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Year: 1873

A Washington belle was troubled BY
the unsympaihizing conduct ofthe man.
ma who took occasion upon the thirty.
first Of December to indulge in an attack
Of continent smallpox. However she
put the old lady into . back room and
had her New years reception according
to rule. Whom the yellow flag was
flung to the breeze the next morning.
there was . rush for the vaccine matter
among the lady's friends, and her list Of
acQuaintances will be small in future
Year: 1873

Verify, moneyed men stand on slip
perry places. No name is secure. Hoyt,
Sprague & Co., of Providence, than
whom no business firm stood higher,
have failed and entailed endless suf-
fering in Rhode Island and its fac
tories. Sprague of this firm was re-
puted to be the wealthiest man in
Rhode Island, and one of the wealth
lest in New England. Ten millions of
dollars was said to number his coin.


The financial storm seems to have
spread wider than supposed at first.
From the stock room it has gradually
extended itself to the solid industry of
the country. Mill after mill is gradu-
ally succumbing; factory after factory
is hauling in sail in order to weather the
storm. Currency is daily becoming
scarcer, and consequently the market
for manufactured goods is less. This
factory now discharges 500 operators;
that reduces its days to three or four Of
the seven. Others stop entirely; the
end no man knows.


Absolute want - starvation will
stand in many homes in the east this
winter, and the suffering will be terri
BILE if the season be as severe rs was
the last. Crime will be rampant, for
men thrown out of work must eat; and
they prefer to steal than starve.


The government should immediate
ly take steps to remedy, as much
as in it lies, the difficulty which
is now upon the nation. Large guam
titles Of paper and coin, $50, 600, 900, lie
idle in the treasury. This should at
once be put upon the market, and
made to relieve the wants of a circu-
lating medium.


A lesson should be learned from 1873
and its financial history. 1t is this
improvement carried on with a specu-
lative impulse, and not because the
needs of the country demand it, is sui
cidial. Railroads should not be built
faster than the country demands, and
they should not be built when they
withdraw from this country to an
other money. Where country or
State can build railroads or make any
other improvement from the capital
of the State itself, then all is well; ;
when it is necessary to go to foreign
lands and sell bonds at enormous dis
counts that roads may be built through
unhabitated regions, then the country
must look out for a crash, and crash
that will interfere with every and all
classes of people.
Year: 1873




Ed. HERALD.-A mornings paper
intimates that the award Of contract
for printing the Constitution and By
Laws for the Chamber of Commerce,
was "put up job" Does this journal
imagine that the quality of work is
not taken into consideration when
contracts are awarded? Can he see
no difference between the "ancient
and fish-like" styles and the much
worn materials of the other papers,
and the new, fresh and brilliant,
types and mechanism of the HERALD?
In all difference to the Mirror office,
whose proprietors are first-class work
men and princes among gentlemen, /
believe there was no intention in the
Board to underrate or slight them, and
that the work was given TO the HER
AID only because the Mirror had not
the particular style of type desired for
this work. EX TYPO.
Year: 1873

The Committee OF Marketmen called upon the
Mayor yesterday morning to submit their protest
against the proposed removal OF the stands at
Washington Market. The Mayor received them
with his usual courtesy. The President OF the
committee said that the marketmen desired that
the removal Of the stands snolld be postponed for
the authorities that by removing the stands they
would only commit an act OF very great injustice.
If this delay were granted they would also be able
to convince the authorities that while their stands
around the market ought to remain untouched, the
stands around the adjacent blocks ought to be re-
moved, according to law. The Mayor said that in
taking q broad view OF the whole subject ne had
to the conclusion that it would be only right to
consent to this delay, the superintendent ofPubc
Works would concur in his decision. Mr.. ShaYer, the
Superintendent 0fIncumbrances, OF on whom the duty
Of removing the stands would necessarily have
0evolved, then called upon the Commissioner Of
Public Works and stated to him the request OF the
marketmen and the views expressed by Mayor
Havemeyer. Commissioner Van Mort said he would
concur In the Mayors decision and consent to de-
lay the removal OF the obnoxious stands until Mon
day next, with the understanding that the market
men should remove them themselves at the end of
this week. he remarked to reporter Of the
HERALD who was spresent:-"Perhaps these people
may be right IN the MATTER and 1t might be unjust
to remove the stands. the nuisance has been
tolerated for 20 years we can stand 1t one week
more.n The marketmen were delighted at their
victory.


The Commissioner OF Membranes, Mr.. Shaner,
Is very well satisfied with the arrangement as he
does not want to disturb the holiday trade Of the
marketmen. He individually, Is in favor Of allow
ing them to remain Oh the sidewalks until New
Years, and then to turn over new leaf from the
1st OF January, 1874.
Year: 1873

The Board met yesterday, President Wade in the
chair. There was very large attendance OF la
borers in the gallery, owing to the belief that au
thority would be given to carry on various public
works. The committee to whom was referred the
ordinance to have coverings OF street vaults made
ing the winter. made q report. They state that
the records of our hospitals abound with evidence
that they are now but mantraps. In the winter OF
lives from simply falling in the streets, the chief
cause OF which was from the slippery nature OF the
vault covers That some remedy is required Is ap-
parent to every one and IN fact 1t had come to the
knowledge OF the committee that the attention Of
the Board OF Health has been called to the subject
Of It's sanitary authority. Asrepresentatves OF the
people the committee feel that the remedy should
be applied through the more peaceful channel OF
legislation by the Common Council, and recon-
mend the adoption OF the ordinance. The Ordi-
nance was adopted alter being amended SO that
the covering may be made Of any rough material
and fush with the sidewalk
Year: 1873

TRANsPLANTING TREEs.-The period
for transplanting has again arrived As a
general rule, we are most in favor of spring
planting, though all deciduous trees and
shrubs can be moved in the fall with per
feet safety, if done early and well. Assoon
as the trees have shed their leaves or turn
ed yellow, is the time to commence. and
the sooner fall planting is done after that
the better; because, if done early, the
wounded roots have time to heal over. to
callose or to exude their rooty matter, and
10 even grow the rains settle the soil firm
ly about their roots, and the whole tree be-
comes establiehed and prepared TO with
stand the effects of winter; whereas. if
planted just before winter sets in, none of
this can take place. The soil will be loose.
the tree will be rocked about by the wind
its roots torn, a large hole made by its mo-
tlons, where water will get in and stand. TO
the great injury Of the roots !; and lastly, it
will be more likely to be heaved and lifted
by frost than if planted early.-RuraL
World
Year: 1873

The cold winter weather is coming, and
a small allowance of corn to the horses and
colts is admissible. We know that many
say that corn is not fit food for horses
that oats is the only grain that should be
fed to them-that it is the proper muscle
producing food-that it gives more strength
and substance to the horses than corn-all
of which is true. But in winter horses
suffer more from cold. They can't have
the privilege of standing by fires to keep
warm, but must withstand the cold as best
they may. If they can have food contain
ing a larger per cent. of carbon than oats
possess, TO heat up their internal system,
they can resist the cold the better. Corn
furnishes this food, and in winter about
half the grain fed to horses should be corn.


That there is too much corn fed to hors-
ses by western farmers, we are satisfied. 1t
is splendid food to make beef and fat-but
these are not desirable qualities in horse.


lie is bred for bone and muscle. He Is
wanted to endure hard work on the farm
or road and oats will give greater endur-
ance than any other grain. Horses should
have daily exercise in winter. They will
not keep in good health without it. They
want roomy yard 10 be turned in, that
they may play, prance, roll, and thus keep
strong and hearty. There is no nober
animal than the horse, and he deserves the
best care and attention.-RuraL IVrrld.
Year: 1873

japanese finances are getting into a
very muddled condition. 1t was only
recently announced that the Minister of
Finance had resigned, and that a new one
had taken his place. The latter has also
recently resigned, and with him all the
officials connected with the Department
of Finance, for the very good reason that
they cannot solve the money-problem OF
their country. The State debt amounts
to S1O4, 100000, and is constantly in
creasing, while the Government is un-
able to raise any more funds by taxation.
1t is reported that all the public works
now in progress are to be stopped, that
the issue of paper money is to cease, and
that all the expenses are to be reduced
to the minimum, and that no more Euro
pean institutions are to be introduced
for the present. 1t is undoubtedly the
blind haste with which the japanese
have gone into the reform business, with
out stopping to consult the expense, that
has involved them in this lamentable
financial snarl.
Year: 1873

One who had large experience in travel
ing through the air thus describes the
actions of birds when let off from bal
loon AT an altitude of 11,000 feet
we liberated green linnet, which flew
away directly; but, soon feeling itself
abandoned in the midst of an unknown
ocean, it returned and settled on the
stays of the balloon. Then, mastering
fresh courage, it took second flight
and dashed downward to the earth, de-
scribing tortuous yet almost perpen-
dicular track.


GA pigeon, which was let loose under
similar circumstances, afforded more
curious spectacle. Placed on the edge
of a car, it rested awhile, measuring, as
it were, the breadth of that unexplored
sea which it designed to traverse now
launching into the abyss, it fiuttered ir-
regularly, and seemed at first to try its
wings in the thin element, till after few
strokes, it gained more confidence, and
whirling in large circles or spirals, like
the birds of prey, it precipitated itself
toward the mass of extended clouds,
where it was lost to sight.
Year: 1873

We know perfectly well that some
persons lace themselves too tight, al
though it is not at present fashionable
to do so. We know, too, that many
women have seriously injured their
health, while some have sacrificed life
itself on the shrine of slender waist.
But the wearing of the corset does not
necessarily, and, in fact, does not COM
monty, end in tight lacing while lacing,
and that, too, of very hurtful sort,
may be, and frequently is, accomplished
without the use of corset at all. We
have seen mems clothes worn as tightly
as any corset ever was. The condemna-
tion of tight lacing is perfectly just, of
course, as everybody having the small
est knowledge of anatomy knows. But
many women who never lace wear cor
sets, and derive great benefit from their
use. 1t is certainly very absurd to de-
mand that these people shall forego q
comfort-givlng article of apparel merely
because they could turn it into an in
strument of torture if they were fools.
They find that to put the entire weight
of their clothing upon their shoulders is
to give themselves pain, and in order to
divide it they let part of their apparel
depend upon their hips for support.
To do this without corset it would be
necessary to wear the garments alto
gether tighter about the waist than they
should be worn, and to bind them
around a single narrow zone, which
would be both uncomfortable and un.
wise. The corset, however, distributes
both the weight and the pressure ovel
the strong muscles of the hips, and, as
it is less yielding than the flesh, it obvi
ates the necessity of tight Wristbands
altogether. The corset, properly used
in other words, furnishes the very best
remedy for tight lacing, particularly
now that taper waists have gone out o.
fashion. .-HearM and Home.
Year: 1873

AS general thing, butter is scarce
during the winter season, and fresh but
ter bears high price. BY taking prop
er measures, which include having the
cows to come in from October to Janu-
ary; warm, comfortable stable, a
frost-proof dairy, clover hay cut i'll
blossom and well saved, supply OF car
rots, perfect cleanliness in the stable,
and a plentiful supply of water free
from ice and snow, with daily drinks of
bran or oatmeal slop slightly warmed,
and cooked food, the dairy may be made
as prolific and far more profitable than
in the summer. The butter will be yell
low, hard, and will keep fresh longer,
and, from its scarcity at that season,
would bring very high price.
Year: 1873

The saddest case of poetry of which
we have ever heard is that of a young
lady in Missouri. A short time ago she
found it impossible either to eat or
sleep, and for ten days remained in that
unpleasant state. Strange to say, the
moment she was attacked she began to
speak in rhyme. Every sentence uttered
by those afflicted lips was rich with
sweetest melody and measure. Ordinary
affairs she turned into extraordinary
verse-for instance dearest ma, list
to your daughter Give her, o give
glass of waughter," and so on. These
charming rhymes were made with no
sort of effort at all, but just tumbled
out with startling rapidity and precision.
Some of them, we are told, were ex-
tremely beautiful. Alarmed by so dread
full an illness, all the nearest physicians
were summoned by her heart-broken
parents; each prescribed different
opiate, and by this means poetry was
conquered she slept-her life was
saved. Less serious cases of this fear
full disease have been known-none be-
fore so persistent and absorbing as this.
Year: 1873

The President of the Academy of
Science at Munich, Bavaria, striving to
re-introduce bee culture on his patri-
monial estate, found the generally
prevalent prejudice that the bee hurts
the fruit by its visits to the flowers the
chief obstacle to success. To overcome
this, he labored assiduously to show
that bees, far from being injurious,
were directly beneficial in the fructi6ca-
tion of blossoms--causing the fruit to
set by conveying the fertilizing pollen
from tree to tree, and from flower to
flower. He proved, moreover, by Off
cial record, that century earlier, when
bees were kept by every tenant of the
estate, fruit was abundant; whereas
when only seven kept bees, and none of
those had more than three colonies,
fruit was scarcer than ever among the
tenantry.
Year: 1873

We are often asked if the grape vine
cannot be pruned in the spring without
injury. We say no. The time to do
the work is in the fall, and if done then
it should be left until the next summer,
after the vine has put forth its leaves,
when the vine will not be bled at all If
cut. We do not advise excessive sum-
mer pruning, but if the work has been
wholly neglected in the autumn, some
thing may safely be done in the summer
following.
Year: 1873

Sheriff Shaw, of Vermilion, was in oul
town a few days ago. and reports every
thing quiet in that parish. The vigilance
committee have hanged or shot five thieves
including the one taken from the boat near
Jeannerette, and ordered twenty more to
leave the country.


This is, then, the upshot of this much
talked of affair, which has been exagger-
ated over and over again by nearly every
one who had anything to say or write about
1t. Five thieves less is a good riddance,
and we are inclined to believe that they de-
served what they got, and the committee
ought probably to have hanged few more,
instead OF sending them away to be hanged


Let us hope, however, that these twenty
rascals, who are to emigrate from Yer
million, will not come among us for refuge.
They will not be Hospitality received, and
we 90 not like to be inhospitable.- Opelow-
sas Courier.
Year: 1873

wagon roads are being built in every
direction, while Prof. Hayden's and
other exploring expeditions are ex-
tending the field. The aggregate Of
mineral expectations last year was
over FIVE millions of dollars. The
Carbon Mine recently sold for three
million dollars, and another for eighty
thousand dollars. That there is .
bright future awaiting the miner here
no ono can deny. The work Of min
ing has but just begun, and from pres
ent indication this Territory is destin-
ed soon to become the richest mining
region in the whole world.


IMMIGRATION.


The immigration to Colorado this
year will exceed that of any previous
one. In consequence Of so large an
addition Of new comcrs to our popu.
lation, employment could not be pro-
cured for all. and some became dis
couraged and returned TO the States.
l would advise no one to come to
Colorado without means sufficient to
take himself and family through the
first year. A farmer ought not to
come with less than one thousand
dollars. though very many come with
much less.


The big Ditch . designed to wa
ter the farming lands Of this vicinity
is now nearly completed, l have no
hesitation in inviting any one from
old Cedar who desires coming to Col
orado for the purpose Of engaging in
general farming. Our ditch will be
completed twenty-six miles by the
first Of December, and thousands Of
acres Of land are now awaiting the
pioneer. Land along the line Of this
ditch can be bought for from four to
to ten dollars an acre. on long or
short credit. A large proportion of
the population Of Northern Colorado
is from Iowa; Massachusetts, comes
next in representation. Our foreign
population is small. We have no
fears Of Indians. From the very ma
ture Of things our Territory will not
settle up nearly SO fast as many Of the
Western States; but we are having
steady, healthy growth, and our peo.
pie are exhibiting q wonderful amount
Of energy and perseverance,. It is
1t is also gratifying to state that but
very few are desirous Of selling out
and leaving the Territory.


But my letter has already trans
cended the limits of a newspaper ar
ticle, and | must close, with our best
wishes to you and all our friends in
Old Cedar.


G. A. PouND.
Year: 1873

A nice young man stood at the corner of
two streets. He had just had his boots pol
lished to the highest degree of glossiness, and
it was serious question with him how to
make the crossing without getting his boots
soiled. A couple offashionably dressed ladies
were approaching, and the mind of our young
man was made up in instant; he quietly
waited until those ladies had swept up the
mud with their trailing skirts and then cross
ed in perfect safety
Year: 1873

The hearty old gentleman of one hundred
and twenty who had been stepping SO briskly
into ''the oldest and best regulated establish
ments'' in various parts of the country, '.to
set a thousand ems for Greeley, 'is now about
one hundred and forty, and can set his thou
sand an hour with any man, although he has
not touched a stick for century. The good
old gentleman il now wandering in the wilds
of Missouri, and will soon reach Louisiana
paragraphists.
Year: 1873

ASSIST NATURE in her efforts 10 shake off
cough or cold, or she may revenge herself By
giving up the contest. Remember that with
Hdle's Honey of Horehnuna and Tar for an ally,
she will extinguish the worst cough in few
days. Sold by all druggists.
Year: 1873

A man in Utica has discovered since the
thaw that he has been trying to draw water
from the scuttle in the church steeple for
month He thought it was singular that his
well should run dry in winter
Year: 1873

"A NEWSPAPER PH1LANTHROPIST.-


Imagine character like this:-A per
son of really kindly and helpful dis
position, who begins by doing good on
the sly, and spending large part OF
his time in keeping his doings secret ;
who is-much to his cragrin-accident-
ally found out; much more to his cha
grin-praised privately by his friends
still more to his ehagrin-praised an
onymously, in the newspapers; later,
to his intense modification; actually
named in the newspapers as not alto
gether disconnected with a certen piece
of philanthropy, which if obscure and
unpretentious, is all the more rare and
praiseworthy in these days of self-hon-
oring benevolence; and who at last ac-
quires such an appetite for public re-
cognition of his generous and unselfish
life that the objects of his anxiety are
altogether removed from the field of
philanthropy to that of journalism: he
lives on the applause of those who
never suspect the utter change wrought
in his once beautiful character, aud
dies triumphant in the sure prospect of
a costly monument.-Ihe Old Cabinet,
jSc,i5ner's for april.
Year: 1873

"Only q babe" said the passer-by.
AS they hid the wee darling from sight,
Down deep in the earth they laid him low,
That once was so joy GUS and bright,
They have left him there, and the grass


mound
Covers the bright golden head,
Daisies will bloom and lone willow wave
Over the little one-dead.
Only babe, yet .he home fireside
Seems SO lonely, SO sad, and SO drear
Since The bright pet with its winning way
And smiles, no longer is there
And the mothers heart will bleed afresh
AS she looks at the empty crib,
The little shoes and stockings too
Each dress with the baby bib.
Only babe, yet the bright brief life
Hath surely not been lived in vain.
In years to come its influence sweet
VIII softly steal o'er them again.
Only babe, but Its work of love
On earth was pure and true.


Now "ovcr the river" 1t blooms again
And sweetly bsckons for you.
Year: 1873

BY carefully computed estimates it
is ascertained that England is now as
fully supplied with breadstuffs as she
ever was at this season Of the year, and
that the prospects of a speedy demand
from, or even strong and active mar
ket in that quarter is not entertained
by the large grain operators of this
country.
Year: 1873

A number of orthodox men of wealth
have determind to publish a magazine
in New York which shall be entirley
unobjectionable in its theological tone.
They intend that it shall be free from
the heresies and dangerous theories,
which they allege, are TO be found in
all the mouthlies.
Year: 1873

PORTAST INDUSTRY.


An article appeared in The TRIBUNE of May
. in which it Was shown that John II. -RAOdes the
Water PurveyOr connected with the Brooklyn Board OF
CITY Works who had filed the same capacity IN the
old Nassau Board and the Water Board, had imposed
upon property Owners the OF n new water-eOck
which wac worthless for the purpose named IL
shown that these cocks were to be placed In every
dwelling in the city, under the pretense of being able
more efficiently to smut on the water in cases where de-
fault in payment Of the watertax should occur The
aTrelG stated that investigation iBto the matter had
ordered by a Committee of the Common Council
winch TO meet that evening. The Committee met as
stated and conclusive evidence was given verifying
fully the stateneuts made In THE TRIBUNE. The Com
mittee adjourned 10 meet the following Friday even-
ing, but quorum was present Investigation ias'
revealed the eanses which operating " prevent
further evidence from being given. ....r..1 ....


The Chairman Of the Committee, Alderman Brown OF
the Twenty nrst Ward, has clerk IN the employ OF
the Water Board but for Political reasons lately retired
from lis service HIS father hns been enpioyed by the
Board Of City Works until time ago, when be also
was discharged But negotiations looking 10 the rem
statement Of his father and himself were begun by the
sagciOus Board OF City Works After the taking Of ev
deuce at the meeting ON May and pending hnal ar
rangement Of the differences between the parties II
se1s ~ lave been sgTeed that aotng urLbeE shoala