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Year: 1875

Each part will contain 26 quarto pages. irclud-
ing the elegant frontispiece ON heavy plate paper


A superb title page. richly illuminated in red
and gold. will be given with. the first part and
the printing Of the entire work will be worthy
REPRESENTATION Of the "The Aldine Press which
is a guarantee Of something beautiful and valua
Year: 1875

pended in the cause. But there isla con-
stantly increasing demand for money and
missionaries; and the very interesting meet
ing last night resulted in handsome collec.
ton for the prosecution of the work during
the coming year.


There was very large number Of persons
in attendance, all of whom seemed to take
great interest in the cause. Bishop Wbitlle
officiated while the collection was being
made. and Bishop Johns pronounced The
blessing
Year: 1875

Taste is the next gift to genius.


Takers are no good doers.


Mems VOWS are women's traitors.


Mercy on him who shows it, is the
rule.


What is the reason now was pass
ION heretofore.


Sweet mercy is true noOilty's true.
badge.


The tongue is the worst part of a
bad servant.


Reason isan historian, bu: the pass
ions are actors.


The only amaranthineer flow on
earth is virtue.


There ere few die we'll that die in
a battle.


The end OF wisdom is consultation
and deliberation.


Life can not subsist in society but
by reciprocal concessions.


Race and temperament gofor much
in influencing opinion.


Men are contented to be laughed at
for their wit, but not for their folly,
Human life is 4 constant want, and
ought to be a constant prayer.


Every inordinate cup is unblessed,
and The ingredient is devil


Drinking water never makes a
marsick nor in debt, nor his wife
widow.


In such a time as this it is not
meet that every nice ofiense should
bear its comment.


The waiting tears stood ready for
command, and now they flow to var
nish. the false tale.


Farley and surrender mean the
same thing where virture is concern
ed.


We DO pray for mercy, and the
same prayer doth teach US all to rem
der the deeds OF mercy.
Year: 1875

The fcotings on the vote in Hamilton
county are, as far as known, as follows:
As stated by US yesterday, the exact
vote in all the precincts is not known
and will not be until the official count is
made. Enough is known, however, to
tell that the Republican ticket is elected
in the county. except Probate Judge.
Commissioner and Infirmary Director;
Year: 1875

August l7th, 1875.
nEAR SIR: We your friends and neigh bors,
~ who have known you intimately in all the
reati ms of life, desire to present you to the
voters of Fauquier county as candidate for the
next House OF Delegates.


We can fully endorse you as an intelligent,
upright and pains-t@king man Of business, with
qualifications which eminently fit you for USE
lulness in that body, and in whom we can entire
ly contite We respectfully urge the use of
Year: 1875

A hog raiser and pork packer in the
State of Iowa gives the following
statement as his experience in the
business:


''He has demonstrated to his entire
satisfaction, that after his spring pigs
had reached about three hundred
pounds they ceased to tirow with any
profit. His pigs on the first of January
weighed nearl y as much as they did
on the first of February, notwithstaud.
ing he had kept up the feeding. He ia
great advocate of taking good care
of hogs. He would never shut up his
hogs more than five weeks before he
wants to market them. His food early
in the fall was pumpkins, steamed
and mixed with middlings, the proper
tion being about one half bushel Of
middlings to forty gallons of steamed
pumpkins. His object was to develop
the bone and muscle of the hog with
out adding fat. This he continued
three months and then put them in a
close pen and fed them meal aad
middlings steamed. After shutting
them up for five weeks they gained
two pounds day until they reached
three hundred pounds and then ceased
to grow to any extent"
Year: 1875

THIRD TERM.-It is curious to see
how widely journals differ in regard
to that passage in the Presidents mes
sage wherein he says this will be tine
last annual message / shall have the
honor to send to Congress befose my
successor is chosen." The Philadel-
phia Ledger says that with these
words General Grant puts the final
extipguisher on the third term" On
the other hand the New York Tribune
saws of the passage that cit is no with
drawal. 1t leaves him there a candidate;
as much a candidate as before the
conventions had spoken; as much as
before his letter of withdrawal, in
which he declined denomination.
unless it should come under such
circumstances as to make it an
imperative duty candidate who has
never so much as 'murmured win
never consent,
Year: 1875

would amount to a considerable sum
in the course of year and we wonder
that the Council does not take meas
ures for enforcing the law which pro-
vides for letting the care of the city
money to the respons ible party Of
fering the highest rate of interest for
its use. We are given to understand
that bids as high as one per cent. per
month would be offered for the citv
funds and security given which pre-
cludes the possibility Of loss At this
rate $4,000 would earn the tax.pay-
ers $500 per month or $4,000 per an
num-no small sum and certainly
worth looking after and saving. We
do not advocate parsimoniousne IS but
at this time of all others careful econ
omy should be practised by the city
authorities. All unnecessary leaks
should be stopped and when dollar
can be saved for the city it should be
done at once. The burden of the tax
payers is quite heavy and he who does
anything to Tighten the load Is pub
lie benefactOr.
Year: 1875

To those who can divest themselves
of prejudice or partiality, and really
have the interest of Southern Califor-
mia at heart, the energy displayed by
the Western Development Company
in pushing forward the Southern Pa
cific railroad is cheering and encour-
aging. While Tom SCOTT is lobby
ing with Senators and Congressman
for an appropriation more than equal
to twice the cost of building the Texas
Pacific road, and while his newspapers
and subsidized canvassers are laboring
with might and main for the attain
ment of the same end, the Southern
Pacific is stretching Eastward stead
Year: 1875

1t is stated in our kilograms that
the President will in his message to
Congress suggest the propriety of rec
ognizing the Republic of Cuba as a
belligerent and many journals are in
dulging in patriotic expressions under
a missapprehension Of the meaning of
the terms employed. Our interpreta-
tion is that simple recognition Of
state of war is proposed. This inter-
national fiat when sent forth by a
number of great powers is intended to
have a moral influence in lessening
the horrors of war. A district in re-
belliOn is not entitled to the benefits
of the laws of nations. The prisoners
may be dealt with as the victor may
deem proper, and the penalty of death
is usually attached to treason. When
rebellion has assumed formidable
proportions the nations of the earth
by a formal recognition Of the insur-
gents as beligerents are supposed to
suggest to the contestants the propri-
ETY. of conducting hostilities accord
ing to the code of civilized warfare.
Only moral infiuenceis brought to
bear. The Spanish nation wages war
to the knife, and has never yet accord
ed to its rebellious provinces what are
denominated the hospitalities of war,
nor have its revolutionary subjects
sought to mitigate the horrors of
contest. The armies of Spain carry
the black flag when fighting Spanish
subjects, and on the other hand the
colonists butcher their prisoners with
savage gusto. The moral influence
then of simple recognition of bellig-
erency in this case is very question
able. The next step, the recognition
of the independence of the Cubans,
might be of benefit to the insurgents
if the United States were prepared to
enforce the decree by annexation. In
the present depressed condition of this
country, and without navy that
could resist even the weak power of
Spain, popular opinion would scarce
ly justify any movement likely to
involve the United States in strug-
gle. 1t looks now as if we were COM
PEELED to let the insurgents win their
freedom by their own valor, and when
they are free if they desire annexation
embrace the Gem of the Antilles as a
member of the Union of States under
the American flag.
Year: 1875

lily and without the slightest indica-
tion of faltering by the wayside. AL
most year ago the HERALD took the
ground that the cooperation of the
Southern Pacific and the Texas Pa
ciflc railroad companies the first
building Eastward and the other
Westward until the two tracks met
and formed junction in the middle
of the continent-was the surest and
speediest plan for securing q Southern
transcontinental railroad. To this end
we advocated division of the ma
tional aid, giving to each company so
much for every mile of road built.
The henchmen of SCOTT objected.
They demanded monopoly of the
subsidy and of the route for the Texas
Pacific company. They would have
all or nothing. On this basis they
went into Congress, made their fight
and secured nothing. One year has
rolled by. The SCOTT party are still
lobbying for subsidy. Phey have not
graded foot, laid rail, nor even put
in an appearance on the Pacific coast.
Meantime the Southern Pacific COM
pany have gone steadily forward.
They have built nearly one hundred
miles of track Eastward from this city,
and before Tom SCOTT obtains his ex-
elusive subsidy the whistle of the
Southern Pacific locomotive will be
heard on the Texan frontier. Yet
there are people and newspapers in
Southern California that never tire of
denouncing the Southern Pacific CON-
pany and of lauding Tom SCOTT and
the Texas Pacific.
Year: 1875

At this time the amount which the
city would realize from the interest
on her funds would outreach q large
sum even if loaned at the highest fig
ures. II the statement of those hold
ing script may be realized on a safe
ten feet square would hold all the
gold now in the city Treasury. But
this is not the normal condition of
that institution. There are, we are
informed generally from S50.0Oo to
to $4,000 city funds on hand. The
interest on the lowest of these figures
Year: 1875

THE members of the firm of Dun
CAN, SHERMAN & Co. are likely to
have much trouble ahead. Several of
the creditors of the house are deter
mined to ascertain whether banker
who knows he is insolvent, but yet
retains the confidence of the public,
can take the money of depositors or
sell bills Of exchange without COM
mitting fragrant fraud. 1t is about
time that wealthy bankers should be
stopped from obtaining money under
pretenses which would be considered
criminal in the case of an ordinary
individual. and send poor youth to
the State prison.
Year: 1875

The "rag baby" not only got its fos-
ter father into great trouble, but has
seriously damaged every one of the
politicians that even handled it. They
are about to repudiate THURMAN now
as a presidential aspirant because he
did not at once mash the brat to atoms
instead of dawdling it about with an
approving smile.
Year: 1875

SOME twenty-three years ago ship
was sunk on Lake Erie with a cargo
Of 100 barrels of whisky on board.
The locality of the wrck has just been
discovered and the cargo will be re-
covered. Eleven hundred barrels OF
whisky twenty-three years old: This
whisky will sell for fabulous prices
and at least forty thousand barrels will
be sold as part of that cargo.
Year: 1875

OUR farmers will be interested in
the following comparison of the value
of domestic produce on the Pacific
coast and at the Atlantic seaboard.
the figures being taken from the latest
papers at hand:
Year: 1875

SoLEDAD, CAL, October 23d. The
Coast Line Stage was stopped in the
gulch below Last Chance Station last
night and a man in a disguised voice
demanded the treasure box. 1t was
thrown to him. Ex-Sheriff Poole had
been on the stage and had got out q
short time before, and at this time was
walking short distance behind, and
when the robber was leaving with the
box he told him to halt. He made no
reply but shot at Poole with pistol,
the ball passing close to the Sheriff's 8
head. The Sheriff returned the fire
with a double -barreled shotgun, and
the robber made his escape, dropping
the box. They then put the box on
the stage and proceeded and met an
other man in a mask about a mile
further on and the Sheriff shot at him.
He returned the fire three times, and
then escaped. The night was dark
and pursuit was useless.
Year: 1875

II might DO one deed of good,


One little deed before die,
Or think one noble uAought, that should
Hereafter not forgotten lie,
would not murmur, though must
Be lost in deaths unnumbered dust.
The hlmy wings that watt the seed


Upon the careless wind TO earth,
OF It's short life has only NEED


To find the gem fit place for BIRTH;
For one swift moment Of delight


II whirls, then withers out of sight.
Year: 1875

A sTICTLY PRIVATE FAMILY, HAVING A LARGE,
n comfortably furnished house would let Basement, Par
lors and four Rooms third floor responsible party
neighborhood good, Elevated road; reference Ad
dress for three days NJ t. box 1Sf Herald Uptown Office
Year: 1875

The FAILURE AT ST. JoHN.-The Boston
Journal says that a private letter from st.
John states that the greatest sympathy is felt
for Mr.. E. d. Jewett, whose failure has been
recently announced. He is one of the mos
enterprising as well as one of the most honora-
BILE and upright business men in the Dominion,
and his failure is due to the fact that his busi-
ness enterprises, covering so wide range, had
been crippled by the general dullness of bust
ness, and the reverses which had come in its
train. The feeling among his creditors and
the leading business men Of st. John is very
strongly in favor OF giving him the control Of
his property, as it is believed he can manage it
better and realize more from it than any one
else can. Six large lumber mills have stopped
in consequence of tne failure, and 500 man are
thrown out of employment.
Year: 1875

THE majesty of the law was "vindicated"
seven times Friday, seven men being hung
by the neck until they were dead. Accord
ing to the reasoning of the capital punish
ment men the effect of these executions will
be eminently salutary, and we shall hear OF
no more murders for long time to come.
The future will show how correct this reas-
Onino is
Year: 1875

TREASURER New has gone to work. His
first duty is to count all the funds and secur-
tiles han1ed over to-him by General Spinner.
He enters his Office under favorable circum-
stances, and if he does as well as his prede-
cessor the people will be contents
Year: 1875

Tho lives Insured by the Society are carefully
selected in different parts of North America and
Europe, furnishing, by this broad field of opera
tions, an additional and exceptional safety to the
Policy-holders The lnsurances are made only on
the Mutual Principle. The Surplus Premiums are
returned annually to The Insured.
Year: 1875

D1SNER-TABLE SQUABBLEs.-..Perhaps
nothing is more prejudicial to the proper as
similation of food than disputation. The
mind becomes irritated, and instantaneously
the stomach sympathizes. A dinner-table is
the worst possible place for an argument
which may easily become heated and acrimo-
NOUS Nor should it be place where chill:
dren are constantly reproved, or their bad
conduct suffered to destroy the comfort of the
meal. Discipline in the household is highly
necessary, but the wise mother will not make
it prominent feature at the table. Good
news, happy thoughts, innocent mirth and
cheerful sayings are the most eficacious rel
ishes, and should be used freely. An uncom-
forta bic meal, whatever may be the cause, is
almost certain to produce indigestion. And
though such small matters may be thought by
many, unimportant they 60 very far toward
the establishment of good health, and even
the most robust cannot neglect them with i'm
punity.
Year: 1875

The unexampled contest in the


House OF Representatives, beginning
on Wednesday, in an effort of the Re


publicans to take up and pass the
civil rights bill, and only ending at 10
a. M, Friday, demonstrated to the
country what was apparent to the


initiated before: that, under the rules


of the House which have prevailed


for many years, no bill can be passed


or other business transacted if a small


minority of the members are deter


mined TO resist it with dilatory mo-


tions. One fifth oi the members


standing together fully resolved, have


it in their power to block the wheels


of the government The battle was


fought out by General Butler as the


leader, sustained by the grange mem


bers. mainly in the South and West.


When it was thus made apparent that


nothing could be done against the un-


scrupulous Democratic minority, the
determination was reached to change


the rules-one of the few things a ma
jority still can do-so that henceforth
filibustering shall cease, and the ma
jority have the power which properly
belongs to them under our form of
government. They will hereafter pass
such laws as they deem best, and take
the responsibility of their acts. The
change is likely to be a permanent one,
and so mark new epoch in the his
tory of our national legislation. If


any Congress passes hard or unjust
laws, the country will have to see that
a better set OF men are sent in their
! places. It is a little singular that the
| old time Republican leaders of the


Housewife generally do the talking
aside from General Butler. were not
! IN this fight. They gave it little at
, tention-deeming it mere side-show
or by -play-and seemed altogether in
clined to yield to Independent press
clamor and Democratic domination.


But the House, thanks to the younger
and more courageous members, burst
| through these leading-strings, and
! fought the issue out until the conclu-
sion is forced upon the country that
it is futile longer to allow a mere


minority to obstruct all progress in


legislation. Our friends who made


this fight are entitled to the highest
praise. Let them now 60 on fearless


ly to pass such just and good laws as
the welfare of the country demands.


And, as it is not good rule that will


not work both ways, let the Democ-


racy have the same opportunity when


they come into power. The more


rope they have the quicker will they


hang themselves-for if the House of


the Forty fourth Congress is not a
conspicuous failure and fraud from
/, the very start, then signs and portents


have ceased to be of any account or
signifcance.-Inte Ocean.
Year: 1875

Flowers, of all created things, are
the most superbly complex playthings
for childhood; ornaments for the
grave, and companions for the cold
corpsel Flowers, beloved by the
wondering idiot, and studied by the
deep thinking man of science! Flow
ers, that increasingly expand to heaven
their grateful and to man their cheer
full looks-partners of human joy
soothers of human sorrow; fit embl1nis
of the victor's triumphs. of the young
brides bushes; welcome to the crowd
ed halls, and graceful upon solitary
graves! Flowers are in the volume of
nature what the expression God is
love" is in the volume of revelation.
What desolate place would be a
world without flowerl 1t would be
as face without a smile-a feast with.
out welcome. Are not flowers the
stars of earth? One cannot look close
ly at the structure of flower without
loving it. They are the emblems and
manifestations Of Gods love to the
creation, and they arc the means and
ninistrations of mans love to his fell
low creatures; for they first awaken
in his mind sense of the beautiful
and good. The very inutility of dow-
ers is their excellence and beauty, for
they lead us to thoughts of generosity
and moral beauty detached from and
superior to all sel6shness; so that they
are pretty lessons in natures book of
instruction, teaching man that he liv-
eth not by bread alone. but hath an
other than animal life
Year: 1875

Many of our citizens have taken ad-
vantage of the cold weather TO trans
plant large naples from the forest to
the sidewalks in front of their resi-
dences. When the ground is frozen
solidly. by exercising care trees of
large size may be transplanted and
made to live. and thus, at a cost of
from ten to fifteen dollars, a tree may
be secured that it would require
twenty years to grow. In winter
transplanting care should be taken to
select trees from some open pasture
rather than from a dense forest, as
trees that have grown in exposed To-
cations are less lia BILE to be injured by
the hot summer sun. Most of the
trees now being transplanted will die
next summer, if not protected.
Colonel John G. New spent much
money in trees last winter, and lOst the
most of them durin the summer, from
neglect. "A board driven into the
gronud on the southwest side of the
tree, and protecting the trunk from
the fierce rays of the afternoon sun,
will answer the purpose. In trans
planting. though the frozen earth is
removed with the tree, the cutting OF
tue IOots necessarily entdilS OcHcIcuI
circulation OF sap for the first season,
and the southwest sun blisters the
tree on that side, and eventually kills
it. The safest protection, however, is
to make rope of hay or straw and
wind it closely around the trunk up
to the branches. By doing this, and
watering when needed. every tree re-
moved with ordinary care may be
saved,


Indianapolis is famous for its shade
trees, and we are glad to see so many
of our citizens planting more of them.
All who plant this winter will please
remember the advice of the Herald


when the critical time comes.-Ind.
Herald.
Year: 1875

We give below couple of school
boys compositions, said to be just as
written by the boys presenting them.
Here is the first one


JoHNNY's ESSAY ON THE ToDE.''


Todes is like frogs, but more digni-
frogs is wetter. The warts wich todes
is noted for can't be cured, for they is
cronick, but if couldent git wei Ide
stay in the house. My grandfather
knew tode wich some body had
tanned till it was folks. When its
master WISHED it would come for flies.
They cetches 'em with their tung,
wich is some like red werm, but
more like litenin. only litenin haint
got no gum onto it. The fiji will be
standin rubin its hipe legs to gether
and a thinkin wat a fine fl i it is, and
the tode settin some distance away
like it was sleep. Vile you are see-
in the fiji as plane as you ever see any
thing, all to once it amt there. Then
the tode he looks up at you sollem,
out of his eyes, like he said watts be-
come of that fiji? but you kno he ct it.


And this is the other:


WHY DO GO TO SCHOOL


60 to school to learn to read and
rite and sipher and SO forth to slide
on the ice and trade of an old nife il
l have one, In summer to pick wild
flowers and strawberries and to get
out of work hot days, some boys has
to 60 to school and get out of their
mothers road, but / would rather
stay in winter than go to miles and
set by cold stove and freze my tose.
| like to go to school to see the teach
er scold the big girls when they cut
up. some goes to school to fool but l
60 TO study when we are old we cant
60 to school and then we will feel
sorry that we fooled when we was
young and went to school. / don't
get no time to tool any way for l have
enough to do when it comes. to my
geography.-Detroit Commercial Ad-
vertlser.


The Milwaukee News gives its read
ers this bit of reasonable advice:
Getting up in cold room to make a
fire is like getting up in life. II ysu
crawl timidly out of bed, go on tip-toe
to the stove, and allow the shivers to
get control of you before the klndling
starts, your fire will be failure, and
you will probably. half freeze to death
in the operation. But if you jump
out bravely, hustle around, pull on
your clothes, knock over chair or
two, and pitch in the stove wood. you
will probably be too warm by tie time
the fire gets to burning, and you will
have to open a window. So in life.
Attack it timidly and you will fail.
Grapple with it, hurry up things, stir
around. conquer fortune and you will
be success"