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Year: 1879

Utica Tribune.l


A lady entered car on the Oak.
wood road one day the past week
leading little girl perhaps four years
old. The mother sat down and lifted
the little one to the seat beside her
The child was nibbling at bit Of cake
or sugar, now and then turning her
face, full of childish love, up to her
mother and murmuring some almost
unintellgible words of affection.


Opposite to mother and child sat
another younger lady, who often
smelled fresh rose which she held.
The innocent little one before her
attracted her attention, and the natu-
raj kindliness of the sympathetic
woman heart prompted her to at once
offer the fragrant flower to the little
budding lily opposite. So she leaned
a bit forward and spoke:


Baby want the pOsey2"


But the child seemed not to hear
Perhaps it was the noise Of the mov-
ing car that prevented. Then she
spoke a little louder, and held the
flower forward temptingly-


Baby may have the posey."


The mother heard, for she looked
toward the other lady and smiled
and oh such a look of heartfelt
gratitude, of motherly love, yet heav-
| lily saddened with such an expressive
tinge of sorrow as is seldom seen.
And still the lady of the rose pressed
upon the little one acceptance of the
flower.


Baby, take the rose" holding it
almost to the child's hands. And
now it seemed she was heard, for the
blue eyes turned upon her would be
patron, and then in a moment she
strongly drew back and turned her
eyes appealingly toward her mothers
face. The lady with the flower show
ed her bewilderment in her look,
while a panied expression fitted
across the face of the mother, who
leaned forward and whispered Just a
word


Z" Ny darling is blind /"


Then the whole sunless, darkenel
life Of the fair little being-fair as the
flower which had been offered to her
came up before the mind. All
beauty shut out from her forever |
For her no foliage-strewn, flower
studded scene to follow the bleakness
of winter. No looking with awe into
the mysterious depths of the night
sky, sparkling with glittering, twink
hing star germs, for over those blue
eyes the Creator, in the mystery of
Ills designs, had hung the impenetra-
bic vail. No expectant gaze toward
the mothers face for the gentlest smile
that ever soothes a childish trouble
only the blind passage of the little
hand over and over those features, for
one moments sight of which. that
growing little one will often and often
willingly offer years Of existence. For
her the birds will sing; the loveliness
of form and feather are not. For her,
while the babbling stream may make
mysterious music, its dimpled waves
and winding reaches and verdant
banks DO not exist.


How bitterly vivid all this as the
lady opened the little hand shut
within it the thornless stem Of the
rose, now bearing a tear on its petals !


And there were other swimming
eyes in the car.


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Year: 1879

dollars at once. Hayes promptly fur
nished $500, and intimated it would
be a good thing if his officers would
voluntarily but promptly make up the
amount, to keep peace in the family.
Who supposed Hayes would give this
darky FIVE hundred dollars, simply
because he was poor and not in pos
session of important information
Year: 1879

A young n an in Rochester wnU
was locked in his room by his room
mate, determined to get out. He tied
two bedsheets together, fastened the
end to the window and went down
from the third story hand under
hand. When he got to the lower end
he found that he had long distance
to jump. A crowd gathered on the
sidewalk and begged him to hold on
and not attempt to leap. He was
finally hauled into side window.
Year: 1879

The subscription price of the DAILY
PUBLIC LEDGER is IS per annum and
SOC per month fOrless than one year. The
WEEKLY LEDGER Is 81 per annum-
postage free.


Persons leaving the city for the summer
can order the DAILY LEDGER at SOC per
month in advance, with the privilege Of
changing pOstOfioe.
Year: 1879

Special to the Couricr-Journal.l


New YORK, August %. There
has been a lingering hope here that
Roscoe Conkling would by this time
have had a statement ready for the
press, but newspaper correspondents
in Utica privately report that there is
no longer need of hoping, as Mr..
Uonkling intends to maintain an un-
broken silence. He has settled down
at home into first class husband,
and, as Linck may say, is seen now
and then in the entrance hall bare
headed and beaming with satisfaction
at beholding the sylvan beauty Of the
landscape about him, and watching
the children at play on the sward. I"
The knight Of Onondaga has never
been known to keep 80 much under
cover as in the past week. The fact
is believed to be that he knows that
he can't open his mouth without put
sing his foot in it, for what with the
story he FIRST told the Associated
Press agent, and then with the assur-
ances with which he piled the New
York editors, he can not speak In the
face of the facts already established
contrary to what he then professed to
be the truth; he cannot speak with
out danger Of qualification and still
further damaging his reputation for
truth and veracityi therefore the
scandal, like its Brooklyn sister, may
DOW be lulled to sleep. Mr.. Conkling
viii, IL is said, spend the rest of the
summer at bGme, as the sea coast
doesn't agree with bin. He will
HeDd his fences, improve his place
and devote himself to his ostimabie
lady.
Year: 1879

'From Chaos to Cosmos" will bs
given tomorrow evening at the usual
place. This lecture will describe the
birth and infancy Of our world, bring
ing its history down to the formation OF
the earth's crust, describing the fearful
struggle that took place between fire
and water, and the triumph of water;
the cooling down of the surface, and the
first appearance of life; also treating Of
submarine volcanoes, the whole illus.
trated beautifully by diagrams and pic.
lures. TO and hear him.
Year: 1879

The volumes of the Magazine begin
With the Numbers for June and December
OF each year. When no time is specified,
y VIII be understood that the subscriber
wishes to begin with the current Number.
Year: 1879

THE market will be glutted with
land by legislative acts selling the
property of posterity, designed to
be devoted to schools and the univer-
sity. Land forfeited for taxes to the
State must also be disposed of. The
railroad companies are crazy to sell
their broad domains. The land set
aside for the construction Of the Capt.
tol must be put upon the market and
the result will be cheaper land than
ever dreamed of in Texas. Now comes
the tug of war. The State needs an
income. It must be dug out of the
ground. There is no o;her ultimate
source. The price is put down to zero
by the very Legislature that can hardly
discover way of escape from dis
graceful reputation. There Is no
help for it. We must either suspend
for time the worse than profitless wet
weather schools and take the school
and university lands of the market or
fail to meet the States liabilities.
With laws enacted Governor Roberts's
administration viii most probably be
disgraced by acts Of bankruptcy in its
very first year. The people will not
submit TO higher rates OF TAXATION, and
with worthless schools and the main
tsnAncs Of costly frontier defense. the
climax cometh. Shoald not the Leg
islai1rs rstraos its steps and save the
Stats infinite discrsdiis
Year: 1879

PRINCE BISMARCK loves the pension.
ing state-sustained public school sys-
tenn because it makes the child part
and parcel of the empire and diverts
the affections and the allegiance Of the
son from the father to the deSpot. 1t
is pleasing to monsrchists, but destruc-
tive of the republic and of personal
and local independence. The son who
becomes the intellectual man under
the tutelage and charity of the State
never recognizes obligations to the
father such as should create a model
government within every Texas home
stead. The family, in every country,
is the basis Of the body polite, and
Bismarck knows how to disband the
family that despotism may rest
Ipon its ruins. Germans would be
free to-day If not manacled by youths
educated by the state who as men
prefer the imperial despotism and au-
tocracy of Bismarck and the emperor
to the only perfect political freedom
man has ever known. Il was this that
we enjoyed when there were no free
schools and, instead, excellent acad-
emies sustained by the free offerings Of
the people. Then the Constitution of
the United States and perfect popular
liberty were the supreme law Of the
land
Year: 1879

ated and the States revenues decreased
by reducing the value of lsnds 10y
enormous sales of school and uniTersi-
ty realty. We would Il at four per
cent. and Yet we undertake to MAIN
tain worthless schools and the terrific
War Department. Each subordinate
measure Is so devised that it defeats
each great purpose of sta.esmsnship,
and when these lawgivers return to
their homes and look back calmly
over the confused sea of clashing puT-
poses, now creating counter curreHts
too shallow TO float good measure
and not deep enough to drown a bad
one, they will see clearly how they
needed great light house towards
which their course should have been
constantly guided. Nobody made
chart and no sailing master has kept
the ships reckoning, or its head
steadily directed to the only sure
haven of seed pity and repose.


And yet, In both branches of the
Legislature, there are many men of
marked ability. There are many equal
to any task of loftiest moral courage.
They would dare always, even in con-
fessed violation of popular prejudices,
to serve the State rather than bend be-
fore popular caprice. But the very
brevity of the session and the multi
pliclty of propositions, and diversity
of local interests which thoughtful
lawgIYers have not time to reconcile,
have wrought evils and complications
of which the press and people COM
plain. 1t were wiser to rub the sums
done from the black board" of legisla-
ton, aud beginning the work anew
enact uniform, consistent codes rather
than COL fl;ctIng laws each defeating
the great purpose of the other and of
the people, and of the Legislature.
Year: 1879

The Age seems to think, in view OF
the demolition of the 1000 Democratic
majority IN Galveston, that there is
much party ''crookedness" ty the sea
shore. The Age should reflect that
party questions were not involved and
that when mere men undertake to
manacle people simply to gain offices,
the sanest of the multitude kick
against the pricks and think and act
as freemen. 1t is too sad but true,
and the people of Texas are freer to-
day than ever before.
Year: 1879

IF the newspapers of Texas will
agree never to print another account OF
a bloody deed, public taste will be i'm
proved and public morals and the fame
of the State will be infinitely less hor-
rible. Let courts and juries do their
duty and the press, IS a vehicle OF
bloody sensationalism, be silenced and
popular predictions for the horrible
and revolving in literature and popular
habits and youthful tastes will be
speedily corrected.
Year: 1879

SUPPOSE they make Wash Jones
Speaker. The Greenbsckers clam the
balance of power and if it be exerted
as suggested, and bastrop be thus
honored in the House at Washington
as in the Senate at Austin, the Green
back party of Texas would strut itself
to death and Democracy will be be-
deviled with it no more forever.
Year: 1879

WE have a letter from the mother
of four sons, in which she says that
when we have public schools worthy
the name she would like to vote in all
elections affecting them, and further,
"slnce love my boys and am res spon-
sible for their conduct and character as
men, 1 would like to vote on all ques-
tiOns that give power to whisky ven-
dors." The local option law should
give the ballot to women and we
would see that the men enforced it if
adonted
Year: 1879

TIE general laws of 1873, page 222,
show that law Is now in force re-
curing the State Treasurer to pay war
rants regardless of number or date,
and yet this law does not seem to con-
fiict with Treasurer Lubbock's ruling
as to registration. lie pays accord
ing to presentation at the State
Treasury.
Year: 1879

Two of the pioneers of Colorado hap

 pened to meet in Denver yesterday, an6

 the conversation turned on early expe

 riences and adventures. The story that

 produced the most thrilling effect upoT

 the auditors was a snake story, and as both parties vouched for the truth

 thereof, 1t would be highly indecorous for a Nelos reporter to suggest any doubt as to its literal correctness. And

 thus the story was told by the major

 Jim and I started out in the mount aims early one morning after black

 tailed deer. We had no luck up to

 noon, and then found ourselves on the

 side of a precipitous mountain. The

 trail was wide and plain, and we soon

 came to spring that had burst its way

 out of the solid rock. Here we both stopped to get drink. I used the cup first and then handed 1t to Jim. He drank, and then stepped off sideways to take a look down the side of the mountain and in the valley. As he stood thus his shoulders reached to a level with shelf of the rock which projected forward some little distance over the trail. As rose up from the spring something attracted my atten- tion to this rocky shelf, which was only a few inches from Jim's neck, and ex- actly on a level herewith. To my hor- TOT I saw thereon an immense rattle snake. The horrible reptile was all coiled, his eyes were snapping, his forked tongue protruding, and every thing indicating an immediate spring. Jim stood perfectly stolid and utterly unconscious of the slightest danger. Any motion on his part, even the slight r,ar1l1 hn Tncfonflxy fatal What to do I could not think. I dared not call or shoot. Everything depended upon his remaining perfectly still. Af ter a seconds further reflection (and the time seemed an age) l dropped softly down so as not to be out of sight of the reptile. I then moved like a shadow toward my unconscious friend. Breathlessly I watched him from fear that every second he would make some slight movement of head or body, and any motion I knew meant death. Soon I was near enough to feel that I could get a firm hold. Without another thought or the slightest word or warn ing 1 then grasped Jim by the arm and side and brought him heavily down with crash upon the trail and among the iinty rocks. As I did this saw what seemed flash of lightning dart out from the rocky shelf, which I knew to be the stroke of the reptile. But my friends neck was not where the snake had hoped, and Jim was safe"

 ''And what did Jim say when you slung him down in that style?" asked one of his auditors.

 He commenced cursing me in the sort of way," replied the ma jor, |" till I made him stand up and look at that shelf in the rock. When he saw that, and the snakes as well, and saw, too, how near he had been to horrible death, he turned around and took my hand, but he didn't say any thing more, because he couldn't speak. " . Ddnb1tJU Nelps,
Year: 1879

The following letter from Mrs. Con. rad Wilson furnishes instruction fol making the wheat and corn bread, sam. pies of which were recently on exhibi- tion at the first annual fair of the far mers' clubs, recently held in Boston

 In making wheat bread I set my sponge in the morning as early as pos sible, using half cake of compressed yeast to about seven pounds of four. Make stiff batter of about one pound of four with the water quite warm. When light I mix my bread immedi- ately, for if left too long the sponge falls and the bread is not so good.

 Use salt to suit, and warm water to mix with until quite stiff. When the dough is light mould it into loayes and set to rise again in warm place, until light, and bake from one half to three quarters of an hour in good oven, as that has much to do with good bread.

 For corn bread take one cup of wheat four and two cups of corn meal. l use the whites of two eggs, onethird cup either sugar or molasses, two teaspoon fuls melted lard or butter, two table, spoonfuls cream of tartar, sifted with the four, one teaspoonful soda, dis solved in warm water; mix with sweet milk to stiff batter.-Anaerican Catlti- pQtOT.
Year: 1879

A gentleman sends to an agricultural paper an amusing description of How Toad takes off his Coat and Pants. '" He says he has seen one do 1t. and a friend has seen another do the same thing in the same way

 "About the middle of July I found toad on a hill of melons, and not wanting him to leave I hood around him. He appeared sluggish and not inclined to move. Presently I observed him pressing his elbows against his sides and rubbing downward. He ap- peared so singular that I watched to see what he was up to. After a few smart rubs his skin began to burst open straight along his back. Now, said I, old fellow, you have done 1t but he appeared to be unconcerned, and kept on rubbing until he had worked all his skin into folds on his sides and hips i; then grasping one hind leg with both hands, he hauled of one leg of his pants the same as anybody would, then stripped the other hind leg in the same way. He then took his cast-off cuticle forward between his fore legs into his mouth and swallowed it; then, by rais- ing and lowering his head, swallowing as his head came down, he stripped of the skin underneath until 1t came to his fore legs, and then grasping one of these with the opposite hand, by con siderable pulling, stripped of the skin; changing hands, he stripped the other, and by 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

WHAT TO Do WHEN POISONED Free draughts of sweet oil are said to counteract Gaay poison; but the follow ing specific should be as well known as coffee for 1audanum, and spirits for rep. tile bites.

 The best antidote for arsenic poison is chemical substance called hydrated peroxide of iron, freshly prepared, which can only be obtained of drug gist. But do not wait for this. While it is being sent for, and at the first mo- ment after discovering that arsenic has been taken, pour down dose after dose of water slightly warmed, promoting vomiting by thrusting the finger or a feather down the throat.

 Keep up this until the stomach has been literally washed out at least a dozen times. A friend of ours took a teaspoonful of arsenic in mistake for cream of tartar, but discovering his error soon after, he ran to a stove and drank all he could of lukewarm dish water, throwing it up as fast as he took 1t, in this way swallowed and vomited half pailful of water.

 He recovered without any other This treatment is good for most kinds of poison if adopted soon enough.--Scie,atJfc American.
Year: 1879

A COLD DINNER. a Siberian traveller: Our dinner party was extreme ly merry. Each one laid his stores un- der contribution. Some brought out frozen bread, others frozen cavaire, others frozen preserves, others again sausages which could not be bent even if put across the knee and pulled with the strength of both arms. Can you imagine, without laughing, the appear ance presented of seven half-famished people sitting at table with thirty diff ferent dishes before them, and unable to touch one, except at the risk of break ing their teeth. Nothing could be done, except to wait patiently for the various dishes to be thawed by sitting on them. At the close of the dinner we ate excel lent fruit, which had been kept frozen. Throughout Siberia, as soon as very cold weather sets in, all fruits are placed out of doors, with a northern exposure, that the sun may never touch them. They are frozen through and through, and retain their flavor as com pletely as if they had just been plucked from the tree.
Year: 1879

GARELESS w W1fES.-lb very COuu- mon to hear the remark made of young man that he is so industrious and so economical that he is sure to be thrifty true of him so long as he remains sin gle. But what will his habitual pru- dence avail him against the careless waste and extravaganza of an uncalcu- lating, minimizing wife? He might as well be doomed to spend his strength and life in an attempt to catch water in a sieve. The effort would be hardly less certainly in vain. Habits of economy, the ways to turn everything in the household affairs to the best account these are among tue things which every mother should teach her daughters. Without such instruction, those who are poor will never become rich, while those who are now rich may become poor.

 PEACH MARMALADE.-Taker ripe free stone peaches. Pare, stone and quar- ter them; to a pound of fruit allow three-quarters of loaf sugar and half an ounce of almonds. Blanch the almonds in scalding water, and pound them un- til smooth. Scala the peaches in a very little warm water; mash them; mix

 

 put the whole into preserving kettle. Boil it to thick, smooth paste. Skim and stir it well, and keep the kettle GOV cred as much as possible. Fifteen minutes will be sufficient to boil them. When cold, put up in glass jars.

 To DYE STRAW HATS BRowN.-For one dozen, take one pound of soda, dis solved in boiling water, and let them &bax- fT1rT> dark val low, then lift, and in another vessel dissolve four ounces of green copperas in boiling water; let them lie in this from ten to fifteen minutes, handling them all the time; take them out, and give them warm water bath, and they are finished, the chemical action of soda or copperas producing either light or dark results, as required.

 TOMATO PICKLES. green to- matoes, sprinkle one cup of salt over them, let them stand all night, boil them in two quarts of water and one quart of vinegar twenty minutes, drain through sieve. Take two quarts of vinegar, two pounds of brown sugar, quarter of a pound of white mustard seed, two tablespoonfuls of ground mustard, allspice, cloves, ginger, cinna- mon, ana one GeaSpOOHIu1 O1 reu pep per; put all this together and cook five minutes.

 Do not let knives be dropped into hot water. It is good plan to have a large tin pot to wash ia, just high enough to wash the blades without wet ting the handles. Keep your castors covered with plotting paper and green flannel. Keep your salt spoons out of the salt, and clean them often.

 Pulverized alum possesses the prop erty of purifying water. A large spoonful stirred into a hogshead of water will so purify it that in a few hours the dirt will all sink to the bot tom, and it will be fresh and clear as spring water. Four gallons may be purified by teaspoonful.

 DRYING SWEET CoRN.-Take it while l it is young and tender, strip off the husk all but little to hang it up. Hang it where it will dry quickly. You can cook it on the cob or hull it of, just as you like.

 Crockery with gilt bands or flowers should not be wiped. It should be washed quickly, rinsed and drained un- til dry.
Year: 1879

As the coat of horse begins to loosen, the skin is often irritable. This may be corrected by giving in the food daily one ounce of an equal mixture of sulphur and cream of tartar for few days. Good grooming with soft brush and blunt currycomb should not be neglected. If the gums are swollen, rub them with a corncOb dipped in powdered borax.
Year: 1879

New York Post: It is easier for 8 camel to pass through the eye of nee- dls than 1t is for young woman in Q fur-lined silk cloak to walk along with out letting it flap open just little to show that the fur is more than mere border.
Year: 1879

The San Francisco Post says that Thurs
day Charles Jamison, Chinese interpre-
ter, half breed born in China, began to
marry All Guy, a Chinese damsel, accord
ing to the splendid ceremonial Of the
JOSS system Of martial theology. The
ceremony will be completed and the twain
will be one flesh in about a week, after
which they will clinch the matter before


a justice of the peace. This couple may
"repent at leisure" but it surely cannot
be said that they were ''married in haste :