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Year: 1873

To THE EDITOR OF THE HERA!p:-


Knowing that your columns are always open for
the benefit Of the people and that you are ever
ready to interest yourself Tor the well being OF the
city, feel no hesitation in thus laying before you
and your readers complaint which feel Justified
in making. lam in the habit OF travelling to and
from my place OF business on the Broadway cars,
morning and evening. 1t is for the interest OF the
company owning these cars aud for the citizens
VINO ride In them that the best possible time should
be made.-


believe that all that can be done to accomplish
this is adopted by the company; but the drivers
have great deal to contend against, and have 10
put up with the most abomnabie insults and him
ORANGES from those drivers Of teams and express
carts who rurposeiy delay them.


We're this the case only now and then would
make no complaint, though might be justified in
30 doing; hut it Is repeatedly done. THIS evening
such a Migrant insult was offered by one OF We g.
cott's express wagons, between Thirty-third and
Thirty-ourth streets to the car was on that de-
termned it should not pass unnotlced. There
were two men on the wagon who seemed bent
upon keeping IN the way OF the car ana insulting
number of times and calls were made, they only
looked round, laughed and persevered In their
abomnable insults. This was witnessed by several
both on and or the car and even by that helpless,
Indifferent set OF giants who are in their apathy
and an Imposition on the public under
the names Of Westcotts men l should
have been glad to have exposed them IN
your columns for the public publ contempt sunss si
the much-abused car drivers and conductors, but
ON behalf OF those people who have to adopt q
comparatively slow method OF journeying up and
and down town until they are blessed with the
much-needcd ''rapid transit" Such men as the
drivers Of the WestcOtt wagon, to which have
made reference. should be voted public nuisance,
and trust you will bring about, through your
voice and influence some method which snail put
o stop TO such pests these men and others who
would thus insult their fellow citizens. IL is not
the complaint OF one only, but OF many, and all
know you are ever ready to institute remedies ior
iIo nd niuca oh avrrv
bono pubtic0. FRANK A. BROWN.


MADISON AVENUE, July Is, 1879
Year: 1873

afterwards q respectable old woman got IN, when
the offensive individual referred TO arose, threw
his arms around her neck, kissed her and forced
her into the seat he had occupied. On
being demonstrated with by one OF the pas
sengers he became abusive and continued
addressing the various passengers, both male and
female, In blasphemous language, and to sing and
otherwise to act in dlsorderly manner, UNTIL ar
irving up town, one OF the passengers feeling the
arm and led him out OF the car. II is perhaps
needless TO say to those IN the habit OF riding in
the Third Avenue cars mat the conductor was ire
quently appealed to, but that these annoyances
seemed to him rather in the Inc hit OF joke than an
outrage upon those who were entitled to his pro-
lection. VERITAS,


lilly lh 1874
Year: 1873

To THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD-


Your attention is called to the following Car
No. 13 OF the Third Avenue line started for up town
from opposite the sun once yesterday Monday
afternoon, about four O'Clock. 1t had proceeded
short distance when blear-eyed, loathsome sot,
with a cigar in his mouth, was helped to seat by
q companion aud the conductor OF the car. Shortly
Year: 1873

Governor Davis and his friends have
made great blow over the refusal of Judge
Coke to make arrangements through the
negro Ruby for joint discussions in the pres
ent canvass. They have pretended that
Coke was afraid to meet orator Davis, about
the poorest specimen of public speaker
we ever heard. When Judge Coke met this
redoubtable champion of Radicalism in
Northern Texas, Davis actually run away
from him-would not stay and hear him
speak, hiding himself as usual behind
Ruby. Now if there must be a nigger in
the case before the Governor will discuss
matters jointly, we here present him with an
excellent chance to distinguish himself,
We have received from one of the colored
citizensof this city, with request for pub
lication, the following challenge, which we
give exactly as written. Will the Cover
nor. as the head of the ring, come to the
scratchg We shah see:


Cor. E. j. DaUis, Sir.-I on this day.
23th of Sept in the year of Our Lord. 1873,
as Coke is a fraid of him, viii Take. his
place against the Ring and Meet the Ring
at any place. OF time. that he Shall Notify
me- to Meet him at: Cluck get up: here is
your mule. DIR. J NJ Donaldson.


freedman. Aus Texas
Year: 1873

THE idea that the s'honest'' State Journal
refused a large pecuniary consideration
from one of the chief men of the Inter
national Road is laughabie. We have
heard that the Journal tried hard to black
mail the road, but its managers declined to
''shell out, and hence the bitter opposition
ofthe journal, Notwithstanding this road was
chartered by Radical Legislature, and the
bill became law through the instrumental
ity of Governor Davis. In fact this was
the road that he most favored. And now
because the Journal cannot levy black
mail successfully on its vice president, it
pretends to virtue, and talks like it had been
insulted by the offer of bribel
Year: 1873

WE have before us a copy of the Spectator,
to which we have formerly alluded, issued
by the pupils of Miss Bacon's school for
young ladies, and edited by our young and
popular friend, Miss Bette johnson, the
grandchild of good old Stephen. Crosby,
formerly Commissioner of the General Land
Office, and so well known and appreciated
throughout Texas The Spectator presents
beautiful appearance, being printed on fine
book paper at the STATESMAN Office. The
salutatory of the editor and the various con-
tributions of the other young ladies ere all
in good taste, and speak well for them and
their accomplished teacher.
Year: 1873

According to Governor Davis and his
Radical organs, the Fort Sill treaty and the
turning loose of Satanta aud Big Tree was
to bring peace and security to our bleeding
frontier, but scarcely has his frightened ex-
cellency reached the capital, before news
comes Of more raiding AMI more stealing
and more bloodshed and the Governor, in
his sore strait, makes call for volunteers
to keep off the very savages who were all to
become saints through his successful diplo-
macy. He imagines, too, that this cail~ill
add to his popularity on the frontier, but
how can its win the people there thank
Governor Davis for turning loose the saw
age butchers and thus creating the neces-
sity of frontier forces Surely not The
Quaker peace policy has proven an arrant
humbug, and Davis, by yielding up to it,
has made himself more criminal than Grant,
for he was hot oaly a Texan, bat the Gov
ernor Of Texas, and ought to have felt for
her suffering people, and taken the proper
steps for their relief.
Year: 1873

We ask the STATESMAN If the Vice Presi-
dent of the international Railroad did not
offer it a certain per cent. Of the desired
Travis county subsidy, provided the STATES
MAN would support that subsidy; and did
not the STATESMAN agree to the bargain9
We know that it did, whatever may be its
answcr.-iStotc JoarRal.


We answer that no such offer was ever
made or accepted And further, as vet, the
STATESMAN has snever advocated the subsidy.
Now, if the journal has any proof to the
contrary, let it be produced, or let the
Journal stard in the pillory convicted
libe1er.
Year: 1873

WE call again on the State Journal to pro-
duce its proof or quit its vile ISLANDERS on
Judge Coke. This game Of reckless asser-
tion can be applied by any set Of men, un-
Jriuufpieti eIrosrsi1- -vrsssssso .lc.-.a
us the evidence Publish the letter you
charge him with having written. We say
he has written no letter, unworthy high
toned gentleman and thorough Dcmocrat.
If you know Of any, publish it, and let the
public judge of its character Make no
more assertions until you are prepared to
sustain them.
Year: 1873

Of the Radical Egypt, their days are num-
bered, and their official existence viii soon
be at an end. With a new Attorney Gen
eral and q new Superintendent Of Public
Education, we shall be enabled to put in
operation a system Of common and free
schools in this State which viii be an honor
to It and the times in which we live. That
is our opinion, and it is worth dozen that
ever emanated from the misty top Of the
Shot Tover
Year: 1873

THE Journal does not deny that Judge
Bell is the great man who is to be trotted
out to run the Senatorial race in this dis
trict against the Democratic nominee. But
we think the Judge is altogether too smart
to be strotted out, . and that he has no idea
of running any race. He has on hand as
much legal business as he can attend to,
which is much moro profitable than getting
beat for the Legislature. But the wonder
is that'the Joalynat--just now, for political
effect so terribly down on railroads; even
the Governor'spet, the eInternational-s should
desire railroad attorney for its candidate.
But the Journal has as little consistency as
political honesty. It's sins would ''sink a
navy, while its virtues would float on a
cookie shell. s7
Year: 1873

THE Thirteenth Democratic Legislature
taxed the tools Of the mechanic and the i'm
plements Of the farmer; the hen roosts and
the very clothes upon the backs Of the peo-
ple.-State Journal


If the Thirteenth Legislature had imposed
tax on lying newspapers, how would New
comb ever have raised money enoughto pay
the tax on the Journal
Year: 1873

Good farmers are becoming, year
by year, in the west, more convinced
OF the :inutilitY of spring.seedIng to
get q good stand of grass when sown
with another crop, particularly if that
crop be oats. The reasons are simple
the principal one being that the young
grass, being srnothered by the crop,
grows spindling and with but little
root, and the usual drouth of summer,
after the grain is gathered, often kills
it entirely; or il it do not, it is so
weakened that the subsequent freezing
and thawing of winter heaves it, or
freezes it to such an extent that it takes
sometimes years to fully recover.


This is obviated if the seed be sown
after the crop of grain has been har-
vested. The land should be lightly
plowed, narrowed and rolled until
perfectly smooth. Upon this SOW the
seed at the rate of twelve quarts OF
timothy, unless clover be used on the
field, in which case eight quarts will
be about the quantity for ordinary.
1t is true many good farmers SOW less,
but experience has shown that ample
seeding gives the better and more
equal stand. The seed being sown, har-
row again with light smoothing har-
row, or some other implement that will
not clog, but will leave what trash
may be brought to the surface equally
distributed over the field.


The seeding for grass should be
made in the latter part of August or
beginning of September; indeed the
earlier the better, If seasonable rains
oocur,so that the grass may get good
loothold before the ground freezes. Ii
it be intended to SOW clover as a part
of the meadow or pasture, six to eight
pounds should be seeded the foIlowipo
spring, just as the frost is comirg out
OF the ground; and this need not be
narrowed 10. When the land become.
settled 1t is good practice to roll i
with moderately light section roller
to compress the earth about the roo,,
OF the grass aud clover.


If clover be sown alone, either to
swine or seed, not less than fi,tee,
pounds should be sown (twenty woul,
be better on perfectly smooth sur
face, as before directed, and withou
any other crop. The ground shoul
be rolled fat, when In condition, an
pastured when the crop gets sufficient
ly large if the soil be firm. Do ne
allow stock to occupy the land whe
there is any danger of its being poact
ed.


1t is perhaps necessary to say tbo
grass or clover seed should be We,
lightly covered; but in fall-seedipg
s grass it may be covered deeper ths
if sown in spring; never, howeve
more than an inch. Experience b
shown that rather deep sowing in Il
fall is better thst a more superfici
sowing. If the seeding of timOth
from any cause, have to be made


the spring, it should be without 9th
crops.- Western Rural.
Year: 1873

The Lice Stock Journal says that q
correspondent writes that the fact has
,ften been observed at cheese fac
tories that, after even a moderate rain,
the quantity of milk from the same
COWS, would fall off very materially,
and he wishes to know if there is any
explanation of it. We do not relnem-
Der to have seen any attempt at ex


planation of this decrease in the quaint.
ty of milk but we think the obvious
cause is to be found, first, in the cows
getting wet and thereby losing SO
much heat by eyaporating this water
from the skin. This extra supply OF
heat must come from the food, and
thus must lessen the milk. And, sec
ond, the grass being wet when eaten,
gives the COW too much water in the
food, and thus lessons the amount
Of nutriment taken, and consequently
the milk. We have often observed
the effect of feeding wet grass to cows
III summer soiling. 1t has always oc-
CURED when wet grass was fed to
COWS in stable, to cows being sheltered
during the rain, that they gave less
milk than when ted upon grass in its
ordinary condition. We have observ-
ed the same effect when cut and ted


with heavy dew on it. Grass con
tains from 60 to so per cent. Of water
in its natural state, and when a large
amount of water is added to this, it
becomes too much of a good thing.
Year: 1873

WANT OF CARE.-Want of care Is
the prolific cause of accident and
disease among stock. The masters
eye or the owners solicitude are pro-
verbally preventives against trouble
or waste (; but if the master or the
owner will not trouble themselves TO
exercise the watchful care needed, we
may be sure no one else will. A care
ful shepherd will never bring his flock
home at night without counting them,
and passing among them, observing
carefully any suspicious change or de-
feet. In the dairy, the least falling of
in the yield of a cow should be the
cause of inquiry or observation until
the reason is found for that there is
a reason we may be assured. A limp,
or a suspicious failure in The team,
should also be a source OF uneasines:
until it is accounted for; and if thi.
habit of close scrutiny and observation
becomes the rule instead OF the ex,
ception there will be much less trouble
and loss for farmers to complain of.
Year: 1873

The human hand has often been
taken to illustrate Divine wisdom
and very well. But have you ever
examined a horses hoof. 1t is hardly
less curious in its way. Its parts are
somewhat more complicated, yet their
design is simple and obvious. The
boot is not, as it appears to the care
less eye, mere lump OF insensible
bone, fastened to the leg by q JOINT.
1t is made up of a series of thin layers
or leaves of horn, about FIVE hundred
in number, and nicely fitted to each
other, forming lining to the foot it.
self. Then there are as many more
layers, belonging to what is called
the "cofiin bone,' ,''and fitted into this
These are elastic. Take quire OF pa
per and insert the leaves one by one
into those of another guire, and you
will get some idea of the arrangement,
of the several LAYERS. Now,t weight
OF the horse rests On as many elastic
springs as there are layers in his foul
feet-about 4 900 and all thisi con
trived, not only for the conveyance o
his own body, but what for whatever
burdens NAV be laid on him.
Year: 1873

Fall work Is sure to crow


Give cows corn meal mixed with
cut feed.


Fall plowing is good. Fall faIlow-
ing is better.


Corn should be cut as soon as the
kernel is glazed.
Sheep will take care of themselves
most OF this month.


Feed young pigs skinned milk
with cooked corn-meal.


Sow grass seed in bare spots in the
mesdows and harrow It in.


Breeding sows should have the run
of a good clover or grass pasture.


Dip sheep in solution of carbolic
soap to kill ticks, prevent scabs, &c.


Begin this month to give the COWS
little extra food morning and night.
1t will pay.


Horses running at pasture should
not be worked as hard as those fed on
hay and grain.


Use odd moments this month in
preparing fire wood for winter and in
drawing out and spreading manure.


Make the weeds grow and then kill
them next spring. To do this plow
and harrow as much as possible.
Drilling is better than sowing wheat
broadcast. 1t deposits the seed more
evenly, and deposits it in the moist
earth.


Salt on rich land frequently proves
good fertilizer for wheat. Sow two
to five bushels per acre before putting
in wheat.


The depth of sowing is regulated
by the charater of the soil. 1t would
be well not to cover the seed more
than an inch deep.


Attend the fairs, and take you
hired men and boys with you. Tr,
and interest them in the implements
machines, and improved stock.
Year: 1873

Before marriage and afterwards let


them learn to center all their hopes OF
real and lasting happiness in their own
freside /; let them cherish the faith that
in home, and all the English virtnes
which the love of home engenders, lies
in the only true source OF domestic te-
licity; let them believe that round the
household gods Contentmeut and


Tranquility cluster in the gentlest and


most graceful forms and that many


weary hunters of happiness through the
noisy world have learnt this truth too
late, and found cheerful spirit and a
quiet mind only at home at last. How
much may depend on the education OF
daughters, and the conduct ofmothers---
how much of the brightest of our old
national character may be perpetaat.d
by their wisdom or fritted away by their
foiley--how much of it may have been
lost already, and how much more in dan
uer of vanishing every day-are ques-
tions too weighty for discussion here,
but well deserving little seious consid
eration from all young couples. 10
that one couple on whose bright destiny
the thoughts of nations are fixed may the
youth Of England look and not in vain
Tor an example. From that one couple
blest and favored aa they are, may they
learn, and even the glare and glitter o.


a court, the splendor of palace, and thu
pomp and glory of a throne, yield il
their power of comforting happiness tc
domestic worth and virtue. From tha


young couple may they learn that thu
crown OF a great empire, costly and jew


eled though it be, gives place in the es
timation Of queen, to the plain gol'
ring that links her woman's nature 4
that of tens of thousands of her ham


BILE subjects, and guards in her woman
heart one secret store OF tenderness
Year: 1873

Only one more voyage, and Captain
Charles Vincent, one of the most fortu-
nate, as he was perhaps the youngest OF
commanders in the then mercantile ma
rine of the United States, would return


for good and all to his native town, come
forty miles from Bangor, in the State OF
Maine, aud marry as fine girl as ever
captured heart OF oak. Although but
twenty-five years old, the sailor lover, at
sea from truant boyhood, had risen
through all the grades of his profession
from before the mast to FIRST mate-ship;
aud then, invested his carefully accumu-
lated savings in a part-ownership OF
ship had become captain at last. One
ordinately successful voyage to India on
his own craft, and partly upon his own
venture. and he would be rich enough to
retire from the ocean to cOsey home III
the town of his nativity, and wed the
fair object of his chivalrous devotion.
So much of romantic prelude was there
to the sailing from Boston harbor for
Calcutta of the clipper-riggei bark Laura
Sheldon, on a bright day in August
le43. Never did stauncher vessels cap
tain respond to the toast OF "the wind
that blows, and the ship that goes, and
the lass that loves a sailor;" and both
the departing mariner and his sweetheart
10 Maine were confident of safe return
in time, and merry bridal 10 crown all,
When the Aattering tale habitually told
thus by Hope proves to be veracious
narrative it is generally fattef for popu


lar entertainment than an extract from
patent Office report. The worlds inter


est in ii is in proportion to its dismal


failure Of accomplishment, and in the cast
under consideration, its retutation wal
decided enough to justify protraeted re
cord. No particular anxiety was felt to


Captain VineeSt until nearly year hat
passed away without bringing tiding'


Of the fate of his ship or himself; ba
when, thereafter, numbers of East India


men arrived in American waters, one al
ter another, and brought no report Oh tn
Laara Sheldon, there was good reason Il
fear the worst that can be dreaded b.
Year: 1873

whose proudest boasts shall be that IL
knows no royalty save Natures own
and no pride Of birth but being tie child
Of heaven So shall the highest young
couple in the land for once hear the
truth, when men throw up their caps,
and with loving shouts--God bless
them
Year: 1873

THIS "FARMERs' MOVEMENT" there
fore, is going to be of great benefit to farm
ers in direction they least expect, in my
judgment Some of the oranges are or
ganized to enable farmers to steer clear of
middlemen. To do this they have got to get
at facts and figures in relation to the hand
ling and sale of their produce, and in re-
lation to the cost and value of what they
buy for their own use and comfort, Of
which they have been almost totally igno-
rant hitherto. They are going to discover
how complex are their relations to other
classes, and how their business relations
to each other may be affected by small
difference in the cost of farm management.
1t is going to develop business
habits where they have not existed
before with any considerable degree of
thoroughness. If they don't get welded
to this foolish idea that they can override
other classes with impunity by getting con-
troll of state legislatures courts, &c., and
lose sight of the fact that they have only
equal rights with other classes, this stirring
up, this meeting together, this hunting for
facts, this discussion of ways and means,
this social friction, will do more to lift the
farmers Of the country into to true busi-
ness relations with each other and with
others, than all the preaching on the sub
ject that has been done by the agricultural
press the past twenty-five years has done,
or than it can do for quarter of a century
to come.
Year: 1873

BOSTON, August 14.-The steamer
Favorite, with an excursion party number
ing one hundred and fifty persons, took
fire yesterday in Boston harbor, which
caused considerable panic. The flames
were extinguished without material dam
age. The passengers were taken off by O
schooner, which came alongside.
Year: 1873

PARIS, August lie Temps and LIE
Constitutional publish rumors that the
Count De Chambord has partially with
drawn from his position in regard to the
white flag, and will come to France to
take up his residence there about the 10th
proXimo.


A report is current that Metz will be
restored TO France through the influence
of Russia
Year: 1873

CENTAUR LTNIMENT.-
The great discovery of the
age. There is no pain which
the CESTAuR LISIMERT Will not
relieve, no swelling which it
will not subdue, and no lame
ness which it will not cure.