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Year: 1875

It is universally conceded that the


Press does more to mould and control


public opinion than any other agency.


In the present age not only the opin-


ions, but even the beliefs of the mas


ses are, to a great extent, formed. and


are always more or less Influenced by


reading especially the newspapers of
the day. and it is therefore, hardly


possible to estimate the importance of


the press, and its power Of working
good or evil to society. Ii we take the
simple statistic that the circulation of
the New York dailies approximates a
half million, and the circulation Of
three Amerisan weeklies does not fall
short of million, and add to this the
thousands Of other dailies and weeklies
scattered all over the land, whose cir
eulatisns run all along the table of
enumeration, it becomes matter i'm
possible to cipher out the length and
breadth of the influence Of the Ameri-
can newspaper press. That there are
impure streams issuing from this foun-
tain is not to be concealed, and that the
acme of newspaper purity has not been
reached. We have but to scan the long
columns of scandalous and semi-ob-
scene reports. to say nothing Of the
light and wishy-washy matter with
which the country is flooded It is
really refreshing to one accustomed to
the sight Of so much that had better
have been suppressed in its incipiency.
to witness the effects being made by
many to work reform in this regard,
and it is q matter of the first importance
to all concerned, that the press shall
be made 50 pure in the crucible of NOR
Atty, as that it shall impart healthy
and invigorating tone to the countless
masses Of newspaper readers st.
Msehaeps (lMd.) Comet.
Year: 1875

Why PorAToEs Run OUT.-Some
one asks why It Is that potatoes SO soon
run out. There are two grand rea-
sons. There are but few potatoes in a
hill that are ct for seed. Some are
overgrown. coarse, rank and will not
transmit the original quality. Others
are undergroyn and not fully developed
seed. A potato Of medium size, per-
feet in all its parts, with change of
ground, will produce its like ad infn-
itum One other reason cutting pota-
toes between stem and seed end con-
tinuslly is wrong requires the stem
and seed end to make perfect seed, if
cut, lengthwise. Single eyes will run
out any potato. There is no other seed
that will bear mutilatisn like the pota-
to; the only wonder is that it does not
run out completely.
Year: 1875

The Detroit Free Press says: 1--WE
never get excited in reading of the
mysterious disappearance of hand
some young lady about eighteen years
old.' They are generally heard from
in about week, asking the old man if
be will forgive and forget. and if they
may bring Charles Henry home
Year: 1875

THE above reward will be paid for inform
i ton that will lead to the apprehension of
the party or parties who steal the lamps from
the town lamp posts, or damage the property
of citizens.


By Order of Town Commissioner


setsl-tf T. f. HURN, Chairman
Year: 1875

The Baltimore Weekly Sun has successfully
stood the test Of time, and is not founo want
ing in any of the essentials of a first-class pa
per for The home circle A strict adherence
to conservative principle and truth has rem
dered the journal sort of HOUSEHOLD
WORD" and as such it has become neces-
sity wherever it is known.


As Literary Paper it is entertaining and
instructive to all classes, its contents being
always Of high tone and scrupulous morality.


The Farmer will find the Baltimore Weekly
Sun q valuable instructor, its original articles
ON and judicious selection of matters intimate
ly connected with the great national interest
Of agriculture amply repaying the price of
subscription.


The paper is designed to meet the needs Of
persons residing in the towns and rural dis
tricts of the J
MIDDLE, SOUTHERN AND WESTERN


STATES,


careful note being regularly made of local
matters in those regions, in addition to a COM
plete and concise history of current events


ALL OVER THE WORLD.


The Merchant and the Mechanic will find
the Weekly Sun an ever fresh Encyclopedia of
Useful knowledge.


THE WEEKLY SUMS MARKET REPORTS
are especially valuable, giving the latest prices
of all kinds of Preducerin Baltimore and the
principal cities of the Union, for the latter the
telegraph being availed of up 10 the date of
publication.


TERMS CASH In ADVANCE.
Year: 1875

CusToMs REFoRM.-For some years
past ladies and gentlemen in fashion
able society have been in the habit OF
making yearly visits to Europe TO re-
plenish their wardrobes. Sometimes
one persen would do business in this
way for number of friends, bringing
back from a European tour several
mammoth trunks filled with costly
fabrics, which they would pass free OF
buty as wardrobe. This profitable
business is about being Subjected to
new burdens by a new regulation
adopted by The Treasury Department
Every person entering from a foreign
port will in the future be compelled
TO take an oath as TO the dutlahie
goods in his or her possession. Should
any person who is supposed to have
arrived at years Of discretion forget
the sacred character attached TO an
oath, and swear falsely, such person S
goods will be confScated and he OF
she will be lined three times the
amount of the customs due This IS
reform in certain sense. 1t is bet
terthan the former rule, which per-
mitted persons to bring as many
trunks of foreign goods as the pleased,
under the pretence that they were
personal wearing appeared. But the
new regulation only makes it 4 queS-
ton whether it is worth while to at
tempt to evade the law. The buSI-
ness is still within the limits of cal
eulation. If smuggling can be made
profitable under the new regulation,
it will be followed as it was before.
There is no penalty attached but pc
cuniary loss When persons swear
falsely on other matters they are III
danger of the penitentiary. The law
may seldom follow them up, but there
is always a chance that ii will. Pos
Sibly the Department was perplexed
by a doubt whether the class of per
sons who mostly practice fashionable


smuggling have any just conception
of the nature of All oath.
Year: 1875

UxIupoErANr- According to the
Ny. Herald the failure OF the Bank
of California produced less excitement
in that city than the suspension Of
sugar house in Baltimore. Il is only
when we hear from abroad, that We
understand the slight Importance that
attaches TO our dUiugs.
Year: 1875

One MAN RULE.-The New York
Herald says that in the republican par
ty there is only one man who can be
honestly claimed to have national
reputation as a candidate for the
Presidency That is Ulysses. Grant.
The republican party has been so
thoroughly under the shadow of the
administration that its rising states
men have gone into a blight The
influence of the White House has pre-
vented any healthy growth among
leading republicans. There is no
leader outside of the President who
can even pretend TO q national intlu-
enee.
Year: 1875

REcovERED.-The last intelligence
IN regard to the mental condition Of
Mrs. Lincoln is that she is recover
ing, and has already been permitted
to visit her sisterat Springfield. There
is not person in the whole country
who will not rejoice that this is so,
for the nation universally wishes well
to the wife of the dead President.
There was a time when the national
heart was disgusted with her, but
since it has transpired that her unlady-
like actions were but the fantasies of
a disordered and diseased mind, sym
pathy has gone out where before there
was contempt and indignation.
Year: 1875

ABOUT PoSTAGE.-POstmas all over the
country are complaining that great many
people do not understand the provisions OF
the new postal Law with reference to the post
age On newspapers. L should b. understood
that unless the fall rate of postage is prepaid,
no paper can be forwarded to it's destination
On this account great many papers are al
most daily thrown aside at the Office where
they are mailed. The law, which went into
force at the beginning OF the present year, re-
ouires a cent an ounce postage, which must
be prepaid. As the majority OF newspapers
weigh more than an ounce, 1t will be seen
that most papers require two cents postage
People ought 70 bear this in mind, and com
ply with the law. If they DO not, and their
papers are thrown into the waste basket, they
have only themselves - blame
Year: 1875

THE head Of a New York mercantile
house was Dragging rather largely of the
amount of business done by his firm"
" You may judge Of its extent" said he,
"when l tell you the quills Of our CORE
epondents cost two thousand dollars a
year" "Pooh!" said the clerk of another,
who was sitting by, "what is that to our
correspondence, when save four thon-
sand dollars in ink from merely emitting
to dot the is ?"
Year: 1875

THE smallest post office in the world is
kept in barrel, which swings from the
outermOst rock of the mountains over
hanging the Strait Of Magellan, opposite
Terra del Fuego. Every passing ship
opens it to place letters in or take them
oat. Every ship undertakes to forward
all letters in it that it is possible for them
TO transmit. 1t hangs there by its iron
chain, beaten and battered by the winds
and storms but no locked and barred
office on land is more secure. 1t is not
in the track Of mail robbers.
Year: 1875

AT city market the other day, a pale
faced, solemn man took off his hat,
smoothed back his hair, and said: "My
friends, we know not how soon we may
fall by the way-side. We stand here to-
day-next week we may sleep with the
dead. feel that have only few days
more to stay, and l wish some of you
would lend me fifteen cents so that / can
get dish of baked beans" The crowd
at once moved away.
Year: 1875

AT one Of the Boston schools, recently,
in answer to the question, What is the
difference between an island and CONT
nent, and upon what do we live 2"
a bright little shaver replied that, "The
difference is that continent is much
larger than an island, and that we live on
bread and meat and such things"
Year: 1875

The editor of Michigan paper re-
marks, in deprecatory tone: Because
we happen to take our shotgun and start
out for Sunday afternoons cunning, it
is no reason why half dozen impudent
persons should ask US if we were on
tour for collecting subscription money.
The times are hard, and ammunition
costs too much money to be wasted on
delinquent subscribers just now.
Year: 1875

THE verdict of the Coroner's jury iE
the case of a dry goods clerk who died
the other day was AFTER
careful examination we find that death
ensued from his having neglected to ask
Anything else to-day p of a lady leaving
the store. j. Detroit Free Press.
Year: 1875

BRILLIANT, learned and eloquent, en-
dowed with the fancy Of a poet and the
best gifts Of an orator, it may neverthe-
less be doubted whether Theodore Tilton
will ever reach the true climax of great
moss so long as he addresses his audience
in green necktie,
Year: 1875

A very liberal contract, which we have just completed with the Weed Sewing Machine Company, will en- able us, we hope to place their cell ebrated machine in many families throughout the country. So fine an opportunity to secure first-class sewing machine seldom occurs. May we not expect the friends of this paper to make an earnest, uni- ted effort to extend greatly it's circu- lation and thus help to increase its influence. We will literally re- ward those who work for us. Read CT, can you not form club in your neighborhood and secure this sew ing machine premium. A few hours of well-directed effort will obtain it. Postmasters in the smaller towns and villages can, with little thought and effort, easily send us the requisite number of names. Has the parsonage q sewing ma chine1 If not, call upon few la- dies and gentlemen of the congre- gation. Tell them your plan and ask them to help. In the congrega- ton oo names can with little difii- culty be secured. Send us the $75 and we will forward for one year this paper to each of the 30 subscrib- CTS, which will pay them the full value of their subscriptions, and in addition, we will make present. to any person you may designate, of a beautiful sixty dollar Sewing Machine. How easily d club can be formed in the Masonic or Odd Fellows or Temperance Societies or in the Grange? Is there not de- pending upon your society some poor widow to whom sewing ma chine would be for years to come a blessing? Pass the subscription paper. fifty persons subscribing for this journal at $l.50 each, will secure for themselves, without any extra change, the paper for one year and most valuable present for some needy family. Try it, friends. Don't wait! Begin the work at once. Send us word that you have undertaken the formation of such T club.
Year: 1875

MT. J. l.. Shinn is having his old store house on the corner of Main and River rolled back, to make room for his new brick building, which will be more com modious to accommodate his bus
Year: 1875

different causes they cannot be
present at the place Of trial. The
President is empowered to appoint
a commissioner to receive the evi,
dence, at which both parties may
be represented BY counsel. We
suggest that this course be adopt
ed in this case as soon as possible,
and that Governor Potts and Dele.
gate Maginnis endeavor to have
this commission appointed and
thus prevent the sacrifice Of citi-
zens of this Territory for the sub
servience of the interests Of a for
eign corporate monopoly.
Year: 1875

ness, she told the story of a young,
confding, innocent girl, who fell a
victim to the wiles of the man S he
loved too well. She portrayed the
agony the poor girl endured during
the period of secret sorrow. when
She prayed for night to bring in the
security of concealment. only at night
to pray for the return of dawn. Time
brought to others the knowledge of
her shame, and the grief, the con-
tempt, the unrelcnting hatred of
friends; until, in time, at their solic-
itation, she plunged into the sea the
cause of their sorrow and hers. Dis
covery and conviction followed, aud
when she expiated her crime on the
gallows, her murderer, before the eyes
OF God, went his way undisturbed
by the reproach of conscience or the
condemnation of men


The destruction of woman was too
often the outgrOwth Of love and the
refining feelings of our nature, and
the code of morality that would con-
sign her to a life of shame on the
fiImsy pretext of its necessity for the
preservation intact of the morality of
society, was blasphemy against
God. Miss Dickinson's manner of
treating her subject was impassioncd
and eloquent, and was greeted with
frequent demonstrations of enthusias-
tic applause.
Year: 1875

To take hearty meal just before
retiring is, OF course. injurious, be-
cause it is very likely to disturb ones
rest and produce nightmare How
ever, little food at this time, if one
is hungry, is decidedly beneficial it
prevents the grawing of an empty
stomach, with its attendant restless
ness and unpleasant dreams, to say
nothing of probable headache, or of
nervous or other arrangements, the
next morning. One should no more
lie down at night hungry than he
should lie down after very full din
ner, the CONSCIENCE of either being
disturbing and harmful. a cracker
or two, bit Of bread and butter or
cake, a little fruit-something to re-
lieve the sense of vacuity, and so
restore the tone Of the system-is all
that is necessary.


We have known persons, habitual
sufferers from restieSsness at night,
to experience material benefit, even
though they were not hungry, by
very light luncheon before bedtime.
In place of tossing about for two or
three hours as formerly, they would
soon grow drowsy, fall asleep, and
not wake more than once or twice
until sunrise. This mode of treating
insomnia has recently been recon-
mended iy several distinguished
physicians, and the prescription has
generally been attended with happy
results.-ScriJner's Magasine.
Year: 1875

We always think of great men as


in the act of performing deeds which


give them renOwn, or else in stately


repose, silent and majestic. And yet


this is hardly fair, because the most


gracious and magnificent Of human


beings have to bother themselves with


the little things of this life, which


engage the. attention of US smaller


people. No doubt Moses snarled and


got angry when he had severe cold


in his head, aud if a fly bit his leg


while be was in the desert, why should


we suppose he did not jump and use


violent language, and rub the sore
place And Casar-isn't it tolerable
certain that he used to become furious
when he went up stairs to get bis
slippers in the dark, and found that
Calphurnia had showed them under
the bed SO that be haG to sweep
around them wildly with a broom
handle! And when Solomon cracked
his crazy bone, it is reasonable to sup
pose that he IAN around the room aud
felt as if he wanted to cry? Imagine
George Washington sitting on the
edge of the bed, and putting on a clean
shirt and growing at Martha because
the buttons were off; or St. Angus
tine with an apron around his neck
having bis hair cut; or Joan of Arc
holding her front hair in her mouth,
as women do, while she fixed up her
back hair or Napoleon jumping out
Of bed in frenzy, to chase mosquito
around the room with a pillow or
Martin Luther in night-shirt, trying
10 put the baby to sleep at 2 o'clock
in the morning; or Alexander the
Great with his hiccoughs or Thomas
Jefferson getting suddenly over a
Ience to avoid dog; or the Duke of
Wellington with the mumps; or
Daniel Webster abusing his wife be- |
cause she had't tucked the covers at
the foot Of the bed; or Benjamin
Franklin pairing bis co:ns with a
razor; or Jonathan Edwards at the
dinner table, wanting to sneeze just
as he got his mouth full of hot beef
or Noah standing at bis window at
night, throwing bricks at q cat.-Nar
Adler. |
Year: 1875

Z. Bringhurst 4 Co. have reopened their Mineral
Water Fountain for the season. The majority Of
our citizens have tasted and know for themselves
the superiority OF the soda water from this fountain
ani the delicious 1avor of the Fruit syrups they
prepare, of which there are upwards OF twenty va
rieties. They have


GLASS s1PHoN BOTTLES,
and the necessary apparatus for properly niIg them
with highly charged Carbonic Acid Water, which
can be drawn at Will, making the bottles really


PORTABLE FOUNTAINS,
which enable The Invalid who may require It, or the
lover of Soda Water who may desire IT, 10 enjoy the
use OF this delightful beverage at any time at me
We have On draught the foil wing popular
Year: 1875

In the midst of a prostratiOn of tiie'iron
and steel industry without parallel for many
years, it is not strange that the manufac-
turers of those articles who met in Phila
delphia last Friday should have eagerly
approved any measure that promised relief.
II does appear rather singular, however. tLat
such sensible men as the rOn-masters should
favor the subsidizing Of zone or more trans
continental railroad lines" as q proper or
even practicable plan of creating profitable
business for their idle mills and furnaces
They say that the granting Of aid by Congress
to these railroads would be "a most efficient
means of reinstatng the activity of industry
"throughOut the country" but they do not
tell us how this desirable end is likely to be
accomplished by such means. We are without
the premises of their argument, but we are
confident that none can be found to warrant
this conclusion. If the Northern and Texas
Pacific Railroad Companies should get the
Government Endorsement for their bonds
which they seek, and should go to work in
The Spring pushing their lines westward, q
few iron mills would be employed in making
rails and spikes, but no general revival Of
the iron trade would result. The roads would
be slowly built. Two hundred miles of track
year would be as much as either would lay.
Half dozen mills would supply the demand
for iron thus created, and their owners would
of course be benefited, but the causes which
operate to depress the iron industry of the
country at large would exist just the same.
Il would not only be a case of stimulating q
patient with brandy when he needed food,
but of giving him the liquor to enable him to
move few fingers while the rest of his body
remained torpid.


The iron industry was greatly inflated during
the era of excessive railroad building which
closed with the panic of 1878. 1t sought to
supply the abnormal demand for iron which
then existed, not considering that such demand
was of necessity temporary. The collapse
which it now suffers is severe and was inevita-
bic. 1t cannot last much longer. but relief to
the embarrassed iron-masters and their unem-
ployed workmen will come from revival of
the large normal demand for their products,
and not from the creation by subsidy bills Of
Year: 1875

Tbore seems to be great doubt whether the
bill for the government of the South adopted
by the Republican caucus on FRIDAY, anu
hailed by the Administration organs as q vital
measure of safety, can pass the House OF kep-
resentatiye,. Evidently it does not command
the approval of the most respectable members
of the porty. and some of them declare that
they will not be bound by the caucus resolu-
ton. But it shows so clearly the purposes Oh
the violent faction which has taken the con-
troll of the Republican party at Washington
the turbulent and disorderly persons" VINO
make business of upsetting State govern
ments and manipulating elections. that 1t
deserves a careful scrutiny.


The first section makes it a felony punish
able with $4,000 fine and ten years imprson-
ment at hard labor for two or more persons TO
forcibly overthrow q State government or any
of the constituted authorities of the same, " or
"intcrtere in any forcible or unld,ctM manner
",rith the due execution Of the lecS of State or
"of the United States" or to cOnspire for such
"purposes." Under this section carpet-bag
Governors would hold the opposition at their
mercy. Any kind of concerted action by White
Leagues or other political clubs could be con-
strued as q conspiracy to interfere" with the
due execution of the election law or some
other statute.


The second section makes it a crime punish
able with $4,000 fine and two years imprison-
ment for two or more persons to cOnspre or
attempt to subvert State government. This
section is capable of almost any Interpretation
partisan commissioner may be disposed to
place upon it.


The third section was thrown out. The
fourth prescribes heavy penalties for intiml-
dating voters with deadly weapons or carry
ing concealed weapons at the polls. The fifth
provides penalties for State registration Off
GERS and Supervisors who refuse to permit
citizens to vote or register or to allow them
sufficient opportunities to register or to OBJ
tain proper information"-a section which Is
obviously capable Of the grossest abuse. The
eighth section confers civil and criminal juris-
diction under this act upon United States
courts. The ninth and tenth extend the num-
Der of supervisors and deputy marshals The
fourteenth authorizes the President to sus-
pend the writ of babeas corpus whenever
unlawful combinations" shall be organized
cor attempted and 30 powerful as to defy
the State authorities.


Little comment is needed upon such bill
When it Is remembered that the Only serious
difficulty about Southern elections now Is tC
keep the Republican State officials quiet
enough to allow fair vote and far count,
the monstrous character Of the caucus proposal
is sufficiently clear.