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Year: 1875

We have, recently; been SO bored
in by the prosy promulgat;ohs Of po-
litical platform prOcreators, that We
have just pursued with most invigor-
atiug effect the statesman-like views
of Senator Thurman, of Ohio. on the
subject of platforms in general. In his
late great speech at Mansfield, in the
Buckeye State, the distinguished gen.
tlemau correctly remarked that " no
platform ever was adopted by any
party convention that, in every partic'
ular, received the approval of every
member of The party. There is al
ways something inserted or something
left out that causes criticism. Indeed,
the business of platform making has
attained immense, and some persons
think unreasonable, proportions in this
generation. The time was when 1t
was sufficient to know that a man
was a federalist or a democrat to
know what were his political opinions.
Then it was not deemed necessary for
either party to solemnly promulgate
creed every year much less TO resolve
upon every minutia of public concern.
Then platform making, as a means OF
success, not of the party, but an the
party, had not been invented, much
less become a fine art. But now We
have nearly or quite hundred State
platforms constructed every year, and
how many minor platforms arithmetic
is scarcely sufficient to tell. And
these multitudinous deliverances are,
as might well be expected, as various
and changeable as the seasons them
selves. In some one or more OF them
any year may be found reflected every
opinion, however crude, and dog
matte Judgment upon every measure,
however minute. The next year re-
peats the process with the added ele,
ment of gross inconsistency with the
work of the preceding years; SO that
if man were to pin his faith implicit.
ly TO platforms, the changes of the
Kaleidoscope would scarcely be more
various or fantastic :han his. The
consequence is that the people have
to a great extent, lost faith in plat
forms. A vast majority do not read
them at all, and of those who do read
them d large majority care little OF
nothing for them. Other people see
ing how often they are shamelessly
violated, when power has been at.
tanned, come to regard them as the
tricks and shams of party managers
and thoroughly detest them. The re
suit of this is, that a man strongly at
tached to his party for reasons suffi
cient unto him would make himself
ridiculous, and lose self respect, and
the respect of his fellow men, were he
to change his political coat every time
that his party happened to make a
biunder in a platform"
Year: 1875

CROP REroRTs.-The crop reports
received at the agricultural department
show that the condition of the corn
crop is about ninety six per cent. aver
age, The average condition of wheat
for the whole country is ninety-two.
y large yield Of oats is promised.
Barley is nearly an average. Pota-
toes are doing well and there will be
= large crop. The condition of the
tobacco crop is reported throughout
the country about twenty per cent,
above the average, being most salts
factory in the Western tobacco States.
Reports from Kentucky show the crop
10 be thirty-four per cent, above the
average. The tobacco crop in Viz
ginIa IS twenty per cent. below. The
wool clip shows a considerable in.
crease, especially in the South and
West and on the Pacific coast.
Year: 1875

PUGET SoUNO Papers received at
this Office are about as dull reading as
last years almanac. With the terrific
rial capital in that section, and feed
inc on a clam diet, the editors ought
TO do better.
Year: 1875

The struggle betweed capital and
labor seems an everlasting one in the
old country. The New Haven Union
tells us that there are now twenty
thousand operatives lying idle in the
Oldham mill district, in England,
eighteen additional mills having closed
recently. This is a strike of employ
ers against their workmen. The mill
owners of the district, who control
one hundred and twenty establish
ments, some time since formed an
" EMPLOYERS Union" According TO
the rules, if any one mill gets into
difficulty with its operatives, and the
latter strike, all the other mills are to
be closed so that no aid can be extern
ded to the strikers by the operatives
of other ablishments.


In this Oldham strike the stability
of this powerful combination of cap
italists is to be tested, and few doubt
the result. The striking operatives
of course will have TO yield. In view
of the fact that the employers are COM
bining in Great Britain in this way
the coal and iron masters having a
union similar to the mill owners-the
working classes of Great Britain,
| France, and Germany are about TO
organize an international ASSOCIATION
for mutual protection. Thus when a
general strike of one class of employ
ers is waged against the operatives as
in this affair the working people of ali
other caliiDgs in the three countries
will contribute a small sum pro rata
each week for the support of their
brethren.


! Probably if this scheme is success.
full the employers will form an inter.
national union, and thus a terrible
struggle will ensue. II is hardly
probable, however, that all the EN-.
ployers in the three countries could be
induced to suspend operations at the
same time. The loss to capital would
be enormous and serious consequences
might ensue. Some of the working
mems leaders contend that strike
like this at Oldham is a real benefit to
the operatives, arguing that even il
the men are forced to surrender after
a few months struggle, the demand
for the products will be greater than
the supply and the operatives by
working a couple of weeks and then
striking simultaneously again, and SC
on until the employers are wearied
could force wages up to high figure


This spirit shows a great determin
alton, but it is really sad to contem
plate the condition of affairs in the
old country. We think the clashing
Of interests here is alarming, but the
contest on the other side between cap
ital and labor is threatening, because
the laboring classes are without thu
ballot, which is a safety valve here


One thing is likely to follow the pres
ent contest IN Europe, and that is NOR,
equitable laws, and a better under
standing OF the labor question by mel
who exert an influence in society.
Year: 1875

WARLIKE.-The Haytien navy is 10
be doubled within the next two weeks;
but when it is understood that the Ell
tire naval armament of the Franco
African republic of Hayti has hitherto
consisted of but two rather weak yes
sells of war, this announcement does
not necessarily look like immediate
in the neighborhoOd.
Year: 1875

When the rImOr had spread wide that the Bank of
California hac suspended, there was naturally run
on the other tanks That upon the National Gold
Bank and Tust Company is elsewhere spoken of
There was t,ifiDg abatement III the confidence re-
posed IN the London and San Francisco Bank
Towards three O'Clock about twenty or thirty per-
sons ranged IN front of the counter bent upon
WithiT1wIng their deposits and no disposition was
manifested 20 restrain them As matter of fact
the bank WAS kept open beyond hOurs. Mr. latham
was found by CrH reporter IN his parlor, and he
spoke quietly Gf the crisis If 1t did not concern
him. know nothing about the affairs OF the bank
below, he remarked 1t is enough for ne to rad
die my own canoe They have put up their shutters
but do not know any cause for their failure The
news came upon ne like clap OF thunder This
institution Is all Iafe-you may cepend upon that
1 am ready to pay all who come, and they may come
ss fast they like


Meeting NJ. fnedlander on the street, a reporter
asked HIM what the trouble. He was not at all
Hurried 10y the QUESTION, and in an assuring tone
said that the bank had merely closed its doors 10
prevent cr0wdinP, and wac paying on checks pre-
sented.


HiekoN, the banker it is said after the doors had
closed, obtained payment nf 4 large sum on checks
and some $50 0G0 $4,000 across the street
10 the assistance of the National Gold Bank and
Trust Company In portering the money-bass borne
away from the bank not a few men displayed her
moth f-Ttlv FIJI
Year: 1875

In oonsequeLce of the panic and the impOssibility
of obtaining coin, the National Gold Bank and Trust
Company WI close until further notice. The Bank
has thirteen hundred thousand dollars over and
above all its liabilities and soon coin be OBJ
tanned will rsume business usual. In the mean
time any crsditor desiring have good assets Of
the Bank te the amount OF his claim.


BY order of the Board of Directors.


HENRY L. DAVIS, President.
Year: 1875

The excitement Throughout the city became so
great during the afternoon and evening that several
companies Of the First Regiment and the entire Third
Reg iment were placed under arms and held IN read
iness 10 check any outbreak which migbt But
as the time wore on toward midnight the crowd on
California street quietly dispersed and peace rened
supreme over panic stricken city
Year: 1875

We find the following under this head
in the WonaGn'S Journal of September
4th, relative to the legal incapacity of
women in Massachusetts,


1t 1.-THE legal incapacity1 is strikingly
apparent in case of the death of either
husband or wife. If the wife die, leav-
ing no will, the husband has the whole
of her personal property, and, if they
have had a living child, her real estate
during his life. If she die intestate,
leaving no kindred, he takes her real es-
tate in fee. By will, as before stated,
she may deprive her husband of one
half of her personal property.


If the husband die without will, but
leaving issue, the wife is entitled to one
third of his personal property abso-
lutely, and her dover, which is a life
interest in one-third of all the real es-
tate of which he had been seized during
the coveture. Whether he leaves will
or not, she is always entitled to such all
allowance from his estate as the Probate
Court, having regard to all the circum-
stances of the case, may allow as neces-
saries for herself and the family under
her care, besides the use of his house
and furniture, and sufficient provisions
and other articles for the reasonable sus-
tenance of his family for forty days.
This provision for widows, where the
estate of the deceased is small or insolv-
ent, as is generally the case, is often
very important.


Thus it appears that wife, with a
group of children around her, suddenly
widowed, may find that the law will
only allow her food and shelter forty
days. After that time she must pay
rent for the house which perhaps she
has worked hard to build. The house
where her husband died, and where her
children were born, which is hallowed
to her by all those associations of love
and of loss, the law, which she has no
voice in making, will now sell over her
head to tsettle the estate" and, after
forty days, the woman is not only q
widow, but houseless, or if she remain
she must pay rent.


No widower is ever treated this way
by the law. The wife may die, but the
home and the property remain un-
touched by the law, for the very suffi-
cient reason that as men are law-mak-
ers they take care of themselves. A
widow needs the house and property
more than it is possible for a man tO
need it, because his opportunity to ac-
quire shelter and the means of living are
much greater than hers. Na2


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Year: 1875

DON'T WORRY ABOUT YOURSELF.-To
retain or recover health, persons should
be relieved from anxiety concerning dis
ease. The mind has power over the
body. For person to think he has q
disease, will often produce that disease.
This we see effected when the mind is
intensely concentrated upon the disease
of another. 1t is found in hospitals that
physicians and surgeons who make a
speciality of certain diseases, are liable
to die of them themselves, and the men
tai power is so great that sometimes peo-
pie die of the diseases which they have
only in Imagination. We have seen q
person sea-sick in anticipation of vOy-
age, before reaching the vessel. We
have known people to die of cancer in
the stomach, when they had no cancer
or any other mortal disease. A blind
folded man, slightly pricked in the arm
has tainted and died from believing that
he was bleeding to death.


Therefore, we'll persons, to remain
well, should be cheerful and happy; and
sick persons should have their minds di-
rected as much as possible from them
selves. 1t is by their faith that men are
saved, and it is by their faith that they
die. AS man thinketh so is he. If he
wills not to die, he can ofteu live in spite
of disease; and if he has little or no at
tachment to life, he will slip away as
easily as child will fall asleep. Men
live by their minds as well as by their
bodies. Their bodies have no life of
themselvs; they are only receptacles of
life-tenements for their minds, and
the will has much to 90 in continuing
the physical occupancy or giving it up.
Year: 1875

How TO Stop A PAPER.-Do not take
your. paper to the postmaster and tell
him to send it back; in nine cases out of
ten you will fail to stop it in this way.
Do not attempt to stop it yourself, and
write on the wrapper to discontinue;
this is against the law, and lays you
open to fine. Before your subscription
expires send to the editor postal card,
saying your subscription expires on
such date; please discontinue at that
time. Sign your name, also the town
and State where your paper is sent, in
full. If the paper has been sent two
weeks or more over the time for which
it was paid, don't send postal card; it
will do no good; rather write a letter
and inclose what is due for arrearages,
always allowing that one number will
be sent before the letter reaches the
publisher and his list is corrected BY
observing these simple rules your re-
quests will always be promptly at
tended to.-PrinteTs' Circular.
Year: 1875

1t is said that the water supply of Phil
adelphia will not be sufficient to serve
more than half the people who will go
to the Centennial; but a good many of
the other half will be mighty glad of
that excuse.
Year: 1875

vT,AXpAYERS TAKE NOTICE THAT, IN
Il pursuance of acts Cf the Legislature, you
are required to make out "a statement under
oath or affirmation according to the form fur
nished by me. so Jar as the same is applicable
to your case, and deliver the sasle to me or at
my office. within five days from the day de-
mand is made, or the Assessor will estimate
the value of your property and assess the
same accordingly, and no deduction will be
made ty the hoard of Equalization in the as
sessment made by The Assessor; and you are
further notified that in case you have not
Real Estate within the county, Of sufficient
value to secure the taxes, demand will be
mude for immediate payment Of the same,
and II not paid without delay. it will be my
duty to collect the same By distraint and sale
Of property.


Assessors Office, Eureka, New. April %
1879. j. e. POWELL, Assessor,


ap23-tf Eureka county. New.
Year: 1875

The report of the Arkansas investiga-
ting committee, and the subsequent mes
sage of the President, have created con-
siderable excitement here during tn"
past two days among the supporters OF
the present government. There WAS
general rejoicing over the report of the
majority of the committee Among the
Brooks men there was rejoicing over the
message. Business is generally very
much depressed on account of the unset
tied condition of affairs at Washington.
Year: 1875

OF all poor men the most to be
pitied is the poor rich man. The
man in absolute poverty can be
helped; but for the man who is
poor with his Golfers full Of gold
there is no earthly help-none, un-
less something can get down iuto
his heart and open the way for the
incoming of sunlight and warmth.
Such a transformation l once knew
and l will tell you how it was
wrought. 1t was done by only a
little child.


Rufus Grote was really and truly
miser, though he had probably
never acknowledged that fact to
himself. At the age Of sixty he
lived in close, small, shabby
house, in narrow street, though
where the streets were broad he
owned a whole row, the rental of
which yielded what might have
been a muniticent income for any
man.


In early life Rufus Grote had
been disappointed, so while yet a
young man he had shut himself up
within his shell, and through all
the years of his manhood he had
neither asked nor given love or
friendship. He took his usance,
even to the pound of flesh if it was
due him 10y the bond, and he was
as ready to discharge all bonded Oh
legations.


When people who knew Rufus
Grote wished to point to a man
without a heart they pointed to
him. They declared that he loved
no human being, not even himself.
That he did not love himself was
evident to them from the fact that
he gave to himself not a single com
fort of life which he could avoid
giving and at the same time live.


One evening just at dusk a coach
stopped at Rufus Grote's door aud a
lady dressed in black and accom-
panied by a child alighted therefrom
and piled the rusty iron knocker.


The miser answered the summons
and demanded to know the appli-
cant's business.


"Uncle Rufus," said the woman,
81 am Mary Sandford, and this is
my child. Will you give me shell
ter until l can find work 2"


Mary Sandford was the only
daughter of Rufus GrOte's dead sis
ter. He had heard of her hus-
bands death, and he had shudder.
ingly asked himself more than once
if it might not be possible that his
widowed niece would call upon him
for assistance. Aud now the
dreaded blow had fallen, what was
he to do Had he followed the
first impulse he would have turned
the woman and child away with
word but that would have been
inhuman. He was caught in a
trap. He had to open his door
wider, and let them in. And when
Year: 1875

One of Whittier's most charm
ing poems, "School Days." is devO
ted to showing the regret of a brown
eyed New England girl at having
spelled down


tho little boy


Her childish favor singled.
"Fm sorry that spelt tine word,


hate to go above you,


Because"-the brown eyes lower fell


because, you see, love you"
Still memory TO a gray haired man


That sweet child face is showing
Dear girl, the grasses Oh her grave


Have forty years been growing.
He lives to learn in life's hard school


How few who pass above him
Lament the triumph and his loss


Like her-becauee they lover him.
Year: 1875

received a letter from Mrs. May
naM. She will be at home the da,
after to morrow"


"And she wants you to take
charge of her house 7"


"Yes."


"Very well. Wait till she
comes"


Aud the old man held the little
child in his arms until it was time tl
go to bed.


On the following morning Uncle
Rufus told Mary that he wanted hei
to take a ride with him during the
forenoon.
She said she would be at his ser
vice.


And later q fine coach drew ny
before the door, and Uncle Rufus
came in and bade Mary make ready
and to make Flora ready also.
They rode along, and when they
stopped Uncle Rufus handed them
out before a house with great chest
nut-trees growing in the yard and
upon the fOot-way.


And he led them into the house.


And in the broad, handsome par
lor he turned and spoke, holding
Flora by the hand.


"Mary," he said, "this little child
has promised to make her old uncle
happy, and l will not give her up
This house is mine. If you will
come aud help me take care Of it,
will live in it. What say you?"


What could she say?


She saw the new light upon hel
uncle's face ; and, when he took the
child in his arms, and held the sun
ny head close upon his bosom, sht
saw the blessing of the coming
time. She said, with burst o
tears:


"Dear uncle, if Flora and [ Car
make you happy, you may command
us both"


There was great wonder when
Rufus Grote appeared well.dress
ed, smiling, happy man.


And in the mansion beneath the
shade of the great chestnut-trees
were peace and JOY.


An angel, in the shape of Il little
child, had touched a human heart
long buried in cold darkness, and
brought it forth to love and bless
ing.
Year: 1875

The most artless fashion editor y3t
heard from, is tho young person who
closed her remarks, one Guy, by say
ing she didn't know any more them
but was gong to church the next
day, and would learn something.
Year: 1875

Now are the fifty fingers gone


TO play some new play under the sun.-
The child Ii fancy is past and gono.
So let our boding prophecies so


As childish. for do wo hot surely kno
The dear God liollcth our lot below {?
Year: 1875

While George Addy's COW was grazing on the line between the town of Man chester and the city of Paterson, N. J., George Spittel, the Paterson pound keeper, took her to the pound. Addy sued before Justice of the Peace for injuries done to the COW and for deten- tion, but lost the suit. On an appeal it was before the Common Pleas Bench. Counsel for Addy contended that the valuable part of the COW was her hind quarters, and as that was beyond the Paterson city limit, his client was en- titled to O judgment. The court scarcely agreed with counsel, but said thnt the decision of the case might turn upon tho exact length of the COW. Counsel for plaintiff insisted, then, that she should be measured to the end of her tail. The court directed that she should not be measured beyond the haunches, and de- ferred decision until the measurement shall have been made.
Year: 1875

The cold wave that visited the country made special visit to the West. A Mon tana paper gives a record of the ther- mometer during portion of the month. The register for one week showed all the way from thirty to Gfty-six degrees be- low zero, going far below the bottom figures of thermometers generally, and making it necessary to have special ones arranged for the purpose. Ordinary thermometers were frozen up. Numbers of people were frozen to death.
Year: 1875

Salt and water used as gargle for the throat for bronchitis, and snuffed up the nose for catarrh, will, in most cases, eff feet permanent cure. For bronchitis use after each meal and before retiring for catarrh, as often as the nose becomes stopped up or breathing difficult. A small piece of saltpeter placed upon the tongue and allowed to dissolve slowly and run down the throat, will almost i'm mediately relieve bronchitis or sore throat caused by cold.
Year: 1875

Take fine gunpowder, mash it very fine with knife; moisten with water sufficiently to rub on like thin salve; apply to the spot affected, two or three times day, until it heals.

 Take an old penny, or a piece of copper, put it in Q teacup, and pour enough vinegar op it to cover it; let it stand until verdigris appears; rub the verdigris on the ripgworm, and a cure Is certain.
Year: 1875

Thought the increase of taxes was
caused by the reckless extravaganza ofthe
county officials; the Tax Payers League
grew out of this state of affairs; during
the time mentioned the taxes have been
mainly levied by the blacks and paid by
the whites.


To Mr. Conger-A portion of the
difference in the tax receipts shown was
caused by the taxes which were not
levied in 1863.


He was then examined in detail.


The Republican candidates for Alder
men in the August election were all
black but one; he could not read or
write; there was no intimidation of the
blacks on the day Of the election; the ne
proes who marched on the city on Dec. 7th
must have left home the night before in
order to witness the flight of Davenport,
chancery clerk, and Watson, coroner,
when called upon to resign; saw squads
of men pursuing them as far out rs the
National cemetery; saw no arms; the
league wanted Davenport TO resign be-
cause scrip had teen forged and other
rascalty practiced; three indictments had
been filed against him, and he had given
bond for bis appearance few days be-
fore the League called upon him; had
heard when he and Wilson fled they went
into the swamp and got separated that
night, but got together the next day
thought their lives would have been in
danger if they had been caught at that