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Year: 1873

When the first locomotive was pat
ented, driving only one car, if lightly
loaded. it did very we'll but when the
load it drew was heavier than its own
weight, its wheels would not bite, that
is, they would turn rou ID and round
without advancing. Hence a cow-catcher
was needed behind to guard against cat
tie running into it in therear. It seemed
at first impossible to make a less weight
move greater on an up grade; and for
some years no one invented an engine
able to draw three times its own weight.
At the present day, however, locomo-
tives sweep along with trains more pom
derous by fifteen or twenty time than
they are themselves. One means of
gaining this vast increase Of power for
the locomotive, was by dividing the load.
1t was found, that an engine powerless
to stir Eve times its weight of freight
when concentrated in one car, could
readily draw it when distributed IN a
dozen cars loosely shackled together. It
was heavier than each single car and
it had overcome the inertia of each
one a monument before it encoun-
tered the inertia of another. It was
thus more than match for each car
taken singly; and, pulling them sue
cessively, it drew after it train as long
as a comet, and the farther it ran the
more strength It had to run further.
Here was the story of little David over
again. Ordinarily, the STRIPPING 8 weight,
as he told Goliah, was cne hundred and
twenty, but whenever he got mad he
weighed ton. Moreover, the engine
forced the momentum acquired by ev-
cry car It had started, to swell its own
potency in overcoming the resistance Of
all that remained still motionless.
Year: 1873

/ fagmen clad in cloth-of-sold. The train went
three hundred miles the hour, but without
any risk, fer all the passengers were Insured
against accident in 4 company that was will
ing to pay fonr times the price Of what any
neck was worth. The steam-whistle breathci
as sweetly as any church-choir chanting its
opening piece. Nobody asked the conductor
to see is :" timetable" for the only dread
any passenger had was that of coming to the
end Of his journey.


As night came on, the self-aijustng couches
spread themselves on either side patent boot
Jacks rolled up aud took your scots of; un-
seen fingers touched the dama,k covers all
about you, and the porter took your pocket
book to keep till morning, returning it then
with twice what you had in it at HigbtalL-
After while, the train slackous to one hun
dred and seventy-iye miles an hour, and the
conductor in his dream announces that they
arc coming near The terminus More brakes
are dropped, aud they are running but ninety
miles the hour; and some one, looking out Of
the window. SAYS, How slow we 60 ~ " Yes"
says the conductor we are holding up
Now, they have almost stopped, going at emily
seventy miles the hour. The long line Of de-
pot-lamps are flashing along The track. On
the platform Of the station are the lovers who
are waiting for their betrothed, and parents
who have .u down to greet their children
returned will a fortune, and wives who have
not been able u eat or drink since their spouse
went away three weeks before. As the cush-
ioned train flashes into the depot and stops
wcddiug-bels peal, and the gong Of many
banquets sounds, and white arms are flung
about uecks, reckless Of mistake, aud iuuumcr-
able percussious Of affection echo through the
depot, 50 crisp and loud that they wake the
conductor. who thought that the b0isterous
smack was on Lis own cheek, but finds that he
is nothing but bachelor rairoad-man with a
lantern, at midnisht getting ont into a snow
bank


Application: Get an easy position when you
sleep, if you have any choice between angels
and gorgons. At midnight, Selling chair, /
ran iatn the next room, resolving 10 XII, at
the first stroke, the rufian who was murdor-
iug member Of my hoursholl But there
was no rurian The sweet girl had, during
the day, been reading Of ST. Birthoi5mews
massacre, and was now lying on her back
dreaming it all over again. When dreams
find any one lying Hat on the back, they cry
out. " Here is a Eat surface on which to skate
and play ball. and from scalp to toe they
sport themselves The hardest nag in all the
world to fight is the nightmare Many think
that sleep is lost time But the style Of your
work will be nightly affected hy the style Of
your slumber. Sound Asleep IS sister OF
Wide Awake Adam was the only man who
ever lost a rib by mapping too soundIy; but
when be woke up lie found that instead Of the
sweve ribs with which he started, he really
had nigh two dozen. BY thisI prove that
sleep is not subtraction, but addition This
very night may that angel put balm on both
your eyelids five minutes after You touch the
pillow
Year: 1873

u learned q lesson when was a little girl, "
says lady. cone frosty morning was look
ing out Of the window into ny fathers farm
yard, where stood many cows and oxen and
horses waiting to drink The cattle all stood
very still and meek, til one Of the COWS, in at
tempting to turn round, happened to biz her
next ucghbor, whereupou the ueighbor kicked
and hit another. In five minutes the whole
herd were kicking each other with great fury.
My mother laughed and said


"'See what comes Of kicking when you are
hit just so, have seen one cross word seta
whole family by the ears on a frosty morning
Afterwards, if my brothers or myself were a
little irritable, she would say:


Take care my children, remember how
the fight in the barn yard began. Never re-
turn a kick for biz, aad you will save your
selves a great deal Of trouble -Erciange.
Year: 1873

For the relief
and cure OF all
derangemen Is
In the stomach
liver, and bow
els. They are a


mild aperient,
and an excel
lent pu urgitive.
Being purely
vegetable, they
con ia n 10
IN ere u ry or
Year: 1873

A PENNSYLVANIA man came upon a
drove of five deer few days ago while
walking in the woods. He had ham
mer in his hand, which he threw and
knocked one of them down, and then
ran up and captured it alive after a
slight struggle.
Year: 1873

THE foreign demand for American al
cohol continues to increase, and the Com.
missioner Of Internal Revenue can see no
reason why the United States shall not
within comparatively short space Of
time, supply the entire world with alco-
hol. he says instead Of burning and
throwing away the immense quantities OF
grain produced in this country, as has
been and Is being done In some sections


Of the Union, that valuable product will


In future be nearly entirely utilized and
consumed. Alcohol will, he thinks, be-
come one Of our chief articles Of export.
Year: 1873

EE w Los NIETOS, NOV. IL, 1878.


There is perfect dearth Of news;
every person gone to the Fair at Los
Angeles city--Fair did l say? should
have said horse race, for that Is all
that is attracting any attention. If
we had not learned through the HER
AID that there was some fine blooded
sheep, goats, and cattle on exhibition,
We would have naturally supposed
that it was only a horse race, under
the auspices of jockey club, for We
have not as vet heard word from any
spectator about anything except the
races and fast horses. We live in fast
times, a progressive age, where both
Church and State meet on one COM
mon level--the race track. What has
become of our agricultural interests?
Is it all absorbed in the mania for fast
horses? Thoroughbred horses are
much to be desired in any country,
both for the turf, roadsters, and the
farm, but it is not profitable for
whole people to go crazy on the sub
ject of fast horses, and lose sight of
other animals that are of much great
er utility to the masses. People should
strive to improve in agriculture, horti-
culture, viniculture, etc. If we can
excel in those things, it will be some
inducement for immigrants to visit
us, make their homes among us, and
make our barren wastes bloom as
garden; but tell me when and where
did race horses ever make country
prosper or it's people contented and
happy. We believe that if our people
would turn their attention to the inn
prOvement of our cereals, vegetables,
fruits and flowers, we would find it
more to the pecuniary advantage Of our
people, and give us more contentment,
happiness and peace of mind, than ali
the fast horses we could raise in de-
cade. People visiting us with view
of settling here, wish to see some of
the proofs of the richness of our soil,
but what do they find at our Fair?
Nothing in comparison with what
might be exhibited, and what would
be taken there for exhibition, if every
other interest was not absorbed by the
races; and the only remedy that we
can suggest for the growing evil, is to
separate them entirely, the Agricul-
tural Fair at one time, and the races
at another. OBSERVER.
Year: 1873

1t will be q part OF the approaching
centennial ceremonies, rs it is always
of the annual celebration of the 4th of
July, for our people to. congratulate
themselves on their great advance in
enlightenment, and they will cite in
proof Of this their superior liberality
toward those who differ with them in
opinion. Yet nothing, itseems to me,
upon which they pride themselves is
more matter of self-deception. They
do not burn their opponents at the
at the stake, it is true, and they have
no inquisition of physical torture.
They have learned by their ancestors
that the application of the faggot and
the screw is precedent that may be
used against themselves. If they burn
their opponents now that they are in
majority some day their opponents
may be in majority and may burn
them. So they preserve their own
lives by allowing Others to preserve
theirs. But the same spirit Of intol-
erance is in them. They have
changed it's mode of proceeding; that
is oil. Instead of fiery splinters they
fling ISLANDERS and cover their Oppo-
nents with abuse and make life un-
comfortable by impugning their mo-
tives and bringing disrepute upon
their name. All the logic of John
stuart Mill could not preserve him
from the stigma of dreamer. Moth
ing but his learning saved him public
respect and held him up, while his diff
ferances in opinion from the multi
tude pulled him down in the estima-
ton of men, below the common level.
Most of our fellow cOuntrymen, like
men elsewhere, do not want a mans
most advanced thoughts, unless those
thoughts agree with their own precOn-
ceived opinions. They have made up
their minds on the most important
matters deserving their attention, and
their only desire concerning these sub
iects is to be convinced in the opinions
they have formed of them they are
right. Let man become a reflection
of them;, let him be poet or senti-
-mentaliSt, and as an inamniate pool,
IcllcCU NUI1ctl tlHto GIN
expression only the shadow that has
grown up and around him, and his
sayings will be welcomed; but let him
be q Luther, or Gallo, or Harvey,
or Newton, or John Stuart Mill, or
Theodore Parker, or Wendell Phil
lips, or in ever SO humble way let
him dare to differ from those around
him, and in circle widening with the
sphere of his contact will men be in
arms against him.


The inquisition was but the express
sion of an instinct and though the
visible implement of torture is no
more, the soul that moved it, the an
imating influence of the pulley, the
screw and the wheel Is still with us.
The same persons who are shocked at
the illiberality exhibited in the Papal
bill which seeks to deprive man of
(, food and water and clothing and shell
ter, because Of his opinions, are often
guilty of declarations having the same
intent though given in more covert
language.


AS under the influence OF education
and free government, the divisions in
public opinion are multiplied, and the
great forces which now dOmineer over
the lesser are more and more broken,
the same selfshness that has led to
the Abandonment of fire and sword in
Year: 1873

There is now and then person who is
capable OF writing an anonymous letter.
We rejoice, for the credit of the race, that
there are only few of such people. A
man or woman who does 1t is fitted, by
nature and soul, for the lowest condition of
life. A pure thought or noble purpose
never entered that heart, for if it had even
once found foothold there, it would have
left it too broad for such an action. When
ever we hear of thing of the kind, We al
ways feel to pity the shallow mind, or to
depore the moral deformty Of the person
who has been guilty Of it. How a man
can bring himself to the performance Of
such deed surpasses our conception. How
he can so degrade his manhood, or stain the
honor Of his character. to his own conscious.
ness be so cowardly thing, is exceedingly
strange. We turn away our faces to hide
the shame that flushes in crimson on our
checks when we think such an one calls
himself man. We have always heard il
said that it is very cowardly for man to
strike woman but it is princely courage
to do it compared with the baseness of the
man who, under the cover Of false name
or no name, writes letter conveying words
he has not the maniuess to speak or en-.
dorse. Providence Journal.
Year: 1873

Reflect that q sound mind and body are the
most necessary requisites to promote connubiSl
haupness. Indeed, without these the journey
through lite becomes d weary pilgrimage, the
prospect hourly durkcns to the view, the mind
Becomes shadowci with despair, and filled with
the melancholy reflection that tue happiness OF
another is bliyhted with our own.
Year: 1873




THE candidates for county officersnomina-
tion by the Democratic convention are men
upon whom the full strength OF the Democ.
racy win be expended They were unani-
mously selected, and they will be unani-
mously supported. We refer to the ticket
at the head of our columns this morning.
The names represent gentlemen fully capa-
bic of filing the offices to which they have
been nominated, and they win be elected
Just as certain as they are now laid before
the public. Let all determine to work zeal
ously, however. Vel have a foe to eneoun-
ter which we must crush. Let the victory
in Travis county and everywhere else be
complete, and whenlit is recorded, let every
Democrat be able to say that his part has
been done we'll Rally to the standard and
let the colors be carried triumphantly
through the contest. t2@o
Year: 1873

ATTENTION is called to the card of George
B, zimpelman, in which he refers to certain
publications made in the Journal, Of the
nineteenth instant, and brands the writer as
a falsifer These charges the public know
full well are false, and such articles in the
Journal, certainly lead no one to believe in
them. They are made against good and
efficient officer, who it is well known has
the confidence of thepeople of this county,
and who have lately declared so, almost
unanimously. The Journal scribbler may
think it funny to pen such articles, but We
predict that such fun if repeated viii not
be altogether on one side.
Year: 1873

The government at Washington has again
beenIrequested by the North German Con-
Federation, to hereafter desist from sending
natnraIized German citizens to that country
as cOnsuls or diplomatic agents. It is
claimed that this class of officers exert too
great an influence upon the minds Of the
people in favor Of immigrating to the
United States. The subject Of emigration
to this country is absorbing the attention Of
the German government Ills telling won
derfully upon its military organization.
Year: 1873

/ TODAY we publish the announcement OF
Major VIM. NJ. Stone as candidate for tho
office of State Treasurer. Major Stone, at
present a citizen of Grimes county, is well
and most favorably known over the State.
Possessing every character of a gentleman,
and being man Of eminent administrative
capacity, combined with honesty and integ-
rity, the Office would certainly be filed with
ability by him. He has large circle Of
influential friends, who feel that his worth
win make him weighty in the convention.
His record as true Democrat and South
erner are unimpeachable,
Year: 1873

~ . E /. f..
The name of John d. Elliot was pre-
scented to the County Convention as a dele
gate to the State Convention and most en-
phatically rejected. He resides in Precinct
No. 9, and not being able to secure his
Recommendation through any one of his own
precinct, he insinuated himself upon the
delegates from Precinct No 8, in the upper
part of the county, and got one of them to
resign his recommendation in favor Of him
self. When the names of the gentlemen
recommended from that precinct for candi-
dates to the State Convention were pre-
sented to the convention, the motion was
made by Major Walton to reject the name
Of John d. Elliott on the grounds that he
was not trustworthy, and unfit to represent
the Democratic party in any capacity. The
motion was loudly seconded by number
of the delegates, and afterwards carried by
almost the entire vote of the convention.
But two or three feeble voices were heard to
speak in favor of him. So goes the disor-
ganizer where he should long since have
been sent-outside the party, He asserted
he would 'poise free lance in the can
vass, y and now he has the invitation of the
the Democracy to do So Davis stands
ready to embrace him, but he will have to
hear from the Central Railroad first to un-
derstandwhat the policy of the company is.
BE no longer belongs to the unbought
masses, and his masters may require him to
poise his free lance for a while longer on a
rail. The ''hOnest Republican candidate
for Governor has his arms spread to re-
ceive him. win the Central Railroad be 50
cruel as to ostensibly withhold him from his
best lover -
Year: 1873

A reliable woman to do Housework at Farm

 A House man and wife could obtain ern- ployment, if suitable persons apply. All in want of such situation, will please leave their ad- dress at this office. 47-3t".
Year: 1873




The elopement of Brigham Young's sew
enteenth wife. reported by telegraph few
days ago, was not without encouragement,
1t seems, from the outocrat of the Mormc n
church, though he did not design or con-
sent that she should go so soon. A Salt
Lake paper gives the following extract
from one Of Brigham Young's recent SER
mons:


| wish my women TO understand that
what l am going to say Is for them as well
as others, and want those who are here
to tell their sisters; yes, all the women in
the community. ! am going TO give you
from this time to the 9th of October next
for reflection, that you may determine
whether you wish to stay with your hus-
bands or not and then | am going to set
every woman at liberty, and say to them,
now 60 your way. And my wives have
got to do one of two things, either round up
their shoulders to endure the affections of
this world, and live their religion-that is.
poiygamy-or they must leave; for
will not have them about me. | will go
into heaven alone, rather than have
scratching and fighting about me. | will
set all at Liberty. What, first wife, too?
Yes, liberate you all. want to go
somewhere or do something to get rid of
the winners. | do not want them to re.
ceiye part of the truth and spurn the rest
out OF doors. Let every man thus treat
his wives; keeping raiment enough to cover
his body. and say to yonr wives take all
that have and be set at liberty; but il
you stay with me you shall comply with
the law of God in every respect, and that,
too, without murmuring or whining. You
must fulfil the law Of God in every respect,
and round up your shoulders to walk up to
the mark without any grunting.
Year: 1873




MAX Adeler in the Saturday Evening Post]


Housekeepers will be surprised to learn
that their customs of sending in to neigh
Dor to borrow a-little butter or sugar or
other articles of diet is quite common
among the savages of the Feeee. When
lady IN Feejee has some friends to dinner
unexpectedly she goes over to the woman
across the way and says. "Yak-yak and his
family have just dropped in to dine, and
haven't thing in the house. How do you
think your hired girl would work up into
stew? Can | borrow her for few days?"
Then she seizes that domestic by the hair
and drags her over, chops her up with
parsley and carrots, and celery tops and
cloves, and let's her simmer over the fire.
Or may be the other woman sends over and
says: "I'm entirely out of meat; can
you lend me your little William Henry for
hash, or your Mary Jane for pie ?' And
over go William Henry and Mary
Jane, and they are stuck with fork and
basted and put on to cook gently, and tho
debt is paid off the next week by the bor-
rover sending back her aunt, already boiled
and suitable for cutting down cold for tea,
or one of her twins corned so as to make q
nice lunch. Sometimes woman in this
manner will work off couple of her
mothers-in-laws, or rich uncle, OF plump
second cousin, and then she will sit at her
window and sniff them as they are cook
ing in the kitchen next door, or watch
one of the company in the dining-room
nibbling at the elbow of her late hired
| girl. The custom seems to US an excel
lent one, particularly when it is applied to
hired girls. We have had girls whom we
would have loaned to a neighbor at any
time under solemn promise that they
should be butchered and boiled as quickly
| as possible.
Year: 1873

1t was not very wise in young Ore
gon lady to discard her aflianced because
he quarreled with toll-gate keeper about
sixpence. Girls should know by this time
that men who are saving of sixpences do
not by any means make bad husbands.
How could the Oregon damsel be sure tha t
the lover was not keeping the sixpence that
he might buy with it a "bnnch Of blue rib
bon TO tie up her bonnie brown hair ?'' If
beauty and grace will be so expensive, isn't
it the hight of ingratitude to snub men for
saving? The lady surely didn't want her
gallant to be in love with the toll.keeper.
Year: 1873

HONG Kong, July pa destructive
typhoon visited Annoy on the 2lst instant.
Great damage was done to foreign property
and to the shipping in the harbor and river.
The telegraph cable between Annoy and
Shanghai is broken.
Year: 1873

THE MEN WHO WANT THEIR NAME
IN THE PAPERs.-We agree with the
Knoxville Press that the strangest charac-
ter we meet with while travelling the dusty
of life is the man who will wan
tonly commit bad act and then earnestly
plead that his name be kept out of the pa
pers. There is hardly a day but what
this occurs.
Year: 1873

THE early frost this year have doubtless
done considerable damage to immature
crops. This is especially the CASE in Wis
consin and other Of the extreme Northern
States. We had in this ction of the
country very heavy frost On Saturday
morning, bat as our crops ara all matured
by this time it did little or no damage
IndidlQoO oils Journal, Sent. %,
Year: 1873

PATTERSON, Sept. 23.-Four hundred
and fifteen more men are to be discharged
from Rogers locomotive works tomorrow,


making one thousand men laid of this
week, or two-thirds of the whole force. The
Danforth and the Grant works have not yet
decided to discharge any OF their workmen.
Year: 1873

Iowa is the only State Of the Union re-
presented as being entirely free from debt,
and yet It IS q State that has doubled Its
population In the last ten years, which
places il in the matter Of population as
number II in the Union against number
twenty In 1890 With such growth and
prosperity, 10 DO entirely free from debt
is a most euviAble distinction.