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Year: 1875

CONSPICUOUS in the Radical
Convention of last Friday the
Goth was one Robt. Walker of Sha-
ron. He had his feathers trimmed
and gaffs on for the fight on the side
of Warnor. Poor, poor, fellow,
he was the observed of all observ-
ers for the cool and deliberate man.
ner in which he cast himself into
the radical pit to do service for the
plunderers, and to aid them in fas-
tening upon his own kindred and
blood the yoke of oppression. We
had every reason, some time since,
to believe that he had been bought,
but did not believe that he was so
lost to all feelings of pride and de-
cency as to seek conspicuousness.
For bare and bald faced boldness
we never saw his actions equalled.
1t seemed to be matter of especial
pride with him to be found on the
side of and rubbing up against the
thieves and robbers. We could but
call up in our mind the times gone
by, when he, almost a pauper went
crying and begging to a gentlemen
of this place, but at that time a res
ident of Sharon, and how that gen.
tleman put food in his hungry stom-
ach and covered his nakedness with
clothing, Now the graceless, heart
less, ungrateful wretch, turns like
the fabled serpent, and smites his
benefactor. Poor Bob. Walker,
renegade and paricide, all honest
men dispise him, women and chill
dren shun his very shadow, while
the devil waits with open arms to
embrace him.
Year: 1875

When our people turn the cold
shoulder upon Pratt, Smith and
Boyd when they stop elbowing
the m on the streets or embracing
them, when they give them to un-
derstand that they are not fit asso-
ciates for gentlemen, then will be-
gin an era of improvement in our
community. We have heard it
stated that there is policy in max
ing free and in being friendly with
these fellows. Out with such
policy. How long wouid it be be-
fore every man, woman and child
in the county would point the fin
ger of scorn and contempt at the
MAIL, were it, for policy's
sake, for self-interest's sake, to
fawn upon, and court the smiles,
and good will of such
men? Not long.
Year: 1875

This infamous sheet, that has of
late years found its sway into the
families and homes of many of our
citizens, because it gave assurances
of a disposition to represent us and
our section and state fearlcssly and
honestly, has forfeited Its claims
upon the confidence of our people
and should be cast out of their
homes because it is lying, unclean
thing.


In its issue of the 18th is con-
tained Il lying, abusive editorial of
Jefferson Davis, IL name loved and
honored by every southern heart, a
name that will be ever dear and ev-
er cherished. A name around which
cluster the memories of q cause no
less sacred because it was lost. A
name linked with the history of our
struggle for independence, a name
made doubly dear to us because he
who bears it has been and still is
the object of the gibes and abuse of
a hateful and lnsatiate enemy. We
do not esteem 1t part of our con-
tract in accepting the situation,"
in holding obedience to the laws of
tho United States, that We should
absolve ourselves of our love for
Jefferson Davis. or purge ourselves
of contempt to the general govern
mcnt by joining the canaille in the
hatred and abuse pf him. Nor
should we 'nction ly giving sup
port and encouragement to those
who do. Jefferson Davis, before
the law, is not culprit, he stands
as fair as any man. 1t is only in
the vile and wicked hearts of such
men as Whitelaw Reid that he is
the monster and outlaw that they
would have him. Stop the Tribune.
refuse to take it, and thus express
your contempt for a cowardly foe,
and love and respect for an honor
BILE, yet maIigned friend.
Year: 1875

A Missing CITlzEN.-Mr. r. S. Redford, q
well-known citizen, who resides at 3l2 north
third street. who has been confined to his
bed by long spell of sickness, gotup yester-
day morning and left his home without CIV
ing his family the least warning or notice as
to where he was going. During the day his
friends anxiously sought him, but up to mid
night they had no tidings Of his where
Year: 1875

of the nation. \ division Of sentiment
on that question should not be the means
Of diverting allegiance from the Demo-
cratic party. While we recognize IL as n
question Of paramount Importance. we
do not feel that 1t Is one of sufficient mag
n,tude TO disrupt the party---iet the Ohio
election 70 which ever way It may. Yet


We believe. for the sake Of prestige In the
coming Presidential race. and TO keep up
the enthusiasm e,,gendered by the cam


paign IN the State Of Ohio. 1t il vi vital
Importance to the Democratic party that
Allen shall be elected governor oil Ohio.
We may be mistaken, but believe he will
carry the State by at least 1900 malor-
ity. His success insured ia Ohio. then
the Democratic party can enter the field
against the administration Presidential!
candidate. compromise upon platform.
the basis Of which will be broad ana
liberal. and surrounded by an influence
irresistible to the masses OF the country.
Year: 1875




Ar the request Of HIS Majesty, number OF
gentlemen met at the palace on Wednesday last
to eoutr on the psoprieiy OF bis creating new
Order Of Merit, to be termed the oEDER OF KA-
LAKAuA The present Order Of Kamehameha is
limited 10 its sphere, restricted TO small num-
Der Of members, and cannot therefore serve the
object for which the new one is designed is an
incentive to loyalty and as reward to all who
may distinguish themselves under the Kalakaua
dynasty and deserve special recognition Of this
kind, in the bestowal Of which the King may fol-
low bis own good Judgment. Such an order is
the Legion Of Honor in France. which is awarded
for political military. naval scientific, professional,
mechanical or personal merit. Its memberships is
unrestricted, as to numbers, and it includes now
vast array, not only of Frenchmen Of all classes,
but OF citizens OF every nation. who have shown
themselves deserving OF reward from France.
The Japanese Government also has during the
present year established an Order Of Merit, which
provides for eight classes Of rewards to be gwen
10 such as prove deserving Of public recognition.
The result Of the conference on Monday was
that such an Order viii soon be established
The King has the right, under the constitution,
10 establish all orders Of the kind and it is not
TO be wondered il be desires to add to the fame
of bis dynasty aud reign by creating an order
which shall tend to increase loyalty to him and
strengthen his throne.
Year: 1875

was now anxious to see whether we should have
survival He deprecated many Of the forms Of
expression which found currency ia connection
with such movements as those which bad recently
been witnessed in all parts Of the country, and
did not like to see young people who said they
had found peace thrustiug upon their elders con-
versstion on the most serious and sacred oi
questions. What he wished his hearers espe-
cialy to understand was, that religion was mean;
for everyday sxpsriencs--a thing which msr-
chants could and ought to practice through their
ledgers, and which ought never to be laid aside.
He did not want, be continued. young men 10
deal too much in the suGriter ia Hlodo He
wanted them to endure hardness as good soldier"
Year: 1875

THE loss Of the Schiller continues to undergo
a good deal Of discussion in the English pa
pers, and, as might have been expected, a good
deal of attention is directed to the failure Of
the captain to sound as he approached the
coast, during dense fog. Several nautical
men of high standing have written letters as
serting positively that if he had sounded, the
character Of the bottom would have given him
his position within sufficient limits. One cap
tain in the navy gainsays this by averring that
reference to the chart will show that the char
acter Of soundings, even in the channel in which
the Schiller was lost, is often the same at
twenty-five miles apart; but this simply
amounts to saying that sounding in foggy
weather is not as satisfactory as an observation
in bright weather. That it does not give a
navigator his exact position is no reason for
not nesorting to II at all after several days of
reliance on dead-reckoning, as appears to
have been the case of the Schiller, or as was
more notably the case with the Atlantic, where
the captain ran eight days in fog, never sound
ed, and went plump on shore on calm night


The answer Of the officers at the subsequent
official investigation to the question why they
had not sounded was :" that they thought it was
Of no use or, in other words, were so stu
pidly sure Of their position that they would
not take even a small amount Of trouble to as
certain it 1t has been suggested IN England,
and very sensibly as it seems to US, that the
taking of soundings under given circumstan-
ces should be made imperative by law, as well
as the record of the result in the log-book,
that its omission should be made a penal Of


fence as regards the officers in case of an ac-
cident or the loss of the ship, and should, as
far as the owners are concerned, be made to
vitiste the insurance, and thus enforce greater
care in the choice Of officers. 1t is evident
that it is in this direction, rather than IN that
Of life-saving appaEatus, that we must look for
Year: 1875

THERE can be no doubt that the use of intoxi-
eating drinks among our aborigines is increasing
throughout the group, and as a natural conse-
quence, crime and more frequent sudden deaths
occur among them as they are certainly too fire.
qneut among foreigners. 1t is stated that on
the Sd instant there were no less than ten deaths


in this city two Of foreigners and the rest natives.
OF course this rapid nate Of deaths will soon
leave Us without people, and if we still possess
a government, it will be but mere form. How
to arrest this decrease is the greatest question
ever presented before the government. 1t must
be met, investigated aud the remedy applied.
The remedy viii be found to lie in the example
Of government officers, as regards the encourage
meut OF the use Of intoxicating drinks; in prompt
bringing to justice Of voators of tie laws, and in
the encouragement of personal industry among
all classes. " Like master like man. is pro-
verb full of truth. And where judge, sheriff
or any other officer Of the kingdom is seen to set
the example of free use Of liquor, the effect per-
meates the whole district What is not wrong
for the master is surely not wrong for the man
and the result is disease, misery and death.
Year: 1875




There is a disease of somewhat similar
nature to be found in certain districts in this
group, which is called by the natives aiao
1t attacks not only sugar cane but potato vines,
and has not proved very destructive except in
the cane fields of Ulupalal1ua. 1t is believed
to be produced in some way, not yet explained,
by the red ant, which is usually found infest-
ing the localities where the disease exists.
These red ants are said to be increasing very
rapidly in this group, and if they continue to
do so, may prove very destructive to growing
crops. They usually make their nests among
the roots of plants and trees, and probably do
the same with the cane, which can easily be
ascertained by examination, wherever they ex-
ist This subject of ants, rust, or blight, or
whatever else it may be, that causes the loss of
cane, is one which should be investigated, and
any facts learned regarding it should be pub
lished to stimulate further inquiry In Queens
land, it has caused in the past year heavy loss
to the planters, estimated at not less than one
fourth of the entire crop. While there is no
good cause to apprehend any such immediate





result here it is well that all interested in cane
culture should know this fact, and endeavOr to
gain information regarding the real cause and
remedy. 1t is well to introduce new varieties
of cane, wherever the disease is observed, as
is recommended by the writer in the above ex-
tract; and, if necessary, to send abroad and
procure such kinds as experience in other
countries has shown to be exempt from all dis
eases.


Regarding the "cane borer," which some
years since troubled our planters, but of which
we have heard little of late, planter informs
US that he eradicated them by very simple
process. He cut down all the stalks affected
with the insects, run them through the mill,
then passed them to the trash house to be
dried and burned. Between the mill and fire,
the borers had poor chance of escaping alive
What was left of the cane in the field was
plowed as deep under the surface as possible
and left to rot, and the field left to lie fallow
The result was not borer was seen on the
estate the next year.
Year: 1875

Our young contemporary the Islander was
started professedly to take high ground as to
literary merit and journalistic honor-an ambl-
ton which seizes too many aspirants for literary
fame. Bat alas for the good intentions Of even


the best literary talent OF the islands, if it fails
in its resolutions, il will have none to blame bat
itself Could anything for instance, be more
ridiculous and absurd than its comments on the
GAZETTE, which it closes by saying, We too
shall have proposition for the Legislature at
the next session and Ibis triH Be italics ours)
bill for the suppression OF ridiculous newspapers
BY which any paper on passing a stated degree Of
absurdity shall be heavily taxed" If the next
Legislature, in searching for ways and means to
increase the revenue deficiency, decides to restore
the license tax OF one hundred dollars, formerly
paid by newspaper publishers here, they will have
to thank the conductors of the Islander. As for
the suppression Of " ridiculous newspapers" the
government censor, when appointed under the
bill which will be prepared by the Islander
corps, will have to read only a few such nonsen-
sical productions as The Gossiping Woman"
and What DO Babies 90 to Church fort" to
apply the law to at least one literary fedgling
Year: 1875

TIE communication Of our correspondent Hu-
manitas,H refers to what is no doubt growing
evil but il we mistake not, the laws Of the king
dom provide remedy, and any person can enter
q complaint and prosecute the offenders. But
then the time, the labor, the expense-whO is
willing to step out aud act the part Of the hu-
manitarisu2 The chief advantage Of Society
for the Prevention Of Cruelty is this-tbat it
concentrates the influence and means Of such
persons as desire to see some action taken in
the matter, and enables them at the expense Of
the society and with its moral influence, to do
what one person single-hauded might never be
able to accomplish. We should like to see a
society organized, and have once or twice sug-
gested move but never has there been the
least response.
Year: 1875

Women are ut discount where there
is no civilization. Thus it is a notorious
fact that among the natives of Africa the
fair sex is more honored in the respect
which is shown to the COW than in that
which the heaven-sent companion of
man elicits there. Women have NOTHING
to complain of in this on the score of sex
but may fairly insist that the particular
members of their sex chosen for special
honor should be of their own species.
The superior respect accorded to cows,
too, is entirely at variance with the spirit
of modern intelligence; and until the
men of Africa reverse the present dis
tinction against tie wives of their bosoms
in favor of those who hold less intimate
relation with them, there can be no fo-
yoraDle result of missionary enterprise.
Inc difference is merely geological one
the difference between COW and a
horse. 1t is exceedingly difficult for the
missionary to persuade true disciple of
Alohammed that he should degrade his
horse in a position in his family inferior
TO that of wife; far more difficult. in
fact, than to convince native African
that nc has transposed the proper rcla-
tive positions of the mother of his chill.
drenl and her too successful rival. The
mother. of his calves. In Changing his
field Of effort, indeed, from the savage
stupidity OF the negro race to the keen
intelligence OF the Arabic race, the mis-
sionary finds himself further from. rather
than nearer to, the highest civilization.
Year: 1875

fish grow. A recent letter from England
says that salmon Weighing eighteen
pounds was caught in the Severn, wear
ing Il silver label This was identified
and proved the fish to be one which was
caught six months before and returned
to the water. AT the time it weighed
nine pounds. That is, it had gained a
pound and half for n month, or nearly
an ounce a day right along.
Year: 1875

The scenes of blood in the city
during the last twenty-four hours
transcend even our usual shameful ex.
hibit of the crimes of Saturday and
Sunday. In the Eighth ward gang
of drunken negroes carried fight over
a gambling dispute from one bar.room
to another and thence into the streets.
One of them, maddened by pain and
liquor, plunged into crowd OF per
sons returning from church, and draw
ing a clasp knife, cut his way along the
sidewalk with utter recklessness as to
the result. Two innocent men received
his stabs; one pierced through the
heart died instantly, and the other now
lies in a hospital, mortally wounded.
In another part Of the city u son kills
his father on the plea of protecting his
mother from violent assault. In
Hester street, an Italian was fatally
stabbed. In Mulberry street, also;
there was a probable murder. ana
numerous crimes of more ordinary
character are reported. 1t should be
said that in most of these cases the
police could not have expected danger,
but they will be held to strict account
if the criminals are not brought to
iustice-New York Tribune.
Year: 1875

they are still making n profit and giving
employment to their full complement OF
operatives. The fabrics made Mt the
southern mills are in steady demand,
while those of the New England mills
are heaped mp in unsold and unstable
stocks-the reason fer the closing last
week of the Atlantic mills at Lawrence,
Mass, whereby 1850 operatives are
thrown out Of employment, being that
the company have surplus of goods on
hand which they cannot dispose of. In
addition to this fact, it is stated that the
Georgia, South Carolina and Tennessee
goods are driving the northern goods Of
the same grade out of the market. They
could not do this unless they are manu-
featured at less cost-and this il the
secret of the whole difference between
the condition of the mills in the two
sections.
Year: 1875

The committee appointed by the
Delaware Fruit Growers convention to
confer with the steamship companies in
regard to the shipment of peaches to
Liverpool have reported that they called
upon the authorities of the American
steamship company, and they favored
the project. The company would allow
the growers to fit up the steeraye for
ward cabin with their refrigerators,
winch can be done with five hundred
dollars Tor each vessel. This portion of
the ship would hold $4,000 or 10000
baskets, and "A compartment immedi.
diately underneath could be fitted up
which would carry 5000 additional.
They would charge the growers for the
shipment of this amount of fruit to
Liverpool about two thousand dollars,
and give them the privilege of sending
out an agent free of charge with each
consignment.
Year: 1875

For young children Now York is at
present one of the deadliest cities at
no time do they thrive there 0vermuch,
but last weeks mortality among them
was exceptionally great. Under five
years of age they died at the rate of
eighty'six per diem, the main trouble
being diarfhmal disease.
Year: 1875

Part ofthe city. The sea-hreeze comes to this
locality esh and pure from the ocean, and
untainted with the noxious vapo;s and tilthy
odors that arise from ces pools and cutters to
destroy its b. neficentt fleet.


Numerous streets have been graded and
the means of access to this property is being
daily improved.


The baker and milkmau make regular
trips through these Streets


AS the city Is growing at an unprecedented
rate and real estate daily apprrc a ing in val
ue this is q splendid chance to obtain
Year: 1875

A cottage spinister, "Roselle," in COM
municating her practice of making cot
tage cheese, says: II take some sweet
milk and stand it on top of the stove in
new tin pail, or pan, shaking it occa-
sionally, that the forming curd may not
settle to the bottom. I turn the edges
gently that the curd may form evenly,
taking care not to break it, and not let
it cook too fast. If the heat is about
right it will be done in half an hour.
Then drain off the whey slowly, press.
ing down the curd until only whey
enough remains in it that the cheese will
not be too dry, just moist enough to mix
we'll. Then l salt to taste, add good
lump of butter and work we'll with my
hand, then pack it down in a crock,
leaving all the moisture in it. This is
better than to press into dry balls. Set
in the coolest corner of the cellar or
spring house. Take it out into deep
white dish, and very carefully dip out
and lay over the top OF it few spooniuls
Of thick cream, sweet or sour, but the
sour is preferable. Lay clean, bright
spoon beside the dish. and your whole
some poem Is ready for criticism, cold
white and pretty, and one Of the incest
dishes known for tea.
Year: 1875

We find in late number of the New
leland Herald touching incident in
of the great present dearth of
dressmaking hands in that
colony. 1t seems thas well-to-do set
tier near Auckland was lately attacked by
an illness which his medical attendants
declared must terminate fatally, so severe
were the symptoms. After lying in an
hopeless state for some days,
he suddenly took turn for the better,
and thanks to strong constitution,
made a rapid recovery. Not long after
he had returned to business he was
much startled, on opening an account
presented at his Office, to find himself
charged with full set of widows weeds
of an elaborately complete description.
A domestic explanation naturally fol-
lowed, and his wife reminded him that
he had always made it special desire
that the fact of their having emigrated
to a colony should never prevent her
dressing as a lady. "And the dress
makers here you know" she added,
shave matters so entirely in their own
hands that they generally keep you wait
ing for months for anything new. So
when was told that you could not possi-
bly, recover, 1 ordered what l knew you
would wish me to wear beforehand; and
now the things have only just come
home"


The bill was promptly settled. Wheth-
er the husband was consoled for the out
lay by the thought that his provident
wife had the things ready by her is a
question that is left open to conjecture.
.Harpcr's Magazine.
Year: 1875

The real possibility and advantage Of
the varied and exte nding use of paper
pulp is illustrated in the manufacture of
such things as water pals, which are now
made in large numbers of paper pulp, as
we'll as of wooden slaves.


In the old way of making pals the
seperate parts or slaves are cut, one at a
time, from the log of wood, and, in max
ing them, all the chips and smaller piec-
es are wholly wasted. 50 far as the real
object of manufacture is concerned. In
making paper pail, however, the fbrous
material is wholly utilized, and if the
original stock is wood, IS in part it may
be, then that which would be wasted in
chips and fag ends is entirely saved.


Those who make paper tell US that
thus far they have barely entered on
some of their new lines of product
Scribner for May.