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Year: 1876

ehave a z ood many inquiries nbou
the culture Of broom corn, and having
had a little experience with that crop,
we give a brief answer, but more for the
purpose Of calling out the more extended
experience Of others, than for the value
Of our own.


Broom corn requires rich soil bottom
land is tho best, aud il should be as free
from grass as possible. The reason for
choosing clean land will appear plain to
a man who has raised a crop. The ground
should be well ploughed and made per-
fectly fine with the harrow, then marked
out with shallow marks, if to be planted
by hand, so as not to get the seed too
deep in the ground but the best plan
is to plant with adrill. The stalks must
be as close as FIVE or six inches, to pre-
vent the strsw from becoming too heavy.
OF course il cannot be drilled with much
regularity, but must be cut out with the
hoe to the right distance when smalin
Il is like sorghum, grows slow while
small, and on most land It is positively
necessary 10 hoe the grass out which gives
n good opportunity for cutting out the
right distance. After this is done, the
cultivation is similar to that of corn.
When the seed begins TO fll, the straw
will bend over from the weight, aud to
prevent this the full force OF hands must
be put in to break the stalks over, say
ten or twelve inches from where the
straw grows out, or more properly the
head. The weight Of the seed will
then, by hanging down, keep the straw
straight.


Now comes the busy seasons and the
time when labor and care will add much
to the value Of the crop. The green
straw being altogether the most valuable,
II is important that il be cut before it be-
gins 10 turn red. aud dried in the shade.
70 do this, shed is necessary, with
shelves on which to lay it, say six inches
deep; aud enough hands be employed to
cut the crop before any or much Of il
turns red. The seed is stripped by means
Of machine made for the purpose, with
two cylinders between which the corn is
held in handfuls. The process is very
rapid, only an instant being necessary tc
knock the seed all of. The corn is baled
before being sent TO market. The price
is very ytuctuating, running from $50 e
$3.50 per ton We have seen new sod
broken and drilled in every second fur
row, which made half ton TO the acre
without cultivation.-Journal of Agri
culture.
Year: 1876

There is one conspicuous fact in the
present political situation that is max
ing profound impression on the pub
lie mind, and is silently but surely
clearing away the mist before the eyes
of the people. 1t is simply this--that
in Louisiana it is admitted that Gov,
Tilden has q clear majority Of all the
votes cast of from 1900 to 5000 votes.
Now the American people have a re


spect that reaches to reverence for the
verdict Of the ballot. Once made, IL
is always acquiesced in. TO be sure,
each party recognizes the fact that
there are few elections that are not
tainted by fraud on both sides, but
IT, also see that those frauds usually
balance themselves that they are not


large enough to alter the result, and
that they are usually committed by
men who are candidates for minor of


fees, and are seldom countenanced by


the men who are at the head Of either
organization. SO it is in Louisiana.
1t may be that some Democrats may
have committed frauds or been guilty


of intimidation, though there is no
proof of it, but it must be evident
that this could not possibly have Civ.
en- Tilden this immense majority, for
it is an immense majority on so small
a vote. But, when Returning
Board assume to throw out part OF one
parish and take the rest, il is evident
that the whole principle OF elections
is destroyed. There might as we'll be
no election at all. The census reports
would furnish the relative proportions
of the white and black population,


and no ballots whatever need be cast.
The elections in Louisiana have act


ually oeen decided in just this way


Imagine this principle applied to ev-
cry State in the Union. 1t would re.
suit in anarchy and civil war. There
is not a Northern State whose vote
Year: 1876

might not be reversed in just this way.
Once cut loose from the sheet anch or
of the votes actually cast, and there is
no knowing where yo1 may drift.
The proper way to preserve the purity
of the ballot is to prevent fraudulent
ballots from being cast. Then there
need be no question as to the result.
Bnt to undertake to revise the popu-
lar verdict, is simply to put an end at
one blow to popular government.
Why did not Gov. Kellogg prevent
the frauds and intimidation which he
alleges to have taken place in Iadiang
Year: 1876

We have already spoken of the mischievous
proposal OF some Of the politicians in Congress
to reduce our little army. We have now a
word to say Of the highly Objectionable sug-
gestions of the House Committee on Appropri-
ations to cut down the compensation of the
staff of the Military Academy. The institution
now has nno Professors, heads Of their re-
spective departments, and some of the best
qualified officers in the army are detailed as their
assistants. These assistants are generally sub
alterns, and the senior assistant in each depart
ment is denominated by law Assistant Professor
and receives the pay Of captain. Then there
Year: 1876

There was performance of light pieces in
This tbeater I'm which Mr.. John Dillon bore the chief
burden and which amused the audience No fresh points
Of artistic achievement brought out by it, however,
and we need only say that laughter is dispensed IN the
Park by means Of farce and prank
Year: 1876

The determination Of the Seventh Regiment to
urge no further the appropriation of public money
Tor their new armory, but to fall to and build il
themselves, is sensible, gallant, and manly that it
will give this famous organization n new claim to
the respect and regard OF citizens. 1t is quite
true that in the present depression OF business an
application at the doors Of the public treasury was
inopportune 1t is also true that the precedent
which the Seventh Regiment asked to establish
was dangerous one at any time. Some day
the whole question OF furnishing armories
for the National Guard will have to
bo taken into consideration and permanently settled
Meanwhile the Seventh has relieved the city Of a
great deal of embarrassment by its public spirited
resolution, and We trust the city will show an ap-
probation Of its conduct. There ought TO bo 10
trouble in raising by private subscription all the
the regiment requires. Our rich citizens
must not allow the boys in gray TO bear too much Of
this self-imposcd burden.
Year: 1876

In the earnest and somewhat acrimonious
discussion at the Baptist Ministers Conference
on the subject of open communion, less di-
vercence of views was shown than had been
supposed to exist The denomination III ths
part of the country is very largely favorable
to close communion. The resolutions miro
duced were intended to draw the lines more
sharply but the debate disclosed greater d'i-
fcrences of personal feeling than of doctrine.
Year: 1876

Some cogent testimony as TO ex-Auditor
Thayer's transactions is foreshadowed with the
prospect that the Canal Investigating Commit
tee will take hand in overhauling the matter
Another State officer, it is believed, can be
shown to have shared in the "indelicate and
improper" conduct and its profits
Year: 1876

BY the adoption of the new rule in the
House concerning appropriation bills they
may be made to achieve the reduction of
official salaries. Under the old rule, absurdly
enough, salaries could be increased in such
bills, but not diminished. The discussion on
the rule gives hope that it will be used to
enforce economy by the Democratic side of
the House.
Year: 1876

The refusal of the House to take up again
the subject of amnesty is significant. Both
sides now realize that in handling it they
burned their fingers. The proceedings yester-
day may however, be held by Mr.. Blaine's
friends to score another victory for their side,
In so far as the unwillingness of the Demo
Gratis to come to direct vote on the Jefferson
Davis amendment was shown.
Year: 1876

DEMOCRATS IN WESTERN NEW YORK CANNOT


SUPPORT TILDEN AND DISORDER.


Special Dispatch to the Neto York Times.


BUFFALO, N. Y, Oct. 24.-Another very
encouraging sign, which has been very
marked here and elsewhere, during the
past two weeks, is the large number Of
business men and capitalists who are COM
ing out from the Democratic Party and an
nouncing themselves for Hayes and Wheel
or. One of the largest manufacturers in
Buffalo, we'll known as q Democrat, lately
came forward and voluntarily put his name
down TO a liberal subscription to the Re-
publican campaign fund. Business men
say that with the manifest tendencies of
the Democratic Party and the encourage
ment that their success would give to
the lawless element in the South,
they can have no confidence In the
future peace and stability, and conse-
quently no encouragement to invest their
money in business enterprises if the Dem
cratic Party should come into power. A
gentleman in the little town of Olean, Cat
taraugus county, told me that he knew of
$175, 600 lying idle in that village awaiting
the result Of the Presidential election. II
Hayes aud Wheeler were elected it was to
be Immediately invested in new industry
there. and not otherwise.


In all the large cities this same view of
the situation has recently been taken, capi-
talists tell me, and there is no class of peo-
pie in this country so deeply interested in
the success of the Republican ticket as the
mechanics and laborers who are asked to
vots for Tilden snd Hendricks on account
of the "hard times"
Year: 1876

At Bristol, Pa, the other evening, four
girls walking on the railroad track had the
alternative suddenly presented Of jumping
into the canal or being run over by an ap-
preaching train. They chose the former,
and were fished out by the gallant brake
men.
Year: 1876

The attendance is steadily increasing not
withstanding the intense heat.


One dollar and fifteen cents was paid al
the Vienna bakery by gentleman the Other
day, for three small plates of ice cream and
half pretzel. There are plenty of places
where refreshments may be had very reas.-
onably, and any one who exercises a little
judgment need not be victimized.


The fine Mosaic work in the Italian depart
ment, of the annex to the art gallery de
serve and receives great deal of attention.


Women with parasols prod at the Mosa-
les mercilessly.


A special excursion of 1900 miners were
at the grounds on Saturday. They came
from the Reading Railroad Company's COL
lieres, and we're carried free. The company
intends continuing the excursions until
every miner, miners wife and child in their
coal region shall have seen the exhibition.
During the present week there will be six
more excursions.


All the soldier boys have departed for
home. The Fifth Maryland left on Satur-
day night, passing down Broad street in a
blaze of fireworks; the band playing Dixie.


The German military band, which plays
in the Landsdowne ravine, merits more
attention than is given to it, both from the
Commissioners and the public, They are
not even honored by the publication Of their
programmes as was Gilmore's band. They
are dressed in the full German military
uniform, and should command more atten :
tion even out of curiosity than is given to
their really excellent performances.


There is on exhibition in the Tunisian
section of the Main Building Mosaic lion
which was found within the precincts of the
Byrsa of Carthage, and in close proximity
to the Temple Of Astarte, Juno Of the Pho
nicians. This lion formed part of the pave
ment of temple, dedicated to Diana, which
was in the vicinity. The remainder of the
Mosaic pavement was destroyed and lost
through the ignorance of workmen, this
portion only remaining. The boldness Of
design and the exquisite execution Of the
work assign 1t to the most flourishing period
of Carthage.
Year: 1876

A valuable horse belonging to Joseph
Walker, near Rising Sun, in fighting off
flies, accidentally stepped from an embank-
ment on which he was standing, upon the
roof of chicken house. It not being strong
enough to bear his weight, he fell through
and broke his back and died In less than
two hours.
Year: 1876

On Sunday attended divine worship at
Delaware Avenue Baptist Church and found
It cool and pleasant. During this very warm
weather would recommend my friends to
attend Delaware Avenue, as it the coolest
church in the city. But is 1t not singular
that, in such large congregation as this
church has, there is not more musical tai
ent, as we think the singing is the poorest Of
any church in the city. Iwould suggest to
the Church, that they procure the services
of good leader, and three good soprano
singers, as the balance of the choir will do,
with little practice.


A CHURCH GoER.
Year: 1876

Yesterday afternoon, as Chas. Carrig1n
was passing along Walnut street near
Fourth, he was assaulted by number Of
roughs, who threw large piece of iron at
him, striking him on the head and making
very ugly wound, which bled profusely.
He was taken to neighboring drug store,
where his wounds we're dressed, after which
he was conveyed to his home in Fifth street
near Orange,
Year: 1876

On next Monday evening the School
Board will hold its regular yearly meeting,
at which the report of the Committee on
Teachers will be submitted, and other busi-
ness will be transacted.
Year: 1876

1t is conceded that there will be large
surplus Of the Geneva award, after paying
all the direct claims. This unexpected
result is brought about by several causes.
The court Of Alabama claims has been, as
a general thing, much less liberal in its
judgments than an international court
would have been. In giving the value of
merchandise destroyed it has taken, in all
cases, the naked cost at the place of pur-
chase, whereas it might have given the
\ actual value at the place where owned.
But the existence Of a very large surplus Of
the fund is not to be laid at the door of the
court alone; the Forty third Congress is
still more responsible for it. They have
directed the payment in currency. whereas
gold was received from Great Britain, and
they have authorized the payment of four
per cent. interest, whereas the Govern
ment recovered six per cent. The princi-
pal amount awarded at Geneva was, in
round numbers, $40, 1s1, 900 in gold. and
interest upon that was computed at the
rate of six per cent. per annum for eight
years eight and half months, making the
sum of S., 2SS, 2a2. so as interest, or as
principal and interest, SIS, ,4O9, 222. so, and
the tribunal reported the round sum of
S1j, 100000 in gold coin. This whole
amount has been drawing interest since it
was paid into the Treasury of the United
States at the rate of five per cent. per an
mum, or at the rate Of more than seven and
half per cent upon the principal sum of
$40, lei 900, and yet the last Congress, for
some unknown reason, fixed the interest
to be paid upon claims at four per cent. per
annum


4 bill to pay the judgments with-inter-
est at four per cent. has passed the House
of Representatives this session and is now
pending in the Senate. 1t IS suggested
that the Senate may amend the blu, fixing
the rate of interest at six per cent, which
would certainly be just, not only on the
ground that the Government recovered
that interest for its citizens, but on the
further ground that the money was col
lected in gold. and is to be paid out in cur
rency, dollar for dollar The extra two
per cent. would. in most of the cases in
court, no more than reimburse claimants
for the heavy expense they have been put
to in presenting and proving up their
claims. In view Of possible large sur
plus TO be returned to England, it Ger
tainly stands Congress in hand to meet
claim upon it so entirely just and proper
as this additional two per cent.


1t is customary in all courts for costs to
follow the judgment, and Congress could
with great propriety, independent of this
additional interest, direct the repayment
to litigants of disbursements in taking and
printing testimony. But the very least
that ought to be done in the premises is to
make the interest six per cent. instead Of
four In truth and in fact, interest at six
per cent. and costs ought both to be paid. If
there had not been funds enough the
judgments would have been satisfied by
pro rata payments, and now, since the
funds are ample, the judgments should be
paid in full
Year: 1876

THE young man with "the Powerful
Mind, who writes in the Tall Tower over
New York beer saloon, seems to be envi-
GUS Of the reputation acquired by his neigh
Dor, 1.-THE Pirate of the Press" For some
years past it has been considered mark of
distinction to be abused by the Sun, and
nothing could be more mortifying to an
honorable man than its praise. The Tribune
is apcing the Sun in its wholesale abuse,
and is even more careless as to facts upon
which 10 found its disreputable ISLANDERS.
One of its latest efforts is dispatch from
this city in regard TO Senator Dorsey's
bankruptcy, in which there is a base insin-
alton as to one of his creditors. The taste
which leads paper to comment upon
man s financial mislOrtunes is no less ques-
tionable than would be that which made
ones personal deformities the subject of
an article; but when in addition a lie is
insinuated, sinister motives may beassumed.
As Jay Gould owns the Tribune, and is
now fighting through its editorials to main
tain his tOttering fortunes and his trans
Continental railroad monopoly, the infer
ence is that he is prostituLing the news
columns as he already has the editorial
ones for that purpose, and hence strikes at
Senator Dorsey, as he did at Senator West,
because he is known TO favor any means
that will rid the country of that monopoly.
The Tribune will soon surpass the Sun in
this peculiar branch of journalism, of which
the two now have monopoly.
Year: 1876

is the most wonderful view of accounta-
bility that was ever heard OF. We are not
of those who believe that Government
clerks are necessarily criminals or idiots.
We believe that the latitude allowed their
superiors in their prompt removal for, or
without, cause is broad enough already,
and that they are harassed by every petty
scheme of economy and political aggression
until their bread and butter turns to gall in
their very mouths. We are tempted to cry
out in their behalf that if Congressman
were only required to be half as immacu-
late as the clerks are we should see no more
divisions or hear no more sounds of dis
cord in either House. The sum of the
matter is this Claim agents caa be fairly
made TO make known their designs, under
penalty. They can be justly made TO give
bonds for their practice. The higher Off
cials can protect, and should protect, the
clerks, and thus the responsibility of fol-
lowing the claim business before any of the
Departments would be put just where it
belongs. As the Democrats are making
wholesale efforts not only to defeat Repub-
licans but to impose all sorts of proscriptive
pains, perhaps this is an effort to punish
after death, by providing that when the
present corps Of Republican clerks shall
pass under the sod they shall not even
have the poor privilege of coming back to
look upon the fat lands where they ere
while had such bounteous feasts of patron
ace and persecution.
Year: 1876

QTE foreign news is touchingly interest
ing just Gow. The Associated Press caterers
abroad are certainly highly intelligent
and practical class of correspondents They
are perfectly well aware that the American
people are lying awake o nights to be the
first to learn what Don Carlos and King
Alfonso did yesterday; what the Porte will
say to AEdrassy's note, and what he will
say to Montenegro, and what Bosnia and
Herzegovina are going to do about
L. And then. after ali this, after
having told us the best possible
stories al NJ 2ht, and fixed us up so that we
may feel able and willing to hazard an
editorial paragraph on the Estate Of
Europe" without making a laughing stock
of ourselves, these ever-vigilant news
mongers take all the specials in the
London morning papers, full of all con-
ceivable contradictions upon every conceiv-
able subject which is Of no earthly interest
upon this side of the water, unless it is a
.fdit Gcc0mph, and cable them to us, knock
ing the spots out Of our paragraph, and
rendering US cock sure that we do not know
anything at all certain after we have read
the whole batch. Why cannot we get
some matters of fact by cable, instead of so
many Of Tom. Dick and Harry's specula-
tions ard surmises: 1t is not likely that
there is a dime Of the English, French,
Spanish, Turkish, German, Austrian or
Russian funds held on this side of the
Atlantic. One would suppose, from a
perusal of the stuff cabled to us, that all of
our immense capital depended upon the
varying fortunes of mob-leaders in Spain or
Turkey. A little stock of practical sense
would do these cable press correspondents
heap Of good.
Year: 1876

The House Of Representatives has Just


passed very questionable bill in refer
cnce 10 the prosecution of claims by any
ex employee Of the Departments-the
penalty attached being fine and imprison.
ment. The bill in question provides that
lapse of two years shall follow the resig-
nation or discharge of an employe before
he shall be allowed to prosecute any claim,
andi has the very singular adenda to it
making any clerk who aids in or allows
the prosecution of claim by an ex-em-
ployee a participa crinaini and subject to
immediate discharge from Government
employ. While the matter OF using the
knowledge or acquaintance gained by
an employee Of a Department for his own
advantage is upon the face of it dInger-
Gus risk, and one which long since should
have had remedy, it is very doubtful
if this loose and unjust set does not swing
10 the other extreme and Inflct o more
serious wrong than it obviates The at
tempt TO limit the business Of any citizen
is always dangerous matter. Especially
is this so when the business followed is
legitimate and is prosecuted openly and
above board. Within certain range the
acquaintance with the details of Depart
ment is made fair capital in business just
as much asa lawyers reading or a do;tor's
attendance upon q course OF clinics is their
fund, but just as they are required to use
their knowledge in legitimate practice, so
it should follow that the eX-employee
should use his-and Just here the restrain
ing hand of the law may fairly interfere.
But when it says in effect that however
pure his motives may be, no ex-clerk shall
go into the business of collecting claims,
and, on the other hand, does not show that
the business in itself is violation Of any
law, it is so apparently not only an in
justice to the individual, but violation of
the rights of the public that 1t should shock
to the very marrow the strict Constitu-
tionalists who are so numerous in the
House just now. But the clause
in the bill relating to the punishment of
Government clerks, because some one else
has been an employe and has seen fit to 20
into the claim business and has happened
10 approach them on the subject of claim,
Year: 1876

ROBERT TOoMBs declared himself a
'trebel'' on the floor of the United States
Senate in the winter of 1S6O-61. He knew
that a majority of the Senate was opposed
TO coercion and would not expel him. He
boldly declared his treason there and asked
Republicans what they were going to do
about 1t. He ranked JEFF. Davis then, and
we do not object TO his pairing with him
now. But that he was ashamed of his
speech and afraid to let it go upon the
record, the fact that he took the stenogra-
piers (Alr. Sutton's) copy to his house,
ostensibly for revision, and never returned
it, abundantly proves. Itnever appeared in
the Globe. 1t was q favorite trick of his to
suppress his speeches. He pursued this
course with regard to several of his most vio-
lent speeches, thus not only falsifying the
record but cheating the stenographer of
his dues The latter had done the work,
but could only collect pay for the number
of columns that appeared in the Globe
That is the kind Of rebel Toombs used to
be, and he is said to be just as much worse
now as whisky can make him.