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Year: 1876

In general improvement has been
noticed Of late in the quality of fruit.
We have more finer varieties Of the
apple the pear is much better than
it was ten years since; Of the grape
there are many new and excellent vari-
cites which the market knew nothing of
a few years ago, and there are some
excellent varieties of the raspberry
lately introduced. But the strawberry
has decidedly deterioriated, and the
result is owing to the general culture Of
Wilson's Albany for the market. Will
sons Albany is sour, crude berry.
which is not fully ripe when it is per-
fectly red, and even when perfectly
ripe is still too acid. When it first
makes its appearance in the market it
has decidedly harsh favor and very
little Of the agreeable aroma which dis
tinguishes the finer kind Of the berry.
If not eaten very sparingly it disagrees
with the stomach and you awake
with the collie next morning. Before
Wilson's strawberry came into vogue
there were many other kinds which
were sweeter and of a more agreeable
favor. But the Wilson is hardy berry
which bears transportation well; it is
exceedingly prolific and altogether hardy
qualities which give it great favor
with the cultivator, but for which the
consumer suffers. The proper way of
dealing in strawberries is to fix the
prices according to the quality Of the
sort. This is the way they do in the
markets of Paris. A poor sort, although
the berry may be large, is sold cheap.
The more delicate kinds-tae sweet,
juicy and high-Aavored-are disposed
Of at higher price. Here the Wilson
should be sold the cheapest Of all, while
such as the Jucuuda. the Gen'l Wilder,
and the McAvoy, should bear prices
corresponding to their excellence We
hope for our part that the Wilson's will,
as soon as their place can be supplied
by better variety, be banished from
the market. It can surely be no diff
cult thing to obtain sort by crossing.
which shall bear the transportation
equally we'll, and shall not deceive. the
purchaser with the appearance Of ripe
ness.
Year: 1876

CHIcKENs.-Broilers 10 June, among
the young fowls raised, are always sale
able, where they have come for
ward as well as usual at, this season.
Young cockerels in excess are of no
account now. These should be yarded
and cooped by themselves (if you have
many of them and, excepting the SAM
Piles which promise best in general points
Of excellence, all your overplus male
birds should be put into good meaty
condition and killed of. They are very
desirable as broilers or "fryers." If Of
goodIy size. and it does not pay to carry
them over July, unless they are better
than average irds.-Enchange.
Year: 1876

NEw YORK, May S-The cable line
between Nova Scotia and New Found
land connecting With the Atlantic cable
at Hearts Content is broken and conse-
quently communication with Europe by
the Anglo American line is temporarily
interrupted.


A fault was discovered in the French
cable two hus dred miles from Brest some
time ago which hss not yet been re-
paired, E


The United States direct cable is work.
ing, and is now the only line open to the
public, but measures will be Immediately
taken to repair the cable between Nova
Scotia and Newfoundland, .and it is
hoped the interruption of communica-
tion with Hearts Content will not be of
long duration.
Year: 1876

CLEVELAND, May 3-Everythlng was
quiet at Massillon and the other mining
districts this morning. Last evening II
mob fired several shots AT the Warming.
ton mine but nothing more was done
This morning a number of new miners
went into the Warrington mine, and are
working under the protection Of the mill
tary. The strikers still declare they will
never 90 to work at the reduction.
Year: 1876

New 1orK Worlu'I


All who have had any means Of close
observation know that his general
health has improved of late years; and
Of all men who have been put in posi-
ton to meet demands upon their ply ST.
cal endurance, such as he must undergo
in the course of the next four or five
months during the canvass, and for the
next ten or twelve months II he is elect
ed, our observation does not furnish us
with one who has been better able to
encounter, without strain, such trials
and such laboIs. He is q remarkably
wise man in the care of his health, the
management Of his time and the employ
ment Of his energies. With all due aud
humble submission, therefore, to the
will of Heaven in respect to a life that
now seems, to imperfect human vision,
to be one of great importance, we say
that if Governor Tilden lives to be
chosen and TO be inaugurated measures
will have been prOpounded which have
60 received the ratification OF the ma
ton that they will have been placed be-
yond the reach of accident.
Year: 1876

TIE pBeumatic dispatch system has
been inau9uraied in New York by the
Western Union Telegraph company. The
tubes at present laid connect tho com
paDy's building, at the corner Of Broad
way and Dey streets with, the offices on
Broad street, near the stock exchange
and Pearl street, near the cotton ex-
change. L is proposed to extend the
system to large number Of important
points in the city.
Year: 1876

THE impeachment OF Robeson is q
foregone conclusion. There is no chan
mel OF escape for him. TIE storm is
brewing, and before many days passes
the head Of the navy will be wreck and
min
Year: 1876

A QUEER WAY To HARDEN BUTTER.
An English butter maker of large exper-
ienee, who is now on visit to this eoun-
try for the purpose of looking over our
cheese and butter dairies, gives us the
following information concerning meth
cd in practice among the best butter
makers in England for rendering butter
firm and solid during hot weather Car
Donate of soda and alum are used for the
purpose, made into powder.. For twen-
ty pounds of butter one teaspoonfIl of
carbonate of soda and alumni are mingled
together at the time of churning and put
into the cream. The effect of this pow
der is to make the butter come firm and
solid, and to give it a clean, sweet flavor.
1t does not enter into the butter, but its
action is upon the cream, and it passes
off with the buttermilk. The ingredi-
ents of the powder should not be ningl-
ed together until required to be used, or
at the time the cream is in the churr
ready for churning.
Year: 1876

AN exchange says: ''Why will girls
run away to get married ?" We give it
up, answers The Louisville Courier
Journal. But we know a lot here that
would be glad enough to stay at home,
or jump at the chance to walk off and
get married. They boys amt around
asking them as they did, takes more mon
ey to run one nowadays than it does to
run steamboat, and they can see more
fun with steamboat. All girls, it s
your own fault. Swap off your silks and
satins for lawns and calicoes shut up
the piano and dive into a washtub; throw
away your fancy needle-work and tackle
q red hot stove in the kitchen. Instead
of receiving Brown, the bankers son, in
the parlor, keep your eye skinned for
Bill Burns, the blacksmith's son, as he
goes home from work I; kiss his dirty
face through broken pane of glass in
the kitchen window, and after while,
when he learns his trade and you know
your business, get married, go to house
keeping by yourselves, help each other,
live happy. raise a family that will be an
honor to your names and credit to them
selves, die happy, and the angels will
not turn their backs upon you up there.
Year: 1876

CUTTING STEEL WITH Soft IRON
Jabob Reese, of Pittsburg, Pa, had
long endeavored to construct machine
to cut hardened cold steel. He accom-
plished it at length by means of saw
of soft wrought iron-merely circular
disc-rotating at high velocity. With
low speed ti,is would not cut at all but
when running about $4,000 feet per
minute the disc cut through steel rapid
Iy, giving out an immense cascade of
sparks in the operation. 1t was found
on examining the debris beneath the
disc that the particles of steel wero
not simply rubbed off. They were weld
ed together in pyramid like stalag-
mite or the snow circles on the top of
Mount Washington. Professor Hedrick
ascertained that real fusion had taken
place among the particles of steel. The
disc is very little heated, but the steel is
actually melted and drops down. Yet
the bar on each side of the cut is not
heated enough to draw the temper or
oridize the metal. Solid bars of steel
of two or three inches in diameter are
thus cut through in as many minutes.
The soft metal disc is about 40 inches in
diameter. The naked hands may be
passed through the jet or stream of Eyy-
ing sparks, during the operation. with
out being burned, since the particles OF
melted metal are in the condition known
as the spheroidal state.
Year: 1876

A SOCIAL economist of Austria has
prepared table showing that there is
an intimate relation in that country be-
tween crime and the plum and grape
crops that when there is large crop of
either of these fruits from which brandy
is made, crime is especially prevalent.
It's the same in this country, except that
all fruits, and especially melons, might
be included. The great prevalence of
crime in good fruit years is mostly con
fined to the boys, and it doesn't result
from the brandy either. r-sr-
Year: 1876

How TIGHT THEY WEAR THEM.-The
extremities to which fashion has advanc-
ed in London IN female attire are really
deplorable. A lady on whose truthful
ness I can depend confides to me the
following particulars She was asked
the other day to inspect the wedding
trousseau of young lady of high rank.
The dresses were very numerous and
beautiful, and every accessory of attire
was in the height of fashion, if not of
good taste. ''But where" inquired my
friend, sis the under clothing 2"


"Oh," said the miliner with smile
of pity, 'ladies wear none nowadays.
They wear these instead" And she
pointed to three complete suits, not of
armor, but of chamois leather.


It is only over chamois leather that
the skirts from Worth can be strained
tight enough. at Bristol, the other day,
the Mayor gave an entertainment to the
Lord Mayor of London, and the occa-
sion seemed SO important that one lady
guest sent to Paris for her dinner-dress
1t was SO tight when it came that she
had to take off garment after garment
before she could get into it at all. And
then she had to sit down at the table.
I am told that her sufterings were con-
siderable during the repast but Eoi
worst misery was the reflection, Chow
shall I get up again p Eventually she
did get up, thanks to the gentlemen on
each side of her, who pulled down the
refractory garment hE main force
Year: 1876

THE prevailing style for general wear
IS q morning coat and waistcoat from a
neat figured or small diagonal worsted
cloth, trousers from a check or striped
pattern, according to taste. Coat to but
ton three buttons, of medium length,
moderately cut away from the lower
button. Pockets in plaits behind and
no flaps. Waistcoat single breasted,
with a small step collar buttoning high
to correspond with the coat Trousers
cut easy and straight to the leg, falling
well over the boot.


Plaids are still very fashionable for
undress, travelling and business suits !;
the principal colors used are brown
combined with red and purple The
leading style of coat for suits of this
description is singlebreasted and but
ton sack, the buttons far apart and
worn buttoned Pockets under flaps III
front with an outside breast pocket.
Vest single-breasted, without collar.
The double breasted frock coat contin-
ues in favor for better wear, and is eth
er made up plain, or with silk breast
facings and braided. Plain and neat
diagonals are preferred to faced cloths.
Double breasted white waistcoats are
worn with the frock; trousers from a
stylish plaid or smart stripe, the striped
patterns being considered the most dres-
sy.


Black is the only cUlor worn for full
dress. The collar of the coat is cut with
snip OF notch, and the lapel rolls to
the second button. Some are made with
silk facings. Neatly embroidered pat
terms will be very fashionable for dress
vests, and trousers may be made with a
braid laid on the side seams. Pockets
OH the hips only.


OYercoats will be made chiefly from
dark colors of elysian and treble dressed
beavers, and both the sack or Chester
field and surtout shapes will be worn
They are cut of fair length, just to COW
er the knee.-M. J. Post.
Year: 1876

A CITIZEN OF Milwaukee recently vis-
tied the South for the purpose of buying
a farm He travelled extensively, and
negotiated with number of parties.
In each instance the owner insisted upon
inserting a clause i'll the deed reserving
his claim against the Government of the
United States for damages during the
war. He says that this practice is uni
versal through the south Could there
be any more convincing testimony that
a grand raid on the treasury is intended
as soon as Democrats secure control of
Government ?-iScnti,iei
Year: 1876

BEAUTIFUL JEwEssEs.- En-
qnirer: Long Branch is the place for
beautiful Jewesses. They grow fair in
skin, yet preserve all their splendid con
trasts of rich eyebrows and Oriental eyes
and tresses there. The Jewish maiden
takes her bath, and as she leaves the wa
ter, with her clothes clinging to her, she
is stalwart as a section of Solomon's s
Temple Her thick, black hair is fit for
bowstrings; like shafts of cedar are her


limbs. She lunches heartily on cold
meats and bottle of beer, and goes up
and dresses for her lord. When he ar
rives in the stage she is on the piazza,
wearing a velvet dress, with an overlress
of lace curtain, Marie Stuart collar, big
diamonds in her ears and straw hat full
of illusion pinned down with a tulip of
gold and carnelian. They address each
other IN three or four languages during
the same sentence, being tue cosnopo-
litans, and in minute the carriage is up
for drive. That night about 10 or IL
of tho clock they eating tho entire
Passover lamb, drinking champagne aHd
laughing like the happiest people in the
world. all dressed richly, bareheaded,
taking the world for all it is worth.
Year: 1876

One day last week, dog belonging
to steamer that plies between Hun
tington, Long Island, and New York
City was accidentally left behind when
the steamer left Huntington for the city.
The dog watched the boat for while
and finally concluded to follow. The
spectators thought nothing of it supros-
ing he would soon be back. Next day
second day the captain and crew, on
going on deck of the steamer where she
lay i'll her dock i'll New York, were as
tonished to find the dog there, but thor
oughly exhausted. The distance swan
by this dog was over forty miles.
Year: 1876

In the Probate Court of the County OF Los


Angeles, State of California.
In the matter of the estate Oft


Jacob Keller, deceased.


Order to show cause why decree of distribu-


button should not be made.
an reading and filing the petition of Lou
~ lisa Keller, surviving widow OF said
deceased, setting forth that more than four
months have elapsed since the probate of thr
will of the estate of said deceased, and
that she is entitled to the immediate posses
ion of all the property under and by virtue of
said will of said deceased; it is ordered that
all persons interested IN the estate of the said
the Probate Court of the county of Los An
geles, at the court room of said court. in the
city of Los Angeles, in said Los Angeles
county on
Year: 1876

edly be elected, my dear ~ Those who did
not go home until the wee small hour ayont
9" the twelve" interpolated hic or two (sug-
gestive of hoe or two) into their report. So
everywhere all the talk of all the town was Of
Ohio and Of Indiana-two of the prettiest snd
most euphonious names in the whole bright
roll of our commonwealth. AS for yesterday
the best day this Fall for overcoats-the
cheering (by both sides) was frequent and
warming. Our reports will show the reader
who is likely to do the more cheering to-day
and to collect wagers instead of paying them.


Why should the general American public
feel this fervid interest in the results of elec-
tiOns, except it believes (and not without
reason) that public and of course private
happiness depends to an appreciable extent
upon those results Our political contests
would be tame affairs if they excited nobody
except the men of bets and the office-seekers
and the candidates. Unquestionably below
this weltering and stormy sea of political ex-
citement there is solid substratum of delib-
crate and honest opinion. Men are not alto
gether Democrats or Republicans out of venal-
ity or prejudice or whim, or through circum-
stances of birth and education but because
they honestly and intelligently believe
that the public policy of this party
or the other is the wiser or the moro
economical and just There is a good deal Of
folly in partisan debates, and in partisan
newspapers there is not little; all our an
nua or quadrennial battles have a flavor of
tiifiing but in their main purpose and upshot
they are useful and honorable and substan.
tally as dignifed as genuine purpose can
make them. Tho work which is done by the
machine is better than the machine itself.


few weeks of canvassing and of cOnten-
ton, friendly or otherwise, and then another
shock of contending parties, and the great
Presidential election of the centennial year
will be over! Whatever else may be said of
our system of self-government, it can hardly
be said of the American citizen that he
neglects his political duty. Perhaps it might
be said that with all this speaking and meet
ing, with all these caucuses and conventions,
with all this writing and printing and circulat-
ing of the documents, with all these pyrOtech-
MICS, and this tlag-fying and music of brasss
bands, with all this noise and confusion and
tempest, the American citizen attends to his
political duty altogether too well. But an
election is safety-valve, if nothing more,
and really we know of no better way of
asserting, pro tempOre, the differences of mil
lions of minds.
Year: 1876

There seems to be no doubt that Ohio has
gone Republican. So much OF positive TACT at
least may be rescued from tie wreck OF
estimates and cOnjectures. The figures of the
majority are still in the clouds, but they are
not necessary. 1t is enough for the present
that the Republicans have pulled through with
an unpopular candidate for the leading Office,
and have saved State which few
days ago the Democrats were count
ING on as pretty surely Their own. 1t
is certain, also, that in both Ohio ana Indiana
the Republicans have made gains IN Congress
men at rate which, if sustained Ill other
States, will recover for them the control of the
popular branch of the National Legislature.
As to Indiana, both sides have claimed 1t and
each has given it up at intervals during the
pa,t twcnty-four hours, and perhaps the safest
thing that can be said about it under
the circumstances is that the State Is
very close and the result doubtful, and
very likely nothing but the official
returns will decide it, With regard to the
State elections proper in these two great Oct0-
ber States, the Democrats can hardly lay claim
TO ANYTHING that can furnish the falntest pres
tige of success in November. They have
counted largely on defeating the Republican
candidate for Secretary of State in Ohio upon
the score of his being specially unpopular on
account of his views upon the question OF
prohibition. They have been sOrely disap-
nointed in that result All their effort and all their
moncy-and there is no doubt that they nave
expended money lavishly in the State-have
been in vain. The Republicans, III spite OF
unrayorable circumstanccs-agaiust which they
will not have to contend III November-have
elected their State ticket. 1t is true that they
have been driven to their trumps, and have
been seriously frightened, but they have won,
and in that fact they find their compensation,
for il insures them the State beyond perad-
venture in November


In Indiana the Democrats had all the chances
in their favor. Their candidate for Nice-Presi-
dent is the present Governor and without doubt
their most popular man. They had the advantage
of being or seeming to be on the popular side
Gn Indiana) of the currency question. 1hey
had a sure majority of the voters, according to
ali the late election returns and they had made
an active canvass, had used money freely, and
left no stone unturned to keep the State III
tbe Democratic line. Circumstances could not
have been more favorable to them. 1t seemed
almost madness few weeks ago for the Re-
publcans to claim that there was any posi-
biity, even the rcmotest, of saving the State.
All the indications, from the conditions of pol
itics down to the betting in the pool-rooms, were
most favorable to the Democrats, and up to last
week it seemed almost certain that the State
would be Democratic. The man who seri-
ousy predicted anything else was wild. And
yet here is Indiana in doubt thirty-six hours
after the event, with the chances, it is true
if we may depend upon the balance of conflict
ing reports-in favor of the Democrats, but
with the probability of majority either way
too small to interfere much with the effect Of
Year: 1876

the Republican victory in Chic, or the
general drift in favor of Hayes. These facts
taken at the best for the Democrats, are any
thing but encouraging. They see of course
That the force of the tidal wave upon which
they ran majority into Tic present Congress
is entirely spent. They cannot help seeing that
the intense desire for change upon
which they counted so much, and which Is
understood to be Gov. Tildcn's sheet anchor,
is not TO be counted on to bring them into
power and it probably by this time begins 10
dawn dimly upon them that the great t"o-
horse act of riding on hard money at the
Fast and soft money at the west Is not
brilliant and distinguished success. What
with the change in Congressional delegations
and the Republican victory i'll Ohio, and-to
say the lcast-thc depressing uncertainty as 10
Indiana, our Democratic friends have but
little to comfort them. Defeat, certain and
inevitable, starcs them in the face.


AS TO the effect upon the Presidential cleo
ton. there can hardly bc two opinions. Gov.
Tilden's candidacy as is well known to every
obscrvant person who has any knowledge OF
politics and politicians, has not united the
party. What was needed to consolidate the
party strength ana create enthusiasm for the
ticket which the candidates themselves failed
to evoke was a striking and significant victory
in the October elections which should furnish
the prestige of success. This was what the
managers worked for, with Il full knowledge of
the necessity for it, and that to lose 1t would
demoralzc the party. a marked loss in Congress
men and tho bare saving of Indiana out of
the wreck by n small majority, which is pos
siblc, will not answer the purpose The effect
of the October elections may be set down as
decidedly favorable to the Republicans, and i'll
a corresponding degree dispriting to their OPP
ponents We apprehend, however, that there
will be no giving up of the fight on the part
of the Democracy. The Republicans cannot
afford to sit idle or count upon their oppo-
nents being too much discouraged to keep up
the contest. There is a month OF bard work
before them still if they would win.