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Year: 1874

CURE FOR EARACHE.-Children a.e
sometimes afflicted with carachc to an
alarming extent, and there is sometimes
difficulty in obtaining an etiectual rem
edy for the disorder. A writer in the
Household says that she takes piece of
salt pork an inch or more long. and balf
an inch square; cut down one end to tit
the hear, and insert 1T, taking care to
have the piece 100 large to slip in. Tie
a handkerchief to keep it in place, If the
child will allow it She also used pork
for sore throat, Group and lung colds.
Cut slices half an inch thick. dip in warm
water, sprinkle on little pepper, and
sew on flannel She has used pork for
earachc especially, and always found it
to give instant relief
Year: 1874

SUGAR CANDY Take six large sized
teacups Of sugar; lump of butter the
size Of large egg or larger; lump OF
alum the size of a bean ; and enough wa
ter to dissolve the sugar. Never stir un-
til done. Drop some Of the candy in 8
glass of water, and If it collects and rat
Ties against the glass it is done. Flavor
with lemon. Have your plate creased
with butter. ready to pour the candp into.
Grease YOU hands with butter, aad re-
member that the art in pulling candy is
not to hold the candy in the palms Of
your hand, but to pull quickly with the
fingers II is also nice not to pull the
candy, but just before you pour into the
plates stir in grated or dessiccated coca
aut when it eools, slip out of plates and
crack it up.
Year: 1874

TnE Rice County Journal advises us
to keep COOL" Now, Brother Whea.
ton, why will you be SO tantalizing, or
if you must joke, please do not touch
us in such a sensitive spot. KEEP
Cool! With the mercury all evapo.
rated, with the lead pencil melting in
our hand as we write, with the table
blistering under our paper and in the
shade, with the precious grease of our
body sizzling in our linen, with the
bricks roasting around us, with the air
like unto that in a heated oven-in
short, with tophet begun on earth, we
are advised to keep cool. Great Good.
ness! Why, Brother Whea-there,
We feel our wrist turning to jelly. 1t
is finished.
Year: 1874

The States of Kentucky and Tennes-
see have just been carried by immense
majorities by the Democrats and Con-
servatives. The struggle has been a
very bitter one, and may possibly have
inaugurated the long talked of war of
races, for under whatever names the
contendins parties may have entered
the field they were really a White
Mans party and Black Mans party.
The former left the field overwhelming
ly victorious. What will be the issue
Of this warfare between the races, God
only knows. At present the prospect
is exceedingly foreboding. Riots have
occurred at various places in Mississ-
ippi and it seems now as if the issue be-
tween the whites and blacks was about
to absorb all other questions in the
South. To say the least, this is a very
dangerous situation, and liable to result
in riot and bloodshed at almost any
time or place. May the God of nations
spare the poor South another deluge OF
blood, and may the bright bow of prom.
lse and peace soon arise in. the now
hackening and foreboding sky.
Year: 1874

servat!cn that nothing tends SO strongly
to change and confusion in the laws as
the system of electing legislators so
frequently as we do. We do
not expect any reformation in this mat
ter until We elect for longer terms.
Senators arc elected for two years and
Representatives for one year. A ses-
sion Of the Legislature lasts thirty
days. A man must be far more than
mortal if he can do much more t han
get familiar with the mere routine of
legislative duties in that time. It is Ut
terly impossible for him, in that short
time, to find out wha: has been done
by preceding Legislatures, or what the
actual condition Of the statute law is.
How, then, is he capable Of changing,
amending or repeating that of which he
knows nothing about? If he was elect
ed for four or five years, he could so ia.
miiarize himself with the law that he
would know just wherein it was defect
i've and what remedy was required.
He would know what he was about
when he voted to change, amend or re-
peal law. He would also get over the
notion that he was sent to the Legisla-
ture for the purpose of tearing every.
thing to pieces, and to play smash gen.
orally.


Besides this man would study up
and try to post himself on the duties
of his Office if he was elected for term
of years, but he thinks it hardly worth
his while making any great effort TO
qualify himself for term of thirty
days. 1t is generally thought ncces.
sary for man to spend years in fitting
himself for any trade or profession.
But for the high and grave duties Of a
law maker he is supposed to come per-
fectly finished and qualified from the
hand Of nature. What folly!


We constantly hear men denouncing
VAC Ia ", UCCtAOSC VI ltS Dlll1uucSS anu
obscurity, its twists, and it's quirks,
and its technicalities. The only won
der is that it is not thousand times
worse than it is, when we consider the
way in which it is made.


Let us act like reasonable beings in
this matter. Let us not only see that
we elect goo,t men, but give them an
opportunity of making good laws and
rendering good service by keeping them
long enough to give them some expert
ence. If we elect man for number
Of years We shall be more particular
about who we elect, and we shan't send
every Tom, Dick and Harry who con.
siders himself born to give laws to the
world.
Year: 1874

ONE Of the most unm;tigated evils of
the day is the practice Of continually
changing the laws. What we make
this year We unmake next year. We
scarcely learn Of the existence of law
before it is amended, changed or en-
tirely repealed. Like the Irishman's
flea, if you attempt to put your finger
upon it, you will generally strike where
it recently was. The average legisla-
tor conceives it to be his duty to tear
everything to pieces that has been done,
and to reconstruct according to his pri-
vatc notions. He starts for the Capt.
tol with blood in his eye and destruc-
ton in his heart. Old things are to be
done away and all things to become
new. Solon and Blackstone and men
of that ilk are to be thrown in the
shade. With a hundred such men as
this in the Legislature, is there any
wonder that the professional lawyer
can scarcely give an opinion upon any
question Of statute law? He never
ventures beyond guess at it.


Blackstone said that bad law which
is certain is letter than good law
which is uncertain. The laws Of the Medes
and Persians which were absolutely un-
changable, were infinitely preferable to
those that are unstable as water. Per-
Petually changing laws discourage busi-
ness and trade of every kind; increase
the necessity for non-producing profess
slonal lawyers, and bring discredit upon
and disrespect for, the majesty of the
law.


But how are we to prevent it! As
we'll attempt to change the leopard's
spots as to change the nature of the
average legislator. Like all evils it ney.
>er can be wholly prevented, but We are
satisfied from experience aud close OBJ
Year: 1874

TIE GRANGE ADVANCE is furnished ia clubs
OF ten for $3.50 per year, and will be furnished
for the next thirty days to single subscribers
for three months, and to clubs Of ten or mora
for four months at 81 cents each on trial. We
want five thousand new subscribers in the next
thirty days, snd can have them if every one Of
our friends will 90 to work in earnest.
Year: 1874

LARGESTOCK CHILDREN'S BOOTS AND


SHOES.


Protection Toe will wear twice as long us shoes
made in the ordinary way. They will not wear
through the upper ut the toe One trial will
prove this to your entire satisfaction For sale


At WADDEY'S, II King street.
Year: 1874

The Radical Senator's, says the Hart
ford Times, are turning up their noses
at Pinchback, the colored Senator
from Louisiana. Why repudiate him?
He is a Legitimate offspring of
the Grant-Casey government. He
comes regularly from usurpation.
The people of the State had
othing to do with his election.
He is child of the army-a son of a
gun. It is charged that he used cor
rupt means upon the Legislature which
Grant and Casey made! Really,
where did the Legislature come from
Corrupted and by this snip of ne
gro? No, no, gentlemen that won't
do. The whole thing is corrupt and a
fraud, and this frisky ring is q good
representative of it, from Grant to Ca
sey and Kellogg. To throw him off
scornfully, is to stultify your Louisiana
record. Fraternal Radicals-room for
Pinchback.
Year: 1874

The New York San, edited by Mr..
James A. Dana, during the war the
principal assistant to Mr.. SEWARD, and
relied upon by President LINCOLN in
every great emergency i'll which the
Federal Cause was placed during tie
war, in advocating reduction of the
standing army has the following to say
In regard to the subject, in which is
paid just compliment to the Confede-
rate Soldiers:


Ii the statistics of desertion from the
United States army were published
they would present a striking proof
that our military system is sham
within sham; that the rank and file
mostly enlist to get food, shelter, and
clothing till they can find other en-
pioynent, or to get carried at the pub
hc expense to some distant point they
wish to reach. Our excessive peace
army of sc, 900 men is not an army. 1t
never better than an unassimilated
mass, one-third of which is strange to
the musket, and nearly the whole of
which runs away and disappears every
TOUR years. AS O nucleus for such an
army as we put in the field to suppress
TIE rebellion it is little better than
worthless. The men who enlist are
mostly foreigners and refugees from
m, m@ieness, beggary, or criminal justice.
The army is their poor house or hiding
place. They enter it to avoid starvation
OF arrest. The quality of the Confed-
crate soldiers effectually disposes of
.ne plea that it is necessary to keep
Iae regular army a a nucleus On the
Cnlon side was the entire rank and
ME of the old army. OF that force the
rebels had only officers. The Confed-
crate rank and file was composed
wholly of raw men, and, in the first
Two years of the war, volunteers. Yet
shat an infantry they we're! Those of
W US who saw them charge in line of bat
tie never approach a Confederate
cemetery without taking off our hats in
homage to the devoted braves who
ever walked straight into the jaws OF
aeath wlhout blenching. The explana-
tion tS OF the extraordinary excellence OF
.ue rebel infantry is that it was made
up OF American citizens. The present
HnImy of the United States is not such


largely composed of unnaturalized


u,eigners, who enlist as a temporary


'iuge from material ills.
Year: 1874

We regret to hear of the death in
this city early yesterday morning, of
Capt Samuel r. Bunting, one of the
eldest and most highly esteemed cit
liens of the place. Capt. Bunting was
for a long time Clerk of the Superior
Court of this county, prior to the war,
and was after Yards Sheriff, both of
which offices, he filed most accepta-
bly,. He served during the war as
Captain of BuntinG's Artillery. and in
every relation Of life he was a true
and honest man, brave in the service
of his native State, steadfast in his
faith 10 his friends, and conscientious
in the performance of every duty.
Year: 1874

Judge Woods. in the Circuit Court
of Mobile, has rendered decree for
the sale of the Alabama and Chatanoo-
ga Railroad on the first Monday in
May next. The minimum price is
fixed at five millions of dollars, and
the proceeds are to be applied to the
extinguishment of the first mortgage
bonds.
Year: 1874

s'I shall be dishonest" writes
Washington correspondent of the Troy
Times. 'if attempt to hide the fact
that among the Republicans in Con-
gress the President is at this moment
not quite so popular as he was year
ago."
Year: 1874

We return thanks to n friend at
Snerds Ferry, Onslow county, for a
club Of subscribers. The people of
0uslow have always been partial to
THE Journal, and we don't think less
of them on that account.
Year: 1874

A special to the JOURNAL, received
last night from Raleigh, says that
motion was made yesterday in the
House to reconsider the vote by which
the bill to create the new county of
Ellington failed to pass its third read
ing on Thursday, but was tabled by
majority of fonr votes. This finally de-
feats the bill for this session of the
Legislature.
Year: 1874

New Orleans is proposing to build a
new steamboat of iron, three hundred
feet long, of six thousand tons capacity,
able TO run twelve miles an hour either
way with consumption of less than
one hundred tons of coal in a round trip
from st. Lorie,
Year: 1874

French Republicans may read the Hour,
and worthy gentlemen may get into
trouble for being mixed up in plot
which every honest man must rejoice has
succeeded. Here the ex prisoner will
remain a few days, but his ultimate des-
tination is England. where he wishes to
live "a retired life and educate his chill
drap
Year: 1874

The following record will show the changes in
the temperature during the last twenty-four hours
in comparison with the corresponding date last
year, as recorded at Hudnur's drug store, herald
Building 2ls Broadway
Year: 1874

The HERALD says at would Ike to see statue
to Cromwell In the United States" Then why not
erect one In front OF the HERALD ONCE or in the
Central Parks Just at present there is q move
ment on foot among newspaper men to erect
statue to John Milton, who was Cromwel's Latin
Secretary. Cromwell came very near being an
American, but the HERALD says. He was ss much
al American as an Englishman," which Is hardly
true. II he had come over in the Maynower he
would never have been Protector, and would have
made no more OF ngure In our history than Miles
Standish. 1t Is wen ior England aud for the hu-
man race In general that he did not come, Tor he
did kind Of work In Europe which no other man
OF his time was capable OF doing. The only proper
place for statue OF Cromwell is In Lon.
don, and as soon as they have . republican
government there It Is probable that one
will be raised In his honor, but not sooner.
There Is no particular reason why q statue OF
Cromwell should be set up here, but still II the
HERALD wants to have one VIC see no particular
reason wny 1t should not be gratified. As the
Tribune, Tmes and sun have a statue OF Franklin
all to themselves In Printing House Square,
would BE- very proper thing for the HERALD t6
set up for It's own special qualification statue OF
Cromwell in front OF Its oiice. Launt Thompson


would do tho subject justice II the HsRALD were 70
give him commission Tor the statue
Year: 1874

little known seldom or never seen In the Etern n
Ny the Pope sees with tne ewes OF his hunclos ana
OF cardinal must have great weight with the
head of the Church. Then, where the Pope has to
governments their wishes in the appoin tment OF
cardinals as II happened in the OF the present
cardinals bonaparte anu honenione, cannot De SET
concordats leave the Pontin little or


NO FREEDOM OF ACTION.


When sovereigns make an improper choice II is
for the resident representative of the Holy See 10
inform the Court OF Rome.


Now, the Church in our country is but OF recent
growth; the Holy See has no Representative in
Washington, and our legislators IN Congress laith-
ful to the dlctaton OF the inspired cObblersn who
sent them there, are too fanatic and too niggardy
to maintain a representative OF proper rank near
the Holy Father On the other hand the creation
Christian nation and government as the highest
honor tnat could be bestowed OH one OF their own.
1t is for the reader to see that ali these consld
erations, which have ever been decisive wi.h the
Court OF Rome, are against our having for some
time to come an American cardinal
II, then, the question be seriously asked. Why
does not Plus k have regard to the many claims
or the Catholics In The United States ON his afrec-
tion and gratitude and grant them, by honorng
one oil their prelates with the Roman purple, a
suitable return for their acknowledged loyalty and
generosity an answer may be l0und In the pre-.
IL not matter OF choice. II the question be not
asked seriously 1t implies


SLIGHT ON THE PONTIFP


himself and on the dignity, the highest In the
Church OF human origin The su1erlngs and heroic
services OF that august person should secure him
from irreverence and the long list Oi sanity and
venerable names which have shed a lustre even
on that rank must ever preserve 1t from cOntenpt.
Whenever providential circumstances Will allow
the present Pope or his successors to reward dis
unguished merit In the New World BY elevation TO
this sacred dignity they shall find in south America
prelates Kindred In soul to the martyred MOsquera
and In the North men who can be worthy heirs in
station and merit OF the CAROLS and the Englands
the Cheveruses, the Kenrlcks and the Hugheses,
just as across the Canadian frontier shall not
fail to grace with equal learning and piety the
ancient See OF de Montmorency-Laval.


PRUDENTIUS.
Year: 1874

Inhuman Treatment of Pauper Luna


ties in Pennsylvania.


The Philadelphia Evening Bulletin
publishes lengthy and interesting de-
scription of the treatment of the insane
poor in certain county almshouses in
Pennsylvania. The Bulletin states
that terrible abuses have grown up in
this connection which only need ex-
posure to bring about speedy reform,
and announces its intention of publish
ing all the facts that can be obtained
concerning these abuses. A visit to one
county poorhouse betrayed a terrible
condition Of affairs in the Insane De-
partment.


All sanitary measures were neglected,
and sickening odor prevailed in the
department named. The insane pau
pers were confined in wooden cages,
having only a small opening protected
by iron bars, to admit air and light.
The interior of the cages were covered
with piles of dirty straw and filth, and
the atmosphere was indescribable. In
cage No. l was an agricultural laborer,
clad in rags. He was quiet and civil,
his arrangement not being Of violent
character.


He had been shut up in that filthy
box for eighteen months, simply be-
cause they had no other place to put
him in. In the other cages the scenes
presented were even more inhuman and
revolving. The unfortunate inmates
were nearly naked, two of them wholly
so. They crouched among the straw
and litter in their dens, some asleep or
in stupor, and all suffering greatly
from the wanton neglect of their keep
ers. Some could not rise from weak
ness, their limbs having been so long
in crouching attitude that they could
not move them.


A still more shocking sight, however,
was revealed on proceeding to the
basement of the hospital. There, in o
similar cage, lying on heap of loose
straw, was a young woman twenty
years of age. She is dumb, distorted,
and idiotic. For eighteen years she
has been confined in the poorhouse,
and six years she has been confined in
the cage, her only clothing piece of
coarse bed ticking.


She is so weak from lying that she
can neither move her limbs, rise nor
walk. The almshouse in which these
terrible sufferings were witnessed is ten
miles from Easton, Penn.


The Bulletin, in concluding the ex-
posure, calls upon the State to see to it
that the Board of Public Charities does
its duty in wiping off this deep stain on
civilization and humanity.
Year: 1874

Some of the most celebrated aphor-
isms ever given to the world are those
of Cardinal De Retz. AS writer, the
fame of De Retz rests upon the Me-
moirs," "most striking and brilliant
work." But his maxims have their
value, as the reflections which O. great
and able man formed from long expert
ence and practice in great business.
This was Lord Chesterfeld's opinion,
and he adds, "They are true conclu-
sions, drawn from facts, not from specu-
lation." We subjoin a few of them:


Weak men never yield at the proper
time.


There are no small steps in great
affairs.


am persuaded that greater qualities
are required toform good party leader
than to form an emperor OF the uni
verse and that in the order of the
qualities which composes him, resolu-
tion should walk hand in hand with
judgment-I mean heroic Judgment,
the principal use of which is to dis
tinguish the extraordinary from the i'm
possible.


Upon men of small understanding
nothing makes so deep an impression
as what they do not understand.


When fear rises to certain height it
produces the same effects as temerity.
Fear never applies the proper remedy.


We should never play with favor we
cannot too closely embrace it when it is
real, nor fly too far from it when it is
false.


A man who distrusts himself never
truly confdes in any one.


Men never believe others can do what
they cannot do themselves.


The effects of weakness are incon-
ceivable, and I maintain that they are
far vaster than those of the most vio-
lent passions.


I have remarked that ilI-founded
enmities are ever the most obstinate.
The reason of this is clear. AS ofenses
of that kind exist only in the imagina-
tion, they never fail to grow and swell
in that receptacle, too fruitful in evil
fancies.


To commonplace people the extra
ordinary appears possible only after it
has been executed.
Year: 1874

If this love that is gliding life's summer
Had come in life's spring,
How my soul would have met the new conner,
With garment and ring;
With sacrifice offered in gladness,


With hope for the beautiful years
Alas from the depth of my sadness,
greet it with tears.
Too late do we stand at the ALTAR


Too late you rejoice!
Too late do you tremble and falter


At the sound of my voice
The hand that you hold has grown thinner,
The heart has known anguish and fears
am yours, o victorious winner


salute you with tears!
You say that loves golden September
Is faithful and strong;
You marvel that should remember


Loves May-time of wrong!
The sorrow for you is all OVER


My heart is prophetic in fears,
And so, for your kiss as my lover,


offer my tears
What give to the cheek in its whiteness,
Praise lost to its bloom?
What! turn from the eyes in their brightness
And worship their gloom2
The rose in its freshness and beauty,


You crushed in your earlier years
Will you cherish it, faded, from dutyi


l answer with tears.
Year: 1874

views of the people who have not been
"fixed" by the diligent maiiipulators, who are
attending to this thing. Advices from all
parts of the state indicate that there is a gen.
eral popular revulsion against the bad system
whose perpetration is sought. and legislators
should be OIL their guard against the beguile-
ments Of these crafty manufacturers Of an ap-
parent, but fictitious public sentiment.


But we cannot now point out all the de-
vices of these crafty and thoroughly drilled
operators, who propose to effect Mr.. Ham
Inns election. The subject opens up richly
and we shall have occasion to refer to it
again.
Year: 1874

SOME of our friends in the Eastern part of
the state may query within themselves why
the PRESS pays so little attention to the
abuse which has been poured in such m.
stin.ed measure upon il, and all connected
with it, by the Bangor Wing. When ones
utterances are deliberately misrepresented, his
motives falsely aspersed and an attempt is
made to break him down by a systematic
series of lies, there is of course temptation
to reply seriatim and correct the misrepre-
sentatiens as fast as made ;but in this case the
attacks are made with the set purpose of de
verting public attention from the senatorial
question to paltry personal wrangles and to
obscure great public question by throwing
mud. We are not to be tempted from our
purpose by any such device. Nor could
answers be made TO every silly fabrication in
vented by the Wing without taking up about
all ones attention, and we have something
else to dove cannot afford much time or
space to such fot.Iishness. Nor would Il be
possible for us to answer much Of the stuff at
all. A gentleman, overwhelmed on the
street by the vituperations of blackguard,
does not care to handy words Of like charac.
ter and, if he should try would be ignomini-
ously defeated. The good Lyman Beecher,
walking in the fields with large volume
under his arm, encountered one Of those
odorous little animals familiar in rural life
and, scenting ths danger aiar of, threw the
book at the creature. The result was dis
astrous, and ever after, when advised TO re.
ply to attacks of low fellows, he would an
swer: 81 once issued whole quarto volume
against skunk and got the worst Of it.'