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Year: 1874




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WhsHINGToN Jan. 2G.-Gen. Sheridan made
statement before the House Military Committee to-
day with reference TO the inquiry to the reduction
of the army and of the expenses Of the War Depart
ment He entertans the same opinions as the
Government officers af the various depart
meDts. each of whom is in favor OF cur
failing tho expensesl of other departments
except his own but declares that It is impossible to
reduce the expenditures of his own. Thus the Sec
retary of the Navy declares that 1t would be unwise


il not absolutely impossible to reduce his estimates
and thinks those of the War Department might be
reduced for if there is to be any trouble it will come
from foreign Governments, when the navy VIII be
indispensable as oar sole means of defense. The
Postmaster General says his estimates can
not be reduced as tho mail routes
are being extended aud increased, and that
after once establishing a route or pOst-oilice 1t
cannot be abolished. The Interior Department says
ID is conducted with rigid economy, and the officers
of the Indian Service say that there are no less
Indians this year than last that annuities have
TO be paid and that it requires AZ much food ana
clothing as ever before, and therefore, 1T is not for
Congress to say that the Indian Service must De
reduced and circumscribed. The officers OF the
Treasury and other departments hold like views
Gen. Sheridan, while not indicating Iis peei tn"I
other departments could more easily cnt down ex-
penses expressed his decided opinion that the War
Department could not without great injury to the
public service reduce it's force, either of officers or
enlisted men. lie thought the Indian service
would require all the troops now IN the
West and that the civil authorities wonld
require all that are in the South. The
number of troops on the Plains could mot with
safety be reduced, if they were not necessary
as measure of precaution against Indians. He
believed in the peace policy with the Indians, when
they are at peace; but he believed in making what
he called " lively war" ON them when they and
tho Government are not at peace


From his answers it was inferred that he did NOT
have the strongest faith in the religious policy
toward the savages but that he believed in keeping
an armed guard over them all the time. He thought
that least of ALL should the cavalry and infantry
be reduced and he not in favor of reducing the
list of officers in the service, because it would be
bad faith on the part of the Government. lie
thought the line of promotion ought to be opened
in all branches Of the service, much in the en-
eineers and ordnance in the infantry. His tes-
timony was taken down and will be printed.
Year: 1874

Applications for privileges may be made to the Chair
man OF the Committee Of Arrangements.


Entries for all Races to be made at any time previous
to the Festival at the Office OF tho Chairman of the
Committee of Arrangements No I3 Commercial Alley.
Year: 1874

says:


Although during the past week there
have been no big strikes to chronicle,
vet we hear OF not few Improvements
in the mining situation, and the Spring
promises to open prosperously. During
the past two or three days the weather
has been fine and all seems to have
frightened up in sympathy with our
BRIGHTER skies. Several new mills have
been started up Of late, and more that
have for some time lain idle on account
of the bad condition of the roads, or have
been undergoing repairs, will shortly re-
sumo operations. The mines will short
ly put on more men and the quantity of
ore raised will be increased as fast as
means are found for shipping ore to
such mills as are not on the railroad or
any of its branches. The Occidental and
several other mills are still idle, but will
probably be started up in few days if
the present fine weather shall hold, as
the snow is fast disappearing from all
the roads. The good weather will also
allow of active operations being resumed
on great number of outside mines, and
thus employment will be provided for a
great number Of men who are now idle.
Not only will work be afforded miners,
but also carpenters. millwrights and en-
gineers, for q considerable number of
new hosting works will be erected dur
ing the Spring and Summer months.
There will also be much road-building to
be done, and, indeed, employment Of
some kind will be furnished for all who
desire work.
Year: 1874

A CONSIDERABLE amount of placer min
ing is now being done in the vicinity of
Silver City, and those engaged in this
business are said to be doing well. Some,
we are informed, are making from ten to
fifteen dollars per day. 1t is seldom that
sufficient water can be obtained for sluic-
ing in these placers, hut where sluicing
could be done they have always paid,
from the earliest days of Washoe down
to the present time. In former times
there were some exceedingly rich dig
gings between Silver City and Dayton.
At that time Johntown (now an extinct
city, was the metropolis Of all this region
of country. The inhabitants of that an
cient town mined in the Spring, when
there was water in the canyons, and in
the fall of the year, when there was no
water, they raided upon the emigrants
arriving across the plains. They were a
thrifty race, and made money all the
year round.-[ Virginia Enterprise.
Year: 1874

From the Jersey City Journal


The cold cruelty Of the doctors was
never more tiendishly illustrated than
in the recent case of the poor pauper
woman in the Good Samaritan HoSpi-
tai in Cincinnati. 1t would seem in-
credible were the facts not acknOwl-
edged by he medical brutes themselves,
who ought to be hung, drawn ana
quartered for their savagerv. The re-
port of the affair is most revolving. \
poor pauper patient in the hospital
was hOpeleSsly i'll Of Il cancerOus affec-
ton which had destroyed part of her
skull, laying bare the brain. 1t oc-
Cured to certain of the doctors in
charge of her that as she was certain
to die III short time, her few weeks
of life could be judiciouslv turned To
the benefit of science by IL course of
novel experiments. SO they stuck a
large number of needles in her brain.
The needles were connected with IA
galvanic battery, and by its use all
sorts of delightful results were obtain
ed. The woman felt wholly unex-
pected pains in the most extraordinary
partS-a needle stuck in the right hem
isphere of the brain, for example, pro-
ducing pain in the finger of the left
hand. When the galvanic current
was increased and the needles driven
unusually Deep, choric movements "
of tho muscles enSued, while Il good
strong dose of galvanism brought Oh
temporary paralys The woman
lasted for three weeks, during which
her BRAN was constantly stuck as full
of needles AS st. Sebastian WAS of ar
rows, and mOrecleetricity was pumped
into her than to have blown the Capitol
at Washington to pieces. At the end
of that time she died, and one of the
doctors subsequently remarked that
- in regard to the question of human
iv, he felt before the experiment that
fine needles might be used with impu-
nifty. Now, with the knowledge Of
that experiment and the post mDrtcm
that the needles did intlict injury, he
would never again repeat that expert
ment.' Can anybody read that with
out sensation of shrinking horror,
or a wish that lie might have those
doctors where he could stick a thou
sand needles into them to make them
know how good it is to suffer in the in-
terest of science? Few people are
aware of the outrages that are daily
committed in our hospitals on patients,
especially women. They are used
without regard to any feeling of hui
manity or instincts of modesty, in IL
way that would awaken general public
indignation if the facts were known.
Year: 1874

The Rome Oneida county, y. W
papers tell a curious story of ii woman
going eight days without food, and
now being in Il fair way of recovery.
1t appears that the wife of a man by
the name of llaak was missed from
her home at Rome Oh Sunday morn
ing, March 2lst. DiliSent search was
made for her in the city and the cOun-
try roundabout, but all to no purpose.
On Sunday afternoon, however, Il week
from her disappearance, while man
and boy We're crossing farm on
he way to the county house, which is
situated some two miles from the city,
they discovered the body of a woman
half covered with water, lying ON IA
swampy piece of ground. On ap-
preaching it she was found to be al
most insenSible, and was carried blythe
man and boy tOa house in the neigh
bOrhood.


4 physician was called and it was
discovered that the woman'S hands
had been frozen so that portions of the
flesh and nails had fallen of. Her
body was in bloated state, and her
limbs were also swollen. Stimulants
being given her, after a while she re-
vived sufficiently to give the particu-
lars OF her strange disappearance.
She stated that on leaving home OH
Saturday she proceeded up the track of
the Central Railroad, when she thought
that her dress was wet and soiled from
some cause that she could not account
for. Feeling ashamed OF the state OF
her clothes, she proceeded along the
track to some woods, with the inten-
tisn Of remaining there out of sight
during the day and returning home at
night.


There she fell asleep, and did not re-
cover consciousness until Sunday
morning, when she found herself so
prostrated from the cold that she could
not move, and from that time remain.
cd unconscious on the water covered
ground until she was discovered by
the strangers on Sunday afternoon!
She was missing nearly nine days, and
the first food she was able to take was
a part of IL raw egg. Life seemed to
be returning slowly to her yesterday.
and the physician who has her in
charge enlertains hopes Of her re-
coverv. This wonderful instance OF
vitality stands almost without a paral-
lei. That IL woman could lay i'll
marsh, exposed 10 the elements, for
over week, with no food nor drink,
and now be alive and recovering, seems
almost incredible.
Year: 1874

1t seems to be the fashion Just now to
record the good qualities of particular hors.
Is. We are told of one animal which, aban-
doned in California snow storm, was kept
alive with food furnished by railroad men at
desolate station near, and finally brought
out of the snow safe and sound after a three
weeks imprisonment. So much for eDdur-
ance. As for gratitude, there is an animal
in Kentucky which recently became paiDful<
ly and dangerously entanged with 4 cart,
and which, after being rescued, considered
the matter a moment, and then quietly rub
bed his nose against the shoulders of the one
who was most active in helping him.


A horse with memory is described as
having been in the habit of going to a river
about one-third of mile from his stable aud
there bathing, afterward rushing off to a
common to roll on the grass, aud then with
the freedom Of air starting for home. If he
met his master, he would show some coltish
pranks, bound for the stable, pull out the
wooden pin that fastened the door, with his
teeth, aud rush to the manger where he ex-
pected to fnd his food. One night the horse
was stolen from the stable, and after sixteen
years his owner saw driven up to an inn
door one which looked exactly like him.
The driver agreed to give him up if he would
60 through the performance detailed above
Accordingly he was taken to his old yard,
looked over the premises little while, then
started for his old bath tub, then for his
green towel on the common, then to his old
stable, pulled the wooden pin, won for him
self good meal, and for his old master his
favorite horse.


If longevity be good quality, then there
are several animals deserving recognition
One living at Bradford, N. H., is forty.nine
years old, and doesn't look like departure
yet. Another, exhibited last fall at the
Pennsylvania State Fair, is a white-headed
veteran of forty-one, which has never been
sick single day, Aother in Kentucky is
forty-three years old, and might live to be a
great deal older were it not for entire loss of
teeth An excellent old pony in New Haven
has come to thirty-6ve summers, and is still
active and useful, though somewhat gray
Lire Stock Journal.
Year: 1874

Pleasure is an important element in social
intercourse, although it is not, or should not
be, its only end. 1t provides relaxation for
the energies that have been overstrained,
and for the mind that has been long concen-
trated on a single object. 1t is not merely
to afford pleasure but to recreate the powers
anew for fresh exertions. Inactivity is not
half SO efectual in refreshing the wearied
system, as the varied activity of powers
that have lain dormant during the hours Of
labor, and which are set in motion by social
intercourse.


We hear persons say in regard to attend
ing church, that they are obliged to labor 50
hard during the week that they must rest on
Sunday they cannot go to church but this
is the very reason they should 60. The body
is never SO fully at rest as when the mind is
fully occupied, nor the mind as when the
hands are fully occupied Lonely repose
will not refresh the body as we'll as good,
stirring sermon or lecture that arouses the
mind that has been almost inactive during
the week. Another, and more common ex.
cuse is, have nothing to wear. And are
not those who attend church, and realize the
benefits of this spiritual and bodily rest, in
great measure responsible for this very ex-
cuse Ought we not to dress SO simply and
plainly when We go to the house of God that
we shall not debar one of his creatures from
wOrshiping in his sanctuary, and that no one
will feel his shabbiness by our side Is not this
display of dress at church slamming heavens
gate in the faces of the pOOr2 A well-bred
lady is careful not to dress better than any
of the guests whom she entertains, yet she
considers not the angels unawares," that
may be in her own place of worship, and
sees no impropriety or sin in going there
bedecked in costly silk, laces and diamonds
attracting attention to herself rather than
divine things. Can a person worship God
in spirit and in truth, who is called to no.
tice this or that gorgeous toilet And who is
there that does not notice these thingsP Are
Year: 1874

The California grangers are sturdy set
of fellows-at any rate, those of Salinas val
ley are. They complained of the extortion
of railroads, but did not give up the fight
with protest. They deliberately subscrib-
ed the necessary stock and built and equip
ped narrow-guage line from the valley to
Monterey, a seaport but twenty miles dis
tant. The grangers say that they will be
able to pay for their road in very short
time by the saving in the freight, while
even should they abandon the operation oi
it, they will be ahead by reason of the i'm
mense reduction in rates they have enforced
on the lines between Salinas and San Fran.
cisco.
Year: 1874

Too many pasture, field and meadow is
ruined in great measure for the next year
by severe cropping in the autumn. Every
meadow designed for crop of hay the
coming year should have upon it when win
ter sets in good math Of grass, and SO
every pasture should have at least two
weeks of growth ere severe frost comes on,
unused or uncropped by stock, in order to
give strength or support to the roots Of the
plant during winter and assist in an carly
growth.
Year: 1874

will not the comparison Of the rubber
cord apply to currency2 We think the
value of paper money has been expanded
and contracted principally at the will of
Wall Street speculators) about as much as
the rubber cord can be, while the rise and
fall in the purchasing power of gold has
never been one-third as great Then let us
accept that which Auctuates least in value
in its power to purchase the necessaries OF
life-as the standard, and fix our paper
money at the value of gold by making it
convertible into gold at par, as soon as
possible. The call which. we SO often hear
that resumption must be delayed until GER
tain parties pay the debts that they have
contracted is a purely selfish one. While
they are paying these debts other parties
will be contracting new ones, and delay will
only shift the loss which must accompany
resumption from one set Of shoulders to an
other. Better, far better, resume at once,
thus fixing the value of the paper currency
and making impossible those fluctuations
which always leave profit in the hands Of
speculators at the expense of the laboring
classes. Resumption does not N necessarily
mean contrac ton, but simply stability,-ED
FARMER.
Year: 1874

A strnng effort is going to he made
to defeat Dick Clarkson for State
Printer This is all pure cuss work,
and those who are directly or indi-
rectly ailing the move are actuated
by "plre cussednessn and nothing
else. Marshall Times.


Isn't ait barely possible that the
Times puts the case in terms just a
trifle too strong. Do the Ciarkson
Brothers hold claims upon all the fat
offices in the gift of the Legislature
and the United States, or even upon
the Office of State Printer, which take
precedence of the claims of all other
parties.@ While they hold the Des
Moines Post Office by virtue Of their
journalism their friends should not
snap atothers who think it just as
we'll to distribute the Offices as to
give them out in lots to the leaders
Of either of the factions at the Capital
Mr.. Ciarkson would doubtless make
good officer; but Mr.. Woodruff
would serve the State as well. There
are tiftyother men in the State who
have just as good foundation for a
claim upon the Office as either Clark
son or Woodruff. Bro. Chaplin, of
the Times, has a good head, and usu-
ally carries it level; he sometimes,
however, says things naughty. He
is entitled to his choice, but should
not SO harshly accuse all who do not
look at this matter through his spec
tacles.
Year: 1874

ministering local affairs by local off,
GERS. Even Missouri has taken a
step in the same direction and by
submission Of the question to the
people Of the several counties, per-
mits the townships to govern them
selves in local matters if they choose.
1t seems to us quite time that Iowa
kept step with the march of modern
ideas on this question. Every man
with whom we have conversed on the
subject admits that our necessary
public expenditures for local objects
would be much more economically
managed if left to the people i'm their
townships. That fact alone is almost
or quite a conclusive argument in fa-
vor of the adoption of such system.
But it is not the only argument. We
can never have that vigiIant and en-
lightened interest in public affairs, on
the part of the mass of the people,
which we ought to have, until we
throw upon them a more direct re-
sponsiblity in managing them.
That vigilant interest is our, only
safeguard against mismanagement,
corruption and the decay OF public
virtue.
Year: 1874

Late reports indicate that Presi-
dent Grant is firm in his determine
ton to adhere to his nomination OF
Atty Gen. Williams for Chief JUS
tice. A correspondent of the Inter
Ocean says that the President recent
ly gave his views in very emphatic
terms on the question of appointing
one member of the Supreme Court
as Chief Justice. He was asked by
a gentleman delegated to communi-
cate with him in regard to the mat
ter, whether, i'm case Mr.. Williams
should be rejected, the appointment
was likely to go to any member of
the court, and if so whether COM
munication from the justices in re-
gard to the matter would have any
effect. The President replied very
decidedly in the negative, and said
he was opposed on principle to Sc
lection from the bench. He thought
when lawyer was appointed as JUS
tice of the Supreme Court and assum-
ed the duties Of the office, he ought
to consider that he had reached the
hight Of his ambition; that he was
consecrated to labor in one of the
most exalted places in the nation,
and ought to settle himself to this
life work with the determination TO
abandon all other ambitions for pO-
litical preference or prefermcnt
among his fellows. The President
continued to express his objections to
appointing from the bench, in such
terms as to convince those who had
approached him on the subject that
his mind was unalterabIy made up
not to appoint any one Of the present
Justices in case the Senate rejects Mr..
Williams.
Year: 1874

In answer to letter of inquiry,
Speaker Blaine has written to the
Boston Adrcytiser expressing an
opinion adverse to the enactment OF
"a law to re-establish the franking
privilege. lie thinks it would be
better to dispense with the printing
of the public documents which have
heretofore been sent out SO lavishiy
under the frank of Congressmen.
His letter closes thus: We have
the cheapest postage, all things con.
sidered, Of any people in the world
and about the fairest thing | know
Of is for every citizen, public and
private, to pay his own share Of it.
If / would vote for any possible ex-
ception to the rule of uniform and
universal payment, it would be in
favor Of newspaper exchanges and
the free circulation Of county papers
within their own bailiWicks."
Year: 1874

The New Orleans Republican gives
the following just estimate of the
character and public services of the
ex-President Fillmore. 1t is not only
correct but much fairer than any we
have seen in Republican journals:


There has been perhaps no better
representative American than Millard
Fillmore, man of unpretending but
unshaken integrity, of unostentatious
and tolerant faith, of large love for his
whole country and with no prejudice
against any portion of its people a
mind substantial and comprehensive,
capable of all public affairs, yet with no
abnormal development of any special
faculty into Oratory, poetry or political
intrigues. 1t is probable that the char
acter of Millard Fillmore will compare
very nearly with that of Washington in
its mental and moral balance, and in a
uniform reputation that has defied and
survived the INSCRIPTIONS assaults
which capacious ambition always di-
rects against unpretending integrity.


Mr.. Fillmore lived at the time when
it especially required sterling qualities
to fill the executive station. He stood
as breakwater between the interests
and the prejudices ofsections. AS the
author of a tariff not sufficiently pro-
tectiye as to satisfy the timid or cove
tious, yet recognizing principle that
exasperated the free traders. he excited
the hostility of the one without gaining
the enthusiasm of the other He did not,
perhaps satisfy Greeley. and certainly
did notappease Rhett. In like manner,
his approval of the measures known as
the compromise acts, exposed him to
the discomfort of abolition without
committing notification to his support.
He stood in a calmn and resolute at
titude, keeping apart infuriated an
tagonists. His successors were not so
resolute or so successful. Perhaps the
day of mediation had passed.
Year: 1874

He was once out on jaunt in the
township of White Oak, Ingram eoun-
ty, sticking to every farmer until he
got his name and money, and il so
happened that he came TO a house
where death had called few hours
before. The farmers wife was laid
out, and the husbandman and his
children were grieving over her loss
when the editor knocked at the door.


What's upY inquired the editor
as he saw the farmers solemn counte-
nance before him.


My wife is dead" replied the far
mer.


is that SOP" mused the editor
little disappointed. Did she die
easy ?' r4aa


Dropped of like a lamb


Did she say anything"


Not a word-just went right to
sleep like"


Il didn't know" continued the edi-
tor, a sad look on his face, but what
she might have requested you to SUBJ
scribe for the Cascade, which you know
is the best paper in the county. III
you want it I'll take your name right
In, and under the circumstances /
won't charge a cent for the obituary
noticel'


The farmer hung of for awhile, but
before the editor went away he had
two additional dollars in his pocket,
and had written out an obituary no
tiee for publication in the next issue
which the hereaved husband pro-
nounced "a mighty smart piece. De
trOit Free Press.