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Year: 1875

BARON Won TsCHUDI, the we'll known
Swiss naturalist, says: Without birds
successful agriculture is impossible; they
annihilate in o. few months greater
number of insects than human hands can
accomplish in years.


IT has been discovered that when the
locusts prevail i'm any section they infest
two seasons; they fly over the first sea-
son and drop eggs, which develop into
choppers" the next season, which fly of
to another section.


LEMONS in California reach the weight
Of fourteen ounces, so that the amount of
rum required to make punch of them
accounts fully for the remarkable snake
stories occasionally told in the Pacific
press.


HORSES that are kept in the stable
during summer should be given daily
the luxury of roll on the earth. Roll
ing is the means given by nature for the
animal to rid itself of vermin and skin
disease, and it tends to make the animal
healthy.


OUT in Iowa and Nebraska the farmers
are sailing their fence posts before they
set them. The plan is to bore an auger
hole in the post at about the point that
will be at the surface of the ground and
put in handful of salt, then to plug it
with piece of wood. Some say that
oak posts treated in this way last as long
as cedar ones.


AMONG the dairymen of Somerset
shire, England, where the famous Ched-
dar cheese is made, nearly every herd
contains few pure-bred Jerseys or Jer-
sey grades, for the purpose of improving
the milk, and such sprinkling of Jersey
blood in the herd is considered not only
profitable but essential in giving better
character to the cheese.


ALL experience confirms the selection
of high, hilly ground for fruit growing.
The temperature in winter is always
warmer on the top of the hill than in
the valley, and in summer the air on the
hill is drier and less liable to create in
sect diseases. In clay lands, set the
trees on top of the ground and plow up
to them, leaving drainage and the dead
furrow in the center.


THERE is q French tool called a thistle
puller. 1t is made of wood, and looks
very much like pair of blacksmiths'
tongs. The handles are something more
than four feet long. Five or six old
women, armed with this instrument, can
clear foul acre in an incredibly short
space of time and with hardly more
bending of the body than a housemaid
displays while sweeping carpet. This
tool might be adopted by our farmers
with benefit.


If the leaves of plants turn reddish or
yellow, or if they curl up, close inspec-
ton will generally disclose that they are
infested with very small green insect,
or else with the red spider, either of
which must be destroyed. For this pur-
pose, scald some common tobacco with
water until the latter is colored to a vel
low, and, when cold, sprinkle the leaves
of the plants with it; but better plan
is to pass the stem and leaves of the
plants between the fingers, and to then
shake the plant and well water the bed
Immediately afterward. This operation
destroys large proportion of the insects
shaken from the plant. This method is
the only sure one.
Year: 1875

Only Woman, shriveled and old,
The play of the winds and the prey Of the cold


Checks that are shrunken,


Eyes that are sunken,


Lips that were never oerbold.
only woman forsaken and poor,
Asking an aims at the bronze church door.
Hark to the organ roll upon roll
The waves OF the music 20 over her soul


Silks rustic past her


Thicker and faster;


The great bell ceases its toll.
Fain would she enter, but not for the poor
Swingeth wide open the bronze church door.
Only a woman-waiting alone,
Icily cold, ON an ice-cold throne.


What do they care for her?


Mumbling prayer for her,


Giving not bread but a stone.
Under old laces their naughty hearts beat,
Mocking the woes OF their kin in the street.
Only woman In the old days
Hope caroled TO her her happiest lays;


Somebody missed her,


Somebody kissed her,


Somebody crowned her with praise;
Somebody faced up the battles of life
Strong for her sake, who was mother or wife.
Somebody lays with tress Of her hair
Light ON his heart where the death shadows are


Somebody waits for her,


opening the gates for her,


Giving delight for despair.
only woman-nevermore poor
Dead In the snow at the bronze church door.
Year: 1875

The Columbus Enquirer tells of two
families in Stewart county whose lives
were saved by a gentleman obeying a
presentiment he could not resist. He
had foreboding that storm would visit
that section, and that his house would
be in its path. He told others of 1t, but
they only laughed at him, saying he was
frightened from reading-and hearing
the accounts of the late cyclones. He
gave credence to the thought, which
would not go down at the bidding, and
dug a hole near the house. He had no
sooner finished it than the storm did
come, and barely had he and his family
sought refuge therein than the tornado
tore his house in pieces. All in the hole
in the ground escaped. The people in
the storm region, and many who are not,
are preparing places of refuge to avoid
the next cyclone.
Year: 1875

BALLooNIsTs say that after certain
height is reached an aeronaut is actually
"seizcd with an almost irresistible de-
sire TO 60 higher, and is sometimes seized
with an almost uncomfortable desire TO
indulge in a fit of laughter" That Is
merely an illustration OF the well-known
scientific fact that in proportion as bodies
recede from the earth, they lose their
gravity.
Year: 1875

A MAN may conceal his name, his age,
the circumstances of his life, but not his
character. This is his moral atmosphere,
and is as inseparablc from him as the
fragrance of the rose from the rose itself
In the glance of the eye, in the tones of
the voice, in mien and gesture, character
discloses itself.
Year: 1875




CENTERvILLE, Iowa, Sept. pa ter
rible accident occurred on the farm of
VIM, Jarvis, near this point, yesterday.
A young man named Geo. Haxby, while
engaged in Cling threshing machine,
while in motion, was caught by the sleeve
of his blouse in the bevel wheel. which
drew hissarm into the machinery. mash
ing it completely to the shoulder. One
of his ears was completely torn off and his
side terribly torn and mangled. the flesh
being stripped from the ribs, leaving the
en- ire side of his chest barred to the bone
He bore up under the injury with remark
able nerve and submitted to the amputa-
ton of his arm at the shoulder. and the
dressing of his other wounds, without TAX
ing any chloroform and without groan
1t was hoped that his out-heartedness
would carry him through all right, but af-
ter lingering in great agony for twelve


hours he died.


A young man, name unknown, while
grinding cane, near Floris, Iowa, a few
days since, was caught by the head in the
mill and slowly drawn in and crushed to
death.
Year: 1875

General Woodford closed the canvass
in Massachusetts by q speech at Faneuil
Hall in which he defined the conditions
of permanent Republican success. He
declared that one of these must be "a
square and honest attempt to reform the
civil service of the government" "If we
are to keep our politics pure in the
future" he said, tive must not make it to
the interest of any body Of men to earn
their bread and butter by controlling polit-
ical conventions and doing political work"
And he added: "If thought the election
of Alexander H. Rice tomorrow would
pave the way for the control of the next
National Republican Convention by the
professional politicians of the party, or
that that convention was to make nomi-
nation that should perpetuate the system
of official patronage in this land,
would not be upon this platform, and I
would pray the defeat of your candidate
in this State. This and similar declara-
tions were greeted with great applause.


The Republicans of Massachusetts seem
to have borne this stern doctrine much
better than their Democratic antagonists
in New York. The latter having learned
that the Sam Tilden policy threatened to
defeat "the system ofoficial patronage in
this land" abandoned the reform candj-
date and his policy with indecent precipi.
fancy. The Democratic excuse for their
New York defeat is that their rascals went
back on them in such numbers as to rem
der victory impossible. The New York
Times puts it thus: t


In accounting for this gain the Democratic
organs fall back upon the theory that the
new Republican strength has been due to
the accession OF rascals from the Democratic
party. 1t may be At once conceded that if
We had got them all, We should not only
have wiped out Governor Tilden's majority,
but should have carried the Ststs by : ma,
jority very much larger than that which he
secured last year.


General Woodford's doctrine, then,
while it has strengthened the Republicans
by an accession Of honest men, has weak
ened the Democracy by the detection of
the rogues. This betokens o strength of
moral constitution in the one and weak
ness in the other, very encouraging to the
friends Of free government. Governor
Chamberlain, Of South Carolina, seems to
enforce the same doctrine, and the Re
publicans and other honest men stand
hrayely up to him. Let the spirit Of
General woodford's exhortation q, march
ing eu from Massachusetts, to the Gulf Of
Mexico.
Year: 1875

Here is what country editor sug-
gests: - -


And now Governor William Pitt Kellogg
comes to the front with a proclamation Of
thanksgiving. What the people of the
State are to be particularly thankful for,
it would be somewhat hard to determine
81. Louis Times.


We have plenty of reasons for being
glad. We have the Jetty Company at the
expense of the United States, and not the
Bridge Company at our own. st. Louis
has not carried all the State of Texas
away from New Orleans merchants,
though it has deprived them of most of
the trade of that highly Democratic and
homogeneous people, as well as of the Red,
Arkansas, White and st. Francis river
valleys. We are most especially grateful
for half a dozen st. Louis carpet-baggers
in this city, who will teach us the highest
financial wisdom, if our money holds out.
There are many minor mercies-such as
the exemption of our editors from arrest
for being connected with crooked whisky
rings; the almost entire destruction of our
whisky business-in the interest of Gin
cinnati and st. Louis-thus promoting
the cause of temperance; and prospect
that we shall this year receive more cotton
in the regular course of business than st.
Louis can invite by her premium plan.


These are some of the reasons for being
thankful, but we have given as many as
the Times can understand at once.
Year: 1875

Critics pronounce George Honey to be one
of the best actors seen in New York for q
long time. He went to Wallack's Theatre
to play Eccles in Caste" The only thing
New Workers. do not like about him is that
he came from England direct to Boston,
and took his place in stock company, like
Q sensible man.
Year: 1875

REMEMBER the power Of indirect in
tluences those which distill from a
life, not from sudden brilliant effort.
The former never fail; the latter often.
There is good done of which we can
never predicate the when or where. 1t
lies in that invisible influence on char
acter which he alone can read who
counted the seven hundred thousand
namelcss ones in Israel.
Year: 1875

If man will only start with fixed
and honorable purpose in life, and per-
sistently attempt to carry it out to the
best of his ability, undismayed by fail.
ure or delay, the time may be long in
coming, but come it will, when that
rnrposa WI be a:,.,vca.
Year: 1875

Each part will contain 26 quarto pages, in
cluding the heavy front.piece, on heavy plate
ated in red and gold. will be given with the
drst part, and the printing of the entire work
will be a worthy representation of the "Alden
Press" which Is a guarantee Of something
beautiful and valuable.
Year: 1875

LISTEN TO BUSINESS keep
on hand large assort of Jewelry,
the latest novelty Of all its branches.
Also q large assortment Of Foreign
and American wathes, clocks and
plated ware of all descriptions,
which we offer as cheap as any
dealer in the Union. Come end see
us, and we win convince you that
we mean what we say.


CARTWRIGHT q JAMES.
Year: 1875

THE Congregational Church, the
most beautiful and costly church
ediiice in Janesvilie, was destroyed
May 1st by fire, with its organ and
nearly all its furniture. The fire
men were promptly on the ground,
but the flames being in the infer
part of the building could not be
reached,
Year: 1875

Cleaning up time is at hand and
among other things needed to make
home cheerful is to have the walls
decorated with a neat paper. The
largest stock of this material in the
city is at the Post Office Book Store.
Year: 1875

The small and inharmonions meeting on the
division question, at the City Hall, exhibited
pretty plainly the weakness Of the scheme, and
gave evidence that the people are opposed to it.
Even the manufactured appearance of public in-
terest and enthusiasm could scarcely be main
tanned at the little gathering last evening, and
there were several times when, if a vote had
been taken, it would have been in opposition to
the measure. The passage of resolutions IN the
name of 1.-THE citizens of Wilmington. in town
meeting assembled" is as funny and as absurd
as the three tailors of Tooley street who issued
proclamation, as i've the people of England. y


On the whole, this is probably as harmless an
occupation for the parties who are 30 industri
oualy promoting the measure as any thing they
would be likely to engage in. Certainly they
might be better employed, but then they might
be WORSE especially if, in demand for those
rights concerning which, as Mr.. Heald states,
he was considered crazy" they should raise
the CORY flag of revolution and precipitate a
civil war. Let us have these little town meet
ings, by all means, rather than pitched battles
upon the shores of Duck Creek.
Year: 1875


WIImIngton's Mercantile Interests.


The merchants of Wilmington desire naturally
to cultivate close relations as possible with
the people of the adjacent country, and many of
them find some of their best customers in the
hundreds which it has been proposed to cut Off
The argument that these buyers at our stores
are our enemies, and that we ought to be
divorced from them, hardly calls for All answer.
The fact is that the more intimate and
close we make the relationship of the
city to all the country around it
the better for our ctys interests, and the better
for its business prosperity, and ii it We're possi-
BILE to add still more to our county territory, it
would be the best thing we could do. To send
patrons away to insist on severng any part of
the relationship which we hold with them, is
suicidal policy for the merchants and mechanics
Of this CITY,
Year: 1875

81 WEST 26TH STA RESPECTABLE ENGLISH
- woman TO do washing at her own home would go
out ~ the day is first class laundress three years city
reference from last employer Call address Mrs CAL
Year: 1875

Power; the yard also be used for coal yard be-
contains Fairbanks scale fence and planking
and two Coal Carts Call yard No 4S4 and S6 Eleventh
avenue between Thirty hth and Thirty ninth streets
Year: 1875

900 EAST J6TH STA YOUNG WOMAN AS NURSE
Zoo and plain sewer, and TO assist with the chamber
work Is willing and obging reference from her
last place objection 20 the country Call address for
two days.
Year: 1875

They have engaged as foreman Of this de-
partment, one of the most experienced Book
and Job Printers In the country: and the
presses will be superintendent by Skilled
Freshman from one OF the largest offices In
New England.
Year: 1875

HARD TIMEs.-The farmer who owns his land, is free from debt and has tolerable Improvements, cannot comprehend the full mean. ing of the term "hard times" Hence, farming is the best and surest vocation for the mass o1 the people; as a general result it does not lead to wealth and luxu- ry, but it may certainly insure competence and even abundance, To the jaded, unfortunate, unsuc- cessful business man, there is no prospect that looks so enticing as that of a beautiful farm, well i'm proved, fully stocked and careful. ly titled. It is haven of rest, where the corroding care and sapping anxiety of city business are unknown; a domain over which he is king, and where he may enforce his will undispu. ted by any one. The true pleas ure of farmers vocation consists in his intimate relation to nature and his possession of all the ra- tional enjoyments of fife. Louis Midland Farmer
Year: 1875

All bills with our advertisers are to be settled at the end of every month without fail, and advertisements not settled for at that time will be discontinued, without mo- tice, unless special arrangements are made.
Year: 1875

Has thclargest circulation of any paper in the State, outside of Little Rock, and is not surpassed by any other paper in the South west being circulated in nearly every town and city in the south and west; and read by an intelligent, enterprising people.
Year: 1875

NEW YORK, Jan. Z, 1875.
To THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD


enclose you an extract from o contemporary
which has naturally transported me with Joy.
AS marvel of a graceful tribute to art 1t stands
peerless in its wisdom, manliness and truthful
ness; indeed, 1 am not sure but that its author
should be rendered the freedom OF the city Tor his
bravery. Many are the acknowledged improve
ments in our social and political government in
our great city but 1t remained for the defender OF
the drama to discover that In the heroic eXertons
OF q iriendess widow and her child to gain their
daily livelihood should be found the germs OF all
the malicousness, envious. poisonous petty
malice, spite and contorton OF truth that ever
emana;ed from pen.


Far be 1t from me, generous gentlemen Of the
New York press, to associate with your brother.
hood the authorship of this attack on me. but
call, through these few words, your attention to
the fact that would as soon compare your minds
and pens to this obscure and unconsidered SELF
important imprint OF notnipgness as quality the
excellence Of the shining moon by its reflection in
the stagLant pool. II | did not smile at the
"maudlin imbecie" attempt TO sting me person
ally 1t was because l remembered my recent
glories before New York public, and If I sighed
1t was because thought OF the equally snakish
sting my Bljou may be doomed to bear when she
may nave no mothers pen or voice to aid or CON-
fort her. but Bijou IL brave as she Is wondrous,
and when l saw her crumbng something beneath
her tiny feet, and asked her what she was doing
and she answered, "Mamma, am treading on your
enemies ~ then thought, well, $3.50 be it. And
So while address thus my friends in public and
in private II is but with the grateful wish to show
them and TO comfort them with the assurance
tnat my enemies darts at me or through me at nv
child, havo the same eject as water on the plum
age OF duck.


with constant faith in the ever faithful public,
am, as ever, gratefully their obedient servant.


MATILDA HERON.
Year: 1875

Suicide in New Milford.-A very sad occurrence we are compelled to report this week. For several months young man by the name of John Brown has been boarding at the New Milford House, and until within about two weeks has been in the employ of R. H. Isbell & Co. He has been in Ill health for long time, suffering from spinal disease, and for week or two has not been able to sit up all day. His condition has evidently preyed upon his mind, making him seriously dejected.- Thursday morning about five o'clock, Mrs. Camp, whose husband was away, hearing a noise in the room occupied by Brown, went to it and found that he had shot himself. She immediately sent for medical aid, and Drs Bacon and Taylor were soon with the wounded man. They ascertained that he had shot himself in the head and that the balls had entered the brain. He died about ten o'clock Thursday evening. The pistol used was revolver and was found on a chair by the side of the bed with two barrels empty. Two wounds were found in the left side of the young mans head, which would go to show that his left hand was used in firing the pistol. One of the wounds was 30 far back that it would have been almost impossible to use the right hand in making it. The noise Mrs. Camp heard must have been caused by Brown, in going to or opening his trunk, probably to get his pistol, for immediately after it a young man looked into the room and found Brown in bed and apparently sleeping. Five minutes later Mrs. Camp looked in and found that he had shot himself. No one heard the pistol reports: though the rooms adjoining Browns were occupied. He was about 23 years old and without rel atives except mother whom he has not seen for years. He is represented as being a very quiet, peaceable and respectable young man.-RGy.
Year: 1875

Sharon

 It was with feelings of great delicacy that undertook the defence of the Episco- palians of this town against the unjust and false imputations that were currently re : ported about town; and then only after the most convincing evidence that they were maliciously false and had originated from source that was calculated to cause them to be believed by those ignorant of the facts. 'Sarum' two weeks ago took up the gauntlet against the parish with consid- erable vigor, and coupled with some com plimentary remarks concerning the liberal ity of the same, makes statement which l have DO doubt he believes correct, but which cannot stand the light of thorough investigation. My statement that the rec tor of this parish received 5000 during the year ending last Easter, and a furnished parsonage, is susceptible of proof, and l challenge it's disprovsl; and I would here reluctantly add if clergyman of small family. in rural place, and in small par ish, four-ffths of the families of which are obliged to live on vastly inferior sum, cannot support himself on that salary com fortably and wlthou: publicly finding fault with tue liberality of his parishioners, he, to say the least, has mistaken his calling.

 ALPHA.
Year: 1875

Sheffield. g --.,-..-....

 Items are scarcity at present in this vi- cinity. and very few things occur worth mentioning. The excitement attending the choosing of representatives etc. is over and now all is quiet again.. Occasionally a new building makes its appearance, and there ends the ambition for improvement.

 The Methodist parsonage is said to be near completion, and the Cenire district school house located near the High school building is expected to be finished for the winter term......In one kind of property Sheffield is richer than any town you can find-I mean in the number of widows. In the village there are twenty in less than a half mile and no widowers or bachelors to take pity on them. It might pay to have some imported. The question is, Whyare males so scarce here? The reason probably is that there is nothing in the business line to call them. If the married men had ambi- ton enough to start manufacturing of diff ferent kinds it would make business for many smart, intelligent men who cannot live here without. There is probably less business done here than in any town of it's size on the Housatonic railroad. ... It is get ting rather late in the season for transplant ing, but we hear that recently there have been limited number of Floral beauties successfully transported from this place to Falls Village, where they seem to prosper we'll and are thoroughly appreciated, as more of the same class could be..... The boarders have nearly all left the hotel, the weather being too cold for comfort but any one to look in Mrs. Miller's dining room would think it looked more like mid summer than winter, such variety of beautiful flowers and vines in nearly every part of the room. Many of the plants are very'rare and valuable.... Some of the sick are improving among them, Miss Louisa Boardman and Frank Huggins, and Frank Lee is said to have commenced to gaiu and was taken worse again. There is colored family, named Johnson, living in the east part of the town, who have several sick i; some of them are said to be dangerously Sc. G