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Year: 1875

THE press Of the State receive the news
Of the UHion'S demise with varying feel
ings. Generally speaking there is a gen
eral expression Of regret at the disappear


ance from the field Of journalism of pa
per Of such acknowledged ability. In
this feeling, most Of the Democratic jour
nails share. They know the help which
the Union has rendered, and could have
given again toward Democratic sweep
in this State, ard knowing the difficulty
il would have had in again securing rec
ognition as a Republican organ, drop a
few crocodile tears. The Republican
press attribute its downfall to the proper
cause, and remembering its great SER
vices in the hour of need, regret the turn
+ in its affairs which crushed it out Of exist
ence. The Union possessed influence for
good, which rightly directed, could have
/ been Of incalculable benefit to the State
and its people, but the nature Of the war
fare it wagcd against the Railroad Corpo-
ration was 50 bitter, that moderate men
could not believe its motives were the
proper ones. The Dolly Warden journals
wall in sackcoth and ashes, with the
Marysville AppeaJas chief mourner. Oh
one thing we are satisfed-that with the
demise Of the Union we can now look for
more temperate discussion of those
questions in which the interest of the peo-
pie are so greatly involved. But for it:
counsels we believe the Legislature Of '73-
"a would have come to fair understand
ing Of fares and frieghts and that bone oI
contention taken out Of the arena Of poll
tics. While its radical counsels prevailed
with those whom it could influence, there
was no chance to avoid extremes, and
come to an understanding that would dc
justice TO all sides, but now we may hope
that better era of feeling will prevail.
Year: 1875

THE "RECoRD-UYIoN " cannot be ac-
cused Of being a worshiper Of Senator
Booth, but the Reco1d- Union gives some
sensible advice to the Republican journals
that cannot disguise his hostility to that
gentleman, and who are endeavoring to
discredit his representation in advance.
1t truthluly says that our Senator will
go there to represent California, and that
when he does something discreditable as
n Senator will be time to find fault with
him. This we think is the true idea.-
Booths antecedents are all Republican,
and doubtless his sympathies will be with
that party on all matters of national mo-
ment. 1t is folly to cndeayor to impair
the influence Of one Of our national Rep
resentatiyes or bring them down on par
with Luttrcll on the score Of usefulness.
Year: 1875

GONE BELow.-We learn from the
Shasta courier that Jerry Culverhouse
went to San Francisco last week for the
purpose OF consulting oculists in regard
to his right eye, which is badly injured
by one Of the shot that struck him at the
time Of the attempted stage robbery, II
couple OF weeks since. A Sacramento
paper says that Culverhouse's expenses
will be paid by the Express Company,
and it is nothing more than right that
they should.
Year: 1875

\ VIRGINIA jury brought a man in
guilty Of murder in the first degree who
was on trial for assault to murder, the
person upon whom the assault had been
made being in court at the trial.
Year: 1875

At the recent meeting of the Rens-
selaer County, New York, Medical
Society, a doctor reported a case
which goes as far to show the pro
gress being made in the healing art
rs anything recently Y met with. Next
to taking out the lungs and cleansing
them stands the operation of cutting
into a persons chest, and through
the wound made, washing out the in
side. Early in January last, little
twin daughter of James Kelly, of
Troy, had inflammation of one lung;
and since then had been gradually
failing. The physician soon became
convinced that an accumulation OF
matter was taking place in the affect
ed side, which, unless removed, would
cause death. Accordingly, about
three weeks ago, with an instrument
termed the "aspirator," cOnsidera-
BILE quantity of pus was removed, but
not nearly all. The nature of the
case being more fully revealed, it was
determined to mako thorough work,
and, in a day or two after, three sur
geons made a free, bold incision be-
tween the ribs into the cavity of the
chest, midway between the heart and
the spine, on the left side, and evac-
uated about quart of matter.


"A double tube was then inserted
into the opening made; and by means
of & syringe fitted to it, the whole
cavity was washed cut with disin-
fectant solution of just the tempera-
ture of the blood. This cleansing
process has been repeated once in a
day or two, and as the result OF II
the little sufferer who was so near
deaths door, is sitting up, eats well,
and plays some, and the opening " i'll
soon be allowed to heal. Only four
cases have been reported in this
country in which this method OF OPP
Grating was adopted, but it is ap-
proved by the highest medical an


thority, and will undoubtedly De re-
sorted to more frequently as it be-
comes more generally known, as a
means of saving life.
Year: 1875

The table is the place at which the
family meet, and there should be the
freest and most unrestrained social
intercourse. We eat to live; but the
mere animal necessity is lifted up
and glorified, when the charms of
pleasant conversation and of mutual
courtesy surround the custom. So
far as the sustaining of life is con-
cerned, that object might be reached
if each took his bread and meat, and
retired to a closet to eat it alone.
But there is spiritual life that is to
be fed and sustained, and it is starved
where there is no grace, not only be-
fore, but during a meal.


The great trouble with our Ameri
can life is, that it is too gloomy. We
take no time to entertain and amuse
each other. Not seldom does it hap
pom in some houses, that meal pro-
crosses in dead silence, except when
uccr--eRF To speak abOut the
dishes, or to help some one 70 pUra=
toes or pie. This is almost as bad
as rudeness or quarreling. There
ought to be bright, sparkling talk in
which the children should be allowed
to join. There is no sense, whatever,
in compelling an Intelligent child to
sit like a deaf mute at the table;
though on the other hand, children
should not monopolize the conversa-
tiOn, nor be allowed to ask strings
of irrelevant questions. Every one
should prepare for the table by some
simple process of dressing. The hair
should be smooth, the hands washed,
the general appearance ofeach should
try to be as agreeable as possible to
every other. 1t is quite wonderful
how a little freshing of the toilet
freshens up the soul rs well as the
face. So far we ought all to be lux
urious. If the mother sees to it, that
her school-hoy SONS always come to
dinner with clean hands and nails,
and that her daughters never dawtlle
into tawdry finery or solid wrappers,
she will do more than she dreams of
in the work of making them grow
into real gentlemen and ladies'.


The table itself ought to have
festive losk. Flowers have a special
grace Oh the breakfast board. A dish
of fruit nicely arranged, pleases the
eye as well rs the palate at dinner.
Clean linen, even though coarse, and
whole plates and cups, with bright
glass and silver, help appetite along.
A few well cooked dishes, however
plain, nicely served will promote
health and happiness better than a
great variety ruined in the prepara-
ton.


Some housckeepers, with an eye to
saving trouble on washing day, have
adopted the marbled oil-cloth, instead
OF the white damask for ordinary
use. For our part, we would prefer
economy in almost any other way.
A fine white table-cloth, or buff or
crimson one occasionally for break
fast or tea, will furnish forth the fam
ily feast much more beautifully.
Year: 1875




The introduction of sectarianism
in any form into the politics of the
country is an event to be regretted
by every man who knows from his
tory what have been the conse-
quences to other nations of political
contests in which questions, of reli-
gious faith were involved, and who
is aware of the carefulness with which
the founders of the republic strove
to make such strife impossible here.
But we are to-day compelled to face
the fact that the policy and the ira
ditions of our government in this re-
spcct have been rudely disregarded
by denomination which, more than
any other, has an interest in respect
ing them, and which owes a debt of
gratitude to this nation for giving to
it here such freedom from persecution
and oppressive legislation as it pos
sesses in few other countries in the
world. In the State of Ohio the
Catholic Church has resolved to make
the division among the various de-
nominations Of money raised for pub
lie school purposes by general taxa
tion an issue in the coming cam
paign. Bishop McQuaid, in re-
cent address at Cincinnati, declared
to those who, with him, oppose the
present public school system, that
they must 90 in the political field,
that they must use "the power of the
ballot box" and that ''power rests
with organized numbers" In pur
suance of this theory the church has
virtually made an alliance with the
Democratic party, and it is bold and
daring in declaring its sentiments
and in revealing its attitude, and it
is confident that the Democrats, be
ing in possession of the State, will
be able, with the numerical strength
given to them by this alliance, to win
the election. The Catholic Tele-
graph, the organ of Archbishop Pur-
cell, has openly promised to the
Democracy ''the solid unbroken vote"
of the Catholics of the State in the
struggle, and we have no doubt that
every effort will be made to secure
that result.


In Ohio the Republican party has
given no uncertain sound concerning
its views of this subject. In its
platform it has declared in the
strongest terms against the scheme,
and it enters the canvass as the
champion of the public school sys-
TEN and of popular enlightenment,
against the adversaries of both. 1t
never committed itself to more i'm
portant policy, and it never more
clearly proved its claim to be the par
tv of progress and the defender of
pure American principles. The
country will remember against the
Democratic party not only that ii
has consented to strike blow at free
education, and to attempt to intro
duce to this country theories which
obtain only in the most bigoted and
degraded of foreign nations, but that
for the sake of gaining few addi
tional votes, it has dragged sectarian
ism into our politics, and joined it
self with a powerful church in a po
litical contest, in violation of one o.
the most honored and distinctive
principles of this government
Such an act ought to condemn any
political organization to destruction
and we confidently hope that thu
unholy alliance will be repudiated by
the people in the present, and will
serve to rob the Democratic party il
the future of what little prestige i
has remaining.
Year: 1875

MARK TWAIN, IN letter to the in
ventor of a mosquito net, talks in
this way about the only thing worth
talking about, now that the third
term is gone: "There is nothing
that just and right-feeling man re-
ioices in more than to see a mosquito
imposed on, and put down, and brow
beaten, and aggravated, and this in
eenious contrivance will do it. And
it is rare thing to worry fly with,
too. A fly will stand off and curse
this invention till language utterly
fails him. have seen them do it
hundreds of times. like to dine in
the air or the back porch in summer,
and so | would not be without this
portable net for anything. When
YOU Get it hoisted the flies have to
wait for the second table. We shall
see the summer day come when we
shall sit under our nets in church and
slumber peacefully, while the dis
comfited flies club together and take
it out of the minister. There are
heaps of ways of getting precious
endowment out of these charming
things, if 1 had time to point then
ont and dilate on them little"
Year: 1875

A Western Democratic organ says;
"We are about tired of defeating the
Republican party on paper.


Will the Democratic State Con
vention denounce the Geghan law,
which is 4 stab at religious liberty
and an effort to make Catholicism
the State religion of Ohio?-Toledo
Blade.


The Catholics demanded the pas
sage of the Geghan bill, and the
Democratic party passed it. Now
the division of the school fund is in
sisted upon. Is it safe in this crisis
to trust the party that passed the
Geghan bill?


The Liberal State Committees OF
New York recently had a meeting
and resolved that shy cooperation
with the Democratic party the liberal
ideas enunciated at Cincinnati have
not vet been fully realized" Well.
we shouldn't think they had.


Governor Tilden's reform warfare
does not come quite up to his sound
ing manifesto. The Albany Journal
says that nearly three months have
passed by since the Canal message,
and nobody has been prosecuted and
not an officer has been touched.


In Vicksburg, says Mr.. Charles
Nordhoff, the Democrats got up a
Taxpayers League, but were made a
laughing stock when it was discov-
cred that one of the officers of the
League had charged the town $500
for removing a safe from the landing
to the Court house.


Mr.. Charles NSrdhoff, in a late
letter says: "The thing which was
oftenest said to me in Mississippi by
Democratic politicians was this;
Our only hope is in the Democratic
success in the next federal election.
The Democratic success last fall
gave us our first gleam of light. But
when asked how a Democratic adj
ministration could help them, the re-
ply was, Because then we can dlsor-
ganize the colored vote. They will
not vote without white leaders to or
ganize them And when l asked
one of the leaders of the white line
movement, whose object is to draw
the color line strictly, how he could
hope to get all the white people with
their strongly diverging views, into
his movement, his prompt reply was
Well make it too id hot for them
to stay out Now, to lie, this does
not look like the American way OF
CARRYING an election. All Northern
men are united in one general and
fierce condemnation as carpet bag
GERS But many of these men thus
condemned and held up to hatred
have lived in the State since lS65-6;
they are men of means, and have all
their means invested in the State;
many of them are large planters
against the honesty and high charac-
ter of many of them no one can say
a word. 1t is charged that some OF
these hold Office, but why should
they not? They are citizens of the
State in every sense of the word, and
and worthy, capable men, whom no
one charges with peculatien or op-
preston" l."
Year: 1875

THERE seems to be but one peasant
in Germany whose head is thorough
lv level. At the time of the Czar $
visit a great panic was createa ee n, nos sae
country by the report that tIe Eer,
man Emperor had sold bis chilafen IN
at two thalers head, with which to
people Russia, and that the children d
wore TO be taken by the Gar from
the schools. lis thought the report
was spread by the priesthood to in
duce the country people to keep their
children away from the schools. II
had chat effect very generally, but
one sound cid fellow said to his boys
$50 to school without fear; our En-
peFor will take right good care not tt
sell his future soldiers"
Year: 1875

The dangerous class" is getting
more dangerous all the time if q
MULTIPLICATION of odd wiles and
shrewd devices indicate any thing.
Not long ago a family at Mishewaka,
Indiana, was most agreeably sur
prised by. a gift from some unknown
friend, the gift consisting of tickets OF
admission to circus about to per-
form in the town. A circus is a
well-spring of pleasure in Mishe-
waka, and so the whole family
greedily improved the opportunity
and went to the exhibition. They
admired the young ladies in span
giles and tights, they laughed at the
antics of the trick mules, they shout
ed at the jokes and contortions OF
the clown, they ate gingerbread and
peanuts, and had grand time in the
good old fashioned way generally.
The circus ended and the family
went home to be shocked. In their
absence the house had been broken
INTO and stripped of every thing
| valuable from cellar to garret. The
| robbery was complete, for the depre
dators had enjoyed abundance o


time. The secret of the gift of the


circus tickets was made painfully


evident. The thieves had sent the
tickets to the family to secure


chance for the burglary.
Year: 1875

1t is nothing new for people to pass
under mountains and rivers in tunnels,
but most persons would probably re-
gard it as novelty to travel with
horse and sleigh through a tunnel in
the snow. Should any of our readers
have an ambition in that direction,
they can be gratitied by going about
three miles north of Lee Centre, in the
Fish Creek region. There they will
find that most reliable portion of the
road lies in dug-out under the beau
tiful snow, which is twenty feet high
in the road. We have the assurance
of those who have passed through the
tunnel, that the driveway in it is
smooth and even, and while the wind
may howl and the snow drift outside,
this part Of the road is q sort of oasis,
as it were, even level and comfortable.
There is said to he only one drawback
it is a little dark about midway. The
roof of the tunnel is kept from falling
in by ceiling of hemlock slabs. We
have failed to ascertain the length of
this tunnel, but judge it must be about
an eighth of mile. 1t is a single
track route, with places for teams to
turn out in case of meeting-Rome
Sentinel.
Year: 1875

OccIDENT COMING EAsT.-Califor-
MAS trotter, Occident, will leave for
the East about the first of April, in
charge of Budd Doble. Doble, since
he has had charge of Occident, has
succeeded in educating him up to a
much higher degree of excellence in
the way of curbing his disposition to
be unsteady at times, treating him
kindly but firmly, and in a manner
that is highly satisfactory to the owner
and numerous friends of this wonder
full horse.
Year: 1875

As the common schools for the pres
ont scholastic year, and particularly


those of the country, are about to open,
and the attention of the people is more
than usually drawn to the subject Of
schools, there is a good occasion f'y
those teachers solicitous for the welfare
of schools and the cause of education to
communicate to the public, either by
lectures or through the press, the
thoughts and ideas, however crude and
imperfect, which they have formed
with regard TO the important business
upon which they are about to enter.
One Of the greatest faults of country
teachers is their habitual silence, and
their practice Of delegating TO others
the right of becoming their eXponents,
instead of assembling togetherand bold
" standing up fIr themselves against
any aggression from whatever source ii
may come, whether from legislators,
superintendents, State or county boards
Of education. The teachers Of high
schools, institutes and colleges, hold as
sociations ostensibly for the purpose Of
aiding common schools, but there Is 4
scent Of aristocracy about them too
strong to deceive any one as to their
real dozicn,aud the formidable handle
Year: 1875

THE Bath County Ners is furious be,
cause Gov. LESLIE failed 10 appoint an
Owingsville lawyer his Secretary of
State. Remembering the work put in
on the revision Of the statutes by the
best lawyer of that ilk, the Democracy
Of Kentucky owe the Ne,cS thanks for
this further testimony to the wisdom OF
our model Governor.
Year: 1875

PRESIDENT GRANT has discovered
that it is far more easy to acquire for
tune like a knave chan to expend it
like a gentleman, hence he LET another
man pay his 81 900 subscription to the
fund for the support Of the family Of
General RAWLINGS, who was his right
hand and brains during the war.
Year: 1875

Our own opinion is that the Democratic
defeat in Ohio is not attributable to the fnan-
cial policy of the party, and that it will not
in the least abate the ardor with which that
policy is supported in any part of the Union.
Columbus (Ga.) Inquirer.


The financial issue can never be put aside
until it is settled by the payment or funding
of the greenbacks. The party that stands
firmly by that policy must win in the long
run, and the more boldly and clearly it as
sumes its part the sooner it will win.-N. Y.
Times.


The Western and Southern. initiation inur-
uation. A few of them are willing to COM
promise little by making the currency a Sec
ondary issue, but the great part of them de-
clare they will split the party before they will
take anything else as leading question.


1t is assumed by the New York papers that
imitation is dead. When the Democratic Nat
ional Convention meets it may be discovered
that it has sufficient vitality left to sting the
heels of the hard money Democrats who have
helped to tramp on it.-CincinnGti CONNER
cidl.


Had the majority for Hayes been 10000 in
stead of 1900, the Hards could have safely
counted upon an easy victory over the Softs
but now there is no probability that they can
escape desperate struggle in their National
Convention and its weakening influences up
on their prospects in the presidential cam
paign.-Toledo Blade.


'When gold was at 200, all property would
readily sell for four times its present nominal
value, at which there is no sale. If an in
crease in the price of gold will increase the


price of property, why should any but the


money owners object to such an increase ?"
This is the reasoning of the Nashville Amer
tcdn, which evidently is convinced that the
happy day for landholders will come only
when they can exchange their acres for cur
rency by the barrel.


The Hon. George E. Pugh thinks the Ohio
Democrats have been fairly beaten. de told
a reporter of the Cincinnati Commercial sit
was bad enough to make so dishonorable a
proposition" as the Demociatic resolution on
| finance, but the "nomination of such a can
| didate as Samuel f. Cary was an insuperable


barrier to success" He said Mr.. John G.
| Thompson, chairman of the Democratic State
| Committee, declared at the start that Allen
| could not be elected without the aid of the
| hard-money Democrats, and it was arranged
that the campaign should be opened by them.
| This plan was upset by the Cincinnati En-
| quirers demanding that the speakers should
| conform to its rag money views, or else keep
| silent. They did keep silent, and the soft


money men stepped TO the front and run the
| campaign.
Year: 1875

KING LOUIS of Bavaria has put himself
in the list OF crowned asses whose position
has immortalized their folly. His latest freak
is to initiate Louis XIV of France, the
''grande monarque" Of history and scandal
ous chronicle. A Bavarian royal residence
has been transformed into a miniature imi-
tation of French palace of 10 years ago,
the court attendants have been attired in the
costume OF that time, and the French Lam
guage alone is permitted to be spoken. Not
many days since the mad king resolved to
have stag hunt like those of the olden time.
He had neither deer nor hounds nor forest.
But tthese defects were easily remedied. Hounds
were got from England. In default of real
stag an artificial one to go by clock.work,
and wound up like an alarm clock to run a
certain time before it "struck," was made by
an ingenious mechanic of Munich But a
difficulty arose. The artificial deer gave out
% scent and the hounds would not follow it.
A wise chamberlain got over this trouble,
however. The hounds were starved for a
few Gays. Then string of sausages was
tied to the stag's tail and he was set to run
ming. The dogs scented the sausages and ran
like the hounds of the wild huntsman.
Tney fell fiercely upon the sausages. The
onset threw the deer down, aud the contriv-
ance lay upon the ground, striking out with
its legs in the air and pleading as we'll as it
could TO be throttled. But the dogs gave It
no heed, aud fell to fighting among them
selves for the sausages. The King ordered
the hunt suspended and shut himself up in
his castle after the fashion of Heinz Won
Stein; but he cannot shut out the laughter
of all Germany.
Year: 1875

The Bangor Commercial does not extend
warm welcome to hard money recruits. In
its editorial Lotice Of the Auburn Reformer
it says: SIT 1.-THE Reformer) signalizes its en-
trance into the Democratic fold as protege
OF the New York World. Il discusses the
finance question with all the brilliancy of a
soap-bubble and about the same substance
And then the Commercial unkindly quotes
some choice Latin in regard TO the early de-
mise of those whom the Gods love