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Year: 1874

WE publish to-day the call of John
J. Good, as chairman of the democratic
committee for this congressional dis
trict, for district convention to as
semble at Fort Worth OH the 10Th day
of July, for the purpose of nominating
a democratic candidate for congress.
The object of the call is legitimate and
in strict accordance with party usage
unity of action among men of the
same political faith being the prime
object. The democrats in each Justices
precinct in each county are requested
to meet on the 18th day of July and Sc
lect their proper number of delegates
to county convention to assemble at
the respective county seats on the 25th
day of July, which county convention
will select the number of delegates to
which the county may be entitled.
Elsewhere we give some statistics on
the subject.
Year: 1874

The people of this new congressional
district are well acquainted with John
J. Good and other gentlemen spoken
of as democratic candidates for con-
gress. We are for peace and harmony
in our party. Judge Good has been a
leading lawyer of Dallas tor twenty
four years, and has never held politi-
cal office. The people know him and
his past career in political life. He Is
our personal and political friend, and
being in all things identified with our
interests, 1t is needless to say would be
an acceptable candidate tou We are
more inclined to do battle for the nom-
nee than to urge In advance the claims
of our own fayorite.
Year: 1874

THE location OF the new court house
is Just now the question which isagita-
ting the people of Mckinney. Oneprop-
osition is to enlarge the public square,
by purchase of property on one side of
the square, others are to place the new
building on a'plat of from five to eight
acres of ground i'll another part of
town, so as to make it handsome
park. Objections are made TO this move,
principally by property owners around
the preaent square, who imagine that
to- move the court house from the
square would build up new and des-
troy the present business center. The
same question agitated the people of
Dallas three or four years ago, and the
influence brought to bear upon the
court induced them to build the new
house OH the site Of the old one. AT
that time we regarded the objections
raised to removing it as incorrect, and
so expressed ourself, and urged that a
new location DO selected where more
ground could be had, and space for a
handsome park. Our argument was
not needed, however. Since then Dal-
las has grown to be city of considera-
bic proportions, business has extended,
and, to-day, the square possesses but
few large business houses-the main
wholesale business is transacted near
a half mile away, Notwithstanding the
court house was rebuilt there. Our
Mckinney friends would do well to


profit by our experience.
Year: 1874

WHEAT harvesting is progressing
finely throughout the country. The
yield promises to be excellent, and the
weather is as fine as could be desired.
Aside from the ordinary desire of fine
crops this season, it is enhanced AS II
panacea to the money famine, coupled
with the certainty of an unprecedented
emigration this fall. We have the
best grounds for expecting an unusual
ly fine crop Of all kinds of grain, fruit
and cotton.
Year: 1874

A WASHINGTON dispatch says there
is no doubt that Secretary Richardson
will soon retire from office. The pres
ident leaves TO Richardson the fixing
of the time of retiring, and will nomi-
nate him to fill the vancancy on the
bench of the court of claims, which he
is now prepared to accept, in view OF
his intended resignation as secretary
of the treasury.
Year: 1874

WE ARE glad to note the prosperity
of our sister town of Cedar Hill, six.
teen miles from Dallas, in the south
west part of Dallas county. The good
people there nave under way a ma
sonic hall and church, and are prepar--
ing to build a large Touring mill of
three run of stones. Cedar Hill is one
of the mcst elevated, fertile and de-
lightfpl localities in our beautiful and
fertile county.
Year: 1874

A MILWAUKEE boy has swallowed
half a dozen steel buttons, and his
mother doesn't have to scream for him
when he is out on the street playing
with those Cluckerson boys. She just
brings q magnet to the door, and he
flies to it like a needle to the pole.
Year: 1874

We append to the above call for a
congressional convention a table show
ing the vote to which each county Will
be entitled in the convention on the
usual basis of one vote for every one
hundred votes or fractions of over fifty
cast at the iasf election ior the deino-
cratic candidate for governors
Year: 1874

SING McRE.-Cultivate singing IN


the family. Begin when the child is
not vet three years old. The songs
and hymns your mother sang, oring
them back to your memory ana
teach them TO your little ones; mix
them all together, to meet the SINH
lar moods, as in after life they come
overto us.so mysteriously sometimes.
Many . dme and OF, in the very
whirl of business; in the sunshine
and gayety OF Fifth avenue and
amid the splendor of the drives In
Central Park, some little thing wakes
up the memories Of early youth-the
old mill; the cool spring; the shady
tree by the little school-house-and
the next instant we almost see again
Year: 1874

When the fairy-like castles we've builded


to-day,
Are swept into ruin on the flood-tide of


sorrow :
We turn from the wreck and gaze cheerily


away;
Der the fiower-scented fields of the coming


Tomorrow.
And we joy as we dream of a land of the


blest,"
Where hopes faded pinions fresh plumage


shall borrow
Where the heart broken shall smile and the


weary find rest,
In that beautiful Dreamland - the sweet


Tomorrow.
Year: 1874

. A HATEFUL paragraphist says:
"Whenever person sitting along
side woman in the street-car gets
up to leave, in nine cases out of ten
the car woman will Immediately try
to spread herself so as to cover the
vacant seat as well as her own. In
the present scant skirt fashion the
effort to do this from mere force of
habit more funny than effective"
Year: 1874

If the lesson could be permanently
learned that the cash system is better than
the credit system, all the suffering entailed
by this monetary crisis would not be a
dear price to pay for it.


People who buy for cash always buy
cheaper than those who buy on credit.
They buy, too, more closely, and select
more carefully.


Purchases which are paid for when
they are made are limited more exactly to
the purchasers wants. There is nothing
like having to count the money right out
when the article is bought to make people
economical. The amount Of Indebtedness
incurred is not much considered when the
payday is afar off,


Persons who do all their business on a
cash basis know just where they stand and
what they can afford. Consequently they
never find aftcr-occasion for regretting, in
turn Of times, that they have INDUCED
in this luxury or that, which they would
have foregone had they seen what was
coming.


Real wants are few and can be gratifed
for cash. At all events, they should al
ways be limited to what can be paid in
cash.


How much of anxiety, how many sleep
less hours, how many heart-burnings, dis.
appointments, and regrets would be avoid
ed il this rule were always strictly ad-
hered to.
Year: 1874

MoURNING.-0ne need not speak Of the
mourning of the heart--that will take care
Of itself | speak Of the external signs.
There is strange difference among the
nations. Among several of the most
advanced people, black dress has been
chosen. The great expense, the depressing
influence upon the spirits, and the bad
effect Of this color upon the bodily condi-
tions, have been observed aud urged against
this method of display


Black is the worst color for winter and
for summer, for dry weather and for a
damp atmosphere Altogether, the custom
of announcing grief through black clothes
seems to be the worst method ever devised.


II is gratifying to hear from intelligent
people, as one may not unfrequently, that
under no circumstances would they display
a mourning dress. will not say that ii
is fiat contradiction of the Christian faith.
| will not say that it savors of ostentation.
| will not say that there is frequently a
painful incongruity between the mourning
dress and the conduct of the wearer; but
| will say that black mourning dress is
unphysiological, that it casts shadow over
the spirits Of the wearer, and constantly
reminds her Of the dead friend, and in
other ways tends toward depressing the
general health and tone, can conceive
of a grief which should try to express
with Grape. By instinct, should avoid
all such announcements. And then, when
the prescribed year has passed, the taper
ing of in the shades of black, and the
final bursting out in brilliant colors again,
is SO absurd, that it seems quite unneces-
sary to expose ones self to the necessity Of
advertising this graduated dying out Of
ones sorrow
Year: 1874

NICKEL IN CoINAGR.-The demand
for nickel, the metal used with copper in
the manufacture Of one cent pieces. and
in the three and FIVE cent pieces, has con-
siderably exceeded the supply, and the
manufacturers of the alloy known as Ger
man silver have petitioned the Parliament
Of the German Empire not to still further
increase the demand BY tho introduction
Of nickel money into that country. The
cost Of German silver, which contains
about one-third Of its volume of nickel,
has gone up nearly sl2 per 220 pounds
within single month. The aggregate
annual product of nickel exclusive of the
American product does not exceed 600
tons, Of which English industries alone
use one-half. IL Is used In the token
coinage of this country, Belgium and
Switzerland, and the manufacturers say
that IL Germany should issue q similar
coinage the supply would not be sufficient
to enable manufacturers to use it in the
productive of cheap imitation silver-ware
on account Of its increased cost
Year: 1874

A New Flooring Cloth has been inven-
ted in England which is not unlike some
already in the market, but is a novelty on
account Of the materials used in its manu-.
facture. Il is composed Of pure vegetable
oil prepared by patent process, mixed
with ground cork and rolled on strong
backing Of waterproof canvas. It i
claimed that the new cloth viii be warm,
soft, damp-proof and elastic. A flooring
cloth made of cork, which was invented
some years ago, was Objectionable on &C.
count Of its want Of elasticity, and the
fact that the composition Of which il was
made never dried thoroughly.
Year: 1874

To REsovArE FEATHER BEDs.-
Those who make it business Of removal
ing feathers, put them into a cylinder Of
perforated sbeet-iron largo enough to hold
the contents Of q tick. This is rexolvcd
until all the dust is sifted out from the
feathers, aud is then revolyed for while
over slow charcoal fire. The hot air
and the motion make the feathers very
light In the family this is not practica-
Bile. The nearest approach to it would be
TO sift the dust from the feathers, and then
expose them in tick thoroughly to the
sun and let them air well, giving occasional
thorough beatings. Can any Of our read
ers suggest any better treatment for an old
feather bed.
Year: 1874

WHEAT BREAD OF PorAro YEAsr.--.
This is made like bread made with home
brewed yeast, except that you may put in
almost any quantity Of the potato yeast
without injury, Those who use potato
yeast like it much better than any other.
The only objection to It is, that in summer
il must be made oilen, as It win not keen
sweet long. But It isvery easily renewed.
The chief advantage is, that 1t rises quick,
and never gives the sharp and peculiar
taste 50 often impaired to bread and cake
By all yeast made with hops.
Year: 1874

Responses are coming in from the press of
the Peninsula to the invitations of the Board OF
Trade asking the representatives to become the
guests Of that body during their attendance up
on the convention which meets Oh the 30th inst.
Several Of these responses have been received
and all accept the invitations extended From
present prospects, there will most likely be a
very general attendance
Year: 1874

With the single exception of the Philadelphia
Press, whose dissent is by no means vehement,
all the leading newspapers seem to heartily ap-
prove the Presidents views on finance. They
endorse his recommendations that measures be
taken for return to specie payments, and they
seem to approve too, the means which he sug-
gests as effective to that end. Nothing is more
plain than that the references to finance are
the vital portions of the message, and that all
other subjects which it considers are to Congress
and the people comparatively unimportant. No
other topic secures the public attention, or ex-
cites serious remark.


In the present temper of Congress- then, what
will be the result ? The Inilationists claim, and
not without some show Of reason, that the re-
cent elections favored their action, and indica-
ted disapproval rather than encouragement to
the hard-money policy. True the vote was one
over which the New York Tribune and World,
both intensely opposed to Ii aation, went into
Hpasms Of rejoicing, but they were sure to do
that whenever the Republican party suffered
reverse, even il the sure consequences Of it
were to be doubling in the volume of the cur
rency. That they, and other hard-money jour
nails, therefore, should express pleasure over
the Congress elections does not dsprove the ar-
parent fact that the Expansionists really seemed
to gain strength in October and November.


In addition to all the reasons for doubt and
indecisicn which disturbed the last session OF
Congress, the unwillingness OF the present one
to adopt any vigorous or pronounced line of ac-
tion il reasonable, and yet further to deter it
comes this doubt whether the people have not
Indicated their opposition to specie-resumpton
measures What, then, we ash, can or will Con-
gress do under the circumstances2


Any reasonable policy, we think, would be
better than none. Undoubtedly the country de-
sires action. The road pointed ont by the Pres
ident is good one. Let it, by all means, be
taken, and let us trust that the result will JUS
.tify the action. No party can live on the paper
money platform, and il the Democracy, from
party spirit, choose to oppose Congress, af-
ter it has adopted specie-return policy, they
must ultimately go to destruction the other
side Of the question. Let us take the safe side,
and leave them the tarred end Of the stick
Year: 1874

The pig iron manufacturers are to have a ma
tional convention in Philadelphia OH tomorrow,
to take action upon plan for curtailing the
production Of pig iron, which will be presented
for consideration by the committee appointed
for that purpose, and to transact such business
ar may be brought before the meeting.
Year: 1874

The arguments which the President adduces
IN support Of his recommendations OF return
TO specie are not strikingly novel nor presented
with the skill OF scientific economist. But
they are unanswerable, and have been 80 at any
time this last century. The utteraces OF plain
man like General Grant, even if they do not
proceed from any very profound knowledge of
the subject cannot but have good effect among
other plain people, who believe in him and trust
what he says-M \. Tribune.


This is specimen of the kind of newspaper
snobbishness which we particularly despise
Who're is the proof that this writer knows more
of the matter than President Grant ? Certainly
not in the articles from which these sentences
are taken, neither in other articles which have
appeared in the Tribune on the subject. Yet
there is here an insufferable assumption OF su-
periority,-as much as to say, II ,oe had under
taken the elucdation OF this matter you would
have heard something, but as it is only General
Grant who is talking he must be put up with.
Profound fiddlesticks. IL not the country
agreed that the financial views OF the message
are expressed clearly, sensibly and vigorously,
and that they cover the whole ground2 The
IriJunes profundity ID not needed after so able
an exposition, but little fairness on its part.
now and them would be very acceptable.
Year: 1874

Professor Judd at this hour said he should walk
on until he had male his l30th mile before retlr-
ing to rest, which would give him o record OF
seventyone miles for the day since he first ap.
peared on the track yesterday morning
Year: 1874

"The Health, Beauty and Happi-
ness of Woman" is the subject of DR..
Brenan's lecture to ladies exclusively
at Good Templars' Hall this after
noon. 1t seems to us that no lady
could fail to be interested in such q
subject; and, were we one of the gem
tier sex, we should certainly attend.
The Doctor is fine speaker and ham
dies his subject with the most perfec t
ease and refinement. Moreover, he is
II "duck of n man, as the ladies say,
and eligible, so that this fact should
carry no little influence. This eve
ming the Doctor will deliver his lecture
to gentlemen only on Manhood-how
lost and how regained. 1t is said to
be his best effort, and just what every
man and boy in the country needs to
hear. There will be no empty chairs
for those who come in late.
Year: 1874

1t must indeed be dry in Texas if it
be true as local paper says, that the
suffering catfish lies stranded on the
blistering bottom of his late happy
home, waving his tail in the crisp
breezes as signal of distress.
Year: 1874

NEW CEMETERY.-Ac circular call
ing meeting next Tuesday of those
desirous of forming Protestant
Cemetery Association, is distributed
among our people. Meeting is
called for o'clock P. M. The
names of a number of the best men
of the city appear as signers Of the
circular. A full meeting should be
secured.
Year: 1874

Any one who will gather some of this

 seed, can get reasonable price in cash

 for it. We are authorized to buy some for Wm. s. Chapman of San Francisco, for experiment on his lands in the San

 Joaquin and other valleys.

 A granger of lake county, California, writes to The Rural Press, of San Fran cisco, to learn where he can obtain the seed and it's price and when to SOW it.

 We hope that some of our haymakers will look out and procure quantity of the seed and note any peculiarities about the growth of the grass. If any one will bring quart of the seed to THE CITIZEN office, he shall have liberal price for it. The Rural Press advises It's granger in- quirer to send to Santa Fe for it. It ought to be procured in this county as readily and cheaply as at any place in New Mexico. The Press says grama grass grows only in New Mexico and Arizona. We know that land owners in California are very desirous of experimenting in the growth of grama, especially those who own large tracts of dry land in the south ern portion of the State. The gather ing Of the seed might never amount to much as business here, yet little cash could be made at it TOW, and we hope some of our people will gather some and benefit themselves and accommodate our neighbors in California.
Year: 1874

A YOUNG lady in Council Bluffs, when informed by her supposed lover that he was going to cease his suit, cowhided him all around the room, and as he disappear ed from the window, declared that she would teach him to be careful how he tri- fled with a gentle and loving heart in ful- ture. f..<<...S,f&
Year: 1874

ONLY few days ago, The Nation of New York, got orf this truth:

 There is no rascal in the country to-day who is not openly or secretly hoping that Beecher may not succeed in eXtricating himself from the net in which he is now entangled. And then there are thousands of men who gre really not rascals, and pass as very respectable, to whom the downfall of anything great or respectable in human society IS somehow a satisfac- tion, though they do not well know why, and are often ashamed even to confess 1t to themselves.
Year: 1874

It is true that it costs some men a
much greater effort to be polite than
others. 1t was said with bitter spleen
of an English statesman -


Canning can never be gentleman
for more than three hours at time. ,


1t is true, too, that there are times in
every mans life when to be even kindly
courteous makes an exhausting draught
on ones patience; but silently to de-
YOUR the many chagrins of life, and to
maintain a respectful bearing toward
others, even under vexation and trial,
is not only a Christian duty, but
worldly policy.


Or. Valentine Mott said wisely to a
graduating class =


Young gentlemen, have two pockets
made-a large one to hold the insults,
and small one to hold the fees"


Hundreds of men have owed their
start in life wholly to their winning ad
dress.


Thank you, my dear" said Lundy
Foote to little beggar girl who bought
a penny-worth of snuff.


"Thank you my dear, please call again
made Lundy Foote millionaire.


Some years ago a dry COOS salesman in
a London shop had such reputation for
courtesy and exhaustless patience, that
it was said to be impossible to provoke
from him any expression Of irritabiIity
or the smallest symptoms Of vexation.


A lady of rank, hearing of his wonder
ful equanimity, determined TO put it to
test by all the annoyances with which a
show visitor knows how to tease shop
man. She failed in the attempt, and
thereupon set him up in business He
rose to eminence in the haberdashery
trade and the handspring of his later
as well as of his early career, #as po-
likeness.


It is related of the l7to Gfr. Butler.
of Providence, r. l., that he was so
obliging as to open his store enc night
solely to supply little girl with spool
of thread which she wanted. The
incident took wind. brought him large
run of custom. and he died a millionaire,
after subscribing $4,000 toward foun-
ding a hospital foT the insane "a sum
which be was persuaded to give By
Miss Dix, whom be was TOO polite TO
shake off. though almost IS penurious
as he was perseVeFiDg,
Year: 1874

the West Indies and south American
that the heaviest calamities occurred.
The city of Caracas was almost entirely
destroyed by an earthquake and over
100 of the inhabitants killed. A
terrible volcano burst out near the
Island of st. Michael's. From the i'm
mense quantity of lava, ashes and rocks
thrown up from this volcano new
island was formed several miles in
circumference. The disturbances in
the Mississippi ceased coincident with
the earthquake at Caracas.


OUR GRANDFATHER S OPINIONS.


The opinion as to the causes of these
violent outbreaks that prevailed among
American scientific men over sixty
years since was that they were produc-
ed by terrestrial and celestial electrici
"; that from the powerful affinity OF
the two fluids the violent efforts Of
electricity to escape from the earth
produced earthquakes. The ravages
of tornadoes, hurricanes and storms
that occurred during the appearance Of
the comet must have had some causes.
and that it was evident that they were
physically produced, either immedi-
ateiy or remotely, by an extra mundane
agency; for there was, probably. no
matter or physical combination of
matter on the earth possessing sufficient
power to combine so much phenomena
in so short time. So the conclusion
was that the comet was the cause Of all
the trouble in 1911 But the gaseous
nature Of the meteor was we'll under
stood. Possessing this unsubtsanial
character, it might be as we'll to at
tempt to ascertain how far cloud,
driven against a mountain, will tend to
break off its top as speculate upon any
danger to the earth from a collision
with a comet. The effect of such a
meeting would be the mixture of its
gaseous matter with the atmosphere
and a probable rise of the barometer,
though there is no evidence to make it
! probable that all the comets in exist
ence, if put together, would have the
mass sufficient to produce a sensible
effect Of the kind. If, however, the
gaseous matter should condense sufi-
ciently to descend to the lower regions
of our atmosphere, some effect might
be produced on animal and vegetable
life, as likely good as bad.