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Year: 1873

GEO. H. STEVENS, Indian Agent at the Grant reservation, has been in town this week. He reports favorably regarding the conduct of the Apaohes under his charge. and is convinced that the operations of the troops have a wholesome effect on them. He says an impression has been made upon them in times gone by that the food and all else they received so freely were the gifts of President Grant and General Howard, but that he has succeeded in making them understand -h-- -ll +ho -,nn-,1n ;nnlnainn those they have been Sc long warning against, help pay for what they get, and that in one sense they arc mere paupers upon the public. He also says that Es-ke-van-zin don't like this view of the case, notwithstanding he feels it to be true. and that he is anxious to get on the San Carlos where they can and will raise food and maintain themselves. Here is an illustration of that superlative folly of talking mysteriously to h. dians; of descanting to them about the Great Father or any other father as their special benefactor. A little plain talk in the ordinary business language of white men, is infinitely more to the purpose and more honest towards and better for the Indians than the lolipop or iHfau5ile speech If the average professional peace-muke/
Year: 1873

tffOIn the N. Z. SUM-


Suppose that in the month of Sep
tember last the Republican managers
had announced that if they should suc-
ceed in the approaching Presidential
election, one of the measures which
they would first enact would be to
raise the salary of President Grant to
$4,000 a year.


Suppose it had also been believed by
the people that the Republican majority
in Congress, after having been paid the
stipulated salary FOR their services.
would vote themselves 5000 each out
OF the Treasury.


Or suppose that these two PROPOSE
tions had been Incorporated in the Re-
publican platform adopted by the Phil.
adelphia Convention, by which Grant
was nominated for reelection.


How many States would Grant aave
carried2 How many Republican Con.
gressmen would have been reelected !?
Is it not evident that Grant could not
have got a single State, and that every
Republican candidate for Congress,
running on such platform, would have
been defeated


All this being true. is it not the in
sanity of public robbery which has led
Grant to lobby for the passage of a
bill through Congress raising his own
salary to $4,000 year, and which has
led Republican Congressman to pass
that bill? If they dared not announce
this enormous act of robbery as a part
of their plan before the election, how do
they expect the people to regard it after
the election2
Year: 1873

RAPID E;cREAsE OF IRON MANUFACTURES
The getting out of ore and manufacturing
iron In the, vicinity of Staunton is rapidly
increasing. The Buffalo Gap Iron and Steel
Company have just contracted for the cree.
ton OF another and much larger furnace at
their works ut Buffalo Gap, which is to be
completed by the LIST of July next. at
Mikes Knob mountain, about one and hall
miles from Waynesboro', vein of the finest
iron ore has been opened, which will aid in
the supply of the furnace just named with
one hundred tons day, which IS the amount
it wants.-Stdunton Vindicdtor
Year: 1873

PEOPLE WHO HAVE cut their wise teeth use the
SozopoNT and all who do are willing to declare te
all who don't use It that It is fhe most perfect anG
delightful thing for the teeth they ever dipped {
brush into =
Year: 1873

The Democratic party, declared dead by its
enemies, who have long desired its death,
has been found not only alive, but fast i'm
proving in health, giving evidence Of a long
and prosperous career in the future. Its
exhibition of strength in the late fall elee-
tions has been a matter of astonishment to
its enemies and has even surprised some of
its faint hearted friends. Its more sanguine
supporters believe firmly it can never die as
long as liberty remains in this ''land Of the
free and the homo or the brave" But there
is another party, which has ruled this coun-
try for the last twelve years with an iron
hand, crushing down everything opposed to
its corrupt despotism, which, though not
dead, is sick in its whole body from the
crown of its head to the soles of its
feet, and no earthly power can save it
from ultimate death and burial. The
Radical party is exhibiting all the throes
and writings OF an early dissolution.
1t may linger on in CHASTITY agony
until the next Presidential election, and
then its last foul breath will be drawn, and
it will be dead, dead, dead. It's disease has
been loathsomc one, known as the Radi-
cal Eruption, which has covered it all over
with nauseating sores and ulcers, penetra
ting inwardly with rapid progress, affecting
flesh, muscle and bones, untIlits very vitals
have been reached, and it has become an
odious and repulsiye mass of corruption aAd
rottenness. It's death is as certain as the
rolling years-as the rising and setting of
the sun. No mourners will attend its fu-
neral When the, last throbs of its feeble
pulse shall be over and its foul carcass bu-
ried deep, so that the healthy air of free
dom may no longer be contaminated by its
pestiferous exhalations, there will be an
universal sense of relief, and a shout OF
Joy and triumph viii so up throughout the
length and breadth of the land. The black
plague is oyerl Thank Heaven for the de
liverence of the country
Year: 1873

The announcement of Hon. A. J. Ham
iIton as an independent candidate for the
Senate in this district, which appeared in
our issue of Wednesday morning, was
not noticed from the fact that it was
brought to the STATESMAN Office at late
hour of the night after the editors had gone
home, and, of course they knew nothing of
it until the next morning. Any insinuation
that this paper favors his election or that of
any other independent candidate is worthy
only of contempt. The course of the
STATESMAN has been open, straightforward
and consistently Democratic at all times,
so that it may defy its enemies, secret or
above board, Radical or otherwise.
Year: 1873

The journal says ''it is for tie interest of
all railroad enterprises that Davis should
be elected How can they trust him after
turning his back on the international Road,


once his special pet! Does not everybody
know that this road was his favorite of all
the roads contemplated in this statel Was
it not chartered with his full consentl Did
he contemplate treachery when he let the
bill become law by not returning itG What
road or what interest would be safe in the
hands of such MANI He turns against his
best friends and stabs them. He is the In
carnatlon of selfshncss and treachery. The
best interests of all, the people and the rail
roads, require that he should be removed
from Office as soon as possible. When the
next Legislature meets, he should be
promptly impeached for the release of Sa-


anita and Big Tree. The law is plain and
the proof positive. The crime is confessed.
Year: 1873

NONE but Gillespie would keep harping
on the silly idea that all the candidates for
justice of the peace throughout the State
will 60 with the Radicals on account of e
direct pecuniary interest. What does the
Journal take them tort A set of men as
corrupt as itself and to be governed by sim
liar motivesl The truth is that if the ed
itor Of the Journal happens to get an idea
into his head, there is no getting it out for
long time. It runs about perfectly wild.
Not knowing how it got in, it doesn't know
how to get out. Themagistrates nominated
by the Democracy arc generally among the
very best men of the country. They are
as true as steel.
Year: 1873

IT will be seen by the announcement in
our columns that the Hon. A J. Hamilton is
anindependent candidate for the Senate in
this district We are very much surprised
at this, for We gave that gentleman credit
for more judgment and political sagacity
than it appears he possesses. With his
we'll known hostility to Governor Davis, he
cannot expect to unite the Radical vote
upon him, and he ought to know that tho
Democracy will stand up squarely to its
regularly nominated candidates. If Gov
ernor Hamilton supposes that any dissatis-
faction now exists in the Democratic party
of this district with regard to its candidates
he will find himself wofully mistaken. So
far as we know the most perfect harmony
prevails and our ticket will receive the votes
of all true Democrats throughout the dis
trict. But the entrance of this new cham
pion into the field will demand renewed ex-
ertions and we call upon every Democrat to
do his whole duty on this occasion. If so,
the ex-military Governor of Texas will get
the worse beating he ever had in his life.
Year: 1873

WE learn that the gutter artist of the
State Journal is in a very precarious and
critical condition. He was taken with a
violent vomiting, while contemplating his
last great work, and was borne from the
capitol to the Journal office in nearly in
sensible state. It is believed that, while
gazing intently on the finishedpicture, which
he had overtaxed his brains to design and
execute, he was suddenly impressed with
the idea that he had made great mistake
and had drawn Radical grave yard instead
of what he intended. The ass and the
goat so reminded him of Davis and New
comb that he grew deadly pale and sick,
followed by the ''black vomit," 1t is pain
full to think that he may recover.
Year: 1873

Mr.. DENTON, Chairman of the County
Executive Committee, has shown us letter
from Col. Hubbard, in reply to one inviting
him to speak at this place during the can
vass, in WHICH the latter states, that in con-
sequence of his engagements at the ap-
proaching term of the Tyler court, that he
will not be able to speak here on his return
from the West, but that he will try to speak
here during the last week of the canvass.
Judge Coke will address our citizens on the
twenty-ninth of this month.
Year: 1873

Ex-Governor HAMILTON, in his circular,
says that he has been solicited by men of
all parties to become a candidate for the
Senate in this district. We should like to
have the names of the Democrats, who have
solicited him. We think it would turn out
that their shells are exceedingly soft, and
that their species would be hard to de-
termine All true Democrats will support
the regular nominations
Year: 1873

TEE Journal talks OF candidates secretly
for Davis Is Ex-Governor Hamilton one
Of the numbcrl He cannot ride into Office
astraddle the fence. Will he outwardly
support the Democratic ticket while he is
secretly pledged to Davis1
Year: 1873

The journal says truly that ''the people
are alarmed Yes, they are bestirring
themselves to sweep of the last vestige Of
Rsdicalism in Texas. They have suffered
long enough from Radical corruption and
tyranny
Year: 1873

The financial troubles arc not yet ended.
From the first great crash following the fail
ure of Jay Cooke & Co., suspensions and
failures have been going on among the
banks, the railroads, the manufacturers and
the merchants, until, in spite of all the eff
forts of the press and the government to re-
store confidence, there exists an almost uni
versal feeling of distrGst and anxiety
throughout the East, the North and the
Northwest. The South, and especially
Texas, is less affected than other portions
by this financial disturbance, but even here
its influence is more or less felt in the bust
ness community, and by the farmers by the
consequent fall in cotton.


Now there never has been in this country
arrangement Of the currency and finan-
cial crash that did not affect its politics in
less or greater degree. Whether right
fully or wrongfully, the troubles are
attributed to the party in power, and
it is bound to go down under the
heavy pressure of public opinion. But in
the present instance there can be no doubt
of the real source of all the financial diff
culties now expressing the country. The
Radical party is justly responsible for the
present unfortunate state of affairs and the
people everywhere are beginning to see it
and to act accordingly The great debt,
the great issue of paper money, the over
trading, the reckless speculation and gamb-
ling in stocks and bonds, all are the genuine
results Of the Radical rule. 1t has brought
devastation and ruin upon the once prosper
Gus country and the people viii hold it
guilty, and its condemnation has already
been pronounced The thousands and
thousands of poor laborers, thrown out of
employment and left to beg or starve by the
suspension of factories and public works,
will raise howl of Indignation and reproof
that viii utterly overthrow the last vestIge
of Radicalism in the country. 1t is said
that there is mo great loss without some
small gain, . but here the gain will be enor-
nous and full compensation for the loss
Year: 1873

IT turns out just as We expected. From
the letter Of Gen. Barnes. published here
tofore in the STATESMAN, it appears that the
State Journal is the only paper in the State
that has offered to help the International
read for a consideration. Failing to get
blackmail in advance, it has treacherously
turned upon its intended victim, and ac-
cuses him Of an attempt to overcome its
immaculate virtue The letter OF Gen.
Barnes gives the lie direct to all the charges
of the Journal in regard to Judge Coke.
All who ever knew our noble candidate for
Governor felt assured Of their falsehood
from the beginning. The editors of the
Journal should all now be branded with the
letter L, receive fifty lashes, save one, on
their bare backs, and be put in the stocks.
a warning to all libelers, as in the old times,
before the erection Of penitentiaries.
Year: 1873

Honey bees are governed by j siinct ant
not by art. They never deviate from The
course they were created in. The frs
comb they ever built was as perfect as al
the present day; no ait has improved the
shape or size. One bee lays all the eggs,
while others raise the young and protect
them; each bee does it's part Of the labor
in gathering the stores and nursing the
young; and have noticed for several years
past their mode of gathering pollen or bee
bread. 1t is this: When bee goes out af-
ter food, it alights on some kind of flower
and gathers part OF its load; then goes to
another of the same kind of flower, and
perhaps the third; to obtain a load. An
ether bee goes out, and If he alights on an
other kind of flower it keeps that kind un-
til it gets load. But bow is this known ?
You go to the hive and watch them as they
come in; some have yellow pollen on their
legs others have light color; others have
dark; but no bee has two colors on his legs.
If you see any, you will see more than
have, for ne, er did; and have supposed
that they stored it in different cells for a
change of food. The other day in over
hauling hive, l broke ont a new piece Of
comb and found the different colors in differ
ent, cells, which confirmed my belief; for
suppose that they like change of food as
well as human beings.


Another curiosity is in their coming out
and alighting before going off; for amongst
the hundreds that have hived, never had
one swarm leave direct from the hive An
other curious thing is their rearing the
males and nursing them so tenderly; ard
after they become useless they destroy them.
But ins inct has directed them to do it.
Another curious thing is that, when they
get too numerous, the mother should call
out portion of the brood to 60 with her
and leave the others to take care of the
young. Why not call them all out to go
with her? Because instinct has ordered it
Otherwise. Certain ones 60 out with her
willie others are in with stores for future
use. A certain part of them don't seem to
have any inclination to follow the mother
bee, nor do they mourn her loss, for an
other is provided SELECTED
Year: 1873

A chap who in seme mysterious manner
had receiv d bid to large and fashionable
party, was somewhat disconnected on finding
that he was not acquainted with single
person present-nor a double one either
Finally lie perceived an elderly gentleman
of disconsolate mien looking over the photo
graphic album Our hero made fr this
party of the second part, and said: II say,
YOU and don't seem to know any body
here; let's 90 home" 1t was the head of
the house.
Year: 1873

In Washington the other day, female
member of colored theatrical troupe went
into dry goods store and called for some
aesh-colored hose. The clerk placed before
her box of black stockings-and that un-
fortunate young man has never been able to
tell whether he was blown up by nitro gly-
cer;ne or was struck by shot from sew
enty.two FOUNDER Courier journal.
Year: 1873

A little six-year-od was asked by his
teacher to write composition on the subject
Of water, and the following is the production
"Water is good to drink, to swim in and to
skate on when frozen. When | was little
baby the nurse used to battle me every morn
ing in water have been told that the In
dians don't wash themselves but once in ten
years. wish was an Indian"
Year: 1873

WASHING FLuIp. Three tablespoonfuls
soda, the same quantity of dissolved cam
phor (the same as kept for family use) to
quart of soft water; bottle it up, and
shake it well before using. For large
washing, take four tallespoonfuls of the
fluid to pint of soap, make a Warm suds
and soak the clothes half an hour; then
make ano>her suds using the same quanti-
ty of soap and fluid, and boil them just fif-
teen minutes, then rim in two waters.


To remove iron mould in linen, wash the
spots in a strong solution of cream Of tartar
and water. Repeat if necessary, and dry
in the sun. Another method: Rub the
spots with lite powdered oxalic acid or
salts Of lemon and warm water Let it re-
main few minutes and then rinse in clean
wafer.


TO MAKE WALL PAPER STICK Make
paste Of -four same as you do for starch; !;
do moi let it boil. v hen cold apply TO the
paper with brush. not having it so thick
but that it will spread evenly over the sur
face, or so thin as to wet the paper through.
Cheap paper s rot SO cheap at last as a lit
lie betty papes.
Year: 1873

1t is easier to be a good business man than
poor one. Half the energy diPlayed in
keeping ahead that is required to catch up
when behind will savo credit, give more time
to business, and add to the' profit and rep
utatiOn Of your work. Honor your en-
gasements. If you promise to meet man,
Or certain thing, at certain moment, be
ready at the appointed time If you 90 out
on business, attend promptly to the matter on
hand, and then as promptly 60 about your
business. Do not stop to tell stories In
business hours. :,


If YOU have place Of business be found
there when wanted. No man can get rich
bv sitting around stores and saloons. Never
..fool' on business matters. If you have to
labor for living, remember that one hour in II.
the morning is better than two at night. II
you employ others, be on hand to see that
tbcv attend to their duties, and to direct
with regularity. Do not meddle with any
business YOU know nothing of. Never buy a
thing.simply because the man who sells It Will
take + out in trade. Trade is money. Time
is money A good business habit and rep
utatiou is always money. Make your place
of business pleasant aud attractive; then
stav there to wait on your customers. :.


Never use quick words, or allow yourself
70 make hasty or ungentlemanly remarks to
those in your employ, for to do so lessons
their respect for you and your influence over
them. Help Yourself and others will help
you. BE faithful over the interest conhded
to YOUR keeping, and all in good time your
responsibilities will be increased. do not DC
in too great haste to get rich. DO moi
build until you have arranged and laid 9
good foundation. Do not-as you hope tt
work for success-spend time in idleness-
IF YOUR time is your own, business willsutfei
if you do If it is given to another for pay
it belongs to him, and you have no more
right to steal it than to steal money.


Be obliging. Strive to avoid harsh words
and personalities. Do not kick every stone
in the path more miles can be made day
by going steadily on than by stopping. t'
kick Pay as you go a man OF honor re e
spects his word as he does his bond. ASK
but never beg. Help others, when you can
but never give when YOU cannot afford TO
simply because it is fashionable Learn I! !'
saw no. No necessity Of swapping 1t out dos
fashion, but say it firmly and respectfully, =,


Have bnt few conlidants, and the fewer th'
better. Use your own brains rather thal
those Of Others. Learn to think and act 10
Yourself BE vigilant. Keep ahead, rathe
IIhon behind the time Young men, cut tn
out ; and if there is folly in the argument
let us know.
Year: 1873

SUIT IN equity will reveal the whole charac-
ter of the fraud, and fotce the companyto
stand or fall on the facts in the case. Under
the contract to build the road from Omaha
to the Tooth meridian, the result, as stated
by the Wilson committee in the last Con-
press. was as follows:
Year: 1873

1 discovered many years ago that
wood could be made to last longer
than iron in the ground, but thought
the process so simple and inexpensive
that it was not worth while making a
stir about it. l would as soon have
poplar, baswood, or quaking ash as
any other timber, for fence posts. l
have taken out Eastwood posts after
having been set seven years, that
were as sound when they were taken
out as when they were first put in the
ground. Time and weather seemed to
have no effect on them The posts
can be prepared for less than two cents
apiece For the benefit of others, l
Will give the recipe: Take boiled lin
seed oil and stir it in pulverizsd char
coal to the consistency of paint. Put
a coat of this over the timber, and
there is not q man that will live 10 see
II rot.
Year: 1873

It will be very difficult to convince


the American people that President


Grant can be held even remotely re-


sponsible for theassassinatian OF Gen,


Candy and Commissioned Thomas by


Captain Jack and his associates, and,


therefore, we depiore the attempt to


turn that catastrophe into a party


attack on the Administration. Moth


ing Is so unjust as passionate public
opinion, except a partial partisan
judgment. At first there was an
almost resistless outcry for the ex-
termination Of all tho Indian tribes,
and now there is almost an equally
earnest demand for the Indictment of
the President by certain party jour-
mails ; and yet we think it will soon
be shown, not simply that there is
another side to this question, but
that General Sherman himself, in q
most sagacious forecast OF the Indian
character, predicted the precise trag-
edy that took place at the lava beds
on April IL, 1872. We should rec
ollect tha. every administration Of
State or General Government is the
very best judge of its own actions
until indifference or treason is prov
ed upon it. The Executive in this
country must listen to the general
constituency. Where there ls no
despot to make and enforce the laws,
public opinion becomes the actual ru-
Ter, and yet it often happens that
those most urgent to insist upon
remedies are most critical when these
fail. President Grant tried
and is still trying the alternative OF
Indian conciliation because he pre-
ferred 1t to Indian carnage. That
remedy has certainly not failed in
consequence Of the death Of Candy
and Thomas. Perhsps the cruelty
OF the Modocs and the terrible pun
ishment OF the Government may
work out the speedy solution OF a
problem, but, in any event,
We do not doubt that President
Grant and General Sherman have
lone their best under all the circum


tanees. They have neither more
Tor less interest in tie settlement OF
he question than any OF their fellow
.itiz ems, and arc therefore no more


Untitled to the censure OF the extrem


st partisans than il they we're the


anne private citizens they were in
isrch 1861, before the outbreak OF
ne rebellion.-Forneys Press.