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Year: 1875

BUSINESS IMPROVING all of
our industrial institutions are slowly in
creasing their forces, and some of them
have the same number of hands they
employed before the panic Business
seems to be reviving all around us, and
idle men are no longer seen in such large
numbers upon our streets
Year: 1875

MR. EDrToR:-Many of your readers are much interested in the subject of produc. ing milk for the New York market and the great question with them at this season of the year is: How they can feed their COWS 90 as to make milk at profit when the price is four or four and half cents per quart. It is pretty generally known that early cut hay is one of the essentials, and very important one, but there are other ways of increasing the supply and I enclose you an article written by Prof. l.. B. Arnold in reply to the following ques- tion: "What feed can be given to COWS in addition to early cut hay that will in- crease the milk sufficiently to cover the cost?" which am sure will interest your readers.
Year: 1875

WIEN the law OF Massachusetts pro-
vi,ling that all railroad trains shall como
to full stop before crossing track OF
another line was enacted, it gave much
dissatisfaction to railroad men The law
has, however, proved i rood one, and ii
is said that no railroad man of The state
would now Consent to lis repeal.
Year: 1875

We can commend the


E M PRE-
as being most desirable and attractive instru-
ment TO sell, its Low Price and the quality Of
remaining in good order, make the ''EMPIRE"
Piano an especial favOrite with dealer..
Year: 1875

absorbed and grave, as though her heart
was beating with m inarticulate pr aver


BETWEEN LIFE AND DEATH.


Too often, it is thought, the motive
of suicide is little more than the weird
and solemn tempting of the fall itself.
A lady came one day to Clifton from a
town on Lake Ontario, accompanied by
her mother and her child. She stood
on the Table Rock. listened to the
boom, admired the buflaloes and fed
the bears like other idlers on the spot,
and eeemed as her child, to whom these
sights and sounds were new. As they
were looking at shop window, she
turned toward the water, gazed Mt the
falling sheet an instant, slipped away
from her companion, ran to the waters
edge at Cedar place and sprang into the
food A cry OF help was raised. Some
guides were near at hand with ropes
and other gear, and one Of them, Crap
pied safely by the waist, plunged after
her, and by daring effort caught her
AZ she rolled among the rocks, and car
ried her back to land unburt.


FROM MISERY TO ETERNAL REST.


Another case of suicide attempted by
a female under nervous irritation, was
less fortunate. A woman, living on the
spot, became afflicted with malady as
common and as fatal as consumption
fear of penury. That she had 10 good
reason for this fear her neighhors knew,
but it possessed her like n secret and
incurable disease.


81 can't bear it," she used TO say,
"and some day you will see me go over
the fall.


Her ueighbors laughed, saying people
who talk of suicides are in for length of
life. But one day she leaped over the
rock Mt Cedar place. A brave young
fellow named Davis saw her slip in, nut
WAS too far away to catch and draw her
back. The lad was used to suicides, as
every one becomes by living at the falls.
He saw that she would pitch against the
ravine wall, some ten or twelve feet
under the rock on which he stood.
PeerinR over the bank, he saw little
shelf of earth Just broad enough for
man to light on, and no moro. He
scrambled down moment ere the wO-
man came rolling on, put out his hand
toward her, caught her shawl and tore
it from her body as she floated down,
and started in horror as the wooden rag
hung dangling in his grasp. The sui
eide had kept her promise, and escaped
from her imaginary povesty into eternal
sleep.
Year: 1875

TIE experience of New York bust
ness men goes to indicate that iron
shutters increase the danger of loss
from FIRE rather than decrease it. This
is attributed partly to the fact that fire
in houses 80 furnished is seldom or
never discovered so soon as in others,
and partly to the great difficulty that
firemen experience in forcing iron shut
ters open.
Year: 1875

REPORTS received from the south
eastern portion of Nebraska, which
have been severely affected by grass
hoppers this spring, show that they are
fast taking fight, going northwest. I'm
mense clouds of them are seen daily
very high in the air.
Year: 1875

The treasury department is in receipt
of advices from Europe that silver has
declined in Europe over dollar on the
pound, in consequence of which there
is talk again of issuing the fractional
specie provided for by the last Congress.


THE New York World thinks that " if
an average yield is obtained from the
crops planted throughout the south this
spring, it should place the people of
that section in sounder financial con-
dition than they have enjoyed since
RECOMMENDATION beoan
Year: 1875

This Is the path, there stands the tree,
And on the rock the shadows play;
And here we met, and shall be
AS blest as on that blessed day.
Now Nature knows-did she not rise
That day and hearken to our troth,
Made In the haste of loves surprise,
And happy secrets tell TO both.
Besides the spell of looks and words,
There were sweet whispers from our tree
From bough and brake sang back the birds
The grasses owned the mystery.
Sweet-fern and briers along the wall
Sent message by the steadfast wind;
Afar we heard the blue sea call
All things and we were of one mind.
No blessing comes-he Is not here.
Thus all is changed; nor shall see
How Nature makes herself so dear
Till he returns TO her and mel


Hdrper's Magazine.
Year: 1875

few travellers ever visited us; my
only society being half-breed SER
wants, dirty, ignorant, squalid
set, sunk in the lowest depths of
social degradation. My husband
would mount his horse and ride
away over the plains, and often
days would elapse before his re-
turn, and then sometimes he would
appear followed by a numerous
retinue of travellers, as he inform
ed me, whom he would feast in
that distant portion of the strag-
Cling hacienda set apart as the
dwelling place of his retainers,
where the loud discordance of their
revelry would make the night hid
eous to my ears.


One day when he was absent two
travellers stopped at the door of
this building, and asked for food.
I saw them as they arrived, and
something familiar in their air and
gait attracted my attention. The
servants, who seemed to know them
well, set food before them, which
presently I saw them eating in the
open air within the court.


AS / looked, memory strength
ened, and / knew them for couple
of vile fellows who had annoyed
me at Saratoga two years before,
and with whom l had seen Don
Pedro conversing. They loitered
about all day, as l learned, for my
husbands return.


AT nightfall he came, and he
held a long conversation with them,
even before he came to greet me.


AS the moon arose they galloped
out of the court mounted on two
of my husbands best horses, and
struck straight across the plain.


I saw my husband watching me
as if to detect my knowledge of
these visitors.


But / had long ceased to ques-
ton him, and he seemed satisfied
with my silence, and no illusion
was made to the strange guests.


All the next day he wandered
about the place, moody and sullen,
and evidently brooding over bitter
thoughts.


Some crisis in my fate, I felt,
drew nigh.


My suspicions-long active, but
vague-now rested on the fact o1
his fellowship with those prowline
villains who had just left us.


That mysterious fellowship was
sufficient to brand him with crime
though Of what nature dared no
hazard guess.


I felt danger, and my whole sou
cried out for help and mercy.


At midnight the tramp Of horse
and jingling Of bells was heard
and amid the furious yelping G
dogs, a party rode into the court.
My husband arose and went on
to meet his guests. I detecse
among the voices those Of on
strange visitors.
Year: 1875

On one of the Anchor Line boats
the other day, says the vicksburg
Herald, was o young man Of de-
cent looks, but a good deal the
worse for whisky. He persisted
in singing at the top of his voice,
and it was the poorest kind of sing
ing.
Year: 1875

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Year: 1875

The progress of Harry Brooks in the accom-
plishment Of his task is now beginning to be very
interesting, and hundreds visit the Avenue
theatre to see him. A fine performance every
night, ending with the Can-Can.
Year: 1875

The Louisiana Legislature will meet in
extra session on Wednesday of next week
The proclamation of Governor kellogg
calling it together limits the session to ten
days and confines its work to six specified
subjects. These are the adjustment of the
political difficulties heretofore existing in
the State; the mode Of collecting and dis.
burslng the revenues; An amendment of
the funding law so as TO prevent the fund
ing OF illegal obligations; the financial con-
dition and government of the city of New
Orleans; relief OF the commerce of that
city from excessive port charges: and to
consider the incorporation of the Board of
Trade of New Orleans.


1t is greatly to be hoped that the Legisla-
ture, and all parties and factions in the
State, will accept in good faith the provis-
ions Of the compromise proposed by the
congressional committee The best good of
the 1State requires that all parties, espe-
clally the White Leagues and Ku-Klux.
should honestly and heartily unite in sup
port OF this programme. But that there are
those who do not want peace and order to
prevail IN Louisiana is shown By the sneers
and slurs still thrown out by the Democratic
newspapers against Governor Kellogg, who
is recognized by the action Of the committee
as the rightful executive. Without ques-
ton he has done more than any other man
Of either party in the State to secure q
peaceful settlement Of it's troubles. We
trust the Democrats in Louisiana will them.
selves sternly rebuke this continual Dem
ocratic fault with Governor Kellogg
in tho North, by cordially accepting the
terms of the committee.-4lbaMy Journal.
Year: 1875

Tonight, at st. Patricks Hall, will be
given the last one OF the delightful enter
tainments described as Old Folks concerts.
1t will be well attended, as all others
have been given under the direction OF
Professor Beardslee. The mnsic to be
rendered is OF the best description, stro7 9
and spirited in chorus, with solo songs by
we'll trained voices. Aside from the ex-
cellence of the entertainment another in
ducement to attend will be the opportu-
nifty to give substantial aid to q worthy
cause, as the concert is to be given for the
benefit of the Centenary College at Jack
son, in this State-an institution which
should be kept up and become the pride
of the South
Year: 1875

1t will be seen by an advertisement in
to-days paper that an adjourned meeting
Of the State Central Committee will be held
in the State House this morning at ten
o'clock, and as matters of the utmost i'm
portance will come before the committee for
its action there should be full attendance of
memhers
Year: 1875

We copy from the Shreveport Times Of
the eighth instant:


Messrs. Vaughn and Horan deem it their
duty to be present at the organization of
the Legislature, as it is possible, though not
probable, that the Hahn crowd may resist
the enforcement of the award of Mr..
Wheeler, and IN that event they propose to
take hand, and maybe their seats.


What does this mean: Is another corp
d'etat contemplated
Year: 1875

The San Bernardino Times of the
9th gives the following account of the
acquittal of Goldsmith, the Rincon
murderer: argument i'm the case of
the People vs. Goldsmith was COM
menced Saturday morning in the Dis
trict Court and concluded i'm the after
noon, two attorneys on each side ad-
dressing the jury. After an able and
exhaustive charge the case was sub
mitted to the jury, who retired for
deliberation. The arguments of the
counsel were able and to the point.
After several hoursof deliberation the
jury were called before the Court and
announced their inability to agree.
They were sent to the hotel and passed
the night. Yesterday afternoon they
brought in a verdict for the defendant
and Goldsmith is again a free man.
He was cordially congratulated by his
many friends, who deeply sympathized
with him in his misfortune. The case
has been one of unusual interest, and
the whole neighborhood of Rincon
looked with anxiety to the result.
Year: 1875

You need not wait for the re-openlng
of the banks in order to get pictures
at the Cottage Gallery, as Williams &
Smith are taking them now at bottom
prices, and as good as at any other
gallery in the city. sep30-3t
Year: 1875

Williams & Co. now have two dredges
at work upon their contract. Not over
three weeks will elapse before they will
have one cut clear in. This will give a
channel without any doubt thirteen feet
deep. Another cut is being brought in
as rapidly as possible. Doing the tow
ing for two dredges is about all the work
that the tug Eliza Williams can get
along with comfortably, but she does the
work, but it keeps her busy early and
late. Geo. D. Greenfield is captain and
Chas. Marcox is engineer, and it is safe
to say that they enjoy very few leisure
moments. Was the tug not we'll manned
she could not do all that is required of
her
Year: 1875

THE STATE FAIR.-The State Fair
opened Lass Monday at Saginaw with
much DettSr prospects for success than
last year. The display in all departments
was exceedingly fine, especially cattle.
The entries were largely in excess of
those of last year. The two days of bad
weather decreased the gross receipts
somewhat. The pomological department
is said to have been the best ever seen in
Michigan.
Year: 1875

The shipping business was very light
during the past week. A vessel was
loaded with cedar posts for Robin, and
one with lumber for Nelson, Strohn s.
Co. A number of vessels were loaded
at Duncan, there being four there at one
time. The bad weather prevented sew
eral vessels which were chartered from
probable that the business will be better
next week
Year: 1875

To BE WELL TAUGHT-Thec children
in one of the school districts i'm the town
of Grant have prospect of being well
taught the coming winter. The modera-
tor and assessor have engaged one teach
er, and the director has engaged another


There seems to be little clash of au-
thority among the powers that be-" but
with such prospect ahead, surely the
children ought not to complain. We
would advise the school officers to decide
the matter without quarrel, for such a
contention once commenced seldom ends.
Year: 1875

A NEW WHEEL.-The North Star
came over Monday and was hauled out
for the purpose of putting on a new
wheel which she brought with her, and
which it is calculated will greatly in
crease her speed. She remained until
Wednesday about noon.
Year: 1875

The FROsT.-The frost on Friday
night, of last week, was quite severe in
some sections of this country. damaging
corn and potatoes. In other sections
nothing at all was injured. The frost
area was large, extending over the whole
state
Year: 1875

While the waiting room at the depot
was full people. an old chap, who had
been over to hotel, came in and called
out to his wife: Jane, what do you
think ? They want ten shillings if we
both eat dinner, and six shillings if eat
and leave you here! I'm powerful faint
under my jacket. but 'afore I'll put up
with any such distortion. I'll buy peck
of peanuts and eat the meats while you
eat the shucks p
Year: 1875

When a girl crops her front hair and
pulls it down over her forehead like a.
Mexican Mustang, and then ties piece
Of red velvet around her neck who can
wonder at the number of pale-fa
young men that throw away their ambi-
tisn and pass sleepless nights in trying
to raise down Oh their upper lips ?
Year: 1875

A DANBuRY Boy Has FUN.-Robert
Collyer says the children must have less
study and more fun. He is right
There is the boy in the family across
the way. Last Thursday afternoon he
put a dead mouse in his mothers work.
basket, attached a split stick to the tail
of the next-door cat, set the vinegar
faucet up in business, palmed himself
of as ghost on the hired girl when she
went down cellar after the butter, be-
smeared bis fathers choise bantam roos-
ter with blue ink, and finally wound up
the entertainment by tying the boiler
to strange dogs tail, and slipping
down in the slush and hurting bis back.
His exasperated father hardly knows
which to hunt up 6rst-the strange dog
with boiler, or Robert Collyer.-Dam-
bury Nems.
Year: 1875

Shakespeare would never have asked
whats in an aim p if he had been hit
on the head with brick.


A New York dentist uptown DISCUS
ted one Of his patrons recently by re-
questing him not to open his mouth any
wider, as he intended to stand OUTSIDE
during the operation.
Year: 1875

A Western publisher lately gave no
tice that he intended toespend fifty dol
lars for q ..new head" for his paper
The next day one Of his subscribers
dropped him the following note: "Don't
do it-better keep the money and buy a
new head for the editor"
Year: 1875

Inc garret live IN is lonely,


keep up no sumptuous state,
For 'acqueys and grooms l have only


Myself on myself t. wait.
So I've built me marvellous mansion,


And LAID out royal demcsne,
With q tow'r of imposing expansion


My Castle in Spain.
A park of old oak trees caresses


The CLINT of the summer sun there
Dust now all the wood possess is
Confined to table and chxir,)
1t stands on an eminence hilly,
lAt present my life IS ali plain;
oh, it warns me to build when I'm chill,
My Castle In Spain.
Through my grounds winds river sedate
~,


Unlike that old pump in the yard;
My friends there are pompous and stately
And not with Bohemia farred.
And yet the old friends invite to


Come over and share in my reign,
They have all an equivalent to


My Castle in Spain.
And what gives the crownipg expression


To this sweet Iberian life,
The race OF my Spanish possession


Is shared by beautiful wife.
But my pipe has gone out, and my splendid
Old chateau and fair chatelaine
With the smoke wreath have faded, and


ended


My Castle in Spain.
Year: 1875

% Protestants are always crying out about the
interference of the Catholic Church in politics,
though they have been challen ged time and
again to cite even one fact to Justify their
clamor. On the other hand it is usual to hear
Oh bitter political haranGues from Protestant
pulplts the land over, and ministers of the
sects are found in Congress, in the State Legis-
4stures, county and school boards, in fact
everywhere that penny, honest or otherwise
can be turned. In New York, Francis Herman
one OF the most distinguished men of the day,
was defeated for the Governorship, three years
ago, because he was q Catholic. Through the
press, by circulars all the dead walls the State
over, he was advertised as a slave of the Jesuits
and Protestants of all parties were advised to
vote against him. And many of them in his
own political party did so, although knowing
him to be an honest and intelligent gentleman,
thoroughly qualified to fill the Office.


Now we see that the Republicans of New
York have nominated the Ret. B. I. Ives-s
political parson, an itinerant Methodist minis
ter-for the position of State Prison Inspector,
and yet not q word of protest lie uttered by
either Democrats or Republicans. Indeed, We
should not be surprised to Rnd that the Rev.
M Ives will run ahead of his ticket at tho
election solely on account of his religious
views.
Year: 1875

A traveller once related with all serious .
ness to company of persons, that he had
passed through the five divisions OF the
earth and that among other curiosit'es, he
had met one of which no writer had as yet
made mention. This wonder was, accord
ing to his own account, a huge cabbage,
which had grown so broad and high that
fifty armed riders might have stationed
themselves under a single leaf, and perform :
ed their mauoeuvr>s. g. Some one who heard
him, deeming this exaggeration not worth
any confutation, said, with much self COM
mand and GOODNESS, that he, too. had been
abroad, as far as Japan, where, to bis as
Constituent, he saw more than three hun
dred coppersmiths at work upon single
kettle, and within the same were five
hundred men polishing 1t. What could
tbev do with such a monstrous kettle 7
asked the traveller. Cook the cabbage
therein, of which you just now have told
us I!
Year: 1875

The report of the Register of vital Statistics
of the District of Columbia for the week endin g
September 4th, shows that the rate of mortality
of the whites was nearly twenty per thousand,
and of the colored nearly ffty-nine per thou
sand. The rate of increase of the white popu-
lation by births over deaths was one and
four-fifths per Thousand, and the decrease oil
the oolored by deaths over births was thirty
four and sixty seven huDdredths per thousand
Such marked difference in the mortality of the
whites and blacks has existed for come months
past. Various meetingo have been held by
prominent colored men to discover remedy
for this decrease of their race, bnt without
sucoess.
Year: 1875

The chief of the Mobile police has issued an
order for bidding the playing of base bali on
Sunday. When the Mobile boys want to enjoy
thems they can come over to the city
where, fortunately, We have so far escaped the
bliGhting spirit of all Puritanical blue laws.
Year: 1875

TIE news from New Hampshire is
very encouraging this morning for the
Democracy. From 1t We are led to look
for heavy party gains, II not a victory,
that will confirm Grant and his friends
that it will not do to play fast and loose
with the rights Of the people and the
best interests Of the country.
Year: 1875

Tonight the young ladies composing
the Helping-Hsnd club will give pleas
ant sociable and oyster supper in the
First Baptist church, Second street, near
Adams. The laudable efforts Of the
young ladies in behalf of their church
should be literally encouraged and gen.
erously appreciated by the public. We
hope to see large attendance Of ladies
and gentlemen at this entertainment,
and feel assured that they will all be
well repaid for their visit to the sOciable.
Year: 1875

This sum may lie increased or reduced
upon a particular examination of the
bills passed. This sum does not include
the prospective appropriation for the
Esds Improvement Of the mouth of the
Mississippi river.
Year: 1875

At meeting of the New York board
of trade to-day, the following resolution
was unanimously adopted:


Resolved, That the tariff laws should
be framed with a view to raising the
necessary revenue from the least possi-
bic number of articles, and, as far as
possible, from articles that are not man
ufactured or produced in the United
States; that no duties should be imposed
on raw materials which enter largely in
to manufactures, and that all duties
should be specific without regard to value
and classification, simple and distinct.


TWO PER CENT. DIVIDEND.


The Western Union telegraph compa.
ny to-day declared quarterly dividend
OF two per cent.
Year: 1875

Clarendon Age: George Welch accused of perjury and assault with intent to kill, made his es- cape from the county jail last February and has been at large ever since until last week, when his path and that of our sheriff crossed and as they both happen ed at the crossing at the same time Charley gathered him in" and on last Friday night returned him to his old quarters. George will not get the privilege of the hall any more but will have to swelter in the cell, so much for meeting sheriff.
Year: 1875

New Democrat: Dealers should closely scrutinize all fifty cents notes. Within the past week a new counterfeit has been freely showed. It can be told from the genuince by observing the em- bossed dye between the signature of John Allison, register, and F. k. Spinner, treasurer. In the genuine the circle of dots can be seen distinctly within the line of dye; but in the counterfeit the dye appears with a scolloped edge and heavy black surrounding. It may also be known by holding it to the light, when the absence of the thread in the paper will be at once noted.