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Year: 1874

done him. No one has attempted toshow the
possibility of specie payment, nor of any other
currency which can compare with the legal
tender currency.


The foreigner could profit by an attempt at
specie currency, and the mOneyed man cauld
profit by the crushing contraction which would
attend an attempt at specie payment-but
who else would profit? Who would not suf-
fer? Would specie payment bring abundance
of money! Wonld il secure asteady volume
of currencyl Would it preserve us against
an iucessant and disastrous nuotuation in the
volume of currency? Has it ever secured
any country against SUCH Has il. not in
every country ever been attended with per-
petuAl succession OF convnlsions? What se-
curity have We that hereafter, with tenfold
foreign debt, We shall be free from the deadly
grip of the foreigner?


For this OOuntry to be dependent upon the
foreigner for its every dollar, as assuredly it
would be with coin only as money, is to SUBJ
iect itself aud all of its interests to despot-'
ism more absolute and searching than has ever
existed over any people and their interests
in all tho record of time.
Year: 1874

Editor of the Spirit of jefferson Please
publish the following article from the New
York Sunday Ne,os of j uue the 18th, 1874,
illegal tenders-a view of the case"


1t will appear, palpably, in the facts stated
in that article, that the Gond-hoLdcrs are,
themselves, responsible for the national debt j;
and that it was incurred by consequence of
their failure to furnish their just contribution
in money to carry on the war, while the peo-
pie contributed their full share in furnishing
2,7O0,O00 soldiers.


No one will advocate the reputation of a
just debt public or private nor, at the same
time, should he shrink from defending his
rights and resisting what is a manifest fraud
and swindle.


In this view, the BOnd>holders are the re
pudiators; and if they insist on hard money
and refuse the legal tender currency of the
people, the people will be justifable, before
God and man, in the prompt rcpudiGtion of
their vile fraud aud swiudle
Year: 1874

tender is wholly beuefcept; no one can show
any disadvantage to any American Interest


The only qualification in our currency for evil
is the pollution of it by the national bank
notes. Substitute for the national bank note
the greenback, and have the volume fixed
and then let the boldest man who dare at
tempt to show how we could have any other
currency comparable to the legal tender in
its excellence, in our present condition. We
are safe In saying NO one can do this prob
ably no one would venture TO try the impos-
sible task. With fixed volume of legal
tenders there would always be, from years
end to years end, precisely the same amount
of money in the country, which can never be
the case with a currency at which all the
world is tugging, and upon which the for


eigner has a better claim than ourselves. and


which varies in volume necessarily. Every
country uses exclusively bullion in foreign
transactions no country uses bullion as the
domestic currency. Paper is inevitably the
exclusive domestic currency of every largely
debtor country. An increse of money has
always caused increased production, and
dearth of money hss ever patslyzed every
country where it exists. As the volume of
gold coin in the world decreased, civilization
sank into the dark ages; Z; as its volume in
creased, light, civilization apd production in
creased. Without legal enactment to that
effect in every country gold aud silver would
DO more be money than any other commodity;
as money it is a creature of law. IF all ma.
tions should make Bank of England notes the
sole money, then gold and silver, as such
would disappear, and paper be sole and I'm.
iversal legal tender. Gold and silver have
no intrinic value as money. It follows that
coin is at premium here solely and only be-
cause the foreigner wants it. Settle his claim
in any way; and gold instantly falls to par
For all domestic purposes there would be no
distinctions, they would pass promiscuously !;
for all domestic purposes it is now par. The
foreign capitalist has no right to complain, no
injustice has been done him. No citizen has
right to complain, for no Injustice has been
Year: 1874

By REQUEST we re-pnblish the
table OF county assessments of
taxes for all the counties in the
State, and again call special
attention to the fact that there
are but five counties in the
State that pay as large a coun-
ty tax as Vinton, and four of
those are c6unties engaged in a
vast system of drainage TO re-
deem swamp lands, so that they
are getting Improvements oil
value TOR the taxes they pay.
There is food for reflection for
evefy taxpayer in the county
in this table, and especially for
those persons who are deceived
in the name.of Democracy Into
voting for the candidates OF the
tax-eaters' ring. Below we
give the table. Exaihihe il,
and show it to your neighbor {:
AVERAGE RATE or TAXATION OF


THE VARIOUS CoUNfIks,
Year: 1874

An establishment to afford
milk baths is the latest enter
prise in New York. These
baths are largely patfoniEed
by the ladies, with The view to
improving their complexion
The price per single bath is $6
which ought 10 rstutn a hand
some revenue to enterprising
proprietor, particularly, as the
same milk will answer for a
number OF baths without de-
stroying its butter making
qualities in the end.
Year: 1874

Now are the blessed little
ones beginning to quarrel with
each other over their presents
because one is better than an
other, and to smash up their
small hobby horses and tin
trumpets, and to make ruin
generally of the production OF
Santa ClauSs workshop. q
Year: 1874

A 0oTEMfoRARY startles us
With the awful alternative,
bread or blood. In view Of the
fact that Ironton spsfds more
money for intoxication liquors
than it does for bread and
meat, we would suggest . more
pertinent alternative, bread OF
whisky.-Ironton Register
Year: 1874

PORTLAND Me-, Nov. 10, 1874.


The obsequies over the remains OF the Right
Rev. ID. w. Bacon, Bishop OF the Diocese Of Port
land took place to-day In the Cathedral OF the
Immaculate Conception. The ceremonies COM
menced at ten A. NJ and concluded at two p. NJ.
Long before the opening of the Cathedral the ad-
jaccnt streets were crowded with people from far
and near. who were anxious to gam entrance to
the imposing structure where lay the remains OF
the distinguished lamented and beloved departed.
Probably not less than 10, 900 people were around
the Cathedral when the doors were opened, ana
when 1t is considered that not more than one
fourth that number could find even standing room
within the walls the disappointment OF thousands
may be imagined. The interior was very taste
fully draped. the Bishops throne the chancel
and the organ gallery being hung with black,
with festoOns OF white and wreaths and crosses OF
natural nowers The additional display or funeral
embems was in perfect keeping with the soem-
nifty OF the occasion. The body reposed in an
elegant rosewood casket covered with black
velvet, arrayed in the prelatial vestments. A re-
iulgent cross was In the thin casped hand upon
the breast, and another upon the feet. The plate
bore this inscription
Year: 1874

Among the many objections to an inflated and
debassed currency may be mentioned the fact that
1t robs and tends to injure all the productive inter-
,sts, and especially that Of agriculture. The price
Of grain 10 governed by the foreign market, and
that is gold price, Gram Is worth for other uses
precisely what,t is worth for expectation. No
iealcr ever pays In Chicago one price for dornes-
ic consumption ana another price for what destin-
ed to foreign market The value OF the whole
crop Is determined by the price IN Liverpool. Ac-
cordlnsly, bushel of wheat or barrel OF -four
sells tor no more at present than 1t did previous to
the war. But the prices Of commodities which the
farmer has occasion TO buy are from % to 75 FER
cent higher than they were before the war. They
are 80 because the manufacturing interest has
ceased to be exporting interest, and the foreign
market does not govern tho prices OF its products
The consequence Is, that farmers get only good
prices for all they have to SELL butpay inflated pa
per prices for all they have to buy; and this Is the
chief reason why they are SO unprosperous and


impoverished. The effect Is the same as II the
Government should establish one standard Of
weights and measures to cell by and another stand
ard to purchase by, which would bring legallEed
robbery into every transaction. Ar. Amasa Walk
er argues "that as a farmer can pay his debt only
out of what he saves from the sale OF his crops ut
gold prices and has to pay paper prices for all thst
he buys, that he therefore retain but small
surplus Of receipts over expenses to 60 towards
his debts, and his property will be eaten up BY the
payment of interest" The remedy for this II, that
the Government shall enable him to buy and sell
by the same standard, by which he can save year
by year the difference between gold prices ana pa
per prices in all his purchases.
Year: 1874

The California bear boy lately noticed as
having been on exhibition in San FraLciscolhas
been rescued from his proprietor and given
room in the county jail He is called John
Doe in the petition and warrant which authorize
ed his seizre. Cspt Scott, the agent for the
Society for the Preveniion Of Cruelty to, Ami
mails, applied 10 the probate Court for letters
Of GUARDIANSHIP for the bear boy. He was treat
ed as an animal, and hence the society above
ramed felt it TO be their duty TO take cognizance
of the case
Year: 1874

Al St. Louis, on Thursday night two I'M
known and partly drunken men met each other
on the street and quarrelled, when one Of them
knocked the ether down and plunged knife
into his forehead breaking the blade, and leav-
ing part of it in the brain. When the police
reached the scene the wounded man was dead,
and the murderer had escaped.
Year: 1874

Didn't you tell him GertieP Why, to
our Wedding, the tenth of next month, to
be sure. Ia rcC0ir! Tom be careful Of
yourself for my sake"


And that was the last ever saw of my
daisy. faced widow For if you think /
WAS mean spirited enough to go to that
wedding, you are mistaken in my
cboroc,,r
Year: 1874

All who have real estate for sale or toilet
and those desiring TO purchase or rent such property


will find IL TO their TO advertise in THE TRIBUNE


Its aggregate circulation exceeds that of any other
paper and In addition to this advanta TIE TRIBUNE
viii be found only in NewYork and all its cities and
villages but every State and Territory throughout the
Union The advertisement should be as brief as viii
allow Of the antages claimed being made clear to the
reader We would especially dwe on the fact that the
subscribers for the three editions Of TIE TRIBUNE Daily
semweekly and Weekly, comprise individuals In every
profession; consequently each
are read by ALI classes THE TRIBUNE dcyotes especial
atte non to reports of real estate both in city
and country thus adding greatly TO the value Of its col


umns as an advertising medium The charges for adver-
tsng are a. follows; DAILY TRIBUNE, 90 oents per hne
for each insertion. WEEKLY TRIBUNE. per line; sRs'-
WEEKLY TRIBUNE. Is cents per line About ten words OF
our wide columns average line Terms cash In advance
Year: 1874

REMOVAL OF THE Woody TASTE FROM CASKS
Fill the cask with lime-water, aud add about
ounce of potash for each bucket of water. Allow II
20 remain for six to eight days, then empty, ana
wash out with clean water. The hquld may % pe
used repeatedly especially if little hme and potash
le added
Year: 1874

There is society of Good Templars
in Savannah, Georgia. When they 60
picnicing, lemonade is their favorite
beverage. They went into the woods
the other day with stock of ice water,
lemons and sugar. The delicious liq-
uor was prepared and the party drank
freely. The favor was observed to be
peculiar, but not disagreeable. z TING
odor was strange to the disciples of
cold water, and the color of the isice of
the lemon was OF a deeper amber than be-
longs of right to the acid of that tropi-
cal fruit! But the da,t wasshot and the
Good Templars were thirsty. They in
dulged in generous potations, and felt
doubly thankful for that power of self
control which had enabled them to
Danish the demon strong drink from
their festive occasions. As they emptied
glass after glass of the admirably com
pounded liquid their spirits rose, their
eyes received new lustre, their cheeks
flushed, they burst forth in hilarious
songs, they gamboled on the green,
they laughed, cried, embraced each
other, and finally quarreled. Briefly,
they got gloriously drunk on lemonade.
Then there appeared on the scene of the
Good Templars' unseemly revels one
sober man, a man of sin. There was in
the atmosphere an unmistakable odor
of whisky, with which the stranger was
familiar. He scented afar off the aroma
of the we'll known cocktail. He re-
garded the party of lemonade drinkers
with smile of extreme irony. and ac-
cepted an invitation to partake OF their
hospitality with the grace and satisiac-
tion of a thirsty soul. Having drank o
fagon or two Of the Good Templars' fast
waning stock of precious liquid, he
volunteered the information that the
compound was half whisky. This as
founding announcement cast a gloom
over the befuddled minds of those
members OF the party who were able to
comprehend the fact. and this state of
dependency was increased by the dim
suspicion that the wretched man of sin
who volunteered the information was
the wretch who had poured corniuice
into their water butts. Sadly they
overturned their huge punch-bowi,
pouring on the ground the few remain
ing drops of the precious but deceptive
fluid as a libation to the offended cold
water god of the Order, and wended
their corkscrew way homeward, poison
ing all the wholesome air with the odor
of whisky. ..... ,.,,7
Year: 1874

The SpHYGMoGRApH.-Peop can no
more be cured by the sphygmograph
than by feeling their pulse or looking at
their tongue. If it does them good it
is their own Imagination. The sphyg-
mograph is simply an instrument which
registers the beating of the pulse in re-
gard to velocity, intensity, regularity
etc, on strip of paper moved by clock
work, similar to some telegraph ma
chimes. If applied to dead man, the
pencil would mark straight line, while
living pulse will cause in the line
waves of different distances, hight and
shape, all in accordance with the nature
of the impulse given by the heart to the
circulation. The nature of the hearts
action and circulation in disease, and af-
ter the use of certain medicines, may
thus not only be studied, but even re-
corded. Life insurance companies
should order their medical examiners to
enter the recorded indication of the
pulse of applicants for insurance, so as
to have surer data to go by than is at
present the case.--Ayfisan.
Year: 1874

A WIDOW AN UNCLoTHED BRIDE. AT
recent Centennial celebration at New
Fame. Vermont, the address was de-
livered by Judge G. X. Field, the we'll
known anecdotist, and among the
stories told by him in it is the following,
as given in the Montpelier Argus:


By strange perversion of legal prin-
ciples, it was supposed by our ancestors
that whoever married widow who was
administrative upon the estate of her de-
ceased husband, represented insolvent,
and should thereby possess himself of
any property or thing purchased by the
deceased husband, would become an
executor de son tort, and would thereby
make himself liable to answer for the
goods of his predecessor. Major Moses
Joy became enamored of Mrs. Hannah


Ward, widow of William Ward, who
died in 178S, leaving an insolv9nt es-
tate, of which Mrs. Ward was admins
tratrix. To avoid the unpleasant penal
ties of the law, on the morning of her
marriage with Major Joy, Mrs. Ward
placed herself in q closet with tire
woman, who stripped her of all uher
clothing, and when in perfectly nude
state she thrust her fair arm through
diamond-hole in the door OF. the closet,
the gallant Major clasped tie hand of
the buxom widow, and was married in
due form by the jolliest 'parson in ver-
mont. At the close of the ceremony
the tire-woman dressed the bride in a
complete wardrobe which the Major
had provided and caused to be de-
posted in the closet Mt the commence
ment of the ceremony. She came out
elegantly dressed in silk, satin and
lace, and there was kissing all around.
Year: 1874

CocoA-Nur TREpANNISG.-There is a
we'll known trick performed by the
clowns i'll rantomimes, to the mistifica-
ton of the juvenile portion of the au-
dience, which consists in shooting hole
in mans head, and then artistically
plugging up the ori6ce with carrot,
thus completely curing tho apparently
assassinated individual. While this is,
of course, very ridiculous, it is no mere
so than somewhat similar operation
practiced by the inhabitants of Uvea, an
island in the Loyalty group. These
queer people have n notion that when a
person gets headache his skull is
cracked or that the bone is pressing
down on the brain. Consequently they
proceed to cure the trouble by cutting
open the scalp, and scraping hole in
the Uranium with q bit of glass, and
then stopping the aperture with a piece
of cocoanut she'll rubbed smooth.
Sometimes the surgeon scrapes too far
and Injuries the pia mater, when the pa
tient dies; but ordinarily the boring pro-
ceeds to the dura mater, leaving hole
in the skull. 1t seems that few adults
are without perforated heads, and that
the cocoa nut patch is common.-Scien-
tGc american.
Year: 1874

STAINED AND POLISHED FLooRs.-A
correspondent who thinks that carpets
nre too expensive for daily use and that
something which is cheaper and at the
same time more easily kept clean is
needed, says that friends hall and
kitchen were hoored, as he supposed
with strips of black walnut and pine;
but he was informed that the owner
had caused the floors to be smoothly
laid, and with his own hands had
stained each alternate board dark
color, and then with shellac had fin
ished the whole with fine polish.
He says: 81 shall have my hall and
dininS-room floors pluned smoothly and
evenly by II carpenter, and then myself
rub carefully with sponge or brush,
avoiding any daubs over the seam, into
each alternate board a stain prepared as
follows: One-quarter of pound of as
phaltum and half pound of beeswax
to one gallon of turpcrtine. If too
thin, add beeswaX; if too light in color,
add asphaltnm, though that must be
done with caution as very little will
graduate the shade, and black walnut is
not what its name indicates, but dark
rich brown; or burned umLer in alco-
hol, to the proper consistency of easy
application, may he used without the
beeswax: and, after thin coat of shell
lac has been laid over the whole and
the surfaced smoothed over with sand
paper, coat of common varnish will
give it u splendid finish. A breadth of
carpet or mating, or piece of oil-cloth
laid down, will protect it where the
greatest wear comes. The narrower
the floor the finer will be the effect;
but in any case it will excite your own
and your neighbors' admiration and
prove Joy forever
Year: 1874

A PRIVATE telegraph line has been
established between tie Chicago Times
Office and the private resideace, two
miles distant, of the epitor-in-chiof, by
which his supervision over the paper
Will be maintained from the latter place
during all hours of tie night as per-
fectly as at the fOrmef place during the
day.
Year: 1874

Was the Mayoralty created FOR Ker-
cheval, or for the people? He has had
it too long already. The people will
take charge of their own to-day, and
dispose of It more to their civic inter-
oct
Year: 1874

IT is stated on excellent authority
that Senator Brownlow did not suppose
his letter would be read at the so-called
Union mass meeting in Knoxville,
Wednesday night, as it gave Maynard
the cold-shoulder too significantly TO be
misunderstood by the Narragansett and
his friends. And yet the Kno1UiIle
Chronicle has the impudence to call the
letter an endorsement of Maynard.
Year: 1874

New YORK, Sept 25.-The locomotive
engineers of the various trunk lines and
leading roads, had meeting in this city
yesterday, and protested most earnestly
against any reduction of wages at the pre-
sent time. They expressed the opinion
that the Pennsylvania Central Railroad
Company should restore the ten per cent.
reduction made by them last January.
Year: 1874

A clergyman being invited
to open a Legislature with pray
er, uttered the following am
biguous petition: May cor
ruption and sin Of every form
be as far from every member
of this Legislature as Thou art
Year: 1874

The time of the year is fast drawing
nigh when the country will swarm with
peddlers, patent right swindlers, and
travelling men Of all grades and callings.
The best plan is to always buy of home
merchants, from the very reason that
travelling tradesmen have no in
ducement to be honest. They never
expect to sell to YOU again, and it is their
purpose to make Us much as possible in
their single trade. The home merchant,
as rule, sells cheaper, has better goods,
remains in the neighborhood, helps pay
the taxes, and Is always ready to COM
pete in prices with anybody who dispen-
ses goods in the country. lie takes far
mers produce in exchange for goods buys
wood and other necessaries for his hous-
hold from the farmer, and il is wrong, as
well as Improbable, to buy goods of
tramps, whose only desire is to bleed his
victim of every cent possible. The best
way is to firmly refuse to deal one cents
worth with any peddler of groceries or
dry goods.
Year: 1874

How to do it is what nearly all wish
TO know this hot weather, and innumera-
ble expedienr are resorted to for accom-
plishing the purpose. 1t were better for
US had we less hot weather. With the
thermometer at go in the shade it is
certainly not advisable for any one TO
continue at even moderate labor in the
sun; yet | do think the majority Of
people, especially those who have moth
ing else to do than to seek their own
comfort, worry themselves far more than
is necdful about the warm weather. As
the sun moves upward in the heavens
and the mercury rises in the tube, such
persons begin to feel the heat oppress
them. They seek for cool and shady
places drinking cooling draughts and
ply the fan with a vigor worthy Of a
better cause. II little is bad a great
deal must be worse" they seem to think,
as the perspiration begins to appear, and
they look forward to the heat of the day
with feelings Of dread. almost despair,
when they see how difficult ii already is
to keep cool. 1t is a great mistake to
thus fight against one of the benefcent
laws Of nature. To perpire is a very
proper thing to do in hot weather, and
one very needful to our health and COM
fort. If instead of resisting it so per-
sistently, We would 60 about some light
work. and allow the weather and our
mortal bodies to regulate themselves ac-
ccrding to the rational laws in such
cases provided. we would soon find our
selves much more comfortable. Per-
spring freely cools the body. on the
same principle that pitcher of water is
kept cool by wrapping about it a wet
towel.


1t is also great mistake to keep :he
house so closely shut up during the day.
Pure air is Of more Importance in sleep
ing chambers than cool air. A room in
to which the direct rays Of the sun are
never admitted is no fit place for per-
son to sleep.