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Year: 1874

FAR be it for us td cast the least
reflection upon BenjAmin Thomas,
of Dodgeville. We have known and
respected him for years past and
expect to do so for years to come.
If elected, he would be safe custo-
dian of the treasure of Iowa county,
beyond doubt. But, with equal
force, the same can be said of Chris.
Kessler. He has been tried in posi-
tions of trust, and always found
faithful and efficient. AS Treasurer
of Mineral Point city he proved
honest and capable, and enjoys the
confidence of the people to such an
extent that any bond required by
the county board he can furnish as
easily as if he were millionaire in
stead of poor man. His qualifica-
tions for the office Of Treasurer are
ample-certainly equal to those Of
Mr. Thomas. AS Clerk of the Cir
cult Court he has given entire salts
faction to all concerned; no case
has suffered through neglect or in
efficiency on his part. The Office
he has held, be it rendered, yields
the least income of any in the county
not to exceed 500 per year-and
that he has held it should not be
argued against him. AT the out
break of the war Mr.. kessler en-
listed in the gallant I'd Wis, and at
the battle of Bulls Run was wound
ed in the arm by a rebel bullet SO
that the bone between the elbow
and shoulder had to be taken out,
and thus he is crippled for life
utterly unable to perform the light
est manual labor for the support Of
himself and family. We do not be-
lieve in electing men to Office
simply because they are poor or
crippled, but when a poor man, who
is fully competent, a MANNED soldier
who is worthy, is presented against
a wealthy, prosperous business man
no more competent or worthy, We
can have but one choice.
Year: 1874

TO TIE EdtIOr or the Tri6une.


SIR For the honor of women everywhere,
allow me to correct a mistake THE TRIBUNE regard
20 marriage between mulatto and white girl In
adjoining county Please do not malign or insinuate
against the true representative lady OF the South
Such runaway marriage did occur but not between
the kind OF people the ladys side you describe.
The parents were plain uneducated people In country
town. had not taken proper care Of their daughters
early traning or kept her from such compaponship
was calculated to degrade her taste Absolute misery
ie the prce they paying for such neglect. The
peope Of this latitude neither very happy hope
inl OF the future but Of thing there no doubt No
arnount of misfortune will make the Southern
woman forget loyalty 10 the blood that runs in her
veins sporadic instance to the contrary Is only the
exception tnat estabii shes the rule. n.


JederSoa County, Miss, July ~, 1874
Year: 1874

TFTUH J1IC I.ICH1IlOnU DISpaLCH.I


Our very clever and agreeable contemporary OF
the Petersburg bndeI admires the equanimity of
temper, the versatility Of mind, the indomitaple
industry and general Information OF the Dispatch
lie should remember that "mau Is an Improving
animal" and that we have lived O long time He
deserves to be encouraged, and we say TO MIN
that when he lives as long ne may eclipse the
Dispatch.


will do for the public but we say to you, 'Jt,s all
In the bow" We observe that you speak OF
"Wintn f.0ua over,
Year: 1874

Yesterday morning man. whose name is sup
posed to have been Peter Herman, committed
suicide by drowning, he having jumped into the
dock foot OF West Eleventh street, North River.
The body was recovered and sent to the Morgue
where an inquest will be held by Coroner Wolt.
man. Deceased was about thirty five years OF age
five feet eight inches IN height and wore q black
diagonal coat. black pants, white flannel under
shirt. blue overshirt and Congress CATERS. Unless
sooner claimed, the body Will remain at the
Morgue TOR several days. What prompted deceased
to take his own lie did not appear
Year: 1874

Z HOLLYWOOD CEAErERY.-There is a bill


pending before the General Assembly pro-
posing to give authority to the Hollywo
Cemetery Company to hold real estate not
to exceed one hundred acres. and providing
that whilst the shareholders are the corpora
tors majority of the shareholders living in
the city and the counties of Henrico and
Chesterfield shall constitute quorum for a
general meeting, and when the owners of
lots in the cemetery become the corporators
thirty shall be sufficient to constitute such
uuOrum
Year: 1874

ALE FOR FAMILY UsE-EEGLIsu ALE, CREAM
ALE, AND PoRTER.-To supply 4 demand from his
many countrymen here, HENRY BOWLER has now
an ale that lie atters himself will fairly compete
with their home beverage both In flavor and quality,
and with his unlversally-approyed cream ale" and
porter will enable him 10 please the palates of all
Orders to Spring Park Brewery promptly fAled.
Year: 1874

DoN'T ALLOW TALENT To RUsT-As
by constant friction steel is kept highly
polished, so by constant exercise is tai
ent ever at its brightest. All our pow
ers grow by use. If we neglect to culti-
vate the habit of observation, we might
as we'll walk through the world blind
folded. We lose our faculty-what ar
fists call our "tOuch"-by neglect of
practice on other things besides the pi-
ano. The man who seldom reads reads
slowly; the woman whose writing IS
confined to an infrequent letter to some
absent child spends more time over that
than does practical writer over dozen
pages of manuscript. Exercise OF pos
sessed talent is absolutely necessary
then, il we would retain our gifts. For
example: if our occupation is sedentaryi
we need plans for walks, rides and active
games to keep our muscles 1.-the and
seryiceable. But if our employment
gives us enough muscular action, it is
not one whit less important to our health
of body that we should plan for mental
exercise-for employment enough of our
memory and our reasoning powers to
keep them from rusting. And, in either
case, that life must be a dwarfed and
unhealthy one that does not provide ex-
ercise for our spiritual faculties-fol
worship, and charity, and patience, anG
magnanimity. Exercise of soul, mind
and body can alone bring US to the stat
] ure of the perfect man.
Year: 1874

A correspondent of the Tribune tells
the story Of a daughter of late United
states Senator from Michigan, lady of
culture and some standing, who, being
forced to stay over in New York on her
wav from Boston to Detroit, drove about
six O'Clock in the evening to the Metro
politan Hotel, on Broadway. Being a
widow, she was alone. Her application
for room, sent down from the parlOr,
was declined through a servant, and her
request to see the room clerk was re-
ieeted through the same channel. She
was turned out into the streets after
NIGHT. and denied even the opportunity
TO show herself or state her case to that
grandest of mortal funetionaries, the
modern hotel clerk. 1t is all well
enough for hotels to exercise due care
i'm the admission of guests, but the hotel
which Keeps a clerical servant who re-
fuses TO see n lady visitor, and judges the
propriety or improPriety OF the applicsa-
lion. needs to feel the rebuke of the pub
lie in the most direct way the public can
give it.
Year: 1874

A BIRDS EYE VIEW OF AGRICULTURE.
When we consider that less than one third of
the area of the United States, and less than
a fifth of the entire domain of the United
States, is mapped into farms, and remember
that of this farm area only one-fourth is titled
or moved and when we further reflect that
the average yield per acre could be doubled
if the many could be brought up to the plane
of the few in the practice of intensive culture
then we begin to realize what numbers our
country is capable of feeding, and what waste
of toll and effort comes from neglect of eco.
nomic lessons taught by the statistics of SCI
enti6c agriculture.


We know that our wheat occupies an area
less than the surface of South Carolina, and
if the yield should equal that of England,
half of that aggregate should suffice. We
know of our national crop, maize, which grows
from Oregon to Florida, and yearly waves
broader field than all the cereals beside, that
it covers territory larger than the Old Do
minion, and might produce its amplest stores
within narrower limits than the present boun.
diaries of Virginia. The potato crop could
grow in the area of Delaware, though yieldine
less than a hundred bushels per acre; ting
barley for our brewing requires less than the
area of half dozen counties and the weed
of solace, sufficient to glut our own and also
European markets, is grown on the area of
county twenty miles square.
Year: 1874

The editor Of the Republican shows
about as little regard for the interest Of
the city now as he did before he was
taught lesson in honesty and fair deal.
ing by the late city expert. The latter,
it would seem, only pointed at the editor
to turn public attention from what was
going on in the City Treasurers Office
And now the editor in turn would hold
the espert up to view by repeating what
the GAZETTE deemed necessary to be
said in order that it might escape the
charge Of being as blind and stupid as
the Radical Councilmen who have vast
ed about $1,000 now Of the peoplo's
money on an expert who still fails to pro-
duce balance sheet. The Republican
failed to make good thing" out of its
charge, but the expert is at least entitled
to the credit of success in pulling the
wooloyer the eyes Of the Radical Coun.
cilm sn
Year: 1874

Since tho Democrats of New jersey
have the matter in their own hands.


and may certainly be trusted by the
Democracy OF the Union to deal with
1t wisely and well, it would be piece
OF presumption on our part to interfere,


even by suggestion, in the debate
which Is now going ON, amicably and


creditably, within the Democratic
body in our sister State, as to the sue.
cession of Senator Stockton. Any
citizen of New Jersey upon whom the
choice of the Democratic body is at
all likely to fall will be cordially wei.
coined by the Democrats of the rest of
the country to their ranks in the great
battle of Armageddon which we have
still to fight for the complete deliver
ance of the Republic. But New Jer.
sey has an heroic place in our history.


and it cannot, therefore, be thought by
her citizensa departure from the mod


esty of nature" if we frankly give ut
terance to the satisfaction with which
not in New York alone, but through.
out the country, true Democrats have
hailed the indications, greatly multi.
Piled OF late, which go to show that
New Jersey is likely to insist upon re.
turning Senator Stockton himself once
more TO fill the place in which he has
borne himself so manfully and done
such gallant and useful worl, during
the darkest days of the Radical domi.
nation. Three Democratic Senators
standing side by side and shoulder 10
shoulder, like the Horatian brethren
OF old, have kept the bridge" of the
Constitution for years past. Bayard,
Of Delaware Thurman, Of Ohio and
Stockton, of New Jersey, faithful
found among the faithless," have be.
come go intimately associated in the
public mind with the trials that il
would be thing to be regretted il
their names were now to be discovered
IN the triumphs of the Constitutional
Democratic party Ohio has already
set the seal Of her appreciation upon
the conduct Of Thurman. The rc.elec


tion of Bayard by Delaware is an &C.
eepted and foregons conclusion. That
New Jersey will send Stockton back
not only to drink delight of battle
with his peers" once more in the
which, as we are glad to believe, good
men OF the Republican party, them
Year: 1874

Apropose of the ladies crusade
against the saloons, we are reminded


of the power and success of the tenn
perance movement under the auspices
of the Catholic Church. An idea Of


what has been quietly and unobtrusive-
ly achieved in this direction may be
formed from the fact that it maintains
255 total abstinence societies. with a


membership of over $1,000, represent
ing all North America. We certainly
must give our Catholic fellow citizens
credit, not only for their religious de-
yotior but the amount of good they
are doing through the agency OF or
CARNATIONS as various as the exigencies
that give them birth. Since so much


of what is accomplished in these ways


is done on the principle Of not letting
one hand know the deeds of the other
it often escapes public observation.


We also notice that the Catholic Total
Abstinence Union, which held short
time ago it's third annurl,session in New
York, has passed resolutions for a grand
celebration and parade in 1876 in hon
of the centennial Of American lnde-
pendence and for the further commem-
oration of the day by the erection IN


Fairlnount Park of a costly fountain
from which the water is to flow for the
first time on the hundreth anniversary
of the nations BIRTH Chicago Inter
Ocean,. -'G / @# Hgt
Year: 1874




With the approach OF winter with
its long and dreary nights the social
features OF the Grange will show 10
more advantage. In the Grange, in
social chat aud friendly feeling will
be gathered men and women old and
young that were it not for this tea
ture of the Grange would rarely meet
Then let the attendance upon the
meetings be regular and large and let
your interest in the good work never
wane but enter the Grange with a
light heart and cheerful manner diff
fusing yoar cheerfulness upon all
Mako the Grange attractive and en-
tertaiuing and the friendly relations
that these meetings would secure
could not tail in making the Great
Movement for accomplishing good
felt and ackno wledged by ALL At
tend the meetings OF the Grange not
as necessity but as a choice, an
agreeable preference. Lay aside the
cares and trials of your every day
existence and enter the gates free
from care and with a determination
to forget all save t5e way to he hap
py and gay. In the absence of al
other means for entertainment intro.
duce some general topic and LEI each
one present express his views pre-
or con. This would he both instruct
i've and amusing. What say ouI
friends?
Year: 1874




Caldwell count, council, Texas,
was organized in June last. The
council met again for the first time
afterwards. September 5th. at which
meeting the delegates declared their
determination to adopt cooperation
in buying and selling. If they can
not command at present more than
one-fourfh of crop in cotton, they
will use what they have in the right
direction, and increase their trad e as
they get able. The council was to
have met ag ain on the lU.h, at which
time all the oranges were to report
the amount produced aud money that
they can turn over to the council,
when business ageut will be select
ed for the council, aud, by the first of
October, they confidently expect to
be able TO make start in co~opera-
tive trade.
Year: 1874

WHAT THE GRANGERS WILL BRING
ABoUr.-The New York Times eX-
presses the following opinion on this
subject The sudden aud brilliant
fortunes made by Western specula'
ton will cease. Wealth must be
won by slow and patient industry,
and great caution and Judgment
We doubt il, this year. we have the
usual autumn siringency or panic,
because of the accumulation OF capi,
tai here on account of the dread
the Granger movements. In tue, OF
course, this ease of the market aud
accumulation Of money here will lead
to specula ion again but for many
years, in our opinion, tie Grangers
will have brought d certain calm 10
the fevcred speculaions of oar East
erD capitalists. The East will now
show more regular aud measured
growth.
Year: 1874

The Agriculture OF the Future.


From the New York Evening Post


There is curious and very radical arti.
Gle in the December number Of Fraser's
Magazine upon farming. The writer's be.
Lief is that in the time 10 come farm will
be an immense food factory carried on by
a company. The companies will be joint
stock concerns, issuing shares oitrom $50
to $3.50 each, and working from 5000 to
10000 acres. The buildings Of the farm
(such is the scheme) must be placed on
the highest point Of land, so that water
and manure may be conveyed over the
surface by graVitation. Machinery Is,
among other services, 10 shear a sheep. A
whole staff oil butchers will be employed
70 kill and cut up bullocks for the London
market straight TO the salesman, without
the Intervention Of dealer. The sales.
man will be in the company's employ,
and will only sell their meat. The com.
pany will make an effort to get more than
one crop in a year. But the most sur.
prisiDg Of the results which await the fu-
ture Of farming will be the ripening OF
crops by means oil an electric current
passed through the plants, or by some
other kind Of artificial heat.


One point Of which the writer makes
much, the impossibility of profit in Eng
land from the cultivation Of wheat.
Wheat Is almost the only agricultural pro.
duct that has not risen since ITO. The
only sort Of corn which Is much dearer
now than then is barley, the reason being
that barley is used In distillation and
brewing. In the last fifty years meat and
dairy produce have greatly risen in price.


Yet wheat remains the same; notWith-
standing the rise in the price of labor and
the increase of rents. No increase oil de-
msnd has any important effect upon the
price ot corn. A rise In wheat will at
once bring any quantity oft to England.
The importation Of wheat by England In
1850 was 6, 100000 quarters, or 100000
bushels. In 1871 the importation was
nearly 100000 quarters. Yet the price
OF wheat in 1871 was lower than in 1860
1t is very plain, says the writer in Fraser,
that wheat cultivation can no longer be
profitable, and it would be better to use
the land occupied to raise produce, which
must be imported to England at q loss.
One Of the difficulties which the farmer
must meet Is to find some green produce
which will take the place Of wheat In the
rotation Of crops. This obstacle the au.
thor OF the article thinks very serious
Year: 1874

FISHER OF MEN.-Fr0m the Congregation
alist we get the following nice little story:


Many years ago the good, sensible rector of an
Irish village found some boys playing marbles
in the ball-alley. He was too much interested
to be deemed an intruder: besides, his benevo-
lent countenance easily purchased the young
sters' good will. One of them, little ragged
apprentice to every kind of mischief" full of
mimicry and winning manners, was firing off
his jokes with reckless prodgality, and the
gentleman's keen eyes saw, as he thought, the
sparks of genius flashing from beneath the
owners rags and dirt. Taking fancy to the
little homely bundle of wit, he bribes him home
with few sweet-meats, and there teaches him
the alphabet and grammar. and the rudiments
of the classics. After exhausting his own fund
of instruction, he sends him to neighboring
school, and thus gets him mounted and started
upon his life-work.


Five-and thirty years later, this boy. having
risen to eminence at the bar, and obtained a
seat in Parliament, discovers, upon returning
to his house one day, an elderly gentleman seat
ed alone in his drawing-room; his feet on each
side of the Italian chimney piece, and HE whole
air that of a man quite at home. AS the visit.
or turned around. the lawyer recognized him as
his old friend and patron of the ball alley.
" You are right" he exclaimed, rushing to his
arms; this room is yours; you gave me all
these things; you made man of me-"


OF course the old rector remained to dinner,
and that evening he moistened his eyes at the
sight of his forme- pupil rising to the House OF
Commons to answer an honorable lord.


The lawyers name was John Phlpot Cnrran.
The name of the rector was Boyse, forgotten
long since by the world at large, but still living
in the reputation OF his scholar. With no more
effort thar he employed, we might start soul
upon the way Of life; the work would not be
much, merely the picking up of pod that
would otherwise be crushed in the highway,
and opening it to find the seeds of immortal
glory There Is no cant in such deeds: they
would silence even a cynlc's mouth, aud tht
good they might do, eternity alone can tell
Year: 1874

AN EXPLOSION on MAIN STREET.-About
O'Clock yesterday evening an explosion oc-
CURED under one of the wheels of 4 street


car when it was opposite the Dispatch office,
and as it was slowly passing up the street.
The car proceeded on its way without


stopping, but large crowd, attracted by the
loud noise, quickly assembled near the spot.


II was ascertained that the explosion bad


been caused by some mischieyous person


fixing u railroad torpedo to the track. The


tin case was picked up near the Twelfth


street crossing. When the street-car passed
over it it was, of course, exploded. These
torpedoeS are very generally used on the


railroads of the country for signal-purposes,
but this is the first instance where any of
them have been used in the streets of the
city, and to the alarm of the people and
without the possibility of doing any eorre-
spending good.
Year: 1874

CLOTHING THE PooR CHrLDREN.-The ladle
Of the Aid and Dorcas Societies Of the Leigh
Street Baptist church are at present engaged
in the very laudabie undertaking of holding
fair and feast in the lecture-room OF TIT
church, the proceeds of which will be de
voted TO clothing the poor children. Iht
fair-room will be open tonight.
Year: 1874

1T is ECONOMY TO select your patterns at the
agency of Z. BUTTER1cK 6 Co. before selecting
the material, that will tell you how much to buy,
and the style and quantity OF trimming you need
Ninth and Franklin streets.
Year: 1874

The WEATHER yesterday was cloudy and
rainy, raw and disagreeable. At night 1t
cleared off. Early in the morning there
was some sleet upon the trees. -
Range Of Thermometer at the Dispatch Office


EnroDI.r 1874
Year: 1874

Yes TO he sure, we are not surprised that
the News of Nay I'd, refuses Judge. Ballinger
further space in its columns for the defence
Of Judge Coke. In this Instance the fair up
right manly course pursued by Judge B. was
not in consonance with the tortuous oneI
sided course of the News. The latter was
fmarting under great diSappointmsat-the
loss of the public printing and il its blind
rage sought to drag Governor Coke-a mem
ber of the printing Doard-iute false position,
using Judge Ballinger for the ignoble purpose
The high position held by Judge Ballnger, for
nearly half u century in Texan .affars, the
purity of his public and private life should
have protected him; but II took him, and no
less man, to serve the purpose of the News.
JUICE Coke was a quarry of the first import
anee---a stag Of ten tines, and q hound'of the
purest blood must drag him down. The peo-
pie of Texas .wiil remember with gratitude
the Judges noble and disinterested defence,
Of Coke; as they will also remember the con
verse, by the doughty puissant all llpowerfut
Galveston News. IT is bad enough. TO uia a
light on such grounds, bat TO lose it, must be
fearful fest ar'aa 81 f
Year: 1874

Subscribers who arc in arrears must make up arrearges before taking advantage of the forego- ing propositions and subscribers who arc in advance may deduct the amount their subscrip tions arc in advance

 Money should Do sent by post-oflice order, check or registered letter, if possible If remit tanees are made by mail we cannot be responsible for loss before the letter reaches us but will take all risks of remittance to the clubbing peri odical.