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Year: 1875

The large yield of rice grown in this State
the past season demonstrates that Louisiana
will eventually become ue rice depot of
this country. A most remarkable and sue
cessful experiment in the culture of this
staple has been made the past season by
Messrs y. II. and A. j. Sypher on their
plantation in the parish of St. Mary. In
addition to their regular acreage of sugar,
these gentlemen cultivated part of their
place in white Carolina rice, of which they
made 800 barrels of the best grade ever
shipped to this city. This result was ac.
complished by improved modes of cultiya-
tion and the use of implements never be-
fore employed in this State.


The rice was planted on high instead of
low land, as has been customary heretofore.
1t was flooded by raising the water from the
bayou into canal by means of centrifugal
steam pump, the canal serving as rsae-
Voir from which the water was draw n a. re-
qu'sed! W Uourss this is morn expens v q
than the old mode of flooding from tbe
river, but it is also more reliable, as the
planter is not dependent upon the stage of
water in the river for @ constant supolv
which is the most important matter in rice
culture.


After the ground had been thoroughly
prepared the rice was planted with grain
driils' such as are in common use in the
North and West. The advantages derived
from the use of the drill are claimed TO be
very great. 1t does not require so much
seed as the old process of sowing broad.
CAST; ths rice is more easily kept clear of
weeds, and by not sowing go thick, the
mead and grain are larger and more perfect.
The crop was taken off with a grain
reaper, probably the first experiment of the
Kind in Louisiana. No little difficulty was
experienced before this reaper was made TO
work successfully, owing to the fact that it
was not adapted to the soft ground The
ingenuity OF Captain Sypher, who is a
thorough engineer and machinist, oyercame
this detsct, and after making some altera.
lions and improvements, its operation was
perfect. 1t cuts from eight TO ten acres Der
day-equal to the work Of thirty men under
the Old process of cutting with sickles.
| The threshing of this rice was done with
a shaker thresher, driven by steam power,
and more than one hundred barrels were
threshed and cleaned per day.


The success of the Messrs. Syphers will
| encourage many other rice planters to
adopt improved implements, and it will, no
doubt, be the beginning of revolution in
| this branch OF Industry. Too much credit I
can not be given them for the successful
manner in which they have carried out
| these experiments, which can not fail to
| prove benefit to tie entire rice planting
| interest of our State.
Year: 1875

Our contemporary the New Orleans Price
Current has been making arrangements in
the various parishes of this State to pub
lish, on the fifteenth of January next, the
years Report of the Sugar and Rice Crops. -
The following article, copied from the col.
umns of the Price Current, shows that the
enterprise has been successful:


YEARS REPORT OF THE SUGAR AND RICE


CRors.


We are gratifed that we can assure our
readers, from the cordial support we have
received from our friends in the country. as
well as from the city trade, that we shall
be enabled to furnish them a full and accu.
rate statement OF the crops of both sugar
and rice, at the period indicated by onr ad-
vertisement in the Price Current While
We would be the last to disparage the
merits of any reports that have been fur
nlsned hitherto, we are confident that our
compilation will be both comprehensive
and satisfactory.


We feel especially sensible of the full in
formation frankly promised by planters to
our agents in the various parishes, and can
honestly assure them in return that our
labors shall be directed more to compiling
statement which they willNbe able to ac.
cept as entirely reliable, than to mere pe-
cunlary returns for our enterprise. At the
same time we shall omit no means in our
power to make our publication practically
useful to the trade, and not only interest
ing, but OF substantial value to the planter
Perhaps it is to the faith that our friends in
the country place in our intentions that we
are indebted for the warm encourag cement
we have received, and we can assure them
that We shall spare no effort 20 deserve
their approval.


Our statement will not only give the name
OF the planter and of his plantation and the
actual crops OF sugar, molasses and rice,
but the acreage in both cane and rice, the
yield per acre. the acreage applied to seed,
the quality of the product, the apparatus
used, the quantity of cistern bottoms, the
consumption on plantations and by country
stores and towns. and the shipments to
other ports than New Orleans, by the gulf
as well as the river and the rail.


1t will also include other matter of i'm
Portance to planters and the trade, and we
have just cause for our anticipation of it's
having an unusually large circulation.
Year: 1875

are unable to discover anything that will
authorize communication of sentence; the
Governor has Issued his warrant under the
seal of the State, fixing the time and place
OF execution; and there is nothing in the
proceedings from the ineipiency of the ac-
cusation to the pronouncing of tho sentence
fixed by law, that has prevented substantial
justice being done, or which could be re-
viewed by any remedy known to courts of
criminal Jurisdiction.
Year: 1875

A monument to the memory Of this
unhappy girl, whose story has panied
Jersey City. The ladies of that city arc
collecting subscriptions for that purpose
and the monument will be dedicated on
the anniversary of tho death of Mary
Pomeroy in August. There is another
monument in Jersey City to her memo
ry, which is not so appropriate, and that
is the church Of the scandal, where Mr..
Glendenning still continues to preach in
defiance of society and of the will of his
sect.
Year: 1875

The Washington correspondent OF the New
York Times says the CANVASS for the Speaker
ship swallows up almost everything else, the
main question which concerns the Democrats, in
connection with it, being 8" Who will be the most
useful in the way of distributing Offices No
one appears to have given any thought, as yet
TO the subject Of legislation, and the financial
issue is tucked away compile tely out OF sight.
These bits of information make the prospect
for good winters work at the hands Of the
Democratic House not particularly cheering.
Year: 1875

The Opera House is thronged with
an expectant audience, for Theodore
Wachtel is to appear in "Der Postil-
on Won Lonjumeau," and all Leipzig
must hear him. Perhaps more than
one person in that assembly is think
ing what fine thing it is to be
favorite actor, and wishing that he
could change places with Wachtel.
The audience even fancy that he must
be as impatient as they for the curtain
to rise and the opera to begin.
While they are sitting let us take
peep back of the scenes. The post
boy stands at the threshold, and the
attendants look from one to the other
with awe-stricken faces. Through
the halfopen door of the dressing
room we see the celebrated Wachtel
in an agony of grief, and can easily
guess that the paper he has dropped
on the floor is a telegram with bad
news. In truth it is, for it brings
word that his youngest son is dying
and wants to see him. He can not
60; the audience must not be disap-
pointed; he must swallow the lump
that rises in his throat till it almost
chokes him, and assume all the gayety
of Chapelon, the position Of Lonju-
meau. At the end of the second act,
while the audience is making the
house ring with applause. This one
tells him that his son is dead. At
the end Of the third act he thrills the
audience as he sings "Gute Nacht,
mein Herzliches Kind" They
think the position Is sin2ipa t1|l
song, but we


Wachtel is biddil


<r<,r>1 -. ~ y
Year: 1875

There is trouble brewing-in fact,
broken out-in a certain family in
this city. Agreeable to the earnest
solicitation of his wife, who knew she
could make shirt just exactly as
well as any regular hand at the bns-
mess, and being sadly i'll need of
that necessary article of wearing ap-
parel, the head of the household pur-
chased bolt of Wamsutta, and
troubled with many misgivings, took
it home and told his wife to go ahead
especially charging her to make the
band l4s inches around, and not one
hair smaller or larger, and to be very
careful with the bosoms. The good


woman anxious to economize. and
sanguine of success, borrowed a pat
tern cut from shirt worn by con-
sumptive neighbor, and slashing into
the cloth, in a remarkable short
space of time had the whole piece
cut up, and basted ready for the ma
chine. We will not detail the suf-
ferings which that miserable hus-
band was called upon to endure until
the work was completed. Every man


whose wife or mother has had the
shirt making fever, knows what it is
to 90 home to dinner and be. COM
PEELED to undress and try on a shirt
basted together and jabbed full of
pins and pulled and hauled all over
the house, while your better half is
trying to fit the thing to your back
This is subject we cannot dwell up
on and keep out of the mad house.
In the course of time the cloth was
all made up, the wife was proud of
her achievements, and the garments
were turned over to the washer wo-
man to be done up. There was a
terrible toreboding, however, in the
mind of the husband, a something
which words cannot describe, hang
heavy upon his heart; but not until
he attempted to put on one of his
new shirts was the inward conviction
of that impending calamity fully
verified. The sleeves were rod too
short; the neck band when buttoned
started the eyes from their sockets
and blood to his face; the shirts
were too short by one half behind,
and altogether too long in front, while
the bosom looked as if it had been
shot in and ironed witha coal shovel.
The fact that the wife is willing to
aver that the bands are just exactly
two fingers and a half arouud and
she made the shirts just as Mrs. Slim
kins (the next door neighbor) told
her to, will not be received as COM
petent evidence, and the granting of
a divorce in favor of the husband it
a foregone conclusion, unless the wife
promises on her bended knee, before
high Heaven. that she will never ac-
tempt to make another shirt.
Year: 1875

IT is very agreeable no doubt as a mere
matter OF change to leave the city and 60
to the sea side or the mountains for lew
weeks OF rest and recreation at this
season Of the year. And yet there is
comfort for the stay-at.homes-the can't
getaway peoplG-who are forced to re-
main behind and take care OF the city.
Ice is very cheap this summer and the
markets are supplied with plenty to eat
There is no reason why the majority OF
our Wheeling people should not enjoy
themselves as well as usual, The city
shows no signs Of the prevalence Of UNI
sual sickness OF any kind, and the pros
peCls now are that We shall not
suffer in this respect, People Of tact
and enterprise understand the art
Of keeping their houses cool and
comfortable this weather, so that after
the days labors are over u very enjoyable
night can be spent. All in all, We can
have our full share Of comiorts-perhaps
quite as many as those who 90 away from
home in quest Of comfort. Let us there
fore be thankful for the privileges We
enjoy, such as icc.crcanI, ice.waIcr fresh
vegetables and plenty Of society, and dis
miss all feelings Of envy towards those
who are perhaps sighing on the top OF
some mountain perch for the flesh pots of
Epyut.
Year: 1875

TmEprospccts are that most il not all
the Wheeling nail mills have earned
some money during the lat six months.
We understand also that the Wheeling
Hinge company has done very gratify-
ing business.
Year: 1875

\ STREET RoMANCE.-Virtue should ever
be its own reward, moralists tell us, but a
little incident which recently occurred in a
large city seems TO prove that occasionally it
seems to appreciate more substantial thanks.
A blind beggar was crossing a crowded street.
while beautiful young lady, fearful for his
walk. 4 careless cabdriyer would have run
the old man down had not the kind girl, at
the risk of her own life, rushed to his rescue,
and piloted the beggar to the pavement in
safety. A rich bachelor saw the transaction,
and straightway sought her cut, was intro
iuoed, courted, proposed, was accepted, and
married the heroine without loss of time
Let us hope she will be happy. for nothing
ic more lovely in the young than a gentle,
charitable spirit Commenting on this anec-
dtte, z waggisi reporter declares that the ef-
feet it has produced Is wonderful. Hopeful
young ladies can be seen in the vicinity Of
street crossings, with one eye searching for
stray blind men, and the other on the look
GU. for a rich bachelor; for it would be an
awful bore if they should help the beggar
and then fail to find the nice old bachelor.
Wei, girls, you'll all decide that that re-
porter certainly ism nice bachelor, though
he may be an old one. Let us hope that if
he ever finds himself in the way of careless
cabdriver no lovely lady will rush to his res-
cue-he does not deserve succor at the hands
Of the girls he ridicUles, the monster
Year: 1875


harness me down with your iron bands,
he sure Of your curb and rein,
For seorn the strength of vonr ppry hands
As tempest seorns chain.
how laughed as lay concealed from sight
FOR many countless hour,
At the childish boasts Of human might,
And the pride of human power:
When saw an army upon the land,


navy upon the seas,
Creeping along, snaiLlike band,


Or waiting a wayward breeze;
Wien saw the peasant reel


With the toll that he family bore,
As he turned at the tardy wheel,


Oh toiled at the weary ear
When measured the painting courser's speed
The Eight Of the cs,rrier-doYe,
As they bore law, King deereed,
Or the lines Of impatient love,
could but think how the world would feel
As these were outstripped afar,
When I should be bound to the rushing keel,
Or chained to the flying car.
Ha hs ha they found me at last,
They invited me forth at length,
And 1 rushed TO my TN one with thunder blast,
And laughed in my IRON strength.
Oh then ye saw wonirous change
On the earth and ocean wide,
Where low my fiery armies range,
Nor wait for wind nor tide.
Hurrah hurrah! the waters DER,
The mountains decline;
spaee-have yielded to nv power
The world! the world Is mine,
The rivers the sun hath earliest blest,
Or those where his beams decline,
The giant streams OF the dreenly West,
Or the Orient AJo:s divine
The ocean pales wherever sweep
To hear my strength rejoice:
And monsters OF the briny deep
Cover trembling at my voice.
carry the wealth and oIe of earth,
The thought of Goi-like mind
The wind lags after my going forth;
The lightning is left behind.
In the darksome depths of the fathomIess mine,
My tireless arms doth play,
Where The rocks ne er the suns decline
Or the dawn OF the glorious day;
bring earths gltte-ing Jewels up
From the hidden caves below,
And 1 make the fountains granite cup
With a crystal gush o'eIA flow.
blow the bellows, I forge the steel,
In all the shops OF trade;
hammer the and turn the wheel
Where my arms Of strength are made
L manage the furnace the mill, the mint,
carry, spin, l weave,
And all my doings pat in print
oa every Saturday eve
I've no muscles to weary, no breath to decay,
No bones TO be laid on the shelf,
And soon 1 intend you may 90 and play,
" hIle manage the world myself.
But harness me down with your iron bands
BE sare Of your curb and rem,
For scorn the strength of your puny hands
As the tempest seorns tie chain
Year: 1875

SICK BABY IN THE HoUSE.-The fol-


lowing beautiful sentiments will find re-
sponse in the heart of every true and tender
mother in the land {: A great hush falls on
the ear like n knell, and an untold sadness
settles like pail over the heart, for baby is
sick. Is it not strange that wee little thing
should have the power to change everything,
making the sunshine that bat yesterday
played 40 merrily and bright In and out of
the windows seem such cruel mOckery to-
day, and changing the joyous tones of the
elder children into funeral notes? Bnt such
is the spell that baby has woven, knitting
herself into the very meshes Of cur hearts,
il such quiet, subtle manner, that We
scarcely know how dear she Is until the little


form lies PROSTATE. What care We about the
order of the work-basket when the little


hands that made such havoc therein-scatter-


ing the buttons over the floor, pulling GU: the


needles, unwinding reels, and doing Other in


Vulnerable things-are lying idle, with fever


coursing through each wa1en finger? And


does not every one in the house share the
solicitude, making the anxiety general


Even Mary leaves her work in the kitchen TO


make frequent inquiries about baby"


Papa comes home an hour earlier than his
wont, so anxious is he to learn how - baby
is But the most touching OF all Is the sad
face of the mother. sitting at the sick couch,
/ ever and anon bending low over the idol of
her soul to kiss the little cheek 50 bright with
fever. while her heart ascends 10 the One who
/ sent her darling in a petition that the suffer
er NAV soon be restored to health and as her
glance falls On the tiny red-hood and cloak
/ so lately worn, what wonder that the tears
| fall fast? 1t brings 50 viyidly to miad
what NAV be. But need we longer dwell !?
! Those who have known what It is 10 have an
empty cloak and hood that will never more
be filled by the loved form for which they


were made, will know why mammals tears
/ fell. To those who have been spared that


sorrow 'twere useless TO explain-God grant
1 thew Inay never know.
Year: 1875

A SENSIBLE YOUNG MAN.-The SEN
sible young man is now living near
Council Bluffs, Iowa. Not long ago
he became involved in a quarrel with
no less than five different men and
challenged each one of them to a NOR.
tai csmbat. All accepted and were
upon the ground in time. Then the
hero of the affair said he would fight
the best man first. The five began to
discuss the question Of which was the
best man, and got to fighting. They
struggled over the subject for about
quarter of an hour, the champion Sit
ting on a log as umpire, and when the
question was finally settled, the best
man. could have been whipped by
ANYBODY, and wasn't ready to tight.
The challenger walked off with all
the honors, and was proud and happy.
This is the story, and it is probably a
faIsehood.-AHCR.
Year: 1875

LIES LEssoNs.-For me nothing is more
interesting than TO see a man In the first in
tense strain of new enterprise. 1t may be
new cider-mill; it may be a new newspaper
It is a grand crisis in that mans life. He
lived thirty days in one. Old trite proverbs
take on new and startling meanings. He
looks upon all men and all things in
strange new light. He judges all men and
all things with regard to the accomplishment
of his one, supreme design. During GER
tain time the stars IN their courses fight for
him then the very universe changes Its di-
rection, and pushes with all its weight
against his tottering walls; another change,
and a thousand accidents are IN his favor.
He does not know until years afterwards
with what concentration he labOred in those
davs. of beginning He smiles at himself,
and tells pleasant stories of his make-shifts
and absorption and now, when he sees
another and younger person starting his
cider-mill with rhe old out worn enthusiasm,
he looks on with the same half-sympathetlc,
half.cynical interest with which an old mar
ried man contemplates two young people VINO
have Just fallen in l0ye.-Sor1f'er 8 Monthly.
Year: 1875

IT is only by thinking that man can
know himself. Ye, all other knowledge
without this is splendid ignorance. Not a
glance merely, bot much close examination
will be requisite, for the forming of a true
opinion of your own powers Ignorance and
self couceit always tend 10 make you over
rate <oar personal ability-ss slight degree
of knowledge may make tImid mind pass
upon himself too humble Judgment 1t is
only by thinking, and much impartial ohser-
vstion, that a man can discover his real dis
position. A hssty temper only supposes it.
self properly aliFe; an indplent inculger
imagines ne is as active as any one; but by
Close and severe examination each may dis
cover something nearer the truth.
Year: 1875

Ihe proportion of wheat and flour furnished
Great Britain by the United States, We are
satisfied, Is not very generally known. We
bear so much said about the supply from
Russia that many people have come to sup
pose that Russia supplies more of the British
imports of bIeadstufis than the United States.
An examination of the following table. pre-
pared by the Board of Trade Of Great Britain,
VIII correct this suppositiOn. The fact Is,
that the United States supply about 80 per
cent. of all the wheat and -four consumed by
the British isles, over and above the home
production
Year: 1875

the winner completely 'spreade eagedn the six which
came out to oppose him. His appearance was at
Goodwood. where, opposed by Telescope, whom the
odds we're lve TO two and File du Cel he
home an easy winner by three lengths.
After a rest OF a couple OF months Mr.. Crawfurd
started the colt for the valuable Buckenham Post
Produce Stakes at Newmarket first October meeting,
and being opposed by only the moderate Yorkshire
Bride and the vertumna colt he had difficulty in
landing the stakes and the odds laid him. HIS next
essay unsuccessful being unplaced Mirfor for
post sweepstakes Of 200 soveregns each at the second
October meeting, although the odds OF two
in his favor. This followed by his in the
Home Bred Foal Stakes OF 100 soveregns each his last
appearance for the This year he started for the
Two Thousand Guineas at Newmarket being second
favorite. He failed, however, to figure prominently
in the race, which was won by Camballo.
He did not start for the Derby and his next
appearance in the 81. James Palace Stakes
OF 100 sovereigns each at Ascot Bay Of Naples and
Garterly Bell were his only opponents, and after
ming dead heat with the first named he defeated
by three lengths in the deciding heat Since then he
has been reserved for the st. Leger and the odds
against have been much fifty TO for time
past his popular has doubtless netted a hand
dsappontments. The success OF Mr. Crawfurd will be
popular one, he runs his horses in the most
straightforward manner
Year: 1875

game of cricket will be played at Prospect Park to-
day between the Staten Island and Prospect Park clubs
Play will commence about The last match be-
these clubs resulted in slight victory for the
Park Club, and to days game is expected to be very
exciting.
Year: 1875

A Lock OF HAIR.-Almost every ono
has at least one lock of hair cut from
the head of one now dwelling in that
silent land whence come no messages.
no letters, no tokens of any kind to tell
Of love or of remembrance. Every ono
knows what strange emotion. half joy.
half woe, with which the relic of So
much that vas once dear can thrill tho
soul. Only now and then do we dare
to take il from its hiding place, hold it
in the palm, press it to the check, and
use It IS q talisman to recall all that we
must rarforce forget in the wosk-a-day
world for the sake Of strength to DO its
battle.


We DO not know whose hair that
which vcur treasure may be; whether
hossy curl from baby's head, the dark
lock from the brow that once made
your breast its pillow, parents gray
tress, or young lovers sunny curl
Nor does it matter, for all love in its es-
sence, in that part Of it that outlivcs
death, is alike and equally pure, but We
know that there is nothing like it to
you anywhere. There are no words for
the thoughts it brings. As you touch
it, and gaze at it, you have nothing I"
say. You feel the thorns of your dead
rose, that is all, and the wounds they
make bleed.