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Year: 1874

Many people who have no potatoes
during the winter, would have them
if they only knew how TO keep them.
They have tried and failed, become
disgusted and abandoned the Fort.
A successful potato raiser and potato
ke' per gave us the following plan the
other day. 1t is simple, inexpensive,
and, he saws, eifectual:


Dig early in the morning, and con-
tinue until as many have been dug as
can be put away before night. Allow
them to dry in the sun during the day,
provided the sun is not hot enough to
burn them, which very rarely is the
case at potato digging time then, on
a piece Of ground 50 high that il will
not become wet during the winter, lay
a thick coat of pine or other dry straw,
and build bank of fifty or sixty bush
els. Cover the bank with seven or
eight inches of straw, and leave it 10
'sceat" for two or three days, taking
care to protect 1t against rain. Then
cover thoroughly with earth sixteen
l VI clS tDFsh, lnio
work in the cool of the morning before
the sun has warmed the earth or the
potatoes Cover all over, excluding
all air, and shelter completely from
rain. The reason for covering in the
cool of the morning is that the soil u.s.
ed for covering is cool and will not
heat the potatoes, anC.ohat the pota-
toes not being exposed to the sun are
also cool, and being cOolly covered liz
this condition, will not subsequently
heat and rot, have gone through q
sweat before they were covered with
earth. Our informant told US that he
had practiced this method for a num-
ber of years, and always dug his po-
tatoes when they were fit, no matter
how hot the weather, and bad never
lost potato by rot He added that
all potato houses are humbugs-.-
/ Southern Farmer.


REMARKS


More people know how to raise
sweet potatoes than TO keep them.
The above suggestions NAV be Of SER





vice to this class. We are constran-
ed to offer an Improvement in one or
two particulars The bank as re-
commended is too large-we should
never put in single "bank" more
that twenty bushels, unless it was in
what is called rick-bank, l. c.. a long
ridge bank, which is covered like the
roof Of house, and from one end of
which the potatoes can be used as
= wanted. We have found potatoes 10
keep better in banks of fifteen or TWEEN
" bushels than in larger quantities


Another change we should recon-


mend is, to leave a snail aperture at
the top of the bank, as sort Of safety
valve for the escape Of the moisture
, which will naturally i: evolv
ed within the bank. This :rer,urc
can be covered with little straw and
q piece of pire binc or boards. Thus
; stored, it is quite easy TO keep pota
. toes till June or July.-Lfomc .jopr.
, nal.
Year: 1874

A PROPOSITION We propose TO advertise
land for sale, with this understanding if the
land owner will give price and terms, and
if no sale, no charge, and if sale he will
pay us 10 per cent Of thepurchase price, out
Of the cash payment.
Year: 1874

The HERALD's cry OF par potion beU0, though
late is pleasant to ears If not to those Of its
Northern readers, many OF whom are now In
favor OF simple and candid dealing with the south
ern question.
Year: 1874

OF. ALBANS, W, huG. 10.


BY the train just arrived we have the
following additional particulars concern
ing the terrible accident on the South
eastern railroad: The scene of the dis
aster is about five miles west of Rich
ford and ten miles north of Abercorn,
P. @. The train between North Troy
and Richford ran over broken rail, the
shock from which aroused all the pas
sengers, but did not throw any car from
the track, being seen in time. Every
effort was made to make it up, and the
speed was estimated by the passengers
at forty miles an hour just before the
accident, which occurred at about half
past one. The engineer, on seeing that
the bridge had been carried away,
whistled for brakes and reversed the en-
gine, but was found dead in his tracks.
1t seems that the section man had dis
covered a bridge carried away over
brook near Sutton Flats, P. O., which
he tagged, but instead of keeping on
his way to the next bridge, but short
distance off, to ascertain its safety, he
went back to the station to telegraph to
the approaching train at Abercorn and
found no operator up. HIS
1t is generally believed that the man
agement of the road is responsible for
the disaster on account of its want of
ballasting, the dangerous rate of speed
Year: 1874

or who was wrong in 1872. let US all fight
shoulder to shoulder in the good cause for
Democratic supremacy. We know that
ysa would hate to see the Republican par
~ in the ascendency in Delaware as much
80 as any other Democrat in the State.
Then why waste time in raising questions
which will never be settled, and Of which
the agitation can but DO more harm than
good Let by-gones be by cones. 'Per-
haps none have too clear record. and
doubtless oil may have a skeleton which
they would rather not have brought to
light. The Radicals are determined to
mako bitter fight next fall. and we
will need all our forces to rspel their as
.saults. Let Us then do nothing to drive
men from the Democratic ranks but rath-
or let us do everything We can to induce
them to COME to us.
Year: 1874

TIE SALARY BILL.--Both Houses Of
Congress have passed an Act to repeal the
Increased Salary and Back Pay bill passed
last session. This action was in answer
to the pressing demand made by the press
and people all ever the country. The
members of Congress having THUS been
forced by public opinion to restore their
compensation to it's former position. it re-
mains to be seen whether the reform prom
Using President will follow their example
aud voluntarily Git cannot be douc any
other way) reduce bis salary to the old
amount.
Year: 1874

DEATH IN THE KrrCHHN.-A startling emm-
pie of recklessness is given in the evidence
yesterday before Coroner Woltman in the
pickle poisoning case. It was shown that that
deadly poison Paris green was left scattered
about the shelves. dishes and sink in the
kitchen of Mr.. Ubstell's house, in which the
victims died 1t was used to kill roaches but
the way in which it was used was equivalent
to the suicide of the servants This result
was unusual; but the carelessness, it is to be
feared, is common. It should teach house.
keepers to beware how they trust ignorant
servants with terrible poisons for such trivial
uses. But how can we expect this when
Bridget throughout the country still lights hog
fires with explosive keroseneP
Year: 1874

North Carolina has always claimed to be
democratic State, and no one is surprised that
she has proved it. The republican party car
ried the State in 1872 only by those extreme
and exceptional exertions which are made in
Presidential elections The heavy pressure Of
the administration having been withdrawn
North Carolina takes her place among the
conservative States of the South, and is likely
to keep it unless the radical party becomes
much worse than it was in 1879, which is i'm
possible, OF, much better, which is improba-
ble The administration cannot coerce this
State again, and it is not likely it
can persuade it; for the victory of the
democracy is decisive. majority much
larger than any one had reason to expect, q


democratic Legislature and seven democratic
Representatives out of the eight which North
Carolina sends to Congress-, are facts which
should make it impossible TO change her po-
ltical complexion in the sext two years. The
Year: 1874

maneuvre, and who do not observe that this
relation with Northern democrats and the
class of political 'rounders'' who are called
liberal republicans is necessary part of that
policy Of approaches toward extreme Southern
men which is notoriously practised by the
administation-for these, but not for others,
there is some improbability in Grants repeat
ing the candidacy of Greeley if he finds by
and by that he cannot do better.


But the heads of the democrats and the lib
eral republicans must be strangely turned be-
fore they can accept the candidate though
this also was said in the case Of Greeley no
longer before the last canvass than we are now
before the next Is liberal republican any
thing other than o republican who opposes
the administration, and especially those acts
Of the administration which are classed to-
gether under the name of Grantism? Greeley,
Sumner, Schurz and their adherents were in
sympathy with all that may fairly be called
republicanism I; but what they opposed was
that policy in the administration which treated
the Presidency as piece Of personal property,
and their opposition began when that corrup-
ton first became fragrant which resulted from
appointments made not for fitness or capacity
but for personal fealty


Upon what do the democrats base their hope
for victory in the next Presidential canvass
Their great capital before the people is the
corruption of the party in power, its infamous
administration of the law in the Southern
States and it's shameless disregard of decency
and honesty everywhere. 1t is this miscon-
duct that has provoked reaction and still adds
State after State to the number Of those which
give democratic majoritiea But before these
Southern democrats or Northern democrats
take any irretraceable step in their political re-
lations with the President it would be we'll for
them to examine closely just how much of
that odium which weighs down the party they
oppose is due to the party outside Of the ad-
ministration and how much to the administra-
ton strictly how much flowed from the party
policy and how much was foisted upon the
party by him whom they fancy they may make
their candidate. Is it republicanism or Grant
ism that has disguised the country? If it is
Grantism the people will scarcely believe in
Grant as the man to put it down.
Year: 1874

JUSTICE IN MARYLAND. yesterday at noon,
Ernest Smith, colored boy Of eighteen, ex-
plated on the gallows crime SO revolving as
Justly to be held in utter detestation wherever
civilization exists. His Inconsistencies of
its great enormity seems to indicate very
plainly that the elevation and refinement of
his unfortunate race by education and relig-
ious influence is the only sure and radical
means of causing it to be of less frequency in
futy1re
Year: 1874

CITIZEN OF YonKvnLE writes to Us asking,
Is there anybody in our model reform city
government with power to regulate blasting
in some way consistent with safety to life and
property We fear not The blaster of rocks
seems to have unlimited freedom. He can
kill and destroy od liJitum. The only remedy
appears to be civil damages. Such a state of
things is tolerated in no other country in the
world.
Year: 1874

ONE FEATURE of the recent Southern cleo
tions which is unwelcome is the evidence Of
increasing animosity between the whites and
blacks. The riots in various parts of North
Carolina and the bloodshed in Louisville,
KY, have o sinister look. Whiskey may
have been the occasion of these disturbances,
but it was certainly not the cause
Year: 1874

THE GREAT SPIRIT has informed a Comanche
prophet that his nation can only become
great by going to war and killing all tho
whites it can. The Great Father at Washing
ton might not improperly inform General
Sheridan that the best thing for the Comanches
would be for them to kill the prophet
Year: 1874

A dispatch to the New York Herald says the
House Committee Apprspr atoms have dt'
termlned to commence the work oi Reform
III earnest, and that they find, by examination
aud comparison that there Is an immense number
of clerks employed that are not necessary to dc
the Government work. In the Treasury alone
tlere are four thousand ,inployos who may lie
dispensed with, and 1t is calculated that the pub
lie scrvice can spare the services of some ten
thousands persons. Allowing the low average OF
one thousand dollars salary to each, the county
will gain ten million dollars year, unless the re-
concentrations OF the committee are defeated by
the plottiugs of rings in the House.


Scattered all over the country are thousands
more men who are mere drones-poiitlcal Ieeca-
cs-who are living idle life and yet are getting
larger pay than an honest. willing citizen can
possibly make by working full ten hours each
day. THIS should be stepped and we hope the
Committee Of the House, now when they find the
Government really in need of saving every dollsr
that can be saved will do justice to the industrious
an toiliug people who groau under a load of tax
that is quite appalhng.
Year: 1874

IT is curious to note that the reunion
of Original Additions at Chicago,
broke up yesterday sine die, without so
much as mentioning the pending civil
rights bill. Will the negroes make
note of this 4?
Year: 1874

not know how to behave themselves and
were laughed at by all; and several of
the ladies called her fish-duchess and him
fish-duke She was very angry at this,
and teased and coaxed her husband to
make himself king, because she did not
want to be fsh-duchess any longer, but
wanted to be queen.


Then Hans said Remember the time
when we were poor, and only desired
house as good as the meanest one IN our
neighborhood Now we have everything
in abundance, now let US have enough;
let US be satisfied" But she would hear
nothing of being satisfied and said:
"Whot I shall allow myself to be called
fish-duchess? l shall endure the haughti-
ness of the citizens wives? No, they
must know who l am: will show them.
And you will be so stupid and allow it to
suit you ~ At last he promised to make
her a queen. Accordingly he went out
to the lake and cried: "Fishlein, Fishlein
in the sear And the little fish
asked, what do you want, dear Hans
Doodledee p l only wish to be made a
king Immediately, to please my wife.
Year: 1874

with it all further expenses of dealing
with the crime that springs from mid
night drinking.


There are probably three millions OF
voters in the United States who favor
some kind of prohibitory law. They are
resolute and earnest. In the present
want of accurate and trusty information
they cannot be answered. Their facts
are as cogent as the counter facts; their
assertions as conclusive as opposing as
sertions. Nothing can be more reasona-
BILE than their request for national com
mission of inquiry, that we may all have
an official and authentic body of statis-
tics to which to appeal. We trust that
the Judiciary Committee will report
favorably and soon, for their is no sub
ject more vital to the happiness of this
country, and none upon which accurate
not rhetoric and objurga-
ton, is more Immediately desirable.
Year: 1874

Some of the janitors of churches, in
this place, seem to have holy horror of
ventilation. A hot, poisoned atmosphere,
like that which prevails in the Black


Hole of Calcutta, they imagine is partio-
ularly adapted to devotion, yawning and
fainting; and hence they regard pure air
as dangerous intruder in the sanctuary.
When you talk to them about the pro-
priety of letting in, at the top of each
window, full supply of Gods pure air,
they roll up the whites of their eyes, and
put on an air of amazement, as if to
inquire, what strange animal is that
which you are trying to introduce, sur
into Gods House? For the
benefit of these gentlemen, we assure
them, that Ventilation is not even an
Ogre, but a happy arrangement con-
trived for the benefit of the sons and
of Zion, and even sinners,
poor and needy who do not wish to be
stiffied before their time WiHingtoR
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Year: 1874

upright, honest man? But if the police
of your city are on the lookout for a
thief, a black-leg or criminal of any
sort, are not these the very places where
they set their watch, and where, in all
probability, they will find their man
Are not such characters naturally as much
at home in such places as duck is in
the water?


Is there no significance in these facts
And in view of them, is the assertion
that crime is largely the result of these
causes, an ''incautious statement p


Destroy the liquor traffic in the land,
and I will give bonds that the number of
the inmates of your Penitentiary shall be
diminished by more than sir hundred, as
soon as the sentences of those now here
shall have expired; and the inmates of
your poor houses in an equal proportion.


r. BURR
Year: 1874

"My dearest uncle. says humorous
writer, was the most polite man in the
world. He was making voyage on the
Danube and the boat sunk. My uncle
was on the point of drowning He got
his head above the water for once, took
off his hat and said, Ladies and gentle
men, will please excuse me and down
he went" az
Year: 1874

How can cease to pray for thee? Somewhere
In Gods great universe thou art to-day;
Can he not reach thee with his tender care?
Can he not hear me when for thee pray?
What matters it to him who holds within
The hollow of his hand all worlds, all space
That thou art done with earthly pain and sin
somewhere within his ken thou hast place!
Somewhere thou livest, and hast need of him
somewhere my soul sees higher heights to
And somewhere still, there may be valleys dim
Ihat thou must pass to reach the hills sub
lime.
Then all the more, because thou canst not hear
o true, brave heart, God bless thee, wheresoe'er
In this great universe thou art to-dayI


Julia c. R. DoTr.
Some murmer when their sky is clear
And wholly bright to view,
II one small speck of dark appear
In their great heaven of blue;
And some with thankful love are filled
If but one streak of light,
One ray of Gods good mercy, gild
The darkness of their night.
In palaces are hearts that ask,


In discomfort and pride,
Why life is such a dreary task


And all good things denied;
And hearts in poorest huts admire
How love has, in their aid,-
Love that not ever seems to tire
Such rich provision made.
do not ask, o Lord that life may be


A pleasant road;
do not ask that thou wouldst take from me
Aught of its load.
1 do not ask my cross to understand,


Ny way to see;
Better in darkness just to feel thy hand,


And follow thee.
Joy is like restless day, but peace divine


Like quiet night;
Lead me, o Lord, till perfect day shall shine,


Through peace to light.


adelaide Anne Proctor
Year: 1874




TIE following incident of the
recent hard Llow occurred al
McFarlau's lumber camp near
Lapecr:


When the storm was at lite
height, tearing and bowling
through tho forest in the night,
and blowing trees down in all
directions, Mrs. Carpenter, who
has charge Of the Camp, had
retired to bed with her assistants
in their apartment of the shanty.
Being alarmed at the turmoil
of the elements around them, the
ladies rose from their bed and
left the shanty. In less then five
minutes after large tree tell
upon it, crushing down the roof,
and resting on tho spot they had
just Quilted. They must newt
adlc have been killed, had they
remained a few minutes longer.
About the same moment, u fall
ing tree broke through the horse
barn, and came to the ground
between two horses, withoM
injuring either. 1t was a time
or much excitement and narrow
escapes.
Year: 1874

A BRAoE of gallant Missouri
youths have just fought a duel
for the possession of their common
sweetheart, and as they we're
orly wounded the maiden refuses
to haye either of them. She
don't want any one who can't hit


the broadside OF a barn in her
family. M
Year: 1874

A DRrour little boy hearing his
father say that man ought to
"stick to his business" emptiad
a bottle of mucilage in the old
gentleman's office chair. Tho
old man says sbo has not been
stack so badly since 1857, and
rewarded his offspring by taking
him on a whaling trip to the back
cellar,
Year: 1874

SEVERAL cases Of smallpox are
reported at Boscobol, Wis, and
in consequence the excitement is
very great in that city. A man
named ltsavcs, living at Boscobel
attempted to commit suicide
because Of the loss of his wife and
daughter by the dreadful disease.
Year: 1874

SURELY the most practical man
of our day has been discovered.
A young man down East, writing
to his sweetheart the other day
said: 81 wish my darling, tina,
you would not write me such long
letters. you were to bring All
action for breach of promise
against me, the lawyers would
copy the correspondence between
us and charge ten cents for every
folio Of twenty-five words. The
shorttr the letters the more We
save from the lawyers"
Year: 1874

TIE argument for a new trial
in a Chicago Court in a recent
murder case, was based on the
fact that the States attorney had
wrongfully quoted certain passages
Of Scripture in his closing speech.
Year: 1874

have rooms to accommodate 100 persons in
the very best style. The Hotel is entirely
new. and is fitted up in the best shape for the
comfort Of the guests. There is a large and
commodious sitting room fronting the depot,
which willproye desirable place for per-
sons who may be'waitlng for the arrival or
departure cf X. X! Trains p III
Year: 1874

A well-known sporting character
being on his death-bed, was attend
ed by friendly divine OF somewhat
nervous temperament, who, to con
sole him, expressed conviction
that he and his penitent would meet
thereafter as winged angels. care
you sure of that?" inquired the dy-
ing man. "Qmte sure,'' replied his
advisor. "Thon I'll fly you for a
sovereign replied the incorrigible
gambler. An enthusiast ofthis sort
seems, according to local paper,
to have greatly distinguished him
self on the occasion Of a fire which
lately broke out at the cotton samp-
ling offices of firm in Liverpool.
While the confagration was at its
height, and the burning cotton was
being thrown out of the windows
upon the flags below, number of
brokers stood in the street discuss
ing the sum which the waste would
realize. One among them offered
to bet guinea that the burnt cot
ton would fetch els, and, as this
was apparently far beyond it's value
he found no difficulty in finding per-
sons. willing to take the bet. This
he did till twenty persons had ac-
ceptcd the wager for guinea each.
He afterwards went to the sale and
bought the cotton for GIG, which he
then sold for fl2 sustaining loss
Of Ca upon the purchase, but pock-
citing sixteen guineas as the balance
of his profits on the transaction.


Pal MuW gazette.
Year: 1874




John Harper, of Gilpin county,
Colorado, owned a large ranch, on
which is a large gold mine near
Central. He had been badly en-
barrassed in his finances, but the
proceeds of the ranch and mine had
brought him through the trouble,
and he was out of debt. This was
about a year ago. He then COM
mitted suicide, and left large fam
lily well off. John Harper never
told what made him do it. Appar-
emily when life was just beginning
to be easy and pleasant, he cut off
the last end of it and threw it away.
One of his daughtersfs Mrs. David
Broomert, at Longmont. Miss
Matte Harper, another, lived with
her married sister. She was a
young lady. There were several
younger children. Matte locked
herself up in her room one day and
would not let Mrs. Boomert in.
Then Mrs. Boomcrt ran to a neigh
boris, and said: "Mattie has locked
herself in her room, and I'm afraid
she will do something to herself"
The sad end Of her father was up
permost in the swoman's mind. The
neighbors came and looked into the
room through 4 window, and saw
her standing in one corner with her
face to the wall. The door was
broken open and Matte was found
hanging by white woolen comfort
to clothes hook in the wall. She
was quite dead. She left letter
and a will, but no reason for her
sudden departure from the world.
She wanted her share of the estate
divided between her two little sis.
ters, and them we'll educated.