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Year: 1874

for the purpose of nominating candidates for 4
Senators, Sheriff, County Treasurer and County
Commissioner to be supported at the State election
in September.


Also to choose County Committee. and to act
before the Convention.


The basis of representation will be as follows:-Each
city and town will be entitled to Delegate and
one additional Delegate for every 60 votes cast for
Sidney Perham for Governor in 1872. A fraction of
IS additional to the full number will entite the
city town to an additional Delegate This basis


Ill give the following delegation and apportionment:
Year: 1874

lhe Massachusetts democratic State Com
mittee meet in Boston tomorrow to make
preparations Tor the opening of the fall cam
paign. 1t is thought that they will select an
early date for The state convention, and not
walt as heretofore for the movements of the
Republicans.
Year: 1874

We do not read anonymous letters and communi-
cations. The name and address of the writer are in
ali indispensable, not necessarily for publication
but as a guaranty OF good faith.


We cannot undertake to return or reserve COM
nunications that not used.
Year: 1874

This grave matter of disturbing public
entertainments by talk has been treated
quite too leniently heretofore, as sort
of privileged question. 1t Is not such,
but comes under the familiar head OF
nuisances generally. For so gross an in
fringement of private right there is a
remedy, and we look to sec some person,
held in such esteem by the community
that his motives will not be questioned,
proceed to vindicatc this private right in
as emphatic a manner as did the late
David Henshaw, in the matter of voting
by printed ballot The man who pays
for a seat at public concert is entitled
not to the occupation of the seat merely,
but to the quiet enjoyment of it. He is
not called on to spend the evening In
keeping his neighbors in order. This il
guaranteed him either by the parties
selling the seat or municipal law. II
this Is not 80, then the old system ofhead
punching and personal violence will bt
revived. Sensitive people will not much
longer submit to paying the now rolling
prices of the popular entertainment witt
the chance or even the possibility OF sit
ting next to some bore of an elbower. wh'
beats time with his heels through tn.
pianissimo sentiment, and giggles will
insane but audible delight at every her.
outbreak of, to him, unfathomable pa'
| a;np
Year: 1874

1t is very easy to keep house in Paris,
for, Notwithstanding their extravaganza
i'm dress, their domestic expenses are
small. You give small party there, and
the refreshment consists of a little cake,
and a cup of tea or glass of wine, and
every one is satisfied. People have come
together to talk and enjoy themselves;
the ladies wear pretty gowns, and do not
get them soiled with spilled salad, or
spotted with cream. In Boston or New
York. for the same number of people, a
caterer is called in who turns your house
topsy-turvy, and empties your. pockets


or if you can not afford that, lady tolls
ali day in her kitchen, and is too tired to
wear anything but the most CHASTITY OF
smiles in her parlor in the evening. No
French family makes its own bread-the
bakers do it for them, and do it better
than they could themselves. Tall, slender
loayes, yard long, actually stand round
in corners, like walking sticks. The tirs'
meal of the day is alwaysa roll and coffee
taken i'm ones chamber, and it isnot unit


noon that you get comfortable meal o.
meat and eggs. Dinner is at night, and {
little food goes great way. There i


always first q thin soup, then a portion
of fish, then some sort of stew, and thel
some solitary vegetable, with no accom-
paniment of meat. After this you &c
Slices of meat or fowl, with lettuce. Th


dessert is trifling. You see a great man


fat Frenchmen; and you can not hel


wondering what they grow fat on, unit
YOU notice that they all have a geod time


and an excellent opinion of themselves


Thereupon you conclude that they Hour


ish upon fun and self-esteem no cor


temptible substitute for pork and pies.
Year: 1874

In every family there is power to let.
In the development and use ofthis power
lies the true secret Of SUGGEST Parents
are apt to think that their cares will
cease when the little ones grow up, but
every year enlarges the responsibility
they have assumed. The physical needs
of the children demand time and money,
but when their mental powers awake and
expand, the real care of parents COM
mences. And Just at this point many
parents shrink from their plain duty, and
place their highest privileges IN the hands
of strangers. Is it right to believe that
n mothers whole duty lies in the adorn-
mcnt of her daughters person, or that a
father has performed his when he has
paid his sons bills and notices his physi-
cal growth II is so easy to select a
school for the child, let others teach it,
and leave the nolding of its character to
chancel But IL is hard, unceasing
care to watch the opening mind, read the
thoughts, and study the best interest OF
the little form that holds an immortal
soul.
Year: 1874

Some one asks Henry Ward Beecher:
"What can we do for friend for whom
we have prayed long time, and all that
we can say or do only makes him more
determined 10 have his own wayT To
thiscomprehensive and ingenious inquiry
Mr. Beecher answers: Nobody likes 10
live in an atmosphere Of incessant re,
proof Ifyou want to win his heart ana
melt his opposition, do not darken ms
life by making him. feel, even by your
looks or air, that You arc groaning over s
him as q miserable sinner. Make life
cheerful to him; make your own love
for him source Of joy; let your piety pe
full of sweetness and light; show the NJ
most appreciation of his good qualities
and be patient. The case, as you stat'
IL, Is not very bad one"
Year: 1874

We envy not the prfhcely man,
In city or In town,
Who wonders whether pumpkin vines
Turn up the hill or down.
We care not for his marble halls,
Nor yet his heaps Of gold
We would not own his sordid heart
For all his wealth thrice told
We are the favored ones OF earth,
We breathe pure air each morn,
We sow, we reap the golden grain,
We gather In the corn.
We TOLL we live on what we earn,
And more than this we do;
We hear of starving millions round,
And gladly feed them too.
The lawyer lives on princely fees,
Yet drags a weary life;
He never knows peaceful hour,
His atmosphere Is strife.
The merchant thumbs his yard-sticks, Ger
Grows haggard ut his toll
He's not the man God meant him for,
Why don't he till the soil
The doctor plods through storm an rain,
Plods at his patients will
When dead and gone he plods again
To get his lengthy bill.
The printer---bless his noble soul!
lie grasps the mighty earth,
And stamps IL on our daily sheet


To cheer the laborer's hearth.
We sing the honor OF the Plow,


And honor 10 the Press,
Two noble instruments of toll,


Each with power to bless;
The bone, the nerve of this fast age
True wealth OF human kind
One tills the ever faithful earth,


The other tills the mind.
Year: 1874

White daises on the meadow green


Present thy beauteous fern 10 me;
Peaceful and joyful these are seen,


And peace and JOY encompass thee.
watch them where they dance md shine'
And love them--for their beauty's thine
Red roses DER the woodland brook


Remember me thy lovely nee
So blushing and 30 fresh tts look,


So wild and shy its radiant grace.
kiss them in their shy retreat,


And think of lips more soft and sweet.
Gold arrows of the merry morn


Shot swiftly over eastern seas,
Gold tassels OF the bending corn


That ripple In the August breezay
Thy wildering smile, thy glorious hair,
And all thy power and state declare.
White, red and gold---the awfI crown


OF virtue and Of beauty tool
From what height those eyes look down


Cn him who proudly dares TO sue.
Yet. free from self as God from sin,
Ia love that loves nor asks to win.
Let me but love thee In the flower,


The waving grass, the dancing wave,
The fragrant pomp OF garfen bower,


The violet on the nameless grave,
Sweet dreams by night, sweet thoughts by Day
And time shall tire ere love decay.
Let me but love thee in the glow


When morning on the ocean shines,
Or in the mighty winds that blow,


Snow-laden, through the mountain pines
In all that's fair, or grand, or dread
And all shall die ere love be dead Gd'o1y'
Year: 1874

The Committee on Organization of the Tam
many Hall General Committee decided to reorganize
the Ist Assembly strict which heretofore has been
controlled by John Fox and exPoice Justice Edward
Hogan 1t stated that the opposition TO Mr. Fox aud
Mr.. Hogan by the Democrats of tho district be-
came SO formidable that the interests OF the
party required prompt action in order to
save the regular candidates from being defeated.
reported that the reorganization has already deyei-
oped the fact that the change demanded by the
great majority of the party in the district and Nicholas
Muller, the leader OF the opposition, has been put in
nomination for Member OF Assembly as the regular
Tammany Hall candidate It is understood that ex-
Judre Hogan will run against Edwin T. Meade for Con
gress but 1t is believed that he cannot make any head
way against the regular nominee. Mr. FOx's term IN
the will expire next year, and II is stated
that he will then retire from active participation in
politics.
Year: 1874

SEVENTH DAY OF THE CoNvENTToN-sECRET sxa-


sION--AN ACCOUNT OF THE OPPOSITION TO pRov.


sEYMOUR-THE MISSIONARY DELEGATEs TX


CLUDED-PAREwEIL ADDRESS or THE METRO


PoLITAN OF CANADA-PRoPosfTIoS TO REVIVE


THE ORDER OF DEACONEssEs.


The session of the General Convention Of the
Protestant Episcopal Church yesterday was mainly
held with closed DOORS the confirmation of the two
newly-elected bishops being under consideration.
The exclusion of the delegates from missionary
jurisdictions made them indignant. The MetropOi-
tan of Canada made a farewell address, expressing
desire for closer union. A proposition was made
to revive the order of deaconesses. but not dis
cussed. Rtuaism received another blow from Ken
tucky The Joint Committee Of Conference with
the Canadian delegation made short report.
Year: 1874

."Rural," in, the Chicago T+ibume
says: "There is man travelling
through the country selling the recipe
for making vinegar, for which he
charges the Changers 81 for the family
right. It is simply molasses and water,
with small quantity Of acetic acid
from the druggist, making the cost Of
what the fellow calls frst.class vinegar,
as he claims, 10 cents a gallon. The
fellow also condescends to sell it to the
grocers Of our towns as u new, valuable
discovery. Vinegar may be made from
pure acetic acid; but, as that is de-
rived from vinegar, its cost is too great
for that purpose. In the manufacture
Of vinegar, the alcohol is in part
changed to acetic acid or vinegar; and,
to obtain this acid in Il dry state, the
vinegar must be deprived Of its acetic
acid. Of course there could be no gain
and only the loss Of labor. For this
reason. the vinegar-makers now resort
to the use of acetic acid for this purpose.
It would be like the economy Of cut
ting up whole pieces of calico for max
ing patchwork -quilts-the quilt being
no better, though an immense amount
Of labor may have been expended iu its
metamorphosis. Dussauer, in his work
on the manufacture of vinegar, says !:
"The acid extracted from purified acct
ate of soda is purer than the CONNER
cial acetic acid manufactured in Ger
many by saturating the vinegar at 8
per cent. made by the quick process
with lime, and decomposing the salt of
lime by sui phuric acid" To make vim
egar by the use Of commercial acetic
acid is too costly, and the parties who
part with their dollar will see that they
are out their money. The cheap vine.
gar is adulterated with sulphuric acid,
and is never made by the use Of acetic
acid. Acetic acid is used in making
white lead and other acetates, and is de-
rived from both vegetable and mineral
substances chiefly, as is shown, from
vinegar itself: The person selling the
recipe, in stating the cost at 10 cents
commits small error knowingly, or
wilfully. OF course, no intelligent,
thinking person ought to be deceived
by any of their class, for they have new
er been known to sell dollars worth for
dollar Last year fellow made good
thing in selling a mixture Of nitric and
muriatic acids-a mixture that is found
in every tin-shop, to be used in the
soldering Of old tinware.
Year: 1874

Each fruit and shade tree, each gar
den shrub and vegetable has host of
insects peculiar to it, and year after year
renew their attacks. Upwards Of fifty
species of insects prey upon cereals and
grapes as many infest our field crops !;
thirty well-known species ravage our
garden vegetables; there are nearly fifty
species which attack the grapevine, and
their number is increasing; about seven
ty-tive species make their annual onset
on the apple tree, and nearly an equal
number may be found upon the plum,
pear, peach and cherry. Over fifty
species infest the oak, twenty five the
walnut, and over one hundred prey upon
the pine A list Of the insect pests
which gather about our flowers, garden
vegetables, ornamental shrub and fruit
trees would extend to several hundred.
Every year witnesses the attacks of new
enemies, that appear as the forests are
cut down, and their natural food, plants,
are destroyed. The wanton killing of
insect eating birds tends to a steady in
crease in the number of noxious insects.
-Er.
Year: 1874

Two or three weeks ago a family liv-
ing in the Third Ward set hen on ten
eggs in the barn. The same family
keeps cat. 1t seems that the chill
dren belonging to the family did not
know that the hen was "set," so they
disturbed her and brought in the eggs,
and chased her about the yard for play
and recreation. While thus occupied
the old cat that had litter of kittens
only a few days old decided at that op-
perfume time to change their location,
and brought her little ones to that very
nest, and went out in search of food.
The hen returned, sat down and moth
cred those kittens, and seemed to be
very proud of them. The cat of course
drives her off when she is in, but as
soon as the cat is away the old hen re.
turns to take care Of the kittens, and
the honors of mother are about equally
divided between the hen and the cat.
La Crosse WIS. } Democrat.
Year: 1874

The economy Of keeping few sheep
on every farm devoted to mixed hus-
bandry is apparent to any one giving
the subject careful consideration. AZ
scavengers they will, on many farms,
pay handsome interest on their first
cost-not taking into account their weld
Of fleece and lambs. Much of the straw
and stalks about the barn ward. the
growth in fence corners and other out
ofthe-way places, will be kept clean
and slightly by few sheep, with verv
little trouble, and no expense to their
owner. As regards vegetation, the
sheep may be said to be omnivorous-
the goat is its only peer-and very few
OF the most troublesome weeds and
grasses can long withstand its short and
persisted clipping. In clearing out and
subdoing timber pastures they are in
valuable If turned in when the young
shoots are still young and succulent,
nothing within their reach will escape
them. They can be turned into the
stubble6eld after harvest, and not only
TINS save every stray head Of grain,
but leave the field clear of and in the
best possible conditionl for the pough.
Year: 1874

A Quaker has a remedy for choked
cattle, which has never failed when
tried. The remedy is teacupful of
soft soap dissolved in pint, or little
more, Of warm water, and poured down
the throat Of the choked animal. As
soon as administered, the apple or pota-
to is instantly thrown up on passing
the hand upon and along the throat.
He allows his cattle to eat apples or po-
tatoes without cutting, being positive
that if one should choke he can relieve
the animal instantly. A correspondent
says that cattle may be relieved when
choked by b=ing made to jump over
bars left as high as the animal can be
made to jump. j. B. Jones says that a
good way is to make ball of tobacco,
and put it into the animals mouth as
far back as possible, which will cause
vomiting and give speedy relief Now,
as the first is a dangerous method, and
the second, tobacco, may not be handy,
the best thing ever saw, (and I nev.
er knew it to fail } is to take round
stick IS inches long, and put it into the
animals mouth, the same as you would
a bit into a horses mouth, having the
stick as large as can be put into the
mouth. It can be fastened by strings
tied to the horns. Turn the animal
loose, and it will soon throw the articles
out, and it will not make it sick like to-
bacco. ! have seen it tried great
many times in this section.
Year: 1874

With equally good results they can be
herded through field of standing corn
after the growth of grass and weeds is
we'll under sway*9~This' is especially sad:
vantageous where the common course is
pursued of sowing wheat in the stand
ing corn. True, now aad then broken
or bent stalk falls prey; but the ad-
vantage of the air and sunlight to the
too long shaded ground will be found
to compensate MANIFOLD for these slight
losses. Ia short, sheep cannot be omit
ted from the farm economy without loss
to the farmer who thus overlooks their
merits.-Live Stock Journal.
Year: 1874

A lady who was visiting in the upper
part Of Kingston, upon seating herself
in street car on Thursday, ran a large
pin in one Of her hips, which injured
her so severely that she had to be taken
home in carriage. These pins are of a
large size, used to fasten the dress back,
and the one that injured the lady was
broken off so that the physician could
not withdraw it. The injured lady was
taken to New York city. So much for
following the fashion. - Pouyhheepsie
Press.
Year: 1874

The low stage of water and the
continual closing of the gap be-
tween the foot of the sand.bar and
,ow.head, has nearly cut off the
entrance of the Mail Packet to our
landing. The City Of Chester lett
the mail for this place at Elmot
Landing, four miles above, on her
last trip.
Year: 1874

Our readers will bear in mind
that if this Issue is bare of local
items, to attribute it to the fact
that the bummers, floaters, loafers
and idlers generally have been on
their good behavior during the en-
tire week, and everybody else are
too happy for emotional demon
stration.
Year: 1874

Ia China the potters is very ancient
pottery is lost in the distant msts Of early
Chinese history the native chronologists
themselves are not too skeptical to assign
it to about the year 269S before the Chris


tian era the discovery of true porcelain
as fixed by them, having taken place un


der the Han dynasty, between l85 B G
and 8S A. d. Without drawing so large


ly as this upon his credulity, the reader
must yet believe that wares correspond,
ing in texture and appearance to our
glazed stone wares faienceS were made by
them many centuries before they were
dreamed of in Europe. The Chinese had
early made one important discovery which
they long kept to themselves, and which
relieved them Of great many of the diff
fculties which in our ignorance of it
were incidental to our making of glazes
They found material which combined
in itself silex, an alkali, aud alumina in
fact substance which contains in itself
all that goes to make a glaze. This was
the variety of felspar which mineralogists
call -orthog laze-a hard grey stone, Known
to the Chinese as petuntze. This rock is
occasionally found as geologists term, it
degraded, or decomposed in other words,
reduced by the action of the atmosphere
to powder. The rain falls on it in this
state and makes it into clay, and in do
ing so washes from it all that water will
melt; that is, deprives it of its alkali, In
this state it is the famous kaolin Of the
Chinese, the possession, Of which has en-
ablcd them to make the semi transparent
pottery which we call china or porcelain
The kaolin is pure white clay, absolute
ly infusble by heat being mixed with
the before named petunt@ ground to pow
der, the potash makes it slightly fusible
slightly disposed, that is, to run into
glass when fired. 1t stops short of this
point, and yet it is far more vitreous than
the common clay pottery we have hither-
to been dealing with. 1t is precisely in
that Intermediate condition between z lass
and earlhcnware which we know as por
celain. The appearance of this beautiful
ware, vying in tender coloring with the
transluceDcy OF pearls aud opals, was the
deathblow to the eoarser wares OF Europe.
The first specimens of true porcelain were
imported at the beginning of the sixteenth
century, and fetched enormous prices
aud the decadence of the various Renas
markets Of Europe began to be flooded
with Oriental China ware - The 4Nep
Qnarterly Bngnstas.
Year: 1874

Won "a it not serve useful purpose il
some meteorolosist were to gather into a
mass the various weather signs-whether
valuable or not-treasured by the far
mers and other common sense people o!
the country, and then sift them, so that
those of real value may have their pro
per influence, and those which are merely
fancful may cease to mislead
That there are weather signs in abund
ance, every body knows. That the greater
part of these signs are utterly valueless,
every person of intelligence can testify
Yet that they do practically influence the
time and mode of planting the crops, and
OF their after culture, will be acknew lodged
by many who would not be suspected of
the folly, and who can give no other rea
sou for it than the force of habit.


eve are going to have dry month"
said farmer, the other day


"How do you know p he was asked.


"By the Indians sign of the new
moon," he replied ats horns hung so
slopiug that they could hold no water"


His companion laughed. "Why, that's
my lnjn sign for a wet moon. The horns
slope SO that they let loose all the water"


The sign iu the one case was no doubt
as prophetic as in the other


always plant your potatoes in the
dark of the moon, if you wish to have a
full crop" | heard my neighbor say
"But never kill your pork, nor boil your
soap at such a time, unless you are vii
ling to have them shrink to nothing"


What is your authority for this 7"


81 have always so heard" he answered
with some hesitation, "and always so prac
tised. Potatoes you know, being roots,
naturally love darknes And soap aud
eacon-I suppose they take their cue
from the state of the moon. The fact is
onl = know that this is the old, timeru'e


we are to have frost on the 10Th Of
May. said farmer to IL on the 9Th Of A pril


| was shocked, for he looked 50 wise
and lugebrious, and frost at that time
in our latitude would have cost millions
Of dollars. asked,


How do you know Z"


Because we had fog on the 10Th of
March"


He saw me smiling, and added, 81 have
heard this rule, aud never have known it
to fail yet"


"The surest rule know for fo~etelling
the weather throughout the year" said a
planter, possessed of at least semi col
legiate education, "is to note the twelve
days between the new Christmas and old
Christmas (from December 25 to January
g.. The months of the ensuing year are
apt to be wet or dry, cool or warm, ac
cording to the days corresponding" He
seriously declared that for many years he
had pitched his crop" aud ordered his
plantation work under the guidance of
this rule, and found that it served well
No doubt for that amount of time in ad-
vance, it was quite as good as any other
rule 10 ordinary use.- Hearth and Home