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Year: 1879

To THE EDIron OF THE HERALD


While you upon the subject Of ventilation could
you not induce the owners of leading theatres to
do something in that line for the comfort of their
patrons? Not one Of principal theatres has the
proper Of ventilation and the air in them. es
pecally when the house Is scrowded, is abominable.


was ut Of our leading theatres Tuesday night
and the pace smelled like livery stable. And dirty
livery stable at that. THEATRE GOER.
Year: 1879

To THE EDITOR OF THE HEnALD:-


Some time ago the foundations for elevated railroad
stations were laid on the corner Of Twenty-eighth
street and Third avenue but no attempts have since
been made to erect the same. Why the delay


TRAVELLER.
Year: 1879

Mr. Hayes vetoed the Army appropria-
ton bill on Tuesday. He accompanied
the veto with a lengthy message, in which
he defended the law sought to be repeal
ed, which authorizes the employment of
troops at the polls to keep the peace.
Now comes the tug. We can not believe
that the Democrats will recede from the
position they have assumed.


Representative Clark s., of Iowa, died of
meningitis on Monday evening after an
illness of few hours.


In a case before the Federal Supreme
Court this week, Justice Miller declared
the opinion of the Court that juror can
not be required to answer as to his con-
nection with the rebellion! In an ex barte
concurring opinion, Justice Field declared
further that the act prescribing the jurors
test oath was unconstitutional and void.
Year: 1879

Editor Patron, l had the pleasure of
meeting the Monroe County Grange on
the 24th, which convened with Stonewall
Grange near the old town of Athens. I
found Stonewall Grange live institution,
and one which does credit to the Order.
I delivered a lecture to the Patrons assem-
bled, and was listened to with marked re-
spect and apparent interest.


The County Grange met at II o'clock,
and we had quite an interesting meeting.
The Grange adjourned late in the evening,
and met again at night, and remained in
session until near II o'clock. We had sew
eral interesting speeches, and quite spi-
rited discussion upon the subject of coop
Grafton. The good sisters of Stonewall
Grange gave us splendid repast at noon,
which was practical demonstration OF
their skill in preparing the products of the
farm for the table. We had fine turnout
for the busy season. The fifth degree was
conferred upon about twenty-five men,
bers. The officers were elected and il
stalled. Everything was conducted in a
style which did credit to the Patrons of
the county, and especially to the officers
of the County Grange. The neat hall,
tastefully decorated, harmonized beauti-
fully with the regularity of the proceed
ings, and presented a fit habtation for the
presiding genius of our noble Order.


The Grange elected a fine set of officers,
whose energy will soon tell upon the Or
der in Monroe. Prominent among these
are Bros Gordon, Master, Saddler, Over
seer, and Tatum, Lecturer-men skilled in
the work and fully imbued with the noble
principles of the Order That true and
tried Matron, Sister Willis, was elected
Ceres O, that we had more such devo-
ted Matrons in each county!


The more / mingle with the members OF
the Order, the more | feel it my duty to
do all i'll my power to help them in the
great work. | am satisfied that the great
est difficulty we have to encounter is the
want of leaders who can arouse the people
to action, and / am sure that if the prom
inent members of the Order in each county
will lend their aid, the work will &C
bravely on. have at all times tried to
| impress the members with the importance
of taking THE PATRON. | am sure thai
if we could get THE PATRON circulated
extensively through the State, that it vii
do more to revive the Order than anything
we can do l find that all those who take
THE PATRON are fully alive to the grea
| interest for which you labor.


The outlook in this section of the State
is hattering. At this time, the farmers art
busy, and have little time to devote to re
organization, but am sure that the worl
will go bravely on. The farmers do no
intend to give up the ship.


I attended the Alcorn County Grang'
on the 4th, and we had quite lively ant
interesting meeting. All present wer


determined and hopeful. They seemed t
| be impressed with the fact that the Grang
Year: 1879

Our new heading is attracting good
deal of attention from the press and sub
scribers. Worthy Overseer Rose, of the
Texas State Grange, writes:


"THE PATRON with its. new head is
beautiful You do not know how | re-
joiced to see it in its new garb and to hear
of its increased circulation. The heading
is an index to the contents of the paper,
and it will be highly appreciated by all its
friends. | have no fears of the future of
any Subordinate Grange where ten of its
members are regular readers of THE PA
TRON. | shall be still more pleased to hear
of its being taken and read by twenty five
thousand Patrons in the Southwest. If
THE PATRON was read every week, what
a change for the better would soon take
place! To that end, shall most earnestly
labor We must make our baber a real
power in the Southwest, and to do this.
every true, earnest Patron should go to
work and raise a club for it,
Year: 1879

1t is singular that Democrats in the dis
cussion just closed did not give more
prominence to the fact that the South has
plenary power to correct all fraud or vio-
lence in the election of any of its mem
hers, by unseating member elected by
by such violence or fraud, and either leav-
ing the seat vacant, or giving it to the
pegson unlawfully deprived. Under this
power the House can make full and
thorough investigation of every alleged
act of fraud or violence


This corrects the evil fully SO far as il
affects the Union, or the people outside
the distr ct in which the fraud or violence
occurs.
Year: 1879

Representative De La Matyr, the Green
back champion, introduced his Billion
Greenback bill at the request of another
at the time of the call on the States for
petitions and bills. He has since declared
in the House that he does not approve the
BILL We are glad of this, for his acts and
utterances up to the time he introduced
this wild scheme, had commended him to
our high esteem.
Year: 1879

The splendid letter of Col. George w.
Brame, of West Point Miss, which we
print in another column, should be read in
every Subordinate Grange in the South
west. The patriotic sentiments of this
noble Southron and earnest Patron, which
are so forcibly and eloquently expressed,
will touch a responsive chord in the breast
of every true Patron in the land.
Year: 1879

Will not the friends of THE PATRON
throughout the Southwest.now rally to its
support? A united effort would give it
the largest circulation of any paper pub
iished in the South. Shall not this be
done? 49,
Year: 1879

The minister of Plymouth church
took occasion in his Thanksgiving
sermon to say that the naughty and
dogmaticsl attitude Of the southern
congressman in the last congress,
and the result of the November elec.
tions, should teach the people that
until generation comes which
knew not Calhoun and has forgotten
JEFF. Davis, the control OF the nation
should rest with those who rescued
it from slavery.
Year: 1879

The recent movement in the South
headed by Joe johnson, to create a
new military Office to be known as
Captain General and make General
Grant the first Captain General, and
thus knock him of the track for
President in 1850 appears to be well
understood by Gen. Grants friends
in the north. We incline to the
opinion that his political enemies
cannot dispose Of him In that way.
Year: 1879

ADDITIoNAL news from Hastings
disclosed the fact that the Coroner's
jury found from the examination of
the body Of young Yocum and other
evidence that he had been shot, hav-
ing found two bullet holes In his
left side, snd the jury returned o
verdic, that be came TO his death by
shots fred by either Baldwin or
Taylor, and that the building was
fired TO conceal the crime.
Year: 1879

Har idslsr.


The monkeys seem to amuse the peo-
pls most. I like monkey myself. Do
you know believe 1t positive loss to
human beings that they haven't got tails
like monksysf Why. q monkey can
mold anything with his tail. just like you
can with your hand. II is really q third
hand. Now supposing you had such n
tsii' II you had to hang on to the
platform Of Q crowded horse-car with
your hands. you could hold your um.
brella with your tail. II you were
walking up and down the room at night
with the baby. you could carry him in
your srms and give him spoonful OF
pareeoric with your tail. II you wanted
to take your family out for an airing
you could grab child with each hand
and pull the baby-coach with your tail.
I tell you. sir. it's q dead loss to you
that you're not built like the monkey.
Year: 1879

WHEN you SEQ o young man attired in
q white flannel shirt. his face slightly
burned with exposure. and hear him
talk knowingly OF lib forests" and
running under the wine" and "slack-
ing the main sheet" II doesn't follow
that he In much OF yachtsman. The
chances are that he would be seasick on
n draw. bridge.
Year: 1879

AT the Brighton Beach concert: "You
have excellent critical taste and seem to
delight in good music. Tell me. then.
my friend. why you have never mas
tered some instrument ?" "Alas. my
dear fellow. my ear Is so delicately strung
that I shrink from the horrible prospect
Of hearing myself practice"
Year: 1879

WHY THE CoLoRED MEN WILL NOT
VoTE.-It is admitted that the colored
men were enfranchized in Delaware to
put Republican partisans in office, and
the colored people have found this out,
and quit paying tax and consequently
quit voting also. At least the colored
Republicans not being put on any of the
tickets for office assign as a reason fol
not paying their taxes that the Republi.
can party will not give them a share Of
the offices, and it seems a plausible ex.
cuse for their want of sufficient patriot
ism to help bear the burden of State ant
city government.
Year: 1879

As the GAZETTE Is 90 profuse In its
apologies for its friends down In Mtssis-
sippi and calls the recent attempt to
assassinate Mr.. Dixon because be choose
TO run on an Independent Democratic
ticket, only q great row. We would like
TO know ifit favors assassinating anybody
Democrat or Republican, who would
aspire to an Office on ticket other than
the regular Democratic ticket.-Repub-
Hcan.


Why no! The GAZETTE IL in favor
OF the largest liberty. If the Yaxoo
county, Mississippi, Democrats arc such
great fools As to go to fighting about the
election they deserve all the censure the
Republican has been heaping upon them,
aud hence the GAZETTE has not inter
fered, There was no use In our using
our lash when our neighbor was saving
US the trouble. The Yazoo Democrats
will wake up before long and find that
they have ruined all their party chances
for success and disgusted many Of their
own party as well - their negro allies.


1t turns out, however, that nobody
was killed in Yazoo, and that they are
all quiet there now and heartily ashAm-
ed Of giving the Republicans an oppor-
tunity to tell SO many awful stories
about them. But the people Of Will
mlngton want little to do with Yazoo'
They don't want to be diverted from an
earnest effort to have their taxes reduced,
and will take no ''hearsay" evidence that
this cannot be accomplished by voting
for the Democrats when they have the
better evidence in the fac. that the
Democrats have already reduced taxa
ton about 4 per cent, and in another
year may, perhaps, reduce it other 4
per cent. Who knows?
Year: 1879

IT Is the purest nonsense to suppose
for moment that the police Of this city
could prevent, or are in any way re-
eponsible for the several House rob-
berries that have been committed during
the summer. II the police force had
been treble what 1t was these robberies
of vacant houses would not have been
prevented. The thieves may be traced
out perhaps and brought to punishment /;
and no doubt this will be done as soon
a. time will permit.
Year: 1879

SENATOR CoNKLING will find it very
difficult to explain away his conduct.
Every honest man of family will at
once ask why Mr.. Conkling did not give
attention to his own wife. Had he
taken Mrs. C. with him to Ex-Governor
Sprague's mansion the latter would
probably not have been so easily offended.
Few people will commend such gallantry
in the Senator, as he exhibited in fol-
lowing the weak and eccentric lady of the
Ex-Governor to her husbands home will
his baggage. 1t was brazen act of effron-
terry quite sufficient to make Spragut
shear the turkey cock of his much culti-
waited locks if he posses sed the power
and the pluck.
Year: 1879

The Republican now says 1t has mo
objections to the Democrats reducing the
civ expenses but they have commenced
the wrong way to do it." Very well, then'
We will admit that you have no objec-
tions. to the reduction that the Demo-
Gratis have made (; but you still Keep
complaining so much about it that one
/, forced to the conclusion that you do
not like it. If you would say at once
that the reduction in taxation is not
enough we might agree with you; but
this continued argument against re-
duction of the tax rate Is vexing to us
and the Democrats who are favorging an
effort to make the tax still lighter. As
a rule people never like to trust those to
perfect a job who say it is an impossi-
bility and cannot be done. The Demo-
Gratis have reduced the taxes and believe
they can do better next year. 1t Is
therefore useless to attempt to discour-
age them by objecting to the way they
take to do it. The fact that they have
accomplished reduction IN one year In
the face of the other fact that the Repub-
licans were fifteen years in Council and
steadily increased expenses ought to be
sufficient evidence to every candid tax
payer and house-owner as to where his
interest laid. Everybody knows that
lax opera'e both ways. enormously
diminishes the worth of property while
it also drains the owner Of part Of the
earnings of his property annually. Re
duce this tax and it operates tremend
ously toward increasing property values
it is the most effective lever that car
be applied, all things properly consider
ed; and reduction of five per cent. OF
the tax rate Of property will operate t.


increase property fifteen per cent. Thi


is a matter which deeply interests thu


city taxpayers, and they should vot'


with their interest. In fact the electiv,
franchise is held by the people in orde


that they may secure 10 themselve


good, cheap government. But some


low or other since the rebellion the Re
publican press have inculcated and il
Luced belief that right ofvoting is onl
TO give Republicans high salaried offict
and keep them in Office.
Year: 1879

Saturday party of young men Start
ed down the river in the yacht White
Wing, and when near Port Penn they
ran the boat against something and
stove hole in it. She took in water
badly, and the men who had her run
her ashore and deserted her. She partly
sunk. Commodore Klotz, OF Chester,
went down Monday morning and sue
ceeded in pumping her out and having
her towed to Chester.
Year: 1879

The FLOOD of negroes let loose upon
Kansas by the ignorant political rascals
who sought to injure the South are now
competing with all honest laborers in
Kansas and working them out Of living
prices.
Year: 1879

This is the most economical plan you adopt
cure valuable and interesting reading
Send your subscriptions at once, in moneyorder
or registered letter.
We furnish any other leading papers magazines
in connection with the NATIONAL tribune, and when
you think of subscribing any paper not the above
list just write to us and you may rely upon securing
it upon the very best terms and that win be forwarded
very promptly No subscriptions received for less than
year.


Now specially call upon the soldiers to help
the work of enangng subscription list by the
here presented 1t readily be done If they will put
their shoulders the wheel If they regard their
paperwhich it is most emphatcally-they will feel
pride in it's success.


The larger subscription list the money
afford to expend in making additionally attractive
sheet.
We would like to hear from any soldiers, North, South,
East West who would be pleased to labor in the
Let us hear from YOU boys


Address ut


THE NATIONAL TRIBUNE COMPANY"


Washington, ID. o.
Year: 1879

matter. 1t is disputed matter, which
the advocates of the deep cans and the
shallow pans have not yet settled,
whether the former or the latter yields
the most butter; but the evidence in
favor of the deep cans is the stronger of
the two. In our own practice the Had
din cans certainly produce more butter
than the shallow pans have done, from
the same quantity OF milk and the same
covs.-Ne1C York Times.
Year: 1879

The most learned physicians and scientific
men of Europe and this country indOrse them.


These noted Curative appliances have now
stood the test for upward OF thirty years, and
are protected by Letters-Patent in Ill the
principal countries of the world. They were
decreed the only Award OF Merit for Electric
Paris. Philadelphia, and elsewhere Il and
have been found the most valuable, safe,
simple, and efficient known treatment for
the cure of disease.
Year: 1879

1T was the keen and discriminate
ing nose of the poet Coleridge
which discerned, in addition to her
famous cathedral, notable attrac-
tion in the City Of Cologne, viz, her
seventy and seven distinct and
elaborately articulated smells. Los
Angeles, which ought to be one of
the most fragrant spots OF earth, is
undoubtedly noted for the variety
and complexity of her unsavory
odors. This subject has two phases
-one that of Inconvenience to a
dellcately organized person;
the other, that of positive
peril to the public health. On Main
street, in the most central portion
OF the city, a scandal and peril of
unexampled magnitude exists.
Immediately opposite the Pico
House and down to the neighbor-
hood of the fashion stables, odors of
unexpressible pungency and dan.
ger, about nightfall, offend the nos
tril Of the passer by. On the Pico
House side everything is in good
order; but the pedestrian who shall
halt for while in the neighbor-
hood of the Oriental block will be
appalled, and sickened. II he is a
sensible man he will get out of the


way, suspecting blood poisoning.
1t does seem to us that the Health
Officer of the city should give this
matter his immediate and earnest
attention. There is, in the neigh
borhood we have named, an un-
questionable escape of sewer gases
unhealthy in the highest degree.
This matter can doubtless be easily
remedied, and it ought TO be at
once. We have to be exceptionally
careless in Los Angeles not to en-
joy good health; and, when a
little energy and forethought will
guard our citizens from disease,
they should be instantly employed.
Year: 1879

oe WV VI Ihrcc crops OF frult 1t should
be cut out and younger one be allowed
to. take its place. All the pruning they
require is to cut out old wood, shorten
the younger shoots, and remove any suckers
and roots that are likely to make two
crowded head they should be SO pruued
and trained as to give them plenty of air
ana light. Raspberries only require the re.
moVal OF the shoots that bore fruit last sea-
son, and the shortening back of last years
growth one-half to one.third its length, &C.
cording to the strength of the shoots.
biackberries require the same treatment.


All pruning should be done with a prun-
ing.knifo or with pruning shears, bu. never
with hedge shears every branch or shoot
should be Individually examined and pruned
according to its stregth, growth, or position.
The operation should never be intrusted to
any but an intelligent person, or at least un.
der the immediate.:supervision of such one.
Ignorant, stupid laborers will often do more
injury IN an hour at such operations than
can be remcdicd in year; because they
can handle shovel or hoe, it does not
follow that they arc gardeners, and we
therefore advise such of our readers as are
fond OF their gardens to supervise such
work themselves, unless they can get the
services OF regularly bred gardener.


Besides pruning the head O. ton of tree.
pruning the roots is sometimes practiced to
induce fruitfulness in trees that are either in
too rich soil or in soil that is very poor.
When planted 10 too rich soil, fruit trees
are apt to make too strong a growth aud
run too much tc wood. Pruning the tons
OF heads of the trees in such cases does not
make them fruitful, but has a tendency to
aggravatc the trouble by causing the tree
to throw out large numbers of new shoots
in directions where they are not wanted.
Io counteract this trench about eighteen
inches or two feet wide and of correspond.
ing depth, accoripg to the age aud size of
the tree, should be dug out half way round
the tree, the roots should be carefully pSuned
with sharp knife, and the trench filled
up with fresh soil, but ofpovr quality rotted
sods or the surface soil of au old meadow
soil being excellent for this purpose; this new
must be firmly troddeu down as it is thrown
In. The next season the same operation
must be performed on the other half of The
circle. The distance of the trench from the
trunk of the tree must be governed by the
spread of the branches and the ago Of tho
tree generally the trench may be dug at
one-third or one. half the spread of the tree
in young trees nearer than in older ones
If the soil is naturally poor and cannot be
readily enriched in any other way, this
operation will also be of great service, only


filling up the trench with rich soil, or that
more suitable to the tree than that in
which it is planted. BY these means the,
growth Of a tree may be readily controlled,
and far less pruning Of the top be required
The pruning knife and shears will never
produce iruitfulness unless the roots, which
promote the growth of the top, are also
under control.-Harper's Bazar.
Year: 1879

v We have always found, in this journey from the cradle to the grave which some call life, that the man who has had his toes trampled on is always painfully pointed and concise in his remarks. r- r~ -
Year: 1879




The Rev. James NJ Pullman gave last even
ing lecture to young men "Tho Rational side OF
the Temperance Question: at the Church of Our Saviour
at Fify-seventh-st and Eghth-ave. There was small
audience present The text for the address was taken
from 1st Corinthians, TX 25 Every man that Stryeth
for the mastery is temperate in all things"


There Is an irrational side TO this question, the
preacher sad TO speak Of drinking there were no
attraction and no motive is irrational Many able and
earnest OF the have painted vvdy one
side Of the picture In this monster danger there ID
true and a false path


The most potent instrument Of the eternal rebellion OF
the lower against the higher nature is alcohol 1t min
isers to passions which at last diseases. Its
danger consists in the fact that 1t is cheap portable
easily adulcrated. and instantaneous III It's influence
Men are led indulge In the of II by variety OF
causes by lack OF vitality or an excess OF IT, by sorrow
loss OF business and by craving for deep ieeug FROM
the excitement OF the Stock Exchange brokers seE al
the saloon IN brlmming Deakers OF brandy, anolher
stimulus The chief fascination OF the wee Is IN us re-
from the stngs OF poverty or the burden OF gri


The real reason why should not resort 10 ii Is INC
fatal reaction what 1t stimulates IN popular
language may be dipsOmanlac, hut ne lsnOtniS
than OidashiOned druukdrd Inc INJURY ol us
reaction is on the bran the emotional tturc ana the
will OF man. It's most disastrous reaction Is upon the
WILL for that the himself 1t is for TINS reason
that prohibition fails in eectng cure 10 take away
the instrument does not strengthen the VIII; prisoners
after an enforced abstinence through long confinement
resort AT once their release to former habits OF drink
Prohibition would change only the form Oi seHIn-
du genCe by compulsory abstinence.


Our attitude toward the vice should Dc abstinence. \
young needs stlmulants moro than he needs 10
be knocked with club. the fatal consequences
Indulgence VIII That is the false cry oi
the ages The hn ground OF temperance selrespcCt
I'm the mastery of ruling passion The rewards ot Az
stnence are simply an increase OF strength ana power