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Year: 1875

I've been thinking, I've been think

 ing,

 What a glorious world we're this, Did folks mind their business more, And mind their neighbours less; For instance, you and |, my friend, Are sadly prone to talk Of matters that concern Us not, And others follies mock. I've been thinking if we begin To mind our own fairs, That possibly our neighbors might Contrive to manage theirs. We've faults enough Ut home to

 mend

 It may be so of others: It would seem strange if it were not, Since all mankind are brothers. Ohi would that we had charity For every man and woman; Forgiveness Is the mark of those Who know ito err is human Then let us banish jealousy Let's lift our fallen brother; And a. we journey down life's road Do good to one another.
Year: 1875

After much delay arrangements have been
perfected through the organization OF a joint
stock company at Baltimore by which the
Schroeder air ship will be completed IN three
weeks. Should tile invention prove success.
full, several trial trips will be made in the United
States before ventunng across the Atlantic.
Year: 1875

cost. The process consists in the use 'i u
fused mixture of chloride of calcium ana
common salt in equal proportions, when 5
is intimately mixed with the i'o'-
ten iron in the pudding furnace, S,
either by adding 1t Srauu"''!
placing the Whole quantityrequrcd upon
tbe bed Of the furnace at first-in either
case s W. working it very thoroughly with the
met metal, The The pudding process is said to
be generally rel 50 much shortened that the
consequent diminution IN the waste OF
IRON ig almost equals the cost of materials
added. The quantity of the mixed
chIorides required is about three times
that of the phosphorus present in tn"
iron. The action OF other chlorides Is
stated to have been found very dis
advantageous. Exchange.
Year: 1875

The New York Herald undertakes
TO make list of the democratic and
republican states for the contest ncx'
year, "makiug the result of the latest
election in each state the touchstons
of its political character" Here are
the Herald'S lists
Year: 1875

A most wonderful Improvement
in the art OF telrgraphy is now in
successful operation in the office of
the Western Union Telegraph CON-
pany in Cincinnati. Tho instrument
is being worked between Cincinnati
and Chicago, sending two aud rccciv-
ing two messages OF tie same wire
at the same time.
Year: 1875

Captain Thomas G. Young, of Angus
tn, Me, was seized with an apoplectic
fit Sunday evening and died the next
morning. He was veteran whaleman,
and sailed out of New Bedford for forty
years. A correspondent of the Boston
Journal says: ''Near the close of the
war he achieved reputation for patriot
ism and personal bravery in refusing to
surrender his whaling vessel, the bark
Favorite, to the rebel pirate Shenandoah
in the Arctic ocean. Upon the approach
of one of the Shenandoah's boats, he
hauled out an old bomb gun which he
kept for signals, armed his men with
muskets, and warned the officer that he
would fire into his boat if he did not
draw off. The Shenandoah then steamed
alongside, the commander ordered Capt.
Young to haul down his flag, and the
following conversation ensued:


Haul it down yourself if you think it
would be good tor your constitution


if you don't haul it down we II blow
you out of the water said the officer.


BLOW away, my buck but may be
eternally blasted if | haul down that
flag for any cussed Confederate pirate
that ever tloated.'


The commander of the Shenandoah
admired the old fellows bravery so
much that he did not fire ut the craft, but
brought him and his crew off through
an armed boats crew."
Year: 1875

"The fixed policy of ihe Rcpubli-
can party" was in the Ohio cam
paign said to be resumption of specie
payment in 1879. The Cincinnati
Commercial ami Gazette supported
this doctrine during that canvass,
and etcrnally damned everyone who
did not. Since the election they have
discovered the impossibilily of car
rying out the scheme, and are now
united in their opposition to the re-
sumption bill.
Year: 1875

Ex-senator B. F. Wade of Ohio was invi-
ted to make an Old-fashioned tariff speech
at Youngstown the other day, but he
declined on account of i'll health In his
letter he said "The only cause for
present evils is the want of q high protec-
tive tariff. This would enable us to do our
own work, and is the only remedy for the
thousands now out of work and who can find
no employment. No nation ever had a
better currency than we have now, and no
relief will come from any attempt to change
1t. What we want is to do our own work
at home. Look at France, just out of the
most disastrous and expensive war known
to history, and the enormous indemnity
she had to pay to Germany. What miracle
in her behalf enabled her to pay it off so
soon i'll gold? 1t was because France does
all her work at home, and consequently
owes nothing abroad. We should have a
tariff on all foreign finery that would make
our fools and wOuld-be aristocracy omen
their eyes. If any man or woman desires
to live in style beyond the skill of our
own workmcn, let them pay for their vanity.
But the Republican party have become
weak-knecd on this subject, and they do
not pronounce the word protective above
their breath. Oh, for the frmness, courage,
and honesty Of old Henry Clay
Year: 1875

The EUROPEAN PEACH SH1pMENTs.-An
eifort was made to have a meeting at Mid
dletown on Saturday last of those who
shipped peaches to Europe by the steam
snip Ohio recently, but the meeting was a
failure. Only six or seven, out of the
twenty odd, who went into the venture
were present. Sam Townsend, who tried to
get up the meeting, wanted to enter suit at
once against the steamship company for
not making good the loss to the shippers.
but Maj. Biggs thought it would be better
to let a law suit against such a corporation
alone. And Mr.. Lockwood, who went with
the peaches, stated that he thought nothing
could be done with the American Steam.
ship Company, because the agreement
entered into did not specify strictly that
the company would be held responsible for
the ir!nt. This is regarded as am end of
the affair, though Sam saws he will hold
another meeting next Saturday. If so he
Will doubtless have things all his own wav.
as he will be the only one present, perhaps.
Year: 1875

Nothing can be more certain that
California is Democratic-Democratic
from Governor down to Constable. So
far we have heard of but three pre-
cincts in the State where the Indepen-
dents have counted themselves ahead.
Chow are the mighty fallenw Two
years ago these pure reformers We're a
power in the land. They promised
with the prodigality of spendthrift,
and the people believing them in ear
nest, gave them chance to prove
themselves workers as we'll as takers.
They went into office; the Legislature
was theirs; they elected their chief to
the United States Senate and then
they initiated the Republican party
from which they sprung, and in their
greed for spoils, forgot their promises,
forgot the people and forgot their mis-
sion. No party can long survive apos-
tacy to the masses and in two short
years, party that went into power
with the almost unanimous support of
the people, went down to an ignomini-
Gus grave, "unhonored, unwept and
unsung," and on its tombstone the vo-
ters have written weighed in the
balance and found wanting" The
party of a million promises and not a
single fulfillment is dead and now lies
so deeply buried beneath execrations
which the people have heaped upon it
that it will never hear the sound of
the resurrection trumpet. We shall
hear no more of the Independent par
ty and its founders and leaders
BOOTH, BIDwELL, SWIFT, CowDERY,
FITCH and PICKERING will now have
to make their beds within the Repub-
lican or Democratic camp. There are
but two parties in California-the
Democratic and Republican-and this
year the people have pronounced in
favor of the Democrats. Let us hope
they will prove themselves worthy Of
the confidence reposed in them.
Year: 1875

1t has been again and again asserted
that tobacco ofexcellent quality can
be grown in Los Angeles county.
Dozens of parties have been expert
menting in different parts of the coun-
ty, each ignorant of what the others
are doing. No one man has expert
mented sufficiently to become tho
rough master of the industry, and
where one can be found who says it is
profitable there is on the next ranch
another who declares there is nothing
in it. The weed will grow beyond
doubt, but there is difficulty about cur
ing it, and for most of that which has
been produced there has been no mar
ket. While one man will give the
assurance that he actually gathered
and shipped crop which sold at a
price below the cost Of production an
other will offer valuations of sample
lots sent to competent judges which
promise very handsome profits. The
accounts are conflicting as to the sue
cess or failure Of the different varieties
of tobacco, and there is such wide
discrepancy and so much vagueness
about the yield per acre that the can
did enquirer can reach no conclusion,
while Information concerning the
mode of handling is equally unsatis-
factory. Thus for several years has
this experimenting gone on over so
limited an area and the problem is as
far from solution to-day as ever. We
cannot say whether 1t is failure or a
success. Had ali three parties sent
their information carefully digested
to the HERALD the deficiency of the
one might have been supplied by the
knowledge of the other, and the ques-
tion settled at an Intimately less cost.
We should perhaps now know def
nately whether any or all kinds of to-
bacco will flourish and whether its
cultivation is sufficiently profitable to
warrant encouragement.
Year: 1875

WHATEVER or whoever the Express
advocates and the HERALD opposes is
certain of defeat, and whatever or who
ever the Express opposes and the HER
AID supports is certain of coming out
ahead. The HERALD gave Mr.. WIG
CLINTON a dignified and earnest sup
port while the Express opened against
him. Mr.. WIGGINTON's majority in
this county will approximate twelve
hundred, and he is elected by from
twenty-five hundred to three thou
sand majority.
Year: 1875

The report of the defeat of Mccoy
and LEACH in San Diego county is
confirmed. The people wisely conclud-
ed that two men who while protesting
to be Democrats and asking Democrats
to support them could delib erately
seek to defeat one of their fellow NOM
inees, were unworthy the confidence
of the community or the support of
their party. And so these two worth
les who should have been leaders in
the so called Independent party in
place of Democratic candidates, were
quietly but determinedly consigned to
the shades of private life from which
we trust they will not emerge until
they have thoroughly learned the les
son that treachery to the party is trea-
son to the people. The political apos-
tate sooneror latter receives his re-
ward and In the case of MCCOY and
LEACH the avenging sword fell with
lightning swiftness and unerring cer-
tainly,
Year: 1875

Agriculture and Horticulture in this
section yet partakes much of the ex-
perimental. There are productions
that are placed beyond all question in
the category Of profitable industry,
and enough to know of the culture of
many other articles to render it prob
able that they will pay handsomely.
Indeed, d,experiment has been pushed SO
rapidly that the question is not what
will grow in Semi-tropical California,
but what will not grow. But there
are many articles of commerce the
production of which now attract at
tention that must ultimately be aban-
doned or at least which will never be-
come popular. There are drawbacks
being encountered in many cases
which will require to be overcome be-
fore success is reached. Farmers are
engaged cultivating that which they
never raised before, and familiar pro-
ducts are being grown under different
con ditions than formerly. The vari-
ableness of soil and climate render one
section of the county peculiarly adapt
ed to certain industries, and the same
industries may languish on ranches
only mile distant. There is there
fore, a strong necessity for mutual ex-
change of information among the far
mers and horticulturists, and that in
terchangeis best carried on through
the columns of the daily press. Let
every farmer therefore who has valu-
able information on any branch of ag-
riculture or horticulture send it in to
us for publication. We do not counsel
the precipitate details of mere expert
ments, which are but half finished.
Our people are already too prone to
jump at conclusions and to assume
enormous yields from exceptionally
prolific specimens. Incorrect infor-
nation and exaggerated profits only
lure the .unsuspecting to unremunera-
tive outlays. The examples of par
ties vaineIy frittering away their lit
tie fortunes in new industries are but
too frequent. Where failures have
been made let the truth be told in Or
der that others may either carefully
investigate the causes of the failure or
avoid the same losses.


To illustrate the force Of our remark
we could take the article of tobacco.
Year: 1875

him until ne thought he would take
only one glass. There won't be no harm
in taking one glass, surely. thought Hob.


But ali! when lac took that glass that


was just one too much. 'srhere never


was a drunkard who when he took his
first glass thought that he would be-
come drunkard.' After he took that
glass he called for more, until he be-
came intoxicated. The boys took him
up to the school. He went TO bed and


by morning was over his spree. Night
after night he went to the saloon. AT
last the examination day came. and Rob.
was expecting his father and mother.
They came soon on the day appointed


for the examination. q! how glad they


were TO see the noble son; he look ed 30
manly and had been so good ALI the
time. lie passed we'll during the day
and made good speech at night. But
W hen Rob's father aud mother found


out that he had been drinking IL very


near broke their hearts with anguish.


This Is but one OF the many who tu,n


out that way. j. w. j.
Year: 1875

any work of consequence will be


done i'll the village IN the way of
buildings or public works, so there


Will not be a demand for mechanics
here before another spring-there


being plenty to supply all preSeat OF
immediate wants. ....r s..-.


We are led to these remarks
partly because Of letters received
from men in various parts of the
State seeking employment and
chances to go into business, who
have their attention drawn towards
Ashland Our advice would be to
write to the contractors and obtain
situations before coming, or know
to a certainty that business awaits
their arrival; or a long and idle
winter might result.


While we rejoice at the near ap-
rroach of better times, experience
has taught us that 1t is best not to
betoo sanguine Of success, and to
loo well beforemaking a changethat
might be from bad to worse. To
those who have faith In Ashland and
money to, keep them until the fnlI
return Of prosperous times, it is nu-
doubtedIy a good time now to come,
especially if the idea is to make in
vestmehts or prepare ahead for bus
mess, butfwe say to- poor men, of
small means and dependent upon
their labor 70" the support OF them
selves and families, wait awhile.
Another year the prospects may
warrant your coming. but at present
there are too many chances.
Year: 1875

east next month and spend the
shop to n. YoungbIood, who VIII
take possession Dec. lst, and carry
on the same business, until Mr.. O.'s
return next spring


And now it is Deacon Wood
bridges turn to feel saucy. On
last Monday ne and his wife con
cluded to take their tirsl
young lady boarder. The young
lady in question has come to stay,
and we understand that she turns
the scale at about the notch of all
vigorous young Duluthians-that
is, pretty close on to a dozen
ponnds.


We bear that Col. Graves will
be home in few days, and we hear
furthermore, that the l.. 5. e NJ. rail
road company, who have just bad
meeting III Philadelphia, have got
affairs patched up III some shape SO
! that the company will not surrender
that road to the first mortgage
| bond holders this winter, as has
been for some time contemplated.


The Metropolis left on Tues
day night on what we believe IS her
last trip down the lake for the
season. We understand that she
win be laid up at some port on lake
Michigan, probably at Manitowoc,
where, during the winter she can
be put in the dry dock and have
certain repairs and Improvements
made which there are no facilities
for making here.


The county commissioners
have been talking for d week, or
two, about having.a meeting to
see what can .be done in relation to
the 81 $40, which the county has
permanently invested in the defunct
Bank Of Duluth. About TIM, !,
that they should give that matter
some attention, we should think !.


It is plain, however, that there is
but one straight and busine>s-lIke


way to deal withthat matter, and
that is to look 20 the bondsmen OF
the bank, and to take Immediate
steps to secure the amount. The
county is in no condition to lose
that sum and will not DO so, If the
commissioners attend to the affairs
OF the county, as promptly and as
closely as they would to business
{ Of their own, ...
Year: 1875

IT seems that the patient silence OF
the impcrturbablc angler has been just
so much stiffness wasted. The old no.
ton that you can't catch fish unless
you keep quiet must now go down to
oblivion along with that other time.
worn dclus;on, the belief that splitting
on the bait makes the fish bite better.
Seth Green. who knows a great deal
about fishes, and has spent much time
in studying their habits, thinks they
can not hear. He once asked a band
of music to range themselves around a
tank Of fish, and at given signal to
blow their loudest blast. This they
did, but not fish stirred. They are,
however, very sensitive to jars, and a
slight tap on the bottom of one of the
tanks made every fish dart off like a
flash.
Year: 1875

Nrrs and cheese promote digestion


as a general r'.lc; the conditions being


that the nuts should he ripe and the
cheese old, both tn be eaten at the
close Of dinner: the digestive agent in
both is a peculiar oil which has the
property ot acting chemically on what
has been eaten, and thus preparing it
for being the more easily appropriated
10 the purpose of nutrition. Many
think that the more solid portion of
the nut should not hc swallowed. This
is an error; those particles of solid
matter are not diycstcd, it is true, but
they are passed through the system
and act as mechanical stim-
ulant to the action Of the internal or
gans, as white mustard seed swallowed
whole are known to do, thus prevent
ing that constipatcd condition of the
system which is SO invariably produc-
tive Of numerous bodily discomforts
and dangerous and even fatal forms of
disease.
Year: 1875

An ingenious Italian has invented
an earthquake Indicator. It fires off a
gun when the earth begins to quake.
and every man who has provided him.
self with an indicator knows that an
earthquake is going on, while those
who neglect to provide themselves
with this useful invention have to guess
at it.
Year: 1875

HERscnEL Y. JOHNSON concluded a
recent charge to the grand jury OF
Tattnall county, Georgia, ia the fol
lowing words. Understand, however
that Johnson is on the bench in Gcor.
gia:


speak not as Judge, but as a
Georgian. My course is almost run
have nothing in the way of political
honors to look forward to. All that
wish is to be useful in the position
which occupy. We have a herculean
task before us if we want tho rising
generation to be anything. Money is
not all. We may accumulate the riches
Of Golconda, and what vii! it all be to
our children if they are destitute OF
character and principle? ] may ava
ken the ccnsurc Of some by this di-
grcssion from judicial charge, but if
can bc instrumental in sowing some
good seed that may spring up and
grow, | will welcome their censurcs.
Let lis do our duty, and leave this
world with the satisfaction that we
have not lived in vain.
Year: 1875

REPAIRING \ THIRTY INCH MANA


HARD JOB.


For some time past the branch mains
leading from til. Worthington and
Cornish pumps, at the City Mill, have.
become very weak and defective, and
at the crotch formed by their joining
the large main leading to the reservoir
were really rotten. These mains have
been laid only about three years, but
already thousand pounds of lead
have been used in patching them up.
But the pipes being inferior soon got
beyond patching, and last week the
Water Committee decided to put in
new mains.


The mains leading from the two
pumps are joined about four feet from
the mains of each; but in putting in
the new pipes, the Committee propose
TO lay both distance of about four
teen feet before joining them with the
main leading to the basin. This will
relieve the great pressure on the crotch
or "Y" formed by the intersection of
the two pipes.


and is very hard job, 1t is tightly
banded in position, and the stop,
where the cutting has to commence, is
Immediately under the front wall Of
the mill, making very unpleasant
place to work.


Chief Engineer Ruth has large gang
of men at work on this job, aud is
working night and day, so as to conf
plete it as soon as possible without in
terfering with our water supply.
Year: 1875

Hon. Alexander S. McDill our
present Member of Congress is
about to return to his former posi-
ton, of Superintendent of the In
sane Asylum at Madison; and it is
SAID he will not contest the seat OF
Judge Cate, Democrat, who will
therefore represent this district in
Congress for two years after the 4th
Of March next.


The Milwaukee Neacs although
politically opposed to Dr. McDiIl
pays him the following well-merited
tribute.


"The return of Dr.. A. S. McDill to
the Superintendency of the asylum
for the Insane, at Madison, is a mat
ter Of very general congratuIalion
His professional skill, his former ex-
perlence III the Asylum, and his de-
servediy high character fer efficiency
and integrity render it especially GER
tain that the institution will In the
future reach higher degree of use
tulness than it has reached in the
past, ana that it will be among the
model charities Of the country. AL
though Dir. McDill made good
mem Der of Congress, aud was very
attentive to his duty at all times,
and was an active, working member
who believed that industry and f.
deity in the service of the people
were OF greater consequence than
brilliant rhetoric and political trick
cry in Congress, he does better to
leave politics to politicians. His
righttuI sphere is that which he lett
to go into Congress, and for which
he now leaves Congress-a place
where he can alleviate human sut-
tering, dispense a bountitul charity,
and render the most precious
offices OF humanity to the untortu-
nate. We can imagine ray of in
telllgent light beaning in the vacant
eyes of insanity, the victims of
which are to return to his care, as
they greet their old friend, the ply
siclan and guardian who did so
much for them In the past"
Year: 1875

A SINGULAR DREAM AND ITS STRANGE
FULFILLMENT.-The following curious
dream aud its prophetic fulillment may
serve tn interest those who arc curious as
regards premonitions and presentiments of
death. A lady Of the first respectability
vouches for the truth Of the story, and
from the high character of the parties we
have not the least hesitation in publishing
it as fact Not more than month ago
our lady informant's mother dreamed that
she was on visit at her fathers house in
Baltimore. While there her father called
her into an unoccupied room containing
only two sombre looking collins. She
asked him why he kept such mournful
reminders Of the end Of man in his house,
and for whom they were intended? ? His
only reply, as he pointed to the collins,
was lone Is for me and the other for you.
There was nothing Of the usual feeling Of
terror produced By such dreams expcrieu-
ced by the lady on this occasion, and tho
dream made little impression on her mind
at the time. But week scarcely elapsed
before she was summoned 10 the death-bed
Of her father, and on Sunday lass she
joined him in the spirit world. - Climber
toad Md. } Times, March ~.