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Year: 1875

DOMESTIC EcoNoMy.--Coffec should
never be roasted darker than rich
chestnut brown. When the color up.
proachcs TO black itgives burned, dry
flavor TO the infusion.


Two ounces Of common tobacco boiled
in gallon of water is used by the
Chatham street dealers to renovate
old clothes. The stuff is rubbed on
with stiff brush. The goods are
nicely cleaned, and strange to add, no
tobacco smell remains.


DO not throw away your ribbons be
cause they are soilcd. Wash them in
a suds made of fine toilet soap and cold
water, squeezing them quickly through.
Then iron them between two cloths,
with an iron not too hot.


Never put particle Of soap about
your silver If you wish to retain its
original lustrc. When IL wants polish
take piece Of soft leather and whiten-
ing and rub hard. The proprietor Of
one Of the Oldest silver establishments
in the city Of Philadelphia says that
housckccpcrs ruin their silver by wash.
ing il IN soapsuds, as it makes il look
like pewter.


The proper way to live is TO have
no theory Of food, but to eat modcr.
atcIy, have variety on the table, and
pursue the course Of quiet gentleman
who believes the pleasures OF the table
are among The lowest if abused.
Year: 1875

A woman should never consent TO
be married secretly. She should dis
trust man who has any reason TO
shroud in darkness the act which in
his own estimation should be the
crowning glory of his life.
Year: 1875

People who brood over their sor-
rows are usually successful in hatch
ing numerous family, and those who
nurse their wrath to keep it warm are
sure of comfortable temperature of
Indignation.
Year: 1875

Gratitude is like tho good faith of
traders--it maintains commerce and
we often pay, not because II is just to
discharge our debts, but that we may
more readily find people TO trust MS.
Year: 1875




~ A Southern correspondent of
the Chicago Tribune takes a very
gloomy view Of the political situa-
tion in the South and professes to
believe that "the Democratic lead
ers are only waiting their opportu-
nifty to establish a new Southern
Confederacy." The Tribune is con-
strained to confess that it publishes
these views merely as curiosities,
and disavows any sympathy or re-
spect for them" but the tactics Of
our Republican contemporary in fll-
ing its columns with trash for which
it has no respect cannot be but
regarded as decidedly peculiar.
Year: 1875

Guinea.


An account of an interesting dis
covery made during the cruise of Ii.
II. Ship Basilisk is given in the Pro.
ceedings of the Royal Geographical
Society, London, New Guinea is
known to be inhabited by three dis
tinct types of men; the Papuans
living in the south, the Malays in
the northwest, and the Arfaks in the
mountains ofthe north. Capt. Mores-
by now reports the existence of q
nation on the shores of the eastern
peninsula of that territory and on
the island OF the outlying archipela-
go. They are said to posses char
acteristics which show that they are
probably of mingled Papnau and
Malayan blood. being more civilized
than the former though still semi
barbarous. Their houses are built
on piles, as the Papuans build, and
are connected with the ground by
means of holes provided with notch
es to be used as steps. The dead are
buried, with small thatched huts
placed over them. Yams and taro
are cultivated, stone mattocks being
used to break and turn the soil.
Cannibalism is not unknown among
them probably. but it is not a general
custom. Their weapons are spears
and clubs, and their mode of warfare
is to form two regular rows, the first
with spears and the second provided
with clubs. The art of manufacture
ing pottery, which Is unknown among
the Papuans is practiced by the
mixed race to a considerable extent.
Year: 1875

n GGKuaEkaDlG case Oh one VINO


Returned from the Bourne from
which no Traveller is Supposed


to Retrace his Footsteps.


The Augusta {Me) Journal tells
this marvellous tale: 1--WE have an
event to chronicle that would scarce.
ly be believed were it not authorita-
lively vouched for by competent
witnesses. parties whose testimony
cannot well be disputed or set aside.


A young man in the town of Vassal-
boro. i'm this county, was suffering
the last stages of consumption, the
disease which had insidiously and
steadily brought him to the verge Of
the grave. For several weeks he
had been entirely PROSTATE and un-
able to speak, even to articulate
syllable. He became so oppressed
for breath that he compelled his at
tendants to raise the windows in his
room, put out the fires, and resort to
every means to obtain fresh air. One
day last week Thursday We under
stand the young man died. Friend
ly hands prepared the poor emaciat-
ed body for the burial; but just as
the attending friends were arranging
the remains for the casket, there ap-
peared unmistakable evidences of
returning life, in what had seemed
to them an inanimate mass of clay.
The ear of an attendant was bent
down to the side of the dead man,
and it vas discovered that the heart
had begun again the slow and meas
ured patpitations. the pulse throb-
bed, and the young man arose from
the death shrouds, opened his mouth
and spoke in clear and distinct
words to those who stood appalled,
in the death chamber. There WAS
no huskiness in his voice; he ap
peared lively and active, said he felt
not the slightest pain, but, to use
his own language, Il feel just as
well as | ever dld." At his request
the neighbors were all called in, who
crowded the house for hours, de-
claring that the recovery of the man
was equal to any miracle recorded
in the scriptures. lie told this start
led assemblage of his friends and
neighbors that as he died, all things
seemed dark, but only for an instant
his eyes suddenly opened to a new
world, the real heaven which had
been so maay times in his thoughts
and had given him so much comfort
in his last week of pain and sorrow.
He stood upon an eminence which
overlooked vast and beautiful plain
stretched further than his enlarged
vision could penetrate, and he could
describe it in language which, to his
mortal auditors, seemed extrayagant
in the extreme. But the reviviied
life of the young man was not to
continue long. Before night he
again resigned himself to death.
The body was kept q reasonable
length of time, and buried on Sun
day last, the funeral being largely
attended. We have written out the
particulars of this remarkable event
substantially as we have heard them.
allowing our intelligent readers the
privilege of drawing their own infer
ences.''
Year: 1875

10 In letter received at Wash
ington from a naval officer at Port
Royal, who is in direct commurica-
ton with assistant surgeons at Key
West, he says there have been two
more deaths from yellow fever at
that point, and several new cases
have anpeared.
Year: 1875

If your seat is too hard to sit on,
stand up.


If rock rises up before you roll
it away or climb over it.


If you want money, earn It.


If you wish confidence, prove your
self worthy of it.


It takes longer to skin an elephant
than mouse, but the skin Is worth
something.


Do not be content with doing what
another hath done surpass 1t.
Deserve success, and it vill come.


The baby was not born man


The sun does not shine Ike a
rocket or bullet fred from gun
slowly but surely it makes its way
round, and never tires,


If the job be long, the pay will he
greater.


If the task lie hard, the more COM
petent you must De TO do ii.
Year: 1875

E1 The new trowel bayonet lately
adopted in the United States service
is to be habitually worn in the scah-
bard. unless when fixed on the rifle
for nse as a weapon. 1t is never to
be used as an intrenching tool fixed
to the mnsket.
Year: 1875

merchants of San Francisco, Los An
geles and San Diego will not have a
customer one foot East of the junction
of the Southern Pacific and the Texas
Pacific roads. 1t does not require
much thought to reach the conclusion
that this discrimination against the
merchants will effect in q proportion
ate degree both the producer and the
consumer. Our people certainly cam
not be so blind but that they can see
that for every mile of track Eastward
laid by the Southern Pacific or any
other California Company so much is
added to the Pacific coast trade. Our
shrewd business men fully understand
the importance of having the Pacific
coast roads managed and owned by
Pacific coast companies and they know
that the farther Eastward we extend
our roads, the farther Eastward we eX-
tend our trade. This is the whole
matter i'm nutshell and it embodies
more for the people of Southern Cali
fornia than they can ever hope to gain
by the much talked about competi-
tion. Competition will last for a week
or month, just long enough to tickle
and gull the public, but the trade of
our own road will be permanently ours
always ours. Tom. SCOTT will never
lay rail on the Pacific coast; he will
never lay rail West of the Colorado
river; we doubt if he will ever lay a
rail within two hundred miles of that
river, and the farther East the South
ern Pacific meets the Texas Pacific the
betterit will be for the people of Cali
fOrnia,
Year: 1875

THE Express affects to think that
an almost unanimous vote for HoUGH-
TON in San Diego county would be dis
asterous to Mr.. WIGGINToN. HoUGH-
TON cannot obtain the unanimous vote
of that county. There are many SEN
sible men there who fully understand
that he is now as much the plant tool
of the Central Pacific Railroad as he
was two years ago; they know that
STANFoRD's collar still encircles his
neck and that if he is returned to Con-
gress he will move at the crack of the
Central Pacific whip. HoUGHToN
may go out of San Diego county with
six hundred majority. We estimate
that he will. But if he received every
vote in that county-say fifteen hun
dred-he would still be beaten in the
district by from twelve to fifteen hun
dred votes. He has played the TOM
SCOTT dodge to some effect in San
Diego but elsewhere the people know
who owns him.
Year: 1875

The culture of the hop is one of the
most probable to which the soil of this
valley can be adapted. A hop farm
in Ell Monte will this year yield three
thousand pounds per acre. This We
are informed is about the average pro-
duct. The market price for hops we
learn ranges from thirty to forty cents
per pound, but tsuppose the producer re-
Allies buttwenty-five cents per pound
and gathers three thousand pounds
per acre, his land yields him $3.50 per
acre. If we deduct one half for cost of
production we have 1875 profit per
acre. This is good showing. The
California hop commands the highest
price in the Eastern and European
markets, and the demand will always
exceed the supply. Those of expert
ence in the hop culture assure us that
wherever corn will grow good hop
crops may be produced.
Year: 1875

Not great while ago we heard
we'll informed, thinking gentleman
remark, that if the junction of the
Central Pacific and Union Pacific Rail
roads had been made on the summit
ofthe Sierra Nevada, San Francisco
would have been bankrupt. 1t is a
strong expression, perhaps little too
strong, but it contains the truth. If
the junction had been made at the
point named San Francisco's trade
over the railroad would have extend
ed to the summit of the Sierras and
not one mile farther. In speech de-
livered in this city some weeks ago,
Tom. FITCH asserted that Ogden, the
point of junction of the two roads, was
the fartherest point East to which San
Francisco shipped goods and that the
first camp East of Ogden received its
merchandise from Omaha or Chicago


This is the result of a rule Of trade
tuC uctcA hihdtiou vi Oil ulNiuuul VI


corporation to make the most of their
advantages. The cry Of discrimiEa-
ton raised against the Central Pacific
Railroad is the murmur of locality,
and here and there town or camp is
made to feel the power of corporation;
but the discrimination Of the road is
the gain of the Pacific coast. If the
Union Pacific had met the Central Pa
cific at Truckee every dollars worth of
the enormous trade of Nevada now en-
ioyed by San Francisco would have
become the heritage of Chicago. This
is railroad discrimination-the dis
elimination of the owners tor the in
crease of their own profits. 1t is a
principle of trade as fixed and un-
changeable as the laws of the Medes
and Persians. This inevitable result
should receive the consideration OF
those of our citizens who are so ear
nest and uncompromsing in their de-
mand that the southern overland road
shall be built and run by an Eastern
Company. We must not lose sight OF
the fact that Mr.. Tom. SCOTT stated
before the House committee that his
object in obtaining national aid for the
construction of road from ocean to
ocean was to draw the trade of the Pa
cific coast and of New Mexico to the
East. He virtually admitted that ifhe
once obtained control of a road extend.
ing from one side of the continent te
the other, he would discriminate
against the West and force us to draw
our supplies from the East, thereby
increasing the profits of his road
Nothing is more certain than that the
Year: 1875

SOME of the Democratic and Independent
journals are attempting to extract grains of
consolation from the Independence Day
address of Hon. Fred. Douglass. They
seem to think that his advice to his colored
friends to establish a reputation for per-
sonal independence should be construed as
an invitation to leave the Republican party.
If they will read the address carefully, and
fully weigh the illusions to President
Grant AID his career which it contains, they
will discover that the entire argument rests
upon the theory of independent and manly
loyalty to Republican principles, combined
with lasting gratitude to those who have
really earned the title of friend to the COL
ored people. Although he alludes in
pointed terms to the comparatively few ap-
. pointments of colored men to Office, consid-
ering the voting strength Of the race, we
believe Mr.. Douglass did not intend to lay
down a plan for the organization of color
party, as some people seem to think; but
rather TO encourage an individual responsi.
bility among his followers, which would
have the effect to free them from the curse
of being protected by selfapJ ointed
guardians. He believes that all men, white
or black, should stand upon an equal foot
ing as regards Office and public benefac-
tions of any kind, and that until the colored
people attain the personal independence to
which he refers, they will continue to be
the victims of patronizing and thieving
protection. And he is right.
Year: 1875

WHEN GENERAL JOSEPH R. HAwLFY
accepted the active duties of executive Off
Ger of the National Centennial Commission,
and took up his residence at Philadelphia
for the purpose of attending to those duties,
it was the desire of his friends that he
should ignore his peculiar political preju-
dices and devote himself as a national man
to the success of the Exposition. 1t seems,
however, that he has been unable to do
this. In his home organ, the Hartford
Courant, we find the following:


" A strong opposition exists in South Caro-
lima against the Centennial commissioner from
that State who was appointed to Office by Gov
ernor Moses, and is said to be one of the cor
rupt leeches which have sucked the blood of
thai unhappy State. He is considered q rep
resentative of the worst class of 'carpet-bag-
gers rather than of the old State which is
proud OF its position as one Of the original
thirteen. We know nothing as to the charges
against General Gurney, the commissioner, but
he would prove himself a better man than he
is represented to be if he were to recognize that
he is stumbling block in the way of proper
repI Iesentation of the State at the Cen enniaI,
and consequently give way to some more ac
ceptRble person."


We feel safe in advising Gen. Hawley
that Gen. Gurney, the subject of the fore
going wanton attack, is not of the kind to
resign or surrender ''under fire." As an
officer of the New York Seventh regiment
he was not in the habit of doing such things,
and inasmuch as he earned the title of
''carpet-bagger" by fighting his way to
Charleston during the war, he will not be
frightened by its use as an epithet into va
eating place which he is eminently quail.
fed to fill. Gen. Gurney's connection with
the Infamous Moses was simply that of a
subordinate civil officer, and there is moth
ing in his record to justify this gratuitous
SANDER of his character, unless it be that
he naturally takes rank with that class of
Republicans who believe that Gen. Hawley
has sold himself, body and soul, to the pre-
tcntious chivalry of the South. When
Hawley is denounced as a mudsill by these
men, Quincy will deservedly retain their
respect
Year: 1875

tive cities in the South, as Virginia is the


most law-abiding and conservative State;
but we believe that the Whig viii not deny
our charge that the blacks are prohibited in
many respects from the enjoyment of those
privileges, and that the prohibition is the
result Of the influence of the few "Bour-


bons," the existence of which it admits.


For example, while the colored free schools
in Richmond are pride to the city, those
in other sections of the State are disgrace
to the people of the Commonwealth. Again,


in Petersburg, Norfolk and other points too
numerous to mention, it is notorious that
black men intending to vote the Republi-
can ticket have been driven away from the
polls, while white Bourbons have been in
vited to convenient places where their bal
lots might be comfortably deposited. But
more pointedly is the Bourbon influence to
be observed in other matters, particularly
in the policy pursued by the sham Con-
servative party in its declarations that it
does not seek aid from the colored race, the
object being to preserve the party intact as
a white mar 8 organization. If these facts
do not show that the Bourbon influence
amounts to something, we do not under
stand them. We do find in them, how
ever, the direct responsibility for the color
line in politics, of which so much is heard
nova DAYS. ...r.
Year: 1875

To demand indemnity from the Government
for the slaves liberated by Presidential procla-
nation and constitutional action Is here an:
nounced as an intention on the part of many
in the South for the future. That is ques-
ton which we or our successors will have to
meet, and 1t is hardly necessary for us to say
thft 1t is one freighted with bitterness and
strife, should it ever be urged by strong
party in this country. When expressions OF
this kind, indicating latent or secret inten-
tion to renew in some form the struggle for the
cause lost by the defeat of the Confederate
forces, are constantly cropping out from the
press and the rostrum In the South; when
orators at alumni meetings, speakers at anni-
versary gatherings, editors in their sanctums,
politicians in their conventions, are all talking
as though the time for revenge or repayment
was coming some time in the future, those
who love the Union and who hate the State
sovereignty dogma as they do Satan himself,
are justified In exercising caution before trust
ing implicitly in the work of reconciliation
The South has never forgiven us for forgiyinz
1t. Amnesty was wise and Christian like; but
1t was not shrewd and worldly. The South
ern States governed from Washington by the
representatives of the loyal sections would
have been more tractable and, we believe,
more loyal to-day than some of them are,
though fully reinTested with their old rights
and relations
Year: 1875

IT MUST BE admitted that the specious
theories of the infationists and those who
argue that gold, being an article OF import,
cannot be rated as standard of valuation,
are beginning to assert some strength
among the Changers and the Sovereigns of
Industry. The hard-money, specie=re-
sumption and preservation -of-the- Govern
ment' 's-credit element will be compelled to
combat this growing strength with a
Presidential candidate who has a consistent
record. The Democrats will have diff
Guilty in finding such a man, and the Re-
pubicans will find that they have none too
many who will be able to meet these ex-
tFaordinary requirements.
Year: 1875

THE Richmond Wing acknowledges the
existence of "a few Bourbons in the
South" but thinks they amount to moth
ing. When the reconstruction laws were
being enacted it was feared by numbers of
Republican leaders that the blacks of the
South would either be induced to vote the
Democratic ticket by feelings of friendship
for their former masters and white asso-
ciates, or prevented by intimidation and
violence from voting at all The reply of
the Wig and kindred journals to this was
that the whites-meaning the Confederate


Democrats-would not interfere in any
regard with the privileges of citizenship
granted to the blacks. Now, we accept
Richmond to be one OF the most conserya.
Year: 1875

DEAR SIR: am in receipt of your letter OF
the 2Sth ult., from Atlanta, Georgia; relative
to the course of THE NATIONAL REPUBLICAN
newspaper of this city towards you, and call
ing on me, as "Chairman of the National Re-
publican Committee" }" to get rid of that paper
or change its course. am neither chairman,
as you addressed me, nor a member of the
National Republican Committee, but only
secretary of the Union Republican Congress-
ional Committee, and therefore cannot speak
for the committee named by you.


You assume that THE NATIONAL REPUBLI-
CAN is the "eentral and chief organ of the
Republican party" and that 1t lies within con-
troll of this committee to change its course in
regard to yourself. Here you are in error.
The NATIONAL REPUBLICAN is not the organ
of this committee, nor has this committee any
organ. Neither does 1t lie within the power
and province Of this committee to advise or
compel q change In the management of THE
NATIONAL REPUBLICAN or any other newspa-
per in the respect you desire. This committee
has no connection whatever with the manage
ment of that newspaper nor of any other, can
not in any manner influence its editor, nor
does it come within the usually recognized
duty Of an executive committee to dictate to,
or assume to control the papers of the party.
This being true, the remainder of your letter
is so entirely out of place, as addressed to this
committee, that 1t is unnecessary to answer 1t
In detail. Your letter should have been ad-
dressed to the editor of The NATIONAL Re-
PUBLICAN. Very respectfully, your obedient
servant, j. NJ. EDMUNDs, Secretary.


Charles Eordhof, esq.,, Atlanta, Georgia.
Year: 1875

are ready to stand by II. There are Jews
and there are Jews, as there are Christians
and Christians, and we confidently assert
that no honest, upright believer of the
Hebrew faith would for moment counte-
nance or approve the infamously corrupt
course of this man who descends to the
vulgar trick of making distinction between
the "Dutch " and the "German" to show
that being, as he claims, ~ Of the latter,
he is the superior of the former.


In justice to Judge Edmunds we append
his letter:
Year: 1875

Nitro-glycorine has proved too weak
TO move the ice gorge AZ Port Jervis.
Old Sol' will have TO do the work and
with him there is no such word US fail.


Is not Kaiser Wilhelm prohibition
of the expectation Of horses from his
dominion suggestive Of desire for a
more stable government