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Year: 1874

If there is any Of the Reconstructed
States where the people are literally taxed
out Of house and home, Arkansas is the
one. In order to be sure that the asses.
sors shall not permit any undervaluation
of property, they are paid commission
on the amount assessed, SO that the high.
er the valuation they retarn, the larger
will be their own share OF the plunder
The idea Of paying assessors BY commits
sion is novel, and its natural effect ob.
vious This plan is so brilliant that it is
almost safe to say that II must have orig
mated in the prolific brain Of Grants
particular friend, Senator Clayton, to
whom the people OF Arkansas arc deeply
indebted in many ways. lfa tax on per-
sonal property is not paid, the collector
may seiz. it and sell enough to cover the
amount due, with costs and fifty per cent.
on the whole besides, paying himself for
his trouble II real estate owner fails
to pay his taxes, his property is sold at
auction under provisions which render it
almost impossible that he can ever re-
cover it, In case no purchasers come
forward to bid for such property, then,
in order to make sure that tho owner is
properly punished for his poverty, the


State steps in, buys it, and gives 1t away
to certain railroad companies. And yet,
strange to say, there are very few white
men to be found in this benighted State
who are able to properly appreciate the
blessings Of living under republican
fern Of government --Yew York Sun.
Year: 1874

TT any Of our readers want, or know
Of any one that does, the help a female, can
learn of such at .his Office, and at the same
timc help av very worthy woman. white
woman with tour children, and stranger in
our midst, is willing to do most any kind of
work to earn IA living. Any contributions
needed in Il family will be acceptable and
thankfully received Any thing left at this
Ollce will be sent TO its destination.
Year: 1874

q Our old friend Hays Browndeld. has just
received, and has now on exhibition, the most
cOmplcte Cotton Gin Saw Filler, that we have
sccn or heard Of. 1t seems perfect in all its
parts, and he can put Gin Saw in complete
order in day or two, where in the old way
by hand, it takes ten and twelve days and is
then not so perfectly done as with this. Cot
ton Ginners should call and take a look at
this labor.saving machine.
Year: 1874

HT 1t 10 not generally known that the
leaves Of the geranium are an excellent
application for cuts where the skin Is
rubbed Off and other wounds Of that kind.
One or two leaves must be bruised and
applied to the part, and the wound will
be cicstYized in q short time
Year: 1874

To PREVENT TuRKETs LEAVING HONE
1T is stated in conversation that turkeys
will not leave the yard in which they are
put il strip Of red flannel is tied around
the wing. long enough to trail on the
ground The recipe is simple and easily
tried, aud, If effective. would prove OF
great benefit in removing a source OF
much loss and annoyance to the turkey
breeder. The vanity OF the fowl is prob
ably affected by this means as he would
not wish to run the risk Of seeing stran-
gers with such rag upon his dignity -
Co. Gent.
Year: 1874

tE- The we'll known Anthony House, at
Little Rock is now open permanently for the
reception ofguests. and about the first Of next
month will open their dining hall This
House is well conducted under the charge of
Judge Cendenin and Capt John Peay. Wis
itors to Little Rock will not be better pleased
than at this house.
Year: 1874

1t is not known when the Senate will
60 into Executive Session to reject Cush
ing, but probably within day or two
When it is done, the President will i'm
medIately nominate Jerry Black, as 81
mon Cameron says tonight, and then
there will be new chaos. or course
there is no telling where it all will end ,
but while it lasts there will be fun.
Year: 1874

Every little while, writes corre- spondent, we read in the papers of some one who has stuck rusty nail into his foot, or knee or hand, or some other portion of his person, and that lockjaw has resulted therefrom, of which the patient died. If every person in the world was aware of perfect remedy for all such wounds, and would apply it, then all such reports must cease. But although we can give the remedy, we cannot enforce the application. Some will not employ it because they think it too simple others have no faith in it when they read it while others often think such a wound of small account and not worth fussing over, until it is too late to do any good. Yet all such wounds can be healed with out such fatal consequences as follow them. The remedy is simple, almost always on hand, and can be applied by any one, and what is better, it is infalli- ble. It is simply to smoke such wound, or any wound or bruise that is indamed, with burning wool or woolen cloth. Twenty minutes in the smoke of wool will take the pain out of the worst wound, and repeated once or twice, it will allay the worst case of infamrna- tion arising from wound we ever saw. People may sheer at the Gold woman s remedy" as much as they please, but when they are afflicted, just let them try it. It has saved many lives and much pain, and is worthy of being printed in letters of gold and put up in every home,
Year: 1874

A writer in the Medical Journal, dis coursing on dyspepsia, says : We have seen dyspeptics who suffered untold tor ments with almost very kind of food, and torments of which they did tell after some medicines given for relief. No liquid could be taken without suf- fering. Bread became a burning acid. Meat and milk were solid and liquid fires. We have seen these same suf- ferers trying to avoid food and drink, and even going to the enema syringe for sustenance. And we have seen their torments pass away and their hunger relieved by living upon the white of eggs, which had been boiled in bub- bling water for thirty minutes. At the end of a week, we have given the hard yolk of the egg with the white, and upon this diet alone, without fluid of any kind, we have seen them begin to gain flesh and strength and refreshing sleep. After weeks of this treatment they have been able, with care, to begin upon other food. And all this, the writer adds, without taking medicine. He says that hard boiled eggs are not half so bad as half boiled ones, and ten times as easy to digest as raw eggs, even in egg-nog.
Year: 1874

The Burlington (Vt.) Free Press con- tributes the following singular story to the "mysterioiis literature now oc- cupying the attention of the press to so

 great an extent

 A story of such occurrences has re-

 gently been related to us, and if it were permissible to give names, they would give much weight to the statement.

 The facts come to us through only two mouths from the actors. A family removed from country village into Boston, and occupied house compara- lively new, and in modern part of the city. The children soon began to tell their parents of boy who came to play with them in the street or in their play room, and of what he said and did, and how he looked. The parents never saw the boy, and finally bade the children bring him in some day to see them. The answer was, "Oh, we can't; he goes right away" Being told the next time he came to the house to let them know, the children did so but, as they said, he had "gone right away ]" when the parents reacked the play room. This went on for some time, greatly to the wonder and perplexity of the parents the children, simple, and matter of fact, thought nothing strange of it. One day they reported to their father that their playmate, now we'll known by name, told them his father and mother were going to Europe in a few days, and he gave their names and the vessel they would sail by from New York. The gentleman, without saying anything, went to New York, found such names on the steamers list. went to the dock on the day of the sailing, sought out the persons, and inquired if they had 8 boy of such age and de- scriptiQn as his children had related to him. With great emotion they replied, "We had such 8 boy, but he is dead :; why do you ask ?" Further conversa- tion convinced them and the Bostonian that the spirit of their darling boy, never seen by those who knew and loved him, was frequent visitor to the house of perfect strangers, and seen and talked with by the children of others. What was the result is not known to us; whether or not, upon the return home of the Bostonian, any att tempt was made to open eommunica- tion with the spirit boy for his parents, or even whether or not the "spirit was again seen ; but the facts here given went far to overturn his disbelief in the possibility of the return of the soul in bodily appearance, on the part of the clear-headed, devout and gray haired man, to whom the tale was told by his lifelong friend, the Bostonian himself, and through whom the story comes to us.
Year: 1874

For time the papers were filled with accounts of desperate acts committed by the Molly Maguires in the coal re- gions of Pennsylvania. A correspond ent of the New York World, who visited the locality, says: This Molly Mcguire business is all imagination. There is no such organization. There is certain amount of lawlessness in the coal and iron country of this State at all times, but as to any organized body of rioters there is none. Let nae give you picture of Molly. He is tall, overgrown, lazy, shiftless sort of a person who could not thrive in any country from the fact that he don't want to. Honest miners and working men have given him that name, and they use it to let him know that he is a lazy, careless man, unworthy the name of 8 miner. In every section these idlers are to be met. Generally they are fond of rum and when drunk they fight and quarrel among themselves, the same as vagabonds do in any quarter of the globe.
Year: 1874

The Highland costume, says the

 Danbury NeaOs man in letter from

 Scotland, is common in Inverness, but it is not a common garb to the people.

 It is worn mostly by the gentry in the

 hunting season, and is 8 favorite garb

 with the Duke of Edinburg when in

 the Highlands. The measure adopted

 after the rebellion of tho clans in favor of Prince Charles Edward, prohibiting clan meetiEge and the clan dress, struck the death blow to the most picturesque masculine costume ever in vogue, from Adam to Dr. Mary Walker. Quite fro~ quently. however, meet some farmer in the kilt and stockings, and there are a few in the Highlands who wear them the year around. They are not a most comfortable dress in these breezy, wet autumn days. and are much less in the winter when these hills and moors arc covered with snow and keen frosty wind sweeps through the glens. The dress consists now of sack coat-instead of the plaid waist of former times and the long plaid wrapped about the body for protection-a kilt or yard or two of tartan gathered in tucks at the up per edge and wound about the hips,

 and fastened at the waist, and of sufi- cient width to permit it to reach within ono or three inches of the knees. Un- der this IS a pair of muslin or woolen drawers of sufficient length to cover the thighs, but hardly long enough to be reassuring to the sensitive observer on 9 windy day. From these drawers to the tops of the stockings, which come nearly up to the knees, the legs are bare, and are exposed to all kinds of weather. Yet the wearers do not suffer from the exposure, any more than one does from having his face uncovered. I can understand this with those who were brought up in the dress and wear it the year round, but how those who adopt it only occasionally, and the autumn hunting season being one of the occasions, keep comfortable these chilly days, is beyond my cemprehen- sion. It is not dress adapted to blaekberrying, nor to a mole on the 1 leg.
Year: 1874

CRIBBING IN HoRsEs.-A correspondent
of the Scientific American says "Cribbing
is caused in the first place by some for
eign substance being pressed between the
teeth, or by the front teeth growing too
close together. thus causing pain. The
horse. to avoid this, instinctively pulls at
any hard substance, thus spreading the
points of the teeth, and by that means af-
fording temporary relief. To remedy this
fault, ii is only necessary to saw between
the teeth with very thin saw; this re-
lieves the teeth of all side pressure, and
effectually ends the trouble. The gulping
of wind and the gurgling in the throat are
effects that will cease with the removal of
the cause.
Year: 1874

The Iron-clad To BE Removed from the


Battery 10 Winter Quarters In the


Navy Yard.


This morning the United states turreted iron
clad Roanoke, lying at anchor or the Battery,
commanded by Commodor George Ii. COOPER
and the flagship OF Vice Admiral S. u. Rowan
will take pilot on board and proceed to her
Water quarters al the Brooklyn Navy Yard. This
vessel, which had taken the place Of the Froc OF
the Battery, was considered to DE In an exposed
situation and might be driven from her moorings
by Ice or vessels dragging their anchors. Only q
few days ago sailing vessel, driven from her
anchorage by the gale, ran foul OF the iron-clad
but the damage sustained was, OF course, to the
wooden vessel. The Roanoke has had very
checkered career. She was launched OF the Cos
pert Navy Yard In 1855 and was originally screw
lrigate OF forty guns 3,435 tons burden. While
being launched her back was broken. In 1851 she
destroyed small rebel pr,vateer or the coast OF
south Carolina, and In 1862 she partially partci.
p2ted IN the engagement with the rebel Iron clad
Merrimac. Her shaky condition made 1t necessary
TO cut her down TO her gun deck, which was done
cred with four and half inch iron plate and
Ericsson turrets placed on deck. On the 2eth of
June, 1868 she was put IN commission and sent TO
Fortress Monroe to act as a harbor defence, and
remained in southern waters till 1885, when she
came here and was laid up IN ordinary. After the
Vlrgnius massacre she was hastily fttea up and
put ID commission.
Year: 1874

Il correspondent of the Rochester Demo-
crHt and chronicle suggests An adaptation of
the pneumatic tube idea for the transportation
of grain from the West to the East. He
wishes to lay long pipe underground be-
tween the Northwest and the seaboard, and
blow the crops through it. Stations would
be built every three or four miles, in which
large fans would be steadily at work forcing
air into the tube. He calculates that pres
sure of two pounds to the square inch could
be easily maintained, and that this would
shoot forward wheat, corn, oats, etc., at $50
or 200 miles an hour. The expense of the
iron tunnel is put at s., 900 per mile This
seems rediculously low. The pipe would
have to be laid deep in order to escape the
action of frost. 1t would have to be enamelcd
or made smooth in some way within in order
to keep the friction at the lowest possible
point, and to prevent the grazing wearing into
dust by rubbing along smooth surfaces.


All plans of this sort are fascinating. 1t
would be delightful to avoid the necessity of
using the cumbrous machinery of cars and
locomotives, and tracks. by simply pouring
grain into hopper and receiving a telegram
announcing its safe arrival in New York four
hours afterwards. 1t would be douby de-
lightful to get such speedy transportation by
q route which needed to pay interest on only
5000 per mile. If half the promises these
pipc-plans hold out could he verified, the
cheap transportation problem would be solv-
ed forthwith. 1t is known that grain can be
sent this way for short distances. The way
in which air has been forced into the Hoosac
and Mt. Gems tunnels shows this. In either
of these cases the current was strong enough
to have carried considerable weight before
it. Whether, however, it would be possible
to overcome the mechanical difficulties which
lie in the way of conveying solid substance
by air pressure any great distance, only ex-
perience can tell. The question is well worth
the attention of men of science. Fortune and
fame, and the power to greatly help his fel-
low men, will be the reward of him who
solves it, Chicago Tribune.
Year: 1874

l could see the bases of these great levers
pressing more tightly toward each other, from
their interstices there trickled down the stalk
of the tree great streams of the viscid, honey
like fluid, mingled horribly with the blood
and OOZing viccra Of the victim. At sight of
this the savage hordes around me. yelling
madly, bounded forward, crowded to the
tree, clasped it, and with cups, leaves, hands
and tongues, got each one enough of the
liquor to send him mad and frantic. Then
cnsued grotesque and indcscribably hide
Gus orgic, from which. even while its con-
vulsivc madness was turning readily into de-
lilium and insensibility, Henrick dragged me
hurriedy away into the recesscs of the fores:,
hiding me from the dangerous brutcs and the
brutcs from me. May never see such a
sight again.


Seidben Ialhamah says he will go aboard
his ship in half AL hour and sail, so | must
be brief. In the course of my stay in the
valley of twenty lone days, l saw six other
specimens of the CrinOida Daeeiana but
none so large as this which the Mkodos wor-
SHIPPED. l discovered that they are unques-
tiOnably carnivOrOus, in the same sense that
diOnea and drosera are insectivorous. The
retracted leaves of the great tree kept their
upright position during ten days, then, when
| came again one morning, they were prone
again, the tendrlls stretched, the palpi float
ing, and nothing but white skull at the foot
of the tree to remind me of the sacrifice that
had taken place there. climbed into neigh
boring tree and saw that all trace of the VIC
tim had disappeared, and the cup was again
supplied with viscid fluid.


The indcscribablc rapidity and energy of its
movements may be inferred from the fact
that saw small one seize, capture, and de-
stroy an active little lemur, which, dropping
by accident upon it while watching and grin
ming at me, in vain endeavored to escape
from the fatal tolls.


With Henricks assistance, and the consent
of some of the head men of the Mkodos
(whO, however did not dare to stay to wit
ness the act of sacrilege), cut down one of
the minor trees and dssected it carefully.
Seid, however, is waiting for me, and must
defer to my next the details Of this most in
teresting examination.
Year: 1874

The Fat Contributor" furnishes the Utica


O6sercer the following strange story of ''a
twin"


''There was woman out west who gave
birth to one twin-just one, that's all there
was of him. She never had another solitary
twin so long as she lived. He was mclan-
chOlly child from the first, and wore such
lonesome look. He always seemed to be
watching and listening for somebody that
never came. He appeared to realize that he
wasn't all tOgether-that he was a kind of Il
human parenthesis with one bracket gone
animated dumb-bells with one dumb-bell
missing pair that couldn't beat deuces and
hardly worth drawing to. He used to moan
in his sleep and paw around on the pillow
for the missing brother When that boy
grew up he was different from any boy l
eyer knew-that is to say, any one boy. He
seemed more like two boys-at least he was
altogether too boys-terous for one. If he had
fight, it was with boy twice as big as he
was, for he seemed to feel, somehow, as
though there were two Of them, or ought to
be. He always managed to get two pieces
of pie at the table. just as if one was for the
other of him who wasn't there, and there was
q thin pretense of taking care of it for him,
but he always took care to eat it l noticed.
He only learned half his lessons, and double
entry bookkeeping nigh about set him crazy,
because, as told you, there wasn't but half
of him there, and he couldn't double entry.
He wouldn't sleep with any boy because he
said it crowded EN-. He grew up, but he
never got married. Once or twice he at
tempted to court a girl, but he left her when
it was half done, as though that other twin
of his would be along and court the other
half don't know what became of him.
heard that he died from sheer loneliness, but
l only believe half hear about that boy, any
how. If he be dead you can bet he is only
half dead.'
Year: 1874

Protestants thought that the conception without
sin referred to the birth Oi Christ through mary
the Virgin, but she believed tnat II referred 70 the
conception OF the Virgin herself Agassiz ana ms
school differed from Huxley and TyDdall. she had
been informed oy the spirits that the race which
now lived on the earth mad IN past times
come from an entirely different planet and
that the race had degenerated. She be-
lieved that there was coming on earth race OF
women. perhaps OF American won D. who would
conceive as 81. Ann had In the same way. with.
out sin and without the cooperation OF man, and
there would be other Christs conceived by this in-
proved race OF women. There was TOO much
domination by man; there was too much OF the
male anstocracy, and women should be allowed to
come on the spiritual platform and assert their
independent views.


The speaker mad been actively engaged
among the workingwomen who had sought to
benent themselves By cooperation, and sne had
been spoken OF as Tree lover, anu poor women
VINO had met together TO take counsel had been
compelled TO iorsake their associates because
they could not get work and were marked as hav.
ing been seen talking with dlsreputable persons,
forsooth. The male autocracy was everywhere
dominant, and the title OF tree lover was held
over The head OF any person who dared TO nave
any independent intelligence as a tree woman.
She hoped that no sucn spirit would ever prevail
among the men who came to discuss Spiritualism
(ApplauSe.)
Year: 1874

No Change In the City-Me citing In Ho-


boken-Thc Strike to Continue.


There is but little to report in the matter OF
the great lockout OF the 'longshoremen In this
city. Everything was very quiet along the river
fronts yesterday ana but few policemen were
visible. During the past week-the second OF the
strike-the operations of the steamship men have
been but slightly interrupted, wnile the raw
hands being instructed IN the business
count up by thousands. The strikers
themselves, however, do not seem affected in
their views by the events OF the past fortnight.
AT their meeting on saturday night they displayed
the same resentment against their former employ
ers as on the nrst day after the lockout and are
now just as far from that point where prudent
counsel prevails as then. The few points the
union has gained in the struggle, such as the
France affair, seem to encourage the Organiza-
Ion more than the prospective idle weeks or the
future seem to dlspirit them.


Now that the steamship combination has refused
to meet representatives from the union upon any
basis, and the owners or sailing vessels have ex-
pressed their probable ability TO get all the capa-
bic hands they may require, the strikers intend
holding mass meeting. Cooper Institute has
been engaged, II Is rumore I, and speakers well
known to the community have volunteered their
services Tor the occasion.
Year: 1874

charging large number There Is probability
however, that The Erie Company Will commence
the OF their ship canal from the long
dock TO Provost street, within . month. THIS
would give employ ment to about 1000 men.
Year: 1874

A new and simple prescription for the
cure of consumption is travelling the
rounds Of the press. They kill cat,and
place the skin while warm over the con.
sumptivs, and it is said it draws out the
disease. We hope all pulmonary suffer-
ers will give the cat'cure fair and ex'
haustiye trial, and are certain our citizens
would gladly welcome to our city about
five hundred first class consumptives for
that purpose. We trust We are not gull.
ty of catachresis when we state that,
even if fresh cat skins were an infallible
catholiccn for suffering humanity of every
degree, we have sufficiently large and
untailing supply Of these warm cata
plasms circulating on the hoof through
our alleys and over our roofs to save the
entire category Of invalids from the cata
| combs for many year to come,