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Year: 1874

Many Of US pray to be delivered from
sudden death, and why do we worry our
selves into it? If we do, can we help it 2
To most Of US it is not given to choose our
lives, to avoid the rough places, to gently
shoulder 10 one side disagreeable facts
We must climb over the rocks though they
hurt US sore, and the difficulties, however
they annoy, must be met with brain fret and
wear until they are conquered, or we have
passed them. They are as real, living an
noying as any tangible ache or pain could
be; as bruising and irritating as the peas
in the shoes Of the pilgrims of old. Ner-
vous health is one thug, and moral health
and purely physical health is quite another
and different thing. Calm and steady
mental work is conducive to long life; but
nervous emotion, mental work that is q
constant urging, and, at the same time, il
an unhinging Of the even tenor Of the mind
eats away the brain faster than any menta
labor, no matter how hard, that is sys
tematic. As men do not really die of hear
disease as often as supposed, but Of apo
plexy, or congestion Of the lungs, so they dc
not die Of brain work, but Of brain worry
Scott died of it; Southey, Swift, Horace
Greeley, and probably ThackerAy.
Year: 1874

One beautiful and gifted woman, if she
is wrongly disposed, can work more evil in
society, can scatter more seeds Of corruption
and death, than, with their utmost efforts,
a score Of men. Her capabilities for good
in the different departments Of morals are
equally great, and in such proportion to
her powers, both for good and evil, must be
her condemnation, if she is false to her holy
stewardship. Society cannot be destroyed
it woman is true, nor safe if woman is false
Besides, society shows no unequal discrim'
inaton in regard to this particular class Of
offences. The rule applies to all. A pro-
fame woman, drunken woman, female
thief or murderer, always excites a greater
horror aud disgust than If the crime had
been committed by man. And this il
right, and it will be an evil day for thii
world when woman in her sin excites nc
more abhorrence than man.
Year: 1874

Everybody is wondering why the BAZAAR
is selling their goods so cheap. The reason is
they must clear out their Spring and Sum-
mer goods to make room for the immense
stock of Fall and Winter goods which they
will soon receive.
Year: 1874

CENTRAL CHURcH.-Messrs. Mozart
ney & Kenney have just completed the
upholstering of Central Church. The
cushions arc all in and the carpets down;
and the church in its new and elegant
attire looks as beautiful as bride array
ed for the marriage ceremony. Alas how
many will contribute to these adorn-
which the church is erected as the arena
in which it is to be won and worn.
Year: 1874

The PREMIUM LIsr.-The publica-
ton of the premium list and Mr.. Bay
ards address has necessarily crowded
out great deal Of interesting matter
which we would have otherwise pub
lished. It has also obliged US to con-
dense the election returns much more
than we would have done.


We refer our readers to this Premium
List as the best answer that can be
made to a rather derogatory letter
which appeared in the Wilmington Ga
zette last week in reference to the fair.
Our Exhibition may not have been quite
as extensive as the Maryland State Fair
or the Cincinnati Exposition, but this
was our 6rst year. and that letter con-
tanned the first complaint that has come
to the ears Of any Of US who we're in
tercsted in the exhibition. Perhaps if
all the subscribers to the capital stock
bad paid their subscriptions earlier in
the summer, without waiting for the
fair to prove q success. the committee
would have felt freer and the prepara-
tions could have been completed sooner.
Year: 1874

fortunes 10 more tractable and congenial
company, but We are not prepared to
believe. without indisputable evidence.
that there can be young men, who have
not been brought up under the influence
Of Republican fathers, who are SO lost to
self respect. as to deliberately place
themselves in company with negroes,
politically and socially. much less can
we believe that any young man Of q
properly balanced mind, who has grown
to manhood under the fostering care Of
o Democratic father, could possibly be-
come Republican. If there are any
such, their room is preferable to their
company and the party they 60 to gains
nothing. but rather loses. by the &C.
QUESTION.
Year: 1874

SENATOR BAYARD's ADDRESS.
publish on our first page this week one
half Of the excellent address delivered
by Hon. T. f. Bayard at the opening
Of our recent Agricultural fair.


We could not publish it entire this
week. without too seriously interfering
with other matters and thought it best
to divide it into two equal portions.
We will publish the remainder next
week.
Year: 1874

The result of the Inspectors election
on Tuesday is a souce Of great encourage
ment to the Democrats. We have now
more sure foundation for our hopes
for the election of our ticket, and saliva
ton Of our State from the misfortune Of
Radical rule, in November. Our op-
ponents. relying upon the apathy and
disafcction that appeared in our ranks
two years ago, hoped that through the
aid of their negro allies they would be
able to carry the State, aBd when Will
mington gave majority in favor Of the
Democracy at the recent city election
their journals hastened to declare that
that was no proof of Democratic suprem-
acy in the city as only local issues
had been brought into the contest, and
that great numbers Of Republicans had
voted with the Democrats on those local
issues. We believe they were right
There is no doubt whatever that many
men who have hitherto been Republi-
cans voted at that city election, and on
Tuesday last too. with the Democrats.
The people all over the country have
grown tired and disguised With the cor





rupt practices Of the Radicals. and they
have come to the Democratic party for
the reform which the Republican party
has long been promising but has never
given. This is the natural reversion
which must take place, sooner or later,
all over the Union As the bigotry Of
partisanship wears of, and men begin
to look upon the political condition Of
the country with unprejudiced eyes, the
white race Of America will refuse longer
to submit to the degradation to which
they have been, and are being subject
ed by the Radical politicians in order
to keep themselves in Office.


But the Democratic party of Della
ware. while it has reason to be more
confident Of success at the final contest
in November. from the result on Tues
day, must not depend too much on that
result. We must not rest satisfied with
the fruits o: the first victory, or cease
our efforts to elect our ticket. Last
Tuesday has shown to Us that the VIC
tory is within our grasp if we will but
put forth our hands and take it; but If
NE cease our vigilance and grow indif-
ferent because we succeeded last Tues
day, that victory will prove a great
misfortune rather than benefit to US.


Up then, Democrats, and 60 10 work
more earnestly than ever. We have
the prestige Of victory to encourage US,
and this should lead us to labor all the
more energetically that our triumph
may be the more complete.
Year: 1874

ONE of the greatest objections to our
farming operations in this country is the
tendency of our rich soil to wash off and
rapidly deteriorate in fertility. Another
misfortune is the indifference with which
many farmers treat this important sub
ject. 1t is plain to any observing mind
that field of rich, fertile soil will yield
double the amount of one that has been
thus neglected and suffered other NAL.
practices. l have in my mind now the
case of so.called farmer who allowed an
old roadway, q quarter of mile in length,
to wash so deep that plow could hardly
cross it. when ten minutes work with a
spade would have prevented it. And
often We see large, impossible bitches
form through valuable land, with no
effort to stay the fearful waste. This, with
fearful force, verif1es the old saying, "A
stitch in time saves nine."


A few hints in regard to remedies are
in order. First, the land can be plowed
so as to help the case by running the fur
rows crosswise of the rills l prefer to
have the water flow in straight rills at reg
ular intervals, and to prevent these from
washing deeper pack corn-stalks, large
green weeds, fine straight brush, etc., in
the bottom, and allow the grass and
weeds to grow in these bitches. Thus the
water has something to wear on, and
with little care much soil can thus he
saved. But the best manner to preserve
the fertility of the soil is, as any intelli-
gent farmer knows, to seed down to grass,
especially clovers, not forgetting the i'm
portance of the proper use of MANURE
Oor Western Farmer.
Year: 1874

We have rarely read of an instance
where noble effort to save life was op.
posed by greater difficulties or more re-
markably rewarded than in connection
with recent accident on the Troy 6
Greenbush Railroad.


The New York and Boston express
train left Troy at the usual hour, 6 o'clock
IN the morning. None of the passengers
yet know how narrowly they escaped an
awful disaster, and in how great degree
they are indebted for their lives to the
presence Of mind of railroad employe.


There had been serious landslide at
fish-house curve on the Troy & Greenbush
Railroad. A locomotive had been acci-
dentally caught by the landslide, forced
from the track and partly turned, so that
It's headlight was pointed west.


The slide occurred at 6 O'Clock, just at
the moment the New York and Boston
express was leaving the Troy station. The
engineer of the captured locomotive knew
that the down train could not pass the Oh
structions. He told his fireman, AL. Bas-
com, to take a red lantern, 60 up the track
and intercept the train.


Bascom started on his mission; in the
darkness he stumbled and fell on the
track; the light was extinguished. The
time was too short to allow him to return
and get another lantern; it was impossi-
bic in the strong wind to light match.
Covered with mud, but losing scarcely
half minute, he pushed on. The head
light of the approaching train came in
sight. He knew that the voice of warn
ing, be it ever 50 loud, could not be heard
above the roar of the train He had but
few seconds in which to determine upon
his course.


What did he do?


Something very few would have
thought of doing. Taking aim as best he
might, he raised his lantern and hurled
it at the approaching locomotive, and
then awaited the result. He could not
see where bis missile landed; the inter-
vening seconds seemed ten minutes.


BY what we now regard as mysterious
and benefcent interposition Of Provi-
dence, it entered the cab window, break
ing the woodwork, and coming within an
inch of striking the fireman inside fairly
in the face.


If it had hit him he would have been
seriously injured. When the shattering
and shattered lantern fell at the engineers
eet he knew something had gone wrong,
and whistled "down brakes" The train
slackened speed, and at length came to a
full stop within a hundred feet of the
wrecked locomotive, saved from destruc-
ton by the presence Of mind of the man
who had thrown the lantern.


AT this point, where the way is OBJ
structed, the track is built on an embank-
ment close by the river, and had coils
ion occurred between the disabled loco
motive and the moving train, the latter
would have been thrown from the track
into the river, and the horrors and loss of
life, the woundings and maimings Of New
Hamburg would have been repeated. All
honor to AL. Bascom! Let his name be in
scribed on the roll of fame beside that of
Doc Simmons, the heroic engineer who
died at New Hamburg.-Iroy Times,
Year: 1874

NOTWITHSTANDING all that has been
said on the subject we fear that it will
have to be admitted that the people of
the present generation are foolishly in
different to the countless dangers that
threaten human life. Indeed, we believe
that if some enterprising person were to
stretch cable across the North River be-
tween Cortland street and Jersey City,
suspend basket ear upon it by means Of
a rope, and get the frail conveyance going
by steam engines at both ends of the
route, more passengers would be found
ready to risk their necks than could be
accommodated.
A good example of recklessness may be
witnessed every day on the ferry-boats
When the boat reaches within three or
four feet Of the landing.stage, the hurried
mortals outside Of the chains jump and
run as if pursued by wild beasts. Jump
ing on and off steam railroad cars in mo-
tion is another habit that would be
indulged in to greater extent than it is
but for the efforts made to prevent it.
Yet hundreds of persons are either Grip
pied or killed outright every year because
of it. Most men would greatly prefer to
run the risk Of losing their lives than to
| remain ten or fifteen minutes at road
side station for another train.


Women, in proportion to their strength
and activity, are likewise affected by the
| spirit of Indifference to danger. They do
not, it is true, jump on moving trains, or
crush outside the chains on ferry boats, but
they nevertheless find numerous ways of
showing their recklessness. Among
them may be mentioned the treatment of
the kerosene lamp The burning Of
women through incautiousness in hand
ling this persistent enemy of the house.
hold has come to be daily occurrence.
On Tuesday night last resident of Grand
street, Jersey City, was literally burned
to death by the explosion of one of these
lamps. She had, it appears, attempted to
fiji it while the wick was lighting, and,
"as if to make the experiment more haz-
ardous, held the lamp almost directly over
| a hot stove." A drop of the oil fell on the
stove, ignited, and sent up flame which
struck the oil in her hand, and in an in
stant she was enveloped in flames. The
poor woman, we are told, rushed into the
street and hid herself under the floor of a
shanty hard by. She was subsequently
taken back to her apartment, where she
died after four hours of the most excru-
ciating agony.


1t takes, as we all know, good deal of
writing and talking to effect the very
simplest reform, so that if the people
should come to fully realize what small
amount of actual progress is made by the
disposition to Overturn one another in
their scramble through life it will only
be at the expense of vast amount of
talk and still vaster amount of risk-N
! ?. Times.
Year: 1874

A young gentleman living near Terre
Haute felt that life had no charms if a
young lady of whom he thought a great
deal didn't consent to marry him. She
didn't, and he Immediately went West, and
employed a asympa,hetic friend to write to
her saying that he was dead, and begging
her as his parting request to stop and
drop weed or a flower or tear upon
his lonesome grave if she happened to be
passing in that direction. Mark the prac.
ticality of the modern young lady! No
thrill of anguish desolated her soul; she
calmly wrote back to the friend that if he
had any consideration for her feelings to
send her the dear departed's watch and
chain and money. The things were sent
and their owner speedily followed to OBJ.
serve the effect of his beau stratagem.
Alas he met her walking with Another,
and wearing all his jewelry. Appalled,
by this sudden apparition Of dead man
Another fed, but the young lady had
sharper eyes for her unappreciated suitor
ALPS we'll that ends we'll; she was SO
displeased with Another for running away
in terror that now she is about to marry
the ghost.
Year: 1874

Templars, and is hard working and en-
thusiastic supporter of all temperance
reforms But to his bitter distress, every
now and then Eng gets drunk, and of
course that makes Chang drunk too. This
unfortunate thing has been great sorrow
to Chang, for it almost destroyed his use
fulness in his favorite field of effort As
sure as he is to head a great temperance
procession. Eng ranges up alongside of
him, prompt to the minute and drunk as
lord; but no more dismally and hope
lessly drunk than his brother who has not
tasted drop. And so the two begin to
hoot and yell and throw mud
and bricks at the Good TEN
plars, and Of course they break
up the procession. 1t would be mani
festly wrong to punish Chang for what
Eng does, and therefore the Good TEN
plars accept the untoward situation and
suffer in silence and sorrow. They have
officially and deliberately examined
into the matter, and find Chang blame
less. They have taken the two brothers
and filled Chang full of warm water and
sugar and Eng full of whisky, and in
twenty-five minutes it was not possible to
tell which was the drunkest. Both were
as drunk as looms, and on hot whisky
punches, from the smell of their breath
Yet all the while Chang's moral princi-
pies were unsullied his conscience clear;
and so all just men were forced to confess
he was not morally but only physically
drunk. BY every right and by every
moral evidence the man was strictly
sober, and therefore it caused his friends
all the more anguish to see him shake
hands with the pump and try to wind his
watch with his night-key.


There is moral in these solemn warn
ings, or at least a warning in these solemn
morals, one or the other. No matter, it
is somehow. Let US keep it; let US profit
by it.


could say more Of an instructive ma
ture about these interesting beings, but
let what have written suffice.


Having forgotten to mention it sooner,
I will remark, in conclusion, that the
ages of the Siamese twins are respectively
fifty-one and fifty three years.
Year: 1874

THE Supreme Court Of Illinois, in a re-.
cent decision, has affirmed the principle
that an express. company cannot he held
for the value Of package of money lost
while in its possession rs a common car
rier, unless the value of the package be
truly stated before tho contract for car
riage is enyered into.
Year: 1874




Admiral Topete is reported to be in dying
condition. II is probable that no man in Spain
will be more sincerely and generally mourned.
He is an excellent officer, pure-minded states
man, a man of spOtless honor In every relation
of life, and especially beloved by large circle
of friends. In a country where the heat OF
partisan controversy rarely spares the private
character of prominent men, TOpete is called
by all sides muy Caballero, perfect gentle
man. He seems like man of a different age
from ours, in his bgOted religious faith, his
lofty and chivalrOus courtesy toward Opp0-
nents, his stern and conscientious self-denial,
and his perplexed and divided loyalty between
his Queen and the nation. His life has been
so fine an illustration of the highest qualities
of true nobility that his cOuntrymen have
come to recognize in TOpete's conscience a
higher and better rule of action than the law
Just before the attempted assassination OF
KING Amadeus man came to the Admiral,
and after first obtaining his pledge
of protection, revealed to him the plot
against tho life of the King. The old
sailor hastencd at once to the palace and
warned the young monarch, who refused to
listen to the requests of his ministers. and
went out for his daily drive. He was shot at
in the Gale Arenal and in the confusion the
assassins escaped. The matter was investigated
and Topete called as q witness to give the
name of the person who had warned him., he
replied that his honor forbade him to answer /;
and the authorities decided that Topete's honor
was not a thing to argue about, and the ques-
ton was withdrawn.


The source of the Admiral's high reputation
is doubtless in hs resolute patriotism and self
denial. He became convinced in 1868 that the
Queen was fatal to the welfare of Spain, ana
hts pronunciamientO in the Bay OF Cadiz opened
the country to the revolution. But he always
believed that he had sacrificed himself Tor the
good of the country, committing crime
against the Queen for its benefit. When all
the rest who took part in the revolution
were scrambling for the fruits of it, he
stood austerely aIOof and refused to profit by
it, He was willing to do what service was
required but he refused to accept the promo
tions and emoluments which the country and
the COrtes were eager to bestOw. BY reason
Of this unseltish patriotism and chivalrOus
delicacy, all parties trusted him, and in every
great crisis called upon him to help save the
State for the time being. Men who are willing
to work for the country without reward are
not too common anywhere, and in Spain they
are highly appreciated. IN TOpete's death
the world will lose patriot of the kind we
are accustomed to call Old-fashiOncd, because
we see so few of them nowadays. But in fact
there are never many of them in the world
at once,
Year: 1874

We have received from sources which are
entitled to the fullest respect certain import
ant information respecting the prosecution OF
the Safe Burglary case in Washington. There
seems to be mysterious and most discreditable
connection between the prisoners now on
trial before Judge Humphreys court and a
number of powerful Republican politicians in
New -Jersey-a connection SO close that we
shall run no great risk OF mistake II we
charge the existence of q New-Jersey con-
spiracy to defeat the ends of justice. The
search of the prosecution for the fugitive
Zirruth and for evidence against the prison.
ers led frequently into New-Jersey, and at
almost every step the Government officers
found a politician in their way. In several
instances the agents of the prosecution were
informed in so many words that they would
not be allowed to carry their inquiries any
further In more than one case the District
Attorneys played directly into the hands of the
defense. The Chief of Police in New-Jersey
city received explicit orders from an authority
he was bound to respect not to assist the
Government in finding Zirruth or in collecting
evidence against Nettleship; and an officer
who had been detailed to assist Solicitor
Wilson was instructed not to give him the
help he wanted. If the prosecution appealed
to Washington for support, it found the New
Jersey politicians protected by Secretary
Robson and Senator Frelinghuysen, while
Judge Fisher, who has been one of the best
helpers of the defense from the start, is un-
assailable because he is protected by the
President.


There can be no reasonable doubt that the
roots of the Safe Burglary conspiracy reach
much deeper than the public has heretofore
supposed, and that powerful ring is putting
forth every effort to shield the indicted instru-
ments of the crime. Probably some day or
other the infamous plot will be exposed, but
whether it is brought to light before the
rogues in Office have utterly destroyed and dis
graced their party depends in great degree
upon the result of next weeks voting.
Year: 1874

I" the result of one hundred and twenty men.
"Of high attainments IN the different profess
"siohs, in improving the country aud people
"of that vast empiref" Nor, he thinks, will
the Government stop here. but it will send an
Increasing number each year. When he can
succeed in bringing them. he says, with touch
of genuine feeling, the poor charity boy will
shave fulfilled the mission for which he was
educated, and may say with Simeon, Lord.
"now lettest thou Thy servant depart in
+" peace, for mine eyes have seen Thy saliva
"tlon.r ....


There are some reasons for the doubt and
suspicion frequently thrown on the work Of
missionaries in foreign countries, especially In
China. We think it but justice to the num-
berless good men and women who sustain
these missions to warn them particularly OF
the fatal error Of sending missionaries whsse
youth, ignorance, and enthusiasm are their
only qualifications for coping with one Of tho
most subtle and learned people in the world
But it is only justice to these unsetsh givers
also to tell them of such cheerful signs OF
progress as this, and to remind them. in the
words of Chang Lai Sun, that the seed sowR
does sometimes bring forth fruit sixty or QUO
hundred fold"
Year: 1874

Something very much like mutiny is the
present condition of the Republican camp in
the XXIst Assembly District in this city.
The State Central Committee has ordered the
regular nominee, VIM. Haw. jr., to be set
aside. The District is rather astonished at
such an assumption of authority, and declines
tn obey orders.