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Year: 1877

The question is, what can be done
to relieve the country of the fearful
pressure upon business of every
kind? Some say it is the scarcity
of money. Some say want of con-
fidence. / do not see how the elec-
tion of Tilden or Hayes is TO give
relief.


beg leave to suggest that it is
too much dead capital locked up in
Government bonds. The banks can
draw the interest from their bonds
and use only the deposits to gain
enough to declare dividends.


But suppose you were to pay off
this 100000, 200, held by the banks
they would be obliged to employ
this sum in loans to the business of
the country in order to pay their
stockholders the semi annual divi
dends. This should be done by
paying the bonds in legal tender
notes, and thus substitute the legal
tender for the national bank cur
rency.


The calling for $30O,00O,O0O of
bonds, held by parties other than
the banks, would compel this sum
to seek investment. Would this not
be solution of the distressing sit
uation we are in, and reduce the in
terest S42,000,000 per annum, and
save the people large amount of
tax.


Make the legal-tenders receivable
for duties to the amount of so per
cent. of said duties, and reduce the
tariff so as to induce the importa-
ton of goods.


Picture to your mind the condi-
tion of the country with seven hun
dred millions of money to loan or
invest in business now languishing,
and money passing into the treas
ury from the custom-houses by rea-
son of the reduced tariff-forty two
millions interest saved and forty
millions of people actively en-
ployed.


The idea that this would be infa-
ton is a farce; the Government
would be bound to pay $700,000,000
aOithout interest. She is now bound
to pay that sum ,Oith interest. 1t is
only a change in the form of the
debt, and will anybody say it is not
a good change for the people? If
put to the vote, all having no bonds
would say aye; those holding the
bonds, nay. Count the vote and
announce the majority for the meas
ure; ayes have it SO, 954, ,201.


AS things now stand, the Gov
ernment is dragging the people
down to poverty if not actual star
vation. National progress is the
sum of individual industry, energy
ard uprightness." Lift the load off
our shoulders, and give individual
industry, energy and uprightness a
chsnce-and accept the best wishes
of G.,


A Banker for Thirty Years.
Year: 1877

The majority of country people
eating fruit, eat the skin. Their
children eat it in the same manner,
and seem never to have been taught
that the skin of fruit-be it apple,
peach, plum, or grape-should nev-
er be eaten, especially if uncooked.
Fruitskins are so difficult of dIges-
ton that there is probably not more
than one stomach in hundred ca
pable of performing the difficult
task. The skin is to fruit what
shells are to nuts, hides to animals,
end husks to grain. To oblige or
allow child to eat his apple or pear
unpeeled is unkind and wrong, for
it is no question of daintiness, but
of health.
Year: 1877

A correspondent asks the follow
ing question: "What is the best
cross upon our common sheep for
quality and quantity of wool, for
the general Market and for weight
of carcassT' This inquiry can be
replied to from so many stand
points, that an opinion in IA
vor of either of the recognized
breeds requires certain explana-
tions. A cross of the longwool-
say Cotswold, or Leicester-will in
sure an increase of carcass to near
ly or quite double the value of the
or native dam. The fleece
will have additional length, consid-
cradle improvement in style, and
perceptible increase in weight. The
improvement In length and lustre
viii add to its ma ket value.
Year: 1877

The truly progressive class accept
truth wherever they find it, and re-
ject nothing because of its source.
A hint dropped from the beggar's
lips is just as valuable as though it
came from royalty itself These
are the men who think, reason, and
experiment for themselves. Like
the miner, it is the gold they are
after, and, like him, they never re-
ject it because it Is associated with
dross and dirt, but 60 resolutely TO
work to separate the pure from the
impure, retaining only the former.
Year: 1877

Mr.. Conkling says it is no com
promise. In his speech in the Sen
ate last week he argued that "if this
bill was a compromise of truth,
of law or of the right, he was
against it; but he denied that it was
any compromise, and above all it
did not compromise the right
and principe or the consti-
tuition. To insist on an honest
fair counting of the electoral vote
was not a compromise. A Presi-
Dental election had occurred, and
unless there was a tie, omebody
had been chosen. To establish
that fact was no compromise"


He also argued its constitu tional
ity very ably, and proved very clear
ly that Congress could work
through this tribunal as well as
through the silver commission, the
Southern claims commission, or the
army commission.


A Washington Special to the Gin
cinnati Enquirer says the policy
of the Democrats in supporting the
measure should not be construed as
an indication that a majority be-
longing to the party believe that the
bill ought to pass. They are con-
fronted with two dire contingen-
cies; First, that the Republican
leaders, without such a compromise,
would force Hayes into the Presi-
dency; and, second, that if they did,
Don Cameron and the army would
keep him there, unless, indeed, civ
il war interviewed. The country
doesn't want war, and the Demo
Gratis accept the bill in the interest
of peace.
Year: 1877

In tho beat back home there opportunity
given watch the battles that rugged In greater
degree, as the Fort Lee ordered to the starting
point by the incompetent judges at iu speed so she
pcked up the racers quickly ono alter another that
il was hardly possible 10 make them out
The official timing is as follows:-
Year: 1877

Convictions Of perjury have so seldom
been obtained and the penalties provided by
law have SO seldom beon enforced in this
country tint the crime has lost something
Of its ancient character People have come
to regard it in many instances rs technical
o.fense. False swearing has been considered
morally wrong or not in n certain proper
ton to the piety, alleged or presumed, of
the pcrjurer. 1t has been by many esteemed
only odious to bc detected III the commission
OF the crime, while the successful cheating
OF justice by fraudulent affidavit or false
oath has been secretly connived at, if not al-
mired. by too many processing to be influ-
enccd by high commercial sense of honor.
In certain situations, rs when the reputation
of woman is involved, it is considered
obligatory upon gentlemen" to commit
perjury. In other cases, chances of perjury
are recklessly taken by men of unblemished
reputation in the assurance that it is ga
mere matter of FORM" The facility with
which the oath is administered and the fee
pocletea gives support to the impression that
Ignorance of facts, which the affiant GER
titles as being within his own knowledge, is
some excuse for perjury. No doubt these
wrong notions have been assisted in their
origin and growth by the careless habits of
lawyers, who from familiarity with afHiavits
and oaths have ceased to regard them as Of
Year: 1877

In defining his position TO the Senatorial
Committee sent to pump him President
HAYES bases himself upon that section OF
the Constitution which provides that the
President, by and with the advice of thefSen-
ate, shall appoint, etc. He construes this to
mean that the President shall nominate and
the Senate do pretty much as it has mind
to on his nominations. He looks upon
the grave mud reverend Seignors as q
Court established to, among other functions,
pass upon such cases Us he shall deem
proper TO call their attention to. They
have nothing to d. with him nor be with
them until he shall have exercised his pre-
rogative Of nomination, and their duties
commence where his leave off To him it
bears the aspect of grave impropriety when
a member Of Congress approaches him upon
the subject Of an appointment. If he wants
Congressional advice he will seek it, but ur-
til he does ho respectfully submits that it
might properly be withheld.
Year: 1877

priation to pay of the contractors o. On the
Courthouse.


The new Board will not take charge OF III
fairs until December. They will find all the
appropriations and salaries for the next year
fixed in advance by the old Bonrd. Their
proper course will be to abolish all useless
Offices. and to reduce expenditures RS far as
possible to the sums appropriated. This can
be done by thorough and radical overturn"
ing of the present system Of contracts in
eusnrated by the dishonest Ring.


This County Government is perhaps the
only instance in this country of Legislative
body levying taxes and running puollc
charities by its own members. The Board
not only appropriates, but its own members
e5pend the money of the public. The plan
has been proposed that, instead OF letting
contracts for supplies under the direction OF
n committee of the Board, a general agent
be appointed to make all the purchases OF
supplies for the county. This practice has
been adopted by the Board of Education tor
many Years, and its success has been un-
questionable. Of course, for such m office,
n man of incorruptible integrity and expert
cuce is needed, otherwise it would be
a new source of fraud. At all events
the County Commissioners should not bo
allowed personally to e2pend one doAar'
or to contract for any expenditures; but we
are satisfied that a competent person, strictly
honest, could save for the county at least 20
per cent in the expenditure for supplies Ii
the new Board Gun find such man, such
saving would be e1ninently desirable. 1t IS
notorious that the county for years has been
pl,ndercd in the quantity, quality, and prices
of all its supplies, and something ought to
be done to correct the evil and cut of one
large branch Of corruption.


The new Board will have large work
before it to un 10 the evils already established.
It will require courage and perseverance, but
it may rest assured that in every measure of
reform it will have the cordial support Of the
public.
Year: 1877

where the fire broke out, and the streams
which they brought to bear were thinned
and scattered into spray, and of course in
efficient to do the work which steady,
heavy stream could have accomplished. The
Chicago engines, even the smallest OF them,
have sufficient power to carry full head OF
water through stand-pipe or hose to the
top of the highest building in the city, but
they cannot reach even the fourth story
wher throwing the water through the air;
hence the necessity of means for carrying
the hose to the highest point on the build
ing is as urgent plea for the adoption OF
these ladders Us is their possible use as life
escapes.


The ladders themselves can be provided at
comparatively small cost. They consist
simply of u succession Of strong iron rods,
protected from: rust, securely riveted, and
running from the ground to the roof. Their
proper location is at one side Of tier OF
windows opening on the series OF hnll~
ways in the various stories of building. AS
rule, the Railways in ali large buildings are
constructed one over the other, and in this
way FeaQleF anu Sutel accehS c&A pe aA1oA"eo
at all times than by ladders which should
conduct into separate rooms AL buildings
used for hotel or tenement purposes, and
those which contain manufacturing estab-
lishments end are four stories and more IN
height, should be required to furnish these
ladders, if not stnnd-pipes; but there should
be discrimination as to the size Of the build
ing, rs to the number of ladders, as to their
location, as to the hro-proof quality of the
buildings and their use. For these reasons,
a commission should be appointed and
survey made, rs we have suggested. The
proposed improvement will in every case be
profitable to the owners Of buildings in the
avoidance of loss from fire and the reduction
Of insurance rates.
Year: 1877

On one occasion, at least, Incorporate
habits have been attended by desirable re
suits. Tho Army bill, rs passed by the Sen
ate. went through the House yesterday,
leaving its opponents to explain that its pas
sage was effected by the absence Of 4 number
of gentlemen engaged in the Democratic
pastime Of getting drunk. The House
agreed with the Senate in refusing to station
four regiments on the Rio Grande border by
I: vote of lao to 13G, and fixed the numerical
strength of the army Mt $4,000 by l3+ to
$50. It is to be hoped that the good work
inaugurated by the constituents of the .1emi-
john will not stop here, though it is 1smenta-
ble that Democratic Congressman can only
be brought to correct view Of their duty TO
the nation by the potent arguments OF the
whisky bottle.
Year: 1877

1esting-place there was q mute recognition


Of the loss that falls heavily On community


that will long remember, with regret for his
nisfortunes, the man whose life Was remark
able for its earnestness and usefulness be-
fore it went out in gloom and disappoint-
Year: 1877

There is prospect that the Mexico-Ie1as
question will find a solution through the
agency of a number of amiable anu self
sacrificing Indians. The New York Sun
and papers Of that ilk have amused the
country with solemn prophecies Of terrible
disaster consequent upon the invasion OF
Mexico by United States soldiers in pursuit
of thieying redskins. Now it appears that
the savases have crossed tho border into
Texas, obviating the necessity Of sending
force into tic land of the Greaser. It is
doubtful whether we arc ut liberty to con-
gratulate ourselves upon this new aspect OF
affairs, for the depredators are described as
being numerically strong, fact that is
creating no little uneasiness in the invaded
uuaFter
Year: 1877

1t may perhaps be presumptuous on the part
of TIE TRIBUNE to interfere III New York poll
tics, but it would like to suggest that, In vic"
Of his intimate acquaintance with the Caual
Ring, the Democratic Secretary Of state-elccs
should change his name from BEACH to low
Year: 1877

Similar reductions were made on other
items Of appropriation where the actual e1-
Penditure is proportionately greater, and the
deficiency between expenditure and appro-
p1iation will be represented by floating
debt of nearly half million Of dollars,


This Was done in order to vote q large app.o.
Year: 1877

The very important questions of
how long the windrowing of cane
will cause it to retain its saccharine
qualities, and at what length of time
after windrowing the yield dimin-
ishes, are just now agitating the
minds of many connected with the
sugar interest. So as to throw as
much light upon this subject as pos
sible, We request oar numerous cor
respondents i'll the sugar parishes to
study the question closely and send
in the observations of the facts as
found by planters. The condition of
the cane before windrowing, the loca-
ton, whether dry or damp, the
weather since and at the time of
windrowipg, all should be closely
observed and no!ed, together with
the yield of sugar per ton of cane
N. o. Price Current.
Year: 1877

The wear begins. turn leaf,


All over writ with good resolves,
Each to fulfil will be in chief


NV aim while earth its round revolVes.
How many leaf I've turned before,


And tried to make a record true;
Each year wreck on times dull shore


Proved much dared but little knew.
All. bright resolve! How high you bear


The futures hopeful standard on;
How brave you start; how poor you wear


How soon are hope and courage gone!
You point to deeds of sacrifice,


You shun the path of careless ease;
lentils and wooden shoes! Is this


The fare a human soul to please
What wonder then, if men do fall,


Where good is ever all austere;
While vice is fair and pleasant all,


And turns the leaf to lead the year
Yet still once more turn the leaf,


And mean to walk the better way;
l struggle ON with old unbelief,


And strive to reach the perfect day
Why should the road that leads to heaven


Be all one reach of sterile sand
Why not just here and there, be given


A rose to deck the dreary land
But why repine! Others have trod,


With sorer feet and heavier sins,
Their painful pathway toward their God


My pilgrimage anew begins.
Failure and failure, hitherto,


Has time inscribed upon my leaves;
I've wandered many Il harvest through,


And never yet have gathered sheaves.
Yet once again the leaf turn,


Hope against hope for one success;
One merit mark at least to earn,


One sunbeam in the wilderness.
Year: 1877

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tunate-Asusiness


NEW YORK, Dec. %, 1877.
EDITOR CHIEF:


Thursday night another horror
shocked New York from centre to
circumference. AT five O'Clock, just
before the employees had left the
place, boiler exploded and blew out
the front of the building at No. 63
Barclay street, the factory of Green
field & Son, the largest manufactur-
ers of confectionery in the world,
Immediately the whole structure was
wrapt in flames, and a scene of the
widest horror ensued. There were
over two hundred persons in the
building, nearly all in the upper sto-
ries and mostly girls. The fire cut
off means of escape, smoke added
it's horrors to flame, and frightful
loss of life ensued. The number is
not yet known, but it can not be less
than fifty, and the ghastly list may
reach a hundred. One man was killed
in the street, with his horse, by the
wall falling on him, and buildings in
the neighborhood were more or less
wrecked. The cause of the catastrophe
is easily explained. The boiler was
not worn out, for the force of the ex-
plosion demonstrated its strength, but
it was in charge of an entirely incom-
petent person. 1t was a cheap man
who knew nothing whatever of steam,
or its management, who had under
his control the lives of two hundred
persons. From ignorance or neglect,
or both, it exploded, and hundred
homes are desolated. 1t is the old
story repeated. When such accidents
are of daily occurrence, one almost
wishes for monarchy with power to
make men sensible.


There is no question that the rum
power rules New York completely.
There are eight thousand rum shops
in the city subject to license. The ex-
else board, which has the power to
grant licenses, commenced eight
months ago to take money but did
not issue licenses, giving instead a
receipt, and directing the holders to
go on selling, as the receipt would
protect them. The grand jury was
not satisfied with this, for every GIN
mill keeper was selling, whether he
was proper person or not, and the
Police Commissioners were directed
to arrest every one not having a
license, and shut up his shop. Eight
! hundred were arrested in one day,
and there was no favor shown. Tam
many hall howled. The excise board,
which is Tammany, is not compelled
to pay over the money collected for
licenses till the licenses are granted,
and as receipts are not licenses,
Tammany had the use of million of
dollars. Further than this, it was
never intended to collect the money
at all. At the end of the year the
favored rum sellers would come in
and demand their money on the score
OF not having had a license, so they
would get the privilege of selling a
year for nothing. Then again, Tam
many dare not touch the rum interest
at all, for it depends upon it to main
tain its power. As each rum-shop can
control four votes, at least, they keep
an army of $4,000 voters always
ready to do as its rulers desire.
Therefore the action of the Police
Year: 1877

Major Reno is by no means the first
soldier who has thrown away his charac-
ter in silly scrape with woman. He
had bright reputation, and had become
very widely known from his participation
in Clusters unfortunate expedition but
in the piping times Of peace he has been
a failure. He was weak enough to take,
or to attempt to take, ungentiemanlike
liberties with thewife ofa brother officer,
and however lightly army men may re-
gard little outside gallantrios, they are
disposed to hold one of their number to
a very strict account Of his obligations
within the regimental family, so that it
is likely to 60 hard with Reno, whose
trial by court-martial has just concluded
at st. Panl.
Year: 1877

A New USE FOR ONIoNs.-A New
Hampshire paper states that thespeed-
lest way to cure the epizootic and make
a horse thoroughly happy is to give
him onions. Inproofwhereof the case
Of d Portsmouth horse is cited, which
had severe attack Of the disease, and
.his owner placed half a dozen onions
in with his regular feed. The horse
ate three Of the onions Immediately,
and by the time he had swallowed them
began to cough and sneeze and prance
about, appearing quite indignant, and
refusing to touch the remaining onions.
For full five minutes he wept at the
nose, and then-he was a cured horse.
He has not had a cough, a sneeze, nor
any symptom Of the epizootic since, but
he had the courage to eat the onions
remaining in the crib the next day after
the cure.
Year: 1877

WINTER SUPPLY OF CoAL.-In the
lull Of farming operations which sue
ceeds hay and grain harvest, the fore
handed farmer will lay in his winter
supply Of coal. At this season the
price is at the lowest mark, and why
the job should be left until cold wealth
er sets in and the price goes up, we are
unable to say. Nor can we see why
the farmer who uses from five to ten
tons d year does not order his coal
shipped direct from tbe mines to his
railroad station, whereby he may save
about a dollar a ton, enough in one
season to buy his wife new dress, or
a life-subscription to the TRAEscRIPT.
There are numerous shippers Of coal to
be found in this city who are trust
worthy, with whom orders may be safe
" left.
Year: 1877

GEoRGIA's WHEAT CRoP.-The
Atlanta Constitution says Of the wheat
crop in that State that not only is the
acreage greater than it has perhaps
ever been in that section, but the yield
per acre is magnificent Many farm
ers will harvest from twenty-five to
thirty bushels Of plump white wheat to
the acre, and there are farmers in every
county whose respective products of
wheat will run up into several thous-
ands Of bushels. The Georgia farm
srs have evidently concluded that cot
ton is not entirely king, and with wise
forethought they have determined to
raise their own bread,
Year: 1877

KILLING WEEDs.-Nature has GER
tain laws; they are immutable. In
regard to perennial roots, the law is,
that beginning with the spring growth
the plants duties are to perfect the
preparation made the latter part Of the
previous summer and fall. This may
be said to be the end of that plants
life, and fit was only an animal it
would be 50. But perennial has,
after arriving at a certain age and con
dition, to make preparations for con-
tinued life next year. This is done by
forming eyes or buds upon its roots, or
around the collar of the main stem,
which shall, although perfect, remain
dormant until next spring. There is a
certain lapse Of time between the ma
turity Of the old plant and the perfee-
ton of these eyes or buds.


This time is Of quite short duration,
not more than one Or two weeks, and
is the critical time in that plants life.
ANY attack upon the vitality Of the
part above ground is sure to kill that
below, and Of course the whole plant.


This gives us clue to weed killing;

attacking plant in its most vigorous
season is but Of temporary advantage,
but If we take it at its weakest moment
it suecumbs readily.


This critical time does not come to
all varieties Of plants at the same time
Of year, but may range from the mid
die of July to the first of September,
as the particular kind natures early or
late. Learn by observation when each
kind of plant arrives at its moment Of
weakness, and cut it down to the
ground the loss Of foliage above ground
totally prevents it from forming buds
below ground. It is a very simple mat
ter when once understood German
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