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Year: 1879

THE Boston Post prints a bright
picture, as follows "The factories
are generally resuming or making
ready to resume work, and if the for
eign market could be still more rap
idly extended by intelligent legislation
their prospects would improve at a
more speedy pace. But it is all GER
tain to come right in time. Even real
estate, which is the last to rally, feels
the effect of the reviving trade i'm
pulses and improves its figures and
pretensions together. We have reached
a stage, in fact, at which further
movement is possible but in one direc-
tion. Everything must now go for
ward. The country is evidently about
to enter on career of prosperity
whose splendors have hardly yet been
imagined" "
Year: 1879

The last number of the New York
Musk Zertung urges the formation of
protective union of American music
teachers. The text of the article is
the assertion that nowhere else in the
world are there so many complaints Of
bad teachers as in America.
Year: 1879

A little girl who had been on rail
road train when an accident occurred,
was told by her mother that she ought
to thank God for her escape from in
jury when she made her evening pray
er. She did it in this way "Thank
you, God, for not letting me be hurt
to-day; but tho next time | go to the
city I'll go in wagon.
Year: 1879




to his former position.


COLONEL BUFORD's APPEARANCE.
He ir very much changed in appear
ance since yesterday. His eyes are
red and sunken, and the accustomed
ruddy hue has left his face. | believe
the man is as sane as any one would
be under the circumstances, and do
not believe he cares the toss Of copper
what fate awaits him.


THE PROBABLE LINE OF DEFENSE.
The communication in the Wood
ford Clipper of to-day is thought to
indicate the probable line of defense.
and has attracted considerable atten-
ton, as its authorship is attributed to
a aphysician, and relative by marriage
of the defendant.


oTHE MILITARY.


At this hour 90 p.m.) there are
quite number of people still in the
streets, and the murder is still being
discussed in all its phases. The feel
ing against the assassin is as bitter as
ever, and it is not yet considered safe
to dismiss the military. Said a promi
nent citizen, Keep those soldiers
around the Jail every night for three
months, and remove them one night,
and Tom Buford will dangle from a
limb.
Year: 1879

New YORK, Nov. 21.-General Grant
has engaged passage, through Drexel,
Morgan d Co., in the new steamship
City OF Alexandria, which sails for Gu
pa aud Mexico on the 9th of December.
The two bridal apartments In the weasel
have been reserved for his use and for
those who are to accompany him. This
trip is said to be in accord with long
desire General Grant has had to visit
some Of the scenes of his Mexican cam
paign. He has expressed delight with
the climate of Mexico. particularly in
winter. How long he is to be gone and
the exact places he will visit are not
known to his friends here, otherwise
than that the trip will consume almost
II not quite all OF the winter. N.
Year: 1879

lhe poultry deserves more attention
than it usually receives on the majority
of farms 1t is thought necessary by
nearly every farmer to have a few hens to
supply the family with eggs and an occa-
slonal chicken, but as matter OF profit,
but little is thought of hens by the gen
eral farmer, and almost any ut-Of- the
way place IS thought good enough for the
accommodation of that kind OF stock. If
any profit is expected from the hens they
must be provided with abundance of the
proper food A variety of food is required,
as it is we'll known that they will do bet


ter and lay more eggs than if fed wholly
on one kind of grain; and here let me Of
Ter suggestion. Instead of having a
pile Of greasy bones stored for soap grease,
feed them to your hens Take an old
axe, for want of anything better, and 90
TO the hen house, where have a good
block, and chop them up, and my word
for it, you will be surprised to see how
greedily they are deyOured. If you are
not careful you will cut their heads off, as
they gather round the block. Bones will
be found Of considerable value thus used
more, | think, than for soap grease.
The production of poultry and eggs for
market may be made paying business,
if conducted in proper manner. If eggs
are the object, the White Leghorns are
probably as good as any, but if you wish
to raise chickens to sell, larger breed is
to be chosen. NJ. f. Farmer.
Year: 1879

Captain Norman Crane, on his death
bed, at Meyers Hotel, in Washington,
expressed his willingness to be married
to a woman with whom he had lived for
five years and who had all along been
known as Mrs. Mary Crane, his wife.
The idea in going through the marriage
ceremony was that Mrs. Crane should get
her part Of tho 100000 of earthly goods
about to be left by him. The Rev. y.
James G. Addison was sent for Accord
ing to his own statement when he asked
the rapidly sinking Crane if he were
"willing to marry this woman" Celia
Crane, the Captains sister, put her hand
on the dying mans mouth and thus pre-
vented the econsummation of the marriage.
Upon the death of the man the sister
seized the property.
Year: 1879

Said Solomon: "There be three things
which are too wonderful for me, yea, four
which | know not. The way of an eagle
in the air, the way of serpent upon a
rock, the way Of ship in the midst OF
the sea, and the way of a man with a
maid" If the wise king had lived till
now and seen the crowds rushing to Gil
more's Garden he'd have put it give" J" says
the New York Graphic.
Year: 1879

A strong solution of alum will render
paper fire. proof. Brown wrapping paper
saturated with solution of tungstate- Of
soda in the proportion of half-a- pound to
gallon Of water is made unnhammable
Year: 1879

"curse fall upon the land and render 1t
"sterile and barren. and not allow the earth to
"produce of her abundance and refuse but for
"a single year to yield either grass or grain
"and death will stalk over the land with none
"to oppose and the most vivid imagination
"would fail to depict the scene of horror and
"delth that would follow and ensne. LOOK
"up at the beautiful ceiling that oyerhangs
this magnificent hall. Examine the coats
of arms of the respective States, rejecting
the painters skill in the mellow light OF
"this most beautiful sky. There is the horse !;
there the plough; there the wheaton sheal
"and all the insignia and emblems OF agricul-
"ture indicative of the wealth of the State ana
"tc virtue Of her people. What an eloquent
"appeal to this most noble pursuit ~ All OF
which is true and beautiful. and 40 are several
pages of dazzling though somewhat promls-
cuous rhetoric which "follOw and ensue;" ana
vet il must be admitted that considerations OF
this sort have rather a remote and lmpalpaDie
bearing upon the question before the House


Now il NAV be matter of no particular
moment for the country to be informed what
are the views of Mr.. Cutler OH this or any
other subject. But bill to create new ex-





now for several successive sessions, and 1t
is well to know that it was recon-
mended by unanimous vote OF the
House Committee last Winter. Besides TINS
there are other ambitious bureau chieitains
who long to be nhItod, and it may not be
amiss, therefore, to state once more that an
executive department, with nothing TO ad-
minister, would probably be nuisance
and certainly an excrescence. The Uhi-
ted States belongs TO the family ol
nations, and, therefore, Secretary "i
State is needed to manage our foreign
relations. The Central Government supports
an army and a navy, and 1t sometimes hsht5.
II has Treasury and Courts OF justice, ana
it carries the mails of the people. 1t has a
public domain and Indians to Look after, ana
il takes the census and grants patents. Ihese
conditions justify the Departments OF war;
the Navy, Justice, the Post Office, and the
Interior On the other hand it is the merchants
and not the Government who carry on
the trade of the country, and hence we need
no Secretary Of Commerce. The Government
runs no mills or factories, and hence we nave
no Department of Manufactures. The farmers
plough and SOW their own lands, and until
the Government goes into business as n wOr-
rier of the soil an executive head OF
n Department Of Agriculture would have
nothing to execute. For the same reasons
Secretary of Education would be only the
smulacrum of an executive officer, unless the
Federal Government should abandon its ira
ditons and set itself up as an educator of the
people. All this is elementary doctrine no
doubt And yet it Is just the doc
trine which needs to be insisted on
so long as Congress is infested with
muddle-headed statesmen who hold that
Government is best fulfilling the end for
which it exists when it does the most med
ding with the private affairs of the people.
1t is a pity that Mr.. Cutler left 50 many of
his kind behind him.
Year: 1879

A significant incident, taken in connection
with the present crisis in the affairs of the
negro, occurred last week in Philadel-
phia. II was the dedication of the first public
school for cOOred children with coloreJ
teachers. Public schools for this class have
heretofore been provided with white teachers
but it is now judged cypedlent in Philadel-
phia to leave their education to the highest
limits in the care of persons of their own
race Probably nowhere in the Union is
there as fair an example of the status, both
social and intellectual, to which the cOlored
man can attain, under favorable circum-
stances, as in the Quaker City. Her colOred
population number men of large wealth and
influence in public affairs, and have a society
Of their own, afilucnt, educated and refined.
Yet the great majority of these people two
generations ago belonged to the same class
tina. are now sWarming into Kansas, ignorant
and starving.


The son of Osawatomic Brown it Is stated,
is going to devote himself to the service of
these pcople, and is hailed by certain enthu-
siastic journals as " The leader OF new cru
"sade.n The only crusade which the negroes
should enter on now is against their own help





serve them is the one who will set them to
work iutcligcntIy Tor themselves. The negro
will probably never be q hard-wOrking citizen
like the German, or an economical one like
the Scotchman; 1t is not in his blood. But he
has his niche to iil and may make it as high as
he chooses; there is no reason why even these
field hands Cor at least their children) should
not learn TO support themselves comfortably,
become decent husbands of one wife, send
their children to school, and slowly rise to to
position OF those of their race who are now
scholars and teachers in Philadelphia.


Another significant point is that the name
chosen for this school (Which in IL peculiar
way serves as milestone to show the pro-
grcss of the race) is that of Cato, young
coIorcd teacher of unusual culture and ability,
who was murdered while walking peaceabiy
on the street on the day when the negroes
first exercised their right 70 vote. In Phil
adclpba, it will be remembered the polls 10
which they came were surrounded by rOughs
aud the Democratic police, and they We're shot
down like dogs as they presented themselves
with Republican tickets in their hands.
A company OF United States soldiers were
called in and guarded the street after their
appearance not shot was fired men of both
parties proceeded quietly side by side to the
polls THIS was the occasion which Senator
Wallace brought up triumphantly the other
day and hurled at Mr. Blaine as the day when
he SAW the liberty # tho citizen trampled in
the dust by United States soldiers.


Poor Catto's blood has never been avenged :;
his murderer was arrested but month or
two ago; but the best revenge probably that
he could take on his enemies is the honor
paid him in this little tribute to his
mnmnrY.
Year: 1879

rather of virtuoso intent upon gathering the ouu.
the rare and the curious. Pope said sneeringly OF
Ouarles's pictures that they ntoned ior
his pages; but at any rate they had
definite relation to tho letterpress OF that musty
moralist and were hardly amenable TO tne chaIpe
of monotony. The extender is carried away by MS
passion for quantity and quadruplication' ne IluSe
have not one GOOD portrait Of mentioned man, but
every engraved portrait procurable; ana lhe siho
is true of views and other local prints. lie might
as well endeayor to gather the title-pages OF
every book referred to. In this way he wouid DC
able to despol great many more volumes ana 10
swell the extension indefinitely in fact' te cnuI
acteristic of this amusement IL that there Is and
can be no end Of it-at least, end until the work
in hand is definitely closed mp and committed to the
man of full-russa and treecalf. Then VIII come
regrets at omissions and projects Of new under
takngs But all connoisseurship of tins kind has ITS
drawbacks whether the treasures amassed be OF
pictures of pottery or of postage-stampS.


It's however consolatory to find, in spite Of the
foibes of bibliomana how the dignity and respect
ability of books assert themselves. They have been
in Clinton Hall, this week, mere merchandise. Men
who do not read them. or with whom reading IS
secondary consideration have competed Tor posses
sion. But these were the agents or others
who love books for their own sake, and
who though they may gather more than
they peruse since the faculty Of peruSal
is limited by the shortness of llfe will yet really
read as many rs they can. Culture after all, is
possible result of collecting and, we may say, OF
the dispersion of libraries. All books imply study
and thought and promise knowledge. even if they
do not impart it; and if they were no more
than what Cicero calls "a remission Ot the
mind > they would still be among the most elegant
and harmless of diversions. 1t is not strange that
we become attached to them, and that 1T IS pam
to part with them. But this dispersion Is con
stantlv going on; and when 1t has been rendered
necessary by any vicissitude OF fortune our
sympathics are naturally with him who
il compelled to part with the long-hoarded
treasures The library may not be well balanced,
but il seems so to him. Even its trash, the lots
which bidders treat coutemptuously, he cared Tor
and gave them shelf room. But the hour of parting
must have come at last and there is consolation
in knowing that the really valuable will pass into
the hands of care-taking friends. and VIII be
guarded at least against vandalism and unneces-
sary decay.
Year: 1879

He authorizes the editor of The indianapolis Journa
to say in as positive language as he can command,
that his intention in his recent interview was to
irrevocably decline to be again candidate for the
Vice Presidency that he is not asprant for that
place. and would NOT accept nomination 10 that
office if IL was tende4ed him to-day. In his oDinlon
If ~ less honorable and less responsible position
than that Of Speaker of the House, it is less remu-
uerative than his .aw practice IN Indiana, and he
can SEQ no reason why be should consent TO stand
for il again lie has no desire 10 enter The Winte
House through the back door, or through the wee,
Presidency aud Inc desires to put at rest at once and
forever all talk about his occupying the second
place on any Presidential ticket. TINS - emphatic,
and ought to be conclusive. He says nothing about
entering the White House by the front door, or
about putting at rest all talk about his occupying
The first place on the ticket and IT IL unnecessary
that he shoud, for nobody has any idea that he VIII
ever be asked to do either
Year: 1879

The conclusion of the Arnold Library sale, which
has occupied the afternoons and evenings of
week reminds us of the chances and changes Incl
dent to book collecting, and Of the impOssbity OF
determining in advance how much a collection may
bring if brought to the hammer. This was not. in
the best sense of the word, a great library il
was too miscellaneous to merit that adjec-
tive; but 1t was certainly curious, and
many Of the volumes must have cost Mr. Ar
mold good deal more money than he has now re-
ceiyed for them. IL was not Il good library 70 sell


however fascinating may have been the process Of
its accumulation. 1t was not we'll balanced, for
the taste Of its maker ran perhaps little too
much to extension, illustration ana bnd-
ing The number Of books crowded with
inserted plates and autographs became at last a
little wearsome; and plain. honest, homely book,
which had not been thought worthy Of single IL
lustration was felt, now aud then, by the company


TO be a relief from the repetition Of one volume
extended to FOUR or OF two volumes extended TO
eight" work intended to be read, if readable. and
not merely to bs looked over. seemed as wholesome
as n drab Quaker by accident nj a masquerade. The
mania for illustration. like tho large-papcr MANIA


will probably disappear Ii is not the fit business
of literary man. nor yet vi faithful reader. but
Year: 1879

No doubt the person who attempted to shoot Mr..
Edwin Booth at Chicago was lunatic; and, Of
course so dangerous person will now be locked mp.
The circumstances however are unpleasantiy sug-
gesive of the fact that other unatics are at large
many of them through the cOnnivance and conceal
ment of their families and friends. who think that
il would be inhuman to send them to an asylum,
whereas the inhumauity Is in permitting them to
remain at liberty. Thsis the mischief OF much winch
has been carecssly said OF the manage
ment of lunatc hospitals and which may
be referred still further back to the mis-
management Of some of them. One Ill
regulated establishment may bring a great
many well-regulated retreats of the kind into DIS
repute. Mr.. Edwin Booth no doubt has strong
opinions upon the subject, and so would every
reader of this have after escaping from similar
peril.


They were rather significant, those figures with
which Senator Conklng deliberately opened bis
speech. OF the Federal revenues last year seven
teen-eiqhteenths were paid by the States which re-
mained loyal to the Union. And those
other statistics with which Senator Logan
dIscomited his immense colleague will
answer to place alongside of them for
serious contemplation. irty-nine-forticths of
the whole number of distlleries in the country
which were detected in emitting untaXed whiskey
were in the States which were not loyal to the
Union and 075 arrests for defrauding the revenue
were made in these same States for every one in all
the others. Vulgar fractions of this sort are un-
pleasant things for Democrats to climb over.


THE TRIBUNE desires to propose the NVIth
Amendment to the Constitution Of the United
States: To prohibit the publication Of any speeches
except at private expense. This would encourage
the revival of the impromptu oTaiory that existed
before the printing press came TO substitute rhetoric
for earnestness and it would cut down Congress
sonal sessions to two months, and Legislative ses-
sions to a month, and save the country enough
every year to pay the interest on the National debt.
Year: 1879

speech, in no instance has Democrat
ventured to deny his charge that the
Democrats intended to break down the
Government by Withholding the appropria-
tions in case of O veto. Democratic members
of Congress will he interested in General
Garfield's description of the way in which
even the forlorn hope of the party for escape
from its dilemma is to be made ridiculous
The party is not to be allowed to crawi out
backwards, even, without getting its legs tan
gled up in the process.


Senator Conkhng's speech yesterday In
closing the debate on the Army bill seems 10
have produced the most profound impression
upon his political opponents, as well as his own
party All accounts, friendly and unfriendly ana
impartial agree in pronouncing it an extraor-
binary speech, holding vast audience hour
after hour in almost breathless attention,
and actually throwing the Democratic major-
ties into confusion. No brief outline or abstract
can do IT justice. 1t is the speech OF the
lawyer aud the statesman, scarcely at all OF
the politician; it is free from nvectlve'
and absolutely without emotional effects !;
cool, logical, deliberate and unansweraOle'
We venture to predict that no Democrat
will attempt to pick flaw in the close
knit fabric of this legal argument, which
leaves no point uncovered and no
point vulnerable. Mr.. Conking's severest
critics must concede him high place among
statesmen, if they have not done so be-
fore, for a mastery exposition of the relations
between the Executive and the Legislature,
and the right of the Government to protect
the purity of the ballot-box at National cleo
tions. and for merciless stripping off OF all
the dsguiscs which Democratic sophlstry has
thrown about the scheme for free fraud.
Year: 1879

BETTER LATE THAN NEvBR.--It is not
an uncommon thing to hear young men I.
complain that their early schooling was de- .
icientin quantity, poor in quality, or-if
neither of thesc-was wasted through boy
ish Indifference and folly. They would
get on better in life if they knew more,
they are free to admit, but they do not sec
that they arc daily wasting opportunities
which, if improved, would in few years
give them fairly good education. They.
think themselves too old to learn, and spend
more time regretting their lack Of knowl-
edge than would suffice to give them tho
knowledge they need. 1t is said that tho
father of Prof. Sumner, of Yale College,
could neither read nor write when he came
to this country. young English mechanic:
Within twenty years thereafter he was
known as one of the best read men in Hart
ford one Of the most cultivated communI-
ties in the country. Instead' Of wasting his
time in idle regrets for his deficient school
ing, he learned to read, and to read to good
purpose. In similar way many of tho
best, most successful men our country has
known, have begun their acquaintance with
letters after reaching manhood and there
is no reason why the most illiterate me-
chanic in our land, if possessed of natural
ability and sincere purpose, may not in-
crease his enjoy ment in life, his opportu-
mites for improving his social and financial
condition. aud the chances Of his family tor
the highest success in lie, by an honest
effort to retrieve by study the disadvan-
tagcs by which early poverty or lack of ed
uca.onal opportunities has surrounded hin. .
-,Scientfc american.
Year: 1879

EGos IN CASE OF TRoUBLE-The whito
Of an egg is said to be specific for fish bones
sticking in the throat 1t is to be swal-
lowed raw, and will carry down bone easily
and certainly. There is another fact touch.
ing eggs which it will be well to remember
When, as sometimes occurs by accident,
corrosive sublimate is swallowed, the wh:to
of one or two eggs taken will neutralizc the
poison and change the effect to that of a
dose of calomel.
Year: 1879

Hen manure should not be compostcd
with unleachcd ashes unless it is to be used
Immediately. II is better to mix it after
being thoroughly pulverixed with dry earth,
which is one Of the very best absorbents.
All of the valuable constituents of the fer.
tilizer will then be saved
Year: 1879

A Vermont farmer recommends she use
of sawdust as bedding for cattle, to keep
thom clean and absorb the liquid manure.
An experience of twenty years in using it on
a large farm shows that it does not iniure
the soil being freely applied in this way.
Some soils, no doubt, would be improved
by the addition OF sawdust, others might be
injured somewhat for time until the saw
dust decayed.