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Year: 1875

II DoN'T TAKE ANY. Many per-
sons inquiring at the post Office will
say upon receiving no letters: ''You
needn't look among the papers, 1
don't take any" We always pity
such persons and their families. A
family without newspaper is like
bread without any salt-decidedly
fiat. just imagine family without
a newspaper of any kind! What
will the men amount to as citizens,
to say nothing of their entertaining
qualities, and what sort of wives will
the girls make? If the fathers who
take no papers have no ambition
themselves, they should be heartily
ashamed on account of the wrong
they are doing their sons and daugh-
ters. We would say to them take
some paper, and the local one in
preference to any other Ex.
Year: 1875

SENsIBLE:-Some one has said
that parents who spend their mon
ey judiciously to improve the house
and grounds about it, are paying
their children premium to stay at
home and enjoy it; but when they
spend their money unnecessarily in
fine clothing and jewelry for their
children, they are paying them a
premium to stay away from home
that is, in places where they can dis
play such ornaments. In other
words, parents of sense set sensi-
BILE example to their children in
dress as in everything else.
Year: 1875

The Cincinnati Exposition closed
last Saturday. The attendance was
very large the last two days, but the
aggregate attendance during the
whole time shows considerable fall
ing off from last year. The fact is,
the Art Gallery and the Flower
Shows, were..about. the only great at
fractions this year. These of course
were entirely new, while many of the
other features were the mnch same
former Years.
Year: 1875




River Trade.


White County Record.


Unavoidably the steamer Ruth failed
to appear in her place at the landing in
Little Red last week She put in set
of new'engines at Memphis, and it took
longer than was expected. Hereafter,
however she will have no such delays,
and will be on time promptly No one
regrets it more than Captain Ed Postal,
her commander, Captain Milt Harry
being now in command Of the other boat
for it was a serious loss 10 them. With
her new engines the Ruth will be able to
make better time, ana will be prompt in
her arrivals and departures. 1t is the
aim Of both Captain Harry and Postal
to be prompt in their arrivals and de-
partures, so that shippers and travellers
can always rely upon what time they
will be in our stream; though for the
present the Ruth will come up our
stream, whilst the st. Francis Belle will
60 to Jacksonport. Really, one boat
week will be enough for our stream.
We would rather have two; but
we cannot ask a sacrifice from
others in order to crafty our desires.
The charges of the steamer Ruth have
been reasonable during the summer,
when trade was dull aud they could have
risen, because they had the river to
themselves. This is one very good rea.
son why she should have the preference
over any other boat that may appear in
our stream. She was reasonable when
she could have extorted; therefore it be-
hooves US to stick by her. That is the
spirit of everybody here as we'll as all
along White river. Both Milt Harry and
Ed Postal have won the confidence and
esteem of the public in the White river
valley, and they mean to support them
in their endeavors to bring us our
freights at reasonable, living rates. Our
people have been taught in the past that
it will not do to listen to "cAeap freight
boats, because as soon as they starve out
the other boat these cheap" chaps put
on a tariff to suit their own greedy
desires, and the way the people
have to pony up is eau
ton. They know it pays them
to pay reasonable tariff to reasonable
men-men who have proven themselves
honorable and Northumberland that is
why Milt Harry and Ed Postal will con-
tinue to do the bulk OF the business in
the Whiteriv trade. They have proven
themselves WORTHY of confidence, and the
people respect them accordingly. The
Ruth gets a liberal share of passengers
now as well as ireights, and we believe
it will not be long ere people will again
travel by river nearly as much as in the
past. 1t is certainly more pleasant, par
ticularly to ladies and children. The
steward on the Ruth, Mr.. P. Duffie, is a
man that understands his business to
perfection. Ladies travelling on her
speak In high praise of his management,
and are very much pleased with the table
he sets Captain Starr, the mate of the
boat seems also very clever soul. We
wish the Ruth and her officers long and
successful career,
Year: 1875

1t was a good horse, but a better
horse for dead pull than for speed.
The buggy was old-fashoned, with
q crevase in the dashboard and q
spoke missing from one of the hind
wheels. AS the auctioneer raised
his hammer and told the crowd
that he had known the horse all
his days and had made the circuit
of the world in that buggy, the
owner of the outfit leaned against
the vehicle and wondered how any
body could tell such q bold lie, and
still preserve such placid express
sion of countenance.


He was young man. He had
seen harvest apples and watermel-
ons come and go about twenty-four
times. His whiskers were soft and
fuzzy and orange colored, his pant
aloons were thrust into his boots,
and It was as plain as white dog
at midnight that he had come in
from the country to sell the rig and
fatten his wallet. He varified the
statements of the auctioneer that
the horse was sound, kind, gentle,
docile, amiable, ambling and ten
der-hearted, and that the buggy
would continue to roll on until
time will get tired Of trying to re-
duce it to a state of general use
lessness.


"Forty--fve--fifty---five---sixty
-seventy-five, going--last call
quick-can't dwell-g-o-n-e J" cried
the auctioneer.


"Gosh to snakes !" exclaimed the
guileless young man, as he settled
up, pocketed the remainder and
ielJ inc corner.


He felt good. None Of us feel
good when our pockets are empty.
I said to myself that he would buy
hair-oil, q cocoa-nut, bottle Of
perfumery, jack-knife, q dollar
chrome, two dollar diamond, a
pair Of pantaloons with a stripe
down the leg but I was deceived.
thought ! could read him as far
as bootblack spells out big words
on a Fourth of July poster, but he
| couldn't be read. He made bee-
| line for a jewelers..
Year: 1875

A writer in the New York Herald
states some facts about how horses
should be shod, which are worthy


the consideration of blacksmiths and


farmers as well: Most of the horse
shoers of the country prepare the
foot, fit o shoe, and secure it to the


hoof in the same manner that a
wood.butcher fit q shoe to an old
wood ox-sled. The mechanism of a
horses hoof is one of the most won.
derful and ingenious structures that
can be found In all the works of the
Creator. Beneath and in the rear
of every hoof there is a frog, which
is tough and elastic pad for pre-
venting injury to the animal when
ever he plants his foot suddenly on
any hard substance. Large rolls of
cylinders of India-rubber are placed
beneath railroad cars to prevent in


jury to any part of the car or to the
cargo with which it is loaded. The
frog beneath the foot of a horse is
designed to subserve a similar pur-
pose. But the manner in which
most horses are shod lifts them up,
as it were, on short stills so that the
frog cannot perform its appropriate
functions. If we look carefully at
the young horse when he is trotting
OF running, it will be perceived that
every foot is brought down to the
ground in such a manner that the
frog receives the powerful blow. By
this means all injury to the animal
Year: 1875

The Natchez Democrat-Courier of
a recent date gives an interesting ac-
count of a number employed in
Chicot county, Arkansas. They ap-
pear far more serviceable as ten ants
than as employees, and in the &c ono
my OF time and the facility with
which their tasks are performed dis
play far more ability than the negro.
The terms usually made are one
hundred pounds of lint cotton to the
acre, the planter furnishing a mule
with which to cultivate the crop.
At early dawn the Chinaman has
had his breakfast and is in the field
to do his work. At eleven O'Clock
one of their number is sent in to cook
their dinner, the hour for which is
announced by the display of small
pennant. Half an hour is usually
consumed at the meal, and returning
to the field, they continue at work
till dark. During ploughing time
planters are compelled to see to it
that their animals have sufficient
time to rest and eat, as the Celestials
appear to be blessed with no com
Functions where mules are concerned,
and would keep one unfed and at
work all day did the opportunity
present itself. Their ploughing is
represented to be the best, with fur
rows straight as a rule. They also
seem to be adopts in the cultivation
ofvegetables-all their gardens being
kept in the most perfect order. A
supply of the principal vegetables s
carefully dried and Kept for winter
Their houses are described as the per-
sonfcations of neatness, every utensil
being secured bright as silver, while
their clothes are always clean, and
in personal appearance they are never
offensive. Their time, too, is fully
employed, it being with great diff
Guilty they can be restrained from
working on Sunday.
Year: 1875

A few days ago a gentleman of
New York city, says the Tribune,
received by mail check for five
hundred dollars. He deposited it in
his bank and went down into the
street, there to be met by a rumor
that sent him back in haste. Just
twenty-five minutes had elapsed
The teller's little door was shut. The
money was gone. Had 1t been sto-
len? Was the banker aswindlerS No,
he had failed.


About the same time merchant
received large quantity of goods
one day near the close of business
hours. He made some commonplace
excuse for not making immediate
payment, and promised to send a
check the next morning. The first
announcement of the morning was
that he had failed. He had the
goods, but the real owner was with
out his check. Was the merchant a
thief? Ought he to have gone TO
jail? Not at all. He had merely
suspended. He was unable to meet
his obligations.


Two young men were recently
brought into one of our police courts
on charge of stealing shoes from a
store. They were decent in appear
ance, and it was believed by some
that they had been driven to crime
by want. Had they failed, or had
they suspended? Or was it because
they were unable to meet their obi.
cations? Not at all. They were
thieves-common thieves--very com
mon thieves. They were sent tC


the penitentiary for two months.
Year: 1875

On the whole, we dress better,
fare better, sleep softer, and combat


the cold in winter and the heat in
summer with more scientific per-


sistency than do any of the so-called


luxurious nations of Europe. Take,
for instance, the matter of heating
and lighting. A few of the leading
hotels in Paris, and a small minority


among the most expensive suites of
private apartments, have gas intro
duced into all the rooms, but as a
general thing it is confined to the
public rooms, and the unfortunate
wight who longs to see beyond the
end of his nose is forced to wreStle
with dripping candles and unclean
lamps, known only by tradition 10
our native land. The gaslgh''
which is a common necessity IN the


simplest private dwelling IN an
American city, is there luxury
scarcely attainable save by the veal
Year: 1875

is prevented. Science teaches us to
permit the frog to develop and ex-
pand downward. But most black
smiths seem to think that the ALI
wise Creator made a great mistake
when he formed the hoofs of horses.
Hence they fall at the frog with red
hot burning irons, with edge tools,
and with any other appliance that
will enable them to remove this ex-
traneous excreScence. lllustrlous
ninnies! Why not shave and burn
away all the tough, callous adipose
tissues beneath their own heels, and
allow the bare bones to rest on a
plate of iron inside of their own boots
and shoes?
Year: 1875

thiest. And we do not know how
precious our gaslight is until we have
lost it. To sit in dim parlor where
tour lighted candles struggle vainly
to dlsperse the gloom, to dress for
opera or ball by the uncertain glim-
mer OF those greasy delusions, is
enough to make one forswear all the
luxuries Of Paris and flee homeward
forthwith.
Year: 1875

That man is nothing less than a
deliberate suicide who drinks tea,
coffee, or ardent spirits of any kind,
to induce him to perform work in
hand when he feels too weak to 90
through with it without such aid
This is the reason that the majority
of great orators and public favorites
die drunkards. The pulpit, the
bench, the bar, the forum, have con-
tributed their legions of victims to
drunken habits. The beautiful wo
man, the sweet singer, the con-
versationalist, the periodical writer,
has filled but too often a drunkard's
grave. The best possible thing for
a man to do when he feels too tired
to peform a task, or too weak to
carry it through, is to go to bed and
sleep week if he can this is the
only actual renewal of brain forces,
because during sleep the brain is, in
a sense, at rest, in condition to re-
ceive and appreciate particles of nutri-
ment from the blood which take the
place of those which have been con-
sumed in previous labor. Mere stim-
ulants supply nothing ; they only
goad the brain, force it to greater
consumption Of its substanc e
until that substance has been
so fully exhausted that there
is not power enough left to receive
a supply just as men are sometimes
so near death by thirst and starva-
tion, that there is not strength
enough to swallow anything, and
all is over. The capacity of the
brain for receiving reeuperative par
ticles sometimes comes on with the
rapidity of lightning, and the man
becomes mad in an instant in an in
stant falls into convulsions, in an in
slant loses all senses, and he is an
idiot. Werepeat, there is renewed
force for the brain only in early and
abundant sleep.
Year: 1875

For Sale.


HE subscriber offers for sale, on
reasonable terms, his house and lot. Also two
other lots, situated on the South Ridge Road,
about twenty rods south Of the corporation line.
Also other lots, upon the height of land command
ing a beautiful view of the lake, and country
around LaLds conveniently situated may be
added TO any Of the aforesaid lots II desired.
IL 7tf JAMES PHILLIPS.
Year: 1875

Writes a female reader of the
NelC York Nail "Do you think
it imperatively necessary that a wo-
man should go into her kitchen and
redden her face and ruin her hands
by the drudgery of cooking ? Is
not this eternal catering to the stom-
achs of men rather derogatory to
women p This question implies that
men do all The eating, and that wo-
men and children derive sustenance
from the cheap and universal atmos-
phere but let us not be deceived.
Rather let us drop into the dining
rooms of the hotels, and look for two
minutes at the headway made By
the feminine portion of the board .
ers in that short space of time.
Year: 1875

On Saturday, the Red Caps of this place played another game with the Nut megs of Wolcottville. It was a very fine game. handsomely won by the home club by single tally in the last inning:
Year: 1875

John G. Stevens and Abram s. Hewitt, receivers OF
the mortgaged property of the New York and oswego
Midland Railroad under n foreclosure suit applied some
time since TO Judge Blatchford in the United States
Circuit Court for injunctions restraining the tax col
ectors of several towns in Now York from selling the
property in the hands of the said receivers to satisfy Ger
lain claims for State taxes. Temporary injunctions
we're granted for that purpose and continued IN lorce
until yesterday when they were dissolved by decision
of Judge Batchiord.


II is stated in the decision that ground of the APP
pcation is that the imposition of taxes on the corpora
ion or its property is in violation of the constitution
OF the United States, infringing the obligation of
contract made between the State and the corporation.
Referring this question, he says-'So far appears
the warrants in the hands of the tax collectors
regular their faces and the collectors acting
hereunder in good faith in the discharge of their duty
In conclusion, he says, that the property, although
held under authority of the Court by the receivers
subject otaxation as other property and that the tax
collectors were not guilty OF contempt of court in
levyng upon It,
Year: 1875

aNow let us talk about your
business affairs" " said 9 sharp
Connecticut girl to a young
fellow after he had proposed
marriage to her in a long adj
dress filled with expression OF
passionate love.
Year: 1875

Information concerning the
growing wheat crop gathered
from all parts of the Northwest
by the Chicago Times gives
hopeful promise of bountiful
harvests. The acreage planted
in winter wheat is everywhere
quite as large and in some sec>
tions larger than usual. The
heavy snowfalls in the North>
west have protected the sprout-
ing crops from the rigors of the
unusually cold winter, SO that
comparatively a small propor>
ton of the grain planted has
been frost-killed. A similar
condition Of the wheat crop
was recently report from Ken-
tncky, where during the cold
weather Of February and March
the young crop was safely in>
crusted in a protecting coat OF
CLASSY ice. Both in the North
west and in the more central
of the Western States the
opening spring'fnds the wheat
fields covered. with a hardy
stand of wheat which with an
ordinarily favorable growing
season will produce good har>
vests. The acreage planted


and preparing to be planted in


spring wheat seems generally
to be larger than usual. No
statistics concerning the acre.
age to be planted in cotton and
grain seem yet to have been
collected from the South, but


the probabilities are that the
cotton planters will be COM
| PEELED, by the growing reluc-


tance of the commission mer-
chants to make advances on


ungathered cottonlcrops, stead
lily to increase the culture Of


grain until their farms become


very much more nearly self


supporting than they now are


though it is probable that the


Southern Atlantic and Gul.


States will for many years fine


it cheaper to buy large quaint


ties of grain from the Wes


than to raise all their grain TO


town and city as well as TO
plantation use. The planters


however, will ultimately b.
compelled to return to the oil
. system of farm economy whicl
! pretty generally aimed to max
) their farms as nearly as nigh
. be self-supporting. A bounti


full food crop in the West an
: South this year would not onl
t throw the balance of foreigI
| trade more decidedly in ou
T favor than it now is, but woul
$ tend to promote a healthy n
) vival of industry by renderin
t the subsistence of labor LEI
81 costly.-[N. Y. World.


4 tits not an unusual thing Il
81 a full blood Ootswould to she'
Year: 1875

COUNTY BUILDINGs.-Interes,ed parties,
who for years have been living off the public.
are urging the members of the legislature
soon to meet-to pass a bill imposing a special
tax for the purpose OF building new court
house. In urging the imposition of this new
and additional tax, We are satisfied the wishes
of the larger property holders are disre-
ga-ded; but this fact weighs nothing with
the parties who find their profit in plunder-
ing the public Should the members deem
it wise to pass bill authorizing the erection
of new county building, it should by all
means contain provisq sgbmiIting the qnes-
ton of a special tax TO a vote OF the people.
II majority of the voters favor a measure
of the kind, then it will be for the minority
to acquiesce 1t is now reduced almost to
certainty that the county will be divided,
and shorn of at least One-third OF its taxable
PROPERTY. IN the face of this fact II seems
to ms that the public leeches ought to let up
for year or two, but no such an idea peue-
trates their thick skulls On the contrary,
they are Just as keen to add to the public
burdens as though the general wealth was
about to be increased rather than diminished.
The action of the members ON this proposition
will be closely scrutinizei, and the men who
vote an additional tax will be he'd to rigid
respons ,bility.
Year: 1875

NEW CHARTER AT the next term of the
Legislature it is quite certain rhat the ques-
ton of new charter for this city will be
up for consideration. Very many of our
people think it would be well to abolish the
city government altogether, aud fall back
upon a precinct organization. In support ot
this proposition they cite many other towns.
more populous and equally thrifty, that get
along without such ornamental appendages
as n mayor and chief of police. There Is
force in this argument, and we are very
well satisfied that without the burlesque OF
A city government the public peace and quiet
would be quite as well guarded as at present
Sbould. however, different policy prevail,
Then We have to suggest that the Legislature
frame the charter So a. to deny the council the
r;,bt IN ;mpose licences, and restrict the city
saw 10 A four mill lax. A levy OF four mills
will meet all the Legitimate expenses OF the
city government, and at the same time 1t
will break up the present robbers roost, and
compel the bummers who now hive Oh 're
,,1-p,vers TO 90 to work Here is a chance
f,- ,sso-,o and as such We commend 1t to
the gentlemen who are 10 represent inns
county IN he legislature
Year: 1875

SANITARY AFFAIRs.-Dr. Alexander, chief
of the medical bureau of this military DEPART
ment, was at Wslla Walla in the early part
of the week, with instructions TO inquire
into the sanitary condition of the post, and
report what changes he deemed necessary to
insure the health Of the officers and soldiers
occupying the post. This inquiry originates
III the fact that within the last year there
has been several cases Of typhoid fever among
the men attached to the command, and in
two instances with fatal results. 1t Is well
known that typhoid fever always originates
in unhealthy localities, and in the presence
OF proper sanitary measures it invariably
disappears. DR.. Alexander found that this
typhoid tendency originated in the manner
in which the post buildings are constructed.
The defect IS that The buildings are almost
Gu level with the ground, and without any
provision for ventilation. AT first no difficulty
was experienced from this source, but as the
buildings grow old, and the mud-sills decay.
the atmosphere is poisoned and hence typhoid
fever, chills and fever, and the whole long
catalogue Of diseases with which our people
have been afflicted of late years. Carving
out this theory, DR.. Alexander expresses the
opinion that unless the houses within the
city limits are provided with free ventilation
between the ground aud first floors, we are
liable, at any time, to De visited by plague
that will decimate the population. He says
that wooden houses, built almost on level
with the earth, and without provision for
ventilation, are sure TO breed disease and en-
danger the lives of the occupants. Oa nu-
merous occasions the writer has criticised the
practice of planting buildings squat on the
ground, and has denounced the practice as
contrary to good taste and injurious to health
In this opinion De Alexander fully concurs,
and thus sustained, we are not without hope
that the practice will be abandoned. With
proper ventilation. the timbers of even a
wooden house ought to last from fifteen to
twenty years but, constructed as the ma
jcrity of the houses are in this town the sills
and flooring rot out in two or three years
and require TO be replaced. By giving the
buildings a proper elevation aud a free eur
rent of air, this expense could be avoided,
and thus it is that both health and economy
plead in favor of change in the prev ailing
style of architecture