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Year: 1875

THE Jonesville organ is trying to
persuade itself that the HERALD did
not kill the Santa Monica land specu-
lation. All right; we are willing to
divide the honors. In this community
it is conceded that whatever the Er-
press advocates and the HERALD op-
poses is certain to fail
Year: 1875

An individual evidently fresh from
the company of Bacchus, was arrested
by officer Ramon Benites on Alameda
street last Thursday. He had a belt
around his waist with over $500, which
the honest policeman was the means
of saving to him. What do our Coun-
cilmen now say who so strenuously
opposed the appointment of such q
good officer?
Year: 1875

like to draw "odorous comparisons,
but we are afraid there will be some
thing very similar between the close
of BIDwELL's campaign and the arri-
val of Cardinal WOLsEY at the Abbey.
Year: 1875

Now is your time! No such chance again in
one hundred years! This Bazaar is selling out
their entire stock Of Dry Goods 20 per cent.
below cost, as they intend giving up their dry
goods business and keep only Gents Furnish
Ing Goods. This is no bogus sale, but genu-
inc selling out of our entire stock of Dry
Cry Goods, as you will find out by calling at
the Bazaar, corner of Main and Requena
streets, opposite the u. S. Hotel. jel7
Year: 1875

The Rural New Yorker regards the
English sparrow as one of the pleas
ATTEST features of the parks and private
gardens of New York, Brooklyn and
surroundings. It adds:


They destroy insects and worms
which would otherwise be annoying
and injurious and, excepting that they
have driven away most other small
birds, they seem in cities to do no par
ticular damage. Some complaint is
made of their destructiveness in grain
fields and In seed gardens, and further
south they may in time become more of
a nuisance than a benefit but in all
northern latitudeg no such danger need
be feared. The little songsters would
perish by thousands as far north as
New York or Brooklyn if not provided
with warm bO9es and food during the
winter. Many of them died last winter
in spite of ali precautions and care.
This places the matter on an easily
regulated basis. In the cities the spar
row is an undoubted blessing and there
be may be fed and protected through
the winter. In the country, whenever
farmers and gardeners find him too
troublesome, they have only to with
draw their care and the severity Of
northern winters viii rapidly reduce
their numbers. In England farmers
find these sparrows an intOlerabie
nuisance; but English winters are
never severe enough to check their In
ereage
Year: 1875

To raise fish as a market crop may be


profitable IN some cases near cities, and


where there is no natural supply IN the


vicinity, but, generally, attempts to


make money by Fsh- growing have


proved failures. This Is no reason why


there should not be a fish pond on


every farm to yield and always accessi-


bic supply of wholesome food for the


family, to take the place, In part, of the


inevitable bacon, and save some of the


hard earned cash which now goes to


our distant smoke houses in the west.


On numerous FARMS" the New


York Tines says, "spring brooks and


small streams or rivers, may be utilized


for this purpose. On many others.


springs of pure cold water rise and


flow over the surface, losing themselves
IN a disagreeable. if not injurious


swamp or quagmire, which is trodden


mp by stock, or wallowed in by hogs to
their injury and their owners loss. In
many other farms again, at certain
seasons of the year, temporary water
courses are filed, and pass large ouau-
titles of water to rivers or lakes, into
which it disappears. By simple or
cheaply constructed dams, these tenn
porary streams of water might be re-
strained, and made to yield a permanent
supply of stock water, and afford facili-
ties for the production of an ample
supply of fish. Trout, bass, perch, and
pike, all of which are excellent and
valuable fish, might be raised In ponds
thus prepared, while the homely, but
not unsavory cat fish, the carp, and
other second rate fish, will live and
thrive In such a pond as might not
un nworthily be termed s mud hole"


The beautiful spotted brook trout re-
quires conditions not always attainabIe
pure water, a gravelly or sandy bot
tom, and temperature not over sixty
degrees in summer, but bass, and
perch, will flourish under less favorable
than trout. They will
not object to q muddy bottom, nor to
water whose temperature for part of
the year may rise above sixty degrees,
nor to water without any current passing
through 1t for some time Temporary
streams may be damned for these fish, !
or ponds IN which there Is only spring |
water enough TO supply the evaporation |
will meet their needs. A considerable |
supply of food may be gathered from |
the offal of the farm for these fish, and |
ia short time insects and worms will |
in the pond, which will |
furnish food. The necessary labor and |
skill is so small, and the pleasure and |
profit so great from the culture of fish, |
that it is only necessary to point out |
how it may be readily undertaken to in |
duce many farmers to experiment. It is |
needful to follow natures ways as near
rs possible to insure success, and it is |
not the least part of the profit that a /
ish pond upon a farm will furnish a |
reservoir of stock water IN sea-
sons when water is scarce"
Year: 1875

A new potato disease, which promises
to be more disastrous than the old one,
is announced in the British Journal Of
Horticulture as having made its ap-
pesrance in the garden of the Royal
horticultural society at Chiswick.
Since then the editors have received so
many communications on the subject
as TO show that this disease is 50 widely
spread as to call for the greatest vigi-
lance on the part OF cultivators TO pre-
vent it becoming general II appears
as yet to be confined to the new varie-
ties which have within the past few
years been introduced form America,
but there is reasons to fear that it viii
not be confined to them. The disease,
which is a fungus, affects the haulm
when It is about six inches high /: the
leaves become curled and growth
ceases, the tubers never exceeding the
size of large peas. It viii be observed,
therefore, tina while With the old dis
ease there was the chance of st least q
partial crop, with this one there is nc
chance of any. AS the nation If
threatened with such a scOurge as this
promises to be, the editor hopes hel
majesty's government will take the
matter up and adopt the necessary
measures TO stamp it out whilS
there is yet time.
Year: 1875

A number of prominent medical men
In England are conducting a spirited
crusade against the present method of
tucking our dead bodie under the
daisies, recommending that wicker
baskets be substituted for the splendid
metallic and air-tight affairs with which
corpses are now epveloped preparatory
to interment. While ig is the aim OF
our sciehsifc undertakers TO SO perfect
their eaEkets that the remains enclosed
will preserve their life likeness as long
| as possible, thsse medical folks across
the waters are endeavoring to pop
ularize the use of wicker coffins, IN
order that the dissolution of the body
and it's resolution into mother earth
viii be allowed to proceed in the natural
order of things without hindrRnce. The
movement seems to be a sort of COM
promise between the costly process of
inhUmation now in vogue and the more
repugnant, though cheaper, cremation.
Dust thou art, dust retGrnest," seems
to be the text of the advocates of the
new movement, and they are in favor
of making practical application of it.
DR.. Seymour Haden has opened an
exhibition of the wicker basket with
open me5hes, which he recommends for
burial, at the duke of Sutherland's
house, and fashionable society has
focked to it as one of the sights of the
season. When fashion commends q
new idea in anything, no matter if it is
a coffin, of course the success of the
thing is pretty well assured. But it is
doubtful if the project will really
succeed. There is entirely too much
earnest sentiment in the world regarding
the preservation of the form and facial
ineaments of deceased friends to allow
the proposed innovation to gain pop
ularity. On the contray, the world
would rather know the secret of the old
Egyptian process of mummy-makinR,
and learn thereby to preserve through
sill time the physical semblance of the
departed, even though a mummy, after
it gets to be ten or twenty centuries
old, is one of the most hideOus things
imaginable. In an agricultural point
of view, however, the wicker basket
Id is not bad one.
Year: 1875

pound it in a mortar, and then roast the
powder on a moderately heated iron
plate, until it assume dark brown tint,
when it is fit for usa. Then sprinkle it
In sinks or cesspools, or lay it on
plate In the room which you wish to
have purified.
Year: 1875

Varied as will be its application for
scientific and industrial uses, its utility
for domestic purposes will be consider
able. It will be a boon to the careful
housewife; besides its utility for all
articles OF common household crockery,
china, hot water, and washing appara-
tus, M. de la Bastie's invention will in
future relieve her mind of all anxiety
regarding her most favorite china and
glass, for, if &c tempered" by this pro-
cess, they will be proof against the
carelessness of the most careless ser
wants. To give an illustration.
Amongst several articles which we in


spected and tried one, which appeared
to us to be a common china plate,
turned out to be of the tempered glass
enamelled on the top. It was thrown
on the floor, gave forth a bell-like
sound, but did not break. In fact, it
nay be thrown about anyhow without
breaking. A square piece of glass
abOut one-eighth of an inch IN thick
ness was put into a wooden frame, rest
ing only with its sides on the latter, and
we were surprised to find that it sus-
tanned the weight of an adult man.
Chimney-glasses and globes will fly
directly If the gas Is turned on too sud
denly on lighting up tempered glass
will stand any sudden changes. 1t is
even stated that pipes made o. this
glass will Withstand the greatest press
ure, and that it would be worth while
trying it for water-pipes. If 1t were
once established to be proof against
frost what discomfort would be spared
the householder of London, who looks,
at the breaking up of frost, for the
bursting of his water-pipes and its con-
comitant misery, as regularly as to
the non appearance of watering carts
when an east or north wind is binding
him with dust. We should not omit to
mention that there is a great probability
of the efficiency and durability OF the
new glass being put to q severe test.
We are informed that there Is some
prospect of its being used for the large
tanks of the new Westminster aquarium,
now in course of erection. The glass
plates forming the sides of the tanks
are, of necessity, of such an enormous
| thickness, to insure safety, which is not
always obtainable, as to make their con


struction very expensive. Glass tenn
pered by NJ. de la Bastie's process, it is
| stated, need only be of q quarter the
| thickness of ordinary plate glass used
/ for that purpose, and even shen resist
any possible amount of lateral pressure.


If you are we'll, let yourself alone.
| One Of the great errors of the age is, we
medieate the body too much. More


persons are destroyed by eating too


much. Giuttony kills more than drunk


enness in civilized society. The best
gymnasium is a wood yard, clearing,
or a corn deld. A hearty laugh is known,


the world over, to be health promoter;
/ IL eleyates the spirit. enlivens the circu-


lation, and is marvelously contagious II


q good sense. Bodily activity and


bodily health are inseparable. If the


bowels are lose, lie down in bed, remain


there and eat nothing until yOu are we'll


The three best medicines IN the world
are warmth, abstinence and repose.
Year: 1875

a WRITER in Blackwood's Magazine
ooncIusively calculates that if the pub
dc debt of the civilized world goes on
increasing at ITS present rate, in a quar-
ter of century the entire revenues of
all the nations will be insufficient TO
pay the interest thereon.
Year: 1875

COFFEE AS A DIsIEFEcTANT.-Ex


ments have shown that coffee is power
ful disinfectant. We have seen It
stated that a room in which meat in an
advanced state of decomposition has
been kept for some time, was instantly
deprived of all smell on an open coffee
roaster being carried through it, con-
tanning pound of Office newly roasted.


In another room, exposed to the efhu-
vium oecasioued by the clearing ont q
manure pit, so that sulphuretted hydro
gen and ammonia IN great quantities
could be chemically detected, the stencil
was completely removed In half a
minute, on the employment of three
ounces of fresh roasted coffee, while
the other parts of the house were per
manently cleared of the same smell by
being simply traversed with the coffee
rosster although the cleansing of the
pit continued for several hours after.
The best mode of using the coffee as 8
disinfectant is to draw the raw bean
Year: 1875

The postoffice department is much
pleased with the system of demanding
the prepayment of newspaper postage,
and will, at the beginning of the neSt
congress, at once endeaver to secure
the repeal of the law in relation to
postage on transient matter in the
mails. The law regulating the pay
ment of postage, will, however, be re-
tanned. 1t has been found that, al
though the rate has been reduced, tho
department now receives as much as it
did when it had higher rate, but col
lected the postage at the Office of de-
livery, which leads to the melancholy
conclusion that some of the postnas-
ters are not as pure and honest in the
discharge of their duty as they should
be.
Year: 1875

The Bryan Appeal doesn't seem
to know what TO say about Col.
Lang's letter. Is in doubt whether
it is mistake or the very thing.
To help him out we remark: That
a high officer in government has a
dual character, public and private;
what he might do with perfect CON
sistency as private individual, he
could not do at all as an officer, be
cause the dual character ,cW not be
separated by those who judge the
act, although there is no reason
why it should not be perfectly easy
to do. The position is not changed
when we find Col. Lang at the head
of great non-poli,ical force, like
the Patrons of Husbandry.
Year: 1875

of the State in making the decision. Even
if the opinion of the committee should be
that the board erred in it's view of these pro.
visions of the law, it would not undertake
to reverse the decision of the board, but
only to urge their view of the law in aid of
such conclusion as they might come to on
the question of the intention of the board
in its action.


We respectfully submit this question, to
say the least Of it, is not free from diff.
Guilty, and the board is entitled to the bene-
tit of the doubt in behalf Of their decision.
In passing on this question, the committee
will recollect that the decisions of the board
were not in all cases in favor of one party,
nor were their rulings, and we submit that
the rulings of the board against the Repub-
lican counsel, holding they would punt the
vote where the essential forms OF law had
not been complied with, unless fraud or in
timidation had been shown to have been
practiced, was clearly illegal, and if they
had held differently it would have greatly
benefited the Republican side.


Besides, we submit the evidence before the
board would have fully justified it in throw
ing out the entire vote of St. Martin and
Lincoln, where the forms of the twenty
sixth section had been complied with, and
which they refused to do, on the ground
of intimidation, and tho evidence before
the committee fully sustains that view.


The Returning Board can not be justly
charged with partiality, injustice, or cor
rupt motives in their action.


Respectfully submitted,


JOHN RAY,


A. p. FIELD,
Year: 1875

70 OUR DELINQUENT SUBSCRIBERS,
We have been sending the STAR"
to many who are due us now near
ly three years subscription. We
have continued to send you the pas
per regularly, and have waited up
on you with a patience that would
do credit to a Job. We know
times are hard, but theg are as
much so with Us, as with you, and
we have to pay cash for our paper
and other material, and to our prin,
terS. 1t is a mere pittance to each
Of you, but the sum total is of Sc
rious Importance to US.
Year: 1875

We were bonored last week with
a call from Mr.. Walter Smith, OF
the Pa cagoula STAR. We are
pleased to hear from him of the
abatement OF the disease in aud
around Pascagoula. Walter has
met and conquered the monster but
showed plainly the effect OF The
meeting. We wish him a speedy
recovery to perfect health.-lBIIoxi
Mirrors
Year: 1875

The fear of ridicule is one great foe
to manifested religion. We are not
ashamed of being religious not at all
but, then, we can be just as pious
without letting folks know it. If we
are betrayed into laughing at church,
goers we can easily make up for the
sin by some charitable deed. Very
well, but what about the influence ex-
erted?--for every one has influence.
No matter how good we may try to be
in private life, IL we do not stand up
for the cause before the world, our work
is poorly--sadly done.
Year: 1875

General Term Of the Supreme Court binding authority,
trs much IN the courts Of the Superior Court and Common
Pleas Of New York and the Buffalo Court and your HOnors
Court which stand upon the constitutional footing and
have the direct appeal The Supreme Court has by the
Constitution, general jurisdiction Of all Of law and
equity is the general court Of law and equity Of the whole
State; and Sc that which preserves the unity Of the
hv In tts preliminary state; and far has the respect
Tor the decision Of a General Term Of the Supreme
Court been carried by the Legislature, that the
decision Of the General Term OF the Supreme Court
Of the stae-any General Termprotecis all parties acting
and relying upon II although by subsequent appeal the Act
Of the Legislature upon which such proceedings supposed
% be prcdsted should be declared nnsy unconstitutional
Nov, submit 10 your Honor that ii s extremely neon
Venient IL should be held that while this
decision Of the General Term that l have adduced,
binds the Supreme Courts Of this district binds them
Cour Honor's friends and Judicial assocRtes) in all
M Ps proceedings in their Courts less binding upon
Of your Honor sitting Nid Eig In this Court For
then you have the uneem antagonsm Of competition


that the population governed by the same laws governed
BY the judicial fabric in general have preference and
choice between the Supreme Court and your Honors Court at
Ma Eia prevalence of the other rule u Ia"


N the hrst instance for trial
Year: 1875

From the Sherman Register, August al


Saturday morning, Officers Douglas and
Potts received information to the effect
that q party Of cattle thieves were in
camp near Howe, in this county, with q
large number of cattle which they had
stolen from the prairies of Denton county.
Procuring a warrant, they started il pur.
suit, and about twelve o'clock Came up
with a body Of cattle which they AFTER
wards ascertained were portion Of those
stolen, but failed to arrest the thTeves-


1t appears that something over one
hundred head were driven through Howe
on Friday afternoon, but that evening
the cattle stampeded and the thieves bad
to gather them again before they could
secure money on them. They had sold
the cattle to Jim Lindsay. of this city,
and the purchase money was to have
been paid Saturday. One Joe Horner.
well known in this city as q rutsan and
desperado, is represented as being the
leader of this band OF daring robbers.
and he had contracted the cattle 10 Lind-
say for lees than one half their value.


About seventy-fiVe bead OF the cattle
were stolen from Mr.. May, who resides
on Hickory creek, in Denton county. and
up to the present time he has not been
able to recover more than half that num-
Der; the others being scattered in the
timber. The officers claius that they
would have secured Horner and his des-
perado confederates, had not one or two
citizens of that neighborhood notified
them of their approach These men who
assisted Horner and his gang to eyads
the vengence Of the law; are well known.
and at the proper time will be arrested
and punished to- the full extent Of the
law.
Year: 1875

People who are puzzled at the ,echnic-
al phrases used in base ball reports are
Commended to the perusal of the follow
ing definitions:


Field-The COW pasture where the
leather hunting is performed.


Base-SaIt bags scattered around the
grass fot the players to jump on.


Nine-The number of roosters in knee
breeches that constitute base ball deck.
Umpire-The chief BaIler-he balls
out strike" Lis other duty is to sit on
the top Of bat and smell the ball as it
goes by.


Judgment-The umpire's opinion
taking such smell.


One ball-Whst the umpire says when
the smell proves unsatisfactory.


StIike-H miscue by the batter.


Put out-The fellow who tries to get
in without paying fifty cents.


Dead ball-One that comes to life
again after being buried in the hands of
the pitcher.


FOuE-4 BALI which bounds just the
way one is positive it viii not


Fair foul-A little one for cent


Balk-k breach Of promise INDUCED
in by the pitcher.


Stealing baSe-Stuffng bag in the
ear and walking off to the next when the
catcher isn't looking.


Beauty-A ball so bot that The second
baseman lies on his stomach 10 avoid it.


Hot ball-One that singss the short
stops head as it goes by.


Fly-A ball which scorns the earth,
and, like the gentle horse fly, buzzes
around the elevated atmosphere.


Wild throw-Slinging at the third
baseman and killing small boy in the
right field
Year: 1875

A man at Fort street, going home at a
late hour in the night. saw that the occu-
pants of house standing flush with the
street bad left window up, and he de-
cided to warn them and prevent bur
glary. Putting his head iu the window
he called out: "Hellol good peOp-
That was all he said. A whole bucket Of
water strck him in the face, and as be
staggered back q woman shrieked out:
Didn't tell you what you'd get if you
wasn't home by nine o'clock.