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Year: 1876

Regardless of consequences the Asso-
ciated Press sent the information over the
wires last night that Governor Tilden had
secured q suite of rooms at Long Branch,
and in the same paragraph it was stated
that Pullman's cottage had been robbed Of
$2500 worth of diamonds. Mr.. Tilden is q
reformer, and no suspicion or responsibility
for the robbery can be cast upon him, and
John Morrissey is man too honorable to
be mentioned in connection with the dis
appearance of the diamonds. The facts
of the robbery and the appearance of
Samuel at the Branch are only remarka-
BILE coincidence. By the way, does Mr..
Tilden intend to follow the example of
President Grant in taking house at the
summer capital! He will never occupy the
White House at Washington, but he may
gain some satisfaction by renting the Presi-
dents cottage at Long Branch; and in Til
den's case no Blackburn, for an investi-
eating committee, will ever inquire how
much time the reformer spends in the cot
tago by the sea,
Year: 1876

The five amendments to be submitted to
the people at the coming election, for their
adoption or rejection, and which were
printed in the REPUBLICAN of Sunday, are
officially promulgated this morning by the
Secretary of State. 1t has been customary,
heretofore, for them to receive the sigma
ture of the Governor, and be promulgated,
like ordinary acts Of the Legislature; but
after full deliberation on this matter, this
course has been deemed unnecessary, and
the amendments promulgated this morning
are placed before the public in the exact
manner provided by the constitution of the
State,
Year: 1876

Hon. w. L. Evans, justice of the First
Municipal Police Court, has received leave
of absence for ten days.


Notwithstanding the severe bruising and
scratching he received when thrown from
his buggy the other day, Colonel James
Lewis was out yesterday and in attendance
upon the weekly meeting of the Police
Board. His joints have not yet recovered
their accustomed elasticity, but a few days
will make him as we'll as ever, and there
are good many years of hard service in
him vet.
Year: 1876




Hon. George H. Braughn informs the Re-
PUBLICAN that it was in error in stating
that the legal controversy now going on for
the Office of Assistant Attorney General
would be ended "by the appointment of
Judge Dibble by Acting Governor Antoine,
and also that Judge Braughn would make
NO objection"


Judge Braughn states that this conclusion
is unwarranted by any statement of his.
and further, that he should not consent to
nor acquiesce in such action by Governor
Antoine. He has no knowledge that such
action is contemplated. It therefore ap-
pears that the information acted ON by the
REPUBLICAN has caused it to do an uninten.
tional injustice to Judge Braughn which it
is pleased to remedy by this correction.
Year: 1876

From the Pal Mall Gazette


The Trans-Indus salt region has lately
been explored and mapped out by the Geo
logical Survey of India. The report of the
officers engaged in that work, brief notice
of which is given in the Pioneer, shows the
existence Of enormous accumlations of pure
rock salt over an area of about a thousand
square miles. In extent and depth of
stratum these accumlations equal, if they
do not surpass, those in any other part of
the known world The Trans-Indus salt
region consists Of what is called the Kohat
district to the west Of the Indus and the
southwest of Peshawer, with which it is
connected by the Affridi Pass, kept open
by the payment of II, 900 rupees annually
as "black mail to the Afridis by the
British Government.


The general aspect of the country is wild,
barren, and rocky, almost bare of vegeta-
ton low hills intersect it, twisting and
turning in strange confusion. In this wild
country large exposures of the purest rock
salt occur. Quarrying has been going on
in desutory way for centuries, yet so fast
are the saline deposits that, taking the depth
of the rock salt at only one hundred feet,
there is still provision for the consumption
of one thousand years The probability is
that the thickness Of the stratum is very
much above one hundred feet La the
quarries of Bahadar Knel the thickness of
the salt layer cannot be less than one thous-
and feet, and may be much more The APP
pearance of this valley is one not easily
forgotten. 1t seems clothed with salt, The
road underneath the wayfarer's foot is of
salt the brook which flows through the
valley is of brine, and flows over bottom
of pure rock salt The hills which have it
in glisten with the same mineral, streaked
with bands of greenish clay.
Year: 1876

when the plant seems to need such
influences, the growing OF the
wheat in larger masses, so that 1T
is more difficult for the frost to
uproot it. and better setting Of
the plant iflifted by the frost. 1t
also seems to me that it protects
itself better than when sowed
with the drill. You can form a
much more correct idea of it when
you see the wheat growing. AS
l said before, SOW broadcast,
and harrow lengthwise and nearly
all that fall on the ridges rolls
down into the scores by harrow
ing. tl


The extra cost Of putting in
wheat this way, and of cul.ivating
it, over the cost of drilling, do
not think would reach SO per acre,
though I have not kept an ac-
count.


have now given you, as near
ly as | can, on paper. the principle
and results Of my experiments in


wheat-culture for the few years.
These ex periments have convinc-
ed me that the new method is
more successful in insurinG a crop
than any other.
Year: 1876

Had thunderbolt fallen the Inspectors Of the
Custom House they could not have been more aston
ished than they yesterday by learning that the
Secretary of the Treasury had ordered release Of the
So 900 worth of goods seized from Mason Hirsch, on
the steamship Russia the Cunard dock the 18th
Of last month. The release ordered the ground
that thero attempt at fraud. II said that
this decision gives passengers full permission make
false declarations of their baggage Tor the future.
Hirsch, may be remembered took his Custom House
oath that he had only $50 worth of dutiabie merchan
disc In his trunks, and made two efforts bribe
with $50 and 500 two well known Custom House in
spectors These officers testified to Special Treasury
Agent Tngle at the Astor House lately to the at
tempts made TO suborn them.
Year: 1876

The President Of prominent insurance company in
terested in the loss of the Harvest Queen made the
following statement to HERALD reporter yesterday:
81 see by HERALD cable despatch that spars had
washed ashore at Wexford, Ireland, the l1th of
January, supposed TO have belonged TO the Harvest
Queen, with two pieces of steamers bridge l be-
ieve this statement about the bridge belonging TO
steamer is incorrect one the Harvest Queen had
bridge running from the poop deck to the fore deck
house. consequently of the belief that the pieces
of the bridge belonged TO no steamer, but to the Har
vest Queen as all the jetsam appears to have been
md fnnnth
Year: 1876

The body fthe man who shot himself in the head
last Monday morning, and was found in wagon at No.
1917 Broadway, recognized the Morgue yester
day morning by his wlfe that OF Anthony Miller, OF
No. GA East Eleventh street The deceased
native OF Germany thrty-hve years old and tin
smith. Being out Of employment, he lett home three
months ago look for work, and he passed OF
the house remarked TO his wife that If he
ccssful he would kill himself From that time she had
not seen nor heard from him. He leaves two children.


Nothing has been heard of the girl who upon seeing
Mers body in the station house, cried out, THAT is
my brother, and away.
Year: 1876

The investigation Of the various city departments
with avew to economy andretrenchment N salaries
continued yesterday by the Aldermanc Commit
tee, in the Brooklyn City Hail. and large amount OF
testimony and many suggestions were received. Mr.,
f. q. French who supplies coal by the poor
Of the First ana Second districts summoned before
the Supply Committee OF the Board of Supervisors to
answer the charges with reference TO the complaints of
short weight made against him Mr. French said that
there was only one definite complaint against him. A
subcommittee was appointed TO investigate the
charge
Year: 1876

The trial OF the indictment for frauds IN the Board OF
Education at Jersey City has been set down for to-day
in the Court or Quarter Sessions The principal wit
ness in the Is Mr. Rollins, at whose instance the
long investigation took place which developed such
EexalaiionS " pllcia corruption several weeks ag0
Year: 1876

sweet Ojl.


/ A physician says that sweet oil is
not only an antidote to the bite of the
rattlesnake, but "will cure poison of
any kind, both on man or beast. The
patient must take spoonful of it in.
ternaliy, and bathe the wound, for a
cure. To cure horse it takes eight
times as much as for a man. One of
the most extreme cases of snake bites
occurred eleven years ago. 1t had
been Of thirty days standing, and the
patient had been given up by his ply
sicians. I gave him spoonful Of tho
oil, which effected a cure. It will
cure bloat in cattle caused by fresh
clover. It will cure the stings of bees,
spiders, or other insects, and persons
who have been poisoned by a low, run
ming vine called ivy"


Infected Clothes.-A correspondent
of Manchester Guardian warns readers
of the danger of ordering clothes from
tailors whose workmen work at their
homes, where contagious disease may
be raging. Recently friend ordered
a suit of clothes from Manchester
tailor, and soon after he had begun to
wear them symptoms of scarlet fever
appeared. He found that the journey.
man who had made up his clothes had
scarlet fever in his house at the time.
Treatment of Burns.-In the treat
ment of burns in the Charity Hospital,
New York, when of superficial char.
acter, preparation consisting of two
parts of collodion and one of olive oil
has been found to be very efficacious.


When the burn is of an extensive char
acter, gasoline proves of decided bene.
ut. The advantage of gasoline is that


it is of the right consistence, and does
not become rancid.
Year: 1876

A villager wants to know how much
meal it is profitable to give a new
mich cow, per day,-meal at 75c. a.
bushel and hay at $l5 a ton. The
Vermont Farmer answers the query az
follows: The only man who can
answer that question with any de
gree of accuracy is the one who takes
care of the COW. His information
upon the subject to be obatined by
varying the feed and noting the ef-
feet. There is wide difference in the
capacity of COWS for assimilating food,
and as great a variation in the power
to convert it into butter. Some COWS
never pay for their keeping, be it
what it may. It may be stated as
rule, that it pays to feed milch cows
meal with liberality, especially so if
both hay and meal are bought. Much
depends on the quality of the hay.
Early cut June grass hay will make as
much milk as fair quality of timothy
hay and two or three quarts of meal
a day. From two to four quarts per
day, of meal, is probably as much as
an ordinary COW will pay for. It ia
better economy and more healthful
for the COW, and we believe for those
who use the milk as food, to give mix.
ed ration. Say wheat bran, four or
six parts; corn meal two parts, and
linseed meal one part, by measure, and
feed the COW as much of that as she
shows herself able to pay for, whether
it four or eight quarts.
Year: 1876

Barn Cellars.


A barn without q cellar is only half
a barn and the farmer who don't feel
the need of cellar under his barn, or
whose system Of farming does not re-
quire it, is not more than half a far
mer. To be sure he can grow some
roots and put them in pits to which
he can resort day after day, through
winter, in snow and rain. We have
seen farmers do this, and some man.
age in this way for years, but it is no
way to do. 1t is better and cheaper
to have good barn cellar, frost.proof,
and ample in dimensions to contain
rutabagas, sugar-beets and pumpkins
for the COWS the winter through.
Many farmer can date the beginning
Of his prosperity in business to the
building Of a barn cellar. When he
has place to store roots he will grow
roots, and the feeding of roots in some
way starts things a.going on the farm
in the right course. Animals grow
faster, grain is saved, hay is saved,
the coarse provndeer is worked up and
all made into manure. Why, the
quantity of the latter is doubled.
Crops are better, things brighten up,
money is plentier- simply because
there is more to exchange for it, and
more to turn off all the while-all this
coming naturally from having barn
cellar. There are other advantages
which good cellar under a barn
brings, which need not he referred to
here. Cellars may be built in winter,
under barns already up.
Year: 1876

WRESTLING. - We believe in
WhistLing We love to hear it
and we love to do it. The boy or
man at the ploW who whistles in
dicateS that he is cOntented, and
he will p!OW more than your ST
tent, glum one ''WbO hath no mu-
sic in his SOUL" nor in his lips.
The man who don't believe in
Whistling should go a step farth-
er, and put muzzle on 0Ob0tinks
and mocking birds, Whistling is
4 great institution. It oils the
wheel Of care and supplies the
place of sunshine. A man who
whistles has q good heart under
his shirt front. Such a NAH not
only works more willingly than
any other man, but he works more
constantly. A WhistIing cObbler
will earn as much again money as
a cord wainer who gives way to
low spirits and Indigestion. Mean
or avariciOuS men never whistle.
Who ever heard Of a whistler
among the sharp practitioners of
Wall street? We pause for an an
swer. The man who attacks
whistling throws stone at the
head Of hilarity, and would, if he
could, rob June of its roses and
August of its meadow larkS. Such
man should be looked tO.-OhiO


Farmer.
Year: 1876

General Merritt, of the Military
Division of the Missouri, who has
Just returned from an investigating
tour to Red Cloud Agency, connect
ed with affairs of the Government,
has been interviewed by Chicago
Times reporter in regard to the Black
Hills. The opinion OF the General in
regard to this much pulled Eldorado,
are worth the consideration of those
who are looking in thas direction. He
said:


Now, mind you, ! don't say that
there is no gold there. There is gold
there, even in the area they have
opened up already ior mining purpos-
es. But it is a fact that the area in
which gold is found at present is so
limited that it wouldn't support one
half Of the the people who are there
already. The gold yield at the best
will not pay more than wages, and
wherever there seems TO be promis-
ing location it is already covered with
experienced and practical gold min
ers, with whom the crowds of people
going there could not possibly com
pete, even if they had chance
Away up north, now, it is asserted
that the region is more aurilerous.
but how are they going to get there
north Of Fort Fetterman with wild
bands of Sioux on every side? Gen.
Crook is after them now with large
force, and | think will give them
thrashing. But such an idea as go
iog a gold mining up there with
swarms of hostile Indians to meet
them is the most prepostcrous folly
that any lot OF too credulous people
ever took into their heads. Crazy
Horse, too, has gathered band of
young and moody redskins from Red
Clouds band and gone up north to
join the insurgents. Had they not
the conviction that large force was
after them to whip them, these NAL
contents would attack miners even in
the already cleared mining area.


X


Under the most favorable crcum.
stances the whole thing is a wretch
ed showing. Produce is high, and
the people cannot get enough to live
on. Besides, they are not used to
such country; work they cannot,
for they are not experienced miners,
and there is no other work for them
to do. They go out there as a for
lorn hope, totally unprovided with
the mears Of obtaining for reasona-
bic time the necessaries Of life, and
leaving the crowded cities from the
fear Of starvation, they find them
selves in a strange, bleak, inhospita-
bic country, face to face with the
certainty of starvation. The great
majority of the poor deluded people
going there are broken down city
people. Their dress, demeanor, and
habits prove it beyond doubt. Re-
cruited by these lying adventurers,
greedy to skin them out of what little
friends have contributed to sustain
their delusive hopes, they come from
Philadelphia, Boston, Chicago, and
other cities in parties of three and
four hundred, and when they arrive
at Laramie City, Sioux City, Sidney,
or any other of the depots in which
they are swindled and feeced by
these harpies for implements" ,""out-
fts," and what not, they find them
selves ushered into new country,
into what is for the most of them a
wholly impossible life, and they are
at their wits ends to preserve them
selves from starvation"


He states that he met as many peo-
pie coming as going. Speaking Of
the "ranchmen, stage-line people, and
and the fellows who make profitable
Year: 1876

AS to Mr.. Robson, let him be impeached
Immediately, and brought to trial if he has
been guilty of the violations of law which
Democratic committees are charging so free
ly upon him. But if the Democrats fail to
impeach him, which they have full power to
do, then they cannot expect that their parti-
san documents for campaign circulation.
shall command the respect of thinking people.


Chicago Tribune.


Secretary Robson gets vigorous defense
at the hands of the Republican minority in
the Naval Committee. They find that for
some ,lings he observes the thanks of the
entire country" while in none has he been
guilty ''of any official misconduct or corrup-
ton, or any wilful violation of law" The
criticisms of the minority on the majority
report seem just enough. In spots that nom
partisan document reads more like an article
from a third-class Democratic newspaper
than an official report to the House of Rep
resentatives. Whether the conclusions of
the minority are also sound remains to be
seen.-N. Y. Tribune.


That long-delayed letter of acceptance sug-
gests that the Democratic candidates are in
the position of the captain and mate who
were navigating a schooner along the Sound.
The captain was steering when the mate
went aft and proffered certain advice as to
the course, which offended the superior Off
Ger, who cried out "Mate Tompkins, you
jest 60 forward and tend to your end of this
skinner, and Ill tend to mine." The mate
went forward, and there was plunge in the
water, accompanied with the information,
Captain Jones, my end of the skinner is at
anchor" The moral of which comes in the
form of question: Has Hendricks anchored
his end Of the schooner?-Ne,o York Nail.


The Cincinnati Enquirer, having heard
rumor that Governor Hendricks is to be
crowded off the ticket to make way for
hard money man, is put in bad and dan
gerous temper thereby, and asserts in its
usual picturesque style that no Contemplate
tin whistle statesman" like Morrison of Illi-
inois is wanted On the ticket, and adds:
Mr.. Hendricks. so far as any public dec!ara-
ton indicates, isn't so much on the ticket
that these gentlemen need be talking very
loudly of getting him off; and if the friends
of thumb-screw currency legislation choose to
take away from the friends of currency reform
the chief excuse for supporting the action
of the st. Louis convention, there is no law
against it,"
Year: 1876

ELSEWHERE will be found an article re-
printed from the Advertiser, which sets forth
the reasons given by the Bddeford Committee
for refusing their support to the candidate
for Congress nominated by the Republican
District Convention, and which answers
them fully and conclusively. 1t will be a
matter of lasting regret TO such of that
committee as are honorable men, that thew
have allowed themselves under the influence
of disappointed feeling to participate in a
public attack upon the nominee of the party
they profess to care for. If any of them are
really in earnest in their professions of regard
for the Republican party, they will also
regret that they have joined in a proceeding
which, if it has any effect at all, will inure
to the benefit of the Democratic party. But
the honest voter of this District is not going
to be beguiled by any specious reasons from
the true issues of this campaign, and is not
to be led even by the most skillful blind-folding
into the Democratic camp. The plain truth
is that this is contest between the Pepub.
lican and the Democratic parties, and is of
natlonal character and importance, and what
ever Injuries the one helps the other. All the
reasons presented by the Manifesto, with
the cogent reasons on the other side, were
duly presented to the only appropriate tri-
bunal which could pass on them-the Con-
vention chosen by the Republicans of this
District. That tribunal has decided the
question, and upon that decision we must
act. 1t is entirely beyond belief that any
true Republican, merely because he could not
have his own way, will so act as to send to
Congress reinforcement to the Confederate
elements which threaten so much disaster to
this nation. Our duty now is to meet the
enemy and achieve such victory as will
inspirit our brethren in other states, such
victory and so complete as that with which
Maine has been wont to lead the Republican
column.
Year: 1876

In their Jealous pursuit of ex-Sergeant-at-
Arms Ordway the Democrats found two of
their own brethren in arrears -Buckner of
Missouri and Potter of New York. Tue
amounts are small and nobody suspects dis
honesty, but we notice there was not rush
to the Associated Press to advertise the fact
as there has been in every case, no matter
how absurd, where the integrity of Repub-
lican has been involved.
Year: 1876

Mr.. HENDRICKS has communicated to
some of the leading Democratic members of
Congress his views as to the duty of Congress
concerning the repeal of the resumption act.
He thinks arepealin almost any form will elect
the Democratic state ticket in Indiana. He
feels sure the Payne bill will be well received,
and thinks it would not be Objectionable to
retain percentage of gold in the Treasury,
but the passage of repeal bill of some kind
he deems important, and urges that if to OBJ
tain report from the banking and currency
committee it he necessary to give assurance
that no amendment of the report will be at
tempted, such assurance will be given.
Year: 1876

THERE is not much comfort in ex. Solicitor
Wilson's testimony for that portion of the
Democratic press which has been struggling
to connect President Grant with the whisky
ring. Mr.. Wilson says that the President
manifested no reluctance in writing the ia
nous 0Iet no guilty man escape"
Year: 1876

The mountain travel is light, but recent eff
fort to reduce prices was not successful. There
will be an increase of travel in August, as a
large number of excursion tickets have been
sold to parties visiting the Centennial. The
truth is the Centennial has proved au over
powerpg attraction.
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 a favor upon us by demanding
credentials of every person claiming to represent
formal
Year: 1876

and to roads and bridges in the new and poor
sections OF the state.


The people of Maine may want change
but they will wait until some other party ap-
plies than that which the Maine Standard
represents.
Year: 1876

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


We cannot undertake to return or reserve commu-
nications that are not used.