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Year: 1875




1t is somewhat amusing to read the
warnings which just now fill the col
umns of Independent journals, that
there is danger of abusing BIDwEII
up to that degree of popularity which
will lead to his election. We have
read our exchanges pretty closely and
we must confess that up to this time
we have seen nothing which can be
construed into abuse of the Chico
monopolist Mr.. BIDwELL is the
nominee of party whose principles,
if they are encumbered with any such
thing, partake very strongly of the
Communist doctrine, which holds that
it is right to take from the rich and
give to the poor-to force division of
property the moment it is discovered
that one man has more than his neigh
Dor. Now investigation establishes
the fact that he not only has more of
this worlds goods than his neighbors,
but that he did not acquire them after
the manner of people who do unto
others as they would that Others should
do unto them. This discovery has
created some discussion and has drawn
forth comments the reverse of compli-
mentary to Mr.. BIDwELL. But is this
abuse? When a professed and loud
boasting anti-monopolist is found to
be a monopolist of the worst and most
oppressive character, is it abuse to
condemn and expose his hypocrisy?
Mr.. BIDwELL blows a loud and shrill
temperance horn, yet it is well known
that he retailed spirituous liquors as
long as he found the business profit
able. Is it abuse to point out this con-
flict between profession and practice?
Mr.. BIDwELL's supporters represent
him to be q man of liberality, intelli-
gence and benevolence. Those who
have known him long and we'll aver
that he is illiberal, narrow-minded and
selfish. Is it abuse to revert to and
comment on these glaring contradic-
tions? We do not think so. The man
is aspiring to the Gubernatorial chair
and it is the right of the people to in
quire into and investigate his antece-
dents, his moral character and his in
tellectual ability. The candidate who
denies this right and attempts to
screen himself behind the plea of per-
secution and abuse, offers reasons for
regarding him with suspicion and dis
trusf
Year: 1875

THE attempt of the Erpress to turn
attention from the little irregularity
in the deposit of the city funds, to
which the HERALD alluded yesterday,
is sufficient to excite the suspicion
that the city is likely to lose the in
terest on its money for some time to
come. We have, as yet, attached no
blame to any one in regard to this de-
posit matter, nor do we now. We
simply ask the question why the or
der of the Council is not complied
with. The statement that thirteen
per cent. is not the figure bid by
Messrs. TEMPLE s. WORKMAN has
nothing to do with the fact that the
city is not receiving the interest as
per contract, and this dust-throwing
by the Express looks as though it was
irving to screen somebody,
Year: 1875

IT is said that under q threat to eX-
pose his land swindle, GORHAM forced
BIDwELL to support him for Governor
in 1867. 1t is we'll known that BID
WE'LL suddenly recovered from his de-
feat in the Convention by GEORGE
and supported him. 1t is hardly
probable that he would have done
this unless coerced. AT any rate,
there is danger that the old mans am
bition to be Governor will reduce him
from position of wealth to one of
comparative poverty.
Year: 1875

Miss E. BENGoUGH, teacher of the
First Grade of the City Grammer
School, whom the HERALD the other
day suggested as suitable and COM
petent candidate for County Superin-
tendant of Public Schools, declines to
accept the position. We are sorry to
hear it as she is an accomplished and
popular lady and would fill the office
of County Superintendent with honor
to herself and credit to the people.
Year: 1875

Now is your time! No such chance again in
one hundred years! This Bazaar is selling out
their entire stock of Dry Goods % per cent
below cost, as they intend giving up their dry
goods business and keep only Gents Furnish
ing Goods. This is no bogus sale, but genu-
inc selling out of our entire stock of Dry
Cry Goods, as You will find out by calling at
the Bazaar, corner of Main and Requena
streets, opposite the U. S. Hotel. jel7
Year: 1875

f SARATOGA, July 2Ist.-In the Bank
ers' Convention the Committee on
Resolutions reported as follows: The
first resolution favoring immediate
resumption and calling upon every
citizen to hasten the day when every
promise of the govt to pay dollar
should be receivable in coin. Second;
calling for a repeal of the war tax on
banks. Third; urging Congress to is
sue coupon bonds in exchange for reg
istered bonds of the same amount.


Fourth; demanding the abolition of
the two cent stamp on check and
Year: 1875

We do not look for sudden revival of
business any longer. If our diagnosis
Of the case is correct, there can be no
sudden cure. We of this generation
will hardly live to see the country genu-
inely prosperous. Great masses of prop
erty are to be abandoned. The capital
stock of multitudes of corporations will
be sunk, and their property will pass
into the hands of bondholders and cred
itors, at such price that they may pos
sibly be made remuneratively useful.
Hundreds of millions of invested funds
will practically cease to exist. The
things in which these funds have been
invested cannot be used, and they might
Just as well have been thrown into the
fire. Thus the means of living have
been enormously reduced among capi-
talists, and more men need work to do
than used to need it. With this fact on
one side, we find set over against it the
other fact that, of the multitude who had
adjusted their industry to the conditions
of war, only part are needed under the
conditions of peace. Tens, twenties,
fifties are to be counted out of the mills,
the factories. the shops, and sent either
into idleness or into some other field OF
industry. In other words, our national
industry is to be readjusted.


The cities and centers which have
grown SO rapidly will naturally cease to
grow. The larger cities will grow, per-
haps, as Loudon grows, by their attrac-
ton for men of wealth, but men of enter
prise will not crowd into places where
there is no work or reward for them.
The boys will stand by their fathers
farms better than they have done, and
hundreds of thousands of men and women
who have left the farm and the farm
house must return to them. 1t is pleas
ant to reflect that living can be won
from the ground, and that agriculture
holds certain cure for all our troubles.
Mr.. Greeley's old advice, eco West,
young man" was based upon philoso-
ply whose soundness the people of this
time cannot question. The tendency in
his time was TO overdo business, and
that tendency went on. to the distressing
results OF which NIL of us are the wit.
nesses and the victims
Year: 1875

When in late summer the streams run yellow,
Burst the bridges and spread into bays;
When berries are black and peaches are mellow,
And hills are hidden by rainy haze.
When the golden rod is golden still,
But the heart Of the sunhower is browner


sadder;
When the corn is In stacks the slope Of the HILL
And over the path slides the striped adder.
When butterflies nutter from clover to thicket,
Or wave their wings on the dropping leaf.
When the breeze comes shrill with the call of the


cricket
Grashopper's rasp, and rustic of sheaf.
When high in the field the fern leaves wrinkle,
And brown is the grass where the mowers have


mown,
When low in the meadow the cow-bells tinkle,
And brooklets crinkle Ger stock and stone.
When heavy and hollow the robins whistle,
And thick lies the shade in the heat Of noon:
When the air is white with the down o. the thistle,
And the skyis red with the harvest moon.
Oh, then, be chary, young Robert and Mary;
Let no time sip-not a moment wait


If the fiddle would play it must stop its tuning,


And they who would marry must be done with


their incoming;
Mind well the cattle, let the churn go rattle,
And pile the wood by the barn-yard gate
-Scrib1ler for October.
Year: 1875




1t is pitiful to see men and women
lying idle. 1t is pitiful sso see them in
great masses thrown out of employment.
We wish they could be made to under
stand how hopeless the situation is for
at least half of them-how necessary it
is that they should be seeking employ
ment in agricultural pursuits, in lives of
industry adapted to the present circum-
stances of the country-in anything and
any place except that which is proved to
be insufficient for their needs. This
change must come, and the quicker it
comes the better for them and the better
for the country. The American people
are not lacking in shrewdness, patience,
adaptiveness, and industry, and the good
time will come, though it is likely to be
long delayed.-Dr. j. q. Holland, in
Scribner for October.
Year: 1875

THE Chief of Police of Portland can't
take joke. His house was robbed a
few nights ago by the thief whom he was
trailing around. and he felt so cut up
oyer tile circumstance that he resigned.
Year: 1875

MISTRESS MOUSE.
Mistress Mouse


Built house
In mamma's best bonnet;
all the cats
We're catching rats,
And didn't light upon it.


AT last they found it,
And around it
Sat watching for the sinner;
When, strange to say,
She got away,
And SO they lost their dinner.
Year: 1875

Jones saw the thief take the coat from
the hat-rack in the hall, aud jumping
from the dinner table, he gave chase hat
less as he was. The thief had good
start and turned down Fifth avenue. AS
Jones went around the corner as train
of fast mail cars goes around curve, he
accidentally ran against a fascinating
youth, who, thinking himself or mis- long
overcoat injured, gave chase to Jones,
and, calling Tor assistance at frequent
Year: 1875

MURDERED.-An inquest was held by Cor
oner TAYLOR yesterday at the High Consta-
bios office upon the body of the chi ID fourd
n the dock the day before. The jury de-
cided that it had been murdered by having
its throat cut by some person or persons un'
known
Year: 1875

A story of sadness and superstition


comes to us from Indiana. In a lonely


spot on the hillside on small stream


known as Mad Lick, about two miles back


Of Dillsboro, stood log house, which, until


about six weeks ago, was occupied by a


man named Hutton (called Doe Hutton


and his family. One day while Hutton


was at work in the field, and and his wife
was engaged outside of the house, their
little girl, about three and half years old,
approached too near the open fireplace


and her clothing ignited. The mother was
not near enough to hear the child's screams


and when she entered the room the little
one was found burned to crisp and dead.


Near the fireplace the floor was scorched,
where child lay burning, and there was
also a mark on the wall of the room,
against which she had rnn in her agony.
She then ran to the bed, hid her head
under the clothes and there died. Her


body was terribly burned, but her head and
face were protected from the flames by the
bed clothing. Selling up the dead body Of
the child, the mother ran screaming with
it to where the father was at work. The
Huttons are believers in spiritual mani
festations, as are most Of the people in the
neighborhood. They have their regular
meetings, circles and also grips and pass
words for members of their association,


For several days after the death of the
child the Hutton family tried living in
the log cabin, but at length acknowledged
their inability to do SO, and moved into the
village of Dillsboro. They declared that
almost constantly they could hear cries for
help and screams of agony from the dead
child, mingled with weird music that rang
through the l:rnse. The neighbors also
said that they ,ould hear the shreks. The
horrifyiny sounds were kept up about the
homestead Of the Huttons until the neigh
bors at last declared they could no longer
bear them, and accordingly, few days
ago, in order to get rid of the suffering |
spirit, Hutton's house and barn were
burned to the ground.
Year: 1875

The individual operators are only too gIat


that the order first came from large cor


poratisn, as it allows them to escape from


difficulty of financial embarrassment tina


they coald not otherwise have done with


cut more serious results than will now at


tend such action. None of the individua


operators are upon sound footing. Th'


long strike crippled them beyond recuper


alton, and voluntary shutting down by


then at this time would readily create thu
inference that they were overwhelmed with
financial embarrassment. But the action
Of the Reading Railroad Company covers


this, and they can follow the example with


out provoking any such inferences.


If the railroad company carries out this
intention there will be at least five thou
sand men thrown out of employment. In
the wake will follow the individual opera
tors, which will throw fully three thou
sand more out Of employment, which with
the boys, which are known as breaker boys,
will make fully ten thousand people in
the dead Of winter out of work in the coal
regions of Pennsylvania.


1t was but last winter that the miners
were upon strike that lasted six months,
and none who recollect the sufferings that
were endured from cold and hunger, can
view the picture that this action of the
cellieries spreads out before theu, with
but shudder. The miners have
had no time to save anything. What they
have earned since they resumed work has
been consumed in paying up the debts
they were compelledto to incur, to keep them
selves from starvation while the strike was
in progress. Therefore, the shutting down
now upon the means through which they
drew their hard earned money is blight
% their happiness and their resources of
gaining livelihood. What they will do
f this besom of woe does come, 10 human
'gency can now determine. We, here, do
lot know what the biting cold of these
bleak Pennsylvania. ..mountainsis. and neith-
II do we know what it is to be to shut up
n them, pennyless and without food, as
10 these poor horny palmed miners. 1t is
o be hoped that there is no truth in the
umor, and, if there is, that some divine
of Providence will prevent
t. As God tempers the wind to the
horn lamb, may we not too temper it to
he unfortunate miners.
Year: 1875

The announcement made through the
newspapers that tile Philadelphia and
Reading Railroad Co. intends shutting
doy II upon the work in anumber of the COL
1e,i that they control in the coal districts
of ] ennsylvania, will have a more serious
effect than one would suppose. The cause
of this determination is the overstocking
Of the Eastern markets with coal and the
close of navigation. If this was alone the
conclusion Of the Philadelphia and Read
ing Railroad Company it would not SO
much effect the miners But it is not.
Year: 1875

The escape of William M. Tweed, from


his prison keepers in New York, on Satur


day night, is matter of surprise to but
few, who are acquaintd with the ease that
Harry Genet, companion Of Tweed in


crime, made his escape and is now hiding
in a foreign cline. The escape Of Tweed
was similar to that of Genet's. He asked
the privilege ofseeing his family. Thi.
was readily granted, and carriage pro-
cured in which he was driven through the
principal streets with all the luxury and
state of man of wealth who had never
committed any ofense against the law.
At his hoAse the keepers were left to warm
themselves in the parlor and be entertain
ed by one Of his sons, while the bird
changed his plumage and quietly walked
out of the back door-whither no one
! knows.


New York prison discipline has always
been regarded as being lax towards those
who have committed offences while in
high positions, but harsh and severe to
those who were so unfortunate as to offend
against the law while in the humber
walks of life, but the escape Of Tweed is


he crowning point Of shame in a long Sc


les Of disgraces. From the very first his


enlistment was but mere mockery of.
hat justice, which it pretended to carry
tat. While upon Blackwell's Island, his
as merely minalimprsionment. True,
10 was in prison, but with the exception Of


eing debarred from his liberty, he was sur
ounded by every comfort that could make
Inis life one of luxury.


Under a cloud of technicalilies he was
brought into Court to mako an attempt,
through wordy debate of lawyers, for his
his release from Imprisonment. This sig
nally failed, and instead Of finding his
way back to the old quarters in BlackwelPs
Island, he was placed in Ludlow street
Jail, which but paved the way to his Grim
inal release on Saturday night by his
keepers.


The escape of Tweed, does not alone
affect the people of New York, but the en-
tire people Of the United States,
aud sthe Government ITSELF IT
is an outrage upon law, the
the escaped is the laws victim, and every
DOW ar of Government and constabulary |
should be made to place him in the harness
Of prison life again. Those who were his
guardians upon Saturday night, are cul-
prits. They are directly responsible for
his escape and should be made to feel the
lash Of the law for this outrage upon jus
tice and their shameful abuses Of the high |
true Is reposed in them.
Year: 1875

d'gnant people. You must close up
the gulf, restore peace and prosperity
to the country. Let peace and pros
perity be restored 10 the land; may
God bless the country and may God
save the Constitution. I know when
| give ut,cranco to this 1t comes from
a heart that never beat hostile TO 1t
Let us come up to this good work; let
US forget what has been heretofore.
Let US lay aside our personal differ
ences; let ds lay aside party discipline ;
let us give up our parties to the con,
stitntion Of our country, and lay them
on the altar in defense OF the constitu-
ton.
Year: 1875

This elegant preparation is prepared from the
true Jamaica Ginger, combined with choice arc.
matcs and genuine French brandy, and is vastly
superior to every other Extract Essence of Gin
ger before the publis-all of which are prepared
with alcohol by the old process.
Year: 1875

Whether produced by indigestion, improper food
change OF water or diet, too free indulgence in ice
water exposure to sudden changes OF temperature,
are Immediately relieved by it. One ounce added
to gallon of
Year: 1875

Flatuleney, Sluggish Digestion, want of Tone and
Activity in the stomach and Bowels, Oppression
after Eating. are sure to be relieved by single
dose taken after each meal. A great want exists
for
Year: 1875

from the women as much as possible; re-
membering that "a mans work is from sun
TO sun, and q woman's work is never DONE"
But make it as light as possible by all the
conveniences obtainable. Above all make
home pleasant for yourselves aud children
by all those embellishments and surround
ings that cost so little in themselves, but add
such q charm TO the home, and make il the
one place desirable above all others TO the
members Of each household. Poets have
written and bards sung Of "Home, sweet
home," but they have never exhausted the
subject, aud never can; there is no place
like it to the tempest-tossed mariner on life's
tempestuous sea, and very fortunate indeed
is he or she that has true home to 20 to at
the close Of each days tolls aud cares. We
should make our homesl pleasant and cheer
ful by such variety Of reading as will
meet the tastes Of all ; as there is no amuse-
ment 50 cheap and profitable as good read
ing. 1t helps to keep the boys aud girls at
home, and makes it enjoyable to them, 50
that they have no occasion or desire to go
away from home for amusement. only such
lis just and proper. This beautifying of
our homes by shade trees, &C., &C.. thereby
making farming more pleasant, might form a
subject for a much longer article than this,
but fear have made this too long and will
not try your patience longer.
Year: 1875

To make a hot bed with manure, take
fresh horse manure. with which mix one
third to one-halt its bulk of leaves, if they
can be procured. The leaves and manure
should be thoroughly mixed and formed into
a conical heap to ferment. When the pile
has become well heated up, which will usu-
ally be in three or four days, the heap should
be turned over aud thoroughly mixed and
again formed into heap, and lett until it
again comes into an active state Of fermenta-
ton, which will usually be in two or three
days, when it will be ready to form a bed.
Make the manure into bed one foot larger
every way than the frame, and two and a
half to three feet deep; beat down the ma
nure we'll with the back of the fork, but do not
tramp with the feet; put on the frame and
sashes, bank up around the outside of the
frame so as to retain the heat inside, and
wait for the heat to rise; plunge the ther-
mometer into the manure, aud examine it
from time to time; at the beginning it will
indicate about 1902, which Is entirely too
hot; raise the sash and let tho heat aud gas
escape. In three or four days the heat will
have somewhat subsided, aud when the Their
mometer has fallen 70 about $50, put in
about six inches Of soil, rake smooth aud
put in your seed.
Year: 1875

Would you increase your earthly wealth,
The starch and bran do not divide,
But form a marriage the same,


And in the aour the bran retain,
From casting this rich part away,


May you henceforth both watch and pray
Year: 1875

An instance is mentioned of a dog
having been detected stealing sheep
in Scotland. Several farmers for
awhile missed every morning some of
the best sheep of thoir f1ocks. Watch
was kept part of the several nights,
bnt no thief appearing the sheep were
counted ard the farmers retired to bed


The next morning the best sheep, as
before, were gone. Suspicion was at
tracted to man living in an out-of-
the-way place near by, who owned a
small sheep run, and was known to
frequently sell sheep to a butcher of
a neighboring village. EARLY one
morning the man was observed walk
ing among the sheep in the fields, his
dog accompanying him, and to stop
opposite the best sheep and intently
watch them, the dog the same, after
which both went away. That night
the watch was renewed, but with
more care as to seclusion, when the
dog came alone and, selecting the
very same sheep the man had intently
noticed the morning before, collected
them together, and drove them of to
his owners place by an unfrequentcd
path. The man was arrested and con-
fessed to having stolen large numbers
of sheep in this way, at the same time
stating that the dog never ventured on


any or the expeditions If there wal


danger of detection, and attributed hir
| discovery this time to the thorough
| seclusion Of the farmers watching.
Year: 1875

EDITOR DAILY GAZETTE There is
now pending before the legislature
bill appropriating three thousand dol
lars to Delaware College, and for the
following reasons | hope it will not
pass:


First--The school is not open to all
the citizens of the State, in that, that
IL it is a mixed male and female school,
and for that reason alone there are
hundreds of citizens who will have to
help pay this appropriation if passed,
who will never send their sons, much
less their daughters there, and on that
account alone.


Second-Nine-tenth of the students
are appointments of members of the
Legislature, and therefore pay no tut
tion fee; and we think we are safe in
saying that nine-tenths of that num-
Der. are sons of wealthy or well to do
parents, who are quite as well able to
pay the expenses of the education of
their children, as the State is to pay
it for them, and were tho amount
which these free students do not pay,
paid into the college Treasury it
would be as much as they arc now
asking the State to appropriate.


We have come to the following con
clusions that an institution sustained
in whole Or in part at the public sx-
pense, should not have introduced
into its management any questions of
social, religious or educational
character upon which the public
minds is divided; and further they
should not educate gratuitously any
unless such as cannot educate them
selves, unless they can educate all
gratuitously. While we wish the
prosperity Of the college, we cannot
consent to see the public money used
for that purpose, under the present
management as indicated in this letter
without protest. CITIZEN.


MILFORD, Del, March 10.