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Year: 1875

The following announcement is
from the Ottumwa Democrat, Sam
Evans paper. 1t may be of interest
to some of our readers of the ancient
faith:


GA Democratic State Convention
will be held at Des Moire es about the
7th Of July. The call will be issued
BY the County Central Committees
and signed by prominent Democrats
in the State. We desire to publish
this announcement in advance, to let
the Democrats know that there will
be straight Democratic ticket in the
field. There is no cause for dis.
couragement! Everything is work
ing we'll where the old banner is
raised! Our "foghoAs f" will be
sounded in Iowaw
Year: 1875

Farmers, grade up your stock if
you do not feel able to buy and breed
thoroughbred stock, breed your COM
mon stock this spring to none but
thoroughbred males. Secure the SER
vices Of some Of the thoroughbreds of
your neighbors, or procure one of
your own and some reliable breeder,
and when once you have lot of
grade stock-either cattle, horses,
hogs or sheep-you will never raise
scrubs again, for farmers raise stock
for the purpose of making the most
money out of their farms by feeding
their crops rather thar sell the grain
and hay to dealers; then the kind of
stock that will mature the quickest
and grow the largest is the most pro-
fitable for meat, and it is now no
longer question, but settled fact,
that the grades Of our common stock
crossed with thoroughbreds are more
profitable to Western farmers than
raising scrubs, while the first cost of
grading up is small, compared to the
actual profits in dollars and cents.
Too many farmers just here are penny


wise and pound foolish; because they
cannot get fine thoroughbred males
as cheap as common stock they don't
like to make start-to make the
first outlay-but the world moves,
and our stock must improve with ev-
erything Western Agrc'tlturast.
Year: 1875

NAsHv1LLE, April 30.-The ex-
element over the killing Of police Of
ficer Frazier by J. Reed, colored, to-
day grew more and more intense
during the afternoon and evening,
and eliminated at half past eight to-
night in large and excited crowd
gathering in front of the Jail and de-
manding the keys from the jailor,
who refused. They Immediately at
tackled the building, forced the en-
trance, and at halfpast 10, after
forcing open four heavy iron doors,
succeeded in reaching the cell in
which the negro was confined, the
door Of which was soon broken open.
Reed was seized, a rope fastened
around his neck, and hurried to the
suspension bridge, from which he was
thrown with the intention ofhanging
but the rope breaking he tell to the
rocks beneath, 80 feet, and from
thence into the river. He was shot
once on the way, and again at the
bottom. The body was not recover
ed. The alarm was given on the first
indications OF the riot, and a large
police force sent to the jail but they
were soon overpowered and driven
away by the rioters. The jailor and
his assistants did all in their power
to resist the attack and protect their
prisoners.
Year: 1875

Get good breeds only, and raise the
most perfect ones; good, sound
sheep is as necessary as a good sound
horse. Get breed that will stand
the cold weather, and not stand even
in this weather shivaring with the
cold-one that has a thick, dry coy-
ering; these are not only the most
profitable for their wool, but also for
their lambs that will be dropped in
their season. Give the sheep exer.
else; oblige them to 60 a short dis
tance for their food and drink. a
successful sheep raiser must love his
sheep not only for the dollars and
cents, but must love to look at them,
to see them eat and drink, to really
enjoy their capering; in fact, he
must love their every movement
love them in such a way that they
will meet him with greeting, and not
take to their heels and try to hide
from his sight; success, in a great
measure, lies here. Be careful in
shearing; do not leave any wool on,
and say you have made it up by tax
ing off an equal amount of hide, for
this is not only an injury to the sheep,
but no wool will ever grow from
these SCARED places. High pastur-
age is necessary; low meadow land
is not adapted to sheep pasturage.
Feed for sheep should be cut just be-
fore, or at the time of blossoming ;
should be fed neat and clean, as sheep
are naturally clean, and will trample
under foot unless they have clean
food in clean places. Do not obiige
them to wade through mud and water,
for all have noticed that, in driving
they will 60 round rather than
through water or mud.-Boston CuL
tirator.
Year: 1875

A method which will break the
most vicious COW from kicking, and
which should supersede the cruel
practice of beating and whipping, and
is the work of but a few minutes, is
as follows: Take a strap the size of
common bridlerein and buckle
tightly around the COW (while milk
ing) just forward Of the bag. This,
practiced a few days, will effect the
desired result, as we are aware from
actual experience.-HernsosH Farmer.
Year: 1875

Rs~NoTICE TO CAPTAINS OF VESSELS ENTERING
THE PORT OF NEW YORK AT NIGHT.-The NEw YORK
HERALD has adopted distinguishing Coston night signal for
board the HERALD yacht showing while burn
ing the coors green red changing from the other
in succession and be miles distant Cap
tans Of vessels seeing this signal viii obge by
pairing any marine they may have for the Ship News
Department Of the HERALD


psPesons desirous OF communicating with vessels arrv
New York do by addressing such vessels
Of HERALD yacht pier No East River New York
Letters received from all parts the world and promptly de-
bvered- Duplicates required.
Year: 1875

On the 18th OF November last young named
William H. Fleischman, in the employ Of Morris Alt
man, dry goods merchant at Nos So1 and S0S Sixth
avenue, was given $500 by one OF the cashiers in Alt
mans store to be delivered to the chief cashier in
other part Of the building. Instead OF handing tha
amount 70 the person designated Feischman carefully
placed il in his pocket and quietly but with rapid
steps vacatedthe store Mr. Altman, soon az he as
certaned bis intention Of putting the money 10 his
own use notified the police at the Twenty ninth
precinct station house, and special officer
was detailed to find the thief; but Willie deter
mined 10 enjoy himself while he could and went West
visiting Chicago Cincinnati and other places. After no
had made away with the whole amount he returned TO
this city, which was only few days ago. The officer
has been on the lookout since for Fleischman,
and last evening he succeeded in capturing his al
the house OF friend in Twenty second street Fleisch


man acknowledged his guilt, and he was locked up in
the Twenty ninth precinct station house HIS trial VIII


come of to-day at the Washington Place Police Court
Year: 1875

The best practical statement | have
met about ventilation was contained i'll
the remark OF mining engineer i'll
PENNSYLVANIA "Air is like rope you
can pull it better than you can push it. "
AL mechanical appliances for pushing


ir into a room or n house are disap.
pointing. What we need 10 do is to pull
ont the vitiated air already in the room !;
the fresh supply will take care Of itself
il means for its admission are provided.


1t has been usual to withdraw the mir
through openings near the ceiling, TINT
is, to carry Off the warmer and therefore
lighter portions, leaving the colder
strata ut tho bottom Of tho room. with
their gradual accumulation Of cooled
carbonic acid undisturbed. Much the
better plan would be to draw this lower
air out from point near the floor, nj
lowing the upper and warmer portions
to descend and take its place.


An open fire, with large chimney
throat, is the best ventilator for any
room the onG-half or two.thirtls OF the
heat carried up the chimney is the price
paid for immunity from disease, and
large though this seems from its daily
draft on the woodpile or coalbin. ii is
trihing when compared with doctors
bills and with the loss Of strength and
efficiency that invariably result from
living in rlnyentilatcd apartments.
Year: 1875

SmNGLEs.-Shingle making is
not an unimportant industry of
this country. Experience has
taught builders in California that
the Puget Sound cedar shingles
are superiar to any others now in
use. Our forests abound with
an abundance of the finest cedar
ever seen. We are informed that
shingles are in demand at 50 and
SO so per M and that a shingle
maker can make an average OF
2 Ms per day. We do not see
why, in the absence Of other
employment, that those who are
hunting labor do not go to work
making shingles. We are in
clined to think that many who
are hunting work are afraid they
will find it.
Year: 1875

WHITE PINE.-There is now a
great demand for white pine
logs. We are informed that
they are worth 10 to Sig per NJ,
or even S14 could be had. There
are forests of white pine report
ed in different sections on the
Sound, and we arc surprised that
some one does not commence log
ging it. AS it is,all the white pine
used on the Sound is brought
from California.
Year: 1875

bag The rattle that was to
have come off a week or so ago
at Humphrey Il Young's was
postponed until this evening"
Any one wishing a nice boquet
of wax flowers will do we'll to
call around at their store and
take a chance.
Year: 1875

Standardization Messrs.
Moor and Dinsmore of Stilagua-
mish we learn that the crops in
that section are very good; that
haying is finished and the
amount of hay raised is immense.
The barley, oat and wheat crop
is ripening fast and the yield of
cereals this year will be very
large. The loggers are also do
ing well.
Year: 1875

The Chicago Times is trying to beat a
little wisdom into the $4,000 Chicago
young men whom the Inter.Ocean is
trying to reduce to psuperism through
the delusions Of mstrimony. Vain task
poor little moths


While the lamp holds out to burn


Each silly insect takes its turn.


Women will be women, and nothing is
too absurd for them to do when there
are no strong, clear-headed persdus OF
the other sex to held them in check.
Mrs. Julia Ward Howe has just been IL
lustrating this fact by giving a tea party
at which it was necessary for every one
to be dressed and decorated with blue
from heels to head. Forty persons were
present at the ridiculous entertainment.
Year: 1875

THE PENNSYLVANIA AND NEW YORK LABoRERs


RESOLVE AGAINST THIRD TERM


TYRONE, Pa Dec. %, 1875.
large convention Of laborers, composed OF 1872 dele
gates various parts Of the State and from New
York and Connecticut has been IN session here for two
days


Among the resolutions adopted was one declaring
against any subsidy being granted by Congress to the
Texas Pacific Railroad and requesting the government
10 give the Union and Central Pacific Railroad compa
nies certain time TO pay their Indebtedness, and,
failing in that, the government should assume pos
session of the roads and also providing for the
appointment Of a National Committee or thirty 10
issue call convention Of representatives Of labor
and Industry all parts Of the country to be held IN
Pittsburg IN April next Another resolution was
adopted requesting the Pennsylvania Legislature to
pass protecting the workngmen Of the state from
being drawn into private contracts by their employers
whereby nearly all their earnings absorbed by store
credit &c Several resolutions In the interest Of the
labor organizations adopted, together with
the following


Resolved That We favor election of the President d.
recty by the people, and emphaiicay opposed to
Year: 1875

ALBANY Dec 90, 1875.
Nothing important enough to make public trans
red before the Canal Investigating Commission
to-day Mr. Thayer was in the Auditors Office
but not for the transaction OF any public business
The commission is engaged making up its accounts
The appropriation made to meet its expenses is not
exhausted Notwithstanding the witness fees and the
large number Of senographers, clerks SC i has been
obliged TO employ and the very great amount Of print
AntL
Year: 1875

A ntNpERGAurEN.-rh project of establish
ing kindergarten school in Wilmington is like
ly to be successful, and the school will probably
open about the first of October. Fifteen pupils
are already secured and but five more can be sc-
commodated. The school is to be in charge of
an accomplished lady teacher from Boston.
Year: 1875

1RE EAST s2D ST, NEAR Sd AVA WOMAN Or
IOO thorough experience first class Is fully
capable to take charge of infant from birth is fine hand
sewer experienced in sickness; willing and oblging
city reference. - -
Year: 1875

The following from the San Francisco Bulletin, shows what can be done by boring artesian wells, even in that city, where al most any man would think 1t would be impossible to procure good water by any means:

 In various portions of the city the experiment. has been tried as to the feasibility of obtaining a supply of water by boring wells. When the new hotel and theatre building on Powell, Market and Ellis streets was commenced, it was thought by the experts that an adequate supply of water could be obtained to supply the building. Work was accordingly began, and a boring was made to the depth of about 120 feet. where bed of gravel was struck, and immedi- ately water gushed up to the top of the ground, and has continued to flow uninterruptedly ever since. This was so successful that a sec- Ond boring was made and with equally good results, and now en- Ough water flows from those two wells to supply the building, and if necessary, the entire block. In sinking this wells 14-inch augur was first used in boring through a stratum of sand about forty feet in depth. This brought 1t to the clay. An iron tube was then put down, resting on the clay, and then a ten-inch augur was used until the gravel bed was reached, after which galvanized iron pipe was put down the entire depth, and the space between the larger and smaller pipe filled with cem- ent. The two wells cost about 5000, and the water is clear, fresh and cold. Similar wells have also been bored at the Golden Gate Flouring Mills at the Pacific Hotel, and at one or two other places, so that the fact is fully demonstrated that at any average depth of 12O feet at all points east of Market street toward the bay there exists a stratum of gravel through which runs stream of water that can be made serviceable for all purposes. It is not improbable that one 12. inch we'll could be made to supply the ordinary wants of an entire block; and any large manufactur- ing establishment could save largely in this manner. The ex- orbitant demands of the present

 water monopoly will certainly drive the people to adopt this easy means of release from extortion.
Year: 1875

freight-for it is freight and nc .n- ing else, although it was received and stamped as mail matter? It can't be done. And if merchants generally were to do as those two Tucson houses are doing, the mail contractors would be obliged to put on the route 8 heavy train Oi freight wagons, or give up their contract. body knows which they would have to do.

 No, it won't do. The thing has to be stopped, or the mails must stop. We saw the other day a petition from the respectable mer- chants, business men, officials and leading citizens of Tucson, to the Postmaster General, laying this matter before him, and asking such relief in the premises as he has power to give. We have no doubt that the Postmaster -Gener- al will do all in his power to stop the abuse spoken of, but we main ly look to the next Congress to remodel the Postal Law, so as to stop this loop-hole, that bad, ava riciOus men take advantage of fO1 their own interest, regardless of the public welfare.
Year: 1875

The news continue in favor of the richness of these digging5. A prospector sends us these state mehtS:

 conversation with two miners from Nevada, 1 learned they had located claim about two miles back from Hughes gulch, in deep diggings. They had stripped a gulch eight feet wide and 25O feet long, and on an average of six feel deep. They pack the dirt on jacks to Hughes claim and are making from forty to sixty dollars per day. They say the gold is more evenly diffused, and that labor is more certain of it's reward in these deep diggings than it is in the shallow gulches. They re- present the deep diggings to be extensive, and in their opinion as rich as the best of the deep dig gings of California, The present local law is very defective, in that it gives not only 1000 feet of ground front on each gulch, but also 1000 feet ofthe water running throughout it to the exclusion of all other miners. It also gives every man the right to locate 1000 feet On'every gulch and this is done without ever putting a pick or shovel into the ground, or without knowing whether It contains gold or not; and some men have twenty claims without having worked day on either O them. A limited space of water should be allowed each miner and but one claim in each District. We have heard some talk of men proposing to sink wells with view to supply water for wash. ing, and it seems that in section so full of springs as that is, espe- cially in the mountains around, water could be obtained at tritiing expense of labor and money. A man named Miller came in from the placers early in the week 1 with a nugget of gold worth $121, and we heard that other note worthy pieces had recently been found there, but have no particu- lars. .-CItizen.
Year: 1875

FREIGHT

 It is well known that the U. s. Postal Laws permit samples of merchandise to be carried in the mails, in packages not exceeding four pounds, at one cent per ounce, but it was never expected by the lawmakers or anybody else, that this liberal provision in the law would be taken advantage of by merchants to get their stocks of goods sent across the continent to the amount Ofa thOusapd or fif- teen hundred pounds in one mail. Yet men have been found mean enough to do this thing. Men who are more brutish than other men, and who have no principle higher than that of self-aggrand- izement, no matter if the whole public suffer by their meanness and selfishness. We have known for long time that many people in the United States were in the habit of receiving by mail small packages of goods, not exactly samples, but absolute purchases, because they could have them sent from a distant city much cheaper that way than they could buy them of their local merchants. Even that is bad enough and is defrauding the Government and people, diverting the mails from their legitimate use and opening the door to wide abuse of privilege.

 But when merchants make a regular business of receiving large invoices of goods in that nefariOus manner, as we are informed two houses in Tucson are in the habit of doing, to- wit: the house of one Zeckendorff and that of one Vel isch, thereby impeding the trans mission of the mails and causing great trouble, pain and inconven- fence to travellers on mail-coach es on long interior routes, it is time that the matter should be looked into. Zeckendorff and Welisch get their goods much cheaper and quicker from New York by the United States mails than they or anybody else can by the con- mon process of freighting, espe- cially light and costly goods. It only costs them 16 cts. per pound to get their goods by mail, and no man can get goods sent from New York to this distant region, by the ordinary means of trans portatiOn, for any such price as that. They we'll know that, and finding this loop-hole in the law, their cupidity prompted them to take advantage of it, regardless of the great injury they are doing to the public.

 Now it is certain that if Zecken- dorff and Welisch can do this thing, every man in the United States has the same right. Sup pose every merchant should con- clude to have his goods sent by the malls, the serious question arises could the mails be carried at all? No; it would be impossible. They might possibly be carried on the steamboat and railroad routes. but by the stage coach, never.

 Here is a stage route 800 miles long, between San Diego, Cal, and Tucson, Arizona. Upon that route contractors have agreed to carry the mails for sum none too much for the legitimate service, and it is a matter of wonder how they are able to accomplish it for the amount received. But to in- crease their embarrassment, here comes along lot of packages of merchandise of pounds weight each, aggregating probably 800, 1000 or 1900 pounds. The regular mail must be carried and passen- 2 CTS travel by these mail coaches.
Year: 1875

T. D. LOCKWOOD returned to his newly discovered mine on PicachO mountain, a few days since. He is in great heart, and says he would not give his mine for anything he ever saw. Hope it may prove as rich as he thinks.

 These PicachO mines are all in San Diego O., Cal, but they are only 25 miles from Yuma, and are just as good for us as though they were on this side of the river. AS things look now tn ey are going to have rich district. One great advan- tage is that their mines are only a few miles from navigation and all the way down hill to the river.
Year: 1875

A NOVEL FLOUR SACK.-A funny incl dent in Stamford is thus related by the Stamford Adroeate: "A girl Tn a neigh ing town was shocked the other evening by her own mistake. Being sent for some flour to store in hurry, she took what sue supposed to be clean pillow slip from her bureau drawer. When she reached the store she handed the supposed pillow slip to the young clerk to fill with flour. Even he did not notice what they were till a scoop of flour had gone through them. When he raised them up and exposed the two outlets at the bottom, nicely fringed, etc., the girl ran from the store without saying word, and the young man, cover, ed with flour, laid the garment in the drawer to await her return. He will probably wait some time.
Year: 1875

SheffieIds

 Iknow of nothing from this place at the present time which is worthy of mention in the papers, but fearing the officers of .he town may be offended If nc note is made of that town meeting which they held last week Thursday, will briefly make men, ton of that days proceedings. as heard them from others. Two weeks ago, when the question of license and no license was being agitated throughout old Massachu- setts, the first ladies of thls town held a meeting in the Congregational chapel and drew up petition requesting the fathers of the town to grant no licenses for the sale of intoxicating liquors in Sheffield. This petition was well circulated, and every temperance woman in town gladly gave her name in the cause of right. This pa- per was presented to the powers that be, , and before that august assembly which met last Thursday in the Town Hall the matter was brought. A man arose and said in effect that although his wife'a name was upon that paper he did not approve of it; he believed in free ram, and wished they might return to the good old days when the rum hogshead stood side and side stores, for in those days there were few drunkards, &c. would not like to tell all he said, lest his words might do harm to others, but the good temperance men were xu;th ,Johf ing to reply to this rum loving advocate, and when it came to voting, they also held their peace and voted not Gt dU! So rum is victorious in OUT town, and the voice of the ladies is of no consequence here. The people of Southern Massachusetts used to complain that York State borders and Con- necticut towns supplied so much rum 10 the sons of Massachusetts, who could not get their fill at home, and were in the habit of going over the line after it !, now Shef- field is going to be very liberal hereafter and keep the profits at home. 'Retrench- ment is the motto of the financic,s of the town, but we hope the honor of the town will not continue to grow l. ss. believe in speaking well of ones nrlivc place when. ever we can, but we arc much ashamed that Sheffield ceases to be a temperance town. There is much sickness here, and death makes frequent visits in our midst Dr. Smith has his ,ttice in the village and finds plenty of business in all parts of the town. There are runners of weddingl soon to be-now guess who Time will tell if I do not. LUNA.