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Year: 1872

The third fruit-bud from the base of
the past years cane throws out larger and
better developed punches of grapes than
either the first or second. The grapes
from these buds seem also better favored,
and generally superior to those on the
first and second. In accordance with
this hint, we have adopted the plan of
cutting the cane at such length as toleaye
the third bud generally, and sometimes the
fourth, when good strong one, and then
rubbing Off the first and second buds, and
leaving the third and fourth for fruit.
The number of fruit buds left on the vine
must depend on the age and strength of
the vine. If the vines are strong and
vigorous at three years, from two to three
punches of grapes may be allowed to ma
ture ON each without injury, E1ctaage.
Year: 1872

Upwards of forty thousand bottles of
NATURES HAIR RESTORATIVE were sold
from Jan. lst to June lat, which fact tells
its own story. It's so clean, and looks so
nice that the ladies are all delighted with it.
See Advertisement
Year: 1872

KEEP TIE KITCHEN AIR PURE.-A
little sink near the kitchen door step,
inadvertently formed, has been known,
although not exceeding in its dimen,
sions Il single square foot, to spread
sickness through whole household.
Hence, everything of tho kind should
be studiously obviated, so that there
should be no spot about farmhouse
which can receive and hold water,
whether it be the pure rain from the
sky, the contents of wash basin, the
slop bowl or the water pail. l.-Honae
and HoalH
Year: 1872

In letter to the New York Observer Dr.
Prime supplies some curious information in
regard to meanneSs to ministers. Among
well authenticated cases are the following:
A preachers wife was invited to visit a
week among the people, and the price of
her board was deducted from his salary
A missionary, with family and S400 year,
cultivated a little garden. The secretary
one day asked him what the vegetables
were worth. Supposing the question one
of mere curiosity, he assented to the esti-
mate of S18. The amount was deducted
from his salary. At donation party pa
per of pepper was estimated at two cents
and deducted from the salary. So, on a like
occasion, were ten cents, the value of two
fans. A stranger went to an Episcopal Church
in MARYLAND, and liked the sermon so well
that he left five dollars with the vestryman
for the rector. Deducted from salary. DR..
Prime once preached for a clergyman who
had sickness and death in his house, and
declining the customary fee, told amember of
the consistory to give it TO the afflicted
brother. The afflicted brother never got
the money. a minister preached extra
sermons at a watering place hotel, and the
boarders made up a purse for him.
Amount deducted from salary.
Year: 1872

In PittsbUrg, Pa, they make rail nearly
as fast as they lay it out West. A ger
ueman conversant with the facts writes
TO the Chicago RajIlrdy ReCicr, by Tri-
yate letter, the following extraordinary
statement "The Superior Rail Mill of this
city received an order by telegraph from the
Northern Pacific Railway Company for .ft-
teen hundred tons Of railroad iron, the last
Of October, which was manufactured in the
unprecedented short time of eight days,
from the first to the eighth of November,
and all shipped and delivered at the city of
Dnluth within an average of ttreIoe days
from the time of is manufacture This is
considerably the quickest work in transpor-
tation and manufacture that has ever been
done in this country"
Year: 1872

The Chairman of the Executive Commit
tee Of the Reform Democracy, at a meet
ing tonight announced that over 2l4,0O0
names were enrolled in the party to Thurs
day night. Primaries will be held next
Friday for the choice Of a general commit
tee. A delegation goes to Albany to press
legislation which will secure a thorough
reform in the municipal government.
Year: 1872

ONE result Of the late war between
France and Prussia is that the soldiers Of
the former power are to be better educated.
Spelling and reading books are to be given
to,the rank and file, at well as chassepOts
and sahres,
Year: 1872

Y AN indianapolis dispatch states a letter
received there from Clark county, Indiana,
reports that the murderer of the Park fam
ty is now known, and that the evidence
against him is conclusive. He was one of
the most prominent of the lynchers, and
was particularly active in having the negroes
hung. Other villains are hinted at in con-
nection with the murder. The affair is to
be duly investigated as soon as arrests can
be made safely
Year: 1872

TIE JonesborO Herald and Tribune
(Radical) grows warm in its opposition to
the law passed at the last session of the
Legislature entitled "An act to authorize
parties defendant in certain actions to sever
and to have the cause as to themselves
transferred to the county of their residence -
We presume the constitutionality of the
law will be passed upon by the highest
judicial tribunal in the State, and there We
are content to leave it. We can but remark
that the opposition of the Herald and Tri-
Dune to this law would have been quite as
well if it had extended to the several acts Of
Radical Congresses permitting defendants
In certain actions to remove their causes
from any State court, even the Supreme,
into the Federal Court.





GRANT viii have to declare martial law
over Cincinnati, and send a squad Of SOL
diers to take charge Of the Commercial
Office, as they did Of the New York World
and Journal Of Commerce a few years ago.
The Commercial is becoming entirely too
disloyal, as witness the following from that
paper:


$50 the Senatorial Committee Of Investi-
CATION, digging in New York CustomhOuse
swindles have struck the fair form Of Mr..
Lewis Dent, who was anxious that the
military family Of the President should en-
Joy the general order business. This Dent
is one of the array of hrOtIprS-iD- -law aud
a celebrated" claim lawyer under this
Administration. His plastic hand has been
felt not only in New York, but in moldng
affairs in Louisiana into the delicately beau
tiful shape in which they are adorning the
L.-LL---- - -
Year: 1872

The ferry boat at Chattanooga was sunk
on the nth inst, by collision with the
steamer Emma. The damages caused by
the accident were so slight that the boat
has been raised and repaired, and is again
ready for use,
Year: 1872

Most people win be inclined to think the
family council which sent the Dent brothers
to beat an editor over the head made bad
selection of the victim. The lively letter of
Mr.. Henry Reed, which we print in another
place, is one of the first results of that oper-
alton. 1t treats of a subject which has been
hitherto handled with some delcacy on ac-
count of the lingering respect which, in spite
of Gen. Grant, most men still feel for tho
Presidential Office. There are many Rings
which derive their sustenance from this Ad-
ministration, all Of them sufficiently greedy
and exasperating,.but there is probably not one
of them which is more fagrantly and vulgarly
Objectionable than the one which Immediately
and intimately surrounds the President. 1t ia
not pleasant matter to touch. but If tho
President has no delicacy about it it is hardly
possible to expect it from others. Mr.. Reed.
especially, has excellent reasons for departing
from the loyal reserve which most journalists
have maintained in regard TO these scandal
GUS relations.
Year: 1872

TO POSTMASTER- GENERAL CRESWELL:-


We have a word with you. The following
is a second letter of complaint from Franklin,
n. C. Thirty-One inhabitants of that town
subscribe and pay for THE WEEKLY TRIBUNE
The package of TRIBUNEs is well wrapped
and securely tied, but on its way to its des-
tination it appears that the bundle is opened
and package of The Ne,O- York Times, franked
by John Pool inserted. Can you afford to al
low the mails to be tampered with in this
manner3


10 The EdftOr Of The Tribune.


SIR In my letter OF about the 20h ult. am not IN
error or mistaken. have made close inquiry and the
Postmaster confirms all have said THE TRIBUNE
package came here in usual FORM but torn open on one
edgo-the wrapper torn on one edge. About the mid
die Of your package 20 copies Of The New York
Times were inserted, stuck in. Then your wrapper
drawn up as well as could be-oo small now ana all
tied with a strong twine. 1t made an awkward pack
age The Times being folded into shape nearly square,
Yours is not So The Times under John Pools frank
F. c. CASTOR, Postmaster at this place. and myself
know all say to be true. Yours truly, W. L. LOVE.


Franklin, N. O., Sept T. 1872.
Year: 1872

Various and amusing are the comments to which
the present melancholy situation of MIR. Henry
Wilson gives rise, but we think that The RicAmond
Wal Dispatch makes about the sweetest little com
parison when it says ut is the first time in Ameri-
can politics that professional politician, a class
not often at loss for falsehood has been caught
so i'll prepared, and has taken refuge In one that the
veriest child surprised in surrepttious raid on its
mothers preserve pots would have thought too thin
for usep The Know-Nothings made the man Sem
ator after be had solemnly sworn TO stand by them.
and now he turns upon them and coldly says Il
never knew you" If the old X. Ms relish this they
must have good strong stomachs indeed.
Year: 1872

A pretty careful canvass of Ohio has been
made by the Liberals, and an exhibit of some
of its features is published in dispatch to
THE TRIBUNE, to-day. The result in Maine
does not seem to cheer very much the Grant
people of the West; and the reports which
reach us from Ohio especially, will not add
to their enjoyment.
Year: 1872

effrontery, we require some such law TO pre-


serve us from perennial poison. Gen. Garfield.
in a moment of enthusiasm, once exclaimed.
Let us see if nation which has put down
the greatest rebellion the world ever saw
cannot collect whisky tax of 81 gallon"
1t Is worth the experiment to see if people
who have rooted Tweed out of Tammany cannot
devise means to keep alum out of their bread.
Year: 1872

The Geneva Arbitration is winding up with
q deal of good eating and drinking Our dis
patches thence contain many expensive words


all of which amount to just this Everybody
has full stomach of yictual and drink and
" everybody is satisfied with every other body"
The final sitting viii not be public, but semi
public, so tO!speak, few ladies, distinguished
gentlemen, and other invited guests only be
ing present. Not word of the amount of
the award we have had nothing but guesses
80 Far j but the glory of the thing vanished be-
fore the champagne was uncorked. The mere
Year: 1872

Various are the discussions to which the custom of
hanging men gives rise. Recently at Maidstone, in
England four men were hanged on the same day.
The heaviest men. it noticed, died first, while
the culprit of the lightest weight lived long time
after his swinging Off and suffered dreadful agonies
Upon this the spectators whose sense Of absolute
equity was keen were indignant that tho light
weight should suffer so much longer than the heavy
weights. We have always thought the hempen
method unsatisfactory and clumsy, even if the
death penalty was to be inflicted at all, and most
decidedly the relic of barbarous age If our safety
requires us to execute we might at least execute
expedihOusly and mercifully.
Year: 1872

A correspondent who likes his beer writes To Tbs
London Echo to know where and how he get
beer that viii not parch his throat muddle his bead
aud dry his tongue-a beer that shall in degree
approach the pure home-brewing TO be found in tho
good old-fashioned country farmhouse" He is saw
age about the Responsibilities said to be used by
the largest brewers in the Kingdom and wants
somebody learned in vegetable drugs to let him
know what these Substitutes" are. II love-" says
he with true English ardor glass of good ale :
but he might as well love the nectar of the gcds for
the tipple of his ardent affection seems 70 have
grown quito as mythical.
Year: 1872

Some Of the Boston newspapers have wonderfully
abbreviated memories. One of these sheets, for in-
stance pothers away after this fashion: " Charles
Sumner as the Democratic candidate for Governor
is indeed a strange spectacle. Once he would have
received the compliment as an insult" &c, DC.
When7 Mr.. Summers very first step in political
life was TO receive the Democratic nomination and
the Democratic vote for United States Senator; and
the very men, OF some of them, who are now sneer-
ing and scolding at him were then among the first
to laud his magnanimity. Massachusetts, Repub-
licansr who but for coalition would never have had
political existence, are the last persons in the
world to grumble as many of them are now doing
Year: 1872

Indorsed OAKEs AMEs Jan. 30 1868.


The gentlemen thus implicated by Col
McOombs testimony are among the foremost
in station and power Among them are the
President, the Secretary of the Treasury,
and the Grant candidate for Vice-President,
while the rest Except Quigley) are leading
Members OF Congress. None of them is con-
victed of bribery by the naked fact that
Oakes Ames made such use of his name,
allowing that point to be established.


But they will inevitably convict themselves
if they allow this matter to pass in
silence. If they purpose ever again to look
honest men in the face, they must compel
Cakes Ames to take the stand and submit to
legal examipation which will bring out the
truth. He must explain his printed letters; he
must either admit, deny, OF qualify the list
which McCOmb swears that Ames showed him,
or the public will believe that McCOmb has
told the truth. How can they afford TO remain
silentf How can any of them allow Ames to
do sof We are on the eve of Presidential
election one of them is a candidate for high
honors; others are, like him. already holding
the first places under Government. Oakes
Ames himself is sIll a Member of Congress,
Year: 1872

The last speaker was Senator Schurz, who began
his address about quarter past II, and spoke for
nearly two hours In beginning he said that. If any
thing like the earnestress and eOquencs and energy
which had been shown by Mr.. Bryant in his re-
rnarks had been manifested by him at Cincinnati it
wouh have done great good if anything like the
energy shown by other gentlemen at this meeting,
or in getting it up, had been shown at Gin
cinnat the result would have been very different;
if half the people who were Viee-Presdents at the
Steiuway Hall meeting had been present at Cincin-
natl they would not have had cause TO meet here.
II was very essential thing in politics
not only to say the right thing, but
70 saw it at the night time, and the
time was past for any new utterances. 1t was too
la+el Men must have become convinced by the con-


ultatons here if not before that it il was no longer
possible to present any ticket with a chance
of heating Grant except the Greeley ticket.


He then went on TO present the great considera-
tions which moved him, with sense Of duty to
support the Cincinnati ticket. If he were to
consult merely his personal feelings
which he shared in common with others
who had expressed them there, II
he felt at liberty to do that it might be different
But he felt that great public considerations
imposed a duty upon him and upon others
which they could not neglect OF disre-
card. There had been uanueSteu bnlOushout
the South a disposition toward a thorough and sin
oera and peranent reconciliation Of feeling through
The snceess of this movement. The hand Of friendship
and cordality was outstretched by the men who had
been fighting against us during the war. They were
Dro,nnted To this by the feeling that the Liberal
Republcan movement was for the en-
franchisement of their people, and their
relief from an oppression no longer endurable.
Anv movement looking directly or indirectly
80 the reelection of Grant to the continuance OF
tbat opuresson would be TO strike back
ona renel with insult those outstretched hands.
He for one under no circumstances and for
M consideration could take any step looking
directly or indirectly to the continuance OF this Ad
,n;nistratjop. and the repelling of this tendency
toward reconciliation between North and South.


He spoke next of the intensity of party despotlsm
which those only could understand who had been
eomneIed 10 confront it in the Senate and
in the House, appealing in vain to men
,bo were known 10 believe IN certain


forms but who did not dare to act upon their con-
,ietious because of that party despotsm; despot-
;sm which controlled committees, which suppressed
minority actions; which whitewashed the most
oross and offensive misdeeds; that he could not
conceiye that any reform could possibly
h aide5 OF harbored so long as that despousm re-
r,ained unbroken that the prst necessity win
a. country was 10 break that at once-the
srqt step toward the accomplishment Oh any
reform whatever that a would become uh-
Year: 1872




measurably stronger 81 sustained and In
dorsed by the people, as IL would be on the
reelection of President Grant aud the existing
power; that this again seemed 20 him TO impose
upon every sincere Ref0rmer q duty not TO be
avoided, not 10 be neglected. and that under any
circumstances he could not directly indirectly.
contribute to the reelection Of the present Admins
tration and to the continuance aud srenthening Of
that party despotism which it was the first neces-
sty to break up


Some had advocated the nomination Of a more
conservative ticket he had strong leaning to the
direction Of such movement, but felt that at this
time, with such public interest at stake men must
seek not personal ideas, but gractcal good and the
nearest practical good they could accomplish


Gen. schnrz then argued at considerable length
the utter impossibility Of presenting new ticket
with the least hope Of success; that even that
meeting. it was plain, would by considerable ma
jority declare against putting up new
ticket; that there was no possibility that
any such ticket, even if put mp unanimously by the
meeting, could be adopted at Baltimore. II some
movement Of this kind had been made immedi-
ately after the Cincinnati nominations II might
have had some weight; but 1t was Of
no use tOtry to stir molten iron after II
got cold. He said that even two weeks ago he be-
lieyed that he had deceived himself in suppos
ing that any such movement was possibl,, bit that
il was very plain that it was not possible now


He concluded by saying that, since therewould
be no united action at the meeting and that large
majority of those present were not disposed 3 take
anv action looking toward new ticket, be would
suggest that the Conference should now ADJOURN
sine die.


Blr. Cox made few remarks saying that asthose
who were present would undoubtedly be likelyto act
together in future relations either aterth campaign
OF possibly owing it, he earnestly deprecated any
such sharpness of criticism or harshnes of
expression as would tend 10 embarass
that hearty and harmonious cooperation OF men
who thought alike.


The resolution was then adopted unanlmouslt


At the conclusion of Senator SchurZs speech,a5oy.
Randolph offered the following resolution, when
was adopted. aud was tho only action had " the
Convention during the whole session.


Pesored That this Conference do now adourn siae de
without any further expression OF opinion DyOnd those
had from the indridua members and that the tnlks or
the Conference be given % the President iOr hE I'M
partial conduct OF IT'S business.


After the conference had dispersed. Judge Rollo
of Ohio called q meeting for to-day OF those WHO
were dissatisfied with the result OF YESTERDAY.
Year: 1872

"HIcKMAN LADIES Our genia
friend. Baker, of the Huntingdon Dem
ocras. IS pleased with tile Hickman ladies
Baker is gentleman of cultivation anc
taste, and therefore our fair resident:
may appreciate the compliment. W,
shall not be surprised to hear soon C
some of our young ladies moving foi
an .'excursion" TO Huntingdon:


1.-The most attractive feature Of the trip,
after the Mississippi river. and the steam
boats. was the pretty ladies at Hickman
Why. we can take any Of the girls that
We saw down there and marry them of
in this country easier thau we can sell
a Kentucky mule in Mississippi We
don't understand how they grow so plag.
ued handsome in such an old fogy look
ing place. nor, can we understand how
they dress so stylish. when everything
around them from hills to fences bear
the mark Of neglect They are as so
ciable and intelligent az they are hand
some and stylish. and if they will come
up this way We will furnish the last IN
married Que of them a six foot hero the
rest OF her natural life.
Year: 1872

The quiet, secluded country road ~
Law aecked with mingled light and shade
.. The wandering breeze the branches sway
ed;
And through the trees the red sun gl0wed
The air that solemn stiffness took, 49,
which ushers out the parting days


And through the forest, stem and gray,
Was heard the distant, babbling brook.
And coming down the shadowy way,


A youth, with wild and troubled face,
And timid air, and quiekened pace.
Paused where the shadows thickest lay;
And glancing round, furtive sight,


He took his stand beneath tree


Where from the sun the shadows flee,
Ard mingle with the coming night.
Like sunshine through stormy sky
Frightening Natures gloomy face


With many a sweet and subtle grace.
A lovely maid came riding by;
Her air was pensive, sweet and sad
As If a shadow on her lay,


Which if she could but chase away,
weuld make her joyous nature glad.
Then sprang the youth in sudden view,
And grasped the swaying bride rein;
She screamed with terror's nameless pain,
And backward quick her form she drew.
The love light still was in his eye,


And in his voice love still was fair


While she, with proud and queenly air,
Repelled his warmth with cold reply.
All. who can judge the subtle law


That lialls the thoughts within the mind
Who can the skein Of thought unwind,
Nor break thread, nor leave flawi
How weak and frail is Reasons chain;
How slight cause may part its links
And when in dark despair 1t sinks,
What madness ruskes through tho brain!
A vivid fash! A thunder sound


The graceful smoke curles overhesd


A broken lily, streaked with red
A senseless form lee on the ground.
Then Ike the frs-fy's fitful flash.


The sharp edged steel CLEANS in the air
And round her swan like neck, and fair
l.traces thrice deadly CASH
The blood red Sun his quiver Hung


Upon the tree tops wavering light,


And reaching down into the night
Around her form his srnbeams clung.
Her spirit burst its prison bars,


And joined the sympathizing ray;


And with the light of parting day,
They both fed upward to the stars.
Approaching night, with muAled tread,


More gently folds her robes around


The blood stained lily on the ground
And then with dropping head
And with her garments trailing low,


She stin her onward course must run;
Still following on the blood.red sun,
Till time shall cease TO flow.


Washington, Ark, Jan'y 1872.
Year: 1872

He who betrays another's secret,
because he has quarrelled with him,
was never worthy of the sacred name
of a friend; breach Of kindness at
one side will not justify a breach Of
trust ON the other.
Year: 1872

A FAcT-One cord of wood cut and
split fine aud corded up beneath a shel
ter while it is yet green, will furnish
more heat after it has become seasoned
than two cords of tho same kind Of wood
which have been continually exposed tc
the alternate influences Of storms aud
sunshine.