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Year: 1875

Clover fields and other grass lands where
plaster proves beneficial to crops, should
have light dressing, just before rain.
The late Judge Colbum, one Of the most
successful men in the state in the cultivation
Of the soil, was in the habit Of sowing peck
Of plaster to an acre on all his moving fields
every year. We have changed light crop
of white top to heavy crop Of red clover
by half bushel of plaster to an acre, Some
seasons there is no perceptible effect; others
the result Is very gratifying.
Year: 1875

And now the tent caterpillar is seen
abroad in the land. Those who would save
their fruit must attend to him. A Lowell
correspondent of the Ne,O ENGLAND Farmer
writes that he has been successful in destroy
ing the tent caterpillars on his apple trees
for the past seventeen years, in the following
manner Take one pint of soft soap to two
gallons of water, aud after dissolying the
soap, make swab on the end of a pole,
which, after dipping in the suds insert into
the nest of the cAterpilars and twist it a iow
times, when most Of them will be removed,
and the others all killed. if touched by the
suds,
Year: 1875

Recently the community was startled
by the claim of young lady to a certain
man as being the father of her child,
when some comrade of his, to screen his
friend, swore that he had participated
in the affair. The same community is
again shocked with the tidings that an
other young lady of sixteen years has
fallen victim TO this hopeful number
two, who also refuses to marry her,
making a similar charge against her.


Now, while society and the law screen
these apologies for men, society and the
law set their seal of denuDeiation upon
the victims Of such villains. And so
long as men, shielded by the law, can
thus play into each others hands, bid
ding defiance to woman, so long it is
cowardice in her if she does not Join
hands with others and rise up against
such injustice, arming with six-shoot-
er, even, If driven to that emergency.
Give US the MONDAY ''trampi and the
midnight assassin rather than such le-
galized villainy. These have not the
power to spread disgrace in our path
way, which is unspeakably worse than
the serpent's sting, pestilence, famine,
or sword.


While woman is compelled to paw,
either directly or indirectly, for the pro-
lection she is presumed to receive, she
has never been consulted about the pro-
lection that her necessities require. In
deed, she has always been treated legally
as though the only protection she needed
was on mans account; just enough of
this to keep her in working order for his
varied purposes as ''an help-meet for
him.n


Objections are made to woman's de-
mi fOF rrnfa0tinT1 q O tanditnor 70
love-" But this demand is farthest from
it possible. While matters remain as
now, an unprincipled man who has
brought ruin into one household may
as an unmarried man proceed from
house to house. But recently the last
son died of man who had three VIC
TINS, at one time, on the hands of the
community, all of whom he had engaged
to marry. But if the law had held him
as it should, married to the first, it
would have saved him from disgracing
himself; or else would have consigned
him to the punishment of bigamist.
This would not be very desirable Ii
ability to dog his footsteps; yet it should
be attached to every legally married
man who should proceed, as do often the
evil disposed, who can never be re-
strained except through some stringent
| neaSuI0 Wu4Cu bhS helA-O6luS VI sOC4eby
demands.


No law was ever too sacred to be i'm
| proved by mans or Woman's hands;
else statute law would never have been
Iinaugurated because a natural law pre-
ceded it in all things, which can not be
blotted out; so it is possible for man, If
he have his wits about him, to improve
upon "old usages" of kings who car
peted their floors with bulrushes, while
their subjects plowed their lands with
old chairs, with one leg in the ground,
the sire guiding it by the pommel and
the son dragging it by the rung, as has
been seen in our own country even.
Such law as woman proposes would
save many man, woman, and child
from ruin, disgrace, and infamy, in
stead of screening the guilty from pun
ishment or inflicting misery upon the
unoffending, as the law actually does
to-day.-ETchange
Year: 1875

Recent events in England are signifi-
cant in proving that though that nation
is ruled by a woman, she has will of
her own, and dares to do right, In spite
of influence and opposition from high
quarters, even including that of the
heir-apparent to the crown. Colonel
Baker, an officer who has been covered
with glory on many CORY field, whose
breast was covered with as many
medals as his body had wounds, so for
got himself as to insult lady in rail-
road carriage. For this offense he was
condemned to imprisonment for one
year without hard labor and fined $500.
Then the question arose whether this
officer, who had served over a quarter of
a century in the army, had been pro-
guished himself for his valor, should be
permitted to retain his place. A gi-
gantic influence was brought to bear to
make this possible. The Duke of Cam
bridge, ommander-in-chief, opposed
his removal. The Prince Of Wales, one
of the four field marshals of the army,
we believe, added the influence of his
high military rank to that of the sue
cessor to the crown, and perchance the
influence of q son over his mother, to
the same end. Generals hoary with
honorable service, who could scarcely
have asked any other boon from their
sovereign and been denied, petitioned;
but the Queen was firm. No man who
was not gentleman could hold COM
mission in her service. In her opinion,
no man who would insult defenseless
woman, no matter what his rank or
station, was entitled to be considered
gentleman; hence his services were dis
pensed with. Her Majesty had no fur
ther use for them. Petitions and plead
ings, the influence of her son and her
cousin, her generals and her attendants,
all were in vain, and womanhood
throughout the world must rejoice that
woman rose superior TO all, in defense
of the honor of one of her own sex. No
doubt, as she thought of the blood he
had shed for her country, she mOurned,
and thought with Othello, 'I love thee,
Cassie, but thou canst never more be of
ficer of mine." Too pure to be served
by libertine, however brave or brill
liant, she dismissed him in Disgrace
AIeghGay pa Mail
Year: 1875

Two rats were seen to go to a pond
and drink in town in Kentucky, each
having one end of straw in its mouth.
1t was subsequently found that one of
them was totally blind, and was led to
the water in this way by the other.
Year: 1875

The campaign opens bitter, sharp
and decisive. The leading speakers
are handling each other without gloves
and the record of the three candidates
for Governor is distorted and twisted
to conform to the views Of those who


wish them to appear bad or good. So
tar the elimination and recrimination


business has been mainly confined to


The contending forces of the Republi-
cans and Independents. 1t isa fami-
ly quarrel and they say such quarrels
are the most acrimonious and vindic-


tive of all quarrels. If PHELPS is one
half as bad a man as the Independent
speakers makes him, he is unfit for the
position Of town beadle, much less
that Of Governor of a State. II BID
WELL is the narrow-minded question
ably honest old gentleman that Cor
HAM and others would have their
hearers believe, he is better fitted for
an overseer in his satanic majesty's
domain than to sit in the Gubernato-
rial chair of the State Of California.
VIM. IRWIN, the Democratic candi-
date for Governor comes in for large
share Of Misrepresentation and abuse
from the Bulletin, but from the stump
he refutes everything and stands well
wherever he goes. The campaign is
opening little too hot. This whole
sale dealing in personalities by candi-
dates is to be regretted. 1t is true
that the public record Of public men
is public property, and their official
acts are legitimate subjects for COM
ment and discussion, but there is no
necessity for preferring unfounded
charges and the bandying ofcoarse ep-
ithets. Tone down little, gentlemen.
You are not advancing your own
chances nor diminishing those of your
opponents by resorting to bitter in
vective and vehement denunciations.
Let us have more argument and de-
bate and less attack and malignment.
Year: 1875

There is some little dissatisfaction
expressed by citizens who have taken
stock in the Los Angeles and Inde-
pendence Railroad, over the prospect
that the road will not pass through
this city. five are correctly informed
as to the intended line of survey, the
road will Just touch the Southwest
corner of the corporation limits. If
this is correct, the distance from the
center of the city to the road will be a
little over two miles,. This is long
ways to haul freight and will add ma
terially to the cost of transportation.
The San Pedro street railway company
will soon have their road completed to
the depot, which will to great ex-
tent do away with the inconvenience
to passengers, but for freighting pur-
poses the track will be too far out of
town to ensure cheap lumber or any
other freight. 1t was generally un-
derstood that the road would pass
through the city andsup the Arroyo
Seco. This would have made it a
great convenience to the city; but the
route now determined upon is not re-
ceived with favor by our people. The
indications are that the track will pass
a short distance Southwest of the race
track, through the Laguna ranch,
cross the San Gabriel river on the
property of Mr.. TEMPLE and thence
On through the Monte. The grad
ers have, we are informed, already
crossed the Los Angeles river on this
route, and we presume there will be
no change in the survey. So, after all,
the Santa Monica railroad will not be
much of a Los Angeles road. We
hear it rumored that town will be
laid out on the Laguna ranch and also
one at the crossing of the San Gabriel
river.
Year: 1875

If we should attempt to predict
what our eloquent young friend Tom
FITCH would say in his speech this
evening, we should say that the
Southern Pacific Railroad would come
in for good sound scoring. Senator
JONES will be eulogized, and HoUGH-
TON, Republican candidate for Con-
gress, will be whitewashed until he
will look as clean and nice as new
board fence. II Tom does not make a.
first-class Republican speech, with
HoUGHToN as the central figure, We
are mistaken in the purpose for which
he takes the rostrum.
Year: 1875

The Evening Express of this city
claims to be an independent journal.
It is owned by joint stock company
and the stock holders put their money
in it with the positive understanding
that it should be conducted on nom
Year: 1875

ping Bill, as though the bill Itself Is
an atroeious crime there Is enough hui
manity and knowledge in the House
to change 1t into good measure. He
denounces the present laws against
breach of contract, which leave sailors
who have unknowing1y agreed to sail
in unseaworthy ships the alternative
of the goal or death, and continues:


charge the Government with will
ingly playing into the hands of mari
time murderers inside and outside of
the House to secure q continuance of
the present murderous systems. de-
sire to unmask the villains who sit in
this House as representatives of the
more numerous but no greater villains
outside. Failing in this I lay upon
the head of the Premier and his col
leagues the blood of all who perish
next winter from preventable causes,
and denounce against him and them
the wrath of God.


End Of a Strike.


VIENNA, July 23.-The strike of the
weavers at Brun has ended in COM
promise with the employers.
Year: 1875

last week with power from Ambrose
r. Woodruff, alias Miller, to draw his
balance from the banking house of
Woodruff &c Spence. He had pre-
viously sent money to the firm to pay
certain debts contracted prior to his
hurried flight from Lynehburg in
1869.
Year: 1875

KEEPING MEALS WAIrIxG.-Little things
often interfere with our comfort very much
and one small annoyance is for men to
delay coming to dinnerwhen called. Some
times they have an hour or more of work
which they will do before quitting. and
then they go to the house 10 find the
dinner cold, and the cook discouraged.
Nothing is more disheartcn;nq to o tnol
woman than table full Of d....


ornamenting the table an hour and a hall
later in the day than usual. Punctuality
IS a virtue that men should learn, if they
are in the habit of being uncertain about
coming to meals. Any woman worthy the
name of housekeeper will be regular with
her meals if it lies within her to have them
Year: 1875

There are many fruits which never turn
sweet until the frost has lain upon them.
There are many nuts that never fall from
the boughs of forest trees till the frost has
opened and ripened them. And there are
many elements of life that never grow
sweet and beautiful until sorrow comes.
Year: 1875

THE CITY BY THE R1vER-soME OF ITS


INSTITUTIONS.


CITY OF NEW CASTLE, Oct. 4.


In compliance with your request here
with have the pleasure of sending you this,
the first of series of correspondence, as
circumstances permit, from this city. There
now-that last word will cause some of
your Wilmingtonians to smile, perhaps
audibly-but they would do we'll to restrain
their mirth, if so inclined, at the idea of
this hitherto sleepy old town being called a
city till they have read further. Well, then,
in the language of the novelist, this city is
beautifully situated on the banks of the
noble Delaware, and has lately awakened
from its Rip Van Winkle sleep of more than
twenty years though, and made the import
ant discovery that it is in just the spot to
enable it to be- somebody of consequence
some day if it has mind to. For the past
half century it has been content with its
humble position of County Seat, the centre
of justice for this county, containing the
Courthouse, county offices and jail, but
some two or three years ago some of its
more enterprising citizens, knowing the ad-
vantage possessed by New Castle for a
manufacturing town, induced the Tasker
Co. to establish a branch Of their works
here, which has been done, and they now
have several large mills in operation but
more of these hereafter. This move of
course increased population, in some few
instances of not the most desirable kind.
This again made it necessary for the estab-
lishment of good municipal government.
Therefore at the last meeting of the Legis-
lature an act was passed converting the old
est, sleepiest and dullest town on the Della
ware, at one stroke, into city, with all the
machinery and prerogatives of any other
city, and it stands now equal in most res
poets to Wilmington. It has its Mayor,
City Council, City Assessor, City Treasur-
,r and police, and if that don't const itute
,ity should like to know what does. 1t
acks somewhat yet in population, but that
will come with time, and it is we'll enough
% be provided with good municipal gov
for their benefit when they do
'ome. At the time the charter was passed
! free school bill was also passed, giving
he children chance to get o good COM
non school education for little or nothing.
snt she city then MORE ANON.
Year: 1875

The race of mankind would
perish did they cease to aid each
other. From the time that the
mother binds the child's head
till the moment that some kind
assistant wipes the death,damp
from the brow at the dying, we
cannot exist without mutual help.
All therefore that need aid have
a right to ask it of their fellow
mortals; no one who holds the
power of granting can refuse with
out guilt.
Year: 1875

The angle of the flowers one day


Beneath rose tree lay =


The spirit to whose charge tis given
To bathe young buds in dews from heaven
Awakening from his light repOse,
The angle viii spered TO the rose:
"Ohl foadest found object of my care,
Still fairest found where all are fair
For the sweet shade thou st given me
ASK what thou Whilst, tbs granted thee, "
Thus said the rose tree whispering low:
"On me another charm bestow'
The spirit paused IN silent thought
What grace was there that flower had not
Twas but a moment-8'er the rose
a veil of moss the angle throws,
And clothed in natures simplest weed
Could there a flower thet rose exeeed2
Year: 1875

New YORK, August 80 1875
To THE EDIToR THE HERALD


l wish a merchant and boxholder Of the splendid
new Post Office, opened to-day to enter my protest
against the cake and soda water in opera
tion and taking up large and valuable space in the
most prominent position in this magnificent edi6ce.
This arrangement is for the benefit the merchants
who never think OF patronzing 1t, but is solely sup
ported by lot OF urchns who the Post
Office and elsewhere and who take up large space by
congregang around the counter eating and drinking
There s not the slightest necessity for IT, there are
hundreds Of saloons beer and cake shops Immediately
surrounding the Post Oice which all can resort
who are hungry and in need OF refreshments No doubt
the proprietor Of this stand pays very valuable con-
sideraton Tor the right to occupy 1t and his wares
and If so, who gets the consideration Is il not the
Postmaster And again, why merchants compelled
TO pay 81 for keys 10 the boxes when they have to
pay SIG per annum for the OF the boxesy | ask
again, who gets this, amounting TO something like
per annum in place of SIG. Yours MERCHANT
Year: 1875

fulfill its promises by the speediest posi-
BILE return to specie payment. That ire
deemable currency is national evil, ant
when it continues beyond the necessity o
its creation is national reproach. Tha
the decentralization OF the values caused
by imitation Of the national currency
while it tends to place the earning
Of labor which depend on the steadi
ness and uniformity in the measure
OF value in the power Of spectators IN
gold and credit, also involves the demOr.
alization OF public and private credit and
expenditure, speculation in place oil
thrift, the ultimate destruction OF the
prosperity Of trade and industry, the
risk Of increasing crime, and the whole
train Of evils which follows any departure
from the honiely virtue that keeps its
word and pays as it goes.


That while We gladly count among the
significant assurances Of the good work
Of the Republican party its regenerating
influences upon our Democratic fellow
citizens, Us shown by the bitter utter.
ances OF their late convention in this hall
in their unreserved acceptance OF the
constitutional results OF Republican
craftsmanship, and in their nomination
for office men trained in Republican
teachings and scrvice-we protest that it
would be the height Of imprudence to
commit all that has been achieved for
the Union, freedom and human rights to
the keeping Of u party which had no
heart for the work and has no stake in
the glory.


Adjourned sinC die.
Year: 1875

wardrobes, chairs &c, are elegantly
finished.


An order was received few days ago
from the South for five hundred wagons.
The wagon department will be animated
for some time. The vehicles are such as
to commend themselves wherever they
are sent,


The Penitentiary building is now
rapidly approaching completion, and
presents a handsome and imposing ap-
pearance. AS soon as the main building
is completed the attention Of the builders
will be directed to the erection Of new
workshops within the massive walls
which enclose the Penitentiary grounds.
Year: 1875

A few days since the Democratic Com
mittee of Henry county met and adopted
She delegate convention plan of making
nominations, abandoning the popular
vote system that had been in vogue there
for some years. The reason for the
change is the expense to Candidates-the
acrimony and bitterness engendered, and
the fact that often times when several
candidates are running for nomination
the man nominated gets but plurality,
possibly only tenth or so of the votes.
In delegate convention much, or all of
this, is avoided. In the latter, each
nominee must secure majority of the
delegates. These are points worthy of
consideration.
Year: 1875

An exchange suggests that Grants
whole cabinet resign. Would it not
be we'll to include Grant himself ?
Is not the trouble really there1 Our
former Presidents had some regard for
ability and experience when forming a
cabinet,
Year: 1875

WE hear of an effort making to start
Republican paper in Canton that shall
infuse life and vim into the party and
not be under the control of LOHSchaetSr.
They do not wish so much Of a dishwater
Organ of the granny variety.
Year: 1875

will be enough. Garfield is fair man
and when he knows the facts he will do
what is right. Now, you can state them
as well as [ can, and whatever his decis-
ion is, will abide by it. You can tell
him that shot your dog, and that your
dog had done me no harm"


Do you acknowledge that old Carlo
never harmed you-that he never tfoub-
led your sheep?" inquired Brackett,
with startled surprise.


" 1t was not his nature to do harm to
ANYTHING. | am sure he would have
sooner saved one Of my sheep than have
killed it,"


Then what did you shoot him fOr?"


"I'hat is what | was Just coming at.


Z" Peter. You will tell the Justice that
| had lost several of my best sheep-killed
by d0gs-that / had just been taking the
skin from a fat, valuable wether that had
been so killed and mangled--that | was
on my way from my barn to my house,
with my gun in my hand, when | saw
dog come out from my shed. My first
thought was that he had come from my
sheep-f0ld 1t was almost dark and |
could not see plainly. Tell the Justice
] had no idea it was your dog. | never
dreamed that ] had fred that cruel shot
at old Carlo until Tom Frost told me-"


" How? You didn't know it was my
dog?'


"Peter, have you thought so hard of
me as to think that I could knowingly
and willingly have harmed that grand old
dog? [ would sooner have shot one of
my own oxen"


"But, you didn't tell me so at first.
Why didn't your


{. Because you come upon me $3.50
suddenly"


90, pshaw!" cried Brackett, with a
stamp of his foot Why don't you spit
it out as it was? Say l came down On
you so like a hornet that you hadn't a
chance to think. ] was a blamed fool! =
that's what was"


S'And / was another, Peter; if l
hadn't been I should have told you the
truth at once, instead of faring up. But
we will understand it now. You can see
the Justice"


g Justice be hanged John Dang
it all what's the use? re!-Lets
end it so !"


From her window Mrs. Brackett had
seen the two men come together, and she
trembled for the result. By and by she
saw her husband, as though flushed and
excited, put out his hand Mercy was
he going to strike his neighbOr? She
was ready to cry out with afright-the
cry was almost upon her lips-when she
beheld a scene that called forth rejoicing
instead. And this was what she saw:


She saw these two strong men grasp
one another by the hand, and she saw
big, bright tears rolling down their
checks; and she knew that the fearful
storm was passed, and that the warm
sunshine of love and tranquility would
come again.
Year: 1875

The causes and prevention of cholera
are well set forth in a report on the chol-
era epidemic of 1878, by Supervisor
Surgeon Woodwork, which has just been
published by the United States Treasury
Department. DIR. Woodworth claims it
to be an established fact that cholera is
occasioned by the access of a specific
poison to the alimentary canal, which is
developed spontaneously in Hindostan.
AS far as the world outside of that
country is concerned, the poison is con.
tanned in the elections of the sick. The
poison NAV be communicated through
the air or through food and drink. Acids
are the best antidote to the poison, and
NAV be contained in water or soil, in
atmospheric gases, and the secretions of
the stomach. This may also be artificial
lv administered, and experience has
shown that diluted sulphurlc acid taken
internally is a valuable prophylactic. Al
kaline foods are, on the contrary,
favorable to the contraction and spread
of the disease. The points which are
here given in brief are very thoroughly
and clearly elaborated by DR.. Wood
worth, and the pamphlet deserves the
attention of medical men.