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Year: 1872




The day at the Stock Exchange has been
unusually quiet and uninterestlng business during the
afternoon being entirely suspended in gold aud
pretty generally 30 in stocks. The specua-
ton in that department greatly limited
all day, though during the forenoon there
was brisk business in Rock Island at 11idl1 a1, and
in Pacific Mail 81 asE the being strong and the
other notably weak. The other shares steady at
very narrow fluctuations unti the close when the
entire market yielded and closed heavy.


The business of the Exchange has settled down TO
state Of quiet and duness that leaves but little of fact
for the press TO on, for the qudnuncs
Of the street discuss. The impression clearly is
no important upward movement can he mauguTated
and advanta geousy maintained the basis Of the
ent quotations, the almost universal inclination
being TO wait for lower prices The shrewd
managers Of the cliques have probably discov-
cred this fact, and availng OF every oppor-
tunity sell without depressing prices too rapidly.
This believed be especially the with the quick
minded stockwe, whose whole proves him to he
q master OF his business. BY system OF manipulation
that for shrewdness, is hardly paralleed in Was he
ia said 10 have marketed all the COmpanys stock par
or upwards, and In doing he has doubtless parted
with much OF bis equally favorable terms. In
deed IL Is than hinted that he has been seller Of
stock every day since the price par and that
ls still seller. Suppose he has It in contemplation yet
Legislature would It not be exactly in keeping with his
character for shrewdnes first TO sell the bulk OF lis
holdings depress the price TO the lowest point and then
quietly buy IL all back again and reduce the capital
stock as originally contemplated We sec nothing to
prevent the stock from being borne down to 60 # he
wills Who will enter the lists against him in such
designi


North Western common Is IN the position OF just
recovered high fever, requiring perfect rest and
tranquility which the public seem unanimously disposed
TO give II. What course Napoleon Gould VIA tzke to
Year: 1872

yNANTED-AN ENERGETIC MAN, WITH SOME
w capital to take an interest in an od-cstablisled
Ma Manufncturing Business paying well; one acquainted
with the shipping interest preferred Address NJ C. r..
box 22S Herald Office
Year: 1872

zen who is at all interested in the welfare sn6
safety Of his home should come out to the puo-
lie meeting, to be held in Lyons Hall, on '1=za
Tuesday evening. The water works question
will be thoroughly discussed at that time, and
SOME definite action will probably be taken.
Year: 1872

The following is q list Of the claims held b7
the National Loan and Trust Company against
the State Insurance Company. This, as we'll -
other information published from time to tims
in The TRIBUNE, in connection With the revisory
petition now before Judge Drummond, would
probably never have been seen by the public
eye without tho Intervention Of these columns
the schedule here given NOW being printed in i.
little book, whose circulation will be go selecs
as not to exceed twelve copies. Tie TErruSEs
best apology for anticipating the advance pages
Of tho little publication in reference is the 1act
that those concerned may have other oppor~
many citizons. The following is the schedule:


Schedule Of adjusted claims against the State lr:uz-


ance Company for which certificates OF Indebtedness


Issued, which now in the possession ci Tia


National Loan and Trust Company. l>o.c-M
Year: 1872

The very short notice of the election Of dele
gates to the State Convention occasions general
comment aud complaint. The judgment is al
most unanimous that the ordinary party usage
should have been adhered to of electing ON the
Saturday preceding the Convention, which will
be hrO reebs later than the time fixed
Year: 1872

A case of considerable interest has re-
Gently been decided by the War Depart
ment at Washinaon. By the act Of March
8. 1871, the Secretary of War was author
lied 0to compromise, adjust and settle GER
tain suits pending in the United States
Courts, in Tennessee, against some railroad
corporations in that State, for property sold
to them by the Government" The Wash
linton Patriot says /:


SIN one case the Secretary compromised
fora million of dollars. In the debts
against the railroad company was an item
for value of effects of officers, freighted by
ouartermaster, and lost by the company.
The question arose, after the compromise,
whether the company was still liable, or
whether the United States, by the com
promise. assumed the responsibility OF
having the officers. The accounting
officers were of opinion thai the
compromise was in accord and satisfaction
of all pre-existing Indebtedness alleged IN the
suit,and bar to any action on that account.
II followed, of course, that the company
was absolved from this claim. Ihe
,Judge Advocate General Of the army held,
however, that the Secretary OF War was
authorized to compromise the suit only for
the recovery of the property sold, and to
accent a sum in satisfaction thereof, anu
that the United States, being the only party
in privity with the company, have jusL
claim against the company for the
reasonable value of the property
DESTROYED by its alleged neglect as a
common carrier. This opinion was ap-
proved by the Secretary of War, and the
accounting officers deferred to it, as the
Secretary was the agent designated by the
act of March ,, 1871, to compromise, ad-
lust. and settle the suit and it was there
fore no more than rightthat his judgment as
to the limit Of his jurisdictionand scope OF
his decision in the case should govern III
settlement at the Treasury
Year: 1872

OMAHA, Jan. 27.-The snow blockade
on the Union Pacific Railroad seems to be
increasing. The weather along the line
west has been fearfully cold, with strong
wind and snow. The train due at Chey-
enne from the East today at noon has not
arrived there yet, and it is reported snow
bound at Antelope station. Trains that
have been lying at Cheyenne during the
past week are there yet.


Laramie reports that a train which ar
rived there a week ago Tuesday, bound
east, and which left there yesterday for the
east behind the shovellers, is stuck in The
snow at Harvey siding, place where there
is but one house and no depot, and that the
storm is increasing. 1t is colder than any
day heretofore and the snow is drifting
badly,
Year: 1872

THE New York Tribune says "Now
that the New Orleans efforts TO provoke
riots. secure martial law, overturn the State
government and the like, have been crushed,
it is pertinent to inquire how much longer
the National Government is to be disgraced
by such officers as Messrs. Casey and Pack
ard.n The Tribune insists that enough is
already established ''to warrant the forward
ing of their dismissal by telegraph" but it
may possess its soal in patience, for the dis
missal will not be fyrwarded by telegraph
or otherwise.
Year: 1872

The Indiana Legislature is decid-
edly Republican on joint ballot, in
surfing the re election of Senator
Morton, who has proved himself a
tower of strength to the Republican
cause in the West. There was new
er more gallant, determined, and
efficient canvass than that just clos
I'd in Indiana, in which the brunt of
the fight was borne by the great
"War Governor" Morton. His
success will be hailed with great
satisfaction by the Republicans of
the whole country.
Year: 1872

The Republican State Convention
at Worcester, Mass. adopted the
following positive resolution as a
part of their platform:


Resolved, That we heartily ap-
prove of the recognition of the
rights of woman contained in the
fourteenth clause of the national re-
publican party of Massachusetts. as
the representative of liberty and
progress, as in favor of extending
suffrage on equal terms to all Amer
lean citizens, irrespective of sex,
and will hail the day when the edu-
Gated intellect and enlightened con-
science of woman find direct ex-
preston at the ballot box"
Year: 1872

There are altogether about thirty
five thousand German voters in
New York. The best informed
German politicians believe that Gen.
Grant will receive fully twenty
thousand of these; that five thous-
and, following the advice of the
Stats ZeituDg, will abstain from
voting, and that if Greeley gets the
remaining ten thousand he will do
well.
Year: 1872

awe are led by him who first
taught our armies to conquer in the
West, and subsequently in the East,
also. Richmond would not come to
US until we sent Grant after it, and
then it had 10 come. He has never
yet been defeated, and never will be
He will be as great and successful
on the field of politics as on that Of
arIns. y TGrf 1ley.
Year: 1872

Society is full of failures that
need never have been made; full of
men who never succeeded when they
might have succeeded; full of women
who in the first half of their days
did nothing but eat, sleep and SIM
per, and in the last half did nothing
but perpetuate their follies and
weakness. The world is full, 1 say,
of such people, full of men of every
trade and profession who do not
amount to anything, and girls and
women without trade or profession
who have no desire to amount to
anything; and do not speak irrev-
erently, and l trust not without due
charity, without making due allow
ance for the inevitable in life, when
L say that God and thoughtful men
are weary of their presence. Every
boy ought to improve on his own
father; every girl grow into a no
bier, gentler, more self>denying wo-
manhood than the mother. No pro-
ductions of the former types will
give the world a perfect type. 1
know not where the millennium is,
as measured by distance of time
but L do know, and so do you all,
that it is great way off as measured
by human growth and expansion.-
We have no such men and women
yet, no age has ever bad any, as
shall stand on the earth in that age
of peace that will not come until we
are worthy of it Rev. w. II.
Murray.
Year: 1872

How North Carolina was gerry
wandered for Congress by the De-
mocracy is indicated by the fact
that the vote in the Second District
in August was 1859, while in the
Seventh District it Was 1881
There's honesty and respect for
equal rights for you'll That is the
way the Democracy came to carry
five out Of eight districts.
Year: 1872

A man who, at this juucture, says
he is a Republican, and in the same
breath declares his purpose to vote
for Greeley, may be marked as one
VITO has the willingness to join the
Democratic party without the cour-
age to do so openly.
Year: 1872

1t is little amusing TO hear men
who have not capacity enough to
perform the duties of the Office OF
Hog Reef opposing Gen. Grant, be-
cause they say he is incompetent.
Oh I what SOlOnS
Year: 1872

There died recently in Illinois q
horse that was an excellent soldier
during the war. He was twice sto-
len by the rebels, but escaped back
into the Union lines, each time with
some of the enemy's plunder. At
one time when many horses died he
gnawed his way into a barrel of ba~
con and refreshed himself. He was
very fond of whisky, and on one
occasion got so drunk that he ran
away and nearly killed his master.
Year: 1872

The falling off in the Democratic
vote in Delaware is attributed, no
doubt correctly, to the intense dis
gust of the old line Democrats at
the Greeley nomination. It is be-
lieved the Republicans will have an
easy victory in the State in Novem-
hnr
Year: 1872

An Alderman at GAINESVILLE,
Mass, was asked to estimate the
damage COW had done in the yard
of a neighbor. He did so literally,
but was much chagrined when in
formed that it was his own cow that
had done the damage.
Year: 1872

The excitement 10 the House during she
morning was followed By an incident calculat-
ed to restore better feeling. The House hay
Ing taken q recess until half past 2, the mem
bers were ouuglng around the hall and num-
Der of visitors were on the floor, when Dr.
Mary L. Walker ascended the steps to the
Clerks desk, and began a speech in behalf Of
an appropriation for nurses in the army
Warming up she soon mounted chair, threw
off her hat and began her speech in earnest
One Of the officers Of the House went to her
aud told her she could not make speech there.
To this she replied, "Very well, I will take
The Speakers stand" which she did, and re-
sumed her speech. Mr. Buxton here entered
the hall and gave positive orders to put her
out which order was obeyed Immediately,
the doctor exclaiming as she made her exit,
" Gentlemen, this will be disgrace to you as
long as you live The women have sent me
here and you have refused TO hear me-" Her
attempt TO thus gain hearing in tho House
created much amusment.- Washington Star,
June 10M.


Thusit will bo seen that the FIRST attempt Of
the loyal women to stand upon the Phila-
delphia Platform was a failure-tho 18th plank
not being broad enough-here ID is


Fourteenth The republican party Is mind
full of its obligations TO the loyal women Of
America for their noble devotion to the cause
Of freedom Their admission to a wide field
Of usefulness is viewed with satisfaction, and
the honest demands Of any class Of citizens
for additional rights should bo treated with
respectful consideration.
Year: 1872


We all might do COED,


Where we often do i'll
There is always the way,
II there be but the will;
Though it be but word,
Kindly breathed or suppressed,
Il may guard Of some pain,
Or give peace to some breast.
We all might do good


In a thousand small ways
In forbearing 10 fatter,


Yet yielding due praise:
In .spurning all runner,


Reproying work done,
And treating but kindly
The hearts we have WOE.
We all might do good,


Whether lowly or great.
Tor the deed is not gauged
BY the purse or estatej
Ifit be buta cup


OF cold water that's given,
Like the widows two mites,
Il is something for heaven.
Year: 1872

1t has been estimated that seventy.
five million dollars worth of fuel is
burned every year in the United
States. Locomotives consume OveI
eight million coros of wood annually
and over a hundred million dollars
worth of lumber is employed in bull
ding and manufactures. -Four million
acres of forest disappear before the
axe, to supply all these Demands
No wonder timber planting is Oecu-
pying so much attention in the West.
It is said that California has created
sn officer for the State, as Superinten-
dant of Forest Culture, at u salary OF
fifteen thousand dollars a year. This
is not probably wholly accurate, but
it shows the direction of public
thought.


The consumption of timber will 90
on much faster in the future, proper
tiOnately, than in the past-nOt only
the wants of population, but because
of the new use to which wood is con-
tinually being put; one of these wood
en- pavements, will take immense
Quantities in all large cities. There
Is some opposition at present to their
general introduction on account of
the early deOay-ahout ten years being
the limit of this kind of causway.-
But il has been found after all
cheaper than stone blocks, lasting
fifty years, because the injury to
horses is less, the wagon tear is less,
and the time saved in going over them
enormous. This saving of time will
alone pay for the whole cost of the
road. There is no doubt, in view of
all these cOnsidera tiODs, the timber
interest of the United States is becOm-
ing very important one.
Year: 1872

AT the beginning of the present CEN


tury, the navy of the young nation
! just rising on this continent was pos
| sessed of some of the hest vessels in


the world. Among them was the
famous Constitution, which vessel is
still in the service, having been sta
tioued at the Naval Academy as a


school-ship for the last ten wears.


About this date the steam-engjpe


was used TO prOpel vessels by means


of paddle-wheels. To whom really


belongs the honor of applying steam


as motor forships is a disputud point


into the discussion of which il is not


desirable to enter; it is, however,


pretty well settled that Fulton was


the first builder of a steamboat inten-


tended for traffic. The success of the


vessel was followed by great improve


ments in that line, and rendered pos


sible the grand system of internal


commerce for which this country is so


well adapted. In 1914 the same Full


ton proposed to build a floating bat


tery for the defense of New York


harbor, the vessel to be propelled by


steam, with a central paddle wheel


This is the first known proposition to


use the new motive power for war


purposes. This vessel was to carry


twenty guns on her gun-deek, and to
make speed of four miles per hour.
In addition to her armament on deck,
il was Intended that she should carry
two submarine guns on each bow, so
as to strike an enemy below the water;
besides this, provision was make for
throwing a large body of water upon
an enemy at close quarters. The ship
was launched in November, 1914, in
a little more than four months from
the laying of the keel ; by June, 1915,
her machinery was in place, and a
trial trip took place in New York
Bay. which was a great success. At
a later period she made a trip to sea,
about twenty miles from Nez York,
with all her coal and armament on !
board, attaining a speed of nearly six !
knots. This formidable craft was
named by her protector the Demo
logos, but after his death she was |
called the Fulton; she was used as 8 |
receiving ship at the New York Ma
Wy Yard after her completion until |
1893, when she was accidentally blown |
up by the explosion of the powder in
her magazine. Such was the first |
OF our government toward |
war steamers.-HoypeT's Magazine.
Year: 1872




The American Agrieulturist gives
this method of feeding lambs:


zone of the greatest difficulties in


raising early lambs, more especially


with some breeds which are not


naturally good mothers, is the dis


position of the eve to disown or


neglect the lamb When she has


twin lambs this not seldom happens.


Without great attention at yeaning


time a farmer may lose some fine


lambs which might easily be saved.
We have expe fenced this ourselves.
and have saved many early lambs by
feeding with cows milk. 1t has
been said that cows milk is poisonous
TO lamb. We never found it so. but
have had very good success, even
with that very tender breed. the
Leicesters. The critical time with a
lamb, more especially in cold weather,
is the first day of its life. Often the
eve may be as good nurse as possi


ble, but the lamb may be weak and
chilled. A mOuthful of warm milk
will often revive lamb when it is
not able to get up to suck. To feed a
lamb that has been altogether dis
owned by the eve, we use a tin can.
a common kerosene oil can, with a
piece of sponge wound round the end
of the spout and covered with a cotton
bag shaped like a teat, which was
tied on. The milk was made warm
and little sugar dissolved in it. The
teat being put in the lambs mouth II
will Immediately suck eagerly, and
Will soon get taccustomed to the strange
method. When a eve is weak and
has but little milk, few spOonfuls a
day will help the lamb very much.
When a eve will not own her lamb
it is the best to take her and with one |
hand hold up the wool so that the |
lamb can get to the teat. Let the |
sheep be held so that she turn her
head and smell the lamb, and if q /
little salt be sprinkIed on it, she will /
to lick it and her motherlv
be SION removed. Such a
eve should be placed with her lamb
i'm a small stall by herself As soon
as the lamb is strong enough, il will
by dint of perseveTance-when the
sheep cannot eseape-learn to helm
Itself. In two or three DAYS the eve
will have become friendly to it. The
sheep pens should be visited several
times a day, and the last thing at
night and the first thing in the morn
.ng, as soon as lambs begin to appear.
Fhe ewes should be removed day or
.wo previous to this event, into a pen
oy themselves, where more care and
| little extra feed can be given them.
It should be remembered that when
can or bottle is used to feed the
amb, il should be carefully rinsed
With scalding water Immediately
Ifter using, lest any sourness should
'ccur. Sour milk will kill lambs
'ery quickly. In case diarrhoea
hOuld occur from any neglect in this
espect, it may be stopped at once bv
administering the following cordial: J
)ne pint of peppermint water with
ne once of prepared chalk, in doses
+ bali teaspOOnful or more, accord
'g to the age of the lamb, three times
day. 1t is very rarely, however,
hat this will be needed if care is
sed. 1t is also very important that
1arm, dry quarters with clean straw
edding be furnished"
Year: 1872

The evil that is In the world, tha


rushes down our streets, devastating


homes, running happiness, aud laying


waste the pleasant places, has many
fountains. Sin does its deadly work
in many ways, and sorrow comes eff


from a variety of sources And hasty
words have much TO answer for among
the rest We are apt to think that d


word or two does not matter; that we
need not trouble ourselves to be over


particular as to what we say, BuI
this Is only one cf our many mistakes.
Words live. There is so much vitality
in them that they t'ke root even
upon very unlikely soil. Hasty words
are almost sure TO have little sense
and less kindness in them. They are
not offspring Of meek aud quiet spir-
its, but of hot passionate tempers
"All men are liafsw Who but q man
in a passion would have said that?
The assertion is so sweeping and un-
Just, that, if David had n, prefaced it
by his profession, i said in my haste.
we should not have understood il.
Perhaps the speaker feels himself
We often are in this life
of ours; we cannot have all we wish
from our brothers and sisters, and so
We allow ourselves to grow fretful and
angry. We are unreasonable enough
to suppose that all things should Be
ours, and, when we find only few
things coming to our share then we
become discOntented and peeYlsh and
speak hasty words.
Year: 1872

If anything in the world will make
man feel badly, except pinehing
his fingers in the crack of a door, it is
Inquestionably a quarrel. No man
fails to think less Of himself after it
than before. 1t degrades himself in
the eyes Of others, and, what is worse
blunts his sensibilities on the one
hand, and increases the power or
passionate irritability on the other.
The truth is, the more quietly and
peaeeably we get on, the better for
our neighbOrs. In nine cases out OF
ten the better course is, if a man
cheats you quit dealing with him: il
be is abusive quit his company; and
If he ISLANDERS you, take care 10 live
so that nobody will believe. Who
ever ne Is or how he misuses you, the
wisest way is TO let him alone. for
there Is nothing better than this cool
calm and quiet way of dealing wifi,
the wrongs we meet.
Year: 1872

So, as we can see that not the
weddings, but the erucifixions, are
the mighty things of history; not
the festivals, but the battles; not
the Ovations, but the martyrdOms,-
we find the first grace that can come
from heaven to help bear our thorn
in the flesh, whatever it may be,-a
personal misfortune; inability to be
all that we feel we ought b be; the
possession of a passion we have to
watch with unslumbering care pain
that defies all doctors. darkness Of the
spirit, against which there is no
argument; the sore of bitter old sin;
u home in which there Is no light of
a true love; q great and incurable
disappOintment; or the death Of our
brightest and best-I say these may
be the very conditions of the grace
which IS made S'perfeet in our weak
ness" Joyfulness has its own place;
gladness is the wine of lie; Bat the
tge-btOOd comes OF the struggle
Robert COllysr.
Year: 1872

The shadows Of the mind are like
those Of the body. In the morning
Of life they all lie behind US; at noon
we trample them under foot, and in
the evening they stretch long, broad
and deepening before Us. Are not,
then, the sorrOws of childhood as dark
as those of old age? Are not the
morning shadows of life as deep and
broad as those Of evening? Yes, but
morning shadows soon fade away.
while those of evening reach forward
and mingle with the coming dark
ness Man is !begotten in delight and
born in pain; and in these are the
rapture and labor OF his life foreshad-
owed from the beginning. But the
life Of man upon this fair earth is
made up, for the most part, Of little
pains and little pleasures. The great
wonder flowers bloom but once in a
life time.