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Year: 1875

To Cook CABBAGE. GE.-Chop the cab
bage head fine, or cut it as small as you
can well with knife. Half of an average
head is sufficient for a meal. Put it
into kettle, and pour over it about a
pint of boiling water. Cover it up and
keep it boiling steadily (not letting it
burn dry by too hard boiling) for half
an hour. Pour off what water remains
the cabbage itself supplies some water
in cooking-and pour in a teacupful-
or two if you ike-of good milk, sailing
to taste. Let all boil up together, and
it is done. If you put in considerable
milk it will be much liked if poured
over "white gems" split in two.


RICH ORANGEADE.-Steep the rinds of
six China and two Seville oranges in a
quart of boiling water, closely covered
up, for five or six hours then make o
syrup with pound of sugar and three
pints of water mix the infusion and
syrup together, press in the juice of a
dozen China oranges and the two Seville
oranges from which the rind was taken;
stir the whole well together and run it
through a jelly bag. Should sweetness
be required; add some capillaire syrup }
Two lemons must be used as well as the
two Seville oranges, but care must be
taken that the flavor of the lemons does
not predominant. A little orange flower
water may be added, if agreeable.


LEMON PICKLE - For FISH, COLD
MEAT, ETo. To one gallon of best white
French or picking vinegar add twenty
lemons; take one ounce of bay salt, one
ounce of peeled garlic, quarter of an
ounce of cayenne pepper, half an ounce
of white pepper, one ounce of mace, one
good nutmeg, two ounces of white mus
tard seed, all well powdered together in
mortar. Cut each lemon half way
through with knife, divide the powder
ed ingredients equally in the twenty
lemons, squeezing it into che middle Of
them. Place them in an earthen dish
large enough to lay them single. Bake
them till quite brown and the moisture
nearly out of them turn them hot from
the oven into the vinegar close then
down, occasionally stirring them. /
will be ready for use in ten days, but the
longer it remains the better.


BLACK DYE-To dye either wood, clotl
hair, fur, or silk. Boil the articles fol
two hours in a decoction of nutgalls, ant
afterward keep them two hours more il
bath composed of logwood and sui
phate of iron, kept during the whole
time at q scalding heat but not boiling
Year: 1875

spring and autumn, with a "dumb-
waiter" from the cellar to lift fuel to
upper floors. Most people mquestion-
ably keep their houses too warm, and
with too little change of air. House
building is continually improving in our
country districts, and, under the present
cheaper cost of materials and labor, we
shall soon have great revival of this
art, and a gradual development of Ameri-
can architecture.
Year: 1875

THEFT OF A PAIR OF SHoEs.-Tol.
bert Pyne, alias "Sky Duke" an old
jail bird was at his old tricks again
last night. He broke a pane of glass
In the window of shoe store at Front
and King streets, and stole pair of
gaiters He was arrested, and after a
hearing this morning was committed
to Jail to await q trial at Court.
Year: 1875

YREKA, April 2Sth.-The Journal Of
this morning contains the following:
"In consequence of the past Winter
being so dry, with no Spring rains
sufficient to mOisten the ground we'll,
the crops where no irrigation can be
obtained in Shasta valley are suffer-
ing and many of them will prove a
total loss. We learn that ThOs. Orr
and N. ID. Julien, finding that their
crops would amount to nothing, have
turned their stock into the grain fields
to feed, and others will probably do so
sooner or later. The grass on the
Sonth side Of the hills looks as yellow
as in the middle Of Summer, and al
though the stock looks fat at present,
they are liable to fare poorly during
the coming Summer and Fall months.
Those who have good water privileges
will raise tolerable good crops, though
the water supply will be very limited
this season, owing to there being very
little, if any, snow on the high noun
tains, which are usually covered until
June.
Year: 1875

family. Emaciated, pale and haggard,
this young ciergyman-the friend and
classmate of Madison-dragged out
the weary weeks with brave, unyield-
ing heart. With the warm weather
of spring, disease increased and the
loathsome den became intolerable. To
add to the gloom and responsiveness of
the situation, the inhuman captors
would not give the dead decent bur-
ial nor even throw them into the river.
but ferried the bodies over to a neigh
boring swamp and thrust them into
the mud. They would not always
take pains to force the corpses below
the surface, but left arms and legs
sticking out to rot in the sun. The
buzzards, attracted by the stencil that
arose from the decomposed bodies,
focked in from the surrounding region
and swept in slow melancholy circles
above the swamp where the dead pa
triot8 lay, ere they descended to their
human repast.


Finding that there was no hope of
release and that to remain there was to
court slow and cruel death young
Allen determined to make an attempt
to escape. He had noticed a point
some distance down the river, from
which. if he reached it, he thought he
could make his escape, and therefore
resolved, on the first favorable oppor-
tunity to make the effort. 1t was true
he might be detected in the act of
plunging overheard and shot, but this
did not deter him for moment,-for
to the desire of escaping from his in
tolerable prison, was added the anxious
longing to be with his wife and child,
now without protector in a country
overrun with malignant Tories. Witch
ing, therefore, a favorable opportunity,
he quietly slipped overheard and boldly
stretched away Tor the distant point.
He was an excellent swimmer and at
first struck out strong and vigorously,
but it was soon evident that he had
overrated his strength. Starvation
and long confinement in the pestilential
air Of his prison had weakened his
powers of endurance and his strokes
gradually became slower and feebler.
One of his parishioners watched him
anxiously, and at last saw, with a sink
ing heart, that ne never could reach
shore. Twice did his head sink below
the surface, again appear, and a few
more feeble efforts, but the third time
it never. appeared again, and, without
making one gesture or lifting one cry
for help, he sank down through the
deep, dark Waters-aye, below chem
down to the crystal sea that laves the
throne Of God. His body was thrown
ashore on Tybee Island, and some of
the prisoners asked Commodore Par
ker for few rough boards that they
might make box in which to place
the remains Of their beloved pastor
and friend. But this man, who was
disgrace to his profession, returned
brutal refusal, saying that the rebel
preacher deserved only traitors grave,
and he was thrust unceremoniously in
to the mud with the others


Thus, at the early age of thirty,
died this accomplished man and elo-
quent divine and earnest patriot. 1t
is shame to the State for whose de-
fence he gave his life, that she has
not erected sCme lasting memo rial to
him.
Year: 1875

EXAMINED AND DIsCHARGED.-A
gust Schaffer, of Rattlesnake, mot our
good friend on Oregon Gulch Mountain)
was brought to town last week and exam
tned on charge of insanity. 1t appears
tnat Schatfer has been unfortunate for a
'ong time health poor money and pro-
VISIONS were all gone and Winter coming
." he lived at a great distance from any
one and had no companions all of which
combined to unsettle his mind, but not to
'naI degree which would make him a
SUBJECT for the Insane Asylum.
Year: 1875

The majority for the Constitutional
Amendment prohibiting any division of
the public school funds for the support of
sectarian schools, or the levying of any
taxes for that purpose, in New Jersey
amounted to 1874. Hudson was the
only county which gave an adverse vote.
Year: 1875

DESTRUCTION OF LARGE STEAM SAW MILL


The large steam saw-mill, owned by Lew
Lawshee. and located near the railroad depot, In
Bridgeville, was burned to the ground on Mon
day evening. The loss is estimated at SIG,
0O0 There is no insurance.


The origin of the fire is unknown, but is sup
posed to have originated from spark from the
furnace. The mill had been in operation all day,
and the early hour, about o'clock. at which
the fire broke out leads to the belief that it was
not kindled by an incendiary.
Year: 1875

The ice gorge which las been constant
source of alarm to the people of Port Jervis for
a fortnight began to move, early this morning.


Our telegraphc dispatches report much damage
from the inundaton of the lower sections OF the
city, and the destruction Of bridges. The fine
suspension bridge which spans tho Delaware at
that point is also in imminent danger. The
Erie bridge is entirely gone, and travel is inter-
Year: 1875

st. Patrick is quite civil to-day, although
somewhat bustery-and in this respect he is
very much like some scolds, for the life of them
selves they can't help t-he smiles pleasantly,


and this glimpse Of the sunny side of his nature
is quite cheering amid the cold sterility of Win
Year: 1875

A fight between two eagles occur
red at Masonboro Sound few days
ago. A large number of persons
were at the different landings along
the sound al the time, when their at
tention was attracted to the combat
ants by piercing cry, often repeated
at short intervals. The birds were
each of the bald-eagle species and
when first observed were about 200
wards above the Banks Channel. One
of the birds held pendant from his tai
ons an enormous eel, which the other
bird was eudeavoring to gain possess
ion of. The bird possessing the eel
was taken at great disadvantage, as
he required the use of his talons to
hold his prey, which left him but his
beak with which to ward off the as
saults of his foe. The attacking bird,
rea izing his advantage, swooped up
on his enemy, tearing the feathers
and flesh from the back and breast oi
his opponent. Long and fierce the
struggle waged. Each of the birds
was of enormous size, yet one of them
taken at SO great a disadvantage at
last perceived that resistance was in
vain, and after one despairing wall
released its prey.


As the eel descended and had near.
ly reached the water the triumphant
bird with victorious cry swooped up
on i, and, firmly closing it in his tai
ons, bore it away to the distant SAND
shoals. The struggle lasted about
fifteen minutes Wilmington ". C..
,<fn.
Year: 1875

OF one thing young girls may be
sure, and that is, that the young men
who make the best sons and brothers
will also make the best husbands.
And young men may be equally sure
that those girls who are the best
daughters and sisters will also, as a
rule, be the best wives. IL your 9
man, before he is married, is des !
tute Of those affections and princi-
plies which come out in filial obedi-
ence, fraternal courtesy, and con-
trolling sense of duty, he will be
equally destitute of them after he is
married. The mere fact of wedlock
will not change the fundamental
principle of his nature. He will be
essentially the same human being
after marraige-or, at least after the
honeymoon--that he was before it.
The same principles hold true with
regard to women. The girl who is
dutiful 10 her parents, and industrious
and unselfsh and truthful, will be
almost certain TO be blessing to
him who gets her for wife.
Year: 1875

A Burlington liquor dealer received
load Of liquor. One of the barrels
was minus the requisite stamp. The
proprietor ran to the door, and glanc-
ing down the street his eye rested on
he .teamster who had brought the
liquor, who WAS driving away happy
in his innocence of Ill bad intent, and
affixed to the west side of his pants
was a United States stamp, with its
white surface perforated with tracks
ike the target in an air gun shop.
They stopped him, poured s. me warm
water on the head of The barrel from
which he had SO remorselessly pulled
he stamp, and then they made him
sit down in it until the stamp became
so loosened that il could he removed
And nov you could. mt hire that
,eamster to sit down on a govern
ment stamp for anything less than
small farm. That's Ha,ck- Ey'
story.
Year: 1875

FURNITURE CoNTRACT.-The contract for sup
PLYING the furniture for the Lady of the Lake
has been let to the Enterprise Manufacturing
Co. and much of it is now ready for delivery.
The entire contract must be completed by the
,,at
Year: 1875

GIVING HIM WARSIS0.-The Phila-
Jelphia Times more than intimates that
the fate Of Boss Tweed awaits in the
near future Boss John l.. Hill, chief
Commissioner of Highways for Phila-
delphia. Hill recently gave an enter
tainment such as the New York Boss
was wont to give when "there was
millions in it, The Times thinks q
three thousand dollar office scarcely
warrants five thousand dollar supper.
Year: 1875

A Sunday school teacher told her
class about the wise and the foolish
virgins, and asked them the next Sun
day to repeat the story. All but one
little miss had forgotten, and she only
remembered that Il was about "then
women who forgot their kerosene"
Year: 1875

TuE TRIBUNE ALMANAC is the first to put
IL an arance as usual aud IL fully up 10 the hgh
standard Of TINS invaluable publication The figures
all the recent elections gwen very fully and may be
confidently relied upon for In addition 10 this
feature there Is matter touching trade and commerce.


Hats of members OF the old and new Congress and other
officers OF the Government abstract Of laws
passed the last session, statement OF the public
debt, record OF events in 1874. and good many
other things that are valuable for reference. The
almanac proper OF tue best issued being oacu-
lated for different merdians and YorY full In tine
formation usually sought IN such psg.s A. tha low
price OF 20 there should DO largo sale this
dlspeuaaLle annual
Year: 1875

trace of any hatred Of those great soldiers for the
very deeds for which you and win always honor
both of them.


Yet, in spite Of all the charity can exercise.
confess do not care to indulge under Democratic
auspices IN hostile criticisms Of the policy of tho
party which saved che nation or Of the acts OF the
Generals who led our armies TO victory. If Demon
STATIONS upon this subject void Of political sisnh-
cance are possible. ali good Ssght 70 joi- IN
them but demonstrations conceived and cOntrOHed
in tine interest of the Democratc party must necss-
sariy repel men whO honestly. even il mistakenly,
have all their lives opposed that organization as
itsek fathless to the principles OF American liberty
and who believe honestly, even il mistakenly. that


considerable portion Of its Southern adherents are
to-day resolved by fraud f~ce to msrder. to
make Of effect that provsior of the Constitution
which guarantees the right of suffrage to the loyal
voters of the South.


These may be very narrow ard bigOted feelings
but they are very general, and shey are the real
cause OF the absence of numbers OF tho Republican
party from sacb assemblages that at Cooper Inst
tuts. In my judgment such feelings are the only
cause of their absence. Without fuTtber evidence
will not believe tba. the party which attained na-


ona existence by its answering opposition to the
" crime against Kansas" will give even tacit aD-
proval TO an exactly similar crime against LOniSi
ana'-a persistent effort TO force upon free people
government vsllieh they do not desirs. The apollo
gies in each case the same, butthey did not
deceive the common sense of tho American citizen
10 the one CASE and they will not DECISIVE it ID the
ether.


Every step in the progress Of this usurDation has
been closely scanned by large numbers OF the voters
Of the Republican. party and the last acts in the
wretched drama, the interference of tho military
forces Of the General Government in theorganiza-
ton Of the State Legislature and the dispatches OF
Gen Sheridan. were SO utterly lawless and 10 such


fragrant violation of all the traditions of history.
as wei as Of all the principles which our liberties
rest, that they certain to their own con-
demnation with such emphasis will make any
repetition of themimpossible. The Republican party
believe will be foremost TO insist thai IN time
Of peace tho subordinalon Of the military to
the civil power shall be universal and absolute, and
that the barriers between the executive, the egisa
tive and the judicial departments Of Government
shall be at the mercy of the bayonet or depend
upon the discretion of any soldier, however well he
may have deserved Of lis country.


Faithfully yours, WAYNE MAcYRAGH


HdrTlS6urg, Penn, Jan. 49, 1875.
Year: 1875

defense. If the jury believes this was a
part of conspiracy, then they must find
him guilty.


Mr. McPhelin asked another charge, to
which the court assented, and then the Jury
were locked up till seven o'c lock.


The court room was almost deserted up to
that hour, but about half past seven a
respectable audience gathered to know
what the jury had to say. They had moth.
ing, or rather the foreman reported they
could not agree. On this the State, through
Attorney General Field, moved the jury be
discharged and mistriaI be entered.


The court so ordered Tho iury and
everyone else vanished as soon az possible
and by eight o'clock the iron gates were
chained UP. and the Superior Criminal
Court relapsed into darkness.


There were many runors Of the standing
OF the jury ranging from one for q verdict
Of guilty to eleven on that side. A con.
versation with one Of them resulted in the
information that all were willing to acouit
on one count, and all but one wished to
convict on the other. A compromise on the
''oenefit of the doubt" resulted in an ap
peal to the court with the above result.
Year: 1875

This club will give its next compliment
ary entertainment August 4, and it is un-
derstood that the romantic play of the
Romance of Poor Young Man" will be
acted upon that occasion. Regarding the
late benefit rendered by the association for
the Louisiana Relief Association, we learn
that the sum of $3.50 was netted, and
turned into the Relief Association treasury.
This, considering the admission price was
put at fifty cents, was very large sum for
a benefit at this season of the year, and
speaks we'll for the amateurs and their
friends.
Year: 1875

A sort of Bob Acres story is that q
Scotch pedlar completely cowed an irasci-
BILE Welshman, who insisted ON fighting
him in an inn kitchen. by going down on
his knees and imploring pardon for having
killed "two men already, and being about
to kill another"
Year: 1875

Hon. john Il. StarDeS's Letter to


his Constituents.


For the benefit Of my constituents
| send you a few thoughts for puhli.
cation in reference TO the Dog Law
! am confident that many of the
good people Of Hawkins county have
not Investigated the effects of this
law, although much has been written
on the subject. Some of our -citi-
zens who have already acknowledged
the wisdom and good effect of the
law, are still feeding the passions of
the less informed by misconstruing
its intentions and covering up its
real benefits. which All can see is
done for personal agrantiizement.
The assessment roll shows more dogs
than voters in this county, and we
have three thousand voters


Say. then, we make q calculation
for three thousand dogs. No one can
gainsay that he can feed dog for
less than two cents per meal, which
makes six cents per day, and for
tlree-hgnd:ed and sixty-6re days
Zone year, it costs twenty-One dol.
+ lars and ninety cents per head I;
therefore the three thousand dogs at
that computation. for one year in
Hawkins county, costs sixty.fire
Thousand seven hundred dollars /; but
we will take one half which amount
is thrLy-two thousand eight hairlre1
and fifty dollars. There are seven
teen districts in the county. Divide
that amount by seventeen and we
have to each district nineteen bun
dred and thirty-two dollars and thir-
ty-6ve cents. Put that amount at
interest at 10 per cent for q school
fund and it gives one hundred and
ninety three dollars and twenty three
cents, which will hire a teacher at
thirty dollars q month for six and q
half months in each district ia the
county. Now, sir, there are in dis
trict No. 2. in which / live, about
rwenty-six families who are unable
60 pay anything towards schooling
their children, although they own
the greatest number Of dogs IN that
district. Therefore you can see they
waste enough on the worthless cur
the interest of which at 10 per cent
viii support school for six mouths
and half in the year. Now money
save'l is money made. This is one
of The practical effects of the dog
law, If its intentions are carried out,
for its purpose was not to raise a
special revenue from This source, bnt
to dispose ofthe many worthless dogs
thereby saving the enormous
amount of money expended in feed
ing them, besides the'greatprotection
to the sheep growing farmers. 4
can safely say we have as fine a
county for sheep growing as any in
the State. Quite a number OF our
poor citizens, whose children are suf.
fering with hunger and cold, could
grow enough sheep TO ciotIl6 them
and have a surplus but for the mum
erous and destructive dogs. We have
large mountainous range in which
sheep can live almost the whole year.


/ want my constituents TO know
that while | voted for the dog Law. 1
did so for their protection-their es-
pecihl benefit and their pecuniary ad-
vantage and do think. if they will
look. at IL in its right light. laying
aside undue canine sympathy. they
will say. "Well done, thou good and
faithful servant You have been
faithful to the trust reposed In you
come up higher -


Your humble servant.


f-st5 JOHN L. STAREEs.
Year: 1875

Very many Of our citizens have but a
faint idea of the rapid improvement
that has been made in the Western part
Of the city. We have no doubt many OF
them will be gratihed and astonished if
they will walk out on the hill above
Jackson street and view the change that
has taken place. Within the last year
much more has been done than was
thought, Nearly all the valley through
which the ugly run passed, South Of the
Children's Home. has been built upon or
put in such shape as to make it look
much better and be easy of further i'm
proyement. The entire space from 10th
street to Front out as far as Adams is
now built on with neat and comfortable
dwellings, mostly three.story, with
number Of fine large residences nearly
as high up on the slope as jackson
street. A very few more years will no
doubt carry our line Of buildings as far
as franklin street. The land which is
now accessible for building being nearly
al high ground and requiring but little
expense for filling up, will be the more
rapidly improved. The streets being
nicely paved, the grade up the hill is far
more gentle than many would have sup.
posed 1t would be. Evidently our city
Is moving far more rapidly in the march
OF improvement than our people have
any idea Of. There 10 every encourage.
ment for our people to continue their
energetic labors. The energetic and en-
terprizing builders need not despair-a
little more Of economy and little more
energy will enable them to win success,
as heretofore.
Year: 1875

The blunderers at Washington have
made another mistake from which much
trouble and expense may arise. They
had the Indian Chiefs brought to Wash
lngton at great expense to make q treaty
with themj and the Great Father"
treated them as little like a father as
possible. The consequence was that the
children of the forest felt that they had
been deceived. and that attempts were
being made to cheat them out of the
Black Hills and other lands the govern
ment wished to buy, and they have gone
home in bad humor. There is now no
assurance that these Indians will not
raise their tribes. including some ten
thousand warriors. and by committing
some horrid murders Of the settlers.
bling on another expensive war that
will cause the expenditure Of millions
All this might have been prevented had
Grant aud the Commissioner kept in bet
ter temper and given the Indians little
money, which could have been readily
paid from the secret service fund. By
this means the Indians would have been
controlled and lead from any bad pur.
pose they had in view and the poor peo-
pie on the frontier saved from tho horrid
oatcheries which characterize Indian
wars. Certainly the Indians must have
an itea that the Great Father ia n
goat boor.