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Year: 1874

idents and the directors Of the mother bank and s
would not only bug s5SpSr w the a oss
OF them who were very anxious to make fortune IN
short time would use their opportunity In buying up
property credit at the runOus rates at which III
would have to be sold to settle the claims held by the
bank. The presidents and their friends would feel per
fecy safe In buying with money and credit, KNOWING
as they would that property would again rise rapidly as
soon as bank discounts could be freely obtained


Jackson was right in doing ali that was possible put
end institution that was building up moneyeo
arstocracy on the ruin OF the BEST ana mos' oh'oi


This con versaon ended al GIFTED from the cars
when the counselor canght by the arm ana SAID tt
he had never sfen the subject In that light before nc
then agreed With me that all efforts to get some'ni"a
for nothing is q mistake II not species OF fraud


have. with much hesitation, ven'ured 10 aunress you
this letter as my humble effort call and fix the atts


to the widespread political ption itnat now threat
with destruction all that we hold dear as hao


ing out The causes of the evils depore before we can
hope for the relief that all should desire. ,,
of mankind has always been effort TO get the
property others without giving an equivalent In any
form of useful labor To accomplish This purpose our
fathers commenced our history by getting the Indians


land without giving them anything W real value' am IN
next ensayed the poor African. and continued that
practice after our Constitution had declared tnat al
to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness:
Another great cOrruptng power that has been allowed
ALI onr counry has grown out failure the part OF
the General Government to perform the nrst ana most
important duty enJ0iDed upon ~ py INC Sonot uVu
the limited States 1t was only possible to establish
Justice by "unfOrm rule throughout the United
States" "tO coin money. regulate the value thereo


and tr the standard of money weights and measures"
rs the only true means to establish and regulate CON-
merce among foreign nations and WIN t9e several
be established and the general welfare efectuay pro-


noted" as no amount OF gold WIZ egany pay dent
| The fact that our General Government failed
10 preyept the individual States from Issuing what were
~ all intenfs and purposes bills OF credit" In the
shane OF pictures called money and stl further IN
aaion of currency became necessary TO save the
nation Imitation and war have raised the prices Of all


labor and property and have made all regular business
cam 81 cbapce, instead OF sure reward OF honest
labor.


We may we say with the poet that
Year: 1874

Girls, in treating d'ssipated young
men as equals, do wrong they can
scarcely realize. Such men should be
made to feel that until they redeem
themselves, until they walk with cor
rcctness aud honor in the path Of right
good people will stand alooe from them.
Girls who have any respect for them
selves will not be seen with such young
men, aud viii | decline to receive them
on the familiar footing OF friendship
1t is a mistaken kindness to poulticc
when caastic is needed, and am in
clined to think that little sharp de-
cision on the part Of the girls Of to day
would 90 far to correct the general
looseness Of morality among young
men.-A Woman in the WOman's
journal.
Year: 1874

REL1EF-HELp WANTED Mr..
Samuel Coffin says if the sufferers from
hail and grasshoppers will come to his
neighborhood they can get work now
at good wages. He guarantees to find
work for at least sixty or seventy of
them, and besides that liberal amount
of wheat will be furnished to such as
leave destitute families behind. So
you who have no crops to harvest, do
not sit down and mourn over your mis-
fortune. but 60 resolutely to work while
you can find plenty to do at high wages.
st Peter Tribune.
Year: 1874

Butterfield & Newton announce to the
community at large, on both sides of the
river, that they will run their boat regular
ly between this and New Ulm and will pay
the highest market price for wheat. They
expect to make about one trip week and
intend to run right along until the river
freezes up. They can carry 1000 bushels
of wheat with the lowest stage of water
that they are likely to have. They will
60 to points above the Redwood landing for
load or any considerable portion of a
load. Inquire of James McMillen as to
price, sacks and any other information de-
sired
Year: 1874

Last week the sufferers from hail in
this and Sibley counties forwarded a
petition to Senator Cox, asking him to
bring the matter before the Legislature
for the purpose of procuring assistance
in their misfortune. y y Senator Cox
forwarded the petition to Gov. Davis.
Whatever action is taken for the relief
Of the grasshopper section will un-
doubtedly include the sufferers from
hail, as they are equally deserving
St. Peter Tribune,
Year: 1874

A PURE LIFE.-James Parton
writes in Packard's Monthly: "Jf you
look into the life Of truely healthiul
men, those who make life easier and
nobler to those who come after, you
will almost invariably find that lived
purely in the days Of their youth. IN
early life the brain, though abounjiug
in vigor, is sensitive and very susccpt.
able to injury---and this to such de-
gree that comparatively brief aud
moderate indulgence in vicious pleasure
appears both to lower the tone, and
impair the efficacy Of the brain for
life. This is not preaching, boys-is is
simply the truth of science.
Year: 1874

A YOUNG fellow by the name of
Leonard at Rochester has narrowly es-
capped death by the use Of tobacco. He
threw away a lighted cigar stump,
which fell in an open powder keg, and
for while the young man was in dan
ger of departing in several directions.
Year: 1874

In a recent divorce case in England
the petitioner, who was the husband
based his claims for relief on the
ground that his wife persisted in smok-
ing short pipe. She even went SO
far as to smoke in the chamber at
midnight, before retiring to bed, in
spite of the protessations Of her hus.
band, who did not use tobacco. The
judge reserved his decision, as he
thought the difficulty might be amica.
bly, adjusted.
Year: 1874

Each year hundreds of people lose their lives by the communication of fire to their clothing. Children's cloth ing is light and infiammable as they venture near gas lights or other columns of flame. Dancers and others on the stage are also nightly subject to danger. French chemists declare that experi- ments in that line have convinced them that valuable compound to do the de- sired work may be formed by boiling together twenty-fiv pounds of sugar of lead, fifteen pounds of litharge and forty gallons of water, for about half an hour. When this liquid is to be used, as much of it is taken as will at least completely cover the fabric or material to be treated-or, in many cases, the fabric, may be simply passed through the solution, raised to nearly the boiling point. This opera ton having been performed, the fabric is removed, and spread out for about twelve hours to the contact of the air, after which it is to. be immersed for period of from one to two hours into hot and moderately strong solution of silicate of soda. On being withdrawn from tl.is bath of si1icate of soda, the material is allowed tt drain, then wash thoroughly in soft water, and when dried, it will be found to have acquired. to valuable degree, the property of being uninfiammable. If a hundred or more human lives can be saved each wear by this process, it will be one of the most valuable ever presented to the world. ... L|.t. a -.. ,'..
Year: 1874

MT. Layard, the Eastern explorer, once requested Mohammedan official to give him some statistics of the city in which he lived. He received in reply a letter, of which the following is an ex. tract "My illustrious Friend and Joy of my Liver The thing. you ask of me is both difficult and useless. Al though I have passed all my days in this place, I have neither counted the houses nor have I inquired into the number of inhabitants and as to what one person loads on his mules, and the other slows away in the bot tom of his ship, this is no business of mine. But above all, as to the previ- ous history of this city, God only knows the amount of dirt and confusion that the inhdels may have eaten before the coming of the sword of Islem. It were unproftable for us to inquire into it. Oh, my soul l! oh, my lamb! seek not after the things which concern thee not. Thou comest unto us and we vel come thee. Go in peace" sl."
Year: 1874

Coop LANGUAGE, - Young people should acquire the habit of correct speaking and writing, and abandon as early as possible any use of slang words and phrases The longer you put this off, the more difficult the requirement. of correct language will be ,; and if the golden age of youth, the proph season season for the acquisition of language, be passed in it's abuse, the unfortunate victim will most probably be doomed to talk slang for life. You have merely to use the language which you read, in- stead of the slang which you hear, to form q taste in agreement with the best speakers and poets in the country.
Year: 1874

The mole is frst-class engineer
His house under the ground is con-
structed with just as much system as a
citadel or a castle. There is a central
house, from which run several roads /;
there are galleries around it which con-
uect with the main portion by roads !;
far below the ground they have dug q
large hunting domain, with great
highway leading from the fortress
through it. Being very particular in
the rearing of its babies, it builds nur-
sery at some distance from its citadel,
where it can educate them in quiet
There is plenty of room for them to
play, in the numerous roads, crossing
each other at various angles. He bores
with his feet, the two fore feet being
shaped like hand, and scoops out the
dirt and throws it behind him as he
advances. His soft, velvet fur does
not adhere to dirt, and his very tough
skin prevents any sensitiveness in rub
bing against the close fitting hole he
has bored. The mole takes night walks
in the garden after snails, which he de-
yours. He is thirsty animal, and con-
structs several tanks to hold water in
his underground home. Brighten him
when he is at home and it is said he
will trot as fast as horse over the very
long highways or galleries he has built
in his subterra mean retreat. He Injuries
root crops and builds up mounds in the
meadow against the farmers oft re-
peated protests but after all the mole
is kind to his family, the best of faith
ers and very affectionate husband he
will defend them even at the risk of
his life. A splendid example to the
highest forms of the animal kingdom.
Year: 1874

The Moniteur Universal says: I'VE
learn that the request made by the ex-
marshal's wife to be allawed to share
her husbands captivity has been favor
ably received by the Government. The
buildings contained within the enclos-
ure of the fort which commands the
lie Sainte Marguerite are arranged in
such a manner that it is possible, at
little cost, to adapt them for the ac-
commodation of the Marshal's family
without any Infringement of the rules
for the internal discipline of State
prisons. A special wing of the build
ing will be devoted to the use of the
Marshal and his family. A good sized
garden, which extends down to the
glacis, will be surrounded by a wall,
so as to satisfy the exigencies of prison
rules and the laws of humanity. The
Marshals wife, children and servants
will be able at all times to pass freely
in any part of the house or garden, but
all will be required to observe strictly
the regulations laid down. The pris-
oner himself will also be required to
pledge his honor not to abuse in any
way the facilities granted for allowing
his family to modify the severity of his
Imprisonment. Col. Villette has re-
turned to Paris to make the arrange
ments for the trasfer of his family to
Sainte Marguerite, and has, on behalf
of Nine. Bazaine, expressed to NJ.
Baragnon her gratitude for the con-
cession granted to her, and has, on be-
half of the Marshal and of all his
family, given the required pledge to
observe all the regulations laid down
for their governance.
Year: 1874

The record of the Democratic party
in Tennessee, since its accession to
power few years since. is a very proud
one. The Radical party had, in four
years Of legislation, almost doubled the
State debt, besides stealing the school
fund. Bonds were given for all man
ner of wild cat railway schemes, most
Of them svindles, and forty-tEo or
three millions were the figures that
represented what we owed of floating
or bonded debt. Of course we were
restiye under such load, and know.
ing how it had been piled up, without
reference to the interest of the people,
and only with view to help cormorant
spectators, some few of our presses,
and not few of our leading citizens
favored partial or entire reputation
of all that had been created of it since
1865. But better eounsels prevailed,
and wise policy instituted by the last
legislature. and carried out in spirit
and letter By Gov. Brown and Comp
troller Burch, has reduced the debt
one-half, and placed our credit on a
par with that of the most favored
States. In the accomplishment of this
the railroads of the State played no
unimportant part. They redeemed
with remarkable promptness their in
debtedness to the State, and still con-
tinue to do so as fast as opportunity
offers. Would that our sister States
of the South could have done as well,
or were as well off to day.-Memphis
Appeal.
Year: 1874

Says the Pittsburg Commercial Of
all the distinctively Southern States,
Tennessee would appear to be making
the most rapid and thorough progress
in the essential elements of enduring
prosperity and greatness. 1t has the
best school system of all the Southern
States, and provision is made whereby
every child between six and sixteen
years of age can have at least five
months schooling each year, while the
educational advantages for all are
much better than they were for white
children before the war. The founda-
tions of Vanderbilts Institution have
already been laid at Nashville; and
the State is erecting capaeious and
comfortable asylums for the blind and
dumb. Life was never more secure in
Tennessee than now, and public sentl-
ment throughout the State has made
great progress for the better. At the
close of the war Tennessee accepted the
situation of good faith, con6ning it.
self with energy to the discharge ofits
new opportunities. Providence helps
those who help themselves. Let the
impoverished Southern neighbors of
Tennessee heed and profit by the les
son.
Year: 1874

Do the city papers say anything in
regard to your county? Nothing.
Do. they contain notices of your
chools, churches, meetings, improve
ments, and hundreds of other local
matters of interest, which your papers
publish without pay! Not an item.
Do they ever say a word calculated to
draw attention to your county and its
numerous thriving towns, and aid in
their progress and enterprise Not a
line, and yet there are men who take
such contracted views of the matter,
that unless they are getting as many
square inches of reading in their own
paper as they do in the city paper,
they think they are not getting the
worth of their money. This reminds
us of person who took the largest
pair of boots in the box simply because
they cost the same as q pair much
smaller that fitted him.
Year: 1874

If you are only able to spend so or
800 year in advertising, you had bet
ter devote at least one-half OF the sum
to regular advertisement or card as
large or small as it will pay for, and the
balance to special advertising, or local
notices at the opening of your sea-
son, or when you have special advan-
tages to offer your customers. The
standing advertisement which you keep
in the paper all the year round keeps
you before the attention of the readers
of paper for all that time, far better
than the sign over your store attracts
the attention of passers by, and when
they want anything in your line they
are apt to remember you, from having
seen your name in their paper. The
best rule for an advertiser is a certain
amount of advertising all the time, and
twice that amount in your own partlcu-
lar season. ."-Dyersburg Gazette.
Year: 1874

A SCRAP BOoK.-Every farmer
should keep a scrap book in which to
paste agricultural scraps. Every one,
In reading a paper, will see a number
of things which he will wish to re-
member. He will perhaps see sugges-
tions, the value of which he will desire
to test, or hints which he will want to
be governed by in future operations:
And vet after reading the paper he will
throw it down and will probably never
see it again. In such case all the
valuable articles will be lost. To pre-
vent such loss every reader should clip
from the papers such articles as ne de-
sires to preserve, and remember and
paste them in scrap book; at the end
of year or two they will be very in-
teresting and valuable.
Year: 1874

The editor of a Honesdale paper has
a soul not above gratitude. He writes
in this pathetic strain of a recent epi-
sode:


Like the shadow of rock in a weary
land comes to US the gift of half peck
of onions and bottle of ginger beer
from rural subscriber. How sweet
it is to be thus remembered-in the
midst of earking cares, and the buck
wheat crop short. We dote on onions,
and the delicate donation brings tears
to our eyes. So long as the fragrance
of the onions and the gripes of the
beer linger round US, we will hold the
gift in swift remembrance. Our force
speaks highly of the beer, and the
empty bottle is a valuable addition to
the armory of the fighting editor.
Such little acts as these nerve us to
renewed exertions. Our subscription
will remain the same.
Year: 1874

The Missouri Legislature met last
week. Its members are thus compli-
mented by the Western Celt:


"The gentlemen who make up thai
body can do more work, drink more
whiskey, and play poker better than
any other Legislature in the United
States. A Missouri Senator, no mat
ter what his ability, must possess some
free and easy qualifications, without
which his talents are all moonshine.
Good whiskey, good cigars, and a lit
tie spunk in betting on risky hand,
will go further in sending him on his
road to Washington than stump ora
tory, legislative ability, or actual
knowledge of the State"
Year: 1874

CROWN hills. Mulch heavily with
straw or hay. Water literally with
liquid manure, which can be produced
by filling a barrel full Of manure and
running rain water through it. Pick
off all but one or two fruit stems, and
thin out these, and specimens of fruit
will be produced that will astouish
the native" if the variety
be of the large sorts.
Year: 1874

THE wheat crop Of this county is
very promising indeed. Should no in
furious effects result from the freezing
weather during the months of Feb
ruary and March, there will be larg-
er yield of wheat to the acre, in this
county, than there has been for years.
Year: 1874

THE removal by President Grant
yesterday Of Adolphe Cluss, the En-.
gineer Of the District, who has been
telling tales out of school about the
Board of Public Works. was based on
resolution of the latter body
asserting that Cluss had confessed
IN his testimony of last Friday that he
had perjured himself, and asking the
President to direct the Secretary Of
War to detail an engineer of
the army to remeasure all work
done under the Board. Richard
l.. Hoxie, whom the President nomi-
mates to succeed Cluss, is a Lieutenant
IN the Marine corps stationed at Wash
lngtor-, and is open to suspicion of be.
ing IN sympathy with the ring.
Year: 1874

New YORK, May 25.-The court column
of the London Times contained a notice
in formal and loyal phraseology that the
true and real cause of the absence of the
Duchess Of Edinburgh from the last drawing
room was that Her Royal Highness had
hopes of an event that would add to her
happiness aud that Of the Duke of Edin-
burgh, and the announcement Of which
would cause general joy in the Kingdom.


What Does He Know About h?


This statement, says a London letter
writer, caused a great buzz, but the next
morning there was still greater buZzing
when it was announced, by request, that
the authoritative and courtly paragraph oi
the day before had been printed without
the knowledge or authority Of the Duke Of
Edinburgh.


LONDON, May 26.-The Times thi:
morning announces that Prince Arthur ha:
been made Duke of Connaught.
Year: 1874

BEN BUTLER signalized his return
to the House yesterday from a bed of
sickness by calling up the civil rights
bliA 1t shared the fate of the finance
bill, for the nonce, to make way for
tributes of respect TO the deceased
member from New York, David B.
Mellish.
Year: 1874

A Wholesome Precautfon-The Huts


of Happy Hollow 10 be Demolished.


MEMPHIS, May 25.-At a netting of the
City Council to-day a communication was
received from the Board of Health asking
for authority to tear down the honses in
Happy Hollow where the yellow fever first
appeared last year, in consequence of its
food and large amount of decayed mat
ter deposited there, and owing to the late
ness of the season the health officers state
it is impossible to disinfect and clear it ex-
cept by removing all the huLs and novels.
The Council granted the request, but the
Board of Aldermen delayed action until
the City Attorney decides upon it.
Year: 1874

The Hon. Jno. T. House, of Clarks-


vile, was in our town on last Monday,


County Court day, and made a short


speech to the people in attendance.


de spoke only in general but very


forcible terms of the policies and prac-


tices of the two great political parties,


and aligned himself squarely and en-


phatically with the Democratic party.


He urged all to come to the support of


that party whose political principles


and policy were nearest what they


thought right and just and for the


common prosperity and veal of the


whole people, without dividing or des-


trOying their strength ON personal pref
erences or questions of minor import
anee. He took the position that politi-
cal parties were necessary and whole
some IN governments like ours, and
that there were but two great political
parties or organizations in this coun-
try, and that it is the right and duty
OF every man to cooperate with that
party which he believes to be nearest
right. He made most earnest and
forcible appeals in favor of harmonic
ing and concentrating the strength of
all opposed to the rule of the Radical
party which Is now blighting and ruin
ing the prosperity and all the best in
terestS of the country.


He said he was candidate to repre-
sent this district in Congress so far
only, that if the peoples convention
of the Democratic party, called to
meet at Clarksville on the End of Sep
tember next, should nominate him as
their candidate for the position, he
would make an active and vigorous
canvass and do all in his power to have
such nomination ratified at the polls
in November next, and that if he was
not the nominee of that convention he
would be no more a candidate, and
would earnestly support the nominee.


He emphatically diselaimed having
any demands or claims to make with |
reference to that convention, and said
he would not question its action after
it had acted, but would earnestly sup
port its action. He said it was the |
peoples convention, and that it was
their right and duty to take hold of it |
and have the man of their choice /
brought forward as its nominee, and |
then to make such nominee their can
didate, and to cut off with a butchers
cleaver the spurs of any one who dared |
to run as an independent. He claimed |
no right to dictate or suggest to the !
people how they should appoint their
delegates to the convention, or how
the convention should be gotten up
Or managea-said that was the peoples I
business, and that he lett it to them to
as they pleased, and should
aequiesce in their action be it what it
may.


1t was really refreshing to hear a
so fully and emphatically |
come up to the demands of the hour
by holding the success of the party
whose principles and policy he be-
lieves to be right and for the public
good far above all personal aspirations
and ambition for political preferment.
- WarerIy Journal.