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Year: 1875

We do not quite understand the necessity
of the letter which Governor Tilden has just
addressed to all the district attorneys of the
State, threatening them with removal if they
fail to prosecute persons who may make an
illegal use Of money in the coming election.
There is no law clothing the district attor-
neys with preventive powers. They cannot
prosecute until after offences have been COM
mitted. The constitution, as amended last
year, subjects district attorneys to removal
if they fail to prosecute any case Of bribsry
which may come to their knowledge but
that article relates only to bribery of Off
GERS, not to the use of money in elections.


The amended constitution has indeed some
excellent provisions on the subject Of Civ
ing and taking money in elections but the
application of remedies does not require anv
action of the district attorneys previous to
the election. A person who has either offered
or received money is subject to challenge at
the polls, and when challenged he is
required to swear to his innocence before his
vote can be received. If he swears falsely he
Is liable to indictment for perjury, but the
District Attorney has nothing to do with the
offence until it has been committed. Another
still better provision is that which requires
officers to swear, before entering on their
duties, that they have neither directly nor
indirectly paid or promised money to infu-
ence voters. A false oath by officers is also
Year: 1875

The TRAGIC EVENTS recorded in the
HERALD to-day make up fearful record Of
crime and misery. Fortunately we are not
often called upon to publish SO many sad and
revolving stories in one paper, and it is to be
hoped that to-day's experience will not soon
be repeated.
Year: 1875

TRAMPs The Board Of Charities Of Utica,
N. Y, have found practical solutio Of the
tramp question in setting all the able-bodied
stragglers applying for relief to breaking
stones upon the public streets This is the
only proper method Of treating what threat
ems ere long to become an intolerable
puicauca
Year: 1875

We have received communication from
the proprietor of the London Teleqraph ex-
planning the circumstances under which a
premature publication of the substance of
Mr. Stanley's African letters was made in an
editorial in that paper in violation
of its agreement with the HERALD
The editorial in question, we are informed


was written and published in the absence of
the proprietor and through misunderstand-
ing ON the part of the writer. In matter
of so much importance as the African expe-
dition, involving joint interests and from
which intelligence might be received
at any moment, we had q right to
expect that the possibility of such an occur
renee would have been carefully and effect
ually guarded against. We are not sur
prised, therefore, that the propri-
etor OF the Telegraph while expressing
his regret at the unfortunate over
sight, should fully justify the comments
made by the HERALD on the appearance Of
the Objectionable editorial We accept his
explanation as satisfactory and acquit him of
any intentional bad faith in the matter.
Year: 1875

subject; but justice here never calls the
offence by any stronger name than man
slaughter, and holds the victims with such
loose fingers that they commonly slip
through, and thus their industry has secured
a practical impunity. Is there not room to
hope that this Toronto example may have
some effect on justice nearer home?
Year: 1875

FALL fashions have made their appear.
anCe this early in the season, hardly Civ.
Ing the summer styles time TO go out in
respectable order. 1t Is n curious fact
that our churches present better field
for the observance OF changes in fashion
than the places Of amusement, the dress.
ing for the former being much more elub.
orate and careful than for the latter, save
when frat class opera comes along.
Year: 1875

PEACH SEASON About OVER The
freight handlers Of the Baltimore 4 Ohio
Railroad Company rejoice muchly that
the peach season Is about over. Their
lnbors in handling the luscious fruit were
enormously increased, so much 80 as to
nearly demoralze the gang allotted to
the receiving platform. More peaches
were never brought to Wheeling than were
transported over that route during the
season about to close.
Year: 1875

Is his last letter to us Bishop Eain
quoted the scriplnral injunction (refer-
ring to the schools "as you would that
men shoulddo to you, do you to them in
like manner We invite the Bishops
attention to the news from Spain in this
morning, paper. It reads in this WISE
"rhe Nuncio lot the Pope) claims the
iul6llment Of the Concordat which forbids
the exercise Of any non.Catholic creed;
requires the transfer Of the supcrintend.
cncc Of education to the clergy, and
pledges the cooperation Of the secular
power in suppressing hcrctical teaching
and literature" We should like to ask
the Bishop whether this is his idea Of
doing unto others as he would that they
should do to him?
Year: 1875

They behaved themselves pretty
well at dinner. We dincd together in
the coffee room. queer, low-rooicd old
place. with an abundance of windows
looking ont on the river. and with col
nrcd pictures of the Thames hung round
the walls. The only other occupant of
the room WIS an auStcrc and elderly
maiden lady. dining all by herself. of
whom Mr.. Humphreys rather cruelty
remarked that, considering the number
of leap-year> she must have seen. il
was curious she had not taken advan-
tage of amy one of them. On this. Mr..
Maurice rather Indignantly retorted
that there were certain Spectacles which
deserved sympathy rather than ridicule:
and we all agreed to that sentiment
The incident passed by. No bone,
were broken.


After dinner we went out side there
was still some warm color in the sky
Year: 1875

AN EDITORS APPEAL.-As the report
that we are very wealthy has gone
abroad among our subscribers, and has
made them awful slow about paying up,
thinking doubtless we don't want the
money, we hasten to say that the report
of our wealth is false in every particu-
lar. If ocean steamers were selling at
cent dozen, we couldn't make the first
payment on canoe. The lightning of
poverty has struck US square, and had
it not been for an armful of hay our
devil managed to steal from a blind
mule, our large and interesting family
would be without mouthful to eat at
this moment. Is not this sad picture,
and can you, delinquent subscribers,
look upon it without feeling the green
backs rustic with indignation in your
pocket-books We do not like to dun
you, but we must, if you fail to take the
hint.-Shendndod (Pt. Democrat.
Year: 1875

A justice of the peace living in another
county was recently called upon by two
persons from Barton, VT, who wished
to be married. Two weeks after per-
forming the ceremony, he remembered
that the marriage was illegal, being
made out of the county where the par
ties resided, so he married them again.
Some time later he recollected that he
had not been qualified for office in their
county, and taking the oath, he per-
formed the ceremony third time.
Year: 1875

lFrom the World July 2ith.l


The Aneon came into this port, one
day ahead of her advertised time.
She had pleasant voyage down, and
met with no unusual detention at ;.
Pedro-the fear of all vessels.


We understand that there is much
dissatisfaction at San Rafael at the
manner in which the people there are
taxed at the custom house on the Tia
Juana. 1t is likely Governor Villa
grana will go to the Capitol to use his
influence in having the laws so ar
ranged as to establish better trade
in that direc tion, as the whole people
of Lower California, and indeed this
State also, are concerned in the mat
ter. We do not understand that blame
attaches to the gentlemen in the Gus
tom house, as they but do their duty
in obedience to law; but the custom
laws of the Republic are so stringent
as to need the change sought for.
Year: 1875

ESPECIALLY ASSORIED FOR SCRAP


BOOK ILL US7R441IONS AND DRAW


ING CLASS COPIES.


A large collection of pictures of different
Lies and on almost every conceivable sub
ject have been put up in an attractive envel-
ope and are now offered at price intended to
make them popular in every sense.


Envelope No. containing so beautiful en-
gravings) is now ready, and will be sent, post
age paid to any address for ONE DOLLAR.
A liberal discount to agents and teachers.
Year: 1875

In A NEW country such as this, where the
population is sparce and very much scattered,
and by reason of this, see but little Of each
other, people are apt to weary of their lot,
they are apt to become aiscentented and
beget thirst for some other cline Or some
other business. Particularly is this true of
a large portion of our farmers. The major
ity OF them have been here since an early
day and were successful miners, and when
misfortune comes in the shape of failure of
crops, they are liable to long for old times,
and wish that fate would lead their wander
ing steps to a new and better field of action.
Companionship is essential to mans hppi-
ness, and few who are isolated will be con
tent save in the rapid accumulation Of wealth.
They never pause to think of the condition
of the farming population of another coun-
try; never stop to count the blessings they
enjoy, but if their position in life is not what
it once was, become disappointed, and if
they do not break up farming and rush
around over the country, are always grum-
bling about depression in business, and
blame their calling that such is the case.
Such farmers raise their children to hate a
farmers lite; are continually telling them
that they want to make something better Of
them that they desire them to choose a
profession and lead the life of gentlemen.
This is all very nice in theory, and the child
drinks in the hope of career of ease and
pleasure. Little do they know of the reali-
ties of such a life; of the great number of
failures in proportion to the number that
enter such fields. 1t would be far better for
the child if instead of filling their heads
with these foolish aspirations, they would
teach them what is actually true, that theirs
is the most Independent occupation known
among men; that it affords ample scope for
a lifetime of study and improvement. To
lead the life of a farmer does not necessarily
mean to grow up in ignorance in fact, there
is no profession where intelligence can be
brought to better account than in the cult
vation and preservation of the soil. The old
ways Of our fathers are fast being left be-
hind; new and better modes are being
adopted, and we predict that few years
hence the farmers, instead of being derided
and sneered at as the most ignorant class in
the land, will be acknowledged as the most
Intelligent.


The importance Of agricultural education
is being agitated, and meets with favor on
all sides; the vast power of the farmer is
beginning to be realized: instead of the
dupe, led captive at the will of an intelli-
gent master, they are raising themselves to
the lead, and their former masters fear and
tremble. The great army that have sub
sisted at their expense are fast being made
to realize their utter uselessness to society.


Then, if our farmers would have their
children be independent and occupy posi-
ton in the front ranks of men, let them ed
ucate them and learn them to love their occu-
patton. 1t is not long to be considered a
drudgery; even at present, in summing the
matter up, we find their lot is no worse than
that of other callings.
Year: 1875

spring. The thoughtful farmer can find
very general application of the facts here
intended to be elucidated in his practice at
at this season, and in the interval which will
occur before his work is stopped by frost and
snow he will lose no opportunity of assist
ing the operations of nature by his own in
telligent labor.-Ne,o York Times.
Year: 1875

TH 4 q


CARE FOR DAUGHTEBS.-Wou you
show yourself really good to your
daughters !? Then be gracious to them
in truer sense than that of heapiDg
trinkets on their necks. Train them for
independents first, and then labor to
give ito them. Let them as soon as
they are grown have some little money,
or means of making money to be their
own, and teach, them how to deal with
it without needing every moment some
body to help them. Calculate what
you give them, or what you will be-
queath to them, not, as is usually done,
on the chances of their making rich
marriage, but on the probability OF
their remaining single, and according to
the scale of living to which you have
accustomed. them. Suppress their lux
ury now, if need be, but do not leave
them with scarcely bare necessaries
hereafter, in striking contrast to their
present home! Above all help them to
help themselves. Fit.tbem to be able to
add to their own means, rather than to
be forever pinching and economizing
till their minds are narrowed and their
hearts are sick. Give all the culture
you can to every power which they
may possess. If they should remain
among the millions of the unmarried,
they will bless you in your grave, and
say of you, what cannot be said Of many
doting parent by his surviving child
t'My father cared that | should be
happy after his death, as well as while
! was bis pet and his toy.n
Year: 1875

GETTING MARRIED.-People don't
take the time and trouble to find each
other out. They ought to know each
other intimately before they make their
vows. If we live in the country, we at
tend school together, go to singing
school, and spelling schools, and husk-
ings. The man knows the bread, but
ter, pies, doughnuts, cheese, and every
thing she can make, and the woman
knows his furrows, width Of swath, his
appearance ON horseback, and every
thing of that sort, and If they love and
Interchange vows, and he should kiss
her, as he has perfect right to do, his
breath doesn't smell Of cloves. There is
no attempt at hypocrisy between them;
they are frank and fair as they talk;
and their lives, purified by the salt of
reality, blend together as two rills run
to make river.


1t is possible that couple may court
too long. We heard once of q couple
courtiDg five and thirty years, and then
they didn't get married. But it is an
exception.


OF all the steps in life that American
men and women can take, this demands
the closest watchfulness and intimacy
before the solemn obligations of husband
and wife are entered into. Now, we
don't say that q husband and wife
shall never differ in opinion and say
sharp things, and be now and then u
touch unreasonable, for after a thunder
storm there is apt to be clear sky.
When we hear q couple say that they
have lived together five and twenty
years and never had the slightest differ
enee, we wonder if they have no opinion
| of their own. Why, oysters couldn't
live together as quiet as that.
Year: 1875

INSTABILITY OF THE EARTH's SUR
FACE.-We are so accustomed to con-
slider the solid earth to be the type Of
perfect stability, that it requires quite
an effort of the mind to elevate itself to
the thought that even the rocks, which
appear to be the foundation upon which
everything else rests, are Of an unstable
nature, subject to upheavals, depressions
and desolatious Every observing man
that has seen bold mountain regions,
railroad cuttings and mining shafts,
must have been struck with the evil
dences of mighty disturbances, although
perhaps book on geology never came
under his eyes. It is the study Of these
disturbances which has created this sci
ence, one of the most interesting in the
whole, field of hurhan knowledge.
Year: 1875

According to the Rescue, tho Attorney General
Of the State. Mr.. Pennington, sis anxious to
break up the illegslized whisky traffic OF this
city" We are amazed at the information. His
anxiety certainly takes very singular method
to msnifest itself. Why don't he go ahead, and
prosecute the unlicensed places It cannot
certainly he for want of information concerning
them, for he could get all that from his Deputy
Tor this county. Mr.. Rescue don't take much
stock in that anxiety until you see it practically
,,israyed
Year: 1875

MAN ACCIDENTALLY SHOT BY a PICNIC PARTY


ROCHESTER,, N Y. August 6.
Henry Gentle was shot and killed at Charlotte
yesterday by a stray bullet from picnic party
who were shooting at q target on the opposite
side of the river.
Year: 1875

cest work Of art All this is the rech-
ing of the soul upward 4 beanti-
ful home is one of the efforts to realize
something of Heaven upon earth.


We left our hosts, thankful not only for
his courtesy but for the facts of himself
and his house; for every man III COM
munlty who does an excellent thing;
whether it be the advancement OF sn
idea. or the building of a fine house,
and the gathering together of works
OF art, conters benefit upon his race.
Year: 1875

This il a question of frequent interro
gation-0wing, no doubt, to the genera
discussion consequent upon the recent
fraudulent importations-bIt rs often Il
it indefinitely answered, SO thoroughly
is the original material metamorphosed
by the treatment it undergoes before this
curious fabric is ready for market, the
transformation al times being so great
that even the most skillful are deceived
as to the component material as we
learn that one of, if not the oldest,
merchants testified in court that he
always supposed that Grape was made of
wOrsted-a pardOnable mistake when we
consider how airy and unsiiky it not only
appears but feels.


The fact is, however, that the article of
chief value i'm the production of Grape is
the finest italian silk, spun and woven in
a peculiar manner, and treated to various
mechanical and chemical operations
some of which are held in the most pro-
found secresy-that its manufacture not
only calls into play the most exquisite
skill and practice, but requires the in
vestment of enormous capital.


Grape is sometimes made OF cotton, and
passes under the names of albert" and
Victoria" for such uses that do not
require the more expensive article.


The use of this emblem of woe is so on
the increase that the diminutive band or
rosette that formerly sufiiced mourning
purposes has been overcome by fashion,
until stricken ones indicate their grief
by dense folds of Grape, that seemingly
envelope them in clouds of unconsolable
sorrow.


Grape, the civilized world over, is the
insignia of mourning, and no other article
can fill its place, it Deing the outgrowth
of refined civilization that, demanding
a suitable fabric, has found in it a
marvellous adaptability.-M Y Com
a,lercidJ Advertiser,
Year: 1875

A pair of horses that had been used
during the week on team work to Spring
field, on Sunday were harnessed and
driven to the door unhitched, and the
family being rather tardy that morning,
as soon as the second bell began to ring
the horses started of alone, and with their
usual Sunday motion, went up in front
of the church, when, after waiting the
usual time, they quietly went around
under the horse shed.


The father Of our reporter, owing TO in
creasing infirmities, rode alone to meet
ing, half mile, driving an old gray
mare twenty years old, and had not
failed of going every Sabbath for some
years. On one occasion, owing to fall,
father could not go to meeting, and on
Sunday morning, as the time for meeting
approached, the horse, in a lot near the
house, manifested great uneasiness, and
when the second bell struck she leaped
over the fence and trotted quietly TO
church, stopping at her usual hitching
place, under an elm tree, until the close
of the service, when the faithful animal
returned safely to the house.-Hdrttord
Comm Post.
Year: 1875

At each opening of French costumes
new designs are shown for polonaises
These show most varied shapes, but the
prevalent idea among them is to do away
with elaborate bOuffant drapery, and
make straight. simply-shaped garments
The Marguerite seams are found in al
most all backs of polonaises, and these
seams are now heightened moe than
ever by beginning not merely in the
shoulder seams, but in the back of the
neck where the shoulder seam joins the
neck; this makes three long seams down
the middle of the back, and extending
over the tournure. The pelisse polOnaise
is the name given to an undraped gar
ment just introduced by Worth. 1t re-
sembles gentleman's double-breasted
frock coat in shape, is open plainly from
the waist down the back, has pocket-haps
on the sides, and is fastened by three
buttons in front. The seams in the back
are like those just described as begin
ming at the neck where it meets the
shoulder, and these three seams are al
most parallel down the back, except that
the outer ones take inward at the waist.
The handsomest model of this is of black
brocade silk, stiff enough for dowager.
This silk has black satin leaves so closely
brocaded upon it that the repped ground
is almost concealed. The trimmings are
of the simplest kind, being merely fac
ing on the collars and cuffs OF. cardinal
red silks, while the slightest line of the
cardinal appears down the back and
front where the garment falls open; the
lower edgeis merely hemmed. The skirt
to wear with this is plain black hros
grain, with three very fine knife plaitings,
each four inches deep, and set quite
apart from each other instead of tapping
in the present fashion.


Among simple and stylish new over
skirts is good design that requires but
two breadths of the wide wool goods
now in vogue, yet is long enough and
full enough for taste. The front is a
wide, deep apron, with the fullness ne
cessary for length laid in two folds high
across the top. The back is three
cornered piece, pointed in shawl shape
below, trimmed all around, and its full
ness laid in easy plaits set on the sides of
the front. The middle of this triangu-
lar breadth would not be long enough
for the puffed loop at the top of the back
if it were sewed to the belt, hence it is
suspended by tape that is concealed
under the two double box-plaits that its
width requires.
Year: 1875

Marshall Grain, one of the William
son county Ku-Klux, has been sentenced
to death by the Judge of the Circuit
Court Of Williamson county. His exc
cution is to take place on the 2lst of
January next. While being taken back
to Jail, he could be heard two hundred
yards, sobbing and calling for mercy.
After Grain became calm again, he sent
for Judge Allen, of the counsel for the
people, and made detailed statement of
all his crimes, involving citizens of Will
Hanson not before mentioned in connec-
tion with the murders. He expressed
himself satisfied with the fate in store
for him, and requested that the following
letter, which he wrote in a good hand,
should be read to the people in the court
room.


DEAR SIR--It is with high respect to you
that write you. do not hold any preju-
dice against you for the sentence you put
upon me, hoping and praying to Gt d that /
may get forgiveness for my crimes. May
God change my heart, and give me a new
heart, that l may be converted before
die, and 60 home to Heaven, where there
will be no more parting. II there Is any
prejudice alleged against me by the people,
| pray God that il may be removed as far as
the east is from the west. pray to God that
our country may evermore be In peace and
harmony. do believe, with all my heart,
that Judge Crawford Is doing his duty. May
God brace him up in doing justice toward
all mankind. As long as life exists in this
sinful world may God bless and save all
mankind, is my prayer. l want the prayers
of every one OF Gods people. ! pray TO
God for change OF heart and home In
heaven. MARSHALL T. GRAIN.