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Year: 1875

MRW. q. GALE, a wellknown railroad
man Of Cincinnati, has disooyereda plan
by which the smoke and cinders from A
locomotive can be carried to the rear of
the train and there set free without an.
noying passengers. His apparatus con-
sists of simple tube, foot or so in
diameter, running from the smoke-stack
over the tops of the ears TO the rear his
theory being that the speed of the train
will create draught of sufficient power
to suck in all the smoke and cinders and
scatter them to the winds behind the
train. The idea has been patented, and,
If il proves effective, the patentee should
receive the thanks Of the entire civilized
world and no doubt he will, and make
fortune besides His patent will be a
great saving to railroads in injury by
smoke, and a decided benefit to passen.
gers.
Year: 1875

A number of years ago, when
Orange Judd, publisher of the Ameri-
can Agriculturist, and his wife spent
their evenings in putting up pack
ages of seeds, and a penny had its
value to them, lie sent boy with a
check for S100 to the New York
Herald Office, with instructions to
pay what was due and leave the rest
for advertising. The boy being dull
of comprehension, did not under
stand him and told the book-keeper
to use the S1O0 for one day. The
next morning what was Mr.. Judd's
horror to see, on taking up the Her
aid, "Read the American Agricultu-
rist" repeated for nearly whole col
umn. He rushed down to the office
for an explanation, and found that
they had only followed instructions
and there was no help for it. "We
are ruined" he said to his wife, "a
whole years advertisement gone in
one day." But instead of being his
ruin, it was the beginning of his sue
cess. Immediately subscriptions
poured in from all over the country.
The Agriculturist became an institu-
ton, and its proprietor is one of the
wealthiest men of New York. Mr..
Judd has continued from that day fc
his lucky mistake to be one of the
most extensive and wealthiest adver.
tisers in the country.
Year: 1875

The Columbus Journal contains
the following warm endorsement OF
a gentleman who is talked of as. a
Republican candidate for Governor :


"The Wyandot Republican nomi-
mates Harrison g. Blake, of Medina,
for Governor. In addition to being
a prominent Free -Soiler during a
somewhat notable period in State
politics, Mr. Blake has a romantic
history, known to every school child,
from the little poem describing how
his mother was found lying dead in
a wild snow-storm, with her smiling
child warmly wrapped in her bosom.
1t is possible that Mr.. Blake may
have been saved from that storm on
purpose to wallop Rise Up William
for Governor next term
Year: 1875

Letter frOn Kansas-S0me AZ


fectiug Details of the Suffer


ing and Destitution.


Mrs. Weatherby, Secretary of the
Committee for the Relief of the Kan
sas and Nebraska sufferers, has kind
ly furnished US the following letter
for publication:


MNNEApoLIs, Kansas, Feb. 8, rs.


Mrs J. A. WEATHERBY-Dear Aunt:
The two boxes shipped by you have
arrived. Their contents have already
gladdened the hearts, as well as
warmed the bodies, of many deserv-
ing poor, who we know were needing
them. We were particularly pleased
at the desinbleness and good quail
ty of the aatieles sent, for although
not new, they were not worthless,
castoff articles of clothing-many
of them being much better than
many here wear to church service on
the Sabbath.


Knowing that you have confidence
in our Judgment and honesty, we do
not deem it necessary to furnish you
with the names of the recipients of
your bounties. We assure you they
were notunworthily orimproperly be-
slowed. Some unscrupulous per-
sons may consent to take the strin-
gent oath required as to their needs,
and thus deceive the officers of dis
tribution. While, however, this may
be the case, had it not been for the
very generous donations made by the
whole hearted friends of the East,
there would have been q large
amount of actual want, and even
death, both from starvation and ex-
posure to the cold weather.


The Presbyterian Minister here
mentions case, which came under
his notice, of family consisting of
eight persons. Upon going into the
house, he found the mother in bed,
where she had sought refuge, to hide
her rags and nakedness. The eldest
daughter was clad in calico dress
only, SO far as he could judge, the
tatters and rags of which came only
to her knees, the younger children
being equally as scantily clad.


A good brother came to me yester-
day, and although mis- clothes were
quite ragged, he said they were the
best and only ones he had. They
were so ragged, that he could not go
to church on the Sabbath day, but
went only at night. His wife had
only one decent dress, and that was
calico He was too proud to appeal to
the Aid Society, but said, if we were
disposed to give him anything from
among these goods, he would not re-
fuse them. At that time, the goods
had been distributed, but I assured
him, if the friends sent anything
more, he should have something.
There are many such cases.


Some among you may say, ''why
do they not go to work?" You must
remember this is new country, and
everybody is poor, and have nothing
to pay for work-consequently there
is no work.


The great want is going to be for
seed with which to conduct farming
operations the coming season. But
I trust, either through the generosity
of those who have and to spare, or
through proper legislation, some way
will he provided, by which those
needing may be enabled to supply
their wants.


But I have already tired your pa
tience, and were to continue much
Ionger, I cotlld not tell all the desti-
tuition and want.


With much love to you all, I am
with much respect, your nephew,


A. B. WHITNEY.
Year: 1875

The bill to repeal second trials,
which has been before the Ohio Leg
islature for some time past, has been
passed and signed by the proper Off
GERS of each House. At least it will
remind man when he is once beat
en- in Court to be satisfied. Ofcourse
this does not cut off his privilege to
to appeal to higher courts.
Year: 1875

When your time is out, don't wait till you have a
chance to come to town, or send the money by a
neghbor, but enclose it in letter at once and hand
it to your P NJ. We tuiH be responsible if the money
is lost, from any post-ofSce in this county.


Subscribers outside of the county should send
money orders, when practicable, where the amount
is 81 or more. An order costs but cents, which
the subscriber may deduct from the amount sent.
Year: 1875

The Kansas sufferers.


The following letter to the ladies
of the Hillsboro Aid Society explains
itself:


DOUGLAS, BUTLER Co., KAs.,


February s, 1875. !
To the Ladies Of the HillS6oro A5d
Society:


I hope that you will pardon a per
sonal appeal to your charity from
stranger. 1 am a native of Old High
land, from near Greenfield, but fol
the past eight years a resident of the
West, the past two years of this
county. I ask nothing on my own
account, but there are many whose
needs are pressing, both for food and
clothing, and who will suffer unless
contributions pour in more literally
than they have yet done. 1t is true
there has been a large amount OF
provisions, principally meal and flour,
received by various central commit
tees, but when it is taken into con-
sideration that this has to be divided
between two counties, again divided
between townships, and then between
families, it makes only a short allow
ance for each. Men are willing to
work if they can get work to do, but
there are few to hire and these few put
wages down so that man can make
only 25 or 80 cents day and board
himself, and then start the cry, 'No-
body suffering in our neighborhood
except those who are too lazy to
work." that they may reap large
profit from the misfortunes of their
neighbors.


see by the News that your COM
mittee urge upon the people of Hills
boro the necessity for some action,
that it is their duty as Christian
people to contribute of their abund-
ance, that some amount of suffering
may be lessened in this scourged
country.


The people here don't ask it as
beggars or paupers, in commonly &C
cepted sense of the words, but as
people borne down by misfortunes
and adverse circumstances through
no fault of their own. We are in
need of everything in the line of seed,
both for field and garden, for spring
sowing and planting, clothing for
women and children, feed for teams
while preparing the ground for
another crop. We have no hope OF
feed for our hogs or other stock
than teams, and little hope of that
1 presume that I know more of the
condition of this township-Richland
than any one else, having made
the Statistical Report for the State
Board of Agriculture, and would say
that not one man in the township has
wheat to sell, and only two any corn,
and very little at that, and that little
for cash only at very high figures.


There are about seventy families
in the township, so that you may see
that the prospect for the poor is
dark.


If you choose 70 send us anything
it will be thankfully received, and
that you may know that it is prop
erly distributed I will make out re
ceipt roll and let the receivers &C
knowledge what they receive, and
return said roll to you. 1 am chair
man of the township organization
and John Nichols is our central com
mittee man. Any goods you may
choose to send to "Kansas Relief
Hon. H. d. Hill, Butler Co. Aid ani
Relief Society, Augusta, Kansas,
and addressed on the inside of th'
box to "Richland township" to Mr.
Nichols or myself, will be received.


If you see fit you can publish this
and if you should send anything
please write also.


Very respectfully yours,
L. D. HULL,
Year: 1875

The probability that even the fullest
published list will not contain the names
of all the victims OF the Schiller disaster
was made apparent by the story of a lady
who called at the Office of the company
in New York. Two young men from
Breslau, she said, had been boarding
with her family in Hester street for tho
seven or eight weeks before the Schiller
sailed. 1t was their first home in this
country, and as their search for work
was unsuccessful, and their funds were
running out, they decided to return to
Germany if they could obtain free pas
sage. Accordingly they went to Hobo
ken, and on narrating their case to Cap
tain Thomas, he consented to accept
their services as deck hands. Their
names we're Herman Baumgarten and
Richard Norwach. The former had q
wife and two children, whom he intend
ed to surprise by his unannounced re-
turn. The agents know of eleven such
men who were received by Capt. Thomas
on like conditions. Their. names will
not appear in the lists either of passen-
gers or crew,
Year: 1875

The american Miller, of Chicago, es-
Inmates that the shortage in the winter
wheat crop of Minnesota is more than
equal to the total receipts of spring
wheat at Chicago and Milwaukee for the
year 1874. This estimate the st. Paul
Pioneer Press doubts, although admit
ting that the cold raw weather of the
backward spring has had an undoubted
effect upon the value of the wheat. The
destruction by cold and frost has been
immense, but the damage is not really
as great as claimed. In regard to spring
wheat, the Pioneer Press says that the
seeding is about finished, and although
the weather is not propitious for germi-
nation, the splendid wheat soils of Min
nesota have never yet known such things
as rot or failure to quicken. February
has been known to produce good crop
in August but late sowings, like those
OF this year, have uniformly returned
the largest increase. If the grasshoppers
do not eat up the new verdure, as it is
now pretty sure they will not, and if the
heavens do not utterly refuse to send
down their early md latter rains, the
present late season will be god-send to
the farmers, and not disaster, as seems
to be the popular idea.
Year: 1875

KEEPING HIM Down. While stopping
over night at farm house in Missouri,
traveller was astonished to see his
hostess walk up to her husband about
every fifteen minutes and box his ears
or give his hair pull. In the morning
the guest seeing the woman alone, asked
an explanation of her strange conduct,
and the reply was :" You see, stranger,
me and the old man has been ightin'
for ten years to see who shall boss this
ere ranch, and / have jest got him
cowed, but if l should let up on him for
day he would turn on me again and
my work weald all 60 for nethih'." A
Year: 1875

Twelve pounds of hay and ten pounds
of Indian meal per horse per day, every
day in the year, save in the warmest
weather, is the food of The street cor
horses in New York-stock that usually
looks well, in spite of severe work.
They are all watered at one o'clock in
the morning, as on aid to digestion.
Year: 1875

, COLUMBUS, Jan. 7.-Governor Allen
has just sent a message to the Assem-
bly, directing their attention to the
grave circumstance of the interference
of Federal troops in the organization
and proceedings Of legislature of q
sister State. II such interference is
legal there, it would be here, and it
therefore becomes the duty Of the rep
resentatives of this State to enter q
protest that may become q precedent.
II there is any law to justify this action
II 10 his Judgment that they should re.
quest its immediate repeal.
Year: 1875

of the national capitol q few years ago
with their rebel hordes and cx-mem-
bers OF the Southern Congress and
other cx.Confederate officials stand in
the halls OF Congress and defiantly
dictate terms, and assume to teach and
expound what Is loyalty--what IL con
stitutionai--and the best method of
preserving the integrity Of the Union.


They have laid down as their final
determ ination to no longer permit the
free exercise Of the elective franchise
to the whole voting population of the
South. They are determined by fraud,
violence and bloodshed to carry the
entire South for the Democracy, and
to dictate to northern Democracy as
they used to do, who shall be the Dem
ocratic standard bearers. Northern
Democracy agree to the programme
and will aid them in the consumation
of this determination. To this issue
Involving in the end the very life Of the
nation again and the re-establishment
Of slavery or its equivalent have, we
come again.


Our neighbor the Democrat scents
the position Of the Democratic Con.
gressmen and furiously sounds the
battle cry.


We cannot refrain from giving our
readers an extract from very weighty
editorial in the Democrat upon the
situation, a. it will at least greatly
amuse them:


"This is carrying out the prog ramme
ofGrant, who IL fully given over to the
scheme Of converting all the States in
to provinces. II Louisiana falls In
peace, then why not try Ohio, New
York, or any other State which does
not vote Republican.


Then in espousing the cause of
Louisiana, We are fighting for our
selves. No man knows what State the
Washington Sphynx will strike at
next. Without regard however, to
ShV VVWCA " uACu u0 1o0uulCD OvoE tu0
liberties Of the people we charge him
with treason and perjury.


Grant, Sheridan, Belknap their aid
ers and abettors have made war on
sovereign State and subjected Louisi-
ana to rule foreign to her taste; for
eign to her wish and foreign to her
desire expressed through tho ballot
box. And yet there 10 doubt as to the
means of redress among those who
would gladly welcome Q relief from
oppression. It 10 said that we must
wait for the next Congress but what
will the tyrant be doing in the mean
timer Now is the time to drag the
bull dog away from bis grasp; Now is
the time to unloosc his claws from the
necks Of sovereign States, before he
has enough of them under his heel to
accomplish his purpose


The course Of action is plain to our
View. Let the StateD, the people take
action Immediately! The Democratic
party has carried majority of the
State Legislatures and as the people
are the source OF power, let them rise
in the might Of their State organixa-
tions and drag OF the tiger which IL
attempting to strangle the South.


Tilden, Governor OF the great State
Of New York: Allen the lion hearted
Governor of Ohio; Hendricks Of Indi-
ana, State the vote OF when wxI
wrongfnily counted for the bogus con-
stitutional amendment-New Jersey,
Connecticut, Missouri, Kentucky, j,
Maryland. aye!a majority Of States
are Democratic and the hands OF the
tyrant can be tied by prompt action
on the part of the people.
Year: 1875

A 81 ergyman at Kansas City said II
there was any one within hearing OF
his voice who would try to put stop
to Sunday dog d ! hting he'd like to
have 'em rise up. A small boy and
an old woman rose up.
Year: 1875

Dio Lewis, 1t is unnecessary to state
Is New Englander. If the fact were
ever in dispute it Is now forever set at
rest by his declaration that he can live
two weeks on single squash.
Year: 1875

The celebrated razor blades produced


by Rogers, of Sheffield, and which 20


to all parts of the civilized world. are


forged out Of bars of the very best


highly carbonated cast steel, titled to


about half of an inch in breadth, and


of thickness sufficient for the back Of


the razor. The blade is first moulded
at the end of the porter-rod and then
forged, and the edge being brought out,
the concave surface is formed by work.
ing the side on the rounded edge of the
anvil. 1t is then cut off, and the tang
is either drawn out from the same ma
terial as the blade, or, if this be of
superior quality, piece of iron is weld
ed to it. The steel used is of excellent
quality, so as to undergo the beating
necessary to produce the thinner part,
while the back is left thick. Some of
the werkmen are SO expert in forging
the blade, that they will produce on the
anvil an edge so sharp and even that it
can be used for shaving after being
whetted. After forging, the blade is
smitten or beaten on an anvil, to render
the metal as compact as possible. The
blade is also slightly ground. or scorch-
ed, after the forging, on coarse dry
grit stone, to bring it to the shape re-
quired, and to remove the black scale
or coating. The blade is next drilled
for the joint. and stamped with the
name, then hardened and tempered, and
ground on milestone of from four to
eight inches in diameter.
Year: 1875

some nbra- -cadabra, l should have failed
to designate it. His permitting me to
identify it so long as there was no
money it it. was nothing more than a
lure to entice me on to make bet II
occurred to me also, that If person
was sharp and shrewd enough to bring
a drove of eight hundred horses from
the State of Texas to the South and
West. and successfully dispose of them.
it was not at all likely that he could be
'tfooled" out of his money so easily as
seemed apparent by his words and
actions. Notwithstanding that the two
young men and Texas assumed to be
total strangers to each other and kept
apart, yet on the arrival of the train at
Weldon. all three were seen together
entering restaurant in earnest con-
versation, thus reducing it almost to a
certainty that they were comrades, and
the two well-dressed young men stool
pigeons for the older sinner whom |
have designated as Texas, for lack of a
more appropriate name.


Jos. M. BARR.
MIDDLErewN, DEL May 8. '75.
Year: 1875

A few years ago several persons were


crossing the Allegheny Mountains in 9


stage coach Among them was an


honest, earnest, sturdy Quaker. As


considerable time was on their hands,


they naturally entered into conversa-


tion, which took the direction of tenn


perance and soon became quite animat-
ed. One of the company did not join


with the rest. He was large, portly


man, well dresoed, and Of gentlemanly


bearing. There were sharp thrusts at
the liquor business and those in it..


Indeed, the whole subject was thor
oughly canvassed and handled without
gloves. Meanwhile this gentleman
slowed himself away in one corner and
maintained stoical silence After en-
during it as long as he could, with a
pompous and magisterial manner he
broke silence, and said: Gentlemen,
1 want you to understand that am
liquor seller. keep public house at
-; but would have you to know
that | have license. and keep decent
house. don't keep loafers and loung-
ers about my place, and when man
has enough he can get no more at my
bar 1 sell to decent people, and do a
respectable business 'When he had
delivered himself, he seemed to feel
that he had put quietus on the sub
ject, and that no answer could be given.
Not so thought our friend, the Quaker,
so he "went for him." Said he:
6 Friend, that is the most damning part
of thy business. If thee would only
sell to drunkards and loafers, thee
would help to kill off the race, and
society would be rid of them. But thee
takes the young, the pure, the innocent,
and the unsuspecting and makes drunk
ards and loafers of them and when
their character and money are gone,
thee kicks them cut and turns them
over to the shops to be finished off; and
then thee ensnares others and sends
them out on the same road to ruin"
Surely the good Quaker had the best of
the argument, for he had facts on his
ridn
Year: 1875

There is family in Jones county


consisting of gentleman and his wife,


both very old and iufrm. and maiden


daughter. The family is entirely a


respectable one, but the fortunes of war


and other adverse circumstances have


reduced their means of subsistence


down to the possession of moderate


sized farm Of poor land. This the old


man tried to manage and cultivate in


order to make livelihood for his old
wife and one daughter. In this he


failed, and year by year affairs were


growing worse with him, and be saw


that he should have to give up the bat
tie and that. too, without having any
one upon whom he could rely for sup
port in his declining years.


The daughter was among the first to
divine the state of affairs. She saw
her father was too old to longer contend
with the world for means of substance.
Her mother was also aged and not able
to lend helping hand. and she knew
that if any relief were to come to them
it must come through her. She thought
the matter over in practical way, and
in daughterly manner made up her
mind that her old parents could not
suffer for anything while she had the
strength to labor for them.


Her mind was no sooner made up
than she went to work with womauly
energy, but not in woman's sphere.
She did not 60 to the chool-house,
nor to the music room, nor into
millinery establishment, but she went
into the field and put her hand to the
plow and looked not back Day in
and day out, in fair weather and foul,
in heat and in Geld, she clung to her
self-imposed duty. Though sometimes
when the days work was ended, she
was too weary and sore, almost, to drag
herself to the house, her courage never
forsook her; but she toiled on, month
after month, until now she is reaping
her reward in finding herself compe-
tent to make comfortable the last days
Of her parents. A bale of cotton raised
by her sold at one of the warehouses
in Macon, Georgia and if its market
value had been fixed according to the
moral worth of the producer, the pro-
luct would have yielded her COM
potency for life.


Men may prate heroism upon the
oattle-i field in tim of danger. but there
S no heroism that surpasses the hero
SUI of this woman. All honor to her
The earth ought to yield most gener-
'usly where broken by the furrows Of
Ter plow.-Mcon Telegraph.