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Year: 1871

Correspondence N. Y. Herald.


The Presidents COW. which he brought
from Washington, is the object of good
deal of interest | have had the honor
of seeing her, but have not had an op
portunity of interviewing her. Howev
er. l chance to be in possession Of some
facts concerning her opinions on matters
in general She is small. sleek animal,
and is bIooded. of course. Her color is
significantly black, but she has white
line over her back, and her maternal
bosom also does honor to the Caucasian
race. On her arrival at Long Branch,
all the cows about here paid her the
greatest respect. Even now, as she pas
ses along the road to and from her pas
ture every night and morning all the
cows in the adjoining fields regard her
with envious respect. The multitude OF
local dogs, which would soon worry to
death any other unprotected kline coming
from abroad, skulk away from this COW
queen. and dare not so much as utter a
erowl None but the daintiest OF flies
are permitted to ride on her peck Mrs.
Cow is about FIVE years old, and has been
married three times None Of her Oh
spring accompany her on this trip She
is fond Of the Jersey red clover, but dis


likes the noise of the ocean She is no
bather. Having been reared in rural
district she has never learnt to swim Mr..
Grants COW would like to see him re
elected. which is very natural. She ad


mires her owners pluck, and his silence
which insures her against being scolded.
She longs TO be MIXED by his soft hands,
and only hates him for giving so much
attention to coarse. vulgar horses. She
does not believe one word of the Ku
Klux stories in the Tribune. General
Porter has COW also, but she is not al
lowed to associate with the Presidents.
Year: 1871

"A NOVEL experiment was tried In Ne"
jersey recently. in the case OF a boy wno
was drowDed in Penn Horn creek. The
Canadians seeing the men dragging the
creek for the body. approached and told
them that they would try an experiment
Accordingly number Of bottles were
filed with quick lime, tightly corked
and thrown into the creek. In about an
bonr one of the bottles burst with great
noise. aud soon the body rose. The
Canadians could not explain the theory
further than By saying that when
bottle floats directly over q corpse the
bottle will explode and the body will
rise
Year: 1871

Messrs. Ferguson q Jones have
lust received private letter from the


Hon. Jon. T. Bearden of Camden, from


which they have kindly permitted US


to make the following extract;


"We bad a meeting of the citizens OF


Camden on last night, at which there


was subscribed stock in our railroad, By
oar very best men, to the amount of sixty
thousand dollars. We feel confident
that we will increase the subscription
to one hundred thousand in less than
ten days. As soon as the people in the
country see what Camden has done,
they will take stock literally.


"The question has been mooted as
to whether we will levy a direct tax
of five per cent. upon all real estate.
The impression is almost universal that
the people will vote for it by a large
majority. The largest property bol-
ders in Camden are in favor Of it. |
am satisfied our city and county will
each give their bonds for one hundred
thousand dollars.


] grant you that the Cairo and Full
ton road may be built; but would it
not be better for your people to have
two roads than one? Every road that
penetrates your county adds just that
much more to its wealth, and just that
much more to the value of your lands,
and brings your county more promi'
nently into notice.


"And now one word as TO the rail-
road connections east Of this. | give
it TO you as my opinion, and that opin
ion is entertained by ninety>nine in
every hundred in this section of
country that the Mississippi, Ouachita
and Red River Road will be completed
to Camden in eighteen months. This
will give your people an outlet to the
world. In addition to this n contract
has been made, and bond and security
given in the sum Of two millions of
dollars for the faithful execution Of
the contract, to build the road from
DuNalls Bluff on White River, to
Pine Bluff. This road is to pass
through Camden TO Shreveport, there
to connect with the Texas Pacific. l
believe these two roads will be built,
md that speedily.


| would not speak thus confidently
if | had not given the subject a fair,
and impartial investigation,
and been convinced of its correctness"


This letter is dated October 26th.
Year: 1871

In referring to the position OF the
Missouri Republican, with regard to
the withdrawal of the democratic party,
or its passiveness, in the coming presi-
dental election the Arkansas Gazette
indulges in the following reflections;


This is an important matter, and
should enlist the earnest thought OF
every conservative citizen in the land.
That the government, under the pre-
sent administration, is rapidly tending
toward despotism, no well informed
mind will deny. The extraordinary
power placed in the hands Of the presi-
dent is sufficient to alarm every good
citizen for the safety Of the republic
He has the right to place the entire
country under martial law, and the
congress is bound to sustain him IN 1t
because they gave him that power
He has already placed nine counties
in South Carolina under the rigorous
rule Of the military. Recently, the
committee ofseventy, who have con-
troll of the affairs of New York city,
applied to Gov. Hoffman, of that state
to put tho Empire City under the
control Of the military The governor
refusing. why should not the president
he invoked, and do that which the
governor refused? And who is there


to say him nay, we're he to do SO? And


strange to say, the sentiment of the
people of the north, regardless Of poli~
tics, seem to sustain this right Of the
president TO interfere and control the


local affairs of the states. This is a
Year: 1871

AS All evidence of the great impor,


tance attached to the several projected


railroads through this portion of the


country, by the cities east of us that


will be benefited by their construction,


we copy the following article FROM the


Memphis Appeal of last week. We


are glad to note that Memphis, St.


Louis, and New Orleans, are beginning


to wake up to their true interests in


this direction. We hope our own peo-


pie will stop talking about a road "be-
ginning nowhere and ending nowhere"
and remember that more than one


great commercial centre will gladly
reach out their long iron arms to meet
and welcome the products and trade Of
this immediate vicinity. We venture
the assertion that no fifty miles of road
could be projected from this point,
that would not be met by some one Of
the several cities competing for the
trade of this section:


Do our citizens comprehend the
value of the trade that they could Sc
cure bya road to Shreveport? Have
they thought for an instant that this
road with its connections penetrates
the richest portions Of Arkansas and
Texas, and absolutely controls the ,clolc
trade Of The upper Red rirsr uaIiey, and
one-third the richest portion of Texas?
Let them look to their maps and see
that from Camden, running little
north of west, extends the Camden aud
Red river road, passing through four
rich counties, and securing the trade
of as many more, reaching Red rivera at
Lanosport, it takes the immense cotton
crop of the upper Red river valley
with the trade of the Choctaw nation
and the northern counties of Texas.


The Mississippi, Ouachita and Red
river railroad, which has been drag
ging its slow length along for many
years, now gives better promise than
ever of speedy completion. DIR.
Lewis, president of the road, speaks
confidently of his being in Il condition
to complete the road at once. Already
the cars are running through the
swamp, and the grading is completed
more than half way to Camden, and
beyond Camden half way to Red river.
Iron for the Pine Bluff road (connec-
ting with this) will arrive next month,
and that road (being already graded
and tied) will be at once completed,
then the Mississippi, Ouachta and
Red river road will be pushed on. 1t
penetrates Texas for two hundred
miles Gall graded and connecting at
Camden with a road leading northeast,
either to Memphis Of Helena, will prove
a valuable feeder to that road. Now
are We to get this trade or to lose II?
If the Arkansas Central is first in the
field, we lose it, because the people Of
that country will only aid in building
one road, and Memphis cannot build
without their aid.


We recur to this subject, and expect
to again, because it is Of vital impor-
tance to our city, and desire to place
it in its true proportions before the
people and arouse them to Immediate
action. This is one Of the cases in
which delays are not only dangerous,
but will be fatal.
Year: 1871

Now is the time to haul off cotton,
and from the number of wagons we see
laden with that precious burden, we
should think the farmers fully appre>
ciate the situation. In witner when
the roads get at their worst, it is just
about worth bale of cotton to get it
to market.
Year: 1871

We predict that some railroad mat
ters are now being transacted in St.
Louis, which will be full of interest to
the people of this country, when they
come to light. We shall watch closely,
if we do not wait patiently.
Year: 1871

fearful power to lodge in the hands of
one man, and in order to counteract it
and save the republic it will require
the combined influence of the conser-
vativc element of the country. Can
we really that opposition in the name
Of the democracy? Let the elections of
this year answer the question. If we
cannot do that, what is our duty as
good citizens in order to preserve that
part of the constitution which is yet


intact, and the liberties of the people?
These are grave questions, well worthy
the profoundest consideration of our
wisest and best statemen. Can the
president be defeated without the aid
Of such men as Schurz, Trumbull,
Greeley and Sumner? If we must
have their support in order to defeat
him, how is it to be obtained?
Year: 1871

The pork crop is quite promising,
but then the danger of its being harves-
ted too soon seems to be great. Some
who can't be hired to pick cotton or
pull corn, are said to be very active
and vigilant in gathering" the hog
crop
Year: 1871

Every lahoring man should buy him
self town lot, get that paid for, and
then woik to make the necessary i'm
provcmcnts A lutte here and 4 little
there will in due time produce you a
home of your own, and place you out
Of the landlord $ grasp; remember that
fifty dollars year saved III rent, will
in very few years pay for your home,
and the money it costs You to move
and shift about, without any loss OF
furniture and time, pay the interest on
five hundred dollar judgment against
your property, until you gradually re
duce it to nothing. You can all buy
that way-why do you not risk it?
II you fail you are no worse Oil
you succeed aS any careful man is
sure TO do, you have made home and
established a bas 5 equal to many an
others winch will start yon in husi-
ness.
Year: 1871

The following question is said to
have proved a stumbling blocl; to a
great many of the applicants examined
for places in the Census Bureau at
Washington: A sold a COW for TWEEN,
ty five dollars, and by the transaction
lost sixteen and two thirds per cent
He sold another COW at an advance of
aixteen per cent. for just enough to
cover the loss upon the frs. COW. How
much did he SET for the, second COW?
rhe pfoblcm Is known in the Depart.
ment of the Interior. as the Cow
CatcNer
Year: 1871

The people Of California complain
Of an overplus Of wild geese. These
fowls are fairly a nuisance in some
parts Of the State from theil great
numbers. The Caiiornians say they
a e ~ much ofa plague to them now
as the grasshoppcrs are in the summer
Year: 1871

A man in Detroit proposes to save
people from drowning by selling them
India rubber suits Of clothing--cach
suit made in one piece Of material. The
boots are loaded 50 As to keep the
wearcr Of the suit erect in the water.
Year: 1871

REMARKABLE MIRAaE.-A CORES.
poudent of the Rochester Express
writes as follows: The undersigned
was one Of the hundreds TN Mount Hope
on Sunday afternoon who witnessed,
probably, one of the most perfect and
sublime mirages ever seen in this
country. On the entire north sky as
far as the angle or bison, was lifted
the blue waters of Lake Ontario, while
rejecting from her bosom could be
seen the mountains, hills, valleys, bays
and rivers on the Canada shore inland
for miles. The coast could be plainly
seen over a stretch of fifty miles, and
so perfect at one time that the forests
could readily be distinguished. The
reader can form some idea of its grand


eur by knowing that country separa-
ted from Rochester by lake seventy to
one hundred miles in width was as if
suddenly, by the great hand Of its Crea.
tor, painted upon the heavens 30 plain
as to be seen from standing point one
hundred miles distant. Gentlemen
present who were familiar with the
Canada shore could readily distinguish
Rich Lake, Belvidere, and other pro.
minent points in Canada. The lake
looked as though it had by a great tidal
wave rolled upon Rochester, had
covered one entire half Of the city, as
no, building could be seen north Of
Main street, or any land between the
city and the lake. o..
Year: 1871

Few who have lost their first and
"dearest friend" can read the following
with unmoistened eyes: -


Death comes unsought to every. board.
| and at its spectral bidding some be.
loved one goes forth to his mysterious
home. t==c =.


Time and philosophy may teach
resignation nnto hearts made desolate
by its coming, but they can never fill
the vacancy therein, when she that
was our mother no longer cast a halo
about our darkened hearth.


A mothers place-so loved, SO
worshiped-once empty, must be ever
so. a breast once panged BY moth
er's death, no medicine can reach with
healing.


No mind, however sacred, no heart,
however hardened, can ever forget the
gentle being whose sufferings begot his
life.


A mother is truly our guardian
spirit upon earth. Her goodness
shields and protects; she walks with
our infancy, our youth and mature age
ever sheitering Us with her absorb
ing love, and expatiation our many
sins with her blessed prayers.


And when our mother, with all her
burden of love, her angelic influence,
her sainted care, ceases her beauteous
life, how much we lose at home, of
happiness, of heaven, no one can reck-
on for our mother was none but ours,
and we only can know how holy she was
bow sacred her memory must ever
be.


But may we not borrow consolation
from the thought that our loss is hea.
ven's gain; that surely one angel
watches over us, erasing with grateful
tears the record of our sin, and max,
ing easy our path to her with blessed
and blessing prayers.
Year: 1871

A street called the Tokedia is the Broad
way Of Yeddo. Ii is twenty miles long and
very much crowded. Bat there is a vast
difference Of the thoroughfares There are
no vehicles in use in Japan, and the pave
ments extend from one side of the street to
the other. No provision Is made for the
passage Of carriages, omnibuses OF wagons,
tor there are none in existence, and persons
on foot take possession Of the whole highway.
The entire metropolis Is built of wood, and
one building Is representation Of all A
japanese house at first glance resembles a
chlld's toy house an large scale. The floor,
Is raised about two feet above the earth, and
there is covered porch in front, resting up
on the bare ground. Alter entering the
porch you step up into the house. always
leaving your SHOES behind you. 1t is con
sldered very great breach OF proprIety to
enter dwelling without removing one 5
boots. II they were only sandals covered
with leather thong, which they can shuttle
on OF of IN an instant, this custom is of but
little moment ID the natives but foreigners
find it a very troublesome one. The porch
answers a. depository for shoes, and, in
passing the house, the number OF visitors
may be known by counting the number of
pairs of sandals on the porch.


When the walls Of house are up 1t con
sists Of but one large room, which is then
cut up by partitions. which are nothing
more than the sliding screens that close up
into each other in a fashion that admits oi
one apartment being divided into a dozen
distinct ones instantly. There are no chin
neys attached TO the houses, and they contain
no beds, chairs OF tables. The floors are
covered with d series Of clean bamboo mats
or cushions, each siA feet by three, and nice
ly bound with red OF blue tape. They are
stuffed with light wool or moss, and are as
soft and yielding to pressure as the heaviest
Brussels velvet. These mats fit in with each
other as regularly as the squares on i
a chessboard, and are busted as often as the
mohogany side board in the house of a Dutch
burgher.


No speck OF dirt is ever allowed 70 rest
upon the polished surface of the mating and
to step upon it with pair of boots would
be a greater insult than ID make a foOtstool
of a seyen-hundred-dollar piano The fam.
lily sit upon the mating all dav, with theiI
legs bent under them in 4 shape that would
give any foreigner incurable paralysis in
fifteen minutes, and they sleep upon 1t al
night. \ japanese pillow is a curiosity ii
its way. Ii Is nothing but rocker of q
cradle, broad enough 10 stand alone with q
semi-cIrcular depression on the upper side
The japanese lie at full length on the flool
place not their mead. but their neck. Ia th'
crescent shaped hollow on the upper side o
the pillow and rock themselves TO sleep in
few mInutes
Year: 1871

LovE.-At first i surprises one that
love should be made the principal staple
of all the best kinds of fiction; and per-
haps it is to be regretted that it is only
one kind of love that is chiefly depicted
in works of fiction. But that love itself
is the most remarkable thing in human
life. there cannot be the slightest doubt.
For see what it will conquer 1t Is not
only that it prevails over selfshness but
it has the victory over weariness, tiresome-
ness, and familiarity. When you are
with the person loved, you have no sense
of being bored This humble and trivial
circumstances is the greatest, the only
sure and abiding test. of love. With the
persons you do not love, you are never
supremely at your ease. You have some
/ of the sensation of walking upon stills.
/ In conversation with them. however much
YOU admire them and are interested IN
/ them, the horrid idea will cross your mind
of " What shall [ say next" Converse


with them is not perfect association. But
with those you love. the satisfaction in
their presecne is not unlike that of the
heavenly bodies TO one another, which, IN
their silent revolutions, lose none of their
attractive power. The sun does not talk
to the world but it attracts it.-Arthur


HELMS
Year: 1871

GERMAN METHOD OF REFINING PARAF-
FIxE.-A German method of refining par
afine consists in pouring the crude mate
rial into an ordinary mixing apparatus
which is provided with steam Jacket,
to which the steam Is supplied TO keep the
contents warm. The cover of this mixing
apparatus is made 10 close securely, to
prevent any possible loss of alcohol; and
it is connected with a condenser so ar
rangedssas to condense the alcohol as it
evaporates, and return it to the mixing ap-
paratus, after the manner of an inverted
Liehig condenser. This apparatus is pro-
vided at the bottom with cock for run-
ming off fluid substances. The mixing is
best accomplished by means of stirrer in
the form of a screen or sieve. The alco-
holic lye should be freshly prepared before
each operation.
Year: 1871

The PIGEON EXPRESS. Ballooning.
though hazardous, is still occasionally re-
sorted 10 in communications between Paris
and Tours but the regular transmission
Of news between the two cities is effected
by carrier pigeons. This mode of receiving
letters may seem to young people very TO-
mantle and very pretty, but practically it
Is attended with great difficulty and ex-
pense.


The carrier can bear tidings to one point
only-its home and there 1t must have a
nest of young ones. If the flight be de-
layed more than two weeks, it will remain
about its new home, seeming to have for
gotten the old one


This bird does not carry messages with
out long and careful training 1t is taken
on journeys Of few miles, and then the
distance Is gradually increased. The let
ter, after being written on very thin paper,
is enclosed in an envelope, and tied about
the body and under the wings In a long
flight the bird Will be inclined to divide
the journey into stages, alighting several
times for water While drinking at the
shallow streams, it often vets the precious
missive, rendering 1t impossible to read
the writing. In order to prevent desire
to wade, the feet are bathed beforehand in
vinegar to keep them cool.


When all Is ready, and the carrier is let
loose, it scars upward in a spiral line till
it has reached a great height, when it darts
off in the right direction. at the rapid rate
of thirty miles anhour How it acquires
knowledge of the right way We cannot
tell. This is one of the mysteries of ami
NAL instinct. Some other birds have
equal powers of vision and fight, but
they cannot be trained to carry letters
Young Folks Ne1Cs.
Year: 1871

LORD DERwENTwATER' LIGHrs.-There
have been several wonderful and most un-
usual displays of aurora borealis in England
lately, seriously affecting, as they have done
here, the telegraphic communication. In
Northumberla the aurora boreahs is known
among the peasantry by the name of Lord
Derwentwater' Lights. In the attempt to
replace the Stuarts on the throne the Earl of
Dcrwentwater, head of the great Roman
Catholic north country family of Radcliffe,
took conspicuous part, and paid the pen
tv on the scatfOld. On the night of his
execution there was brilliant display of
the aurora horealis, and the simple peasantry
bv whom their lord. man Of high and
amiabIe character, was greatly beloved, as
sociated the phenomenon with the death of
the unfortunate young nobleman. There Is
also a legend which yet fingers amidst the
homesteads OF the property which once was
his that the water in the mOat of DIlstOne
Castle, the family seat, turned blood red on
that same fatal night. This notion is likely
to have arisen from the reflection Of the sky
in the water. The vast estates OF the Rad
eliffes were confscatcd to the endowment of
Greenwich Hospital, and are now worth
about Soc, 900 year. A maniac, calling
herself Countess of Derwentwater, has lately
been claiming them.
Year: 1871

Friction matches were introduced INTO
Boston about the year 1886. In those
times there were thirteen matches on
card and eight cards in a bunch, While
now there are but twelve on card, the
number of cards composing bunch be-
ing the same. In 1842 one firm in Bos-
ton manufactured daily about one hundred
gross. which was then considered very
extensive business. Now this same firm
are turning out on an average one thou
sand gross, or IA, 400, 600 matches daily.
which requires a yearly consumption OF
ten thousand cords of saping pine wood
to make them. and the use of 600 to 500
barrels of birthstone, as we'll as from 40
to so tons of paper for putting them up
preparatory for the market. They are
also put up extensively in boxes for the
southern trade and export. Originally
the old lucifer match was used, which was
ignited by drawing it through sand paper
but they soon went out Of use with the
introduction of friction, and what was once
considered unsafe 10 have about the house
hold, has now become a necessity.
Year: 1871

trot up to the farmhouse door, receive
some half-dozen or more children, who in
great glee would pile in " among buffalo
Skins and blankets. Then these horses.
without driver or guidance of any kind,
would start off briskly.. for they were
smart, if not fast. go to the sohool-house,
turn up to the door, wait for these happy
children to tumble out. then make their
turn carefully and return home. At night
they were sent alone for their load again,
and would turn up TO the school-house
door and wait patiently for the children
This business was done By these horses for
twenty years, and their kind master kept
them until old age carried them off.-OIr
Dumb animals