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Year: 1872

There seems to be no bounds to the
appliances of science. The people OF


New Orleans, weary of the inconve.
niences and expense of getting their
lager beer from other places, have hit
upon a process of artificial cooling which
promises to be successful. We CLEAN
from the local paper that the proprietor
of a brewery recently invited a large
number OF his friends to view new pro
cess of refrigerating which he has Just
established by patent refrigerating ma
chine. Without entering into any de-
tailed description, it is sufficient to state
that by the process of liqueiying the gas
of ammonia, and drawing off the heat
of the surrounding atmosphere, the
owner has succeeded completely in keep
ing the cellar Of his brewery, fifty feet BY
forty feet in size, and capable of hold
ing five thousand barrels, constantly
supplied with cold air at the reg
ular temperature of forty degrees
Fahrenheit. The process, as explained,
seems to involve no waste; the ammo
MAC gas, as fast as it is condensed, re-
turning into the refrigerating cylinder,
which contains about ten cubic feet of
the liquid material. II this amount of
fluid can produce such results, the ques-
ton arises as to whether this same pro-
cess of liquefying ammonia could not be
used upon much larger scale-for in
stance, in our theaters, churches, and
ether places of public resort-wheneve
the atmosphere becomes SO intensely
heated as to require a lower degree Of
temperature. To go suddenly from the
external air at eighty degrees into
room of forty degrees is too great a
transition to be agreeable, or even safe,
but the entrance Of cold air into room
could be regulated to suit the tempera-
ture in one case as well as another.
Year: 1872

vious to the ''Tom's" sudden illness, was
extremely shy, came to the funeral,
and tried, as far as she knew how, to al.
leviate his sufferings, and finally lay
down beside him, clasping her paws
around his neck. In this position she re.
manned until she was taken away. When
she saw the cats dead body she set upsa
dismal caterwauling, which was only
stopped by its removal from her sight.
Who can say that cats are an unfeline
races-Hdrtord Times.


A. POLICEMAN received in pay, this
month, from the City Treasury, a twenty
dollar bill, which appeared to have been
torn and pasted together again. On
closer scrutiny it. was discovered that a
quarter of "a counterfeit twenty dollar
bill had been substituted for the genuine
quarter, which warrants theSinference
that three other bills had been treated in
like manner, and out of three good bills
and bad one somebody had ingeniously
patched up four bills, which no doubt
readily passed as four good but dilapi-
dated twenties. Cleveland P0Sndeater.
A GERMAN girl lately arrived in Cleve-
land, and was engaged to work in the
family of a prominent lady, who prided
herself upon her servants and their abili-
ty. The mistress, in initiating her into
the nature of her work, told her, among
other things, that when she wished to
call her she would ring bell, which was
to be kept in the dining-room. Scarcely
an hour had she been in the house, before
her employer heard loud and prolonged
ringing of the oell in the dining-room.
The operation being kept up for some
time, she went out to see the cause. En-
tering the room, she saw the new girl
ringing away to the imminent danger OF
the bell. She wanted to ask some ques-
ton about the affairs of the culinary de-
partment, and thought if ringing the bell
was to be the summons for her to come,
the opposite cause would hold good, and
the same bell would bring her mistress!
And so it didl
Year: 1872

The SUGAMg-From fifty to sixty tons of
beets are now daily used at the beet sugar
ctory at Alvamdo. The company will
have about 10000 tons to use this season
The gophers proved very destructive to the
beet crop in the early part Of the season.
Year: 1872

When Congressman Biggs, in his usual flip
pant and frothy manner, claimed for Della
ware the best free school system of any State
in the Union, he was ignorant of his subject
or regardless of assertions The local items of
almost any paper in the State, at almost any
time he may glance over them, would teach
him better, if he is not perversely blind. Let
any one look over the local items of the TINES
this week, if he desires to know how the system
works. Facts are stubborn things" and such
these simple news items are.
Year: 1872

BROUGHT TO AN ACCOUNT BY FRIEND
During the war many men, (actuated by that
petty spite which induces a child to punish its
stomach by refusing to eat its supper because
it has had its back punished for refusing
obedience to the parental law abandoned their
church and their religious vows because the
worship did not chime in with their rebeious
feelings. Some left every thing good and took
up with things that were bad-to accomplish
they knew not what. Now that time has cooled
their passions and restored them to reason and
loyalty many are heartily ashamed of the course
they pursued. We had hoped that sufficient
to the day was the evil there" but Senator
Salisbury threatens the evil upon himself again
If Senator Summers bill, giving all men, black
and white, equal privileges in public places,
shall become a law: In his speech in the Senate
In opposition TO that bill he said i:


Highly as the religious advantages afforded
by the church may be appreciated, they will be
given up rather than submit to the degrade
ton sought to be imposed BY the amendment
h9h 6f at K cab b 7a WtRoat R9d thf S6f
such time as white men can worship according
to the dictates of their own conscience without
molestation or intrusion by negroes under the
operations of this bill.


These are the views, or rather the preiudices.
OF Methodist and Democrat. And they are
thus replied to by the Wilmington Adrertiser.
Catholic as well as Democratic:


while we agree with the Senator in the
general argument of his speech we think he
concluded in almost unehristian fashion
Our Saviour died for all men-back and white
The command and mission to teach, given to
MS Apostles and their SUCCESSORS, was ito all. .
II So by what right do you threaten to slam
the church door In the face of one for whom
Chrlst died, and whose soul is as priceless as
that OF Governor or Senator? The pIain
meaning Of the Senators threat to shut up the
church is this and nothing else That the pub.
lac worship Of God is secondary to the right Of
negro to enter one Of his temples, and if the
negro obtains from a plant Congress such n
right, then in that case we owe it to our preiu-
dlces to cease the performance of our Christian
duty, and practically abolish the public services
OF Christianity until the obnoxious law is re.
pealed. Senator that won't do. Successors
10 the dlvlnely commissioned are among ms
authorized to teach and whether the negro Is
thrust into the church or not the word of God
will be expounded, and Christians will Assem-
ble IN his temple to worship Him, as the com
mon Creator and God of ALL ="
Year: 1872

School SEPARATION Sad Comnlentrrv
Upon the Delacdre System The citizens Of
Dover Hundred, Kent county, and of Caroline
county, Md, have, for several years. con
jointly, been conducting a public school in
Delaware just over the State line, and near
Marydel; Last week the Caroline County
School Board, in compliance with the petition
determined upon separation and will build for
themselves school building in the town.


The petitions set forth in their prayer that
the Delaware system is inefficient, and that
the school is not kept open sufficient length
OF time during the year Commercial
Year: 1872

late Mary is there. My spirit can no
longer strive with her il in departing from
earth" turned my head, with a fearful
sort Of attraction, toward the body. The
sheet WAS turned down and the face ex-
posed to view The ghastliness of death
was still there but the face looked at me.


My God, Compton, look, look at thatF
He sprang to his feet in All instant.


How dld it happen Where are they
all His wife must have been here while
we were dozing" | knew that had never
been further from sleep but his voice re
assured me, though he said he had heard
nothing, and | rose hastily.


"Quick, to the dispensary :" He follow
ed me in amusement to the little room in
the rear of the house where Fenton Atwick
had kept supply Of medicines, which he
often distributed, gratis, t. the hands Of .
factory, FIVE miles down .. y river. hasti-
ly pushed the door open, and beheld Mrs.
Atwick standing by desk.


As | sprang forward, she fell, face down
ward, on the floor. We lifted her to a sofa,
but she was dead


A phial of Prussic acid was open on the
desk
Year: 1872

An exchange paper properly says: "One
of the most important qualifications of a
good writer for the press, is to know what
not TO write; and a good editor to know
what not TO print. It would be severe but
well-deserved punishment to some who com
plain that their communications are mutt
lated by editors, if they would publish them
Just as they are written with AL their errors
and crudities of style! A few such morti-
flying exposures would no doubt be salutary
in curing both conceit and peeyish COM
piaints.
Year: 1872

had lie stood up here and said to me, No,
you have not cast of your allegiance to the
foreign power of which. you were formerly
a subject, and you are at the present mo
ment a traitor to American interests. In
stead Of making that charge he tried to
turn it so as to give the people to under
stand his meaning, without having the
courage to bring it forward plainly. Sir,
do not stand here to make defense of my
patriotism. ] did not come to this country
Yesterday. I've been here twenty years,
and if the Senator can point out a single
instance where there was sacrifice de-
mande1 Of me that I have not made, where
there was a service that l could render that
have not rendered, where there was an
act of patriotism that could have per-
formed that 1 have not performed, let him
say so. No, sir, this was not brought
fOrwari as something to benefit foreign
COVE nment. knew very well that when
this discussion began it would be attempted
on the part Of those who


Justify Anything


the administration may do to give it a turn
like that, to appeal to prejudices of the
people in order to coverup what was wrong.
The Senator from Wisconsin cannot frighten
me by saying, "our country, right or
wrong in certain sense. l say, too, my
country is the United States and say my
country fright TO be right, and if wrong to
be set right. [Applause in galleries.


Mr.. Ccrbett moved as a sustitute a pre-
amble setting forth that the whole subject
had now undergone an exhaustive discus
sion Of nearly three weeks, and that none
of the allegations contained in the original
preamble had zen sustained, and a resO-
luton declaring that the War Department
off i5l5 were guiltless Of any wrong-doing
in any Of their transactions, and that it was
the sense of the Senate that the discussion
OF the SUBJECT should cease. He then re-
viewed at length the allegation and the
evidence adduced to sustain them, and
Year: 1872

WORK CoNTINUEs.-There are up
wards of a hundred teams at work
in Little Cottonwood, hauling ore
to the terminus of the Utah Central.
The snow is several feet deep in the
canvon, but the travelling is said to
be excellent for sleighs. The miners
find no difficulty in working under
ground and these mines will in all
probability continue lively through
the Winter, making big yield of
ore before the Spring Salt Lake
Tribune.
Year: 1872

PARTING THE HAIR AT oNE SIDE


is the last arrangement adopted by what
French correspondents call the grdndeS
elegdntes, but this fashion Is by no means
prevalent. The hair on the right is waved,
TO have the effect Of a curl laid lengthwise
on the head, and two or three light ring.
lets fall ON the forehead. At the top OF
the head aremore curls, and the chignon ID
entirely curls. A colorcd bow Is worn at
the side OF the head.-Harper's Ba.ar.
Year: 1872


SUCCESSFUL TRIAL OF NEW STREET LOCOMOTIVE


IN PHILADELPHIA.


An experiment was made on the 9th and 9th
street railways, Philadelphia, on Thursday, with
Lamm's freless street locomotive, which was
very gratifying to all parties.


The apparatus is the invention of Emile
Lamm, OF New Orleans, and the system OF pro-
pulsion has been used on the New Orleans and
Carrollton Railroad for the last six Inonthe The
locomotive used yesterday was built for the ex-
pertinent, an engine Of one the old dummies
having been mounted on wheels and connected
with the tank which was invented by Mr.. Lamm.
The difference between the new motor and the
ordinary dummy or locomotive is that the latter
have tire-boxes and boilers, and the new inven-
ton dspenses with both, aud substitutes therefor
a tank, subsequently described, which il first
partly filled with water and then filled with
steam, transferred to II by appropriate appa-
ratus from a stationary steam generator at the
terminus Of the road. The steam thus stored
in the tank furnishes the motive power OF the
engine until the locomotive returns to the
generator, and the tank is retilled, or until Il
reaches another generator on the road The
tank is covered with heavy layers OF felt to pre-
vent condemnation. A tube connected with the
stationary steam generator passes through the
lower part OF the tank and Ia perforated with
small holes, four inches apart the apertures be-
ing turned dOwnwards and their total area being
equal to that Of GROSS section OF the tube. A
pipe is connected with the engine and thence by
crank or gearing power is transferred to the
driving wheels. The tank is partially filed with
water, the steam introduced through the perfor-
ated tube, thus warming all the water at once,
and, the desired pressure having been obtained
the locomotive is Disconnected from the steam
generator and is ready for service. The water
in the tank does ot have to be removed, and it
requires only five minutes to charge the tank
with steam.


The locomotive used weighed FIVE tons, the
tank was twelve feet long and thirty seven in
ches in diameter and with a stroke OF twelve
inches, and the piniOn wheel had twenty eig ght
feet and the driver forty six.


The locomtive, with car attached containing
railroad officers and others, left the depot at
twenty minutes Of one o'clock with l7Gi5 pounds
pressure. The tracks were slippery with snow,
but the engine carried the car up the heavy
grades Of the road ana aronud the double curve
at Adams street without any difficulty. After
waiting about fifteen minutes at the Frankford
terminus, the locomotive started on the return
trip, arriving at the depot at twenty minutes Of
two o'clock The distance travelled on the
round trip was six miles and quarter


Seyenty-siX pounds Of steam were used on the
up trip, and the engine reached the depot with
fifty pounds Of steam left having used fifty on
the return trip. The engine was Of course, un-
der az perfect control as tie ordinary dummy
Year: 1872




The Georgetown Journal responds to our criti-
cism of its position on Representation, with some
generalities Of rather glittering" sort, though
in their main characteristics unobjectionable.
II says:


Local prejudices and interests may warp the
mind and bias the Judgement, hut no true Della
warean will knowingly wrong any section OF this
noble little State. In our own party we propose
to bury the hatchet The Republicans we invite to
ahigher plane Of action. Wereoognize their good
qualities, give them due credit for their desire
for progress and development and trust the
day for bitter partizan hates and controversies
has past and new and friendlier era has dawned
upon us. II member Of the Legislature, we
should meet the question of representation in
the manly and candid spirit Of inquiry and act,
come life or death, according to our best judg-
ment without prejudice or partiality.'


This is all very we'll but what does it promise
toward the amendment Of inequality, and the
establishment Of the State government on a
just basis The right of every good citizen
no matter where he lives-to bo equally repre-
scented in the body which makes laws for him,
and places taxes on him. is a plain positive,
and straightforward matter Of fact. Like the
right Of the citizen to life, and to liberty, his
right to equality OF voice in government is es-
henth-Wlthout IL there IL no democracy anu
no Republic. II we are to give citizens who re-
side in one section Of the State more voice and
greater power than citizens residing in other
sections, it is only modified form Of oligarchy
or aristocracy.


This being true,-for there is no room for ar
gument upon fundamental truths it is useless
to dispute about the correctness OF an axiom
we can only express our surprise to hear the
journal declare that I've do not recognize
representation according to population, as a
"doctrine of the liberal, progressive Democracy
"of Delaware" So much the worse, them for
that party. II it uphods inequalities in citizen
ship, it is no Democracy, at all and to speak Of
it as Liberal" and progressive, is satire
that amounts to derision
Year: 1872

AN ancient outlet to Lake Superior has
been discovered by the Michigan Geologi.
cal Survey. This outlet is unmistakable
IN its character and consists of long deep
valley or depression, bordered with high
bluffs, and it continues from the south
shore of Lake Superior to Green Bay in
Lake Michigan. The practicability of
ship canal is suggested by this discovery,
and surveys will no doubt soon be made to
that end. Should it be found practicable,
it will greatly shorten the distance between
the ports on the lakes.
Year: 1872

How IT Is.-The no fence advocates
continually assert that the issue is be-
tween the cattle men and poor farmers,
and that the Interests of the latter demand
the repeal of the present law. The asser-
tion is false. The issue is between the
railroad company, the land grabbers, and
large grant owners on the no fence side, and
the poor settlers, small farmers and
stock owners on the fence side OF the
question.
Year: 1872

In THE WATER.--Cottonwo slough,
at Forster's, was so high several days last
week that freight teams could not cross
Joseph Dreiling and another man attempt
ed to cross in two horse buggy, but when
about the middle of the slough the current
upset the buggy and spilled the occupants
out. Dreiling drifted down and managed
to get hold of an old snag, from whence
he was towed ashore by rope, one end of
which had been thrown to him by person
on the bank. His companion also managed
to get ashore with some assistance from
others. When the buggy upset, the horses
turned about in the water and swan
ashore on the same side on which they
entered the slough. The buggy was con-
siderably damaged, and several vercoats
and robes lost in the scrape. 1t is said
that Joe did not swear-until he goi on dry
land.
Year: 1872

1t is stated that Duffy, Pendesast, Mac
Law, Thon pson, or some of the crew who
have Just been defeated in their infamous
scheme to force a general no fence law
upon. the people Of the State, will shortly
introduce new no fence bill into the
Legislature, proposing to extend the law to
certain counties only, and providing for
the submission of the question of extending
the act to counties not Included In the
original bill on favorable vote of the ma
jofity of the people of any such county.
We would be satisfied to see the fence
question left to q vote Of the people, and
we hope that if such bill as we have
spoken of is introduced, that the represen-
tatiyes from the fence counties will insist
on an amendent TO the affect that the
counties included in the no fence act can
also vote on the question of retaining or re-
jectiugit. We believe there'is deliberate
attempt, backed by capital and corruption,

to force the no fence law upon counties
where the majority of the people do not
want it, and the only honest plan is to
submit the question to fair vote Of the
people of each county in the State. 1t will
have come to pretty state of affairs, indeed,
if it should be decided by State Legisla-
ture that the people of the respective coun-
ties have no right to vote on measure SO
vitally affecting their local matters and
interests. Give the people the privilege of
voting on the question, and the no fence
bubble, SO enormously inflated with Pende-
gas, and gilded with wealthy land owners
gold, will be pricked and dissipated.
Year: 1872

There is dreadful ambition to be
"genteel." We keep up appearances
too often at the expense Of honesty
and though we are not rich. VIC mus,
seem to be so. We must be respect
able though only in the meanest
sense-in mere vulgar outward show
We have not the courage to 90 patti.
emily onward in the condition of life
to which it has pleased God to call us
but must needs live in some fashion.
able state to which We ridiculously
please to call ourselves, and to gratify
the vanity of that unsubstantial, gen
teel world of which We form a part
There is a constant struggle and pres.
sure for front seats in the social am.
phitheatre; in the midst of which all
noble, sclt-dcnying resolve is troddcr
dowr, and many fine natures are inev.
itably crushed to death. What waste
what misery, what bankruptcy, come
from all this ambition TO dazzle Others
with the glare of apparent worldly
success We need not describe. The
mischievous results show themselves in
a thousand ways-in the rank fraud,
committed by men who dare to seen
poor; and in the desperate dashes a,
fortune, in which the pity is not SC
much for those who fail as for the
hundreds of innocent families who are
so involved i'm their ruin.
Year: 1872

A PRIZE Essay on THE CULTURE
OF ToBAcco.-At the recent Fair OF
the Mocklenburg, (Na) Agricultural
Society, Mr.. Evans Tanner was award
ed prize of ten dollars for the follow
ing essay, entitled A Plan for Prepar-
ing Land and Cultivating Tobacco for
Shipping" lst In the fall l fallow my
land with two horse plow, following
the turning pillow with a good coulter,
as deep AZ possible. AS soon after the
first of January as the weather will ad-
init, | burn my plant land having pre-
pared my wood in the month of De-
cember, or earlier, ifconvenient, burn
ing the land well--after the burning /
cover the land with stable manure and
Peruvian Guano or otherfertilizer, and
hoe it in, not very doep, without turn
ing up the soil. After sowing tread OF
root the land we'll and cover well with
brush, regulating the thickness Of the
covering by the kind of land; if wet
cover thin, if dry cover heavily. After
the plants are up, if the flies depredate,
feed them upon tobacco seed; it is the
surest antidote known to me. After
the plants get about five inches high,
commence the preparation of my land
in the following manner. Iattach two
mould boards to common trowel hoe,
which L prefer TO turning plow; into
this furrow | drill manure and fertiliz-
ers, then run one furrow on each
side with q single horse pillow, covering
the manure. On this ridge with stick
or small pole, about three feet for ordi-
nary land and three and half for
highly improved. The plant may be
inserted in the mark made by the stick
or pole, or short distance from it.
This makes the row both ways. After
six or eight days, depending upon the
weather, run two furrows, this will
leave but small space to weed, if done
by q careful hand. About the time
design to apply little dirt to the plant,
| run close to the tobacco with bull
tongue plow, and apply the manure or
fertilizer second time, then throw out
the row with a turningplow two burrows
generally suffice. The hoe hand has
but little to do, merely putting a little
dirt to the plant. The last time | work
it, | use the trowel hoe with two mould
boards once in row, then hill it with
a large high hill which prevents drown
ing. l prime low, not above the two
first large leaves, and at ten leaves, not
higher, and let it get thoroughly ripe,
when | commence cutting. | get
hands enough to cut and fill twenty
feet barn in II day. The next morning


| put small fires, increasing them every
morning for five days, which is general
ly sufficient to cure the tobacco. BY
pursuing this my yield is generally
about four plants to the pound. may
say that if any young farmer will adopt
this plan, | venture he will never re-
pentit. forgot to mention that if the
tobacco ripens yellow it will cure up
yellow, and uice rerso.