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Year: 1874

Mr.. w. Simpson, in paper on '.Chinese
Architecture" read before one of the En-
clish societies, describes as follows the
Chinese method of raising money for the
building or repairing of temples: :: In the
streets Of Pekin one day found man in
a sort of wooden sentry-box: large nails
had been driven into it, so that their points
projected through. This prevented the man
from leaning against the sides, and the only
rest he had was from sitting on board
within. He was a monk, and never seemed
to sleep, for he had string with which he
night and day sounded a large, sonorous
bell every few minutes, as a sort OF adver-
tisement of his purpose. This was: that
the benevolent should come forward with
money; each nail represented sum. When
any one paid that sum his name was stuck
| up on bit of paper, and the nail was pull
led out, making it more comfortable for the
hermit within. All the nails represented


necessary amount for the repair Of a temple


which was close at hand. This is a common


proceeding for raising the wind for such


purposes. I was told that this monk had
| been two years shut up, and that he would


likely be another year before he got out q q
his cocoon OF nails.
Year: 1874

tions are scarcely suitable ones to encourage
or endeavor to pass through life with, piz.: ::
these two remarks: Wishing to see the
world" and "Sowing your wild OATS"
being the stumbling block over which many
a promising youth has fallen into the valley
of vice and damnation. No! if it is only
to see the country that you wish to come, l
can save you much time, trouble and ex-
pense by strongly advising you to keep
away from it, for you will certainly find
nothing but hard work or poverty, and he
who cannot hold his own must 60 to the
wall.


ROUGH COUNTRY.


And as for the country itself, it is only fit
for the "natives," and it is without doubt
the most "God-forsaken " place in exist
ence, having been commenced late on the
sixth day and never finished, or it may have
been the spot where they carted all the rub
bish when the earth was completed and
therefore never thought of putting any
water in it,


But seriously, it is really a good point for
steady, sober, Industrious farmers, and al
though l have a very great objection to
giving advice or encouragement, tending to
induce men to come so far away from
home, still, should you not be doing we'll in
America l think that you could not do bet
ter than by trying to better yourself in "the
sunny land of Africa Of course you will
be able to write to me again, and should
things prosper with myself, can help you
in many ways, knowing many of the farm
ers personally, whom you would have to
intermix with; and in all sincerity offer
you my friendship in every true sense of
the word, with bed and roof to shelter
you if have one to cover my own head.


FARES AND SUGGESTIONS.


The passage from London to Algoa Bay
is e23, second class, with no extras, and
usually occupies about six weeks to COM
plete the voyage. February is the best
month to leave home, so as to get here
when the summer is just over; then you get
used to the climate before the warm wealth
er sets in, the hottest time being December.
I must now conclude with kindest regards,
trusting that this may find you WELL and
believe me to remain your sincere friend,


THOMAS W.


Per Steamer " "Edinboro CASTLE
Year: 1874

thus being very reliable in dry years. when other stock are starv- ing or costing more for feed than they are worth. It will be seen that, looked at in every point of View. there is no animal of more value than this goat"

 We have thus drawn pretty largely or MT. Landrum's inter esting work, and we think the matter will be Interesting to many of our readers. The only excuse we have to offer for orcupying so ! much space with the subject is. it's importance. We wish to do what we can to encourage the de- velopment of the vast resources of great Territory. How many excellent ranges lie in the foot hills and mountains of Arizona. so we'll adapted to this business. There the shepherd can be secure from the encroachment of the agriculturist, can grow rich in a few years with the easiest labor known, and then come out of the mountains if he wants to.
Year: 1874

fl ra. 7f N Perhaps one of the strongest reasons why the Pacific Coast senators ana Representatives in congress should be counted upon Ior an earnest support of the bill 10 aid the construction of the Tex AS and Pacific Railroad is found in the very great benefit which will result to this coast from the buikI- Sng of the road. We can afford to leave aside, for the purposes Of thls argument. the immense ad-I Vantaees which will flow from the operation of the completed road, ana regard. for the present, sim ply those which will he incident to It's construction. It must be remembered that all the material TOT nearly if not quite One.half of the road will be laid down east. ward from the San Diego term mus. The timber and ties for be- tween five hundred and eight hundred miles of the Texas and Pacific road will he procured in Oregon, Washington Territory and California The supply of this meterial will cause the dis bursement of several millions of money on this coast. adding i'm. mensely to the prosperity of the people. and giving a wonderful impetus to the progress of enter. prise and improvements. It is certain. too. that a vast amount of capital will be expended, for the labor employed in the con- strnctiOn of this road. We may form some idea of the importance to the Pacific Coast of the dis hursements consequent upon the building of the Texas & Pacific by considering the fact that the Company has expended in the state of Texas. alone for the work was already done at that end of the line, about eleven millions of dollars. The amount that will be disbursed on this coast can hardly he less than thirty millions. The people of the Pacific States and Territories shoul1 he even more clamnrOns than they arc urging their re presentatives at Washington to help forward this enterprise by an active support of the reasnna- hle and just measure of relief asked from Congress bv the Com pany. -San DiegO Union.
Year: 1874

"What nuisance!" exclaimed a gentleman at concert. as a young flop in front of him kept talking in a loud voice to a lady at his side. Did you refer to me-" "Oh no; meant the musicians. who keep up such a noise with their instruments that I ean't hear your conversation.
Year: 1874

The Union suppressed portion of the
proceedings of the board of supervisors.
The county clerk furnished the Iaion copy
OF the yeas and nays on three questions,
viz: the question of adopting the report
OF the grand jury in relation to the Jail and
Jail yard the question of allowing the bill
OF Copp Brothers and the question of Ii
censing Adam Schmidt. Why did the
Union suppress this information? Was it
at the instance of some of its friends who
are tender footed on these questions I?
And having suppressed a portion Of the
proceedings, is the Union entitled to full
pay for publishing the proceedings? The
board of supervisors should inquire into
this matter at the next session.
Year: 1874

Since the detection of the Gibson coun-
ty,Tennessee, jail breakers and murderers,
the Nashville Union has learned from the
best authority that a large proportion of
them are men who, from the close of the
the war to the time of the passage of the
civil-rights bill III the senate affiliated with
the Radical party of Tennessee. Their
political records were of course, notorious
and the stripe to which they belonged was
known the instant they were exposed
Year: 1874

There are no diseases so dc 'itatng In their ef
fects upon the constitution as th> above and none
more difficult to cure by the usual les of practice
The FEVER AND AGUE POWDERS will effect a
cure in cases of the longest standing as well as
prove preventive In the forming stages of the dis
ease. Being purely Vegetable, they act with GER
talnty ON the disease totally eradcating it from the
system, and prevent return at any future period.


Why waste your money and health in trying every
medicine yon hear Of when THoMPSON'S FEVER
AND AGUE POWDERS have never failed to cure
the CHILL : In nnu
Year: 1874

One of the proprietors of this paper is
in attendance on the Independent Reform
congressional convention, in session at
Princeton to- day, and was to send special
telegram in time for this evenings paper,
The paper has been held back until $50
for news, but nothing has been received
Year: 1874

TEA CAKEs.-Five tea-cups of flour,
two and half Of sugar, four eggs, sour
cream enough to make . soft dough, and
one tesspoOnful of soda. Roll thin, cut
into shapes, and bake in . tolerably quick
oven.


FRUIT JANs.-lt is generally known that
boiling fruit for long time and skimming
it well without the sugar and without a
cover to the preserving pan, is a very
economical and excellent way, economical
because the bulk of the scum rises from
the fruit and not from the sugar, II the
latter is good, and boiling It without
cover, allows the evaporation of all the
watery particles therefrom; the preserves
keep firm and well favored. The propor-
tions are three quarters of pound of
sugar to . pound Of fruit Jam made In
this way OF currants, strawberries. rasp-
berries or gooseberries, is excellent.


COOKING POrATOEs.-Take q very mar
row ring Of the skin off the potatoes be-
fore boiling Gin kidneys the ring should be
taken OF lengthways) and when they are
ready for the table the remainder of the
skin will fall off in two pieces, leaving the
potatoes like ''fiour-balls." We have found
potatoes so treated much better than when
boiled without the skins being cut, and
as the skin leaves the potatoes in the pro-
cess Of cooking, it does away with the
Objectionable method Of peeling afterward.
We also adopt the practice Of putting new
potatoes in boiling water and matured In
cold water, not forgetting the salt in eli
ther case.-(The Gardener.
Year: 1874

CURRANr WoRMs.-A correspondent of
the Rural New Yorker says THAT two tea
spoonfuls of nitrate potassa to two gallons
Of rain water sprinkled over the currant
bushes twice day for a few days. will
efectually rid the bushes of the currant
worms. For the potato bug the same
remedy is effectual, having this advantage
over other eradcators, that it is harmless
to the plants, and is also really an ad-
vantage"
Year: 1874

CARBON FOR HOGs.-There is no doubt
In our mind of the benefit from feeding
crude carbonaceous matter to swine when
they are kept in close pens. The avidity
with which hogs eat rotten wood Is well
known. Charcoal is but another form Of
carbon. Bituminous coal is still another
form. The utility of feeding wood and
coal has long been recognized. We some
years since substituted the ordinary West
ern stone coal with the best results, where
from 200 to 500 hogs were kept in close
pens and fed on the refuse of city hotels
Something of the and seems as necessary
te them as salt 10 strictly herbivorous ami
mails. We have known them to consume
a pound in the course of a day, and again
they would not seek the coal for some
time. Just what particular use the coal is
in the animal economy is not so easy TO
answer. Swine are especially liable to
scroiulous and infammatory diseases.
Carbon, in the shape of coal, is an antisep-
tic. and the probability Is that it acts in
this way in purifying the blood.-lWest-
ern Rural.
Year: 1874

The Idea Of burning the dead
bodies Of ones relatives and friends is
not taking hold Of the public mind
with that force that the advocats Of
Cremation fondly hoped that it
would.


Joseph the Second once put his
foot in the matter, but in q different
way. lie issued q decree ordering
the bodies OF the dead to be placed in
pit, with requisite amount Of quick
lime, and after the proper degree of
decomposition had been attained, the
mass was to be used as q fertilizer.
Joseph was several hundred years
ahead of the age in which the idea
was advanced. There is sort of
orthodox burning treated of in "The
Book" which we are anxious to es.
cape; but unless we get out of the
newspaper business, we fear it's a
. gene case.
Year: 1874

The Catholic Church is now, as body,
strongly committed to the temperance
move, and we may reasonably hope, that
her influence will be powerfully felt in
this respect. The digpitaries of the
Irish Church are lending countenancs
and support to their brethren in the
United States in furtherance of their
temperance views. We welcome all To-
gitimate influences to place in our war
fare against this, the popular vice of the
age.
Year: 1874

The steadlnesss Of tte Democrats
in the Massachusetts Legislature, in
the feroe fight for the Senatorship, is
worthy Of all praise. and a splendid
example to their brother Democrats
Of the South. A defeat upon the line
of principle is preferable to victorg
where that is sacrificed. A steady
adherence to this rule, by the party,
rs national organization, is all that
is wanting to insure its perfect iris
umph in the early future.
Year: 1874

Resolved, That the Prairie Dale
Grange would suggest to the differ
ent Oranges of the county, the pro-
priety Of holding a county Grange
meeting quarterly, at some central
place in the county to be composed
of all the different Oranges or mem
bers, that may wish to attend. Fur>
ther


Resolved, That copy Of these res.
olutions be sent to the State organ
Tor publication. We will be proud
to have an expression of the different
Oranges Of Hill county, on the above
subject, through the State organ. Let
us meet together, talk together, there
by gaming aid and strength In the
further advancement of our cause.


e. w. Hunt.
Year: 1874

The California Assembly has passed a
bill making it a felony for any person to
attenpt to obtain money by representing
that he can influence any member of the
Legislature in his action on bills or other
matters Of legislation.
Year: 1874

The GAINESVILLE Gazette man pro-
poses to vacate the tripod to grum-
bier. Don't do it brother, man who
is fool enough to grumble at such a
paper as the Gazette, Is just fool
enough to succeed at the business.
Year: 1874

The City Council will meet this even
ing, and it Is earnestly hoped that it will
take some action upon the question Of
: the new Reservoir. .t
It Is an Outrage that city like Viii
raington, at time like the present,
should be subjected to such useless e1-
/. .penditrres.


1tis with difficulty that property hold
ers now can afford to pay the taxes, and
as there is no immediate need for such
an extensive improvement it should be
abandoned immediately.


-. On no condition ought the Council
proceed with the work as provided for
In the resolution last adopted by that
body.
It is horrible condition Of affairs in
which city as much in need Of economy
as ours will dare to eIpend $4,000 in
piling up mere mud bank which will
not be wanted or used for thirty years
to come.
Year: 1874

A petition IL In circulation among the owners
OF property along johnson avenue to hive that
avenue made the boulevard to connect the West


md South side Parks. The petitioners agree to
donate all the land that may bo needed along
Johnson avenue, from tho street limits south to
Fifty-Afth street, aud theuco to Western avenue.
III this nay connection will be made with
Pavilion parkway. One OF tho advantages which,
It is claimed. tho new route will possess will be
Year: 1874

body stole him, or else he would be
heard of. We feel very sorry. He was
a good little dog My father says he was
only playing when he carried her Off.


love all my rag-babies. I love Snip,
but not SO much as do Rover. Ilove
dear little baby brother. love the jim
mies-both of them l love Etfie, and l
love my mother and my father, and
Grandma Plumber. | don't love Aunt
Debby. Aunt Debby does not love little
girls When little girls have pudding
pan, Aunt Debby says it is all nonsense
for them to have them. My mother said
might have plums in my pudding |
like to pick over raisins. Sometimes my
mother lets me eat six when pick them
over, and sometimes she lets me eat
eight Then shut my eyes and pick all
the rest over with them shut up, because
then cannot see how good they look.
Grandma Plumber told me this way to
do. Ellie is not big enough. She would
put them in her arm basket. She puts
everything in her arm-basket. She car
Ties 1t on lleT al Ill 'tll INV tliHe, anu Oai-
res it to the table and up to bed. My
mother hangs it ON the post OF her crib.
When she sits up to the table she hangs
it on her chair


am going to tell what Ellie puts in
her arm-basket Two curtain-rings; one
steel pen she found; some spools; some
strings; one bottle--it used to be
smelling bottle; my fathers letter when
he was gone away; II little basket that
Hiram made of nutshell; n head OF
one little china doll; Betsey Beeswax,
sometimes, and sometimes one of the
other ones; peach-stone TO plant;
glass eye of bird that was not live
one and pillbox, and piece of red
glass, and pink calico, and an inkstand,
and her beads and foot of doll.


We are going to have pumpkin for
dinner-I mean squash Joey Moon
beams party is going to be soap-bubblc
party.


Sometimes Clarence stops to play with
us when he comes here Mymother says
he is very good boy. His father is
dead; his mother is sick; so is his little
brother. He has got two little brothers
and two little sisters. They do not have
enough to eat He comes here to get
the cold victuals my mother has done
using.-Nrs. Ably Norton Die, III st.
Nicholas for October.
Year: 1874

THE Boston Traveller tells the follow
ing story of an old gentleman who passes
his summer days at a favorite resort in
Boston harbor. The other morning be-
fore four o'clock he took his fishing rod
and basket and went gravely Che does
everything gravely) down to the landing,
to fish an hour or two before breakfast.
The sport was not over-exciting, and after
he had caught one smelt he took short
nap, the smelt meanwhile having been
deposited in the basket Another bite
came, and another smelt was caught and
placed in the basket. "Two," says The
old gentleman, laconically, but to his
surprise his first fish was gone. He
wondered . little, but took another nap.
Then caught another smelt. 1.-TWO now,
said the old man; but, wonder again, the
second fish had disappeared. He tried
one more nap with the same result, and
after catching his fourth fish determined
to watch his basket while the fifth smelt
was biting. The thief was discovered,
and proved to be an immense and cheeky
wharf rat-not human wharf rat, but a
rodent. He had been feeding during the
pleasant sleep of the ancient fisherman,
and no doubt went off to tell his friends
what kind old fellow had been roosting
ON the landing.
Year: 1874




The children were all very much en-
gagged in making collection of birds
eggs, and Emma took her finger out of
her mouth. 1t might make it easier to
tell her mother about the loss of the bon
net if in the meantime she had a good
many eggs to add to the large collection
they hoped to make.


"rll help you tell mother" said Jack.
''sWe'n all take the blame" 1t was
pleasanter to put off the evil hour for a
little; so Emma said yes in arather low
spirited way. But Jack was glad to get
anything, and they set out for the pond.
Itwas long way of, but when they got
to the little hill that slOped down to the
pond they could see the fringe Of alders,
above which the blackbirds chartered
and wheeled. 81 can see dozen nests" !"
called out hawkreyed Jack. This made
them start on run, and they tore down
the hill at fine pace. Little Mary was
too small to wade out, and had to be
Year: 1874

TRAvELING.--We interviewed an emi-
grant family on the Stark-street ferry
last evening. They were from Baker
County, AMI had made the journey over
land by the aid Of their team. Lewis
River is their destination. The hus-
band and father, in answer to the in
quiry as to the cause of his removal
from his late home, stated that there
was too much of a one>sided game be-
ing played in the country east Of the
mountains in favor of transportation
companies and against.he people to suit
him, and he had concluded he desired
to once mole reside where the cost of
transportation did not absorb all pro-
ceeds from toil.--Portlaad Neus.
Year: 1874




The TERRITORIAL UNIvERsITY.-In
view of the grievous wrong which we
were the unwitting instrument OF in
hicting upon the Rev. A. B. Nicholson,
it is a great qualification to be assured.
beyond any reasonable question. that
our action in that matter is endorsed
and approved by large pieponderance
Of intelligent popular sentiment. The
hteuigencer, with which we have rarely
agreed upon any subject, comments up
on this matter as follows:


1.-THE action of the Board of Regents
in assigning the Rev. George T. Whit
worth to the Presidency Of the High
School, in the face of an agreement, as
il is claimed, duly entered into with a
gentleman from New York, who, upon
the strength thereof came hither with
his family last week, causes much and
excited comment. We could wish, for
the sake of Mr.. Whitworth's S usefulness





in his new vocation, and for the future
of the institution that the comments
upon his fitness were more favorable,
and a more general confidence EXPRESS
ed and felt in him. We have this week
received and declined articles referring
to the more than twenty years of his
residence in the Territory, and tracing
with full as much candor as charity the
motives which seem to have actuated,
and the varied pursuits which have en-
ploye1, together with the several sue.
cesses or failures which have occurred
| to him. We have determined to with
hold these things for the present, i'll the
hope that something may transpire
which shall obyiate the need of theil
publication.


while it is nope of our business what
Mr.. Whitworth may have supported OF
opposed as politician, or what or how
many positions or contracts be may
have been able to control, so long as his
position as private citizen is retained,
when he becomes the custodian of such
trusts as attach to the Presidency of the
Territorial University, his career is more
public, and he must expect to have his
merits and demerts if he has any
pretty thoroughly canyassed."
Year: 1874

Too OFTEN TRUE.-Some mon take too
much money out of their business to expend in
household expenses and lavish display, and
speedily bring themselves to the verge Of bank
ruptcy. One old gentleman, who had com
menced life as a poor boy, had by mastering
the difficult steps to final success, gained con-
siderable wealth as merchant. When he
arrived at old age he retired to private life. to
live in ease and comfort on his income, leaving
a prosperous business in the hands of his SON


In three years the young man was bankrupt.
He had failed in business and was compelled
to take position as clerk in stranger store.


His father was asked why it was that in a
business in which he had succeeded so well,
his son had failed.


He gave this characteristic answer: "When
first commenced business my wife and lived
on porridge. AS my business increased we
had better food and when l could afford it,
we had chicken. But, you see, Johnny COM
menced with the chicken first |"
Year: 1874

The Druggist, Londen paper, states that
young lady who had long been addicted to the
use of opium applied to an eminent physician
to make hypodermic injections of morphine.
Beginning by injecting mixture of morphine
aud water, he gradually increased the proper
tion of water without letting the patient know
of it until after short time he used only tho
pure water. After each injection she would
gently fall into a refreshing sleep. For several
months the treatment was continued, the
patients system being gradually renovated by
tonics At length the lady was informed that
for months she had not been under the
influence of opium at all, and was greatly
rejoiced to find herself cured of any desire for
the drug.