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Year: 1873

The practice is too common among
dairymen to allow their COWS to run
out night and day, however cold and
stormy the weather may be, from the
day they are turned out in the spring
until the first snow in the fall, and
sometimes even later Cows are SUBJ
Ject to take severe colds from expo
sure to lnclement weather, fully as
much as men are, and these colds
often so completely derange and
weaken the system, that garget, with
its many evils, as we'll as many other
diseases, receive their starting point
in this way. Cause and effect are,
as general rule, 80 far separated
from each other by intervening time,
in cases of garget, that we fail to
trace the cOnHectlon between them,
yet of all the diseases or ailments to
which the dairy COW is subject, gar.
get causes the greatest loss to the
dairymen, is the most difficult to
cure, (Murrain excepted,) and the
most difficult to trace to its origin, or
starting point.


Among the prolific causes of gar
get the following may be named:
First-fast driving when the cows
bag is full of milk. Sscond-external
injuries to the bag, such as thumps
aud bruises with sticks and stones.
Third-improper management in
drying the cows up at the end of the
milking season. Fourth-overfeed-
ing with grain. Fifth-changing
the COW too suddenly from dry food
to succulent or milk-producing food.
Last, but not least, constant source
from which garget arises is the cruel
exposure Of the cows to cold storms
OF rain and snow. The dairyman
whose cows are run the most from
the pasture to the milking barn are
MIXED the most irregularly, are fed
the greatest quantity of grain, are
changed the most abruptly from hay
to grass, are most exposed to cold
storms, will have the most cases of
garget, and l will add that he ought
to have, for he fairly earns them.-
Neac York Times,
Year: 1873

their rest, speak of Chamberlain. and
gathered from them the facts here
spoken of.


On an afternoon III May. ii tall, we'll
formed Indian stepped into the hotel,
and. setting down his gun. seated him
self i'll that abstract manner so peculiar
to the Indian race. At length he very
lnditferently inquired for Cham berlain
1t was Immediately suspected that this
was some friend or descendant of Pan
gus. who had come to avenge his death,
for the Indians thought Chamberlain
dishonOrable to shoot Pangrls without
Withdrawing his ramrod. He was di-
rccted to his residence by Il circuitous
route, and hasty message sent to
Chamberlain to beware of his subtle
foe. He Immediately returned to his
house, closed the doors. and waited in
silence for the result. When the morn
ing light came he directed some one of
his family to open the front door, but
not to expose himself. Chamberlain
was watching at Il loophole and. when
the door opened, IL dark form sprang up
from behind the wall, and Immediately
fell dead, for Chamherlain's aim was
unerring. Thus fell the son of Pangus,
the last of his family - Wdtchman.
Year: 1873

Oh she was Ii maid of laughing eve


Ana she lived IN garret cold and high.


And lie was Il thrradbare whiskered beau


And lie lived i'll cellar damp and low


But the rosy boy "f the rhrrub wing


Has many a shaft in his slender string


And the youth below and the maiden above


We're touched with the flashing darts of low.


And she would wake from her troubled sleep


Ger his tender billet d,uI To weep.


Oh stand like statue bright and fair,


And gaze on "a lock of his bright red han


And he who sO tall and proud


With his step 81 firm and his laugh 80 loud


His beard grew long and his face grew thin


And he pined i'll solitude over his gin


But one soft night in the month of June


As she lay i'll the light of a cloudless moon


y voice came floating soft and clear


1" tn" startled madens listening ear


Oh, then from her creaking couch she sprung


And her tangled tresses back she flung


She looked from the window far below


And he stood beneath her whiskered beau


She did not start with foolish frown.


But packed her trunk and scampered down


And there was her lover tall and true


In his threadbarc coat of the brightest blue


The star that rose i'll the evening shade


Looked sadly down Oh the weeping maid


The sun that came in his morning pride


Shed golden light oer laughing bride


Thirty persons were recently poison
ed at Coral, Mich, by eating sausage
That's what comes 10y leaving brass
collars on your dogs.


\ negro i'll Coffee County, Ga., who
bet $40 that he could ride ii roam
mule with Il pine-burr under the sad
die. lost the money. He was followed
10 the tomb 10y Il large and enthusiastic
audience.


The epitaphs OF Dakota papers are
most pathetic. Jim Barrett had been
snow. from which he caught
a bad cold. which turned into fever.
The fever settled Jim's mundane affairs,
and local paper says most affectingly,
in his obituary, He won't have to
shovel snow in the country he has gone
too"


Kate stanton III her lecture on The
Loves of Great Men, asserts that plan
Us rcvolve around the sun by the intlu-
-nce of love like child revulves about
lis parent. When the writer was
BOY he used To reNolVc around his pa
'ent Il good deal. and may have been
melted thereto by love. but to an un-
Drejudiccd observer it looked powerful
y like trunk strap.-Ddnbury Nems
Year: 1873

have been spent upon the dead man in
the other house presided over by the
king OF telr"rs. 1t is said that from the
time of entering the last mentioned
house neither of the ladies was obscrv-
ed to drop Il teal, and that the old lady
never once produced her handlleI chici
during the entire ride to and from the
cemetery Cincinnati Commercial.
Year: 1873

Ga Thursday, all honor TO our Legisla-
ture, the school bill was passed over the
Governors veto. That the bill has defects,
its best friends will not deny, and such
must be the case in any bill that might be
passed 1t is a clearly determined fact in
the history of public free schools in every
State in America and Europe, that a school
law for any given district Of country or
people, can only be perfected in the light
of intelligent observation upon its practical
workings. The never has been Il
law yet framed that was adapted
to all countries or even To a
large number. 4 school law, to be sue
cess. must be engrafted into the policy Of a
State or government, and grow up and de-
vclop to a perfection that shall meet all the
exigencics of the case. The general defect
of school laws is complication-too much
machinery to work smoothly in the rural
districts and among those who have not
much leisure to devote to the study of the
law. As we understand the school bill, it
does not propose and is not designed to
supcrsedc all other systems and institutions
for education, but to furnish without
charge primary education for the masses.


If it proposes more, then we must
emphatically assert it is failure. 1t will
only be necessary to sustain this assertion
to refer to the fact that the education dur
ing ten months each year of all the chill
drcn of our State would cost not less than
three millions of dollars. This direct tax
added to other expenses Of our State gov
crnmcnt would be q heavy load to carry.


One of the grave objections urged to the
present school law is that it provides for
only four months session each year. In
the Northern States. which offer them
selves as AN example worthy of imita-
ton on the subject of education


and claim To have school laws as near per
fcction aS time and experience and
the mass Of the children do not at
tend school more than three months in
each year. and nearly all these public free
schools are taught by students from the va
rious colleges. The vacations Of the va
rivtr, c5iIvEos &C arranged % meet This
necessity and demand for teachers. BY
this plan, the masses in the North have
been educated in these primary schools,
which have in their reactive influence, sup
ported the high schools and colleges.


Another potent reason for this short
school term in the North Is that the chill
dren have to work in the field and shop and
factory large portion of the year to aid
their parents in securing for them food and
,iu,ning. y TIC property .:oldsrs aad taS
payers Of the State of Texas give to all the
children, within the school age, four months
schooling in each and every year. we assert
Year: 1873

1t will be recollected that the House
passed an election bill providing for the
election of thirty Senators and ninety Rep
resentatives next fall. This was done after
an indefinite bill, which had gone to the
Governor, had been withdrawn from his
hands by Speaker Taylor. When this new
House bill reached the Senate, that body
refused to adopt it, but amended by insert
ing instead of thirty, ten Senators. The
House then refused TO adopt the amended
bill, and on reaching the Senate again, that
body refused to recede from its amendment.
At this stage, on Thursday, the bill seemed
lost, but the circumstances only gave re-
newed energy to the friends of the bill, and
on Friday a reconsideration of the vote was
moved, and after the persistent tilibustering
on the part of its enemies, the Senate finally
agreed to recede from its amendment, and
the election law, providing for Il general
election on the first Tuesday in December
was passed.


The contest was led on the part of the
passage of the bill by Senator Finlay and
against its passage by Senator Fountain.
and while we admire the brilliant efforts of
the first, we must say that the tilibustcring
of the latter only required aid to have
made it more successful.


But thanks to the energy displayed, we
have this vexed question now disposed OF
there is%%every assurance that 1t VIII


,.r with the Governor S approval.
Year: 1873

Our readers have already been apprised
by our published telegraphic dispatches, of
the failure of Captain Halls Arctic expedi-
ton. Captain Hall died on the eighth of
November last, and shortly afterwards,
but on what account does not seem to be
shown, the crew of the Polaris separated :;
a portion, and an Esquimaux squaw and
some children left the ship and took pas
sage on floating iceberg, and Captain
Buddington remained on board the ship
with the remainder of the crew.


The Polaris has not been heard from yet,
but the party of Tyson and Myers were lately
rescued from the iceberg by the Tigress, and
on the twelfth instant were landed
ut st. Johns, Newfoundland. The Esqui-
mauX were led through the streets, and their
appearance created quite sensation.
Most of the party were destitute of cloth
ing, and liberal subscriptions were raised
for their relief. The Secretary of the
Navy has issued orders for the whole party
TO he brought to Washington, with a view
to an investigation of the management and
cause of the failure of the expedition, and
Il vessel has been sent in search of the Po-
laris. There seems to be an impenetrable
mystery surrounding the death of Captain
Hall, and the separation of the crew. which
we hope will soon be explained
Year: 1873

Seizure Of the Louisiana State Treasury.


From the New Orleans Herald of the 18th,
we learn that the Auditor, an officer cores
ponding to our State Comptroller, has
forcibly ousted the incumbent of the
Treasury, and taken possession of the of
flee, and merged the two into one Under
the laws of Louisiana the two offices arc
as separate and distinct as are the offices of
Comptroller and Treasurer in our State
but the new Kellogg Auditor named Clin-
ton has on his own motion. sustained by
Kellogg and federal bayonets, consolidated
the two offices, and hung out his sign in
large golden letters,


OFFICE OF STATE AUDITOR AND TREASURER.


The Herald says of the affair:


"A responsible and respectable cOlored
man, who was lawfully elected to the con-
stitutional office of State Treasurer, who
holds the Office by an indisputable title, is
thus outsted of the powers and duties of his
office, and the absolute control of the States
revenues arrogsted, by an illiterate adven-
turer who was defeated by popular vote
Of twelve thousand!n


This certainly is the highest tribute to the
honesty of that colored man, that could
.pOssibly have been paid him.


This case is about equal TO the high
handed usurpation, and insolence and reck-
lcssness of our executive. We wonder if
they have Supreme Court, TO which they
can appeal and have this outrage as promptly
rebulled as ours have rebuked the insolence
and tyranny of Governor Davis!
Year: 1873

BY reference to our telegraphic dispatches
it will he seen that Gen. Mckenzie has
crossed the Rio Grande, in pursuit of the
marauding Kickapoo Indians, gave them
battle and routed them, and upon his return
his command was fired on by the Mexicans.
Whether or not this means war, we are as
yet unable to tell, but if there ever was n
people whose stock Of patience could he
exhausted by the repeated outrages and dep
rotations of Il neighboring semi-barbarous
nation, the people of Texas have suffered
enough to long since have reached the point
when forbcaancc should cease to hc Il
virtue


We dare say that there breathcs not man
within the limits of the vast State of Texas,
who does not eNclaim on reading this glori-
Gus news, ''All honor to the noble and gal
liant Mckenzie" Texas is indebted TO his
courage and mIrcpidIuy alone, for whatever
of meagre protection has been given to
her suffering frontier for the last seven
years, and they will not soon forget his dar-
ing deeds, skill and success in her behalf
and if war is the result of his conduct, will
not now, as she has never done, refuse To
boldly bear her share of the struggle.
Year: 1873

1t is real misfortune when the law-mak-
ing power have to resort to indirect and
doubtful legislation to meet great pressing
necessity. The settlers on our Indian from
tier, wasted and suffering from constant
raids by the Indians, having been denied
sufficient protection by Federal troops, and
having been refused the privilege of organ
izing in military companies to protect them
selves, our Legislature have been forced to
resort to the indirect and doubtful method
of remitting the tax levied on certain from
tier counties, and His Excellency the Cover
nor has permitted, as the only remedy in his
power, this act to become law, although he
doubted its constitutiOnality. It is certain
ly demonstrative evidence of great imper-
fection in the principles of our government,
or an utter disregard or palpable violation
of the fundamental law of our confedera-
ton. A State is refused both the means
and the L-ts-z-nroteck its cs'lEenS, and
EpfOperT9 from tho conseu-ss( EpredatiOfrs on
Indians-Indians, too, that are in perpetual
and avowed hostility to both Federal
and State authority. A government
may be justly declared in state of
transition, or weak from youth
or imbecility, when it fails or refuses to
meet the exigencies of case so important
and yet so simple and easy of adjustment.
We are at least pleased to see His Excel
lency the Governor go to the extent of his
authority in giving protection to these suf-
fering people. A people left to defend
themselves singly and alone, ought at least
to be released from paying tax that so i'm
perfectly secured them the most sacred
rights of citizenship. How far this indi-
rect legislation may go towards securing
the object designed, we ale not prepared to
say. Time alone can prove its success or
faiIurp
Year: 1873

Now that the new school bill has become
law, it is to be hoped that the Democrats
of Texas will leave nothing undOne which
will make the public school system a sue
cess. Let them show that they really are
the friends of education, 10y coming up like
men and paying the taxes necessary for their
support, and let them take that pride in the
success of wide spread education, which
will show to the world that those people
whose interests are closely allied to those of
the State, are liberal and enlightened In
ante bellam times a rich provision was laid
aside for the purposes of education-the
richest that any people ever provided-and
now let the same people who acted thus
wisely show that they are, in spite of the
vile and wholesale ISLANDERS to the contrary.
the real friends of education. Let us build
up . school system Of which III can feel
proud.
Year: 1873

The State obligates itself to pay certain
salaries to its employees; and is it not its
duty to pay this amount in paper worth its
face value, instead of in warrants at present
valued at not more than eighty cents on
the dollar, with probability of much
greater depreciation? When warrant is
drawn upon the treasury, the money should
be there to meet it upon demand. If any
thing is to be lost the State should be the
loser, and not the employee, who is barely
promised enough to support him. That
promise should be made good by placing
the money in the treasury to meet the de
mAnd --D-
Year: 1873

that if the children improve this privilege
in few years Texas will be the model
State of the world; every child viii have a
good education, sufficient for all the practi-
cal business pursuits Of life.


We hope some one will be placed in
charge of this important field who can
bring to bearin its development well cul-
tivatcd mind and large experience as an
educator, and an untiring devotion to its
duties. BY this means we will perfect a
school law that will be the pride and honor
of our State, and exercise an extensive in
fluence in attracting population to our un-
settled domain.
Year: 1873

South lie is as bitter to-day as he was in
1860, when he preached and practised re-
bellion and secession. The result of the
war has not changed single one of his
political opinions, and he does not hesitate
to say 50. Yet he is the Presidents
fayorite for Governor of the Old Dominion.
But his great rcdeeming quality is that he is
friend of the President, and the President
is great friend of Wise.


This step is doubtless taken ON the part
of the administration in accordance with
the determination to ''make treason edieus;"
not treason to the government, but to the
person of the President, which he seems to
hold greater crime than an attempt to
overthrow the government. Treason cannot
be committed against the State, but it may
be against the person of his august majesty.
Year: 1873

The Sandwich Islanders are said to be
anxious Pronunciation to the United States
General Schofeld is in Honolulu, working
up the natives, and he hopes to prevail
upon the President to recommend the meas
ure TO the next Congress, Notwithstanding
the failure of the San Domingo scheme.
Year: 1873

Cal. Cook, of the Gonzales Index is in
our city. A large number of editors have
been in Austin during the last month, and
are giving their expressions in regard to. the
action of our Legislature. We are glad to
learn that they are all satisfied that the
Thirteenth Legislature has been hard
working body and have consummated
great amount of needed legislation.
Year: 1873

The New Orleans Herald is responsible
for the following:


The ill-fated Atlantic, of the White Star
Line, could hardly have been a favorite
with underwriters. For, as one of the Star
Line, she would naturally be a mast risk
IAN asteriskD This is intended as a dismal
Joke
Year: 1873

vine, who was one of the most earnest
devoted, and liberal men that labored
with the Fathers in building the church.
and afterward labOred as earnestly to
have il used and preserved. 1t is said
that he took the greatest pains while he
lived t" see that the house was proper
ly cared for. He would. even when
age almost confined him to the house.
go to the church when he saw Il door or
window left open and carefully close it.
Others were devoted. but he seemed to
take especial pains To see that every
thing was cared for as it should he.
He was always willing and ready to
hestow of his means whatever was
necessary or was asked for to keep the
building i'll repair and meetings con-
stantly held. We would not in the
least disparage the efforts and devoted
ness of others, but his efforts come
prominently before us in this history.


One prominent object in rebuilding,
was to keep here upon this hallowed
spot II suitable mcmento to the devoted
feelings and consecrated labors of the
fathers and mothers who once worshiped
here but have now gone on or are rapid
ly passing away. That object has been
well secured. and now that the temple
is ready t" consecrate the spot, made
sacred by the labors of the past, may
consecrated hearts gathering here from
Sabbath to Sabbath in the spirit and
attitude of worship consecrate the Tenn
pie to the ever living God.
Year: 1873

| [Dclivered at the dedication of the new Union
Church at Concord Corner, Sept ,, ls73.


/ find that it has fallen to my lot to


deliver the historical address of the


occasion. And after very short no.
! ticc of the part assigned me. with some
what limited means for asccrtaining the


complete history of the Church which


we to-day dedicate. come before yOu


with an address which may in some re-
| spectS he imperfect in its historical bear
| ingS. Under the circumstances. it could
not well be otherwise. but ''Such as
/ have give unto thee and if it prove
more complete than anticipate. it will
at least afford some satisfaction to all
| who are interested in this history, to
done to preserve Il record of the deeds
and words of those, who. in tine days
| long since gone 10y. were accustomed to
gather III the ancient church which oc-
cupicd the place upon which this tenn
pie now stands.


In tracing this history we shall need
to go back To the year 1916, titty-seven
years ago. when railroads and all the
modern conveuicnceS of travel were I'M
known. 1t waS in that year that the
church was erected and it WAS the first
one built in the town. We may not
know all the struggle which il cost the
fathers and mothers who were then, i'll
the prime of life. battling hravely for
an existence i'll Il new and almost an


unsettled section of country, to build
ment to their heroic endeavOrs to secure
for themselves and their children, those
religious privileges which they had al
ready learned were essential to their
happiness and true success in life.
Could we know all the sacrifices. and
the amount of effort that was made i'll
building and finishing their church. it
would probably shame the efforts of
many who at the present day give so
reluctantly of their means and efforts
to advance religious work. 1t is suf
ficient to say that Notwithstanding the
difficulties which beset their labors, and
difficulties there must have been of 10
mean proportions, considering their
circumstances, they struggled on with
that energy which knew no such word
as fail. and completed their house.


am told, for it was not my privilege
to see the original house, that it was
claboratelv finished and decorated in
side with carved and other ornamental
work 1t was equal perhaps to the
finest structures of the day, or in other
words, as compared to other churches
of the time, it held the place, which is
occupied at the present age by our
finest church structures in comparison
to those of more modest pretensiOns.
OF those most prominent i'll urging and
helping forward the first building the
names of Judge Williams and Mr.. War
ren stand out in bold relief. Judge
Williams gave generously fer the pur-
pose and Mr.. Warren gave the bell,
which at that time it was no small task
to secure and transport to its destined


ANY person who can give any additional facts
or information connected with the history OF the
old Congregational Church at Concord Corner VIII
confer favor upon those interested in rebuilding
the Church, if they will address Rev j. H. Little,
at West Concord, giving such facts or incidents,
that the history may De made more perfect for
preservation.
Year: 1873

The New Orleans Republican sharply
reproves those newspapers which speak
of McEnery and his coadjutors as the
Government of Louisiana. We quote


The "McEnery Government, So
called, is composed entirely of the hand
full of Bourbon Democrats and about
half dozen renegade Republicans who
joined the Fusion movement last fall
from mixed motives of spite and
hope of gain. The Liberals and true
Reformers have withdrawn from the
concern long ago. The few Republicans
of the better class who gave adherence
ut first kave had nothing to do with il
since it became manifest that the only
hope to win was in cheating. The