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Year: 1875

According to tho american Grocer,
tho cheese industry is in danger of ruin,
and the only salvation, it is said, is to
abandon the manufacture Of every
quality except full cream cheese, which
is the only kind entitled to the designa.
tion OF cheese. So.called cheese is made
OF every gradation Of quality, from the
poorest skinned to the richest full
cream cheese, and sells in tho market
from two cents to thirteen and n hall
cents pound. II tho milk is all skim.
med, tho poorest product is the result,
and this quality proves m exceedingly
Improbable manufacture, as it costs To
mako and sell it ut least three cents q
pound, and nets n loss of one cent a
pound. The next quality above, with
five per cent. Of cream, and madc oi
good texture and properly colored,
brings n relatively higher price; and Sc
on for all gradations of quality until
when the cheese is made with mixture
Of morning milk skinned and evening
milk unskimmed, in equal quantities, m
article may bo produced by proper care
that will pass very well with those who
are not experts for n full cream cheese,
Then comes in tho olGomargarine cheese,
the cream al taken off and tho oil called
oleomargarine, from the fresh fat Of the
caul of m OK, substituted in cqual
weight for tho cream. This produces al
article which in many respects so closely
resembles the full cream cheese as to bt
readily sold forit.


Last year skinned milk cheese sold
very well up to tho best grades. Thi'
year they can hardly DO sold at all, from
which it appears that, after all, cheating
don't pay. All who aro interested in the
export trade, and nearly every receiver
is, tells us that the presence of adulten
ted cheese i'll tho English market is being
felt here, aud that it is absolutely certain,
If their manufacture md shipment i.
persisted in, will react disastrously upor
our cheese trade, and ultimately to drive
us ont Of n market that lIas cost us SC
many years and so much labor to cstab
lish. OF the 1,0O5,07S cheese received
here during tho year ending Alay 81 last
1,70l 1928 were exported, leaving 20i, ,G5(
for home consumption, about niuo PEI
cent. Of tho total receipts. Figures like
these show tho Importance Of sending
good cheese abroad.
Year: 1875

lue EEeNcutAuh VI NNBEAucts


There can be no doubt that the tenden-
cy to vagrancy throughout the country
is on the increase. As the Pittsburgh
Dipatehoi yesterday we'll observes, "it is
u irightful commentary on the times in
which we live, and on the character Of
the people who live in them, that street
mendicancy is greatly on the increase in
the United States" That city, az well ps
every city in the cland, now abounds with
tramps, who from habits OF dissipation,
and from constitutional indispositiOn to
work, journey from place to place and
subsist on the charities Of the public. As
the Dspaieh says, "these lazy and good
for.nothing scoundrels, who will neither
work nor want, congregale largely in our
cities, which they make their heudquar-
ters, and carry on more extensively there
their thiCving and dishonest operations"


The increasing number Of these nui-
sancCs Is one Of the pcrplexing and dis
heartening problems Of our day, The
war, begetting us 1t did so much dcmor-
alization in such u variety OF ways, left
as scum on society all over the country
agreat amount Of abandoned population.
This class will not work II they can help
ii. They prefer to depend on begging or
stealing for living, Here in Wheeling
we have an unusual influx OF them at this
time, On Saturday night there were
seyenty.hve Of them in the lock-up and
on Sunday night we learn that this large
number was swelled to eighty.seyen.
Where will il cnd2 Are We to become u
Botany Bay for tramps2 There are laws
to prevent the expectation Of Migrants
from any country III Europe to our
American shores, and when such char
acters are landed they are Indignantly
shipped back by our authorities To the
country from whence they came. Every
country and every community have poor
enough Of their own to maintain-merito'
rions poor without becoming MI object.
i've point for the worthless vagrants Of
other communities. II ia the right and
duty Of every community to protect itself
from these travelling nuisanCes. And Just
at this time We see no better way for self
protection than to adopt the Columbus
method uf setting them to work breaking
stone on the streets a large stone pile
would do more to protect Wheeling from
these excursionlsts than any other species
Of embargo that we can think Of. Even
II their work amounts to nothing rs u
matter OF direct profit to the city, yet, IN
directly, It would be great advantage to
usby scattering these yagrants before they
take rootlike bad weetlson our soil. five
had good healthy stone pile, aud II we
made 1t condition precedent to giving
food to any able bodied tramp, that he
shoulddo a certain amount Of work at the
pile he would not be apt to tarry more than
one day or night He would journey
on in the hopes Of finding a softer thing
somewhere else. We suggest therefore in
view Of the large number Of vagrants now
thronging the Lookup, whether 1t would
not pay the city to Immediately impro-
wise "stone pile, "orsomc equivalent in
Hitution, with view 10 dispensing and
discouruging these tramping nuisances.
Year: 1875

The commission appointed to inspect
the condition of dams in Massachus-
sets has reported that there are
twenty-seven dams and reservoirs in
that State which are unsafe. That is
to say, there are twenty-seven locali-
ties which may, at any moment, be
suddenly deluged with flood of
water that will repeat the tragedy of
Mill River. The wonder is, not that
the Mill River dam has since given
away, but that dozen similar acci.
dents have not occurred. To expect
that the water will be drawn off from
these twenty-seven ponds, and the
dams repaired and made safe, is to
suppose that the average Massachus-
etls mill-owner is willing to spend
money in order to save his fellow
creatures lives, which supposition we
nave no sufficient authority for
making. 1t is, however, the clear du-
ty of the Legislature TO compel the
dam-owncrs to do their duty. The fact
that the proprictors of the Mill River
property built their second dam no
more sccucly than they built the first,
shows that the Massachusetts mill.
owner will build safely only upon
compulsion, and that if left TO his own
devices, he will prepare the way for n
destructive flood with as much ease as
though he were Dutch patriot de-


termined to level his protecting dykes
drown his enemies in thorough and
workmanlike way World.
Year: 1875

FoR EXTENSIVE ALTERATIONS AND ENLARGE
MENT OF OUR ESTABLISHMENT AND HAVE, IN
CONSEQUENCE MADE EXTRAORDINARY RBDUo.
TIoNs IN THE PRICES or OUR GOODS, so AS TO
REDUCE OUR STOCK. EVERY ARTICLE Is MARKED
DOWN. OUR NUMEROUS PATRONS. WHO HAVE
LEARNED TO ASSOCIATE OUR NAME wIrR MOD
ERArE PRICES WILL FIND NEW CAUSE FOR AS
roNIsHMENr IN OUR PRESENT CLEARING OUT
PRICES


Especial attention is called to our remarkable prices


for
Year: 1875

An eccentric negro has just ended
his career at Erie, Pa, ands his manner
of life is illustrated by the way in which
he raised market stuff: "One morning
he came along with his basket, went up
to a stand where hllckster was selling
dressed poultry, picked up pair of
chickens when the owner was not look
ing, chucked them in his basket, and set
it down, then deliberately picked up an
other and inquired the price. Being
told he remarked, with apparent dis
pleasure, Il won't pay that much. Why,
look here, holding up the basket with
the two he had taken from the dealer in
it, 4 got them up here for a great
deal less.' WELL said the man, you
will have to go there then; I can't sell
them so, and off walked our hero with
the poultry."
Year: 1875

WAsHrSeToS correspondents intimate
that there will soon be important
changes in the Indian service. 3 Just
what they are is not specified, nor is it,
stated whetherlthere win be changes of
policy as well as men but the recent
visit to the Capital of Gems. Sheridan
and Crook, and their private scohsulta-
tion with the President and Secretary
Chandler, which it is known was in ref
erence to Indian affairs, give rise to
rumors that the military are to have
more to do with Indian matters in the
future than they have had in the past.
Year: 1875

To the above number Of twenty-one contest
ed seats may possibly be added others of which
We have no present knowledge. Some of the
above, also. may not be brought before the
House at all.
Year: 1875

It is said that two Wabash ave nue lovers will sit up half the night with only one chair in the room, but that is easily explained to anyone who has been there.

 All the axes and buck saws found in the ruins of Pompeii are of light make, as if constructed for woman's use. Those old an cients knew their little business.

 A Florida railroad made nine teen cents clear last year. now what kind of an institution is that? Why doesn't it get into debt, like a state canal or state prison, and be something or somebody?

 Petersham has produced an auctioneer who tells the truth. He recently told bidder: You've got a good bargain on that sleigh you bid off for $2.5O. It is just as good for hens to roost on as one that costs $60."

 Woman does great deal to discourage lofty sentiments of patriotism. When a man leanino over the back fence telling a neigh. Dor how he would shed his last drop of blood for suffering Louis jana, it disturbs him to have his wife yell from the kitchen: Look at here' are you coming with that bucket of water, or shall I come out and see to yous"
Year: 1875

"Advertising costs money" So does store-rent, so do all good and useful things. The object of ad- vertising is not to cause a man to expend money, but to make it.

 Englishmen are often surprised at the rapidity with which for tunes are made by Americans. In America advertising is more widely understood.

 If you are suddenly asked, ,"who among merchants have made the largest fortunes in the shortest time in legitimate business" will not your reply naturally be, "judi- cious advertisers"

 Because man may be unable to see at once the full result of his advertising is no reason why he should hastily jadge it of no effect. It is better to watch and wait than to make a nasty judg- ment.

 Advertiseinents A are the quiet solicitors who never intrude, but who never. fail to make them selves known, and are seen and remembered despite the will of the reader who could not forget them if he would.

 q am we'll known, why should l advertiser

 "ln order to become better knownrr

 But am as well known as my rival?

 TT you were better known than they, you would have legitimate business advantage over them"
Year: 1875

While we regard gratitude as one of the noblest attributes of the depravcd nature of man, and take the absence of it as sure sign ot more than ordinary de- prayity and coarseness, we think there is such a thing as letting this noble quality of our nature bedim our better judgcmcnt-a kind of surfeit of gratitude which benumbs our sense of justice and does violence to our own inter ests. It seems tous that we have seen striking exemplifications of this kind of gratitude i'll the con duct of our people here ill the South at various times since the surrender. Our people have been oppressed and outraged so dread fully since reconstruction began have known so little of freedom and liberty, and so much of abuse and persecution, and have had so few men outside of our own party ever raise their voice in an earn est appeal to the tyrants of the White House in our behalf, that when such an act of simple jus tice did occur-when some of our prosecutors, stung by remorse, moved by our long suffering and our helpless condition, AND DRIv- FEN TO IT BY THE TIDE OF PUBLIC OPINION, when thus acted upon by forces winch they could no lon ger resist, and when they have seen their own party well gone in decadcnce and no longer a party to be feared-when startled at the prospect of finding themselves in the party which is soon to receive the just retribution of the people, and emboldened by the hope of being able to successfully flop over into the ranks of the party which is soon to wield the power of the nation, when thus infu- enceE;.they have at the eleventh hour shown a disposition to ac- cord. to. us our simple rights which they have wrongfully with held from us year after year, our people are so overjoyed, and their gratitude runs out to such de- gree that they are ready to fall down and worship the hand that has so ruthlessly smote us for years. They are ready to take the viper into their bosom and warm it again into life only to re ceiye it's yenomous fangs again. This is what we call foolish grat- itude.

 We are always ready to accord due credit to EVERYBODY for every meritorious act, and would be far from withholding credit from man merely because he was po- litical opponent, but we do most emphatically object to any such gratitude as the type above refer red to, and which some of our people seem to be given to- We see at present an illustration, in the disposition to lionize Mir. Luke E. Poland. What has he done, more than any other man of common honesty would have done? Still we will hear his praises sounded for weeks to come, and the honest, untiring workers of our own party will be overlooked in the foolish endeav- or to see who can sound loudest the praises of an opponent who has been forced by public opinion to do'us justice. As for ourselves we call this folly, and have no praise for these eleventh hour con verts to the side of right.
Year: 1875

was some four or five hours late on Wednesday of last week, we did not get the glad tidings from Washington, in time to herald the joyful news to our readers in our last issue. Of course every body has learned ere now that the Poland report was adopted in the house by the handsome majority of sixty nine. The victory is ours and we now enter upon new era in the history of Arkansas. All over the state there is rejoicing and thanksgiving for the happy result. Happy faces beam with new light in all our land. Buoy ant footsteps hurry along our streets and re-invigorated sinews grasp the blow handles. The skies look brighuer-the birds sing sweeter-the gurgling of the brook sounds more musical-the flowers bloom gayer-a load is lifted from our shoulders, and we all rejoice. But in the exuber- ance of our feelings let us not for get that there is work before us. The work however is a pleasant work and has a bountiful reward. We must now address ourselves to the task of advancing and de veloping our state, and if we will work judiciously and earnestly our reward will be sure and ade- quate. There is another thing we must not forget: we are now victors but we must not be perse- cutors of our vanquished foe. The brave are always magnanimous- the noble are never vindictiye. A victory disgraced is worse than a noble conflict lost. We would not convey the idea that you should be generous even to the taking of the frozen viper unto your bosom. Nor would we be understood to advocate such leniency as would look with any degree of toleration upon crime. This is not what we mean when we say be magnani nous. We simply mean, be no- ble-lay aside all prejudice-let vindictiveness prompt to no act ofprivate revengc-give just cred it for every effort at restitution. If crimes have been committed, if justice has been outraged, if the laws have been violated, let the  guilty ones be arraigned before the courts of the country and dealt with according to law. To reform is always commendable, and if our old foes wish to aban- don the error of their way and  make good citizens, we ask our people to give them a chance watch them closely, but give them a chance; and if we will use pru- dent and strenuous efforts it will soon be not only Free Arkansas, but also Great Arkansas.

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Year: 1875

A Kentucky paper speaks of q man who had a narrow escape from q sun stroke, he having stood only two feet from man who was struck.

 The song of the Washington youth-"I wont to be a lobby man and in the lobby stand, with brass upon my forehead and grecnback in my hand"
Year: 1875

 ceipt of the news from Washing ton, that Mir. Poland's report had been adopted in the lower house of Congress, gives a leading edit orial in which it gives np the Brooks chase, and acknowledges the stability and permancncy of our existing state government. The closing words of the article do credit to the Republican. That paper has taken strong stand against good government in Ark ansas -as we see it--and has done much to bolster up the cause Of the bad men who have brought Arkansas to the very verge of ruin; it has been radical to the last degree, and has been unmerci- full in it's distortion of facts ill or der to serve the party to which 1t clung with such desperation; but we are glad to hear and know that even the Republican is now going to work for Arkansas, as it indi- cates by the closing words of the article referred to, which are as follows:

 Quit asking where man was bcrn or whence lie came, and whether he came from Maine or Georgia, from Michigan or Texas, or was born upon the soil. Let all combine to work for the good of the state. In this way-by fol lowing this course-but few years will elapse before Arkansas will take a proud stand among her sister states, and the star that rep- resents her upon the national em- blem will be one of the brightest in that brilliant galaxy.

 This is the sentiment of every true Arkansian, and we sincerely hope that the Republican will now try to be as jealous in its support of the present government, and as energetic in it's efforts to build up the shattered fortunes of Arkan7 sas, as it was wont to be in opp0sz ing it and in lending aid and com fort to the plunderers of our state; and we hope that the press and the people of the state will lay aside all past prejudices, and wei come to the rank of workers for our country's good all who may feel disposed to come. Notwith- standing the almost hopeless con dition of our state finances and the poverty of our people, if we will all go to work, and work hard, work patiently, and work all to- gether, it will astonish the most incredulous to see the progress we will make in few years. With out diversity, we never know how to appreciate prosperity-without hunger we never know how to en- joy feasting-without toll we nev- CT know the sweets of rest. We have had our diversity, we have seen our state plundered, and we have seen her fair name tarnished by the wicked and malicious mis- representations of her enemies, we have had our rights our dearest and our most sacred rights as freemen, invaded and violated-but 'tis past and pros perity is now ready to reward us. We have hungered and thirsted after those rights and privileges, which no man had any right to deprive us of, but we may now feast; every son of Arkansas is to- day free, and we may feast and revel in the blessed sunlight of liberty. We have had our toll, we have toiled and sweated under the yoke of oppression and des- potism for long years, but now we may rest. And let the sweetest part of our rest be to turn our ex- ertions now to the rehabilitation ef Free Arkansas.
Year: 1875

An important decision was rendered yester-
day morning by Judge B1oDaE7r on the ques-
tion of the right Of the City of Chicago to
levy tar on vessels as personal property.
The chief objections were that the Court
had no jurisdiction; that the tax
was duty Of tonnage, and against
the provisions Of the Constitution Of the
United States; and that the tax should have
been against person and not thing. The
Judge reviews all the points at length, and
disposes of them, holding that the
owner of a vessel, being required to
List his personal property of every
kind, and failing to do so, cannot
take advantage OF his own wrong and
escape taxation by his neglect of duty. The
question is entirely new and very important,
both to vessel-owners and to the city, which
has been so often deprived Of portions Of its
revenue through bungling and unconstitu-
tional statutes, that it can lily afford to lose
more.
Year: 1875

Since the election certain Of our morning
contemporaries have SO industriously labored
to impress upon the public that the result
was to be reversed BY the Board Of Canvass
ers as to excite suspicion that the object was
to frighten people into acquiescence in the
counEng-in' of Mr. HEs1So. Interviews had
with Justices HANEs and HAMs111L (who
with County Clerk LHB will constitute the
Board), published in this issue of TIE Tn1B-
USE, show that such arprehensions are un-
founded. They each state TINT, in pursuance
Of their duty as defined by statute, they have
not changed their opinion of the power Of
the Board since last year, when they held it
could not throw out precincts, but was simply
there to foot up the returns, which is all
that has ever been done by the Board Of
Canvassers. They do not claim, nor will they
attempt to exercise, the right of rejecting the
vote OF any precinct. That question. it will
be remembered, was raised in the FARwE1l-
LIZ MoyHE contest as to one Of the precincts
Of the Eighteenth Ward and one Of the
Evanston precincts year ago. The opinion
of the Hon LEONARD SWEET was then taken
upon it, and he pronounced any such action
on the part Of the Board as clearly nlegn1.
This opinion has never been dissented from
by any reputable authority, and will he &C.
cepted by the majority Of the Board as to the
canvass Of the returns Of Tuesdays election
Year: 1875

one determined effort, their ar.1or cools. and
they drop back into their customary inditler-
ence Tie constituents Of the Bosses, how


ever, never tire. They array themselves on


the side that promises license to the saloon


classes, to the gamblers, and t. the danger


ous and vicious classes generally, because


there are certain interests in common, and


they will vote early and often, and work hard


and late, for any Boss or Ring from whom


they expect free and easy disbursement Of
the public moneys. Notwithstanding the
exceptionally great effort made in Chicago
last Tuesday, the Ring ticket counted in tn 0
of their candidates in the very teeth Of the
people.


What is the remedy? The Nation sug-
gests two, one Of which it comedies to be
impracticable for the present, and the other
we fear to be equally SO. TIE first is, that
the municipality shall be converted into q
business instead Of political corporation,
and the administration of its business left to
the men who pay the taxes; in other words,
that property qualification be required for
all voters in municipal elections. Without
stopping to discuss the benefits and disad-
vantages Of such plan, it is sufficient to re-
member that such a condition could OILY be
instituted primarily by means Of q popular
vote, which simply places it out of the ques-
ton. The other suggestion is such simp1i6-
cation Of governmental machinery that it
may be run without professional qualif-
cations, and without necessitsting an aban-
donment of private affairs by those
who consent to serve in public capacity.
Such scheme means concentration of power
and responsibility; and, concerning the
practcabiiity Of securing it, we need only
refer to our charter election last spring,
when the mob carried the day by stuhing the
ballot-boxes, and thereby defeated an honest
and intelligent effort made in the very
direction the Nation suggests In view of
this experience, the outlook is anything but
encouraging, and "Boss Government is a
standing menace in every large city in the
United States. The only effort that can be
made for the present is to speak publicly the
sentiments which are uttered so commonly in
private, and to unite the industrious and in
telligent classes by refusing to pander to the
disreputable and thoughtles classes who are
responsible for our city - Bosses"