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Year: 1875

in both branches of the Legislature. And now
comes an opportunity for the Democrats 70
indulge in petty trickery, and to undertake by
overreachng and cheating-just the otienses
which they have denounced their opponents
for, and on the stump and in their news
papers howled themselves red in the lace
over-to defeat the plain and unms-
taxable will of the people The Governor
Weston-;ind the C0hncil-fOur Democrats
and one Republican-are the canVassers
of the votes for Senators. In order to give
the Democrats a majority in the Senate, the
Governor and Council have deliberately thrown
out 3, 700 votes cast for "Natt Head" in the
Second District upon the ground that the can
didate's true name is Nathaniel Head-and all
the votes cast for the Prohibition candidate IN
the Fourth District, upon the ground that he
was ineligible, not having resided in the State
seven years. This gives the Democrats ma
jorty of two in the Senate and the organiza-
ton of the body.


This is the brlefest statement of the case.
There are charges of unfairness and double
dealing against Gov. Weston, who, it is said,
agreed to have the matter referred to the
Supreme Court for decision, and did not fulfill
HIS dsItcHlcHt' DuI tntlC IL Cho"S" AZ
this simple statement of the facts to
show the disposition by which these leading
and representative men of their party
were animated 1t ought to be plain
enough even to q purblnd Ncw-Hampshirc
Democratic politician, that there is no advan-
tagc to be gained by this bit of sharp practice
which can compensate for the damage the
whole party must suffer from it. Indeed there
is no real advantage in it. The wrong will be
righted as soon as the Legislature is organ
lied, and all that Gov. Weston and his cOun-
Gil of Cheap Johns will have gained by it will
be the notoriety attending a very weak and
stupid attempt to do very dishonest
and dishonOrable thing. The will of the
3,7O0 voters who voted for Matt Head
cannot be defeated by any such game, but
the men upon whom this fraud is attempted,
and thousands of others who may have been
led into voting the Democratic ticket in order
to rcbuke Republican trickery and dishonesty,
will turn away from Democracy and all its
works with lOathing and disgust. That kind OF
pettifOgging is bad enough when it has some
reasonable chance for success, and is under
taken with view of procuring some real ad-
vantage; but when, as in this instance, ii seems
to be inspired by nothing but intrinsic dis
honesty and absolute inability to do right
when there is al opportunity to 90 wrong, it
rises to the dignity-if we may be allowed the
paIadox-Of total dcpravity.
Year: 1875

sponding change i'm prices in this country Will
not exceed 20 per cent at Chicago and Mil
waukee and will be under 20 per cent ut New
York. In common with most men who have
considered the subject, we look upon wide
fluctuations in prices, whatever their origin,
whether they be caused by the altcrna-
tions of scarcity and abundance, OF spec
uation and Over-production, or by the
immoderate issue of incOnvcrtible paper
money, as highly prcjudicial to the welfare OF
any people. We have shown that the foreign
trade of England, in the most important arti-
cles of her commerce with the rest OF the
world-with the single exception Of cotton, the
most important-is subject to fluctuations as
severe as any which would afilict the internal
trade of this country under stable currency.
In regard to cotton we need only mention that
the cutting off during the war of the supply
of raw material from the United States reduced
a large body of the English people to the
verge of famine. What moro need we say
to explode the assertion that the present state
of the manufacturers here is to he ascribcd to
the tariff Do not the United States, with
their folty-four millions of inhabitants, in fair
condition as regards enterprise and civilization
and still improving, offer field broad enough
for the smooth working of the law of demand
and supplye How ridiculous, then, to lay all
the damage our crockcry sustains in these days
of exploding bubbles to the t@te noT OF Pro-
Year: 1875

THE CLOVEN FOOT IN NEUHAMPSHIRE.


The Democrats of New Hampshire have again
exempliied that strange perversity of DISPOSE
ton so often remarked in the history of the
party, by which great opportunities have been
frttcred away and a permanent success wasted
for some miserable temporary advantage gained
by low cunning and petty trickery. With all
their clamor for purity and uprightness, and
all their vehement denunciatiOns of the cor
rupton of their opponents, they have not the
sincerity and manllness to act fairly and justly
when they have the responsibility and the
power. The temptation to gain some
small and contemplate advantage by over
reaching and cheating, they have not the
strength or the courage to resist. The Demo-
cratic Congressman from that State, who left
his back pay in the Treasury during the can
vass in which his party was making all the
capital it could by dcnouncing the Salary Grab
as an Administration measure, and urging the
people to rebuke such dishonesty by returning
Democrats to Congressman who Immediately
after the votes were counted sent on and drew
his share of the Grab-was fair illustration
of the average regard for honesty and decency
of the leaders of the party in the State. Once
or twice these leaders have been trusted with
power because their opponents had blundered SO
badly, had been so reckless and headstrong
that the people thought it time to make a
change and remind the party in power of the
frailty of its tenure and the weight of its re-
sponsibility. Each time these Democratic lead
ers mistOOli the occasion, and drunk with tenn
porary success went off in wild debauch over
the snOils of the camp


Last year they carried the State, and true to
their instincts sacrificed everything in the
future for the sake of present comfort and
advantage They carried partsanship to the
extreme they made no pretense of anything
higher or more intelligent than purpose to
make the most out of the present opportunity.
Naturally enough they Disguised the people
who had revOlted from the Republican party
on account of its intolcrant partisanship and its
reckless management, and these people quietly
manifested their disapprObation last March
by voting for Republicans instead of Demo-
Gratis. The result was Republican triumph,
that party having upon tho returns a majority
Year: 1875

munity quite a. much as it did yesterday
among the attendants in the courtroom. The
Judge is likely to speak throughout to-day
and tomorrow. The whole interest OF the
long proceeding seems to be gathered up and
intensified in the fervid utterances with which
he begins
Year: 1875

they think, in measure out Of our childish
self-conceit and hatred of people whom We
did not know. There is less prejudice against
the South than before the war, at Tarrytown.
and the people are learning to look at broad
ideas and principles as they never did in the
days Of the MAY muster.
Year: 1875

Probably the Spanish people ought to accept
with gratitude whatever favOrs are thrown to
them by their illiberal ruler. Still it will be
curious if many OF them do not fail to COM
prehend on what ground perfect constitutional
liberty is withheld if freedom of political dis
cussion may be granted for what is termed
the electoral period.
Year: 1875

The anxiety of the Indian chiefs to talk
with tie President himself abOut their affairs
seems all along to have been the principal in
centiye to their journey to Washington. 1t is
not, therefore, to be wondered at that they ex-
press dissatisfaction at being cut short in
their interview with him and prevented from
discussing the business about which they
have come. Turning them over to Secretary
Deano and Commissioner Smith will not ex-
actly meet their expectations Meanwhile great
preparations, described in our local columns,
are making to occupy the Black Hills region,
without much regard to tine doubtfulneSs OF
acquiring the right to so thithor.
Year: 1875

Rather in what ii decided not to do than in
what it authorized, was yesterdays work in
the Assembly notable The bill that was to
permit insurance companies to invest their
funds in the securities of other States, after
making good progress by vigorous pushing,
came suddenly to grief. An effort to revive
the Civil Justices bill was unsuccessful, and
that measure, it may be hoped, will not be
resuscitated. To many Ncw-Yorkers it will
be unpleasant news to hear that the bill to
prevent the erection of slaughter-houses and
bonc-boiling establishments within the city
limits was defeated. a committee that will
have plenty TO do was appointed to investi-
gate the various appliances and legislation
that have for their object the detection, pros
ecution, and punishment of crime.


"If there be beast upon earth capable OF
"holding a conversation aboat the parentagc
"of his own boy with the paramour OF his
"adulteTOus wife, he has lived too long upon
"earth it is time for him to die" This, as
well as any other sentence in Judge POrters
remarkable opening yesterday of the argument
for the defense in the Beecher case, may be
taken as the keynote to what he had to say.
The whole speech is of singular power and i'll
terest. 1t may be expected to renew the
waning attention to the trial among tho CON-
Year: 1875

There is no cessation in the attack on the
Whisky Ring. This mornings advices recite
the particulars of the downfall OF corrupt
officials in different localities, and there Is
every prospect that they will be dealt with by
law, without reference to the whining OF their
political supporters. Secretary Bristow finds
an able ally in the new head of the Depart
ment of Iusfice.
Year: 1875

SMASH UP-The engine on the Break
water & Frankferd road went down to
Lewes on Tuesday, and when it neared
the Depot it became unmanageable, ran
into the engine house, demolished the
doors and was smashed to pieces against
the frame Of the water tank. The con-
the train down at late hour in the eyen-
ing. The damage to the engine house is
considerable while the engine is awreck.
Year: 1875

This is cold weather for the first Of
May.


Shad aud herring continue plenty
and sell at current rates.


The market changed to the cast side
of King street this morning,


Those in want of job printing should
not fail to ascertain the prices charged
at the GAZETTE office.


Buxbaum, at Third and Market
streets, certainly has the knack of of
fering the best bargains in good cloth
ing.


Warted everybody to know that
Chadwick's fountain ice cream garden
and museum will be open to the public
on Saturday, May the first for the sea-
son, No. 207 and 200 West Fourth
street, it is the pleasantest place in the
city, 2t
Year: 1875

THEA boy whose name to us is
unknown, deliberately unscrewed the
cap of the fire plug at the corner of
Third and jefferson streets, and placing
1T in his bosom, walked oil. He was call
ed to and ordered to replacs the cap, but
pad no attention to the demand
Year: 1875

The following is a simple mode OF ren-
deriug water almost as cold as ice, without
the use Of ice: Let the jar, pitcher, OF YES
sci used for water, be surrounded with one
or more folds of coarse cotton kept con-
.FantIy wet. The evaporation OF the water
will carry off the heat from the inside and
ra6ucn il TO q freezing point. In India and
other topical regions where Ice cannot De
uroduced, this method OF proceeding L
Year: 1875

Having planted last year small piece
of light, loamy. and, well manured,


with mangolds-or, as some term them,


the giant beet found the yield to


be at the rate of thirty tons per acre.


The first of December commenced feed
ing them to three COWS, at the rate of
one peck per day each, measured after


they were cut, together with one fodder
ing of hay per day, the remainder of
their fodder being cut straw. l contin-
ued this feed for three months, and the
cows at this time we're in better condi-
ton than they were the previous winter,
at the same time in the winter, when
they had been fed wholly on hay they
also gave more milk. in my opinion
beets are the most profitable root that we
can grow for stock feed. The sugar beet
| have no doubt il the most nutritious,
although think the mangolds the most
profitable to cultivate, rs the yield is
much larger. If cur farmers would grow
more roots than they have been in the
habit of raising to feed their stock dur
ing our long and cold winters their hay
would hold out better, and their stock,
l think would be in better condition in
flesh and health. A large amount of
straw and coarse fodder may be fed to
stock if We have some kind of roots to
feed with it. Some will probably say
that it takes too much manure to grow
these roots. Try small piece of light,
loamy land with them, and in my opin-
ion you will not think that you have
wasted your manure.-Corespondence
Maine Farmer.
Year: 1875

Sound sleep is essential to good health
1t is impossible to restore and rccupe.
rate the system, exhausted by labor and
activity, without this perfect repose.


Sleep has great deal to do with the
disposition and temper. A sound sleeper
is seldom unduly disturbed by trifes
while wake.li, restless person is apt
to be irritable.


a great deal has been written about
the advantage of curtailing the hours OF
repose, and of sleep but little. We are
inclined to think that there is room for
doubt whether the benefits of closely
limiting the time given to rest have not
been exaggerated. Active persons, of
nervous temperament, can hardly get
too much sleep. We know very well
that the saving of two or three hours a
day for slun,ber is, in one sense, equiv
alent to 4 considerable prolongation of
human life, and we are no advocates of
Incidence, but the fact still remains that
sleep may be so much abridged as to
leave the system incapable of so much
effective work in two hours. as might be
performed in better condition in one.
Year: 1875

Hon. A. E. Kimsey, at a recent meet
ing at Plainfeld, VT, gave the following
rules for the care and management Of
sheep, which. with some notifications,
making ALLOWANCE for the difference OF
climate, may be of service to the wool
growers of the west:


l. Never starve sheep, especially in
summer.


9. Do not feed much grain if you have
good hay, but at all events never let
your sheep grow poor.


3. Many farmers lose by letting their
sheep live as long in autumn without
feeding as possible, consequently, if they
are in good condition in October, and
lose flesh and are made to gain again
there will be tender place in the wool.


4. Have the lambs come in March, if
coarse wool in May, if fine.


s. Shear your sheep before the 20sh of
May if possible.


6 Keep your sheep from all cold
storms at all times of the year, and be as
careful of them as of your horse. Many
sheep perish from showers after being
shorn, even in July, so / say shear at
time of year when they can be housed
for a week after shearing. In storms in
autumn, if sheep are exposed, it takes
long time to dry the wool, and the sheep
are consequently uncomfortable for a
long time; colds and consumption are
the result


Z. Raise the standard of your focks
weigh every fleece at shearing, number
the sheep, and note the weight of the
leeces, and then sell or kill your poorest
sheep. as like produces like, and your
average will soon go from four to seven
pounds.


But little need be said about raising
lambs, only take care of them and be
sure to know whether they are able to
draw the milk, for many lambs, especi-
ally when at pasture, perish when they
otherwise might live because not able
to start the milk. This is one great OBJ.
lection to having lambs come at pasture,
as they do not receive the attention they
should.


Much more might be said with regard
to the general management in feeding,
sailing, curing diseases, castrating and
docking lambs-but l think i have said
enough, and if any hints that l have
suggested will prove of use to my broth
er farmers, 1 feel that / shall be amply
repaid.
Year: 1875

The following interesting article is
from Isaac Relf in the Tituisville Pa.
| Herald:


About the Goth of July, when the hot
test days prevailed, and the flies in the
height Of their glory, drove every animal
with their needle guns, had trouble to
get my COW to stand their piercing weap-
ons while l MIXED, and ! became salts
fed, by smashing few flies on her and
looking at my hand streaked with blood
they had taken from her, tha. the cow
was not to blame for moving and
switching them of, and instead of whip
ping and chasing and fighting my COW,
as 1 beheld my neighbors do, took her
into my stable where it was too dark for
the flies to follow and all was quiet and
gentle. On turning her out to pasture,
she soon returned with q swarm of her
enemies, and tried to get into the stable
so opened the door and she started for
the stall. 1 let her stay in half a day,
and turned her out again for water and
feed, but she could not bear the flies and
returned.


have since that time MIXED at six
o'clock a. m., and let my COW stay in the
stable through the day, until sundown,
and then turn her out to pasture, which
is good, and she easily eats sufficient to
last the next day, after milking, and is
always at the stable ready to go in by
that time. l have offered her water sew
eral times, but she refused. 1 don't feed
her anything but keep the stable as
dark as l think will keep out the flies.
She stays there quietly, improves in
flesh and increases in the quantity and
quality of the milk, which is now only
kept at common natural animal heat,
without fighting flies and running to get
away from them. The milk and COW
were at fever heat all day, which, in my
opinion, injures the milk, and perhaps
makes it unhealthy 20 use.


For the short time / have tested stab
ling through the day 1 am satisfied it
would pay largely for the little trouble
in dairies; and the pastures yield much
more feed en- account of the cattle not
tramping and cutting the grass off with
their feet in travelling and fighting flies.
Year: 1875

MOTHs IN CARPErs.-A sure method
to remove the pests is to pour strong
alum water on the floor to the distance
of half a yard around the edges before
laying the carpets. Then once or twice
during the season sprinkle dry salt over
the carpet before sweeping. Insects do
not like salt, and sufficient adheres to
the carpet to prevent their lighting on
it.
Year: 1875

The Journal Of Chemistry publishes a
recipe for the destruction of insects,


which, if it be one-half as ctiicacious as it
is claimed to be, will prove invaluable !:


Hot alum water is a recent suggestion
as an insecticidc. 1t will destroy red
and black ants, cockroaches, chinch
bugs, and all the crawling pests which
infest our houses. Take two pounds of
alum and dissolve it in three or four
quarts of boiling water; let it stand on
the fire till the alum disappeares then
apply it with brush, while nearly boil
ing hot, to every joint and crevices in
your closets, bedsteads. pantry shelves
and the like. Brush the creyices in the
floor of the skirting, or mop boards, if
you expect that they harbor vermin.


If in whitewashing ceiling, plenty
OF alum is added to the lime, it will
also serve to keep insects at a distance.
Cockroaches will flee the place which
has been washed in cool alum water.
Sugar barrels and boxes can be freed
from ants by drawing chalk mark
just around the edge of the top of them.
The mark must be unbroken, or they
will creep over it; but continuous
chalk mark half an inch in width will
set theis depredations at nought. Pow
dered alum or borax will keep the chinch
bugs at respectable distance, and travel
ers should always carry package in
their hand bags, TO scatter over and un-
der their pillows in places where they
have reason to suspect the presence of
such bedfellOws.
Year: 1875

A simple mode of keeping butter in
warm weather is to set over the dish con-
tanning it large flower pot or unglazed
earthenware crock, inverted. Wrap a
wet cloth around the covering vessel,
and place the whole where there is a
draft of air.
Year: 1875

To take mildew from linen, mix soft
soap with starch powdered, half the
quantity of salt and piece of lemon,
and lay it OF both sides with a paint
brush let it be in the open air-on
grass is preferable till the stain is re-
moved.
Year: 1875

To remove stains from the hands :
Four drops sulphuric acid in a quart OF
rain water will remove fruit, dye-stains
or stove backing from the hands. BE
careful not to drop acid on the clothing.
Year: 1875

There seems to be few people who
know it, but it is nevertheless true, tina:
if you hold between your teeth pair of
scissors, steel knife, or almost any 9TH
er steel substance, you will not weep
during the process of pealing onions.
Year: 1875

RICE JELLY.-Boil one pound of rice
flour with half pound of loaf sugar in
quart of water, until the whole becomes
glutinous mass; strain off the jelly and
let it stand to cool. This is nutritious
and light.
Year: 1875

Charles D Warner writes in Passing
the Cataract ofthe Nile, in the Atlantic
Monthly AS we watch almost breath
less, the strain on the ropes, look there
is man in the tumnltueus rapids before
us swiftly coming down as il to his de-
struction. Another one follows and
then another till there are half dozen
men and boys in this jeopardY-this sit
uation of certain death to anybody not
made of cork And the singular thing
about it is that the men are seated up
right, sliding down the water like boy,
who has no respect for his trousers, down
a sand-bank. As they dash past US, we
see that each is seated on a round log
about five feet long; soma Of them sit
upright with their legs on the log, dis
playing the soles Of their feet, keeping
the equilibrium with their hands. These
are smooth, Shiny logs that a white man
would find it difficult to sit on ii they
we're on shore, and in this water they
would turn with him only once; the log
would go one way and the man another
But these fellows are in no fear of the
rocks below, they easily guide their
barks out of the rushing floods through
the whivlpools and eddies, into the slack
shore water in the rear of the boat, and
stand up like men and demand buck.
sheesh. These logs are popular ferry
boats on the upper Nile. l have seen a
woman crossing the river on one, her
clothes on a basket and the basket on her
head, and the Nile is nowhere an easy
stream to swim.
Year: 1875

INA CAR WITH TIGER.-A recent in
cident on the Ogdensburg road is thus
described by the st. Adams, (Vermont)
Messenger of the 9th inst: GA cage of
tigers, which was ON its way to the menag
erie now exhibiting south of here, was
placed in one end of the car, and a zebra
was Gied in the other end. The watchman
lay down on box and fell asleep; when he
awoke he discovered that one of the tigers
had bent the iron bars of its cage, forced
it's way out, and was crouching in the
opposite corner. The regular keeper of
the animals was in the sleeping car at the
rear end of the train, and there was no
chance to communicate with him or any
one outside The poor watchman was
frightened into motlonless silence, and in
that awful suspense he made the long and
weary journey to st. Albans. After the
train came to halt here, one Of the train
men, in passing the car, saw large, cat
like nose thrust out of an opening, ndssnot
knowing that any ones life was endangered
in the car, but fearing lest the animal should
escape, ran to the sleeping-car and aroused
the keeper, who soon appeared, rawhide in
hand, and lashed the beast back into his
den, to the immeasurable relief of the poor
fellow who had been curled up for hours
on the box"