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Year: 1875

EDToRs' TRoUDLEs. II we were called
upon to specify two of the most serious
annoyances which beset The journalist in
his effort TO meet the public demand Tor
the new aud entertaining. we should un-
hesitatingly mention the urgency oi one
class of people for the publication OF
matter OF no special interest TO the pub
lie. and of another in procuring the sup.
preston Of news which is legitimate
material for publication. The editor is
frequently sought 10 avoid all mention OF
some occurrence which may have become
the subject of general comment, and the
result, in nearly every instance, is that
the yielding editor shortly finds the mat.
ter set forth in every journal but his own.
If q serious accident occurs which excites
the interest Of the community, some
friend Of the family is almost sure TO re-
quest, ION behalf OF the relatives, that the
matter be kept out OF the paper. and in
stead of having the public satisfied by
accurate information. the parties interest
ed are likely to find the most exaggerated
and distorted accounts going The rounds
of other papers. We are reminded of
this topic by our most recent experience
in snppressing all reference to serious
attempt at suicide, only to find report
telegraphed abroad in detail and copied
into all our exchanges. We were aware
Of the futility OF efforts to keep such q
matter out OF the newspapers, but de-
ferred TO the very earness request OF well:
meaning friends; with the anticipated
result that the matter is widely published.
while our own paper. which was the first
to obtain tie Information, is made to APP
pear almost the only one ignorant OF what
has transpired in our vicinity. And yet..
when the next request is made Tor the
suppression of some fact which is sure TO
become generally known, we shall have
just as much difficulty in seeking to con-.
vince the parties that the public will
obtain the news from another source il
we fail 10 give it.-Er.
Year: 1875

An exchange says "the Sandwich
Islanders believe that Beelzebub walks
the earth in the form of a woman. "
And now and then you will find man
in this country who believes so too, and
that he has married the woman
Courier Journal,
Year: 1875

"A young lady in Minnesota boasts
of having ten grown up brothers to
watch over her; but Northern girl
prefers to have only one brother watch
over provided no Is the brother of
some other girl.
Year: 1875

Hugh Walsh, the Keeper OF the lighthouse at
Robbins Rec in the bay, heard cries for help on
Wednesday night and saw a man struggling in
the water Walsh took 20 his boat and reached
Tie man Just before he was sinking for tie last
time. lie pulled him ashore but the man was so
exhausted that ne died almost immediately.
There was no otner boat near at tue time except
tug navlnR derrick 10 tow. WASH a1ed to the
engineer TO stop. Dut the latter Kept his course.
ne place wnere the man was struggling was a
mile, rom the snore aud it Is not known how lie
Rot there. lie was about forty.ive years OLD, and
was dressed Ia q dark coat pants aud vest. he


had small amouat oil currency N No possession.
Year: 1875

Judge Hawkins will hold court on Tues
day morning. On that day all rules of
recent date are fixed, and will be deter
mined or continued to the regular term.


In the First District Court the case of the
butchers who seek to be released frop con-
finement on the otder of Judge Hawkins,
has occupied two days OF the week, and
was continued to Monday. Mr.. Beldeh and
Judge Cotton insisted the prohibition of
the Supreme Court divested the Superior
District Court of Jurisdiction. That it was
not within the power of Judge Hawkins to
consider the writ of Injunction directed to
the butchers simply as belonging to him to
enforce, and he could not invoke his juris-
dictiop to protect the Supreme Court.
Judge Abel intimated he considered the
Superior District Coure had jurisdiction,
and if 80 he would not interfere, but would
not check the argument. Attorney General
Dibble was ready to either submit the case
or argue it, but he asked that as he stood,
representing the State in the defense, he
should only be required to make one argu-
ment. The arrangement was then made
that the applicants for hsbeas corpus should
put the Attorney General in possession of
all their points, that he should make one
argument, aud the reply should be confined
to the new pOiqte he introduced.
Year: 1875

/ On Sunday last the Office of the Rapides
Gazette st Alexandra was entefeA by some
I unknown persons, who pied the forms of


the paper and ten cases Of type, and car.
ried of potion of the press. The Gazette
is the official journal of Rapides, Grant
and Vernon parishes, and that fact may be
taken as a reason for the outrage. The
Democrat, of the same town, expresses the
belief that the affair was job put up by


the Radicals sin behalf of the waning and


dirty clique" which Is about as probable as


statements frequently made that colored


men 60 out and get themselves
shot fos political effect. For the
sake Of argument, however, the DEM
ocrdt Is willing to admit Mat the White


League Of the town had hand in The mat.


ter: bnt then it assures the public shat but
little damage has been done, because the
official journar was a fraud. receiving. pa


trohags By the ihfamous printing bill


which by the way is assisting several Dem


ocratic papers in parishes throughout the


State, without protest on the part of the


publishere-and that it had only such


Subscribers as are obliged to take


that tho liberal character of the


Gazette and Its small circulation


can not be put forward ip justification of
the outrage. The destruction Of newspapers,
not strictly Democratic, in the Red river


parishes is no new thing. Such acts of law


lessness are part Of the brutal policy


which includes the murder Of Republicans


ostracism and intimidation. and they are


not rare. TO the average Southern Demo
crst the criminal cutting Of Republican
printing office may appear to be very good
and eomical thing, but intelligent men at
the North DO not SO regard it. and will not
for some time to come.
Year: 1875

At Goldthwaite's book store, No SO Canal
street, Mr.. Staub, the chief purveyor of
literature in the news and periodical line,
is continually adding to his stock such pub.
locations as he finds q demand for among
those of our fellow citizens who patronize
his literary market. Hardly anything can
be called for which he is not ready to sup
ply, and his prices are as low as his stock
is varied.
Year: 1875

49, .".Z e>~y - - cs1Asey A'"H'e
railroad, belle of thriving Pennsyl-
vania town, the daughter ofa wealthy
lumber merchant, was travelling in
the same car with a shrewd old citizen
of her native town and an agreeable
gentleman from the West, who tells the
story. The latter had been talking to
the belle, but as the night drew on the
young lady grew drowsy, he gave up
his seat to her and placed himself be-
side the somewhat cynical Pennsylva-
nian. The latter began conversation
by pointing to high mountain, past
which they were whirling, and said
"You see that mountain? Six or eight
years ago it was covered with as fine Il
forest as ever grew, and worth 1000
and upward. Now without tree,
covered with stumps, the land is
scarcely worth q continental. The
net produce of that mountain lies over
there in that seat" and he pointed TO
the recumbent belle; that is my
calculation. 1t has just absorbed all
that lumber which her father owned
to raise and educate the girl, pay for
her clothes and jewelry, bring her out
in society, and maintain her there.
Some of you young men, if you were
given your choice between the noun
tain yonder, as it now stands, and the
net produce on that seat, would take
the net produce; but as for me, give
me the stumps."
Year: 1875

The interest on the new per cent
stocks is not only payable quarterly
instead of semi-annually, as formerly
and on other government stocks, bn
on that part that is registered is paya
BILE by draft issued to each indiyidna
holder of such stocks. These draft
are payable in gold by any assistan
treasurer or designated depositary
and, when properly endorsed and paid
are returned to Washington for settle


ment. This, with the fact that til
number of coupons, is by this chang
necessarily doubled, and therefore It
quires twice the force to examine an


arrange them and to account for then


has required another increase in tl
| force OF the office there.
Year: 1875

1t is not everybody who knows where


to joke, or when, or how, and whoever


is ignorant of these conditions, had


better not joke at all. A gentleman


never attempts to be humorous at the
expense of people with whom he is
but slightly acquainted. In fact, 1t Is
neither good manners nor wise policy
to joke at anybody's expense; that Is
| to say, to make anybody uncomfort-
able merely to raise laugh. Old
Esop, who was doubtless the object OF
many a gibe on account of his bumped
back, tells the whole story in fable
of "The boys and the frogs" What
was fun to the youngsters was death
to the croakers. A jest may cut deep
er than curse. Some men are SO
constituted that they cannot take a
friendly joke in the same light coin,


and will requite it with contumely
Insult. Never banter one of this class,
or he will brood over his badinagt


long after you have forgotten it, anc
it is not prudent to incur any's enmi
lty for the sake of uttering a small
II double entendre of tart repartee


Satire, however, when lcveled at so


cial foibles and political evils, Is no


only legitimate, ,ssbut commendable. l
has shamed down more abuses thai
, lwere ever abolished by force or logic
Year: 1875

TO advocate a system by which
the farmers may be able to buy for
cash is a terrible crime viewed from
the Pi-Pyess standpoint. We have
yet to find the farmer or respectable
merchant who is not desirous of do
ing away With this miserable credit
system, as soon as 1t is possible WITH
out doing injury to the business,
manufacturing and agricultural inter-
ests of the country. Credit may be
good thing for Bill King and his
"Organ" grinders but is not consid-
cred a good thing by the great mass
of business men, merchants and far
merS.
Year: 1875

Ocean horrors are getting too
frequent and are gotten up on too ex-
tensive scale to be pleasant subjects
of thought for those who have
longing to try a little life on the
dark blue sea and visit lands rich in
historic and classic memories. The
Eagle line steamship Schiller, bound
from New York with one hundred
and ffty-two passengers, foundered
off Scilly Islands, thirty miles from
the English coast, Friday night, and
two hundred lives were lost. Two
hundred immortal souls hurried by
death into the presence of the
Great God of the storms and two
hundred bodies buried beyond the
reach of loving friends in watery
graves.
Year: 1875

Many hesitate to try remedy for a
disease, on account Of the expense, con-
nected with the uncertainty of its bene-
filing them; while at the same time,
had they confidence in that remedy, the
expense would be the least objection.
With this fact in view, we make the
following proposition: Any person suf-
fering with cold, cough OF sore throat,
that will call at F. A.Poole's Drug
Sto. and purchase bottle of HALE's
COUCH CORDIAL, use one-half of it
and if they then conclude that it is do
ing them no good, they can return the
bottle and receive back their money.


No medicine ever sold in this vicinity,
that produced such magical results.
Don't fail to try it.


Orange Williams, Proprietor, James
vile, Wis.
Year: 1875

And it is the Philadelphia Rail-
road World that arises to explain
that the great reduction of rates on
account of the bitter fight between
the transportation or railway COM
panies has but little effect on the
gains 4 of the companies involved.
1t is a pity that they had not found
this out sooner, for they would have
been none the poorer, while the
West would have been much richer.
We will not complain however if the
great lesson learned will only stay
learned.
Year: 1875

May 9Th, 1875.


If there is any truth in the old say
ing, farmers should rejoice, "a wet
and windy May fills barns full of corn
and hay" No corn has been planted
yet, and it would be advisable to wait.
The wheat is coming on nicely and
believe we may look for large yield.
l uotice many farmers are planting a
diversity of crops, which I think is a
good idea, for if one fails some will be
good. This season looks like
poor one for corn but good
one for wheat. Those who have both
will certainly come out all right with
one. Gardeners are looking blue when
they see their early plants exposed to
these sharp winds.


Eugene and Alfred Bachelor have the
sole right to pick up the logs along the
river shore in this locality and deliver
them to the logmen on Lake Pepin.


Now is the time to set out trees, and
l notice several who are busy at work
doing so. Business dull but wind live
Year: 1875

coLoRED WOMAN BURNED NEARLY TO
DEATH.


This morning Ellen Brown, a col
ored woman, went to the saloon kept
by P. Dooley, at the N. W. corner of
Front and King streets to supply the
place of his cook, who was temporarily
absent. Ellen went about preparing
breakfast, and in leaning over to reach
something from the back part of the
stove her clothes caught fire and she
was instantly enveloped in flames.
Before they could be extinguished the
unfortunate woman was terribly burned
all over her person particularly about
her limbs. DIR. West was promptly
summoned, and did all in his power to
alleviate her sufferings, but pronounced
her injuries OF fatal character. She
was then placed on a settee and con-
veyed by four men to her residence, at
Seventh and Lombard streets. The
accident occurred about $50 o'clock.


In attempting to extinguish the
llames Patrick Lynch was severely
burned on the right arm.


This affair was the origin of the
alarm of fire which occurred at the
time
Year: 1875

DRUNKEN DEPUTY U. s. Dis.
trict court, sent down to this town
this week a Deputy who was toe
drunk to do business as an officer
should. He carried several citizens to
Wilmington however. It is not very
pleasant to be dragged away from
home by an officer of the law at best
but it is rather disgusting to be bossed
about by drunken man.-.Susser Jour-
nal
Year: 1875

Tickets can be bought at this office,
and from various members of the
committee ON the street. This extra
train affords a fine opportunity to
witness the Inauguration as the above
rates are just one half the regular fare.
We hope the train will be crowded


ith q pleasant and orderly assembly.
Year: 1875

When it commenced to rain on Friday
a man stepped into an office on Griswold
street and remarked


This rain will cool the atmosphere
won't it ?"


The proprietor agreed that it would.


In about five minutes, another man
came in to borrow paper, and he made
the remark


This rain will cool the atmosphere,
won't it?


The proprietor thought it would, and
had just dated a letter, when a man call
ed in to ask for the loan of an umbrella,
and stood for moment and remarked


This rain will cool the atmosphere,
went it?"


Il suppose it will !" snapped the office
mar and he turned to his letter again.
He had written four lines, when man
entered, and asked him the way to the
City Hall and then remarked:


This rain will cool the atmosphere,
won't it ?"


Blamed if l care whether it does, OF
not " growled the bored man and he
wrote five lines more, and was biting his
pen-holder when a man ran into the door
and shook himself and remarked:


"This rain will cool the atmosphere,
won't it?"


"No sir !" yelled the office man at the
top of his voice, and he said he'd walop
the next man who said "rain" to him.
He had turned his letter over, when up
came tall young man with long nose.
He looked into the office, halted, and as
he stood at the door, and shook his um-
brella, he said /:


Don't you think this rain will cool
the at"


No blast your white eyes | don'tr
yelled the man who was writing, and b,
threw down his pen and made ready fo
the next one.


Along came the man who has an Office
above and who is very good man and 6
worthy citizen. Sticking his head in th,
door, he called out:


"Ah !! We'll sleep better tonight
Don't you think this rain will"


mo you old liar !" yelled the offlc,
man and he shut the door with such sud
denness that the inquirer fell off the step
rolled over his umbrella and sat down OF
his hat. He got up and wanted to icl
somebody and said he thirsted for blood
but the rain calmed him down, and tn
office man locked the door and hung up
sign reading:


=" Not blame bit cooler than before =
Detroit Free Press.
Year: 1875

HUMAN SALIVA FATAL 10 SNAKES
The Marietta (Ga,) JouiR0t was told by
gentleman tho other day that human
spltte was rs deadly to poisonous snakes
as their bites were .deadly to man. llo
says while picking up II bundle of straw
and trash under his arm, while cleaning
the field, ground mttlesnake, four feet
long, crawled out Of it and fell to tho
ground at his feet. lie at once placed his
heel upon the head Of the snake spit in
its mouth. Shortly Afterwards the snake
showed signs Of inactivity and sickness,
and he picked it up By its tail and carried
it to the house and showed it to his wife,
telling her he had spit in its mouth and
that it was poisoned. At the expiration
of fifteen minutes the snake was doad.
TO further experiment, he came across u
blowing adder (snakoJ, which elected from
its mouth yeIowsh liquid. lie caught
it and spit in its mouth and it died. lie
caught another blowing, and it refused to
open its mouth. lie spit upon stick
and rubbed it upon the adder's nose and
it died. Arterward he came across II
black snake, regarded as not poisonous,
and he caught it and spit in its mouth.
Instead OF the spttle killing the black
snake, as it did the poisonous reptiles, it
only made it stupidity sick, from which it
recovered. This conclusively shows that
poisonous reptiles have as much to fear
from the spittle Of man as man has to
fear from their bites.
Year: 1875

They have in Northern Africa kind
OF grass so extensively used for paper
that we import large quantities, and
envy the people of Algeria and the
other countries that grow it the climate
and circumstances which gave them so
good a thing. We have innumerable
things, and among others the common
ochra, which will make paper, but
none that satisfies like the Sparta grass
the one we refer to. AS for the ochra
we knew it would make good raper
but 1t was too costly, so it was said, to
compete with this foreign grass. But
now the news comes to us that these
same Algerian fibre growers have been
experimenting with our ochra. and
ind they can make cheaper and bet
ter paper from it than from the Sparta
grass, and that they are planting it in
enormous quantities for this purpose,
We cannot always tell how much TO
rely on in newspaper reports, but there
Sc ems to be something IN this one
The difference in opinion is on account
Of some new discovery in its preapara,
ton.
Year: 1875

Few people seem to fully appreciate
the high value Of bee-keeping From
their labor is derived an excellent and
delicious treasure which can be procur-
ed by no other means. Honey is pro-
cured from sources which do not deere
ase or absorb any other treasure that we
onjoy; hence the excellent treasure which
that little faithful pattern CT industry
gives is nearly all clear gain, as it rolys
nothing else for our use, and it comes ia
us in no other manner. Tho nectar Of
the forest and flowers is oaly thus saved
to us. Therefore, bce-k keeping and honey
raising should be literally encouraged
and highly priced. In fact, it is worthy
of governmental recognition and encour-
agement equally with fruit and flower
growing. The busy bee is ready to work
and to die for the civilized, always fol
lows his advance on the frontier, is as
easily managed and handled by the in.
tilligent and gentle hand; and there is
no more need of killing tho little toilcr
to enjoy the rich fruit of his labor, than
than there is to kill hens for their eggs
or sheep for its fleece, and we believe il
would be as just and desirable to have q
division for the apiary in the AQricultu.
raj department us of botany or untomo.
logy, and even more so.-Er.
Year: 1875

1t is very easy to call anything "a
farce" that does not please one. But
no phrase is so often falsely applied.
The investi cation which has been
progressing, in which one Ring of the
Republican party is endeavoring to
uncover and expose the e'irregularities"
of another faction or Ring of the same
party, is not all "a farce" Whatever
may have produced the arraignment
and trial of those against whom charges
have been made, it is evident that
some of these charges are quite serious
and not altogether false. They may
be mitigated by the fact that the loss
sustained is not equal to the expecta-
tion of those who preferred the charges.
But that Irregularities existed seems to
have been established. A small sum
is not as large as great one, as Mr..
Lincoln once sagely remarked; but the
small sum was not found where it
should have been found; nor was there
any authority for trading in stone,
whether the peIches were one hundred
OF less.


The committee now, however, seem
to think they have right TO continue
and pursue the investigation into all
matters connected with the building
Of the basin, whether this is done with
view to an endeavor to strike some
bargain and unite the two Rings be-
fore the election, we do not know.
But 1t locks that way. However, they
are both helping to pile up tremen
dous debt against the city, and tn,
Taxpayers and property-holders will
find this out to their sorrow.
Year: 1875

Montreal, Oct, 2.-The members Of
the Canadian Institute held meeting
last night and decided to hold Gui-
bord's funeral on Friday or Saturday
of next week. Preliminary arrange
ments are being made to-day and all
the details will he fully carried out.
A requisition is to be made on the mill
itary for assistance and a secret prepar-
alton will be deposited in the grave
which will render it dangerous for
meddIers to attempt to disturb the
body. The general feeling is that the
second attempt at burial will be resist
ed as violently as before.
Year: 1875

STEEL DIRECT FROM IRON ORE.-M.
Ponsard s apparatus for producing steel
from the iron ore, as described in La
Metallurgie, consists principally of an
arrangement for transforming the fuel
in a series of large chambers, and of an
apparatus in brick, called the recupera-
tor of heat, which receives the flames
from the furnace, and restores the calo-
ric in the form of hot air. The compart-
ments of the chamber serve successive
ly for the reduction of the ore, for the
reactions which are effected, and, finally
for the fusion of the whole charge in
such a manner that the separation of
the component parts is effected by the
difference of density. These various
phases of the operation require very
different temperatures, and the produc-
ton of these is the special object of the
apparatus. On the side Of the furnace
doors the temperature is only that of
red heat, while beyond the heat is so
great that the eye is unable to support
the intensity of the glow-this extraord-
mary heat being estimated, in fact, at
not less than 3, 632 degrees Fahrenheit.
The result obtainted by means of this
process is considered to demonstrate
the possibility of producing steel direct
from ore without any of the transforma-
tions necessary under existing systems.
Year: 1875

THERE is a beehive on the eastern
slope of the San Francisco range in Los
Angeles County, which men have tried
several times to capture; and have as
often failed. 1t is IN rift which pene-
trates the rock to a depth of 16O feet.
The opening is 80 feet long, and II feet
wide, with two passages. The bees come
and go in solid columns about one foot
in diameter. Efforts have been made
to descend to ti,o store of honey in the
rock, but the men were invariably driven
back and one man lost his life. The hive
has been known four years, and it is esti-
mated that there cannot be less than eight
or tea tons of honey in it. A man who
lives in cabin not far from the spot
gets more honey than his family can use
from small aperture in the rock. He
has a honey fountain at his door.