and cherries may be
made to yield in prodigal profusion. By
all means the fenee-corners around the
farm should be devoted to this purpose.
At present they. are usually given uE to
briers and bushes, and form uncouth
borders to our farlns.-[ Rural Sun.
Year: 1874

HINTS FOR THE FRUIT SEAsoN.-If
you have been picking or handling any
acid fruit and have stained your hands.
wash them in clear soft water, wipe
them lightly, and while yet moist light
a sulphur match, close the hands par
TALLY around it to catch the smoke and
the stains viii disappear. - 57-


1t you have stained your linen or cot
ton clothes with berries or other fruit,
before giving out to wash pour boiling
water through the stains and they will
disappear. Before fruit juices have
dried they can be removed from gar
ments by cold water, rubbed thorough
ly with sponge, and rinsed. The In
side of apple or pear parings will almost
entirely remove stains of this fruit from
the fingers, if they arerubbed with them
and then rinsed.
Year: 1874

Wife of his bosom directly he came
home at night: Charley, I've Just
got letter from mother. You know
she was here only last week Eyes, youl
can see by the expression of his, face
that he hasn't forgotten that, and she
has lost all her property by the failure
OF the Splurges-and-an now, I s'pOse,
Charley, she'll have to come and stay
with us all the time,n
Year: 1874

They have an astute citizen in War
rem, who after having heard the church
committee discuss whether it was better
to have two or three aisles in their new
church, broke in with: oval, you may
talk about your new kinds of lie as much
as you're mind to; but | never yet see
any lie or gas that is as good as the old
fashioned lamp ile!n -,
Year: 1874

II tell you," said a Wisconsin man to
a neighbOr next day after burying his
wife, "when I came to get into bed, and
lay thar, and not hearing Lucinda jaw
ing around for an hour and q half, it
just made me feel as if I'd moved into
strange cOuDtry.n
Year: 1874

I clasped her tiny hand in mine; I
vowed to shield her from the wind and
the worlds cold storms. She set her
beauteous eyes on me, and with her lit
tie lips said She" An umbrella will do
as WE'LL"
Year: 1874

A little boy few days ago undertook
to see if he could lift himself by hanging
on mules tail. He found out all about
it, and the doctors think the skin on his
forehead will grow up, but will leave a
bad scar,
Year: 1874

+ CHEAP PAINTING.-(J. r.: An mex
penslye but durable method of painting
them a coat of crude petroleum, which
is the oil as it comes from the wells. and
can be procured for about Sd to $5 Der
barrel in almost any town or city. Then
mix one pound of metallic paint" !"
which is brown or red helnatite iron ore
finely ground, to one quart of linseed oil,
and apply this over the petroleum coat
The petroleum sinks into the wood and
makes a good ground work for the iron
and oil paint. The color of the iron
paint is a dark reddish brown, and is
not at all disagreeable; it is color not
readily soiled, very durable and is fire.
proof.
Year: 1874

1 must give you a story lately told
me which goes to show the value oil
the girl of the period. On a certain
day, on 9 Pennsylvania railroad, 8
belle of q thriving Pennsylvania
town, the daughter of wealthy lum-
Der merchant, was travelling in the
same car with a shrewd old citizen OF
her native town and an agreeable
youns gentleman from the West who
tells the story The latter had been
talking to the belle-(N. B.-She
is now one of the corps of Washing
ton correspondents and a notorious
belle-ringer when not belle-hanger)
but as night drew on and the young
lady grew drowsy, he gave up his
seat to her and placed himself beside
the somewhat cynical Pennsylvania.
The latter began conversation by
pointing to q high mountain past
which they were whirling, and said,
"YOu see that mountain? Six or
eight years ago it was covered with
as fine forest as ever grew, and was
worth $4,000 and upward. Now,
without tree, covered with stumps,
the land is scarcely worth a continen-
tai. The net produce of that mountain
lies over their in that seat" and he
pointed to the recumbent belle; "that
is my calculation. 1t has just about
absorbed all of that lumber which her
father owned to raise and educate that
girl, pay for her clothes and jewelry,
bring her out in society and maintain
her there. Some of you young men,
if you were given your choice be-
tween the mountain yonder as it now
stands and the net produce on that
seat, would take the net produce; but
as for lie, give me the stamps" u
Washington Letter to the Graphic.
Year: 1874

Woe unto him that giveth his
neighbor drink, that puttest thy bot
tie to him, and makest him drunken
also, that thou mayest look on their
nakedness


Thou art filed with shame for
glory drink thou also, and the cup
Of the Lords right hand shall be
turned unto thee and shameful spew-
ing shall be on thy glory.


For the violence of Lebanon shall
cover thee, and the spoil OF the beasts
tUhich made them afraid, because oi
mems blood, and for the violence oil
the land, Of the city and of all that
dwell therein.


Come ye, say they, / will fetch wine,
and we will fiji ourselves with stong
drink and tomorrow shall be as
this day, and much more abundant.


Do not drink wine nor strong drink,
thou, nor thy sons with thee lest ye
die; ii ahdH be q statute for ever
throughout your generations.


Be not among wine-bibOers among
riotous eaters of flesh; for the drunk
ard and the glutton shall come to
poverty /; and drowsiness shall clothe
a man with rags.


And Eli said: How long will thou
be drunken? put away thy wine from
thee.


Now, therefore, beware, Ipray thee,
and drink not wine nor strong drink,
and eat not any unelean thing.


Wine is q mocker and strong drink
is raging; and whosoever is deceived
thereby, is not wise.


II is not for kings, oh, Lemuel, it is
not for kings to drink wine; nor fol
princes strong drink; lest they drink
and forget the law, and pervert the
judgment of any of the afflicted.
Year: 1874

A hollow cylinder will bear great


er strain than q solid one. Many OF
us know by experiment what a hard
pressure an egg will resist when plac-
ed endwise between the hands. This
curious strength in round but weak
substance is due to the exact, orderly
arrangement of their particles, that
IS, in perfect curves. A memorable
illustration was seen in the mock ar
tillery set to play guard in frsnt OF
that creation Of imperial whim, the
ice palace OF Catherine of Russia. Be
fore the palace stood six eannons Of
ice, and two mortars formed like cast


pieces. The cannons were six-pOund-
ers, which are commonly loaded with


three pounds of powder; these, how
ever, were loaded with a quarter of q


pound, and carried = ball of stuffed
hemp, and sometimes of iron. The
balls, at q distance of sixty PAGES,
passed through board two inches In
thickness. The ice of the cannon
could not have been more than three
or four inches in thickness, and yet
it resisted the force of the explosion.
Year: 1874

WASHINGTON April ~, 1874.


Mr.. Foster. Of Ohio, will present the
draft Of bis report in regard to the
SAnborn contracts to the Committee
on Ways and Means tomorrow. The
report will favor the unconditional
repeal OF the law under which the
contracts were made. 1t will review
the history OF the law, and question
the authority OF the department 10
execute it In the manner disclosed by
the evidence taken and the docu-
ments submitted. It will maintain
that the effect OF the law, as exeented,
was to take away from the Internal
Revenue Office large share Of the du-
ties intrusted To It exclusively by law.
It will show that the Commissioner
Of Internal Revenue was not in any
way responsible for the Irregularities
which have been developed. The re-
port will make little distinction In
its eensure Of all those ia the depart
ment in any way connected with the
execution Of these contracts, but will
reflect severely upon all Of them.
Year: 1874

What shall be done with the dead?
Our larger cemeteries are full. A
portion of them is parcelled out and
sold to parties perpetue, but Tor
those who are unable to pay the price
the limit Is five years, and although
the dead may be lett a little longer.
they are soon driven out, the ground
is overturned, and room is made for
others. The bones of all the poor
who died ten years ago now lie in one
common heap, and once more the GEM
eteries are filed. But the soil refuses
to do its work any longer. 1t has be-
come saturated, and will no longer
absorb. The graves are now dug in a
mass of putrefaction, and exhalations
are constantly rising to poison the
living. Only thin layer of earth
separates the graves, and n few days
ago a young and beautiful girl, the
idol of her home, was lowered into a
grave which filled the minds OF every
assistant with horror. A stream of
liquihed putrId matter was running in
from the grave beside it. Two grave
diggers recently struck too near when
opening grave, broke open a coffin,
and died in few hours from the
poisonous exhalations. Great prccau
tions have to be taken in digging or
dinary graves, for, as have previous
ly stated, the ground is thoroughly
saturated, and can absorb no longer
The condition of the atmosphere and
of the water in this vicinity is some
thing horrible to think about, and it
is not astonishing that the siekly quar-
ters of the city should be near these
great eemeteries.-N Y. Times.
Year: 1874

/ It is with regret we have to state
that there is discord at indianapolis
in regard to the disposition of the
arsenal grounds by the United
States We alluded the other day
to the fact that the memorial pre-
sented to tho House prayed for a
donation to the city of indianapolis
for University purposes, and that
Mr.. Pratt lad presented a petition
for the same grounds for the State
for the purpose of establishing n
polyte chnic school Now we learn
that a memorial, signed by Gov.
Hendricks, and numerous officials
connected with the educational
interest of the State, has been
presented in both Senate and
House, demonstrating against the
sale or donation of the land for
private uses, and praying that it
may be given to the State for a
polytechnic school. Better con
centrate on the polytechnic.