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Year: 1875

NEGRO INsURRECTIoNs IN THE SOUTH are
always problematical at best but the antici-
pated Georgia uprising is more absurd than
any that have preceded it. That all the white
men were to be murdered in a country where
the whites almost equal the negroes in num-
Der is an absurdity in itself, but that the
ugly women were to be included, while the
pretty ones should be spared, stamps the
whole story as a foolish canard. Even the
Southern negroes are not sufficiently igno-
rant to entertain a proposition like that con-
tanned in the confession of Jack Mooreman
and others.
Year: 1875

A desire to make Creedmoor popular with
the whole country and encourage all classes
of rifemen to take part in the annual con-
tests is clearly shown in the programme pre-
pared by the National Rifle Association.
Small bore and military rifles have been
fairly classed, so that the competitors in all
matches will be placed as nearly on a condi-
ton of equality as possible. Members of the
National Guard will no longer find them
selves pitted, without an equivalent allow
ance, against men shooting with superior
arms. This system of classifying and
handicapping rifles will no doubt cause some
dissatisfaction among the possessors of
special arms, but it must commend itself to
the sense Of fair play of all disinterested
rifemen. Under the old system competitors
using the regulation arm were at terrible dis
advantage at the long ranges. The difference
in precision of firing between the regulation
and special arms up to five hundred yards is
not very considerable, but at all ranges be-
yond, the heavy charges and bullets of
special rifles gave competitors using them a
most unfair advantage This injustice we
are glad to see the Council Of the
Rifle Association has had the courage
to remove. Another pleasant feature
of the fall programme is the recognition
given to the off-hand riflemen. The intro
duction of an interstate match will do more
to make Creedmoor the American Wimble-
don than could be accomplished by any
amount of patriotic appeals. This year. no
doubt, the representation from the States
will not be very large, but next fall will in
all probability witness the assembling of
rihemen from every State to compete for
the championship of the Union. We would
suggest that the council go one step further
and introduce the Wimbledon system of dis
tributing prizes by stages in the champion
ship matches. 1t would tend greatly to
increase the interest felt by rifemen in these
contests, by preventing the few crack shots
from sweeping away all the important
prizes
Year: 1875

BERNAED B1GL1N's ELECTION EXPENSES pre-
sent curious problem, and it is very re-
markable that there should have been an
arrangement between him and the Commis-
sioners of Emigration for compulsory sub
scription toward his election to the Assem-
bly,. II IS also noteworthy that he did the
express business Of the department about
the time he was member Of the Legislature.
Evidently there is something in this case
that ought TO be more clearly understood
Year: 1875

RAPID TRANs1T.-Is it possible that the
Rapid Transit Commissioners, after all, are to
fail in giving us a plan for rapid transit?
The time for the consideration of the ques-
ton is rapidly passing away, and from our
reports this morning it will be seen that the
Commission is as far from practical solution
of the difficulty as ever. There must be no
failure this time, and the Commissioners
ought to know that they will be held respon-
sible unless a practical and feasible route Is
decided upon.
Year: 1875

THE Loss OF THE ABBoTsFoRD is attrib-
uted to mscalculation Of the distance from
Holyhead on the day of the disaster, and tc
insufficient allowance being made for the
force Of the tide. Here are both bad arith-
metic and bad Judgment, and yet the cap
tain's certificate was not cancelled.
Year: 1875

A CASE FOR INVESTIGATION is the sailing Of
the steamship City of New York without the
mails. There is wrong somewhere in this
matter, and the Post Office Department must
ascertain where the responsibility belongs.
Year: 1875

THE JUNKETNGs of English royalty are
always the subject of agreeable gossip, and
the proposed visit of the Prince of Wales
furnishes the occasion for pleasant letter in
the HERALD this morning
Year: 1875

management of competent teachers. has
less than forty pupils. Of all grades, not
over one half of that number in the
grammar school roper, ranking in pop
ular estimation below . common ward
school. The fault of this does not lie,


has never been attributed to the incom.


potency Of teachers, bat in the general
management of tho institution, which
has destroyed public faith In it, utility.


and the natural consequence 10, that
parents and guardians who have the
means and inclination to give their
children academic education. send their
children abroad becsuse they have Eo
confidence in the management Of our
home institution, which under proper
management would have been the pride
of every citizen and tho browning glory
of the commonwealth. instead of bye.
word and a reYtoach to tho people, We
charge no fraud or peculaiion upon any
of the trustees of the muniacent herit


age d. vised to the children of Washing
ton Territory, because We have no proof
of such acts. We only know that it was
and is not. and that every attempt to
change the direction of the management
with the view of making available the
small remainder, is resented and resist-
ed as an invasion of the possessory and
vested rights of the old settlers.
Year: 1875

INSANE ASYLUM INVESTIGATION. We
learn from the Olympia papers that the
Governor and Auditor have invited a
number of gentlemen to serve on the
commission for Investigation the affairs
of the Insane Asylum. and are only
awaiting their acceptance to appoint a
time for meeting. From a privf te
source we understand that an invitation
has been extended to DR. Hawthorne Of
the Oregon Insane Asylum, to serve on
the commission, which is an assurances
that the Governor and Auditor desire .
full investigation. The experience
and judgement of DR.. Hawthorne would
be invaluable in suggesting necessary
reforms and correcting any errors
which may have accurred in the man
agement heretofore.
Year: 1875

Mouth.


Professor Seelye, in recent lecture,
gives a different explanation of this
famous mode of punishment from that
which so often entertained. He says:


1t is we'll for US to understand when
we see the papers, as they occasionally
do, taking up the subject Of English bar.
barity, what is the meaning of this bar.
barity. have found persons who sup
posed the punishment of firing Sepoys
from o canDon's mouth meant that
Sepoys we're actually put inside the can
non and fired out. In reality the victim
was put about six feet in front of the
cannon, which was heavily loaded with
powder alone; and | was told that no
person unfamiliar with artillery would
have any idea of the minuteness Of the
fragments into which the body was scat
tered This was great punishment
not on account of the death or OF the
manner of death, but because the body
was scattered and denied the rights Of
burial. That is terrible thing for a
Hindoo, and the English report and be
lieve that rebellion was stopped there
just by the sturdy statement of an Eng
ish officer, who said that if there were
any signs of mutiny he would subject all
mutineers to this punishment, and il
cannot be doubted that this punishment
was the most salutary one, so far as
affected the success of England.
Year: 1875

TO THE AMOUNT OF TWO MILLION FIVE
HUNDRED THOUSAND ARE TO BE DIS
TRIBUTED ON THE 1TH FEBRUARY BY
THE PUBLIC LIBRARY OF KY. UPON
THE OCCASION OF THEIR FIFTH AND
LAST CONCERT.


Drawing Certain or Money Refunded
Year: 1875

The symptoms of Liver Complaint are un-
easiHess and pain in the side. Sometimes the
pain is in the shoulder, and is mistaken for
rheumatism. The stomach IS affected with
loss OF appetite and sickness, bowels in gem
eraI cost1Ve, sometimes alternating with lax.
IRE head is troubled with pain, and dull,
heavy sensation, considerable loss of memory


accompanied with painful sensation of hav


ing lett undone something which ought to
have been { one. Often complaining OF weak
ness, debility, and low spirits. Sometimes
many OF the above symptoms attend the dis.
ease. and at other times very few Of them; but
the liver is generally the organ most involved.


Nearly all diseases ORIGINATE from Tndiues


lOn and Torpidity of the Liver, and relief is
always an1iOusly sought after. L the Liver
Year: 1875

ST. LOUIS, September 16-A special
from Galveston, Texas, to the GjC6g-
Democrat says that large part Of that
city was under water last night, the
effect of an unusually high wind from
the northeast. No great damage was
done. Some of the wharves were some
what Injured, and considerable num-
Der of people were obliged to leave their
homes. The railroad bridge still stood,
but whether it will continue to resist
the great pressure against it was not
known,
Year: 1875




To understand the world is wiser
than to condemn it. TO study the
world is better than to shun it. To
use the world is nobler than to abuse
it, To make the world better lovlier
and happier is the noblest work of
man or woman, There are many in
telligent and talented persons who
waste the best part of their tine in
useless dreaming, Their years are
spent in the world of fancy and un-
rca lity that their migration creates
about them. Mental phantoms rem
der them insensible to present oppor.
tunilies and prosperous chances slip
by them unhe ,ded and unnoticed un-
til their youth and energies are all
gone. Then, 10 adversely and old
age they attribute their want of pros
perity and worldly success to some
imaginary fate or destiny, even yet
blind TO the truth that their want OF
prosperity is simply the result Of op-
portunities wasted.
Year: 1875

FLowERs. Flowers cost but lit
tie, and their culture is commiDgled
with so much pleasure and enjoyment
in watching their progress, that they
are considered the cheapest luxuries
afforded a hungry humanity.


The variety Of flowers are endless,
they multiply daily; and here le:
me remark, that il is mistaken idea
that plants and flowers in u room ex
hale poisonous gases on the contra
ry. they absorb and feed upon the
noxious exhalations that the human
body gives of-therefore. healthful
There can be nothing more suitable
for the sitting room and dormitory
in winter than a few beautiful flow
ers.


Plants like human beings subsist
upon food, air and light and tht
choicest are secured by the foris'
knowing the just proportions OF each
to give the growing plant. An
even temperature is the best for
house.plants and they should never
tall below forty degrees of heat,
too much warmth and too little light
are highly injurious moreover the
heat must be moistened by keeping .
pau Of water on the stove. Flowers
should be vintilated often. Plants
with largo leaves should be washed
off as they have pores like those Of
the skin of the human body, and
need to be cleanscd' Watering
plants is nice job-when, how aai
10 what manner to water them our
experience teaches. A watering PCT
is best and evening the best time:
and in such quantity as the nature OF
the plaut requires.-Mo. Agricultural
Report, 1872.
Year: 1875

SELF>DENIAL.-There are many
seasons in a mans life, and the more
exalted and responsible his situation,
the more frequently do these seasons
recur. when the voice OF duty and
the dictates of feeling are opposed to
each other and it is only the weak
and the wicked who yield to the sell
6sh impulses of the heart, which is
due TO reason and honor.
Year: 1875

BEAUTY.-Let me see female
possessing the beauty ofa meek and
modest department of on eye that
bespeaks intelligence and purity
within Of lips that speak no guile
let me see in her a kind benevolent
disposition a heart that can sympa-
thize with distress and will never
ask for beauty that dwells in ruby
lips" or flowing tresses," or snowy
hands," or the forty other etceteras
upon which our poets have harped
for so many ages. These fade when
touched by the hand Of time bu'
those ever. enduring qualities of the
heart shall outlive the reign of time,
and grow brighter and fresher as the
ages of eternity roll away.
Year: 1875

SELF DIsClPLISE.-Co-tly appa
ratus and splendid cabinets have no
magical power to make scholars. III
all circnms tances, a man is, under
God, the master of his own mind.
Tie Creator has so constituted the
human intellect that it can only grow
by its own action F; and by its own
action and free will il will certainly
ard necrssarily grow. Every man
must, therefore, educate himself. His
book and teacher are but help the
work is his. A man is not educated
uuntil he has the ability to summon,
in an emergency, all his mental pow.
er in vigorous exercise to effect its
proposed object. 1t is not the man
who has seen most who can do this |;
such a one is in danger of being
borne down like a beast of burden,
by an overloaded mass of other mems
thoughts. Nor is it the man who
can boast OF native vigor and capaci-
ty. The greatest of all warriors in
the siege OF Troy had not the pre-
eminence becauce Nature had given
him strength. and he carried the
longest bow, hut because self discip-
line had taught him to bend it,
Daniel Webster.
Year: 1875

From the Honolulu Gazette. Sept, l.


On Saturday afternoon about the time
the frigate Repulse was getting under
way, large fish was seen by the natives
Of Waikiki rapidly approaching the
bay. As he neared the reef he cleared
it with one leap Of fully 200 feet, and
SKINNED over the shallow water inside,
until he landed high and dry on the sand
beach directly in front of Mr.. j. w.
Pfuger's seaside cottage. Here he was
seized by native, who, however, was
unable to hold him, and the huge fish
floundered about till he finally got into
the water. A crowd of natives coralled
him and the water near shore being too
shallow to allow him to use his fins to
any advantage, they soon killed him with
an ak. 1t proved to be species of the
swordfsh, measuring eight feet in length
while his sword measured thirty-six
inches. The latter may be seen in our
office. He appears to have been fright
ened by the Repulse and shot like an
arrow through the water and over the
reef with such extraordinary speed that
he could not stop till out of his native
element and high on the land. Those
who witnessed it say that it was most
exciting scene. These sword fishes are
very powerful. We remember Capt.
Stone telling of an incident which oc.
cured while he was running the brig
Josephine between this port and Jarvis
Island about 1858. The brig was an
extraordinary sailor. and while going at
her full speed ten miles an hour she was
struck directly under the stern counter
with such shock as to jar the whole
vessel and to awaken the Captain out OF
sound sleep, who supposed that the brig
had struck whale or a reef. Immed-
lately the pumps were started, but there
was no water in the hold. On returning
to port the brig was hove out, to find the
cause of the shock, when near the stern
post, imbedded in the thick plank, the
blade of a sword-fsh was found, fully
twenty inches in length. To have hit
the brig under the counter, the fish must
have been going the same direction as
the vessel; and one may imagine the
speed with which it moved to have
plunged its sword twenty inches through
the planking. 1t must have been going
at the rate of twenty-five miles an hour
and evidently intended to hit the brig,
supposing it to have been whale.
From this one can get faint idea OF
the fights which take place among the
monsters of the deep.
Year: 1875

COMM THRo' THE RYE.-A New
York pictorial publishes the illustration
of Comm Thro' the Rye" and blum
ders into what we presume is the popu-
lar misconception of the ditty giving
laddie and lassie meeting and kissing
in field of grain. The lines


If ladde meets lassie


Comm thro' the rye.
and especially the other couplet


A. the lads they smile on ne


When comm thro the rye.
seem to me that traversing the rye was
a habitual or common thing, but what
in the name of the Royal agricultural
society could be the object in trampling
down crop of grain in that style The
song perhaps suggests harvest scene,
where both sexes, as to the custom in
Great Britain, are at work reaping, and
where they would come and go through
the field indeed, bnt not through the
rye itself so as to meet and kiss in it.
The truth is, the rye in this case is no
more grain than Rye Beach is, it being
the name of a small shallow stream
near Ayr, in Scotland, which having
neither bridge nor ferry, was forded by
the people going to and from the mar
ket, custom allowing a lad to steal kiss
from a lass of his acquaintance whom
he met in mid stream. Our contempor-
airy, will see that this is the true ex-
PLANTATION, if he will refer to Burnss or
iginal ballad, in which the first verse
refers to the lass wetting her clothes in
the stream:


Jenny is a. wat. puir bodie


Jenny's seldom dry


She drag'lt all her petticoatie.


Comm thro' the rye.


NeaUburgpOTt Herald.
Year: 1875

General Spinner writes as follows to
Seth Green, the pisclculturist: "The
time will come, if it is not already
here, when the credit of having de-
monstrated that an acre of heretofore
water waste is worth more for the pro-
duction of wholesome food for q man
than an acre of the most fertile land,
will be awarded to you. Next winter
I intend to fish in Florida waters,
where I hope you will meet me with
rod and line.n
Year: 1875

The Democrat still refuses TO cor.
rect its false statement that there il
not upon the Republican ticket In
this county a single candidate who
served as a soldier in the army
though it's attention has been called
To the fact that there are two ex-sol.
diers on the ticket. Will the editor
not yet do himself the honor to un.
deceive his readers?
Year: 1875

MIR. Elliott says that the early re-
sumption OF specie payments VIII
bring financial ruin to the country.
He says the Democratic party Is a
unit upon this question throughout
the nation, declaring for more green
backs and against resumption. The
fscts are that the Democracy OF Ohio,
Iowa and Pennsylvania are about
half with Mr.. Elliott on this qaes-
ton, and they of New York and the
New England States are opposed and
cling TO their love OF " money. that
chinks; y and now come the Demo
Gratis of Nebraska, and declare in
their State platform adopted ~ few
days since:


lst. That we are in favor OF sound
currency, coin or its equivalent, as
essential to stability in business and
a restoration OF prosperity steps to-
ward specie payments and no step
backwards.


81. That we deprecate all attempts
70 commit the Democratic party to a
system of paper money, based upon
an unconstitutional eXerciseuf federal
power as a crime against the com
mon welfare aud a wHnton violation
of cardinal article Of the Democratic
creed.


This paper money system which
is thus declared based upon ur
unconstitutional exercise Of federal
power, is the greenback system
upon which Mr. Elliott says Democ,
racy is a unit. How are you, unit
Year: 1875

1t will be seen from articles copied
into our columns to-day that New
York and New Jersey are adopting
measures to put an end to the annoy.
ance from tramps. The prowling beg.
gars have become so numerous as to
form almost a distinct class They
depredate through the day upon whom
they can and assemble in charity lsdg-
ings at night, and have really become
anuisance, and arc being treated as such
in great many sections. We believe
this community is also wcaried with
the presence of the lazy, dirty beggars,
and any ordinance which could be
adopted that would tend to keep them
from our midst would be received
with appobation by our citizens. The
kind treatment extended to tramps las,
winter may have done some good; but il
is questionable whether anything per
manent was effected, and the general
opinion is that it failed of its object.
Except in the fact that it gave imme-
date relief we do not hear that it resul-
ted in any good to the hundreds who
were daily fed,
Year: 1875

The STREET MARKET.-The street
market in Wilmington is an institution
that has grown with the growth of the
city, and it is not likely now that we
will get rid of them soon. Indeed, they
are the freest and best markets, and
unless it is the intention of the City
Council to put an end TO them alto.
gether by law, it ought to enact an
ordinance SO that country people,
who supply us so faithfully with the
most excellent variety of vegetables
and other products, would experience
more case and comfort in the sale of
their articles. If this were done "a
great many farmers would attend our
market who object to doing SO now,
because of the crowd. Complaints
also arise from hundreds of citizens
because of the crowded condition of
the pavement; and many who wish to
purchase in this market are kept away
from it on this account. Now, if the
Council would pass an ordinance re.
quiring wagons to stand with their
sides to the pavement and those who
sell to stand at the tail of their wagons
upon boards laid over the cutters, the
tho market would be extended in
length and thus better accommodate
our citizens, while both seller and
buyer would have more room and do
their business with ease and comfort
We cannot dispense with the street
market for farmers, and we should
therefore, do something to encourage
1t and make them and ourselves both
more comfortable.
Year: 1875

An old lady in New York partic-
ularly desired that y certain cushion
on which she sat at church should DO
buried with her, and as there was
difficulty in getting it into her coffin,
it was proposed to cut il, when
several thousand dollars in green.
backs were found inside
Year: 1875

b Andy Johnson was the old school
style of politician of some twenty years
ago, with but one modern concession,
and that was that the coat was frock
instead of swallow-tail. His style of
dress, the conventional one of the
".American gentleman, Of the years
gone by, consisted Of shiny black
broadcloth coat and trowsers, with o
vest Of deep black velvet. There are
but few of the Congressman of the
present day that wear this style of dress
but take them as q class, probably they
are as badly dressed a set of men as
one can find anywhere in the country.


Throughout Congress there are many
men who make it point of dressing in
the most eccentric possible manner.
Luke Poland of Vermont was one OF
the most eccentric dressers in the
House. He used to always move about
in O coat of blue adorned with small
dinner plates of brass buttons. His
vest was generally white, and opened
SO as to display o wild expanse Of dain-
ty ruffied shirt bosom, under whose
shades cleaned here and there tiny
diamond buttons. The old man never
in his life passed pier-glass without
taking good square look at himself.
Two Of the best dressed men in Con-
gress are Clarkson Potter of New York
in the House, and in the Senate Gen.
Burnside. Clarkson Potter has rather
overdone the matter in too closely adj
herring to the English style Of dressing.
His whiskers are cut after the English
fashion, and he affects the English style
of pronunciation. Yet there are but
few men in the House who are his
equals in ability and capacity for work.
Gen. Burnside, the best dresser in the
Senate, affects the. undress military
style, and in his peculiar cravats waist
coats, and original colors never fails to
attract more than ordinary notice. He
was once tailor in his early days, and
never neglects an opportunity offered


by an evening session to put on a full
dress-suit. Attired in this society
splendor, Ambrose loves to stand about
the doorways Of the Senate Chamber
and allow the public to drink in the
full beauties of his noble proportions.


Among the worst dressed men in
either branch of Congress is Sammy
Year: 1875

Ss A lady and her eight-year-old
daughter were among the passengers
on Detroit street car, the other day,
when the little miss observed . man
take out his handkerchief flourish II
around and then wipe his nose. The
child leaned over to her mother end
whispered: g Mamma, that gentleman
is trying to Airt with me, but I shall
give him the handkerchief signal that !
distrust his motives"