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Year: 1875

A CURIOUS RELIC.-The San Bernardino

 Times thus describes recent "findn in that i vicinity:

 A teamster on the railroad, while bathing

 Tn Whitewater, some thirty miles east of San Bernardino, observed dark, circular object in the stream, which on being brought

 to the surface, proved to be a truly marvel | ous piece of workmanship. The article in

 question is composed of certain peculiar

 slatc-colored stone, similar to that usually

 employed by the Indians of British Columbia

 for the manufacture of pipes, and it is hot

 found anywhere in this State. In form it is

 circular, being somewhat shaped like large

 dlnner-plate; the bottom for about six inches

 Tn diameter is perfectly smooth. and has a

 circular orifice in ;he center about half an

 inch Tn diameter. Toward the rim it pre-

 sents singular convex appearance this rim on the outer surface Is surrounded with a

 wreath of grapevines, so faultlessly engraved that even the most minute fibers of the leaves are clearly outlined. On the upper surface of the rim is a peculiar border, composed first of two parallel lines extending around the entire rim, with an interval of about two inches between the lines, in the center of these lines running at right angles, at regular intervals, are smaller lines convergne from the inner line in the form of quarter circles. meeting in the center, where they pass through ovals, ending on the outer line Tn the center of crescent facing out ward; while traversing the whole is waving line extending around the center of the outer lines. The centre of this curious work, however, is tho most astonishing DOT ton. On it appears marvelously beautiful and faultlessly executed wreath of flowers. leaves, vines and scroll-work, every bud leaf and flower being perfectly natural and life like to the minutest details. The whole is polished in the highest manner, and is as smooth as glass. The entire workmans hip. in beauty of design and delicacy of finish ex- cels the choicest productions of modern ar- lists, and shows that the people by whom it was executed had reached an advanced stage of civilization. 1t is almost with feeling of | reverence that we gaze upon this relic of a | past race, of whom no history has yet been found other than the ruins scattered on the | plains, whose origin and history is enveloped in impenetrable obscurity, which probably never will be penetrated. The plate is in . remarkable state of preservation, owing no 1oubt to the indestructible quality of the 'tone of which it is composed.
Year: 1875

CIRCUIT COURT OF RICHMoND.-The case OF
Hays Us, New York and Richmond Granite
Company is set for trial in the city Circuit
Court to. day, when it is understood MIR.
Royal, counsel for the defendant, will move
the transfer OF it to the United States court.
The suit is for claim for services us super
iptendent of the quarry Of tie company.
Year: 1875

The death of Joseph Cooper, of How


ard county, one of the oldest and most


respected residents of this section, re-


calls startling incident connected with


the Cooper fort, which was located


about eight miles above this city, on


the Missouri river. The time this Oc-


Cured Was in the year 1915, or 1916,
and at that tiUue the country was full
of hostile Indians.


Just at daybreak the settlement was
alarmed by an attack of Indians, and
it was only by the utmost bravery and
daring that they were retained in
check long enough to allow the fami-
lies to rush inside the fori for safety.
Once within the wall they held the
savage3 in detiance-fOr a time only.
On CONSULTATION it was decided that the
whites could not resist but q short time
the attack of the Indians; and, in order
to secure aid, courier must be sent
to the Kincaid fort, almost Immediate
ly opposite this city, and about ten
miles from the place in which
they were surrounded. There were
but few men, and it was too haZ-
ardOusa trip to think of sending a wO-
man. What to do they knew not. But
delay was dangerous; every moment
was fraught with peril, and had it not
been for the her, ism of Miss 'Millie'
CoOper-a sister of the worthy pioneer
abOve-in all probability
they would all have perished. She
stepped calmly forward, and babe
them bring her favOrite horse be-,


longing to the family, and with the
tears and prayers of Ler imperiled
friends, rode forth on her noble mis-
sion. As she dashed out of the enclC-
sure the m1rderous Indians let fly
shower of arrows, and with blood trick


ing down her horses sides, she fair


" flew from danger. In a short
lime she arrived at the Kincaid fort
and related her story. Reinforcements
were sent out Immediately, and before
the dinner hour the rascally redskins
were routed and the settlers saved.
The noble bravery of the young girl
won her a name that will not soon be
forgotten in this part of the State
(MO.) Pioneer.
Year: 1875

The following good advice is from an
address delivered before the Bucks
County (Pa.) Agricultural Society by
Thomas Shellcross:


Economical farming implies several :
conditions. We must raise greater
crops per acre, 1t takes no longer to
cultivate good crop than a poor one.
We must have the most improved i'm
plements; machinery is cheaper than
labor. A man with corn-plow can do
double the work he could do with a
cultivatOr, and do it better. A good
washing machine materially lightens
the cares of the household. The sew
ing machine might be a great labor
saving machine; but since its intrOduc-
tiOn there are so many useless seams
made that the labOrs o. the women do
not seem to be made any lighter. / re-
member once seeing a garment with
nineteen tucks.


There is no economy in purchasing
half-wOrn implements. They will be
continually out of order. The first wear
is always the best.


Pay as you GO. A man with cash in
his hands ean always purchase to much
better advantage than he who expects
a credit. / have seen corn bring S1.10
rer bushel on credit of nine months,
when the market price was only eighty
five cents.


The farmer must keep well posted.
1t is a great matter of economy that be
be well supplied with papers and mag
azines. Not only his county paper,
which tells him of affairs about home;
but also one of the great dailies, which
lets him look right out into the world.
AT least one of the journals devoted to
agriculture should find access to his
home. One or two hints picked up
through the year will amply repay the
cost of subscription:
Year: 1875

of the country are firmly opposed to third
term upon principle, and this resolution it is
not in the power of any combination that
could be formed to change; nor do We believe
that President Grant is party, in any shape
or form, to the alleged movement. If there
are Republicans who have a third-term idea,
they are not the friends of Grant or the party
to which they profess to belong. The object
of Democrats in agitating it is plain enough,
but they cannot in this way reconcile the diff
ference in their own ranks, or divert the at
tention of Republicans from the important
task of nominating candidate acceptable to
the country generally, and who can be elect
Cincinnati Gdzette
Year: 1875

When does daughter appear so at
tractive as when showing her love to
father or mother-as when employed
in tightening their cares or relieving
their burdens? 1t would not be far
IRON wrong to say to a young man
who is looking with some degree OF In,
terest for a life-companion:-Would
Won know W hat kind of wife she will
make upon whom now you have your
eve? Ask what kind of daughter she
is now. If she is indolently selfish,
leaving care and work to her mother
especially if she is unIoving or unduti-
tableware Of her-sbe is not likely to
make you happy. If she is an.affee-
tionate and self-denying daughter; II
she is intimate and confidential with
her parents, you have in that the best
promise of happiness in the future.
The eve of father or mother beaming
with delight as it rests upon a daugh-
ter's form, moving lightly in their
presence, is an unspoken recommenda-
ton of untold value.
Year: 1875

SECRETARY CHANDLER positively and expli-
city denies that recent removals in the In
terror Department have been made because of
refusal to pay political assessments, or for any
other partisan consideration. The removals
were for cause. and not from political mo-
tiyes
Year: 1875

Nor long ago Chief justice Waite, in
conversation with one of the leading
members of the faction that were striv
ing TO put him up MS candidate, stated
that under no circumstances would he
permit his name to be used in that con-
nection. He said that in the line of his
profession he had rearhed the highest
place that he could ever hope for, and
that his ambition wns fully satisfied.
He was grateful to his friends, but their
candidate he could not be.
Year: 1875

We should have known whether to re-
ject or print, as VIC know the citizens of
Port, or supposed we did. The fault is
ours. What penance will satisfy the
injured feelings of the good folks of that
town! We have been told by their
committee that the ladies have threaten
ed to egg us if we refused to betray the
writer. That would be unpleasant, but
if that is their second demand we will
submit without murmur, in preference
to betraying the sacred obligation of
secrecy between publisher and cores
pondent. The latter would be mean
and cowardly. The people of Port De-
post are not wise in their anger; and
were we to yield to their unjust demand
when the sober second thought return
ed, they would heartily despise the
mean cowardice that influenced US to
deliver up an innocent and perhaps
helpless victim. We acknowledge that
the people of Port Deposit have been
good friends and kind patrons of THE
WING, and none are more panied at
their displeasure than we are, but we
cannot do the mean thing they demand.
We were not deceived by the writer,
but it was an error of judgment on our
part. 1t is vexaton but not an in
jury the citizens have suffered, and the
trouble arises from viewing the subject
from different standpoints. We assure
the Port Depostonians that all the rest
of the world views it from our stand
point of observation, and they alone
have got on the side of the eclipse
" Let us have peace" without shedding
the blood of the long Kentuckian or
gentle "Cousin Sue"
Year: 1875

A lull in the liquor license agitation
has succeeded the brisk breeze which
sprang up Immediately on the drawing
of the Grand Jury. For week past
we have heard or seen little or nothing
of the petitions pro and con that were
circulating for signatures. On Monday
next the Jury meets, and the moment
Gus question of grog or no grog, or a
limited ration, will be submitted to them
to scratch their wise heads over.


Last week we gave brief review of
some of the legal points raised against
the constitutionality of the grand jury
law, without vouching for their sound
ness or unsoundness. A dametricallv
opposite opinion is advanced by others,
learned in the law, who maintain that
the Constitution and custom unques-
tionably confer jurisdiction on the Grand
jury to determine the question of
granting licenses; that the Grand Jury
has always exercised the authority of
ordering licenses not to be granted by
the Clerk to certain houses or persons
when they thought it the interest of the
community to have such licenses with
held, and that the Clerk was bound to
obey the command. If this has always
been the law and custom, then the new
law, which requires the Grand Jury to
act directly on the issuing or withhold
ing all liquor licenses, does not confer
any new powers upon that body, but
makes what was before matter of op-
ton, a primary duty. If this opinion
be good law then the act of the Grand
Jury will stand the severest test that it
may be subjected to, and prove to be
law indeed. What they bind will be
bound and what they loose will be
loosed, and no legal arts will prevail
against their behests in the matter
and the men who sell the liquor will
have to fold their tents and prepare to
march in quest of other fields to reap.
Year: 1875

The stomach has bccn well named ro,al oruan -
since il sways and controls the entire system every
gland, tissue and nerve sympathizing with it as the
servants of prince sympathize with their master
Each of them is fed and sustained by it-even the
brain itself the center of sensation absolutely de-
pended uion ii for sustenance Consequently when


the stomach fails TO perform its amportant Office the
subordinate organs also falter in their duty The
reason why liostetter's Stomach Biters have such
wondrously beneficial effect upon the general health
they speedily overcome weakness disorders of tho
stomach and thus insure complete nourishment of the
entire system and healthful performance of its various
functions. Unlike those stimuants whose alcoholic
principle is modified by judicious medication the
spiruous basis of these tters which the purcst
description, holds in solution herbal alternatives and
invgorans to which foremost rank been assigned
in materia meca. But it is not alone the fact that
these sovereign botanic elements into the COM
position of the Btters that CONSTITUTES. them such
benign tonic and corrective but also that they
happily combined that the full effect of each ererted
upon the disordtred or debtated system. The diges
their ben"fccn operation. which extends, by sympa-
thy to the brain the and the circulation
influence thus exerted fruitful of great sanitary
results which have built up the reputation of this
truly national medicine
Year: 1875

set up? By the same argument you must
license every other evil that cannot be
entirely prevented by law, or that can raise
money or influence enough to hinder its
execution.


Further in answer to (5.) Can you Sc
cure any responsible hands" to engage
in business directly antagonistic to every
principle of Christianity9 Habakkuk 2:15.


Co., Are "personal rights superior to
the rights of the community, when the
exercise of those "personal rights by
few are destructive to tho individual rights
of the many The law does not presume
to say what man may eat, or drink, or
wear, or make, or use ON his own premises,
provided he does not injure his neighbor
in the operation) but it says he shall not
sell that which is an injury to the COM
munity. The right of government to do
this has never been questioned. The right
to regulate by restrictive lao includes the
right to prohibit. The right to prohibit
on election day includes the right for the
rest of the year. The municipal authority
that can prevent man from erecting a
slaughter house because it will offend the
olfactories and possibly cause disease in
hot weather, can also prohibit the opening
of saloon to offend all the senses of decent
people and spread moral pestilence all the
year round. There is no law for the pro-
motion of virtue but what infringes upon
personal rights" and all this cry about
"sumptuary laws is mere bosh.


With the prtrate drinking of liquor, bad
as it is, government has nothing to do; but
with the public sale of it, government has
and does concern itself.


HEAVY MuSlius. heavy Cottonades: Jeans
Year: 1875

aspect. One of the anxious problems of our
politics is the tendency of Chinese emigra-
tion to pour into our Pacific Territories. With
an overhowing country on one side, and one
practically uninhabited on the other, and only
the sea intervening what must be the result
There will be an irresistible tendency on the
part of the Chinese TO seek home under our
flag. If we are wise we shall so conduct our
selves in this complication as to strengthen
our influence in China. England controls
India by virtue of what was done by Give
and Hastings and the cruel men who in
seizing that Empire, indelibly stained the
English name. Let America so act that out
Of these complications, ever occurring and
inevitable, we shall gain paramount inhu-
ence over her rulers and people, an influence
based upon kindness, generosity and fair
play
Year: 1875

If our magnificent weather continues the
autumn meeting at Jerome Park, which be-
gins on Saturday, will be an event of un-
usual interest. The preparations for the
meeting are unusual. The track is in excel
lent condition and the stables are full of
good horses. The leading turfmen of the
country will be present and most of the
famous horses of the season will take part in
the contests. There was a discomforting
rumor to the effect that the horse disease
was troubling the racers There has
only been slight foundation for this
story, and if the present weather continues
no danger is apprehended from it. The
autumn meeting will be for seven days, be-
ginning on the I'd of October and ending on


the 10th. This will take the best half of


the month the most glorious month of the


year in our Northern climate. We think
that the true time for racing is the autumn.
1t has been our custom, in imitation of the
races in the spring. This is because the
Derby takes place in the spring. Spring,
pleasant as it is, does not compare
with October. May and June are more
agreeable in the humid climate of England
and in the low countries of Northern France.
The English and French select their own
month for races, and we should select ours
without regard to their example. October is
the ripe fall season. Nature is in her best
mood, rich and full, with enough Of the
early tinges of autumn and winter to give the
scenery new life and new color. The breezes
are fresh and strengthening. A ride from
New York to Jerome Park in April or May
is languid experience compared with ride
in October, with the sharp sea air coming
over the Sound and the cool breezes from
the Palisades and the Westchester hills and
the long-extending reaches of forest and
plain, the trees turning into yellow and
brown as though they had been dipped in
wine.
Year: 1875

The correspondence in the case of Law
renee, the alleged silk smuggler, and the state
ments of the accused, which we publish to-
day, develop some interesting points. In her
extradition treaties with other countries than
the United States England provides that per-
sons extradited must be tried on the charges
upon which they are returned to the govern
ments claiming them. In her treaty with us no
such provision exists, but Parliament passed
a law in 1870 requiring that alleged crimi-
nails surrendered to the United States should
be so surrendered only on the implied agree
ment that they were to be tried for the
offences mentioned in the requisition. Law
renee was extradited on the charge of forgery
but the authorities decline to put him on
trial for forgery, and intend instead to try
him for smuggling-an offence not recognized
in the treaty. Everybody believes that tho
prisoner is one of gang who have defrauded
the United States of large amount OF
money, and who deserve punishment AZ
much for the injury they inhict on honest
business men as for their violations of the
laws of the country. At the same timo it
would be a very dangerous precedent to
establish should we persist in our right
to claim the extradition of person on ono
charge and try and convict him on another
not covered by an extradition treaty. The
United States government cannot afford to
resort to such trick even for the satisfac-
ton of Furnishing bold gang of public rob-
Year: 1875

IMPORTANT. Mr.. Morris, q friend Of one
plan for rapid transit in the city, has in
formed one Of our reporters that the rejection
of his scheme will be the death of all our
hopes for rapid transit In fact that he
Tooley street have made up their minds that
if the public want their kind of rapid transit
they may have it, but if they do not want
their kind they shall not have any. 1t is
well that we know this in time.
Year: 1875

The democratic rag money canvass in
Pennsylvania does not open brightly. Dis
satisfaction is expressed with Judge Per-
shing's letter, accepting the nomination for
Governor, and especially with his declared
determination to retain his seat on the bench
and take no part in the canvass. We do not
see how Judge Pershing could very well
have acted otherwise, except on the single
point of resigning his judicial Office. The
blunder of the campaign lies at the door
of the Convention. To nominate a candi-
date who stultifed the platform, or adopt
platform which stultifes the candidate, was
not a promising road to success. For
hard money candidate to take the stump
and go about the State making initiation
speeches would be too preposterous.
Instead of standing on the platform
he would be compelled to make ridic-
ulous attempts to straddle it, as he
has done in his letter of acceptance Such
speeches would damage the canvass more
than they could help it. The Ohio Conven-
ton, lacking all other merit, had the merit Of
consistency. 1t did not attempt to put
square man in round hole. In Ohio the
candidates match the platform, and wrong
headed campaign is prosecuted with concen-
tration and vigor The democrats will be
badly beaten in Pennsylvania unless the re-
suit in Ohio should give them tremendous
boost.


Judge Pershing's retention of his Office is
consistent with the maxim that zone bird
in the hand is worth two in the BUSH
But he has respectable precedent to
keep him in countenance. Judge Bedle of
New Jersey adopted the same course last
year, and although the republican press
tried TO make a handle of it he retained
the respect of the people and was elected
Governor. But there is an obvious inn
propriety in judges mixing in the strife of
parties and running for political Offices and
the constitution of New York, as amended
in 1869, prohibits it, by declaring that all
votes given to judges for any other than
judicial offices, whether by the people or the
Legislature, shall be void and not counted
It was this provision of the constitution that
prevented Chief Justice Church from taking
the democratic nomination for Governor,
which he could have had on the slightest in
timation that he would accept it.
Year: 1875

Discoveries ON LONG ISLAND. An account
is given in another column of subterranean
river on Long Island, which seems to indi-
cate that we have at our doors q natural
curiosity as great as that of 'Divine
Alpheus, who by o secret sluice stole under
seas to meet his Arethuse." There is no
good reason, perhaps, why subterranean
river should be so much more wonderful
than the myriad subterranean streams that
flow from springs and feed our wells in
every part of the country; yet such stories
have always an interest allied to the mar
vellous Some years ago philanthropist in
France gave great deal of attention to the
study of subterranean streams. and as q re-
Year: 1875

The PRINCE OF WALEs.-The British ship
SeIapis has sailed to take the Prince Of Wales
pn board for his trip to India. This is the
first time Senpis has become famous under
Tho British flag since Paul Jones sent
lrigato of the name TO the bottom of the
Scotch coast in the bloody battle with the
Ton Homme Richard. Evidently no un-
fortunate omen in connection with the name
has dampened the ardor Of the official mind
in the brilliant preparations for this visit,
u full account Of which is given in another
Column.
Year: 1875

We ARE INFORMED by our special cable
despatch from Vienna that the Porte has no
tifed the Great Powers that it cannot afford
to keep hundred thousand men watching
the frontier, and that conflict with Servia
and Montenegro appears unavoidable. And
when the inevitable conflict comes, who can
see the end Of it?
Year: 1875

suit Of his investigations supplied with
water districts previously much distressed
for want of it He was, however, never re-
garded as a public benefactor, but was
contemplated with superstitious awe as "a
WITCH" and perhaps may have thanked the
nineteenth century for immunity from hot
daath
Year: 1875

FAST TRAINS. superintendent Bangs yes
terday addressed the Board of Trade on mail
deliveries, pointed out that the government
can only run one fast train day, and gave
good reasons Why as it can only run one,
that that one should start in the morning.
His remarks are reported elsewhere.