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Year: 1871

ADsAD FAILURE IN BRooKLYN-The failure
of Boss Mclaughlin this time by counting
to elect all his men. The republicans come in
for their share OF the hoaors and the profits by
the count
Year: 1871

PATRONAGE OF THE New GOVERNOR OF New
JERsEY.-Governor Parker, Of New Jersey,
on taking his seat, will have the appointment
of Chancellor, Clerk of the Supreme Court,
four Judges Of the Supreme Court, three
Judges of the Court of Errors, besides num-
Der Of county prosecutors. Most Of these
Offices are now filled by republicans, and, no
doubt, the Governor could nominate all demo-
Gratis in their places; but the trouble is, re-
publican Senate bas to act upon the nomina-
lions. Hence it is presumed he will propose
a judicious compromise and thus save the
State from unnecessary delay in the regular
formation OF its judiciary.
Year: 1871

Is NEW YORK CTY CAPABLE OF SELF-Gov-
ERNMKNT?-The Philadelphia Press (republi-
can) expresses the opinion that what New
York city and all other large municipalities
require to preserve their purity is simple
republic in VIII ich the people shall choose
their own rulers and make their own laws-a
system which must, Of course, be backed by a
''healthy public sentiment. The question
here arises, how is that public sentiment to be
created, and how is it to be directed to proper
uses? That New York city is capable Of self
government evidence is afforded by the over
whelmiug rout of thscorruptionists on the 7th
instant; but there is no means of judging how
soon reaction may occur and the city be
again placed in the hands of a mob and ruled
by ring of unscrupulous politicians. And
after all the people may have turned out one
set Of bad ralers only to give place TO worse
one. Time will determine.
Year: 1871

Tde news from tho Ear EaSt-Trado ana


Travel 70 tho Western Republic.


The steamship Japan landed at San Fran
cisco on Wednesday, bringing the China and
japan mails, number of passengers and an
exceedingly heavy freight Of valuable mer-
chandise. The cargo is consigned for distri-
button in the United States, Mexico and
Europe. In this connection we must again
coll attention to the wonderful revolution
which has been accomplished ia the routes
both of personal travel and for the transit of
goods from the far East since the opening of
the Pacific Railroad change which will be-
come more marked and distinct in its COM
mercial consequences each succeeding year,
until the peoples of the Old World will be
forced by very necessity to turn both their
eyes and ears to the shores of the great re-
public of the West when they wish to hear
of friends or trade profits from the empires Of
the East.


The news by the Japan, which we have
telegraphed from San Francisco, is of an
interesting character, but of sad import
in some of its points. The Mikado OF Japan
has freed himself from the personal exclusive
ness which has been attached to his sovereign
position for many, many ages, and appears
just now in pablo almost as freely as the
Prince of Wales or the Grand Duke Alexis.
His Majesty will come TO like it by and by, and
then, perhaps, he will take trip to New
York, so that he may enjoy himself still more
pleasantly, and ''read up" about Buddhism and
Confucius in the Bible House. Three hun
dred lives were lost by typhoon in one part
of China and one thousand persons drowned
by river floods in the province of New Chang.
Twenty thousand square miles of territory
were submerged. The religious fanatical
excitement troubles had ended in the south of
China. United States Consul General Seward
was at Shanghae from the North. Teas and
silk were higher in price. The work of culti-
vating cotton in China was more hopeful.
The captain Of the forecastle of the United
States ship Colorado was killed by fall when
the vessel was in dock at Yokohama. The
new Governor of Yokohama delivered very
progressive speech before the foreign consuls
in that city. So that, taking our news budget
as whole, we imagine that we can perceive
in its contents the sparkle of scintillation Of
that civilzing light which will yet illumine the
vast and hoary lands of China and japan.
Year: 1871

Fa....ers are in the habit of turning their
growing cattle into stalk k-ields after the corn
is gathered. With each recurring wear We
hear Of deaths arising therefrOm, which is
usually attributed to their eating smutty ears
which are left therein. Il Is mora nrebable
that 1t arises from gorging themselves with
the dry corn and fodder, aud the want of
water.


They should not be turned in at first for
more than an hour at time, increasing the
time OF pasturing each day until they become
accustomed to the tOod In oil cases provide
plenty OF water and let them have access to
salt II fPossibe, some green food should be
glyen-such as pumpkins, turnips, beets, ETC.,
When ted wholly on dry, rough forage, as
corn stalks left exposed to the weather, the
food becomes impacted to such a degree in
the stomach as to cause death.


We have never heard Of we'll authenti.
Gated case of cattle dying from eating smutty
ears, although there is no doubt but that this
fungus is poisonous. Cattle, however, do not
eat 1t unless there is enough corn with it to
tempt them, and only then after the better
feed fails. Nevertheless, the great number Of
deaths occur soon after the cattle are first
turned into the fields. Ifexperinents relating
hereto by the Professor of Veterinary Science





would carry weight with it and be of value to
the farmer.


In the meantime We advise caution in pas
turing the fields, especially this season. from
the prevalence Of smut, but more particularly
from the absence Of water in the fields Give
them plenty af water to drink at will, taking
care that they do not gorge themselves tor the
first few days, and we apprehend that but lit.
tie II any trouble will ensue. Fatal effects
often follow the changing of hsrses from oats
to corn, and yet We have always practicsd it
without unpleasant results, always being
careful in changing, to give the animal = lit.
tie less 10y weight than he had previously re-
ceived OF the other grain or, what is better,
mix the two together for = time, gradually
diminishing one quantity and adding to the
other.


Neither animals nor man may be subjected
to violent changes in diet without serious ef.
fects and often fatal results : but change in
diet is as necessary and rs greatful to animals
Is to- man. In the wild state, animals can pro-
cure this change for themselves. through the
great variety of grasses and herbage that are
everywhere naturally found growing but in
domestieated state, they are at the mercy of
their owner. II he be wise or humane man,
their condition is better than when wild if
dolt or brute, it Is much worse. A merciful
man is mercitul to his beast-7he Interior.
Year: 1871

The maniac was a giant. He had
broken his heavy chains as Sampson
broke the withies-had torn open the
door of the celI--torn the keeper, liter
ally to pieces--burst open the door
killed the watchman with heavy iron
bar he wrenched from the door-and
escaped with his formidable weapon
into the city. The whole place was
aghast at the news, and we students at
the hospital and dissecting room who
where connected with the Asylum had
to nerve ourselves to help capture the
escaped wild beast.


| had gone to the dissecting room
alone. and was about to commence
using the knife OH subject. There
was storm raging, aud with low sob
the wind swelled through the long aisle
of forest trees, and flashed with the
gathered force of an ocean wave against
the dead>house. simultaneously, a
hand struck the light door, and the yell
of a maniac ran through and through
my brain. :,


Above the door, through the small
yentilator, the face of the madman and
murderer peered down at me.


Z. All, ah I have caught you at last
-here-and alone. | have been walt-
ing for you You took me once, didn't
YOU Ha, ha ! Let me in."


The GOODNESS of imminent peril
brought my powers to action. held
his eye an instant; but it was evident
he was too wild for that; his blood was
up, and it roved with eager ferocity
through the room and over the frall
walls. With the light bound of a
leopard / gained the door, and shot the
double bolt. A CLEAN of rage darted
from his eye !; but he laughed, :" Ha,
ha! You think that will keep me
out"


Wait" [ cried, {" have a weapon
in my hand as keen as razor. 1t is
poisoned by the dead body | have been
working on Burst the door and Ill
plunge it in your heart If it but touch
you you are dead man. You may
kill me, but I'll kill you, as certain as
there is God"


The swarthy giant shook the door
nntil its hinges creaked and groaned
beneath his hand. Then laughing
again low to himself, muttered, Fool,
I'll outwit you yetv' and then stole of
in the darkness I heard him for an
instant pressing against the wall of the
building, and it swayed and bent in
wards with the weight. Then silence
The din of my pulses made thunder IL
my ears as [ tried to hear his stealing
tread, and the sobbing wind rose anew
with weird shrek, making my efforts
fruitless.


A thousand times | heard his low
.devilish, murderous laugh. A thousand
times l felt his brawny strength against
the door, and saw his wild face look
down at me through the gloom; but
still he did not come. tried to think
he had abandoned the design and had
skunk off discouraged but knew il
was not sol knew he was cronching
IN some corner on the watch to spring
on me when I passed.


Gould ! stay there all night? No,
Year: 1871

striking his massive body against the
juttlng stones heard him spring
like an animal on along the track. [
felt his hot breath like steam-the foam
of his set jaws flung across my face
aud he stopped | felt that he was
feeling for me that he was crouching
on the stones. | saw the red of his
eyeballs glare up at me through the
darkness. | felt the touch of his icy
flesh on my hand Like lightning, he
raised himself, and throwing his vast
weight against me, pinioned me to the
stones. And the mad rage OF a man at
bay surged upward to my brain. |
clasped my knife convulsively, and
seized him by the throat, resolving to
die hard It,was hair-it was shaggy
The hands against my dhest had thick
coat of fur. | clasped him to my
breast. 1t was lion--my favorite dog,
Lion.


X X


"Great heavens, Keene, what kept
you the whole night in that cursed dead
house? 1t is near day ; the door has
been open these two hours, aud Derby
ana King have been asleep. | Was
getting ON my boots to look for you"


Why in the name of common sense
did you let this dog out after me !?
Will you tell me that p


"Why he howled like a maniac, and
clawed at the door till | thought YOU
must be in some danger, and | could
not keep him in"


" Danger! ! Well. We can talk now
Rouse yourself | had an interview
with your maniac, and he is prowing
around the grounds after me now
Call up the men. ! must 90 alter
Philip Immediately


"You don't say SO -


% Yes; don't waste a second"


In five minutes the whole force in
the hospital was out in the grounds
We took him i'll IN angle of the great
door, crouchcd behind the jutting wall,
waiting for me- lie drew his lips back
over his teeth, in the dumb ferocity of
mad brute, as he saw me, and his eyes
settled into a dull, lurid glare, impossi
bic to describe as he Kissed out, . la
this is twice-twlce you triumph; wait
| till the third time -


Around the blazing crate, in the
closing hour of the tempest-tossed
night, We shook hands over the glad
ness of our reunion, and after the story
was over, and the horror first, and the
laughter after, at the close of my adven
ture, and Derby and King had left,
and Harry Leigh aud stood watching
at the window the young winter day
rise over the hill, there was something
very like tears over the bold, bright
blue eyes as he pointed to the walls OF
the mad>house and said, "Constance
would have gone there, Keene, or died,
aud mine would have been a heavy,
/ heavy life after
Year: 1871

What wonderful oil upon the
machinery of human affairs tact is.


To know just what to say; to know


when to be silent, and when differ
cntially to listen. is a great gilt.


No one can fully appreciate this
quality who has not had the misfor-
of living with laundering person
who never speaks or moves without
unintentionally wounding or Offend
ing somebody. Contguity with
such one is fearful to the nerves,
and temper too. We doubt wheth-
er tact, in any considerable degree
can be required It is born with
some, and is as natural to them as
the color of their hair or eyes. We
have seen little children who were
perfect in it, without the slightest
idea of course Of the diplomacy
they were enacting.
Year: 1871

People who live altogether in the
country have very little appreciation
of its advantages and pleasures.
Why should they think anything @;
fresh air? 1t is too common. They
have it all the time. Everybody
around them has it all the time:
And as general thing, people esti-
mate very lightly blessings of which
they have never been deprived.


1t is only persons who are con-
fined portion of the time in the
city, who are really capable of full
appreciation of country life.


Farmers, who work the land for
a living, soon come to regard all its
products with q single eye TO profit.
There is something very narrowing
in this influence. 1t closes the
view to beauty, and the soul against
all the poetical and ennobling SEN
timents which proper contempla-
ton of nature is so well calculated
to awaken. The tendency with far
mers is to become too exclusively
mere matter-of- fact machines. The
clouds, the sunshine, the shade, the
trees, the refreshing showers, the
beautiful wild fowers-they see
nothing in all these except SO far as
they may affect their potatoes and
turnips and corn.


We believe that one principal
reason of the higher taste for rural
life in England, is to be found in
the fact that city people live so
much more in the country there.
The great increase of the facilities
for travel is making our county
rapidly more and more like England
in this respect.
Year: 1871

"You know my opinion" said
John Randolph "Offemale society.
Without it we should degenerate
into brutes" This observation ap-
plies with tenfold force to young
men, and those who are in the
prime Of manhood. For after a GER
tain time of life, the literary man
may make o shift-a poor one, l
grant-to do without the society of
ladies. To Q young man nothing is
SO important as spirit of devotion


next to his Creator-tO some aim
able woman, whose image may oc-
cupy his heart, and guard it from
pollution, which besets it on all
sides. A man ought to choose his
wife, us Mrs. Pimrose did her we'd
ding gown, for qualities that swear
we'll" One thing at least is true,
that if matrimony has its cares,
celibacy has no pleasure. A New
ton, or a mere scholar, may find
employment in study; man of lit
erary taste can receive in books a
powerful auxiliary; but man must
have bosom-friend and children
round him, to cherish and support
the dreariness of old-age.
Year: 1871

The best method of purifying water
is by freezing, or distillation. By the
cautious use of ice water. if not taken
at a too low degree of temperature, es-
pecially when the body is heated to
Precipitation, the dangerous influence
of putrescent water on the constitution,
producing fever and ague, is at once
avoided. By filtration or agitation
with coarsely-powdered freshburnt
charcoal, either aimal or vegetable,
not only will the suspended organic
matter be mechanically removed,
but also the calcareous and gaseous,
impurifer, held in solution. The
addition Of a little aqueous chlorine,
or chlorine gas. to foul water, clean
ses it Immediately. This method
has the advantage Of the water be-
ing perfectly freed from any excess
of the precipitant by heat If chic
rated lime be used, a few drops of
sulphuric acid will free the chlorine
gas completely, TO act upon the
water, andprecipitate the suspended


lime as gypsum; cooking the water
is also necessary. An ounce of pow
dered alum, dissolved and we'll ag-
itated in a hogshead or more of foul
water, will precipitate the foul mat
ter in the course Of a few hours
when the clear portion may be de-
canted. When the water is verv
putrid a scruple 'to a dracbm may
be employed to the gallon, and any
alum that may be left in solution
will be precipitatsd by the addition
Of an equivalent proportion of car
Donate of soda. IN Y. Ledger.
Year: 1871

BE- A MAN.-Foolish spending is the
father Of poverty. DO not be ashamed
Of work, and Of hard work. Work for
the best salaries or wages you can get,
but work for half price rather than be idle.
BE your own master, and do not let SO
ciety or fashion swallow up your indi.
vidnality-hat. coat and boots DO not
eat up or wear out all that you earn.
Compel your selfish body to spare some
thing for profits saved. BE stingy to
your own appetite, but merciful to others
necessities. Help Others, and ask nc
help for yourself See that you are proud
Let your pride be of the right kind, BE
too proud to be lazy; too proud to give
mp without couquering every difficulty
too proud to wear coat that you cannot
afford to buy; too proud to be in com
pany that you cannot keep up with in cx
penses; too proud to lie, or steal, ol
cheat; too proud to be stingy.
Year: 1871

HA woman died the other day who
had helped her husband make over a
million dollars. She made home so at.
tractive he stayed at home nights and
thought up coed plans Cor the next day.
Year: 1871

The tew persons engaged IN the cuItiva
ton OF ramie ia the vicinity of this city
are constantly in the receipt of letters from
the Northern cities and from Europe
making inquiries relative TO ramie culture,
the price at which it can be sold, and the
amount of supply that can be depended
upon. Some Of the manufacturers who
have tested the value of the fibre by spin
ming II into thread, say that it is superior
TO fax. and if there could be certainty OF
supply, it would supersede altogether the
use Of fax in thread spinning. Others
assert that they can take the crude fibre
and in four hours convert it into a fossy
silk worth from three to tour dollars per
pound, and can weave it into fabrics having
all the fexibility and lustre Of the finest
foreign silks.


With regard TO the supply Of ramie, no
certain calculations can be made, from the
fact that there is but little capital in the
hands of the planters, and # is hard to force
them out Of the old habit OF planting cotton
and sugar.


For the information of Northern manu-
facturers, We can state that the soil OF
Louisiana is rich enough, and the area of
unoccupied lands sufficiently extensive, TO
produce ramie in any desired quantity, pro-
vided it is first planted. Capita. is needed
for that purpose, and the North must fur
nish II. When they do SO, they will get the
profit both on the production and the man
uracture.
Year: 1871

The Administrator of Improvements,
with the cooperation of the City Surveyor,
is actively engaged in finishing up the pro-
lection levees, with q view to prevent the
possibility of disaster and overflow from the
high winds expected about the time OF the
equinox. The work will be so far COM
pleted by the middle of the month, that no
fears of break in the levees need be en-
tertained, the anticipated tidal overflow to
the contrary Notwithstanding. This de
partment is also engaged in strengthening
the wharves and filing up the sunken pOr-
tons Of the levees where they have caved
in at the French market, and below near
the lower cotton presses.


The Administrator of Finance is issuing
the two per cent bonds in payment to the
holders Of certificates Of indebtedness, The
bonds are Of different denominations, rang
ing from so up TO $1,000.


In the City Attorneys Office there is
nothing Of interest, the clerks and assist
ants being engaged in finishing up old odds
and ends, the accumulations Of the past
busy season.
Year: 1871

just under the ribs on the left side. Finding all
these Intellectual, he next fired into his right
ear, and then behind the ear, and lastly just
over the ear. At this point he became intensible.
II was supposed that nothing could save him.
let, strange to say, he still lives, with ten bull
lets in him, and ssys he is determined to get
we'll
Year: 1871

the best they could all Monday in
Playing on the East and West Sides
till 1t reached Wright's Grove and Oo-
den's Grove, where it did not progress
so easily amid the wet timber. The
rain which began falling on Monday
evening dampened the ground, and
sensibly detained it. Then 1t worked
back AGAIN and got hold of the coal
heaps and lumber yards lying south
OfChicago avenue, and make a clean
sweep Of all that was left there. So
brilliant was the light on Monday eve
ming that it was feared by some of
those on the West Side that it would
cross over there and Obliterate what
was left of the city.
Year: 1871

and it stood its ground nobly. 1t was
commonly called the Wabash Ave
nue. Methodist Church, and was one
OF the oldest churches in the city, ,hav-
ing been dedicated in 1857. The
blowing up Of the buildingOn the west
proved the salvation of that end, and
the church resisted the attack from
that side. On the north side of the
church was the real danger, though,
fortunately, there was a vacant lot be-
tween the nearest house and the
church. The heavy, honestly built
walls of the latter, and the interven-
ing distance, so far protected it that
nothing took fire except the Ornamsn-
tai tower OH the northeast corner. This
was extinguished by citizen vOlun-
teer, who showed most wonderful in
difference to danger and marvelOu.
efficiency in work.


Here, then, was the real turning
point Of the disaster, and over the bar.
Tier formed by the church and the
Year: 1871

WHY CATTLE NEED SALr.-A cores.
pondent wishes the reason why cattle need
salt. tits because phosphate Of soda must
be furnished to the blood, whereas it is
phosphate Of potash that exists in grains
aud grasses grown on soils deficient. as
most soils are, in saline or sodic compound.
When salt is taken into the animal system
it is partially decomposed. Some of its
chlorine unites with the potassium Of the
potash while the liberated sodium is oxy.
died to form soda, and this combines with
the phosphoric acid from the potash phos-
phate to form phosphate of soda. Soda
also exists in milk. 1t is this which gives
the fluid its slightly alkaline taste when
first drawn. If this be absent, as when
cattle are not supplied in some way with
salt, the milk is unwholesome. Cattle are
apt to prefer grass grown on lands top
dressed with two or three hundred weight
of salt to the acre, for the reason that the
salt renders the grass swoeter, more tender
and more succulent. The weight Of grass
grown on salted land is, however, likely to
be diminished 10 proportion, as rankness
of growth is prevented.
Year: 1871

INFLUENCE OF BLUE RAYS ON LIFE
AND HEALrH.-A remarkable paper was
read before the Pennsylvania Agricultural
Society at one of its recent sessions, by
Gen. A. J. Pleasonton, in which he ad-
duced facts to prove that the blue and
violet rays of the solar spectrum exerted
an extraordinary power in fastening veg.
citation and in developing animal life, aud
ameliorating animal health. He cited
the case Of grape cuttings, which under
roof composed Of glass Of alternate blue
and violet colors, came to maturity within
q year being set out, and yielded within
that period . weight Of fruit that seems
almost fabulous. The effects Of the
APPLICATION of light through similar media
to animals out of health, was to produce
their rapid restoration, and 10 the case Of
young pigs especially, to accelerate their
growth.


There appears to be no doubt of these
facts, coming as they do so we'll authenti'
Gated. They establish principle which
will bear a very wide aud bene6ceni
application both in the development Of
vegetable amp animal life.