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Year: 1873

RECENT Mississippi papers suggest
Mrior GEORGE w. HARPER, formerly q
citizen OF this place, and tor many
years past Editor of the Kinds county
Miss, Gazette, as a candidate Tor the
office OF Auditor OF State. We hope
that the Major may be nominated and
elected. We are sure the Mississippi
people can find no better, more compe-
tent, nor more deserving man for the
place
Year: 1873

The first mule ever taken into the
Hoosac Tunnel was brought up recert-
ly after three years residence in the
bowels of the earth. He began to kick
vigorously as soon as he reachen the
surface-a thing he was never known
to do before.
Year: 1873

Did the reader ever notice IN the FRO
duce Exchange of New Y ork, or the Corn
Exchange of any city in the Union, set
of men who look as if they ought to be
better employed, engaged in the appa-
rently trifling occupation of making
dough-balls? 1t is serious business,
though. They do it to test the quality OF
flour. The first operation in testing flour
is to take small handful in the palm and
run smoother through it. This is a
pretty little silver-plated instrument, such
as shoemaker gives his customer to help
a tight shoe on. That shows the grain
and the fineness of the particles. 1t is
good time, too, for preliminary test OF
Color, or comparison Of samples. 1t tre-
auently occurs that poorer flour looks
best in color in comparison with another
and better when dry, but experts know
verv 1v nearly the difference. TO make the
test sure, however, the buyer takes sill
yer-plated coffee-pot and from it pours
water into the flour that rests in his hand.
Then he talks business with his neigh
bor as he works his flour into dough. II
there is any taint Of unsoundness In the


flour it is more easily detected after the
incorporation with water. If it has


smuttv smell, or if the grain is damaged


before grinding, or if the flour is turnee
from exposure, age, damp place OF stor


are. or from any other cause, the dough


ING process will show it. Flour may bt


kept without souring two or three years


but the removal of a lot from the place


storage has been known to sour it, or CIV
: # peculiar smell by simple displacement
, of the particles.-Neao York Journal 0
| Commerce..
Year: 1873

gsTHE latest case of undertaking impu-
dence is told of a pair of robins who
built their nest and were raising their
voun9.alnder the hat Of an elaborate scare.
crow, ,Det up by farmer of Connecticut
in his strawberry patch.
Year: 1873

The Dangers of Attending the Nursing


Of Insane Relatives.


There is another form Of disease of which
as yet | have said nothing, but which is so
surrounded with peril for the watching
friends that | should have failed in my
task did | not most earnestly warn my
readers Of its dangers. When case of
insanity in any Of its many forms falls up
ou some one ina household, certain quest.
ions at once present themselves which oro
closely connected with the subject of this
brief paper. The physician is very soon
called upOa in these cases to decide whqth-
er tue patient is in such a state as to make
residence and treatment at home desirable,
or whether recourse TO an asylum is best.
There is growing tendency 10 the minds
Of thoughtful alouists to believe that ma,
ny Instances Of alteration or Of melancholy
are best cared for 10 the patients own
houses, and if the doctor SO decides, or if,
as often happens, some time must elHpse
before he can come to adecisiou, the cues
ton of attendance becomes At once Of the
gravcst moment. As to this there should
not be the slightest hesitation In either
Of the cases stated there should be selected
careful aud kindly attendant, who, il
possible, ought never to be relation or
friend. Thereasons for this are absurdly
clear to's doctor, and are briefly these =
A stranger has control over cases such as
Year: 1873




CHICAGO, Aug. 19.-At the Coroner's in
vestigst:on in the recent collision, j. Buff
fDgberger, engineer of the coal train, testi-
fed that he looked at bis watch upon ar
irving at Lemont and found that he had
plenty Of time to run to Willow Springs, 80
minutes d over. 1t was exactly 8 O'Clock
when he left Lemont. He told Conductor
Bean he was going on to the Springs to take
water, and the latter answered, SAN right;
60 ahead" The collision occurred at OPS
P. NJ. He then compared bis watch with
some men on the passenger train and found
it to have been slow. Could not account
for the condition of the watch. Would not
have left Lemont if he had the correct time,
even though the conductor gave him orders.
Didn't consider Beau fit to run any train.
Witness detailed some conversation be had
with Bean after the accident, from which it
appeared Bean was ignorant of the time at
which the collision took place, and of the
circumstances attending the accident.


Bean Is not yet arrested. The police are
on bis track. The general feeling through
out the city is that an example should be
made the Engineer and Conductor,


Curious Accident In Canada.
Year: 1873

The indefatigable Goodwin is after the railroad commissioners. He finds fnait particularly with the way the com missioners have of treating the sworn statements of the companies as conclusives He instaneed particularly the case of the Hartford X New Haven R. k. Go. which had made stock dividends yet return none, and the Naugatuck Go. which only returns about eight per cent as the amount of stock dividends when they have really made stock dividends to probably four times that amount. The old problem of extracting sunbeams from cucumber. is an easy one compared with that of getting any valuable information ont of such a railroad commission as various legislative dickeEings have given us.
Year: 1873

Boston, June 1.-THE first regatta of the
Eastern Yacht Club Of the sailed to-day oil
Marblehead. The weather in the morning was cloudy
and rainy but in the afternoon the shining, and
there fair breeze Only eight boats started, owing
in two three instances TO Misunderstanding the
part Of owners The start a flying one,
aud the Coming, hrst-class soop,
tho first 20 cross the line. The others
crossed soon after in the following order Juniata,
Vision, Cyte, julia Asata, Silvia, and Shadow The
Coming stu kept the lead The silvia had the misfor
tune to lose her mantopmast which snapped of at the
cap and after the springstay parted and the
sci became almost wreck. The wind
light, and just the breeze for the Coming
which steadily led the race, and came IN
nrst followed by the Vision and Alsatia.
The Juniata In after with her topmast hang
ing from the rigging. The was sailed under pro-
vision that in case but yacht OF class entered she
would not be entitled TO prize unless she should make
better time than other yacht. This provision de-
priyed Coming OF the prize OF her class The Asaa
awarded the first prize IN her class and the Shadow
the prize for second class soops
Year: 1873

The fourth game of the Championship series
between the Atantics Of Brooklyn and the Red Stock
ings OF Boston. was played at the Union Grounds
Brooklyn. About 1900 persons present shower
up during the progress OF the third inning which
caused tho suspension OF the game for 20 minutes after
that the ball became very slippery which made Il very
difficulty TO handle. but the game well PLAYED on
both sides up TO the eighth inning when the Atlancs
allowed the BOston's to make four runs aud lost the
INA
Year: 1873

to plunge into them and sport among their foamy crest


The VINEYARD returns a very liberal Interest on the
small investment OF time and money required TO visit
&C; for 1t is different from other resorts and
gives you at the hight Of the season phases OF
pleasure-seekng You may have been at Cape May,
Long Branch, Newport, swampscot, Rye Beach, ana
Mount Desert; these may have afforded you lnuea
justly consider your seaside education complete nntii
you have passed at least fortnight ut Mrthas VINO
Year: 1873

In our recent travels in Goodhue County
we saw the old clock of which the poets
write. 1t was without any covering ex-
cept the face it had neither ornament nor
any such thing 1t was certainly con-
structed on Grange principles of economy
in material. It was mounted against the
side of the house, with small board sup
ports at the sides, stone about fifteen
inches long, four inches thick and six inches
wide attached by piece Of bed cord to a
movable pulley, which played on cord
running over the weight wheels, served for
weights. An old rusty iron pendulum,
with pendulum ball three inches in di-
ameter, goes back and forth, and has been
going back and forth for the past forty
years. The old clock goes tick-tock, tick
took, with greater regularity than many
younger one, as bare iron hands point out
the hours and minutes. This clock was
made in Sweden and consequently has
travelled


The Secretary of the Olmsted County
Union. in letter to the editors Of this
paper, says: :'The ADVANCE has the
right ring. X y \ We need one good pa
per in the State devoted to the interests of
the Order, and we are able to support your
enterprise. The number of Oranges, no
doubt, will nearly double in the next year.
I wish you the greatest success, and that
may put the wish into something tangible
l shall send you an occasional contri-
button"


These are words we like to hear. Send
in your contributions. There is no more
powerful agency for advancing the inter-
ests Of the Order than press, independ-
ent of all other interests, wholelys pledged
and devoted to the interests Of Patrons.


To act intelligently we must know what
the Patrons are doing and thinking, not
only in our own town or county, but in
every county of our State and in every
State Of this Nation and we must have a
free discussion of Grange principles and
Grange topics.


Brothers send in the news from every
Grange and every County Council.
Year: 1873

There is no chicanery outside OF law
equal to that which law itself puts into op-
GRAFTON. If q man meets his fellow being
on the highway and deprives him Of his
property by violence, the act is called rob-
berry: if he steals furtively, it is termed
larceny; if he enters house and possesses
himself Of another's goods, it is denomi-
mated burglary: and, in like manner,
every form Of theft has its separate desig-
nation, and some have different degrees of
punishment awarded to the offender. Ii
an individual guilty Of burglary were ac-
cused Of robbery, there would be what law
yers term flaw in the Indictment, and to
the unprofessional mind it really seems as
if the distinctive appellations given to steal
ing were invented for the benefit of scoun-
drels.


1t is bad enough when man resorts to
any Of these means to take what does not
belong to him; but it is infinitely worse
when one who has had public or private
confidence reposed in him, abuses that
trust, and outrages every principle of hon
or by converting to his own uses the pro-
perty Of which he was made custodian
Yet, here again law steps in with chican-
cry distinction and calls the villainous rob-
berry by the modest name Of breach of
trust" and attaches to it, in most cases,
an inferior penalty to that which would be
awarded to burglary. 1t is to this mild
hammered designation Of infamous crime
that may, in large part, be attributed the
general supineness and comparative toler-
ance with which breaches Of trust are re-
garded in this country; and from this in
difference springs the frequency Of its COM
mission. But there is yet another source
Of proclivity to corruption and fraud. It
is the blind worship paid to wealth. 1t is
the general, almost universal, homage be-
slowed on the rich. The very persons who
privately canvass and criticise the charac-
ter Of one who has acquired riches by cal-
pable means may frequently be found fawn-
ing upon him like so many dogs when in
his presence.


The time has fully come when the soph-
istry Of legal distinctions should be un-
masked and thrown down, when robbery of
any kind should be designated by its true
name, and when the rich rascal should be
torn from his ill-gotten gold and sent to rot
in a dungeon. If there is any species of
theft which most merits punishment, it is
so-called " breach Of trust," whether Of
public or private character. The bold
who takes his life in his hand
and insolently demands ones money. is
infinitely nobler being than the cowardly,
sneaking moral leper and cheat who COM
mits " breach of trust" When the
American people shall have learned to stig-
Matte crimes by their true names, and
value men for their personal worth rather
than for their acquired wealth, they will
have fewer scoundrels in public office, and
more honesty in private life.-San Francis
co Commercial Herald.
Year: 1873

"Pray what do they do IN the Grange?
I'd really like to know,
For truly it seems very strange


How eagerly people will go!"
"Well, listen awhile unto me,


While story or two I relate,
Perchance you shall presently see
What they d. inside Of the Gate.'
They usually meet in the night,
When darkness has set like pail,
For then they can keep in the light,
And guard we'll the gates of the hall.
Each brother and sister must walk
Right up to the desk with their change,
And then they talk and talk-they talk,
And that's what they do in the Grange.
"You'ye heard of the sickle and splow'-
Perhaps of the apron and sash =
But have you heard, and do you know how
The candidates cut such dasl,
In trying to ride the old goat


Which the boys so nicely arrange?
And do you know how they cote
For that's what they do in the Grange.
Sometimes they have a rich FEAST
Their tables with daintes are spread.
They have one each season at least,
And have a fine time it is said.
How gaily then the farmers meet,
And jokes and opinions exchange,
For they eat and eat-they eat,


And that's what they do in the Grange.
They eat and drink, they laugh and sing,
They talk and they write and they read,
In shortmany figures they bring,
To show why their cause should succeed
TO pay their dues they do not shirk,
But they do things equally strange,
For they frequently meet to Uork,
And that's what they do IN the Grange


S. D. H., Eyota, MINI.
c. 3, 1873.
Year: 1873

The November elections are of Q piece with those of October. New York has given the Democratic state ticket con- siderable majority, while the Republicans save the legislature on a reduced vote, showing much the same political feeling there which carried Ohio, and Pennsylvania outside Philadelphia, against us Tn Octo- Der. The result in Mississippi indicates that no change has taken place in South ern politics. But in the West the reverses of the Republican party are of much more serious character, indicating that the anti-monopoly vote is strong enough to carry Wisconsin and Illinois against straight Republicanism, with chances of growth that may take over Iowa Kansas and Minnesota, also. California and Oregon have already been captured by this new idea-for it can hardly be said to have attained as yet the consistency of an organized party-so that there are serious indications of general breakup in the West. Unless, however, the new movement assumes the form of an attack on the present tariff and banking systems, in addition to that on railroad monopo- lies, we hardly see how it is likely to come into collision with the Republican party on any matter of principle. Western legislatures will do all they can to secure cheap transportation. and Republicans will not make any opposition to the Changers; and in that case the anti-mo- nopolists will not need to form any new party to get all they ask.

 Should they attempt extreme measures, however, against the banking and manu- featuring interests, they might form 8 united West, but they would be met by an united East, with the South as the um- pire between the hostile interests of a divided North. But, there is nothing vet that indicates a conflict of any such se- rious proportions. Congress and the Western legislatures will no doubt be greatly occupied, this winter, with the mysteries of transportation, and many schemes will be devised-some useful. more chimerical-for the relief of the Western farmer. If the Changers get all they can reasonably expect-as no doubt they will-we fail to see where there will come the necessity of new party organi- zations. The Republican party can hard ly be foolish enough throughout the West to kill itself by opposing railroad reform as it did in California.

 As regards the old organizations, we dc not imagine straight Democracy isianJ nearer beating straight Republicanism than has been many times before during l the past dozen years.
Year: 1873

Center, the juror in the Stokes case who haunted concert saloons and gam bling hells during the evenings while the trial was going on. and talked very freely about the case to the various person in those places of resort, has been fined S25O and sent to prison thirty days, for con- tempt of court The deputy sheriff who had him in nominal charge escapes with cut punishment.
Year: 1873

The murder by Cuban authorities of four insurgents found on the Virginius is in keeping with the savage customs of Spanish warfare. There is much doubt about the legality of the seizure of the Virginius, and the case now appears to stand very much where the celebrated Trent case would have stood had we kill cd Mason and Slidell out of hand imme- diately on their capture.
Year: 1873

We read a quaint story con-
cerning the discovery of this
favorite beverage. Towards the


middle of the fteenth century


a poor Arab was travelling in
AbysSinnia, and, finding him
self weak and weary from ia


tigue, he stopped near a grove.
Then being in want of fuel to
cook his rice, he cut down a
tree which happened to be cov-
cred with dead berries. His
meal cooked and eaten, the
traveller discovered that the
half burned berries were very
fragrant. He collected a num-
Der of these, and, on crushing
them with a stone, he found
that their aroma had increased
to a great extent. While Won
dering at this, he accidentally
let fall the substance in a can
which contained his scant sup
ply of water. Lo, what a mir
acle The almost putrid liquid
was instantly purified. He
brought it to his lips; it was
fresh, agreeable, and in a mo-
ment after the traveller had so
far recovered his strength and
energy as to be able to resume
his journey The lucky Arab
gathered as many berries as he
could, and having arrived at
Arden, in Arabia, he informed
the Mufti of his discovery. That
worthy divine was an inveter-
ate opium smoker, who had
been suffering for years, from
the influence of that poisonous
drug, He tried an infusion Of
the roasted borries, and was SC
delighted at the recovery of his
own vigor, that in gratitude tC
the tree he called it cahuah


which in Arabic signifies force
And that is the way in which
coffee was discovered. !.
Year: 1873

SNowFLAKEs OF WIT. = Thew
have some snow in Utica, New
York, as appears by the following
"Brevities" from the Herald Of Of
that city:


They wear snow plows for over.
shoes in the Eighth Ward.


Nearly all the signs on Genes.
see street were dug out before
night recently.


Nearly all the corner loafers
have climbed to the top Of the
snow and resumed business.


A man on Corn Hill, Obliged bv
the deep suOw to go home by way
of the chimney, got into hot wa
ter by getting into the wrong
house.


II you see a dogs tail on the
snow don't Kick it up. The prob
ability is that there will be Il dog
under the drift, all he may object
to your familiarity.


A merchant on Blandina street.
who worked all yesterday fore
noon cleaning his sidewalk, was
disguised when he found that he
had only got down to the wooden
awning.
Year: 1873

A WASHINGTo County (Ver-
monty man built a Zig-Zag rail
fence, and his neighbor claimed
that it trespassed on his farm. be-
cause it was not a straight fence
and didn't follow the boundary.
a fight followed, and then an ar
rest, the court dec ding that the
man had lawful right to extend
the fence over the live so far as
necessary for it's construction.
Year: 1873

Inc bill lowering the State tax one half, strikes us as it probably will all taxpayers, very favorably. We gather from the senate debate that one mill tax, together with the amount coming in from taxes on corporations, will pay all current expenses and leave S4OO, 900 to be applied in payment of the debt. At the end of eight years, with a one mill tax, the State would be out of debt, and the income from corporation taxes would just about pay the annual expenses of the State.
Year: 1873

Attention Is directed to the card Of
Dr.. Birkhead, who has fitted up fine
Office on Main street, where he is ready
to perform all kinds Of dental operations.
from taking out single tooth to putting
in q mouth full.
Year: 1873

Louisiana is favored the present year
with a fair sugar crop, fair as to quan-
tity and more than fair as to quality.
From all the sugar parishes we have
pretty much the same report, and that
grinding has commenced. Within the
past few days planters are in the mark
ct desiring TO contract for the sale of
their crops, and we hear of one in
stance on the upper coast, Of planter
who contracted to sell his entire
crop, which, when ready, will take
the direction of Carlo and the
railroad leading thence to Vim
ceDnes. This seems to be in accord
auce with the suggestion made recent
ly in the Times that the present is the
favorable oportunity of the sugar buy
ers at the north and west. Three
things conspire in their favor just at
this time, the low price of sugar, the
low rates of freight to Cairo, and the
high price of exchange in New York.
From all accounts there is plenty Of
exchange in all the States Of Ohio, In
diana, Illinois, Missouri and other
States to the north and west of those
named, but here in New Orleans ex-
change commands from four to five per
cent. premium. The merchants of the
west ordinarily buy their sugar in Jan
uary and February, but the facts men
toned above certainly offer them very
great inducements to enter the market
now and contract for their sugar
stocks, bringing their par exchange
and realizing the handsome premium
which it will here eommand.-NeIo
Orieons Times.
Year: 1873

The following beautiful tribute to


the South is from the pen of the editor


of the Vicksburg Times:


Southern nationality is dream Of
the past. A gulf, beyond which we
could not pass, yawned between us and
the realization of our hopes; and
though bright flowers blOomed uponits
brink and waited Us sweet perfume, we
could not cross to gather them. The
Southern government no longer CLEANS
out amid the wild light of battle ;.the
sword of the vanquished is sheathed
aad the land is gloomy with the harm
less sepulchres of our martyred dead.
But when years shall have passed
away-when, the last of the present
generation sleep with their fathers, and
new forms walk through old familiar
plaees-bright as day and free from
blemish and stain, will stand forth in
bright relief upon the scroll of fame,
the record of the South, dearer to the
hearts of her children now in the
hours of sorrow than when on the
march of victory she won the admira-
ton of the world.


Pilgrims from other lands shall tread
with reverend step above the spot
where moulders the dust of our loved
and lost; while those who are to fol-
low us will cherish as household gods
the names of those who are carving a
way through the fiery path of war, have
written their names where they can
never die. The principle for which
so many laid down their lives may not
be recognized until their names have
grown feeble on the tongue of friend
ship and then dropped ike dead ST.
lence from the tongue of the world
But it will struggle back from the hol-
low bosom that ence bled forit and
ascend the heights of government
And when the faithful historian shall
descend. into the vaults of the dead
past in quest of traditions of liberty,
he will discover to whom he is indebt-
ed for their perpetuation.
Year: 1873

Wo would call tho attention Of our readera to tho ail
vcrscment Of Messrs. Ellison, Pomeroy Co. Of yaln
able inside property to be sold at auction TO morrow
the ground Tle sao will be positive, aud will af
ford good opportunity to got q desirable piece Of
property at your own price,