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Year: 1871

The practice of soiling instead of
pasturing cattle is becoming much
more common than heretofore, and
it will be necessary for those who
contemplate commencing next sea-
son to prepare in time. The profit
in soillng lies chiefly in raising
heavy crops of grass fodder from
small or comparatively small pieces
of land. The. soil must therefore
be made rich and be well worked.
Whatever portion of ground is laid
out for this purpose should be well
manured and plowed now; and ear
ly next month portion of it be
sown with rye, for the first cutting.
Another portion should be prepared
for oats, to be sown as early as the
ground will permit in spring. The
clover that is to be depended on as
part of the supply should be top
dressed late in the season, and un-
der no circumstances should it be
pastured.


In soiling successfully the secret
is to have plenty of fodder always
ready for a succession, so that one
supply may not run out before the
next is ready for cutting. Calcula-
tion and early preparation are there
fore absolutely necessary.
Year: 1871

Place the hide on a smooth, round
sided slab made for the purpose,
with two legs in one end, and the
other end rest on the ground; drive
a nail in the upper end to hold the
skin from slipping while feshing.
Scrape off all the flesh with blunt
knife, being careful not to tear the
hide.


Then take the brains of the
squirrel and work them thoroughly
into the skin; this renders the skin
pliable. Then to protect the skin
from the ravages of insects, scatter
on some powdered alum and a little
saltpetre. Let dry; then stretch
and work it until as pliable as may
be desired. f-l-


The above is acknowledged to be
a very good recipe for tanning all
kinds of fur, although there may
be better ones in use.-Cor. Rural
Neac Yorker.
Year: 1871

The old idea that persons could
not entertain their friends without
turning their house into a restaur-
ant is beginning to die out among
sensible people, and entertainments
where only cake and lemonade are
passed around will be considered
more select than the big supper
affairs.
Year: 1871

legal proof 1t is often found in glaring
crimes that, while the main track is safely
covered up, some little bypath, which, from
its very insignifcance, has been left un-
guarded, leads to the detection of the guilty.
The Harlem Court House fraud may be COM
paratively trifing when viewed in the light Of
the Ingersoll and Garvey robberies; but,
probably, owing to this very fact, 1t may
suffice to draw down upon the heads Of the
public plunderers the penalties Of violated
law. Some four or five millions may have
been stolen in the City Park, while the
plunder of the Harlem Court House only
amounts to o quarter of million. Yet both
are grand larcenies, and it will be just as well
to convict on one complaint as on the other.
Let Tweed and Connolly be called to account
by the Grand Jury in this minor swindle, if
the evidence should be found conclusive
against them, and then the path will be made
clear for more important prosecutions. Let
us strike at the municipal guerillas through
any opening that their armor may afford, how
ever slight it may be, and their destruction is
assured.
Year: 1871

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Grand Jury.


The principal cause Of the failure Of the
efforts heretofore made to bring to justice the
dishonest public officers and their fellow con-
ypirators who have between them defrauded
The citizens Of New York Of many millions OF
dollars has been the unfortunate mixing up
of political interests with the struggle for mu-
hicipal reform. If it had been possible to
have excluded from the great movement all
considerations except those of the detection
of crime, the stern punishment Of offenders
and the publication Of the several city depart
@enis. We should not now be suffering under
The stigma Of having permitted all the guilty
parties !o escape or defy justice. To political
sxpediency We owe the want of concentration
and dircctness In NV working M cases in such a
manner as to bring them within The reach and
power Of the law, To the same evil we may
Justly attribute those indscrimlnate attacks.
alike upon men Of honor and Of dishonor, which
have served to divert attention from the true
Issues, and to enable the real culprits to es-
cape unnjured amid the smoke Of q random
fre.


Judge Bedford has now put his hand to the
work, and as he Is free from all political
bonds, and desirous Of devoing himself singly
10 the cause Of the people in their crusade
sgains. the shrewd and powerful knaves by
whom they have been plundered, we may rea-
sonably anticipate some practical results from
his labors, and look with confidence to the
yindicatiou Of the law and the punishment Of
those who have rendered themselves liable to
its penalties. AT the same time we must not
close our eyes to the fact that legal proof Is
needed in order to tx criminalty, and that
evidence sufficient to convince every reason
able man of the guilt Of an accused party Is
not enough to satisfy the strict and probably
Just requirements Of the law. Before We can
punish the most notorious offender we must
yecure evidence against him that will not only
garry conviction to the minds Of an unbiased
Jury, but that will stand the sharp test Of legal
pcrutiny. 1t should, therefore, be tho object
Of Judge Bedfords Grand Jury to perfect one
case against the city peculators by means
of which the ends OF Justice can be
secured. We have reason to believe
That this opportunity is afforded BY
the Harlem Court House job, if the bigger
swindle of the City Park Court House should
haye been 20 cpnpip2ly arranged as to defy
Year: 1871

REVIVAL OF THE BROADWAY RAILROAD
SCHEME. There Is good reason to believe
that the opposition of certain politicians to
the Viaduct Railway project, and the threat
ened attempt to procure the repeal of the law
passed last winter for the construction Of that
great work, are the preliminary steps Of an
effort to obtain from the next Legislature
charter for Broadway railroad. This
favorite scheme of the lobbyists, in which
many millions of dollars are believed to be
contained, has been for years standing
applicant for legislative favor, and has been
taken hold of and pushed by all parties, from
~. Tvs of Jacob Sharpe down to the present
fine Tv,ss z PASSED both houses, but was
met by veto In the Executive Chamber;
the last time at the hands Of Governor Sey-
mour, who made many bitter enemies by the
act. On every occasion republican journal
in this city, now leading the crusade against
the viaduct, has had an interest in the bill, and
IL has at times been engineered by some of
the stockholders Of that paper. The agitation
for the repeal of the viaduct Railway charter
now means the revival Of the old Broadway
Railroad project in the approaching session.
The people OF New York can judge for them
selves which Of these two works will be the
most beneficial to property and the most
useful to our citizens.
Year: 1871

all other papers, by reason Of the facilities we
possess, SO we have reported hundreds Of
others ahead Of the so-called commercial
papers. And SO we shall continue to do until
the HERALD is acknowledged by the world to
be as far ahead in marine as it is in all other
descriptions of news.
Year: 1871

ADVERTISEMENTS BY TELEGRAPH. The ad-
vertising patrons Of the HERALD can now use
the Uptown Branch Office for handing in their
advertise ments up to nine o'clock in the even
ing. The two Offices being now connected by
telegraph the hours for reception and proper
classification Of oil advertisements are the
samA at both.
Year: 1871

A Constant Reader" refers to our late
editorial allusion to Chief Justice Chase as
now belonging to the hardsheIl democrats,
and asks us to explain the difference between
hardshell and sofishell democrats. We will.
Under Pierces administration the democracy
of this State were divided into the two factions
of hardshells and softshells. The hardshells
were so called because they were hard on the
slavery question, going the whole South
Carolina sandhier's doctrine of ''damn q
nigger, anyhow" The softshelIs were so
called because they were rather soft on
the questions Of slavery and free soil, and
were inclined to the idea that even q
niger had some rights (which white man
was bound to respect" This explains our
late remark to the effect that Chief Justice
Chase would no longer serve to bring over
republicans to the democratic camp, because
he has become bardshel democrat, while in
1868 he was the very man wanted by the
democracy, because he was softshell,
fresh from the transition state of the shedder


Any one who knows anything Of crabs will
understand these terms-hardshell, shedder
and softshell. The hardshell crab, though
good enough in its way, is compared with the
softshell, a very inferior article. The shedder
is the crab just at that point where he is ready
to cast off his coat OF mail and come out
softshell The softshel is the crab just out of
his coat of mail, soft, fat and pulpy, even
his claws being SOFT eatable and delicious.
But old crabbers say that softshelI crab,
after basking few hours In the sun near the
sandy shore in the warm, shallow water, begins
to harden, and that In less than two days he
becomes . regular hardshell. So it is with
Chief Justice Chase as democrat-in 1867
he was shedder; in 1868 he was softshell;
but in 1871 he has become regular hardshel,
and will not serve as bait for your dainty re-
publican. Hence the new agitation among the
democrats for softshell Presidential candi-
date, or q shedder fresh from the republican
pool.
Year: 1871

proof Of tho unexampled prosperity Of a land
in which republican institutions are es.ab-
lisbed. 1t would be revelation of the might
OF free, self-governing people. 1t would be
an eloquent protest against the iniquity and
destructveness OF such dynas.ic duels as the
one in which the Franco prussian war began.
1t would be sincere expression Of our sympa-
thy with the people of both France and Ger
many, and of our gratitude to each nation
for the inestimable advantages which we have
ourselves derived from their science, art and
civilization. In ine it would be the best pro-
clamation in favor Of practical republicanism
which the United States could make to Europe
and the world.
Year: 1871

THE IoE CRoP looks prosperous for the
coming summer season. Sog great has been the
abundance on the Hudson river alone that the
ice houses are all glutted with the article.
Although we are in the coolest portion of the
winter, and ice is still superabuudant, the
gathering of the crop will cease altogether on
the Hudson tonight, the reason why being that
there is no room for more. In Maine and all
the Eastern States the ice crop this year ia
something immense. Now we will see what
the ice companies will have to say about the
price on the Fourth Of July next. What kind
OF an account Of their winter stewardship
will they give9 Last summer, we remember,


the plea OF mild winter in lS69-7O was
offered In justification of what every one knew
to be gross extortion, which compelled the
rich to restrict themselves in the luxury OF
free use Of ice. and deprived many of the poor
Year: 1871

THE Loss OF THE SAGINAw-RascUE OF
HER OFFICERS AND CGEw.--It is with much
pleasure that we give the special teegrams
cisco announcing the safe arrival at that port
of the wrecked officers and crew of the
United States steamer Saginaw, all safe and
well. This viii be welcome news to their
friends and relatives, and it removes load
from the public mind, which has been waiting
and wishing for information of the unfortu-
mates, fearing that great suffering was to be
their lot on the desert island upon which they
were cast away.
Year: 1871

THE DETERMINED OPPOSITION of the people
OF Jersey City to the proposed legislative
charter for that suburb should insure its
rejection by both houses of the New Jersey
Legislature. Men Of all parties declare that
corrupt men are trying to ride into power
by this charter, and the experience of New
York city in lines past should be taken as a
warning by our neigbbors across the Hudson.
Year: 1871

THE PRESIDENT yesterday SEM message
20 Congress recommending that our mission
90 Berlin be raised to first class, on an equal
footing with that of London and Paris. As
united Germany, without doubt occupies
foremost position at present among the
nations OF the globe, there can be no possible
objection to the proposition, and ii is, besides.
very graceful recognition Of the recent
union of the German States-an event which
bears almost the same relation 10 Germany as
the restoration OF our shattered Union five
years ago bore to the United States.
Year: 1871

TEE COLLISION between the steamers North
Star and Ella Marley, on the 9th of February,
1868, off Long Branch-by which the latter
vessel became total loss--had its final de-
cision in the Court Of Admiralty on Monday.
Perhaps the most difficult fact to come at is
the actual liability to blame in case Of collisions
at sea, all the witnesses being interested
parties. In this case Judge Woodruff decided
as the Court below had already done, that
in the case of the vessels, like the men who
were disputing about the color of the chame-
leon--.hat ''both were right and both were
wrong" but the wrong little on the side
Of the lost steamer. The cross libel suits were
therefore dismissed, each litigant having to
share the loss Of the accident
Year: 1871

Ii Is STATED that Senator Summers Foreign
Relations Committee Of the Senate is opposed
to General Buffers resolution of welcome to
the Fenians. They hold that it is an official
recognition of Fenianism, which would be tan
tamount to direct insult to Eogland and is
an outrageous departure from the etiquette of
nations It is quite likely that such is the
case; but we are nation Of innovators, and
as we were strictly correct in our previous
department toward the Fenian invaders Of
Canada and in other matters of national DO
liteuess, we might be allowed the privilege of
a little blunt rudeuess in this case, where our
own citizens have been returned to us from
British prisons.
Year: 1871

the train moved along; now backing


and butting, now going ahead a mile


or two, and now standing motlonless for


an hour at a stretch.


Meantime, the. second engine had
come up, aud il was hoped their united
strength would form passage, but again
the water in the tanks ran low, and the
train was abandoned while the engines
pushed forward for water. Hours on
hours seemed to elapse before 4" Frank "
returned with the cheering intelligence
that he had reached the summit, had
filed the tanks with water and was going
to take the train in fright away quick
But he didn't do it. The treacherous
snow had lready drifted back into every
cut, and the shovel brigade was ordered
out dozen of times before the summit
was attained, and the gray morning light
was breaking when the train started down
the decline. This side Of the divide the
track was com paratiyely clear, and Den
yer was reache about $3.50 in the after
noon.


In some of the deepest cuts the snow
was drifted to. the hight Of the windows
of the car, shutting out the light, and
the task of forming passage taxed the
marrow gauge to its utmost. That the
train came through at all is remarkable,
and reflects great credit on the noble
conductor and his assistants, to all of
whom the passengers desire to return
their grateful thanks, nt stf
Year: 1871

weeks in the western sky. II is since


1858 that q spectrum analysis has be-
come science, and no good sized comet
has appeared to try it on. An etamina-
ton Of different large comets would con-
clusively settle the questions about their
exact composition and whether they are
alike. In the variety Of the universe
there is no reason why one comet should
not be made Of carbon in gaseous form,
another Of hydrogen, and Others Of a


mixture of cases.; but that they are an
incandescent gas, of one or another sort,
is now settled beyond all reasonable
question. Llna I.lnL ILa- -Lla- W
Year: 1871

SCARLET FEVER Cutler, of Dodge-
vile, reports that scarlet few er is raging
extensively among the children in the
northern and central parts of the county.
We may look for it here before long.
Year: 1871

An old lady not remarkable for
the clearness of her ideas. describ-
ing a fine Summer evening said:
1T was a beautiful bright night;
the moon made everything as light
rs q feather r.
Year: 1871

1t was a very hard-shell Baptist of
Tennessee, who suggested, when he
heard of the reformation of an un-
godly neighbor, that no ordinary
baptism would do for that man
the only sure way would be to tie a
grindstone to his feet, and "anchor
him over night in the middle OF the
river"
Year: 1871




had barely finished my simple state
ment when the stranger at the other cor
ner of the room spoke out with rapid ut
terance and feverish anxiety:


"Oh, that was certainly remarkable, af-
ter fashion, but you ought to have seen
my chimney-you ought to have seen my
chimney, sirI SmokeI HumphI Iwish
l may hang if-Mr. Jones, you remember
that chimney-you must remember that
chimneyl No, no-I recollect, now, you
warn't living on this side of the island
then. But am telling you nothing but
the truth, and wish / may never draw
another breath if that chimney didn't
smoke SO that the smoke actually got
cdked in it, and had 10 dig it out with a
pick-axei You may smile, gentlemen, but
the High Sheriff got hunk of it which
dug out before his eyes, and so it's per-
fectly easy for you to go and examine for
yourselves"


The interruption broke up the conver-
sation, which had already begun to lag, and
we presently hired some natives and an
out-rigger canoe or two, and went out in
the roaring surf to watch the children at
their sport of riding out to sea perched on
the crest of a gigantic wave.


Two weeks after this, while talking in
a company, looked up and detected this
same man boring through and through me
with his intense eye, and noted again his
twitching muscles and his feverish anxiety
to speak. The moment paused, he said:


Beg your pardon, sir, beg your pardon,
but it can only be considered remarkable
when brought into strong outline by isols-
ton. Sir, contrasted with circumstance
which occurred in my own experience, it
| instantly becomes commonplace. No, not
that-for will not speak so discourteous-
| ly of any experience in the career of a
stranger and gentleman-but am obliged
to say that you could not, and you tc0uld
not ever again refer to this tree as a large
one, if you could behold, as have, the
great Yakmatack tree, in the island of
Ounaska, sea of Kamtchatka-at tree, sir,
not one inch less than four hundred aud
fifteen feet in solid diameter and / wish
may die in a minute if it isn't sol Oh,
you needn't look so questioning gentle
men; here's old Cap Saltmarsh can say
whether know what I'm talking about or
not l showed him the tree"


Captain Sdltndrsh-" Come, now, cut
your anchor, lad-you're heaving too taut.
You promised to show me that sumner, and
/ walked more than eleven mile with you
through the cussedest aggravatingest Jun
gle ever see, a-huntin for it but the tree
you showed me finally warn't as big around
as beer cask, and you know that your
own self, Markiss."


Hear the man talkL or course the
tree was reduced that way, but didn't ex-
plain it, Answer me, didn't II Didn't
say wished you could have seen it when
1 first saw it? When you got up on your
| ear and called me names, and said l had
brought you eleven miles to look at a sap
ling, didn't explain to you that all the
whale ships in the North Seas had been
wooding off of it for more than twenty
seven years? And did you s,pose the tree
Year: 1871

THE Dunkirk Journal says that curl
ous individual was greatly perplexed at
the opening of the Masonic rooms the
other night, to understand the why's and
Wherefores Of the three large candles,
which had conspicuous positions He
viewed them on all sides, thoughtfully
summing up in his mind their probable
use. At last his patience was exhausted,
and turning suddenly about, he made bold
to ask Mason What those candles were
for?" The Mason, looking about him to
see that no one was near, and exacting
most solemn promises of secrecy, got close
up to the ear Of his friend, and with bated
breath whispered: "The candles are to
burr"
Year: 1871

JUST THE MAN TO BE LOCKED UP


In the Supreme Court Chambers, yesterday,
James Cusck, notorious pugilist and politician of the
Eighth Ward brought before Judge CarOzo and his
release on bail asked for Cusiek arrested the 5th
Of June last elOnious assault upon Assistant Alder
man Isaac Robinson, and taken before Assistant Alder
man Mitchell, who then holding Court in place
of the regular magistrate, The affidavit upon which the
arrest made states in substance that James Cusck
entered Canarys stables. in Mercer-st below Spring,
on the previous evening, and sappng Robinson on the
side OF the head with one hand, held large knife in
dangerous proximity to the Alderman throat with the
other and Said would give SlO0 TO kill you Tonight
Tie Alderman escaped before Cusck could put his threat
into execution and had the latter arrested aud Alder
man Mitchell held him in default OF $1,000 bail for trial
This amount was afterward reduced to sl,Mo and
Cuscks counsel yesterday offered the bail and asked for
his client release. The Court at first refused To enter
tain the notion and referred the counsel 10 the mags
trate who had committed the prisoner. The District
Attorney opposed the motion on the ground that The
prisoner release would probably lead to another sedek
case as Cusck had sworn to have the Alderman me-
The prisoners counsel stated that is impossible to take
his client before Alderman Mitchell, who il now out'of
town and further the matter is entirely removed from
the Jurisdiction of the committing Court as the prisoner
has been indicted and tue papers are WIN the District
Attorney Decision reserved
Year: 1871

OFFAL NUIsANCEs-DMINIsHED WEEKLY NOR


TALITY-SMALL PoX DYING OUT.


In answer to the complaints of the Mayor
and Common Council Of HobOken that Offdl from the
slaughter houses Of this city noated ashore at various
points along the Hoboken water front the Sanitary
Committee of the Board OF Health at the meeting of the
Board yesterday, reported that the ofa from the
slaughterhouses III this city is carried to rendering
dock. They recommend that the complaints be more
definite and promise that II the abuse Is found to exist
in this city, remedy will be applied. copy of the
port the Committee ordered to be sent to Mayor
Hail. On motion of Health-0ficer CarnOchan the mat
ter was referred to the Committee on Laws and Ori
nances look up law said to be in existence, which
provides for proper officer to supervise such matters


The Sanitary Committee desired TO be relieved from the
consideration Of petition Of citizens concerning the re-
moval of fatmetng and hide-salting establishments III
the city, considering that such matters beyond the
control Of the Board such places cannot be removed
beyond the city limits without legislative action. The
same Committee reported in favor Of keeping the Offices
for burial permits open from 0 a. TO ,. M on Sun
days. Adopted.


Sanitary Inspector Morris empowered TO give
leave OF absence Health Inspectors and Assistants
period exceeding two weeks. and no more than
three be absent at time during the months or
August September, and October. The Sanitary In
spector submitted the following comparative statement
contaous diseases reported for the two weeks ending
July u: