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Year: 1875

THE chairman of the Republican State
Washington paper that the Republicans have
carried that state by popular vote of over
Is, 900 AMI have good working majority of
the constitutional convention. He denounc-
es the dispatches sent by the agents of the
Associated Press, who are Democratic edit
ors, as false and intended to deceive the
country.
Year: 1875

This disease, that swept over this en-
tire country and proved so serious in
the fall of 1872, is appearing again this
fall, though probably in q milder form.
Nearly all the horses of this and other
cities are affected with it already, and
it is certain to spread to the country
very soon. Horses tnat are in good
condition will suffer the least from its
attack. Its first SYM tom is a slight
cought, which gradually becomes more
frequent and severe, accompanied with
running at the nose and swelling of the
threat between the jaw bones. Horses
that are in good heart and are properly
taken care of, will probably only be
slightly affected.


We advise the simplest treatment
possible. Keep the horses in a warm.
comfortable, clean, and well-ventilated
stable, blanketed in wet, cold weather;
feed well with oats and sweet hay
| (corn is too heating), with a good bran
mash once day; the only medicine
needed is tC thoroughly rub the throat
with some good liniment if it should
become much swollen, and be very
careful not to let them take cold. A
little exercise every day at light work,
or careful driving, we deem beneficial,
but any violent exercise, or anything
over-exertion, will be almost certain tC
produce serious results. The aim
should be to keep the horse in as strong
heart as possible, and nature will soon
work out the disease. Its usual term
is from twelve to twenty days. OhiC
Farmer.
Year: 1875

A great many people in this country
are sbamefully negligent about answer
ing letters. Nothing Is more annoying.
In European countrys it is regarded as
the height of ofill-breeding to allow a
letter which needs a reply to go unans-
wered, and SO it ought to.be considered
here. This is point on which parents
should lay great stress to their chill
dren. They should be taught to con-
slider it as rude not to reply to letter
which needs attention as to hand a
fork with the prong end. The busiest
people are generally those who are the
most exact in this respect. The late
Duke of Wellington, who, it will be
admitte d, had good deal on his hands
at different times of his life, replied to
every letter, no matter from how hum
BILE source. Once a clergyman, who
lived in different part of the King
dom, wrote his Grace, on whom neith-
er he nor his parish had shadow of
claim, to beg for Il subscription 10 re-
build a church. By return of mail
came back letter from the Duke to
the effect that he really could not see
why in the world he should have been
applied to fer such an object; but the
parson sold the letter as autograph for
e5, and put the Duke down for that
amount among the subscribers.
Year: 1875

WEBSTER defines commence thus: AN


assurance of mind or firm belief in the


integrity, stability, or veracity OF an


other, or in the truth and reality of a


fact. Safety, OF assurance of safely


Commercial confidence, then, must


stand on safety 1t is not IA mere state


of mind, whrlher of one man, or of


twenty men, il is not a thing to be


written up or written down in the


newspaper but a matter OF fact, TO be


studied and proved by the ordinary


laws of evidence. 1t is lost in man


when it is seen that he is speaking or


acting contrary to truth and honor and


right, and it is,restored only when suf-


ficient proof has been given OF honor


and right being again accepted as the


governing u4UtIves of the life. Aud 1t


is gained and lost in d thousand men


in the same manner. Business conf


dence stands, and can stand, only on


the recognized ability and integrity OF


business men,. We put ability first, not


being most Important, but because it is


the real foundation, without which the


hiy hest integrity will not avail. When


credit is given it is always on the


ground that the man to whom it Is
given is able as well as willing to pay


the debt. The distrust of either lm-


pairs confidence, but the knowledge
that the mau l;t, no means with winch
to ray the debt, destroys 1t utterly
False confidence is the ruin Of traue.-
1t induces men TO part with valuable
goods without suitable consideration,
and leave the victim OF it unable to
meet obligations honestly assumed
The present depression was brought
about hy confidence honestly given but
frauduleuily obtained. Thousands OF
persons have been maize beggars 10y
investments in railroads which began
on the borders of civilization, and ran
nowhere. They lost their money be-
fore they lost their confidence. Busl-
ness cOnfidpnce ill begin with the
smallest and work upwards towards
the largest dealers ami manufacturers.
The retail dealer is brought into imme-
diate contact with the consumer. He
either gets his money, or such assur-
ances that he will get it soon, that he
deems ii safe 10 buy more goods on the
OF that assurance. The jobber
finds him With ready cash in hand, or
in the nearby future, and is confident
of his ability to meet his obligations,
and parts with his goods on the strength
of it. Each step is taken on the ground
of ability and integrity. Can the pres
ent depression then be cured by con
fidence?" Does not the root of the |
evil lie deeper, and will not the cure
come by process such as has been |
above suggested? The consumers, the
men who buy to use. and not the ones |
who buy to sell again, are the only |
ones who can restore trade to its ma
tur, channelsand tOA healthy volume. |
And when the production does not ex
ceed in amount or quality the wants of
this class, business will revive, and |
confidence viii be restored, and conf |
dence on any other basis will be de-
lusiOn.
Year: 1875




This was, of course, considered the
event of the day, and the result proved
that it was not only the event of the
day, butthe greatest trotting event of
the year. Though Lulu failed to beat
Goldsmith Maids best time-2:l4--she
succeeded in trotting three heats that
aggregated the fastest time on record,
and beat even her magnificent per-
forrnance here last August. She was
accompanied by a piebald running
horse attached to sulky, which WAS
driven just far enough behind her to
excite her to her best efforts. On her
first heat she did not seem to get down
to her best work until she had reached
the backstretch. where the runner had
closed pretty well up. After that she
trOtted splendidly. On the hOmestretch
the pace was very fast, but she only
succeeded in getting in in 2:l64.


On the second heat Green made Il
more desperate attempt to win the COW
eled $1,000 and the glory of beating 2:i4,
and Lulu's trotting for the first three
quarters of mile was such as to inspire
the belief that she would accomplish
the wonderful feat. 1t is generally be-
lieved that she would have done so but
for the high wind which was blowing
from the southeast, and which blew
square in her face quite hard when she
was rounding the'upper turn. Charley
Green put her to her best, but it was
useless, he was just one second too late,
going under the wire in 2:14&. This
practically ended the struggle, though
on her third attempt she made the
splendid time OF ZIG. 1t is the almost
universal belief among hOrsemen that
Lulu will yet succeed in trotting below
2:14, and her performance yesterday
fully justifies it.
Year: 1875

between both parties, lousy and lonely,
we mean the bat.


And now he comes up and wants an
Opposition convention to nominate him
again for the Legislature. If it does he
will then expect party discipline and
fealty to compel every member OF the po-
(itical element represented to vote for
him. Party discipline and party fealty
are well enough with Champlin as long
as he is running for Office, but the mo-
ment he is elected he drops them as he
would a dirty shirt, and steps forth in
the naked glory Of independence.


Now we say, (echoing the Union, that
if Champlin is nominated, every decent
man in bis party should follow his ex-
ample of last winter, and ''prefer an in
dependent position" and vote for some
one else, and that wont hurt Champlin,
for the Union says sit will not be voting
against him! !"


We shall not discuss the question of
bad eggs" and "rotteness" with the ed
itor ofthe Union; we will simply recon-
mend, should the grasshoppers ever
again a!ight in Blue Earth count, that
the people of Mankato should at once pro-
ceed to open up the political record of
that worthy, and of the men who stand
behind him, and if the effiuvia does not
clear territory of one hundred miles
square. around that city, of all insect
pests, then the story of Butterfeld having
protected his crops with sinking pitch
and nasty birthstone, is bare-faced lie.
That's ALL
Year: 1875

We were not of those who originally
called the Owatonna Convention, which
met some time since and adjourned over
until the 22nd inst, nor did we in the
first place counsel the holding of any
such convention. We knew that large
part of the Monopotist were fully
satisfied with the ticket headed by MIR.
Buell.. But when the call was issued we
felt that we owed it to the cause to help
make that convention success. and save
the principles which it represented from
ridicule, and hence VIC urged all Anti
Monopolists to attend it. Unfortunately
the convention was called to meet at a
very busy season of the year and hence
many of the principal counties of the
State were unrepresented; and the con-
vention very wisely adjourned over.


Now we again urge upon our friends
to make that convention success. We
believe it will be. We hear from differ
ent counties, unrepresented before, that
they will have delegates present. The
State Central Committee, with Mr. Ayres
at its head, should see to it that there is
full attendance. Some say to us. What
is the use of our going to Owatonna?
True, we are Anti-Monopolists. but Mr..
Buell. is good enough Anti-Monopolist
for u.s. We say to such gentlemen: {:
''then 90 by all meaxs, and help secure
the endorsement of that convention for
Mr.. Buell." Others say, "Well, like
Ell. Durant and have nothing against
Albert Schetfer. but am going to vote
for Mr. Dixie, for Treasurer, whether he
is a candidate or not" We reply, .'then
go and tell the convention how you feel
and get them to endorse Durant and
nominate Dixie"


What is wanted at Owatonna is not a
set of men who will 60 there determined
to endorse all the Opposition ticket, or
a set of men determined to endorse none
of that ticket. but men who will look
the whole ground over. dispassionately
and calmly and do whatever is best to be
done under all the circumstances.
Year: 1875

makes the more money will remain in
the State to enrich all its tradesmen.
Fifty per cent. added to the price OF
wheat is fifty per cent. added to the bus
mess OF the merchant, the mechanic and
the laborer. Hence in fighting the bat
tie of the farmers we are fighting for the


welfare of the whole people of Mime
Year: 1875

On Sunday, July 25th, son OF
Mr.. Russell Of Gratiot, while de-
scending temporary ladder from
the second to the first floor of the
house, slipped and fell through the
first story, head first into the celler,
a distance Of eighteen feet. Tic
struck on the edge Of a board near
the bottom Of the cellar, which cut
a cash from over the left eye around
behind the lett ear. The wound
was dressed, and the patient is likely
to recover.
Year: 1875

1t seemed strange anachronism. That un-
troubled face had looked down on that very
floor upon untold myriads and numberless
generations of devout worshippers who long
centuries ago had moldered back to aborig-
inal dust; now there was the same sublime
countenance surveying in its stiffness a
hearty English dinner party, unperturbed
by the bang of the champagne bottle, the
rattle Of knives and forks, the happy Eng
lish laughter, or the cheers that crowned
the toasts. 1t was fully 8 O'Clock before
the guests took their seats. Behind his
Royal Highness, and to the right hand of
him was strange group-Shivs as q half
male and balffemsle divinity. The one-half
of the figures is that Of man, and the other
| half that of a woman. Further to the right,
and still behind him, SILVA Is seated in his
heaven with his bride Parvati, and groups Of
male and female divinities are showeriDg
down flowers upon them from the heavenly
cloudland To the Princes left hand, and
| yet behind him. was a group again repre-
senting SILVA and Parvati on their bridal
day. with attendants minitsering unto them.
On the wall to the Princes right hand was
group representing ten-headed and ten





tempting to carry off SILVA and his heaven
ly abode, that in his love or covetousness he
might have the SILVA always with himself
On the wall to the Princes left hand was q
representation Of SILVA beheading in bis
wrath, son of Brahma, and having eight
arms, tusks from his month, and adorned
with necklaces or strings of human skulls
The cause of the great gods fury is that one
Of his wives had been sighted, because she
presented herself unlimited at party given
by one Of her relations, On the same wall =,
and still to His Royal Highness's left, was
another representation of SILVA in one of
his most dreadful forms 1t was with these
great solem figures before and around that
the banquet proceeded, while the Governors
band was outside discoursiug, 10 the calm
tropical night, sweet European music
His Royal Highness proposed Her Majesty s
health and the old gods might have been
startled with the cheers Not less ought
they to have been aroused by the echoing
shouts which rang out again and sgain when
the health Of His Royal Higsness" him
self was proposed. The caves were then
lighted up with red and green fires which
threw the gigantic sculptures into a weird,
unnatural glare. When the banquet was
ended and the guests had issued from the
now heated cave into the cool evening air,
a brilliant surprise had been reserved for
them. The mountain was Illuminated.
Bonfres blazed on its summit and OIL every
shoulder Of the hill lime lights darted their
searching radiance around and far over the
sea. while every bush and tree was brilliant
with lamps Red, blue and white lishts
lit up the whole mountain slope. into some
thing approaching the brightness of day.
Then. from the summit Of the mountain was
heard the whiz and rush of the rocket. the
signal for the pyrotechnic display, and the
fireworks began.
Year: 1875

Saturday morning sandy-haired young
man, six feet three inches high, and looking
almost like walking shadow, called at the
central station, and after solemnly blowing
his nose he remarked:


. This is an awful wicked tawn."


Well, there are some wicked people
here, replied the captain.


g Vice and malice walk hand IN hand up
and down every street and avenue" con-
tinued the stranger as he doubled up and
sat down


Well, I'm sorry" replied the captain.
" wish every body would be good enough
to melt away and dissolve in blaze Of
glory"


- But the wicked shall be rebuked, )" said
the stranger, as he put his foot down, land
the minions ot satan shall be put to flight. :"


. want ticket to that entertainment
when it comes off," smiled the captain.
- have walked far TO meet Satan and
conquer him, = said the stranger. - Point
me out the wickedsst and vilest quarter OF
the city and there will make my stand and
do battle"


g You'd better husk your own corn and
let wickedness alone, replied the captain.
What brought YOU here, and where are
you going?"


Ny friend the Lord sent me here to bat
tie against wickedneSs, and Ill fight till
die | want to 90 right out and find the
stTongbolds of Satan and deal them sturdy
blows until they cry for quarter and victory
is mine :"


The man did not seem quite right in his
mind, and the captain warned him to pur-
sue his journey or to attend to his own busi-
ness. After borrowing chew of tobacco
the stranger left the station and soon made
his appearance at saloon on Beaudien
street.


- Here doth Satan reign" he -aid to the
bullet-headed man behind the bar.


s. No whiskcy without the cash, replied
tie bartender.


e Whi-key whiskey, you degraded
ninion Of SaIan ~ exclaimed the tall man.
- Know ye that have come here to canter
Satan out of this place and let in the lights
Of knowledge and goodness ~


" Slide - growled the bartender, point
ing to the door.


= Thrice-dyed in wickedness, pledge me
that you will at once turn from the evil Of
your ways shouted the tall man a. he
danced around.


" Here you 90, answered the bar tender,
making a rush for him.


But be didn't go. He knocked the man
Of drinks into corner and kicked him after
he was down. and when crowd gathered
ne stood on the steps and said


- Ye wicked and malicious, have come
among you to knock Satan off his feet, and
I'll purify this town or perish in the at
tempt"


TIE police took him to the station and on
Monday morning he will be Judged accord
ing to the deeds done in the body.
Year: 1875

Besides the above $1,000 there are $4,000 in
State Bonds due belonging to Delaware College
fund, These will not be paid but replaced with
other bonds.


And now as to the amo unit that is likely to be
derived from the present sources of revenue.
The assessable property liable to the tax known
Year: 1875

quently troublesome and


The statute should be so amende.
as to require the description of the
debtors property to be included in
the judgment. This would secure
other parties bearing the same name,
because it would then, appear on
the record that the judgment was
not lien on their property.
Year: 1875

ton they would, in all probability
have elected their candidates.


1t may be that the election Of
Mr.. Pillsbury to the governorship
will not afford us relief from railroad
tyranny, but no well informed man
can doubt that it will have as much
influence in that direction as the
election of Mr.. Buell. would have
had. Personally both of these gen.
tlemen would do what they could in
this behalf, but the legislatures make
the laws, and as we have already
shown, there is less to be hoped
for from democratic than from a
republican legislature, as is proved
by experience. The Age may make
out a case in support of its own as
sertions, by resorting to conceal
ments and misrepresentation, but
it weakens it's own influence by so
doing, in that 1t lays itself open to
the suspicion of being an emmissary
of the democratic party in disguise.
AS further proof of the folly of de-
pending upon democratic leaders
to effect governmental reforms, we
refer the Age to the conduct of the
leaders of that party in Wisconsin.
1t must know that they are respon-
sible for the defeat of Gov. Taylor,
and that they struck him down for
no other reason than that he sought
to do his duty honestly and execute
the Potter law.
Year: 1875

to do his duty honestly and execute
the Potter law.


The New York Sun of Decem-
Der 9th has report of the proceed
ings of the Cheap Transportation
Association of that city, from read
ing which we learn that the New
York and Pennsylvania roads carry
freight from Boston to the western
cities for less than they will carry
the same freight from New York
The report says that western DEAL
er orders soda ash from his New
York broker, the price in that city
being S. per cwt. gold. In Boston
the price is $2.o6A. But while the
freight from New York is 41c per
hundred that from Boston is only
2oc. Hence, if the western dealer
buys in New York, his soda ash
costs him $2.47 per cwt. delivered,
while, if he buys in Boston, the cost
is only $2.26A, or 2oA less!


So, too, with the Baltimore and
Ohio company. 1t will carry goods
delivered to it by its Boston line Of
steamers in Baltimore, SO much
cheaper than those which are ship
ped direct by merchants of the lat
ter city, that, to the western pur.
chasers, the cost Of the former deliv
cred are cheaper than the cost of
the latter delivered.


We are glad to know this, for the
reason that such conduct on the
part of the corporations will array
the business men of the cities dis
eliminated against on the same side
with the western producers, and
the pressure which this combined
force can bring to bear on this ques-
ton will soon compel the finding of
a remedy against the tyranny Of the
corporations. We only hope that
the latter will make their .oppres-
sions still more unendurable.' The
time Of their continuance will thus
be shortened and the injury inflicted
will, consequently, be less.


The statute Of this State which
makes judgment against a party a
lien against all the real property
held by him within the county in
which the judgment is filed, is al
ready giving a great deal of trouble
and is likely to occasion vastly more
in the future. The difficulty arises
from the circumstance that there
are frequently several persons bear
ing the same name; making the pos
tive identification of the party
against whom the judgment stands
necessity, whenever any one of that
name wishes to mortgage or sell his
land. .t... I"


In case of the death of, or Of It
being impossible to identify the de-
'inquent debtor, another party, or
the heirs Of another, might be COM
PEELED to pay such judgment to their
serious wrong. This is especially.
the case in this and other counties
where there are large numbers Of
Scandinavians, as it frequently hap
pens that several in'the same neigh
borhood bear the same name, and
Year: 1875

How TRAGEDY WAS PREVENTED
In Delaware City, one day last week
man from the country was uegotia.
ting for revolver. The salesman
manipulated the weapon. showing him
all its Intricate working, but, of course,
without its being loaded. He turned
for q moment to wait upon another
customer, when the purchaser, seem
iugly unable to realize that the thing
would go off, slipped a Cart idge in
and said nothing about it. The sales
man picked it up again, pulled the
trigger and-shot the man. The latter
could not find out where he had been
hit, but being sure that he was dead
man, he iadulged in such lamentations
and cries for mercy as wrung the hearts
of those around him. The salesman
was equally frightened, but the scare
was all over when all search for a
bullet hole failed to find one, and
II huge button on the mans vest was
found flattened by the cartridge. =
Ecery Euening.
Year: 1875

The OPERA.-The audience which
greeted the farewell appearance of the
Redpath Opera Company, last even
ing, WAS again rather small, much to
the regret of those who were present.
AS before the opera was delightful, aud
was rendered with brilliant success.
Year: 1875

shall really be told something which we did
not know before: for 1t is astonishing what
queer, odd things these petticoated fetchers
and carriers pick up in their constant trots.


A word OF two we might say OK really good
takers. AS we write. we remember one, and
she woman, whose life went out in tragedy
whose dirge was the wall of the great winds,
and whose tomb was the hungry Atlantic.
What wonderful improvisatrice was she!
How all knowledge appeared to be hers, and
all the variations of human thought, and all
the unreckoned opulence of language! Some
thing was there Of the queenly and the tyrannc
in her social sway; something of monopoly In
her mOnOlogue but who was not content to
listen aud to learnt Only the weak and tho
witess signifed their impatience in that pres
ence. Some said it was lecturiDg, and some
that it was speech-making; this one limited al
vanity, and the other at an ungracious engross-
ment of the time; but after all was ever,
however silent we might have been, we seemed
to have been asking all the while, and she only
graciously answering