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Year: 1879

To render The Great Arkansas navigable


either system Of dredging or the jottie sys-


TEN will have 10 he resorted to. The shadows


and bars. made up almost altogether of loose


moving sands. will have to be cut through by


n dredging machine and then kept open, or
a system Of wings. on the jettie plan. to run


the wafer into confined limits and thus force
il 10 do its own cutting. will have to be en-
ployed. Our fellow townsman, Mr.. A. J.
Cook, who has met with success as designer
Of devices. has worked out an idea for
dredging machine which he thinks would
thoroughly and rapidly perform the desired
work. He submitted TO our inspection
complete and yerfect draugh of the machine
to understand or comprehen which il must be
seen. As represented on paper il does not
scem that II could fail to work. Ii Is simple
and inexpensive and could he controlled by
two or three men. We win not attempt de-
scription of Mr.. Cooks invention. for with
out drawings such an undertaking would fail
but in a general way viii say that it is a light
draught. tiat-bottoned boat. CARRYING a sixty
horse power engine, and run by stern wheel.
The bow of the boat is as wide rs the midsh;p
which runs shaft shat is turned by the same
machinery that propels the boat. Attached
10 each end Of the above shaft are rotating
spades, made upon the principle of the hori-
zonfal screws used for moving grain in in the
bulk. The other ends of these revolving
spades are rt,ached together and set at such
an angle downwards US would be necessary
to produce the wanted depth of water. The
boat. under a head of steam, would move
along until the revolving spades came into
contact with a sand bar or shallow into which
they would bore, elevating the tand and
gravel and carrying i! off TO either side. and
so continue until such obstruction had been
cut out wide enough for the passage Of the
Year: 1879

The progressive spirit and the superior in
telligence of the farmers of Sedgwick county,
as class, is alluded to in an article elsewhere.
OF course such class of men are up with the
times in the utilization Of all appliances that
obyiates physical labor, or that contributes to
an aggrandizement Of general results. Farm
machinery in Kansas is almost universal. The
labor is principally done by horsepower while
the farmer rides at much Of his work. He
breaks his sod, stirs his fallow, drills his
Year: 1879

business men, tradesmen or mechanics as one
answer, but that for the most part only the
more enterprising, best informed and energet-
ic men of older communities ever muster up
the requisite pluck TO cut loose from old ties
and associations to try their fortunes in a new
land and among new people. But whatey-
er the reason We are none the less proud Of
the advanced intelligence and liberal minded
ness of the men who hold the destinies OF
this magnificent valley in their hands and
keepinp
Year: 1879

The Baltimore american" says that
a proposition has been made by prac-
tical beet sugar manufacturer in Ger
many to establish factory for the
manufacture of beet sugar in Hartford
county. The proposition is to furnish
$4,000 capital provided the farmers
and others interested in the cultivation
of beets will raise an equal amount. A
joint-stock company will then be form
ed. An effort is being made to secure
the amount Of capital required.
Year: 1879

To the Senate Finance committee was
to consider Senator Bayafd's resolution
to do away with the legal-tender fea-
ture of greenbacks. Az Senator Beck
has consented to vote to report it back
to the Senate, it will have a majority
of one to take it out Of the committee
at least for discussion, and without
recommendation Mr.. Baysrd is still
sanguine of carrying his point, and
many of the Southern Senators haVe
ANNOUNCED their intention to vote for
-
Year: 1879

Charles Parker has just made up at
his shop, corner of Second and King
streets, very fine set of brass mounted
express harness for Capelle Il Bro,
which are highly creditabe as the ma
terial and workmanship are of the very
best quality, and they make a hand
some appearances.
Year: 1879

The Fame Active Association will
give their fourth annual Ball in Web
ster's dancing academy, tonight. A
large number Of tickets have been sold
and nothing has been left undone that
will add to the pleasures of the occa-
s,;np
Year: 1879

The residents at Twelfth and Wash
ington are anxious to know what has


become of the slop carts. In fact some
of them are anxious to know what to do
with the slop that has accumulated on
their hands,
Year: 1879

Summer vacations have now become q
permanent institution; yet they are of
comparatively recent origin. Our an
cestors never thought of travelling be-
yond the limits of their city, village or
native valley, except when driven by
their affairs or their predatory instincts.
What lay beyond the familiar circle OF
their daily lives was foreign to them,
and rather to be Stunned than sought.
The traveller by choice was looked upon
rs bold and foolhardy. Men and women
lived in narrow groves of their own,
and had no desire to emerge into Il larger
space. But times are changed. The
modern facilities for intercourse anu
communication have greatly enlarged
our world. In one sense enlarged, in
another belittled, for while our expert.
ence, through personal travel, boo Ks and
the reports of friends, has brought the
distant near and interviewer it with the
associations of daily life, it has drained
away the sources of mystery which fed
the imagination of our ancestors, and
compensated the littleness of their actual
world with indefinite conceptions of the
~nstness and wonderful nature of the
world that encirclcd it. If the earth, as
they conceived it, was fiat to us, in
another sense, it is still fatter. Still
our new way is an Improvement upon
the old, for man needs variety of thought
and action to perfect his intellectual.
nature.
Year: 1879

A gentleman sends to an agricultural
paper an amusing description of How a
Toad takes off his Coat and Pants" He
says he has seen one do it, and friend has
seen another do The same thing in the sam
way:


dAbout the middle OF July / found a
toad on hill of melons, and not wanting
him to leave, | hoed around him he ap.
peared sluggish and not inclined to move,
Presently observed him pressing his ell
bows against his sides, and rubbing down
ward. lie appeared so singular that l
watched to see what he was up to. After q
few smart rubs his skin began to burst open
straight along his back. Now, said ],
old fellow, you have done it; but he ap-
peared to be unconcerncd, and kept on rub
bine until he had worked all his skin into
folds on his sides and hips; then grasping
one hind leg with both his hands, he hauled
of cne leg OF his pants the same as anybody
would, then stripped the other hind leg in
the same way. He then took this cast
eff cuticle forward between his fore legs into
his mouth and swallowed it; then, by rails
ing and lowering his head, swallowing as
his head came down, he stripped off the skin
underneath until it came to his lore legs,
and then grasping one Of these with the op-
posite hand, by considerably pulling stripped
off the skin; changing hands, he stripped
the other, and by a slight motion OF the
head, and all the while swallowing, he drew
it from the neck and swallowed the whole
The operation seemed an agreeable one and
occupied but short time.
Year: 1879

Cheerfulness is the daughter of employ
ment.


Wisdom prepares for the worst, but folly
leaves the worst for the day when it comes.


Harmony and good will toward men
must be the basis of every political estab.
lishment.


In order to dispose our hearts in devo-
tion, the active life is to be preferred to the
contemplative.


The happiness of the tender heart is in
creased by what it can take away from the
wretchedness OF others.


Great vices are the proper objects of on
detcstation---smaller faults of our pity; but
affection appears to be- the only true source
of the ridiculous.


No man has come to true greatness who
has not felt in some degree that his life be-
longs to his race, and that what God gives
him He gives him for mankind.


The very heart and root of sin is an, in
dependent and selfish spirit. We erect tn
idol self, and not only wish others to wor-
ship it, but We worship it ourselves.


Universal love is a glove without fingers
which fits all hands alike, and none closely;
but true affection is like glove with fin
gers, which fits one hand only, and fits close
to that one.
Year: 1879

A lawyer keeps his own counsel.


Not hard to take-Garden sauce.


A pretty cornseat-A number one
slipper.


Whoop skirts are much worn on the
frontier.


Fair one, if you don't want some fel-
low to steal your heart, you must steel
it yourself.


A experimentation watching machine
A mother with several marriageable
daughters.


1t is really amusing to examine the
maps Of the different railway lines, and
find on each one their own road conven-
iently represented as direct "as the
bird flies" and all competing lines
crooked as rams horn or the streets OF
Boston.


The editor who wrote what lie In
tended to be complimentary paragraph
concerning battle-scarred soldier, who
had honored his sanctum with a call,
was exasperated beyond measure on
taking up his paper the following morn
ing, and seeing his fine effort utterly
ruined by the intelligent compositor
making it read, q. battle-scared sol
"-Chicago Commercial Adrert1Ser>.
Year: 1879

were bravely grunting defiance. The
wolf was running around them, swapping
his Jaws and doing all in his power to
frighten faint-hearted pig out of the cir
Gle. The compact ring Of sturdy little
black porkers slowly moved down the
road, never faltering, but constantly
keeping up their war grunt. AS they
passed me at about twenty five yards. l
rebuked the coyote with an ounce OF No.
10 bird shot. lie suddenly lost interest
in pork, and retired to the hills to hunt
jack rabbits. 1 never had any anxiety
about my pigs after that.


Once | built n pen for 100 stock hogs
by 4 deep pond of water. | ran the
fence out into the pond to where the
water was five feet deep; then I took
logs and, claiming them together,
stretched them between the ends of the
fence. This made q pen with big pond
in it, and the pigs could not get out un-
less they dived under the logs. | was
raised in the belief that pig could not
swim. The hogs were driven to the
pen, put in, and, rs l had self-feeding
corn-bins that were full, / flattered my
self that was rid of the personal care oi
those hogs until butchering time. The
result was that they became such expert
divers that they were never in the pen.
They would swim. out to the logs and
dive under. If l went to the pen on
horseback, accompanied by my dog,
would gather them up by setting the
dog on them, make them all jump into
the pond, swim to the log, plunge under
it and swim ashore into their pen. There
the dog dared not follow.


The courage of sow with young in
her nest is something wonderful. Nc
wild animal that walks on Kansas soil
can drive her from them. She will die
in defense of her pigs, and the wolf
doesn't live that can get the better OF
razor-back sow. She will always eat
young pigs, provided they are not her
own. Her own she never eats. The
pigs of any other sow she considers le-
Ultimate food, and she will eat them up
to the time that they are three weeks
old; and any other sow in turn will eat
her pigs. The sows regard each other
with an evil eye. Distrust, doubt, un-
certainty reign everywhere until the
pigs are quick and active. Then the
friendly family relations are resumed.
1t is strange, but l have never seen a
boar eat young pigs, and / have had all
kinds-hom the blooded wind-split-
ters'' to the pure Berkshires-and never
had 4 pig eaten by one of them.
Year: 1879


Slow buds the pink dawn like a rose


From out nights gay and cloudy sheath,
Softly and still it grows and grows,
Petal by petal, Leaf by leaf ~. o,
Each sleep-lmprisoned creature breaks
Its dreamy fetters one by one,
And love awakes, and labor wakes
The morning comes before the sun -..g
What is this message from the light


So fairer far than light can be?
Youth stands tiptoe, eager, bright,


In haste the risen sun to see;
All! check thy longing, restless heart,
Count the charmed moments as they run.
1t is life's best and fairest part, ,'.'.
This morning hour before the sun.
When once thy day shall burst to flower,
When once the sun shall climb the sky
And busy hour by busy hour .......
The urgent noontide draws anigh,
When the long shadows creep abreast
To dim the happy task half tone,
Thou wilt recall this pause Of rest,


This morning hush before the sun.
To each one dawning and one dew


One fresh young hour is givon by fate,
One rose flush on the early blue


Be not impatient then, but wait!
Clasp the sweet peace on earth and sky
By midnight angels woven and spun,
Better than day its prophecy ...:.
The morning comes before the sun. :.


Susan Coolidge.
Year: 1879

WASHINGTON, d. c., August %. 1879.


TO he Editor Of The National Republican:


SIR: notice in your paper of this morn
ing an item about wild red clover found in
Arizona, in which Inspector Hammond in
quires If it is found elsewhere in tho country.
/ have seen hundreds if not thousands of spcci.
mems growing in the pine woods of Arkansas,
and have been told by old hunters that it has
grown there ever since white men knew any
thing of the country. l have often found it
fifteen or twenty miles from any farm, and
probably twice as far from any place on which
it was or ever had been cultivated as at tho
time OF my obseiv vations-lS6i to 1s75-it
was cultivated by very few Arkansas farmers.
The specimens saw had a scattered habit Of
growth, generally one or two stalks and never
more than n dozen In bunch, If one might
call them punches, and never saw patch or
bed of it yard square. The only differences
l could detect between it and the cultivated
clover consisted First, in this scattering habit
of growth ; second, in the rather diminished
size and elongated shape of tho foliage and
iowers-both of which were less abundant
than on the cultivated plant and third, thu
greater length and flexerosity of the stalk. l
have frequently taken stalks by the flower
heads, which did not seem to be more than
eighteen inches high, and on stretching them
out would find them five feet or more in
length. Having seen it hundreds of times,
from the northern almost TO the southern
boundary of the State, and from the vicinity
of Little Rock nearly to the Indian Territory,
| have no doubt it is indigenous in origin,
and identical with that sent by Inspector
Hammond to the Commissioner of Agriculture.


w, w. G.,
Year: 1879

The Columbia Rife Association held the
sixth competition for the Hardness badge at
the Bennng's range, on Saturday afternoon
last, with all the conditions of weather fully as
bad as that ofa week ago, which was then said
to be the worst day the association had shot
during the season. Storms of wind and rain
prevailed ut intervals throughout the after.
noon. Following are the scores in detail
Year: 1879

BERLIN, June ia very important state
ment was made by Bismarck to-day In the
Reichstag respecting the intentions OF the
government concerning the remonetfzation OF
silver Herr Debruck, a prominent member
OF the National Liberal party, had made an
Interpolation addressed to the Chancellor on
this subject and, in replying to this question,
the Chancellor said that he did not know
what were the exact views Of the federal gov
ernment respecting the silver question. Per-
sonauy, he would not commit himself to an
expression of definite opinion on the 20 after.
a modification of the March law establishing
the gold standard might Or might not be ex-
pedient ait this moment All that the govern
ment had done In this affair, up to the pres
ent time was to suspend the sales OF silver,
In order to wait until rise In the market
value Of the metal should occur.


The reply Of the Chancellor was not alto
gether satisfactory to q considerable portion
Of the Reichstag. The feeling in favor OF at
least partial remonetizatiOn OF silver be-
comes daily more apparent throughout the
Empire.


LIBERTY or THE PREss-AN EDITOR SEN


TENCED TO TWO MONTHS IMPRISONMENT.


BERLIN, June 20-The editor OF the Frank
fort Zeitang has been condemned to two
months imprisonment for publishing re-
port of the trial of the Zeitung last February.
Year: 1879

Our FinanceS.-The city finances are al
present at a very low ebb. Owing to the
scarcity of funds in the treasury, MancheS-
ter was unable to meet the interest on her
bonds due November 5th. The city's cou-
pons were presented for payment on the
9Th instant, but they were not paid. The
Free bridge and other great improvements
made during the last ten years are no doubt
the cause Of this financial depression. They
also have proved to be elephants on the
city's hands. The Council will convene to-
night, and DO doubt conference OF the
city's creditors will be called, looking to a
reduction OF the interest on her bonds. The
action OF the Council tonight in regard 10
it will prove OF great interest.
Year: 1879

City School Bodrtt-A meeting Of the
City School Board will be held tonight ut
- O'Clock ut the usual place OF meeting. II
has been quite n hard matter to obtain a
quorum of late. There are twelve members
OF the Board, and seven constitute quo
rum. A full attendance is requested TO-
njnht
Year: 1879

We are prepared to furnish to the trade
and deliver in any part of the city the
BEST Coal CREEK Coal at TEN cents a
bushel. Cash must accompany the orders.


EAST TENN. Coal COMPANY,
Office Corner Jacksboro' and Depot SITS.
Oct4 diff
Year: 1879

THE Louisville Coatrier-Journol,
after it discovered that it could remain
quiet no longer, spoke out about the
Yellow Fever Black burn, but said the
scheme was all joke. The Post and
Nea0s, of the same city. dissents to
this. 1t ceDsures the CT for Black
burns nomination, and Black burn
for bis silence about the charges, and
says the oDly way to do is to speak the
truth boldly, which it Iroceed ds to do
In the following manner:


We suppose there is DO doubt that
the plan to use the pestilence TO aid
the South was conceived by DR. Black
burn, and that al attempt was made
TO put the plan in practical oueration.
But il was ss wild, as absurd
as ridiculous plan as ever CINE from
the brain of sane man."
Year: 1879

so copiously that it could be distinctly smeed in tho
car. The signal for descent was given. and slowly
the Pioneer sank from her great height to the earth
The wind freshened and lower strata was reached
the balloon again taken to the northwest OF the
current through which it had passed in its ascent
At two minutes before ten O'Clock the ground was
reached. Professor King delighted at the success
of the reporters trip, and expressed himself much
gratined with the results.


STRENGTH OF THE AIRsHIP.


The total weight of the balloon anu car, with all
their appliances is g. l26 pounds. Just before land
ing tho dynamometer was found to register l,OoO
pounds pressure. To show how little danger there
is of the cable breaking. as has been suggested.
rope which sent to be tested. saying that his
testing machine-20, 900 pounds pressure-could not
break it, The linen of the balloon was also tested
by the same gentleman, and only tore on 5oO
pounds being suspended from one corner The
Professor has tested every article used i'll construct
ing the "Pioneer" from the cable up to the
very silk thread with which the linen is sewed
record OF the staying powers or each material Is
entered in = book. This will prove valuable. as the
experiments now being made furnish ample schooi-
of the fluctuations of the balloons ascensive power
theories will be formed on which the Aeronautic
Society hope to build ship to cross the Atiantlc
Ocean before many months have passed. AS an ex-
ample OF the deep interest felt by scientists ana
meteorologists in the scheme and the confidence
placed in Professor Kings experience and skill Cap
tain II. w. Howgate, sub-chef OF the United States
Signal Service. has written a letter TO him
asking permission to station oifcer or the service
in the balloon permanently to take observations on
The Signal Service also furnished the meteorological
instruments by Professor King, who has pro-
fessed his Willingness to give the government place
in the plan OF experiments. The officer will arrive
in few days. accompanied by Captain Howgate, who
will personally inspect tho balloon and make an
asce
Year: 1879

NEW YoRK. July g. 1879.
10 THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD:-


One Of the proudest functions of the great jour-
mails is to stand between the public and abuses. Our
American travelling public is so lamb-ike in its
meekness-submitting to impositions and frauds
such as no other nationality would submit to for
moment-that it needs champion and what cham
pion potent as the daily presss For your boated
corporations and monopolies do vince when they
are pricked with the pen. was the victim Of such
outrageous treatment at the Manhattan Beach Hotel
that beg the privilege stating the in the col
of your paper not for any satisfaction that it
may bring me-further than posting them-but as
warming to others who may contemplate stay vt
that hotel.


On the Esd Of Juno visited the hotel in person,
not trusting to letters kilograms. and engaged.
and assigned positively and unequivocally,
front room for the 4th 9th and 9th OF july that my
invalid wife might escape the heat and noise Of the
Fourth in the city and enjoy the invigoratng
breezes Of the ocean away from the crowd. EARLY
the morning of the Fourth took my wife down.
and. stepping to the desk. registered my name with
the confidence of man who has taken time by the
forelock Judge of my amazement when was in
formed that there was no room reserved for mel
self, however, demanded an explanation OF this
most extraordinary proceeding. My satisfaction
to most ptitul attempt among the clerks
to shift the responsibility upon each other. finally
appealed to the proprietor and was told with that
comfortable shrug that comes with much success.
that the thing was probably unavoidable" &c. AS
a peace Offering was finally offered an exceedingly
undesirable and inaccessible room in the top and
OF the house. where breath of air could pene
trate. This indignantly refused. They finally all
took refuge in a most transparent subterfuge ito
draw it mild by stating that all their front rooms
had been continuously occupied since the date of my
engagement. The case was peculiarly aggravating
one. Had entertained the slightest doubt about
getting my room should not have thought of TAX
ing invalid to the beach such day. As it was
had redress but to get my wife. sick. exhausted
and disappointed as she was. back to New York the
best way could through the heat and crowds Of
the day. leaving our luggage to be returned to the
city next day. OF course the loss of my patronage
is to them Of no consequence than fly on y
locomotive wheel but il this communication will
prevent any others from becoming victims to the
stupidity, worse, of the management of the Man.
haitian Beach HOTEL it will not have been written
published in vain. B.
Year: 1879

Commissioner Campbell. of the Department Of
Public Works, some time since submitted to Cor
poration Counsel Whitney the draft of an ordinance
designed to collect money from plumbers and others
for permits to open streets to cover the expense of
replacing the pavements over such openings. Mr..
Whitney yesterday in official opinion stated that
If the ordinance were submitted to the Aldermen.
adopted by them and signed by the Mayor it would
be valid tar it related to plumbers and other
persons whose authority to open the streets is de.
rived solely from the Common Council and the Com
missioner OF Public Works" The Corporation
Counsel however, thinks that it would be question
able whether its provisions would be binding upon
railroad, telegraph other corporations persons
whose authority to Interfere with the streets Is de-
rived directly from the Legislature.