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Year: 1878

The ruias of the old Mission church OF
the antique Mexican town of Goliad,
gray with time and bristling with the
thl3tle8 and tall cactus, lie strewn in re,
malkable confusion on one side OF the
most beautiful sites along the river San
Antonio from its rise in Sun Pedro
springs to its mouth in one of the bays
on the south coast Of Texas. In the
spring of the year, when the warm sun
glistens on the dew drops that weigh
down the tall grass tops OF the adjacent
prairies, or lights up the myriads Of ro.es
that blush on their surface, no more
beautiful spot could be selected for quiet
Year: 1878

During the crisis which followed the of secession,
and which weighed heavily the State Of Louisiana
the Administrators of the Diocese of New Orleans
assumed liabilities which they have determined to
lquidate. In the past year better state of affairs
loomed up in the financial situation of the Diocese.
That Improvement will increase the rate of interest
claimed by ts creditors is lessened-


The conventional rate in Louisiana is too high for
religious society the of which, though entirely
secure. nevertheless limited, for such society
cannot look for eventual profits In contingent under
talings in epecuatons altogether inconsistent with
its mission of benevolence and charity.


Therefore it Is not with view Of creating new debt
that this loan is negotiated but order to unity and
consolidate eror liabties and obtain their gradual
and regular extinction by means of the ord nary
Of the Diocese, and without endaugerDg the
Church property. although affecting it. Such Is the
plan positively approved by His Holiness, Plus TX,
and unanimously adopted by the Board of Adninstrs
of tho Roman Catholic Church of the Diocese Of
New Orleans
Year: 1878

favor of Chinese labor and opposed to any
lawful mode of agitation and organization
against this great evil, and the ameliors


ton of the condition of the working
classes, it is too silly to need refutatiOn.
Year: 1878

From the Official report recently made to the Holy
see the Church property of this Diocese is divided
follows:


Independent unmortgagable properties,


valued at about GOu
MortR agable properties valued at its mini


mum rate. lOooIUo
This latter the only real estate affected by the mort
gage Aforesaid and worth double the amount OF the
loan, include many buildings lots fields and other
productive properties dedc ated to the worship of
God.
Year: 1878

Any good, mild-havored apple can
be converted into an excellent bey-
erage. To make a choice article the
apple should be ripe and sopnd, free
from stems and leaves; and when
ground the pomsee should lie in the
vat from eighteen to twenty-foGr
hours. This gives good body, rich
ness, color and flavor TO the cider
that cannot be obtained when work
ed Immediately under the press As
it goes into the cask, do not use
straw in a wooden funnel to strain or
separate the sediment or pomsee
from the juice, bat strain the sweet
cider through flannel, which will
separate almost all the sediment,
which must be worked out at the
bung or otherwise removed, for it is
mainly this sediment that sours the
cider and makes it hard" That
which man negleets to do, nature
strives TO assist. After it has been
filtered, Fill clean, well-hooped casks,
and pat them in dark, cool cellar.


Take out the bung and keep the
cask full; let it work half the usual
time, then bung it tight and let il
stand few days Then draw eff
the cider from the sediment which
lies in the bottom of the cask. IL
you desire a drink Of extra f1e, re-
turn Ihe cider after the eask has been
well washed out, let it remain a few
days, then repeat the process, sld
after the sediment has the seeoDd
time all been removed, 6ll up the
barrel and cork up tight This ci-
der in this condition will keep one
year


Or, tO convert 1t into sparkling
drink, good champagne cider, or
wine cider, bottle it up with good
corks 10 common bottles as soon as
the second draught is made, and ex-
pose il to the light and air as little
as possible if you wish TO retain the
gases and life of the article. Add
one good raisin 70 each bottle and
drink at your leisure. This makes a
pleasant. exhilsrsting drink One
quart should be used spsringly for
severel meals.


1t should be used only at meal time,
then it is taken up and disseminated
with the food, and ia very healthful
and strengthening as a beverage,
and an sntidote for dyspepsia aud
jaundice When cider is draw n from
the eask, some leave q vent; this lets
out the gases and destroys the life Of
the cider; so does the mixing Up of
mustard seeds in the barrel; the cider
becomes SO weak and insipid that il
will not change into vinegar The
life principles are destroyed. Other
nostrums should be avoided, such as
some use to keep the cider plain and
sweet Bottled cider should lie on
the earth in a dark cellar until want
Cd fSr nae
Year: 1878

Mr.. Beecher had something further 10


say on the labor question Sunday. Crowds


Of men" said he, "may be seen sitting in our


public parks as thick As flies around mo-


lasses hogshead on Boston wharf, but any


attempt to relieve their condition by . sys-


tenn Of direct charity is real injury to


them, and not help. They suffer, of course


they do, and suffering is good for them.


Let their bellies go hungry. 1t will do


them good. A little starvation is a means
OF grace now and then. [Laughter.l IL
You allow them still to sit there idle and
feed them, you continue their present condi-
ton. II is said that they must not be al


lowed to starve to death. Well, as they


are, they don't grow better, and they do
grow worse, and they may as well 20 into
the other world, where they may do better
than they do in this. The Social tendeu-
cies Of our times as demoralizing and
dangerous, and to no class 20
much as to those that advocate
them. All dangerous theories fall with
their worst effect upon the poor and the iR-
norant. 1t is true that there are many
wrongs-very many unjust hardships-on
the part of the workmen. The real RENE
dy tor the evils which are felt BY the work
ingmen is for the laboring man to develop
his manhood. Self-indulgence in the cor
ner grog s.op and grumbling about oppres-
sion will not help men, and men that can
not take care of themselves in the great
battle of life cannot be taken care of. Gov
ernment and society cannot do for the in
that which the Law Of God has
erjoined upon him-the care of himself.
Tne moment you takeoff individual re.ponei-
bility that moment you demoralile the
Men are very fond of being
and it is all we'll when it comes
10 voting, but the moment you tell them to
take care of themselves then they squeal.
They don't want to be soverigns. Then
iSey want 10 be taken care OF.
Year: 1878

Congress has authorized the State of West
Virginia to ignore the law requiring all the
States to elect their Congressional Repre-
sentatives upon the same day in November,
except where such an election would re-
quire a change in the State Constitution,
but it is not easy to see why the obligation
of the statute is not removed for all States
if for any. The bill granting this privi-
lege to West Virginia seems to have elected
no debate, yet there cannot we'll be any rea-
son Why one State should be given a special
exemption from the mandate enforced
against Others. There are on the contrary
good reasons why Congressional elections
should all occur on the same day, and if
West Virginia finds itself overrun with i'm
ported voters next October, its people will
very likely appreciate the fact that they
had better never have asked this privilege.
Year: 1878

They. have discovered the body OF doc
tor among the subjects" stolen from the
graves and deposited in the vat at Ann
Arbor College. Strange enough, the doc
tors relatives are just as mad as ordinary
folk. They don't show bit of disposition
to contribute the body OF their kinsman TO
the development OF scicne
Year: 1878

The farmers in Ohio promise to furnish
the medical colleges with all ;he ''stifi5


they need from the army Of tramIs who
are burning barns and Threatening
the lives Of all who use machinery in farm
Year: 1878

Some Of the Eastern papers are making
dolorous outcry against the silver dollar
because some smart scoundrel has succeed
ed in making a passable counterfeit. No
money has ever yet escaped the efforts OF
counterfeiters, and an editor who uses such
an argument should have his head tapped
and the water drawn off.
Year: 1878

Ii is said there are exceptions to all gen.


eral rules, but TO the rule Of keeping out of
debt, so far as the farmer is concerned.


there can be in our opinion no exception.
The rule should be rigid, positive, univer-
sal. Total abstinence is the only safe and
true doctrine in this, as in liquor drinking.
Eat the coarsest and simplest food, dress in
the Plainest style, cut of every luxury,
forego every selfish grati6cation, rather
than allow yourself to be encumbered with
debt Every farm product ID pretty sure
to rule low Tor some time 70. come, and
strict economy is the only safe road to in
dependence. With habits ofindustry, tenn
perance, economy and stern resolve not
to run in debt IL farmer is just - certain
to zee better times - eject is to follow
cause.
Year: 1878

The Kirwin CHIEF urges the return Of
Hon. Jno. J. Ingalls, to the L. S. Senate
and says he has made a record
during his first term that is unequaled.


"He has arisen from the law office TO the
Senate in one grand leap, and to-day he is
esteemed and admired throughout the
whole country. His ability is recognized
in the Senate, and would it not be folly to
cut short his term OF usefulness at this
time, for the purpose OF placing Pomeroy
in the place and to crafty few organs in
the State, who would perhaps, be benefited
by change. We are decidedly in favor of
Ingalls, reelection and believe that nine
tenths of the people OF the State are fully
in accord with us
Year: 1878

Great SueceAs Of Experiments Thus
Far Made-An Apparatus Subject to
the Will Of she Conductor, Rising OF
Failing, OF G0iog with OF Against
the Wind ~ Destred-lnfancy Of q
New Epoch In Travel.
Year: 1878

The feeling among non-partisan citiz1ns Is
said TO be strong against the arbitrary rul
ing OF coroner Canty, and tine action Of
Brockhaus. The Bowmanites and the
deputy marshals are bitter in their denun-
Citations of the Coroner and Brockhaus and
all Widerites who had anything TO DO with
the matter, but they are


FORCED To SUBMIT.
The inquest was adjourned this evening
iii Friday morning. Shortly after adjourn
ment young man named Bergen, said to
be one Of Bowman's deputy marshals, AS
saulted Brockhaus on the street, struck him
in the face and otherwise maltreated
him. Brockhaus made no resistance,
thinking, it is said, that ii he did it would
bring about another conflict The feeling
on both sides is very bitter and it would
not take great deal to cause a general
fight.
Year: 1878

For the HERALD.


1 am glad to see that you have drawn
public attention to the subject of Public
Health. Do me the favor to look into the
question of cesspools or wells. There are
ordinances prescribing the depth of these
unavoidable nuisances as well as regulat
ing the distance from division line
at which they must be snnk. So far SO
good. But there is no law which will pre-
vent house builder from sinking well
in contact with the cellar wall of his own
property. There are many wells attached
to houses. I have lived In two houses, In
this city, where the wells were sunk i'm
mediateIy in the rear of the kitchen and
against the cellar wall. In both the
smell was offensive and sickening. In one a
new well is being sunk to relieve the two
adjoining houses Of an intolerable nuis-
ances. No well should be sunk nearer the
wall of house than six feet and farther
off If possible.
Year: 1878

- am o lover Of all womankind,
And maidens old, are not old:maids to me,
Though beauty fee, there still remains the


mind,
And mind is surely better company.
What though the harp be new and trimmed


with gold,


Does sweeter music:tremble in It's tone,
Than when the gaudy polish has grown old
And naught is left but sweet accord


aloneW
Year: 1878

WE call attention to the advertisement
in the HERALD of the County Farm at
Hares Corner. There is not more de-
sirable property in this county. The soil
naturally fertile, has been improved, the
fences are in fine order, and there are all
necessary buildings in good repair. Its
location is healthful, is Of easy access to
rail and water communication, and in prox'
unity to social, educational and religious
advantages. Its sale furnishes rare op-
por,unity to procure valuable home and
profitable investment.
Year: 1878

Hsnceforth we will give column daily
to correspondence upon any proper subject
for discussion. 1t is expected that commu-
nicatious will be written on one side only
of the paper, and accompanied with the
name of the writer. The HERALD Is not to
be considered as endorsing or being in any
way responsible for the opinion of cores
pondents In this column.
Year: 1878

Not with a reproof for any of that days
sins OF omission or commission. Take any
other time but bedtime for that. Ifyou
ever heard little creature signing and
sobbing in its sleep you could never do
this.-Seal their closing eyelids with a kiss
and a blessing. The time will come all too
soon when they will lay their heads upon
their pillows lacking both. Let them at
least have this sweet memory of happy
childhood, of which no future sorrow or
trouble can rob them. Give them their
rosy youth. Nor need this involve wild
license; the judicious parent will not so
mistake my meaning. If you have ever
met the man or woman whose eyes have
suddenly filled when little one has crept
trustingly to its mothers breast, you may
have seen one in whose childhood's home
dignity and severity stood where love and
pity should have been. Too much indul-
gence has ruined thousands OF children;
to much love not one
Year: 1878

The Paris Exposition Is not success
financially. The prospect is that the re-
ceipts will come far short OF covering the
expenses. The loss will fall upon the ma
tioual treasury of France.
Year: 1878

The published statements of our National
Banks, which show nearly as much money
on deposit as the amount of the capital
stock, shows, if there was no other reason
against the issue of deprecated coin, that
it was not scarcity Of money that ne
cessitated the "silver craze" There is q
plethora of money in all our banks, and
what is wanted is confidence, trade, COM
merce, to demand and use this idle money
and thus make better times, rather than
hope for the same result in fraudulent
coin.
Year: 1878

in connection with Ethiopian Minstrelsy.
Our town baililf on Monday impounded
one horse and two cows for running at large
in the streets. 1t costs more to get them
out than to put them in......The Black
Martin seldom misses his calculation as to
the opening of spring and proper time for
his northern journey. He has arrived.
Year: 1878

About this time lof the year every
third man You see pass your window is
carrying a slip OF some house plant that
he docsn know the name Of. which his
VIE is going TO keep next month. for
,hc pleasure @. seeing it lreezs about
Christmas.
Year: 1878

The time has now arrived when tie
lonely tramp smokes his pipe in the
hay NOW and the calculating farmer
ascertains the next morning that the
insurance will about half cover Che loss.
Year: 1878

H. q gambling room in Nevada the
iauiior. on opening the place in the
morning. found a man sitting dead at
table.with cards still IN his hands. He
had been shot at poker By his adversary
who had I'D.
Year: 1878

any financial legislation before the reas-
sembling of Congress after the holidays 1t
was decided not to bring up any such ques-
tions until resumption shall have gone into
effect, therefore Judge Buckner, Chairman
of the Banking and Currency Committee,
will not to-day press the bill from his COM
mittee to retire the national bank notes
Year: 1878

THE TEXAS PACIFIC.


WASHINGTON, Dec. 10.-Sena or Matthews
Says he will attempt to get up the Texas Pa
cfc Bill on Thursday, Notwithstanding Mr..
Blaine's proposed political debate. Sena-
tor Matthews expresses himself as much
more in favor of regular legislation than
political debates


THE POTTER COMMITTEE


The Potter Committee will positively
meet to-day and its future course will then
be mapped out. The Democrats have SO far
been waiting to see whether the Republi-
cans would make any motion to investigate
the cipher dispatches. Chairman Potter es-
pecially did not want to,appear to be going
into such an investigation as if with impa-
tient pleasure. because of his New York
political relations with the per-
sons who so far have been
implicated in the matter Of the cipher
dispatches The Republicans, after one or
two consultations, wisely decided that the
people who are to be injured by the cipher
dispatches have been injured, as well as the
Democratic party, to as great an extent as
if an investigation was gone through with.


FINANCIAL MATTERS


An informal discussion was held on the
floor of the House yesterday by leading
Democrats, as to the advisability of pushing
Year: 1878

The Board met in regular session. all the
members present except Mr.. Foote, and
President Bell in the chair


The engineer. reported that the amount
due The Superintendent on Grand avenue
Year: 1878

South America also has its large bats,
of one of which everybody has heard
the vampire. Much nonsense has been
written about il, but there was some
foundation for the stories OF its sucking
the blood of men and animals until il
kills them. In the interior of South
America nearly everybody sleeps in
hammock either out-of-doors or with
the window open, and the weather is so
warm that little covering is used. The
vampire comes in on silent wings, and
finding toe exposed, gently prieks it
with his sharp tooth, and draws the
blood until he can swallow no more.
The sleeper rarely is awakened, and
does not know his loss until morning.
He may then feel weak from the flow
of blood, but / am not aware that man
was ever known to die from the cause.
Horses are very greatly troubled by
them also. Mr.. Charles Watterton, an
enthusiastic naturalist now dead, who
spent several years in New Guiana, has
told us much about this ugly bat, but
could never induce one to taste of his
toe, although he would have been very
glad to be able to say that he had been
operated upon. For eleven months he
slept alone in the loft of a deserted
wOOd-cutter's hut in the deep forest.
There the vampire came and went as
they wished He saw them come in
the moonlight on stealthy wings, and
prick the ripe bananas; lay in his ham
mock and watched them bring almost
to his bedside the green wild fruit of
the wild guava; floating down the river
on other moonlight night was struck by
the falling blossoms of the lawarri-nut
tree which the vampire pulled from the
branches to get ut the tender seed-vessel
or the insects that lurk in the deep
corollo. He lay night after night with
his bare foot exposed, but could not get
them to lance it, although his friends
and companions were all bled by this
nocturnal surgeon; and except that he
once caught one fastened to the shOul-
der of one of his animals, he came away
no wiser than when he went of how the
vampire does his hOrrid work. The
vampires measure about twenty-siX
inches across the wings; frequent old
houses and hollow trees, and repOse in
clusters, head downwards, from the
| branches offorest trees.
Year: 1878

1t was shortly after the battle of An
tietam Surgeon Abraham LyddOn Cox
took charge of field hospital. DR.. Cox
was an elderly and somewhat eccentric
person, but he was an eminent surgeon,
a profound scholar. genial gentleman
and true patriot. At a later day, borne
down with exposure and overwork, he
died at Chattanooga, martyr upon the
altar of his country. One day in the
performance of his mournful duties,
Surgeon Cox essayed TO amputate the
mangled limb of Connecticut soldier.
He had become greatly absorbed in the
delicate task, when the medical attend
ant remarked


doctor, / think that you had better
stop the operation, the man is sinking
very rapidly"


"Well,'' replied the doctor, without
looking up, "the work is nearly over,
and might as well finish it,


Soon afterward the attendant declar-
ed doctor, the man is dying"


The doctor had then removed the
limb, and was engaged in taking up the
arteries, and he quietly remarked:


''Itis due to my profession that this
operation should be carefully compile
ted, and he calmly went on.


He had begun sewing up the stump
when the hospital steward came along
and said:


doctor, there's no use of going on ::
that man is dead"


Surgeon Cox made no reply until the
last stitch had been taken. Then gently
caressing the stump with one hand, he
removed his spectacles with the other,
and looking up, quietly said:


81 am sorry that the poor fellow is
cead, but there is one consolation about
the matter-he has gone to heaven with
clap that he may be proud Of"
Year: 1878

But, though not so dangerous, the
still DAYS are the coolest in Manitoba
There are every winter dozen or more
days so magically still that all the usual
sounds of nature seem to be suspended; !;
when the ice cracks miles and miles
away with a report like canon; when
the breaking of a twig reaches us like
the falling of a tree; when ones own
footsteps. clad in soft moccasins, come
back like the crunching of an iron
heel through gravel; when every artifi-
cial sound is exaggerated hundred
fold, and nature seems TO start at every
break in the intense silence. The at
mosphere is as clear as crystal, and the
range of vision seems to be unlimited.
Seen from window, from the cosy
limits of an almost hermetically sealed
room, the clear sunshine and crisp
freshness of the day appear TO invite
one forth to enjoy its seeming mildness.
But the native knows better than 10
venture out. A fifteen minutes walk
in that clear ether is fifteen minutes
fight for existence. A sudden prick
and your noze is frozen; next go both
cheeks: one raises his hand to rub away
the ghastly white spots, only TO add his
fingers to the list of icy members. Rub
as you will, run hard, swing you arms.
all to no purpose; the little white spots
increase in size. until the whole face Is
covered with the waxen leproSy. The
breath congeals almost upon leaving
the mouth, and the icy vapor falls in
stead of rising. Spit, and instantly
there is lump of ice where the spittle
fell. All, it is cold beyond belief. The
spirit registers n temperature away
down in the forties. | have seen a
stalwart man, after two hours exposure
on such a day, walk into the room
where every football clanked upon the
floor like blocks of wood clapping to-
gether: his feet frozen solid as Jumps
of ice. | remember going sixty yards
10 shoot a rabbit and returning with
fingers curled into a hook, and frozen
fast to the trigger-guard. On such a
day one may stand for hours in the
snow with moccasined feet and leave no
trace of moisture behind. The snow is
granulated like sand: there is no adhe-
siveness in il. 1t is as difficult TO draw
sledge through it as through bed OF
sand. Slipperiness has gone out of it.
A horse gives out in no time. And yet
the aspect of all nature is calm, STILL
and equable as on May day


One of the still nights on the prairie
is unspeakably awful. The cold is
measured by degrees as much below
the freezing point IS your ordinary
summer temperature is above it. Scrap
ing away the snow, the blankets and
robes are spread down. Then you
dress for bed. Your heaviest coat is
donned, and the hood carefully pulled
up over the heavy fur cap upon your
head; the largest moccasins and thickest
socks are drawn on common leather
boots would freeze ones feet in a
.winkling); huge leather mittens, ex-
tending to the elbows, and trebly lined,
come next; you lie down and draw all
the available robes and blankets about
you. Then begins the cold. The frost
comes out of the clear, gray sky with
still, silent rigor. The spirit in the
thermometer placed by your head sinks
down into the thirties and forties be-
low zero. Just when the dawn begins