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Year: 1872

An IMPORTANT lNvENTioN.-The mon
strous and almost incredible impositions to
which ruptured persons have l,ng been
subjected in their efforts to find relief have
induced US to investigate the merits of the
newly invented Elastic Truss and Supporter.
If any of our readers will send for a Circular
to tho Elastic Truss Co., No. 6S3 Broadway,
New York, we are confident they will thank
us for this Information, for we believe that
with this instrument there need be no
further suffering from Hernia, as the price
is within the means of all The Gay Of
metal spring trusses has past.-N. y. I,de-
pendent.
Year: 1872

federal and State constitutions as to excessive
bail arc applicable to civil SUITS but 1t is certain
that II they are not applicable 1t in the power
OF the instigators OF this suit to have decreed per-
petual imprisonment upon preliminary process.
. q How many persons are there In the city OF
New York who could possibly give bail in the sum
OF seoo0,000 within an hour after their arrest A.
should say very few, II any.


q. How many persons could In like manner and
time give ball for Sl.0O0,00og A. Not great num-
Der. IL is the discretion Of the Sheriff to accept
Can ca 1ese 1 IN e ~ rt He
decline TO accept, close imprisonment necessarily
follows until relief could be obtained rom the
Court out OF which the process issued. This would
involve delay. Delays are said to be always dan
gerous. In this case delay would have been GER
tain ruin


Mr.. Clark then signed his deposition, after which
an adjournment was had to take the testimony OF
MIR. Augustus Schell.
Year: 1872

To THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD


The recent "corner" in ''Northwesternn has
caused some considerable excitement in Wall street
and has called forth much comment from the press
My name has been associated with that of Mr.. Jay
Gould and others in connection with the specula-
ton, and gross injustice has been done me thereby
Ibeg leave, therefore, to say, once for all, that
have not had either directly or indirectly the
slightest connection with interest in the matter
have had but one business transaction
with MIR. Gould in my life. In July, 1865
l sold him lot OF stock, for which he
paid me, with the privilege of a call for a
further lot, which he also settled. Since then /
have had nothing to do with him in any way what
ever; nor do l mean ever to have, unless IL be to
defend myself have, besides, always advised all
my friends to have nothing to do with him in any
business transaction. i came to this conclusion
after taking particular notice Of his countenance
The almost constant parade, therefore, OF my name
In association with his, seems very much like an
attempt to mslead the public to my injury, and
tafter the publication of this ignorance mislnfOr
nation can no longer be urged as an excuse for
continuing in this course As for Wall street specu
lations, know nothing about them; do not even
see the street three times In year, and no person
there has any authority to use my name or to in


o. VANDERBILT.


No. 25 WEST FOURTH STREET, Nov. 26, 1872
Year: 1872

In relation to the question OF vacatng the order
o. arrest issued by Judge Fancher against Jay
could, testimony In support of the applica tiOn to
vacate was taken yesterday before Mr.. McDOnough
Inc referee.


TESTIMONY OF HORACE r. CLARK.


Mr. Horace F. Clark testified as follOws:-Q.
What is your business and where do you resideP
A. reside IN this city and have relations with some
Dl the railroad interests Of the country.


Q. Were you during the month OF November,
and are you still the owner of any railroad stocksp
and If so, state some OF them. refer to active
and what are called leading speculative stocks In
tins market A. was then and am still the owner
OF o considerable number OF shares OF some OF the
ACTIVE AND LEADING SPECULATIVE STOCKS IN THIS


MARKET.


What stocks In particular are those in respect OF
which you desire to make inquiry


Chicago and Northwestern common stocks ana
Lake Shore stocks. A. was then and am still
nm owner OF considerable number OF shares Of
both OF those stocks.


T. Have you been familiar, during the present
month. with the course Of the stock market in this
city in relation TO those and other leading active
st0cksH A. think have been.


Q. Has there been during the present month any
stocke A. From period commencing shortly
prior to


THE BOSTON FIRE,
aud since that event there have been active deal.
tngs In this market in Northw estern common
stock, and the fluctuations In Lake Shore have
been considerable during the same time.


q. State the general course of the market IL
those respects shortly prior to and including No
vember 22, 1872. A. An active speculation as yol
term it, in Northwestern common stock com
menced prior to the happening Of the Boston fire
Year: 1872

We see it stated that South Carolna has
AN elephant" on hand in the shape of a
new Code of Laws, and we incline to the
opinion that California is in the same fix
The disjointed form in which the Code was
sent out to the press and officials, while it
was being prepared. did not afford sufficient
opportunity for examination, criticism, and
detection Of inconsistencies and errors.-
The Legislative Committees to whom were
confdcd the work of "examining" as to the
perfection or imperfection of the new or
revised laws, seem to have blundered when
they recommended their immediate adoption
BY the Legislature The main trouble, we
think, is that the Committee appointed TO
"revise and compile" the laws of the State.
have transcribed their authority, and
originated many new laws and Incorporated
them into their report, and sometimes with
out regard to the consistency and harmony
of the whole.


At all events it would certainly have
been better to adopt the Code with the pro
vision that it should not 90 into effect until
next year, ard meantime have the laws
published in the local papers. so that when
they did go into operation. the people might
be fully acquainted with their require
nents.


In the matter of making assessments.
levyir and collecting taxes. new system
has been adopted and no opportunity allow
ed officers and the people to become fanil
lar with it. The County Assessor is
made the Collector of certain taxes, and
although his percentage for this addi
tionaI work increases his salary, the time
allowed him to complete the assessment of
the county only exteads to July, and it
may be necessary for the Supervisors to al
low him deputy at an expense to the
General County Fund of $500 per day


Although there is considerable confusion
and squirming over the "new tangled laws"
in nearly all the counties, we suppose all
hands will have to wiggle along until they
get used to them--and about that time
another experimenting Legislature will get
up q new, and perhaps worse set.
Year: 1872

THE New REVENUE IAw-The new
law went into force last Saturday, and
under its provisions there are many changes
made in the manner of raising revenue.
The most important are as follows: Taxes
are levied after the assess ment is completed
and djusted by the Board of Equalization.
The Legislature fixes the sum to be raised.
Second-After this year all stamp taxes
are abolished. fhird-Poll taxes 90 to
the counties and into the School Fund
Fourth-All licenses 90 to the counties,
Fifth-All property assessed at its true
cash value Assessments are to be made
between the 1st of March and the first
Monday in July. The delinquent list does
not 90 to the district Attorney for collec-
ton as formerly, but the assessment is
made Judgment against the person, and
the tax is lien having the force and effect
of an execution, and the property is sold
after due notice by the Tax Collector to
pay the taxes The State Board of
Equalization is now busily engaged in pre-
pairing blanks for the use of County Asses
s,rs, and directions for the guidance of
those officers under the new revenue law
County Assessors will do well not to com
mence work until they receive those blanks
and instructions, as all they do under the
old law will have to be done over again
Il Butte Record March 23rd
Year: 1872

SOME COOP FEATUREs.-Thcre are
some good features about the new Code
Hereafter all licenses 90 in to the County
Treasury, the State receiving no proportion
of them, and the Poll taxes all go into the
County School Fund. We hope that this,
together with the dog tax, the regular
County School tax. and the State School
Fund will enable us to avoid sr. cial School
taxes this year Let every body lay up
enough to pay that Poll tax when the As
sessur comes round noue will be excused
who are legally entitled to pay it, and Os-
burae can't afford to take promises" but
must have the coin on demand
Year: 1872

GIBBONs.-We received friendly call
from DR.. Gibbons of Alameda on Thusday
The Doctor is up here to inspect our quartz
mines, and may invest if be finds anything
to suit him. The trouble is, everybody up
here who claims an unprospected ledge wants
fortune for it, although it might not prove
to be worth cent to the purchaser.
Year: 1872

OUTRAGEoUS.-We notice that the


Legislative Committee on Prisons has


reported list of convicts as ong as the


moral law which are to be recommended to
to the Governor for pardon. Some of these
convicts have been sentenced to serve for
life, and some for long terms, aud have
only been in prison few years, yet it is
proposed to set them at liberty. THIS
thin. of semi annually opening the prison
doors and turning loose upon the people a
horde of convicted murderers, mansaugh-
terers, robbers aud thieves, is a burning
shame and an infamous outrage that ought
to be stopped. What in the name of
common sense is the use in taxing the law
ob;ding people Of the State to keep up
Courts and pay the expense of convicting
criminals, if they are to be turned loose to
renew their depredations upon life and
property after brief incarceration? Why,
this thing is turning our Courts and trials
into useless but expensive farces. and is a
berlesque on law and justice. The tax.
payers of the country demand that this
wholesale pardo ing business shall ce ise
Year: 1872

MEETING.-As we go to press Friday
afternoon, we learn that there is call out
for meeting of citizens, at the Court
House, on the same evening, to hear the
report of the special committee sent to
Sacramento to confer on matters connected
with the branch railroad to Shasta.
Year: 1872

THE JACKSON BILL In vetoing the
bill giving sheriff Jackson $4,000 the
Governor says: The bill under considera


ton appropriates $4,000 to pay the defend


ant for his expenses and damages in the
suit, and exempts the appropriation from
consideration by the Board of Examiners.
If the State bad any interests in maintain
ing the supremacy of her own statutes over
the laws of the United STATES, or in the
settlement Of the question Of conflict of
laws, she had law officer in the person of
her own Attorney General, commissioned,
sworn and paid for that purpose His en-
tire competence to discharge that duty is
not doubted, and he had contingent fund
under his control and could employ addi-
tl"nal counsel whenever in his opinion the
digni of the State or the importance of
the ease demanded it That he recognized
and discharged bis duty in this matter is
evidenced by his report to the Governor,
wherein he states thlt he considered it his
duty to defend this suit-and did defend
it, The proceedings of the Court, and the
judgment rendered, show that the trial in


volved question Il law, rather than of
penalty and, after the decision, the present
bill seems to NE to convert a penalty for a
violation of law Of Congress into premium.
Year: 1872

So-If the Legislature will give the
people chance to vote on an amendment
to the Constitution providing that the Leg
islature shall meet only once in four years,
aud then remain in session but six weeks,
the proposition will be carried by about
seventy-fve thousand majority.
Year: 1872

From the Silver Mountain Chron-
icle, of a recent date, we make the
following extract:


I'm about two weeks the lioistihg
works for the INL mine will arrive
per rail from New York, when work
will be resumed The working of
this mine upon the plan adopted by
the Board of Directors in London
involves an expenditure of Sl13, 600.
Last winter fine body of ore was
struck in the face of the old upper
tunnel. both above and below, but
this will not be touched at present,
the company not having mill. As
soon as the hosting works are in
position. sinking will commence to
prove the mine.
Year: 1872

Fowls IN ORcHARDs.-A correspondent
of the Farmers Home Journal, thus writes
on fowls:


"The public has yet to learn the full
advantage of keeping poultry. Few seem
to appreciate what they may do among
trees in an orchard. Let any one try them
in an orchard of a quarter of an acre,
where they may be kept by picket fence
four or five feet high; put in, say 1875 fowls
and observe the result. They will avoid
annoyance in the garden, of which so many
complain, while they work among the trees,
doing just what is needed and destroying
everything that can injure the fruit-trees
in the shape of bugs, worms or any other
insects, and lay large number of eggs,
which are a cash article, to say nothing of
the chickens, which pay we'll for raising at
the present time. I have tried it, and
know it is so. l have about 100 fowls
which have worked admirably among my
trees, keeping the ground in good condi-
ton, keeping off the insects, and promot-
ing the growth of the orchard, I am satis-
fed that we have yet to learn the full bene-
fit which may be derived from the proper
management Of fowls; and it is quite posi-
BILE that the method 1 have suggested may
offer the best way of getting our apple
orchards in good bearing condition"
Year: 1872

The branches of many ornamental, as
well as fruit trees, need to be held in
certain position during the growing season,
so that the new wood, as it forms, may
hold them in the desired places. When
branch grows in direction below hori-
zontal position, it is said to droop. When
one grows above horizontal line, at any
angle below forty-tive degrees, it is said to
be spreading. Those above an angle of
forty-fve degrees are said to be erect. The
person who trains trees of any kind should
keep in mind an "ideal tree having CEN
tral stem; with branches on every side, so
that the top will be evenly balanced. If
the central stem does not stand erect one
or two stakes should be driven into the
ground, a few feet from the tree, and wires
should extend from the stakes to the tree
top, for the purpose of holding it in an
erect position until the roots have gained
such a firm hold in the soil that the wind
cannot start the trees from their erect posi-
ton. If any of the branches grow more
erect than is desirable, by drawing them
downward to proper angle, and fastening
the wire by which they are held to a stake,
an Informed tree-top may be greatly i'm
proved in one season. A violent gale of
wind will sometimes cause a young tree to
lean at an angle Of forty-five degrees. If
allowed to remain in such a position, new
branches will start from the upper side OF
the central stem. This is the effort of
pature to MAINTAIN the balance of the top
as nearly as may be. All such trees should
be set up in perpendicular position, and
be held there until furious wind cannot
move the tops from an erect position.
Year: 1872

The ,-bject of rotation of crops is one


which deserves especial attention, and


whic. must be considered with reference


TO he locality where it is practiced; but


tat it is an essential principle which must
.nter into the successful operations of the
farm, is as certain as that diversity of
food conduces to the health, strength, and
mental capacity of man. The analogy is
by no means an imperfect one. What can
be so plain, if we but reason from natural
cause and effect, as that bringing into
requisition again and again the same means
of production, the same muscular powers
of locomotion, the pursuit of the same
train of thought. serves but to exhaust the
soil, as it debilitates and exhausts the
capacity of man? The earth will certainly
cease to yield product of the constituent
parts of which it has already given all it
has. And here le. us consider the result
and effect of continual restoration of the
soil by the application of suparphosphates,
guano, and other commercial manures.-
Will not this supersede the necessity OF
rotation? All these may contain many of
the component parts of production, and
most of them are soluble in water, and,
therefore, more Immediately convertible
into plant food, stimulating in its character
quickly bringing into requisition the pow
ers of the earth, and consequently in the
same degree exhausting those powers; and
like spirits habitually administered to the
body, requiring an increase of quantity to
produce a like effect; and eventually in
crease loses its power, and the earth, like
the body, dies from exhaustion. There is
an active, living principle in diversity or
rotation of crops, which nature dictates, as
is exhibited in the practical operations Of
the farm. Dig up an old apple-tree, and a
young one will not grow successfully upon
the same ground, and no manure will
make it grow. 1t is vain to theorize upon
the subject, and we may as we'll conclude
that there is no substitute for rotation OF
crops in proper management of the farm.
Year: 1872

There is one subject to which the atten-
ton of farmers everywhere should be drawn
the pasturage of cattle upon land when
it is wet. There is no one whose expert
ence has not taught him that to plow land
when it is wet is injurious to it. The rea-
son is manifest: The earth may be said to
be set of mouths and lungs which feed
and breathe; to plow it when wet shuts up
it's capacity to feed and breathe; in other
words, it smears its surface SO as to make
it impervious to light, air and heat, for the
want of which it dies; and death, too,
from which resuscitation is extremely diff
cult. This same consequence is the result
of pasturing cattle upon lands whose sur
face has been made wet by rain or other
wise; it is worked into mortar incapable
of producing fruit.


Farming, like all other Of the occupa.
tions of life, requires study of the scien'
tific principles which enter into it, thought
of the modes of their application, and espe-
cially the observations of practical expert
ence; and these combined will always pro
duce profitable results.
Year: 1872

SHALL WE GRIND GRAIN FOR Cows
A correspondent says: "If cow in chew
ing her cud throws up all she eats and
chews it over again, do not see where the
advantage is in getting corn ground at all
to feed Illuminating animals" The proof
of that hasty- pudding is in the eating of
the corn by the COW. Feed her on whole
corn, and you will find that, even in twice
chewing, she does but Indifferent work,
and that much of the grain in her food is
passed in whole kernels. Grind her corn
for her, and a smaller quantity will nourish
her as we'll. More hogs can be fattened
after animals fed OH whole corn than after
the same number fed on meal. Lastly, try
the comparative experiment (under exact
ly the same circumstances and you will
satisfy yourself.
Year: 1872

To OBTAIN PURE SEED, 60 into your
field when the wheat begins to ripen; you
will find spots Oh southern slope, in ad-
vance of the rest of the field; from these
spots select the ripest and best developed
heads; with your pocket knife cut the stalk
about ten inches below the head; when you
have handful wrap straw around it;
throw in punches; carry out in sacks or
baskets. For every bushel you gather in
this way, with little extra preparat OF
land, you ought to grow from thirty to fifty
bushels of pure seed and improved wheat
the next season. know whereof affirm,
for have tried it. By this method, You
not only get pure seed of the variety you
desire, but you improve its quality, and
promote early ripening, and are thereby
likely to escape the disease called rust.
Year: 1872

How EASILY BUTTER Is SPoILED.-A
farmers wife writes: "Of all the products
of the farm, butter is the most liable to be
tainted by noxious odors floating in the
atmosphere. Our people laid some veal in
the cellar, from which a little blood flowed
out and was neglected until it commenced
to smell. The result was that jar of but
ter which was then packing smelled and
tasted like spoiled beer. Another lady
reader observes that there was pond Of
filthy, stagnated water few hundred feet
from their house, from which an offensive
effluvium would be born on the breeze di-
rectly to the milk room, when the wind
was in certain direction, the result OF
which was that the cream and butter
would taste like. the disagreeable odor
coming from the pond. AS soon as the
pond was drained, we had no more dam
aged butter. Exchange.
Year: 1872

Grasshoppers came down on Maine in
inhabitants think they were Utah. The
result was a great scarcity of winter food
for cattle, and Yankee ingenuity was driven
to some queer expedients to overcome the
of fish to the cattle. After little while
they became very fond of this strange food,
and it seems to have answered very we'll
for them.


The scarcity led many thoughtful people
to weigh every mouthful of food eaten by
their cattle, and to make careful observa-
tions. One gentleman finds that 80 Tbs. of
hay divided into three equal portions will
keep COW in good condition "a hours
Or ten pounds of hay on Eve pounds OF
corn meal will accomplish the same thing.
Twenty bushels of corn are found to be
equivalent to ton of hay-that is when
the hay is cut in blossom and cured with
out rain or dew.


Another gentleman kept yearling colt
in constantly growing condition on one
quart of oats and four pounds of hay per
day. This is most remarkable. The colt
must have been an easy keeper naturally.
This ration was divided into three equal
parts, and fed at early morn, at noon and
just before dark.


When the hay was timothy, he cut it;
when red clover, he fed it without cutting.
In all cases he wet his hay and oats with
warm water. He fed his cows ten pounds
of hay and four quarts of corn meal, wet
ting it in the same way.
Year: 1872

To TAKE bruises out of furniture, wet
the part with warm water; double piece
of brown paper five Or six times, soak it in
the warm water, and lay it on the place;
apply on that warm but not hot fiat-iron
not gone repeat the process. After two or
three applications, the bruise will entirely
disappear. If the dent or bruise be small,
merely soak it with warm water. and hold
red-hot iron near the surface, keeping
the surface continually wet-the bruise
will soon disappear.
Year: 1872

The Orleans House corner Of s. Charles
ana Common streets, has become one Of tie
most popular as well as the most famous
establishments of the kind N the city
Captain Gus Richards is the proprietor. and
that IS the reason why the Orleans House is
SO popular: for lie is sure to win popular
esteem because Of his lbauitv, and bis de
termination TO do nothing by halves, but
everything well. Ii will be remembered that
Captain Richards acquired d great deal of
personal popularity last year in conse-
quence of the satisfactory manner il which
he managed the little steamer that piled
under his command through Harrcy's
canal. between the Mississippi river and
Barataria bay. Almost everybody made
his acquantanCe but new people have
come here since, and they all seek hi.u out
as a man of mark whom they have heard
Of and learned 70 admire. Go to the Or
ipan- House.