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Year: 1874

The trotting races announced to take place at
Prospect Park Fair Grounds yesterday were post
poned until the first lair day. The trotting to take
place tnen Will be the unfinished trot OF wednes-
day, team trot and race between 2:26 horses.
In tine latter there are ten entries and Ii Is
quite probable tnat eight or more will come to the
Year: 1874

" One of the most significant ut
terances of the times is to be found in q
letter on imitation from the venerable
patriot, ex-President Woolsey, of Yale
College, which was read at the recent
anti imitation meeting at the house of
Cyrus W. Field, in New York City.
Hear his bold words:


"I feel no attachment to party and
no obligation to support any orgaizatlon
SO corrupt as the Republican, to which
I have always belonged since it began
to exist. It is remarkable how many
feel just SO. Every other educated Re-
publican will tell you just the same
thing"
Year: 1874

Amid the rush and whirl of the great


city the mIghtier din of the country is


unheard. The annual grand garnering
season OF the farmer has come. Winter


is the grave Of the country; Spring is a
time of quiet planting and noiseless
growth the lull of Summers cem-
mencement is the calm before the storm
July, month of opening harvest, is the


great clamor time of the farmers year.
time Of cutting down, heaping up and
gathering in; when the owner OF a farm
feels like the monarch of little king
dom which yields him beuntiful trib-
ute evry year. There is no more quiet
now; ne lazy plowing, no nonoton-
GUS swish Of the grain as it. falls from
the hand at every step; no sauntering
over fields to watch the progress of
growing crops, but martial rush and
constant determined onslaught. The
sunrise rereille; the tramp of men and
horses; the whetting of scythes; the
rumble OF reaping machines; the rat
tie OF the rakes and the bloodless strife
of the men who pitch the hay into piles
or upon the attending wagon. These
are the sounds which now vie with the
whir of the city manufactures. Thus
the clover falls, then the wheat, the
broad field OF timothy, red-top and blue
grass; then the oats, the last of sum-
mers harvest, which is followed by the
pleasanter but less noisy and not so re-
munerative, gathering of the fruits of
autumn.


This is the poetry of it. The prose is
far more acceptable in times OF panic.
Farmers have been less affected BY the
financial crisis than any other class.
Yet they were frightened by the gener-
al great alarm and have been most care
rul in theirexpendltures. The familiar
sounds of this harvest will sweep away
the last vestige Of tie panic in the
minds Of the farmers, and will so affect
the whole country. 1t is not all sound.
There is munificent harvest to pay
for.all the noise and struggle and sweat
in the heat of Farmers Day. Reports
from the whole country are encourag-
ing. Frost and drought and flood have
injured the crops in many places, but
they will average well. The prosperity
which comes to the farmer with boun-
tiful harvest will be general in its in
fiuencc. Therefore mingling with the
sounds from the country may be heard
assurances of relief in all classes of in
dustry. They will cheer the tagging
manufacturer as well as the merchant
whose complaint for months has been
of dull sales. The perfume of the fall
ing clover may be reduced TO pecuniary
value, and the worth of every sound
from the country may be computed in
dollars and cents.-CIeceland Leader.
Year: 1874

Ii is Il matter of great surprise that so
little attention is paid to the quality OF
speed in working oxen. Our agricultural
fairs have been very generally turned into
mere horse races in the rage for fast road
sters. Speed in horsetiesh Is, to large
extent, the mania of the day Good
draught horses; sound, steady workers of
fine form and powers Of endurance, have
had to stand aside and let the trotters oc-
cupy public attention.


But we have scarcely ever seen the i'm
portance of cultivating quickness of move
ment in working oxen alluded to. And
yet there are farmers who will follow a
yoke of oxen around field, ploughing, or
drawing loads at a snail's pace, now and
then applying the gad with shout OF
'go-along," but making scarcely more
than half a dozen rounds of ten acre lot
IN the course of a day. Oxen are proverb-
tally slow, but they are capable of i'm
provement in this respect as well as other
animals, and more attention ought to be
paid to cultivating in them quick step
In Oriental countries. especially in India,
they are used extensively for the road, in
place of horses, and they may often be
seen trotting off at spanking gait. We
do not need trotting oxen, but fast walk
is of great importance. Doubling their
speed would double their value as working
cattle


Why may not our agricultural societies
offer prizes for the fastest walking oxen
as well rs for the fastest horses? 1t would
take some years to rear a race of good
walkers. but it is worth an effort, and
worthy of encouragement from our agri-
cultural societies. One of the strongest
objections to the use of oxen on a farm,
is that they are SO slow, This objection
can be and ought to be removed
Year: 1874

Near a corner OF one of the writer's
fields was a large boulder that would
weigh probably two tons, the upper part
Of which was only a few inches above the
surface Of the ground. This rock had
been ploughed over, narrowed over,
moved over. sowed over and harvested
over ever since the lana Wa, nIot ,lv..leu
of the forest. Several new ploughshares,
each costing at that time fifty cents each,
had been broken by coming in contact with
this granite ''hard head" After careless
ploughman had smashed up new plough
on the rock it was resolved that something
should be done with it. One halt hour, 5
labor with a shovel removed the earth
above the rock so that two-thirds OF the
upper part lay fully exposed. A fire was
then kindled on the top Of this 'hard
head and a quarter Of Il wagon load OF
old pieces of rails, roots and fragments OF
stumps were heaped on the fire. Shortly
after the heat began to enter the surface
of the stone the top was covered with
scales, which had to be removed with a
long pole OF crowbar. Before the COM
bustibles were consumed the boulder
cracked through and through into several
large fragments, which were readily pried
out and were used advantageously in
building a cellar wall
Year: 1874

The ghost Of Louis Napoleon, OF what
looks strangely like the wrath OF the de
tunct Emperor, may be seen daily haunt
ing the Restaurant Morel, back Of the
Opera Comique in Paris, a cafe must
frequented by artists and authors. The
ghost in question is no other than the
son of the deceased ruler, the eldest child
of the late celebrated Mrs. Howard.
He is remarkably like his father Gan ad-
vantage which the Prince Imperial does
not enjoy, and is said to resemble him
also in conduct. He is a middle-aged
man now, but is not in the least a settled
OF steady one. and his habits of dissipation
and extravaganza used to give the En-
peror much trouble. 10 get rid of this
wild scion, and to avoid the scandals
which might have been set atloat by the
Liberals respecting his conduct in Paris,
his father sent him first as Consul to Bel
fast, and, finding that still too near to
France in all probability he transferred
him to the Consulate of Zanzibar He is
now residing in Paris and bears the little
of Count de Bure. Some day, perhaps, he
may play the part of Duke de Morny to
Napoleon ~.
Year: 1874

A precocious boy of eight summers at
tributes the death of a pet gold fish--his
sisters idol-to the fact that it couldn't
take a Joke. He used to catch it occa-
sionally with bent pin.


A child five years old, bright, and active
and red haired, was left on door step in
Skowhegan few nights since.
Year: 1874

and quantity of tools suitable for all


kinds OF work The three principal


Instruments are the transit instrument by


which time and latitude will be determined;


the equatorial instrument, which is to be-


used IN observing the transit Of Venus


over the suns disc, also the soccuLtation'


or hiding OF the stars by the moon, and


Tor the purpose of determining longitude


The equatorial instrument has an aperture
of five inches. The most interesting of
the instruments is that by which the
photographs of the transit will be taken
1t is the invention of Prof. Winlock oi
Harvard University and was first applied
IN this country. 1t consists Of Il telescope
forty icet in length, with an aperture Of
nNe inches. The tube is intended to be
horizontal and stationary, and the sun will
.ri pe thrown into it by means Of heliostat
L. Inc hellostat is an instrument which runs
like clock, and corresponds with the
motion OF the sun, and thus throws if,
light all the while into the telescope.
which is itself stationary. One endset
the tube enters a small building about
twelve feet square, which will be used n
a photograph room. 1t is expected that
by this apparatus picture will be OH
tanned once every two minutes during the
time of the transit.
Year: 1874




The News of the 10th discourses
learnedly and pointedly upon the
"negro and the industrial problem. !"
One has right to look for light
when such a paper as the News
breaches such subject, but if any
thing except the commonest plati-
tudes can be gotten out of the artl,
ole in question, we fail to SEQ it.
Should the negro labor of Texas be
suddenly Withdrawn from the pro.
duction of cotton, how much think
you would the Galveston cotton peo.
pie handle during the next season.
An inexorable law of labor is, it will.
seek the fields that pay the lorgest
return upon physical effort, it will
abandon those that pay the least.
White labor will not seek the un-
wholesome localities near the coast,
when the same effort will produce a
larger, or at least as large, return
in the higher and more healthy loca-
tions in the interior. Whenever the
land owners Of Texas make the till
ing Of their broad acres pleasant as
well as q profitable business for the
iaborer, they can depend upon it,
there will bc NO scarcity Of muscle.
Year: 1874

The two houses of the Legislature
in joint session, after hearing the ar
gument in the address case of the
State against NJ. Priest, decided on
his removal by the following vote !:
Senate, unanimously for his removal ;
House, seventy-two for and ten
against.
Year: 1874

highway to the seaboard, and from thence by
steam or sail to Great Britain and Ireland and
the continent of Europe. By means of such
combination it is believed to be able to sue
cessfully compete with the grain and other
products of the Baltic, Adriatic, Black Sea
and the Levant, which have been gradually
driving the products of the West out of the
market.'


The scheme is in the interest of Montreal
and the Canada railways and water route,
but the producing districts of the West are ex-
pected to contribute largely toward furnish
ing the necessary funds. The design is to
construct fleet of propellers to ply between
Montreal and Chicago. touching at Mllwau-
kee, Toledo and Detroit in passing both
ways. In connection with these vessels ocean
steamers are to run from Montreal and Que
bee. It would seem that this was undertaking
enough for one company, but the managers
of this grand Canadian enterprise were not of
that opinion. In addition to the steamers.
fast freight lines are to be organized TO ran
trains from Cincinnati, Louisville, st. Louis,
and other leading centers in the southwest to
Montreal, and to connect with The propellers
at the lake ports. The steamers are to be
used principally in the grain traffic, and the
fast freight lines will endeavor to turn the
cotton and tobacco trades from Baltimore and
New York to Montreal.


Much stress is laid on the fact that the
Welland canal improvement will be COM
pleted in about two years, when large class
vessels will be able to run through the entire
chain of lakes without interruption. The ad-
vantage Of Montreal as receiving and ship
ping port are also dwelt upon at length.
Whether the desired $5,000,000 can be
raised remains to be seen, but it would not
be surprising if success attended this part of
the undertaking, The Canadians will doubt
less subscribe freely, in the expectation of
the West to follow their example. If any
considerable amount is raised in this way,
the remainder can be negotiated in London.
But to carry out the practical part of the
project is quite another thing. If the money
is forthcoming, the vessels and cars may be
obtained without trouble; but to secure the
necessary freight to make the investment
profitable is where the difficulty will be ex-
perienced. The people Of New YORK. how
ever, would do well to initiate the enter
prise manifested by their Canadian competi-
tors. The latter ale continually devising
means for attracting commerce down the st.
Lawrence, while the former remain perfectly
quiet, waiting for commerce to thrust itself
upon them. The superior advantages which
New York has enjoyed have caused trade to
center there. But of late rival routes, fur
nishing good facilities, have been opened,
and unless New York shows more spirit than
she displayed in the past, trade win gradually
seek other channels.
Year: 1874

Senator Sherman, from the finance COM
mittee, reported a bin amendatory of the act
of 1870, in relation to the increase OF circula-
ton OF national bank notes, and stated that
equal distribution of currency by a with
drawal OF twenty-five million dollars from
tion of it in the west and south among the
States deficient. He said that the bill met
with the approval Of the secretary of the
treasury, the comptroller of currency, and
every member of the finance com mittee, and
he would call it up for action at an early day.
Placed on the calendar.
Year: 1874

Senator Sargent introduced a bill, which
was referred to the committee on education
and labor, to establish a bureau of health. 1t
proposes to establish at Washington, under
the direction OF the interior department, q
bureau OF health, the general design and du-
ties of which shall be to acquire and diffuse
among the people Of the United States useful
information on subjects connected with
the preservation OF the public health
and to assist, whenever called upon, the sew
eral States and Territories in the establish
ment OF efficient sanitary and quarantine
systems and a regulation bureau, to be in
charge OF commissioner to be appointed at
= salary OF four thousand dollars per annum
and who is to be assisted by three clerks.
Year: 1874

The senate then proceeded to the considera-
ton of the bankrupt BILL and Mr.. Edmunds
explained the amendments thereto hereto
fore published. The amendments were con-
sidered SerfdttDl, and the first six sections
of the amended bill was agreed to as reported
by the judiciary committee without change,
vide that no discharge shall be grant
ed to q debtor whose assets shalt
the claims proved against his estate without
the assent OF his creditors, ia number and
value, as prescribed by existing laws and 9TH
ers; and provides that in cases of involuntary
or compulsory bankruptcy, the period OF four
months mentioned in the thirty-ffth section
of the original be changed to two months, but
two months after the passage of this
act. The period of six months men
toned in the same section of the original act
Is changed TO three, but not TO take effect un-
til three months after the passage of this act.
when the seventh section of the committees
amendments, in regard TO attempts TO defraud


Senator Oglesby said that he
would be glad to see a system OF general
bankruptcy, passed and remain upon the
statute books of the country, for people TO
become accustomed to it. He had seen 1t an
nounced that the legislature OF his State had
passed resolution requesting the Illinois
bankrupt law, but he had received no
official notification of that fact. When such
notification should be received he would re-
spect and obey it. As long as there was a
credit system in the country, we should have
national bankrupt law, instead of repeating
1t and being thrown back to the old Slate syS-
tenn. He moved TO strike out the words "Or
who have stopped or suspended and not re-
sumed the payment Of his commercial paper
within a period of forty days" That class OF
persons should be deemed to have annulled
an act of the bankrupt law. He thought with
that clause out we should have bankrupt
law which would reach around the
country, and in time meet with universal
favor.


Senator Edmunds inquired what would
be done with that class of persons If the gem
tlemans amendment prevailed.


Senator Oglesby replied that the matter
would be left under the present State laws.


Pending the discussion the senate went into
executive session, ana soon after adjourned.
Year: 1874

The California Legislature has had
an investigation" the result Of which
is gratifying. lt.seems that Governor
Booth and his friends were accused of
having secured his election to the
United States Senate by bribery. A
committee was appointed by the House
to investigate the charges. The re-
suit is that not even a shadow of evil
dence could be found to substantiate
the accusation. It is gratifying to
know that man with so fair a reputa-
ton as political reformer and econo-
mist as Governor Booth will enter the
National Senate with clean hands and
above suspicion Of demagogism.
Year: 1874

We give below the conclusion Rf the ab-
stracts Of the lecture given on ths subject,
by DR.. Hewitt, Secretary State Board Of
Health, to the teachers of the Red Wing
Public Schools s


What, then, are the impurities in the air
Of occupied school rooms with which ven
tilation has to deal?


In the act of breathing each person adds
to the air Of the room l4.5 cubic feet Of
carbonic acid gas every hour, and small
er, unknown quantity from the skin.


From the lungs and skin each person
adds, to the quantity already in the air, at
least one ounce Of, xetery vapor per hour,
which holds in suspension small quanti
ty Of organic matter just ready to undergo
decomposition. Its exact amount is not
known, but it besrsssa constant relation to
the carbonic acid given off with it, so that
when that gas is found to exist in the pro-
portion Of more than 8 parts in 10000 Of
the air, there is IN offensive animal odor
Year: 1874

1t is estimated that only. five per cent of
the butter sent to market is really choice,
The loss sustained may be rated at millions
of dollars annually.


Now whether the per cent. Of choice but
ter is really as low as this we have no
means Of knowing, but that there is a great
deal Of poor butter made every one is aware.
On every pound of poor butter made there
is loss of just Is much as the poor lbdtter
sells for less than the good; fer it1just as
easy to make good buttdf as ts6r; and not
one cent more expensive pll that is requir-
ed is care, and cleanlinesA


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They have . fine example Of the Office
mania in Little Rock, Arkansas. Govern
or Baxter has had the office of Chief Execu-
tive for fifteen months, and now one Gov.
Brooke who claims that he was elected and
not Baxter, thinks it is time he had it a
while. Brooks tried to have the legislature
place him in the gubernatorial chair, but
they refused. be appealed to the Supreme
Court, but the Court said that it was none
of their fish, that the legislature was final.
Brooks was not satisfied and he went to the
circuit court where without hearing Of
the other side or notice Of hearing to Mr..
Baxter, who is not the Baxter that wrote
s. Saints Resi-" he obtained judgment
ousting Baxter and installing himself:
Without waiting for writ the new Govern
or rushed with his friends into the Capitol,
demanded al immediate turning over to
himself Of ths helm of the ship of State and
being refused he took it, seized it, and
kicked Baxler Of sanity associations,
though he ee no saint, yet Of the poop Of
the vessel, or in other words ousted him by
Year: 1874

% The tide ofimmigratlon is steadily set
ting in, and the first thing eastern people do
is to throw away their New York Hats and buy
a new one of DESMOND. They say there is no
comparison between the two. 212o
Year: 1874

One of the hands from the Castac
Mine came to the city yesterday. He
reports the wagon road completed to
the head of the ditch and the grade
staked out over one mile, which puts
the ditch high up on the side of the
caflon, in good ground for ditching.
The men are all in good health and
spirits. This speaks well for the en-
terprse, when we consider that all the
men are working for stock in the COM
pany in place of money. There seems
to be fair prospect that this mining
enterprise will be grand success and
great benefit to Southern California
Year: 1874

We have to dispose of our immense
Stock of Clothing, Dress Goods, etc., etc., to
make room for very extensive Stock of Fall
Goods, just purchased in New York, and On
route for u.s. We have reduced the prices, and
you will find 1t to your advantage to call a
the
Year: 1874

The City Board of Equalization hav-
ing completed their examination of
the city assessment roll, will sit to
hear complaints daily until the 23d
inst, when the roll will be turned
over to the Collector. Some fifteen
complaints have been filed. There
will probably be twice that number
before they get through.
Year: 1874

CHRISTMAS TREE.-It seems our little notice,
last week, in reference to getting up some kind
|of an entertainment on Christmas for the chill
dren, had its effect. Already the arrangements
are made for having Christmas Tree, at Music
Hall, on Christmas Eve, and the Committee
wish to say that "all the citizens of Auburn and
vicinity are invited to participate in the festivi-
ties of the evening, being intended for the pub
lie generally, and the children especially. Come,
and by your presence contribute to the good
cheer of the occasion. committee will be in


attendance at the Hall from 10 o'clock, A. NJ,


until o'clock, P M, to receive articles designed


for the tree. The Committee request that each


article be distinctly marked with the name OF


the person for whom intended. They pledge


that care will be observed in the distribution, that


each article may be placed in the hands of the


right person. Please hand in the articles at an


early hour, that they may be properly arranged
Year: 1874

In the garden of Robert Gordon, back of the
HEaALD Office, Japanese ounce tree is already
beginning to bud. All kinds of vegetation is
unusually forward in this part of the country,
but the idea of n tree cutting up such capers as


above mentioned. in the early part of December,


is something that Eastern people may wonder
n
Year: 1874

THERE is q reward offered for the man who
left church, last Sunday evening, before the
Sermon was concluded becanse there was no one
sitting hear him who had two quarters to give
for half. A chap near by had five short bits,
but he said be didn't want to let them al GO.
Year: 1874

DURING warm shower OF rain last
weak. man who was hauling load Of
lime in Sonoms county. Cal. had hh
cargo set ON fire in consequence Of the
heat given out by the lime in absorbing
the rain. One Of the mules stubbornly
resisted all efforts 10 detaoh him from
the burning wagon. and was crsmatsd
on the spot. while his unfortunate owner
stood BY and misapplisd scripture.
Year: 1874

pA- The tide ofimmigration is steadily set
ting in, and the first thing eastern people do
Is to throw away their New York Hats and buy
a new one of DESMOND. They say there Is no
comparison between the two. 2Iso