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Year: 1875

The border trappers and Indian fighters
whose unerring bullets brought death to
the fierce grizzly and the dusky foe have
left deep planted in the American heart a
love Tor the national weapon. But science
has improved the rifles with which our an
cestors century ago fought their way to
freedom. The marksman of the present
day hits his object at a halt mile distance.
Inventive genius may gain the start of
physical skill, but the same circumstances
that developed tie invention will nerve the
body to equal results.


Our rife clubs may. be considered as ma
tional schools of arms. In these American
youth are trained to excel in the use of
the best weapons of modern warfare. The
training imposed by such school teaches
the lessons of temperance in drink and
moderation in diet. A good shot makes 9
good soldier, for he must have self-reliance,
GOODNESS and nerve.


The New Orleans Rife Club forms, in
this State. the nucleus of the great primary
school of the soldier. The club has for it's
members some of the best men Of the city.
That they are able to hold their own with
the marksmen OF other cities, will be de-
monstrated at the shooting festival which
will be held at the Magnolia Shooting Park
on Sunday. Monday and Tuesday next.
Admittance on Sunday will be free to the
public, but on Monday and Tuesday only
invited guests will be admitted.
Year: 1875

The Galveston Ners develops an idea


which, though not at all new, has seldom
been allowed an appearance in its columns
or those of the Bulletin, to whom it reads
a pretty lesson. But the advice of the
Ne,cs is much better than that of the fox
who lost his tail. Sympathy with suffer
ing sister city seems to have gained the az
cendancy over crattiness. and the advice is
to beware of the trap that curtaiied Gal
veston's fair proportions, and of devotion
to deformed aristocracy. The Bulletin will
hardly be pleased at the suggestion that
Radicals are not the only people who plum
der. What. Admit that any one else in
office except Radicals would wrong 'this
people ?" Preposterous The next step
would be to admit that Radical office
holder might be honest. Oh, the Ne,rs
mans wits must have gone wool gathering
But this is what the Nems says:


Galveston is in condition to give such
advice to New Orleans as the fox that lost
his tail gave his fellows. The Council of
the last named city proposed to lease and
give control of the wharves for term of
years to private parties. The Bulletin says
that nine-tenths of the business men and
capitalists of New Orleans have looked for
ward hopefully to the plan Of making
wharfage free, and are now panied to see a
tendency to perpetrate at home, by their
own people, a speculative monopoly which
Radical impudence never dared to impose.
The fact is, that the Radicals are not the
only people who are willing to use political
power tor purposes of public plunder. Peo-
pie must learn to look beneath the veil of
politics and religion for the motives OF
human action and pay as little regard to
mere professions as to race, color or previ-
GUS condition of servitude They must re-
turn to the days of stern Justice, when
members of the first families, as we'll as
other people, were sent to the penitentiary
for stealing.
Year: 1875

The Washington correspondent of the
Chicago Times tells the following good
story about the famous Senator from Ne
vada:


Senator Jones has been taught lesson in
New York, and that is, that while he may
be very great man he can't do every
thing. His restless temperament is not one
that will allow him to be satisfied with the
inactivity of wealth already gained, and
since the first of January last he has had in
hand no end of schemes to crafty his
money making love of speculation. He
has set up a hotel in New York, gone into
the ice-making business and several other
interesting ventures, but none OF them fully
satisfied him. He longed to become stock
speculator in Wall street, and he went over
to New York some weeks ago in order to
show Jay Gould and the boys what bo-
nanza miner could do. He went into
Panama stock when it was thirty-fve, got
himself made director and went through
the usual ingenious mode of initiating the
stock up to a fancy price. All of this is
very easy to be done under the circum-
stances that surrounded Jones. He had
plenty of money, and the Jay Gould COM
bination, in order to more fully bleed him,
aided him indirectly in his plans. Jones
succeeded in working the stock up from
thirty to somewhere in the neighborhood of
seventy. If he had then sold out the stock
that he held he would have cleared some
100000. Senator Jones, however, was not
a small speculator. Jay Gould had not
mistaken the man. Jones was ambitious
and desirous of striking terror into the
hearts of Wall street by his gigantic
method of handling stock affairs He be-
gan buying Panama right and left until the
stock touched seventy nine. He was still
buying. Jay Gould and his friends loaded
him up until they thought he had all he
could bear, and then they hoped on him
and his stock Panama tumbled to thirty
eight before Jones had time to turn around.
The result was that Jones was about
$1,000 out. 1t is now stated, upon good
authority, that he will not build new
house in Washington this year as he first
intended
Year: 1875

We now enter the field for
the fall and coming Winter
and are furnishing the bes.
paying ard most easily worked
agency in the world. our
agents have always been the
most successful, and We nave
lately added new and exceed


ingy taking Inducements, re


quiring only intelligence and
application for any one, young
or old, of either sex, to make
really first-class plying busi
Year: 1875

fertilizers, and we are not in fair
way to show crops with her until
we learn the necessity of being
open-handed with our fields and
feed them well. Plenty of good


manure secures good wheat, corn,
oats, everything; and we should
study the plan of getting the larg-
est possible amount of it in the
most economical manner. A good


herd of cattle, if iudiciously fed,
pay well for time and fodder in
the manure produced, and whom
sold give a margin Of profit. A
good muck bed is q mine of money
to the farmer. The slops from the
house, the wash of barnyard, and
the ashes, night soil, scrapings OF
the chip yard, ETC., that are usually
wasted have In them the elements
which might be made to furnish
many home comforts that farmers
often feel too poor to afford.
Year: 1875

IT'S an easy thing for the heart that IN glad


To say to the heart in its gloom,
"Be thou gay like me bid thy sorrow depart,


And for happier guests make room;
Make room for music, mirth and song,


Let the bright rays of JOY shine in.
Care cast to the Winds. join our cheerful throng
Aid the good work at once begin"
IT'S tn easy thing for the nightingale,


To say to tho twittering wren,
"Tune thy throat, little bird. and join with mo
In song for the ears OF men.
Why warbe so sad in your home obscure,


When the outside world is gay
Come Join our song, you'd be happy, I'm SURF,
Bid adieu to that moainful lay"
All. the wren may sit by the nightingale,


And hutter its wings and look gay,
But the very first note II tries to sing,


Its feelings at once will 6etray.
So the carc-worn heart may joy put on.


But in masquerade twill be,
Aud it joys when the giddy guests are gone,
To be left TO its musings free.
Year: 1875

ATA sACRIFICE-MUsT BE SOLD THIS WEEK.
n the four cabinet finish brown stone House II
East Fifty sixth street adjoining Park For adms
sion and full particulars apply WILLIAM TUCKER 20
Fifth
Year: 1875

EioR SALEM WILLIAMSBURG, A SMALL THREE
story brick House first class location; Nineteenth
ward all improvements be sold easy


Cottage in the Fourteenth ward Inquire Of K NAUGH
TON ia Fourth South First
Year: 1875

A MOST DESIRABLE AND CONFLICT RESIDENCE
n for the winter longer beautiful order; wei
furnished; seventeenth street, near Fifth avenue.


OGDEN x CLARK Broadway and Seventeenth street.
Year: 1875

Fun HuSTISa UNDER DIFFICULTIES
On last Monday Mr. A. Mayer discov-
cred what he supposed to be musk rat
in Pstoka river near his residence on
Mill street, aad hurried to bis house. and
getting his trusty rife spent the after
noon in shooting at it. without killing
IT, and quit st dark. Early Tuesday
morning DIR. WertE was returning from
professional visit and discovered the
came rat when he dismounted carefully
and slyly from his steed, and gathering
an armful Of stones and clubs, clipped
stealthily aud peisciessiy up to the creek
bank, and began heaving his collection.
with great force and rapidity, 1t bis rat
ship, thinking Of the trophy he would
bear in to display in the drug store. He
exhausted his missiles, sprained his arm,
lost an hours time, and It dawned on
his bewildered mind that he was not
good on the throw, when be remounted
and came to town. leaving the rat in its
glory. Meeting two worthy hunters, Of
skill with . gun-Messrs. John Troxler.
who boasts Of his thousand successful
hunts, and VIII Capehart, who claims
70 have run two fur manufactures all
season BY his skill, he gave them the
whereabouts of the rat and they each
rubbed up their shot-guns, tramped
through the mud half mile. and spent
quarters worth each Of powder and
shot on that musk rat, when MAYER
hearing the "rattle Of the battle went
20 the creek to see what IL was. and in
reply TO their cxclamations Of surprise
at their want Of skill in killing the rat.
told them they needn't tell him any
thing about IL; he had practiced shoot
ing at that snag in the water half day


himself They rubbed their eyes, and
agreed to say nothing about il. but such
things will out and they failed TO send
around those oysters.
Year: 1875

If the opponents of Governor Allen
can find no greater objection to him than
his age, and have no .seyeYer epithet
than "Foghorn," he will have rather
smooth sailing through the canvass. tr-
Year: 1875

j. An account is given by an exchange of

 certain incidents in @ late voyage of the Hamburg steamer. Cimbria across the ocean. The dangers to which the

 American liners are exposed from the ice

 borne by the Arctic current along the Newfoundland coast are at certain sea-

 sons of the year very formidable, and it ought to be generally known that they are also quite gratuitous, and that ships,

 passengers, and crew-the two latter, as the paper dryly remarks, "not under written "-are risked to save a few days in the voyage. What that risk amounts to is strikingly shown in the case of the steamer above referred to. She left Hamburg on the 10th of March for New York with 483 passengers and the Ger

 man mails. On the afternoon of the 18th an irregular and brilliant mass bore in sight to the southward, and at the cry ahead!" all the passengers hurried on approached, until it displayed in stupen and slopes covered with snow at three miles distance. The skipper of course gave it wide berth, and when the sun uttu ulstppSatToSl, 10EGlluaGely GO give place to the moon in a clear sky, the scene had changed. For miles on every side the ship was surrounded by field of ice, only broken at intervals by the swelling of the waves. The captain turned the steamers head to the south; but, after some time, despairing of open ing way in that direction, issued or ders to penetrate westward, and the Cimbria until two o'clock in the morn ing "wept gallantly on, her iron prov crashing along the ice, which varied in thickness from two. feet to three feet. Blue water at length appeared and the danger was passed, but the ship had first traversed sixty miles southward and then seventy miles in westward direction before getting rid of the foe,'' but had the ships course been shrouded by one of the &ogs common in these attitudes the result might have been very differ ent. It would be interesting to know how much of the time supposed to be saved by steaming into the ice foe was lost in steaming outward to get out of it. To take course which risks life without necessarily saving time appears to be Q double offense against prudence.
Year: 1875

An interesting case relative to strikes has just arisen in England and will at tract attention here as we'll as there. An old established furniture house had two factories. In one the men worked by the piece; in the other by the day. The firm resolved to change the system in the latter, and they announced that from a certain date employment would be given constantly to all the hands at Q stated price fora given amount of work. This the mem objected to, and struck, only two men and one boy remaining. The firm at once advertised for help, and soon filled up their factory with piece hands. The strikers, through their associa' ion, now had recourse to pickets. They placed number of men outside in the streets to watch the shop. These met the workmen as they went to and from their work, and tried to persuade them to leave. They continued the sys- tenn for three months. The newcomers declined the offers of the society, and the work went on as usual. But the picketing became an annoyance, and the firm determined to have it's legality tested in the courts. Accordingly they caused five of the most energetic of the !pickets to be arrested,.and these have been, tried in the central criminal court on a charge of conspiring to molest workmen, with intent to induce them to leave their employment, and, further, to coerce employers to cease to employ those, workmen. >r ...--. ....t

 In the complaint no violence was charged; only once was there any sem tblance of ofthreatening language said to have been employed, and that was so slight, if not questionable, that the prosecution laid no stress upon it. The conduct of the defendants had been limited strictly to waiting for the workmen, and en deavofing to persuade them. to follow their example and strike. ..

 Baron Cleasby, before whom the case was tried, very clearly defined the law in such matters. He pointed out that in cases of conspiracy the offense lies in the agreement to do @ certain thing, and not in the doing of it; while any nolestation or obstruction offered to person with Q view to coerce him-if & working man, to quit his employment, or if @ master, to alter his mode of carrying on his own business-was an offense at law. Picketing might not be unlawful under certain circumstances, but it is when it is carried on in such a manner and to such a degree that it might be expected to influence other persons to the extent of annoyance, ap- prehension, or loss. ,.,........ ..

 The question for the jury was simply one of facts, and they returned verdict of guilty against nll the defendants. The judge, in; delivering sentence, expressed his belief that such conduct as that of which the prisoners had been convicted would, if persisted ill and followed, be subversive of any form of society. In consideration. however, of the probability that the men, had acted under mistaken idea of what the law in such cases must be, the lowest penalty-that of one months impisonment-wa inflicted upon them.
Year: 1875

Very few, probably of the thousands who
throw their old shoes after bridal parties as
they are leaving homo know anything of
the origin of the custom. Like almost all
of our common customs, its origin is an
cient, and can he traced to Bible times. 1t
was then the custom for the brother OF a
ehildless man TO marry his widow, or at
least be had the refusal Of fher. II he chose
to reject her, the ceremony was public, and
consisted in her loosing his shoe from his
foot and splitting in his face.


His giving up the shoe was a symbol of
his abandoning all dominion over her, and
her splitting in his face was an assertion Of
independence. There was an affair of this
kind between Ruth and Boaz. In some
parts Of the East 1t was the custom to carry
slipper before newly married couple as
token OF their subjecton.


The custom as il exists with us is very
old in England and Scotland. The usual
saying is that IL is thrown for luck, and
that is the idea in this country, but orig
inally it meant a renunciation of authority
over the bride by the parents. 1t was
formerly a custom among the Germans for
the bride when she was conducted 10 her
bed-chamber, TO lake off her shoe and
throw 1t among the guests. Who ever got
II in the struggle 70 obtain it received 1t as
an omen that he or she would soon be hap
PLY married.


Train, in his history of the isle of Man."
says: "On the bridegroom leaving his
house, 1t was customary TO throw an old
shoe afler him, and in like manner an old
shoe after the bride on leaving her home to
proceed 10 church, in order to insure good
luck to each respectively, and If by strate-
gem either of The brides shoes could be
taken off by any spectator on her way from
church, it bad 10 he ransomed by the BRIDE
groom"


In Kent, England, afler the couple have
started on their tour, the single ladies are
drawn up in one row and the bachelors in
another. An old shoe is then thrown as
Tar as possible, and the ladies run for it,
the successful one being supposed TO be the
first female who will get married. She
then throws the shoe at the gentlemen, and
the one who is hit by it is deemed to be the
first male who will enter into wedlock.
Generally il is considered The older the
shoe the Philadelphia Times.
Year: 1875

AN INCIDENT OF THE TEXAS SToRA.-A
gentleman living up the bay says that ne
gro man, with his wife and four children,
were forced TO take to tree 10 save them
selves during the late storm. The tree
swayed to and fro with the violence OF the
wind, and threatened 10 fall with its heavy
burden. The old couple concluded that
some one must be sacrificed to save the
rest. Afler consultation the old woman
said shs was not prepared TO die, and urged
the old man to drop himself into eternity.
But he too, was not ready. and the matter
was compromised by launching the two
youngest children into the surging waters.
A few hours after they were rescued, and
the old negro told the story himself to
those who saved him. Galveston News.
Year: 1875

The correspondent of the State
Journal. in his article about the late
editorial excursion over the NJ. P. r.
R.. pays the following compliment to
to the road and DR.. Converse:


In these grasshopper and granger
times, when railroad building is at a
stand-still all over the country, it is
something to the credit of Nebraska
and to DR.. Converse particularly
that an important link of railroad
thirty miles long, and one that SO
much effort was made In vain to build
In better days. has this winter been
built In this State. II 10 something
TO tell Of, too. that 1t has been built in
such an Incredibly short time. In the
midst of this unpreesdenteJly severe
winter.


All this has been done In the con-
struction Of the road from Nebraska a
City to Brownville. And the road,
albeit so hastily built. Il well built.
and will bear comparison with most
western roads.
Year: 1875

The Brownville ADVERTISER has


communication from Lincoln de-


nouncing the bill appropriating S5O.-


600 in bonds for purchasing seed for
I the grasshoppers, and charging Hon.
Church Howe, with the authorship


and responsibility of the bill. The
correspondent then says that the mat
ter should have been thrown upon


the counties, by authorizing them TO
vote bonds. We agree with the cor
respondent in preferriDg the county
bond plan to the State bond plan. SO


did Church Howe, and his bill was


just that bill. He labored hard to get


the bill through. but was unsuccess-


ful and supported, after his own bill


was irrevocably lost. the Crawford


bill for the issuance Of State bonds.


because. as he explained. the emer-
gency must be met i'm some way. The
ADVERTISER cannot afford to sup
press the record in this matter in Or
der to strike at Mr.. Howe.-State
Journal.


Our correspondent did not charge
Church Howe with the authorship
and responsibility of the bill and
did not even intimate such a thing.
Why does the journal suppress the
truth, always. when referring to Mr..
Howe? If that paper will permit us
to answer our question-it is because
Mr. Howe helped through the legis-
lsture back pay grs ,. for the Journ-
al, for 5000, and voted right on the
capital removal question. In other
words the Journal distorts truth and
creates statements out Of whole cloth
for pay.


1.-The ADVERTISER cannot afford to
suppress the record lin this matter"
DC. This Is another of the Journals
sneaking insinuations. We have sup
pressed nothing and have not at
tempted to suppress anything regard
ing the matter. Our readers have
been Informed through our paper of
the course of the aid bill, of its chang
es, and all about it. We endorsed,
and do yet endorse. the efforts of Mr..
Howe and others IN procuring the
passage of an aid bill of some kind as
soon as could possibly be done. We
preferred the county bond plan. too,
but when the Lawyers" said Il was
unconstitutional we endorsed the
State appropriation as the next best
thing. The Journals style of attack
is cowardly. to say the least of it, by
assuming that our correspondent said
what he did not say, and then hold
Ing Us responsible for it. and again
that we suppress the record
to make strike at Mr.. Howe. The
Journal is aware, no doubt, that it
cannot pay its debt to Mr.. Howe, for
his services in the $1,000 back pay
grab, by telling nothing but the truth
regarding that gen tleman's record.
Year: 1875

The virtuous (?) Omaha Herald.
Republican, and Bee. the Pattsmouth,
Neernska City and Brownville papers
have never word TO say against that
iniquitOus measure that. of giving
away the last acre of land I'm the
State to railroad corporation to build
a gap or two Oh the Trunk road or
whatever name you may call It..
Thank heaven this State has no more
lands to be stolen. The bill passed
the Senate by one majoritysand the
House by tUo, the gentlemen from
Lancaster.-PatOnee Tribune.


Now, Bro. Hassler, how could you
be so cruel as to slap your interoga-
ton point into all of US fellows along
the river 80 unceremoniously. We
will give you to understand that are
are not that kind hair pin. But
when HGssler elevates his interroga-
ton point on an individual he means
business. The sarcasm hidden just
behind it is so immense that no one Is
supposed to see IL all at once.


But about another point-there was
no steal about that at all. It was
simply and purely an honest grab,
and locality that wouldn't grab
where others are grabbing or would
liketo grab 1--WE don't mean the virtu-
Gus ID editor of the Tribune, is worse
than an infidel. We will give a serj
Gus article tothat "steal" next week,
and show that it benefits more or less
the entire State.