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Year: 1876

HORSE DENTIsTRY.-A correspond
ent inquiring what he should do for a
horse that had decayed tooth, gets
the following answer in the New York
Tribune: "If your correspondent will
carefully clean out the decay in his
horses teeth down to the pulp cavity,
and will then carefully touch the dental
nerve with pure nitric acid, it will
effectually destroy all pain and fit the
tooth for filling. If the dentine is
very sensitive, first touch it (or pack
the tooth) with crystalized carbOlic
acid. This will blunt all pain in the
dentine fbrils. After the decayed
bone has been removed, fill the tooth
with dentists gutta percha, mixed with
silex, or with an amalgim of tin aud
mercury.
Year: 1876

This is more properly called "dila-
ton of the jaw bones" In horses it is
sometimes called "big head;" it is a
bony tumor, in which the interior Of
the bone is absorbed, sometimes leav-
ing mere shell Of bone divided into
cells, containing purulent cheesy mat
ter. This is supposed to be caused by
deficiency of phosphate Of lime in
the food, rendering the bones deficient
in this most important element, and
the following prescription is often given
with good result: Phosphate of lime,
six ounces; powdered golden seal, two
ounces; powdered sassafras, three
ounces; powdered ginger, two ounces;
oatmeal, four pounds; mix. This will
be divided into sixteen parts, one given
in the food every night. This will
have a tendency to restore the missing
elements in the bone. And the gen.
eral diet should be food rich in phos-
pilates You may get your phosphate
of lime by boiling beef bones in lye of
wood ashes, and after it is reduced
fine, wash with water and give a small
quantity daily in food. The first
thing to do surgically is to open itand
let out any matter that it contains.
Having removed the matter, inject the
cavity with weak pyroligneous or weak
carbolic acid. This will cleanse it and
render healing possible. Live Stock
Journal.
Year: 1876

Every one who has any stock for
sale or exchange should send us a
notice to go under the head of stock
breeders cards. Our rates are low
and our paper is a splendid medium
for advertising.
Year: 1876

CONFINEMENT EXERCISES.-We are in
formed by correspondent that the Senior
Class OF Amherst College is upon the point
Of petitoning the Faculty to change
altogether the character of Commencement
Exercises, substituting some observance Of
more practical and interesting character
1t begins to be violently suspected at
Amherst. We are told, that the OratiOns,
Essays, Dispositions, and Conferences of
the Anniversary lack human interest, or to
put the matter plainly, are something of a
bore. We are not informed of the substi-
tute for the usual programme proposed at
Amherst. We think that Senior Glasses
should in justice to the Faculties remem-
Der, II Commencement week is frequently
commonplace and of hackneyed charac-
Ter, that the fault is in the young gentle
men, and not in the Professors. who would
no doubt have the themes better chosen
and more brilliantly treated if it were
possibly. "The empty display characters
uc "of Commencement orations," of which
our correspondent complains, might be
attributed by an ill-natured censor to empty
heads, though we should be far from
agreeing with him. As it is not probable
mat the ordinary Commencement speaking
Will be given up, we suggest a remedy fOl
us medlocrty. Why not give the gradua
ting class little more liberty in the selec
ton Of their topics and in the manner 0
treating them? Why not substitute for til,
predOminating flavor of antiquity, tast
OF later thought and feeling? We admi
that modern topics are often discussed, bu
they are not handled in a modern way
Either the young men do not think, or d
not say what they think, or say it timidl
and Intellectually. Their speeches seem t
have been subjected to some exentcratinl
process which has taken all the vitality ou
Of them. There is always a suggestion 0
me cutting down or the cutting out. Fo
originality. there is a feeble reminiscence q
reading. We expect youth to be crude
but 1t is usually courageous, and it ough
not to be held responsible for the cowardic
tune.
Year: 1876

PRODUCE OF THE CoMsToCK LODE.


An apparently careful and reliable San Francisco
correspondent Of the New York Tribune gives IN
estimate Of the product Of the Comstock Lode since
yl880 that varies from many OF those current. This
statement is mainly based on three sources Of in
formation. One is the record Of the express COM
pany whose business it il to carry the products Of
the mines to market; another is the carefully kept
records Of the principal mines from which the bull


ion has been produced, and third is the record OF
the county officer whose duty It is to learn the
value OF the balon produced from all sources. for
the pnrpuze Of taxation. Relying chiefly on these
sources Of information the product Of the lode may
Year: 1876

DR. LINDERMAN, Director of the Mint,
has written letter 10 Samuel B. Ruggles of
the New York Chamber of Commerce, in re-
ply to some questions touching the amend
ment pending in the House to the Senate
Silver bill. He saysI that the proposition
OF the House amendment IS not to establish
double or alternate standard of gold and
silver based on the present commercial rela-
ton OF the two metals, but to make 412 $40
grains OF silver nine-tenths fine dollar when
it is worth only about 941 cents in gold. He
adds that ii such dollar should be made un-
limited tender it would at no distant day ex-
pei gold from the country, and when once
established as effective money would cause
the foreign exchanges to rise in proportion to
to the depreciation of the money unit. For
these and other reasons he does not think it
would be wise policy to make silver an un-
limited tender on the basis proposed. 1t
would no doubt make the United States the
best market in the world for silver, and cause
the surplus stock of Germany, France, and
otner countries to come TO us, and in giving
our gold, cotton, and other products for sill
yer, we would not even have reasonable
prospect of arrestiDg its depreciation. DR..
Linderman thinks that the only remedy from
which beneficial and permanent results can
be expected is an international convention,
called to consider this grave question and
agree upon the relations which gold and sill
yer shall in future bear to each other
in the coinage and legal-tender systems of
the principal countries OF the world
Year: 1876

We are permitted to publish the following
extract from private letter written by Mr..
Charles HI. Smith of Columbus Ohio, formerly
a resident and merchant in this city, relative
to the Republican candidate for President:


You ask me to tell you all about Gov. Hayes
will cheerfully do the best L can, and tell you
how he is esteemed by those who know him
well, as q citizen and q man and not as a par
tisan. You know he only resides here as Gov
ernor, his nome being in the town of Fremont,
in the northern part of the state. The Govern
or with his family recently visited his home,
and the citizens of all parties united to give
them grand reception. In his speech he
advised his friends to indulge in no bitterness
or uncharitableness towards him who might be
nominated at st. Louis, but rather pray for
them, and that Indicates the man. He is es-
teemed an honest and an honorable man,
without stain upon his character, by men of
all politics, and his opponents are mostly
troubled because they can find nothing against
him. He is not considered great man stained
with crime, but only great as he is good. He
is an active member of the Methodist church,
and honors his profession. We think he is a
man of fine appearance and engaging manners,
and possesses that true and rare politeness
which is the offspring of kindness, and which
makes him accessible to any one In fine, he
is the highest style of man, a Christian gentle
man. Can he be anything better?


Thrice has he been made Governor of Ohio,
and each time he has beaten an aspirant for
Presidential honors-Pendleton, Thurman and
Allen. He has never sought civil office
they have always sought him; and for his
present nomination he made no sign or stir.
He is considered man of wisdom rather than
cunning or brilliancy as an orator. And there
is not man in either party that could be more
safely trusted with government than Gov.
Hayes. He is a temperance man and of course
will be opposed by all the mighty power of the
rum-selling and rum-drinking interests of the
land, and all the Roman Catholics hate his
heresy and will oppose his election.


Mr.. Wheeler of New York is also Christian
man, and the Republican ticket is a Christian
ticket and we hope will be sustained by all
good citizens.
Year: 1876

The plase have come to the rescue of
the Puritans. This evening a theatrical per-
formance is given at the Howard Athenaum,
Boston, in aid of the preservation of the
Old South. The play-actors appear to be
more interested in saving the historic build
ing than are the pew-hoders. The Puritan
builders of the old Westinghouse little
dreamed that they would be indebted to the
playhouse for the preservation of their
work from destruction.
Year: 1876

GOVERNOR and Candidate Hendricks is
going to Washington to personally urge the
repeal of the resumption act. He will not
publish his formal letter of acceptance until
the House has taken definite action. If the
act be repealed the letter will doubtless be a
soft money tract.
Year: 1876

We do not read anonymous letters and communi-
cations. The name and address of the writer are in
all cases Indispensable not necessarily for publication
but as guaranty Of good faith.


We cannot undertake to return or reserve commu-
nications that are not used
Year: 1876

EVERY regular attache of the PRESS is furnished
with Card certificate countersigned by Stanley T..
Pullen, Editor. All railway, steamboat and hotel
managers will confer favor upon us by demanding
credentials of every person claiming to represent our
journal
Year: 1876

One of the most pleasing features of the
flag decorations in this metropolis and proba-
bly, throughout the cities of the Republic is
the blending Of the colors of other nations
with ours, the precedence. of course, being
given to the "Stars and Stripes" In almost
any other country such q course would be in
the highest degree offensive, but here it is an
earnest tribute to the genius of our institu-
tons from the brotherhood of men. Every
nation under the sun has contributed to our
population, and it is not surprising. there
fore, that every flag under heaven should be
given to the breeze in the centennial flower
Of our national existence. 1t is a sign of
fraternity and international fellowship
which could in no other way find such fit
expression The German hangs the
tricolor of the Empire side by side
with Ireland's green and the Irish
man places Erin's harp and the black
eagle of German prowess under the folds of
the "Star Spangled Banner" Even the
tricolor of France is lifted up by German
hands, and wherever our flag is seen there
is the emblem of some other nationality


which has helped at some time during the
century to raise it up in honor and in pride


AS if forgetting all the resentments of tho
past and accepting rs matter of Joy
the Declaration of Independence itself,
even the red banner OF St George
is given to the breeze as nm emblem of
peace. as one hundred years ago it was the
emblem of war. In all this there is theme
for reflection which cannot be lightly passed
over. America is home for all the world
and all the world has come to find home
in America We ask no one to forget what
he left behind him, but to bring even his
flag with him and entwine it with ours, both
when he rejoices in the good fortune of the
land of his birth and when he untes with
us in our national rejoicings. The blending
of so many colors with our own is only a
sign of our strength; but over all and above
all, in the heart OF every American by birth
or adoption, the first place will always bo
given to the "Stars and Stripes to the
banner which means freedom, peace and
fraternity as no flg ever meant them before.
In this spontaneous blending of the colors
of all nations which is 40 conspicuous an ele-
ment in our centennial is the surest sign Of
the glories and prosperity of the future
Year: 1876

Before the Yale crew disbands there is
difficult, to be sure, than they had last Fri.
day, but bringing far more distinction il
they face it bravely and win. Let the best
four of the eight, probably Messrs. Kennedy,
Cook, Wood and Kellogg, row in the Inter.
national Amateur meeting at Saratoga on
the 7th and 9th of next month. They hav.
ample time in which to get ready, and, al
they are said topurpose rowing in the ''Open
Amateur Fours" at the Centennial races in
the last part of August, they ought, as will
many of their rivals doubtless, to thus
prove their ability at long-distance racing,
as the Philadelphia contests are for only
mile and a half straightaway. II
may turn out that, while in the
shorter work on the Schuylkill, the Argo-
nautas, Atalantas and some of the student
crews may be enough for the strangers, the
latter can row our oarsmen all down over
the longer course at Saratoga. Yale's train
ing has been directly for long-distance work.
We do not want America to win simply at
Philadelphia ; we want her to win in every
contest rowed on our waters in IN honorable
and becoming fight, and it would be the
height of folly to hold back the best men We
have and be beaten when with those men we
could have won. If those men are the four
named none would regret such result more
than they themselves.


Beside the Centennial and Saratoga events
above specified two other meetings are
already arranged-the one on August 13,
between Dublins undergraduate four
Ambrose, Towers, Poole and Cowan-
and fours from the winners of the
University race, and that with Dublin's
stronger or graduate team--Pentland. Hick.
son, and the two Barringtons-a day or two
later. Notwithstanding Yale's withdrawal
from the College Rowing Association, let her
now ask to be let into this race of August
13, or, if she will row as graduate four,
into the one day or two later. Both are to
be at Saratoga and thus, either in all four,
or at least three, of the severe races in store
for our oarsmen with foreign foe, Yale, bril-
liant as she has already made the Centennial
year in her aquatic performance, may within
the coming few weeks win new honors, which,
when she afterward comes to weigh them,
will be seen to bring her far more enduring
fame than she won the other day on the Con-
necticut.
Year: 1876

The OLD GUARD returned yesterday
morning from its trip to Charleston, S. G.,
accompanied by the company of Boston
"Tigers, the Clinch Guard, of Augusta, Ga,
and the Washington Light Infantry. All
the organizations, after enjoying a break
fast in this city, proceeded'to Philadelphia,
where they take part in the grand Centen-
NAL parade in that city to-day. Now that
North and South have determined to cross
'.the threshold of another age" together we
may consider that the glories Of the depart
ing century are crowned with the sublime
blessing of domestic peace, and this
thought should make the nation strong to
meet the future with the same faith in which
it yanquished the past.
Year: 1876

IT Is FEARFUL to contemplate the amount
of misery that is hidden away in the tcne-
ment dens of New York. In these forlorn
abodes, without hope of relief although
within hearing of the busy world without,
men, women and children die Of starvation
slowly waste away for want of nourishing
food until merciful death comes to their
rescue. Such scene, surrounded with-a
double measure of horror, because the suf-
ferers were little children, was witnessed by
police officer yesterday morning in Wash
ington street -Four orphans, the oldest not
more than eleven years of age, were found
dying of starvation on the bare floor of their
wretched apartment. They had not eaten
anything since the previous Monday. This
is centennial scene not laid down in tb
programme. 1t makes an awful tablcau.
Year: 1876

BRUTAL SAVAGE named Mccarthy a..
tempted to murder his wife on Sunday night
by cutting her throat with razor. He will
probably bc,tried for an aggravated assault,
and be sent to prison for few months, and
will then return to us ready for another
piece of butchery. Such wretches should
be permanently exiled from society as unfit
to take any share In the blessings of civil
ization which they never can appreciate.
Year: 1876

of one Union, one flag, one confederation of
States, if instead of one common memory
We should celebrate our independence
as rent Republic 1t would indeed
be the Centennial of humiliation and
shame The world, which honors US in
honoring the day, would mock at lib
erty which ended in chaos. The generation
which celebrates our Centennial is the gen.
Grafton which fought this war. 1t is war
which no one-Northerner or Southerner-
can view with humiliation. In all the quail
ties of solderly valor and achievement the
Southerner who lost showed rs nobly as the
Northerner who won. There is no better
assurance of continued Union than what
will be seen in the Centennial legion, COM
po.ed of Northern and Southern soldiers,
which will parade in Philadelphia to-day,
under the command Of celebrated generals
of the North and South. This legion is the
emblem of o reconstructed Union, of Union
which rejoices in Grant and Lee, and which
hereafter to all the world is q compact,
united, proud Republic, defending liberty
and championing republican institutions.
1t was terrible price to pay, that civil war,
but we are not sure, when we come to the
second Centennial of our independence, that
wise men will not see that such war was
necessary for the Union, that the time had
come for us to go through the fires, and that
in achieving emancipation at home we only
led the way to emancipation all over the
globe.


Let us then, for one day at least look
cheerfully upon the Republic. and for one
day let there be no sound but that of rejoic-
ing. Time, in encircling the Republic with
its hundred years, has extinguished every
feeling but that of respect tor our fatherland
and for the King who, in defending his empire
and his crown, taught us how to defend our
Union. 1t is not for the men who fought
from Manassas to Appomattox fora sentiment
to censure the King who fought from Lex
ington to Yorktown for sentiment. The cry
was '1oyalty" in both wars. There is no such
feeling in this wide Republic. We see that
it was for the true greatness of the English
race that there should be separation of the
nations. In its true sense the Declaration
OF independence was III eFeuC III Cile ulSGoTy
of England. If we look at the English race
to-day, not as divided by political and geo.
graphical lines, but from its higher plane,
we see how the Declaration of Independence
was new era in its greatness. The Eng
lish spirit ruled America when it declared
itself free from the European empire. The
policy involved in the Declaration Of Inde-
pendence, and which England learned in
the surrender of Yorktown, has governed
her empire ever since, and bears fruit in the
new empires which we see in Australia, Asia
and America. In declaring our indepen-
dence we became the ally and not the enemy
of England. In that spirit let us celebrate
this anniversary, and in doing so let us
trust that when Time decorates us with an
other century we shall be in the enjoyment
of higher freedom that We shall feel as
we do now, that liberty and republicanism
90 hand in hand and that the example of
America has borne fruit in an era of univer-
sal freedom and peace.
Year: 1876

THE VALUATION OF PROPERTY in New York
for the purposes of taxation has been in
creased by the Commissioners of Taxes and
Assessments about nine millions of dollars
over that of last year. The greatest increase
of valuation is made in the Nineteenth ward,
where the advance is equal to thirty-three
per cent of that placed on the entire city.
Year: 1876

THE CENTENNIAL CANVASS will be in full
vigor in couple of weeks. In fact, as soon
as the last rocket sends its red or varicolored
glare across the heavens the Hayesers and
Tildenites will begin operations. In this
State the democracy is unit for Uncle
Samuel. He will only have to face the
regular republican fire in front, without
even A. Schell raising dust behind him.
Year: 1876

As WE PREDICTED, the weather, though
occasionally threatening will be favorable
for the great celebration of the nations
birthday, and the ear-piercing trumpet and
the cloud-piercing rocket will give testi-
mony OF the universal JOY in sweet sounds
and those brilliant star forms which may be
called the music of light.
Year: 1876

The SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION of Cruelty
to Children should add to its claims ON pub
lie esteem by formulating law to limit the
slaughter of the little ones through the care
less use of firecrackers on the Fourth of July.
We fear the list of accidents will furnish
them with complete catalogue of the
parents and guardians exercise so little dis
cretion in the matter
Year: 1876

SUNSET Cox is not destined to be snuffed
out of public life by his fiasco at st. Louis
His conversation with HERALD reporter
which is published elsewhere, concerning his
allegiance to Mr. John Kelly, the Speakership
and other matters, will repay perusal
Year: 1876

SILVER continues to decline in value, and
it is now asserted that the silver trade dol
lar can be bought for ninety cents in
paper currency. This depreciation of silver
creates one of the most difficult problems
that financiers are called on to solve.
Year: 1876

TALLAHASSEE, November 22.-There is
perfect quiet in political circles hereg Every
thing is suspended to await the contest be-
fore Judge White tomorrow, when the in
junction against the governor will either be
confirmed or withdrawn, and the case Of the
mandamus against the canvassing board,
compelling them to begin work, will be de
cided. The judge arrived tonight, and the
argument will open at eleven O'Clock to-mor-
row. The result can be hardly reached in
one day. 1t is impossible to discover. what
course the counsel for the governor will take,
but it is believed be Will deny the right of
the court to issue an injunction against him.
1t is said on the other hand, that accepting
the jurisdiction of the court, he will go into
an elaborate defssecof his nghs to canvass
the electoral vote. The city Is crowded with
strangers, every train from the north bringing
new corners. There will doubtless be an ap-
peal from Judge Whites decision, no matter
what that decision may be.
Year: 1876

WASHINGTON, November 2.-The Jack
son Democratic association last night declined
to participate in the proposed Democratic
demonstration on the twenty-ninth instant,
on the ground that i Is better to postpone
throughout the land.
Year: 1876

the sincerity of the ear pacific declarations,
and said he WIS going to Constantinople
with no preconceiyed intentions, but with an
ardent desire to preserve peace. He was
disposed to agree to all propositions tending
to amehOrate the condition Of the christians
in Turkey.
Year: 1876

The supervisors Of registration are State
officials. get it viii be seen that they got their
instructions from the headquarter Of the Re
publican party. 1t will also be seen that the
required majority was not forthcoming If
the Republicans know they have 900 major
ity in the parish, why did they permit the vote
of the parish to be counted to-day without
/ nrntastJ
Year: 1876

AZ The New Drug store has ad,cr-
iised for the last FEW weeks u remedy


for Hog and Chicken Cholera. which on
n limited experience we could not then


fully recommend. bur at present we have
reports from "a great number OF Fer
sons who have given this remedy y
thorough trial in the most aggravated
forms OF hog cholera, with universal
success. We feel glad 10 announce To
the people n safe aud certain remedy
for The most destructive pest 10 swine.