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Year: 1875

Asheville North Carolina) Pioneer.


The prospects Of an early compile
tion Of this great work are more fiat
tering than they have been for years
past The new Commissioners seem
TO have gone to work with a hearty
good will, and determination which
looks business like. Already they
have number of convicts this side
of Old Fort engaged in constructing
proper stockades for the safe-keep-
ing of large number, and rs soon
as that is accomplished, they will
put good force to work on the
Road.


This is certainly cheering news to
our people. Anything that looks
like an early completion of our road
Is looked upon very eagerly by them.
They have waited long, and as pa
tiently as any people could under
the circumstances. Hope, at times.
seemed almost vanquished, but has
never been entirely given up to
make room for despair,


We hope that whatever legislation
may be necessary to enable the Com
missioners to complete the whole
line from Old Fort to DucktOwn, and
to. Paint Rock, may he given at the
very earliest practical time. Had
the present plan been adopted two
years ago, instead of the internal
consolidation fraud, we believe that
before this time the Iron horse would
have been echoing his welcome
snort up the Balsam tunnel. Let
us hope, however, that it will now
he pushed forward with all possible
speed, and that at no distant day
we will fully realize the consumma-
tion of our fondest desire. We are
satisfied that the gentlemen who
compose the Commission are capable
and efficient. and that they mean to
execute faithfully the great trust
that has been confided- to them.
Let them have every encouragement
that can be given. and success will
certainly crown their labors.
Year: 1875

Fall blowing is popular method
for treating stubble fields yet we have
known old farmers to object to it
arguing that so much exposure of
the soil to the sun and drying winds
causes therefrom. The saturated
and dry condition of the soil being
alternated from too much exposure
to the heat of .he sun and dying
winds hastens the decomposition of
the organic matter, or manures in
the ssoil, and converts the yege-
table molds into gases the only form
of nourishment fit for plant food, so
rapidly and in such abundance that
the soil is unable to contain it all.
This surplus fertility passes in the
atmosphere to remain until carried
down by rains to enrich other farms.


However true this argument may
be, there are other claims in favor of
fall blowing sufficiently valid to more
than overbalance all the objections
to it if the work be properly done.
There is much to be gained by early
blowing, before the weed seeds have
time to mature their germs Of per-
petual annoyance to the vigilant
farmer. In this way both the Pc
rennIal and annual varieties may be
effectually eradicated. Fall plow-
ing destroyes the hiding places of
noxious insects which feed upon the
growing crops and puts the rubbish
in shape to be converted into man
! ure, which upon spring plowing re-
mains in q raw state, to fire" the
crops, and causes no little damage
during very dry seasons.


The ground also becomes thor
oughly disintergrated and settled
by the freezing process of winter,
which puts it in a better condi-
tion to receive and promote the
growth of spring crops than freshly
plowed land. 1t especially admits
of early sowing of small grain, with
out which good yield is seldom
produced. And to have the iinpor-
tant work Of plowing already done
when tile rush of work comes in a
backward spring is no small desider-
atum. The drier and lumpier the
ground is when plowea the less liza
BILE is it to become run together and
baked from heavy rains in the
fall and winter. Speaking of this
puts us in mind to call attention to
the Importance of laying off the land
for plowing in such manner that the
surface drainage will be relieved as
far as possible Of the surface water.
Only he who observes all these rules
can claim the title Of "lnodel far.
mer.''
Year: 1875

It is prevailing vice among men
of doubling the virtue of women.
To as it looks like not only an out
rage to good taste, but also betokens
a want of intellect. Besides this it
betokens besotted nature. and pas
sions that would disgrace beast.
The idea of dragging women down
TO mans level in point of virtue, is
SO repugnant to the feelings, so ut
terly at variance with the truth, that
the utterer ought not to have place
in civil society.


We would wish to impress upon
those who cast this slur upon the
character of the women of cur land
that il what they charge were true,
this fair world of ours would be a
perfect hell. The. women Of our
land are as far above those who
make these assertions IS the heav-
ems are above the earth. Our wo-
men are the highest type of purity
and virtue, aud any craven who
would drive them from this high es-
tate deserves the execrations of all
good men.-E1.
Year: 1875

Voltaire said 1.-THE more mar.
ried men You have. the fewer crimes
there will be. Marriage renders a
man more virtuous and wise. An
unmarried man is but half a perfect
being, and it requires the other half
to make things right, and it cannot
be expected that in this imperfect
state he can keep the straight path
of rectitude any more than a boat
without an oar, or bird with one
wing can keep q straight course. In
nine cases out of ten where married
men become drunkards or commit
crimes against the peace of the COM
munity, the foundation of these acts
were laid while in a single state, or
where the wife is. as is sometimes
the case, an unsuitable match. Mar
riage changes the current of a mans
feelings. and gives him a centre for
his thonghts, his affections and his
acts, Here is home for the entire
man. and the counsel, the affection,


the example and the interest of his
better half keep him from his err
ratio courses, and from falling into
a thousand temptations to which he
would otherwise be exposed. There
fore. the friend to marriage is the
friend to society and to his country"
Year: 1875

Tie Wilmington Star gives the
following account of remarkable
escape of some boys from the attacks
of snake:


"a number of white boys were out
in the woods just beyond the Wood
en- place, formerly the Schenck place,
gathering chinquepins on Sunday af-
ternoon. when the party having sep
nrated one of the little fellows was
suddenly heard 20 cry out as If in
great alarm, shouting murder,
s.help," and other such exciting and
startling CALCULATIONS. The other
bows who were not far off, fastened
in the direction Of the sound and
soon found one of the smaller boys
perched upon fence, trembling and
crying with fright, while coiled upon
the ground by the fence was huge
snake. An elder brother of the lit
tie bov. who had outstripped the
others, was standing close by with a
stick, and upon receiving the rein
forcement a simultaneous attack was
made upon the serpent by himself
and the largest of the other boys
and he was soon dispatched. 1t ap-
pears that the little boy while look
ing for chipquepins, was suddenly
attacked by the reptile. which ran
up his body aud wound itself round
his leg. He shouted and kicked
with all his might aad finally sue
ceeded in freeing himself from the
snakes embrace when he hastily
sprang upon the fence. The snake
was subsequently measured, car
penter's rule being used for the pur-
pose, and found to be exactly four
feet and nine inches in length. while
its circumference could not have
been less than four inches. The
serpent was pronounced by some to
be q horned snake and by others
''stinger." The boys say that be-
fore life was entirely extinct they
pressed upon his tail with 4 stick
when a sharp slender object, some
thing in the shape of a needle, pro-
truded about three or four inches.


The escape Of the little boy, un-
der the circumstances is almost mi
raculous, and the incident should
serve rs & warning to boys generally
and cause them if they will go in the
the woods, to be careful and watch
full lest they get in a similar scrape
andHnot get out of it in such
healthy condition"
Year: 1875

When the summer OF youth is
slowly wasting away on the night
fall of age. and the shadow of the
past becomes deeper aud deeper,
and life wears to its close. it is q
pleasure to look through the vista or
time upon the sorrows and felicities
of our earlier years. It We have a
home to shelter and hearts to rejoice
with US. and friends have been gath.
cred around our fre-sides, and the
rough places of wayfaring will have
been worn and smoothed away in the
twilight Of life. the many dark spots
we have passed through will grow
brighter and more beautiful. Hap
py. indeed, are those whose inter
course with the world has not chang
ed the tone OF their holier feelings
or broken the musical cords OF the.
heart, SO touching in the evening Of
their life.
Year: 1875

Children are often spoiled because
they get no credit Cor what they do
we'll. OF censure they get their due
but of praise. never. They do some
things which they feel to be praise
worthy, but it is never noticed


When child tries to do we'll it feels
Itself paid for every endeavor by
praise, and the most unsophisticat.
ed child knows when praise is due
Year: 1875

As the Presidential election occurs during
the Centennial year, the temptation for the
adoption Of such a policy is very great 1t
is for this reason that we speak Of the danger
now hoping that timely warning will pre-
vent any such result We look forward to
the Exhibition as an event which shall make
the American people more united in senti-
ments Of fraternity and nationality than they
have been in the last quarter of century,
and the only thing to prevent complete
unity is in this danger of political or partisan
Vaccinations.


The Centennial has only two really great
purposes TO show the world the progress of
a century of republican government, and to
lead our people still more proudly to cherish
their institutions. If these ends are accom-
plished our nationalitywill be cemented, not
only in the respect Of other nations but in
our own hearts.
Year: 1875

The Western newspapers are discussing
the new Post Office lightning trains now in
operation between New York and the West
"'rhis trip" says the Cincinnati Enquirer,
''has demonstrated that the Post Office De-
partment has been compelled to follow the
lead of the New YORK HERALD in bringing
the great States nearer together" Very soon
we shall have a fast line to the South, by
which the morning New York mail will reach
Washington at noon, in time for the opening
of the sessions of Congress- The Postmaster
General informs us that this system of light
ming trains will not be an additional cost to
the government. Great credit is due to that
officer for his enterprise in carrying out this
plan, and we cannot fail also to note the
public spirit of Commodore Vanderbilt and
the chiefs Of the other railroads for thus aid
ing the government.


As more than one-eighth of the entire mail
matter of the country originates in New
York and more than three-sixteenths in New
England the necessity for fast trains to the
West will be apparent One problem with
us has been that of rapid transportation. In
building up this Republic we have scattered
ourselves so far apart that what appears on
its face an element of strength is really one
of weakness. We have great cities like
Chicago, St Louis, Detroit, New Orleans,
Portland, Baltimore, San Francisco. We
have great States like Massachusetts,, New
York, California Missouri, Texas, Illinois,
of themselves rich and populous, but inter-
vening and surrounding these settlements
we have unsettled regions which cannot,
even with our wonderful advance in popula-
ton, be within the range of civilization for a
century or two to come. Consequently the
problem has been to bind these populous
sections of the Union so closely together that
we shall have the unity and strength of com
pact nations like France and Germany.
Far-seeing men have feared that this
isolation of the different sections might be
source of ultimate weakness An English
writer, before our civil war, ventured the
prophecy that the end of the Republic would
be a series of considerations. The policy
which brings together the sections of the
Union, which makes business more expe-
ditious, which lessons time and space, is in
all respects commendable From this point
! of view, laying aside the other manifest
advantages we commend the action of the
! government as patriotic and wise. The way
to strengthen the Union is to bring its sec
tion closer together.
Year: 1875

We publish elsewhere an interview with
Max Strakosch, the celebrated impresario
OF Italian opera The fact that no announce
ment has been made for opera performance
this season has given rise to much specula-
ton. We can scarcely be called metropo-
lis unless we have the Italian opera. New
York has had so many fine singers and well
appointed companies during the last few
years that taste for opera has been created.
This taste Graves qualification. 1t might be
that hard times and the necessity for pinch
ing expenses will interfere with the opera


But we never yet have seen people who
were SO poor that they did not wish for
music. Mr. Strakosch shows that in the
capitals of the Continental countries the
opera is subsidized by the governments


This is so in Madrid Paris, st. Pc
tersburg, Naples, Venice and Vienna


Although there is no subsidy paid by the
British government, still the aristocratic and
wealthy classes practically endow the man
agement by subscribing for a certain number
of season tickets Mr. Strakosch tells us
that these subscriptions amount to as much
as six thousand dollars night There is no
way, he argues, of competing with opera
houses thus endowed. In New York we i'm
pose an additional burden upon the manage
ment by allowing the Academy stockholders
to reserve the best seats The right to oc-
cupy these seats during any season, success
tul or unsuccessful, is implied in the owner
ship of share of stock. AS Mr. Strakosch
shows If these seats were at the disposal of
the management it would add nearly n thou
sand dollars to its nightly receipts SO far,
therefore, from endowing the opera by govern
mental aid MS is the case on the Continent
or guaranteeing its management against
failure by large subscriptions, as we see in
London, we really impose tax upon it.


Mr.. Strakosch makes clear case. The
Academy stockholders are among the people
most interested in Italian opera and who feel
its absence. 1t would, therefore, seem to be
proper matter for consideration whether it
would not be wise for them to waive their
rights, or, if not to do this altogether, to
make certain concession to the manage
ment as an inducement to further operatic
enterprises. The stockholders might pay a
certain tax on their seats so as not to forfeit
all their rights of ownership which they
should enjoy as well as other owners of prop
erty. Something must be done to revive the
opera. 1t seems like passing into the rank
of second class city for the metropolis to
have a winter season without the old familiar
opera announcement. But before we can
make the opera a success we shall have to
revise our whole system. Perhaps the best
means Of beginning the reform would be for
the stockholders to waive their rights, or
portion of their rights, as a subvention to
managers, like Mr. Strakosch, who would
only be too glad to bring us good companies
and perform good operas if they could have
a reasonable assurance of success.
Year: 1875

In view of the frequent unjustifable USE
of the pistol by members of the polio,
force all over the country it would be well il
some simple and intelligent rule of conduct
were laid down for the guidance of police.
men, They should first be taught that in all
cases where the pistol was brought into play
they would be held to strict accountability
before the law for its use. At present there
seems to exist an impression among the po-
lice force that, by virtue of their Office, they
have right to shoot down whoever offers
them the slightest opposition in the discharge
of their duty. This monstrous proposition
is not only held but acted upon, by the or
dinary policeman and the result is seen in
the frequent commission of murder by
officers of the law. If police boards would
take the trouble of seeing to the proper in
struction of the men intrusted with the
guardianship of the public peace many OF
charitable to believe that policemen some
times act rashly from a mistaken sense of
duty, and, were a rule of conduct laid down.
it would diminish if not remove this dan


Such a rule ought to state explicitly in " X
class of cases policemen might con


themselves justified in having recorrs- t1
their firearms This would leave the police
men full liberty in dealing with t4o Ga'
to the citizens generally.
Year: 1875

MAssAcHUsErrs PoLLr1cs always have
peculiar interest because OF the dramatic
elements the politicians usually infuse into
the preliminary canvass. The republican
convention excites more attention than the
election, and, notwithstanding General But
Ter is not in the field this year, the approach
ing convention at Worcester is just now a
lively topic Our letter from Boston this
morning shows DIR. Loring the favorite can
didate for the gubernatorial nomination.
He has been in training as long as one Of his
own horses, but patient waiting and constant
effort are likely TO bring him his reward
Year: 1875

ANOTHER VIEW OF IT.-The question
whether the election in Maine is con
frmed a rebuke to the administration and
especially to Mr.. Blaine as to force his r..
tirement from the canvass for the Presidency
and to confirm the tidal wave" succl sses ot
last fall is now widely discussed. Doe


election in Maine mean the absolute down.
fall of the republican party? If the demo-
cratic tidal wave were still sweeping on, an
if men were open to the same. influences
which carried New York and Ohio into the
democracy by large majority, should not
Maine have gone democratic? Does not the
fact that this State has been saved for the
party even by reduced majority show that
perhaps because of these initiation tollies of
Ohio and Pennsylvania, the tidal wave is be-
ginning to go the other way?
Year: 1875

The Action OF THE SHERIFF., in seizing
the furniture and properties of the Park
Theatre just as the performance was about to
begin, on Wednesday evening, cannot be too
severely condemned. A delay of few hours
would not have prejudiced the claim against
the manager, especially as the public had
some rights in "The Mighty Dollar, as well
as the plaintiff
Year: 1875

JOHN KNEm, German grocer in Orchard
street, is clearly victim to the lactometer.
Mr. Kneib retails milk and the lactometer is
an instrument employed by the Board of
Health in testing its purity. The instrument
showed Kneibs milk to be impure, where
upon the lawyers attacked the lactometer
and found it to be altogether untrustworthy.
In spite of this Kneib was convicted in the
Court of Special Sessions yesterday and fined
one hundred dollars. There is to be an ap-
peal, and the lactometer instead of the tactical
Is to be tested.
Year: 1875

ARMoRY ARGUMENTS. 1t is probably good
argument which is urged by Colonel Clark
that in order to maintain the efficiency Of
the Seventh regiment it is necessary to pro-
vide an armory for the organization further
up town. Just at this time, however, we are
doubtful Of the policy Of erecting ga building
worthy Of New York.
Year: 1875

THE ATTITUDE OF SERyn in regard to the
insunection in Herzegovina is becoming
more interesting The party Of action in the
Skuptchina is growing in strength, and
Prince Milan's peace policy may be set aside
for more active measures. Servian sympathy
is very strong against Turkey, and may be
made very useful to the insurgents in Herze-
govina.
Year: 1875

The ASSAULT ON DR.. SANDS, at Newport, is
piece of brutality that must not be allowed
to go unpunished A quiet resort like New
port ought to be safe against crimes of this
kind and we are pleased that such an earnest
effort is making to detect the highwaymen
who committed the outrage.
Year: 1875

PooR TURKEY is the theme Of very inter
esting letter from Vienna which we print
this morning. The subject is both enter
tanning and important at this time, when
the rebellious subjects Of the Porte are max
ing so much stir
Year: 1875

The PLANS FOR RAPID TRANSIT are not yet
determined, but we trust no insurmountable
obstacles will be found An elevated road
being agreed upon, the character of the
structure can be easily settled, and the
sooner this is done the nearer will be the
realization Of a much needed convenience.
Year: 1875

A CoEHEsPoNDENT complains Of a nuisance
on the Church street carsI created by the
habit the multitude Of children on that road
have Of hanging on the rear platforms His
suggestions should have the consideration Of
the COMPANY
Year: 1875

There is good deal Of this pray
ing which is not a prayer at all, Men
piously ask of the Lord to undertake
works by the score which they are
too lazy or too penurious to 40 for
themselves. Prayer becomes cloak
Of lazicess and piety a mask for
avarice. In this point Of view, mis-.
meetings are often the sadiest
places thoughtful man can sit for
an hours meditation. He finds him
self often wondering in them-not
that the heathen are not converted
but that there are any Christians left.
Men meet, and pray, and exhort, and
turn the whole business over into the
Lords hands with an air Of pious
resignation, contributing a dollar or
two as they leave it, as their share
toward tho enterprise.
Year: 1875

Most men and women must keep in
the traces, anl keep pulling the year
arounl. Ail the more, therefore, is
it their duty to take things easier as
hot weather comes on. Take longer
rest at noon. Put on less steam when
You are at work. Snatch Sunlay now
and then from the middle Of the week


You cant? You can People find
time to be sick and die. They can
inst as easy find time to rest and keep
well. Everything does not depend
Oh finishing that dress or fencing that
field; or "putting up so much fruit
or catching so many customers. Bet
ter that the children should wear old
clothes than that their mother should
be lid aside With fever. Better that
the corn crop be less than no one to
harvest it. Let us have shorter sermons
and r9Ncr of them on Sunday; longer
receases for the children at schoo, on
week days. Putup the store shutter
earlier at night; prepare palmer meals
in the kitchen. Take a noon day nap
yourself and give employees chance
to 60 fishing Of an afternoon now
aud tuen. That only is duty which
the Lord lays upon us and he is not
70 har,, Y .atcr 4s we sometimes sup
Year: 1875

A YOUTH who attended a Scotch re-
viyal meeting for the fun of the thing
ironically inquired of the minister
whether he could work a mlricle or
not" The young mans curiosity
was fully satisfied by the minister
kicking him out Of the church, with
the maledictory, " We cannot work
miracles, but we can cast out devils.
Year: 1875

There is no character more thorough
ly contemplate than the slanderer, The
slanderer necessarily deals in falsehood
and deceit, and will stop at no crime
which may tend to crafty his malignant
propensities. Nothing is more beautiful
than religion coupled with sincerity |;
nothing is more revolving to the mind
than an affectation of religious feeling,
beneath which all is shallowness and hy-
pocrisy.. The slanderer seeks the hos
pitality of an individual learns all the
secrets and peculiarities of opinion pos
sessed by his entertainer affects to play
with his children; breaks bread with
him Ca circumstance sacred even among
savages) and then departs to commence
his work of defamation against the very
man who received him as a chosen friend.
The slanderer obtains the confidence of
individuals under solemn promise, rat
flied with an oath in thesight of heaven,
not to abuse that confidence and then
he hastens to divulge to his brother SLAM
derers all he has heard. Hence it is
that the slanderer is usually hypocrite
because he endeavors to conceal his
selfshness and malignity beneath the
cloak of religion. He is naturally an
unhappy man-his conscience is an evil
one-and his pillow is covered with
thorns. The success of others is CALLING
to him their misfortunes are by him
construed into crimes. He is uncharit-
able in all his sentiments and opinions !;
his bosom is filled with bitterness and
gall.