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Year: 1874

THE MILFORD News TO STATE TREASURER
DAVIS. Says the last Milford Netcs: Our
astute Treasurer could not close bis long
eDistle without Juggling in the nigger. lie
went over to the Salisbury party on account
Of the niger and he carried him with him aud
PROPOSES, with his new party friends to die
with him next fall He advises that if we
don't want our children to be mixed With mig
gers, we had better help to keep them in igno.
rance and degradation. In this matter We
will thank him to speak for himself. Our
children are not afraid of negro competition.
We are not Of those whe wish TO succeed our.
selves by depriving Others of the opportunity +;
nor do we desire this advantage for our child,
ren. We are true Democrats, and 60 for equal
rights and fair chance Tor all and if on such
terms our children cannot compete with Others
they must take the consequences Any other
spirit is anti Democratic, anti Republicans and
smacks Of aristocracy and feudalism. 1t i.
sham Democracy The last Legislature was
impOrtuned to pass q law allowing the colored
people TO tax themselves aud organize separate
free schools for the education Of their child
ren, but the powers that be refused them this
boon. Such heathenism has about had its day
in Delaware.
Year: 1874

Is IT probable that man who has, through
these years, struggled and voted with the
Repubc'n IN party, for equal rights to all men
before the law, until he has seen that principle
engraftel into the Constitution; until he has
seen the Democratic party surrender to it and
put it in their platform until he has seen the
said party, to show good faith in the surrender,
leave their own rarks and take up the most
radical Of Radicals for a leader-we say is it
probable that man who has seen all this
should just now think to get scared at ''nigger
equality?" We think not. Is it any wonder
then that many of the subscribers to the
DelawarcGH should pronounce its correspon-
dent IF lrmer" myth or fool. Or is it any
wonder that many Of them should dissent from
the course of the paper itself as only calculated
to show its own fears for its party.
Year: 1874

THAT Iron 0RE Sam. Townsend says that
the idea that there is iron deposits near Marydel
in the western part Of this co. is all bosh. There
is thin crust Of what is called bog iron ore in
wet places in that region, but after cutting
through that inch or so of worthless crust one
may cut to China without coming to any more
ore. He says this same thing was tested a
number Of years ago, near Queenstown, Queen
Annes CO., and the parties who made the test
came away perfectly crest fallen.
Year: 1874

The following record Will show the changes n
the temperature for the past twenty Jour hours,
In comparison with the corresponding day Of last
year, ss indicated BY the thermometer at Hud.
nuts Pharmacy, HERALD Building
Year: 1874

According to the latest returns received up 20
the hour OF going to press the following brief sum-
mary shows the result OF the elections In the sew.
eral States for state onncers and CongresImen.
We give the vote for the leading candidates OF each
party only, which Will indicate with sunictent
clearness how the rest stand:-
Year: 1874

The Fire Alarm Telegraph is not vet in
complete working order, although the Superintendent
Mr. limerick, has lIid full force OF at work since
Monday morning. The telegraph will not be IN full work
ing order until Saturday. At present tho beltowers
are all in communication that alarm sounded by
one MAY be repeated II necessary by the Others and
thus one Of the dangers OF noncUmmunicaton, most TO
be feared Is done away with Connection with the va
rious engine south Of Fifty ninthst has not yet
been fully resumed, not more, than twothirds Of the
companies being able to receive signals from the Gen.
tral Office OF tho Fire Department.


The police telegraph wresare still down on the north
ern and western sections covering the precincts in the
upper part OF the city, and communication with those
precincts Is stili Impossible except by messenger.
Mounted policemen used for Lhs purpose II Is
peced that full communication In every direction Will
be resumed to day.


The STRENGTHENING Committee Of the Police Board
held q mretinH yesterday at which Commissioner Dis
toward the clearing away Of snow on Monday. The
report stated further that the Corporation Counsel had
gwen an opinion, verbally, sustaining measures taken
by the Board the removal OF the Broadway,
the cost TO be borne BY tho regular street
cleaning appropriation, and on the strength
Of that verbal opinion Commissioner Dsbecker
had ordered that Immediate measures 10 taken by 10.
spector Tnor. for the removal or snow broadway.
These had been put In OPERATION go men and
about having been NJ work from
10 the Battery daylight. The Committee received
report aud approved the action OF the Chairman
The work will consequently be continued until Broad
way Is cleared. The force was Increased " about


men, picks aud shOyels, and $40 carts during tue
cepiiOy dImnished The rainfall last evening greatly
assisted Ia the
Year: 1874

Announcement is made that tho handicap shoot
for the grand medal Of the Kennicott Club will
take place at Dexter Park next Wednesday,
at l o'clock p. H.. sharp. Ali members are re-
qucstod to be on tns ground promptly, and suy
one failing to come to the score when called
upon will be excluded from the contest The
handicap distance for the various contestants
Year: 1874

CONFINED TO HIS HousE.-We regret 70
state that Esquire John Il. Puhl is confined to
his house by severe attack Of the gout in his
right foot. We hope he will soou be able to go
about and resume his usual duties.
Year: 1874

correspondent of the London Field


says that his method has proven entire


ly efficacious: "And what, you will


ask, is my talisman? Simply ball OF
gray, white or brown linen thread. !


take a ball of this in my hand, fasten
the end of 1t to one of the twigs of the
gooseberry or currant bush, and then
cross the thread backwards, from twig
to twig in perhaps dozen different di-
rections, fasten of, and the thing is
done; and it will last two years-the
thread on the trees, mean. 1t is not
necessary that the thread should be
white, Of course; it ought rather to be
fine and dark-a thing to be felt, not
seen. have watched the birds after
performing the operation; they come
boldly to settle on the trees, and they
strike these, to them invisible snares,
for such, no doubt, they seem to be /;
they fly off in terrible hurry, and set
tie on the walls and trees around about
longing and getting hungry, until they
disappear and you see them no more.


As regards peas and other seeds,
which 1 always sow in drills, 1 simply
stretch thread, sometimes two, along
each drill, at about two inches from the
ground, supporting it at that height by
little forked sticks. If you put it much
higher than this, the birds do not seem
to care for tit does not touch them;
this is the grand secret, something they
do not well see, nor know what it means.
I have seen people put thick white
string, with feathers tied to it, and per-
haps two feet from the ground. The
birds soon understand these, and care
little for them; in short, know to my
cost it sometimes acts as lure, as a
notice to the birds that there is some-
thing to be had worth looking after. 1
will answer fer it, any one adopting
the plan recommend will never have
cause to complain of the birds, however
numerous they may be-"
Year: 1874

In the year 1855, the captain of a
Greenland whaling vessel, found him
self at night, surrounded by icebergs


and "lay to" until morning expecting
every moment to be ground to pieces,
In the morning he looked about and
saw ship near by. He hailed it, but
received no answer. Getting into a
boat with some of his crew, he pushed


out for the mysterious craft. Coming
alongside the vessel, he saw through
the port-hole man at table, as though
keeping log-book, frozen to death.
The last date in the log-book was 1852


showing that the vessel had been drift
ing thirteen years among the ice. The
sailors were found frozen among the
hammocks, and others in the cabin.
For thirteen years this ship had been
carrying its burden of corpses-a drift.
ing sepulchre manned by frozen crew
Year: 1874

Chickens and garden sass only assim-
ilate satisfactorily when they meet in
the stew pan. We have come to this
conclusion after due reelection.


A little man observed that he had
two negative qualities; he never laid
long in bed he never wanted a great
coat.


A darkey gives the following reason
why the colored race is superior to the
white. All men are made Of clay and,
like the meerschaum pipe they are more
valuable when highly colored.
Year: 1874

Ministers of the interior-The cook
and the doctor.


A paper at Elgin says that a mans
social standing in that town is graded
whether he drops a ten-penny nail or
quarter into the church constitution
box.
Year: 1874

The last thoughts and the last words
Of Mr.. Sumner were for his Civil Rights
Bill, which he regarded as the compile
ton Of the great work to which his life
had been chiefly devoted. And he was
right in believing its passage>to be a duty
which the country could MT ho6orably
neglect. When the Amne nesty Bill was
offered in the Senate in 1911 he pro-
posed his bill as an amendmc6t. He
WAS entreated not to press it, because, as
a two-thirds vote was required, his
amendment would only defeat the bill,
as many Senators would vote for amnes-
ty who would not vote for the civil
rights. His reply was, Justice with
generosity: let us be just to our friends
while we are generous to our late ene-
mics" In a private letter written on
the Both Of December, 1871, Mr.. Sum-
ner said: my bill is an application
on the national theatre of an argument
made by me in Boston as long ago as
1919, where first employed the term
Equality before the Law. Its theory is
that in all institutions, functions, or
privileges created or regulated by law
there shall be no discrimination on ac-
count Of color. Now is the time to Sc
cure this immense boon, which is the
final fulfllment of the promises of the
Declaration Of independence
Year: 1874

On A" TEAR" THE tar-pavement


man had been laying down samples


in Williamsville, Iowa, and little


incident of the night after brought


him an order to lay all the sidewalks


in the town. Sixteen young men,
armed with every known musical


instrument, went to wake one young
lady out OF her midnight nap. They


played till tired ofstanding, and then
they sat down to it. They sat on
the sidewalk with their feet in the
gutter and ratified and tattled and
sung till they were thoroughly salts
fed. So were the young lady and
neighbors. They attempted to rise
and leave that place, but recognized
a difficulty. They were all in the
same fix, and they were fixtures.
Finally they screwed their courage
to the tearing point, and the trowsers
gave way. The record of the tar
pavement next morning was suffi-
cient. Every family, where there
was girl or more, cried for it..


In still worse plight than the Will
llamSVllle SerenaderS were whole
congregation of worshipers in Bucks
county, Ohio, few Sundays since.
The pews of the church had been
newly painted and vanished, and
it was not good drying weather.
Everything was lovely until the
minister was about to deliver the
benediction, and the congregation
endeavored to respond by rising.
They remained steadfast to the
church, and steadfaster in their seats.
Each seemed to fear that something
mysterious, religious - probably
judgment-was the matter with them,
and they were seized simultaneously
with a a,panic. They tore themselves
loose, with desperate effort, and
rushed out of the church in futter-
ing rags, leaving samples of the silks
and clothes they wore for the inspec-
tion of the Mortified minister, and
dumbfounded sexton. 1t would not
be astonishing if some of that con-
gregation said bad words on the way
home.
Year: 1874

PRAYING BY TELEGRAPH.-Chaplain
Sunderland has been mixing the newspaper
business with his Senate prayers. 1t cccured
to him after he had left the city with the
Sumner funeral cortege that he had omitted
to name the Vice-Presfdent in his prayer for
all the officers OF the government. Alter a
failure to secure a dispatch to the Associated
Press, asking that the words land the Vice
President" might be inserted in the proper
place, he was obliged to consult one of the
special correspondents, and crave his assist
ance, and thus the PRAYER was amended by
the telegraph, and in Brother Sund.rland's
eyes made complete. -Sprinatield Republi-
Year: 1874

Iftwenty-seven inches of snow give three
inches of water, how much milk will COW
give fed upon turnIps? Multiply the fakes
by the hair on the cows tail, then divide the
product by turnip, add pound of chalk,
multiply the whole by the pump, and the to-
tai will be the answer.
Year: 1874

A very extraordinary child died recently in
Memphis. She was only two months old, land
yet we are told by Western paper that she
'rose star, and beamed lucently with mete-
oric resplendency along the horizon of her
parents, lighting their pathway with sheen
of hope"
Year: 1874

Murder is a very serious thing, SIR" said
an Arkansas judge to a convicted prisoner;
cit is next to stealing horse or mule. sir,
and I shall send you to the State prison for
six wears SIR,
Year: 1874

Pat, said traveller, why did you make the
stoEe wall around your shanty so thick ?Why,
please your honor, 1 hear they have extra
ordinary high winds in Ameriky, so thought
if built it about as thick as it was high, if it
it should blow over it would be just as high
as it was afore, yer honor.
Year: 1874

The snail according to some Of his
admirers, discovered or invented the
electric telegraph nav, he is the
electric telegraph in his own proper
though somewhat crooked person
About twenty or twenty-five years
ago, this matter was much talked
about, especially in France. We in
England contented ourselves with
the designation. sympathetic snails ;
but our energetic neighbors across the
channel rushed into science at once.
and talked Of the Teiegrdpbe Escdr-
gotiqHe. The assertion or opinion on
which it was founded was. that some
Of the lower animals, including snails.
when brought into contact. become
affected by an indentity Of function
and movement. This identity. il
was alleged, would continue after the
creatures were separated; inasmuch
that ifyou touched the head Of one
the other would feel il, though at a
distance, and would show some kind
Of movement in the head; if you
touched either on the tail. the tail
of the other would manifest more or
less agitation and so on. The prac-
teal application Of this would be the
construction Of a code, alphabet, or
vocabulary of signals, giving to each
movement Of the animal a definite
meaning. And thus we might make
a snail telegraph--the slowest Of ami
mails employed to convey the quickest
of mcssages.-English Paper.
Year: 1874

All the pews in our church were
painted and vanished during the
past month, and while fixing DR.


Clamm's pew the workm an accidental
ly left large splotch ofvarnish on the
back of i. Last Sunday, DR..
Clamm's sea, Johnny, had his hair
pulled once or twice during service
by Bullets boy in the pew next in
the rear. After while young Mr.


Clamm became quiet and placed his
head right against this one mass OF
undried varnish. while he amused
himself reading over the ten COM
mandments upon the wall just back
of the pulpet Presently he attempt
ed to move, but the varniSh had got
into his hair and held him tight.
After making one or two desperate
but Intellectual efforts to release him.
self he became very angry, and sup
posing that Bullets boy wa, holding
him he shouted out, LET go o. my
hair Let go o. my hair, tell you''
The minister paused just as he had
entered the consideration of thirdly,
and the congregation looked around
in amazement, just TO see young
Clamm with his head in state quo
aiming dreadful blows with his fist


at some unseen person behind him.


And every time he struck in this
manner he screamed, IN put head
on you, after church. III go for you


Bill Bullet when / catch you


alone. Let go o. my hair L
Year: 1874

Some Missouri papers give long &C
counts of the narrow escape of little
girl thirteen years Of age from being
buried alive ut ST. Joseph She ap-
parently died, and after lying thirty
hours in a coffin was taken out for
burial. On the way to the cemetery,
the st. Joseph Herald asserts, "the
quick ear of the sdddened mother
caught the echo of a familiar cry.
and she gave expression to her sus-
picion that it came from the coffin Of
her child. Her suspicion was over
ruled, put in few momentsa second
cry was heard. and in compliance
with the wishes of the mother the
hearse was stopped and the coffin
drawn out. The struggles Of what
was supposed to be the lifelss body
could now be plainly heard The
coffin was quickly opened, and the
child found TO be alive, to the amaze
ment and unspeakable delight of the
parents. In her struggles she had
nearly torn from herself her death
robes. She was quickly taken :from
the coffin and carried into the house
of a French lady at hand, where they
bathed her in vinegar. She recovered
her strength rapidly, and in a short
time was taken to the home which
she had left only few hours before
an apparent corpse. Since that time
she has been as well as for the last few
months -
Year: 1874

The brain of horse seems to eg-
terrain but one idea at o time. For
this reason continued whipping is
out of the question, and only con-


firms his stubborn resolves. But II
you can by any means change the
direction of his mind, give him a new
subject to think of, nine times out Of
ten one will have no further trouble
in starting him. AS a simple trick, a
little pepper, aloes, or the like, thrown
back on his tongue, will often sue
ceed by turning attention to the taste
in his mouth. In this respect at
least horse is pretty much like q
stubborn man or a sulky child. 4
horseman states that "after a horse
is nine years old a wrinkle comes over
the left eyelid, the upper corner of
the lower lid; and every year theae-
after he has well defined wrinkles for
each year Of his age over nine.
Year: 1874

A writer in the WesterR Sfock Jour
nal says:


In recent conversation with a far
mer who had few years ago bought
a very poor farm, and whose pros
perity upon the same has excited the
wonder of his neighbors since that
time, he remarked that the great
secret of his success lay in the fact
that be never sold bushel of grain or
produce of any kind. Every thing
raised on his farm was fed there to
the various kind of live stock usually
kept by farmers The manure care
fully gatherd and returned to the soil,
and the beef, pork etc, thus manu-
factured was sold at the market
price By pursuing this course, he
had been able to almost treble the
productive powers of his originally
poor soil, until it had become noted
for its fertility.
Year: 1874

The English Mechanic saws: Messrs.


McDonne and Leuchan, Of Dub
lin, have invented machine which
performs the operations Of rolling


sowing, and narrowing Simultaneous
| Ilv. The roller is Of wrought iron,
riycted on cast-iron wheels, forming


cylinder six feet in length by three


feet in diameter. Immediately above


the roller is sowing apparatus, by


which the seed is rapidly delivered, q


star wheel of four points keeping the
conductors in constant motion. As


the seed is strewn a harrow Of four
rows of oblique teeth set in a central
axis turns up the earth over the seed
The harrow is kept in motion by an
endless chain or belt which passes
round the extreme end Of the large
cylinder, and fits the groove ola small
wheel at the corresponding end OF
the harrow. Every time the large


roller turns over, the circular harrow


tnrns nearly five times, causing the
teeth to tear up the soil about twenty
times at each of the revolutions


Meantime the seed-cOnductOr and dis
ributor rises and falls twelve times
during each Of these revolutions, and
there is a contrivance by which the
quantity required to be sOwn can be
regulated. 4 lever Is also connected
with the supports Of the harrow, and
rest upon fulcrum placed att .uita-
BILE part ofthe frame Of the machine.
By means Of this lever the harro-
portion Of the macihe can Be raised
or the ground and the roller only
used: and Ihc distributor or sower
simultaneously by means Of the chain
band. which can be closed and the
flow Of seed stopped. The machines
can pc easily made % suit either The
purposes Of sowing corn or grass Tor
Ua -furnwp
Year: 1874

There is no way in which the
comfortable abundance of table
may be botter insured while at the
same time strict eve kept upon
economical expenditure Of means,
that by an almost daily addition OF
soup to the family dinner. 1t is only
when concocted by an Indifferent
cook that soup deserves the con-
temptuous sobriquet of "slops" so
often applied to it.


1t is surprising from what a scanty
allotment of material dainty dish
of soup may be supplied Let a roast
of beef be consumed to the very bone
a turkey or pair of fowls deprived OF
every joint, yet if the carcass is put
Year: 1874

away it furnishes at once the needed


basis. The French understand this
10 perfection, and We read that
IN Partisan kitchens closed vessel
containing 'potagc," is ever at the
/ fireplace, awaiting any and every
contribution the .killfui gri.ette anon
supplies from the surplus of other
dishes in process of preparation.


In the first place, observe always
to lay your meat in the bottom Of the
pan or pot, cutting the meat up, or
if a bone, crackingit well. A lump
of butter adds richness, bnt is not
necessary. Select such herbs and
vegetables as you prefer cut them up
very small and lay over the meat, with
a very little water and a cautiously
small piece of salt. Cover the vessel
with a close fitting lid and set it by a
slow fire; this will draw out all the
virtue of herbs and roots, giving the
soup different flavor from what is
impaired by putting the full quantity
OF water in at first Turn the meat
frequently. When the gravy pro-
duced is almost dried up, ill your
pot with sufficient quantity of water
to make soup enough for your family.
To large shank-bone of beef three
quarts or even one gallon is not too
much to allow.


When your soup is done take it of
the fire to cool and skim thoroughly
from grease. Put it on again and
be sure not to dish it up unless boil
ing hot. BE careful to add salt
and other high-favOred condiments
sparingly; every table is supplied
with salt-cellars and castors, sOlthat
a deficiency in these respects may be
easily rectifed; not so an over guam
tity. If other thickening than the
vegetables used is deemed advisable.
brown the -four for all soups save
chicken, veal and oyster soup.
Western Rural.
Year: 1874

Three valuable veins of galena, or
lead ore, have been discovered near
Leavenworth, Crawford county. One
vein, SO far as examined, is two feet
wide, and is increasing as it descends;
the other two veins are not so wide
and distinct, but very promising. and
any lead district.


The South Bend Tribune says: An
agreement was circulated among our
business men this week that they
would not ship any freight on the
Lake Shore and Michigan Southern
Railway until that railway company
will stop all passenger trains at this
place. Most of the freight for this
place can be shipped over the Chicago
and Lake Huron Railway just as cheap
as the other road.
Year: 1874

Der had not been able, in the dark
ness, to find the knife which lay upon
the table, and was dead.


Kate had now to tell all the circum-
stances to the police.


Before noon they arrested the woun-
ded robber at an inn, where rogues
and thieves frequently found refuge.


kate's fame was spread abroad
throughout the whole country; but it
was some time before she recovered
the shock of this dreadful event.


Kate afterward married brave
forester, who became her fathers sue
cessor; and l saw her in her maturer
years, the mother of blooming fam
ily of children, still handsome
woman, in whom masculine courage
was united with female tenderness,
and who enjoyed the esteem and love
Of al who knew her.