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Year: 1875

DIFFICULTIES OF OPERATING ON THE RIO
GRANDE - REASONS FOR REMOVING THE
BOUNDARY LINE TO THE SIERRA MADRE.


WASHINGTON, Nov. 2l, 1875
An officer Of the War Department expresses the
opinion that the whole United States Army is not large
enough to defend the Rio Grande from its mouth to
Rngod Barracks, the line is so circutous and
covered with chappara that lookout for
any distance with videttes with cavalry
patrols can be kept up. He further says
that once any hostile force has reached the river 1t
is impossible to intercept impede them In word he
said was not in the power Of the government pro-
tect the Texas frontier and hence the necessity Of hav
Ing been obliged, tactly to acquiesce in the coopera-
ton of Texas volunteer State troops II is thought
he further says, that Colonel Potter is the


MAN FOR EMERGENCY


there Colonel Potter is vouched for at the War De-
partment as officer Of great judgment tact and
ton, and every confidence is felt in him. General
Augur, when in command of the department had an
understanding with the Mexican General commanding
TO cooperate with the United States roopson the Mex
lean border, but sincere fulhlment of It seems to
have been carried out
Year: 1875

W no IS so fortunate a. never to have
been troubled with little blister on hi,
foot, owing TO oad-iitting boots. or to the
vanity of buying them size too small? II
such happy man reads this, we trust hi.
horses are always as well shOd; but TO any
one who knows the pain OF . raw spot, We
earnestly appeal TO him to see that the
horses he employs are not suffering from
wounds by a bad-fitting collar. II they
should be, then let him for one moment
consider the anguish the poor animal must
suffer by the collar rubbing the raw and
bleeding flesh every step he takes. A mo.
ments reflection to any one with a grain
OF humanity will cause him at once to rest
that horse until its wound is healed. and
then TO see that collar that fits properlvis is
put upon it.


wound causes horse TO lose its good
coalition, and to become rapidly exhaust
ed with work which it could otherwise ac-
compish. Therefore it is TO an owner in
terest to see that his horses are free from
pain; but this view of the subject is from
lower standpoint than we would appeal
solely on the score of humanity.


.sAn old, worn-out horse is often put to the
heaviest work on farm, so as to save the
others; and thus, as among men. so among
horses. some are born to happy lives, and
others to miserable ones; but We should
never forget that humane treatment is as
much due by us to all the animals we en-
ploy, as the ready obedience by them that
we consider due to ourselves, and which
we expect them to yield us; and that as
great humanity should be shown to an old
horse, who has almost done his work in
his world. as to fine young one fitted to
AIRY a soldier.


prolific cause OF sore shoulders is lend
ng horse to fneighbors to do draught
'ork without sending its collar with it, as
has then to be fitted with any odd one
lat may be at hand. This, however, no
areful farmers will do.-( Animal World
Year: 1875

lie BEST WAY TO Bon. KGGs.-The OBJ
lection 10 this common way of boiling egg
Is this; The white under three minutes
rapid cooking, becomes tough and iudi-
gestible. while the yelk is left soft. When
properly cooked. eggs are done evenly
through like any food. This result may be
attained by putting the eggs into dish
with cover as a tin pail, and then pour
ing upon them boiling water. two quarts
or more to dozen eggs and cover and set
them away from the stove 10 minutes. The
heat Of the water cooks the eggs slowly
and evenly and sufficiently and TO a Jelly
like consistency, leaving the center or yelk
harder than the white, and the egg tastes
as much richer and nicer as a fresh egg is
nicer than stale egg; and no person will
want to eat them boiled after having tried
this method.
Year: 1875

CRANBERRY JELLY.-The following
makes nice jelly for the Washington pie;
It is also nice for tarts; cut one quart of
ripe cranberrries into halves and stew till
soft; mash through a sieve add one half
pound loaf sugar. Boil gently fifteen min
utes.
Year: 1875

New ORLEANS, April Ex-Governor
Kellog to-day sent the following special
message to both houses OF the general
assembly: OF beg earnestly to impress
upon the members of the general assem-
bly, that the term for which they have
been convened in extra session Is rapid
ly drawing to a close, and that thus far
no salutary measures Of public benefit
have been adopted. l am informed that
bills for the relief of the city Of New
Orleans, which are recommended by
committees representing the CONNER
cial and business interests of the city and
State, are before you for action. can
not too urgently remind you of the great
importance OF giving these measures
your immediate and favorable consider
alton, there is time in the three days vet
remaining OF this session to take such
action as will temporarily remedy many
pressing evils, leaving until your regu-
lar session the devisiDg Of more compre-
hensive plans Of general reform. I
again respectfully call your attention to
the desirability Of amending the fund
ing law go IS to give the mercantile
community q representation upon the
funding board, and so as to enable any
person to take steps TO prevent
the funding of invalid obligations.
Permit me to say that 1t is expected Of
you, under the circumstances which
have brought you together, that the
great interests Of the State and city
shall receive the preference in your pro-
ceedings over the advancement Of party
ends, and that our financial condition
renders it very undesirable that the term
of this session should be extended, nor
can it be with justice to the taxpayers or
the creditors Of the State.


'W. P. KELLOGG, Governor"
Year: 1875

A telegram from Paris says there is
no doubt that President Thlers will be
elected to the senate by many depart
ments, and may possibly be chosen to
preside over that body, in which event
be is suTS 10 hold the position for life,
Year: 1875

Then shall the Kingdom Of Satan be
likened to grain Of tobacco seed,
which, though exceedingly small, being
cast into the ground grew and became
great plant, and spread its leaves rank
and broad, so that huge worms foaad
place thereon.


And it cameto passsin the course of
time that the sons of men looked upon
it and thought it beautiful to look upon
and much to be desired to make lads,
look big and manly.


So they put forth their hands and
did chew thereof; and some it made sick.
and others TO vomit most filthity


And It came to pass that thoses Wffe
chewed it became weak and unmanly and
said, We are enslaved and cannot cease
from chewing it.


And the mouths of all that were en-
shaved became foul, and they were seiz ID
with a violent splitting, and they did spit
even in ladies parlors and in the house
of the Lord of Hosts, and the saints of
the Most High were greatly plagued
thereby.


And in the course of time it came to
pass that others snnffed it, and they were
taken suddenly with fits, and they did
sneeze so much that their eyes were filed
with tears, and they did lookeXceeding-
ly silly.


And yet others cunningly wrought the
leaves thereof into rolls, AID did set fire
to one end thereof, and did look very
grave and calf-lilSe, and the smoke OF
their incense assembled up, aud the culti-
vation thereof became great and
mighty business in the earth.


Merchantmen waxed rich by the com
merce thereof; and it came to pass that
the saints of the Most High defiled
themselves with it; even the poor, who
could not buy shoes nor bread nor books
for their little ones, spent their money
for it and the servants Of the Lord were
displeased Herewith, and said, Where
fore this waste, aud why do these little
ones lack bread and shoes and hooks
Turn, now, your fields into corn and
wheat, and put this evil thing from you
and be separate and defle not your
selves any more, and God will bless you


But with one accord they all exclaim.
ed, We cannot cease from chewing snuf
6ng and pufing-we are slaves; and
Gods servants were sorely displeased
with the people who raised this plant
and cried, Repent, before the Lord shal
come and curse your land with sore
curse. j. IL.
Year: 1875

Surprising power Of endurance-a
cattle-drover who had one ear cut off
by the Indians got up and walked off on
the other one.


An Aberdeen girl supposes that the
reason she has never kindled a flame in
any mans heart is because she is not q
good match.
Year: 1875




A Kentucky editor tells another that
if his head were as red as his nose he
would remind one of bow legged Cur.
rot surmounted by cockade.


1t is stated that the Philadelphia con.
fectioner who advertised "Centenniai
Kisses" cant sell any. They are too
old. The 16-ials are preferred by men
of taste.


"The first step toward wealth." says
an exchange, sis the choice Of good
wife And the first step toward secu-
ring wife is the possession Of good
wealth.


If people believe money is scarce, just
let them stand around for while and
hear pair of prize fighters discussing
their relative abilities IN. Y. Dispatch.
Year: 1875

Has made the most Astonishing Cures =.
so quick, so rapid are the changes the


body undergoes under the influence of
this truly wonderful medicine, that
Every Day an Increase In Flesh and Weight
Is Seen and Felt.


The Great Blood Purifier.
Year: 1875

CTOyE DSESsING. NO DUST! NO SMELL
- Always soft and ready for use without dish
Ii Will do more work with less labor and expense,
and give more elegant and lasting lustre than any
STOVE POLISH ever produced stove can be dress
ed On q delicate carpet without soiling it. Manu-
Mass,
Year: 1875

In the Oriental countries. the tradition
al r'giOn of locust devastation. the de.
stroy.ng insects are largely used as food
thus compromising loss with actual beEefit.
Tie wild sen Of the desert can say defiant
Year: 1875

THE Chattanooga Commercial under
stands that the contracts for the cree
ton Of a bridge over the Tennessee for
the Cincinnati Southern Railroad viii
probably be let IN June, and that the
letting Of contracts for grading the
lower end Of the route viii Immediately
gOT3ozU
Year: 1875

of this nature, which does not exist in any
other State, and which, perhaps, could not
have been secured here but for our exTaor-
dinary surroundings during the past few
years, would be efiectual bar to extrayagant
legislation growing out Of ignorance and
inexperience on one hand and intelligence
and dishonesty on the other. The people
endorsed these views at the late election,
and now the practical working Of the sys-
TEN has been tested. 1 am gratified 10
know that the course which has been taken
is generally regarded as the only one which
the State could have pursued with justice
To herself and to her creditors,
Year: 1875




Confinement within prison bars aud peni-
tentiaries has no terrors for sneak thieves.
We hang horse thieves of necessity, failing
to observe the tender forms of the law in
this behalf, and why not thrash the dcpre-
dators upon hen-roOsts and clothes-lines
it is difficult to see. We can build no pris-
ons to accommodate, and no workh0uses,
factories or cotton mills to employ the
multiplying rogues that overrun the coun-
try, and the only recourse left US is the
whipping post. Thieves don't frequent
that country in which the whipping post,
"a relic OF barbarism,p still stands inside
the prison walls, and while humanity shud-
ders when a knave's back is lacerated by
the lash and he groans in unutterable an
gush, it must be remembered that these
terrorS are the sublimity of mercy, prevent
ing crime as does no other punishment. II
the use of the lash be prohibited the ball
and chain and hanging by the thumbs, or
torture by dropping wafer, or the fearful
sweat-box must be substituted, and either
is worse than the lash. In fact men are
prone to exhaust their sympathies in the
wrong direction. When one is convicted
of crime he is purely felon and deserves
felons doom. He has shown no mercy
to man or society or government aud
these owe him nothing but punishment
that his name and fate may deter others
from his course. Used in this manner
he becomes a valuable citizen; the
more terrible and conspicuous his pun
ishment the better the service done by
his example, and the more perfect the
aapeRs1e made for his infractions OF the code
Thieves have been thrashed publicly and
tarred and feaihered, and led through the
village streets No boz that grew up in
that town failed TO comprehend the base
ness of larceny, aRd while he might fight a
duel. neither want nor greed nor passion
could make him rogue. Itmay be proper
to add that no villain was. ever, whipped a
second time in rhe same place There was
something in the moral atmosphere Of
North Carolina whipping posts and stocks
that repelled knaves with singular force,
and il 4 villain we're born in the stste be
len it AT an early age, In view Of these
Facts and the opinions of men who h4ye
Year: 1875

GOVERNOR COKE owns no land and never
owned any at all affected, directly or indi-
rectly, by the location of the penitentiary
in Rusk county. His Excellency states this
fact in published letter. and since we al
luded to the story, as made originally in
some Eastern paper, we make the proper
correction. In fact, we don't believe Gov
ernor Coke capable of any little meanness.
His prejudices are incurable, but he is one
of those, who, while capable of cempre-
hending the necessities of State and ad-
ministering its routine affairs, would be ut
terly unfit to conduct newspaper. He
would never forget himself or his personal
prejudices and ambitious aims, and there
fore could never discuss temperately or un-
selfishly the political questions of the day.
An editor has neither friends nor enemies
to reward or punish. His business is to
tell lof facts that concern the public, and
that organ of opinion is utterly unworthy
of public conffdencewhichn never finds aught
to condemn in the conduct of its patron or
party leader, and its approval is valueless
since it is only tulsome adulation, and its
defense of its employer when criticised is
the raving of zealot. 1~
Year: 1875

The plaln inference to he drawn from
Judge lreland's latest pronunciamento iss
that he himself has been suspected OF the
authorship of the secret circular of adj
vice II Democrats written ~ Judge AleXan-
der Judge Ireland says he has been writ
ten to on the subject, and then proceeds to
denounce the circular as stupendous fraud
"a trick of the enemy. But the fact that
intelligent men have deemed it possible for
the chairman of the Democratic Central
Committee to give paternity to such paper
shows how unfit the Judge is believed to
be for the position lac occupies and then,
too, he justiiics this opinion of hls worth
by advertising a document which he surely
would have suppressed. He seeks to do
everything by main strength and awkward
ness. Such man is wholly unfit for the
place lie occupies. The danger now TO the
Democratic party in Texas is not IN the
strength, but weakness, of Radicahsm.
Radiealism has hardly enough inertia to
consolidate the Democracy. Our party is
hopelessly divided on the currency question
in the East, and in Ohio Thurman opposes
PendIeton and Cumberland Gap Morgan
and the great body Of the Western and
Southern Democrats, and there is danger of
like division even here in Texas. Has Ire
land the tact to reconcile differences Can
he produce an address which will heal the
possible breach or prevent its occur
renee? He would not dream of the ne
cessity or wisdom of such conduct. On
the contrary he will hasten to assert his
own faith with repulsive dogmatisms
and then declare all Democrats Radicals
wEo do not follow the Sage of Seguln, that
model philosopher who does the adyertis-
ing business and promotes the distribution,
without charge, of the campaign documents
of the Radical party. 1t may seem unlind
to suggest it, but the Judge is so evidently
unfit, IN his temperament, IN his inordinate
self-esteem, in his incapacity for any duty
involving wisdom or moderation, that he
should step down and out. Then, too,
there is no reason just now, in the aspect
of his own personal fortunes, why he should
| persist in occupying the place he fills. II
has been agreed that Lang is to succeed
Governor Coke, and his EXcellency goes,
by means of Lang's power, into the Fed
eral Senate, and there is time enough fol
the Sage of Seguin to devote himself tc
books and put his ardent temperament and
inordinate self-coniidence into leading
strings. When another contest for seat
in the Senate superyenes, or in the change:
possible, if the constitutional reform con
vention sits, there are excellent chances foi
the Sage of Seguin. just now, with the
combinations that have been made agains
him, he must be content, like the old Ro
man hero, with retirement and the dlieght:
of hisSabine farm.
Year: 1875




AN innocent Bostonian and wife reg
istered from that Hub of immensity in a
Little Rock hotel last week, and the reo-
pie, fresh from newspaper fountains of pat
riotism distilled from the late heavenly in
cidents at Bunker Hill, went for the raw
Yankee and his wife. The pair was
scared at first, having heard much OF Ku.
Kluxism in those parts, but champagne was
produced, speeches were made. Bunker
Hill was fought over again and they made
the New Englander and his wife blind
drunk and then deadheaded them to St.
Louis. Those good people at Little Rock
swear they will never be outstrpped in
generosity or hospitality by the, children of
the Puritms, and as these two the first
Yankees to come along after the magnificent
entertainment at Boston, became the
vicarious sacrifice of New Englandism or
the altar of eternal friendship between the
States
Year: 1875

learned most by practical management OF
periteutiaTie~. we are much inclined to be-
lieve that there is much of maudlin senti-
mentalism in this hostility to the old fash
iohed stocks and whipping post, and we are
not surprised to learn that even in England


these modes of preventing crime are again


populanzed. But one fact is fixed: as so
ciety is now organized in Texas, peniten-
tiaries cannot accommodate the rapidly


multiplying criminals of high and low de-
gree, and unless the lash be used, or its
equivalent, what disposition can be made
of the knaves1
Year: 1875

TIE Chicago Tribune says that zone cause,
and perhaps the most prominent cause, of
the disorder and unprosperous condition of
the South liesin the fact that the labor of
the South is performed by one-half of the
population, ana the other half lives upon
those who labor. Therefore there is no
surplus of production for profit. The idle
man eats up the surplus produced by the
laboring man. All this might be remedied
if the ex-slave oligarchy of the South ac


cepted the New England idea that every
man should work and produce a surplus
with his own hands," The Chicago Tribune
should know that the cotton, sugar, rice,
wheat, corn and tobacco crops produced by
the ten millions of the South show very
plainly that the people toll industriously.
Poverty here results from the transfer of all
this wealth to those having monopoly of
money. We sell the raw product for less
than we pay for the manufactured commod-
ity. The least half falls to our share.
The tariff, navigation and bounty acts and
expenditure of the whole five hundred mil


lions OF Federal taxes in the East begets
relative poverty in the South. No harbors
are deepened ON our coasts; no Pacific rail
ways are endowed in behalf of these
States; no credit mobiliers waste wealth in
Southern communities.lG TO perpetuate tile


process of robbing one section, that the
other may he enriched forever, the wa- debt
is to be made payable1n gold as represented
by bonds, and we are taxed not to ex-
tinguish but to pay interest on it, and thus
the relative poverty of States, recently rob
bed by war Of nine thousand millions of
property. is to be perpetuated. 1t is not
inaction or supineness that begets Southern
poverty, but system of government which
converts one class of States into provinces
for the aggrandizement of those that are
deemed States. sl5 1Hs f3ss 5.es
Year: 1875

THEY have gone through all the forms of
obliterating the color line, and establishing
perfect political unity between the blacks
and whites IN narrow district of Tennes-
see. The treaty cf peace was signed with
deal of form and ceremony, and the white
and colored leaders are still hobnobbing
over it, and rubbing their patriotic heads
together, and, we hope it will result in
much good to mankind
Year: 1875

PERHAPS the most absurdly udicrous
story ever written is that which tells of
Mark Twain'S grief over his father Adams
grave. Mark, it is true, had never seen his
paternal ancestor, but the very length of
time that the old gentleman had been lying
around loose in the dust of ages was well
calculated to appeal to the sons marvelously
tender sympathes and sensibilities, and
therefore those tears of which we are told
in the modern masterpiece of humor,


''The Tnnocents Abroad" But funnier
than all the quintcscence of all the ludi-
crous conceptions that adorn the pages of
this unique volume is the fact that very
many readers of the solemn recital affect
ing father Adams grave accepted it as gen
uine in all its aspects, effects and incidents,
and Mark Twain absolutely received letters
from many sanctimonious, sober-sided,
long-visaged, pious people, protesting
against the necessity for tears, at this
iuncture, shed by Mark over the hollow
sepulchre in which Adam and Eve were en-
tombed While Marks book almost set the
atmosphere of two continents in such a
state of cachinatory vibration that people
could hardly catch breath, these solemnly
stupid spoudents were almost the cause
of his untimely demise, and Mark thinks
that in the list of these shad- bellied cores
pondents of his he has perfect catalogue
of all the stupendous, unmitigated asses
that bray through the press or at the hustings
! in America But Mark is wholly at fault.
There is one man in Texas whose perception
of the ridiculous and apprehension of a
joke is duller by all odds than that of dull
lards who condemned and pitied Marks
woes and tears at Adams tomb. This mar
vel of solemnity and lolg-facedness is the
Chairman of the Democratic Central Com
mittee. and is commonly called John Ire
land. He alone of all living men accepts
the irony of Radical secret circular as
solemn Democratic thunder, and, like the
| sanctimonious asses who condemned Mark
Twain, sets himself up, by protesting against


the seriousness of the Radical circular, a!
the unparalleled block head of the age
Year: 1875

participate In the Contest Local matches Of interest
only await the formation Of sufficiently strong ice


YACHTING.


This species OF heAlthful sport Is finding many ad,
mirers hereabouts and though In its infancy In and
around the metropolis is destined TO grow 10 proper
tions Of great magnitude Al the Capitollne. pond
there three OF these queer crafts ready for the
winters and at Prospect Park there s like number
that will be placed the lake soon as circumstances
warrant Up the Hudson, however, the amusement
has attained great supremacy, and this season
there win be several regattas, and lively times
IN general The clubs Of Poughkeepse and
New Hamburg, Of which Mr. John A. Roosevelt and
Mr.. Irving 6rinnell the CommodOres in
ourshing condition, that Of the necessary thick
only required TO make that part or the Hudson
alive with excitement Nowhere in the world there
more ardent enthusiasts this exhiarating sport be
found than in the organizations named above and
where there finer specimens OF these odd craft
This winter the ice yacht challenge penn9nt OF America
win be sailed for, tag manufactured last spring by
order Of the New Hamburg Club and intended create
generous rivalry between clubs the Hudson River
as well as among those IN the Northern, Eastern and
Western States and Canada The first contest for this
beautiful prize will be epoch in ice yachting looked
forward to for many years by the liberal spirited officers
Of the Hudson River clubs