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Year: 1876

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Tho fire occurred just at hour when Of all others
IN the day II was calculated to gather crowd Had
occurred during the hours of daylight preceding six p
NJ the many pedestrians Broadway would have
been too busy stop notice and would have passed
on confident OF being able to read all about it in the
evening papers Just twenty Eve minutes before the
Ore broke out the hundreds Of factories below Grand
street began 10 pour forth their crowds Of weary work.
ers, who, glad OF the moonit evening, sauniered up
Broadway m search OF short spell or
free breathing Immediately amer the nrc lIne
was formed a general block occasoncd above be-
low TO tho right and to the ieft OF the fire. and In
few minutes the police formed thin line, dividing
surging thousands from the raging flames. The great
East side lent thousands TO swell the multitude
and hundreds who ventured west OF the Bowery
were drawn thither like moths to the narng flame
Whole colonies OF anxious sghtsecrs, unable to get
near enough to the fire satisfy their curiosity, mi
grated up or down the Bowcry and crossed west TO
Broadway hoping there to get a better view. They
arrived find large crowd there as
In the region they had LETT, and, contented
with certainty rather than possibility they re-
manned and OF the crowd Tho Jersey ferries
and the numerous west side factories also sont their
quotas TO swell the motley congregation All the
downtown folks their way home were brought to a
standstil the OF Canal street and Broadway
where the police had formed the southern re line In
hall an hour the crowd great that the police
for the time doubtful Of their ability to keep back
the multiiud. Al this point however accrctions were
scarce and the determined efforts OF the bluccoated
irenarchs prevented any breach of the peace Just
beyond the southern nre line peculiar and inter
esung sight met the eye Of tho intelligent
observer The crowd being the rise Of the Canal
street hill all the distinguishabo in tho
lurid glare Of the fire toward which they turned
In the foremost rank, and among those anxious
To intrudc beyond tho prescribed limit WAS line OF
hard looking individuals, well known TO the police as
doubtful # not dangerous characters Many Of these
moved from point TO point, trying one policeman and
then another but always falling and always trying
anew As night grew on and the hro grew brighter
new thieves took the places Of partners ncd and all
night long Till the line broken thieves and
Year: 1876

We, the delegates of the Dem ocratic party of the United States, in National Convention assem. bled. do hereby declare the ad- ministration of the Federal Gov ernment to be in great need of immediate reform. Do hereby enjoin upon the nominees of this Convention, and of the Demo cratic party in each state, a zeal ous effort and co operation to this end, and do here appeal to our fellow citizens of every form ol political connection to undertake with us this first and most press ing patriotic duty for the Democ- racy of the whole country, we do here reaiiirm our faith in the per manence of the Federal Union, our devotion to the Constitution of the United States with it's amendments universally accept ed as a final settlement of the controversy that engendered the civil war-and do here record our steadfast confidence in the per petuity of republican selfgovcrn- ment; in absolute acquiescence m the will of the majority, the vital principle of republics; in the sli- prcmacy of the civil over the mii- itary; in the two fold separation of the Church and State, for the sake alike of civil aud religious
Year: 1876

There seems to be no doubt that alfalfa
is . genuine acquisition to Kansas. We
have just looked over our two acre field
and such q mass of vegetation We have
rarely seen before. On this the oath of
May, when the prairies show little more
than the traditional "bite for a goose" !"
we have plucked single stalks of alfalfa
that measured thirty inches in length. II
our two acres were moved to-day they
would yield one and one-half tons of
cured hay. But we question much if
alfalfa will make a valuable hay even
when cut early in the season. The foil.
age of this alfalfa is small in comparison
with the stems and these are nearly solid
and hard and woody. In these respects
the old red clover has the advantage
over its rival alfalfa. Nevertheless al.
falfa will flourish when red clover is
perishing from drought, and it yields
double and treble the amount of hay.
Alfalfa promises to be OF special value to
Kansas farmers in furnishing feed for
swine. Pigs will eat it greedily, and
two acres of alfalfa would safely furnish
abundant pasture during the spring sea-
son for a dozen swine.


We have never yet lost our faith
in blue grass. Ours made a capital
growth during the dry seasons of 1s745,
and although gnawed to the ground by
grassAoppers last season ''it still waves"
indeed it is knee high and in full bloom.
What is quite as we'll it is spreading
rapidly. Along nearly every fence on
the farm, and in places undisturbed by
the plow, generally dense masses may be
seen and these have often spread out in
to the prairie completely routing the
wild grasses.-Prof E., M Shelton.
Year: 1876

+ D. NJ. Montgomery, of Pleasant Ridge
Alabama, writes to the Couricr-Journal
as follows:


The gapes are caused by numerous
small worms in the throat. think they
most generally come from impure water,
through wet, ill-feeding and ill-ventila-
ted fowl houses, confinement on a sim
gle spot of gfound year after year, with
out attention to cleanliness, are the
causes which produce this and many
other diseases. The frequent occurrence
of gapes is a disgrace to any poultry
yard. If taken early in hand, it will be
sufficient to give every day morsel of
camphor the size Of grain of wheat and
put camphor in the drinking water, or q
little turpentine may be given daily in
meal, taking care, of course that the
causes of the disease are removed. In
fully developed cases, the worms must be
removed from the windpipe by feather
stripped almost up to the top, and intro
duced into the traches, and turned round
during withdrawal. A little turpentine
used on the feather will be an advantage.


Mrs. d. Cohen, of Danville, KY, also
writes that she has tried the following
with great success: Take stalk Of
timothy hay, clean the chaff and seed off;
insert into the windpipe, and twist it
around several times after 80 doing give
weak salt water and pill of pepper then
wrap in q warm wooden cloth.
Year: 1876

EDITOR RURAL WORLD: I have
learned by experience in this climate,
and especially in seasons that we have
been visited by the grasshoppers, the
importance of having good crop of
corn sown for the purpose of feeding
during the summer as we'll as in the win
ter. 1 plow my land as soon as it is con-
venient in the spring, harrowit, and let
it lie say until the first of June, some
times as late as the last of that month.
I then cultivate we'll with the corn cul-
tivator, harrow finely and plant.


In planting, use corn planter, drop
ping three to five grains in hill, fifteen
to twenty inches apart in the row; when
have gone ovef my land, I turn about
and straddle q row and plant it over
again. Thus have my rows two feet
apart, and my hills fifteen to twenty
inches in the rows. When planted, I
roll the land. After the corn is we'll up,
l harrow with q Thomas harrow twice,
and the cultivation is done.


1 have practiced the following plan
with excellent results, which send, as
soifie Of the readers Of the Rural may
wish to plant without using the drill.
After the land is prepared, take small
baphireplow and either strike out large
lands or go entirely around the field.
Into this furrow. which should not be
more than three inches in depth have q
boy drop the corn SO that the grains will
Average about two inches apart. Donot
put the corn in every furrow but in every
other furrow. When the corn is all in,
harrow and roll.


do not, in any event, SOW later than
the middle of July. The yield I esti-
mate to be on an average of about seven
tons of fodder to the acre when cured.
1 use about three and half bushels of
seed to the acre OF the common Dent
I think farmers would each do we'll to
SOW at least two acres annually of this
kind of a crop. The practice of sowing
this crop in this section of country as a
reserve crop in case Of drouth, is too
much neglected. No crop pays better
for the labor bestowed upon it. 1usual-
ly SOW an additional quantity of feed to
the cows, provided . dry spell sets in in
midsummer. do this a. precaution-
ary measure, for, if not needed, it is cut
up and cured for fodder. agree with
you in regard to the necessity Of growing
more roots for winter feed for cattle,
and have sent for some seed. E. W. Il.


johnson county, KdHsas.
Year: 1876

A NEW PRoPErY OF MILK.-A cor
respondent of an English daily paper,
says: There is one circumstance re-
specting the peculiar properties Of milk,
which have not seen alluded to in the
newspaper articles on the subject, but
which seems an additional proof of its
power of attracting and absorbing impure
matter. allude to the practice of plac.
ing . saucer of new milk in q larder, ih
ordor to preserve meat or game from
approaching taint. It 10 said that not
only does it answer that purpose, but
that the milk after few hours becomes
90 bad that no animal will touch it.
Year: 1876

The following compound, recommend.
ed by q French chemist several years
since, may be worth trying on potatoes
for destroying the potato beetle. Take
two and half pounds of block soap, two
and half pounds of -four of sulphur,
two pounds of mushrooms, of the species
generally found in low moist grounds,
and thirty quarts of wster. Divide the
water into two equal parts; put one-half
into a cask with the soap and mushrooms
after they have been bruised; boil the
other half of the water in kettle, with
the sulphur in a bag and kept down to
the bottom of the water with weight.
The sulphur must be stirred about, in
order to better saturate the water. The
water thus boiled must be thrown
into an ordinary sized cask until it has
acquired high degree of foul odor, and
the cask then closed up tightly. This
solution may be sprinkled over infested
trees, or plants of any kind, and it is said
to be certain death to all kinds of insects.
Rural Ne,o YORKER.
Year: 1876

A Vermont court gave q wholesome
little lecture, the other day, to woman
who applied for . divorce on the ground
that her husband was . drunkard, and
abused her. The Court asked her if she
knew that he was . drinking man when
she married him, and she admitted that
she did. The Judge said that when abe
married such man. with her eyes open,
she ought to stand by the risk she has
taken and q divorce should not be grahted.
Year: 1876

Sympathy is that quality OF the human
heart that gives kindly bias to mems
actions. Without it this world would be
poor indeed, and human nature would
be destitute of one of its most beautiful
attributes. Remove sympathy from the
human breast. and there is . vacuum
created only to be exceeded in size by
that produced by the removal Of .
"Light-Running Domestic" from the
midst of . family where it has been for
years. Get Domestic"
Year: 1876

STEwED BEEF.-Take two pounds of
raw beef cut it in inch-square pieces,
put in saucepan and cover with cold
water let it cook slowly for four hours,
then the gravy will be rich brown COL
or; dredge sufficient -four in to thicken
the gravy, add salt and peprer. 70 taste,
and serve if liked, two onions may be
added when half done, but is very nice
without,
Year: 1876

One by one they are pa assing away
The old Of our town.-to their final rest;
With reverence fashion the pillow Of clay,
And pile mp the earth on the quiet breast


That pillow is soft to time-worn head.


That load is light to the aged dead.
They have borne their burden Of JOY and pains.
They have had their portion Of hopes and fears;
They have wrought out their work. they have game,


their gains-


They have smiled their smies-they have wep


their tears,


II is over now the record close,


And leave them there. to their long repose
Speak OF them gently. remember them we'll
The were children OF earth. as we are new;
They strove with temptation--they yielded and fell
And anon they conquered, we still do


Their history is what ours shall be,


Speak Of them, think OF them tenderly.
But few remain and when they are gone
We shall MI their places which they now hold;
Our heads will be frosted-our bosoms be lone.
Even our hearts will grow tame and cold;


And the faltering step and falling breath


viii remind us, too, Of approaching death
Rivalry, coldness wOrldness, pride


Why should we yield to their baleful thraIig
Let us clasp hands closer as downward we glide
Into the shadow that waits for all;
For soon shall be among the old,
And the days Of our years will soon be told.
Year: 1876

ANEcDoTE OF GENERAL GRANT.-One
hears so many disgusting stories about
General Grant, and the papers seem to
be so eager in circulating them that we
take especial pleasure in circulating one
to his credit. 1t appears that there is
lady clerk in one of the departments,
who is afflicted with severe cough that
often produces hemorrhage, and being
pretty and a widow she has many beaux.
One of these took her out for a drive to
Arlington the other afternoon. While
going over the long bridge over the Po-
tomac, the cough came on, and the gen.
tleman at once drove to little hosiery
on the bridge for something to stop it.
While the gentleman was inside. the
cough came on with renewed violence,
and the reins were slipping from the la
dy's hands, and the horses were restive,
when the president drove up from the
opposite side OF the bridge. He at once
threw his reins to his groom, leaped from
his buggy. and telling the lady not to
give herself any uneasiness. held the
horses until relieved by the gentleman.
Meantime the bright crimson had al
ready stained the handkerchief, and the
president evinced the utmost solicitude.
He handed the lady his card and re-
quested her to call on him if there was
any service he could render, and mutter-
ing to himself. "What if my Nelly
should ever suffer SO !" drove of. Alto
gether, the president acted like true
gentleman, and with delicacy that be-
came a man of much more refined ed
ucation than that which he is said to
possess.
Year: 1876

A hand, close man was solomon Ray,
Nothing Of value he gave away;


He boarded and saved.


He pinched and shaved,
And the more he had the more he craved
The hard-eamed dollars he toiled To gain
Brought him little but cafe and pain;


For little be spent


And all he lent,
He made il bring him twenty per cent.
such was the life Of solomon Ray;
The years went by and his hair grew gray;


His cheeks grew thin,


And his soul within
Grew hard as the dollars he worked to win.
But he died one day, as all men must.
For life IS Heeting. and naught but dust;


The heirs were gay


That laid him away,
And that was the end Of solomon Ray.
They quaTeled now, who had little cared
For solomon Ray while his life was spared;


His lands were sold.


And his hard-earned gold
All went to the lawyers, am told.
Yet men viii cheat and pinch and save
Nor carry their treasures beyond the grave.


All the gold some day


win melt away,
Like the selfish savings Of Solomon Ray.
Year: 1876

REgTITUTIoz.-Yon have defrauded
your neighbor. You have done him an
injury. not accidentally. but on purpose.
You have sought Jour own profit by in
ficting loss upon him. You have tax
en- what does not belong to yon but to
him. You must then proceed to make
restitution. Go at once. Go to-day. if
you can. State the facts frankly and
Year: 1876

honestly. Acknowledge your wrong-do-
ing, and repair the harm as fully as you
can. 1t will cost you a struggle to do
this. When, however, you have made
up your mind to the struggle, you viii
probably find 1t easier than you expect.
But whatever you do, don't keep this
burden upon your conscience. 1t will
stand between you and God. 1t is an OBJ
stacle which you cannot get over. You
may forget that it is there; but there it
is; aLd you are on one side. and AL
mighty God is on the other.
Year: 1876

How TO GET ALONG.-DOn't stop to
tell stories In business hours.


If you have place of business, be
found there when wanted.


No man can get rich by sitting around
stores and saloons.


Never "fool" in business matters.


Have order. system, regularity and al
50 promptness.


Do not meddle with business you know
nothing Of.


Do not kick every one in your path.
More miles can be made in day by
going steadily than by stopping.


Pay as you 60.


A man Of honor respects his word as
he does his bond.


Help others wher you can. but never
give what you cannot afford to. simply
because it is fashionable.


Learn to say No. No necessity Of
swapping it out og-fashion. but say it
firmly and respectfully.


Use your own brains. rather than
those Of Others.


Learn to think and act for yourself.


Keep ahead rather than behind the
times.


Young man. cut this out. and if there
is any fallacy in the argument. let Us
know.
Year: 1876

WHAT A SCHOOL GIRLS POCKET WILL
HoLD.-We found one lying on the side
walk one day, and give an inventory for
the purpose Of enabling the proprietor
to obtain the pocket: Two white hand
kerchiefs, the hens of which are bigger
than the balance candy fish, of many
colors one short slate pencil, black,
chewed at the end. too hard at the 9th
er, one slate pencil, mode color, chewed
at both ends, and very short and slab
sided one bit of sky-blue ribbon; two
bits in currency; one piece of short.
black, scallOped ribbon one garter, with
out buckle. very elastic but not long
two short pieces of barber-pOle candy,
one of peppermint, the other lemon one
pair of small black kid gloves one par
asol tassel q camel's hair brush; one
love letter, very tender, praising the re-
cipient and running down another girl,
hence very valuable; one horse-hair ring,
unfinished three hair pins one perfum-
cry bottle stopper box of breath per-
fume ; ball Of floss, and broken Gro
chet needle; a small piece Of raw cotton
full of white powder the left heel Of
No. 2 gaiter one stocking with q hole
in the toe q thimble and nut cracker
The pocket is of yellow nankeen, and
can be obtained on application at this
ofhce.-Omaha Herald.
Year: 1876

The BEST MIND FOR FARMING. Time
was when men thought the dullest boy
of the family would do for farmer.
The brightest boy was pnt to the study
of law or medicine. but the idea was
common that after farming the biggest
fool would do well enough for doctor
or a preacher. We have lived long
enough to see the supreme folly Of all
this, and puplic opinion now holds
farming as an intellectual calling. And
why not? The farmer has to deal with
life under all its contitions; he must
bring life to perfect development both
in the field and in the herd. Life is the
thing with which he deals first, last,
middle and end. From the seed which
he plants to the animal tha: y. raises,
life is the subject of Lis thoue his and
purposes. The reward of his labor
must come from life, so that the farmer
is god among the seeds of things. If
there is calling on earth that demands
mental vigor and large stores Of infor-
nation, it is agriculture. There cannot
be too much of mind connected with it.
Intelligence is demanded of the farmer
in all his business, efforts and aims
Erchnnge.
Year: 1876

A5 about two o'clock yesterday
morning. when the train was at Og-
allala. a passenger goo on board and
took a berth in the sleeper. He dld
not get on board in the full light OF
the station lamps, bat jumped on II
the darkness. after the train had
passed the platform, and Immediate
" got into his berth without remo-
wing any of his clothing except his
boots, and otherwise acted as II he
faareJ that something would catch
him. And something did catch hlm.
sure enough, at the next station.
The fellow was gambler who had
been carving on operations at Og-
allala in way that wouldnot square
with even the gamblers code OF
morals. Ogallala is the great ship
ping point for cattle on the line OF
the Union Pacific, and at times
great many cattle dealers are there.
The chap in question had got to
playing with these fellows, and
beat them out Of $4,000 OR $4,000
and refused to disgorge. He had
succeeded in sneaking out and get
ting on board the train in the man
aer related. and was sneaklng OH
with his big stake. The enraged
cattle men did not propose to sub
nit to the circumstances and lose
their money in that way, so they tel
,egraphed the particulars to some
friends in Alhali, the next station,
who were likewise of the same reso-
lutte stamp of cattle men. When the
train arrived they had possession OF
it. and we're tearing through 1t to
find the man who got on at Ogallala.
They found him innocently pre-
tending to sleep in his berth about
the middle of the Pullman and the
trouble commenced. The fellow re-
fused to leave the car, but the cattle
men assured him if he wouldn't go
they had The tools to take him, and
directed his attention to a mule
standing quietly in the moonlight,
with long rope coiled up on the
saddle. The bell rang to start, and
matters were precipitated by all
parties drawing revolvers and begin
ming to shoot promiscuously. Cur
tains we're torn down, frightened
passengers tumbled out to escape
the whistling bullets, and the ut
most confusion reigned; woman
screamed and everybody was rush
ing out of the car by means OF win
fows as we'll as doors, and soon the
prairie was covered with white robed
forms fitting like ghosts in the
moonlight.


The cattle men finally dragged
out theirvictim, tied him on mule
and started away with him, and the
shepassengers returned to the coach,
whence cries and screams and groans
we're still issuing. One young lady
whose parents were on board was
screaming and declaring that she
was shot in the leg, and medical
attendance was summoned from the
station. The train was held to await
the arrival of knives and probes,
and when he came a professional
examination revealed the fact that
a pin in the lady's stocking was cru
ely sticking her.


There were some bullet holes
through the coach, and several mar
row escapes, but not single pass
enger was hit by the reckless firing.
The fate of the gambler who caus-
ed the trouble could not be learned,
but it is known positively that he
rode back to Ogallala on that mule,
with the rope in sight. The hunks,
curtains and sides of the Pullman
were pretty freely perforated by the
bullets.
Year: 1876

has been well carried out; for, besides
the nine jets OF the upper basin, there
are four large ones which rise out OF the
main basin and send streams up into
the top basin. The combination Of all
the jets, when in full play, is exceeding
iy magnificent, for not only do these
jets of water rise up, but they fall back
into the bssins-frsi, into the upper one,
and then on till the overflow reaches
the main basin. This overflow of the
basins is continuous, and forms sort Of
curtain Of water around the fountain,
which, together with the Jets and sprays,
produces an exceedingly happy effect.
IA the lower or main basin are lilies in
full bloom, throwing out sprays Of water,
and also several beautiful white swans
sailing about.


THE sUBsCRIBERS-THE RIM OF THE
Year: 1876

A PROFESSIONAL thief died recently in Moyamensing Prison, of whom a local journal says that during his res idence at Sing Sing he slgnalized him. self by giving as much trouble as pos sible, and on one occasion being told that he must go to work or take the consequences, he seized the hatchet and at one blow chopped off four of his fingers, defying the authorities to force nm to labor against his will. He refused on his death bed to see a priest or to receive any of his relatives or friends One of his dying requests was Gimme some cnloroform. Let me die game"