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VOL. XLIV.
RICHMOND. WAYNE COUNTY, INDIANA, M'CH 10. 1875.
W..l.i..k.r,
NO. ' 52.
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.H'r- wl. always was
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Tr lest wort, on earth were, "Dear friends,
I am going ' J - .
Where .weeping ain't done, nor ebumJnB
t nor sewing.
And everythlns there will be Just to my
For where they don't eat there's no wash
. -. Ingof dlsiiea.
I'll be where the load anthem wlU
bertnitint,
But having no voice. 111 set rid of the alng
In.
' Don't mourn lor me now, and dont roonrn
for me never,
For I'm going to do nothing forever ana
I ever. -
From the Inter -Ocean
InHrtl ! tlnaMl Oil.
As the only use to which flax need
is put is to manufacture oil, the im
ports of linseed oil bear a vital rela
tion to the flax question; for every
gallon of the foreign oil consumed in
this country means a lessened demand
for the seed in our markets. To show
' thia important part of the subject at a
ingle view, we have compiled a tabu
lar exhibit of the important move
. ments.quantities and values being de-
rived from the Commerce and Navi
gation Keports for each year, to which
1 ' is added a calculation of the average
invoice price per gallon, as follows:
IMPOSTS or UNBXED OIL FOR TWIN
'. TT-FOCE TEARS.
2p
Oallona.
Valnes.
2,818,344
1,58 fill ' ;
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l,4jtf,Ml
124.1,085
1.712,21 i
3H2.N43
1,2IV7
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61.212
38,82-2
17,427
JtO,II67
1,157,821
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Totals a)7tt S-40 12,4l48l.9llf0H0.272
Not t7ndr the UarfT of 1846, tlie;dnty
waa 20 per cent, ad valorem; nnder the
tariff of 18."7, the rate waa reduced to 15 per
cent. From April 1, 18K1, ( ictof March 2,
11), to AaKUHt 4, 18tS, the duty waa 20 rente
per Kauon, wnen.uy acioi juiy 14, imi, an
It
increase to 23 centa took effect, which
continued until Jan. 1, 1871, at which date,
by the act of July 14, 1870, a further lncreaae
to 80 cent took effect, the 1m port sal Ion be-
, lug fixed at 74 poundH, thene provision be
- Ing yet In fore. , II ahouM not be forgotten
that the altove valuer nd price represent
ment, not values and prices after arrival In
t port o I the United Htaten, and are expreaa
1 ed In gold. lwwntol867. Import entrt- are
given; after I86H, quantities and values en
terlBg tnto hosaeeonaamption.the offlclal
reports not otiiting the latter previous to
s fiscal year 1867. . .-
f'' These srstisties show how complete
ly independent this eountry has be
- eome ot foreign sources for its supply
of linseed oil, although we are yet de
. plorably dependent upon the British
' East Indies tor seed: for, during the
twelve months ended June 30, 1874,
. according to the official figures and
' the estimates of competent juJges,
foreigners furnished 2,647,208 bushels.
, anu America u iiiiumn iu,vuviiiu-
., els, of flsx seed to our domestic man-
ufactarers, the latter being scarcely
, 43 per cent, oi tne wnoie quantity.
I nia nitni mwrnrnm m mh ncu win
and must continue, perhaps grow
, worse, until our tariff is revised com
, orehensively in the interests of home
labor, so as to transfer to our soil the
manufacture of flax in its diversified '
' branches. When the time comes at
which the various linen fabrics, em
bracing a long list of articles, now
consumed in such immense quantities
c by our people, shall be produced by
the employment of American labor,
American capital, and American nia-
ohinery, then our farmers will be able
to put their Sax seed, much less oil -yielding
than the East India varieties.
a uni iow prices as io iorce tne for
eign supply out oi our markets, be
cause in that day of realization, every
ounce of flax straw will find remu
nerative purchaser, and the return for
ne entire crop, with seed half the
. present selling value, will aggregate
much more profit than ia derived
' amid tne unfavnrakii i!rnt,ci.r,.
" " v " t'icia.i. voce ier tne nax
- man-try De traniterred, in its numer
ous deuartmeuta. to nnr own . v
mg ns as independent of the foreign
supply for manufactures of flax as we
sro at present for linseed oil, then flax
will be applied to a multitude of new
. uses, immensely augmenting the de-
u.mu vmc UOTI, B WCIt U IOT ICC
seed. Already the ingenuity o ur
countrymen is exhibited in the
tion ot flax as part of the material Tib,
. manufacUirint! per barrels, under a,
late patent, white a growing quantity
of tne plant is being employed to add
strength in the production of fifty
pound baas tor grocers and others.
These are significant examples of what
may be accomplished in such a direc
tion. As, step by stop, we advance in
the discuiiou of this subject, we shall
prove turn ine proutaole growth of
flax on our soil, aa a large and regular
crop, like wheat or corn, hinges on th.
fajt whether we comprehensively
manufacture for ourselves or permit
foreign countries to manufacture for
us. Br next winter we expect to so
fully travel over the ground as to be
able to offer our readers a draft of a
Mill A I , A ; v A n. d . & 1
-vwviw-,; uicuiuiMj iv -uugren3, em
bodying a schedule of duties required.
Then our farmers must do their part
Of the Work hv nMilnin.
ihfhouW rete not leas than
100,000 names and bv forwarding the
signed memorials to their Representa-
tiveH anrl r..i Trr.. .
: Such an rrav aa that will accomplish
the intended result. Fixed deter
mination and steady perseverance will
be necessary, representing the spirit of
the Chinese proverb, "Time and pa
tience convert the mulberry leaf into
. V.?5,T ? WV protective legislation
; 4ton?T,0!theo",,,ed oil industry;
wll SutM- A few fibres '
II mike thj ?ifest. Formerly
r dPedent upon Great:
our rnJ!roil " ow we are for
our manufactures of flax: but Con-
nmr.rntted,,0eteri,n duties, audi
now we not only supply about ail the
'tA J
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home demand, but export more than
we import. Look at our tabular ex
hipit, and see what an immense differ
ence there is between the quantity and
value imported in 1851 and the quan
tity and value imported in 1874, the
latter being scarcely 2 per eent. of the
former. Our home crop of flax teed
for 1873 is estimated by a prominent
lioseed-oil manufacturer at a total of
2,500,000 bushels, of which about 350,
000 bushels are supposed to have been
reserved for the next year's seeding,
leaving 2,150,000 bushels for oil-making.
Allowing an average of 15
pounds of oil to the bushel, we obtain
32,250.000 pounds as the result. Du
ring the twelve months ended June
30, 1874, we imported for home con
sumption 2.&17.208 bushels (56 pounds
each) of East India seed. Allowing
an average yield of 19 pounds per
pushel for this more oleaginous varie
ty, raised in a tropical climate, we get,
as the result, 50,290,952 ponnds of oil.
making an aggregate of 82,546,952
pounds from all seed, foreign and do
mestic. Next, reducing this quantity
to gallons, at the standard rate of 7i
ponnds to the gallon, we have a total
of 11,006,260 gallons, or 4,186,530 gal
lons more than the home product in
the census year 1870, the quantity at
that time having been 6,819,730. val
ued at r7,239,733, showing an average
value per gallon of f 1.06 1-6. It is
true, our figures exhibit merely the
result of estimates, yet they embody
an approximation, and evidence the
steady growth of the manufacture.
Now, had it not been for the legisla
tive protection accorded to the domes
tic industry, we would to-day have
been quite as dependent upon Great
ifritain tor our iinseea on as we were
fnrmerlv What has been accomplish
ed for that branch of the arts needs to
be done for the eulture and manuiac
ture of flax.
1 1 may be well to state here that, in
1866. 1867. and 1868 there was a sud
den and copious increase in the, im
portation ot oil. We are, as yet, un
able to account for this phenomenal
condition of the facts, or to find any
one who can assign the cause; but we
shall push our inquiries until we be
come master of the explanation.
A further point, evidencing the wide
range of tariff , influences, remains to
be stated. Foreign flax seed are con
tained in jute bags, two of which, one
upon the other, called "double gun
nies, cover each four bushels of seed.
These bags will average, according to
actual measurement of a few sample
low, about 42 by GO inches ot flat sur
face, or 2,520 square inches, which
lacks only reventy-two square inches
ot being two square yards eacn. JMow,
during the five years ended June 30,
1874, we imported tor Home eonsump
tion 14.985.267 bushels of seed, repre
senting 7,492.634 single gunnies, equal
to 14,569.010 square, yards of jute
cloth. Competent judges estimate
that the average selling value per yard
of that, lor the fire years specified,
was about 11 cents, showing a total
value of tl.602.591.15i. If Western
farmers had suDDlied those seed in
stead of foreigners, the bags would
not have come into the country; and
if, besides, there had been adequate
protection to the flax industry on our
soil, then a demand would have been
created for an equivalent quantity of
flax straw, to be supplied iroin Amer
ican farms, for manufacture into bag
ging: for the foreign bags, after hav
ing done the service of containing im
ported flax seed, are employed to con
tain oil-cake for export, to cover cot
ton bales, and for othef like purposes.
All thinking men must discover in
these facts the wide ramifications ol
the tariff in its influences upon the
welfare of home industry, and upon
the activities and prosperity of domes
tic capital and labor.. Especially, let
our iarmers ponder these things and
learn therefrom that it is of vital con
cern to them how custom house legis
lation is adjusted to the multitudin
ous interests of the country. The
Tribune and the Times, of this city,
insist that free trade would be a bless
ing to our agricultural classes above
all others; we maintain that free trade
would be emphatically and particular
ly their ruin. '"' --'--.-wr j
Nst l w SebCBcfc. j
A' few days since a knot of Uot
Springs Tisitors "put up a job" on a
brother sufferer of the North. By
dint of considerable persuasion he at
last "took a hand" in the high old
came, seven un. As the cranie pro
gressed and after the plot had thick
ened the "ins" drew knives and re
volvers, apparently with the intention
of slaughtering Mr. susceptible, who
at once bolted the ranch, jumped the
town and slid. Several days elapsed
and the frightened gent could not be
found. stewards wero onered for in
formation leading to the discovery of
the runaway, but all without avail.
On Sunday Mr. S. turned up in Little
Bock, shoeless, ragged and without a
cent in his pocket. His arrival here
was hailed with joy at the Springs, lor
the fugitive is respectably connected (
and a man of wealth. By the influ
ence ot friends he was induced to re
turn yesterday to the Springs, where
he will be well received, and no men
tion made of the rough and heartless
joke. . , ... . .
f at Panamas lw.
. Onr readers of course remember
the New York Mills sale of "Duchess"
stock a little over a year ago. The
price then obtained, $40,500, for one
animal, has never been equaled in the
history f stock breeding. The cow
which commanded this wonderful
price died a short time after, and now
another of the royal breed has follow
ed. The Paris Kentuckian ot the 20th
of January says:
On Saturday last the Fourth Duch
ess of Oneida died at Hon. T. J.
Megibben's. She was purchased by
Megibben & Bedford, October, 1873,
at Campbell's New York Mills sale,
for $25,000. She leaves a bull calf,
three - months old, by Fourteenth
Duke of Thorndale, said to be one of
the finest Dukes in the eountry. There
was, of course, no insurance on her.
Thus the $25,000 heifer has met the
same fate as the $40,500 cow. Mr. E.
G. Bedford has been particularly un
fortunate, having heretofore lost two
costly bulls
It would seem as if $40,000 cows and
$25,000 heifers were not very safe in
vestments New England Farmer,
The hardest thing to hold in this
world is an unruly tongue. It beats a
hot smoothing iron and a kicking
horse considerably.
Wkat Fmrta mmr e
r The Democrats carried the. State
election last October by the confi
dence, somehow engendered in the
public credulity, that they would
reform" things. It mattered not at
all that there was nothing to "reform;
that the State administration was just
as cheap and saving as it could be to
meet, public engagements and pay
necessary expenses; that no dollar of
dishonest money could be traced to
any Republican State officer; that no
eent was ever lost by defalcation or
negligence since they first took charge
of the government, and that it was
about impossible to change their sys
tem without making it worse. Neither
did it matter that the party proposing
these "reforms' of nothing waa the
same party that approved the Gecrgia
land swindle; that stole 1,300,000 acres
of school lands, that closed the asy
luuisthat increased the public debt
$3,000,000 in fonr years; that brought
State bonds at par and sold them at
thirty per cent, discount; that kept a
man in two offices at the same time to
get his vote as Senator lor Jesse D.
Bright; that fostered 'the "Sons of
Liberty", and proposed schemes to
make peace for the State separate from
the Nation; that tried to repudiate
the State debt; that ruined the free
schools; that assailed . the "nigger"
till he got a vote, and then truckled
to him; that tried to force the people
to pay cash for the debt satisfied by
the Wabash canal, by refusing to pay
the "old bonds" which the canal
would have been sold from its holders
to pay a neat operation that would
have made a debt of $20,000,000; that
in 1871 left $600:000 in the treasury
unused, to make a fortune for the
Democratic treasurer, as it did; and
at the same time cut down the State
tax so low that over $900,000 had to
be borrowed to pay necessary expens
es, thus adding interest to other ex
penses, and making the administration
that much more costly than it would
have been il the tax had been higher,
and paid expenses as we went. A
party with such a record was a "most
fit and senseless" advocate of "re
forms," and a nice agent to entrust
with their execution. But the people
determined to trust it. Now let us
see what comment iacts have to make
on the promises that induced this
trust. That it should have made no
"reforms" is not surprising, simply
because there was nothing to reform,
no leaks or stealingss, or negligence,
or surplus , of clerks, or ; abuses of
power, or frauds. An honest admin
istration is hard to reform, and the
Republican State administration had
been uniformly as unimpeachable as
it is given to mortal weakness to be.
But though the Democracy could not
"reform" anything, it could at least
prevent the creation of abuses requir
ing reform, and it has not done that.
Just remember' that fact, reader.
The party of ' reform has reformed
nothing, has not tried it even, and it
has piled up aDuses enougn aireaay to
sink it. So much for general results.
Let us look at a tew details. .
The platform which promised so
much that the party has not tried to
do, and never . meant to , do. Bays,
First That the party is "opposed to
hieh fees and salaries, either in the
State of Indiana or the United States,
and we demand a reduction." Com
ment of facts the party has not re
duoed the extravagant pay of the
Legislature, though the increase last
session was denounced by it in every
township. It has not reduced the
Eerquisities of the State Auditor. It
as not reduced any salary or expense
at all. Second That platform says,
"we are in favor of a liberal system of
education for the negro, but opposed
to the mixture of white and black
races in our public Bchools." Facts
say, liberality to the negro is illus
trated by his exclusion from all edu
cational benefits for which he is taxed,
except where there are enough ot bis
color to make a school, and as there
is not one district in three hundred
with that proportion, this "liberal
system" virtually steals the school
taxes of all other negroes for the
benefit of "white children. Third
The platform denounces the Baxter
bill and demands a license law, for
the benefit of the schools, but the
party has not made and can't make a
license law, and won't amend the Bax
ter bill so as to make it pay a revenue
to the schools. I fourth lhe platr
form demands legislation in restraint
of railroad extortion. Facts say that
the party has done nothing at all, in
this direction, any more than any
other. Fifth-T-The platforn demands
law limiting local taxation, iacts
..... . ,
sav that the parry nas noi oniy noc
enacted such a law, but has squarely
beaten a constitutional amendment
that covered a very important part of
the limitation of local power. These
be nice samples of "reforms" made
according to promise, : but they are
brilliant achievements of Democrats
statesmanship beside some others that
we propose to look at. .
The platform says e are in la-
vor ot severe reirencnmeni. reiorm
and economy in all branches of the
public service." What say those
troublesome disturbers of Democratic
promues, facts? "Severe retrench
ment and reform" are gloriously illus
trated in the report of the House In
vestigation Committee that a janitor
has been getting illegal money ever
since the session began; and has got
$250; that a "stationery clerk" and a
"warrant clerk," and a clerk who nev
er did anything, and a clerk who was
employed at the Union depot at $35 a
month, had eaeh got from $250 to $75.
In all, thisparty ot "severe reform"
has to admit that it has let its servants
steal nearly $1,000 from the treasury
in two months. It illustrate) its 'se
vere" taste in economy farther, by re
fusing to build a tate-liouse and
laying $3,000 to $4,000 a year rent for
offices and committee rooms. Also by
holding on to full legiglative pay. Also
by leaving county and State fees un
changed, as yet. But this platform's
biggest "blow" is over the practica
bility and prudence of running the
State government on a tax of five cents
on the hundred dollars. It denoun
ces a larger tax as "a wanton outrage
upon the tax-ridden people of Indi
ana," and says it "demands the lowest
State tax that will support an eco
nomical administration, not exceeding
five cents on the hundred dollars.'' In
other words five cents is the very
highest limit, rather more than fs re
ally necessary, and four would do.
possibly three with careful scrimping.
Now, the party has levied nearly dou
ble that highest limit of "State tax."
It calls 3 cents of it "interest tax:"
but it is just what has always been
paid out of the "State tax" before and
changing its name don t change its
character. The State levy is Sin
stead of 5 cents. But besides this
violation of economy, the party pro
poses to help out its 8 cents by bor
rowing a million or so. It knows very
well that 8 won't begin to pay expen
ses, but to keen down to the olattorm.
as nearly as possible, that is all that
will be levied, and the rest will be
borrowed. The loans will take $30,
000 or more every year in interest
in addition to what is paid in interest
now. Thus the actual cost of the ad
ministration will be increased by $83,
000 in 1875, and at least fO,(JW . in
1876. over and above what it would
be it the expenses were paid as they
eome. bv a revenue bie enough to
make it unnecessary to borrow. This
is no fancy calculation. It is as cold
and stubborn as the- calculation of
costs in a suit on an ice-bill. If we
pay as we go, by a tax big enough to
raise the necessary revenue we need
not borrow, and shall save interest
That is clear. Now eight cents of
"State and interest" tax will .not pay
expenses by $400,000 a year, and it
won't pay $700,000 of old debt still
drawing interest. Thus far this . year
we must pay in interest, because the
tax is too little. $88,000. and next
year all that and $32,000 more, or
$120,000. And that much we pay
more than we should it we levied
sufficient tax. Now, isn t it a most
bewildering display ot "severe re
treuchinent" to make a State admin
istrationcost in two years, in interest,
$208,000 more than the same expenses
would require if paid as they occur by
a suitable taxr This is democratic
"retrenchment." It is platform "re
form." It is party "economy." Could
anybody, with as much brains as
would physic a fishing-worm, expect
anything else of a party with such a
recora as mat we nave summarily ar
rayed above? Ind. Journal.
Dark Dsri for Me Ie.ge.
We see the worldly. anti-Christian
spirit triumphant, and Catholicity
hunted down, culminated, imprisoned.
starved, exiled and vexed to the ut
mosfveree of what is safe to its tor
mentors themselves. Great Catholic
powers, that once gloried in the cross,
and leaped with enthusiasm to defend
the Church, are either extinct or in a
helpless moribund condition. Poland
is dead; France is slowly recovering
from the depletion of its strength;
Spain seems like a vessel compassless
and rudderless, its ancient vigor shiv
ered into useless fragments; Italy
gasping in the tightening clutch ot in
fidelity. Three centuries ago King
John Sobieski. at the head ot his f o-
lish chivalry chased from the walls of
V lenna t he mightiest army that Islam-
ism ever marshaled on the plains of
Kurope. Poland was the invulnerable
shield that protected the Catholic
World from the most revolting, hu
miliating slavery. But to-day Catho
lic Poland moans out its life under
the lash of schismatic, and no one
heeds the heart rending expression of
its sorrow. Spain and Italy present a
spectacle equally depressing, and sug
gest a problem still more perplexing.
The glory of the former nas passed
away, and is still exceedingly doubtful
whether it will ever rise from its state
of contemptible feebleness. It is in
tensely Catholic still at heart, but its
people, worthy of a better lot, if Chris
tian virtues deserve national prosperi
ty, are tne prey oi alternate iacuons.
It may be that some future restora
tion is reserved for a land so strong in
faith as Spain certainly is still.- But
there is sad need of some master mind
to remold into one harmonious whole
the divided energies so furiously op
posed, to unite the people, to rule in
the name of religion, for such an in
fluence only can raise races and prov
inces above selfish objects. Every
thing in Italy is rushing to ruin for
there, Government is in full sympathy
with revolt against the authority of
the Church. Throughout the land
ignSj worse than Egyptian darkness,
f a more cruel oppression of relig
ion prevails than ever weighed upon
the children ot Israel. And that
darkness grows deeper with every
passing day; for advancing time only
brings new spoliations ot the sanctu
aries, more blaspheming of the divine
victim of the altar. Under the guid
ance of atheists as reckless as ever
mocked the power and patience of
God, Italy has taken a place in the
front rank of the enemies of the
Church, without which it never would
have had in history anything more
than a geographical position.
v VY ben the L bnrcb is thus deserted
on an sides by the nations mat were
born and grew to full vigor beneath
the shadow ot its protecting arms, it is
not -very surprising that Germany
should seize upon this hour aa most
propitious to silenee the only voice
that dares to question and condemn
tfie' absolute, unlawful domination to
which it aspires. Catholic Tele
graph, 25th.
According to the Report of the
Department of Agriculture the aver
age yield of the corn crop of Indiana,
in 1S74, was Si bushels per acre; the
average price 1 ere m Per l was Ol
cents; wheat yielded 12.2 bushels per
acre and the price was 94 cents; rye
14.5 bushels per acre, price 77 cents;
oats 19 bushels per acre, price 44
cents; barley 20,6 bushels per acre,
price $1.10; buckwheat 14 bushels per
acre, price 56 cent; potatoes 60 bush
els per acre, price 81 cents. - The fig
ures given represent the average price
on December 1, in all parts of the
State, from which reports were re
ceived. -
Farmers who feed wheat to their
horses instead of corn or oats because
it is cheaper, should be warned of the
result In the grasshopper devastated
portions of the State, where corn waa
a total failure, and wheat is fed ex
clusively, the animals are dying off
rapidly. Wheat is demonstrated to
be a damaging food for horses.
A young woman in Troy pointed at
her head a pistol that was supposed
to be unloaded, and was about to poll
the trigger, when her sister told her
that she was se;ting a bad example
for the younger children. " Thereupon
she pointed the weapon away and j
fired it, sending a bullet into her sis-
ter'sleg. , . ;t
Jokes are like nuts. The drjer i
they are the better they crack.
Reference-has been. made to the
Declaration of Independence; printers
may not know the tact, but even that
important document was originally
printed by a lady, Mary Catharine
Goddard. There were women in those
days. To print that immortal State
paper in the year 1777 was to run the
risk of losing one's head.
. Miss Goddard was a sister of Wil
liam Goddard, the first printer in
Providence, K. I. lie also published
the Maryland Journal in Baltimore
in the early p&rt of the Revolution.
When Benjamin Franklin became
Postmaster-General alter Congress
had superseded the British govern
ment.'he appointed Goddard Comp-
troller and Surveyor of Post Roads.
While he was thus engaged in public
matters, his sister conducted the af
fairs of the printing house with
marked ability, being able to -personally
perform the duties of a thorough
printer, while remaining clear-sighted,
orderly and energetic in the manage
ment of the business.
Anne Franklin entered the printing
office in 1732. Her husband, James
Franklin, (brother of Benjamin)
established himself in Newport, R I.,
in that year, but ho died soon after,
and his widow carried on the business
successfully for several years. , She
became "Printer to the Colony," and
published pamphlets, supplied the
public offices with blanks of all kinds,
and also carried on a general publish
ing business. The Newport Mercury,
now regularly issued, grew out of this
printing office in 1756. and is, with
one exception, the oldest newspaper
in the country. In 1745 Mrs. Frank
lin printed for the government an
edition of the "Laws," containing 340
pages, considerable of an undertaking
for a woman in those days.
Mrs. Cornelia Bradford, wife of
Andrew Bradford, was among the
first oi our women printers. She car
ried on business with great energy for
many years after the death of ber
husband, which took place in 1742.
The Bradfords, both husband and
wife, stood among the best of the early
printers of Philadelphia.
Mrs. Hassebotch was the wife of
Nicholas Hassebotch, the first printer
of Baltimore. She succeeded to his
business at once, and prosecuted it
with talent and energy. The follow
ing anecdote is. related in connection
with one of her most important pub
lications: "In 1773, a missionary had
a Bible in his hand, explaining it to a
pary of Indians. He pronounced it
to be 'the Gospel, the Truth, the
Word of God. 'What 1' said one of
them; 'did the Great All-Powerful
make this work ?' 'Yes,' replied the
missionary, 'it's his work.' The In
dian, taking the literal import of the
words, answered indignantly, I be
lieve it to be a great lie. I go to
Baltimore last month when I see
Dutch woman make him; the Great
Spirit want no Dutchman help him.' "
Mrs. H. Boyle published a paper at
Williamsburg. Virginia, in 1774. It
favored the Crown, and lived but a
short time. Mrs. Boyle was a good
printer, however, and fully understood
her business.
Mrs. Elizabeth Timothee. after the
death of her husband in 1773. contin
ued publishing the Gazette in Charles
ton, S. C. She conducted it for two
years, when, her son becoming of age,
sue passea ix over to mm.
r rom all accounts, the early women
printers in the United Stales were as
remarkable as journalists, as in the
more mechanical work ot publishing.
In all the records of those days, it is
in no instance hinted that the news
papers were not fully as well edited,
and as energetically ' published . by
women as by men.
Jurs. Alary llolt, widow of John
Holt, was publisher of the New York
Journal in 1793, a paper which has
already been conducted by a woman
printer and journalist. Jlrs. Zenger.
forty-five years before. This publi
cation performed marked services for
the revolutionary cause, and as a re-
ward, the publisher, Mrs. Holt, was
appointed printer to the State of
riew Xorfc, the only woman recorded
as ever having filled this office. . -
Liast mentioned, but not least in
merit and reputation, is Mrs. Jane
Atkin. This lady, at the death of her
father in Bog ton in 1802, continued
his business with a talent and indus
try remarkable even among women of
the revolutionary period. - Her fame
was high from the excellent character
and ability of the productions issued
from her press. She was also noted
as a thorough printer and a severe and
accurate proof reader. -
Mention should perhaps be made of
Margaret Draper, ot Boston, as she
conducted unaided, the Boston News
Letter, the first regular newspaper
published in America. She was not
one ot the .Republican women, bow-
ever, and when the British evacruated
Boston she went to England, where
she received a pension from the gov
ernment. In the light of these facts, now mat
ters of history, let us not claim for
this decade the honor of having intro
duced women into the printing office.
women opened tor themselves this
extensive and worthy field of labor,
and the success which has always at
tended their efforts is the best proof
of their capacity as printers, publish
ers, and journalists. Ro well's News
paper .Reporter.
TalsvlaiK er AscUr'a F
Talking of doctor's fees, reminds us
of Sir Astley Cooper and his fifteen
thousand pounds a year. ' His largest
fee was thrown him in a night cap by i
an oia vt est injia pattern, a n oper
ation had been performed, and the
two physicians had received three
hundred guineas each. .
- "But you. sir," said the old man to
Sir Astley, "shall have something
better: take that; and be flans; ais
night-cap at Sir Astley. ' "
"Sir," replied Sir Astley,
pocket the affront!" The can con
tained a draft for a thousand guineas.
The Jann.arv Agricultural Mnort
from Washington gives. 73S4! aa the
number of sheep killed by' doss in 26
counties of Indians, during the last
year. The whole mberoC sheep re
ported in the swne coties"Li 445.674;
so that the nuabjfrsctualfy killed not
including the 'maimed is nearly two
percent -i--' . ; v. . , i -s-iC.
Tte Centennial boil 4 ing ii Phila
deiphaa will cover twenty, acres, and
to lessen' the fatigue of -a thorough
isit. an elevated railway f s 'projected.
We find the following in the Chris
tian Union, and we publish it for the
purpose of fully and thoroughly en
dorsing its conclusions regarding the
innocence of Mr. Beecher of the vile
charge brought against hiin by the
Tilton-Moultou gang of conspirators :
"Wholly without Mr. Beecher's
knowledge, the other conductors of
this paper again take the resposibility
of speaking in its same. They wish
its readers to know what attitude they
occupy toward its editor-in-chiet dur
ing the progress of his trial, and what
is the paper's position toward- him.
They purposely choose this time, when
the prosecution is bringing forward its
most plausible evidence, and before
the defense has begun its reply. It is
ia no inconsiderateness or spirit of
bravado that they speak. The great
interests which are involved on their
part are the assurance that their
words are deliberate and well-weighted.
. .
We say, then, that we have un
shaken and absolute confidence in
Mr. Beecher's entire innocence. We
implicitly believe that he is a pure,
upright Christian man. We hold him
worthy of the utmost trust as a moral
teacher. ; And the Christian Union,
which has been proud to bear his
name when the whole world honored
him, is prouder to bear it to-day in
his adversity than ever before. That
name will never be taken from the
paper's front so long as the paper re
mains in its present hands.
1 be Christian Lnion is ready to
stake its life on Henry Ward Beecher
We say this with the full moaning of
the words, well assured of the ground
on which wo stand. 1 he editorial
and business manager ot this paper
know Mr. Beecher. We have per
sonal knowledge, and some of ns have
life long knowledge ot bis character.
We know that his life, in its great
principles, is animated by the spirit of
Uod. We know that be is totally in
capable of the monstrous hypocrisy
with which he is charged. It is out
of a faith, fervent indeed, but based
on knowledge as rational and well
grounded as the human mind admits,
that we pledge to him anew the unre
served allegiance of the Christian
Union. In the prosperity of this pa
per our personal fortunes, interests,
and aspirations are most deeply in
volved. We freely and gladly stake
it all on the Christian purity oi this
man. : .
We are not insensible to the spe-
ciousness of: some of the evidence
brought forward by the prosecution;
nor have we any censure for those
who, having no personal knowledge of
the man, and no clear intimation ot
how his accusers will be met, are for
the present swayed against him. But
we ourselves have no doubts. The
issue of this trial is with the Al
mighty. We look to see Mr. Beech
er's name cleared before the whole
world, and such honor paid him as he
has never yet received. When that
day comes, we shall rejoice that in
these dark hours the paper avowed its
faith.
But even if the temporary issue
should be in any degree adverse, we
are willing to share adversity with our
leader. If the publio should be mis
led into doubting him, the Christian
Union could ask no more honorable
fate than to share the evil as well as
the good fortune of the man who has
better served the American commu
nity and the cause of Christianity
than any other in this generation. In
good report , and in evil report, we
trust and honor him,' and are proud
to follow him. We know that sooner
or later these clouds will pass away,
ana nis namo snme as one oi tne
faithful of God." .
A Clreelaai Ieseaxi.
When Bacchus was a boy. he jour
neyed through Hellas to go to Naxia;
and, as the way was very long, he grew
tired, and sat down upon a stone to
rest. As he sat there with his eyes
upon the ground, he saw a little plant
spring up between his feet, and was so
much pleased with it that be deter
mined to take it with him and plant
it in Naxia. He took it up and car
ried it away with him; but, as the sun
was very hot, he feared it might wither
before be reached his destination.
He found a bird's skeleton, into which
he thrust it, and went on. But in his
hand the plant sprouted so fast that
it started out of the bones above and
below. This gave him fresh fear of it
withering, and he cast about for a
remedy. He found a lion's bone,
which waa thicker than the bird "
skeleton, and stuck the skeleton with
the plant in it into the bone of the
lion. Ere long, however, the plant
grew otit of the lion's bone likewise.
Then he found the bone of an ass,
larger still than that of the lion; so he
put it into the ass's bone, and thus he
made his way to Naxia. When about
to set the plant, be found that the
roots had entwined themselves around
the bird's skeleton and the lion's and
the ass's bone; and as he could not
take it out without damaging the
roots, he planted it as it was, and it
came np speedily, and bore, to his
great joy, the most delicious grapes,
from which be made the first wine,
and gave it to men to drink. But be
hold a miracle! When men first
drank of it, they sang like birds; next,
after drinking a little more, they be
came vigorous and gallant like lions;
but when they dran more still, they
began to behave like asses.
. Carlysl says nine-tenths of the
miseries and vices of manhood pro
ceed from idleness; with men of qui;k
minds, to whom it is especially per
nicious, this habit is commonly the
fruit of many disappointments and
schemes oft baffled, and men fail ia
their schemes, not so much for the
want of strength, as from the ill
direction of it. Tne. weakest living
creature, by concentrating his powers
upon a single object, can accomplish
something; the strongest, by dispers
ing his over many, may fa3, to aeepm
plish anything.
'
A ehnrca-warden s wife went to-
church for the 'first time in her life
when her husband was made church-
warden. Being late, the congregation.
were getting np from taeir knees at
the time she entered, when she said
with a condescending smile. "Pray,
keep your seats, ladies and gentlemen;
I think mo njore oi myself, than I did
before,." -
fa at
The Saratogian has the following :
"'Come in here, yon black rasoal!
That is what the young lady said.
The yonng lady, yon see, was closing
the window blinds at the twilight
hour, and seeing her little Mack dog
sitting out on the stoop wagging his
tail and wistfully looking np at her,
her heart was moved with an impulse
of affection toward her pet canine,
shivering in the cold, and wagging out
his mute appeal. So she hastened to
the door, and, throwing it open, gave
vent to the loving expression we nave
quoted 'Come in here yon black ras
cal !' So far as the dog is concerned
he seemed to understand the terms of
endearment addressed - to him, but
when the young lady'B pastor, dressed
all in black from top to toe, stepped
forward from the shady side of the
doorway he wore a curious expression
on his countenance. The young lady
looked at the reverend gentleman and
blushed. The dog wagged his tail as
if willing to divide the honors. We
don't know exactly how it came out.
But report has it thst the good man
regarded doubtfully the ebonv beast,
glanced at his own broadcloth, con
cluded it was all right, and accepted
the embarrassed young lady's decla
ration that I I meant the other
the other come in and see ma !"
Wkjr a Semtar DM Sfs. Take fX 1
Wire t WaMBdaHrta-aW
I heard a good story the other day.
We were commenting on the outward
mau of a certain Senator, saying, in
addition, that we found him very
agreeable, though now and then Un
comfortably frank.
"Yes, I should think he was,"
laughed our mutual friend; "I asked
him why he didn't bring his wife to
Washington, and he answered, 'Fact
is. Captain, the old woman is so mor
tal homely I'm ashamed ot her I" .
Make your own comments, dear
friends. If the lady in question were
younger .Washington society would
soon metamorphose her, but I know
in her ease there is no such hope, so I
forgive the Senator, and find double
amusement in the exclamation I heat d
him make as a beautiful woman passed
during a reception. Said the honor
able Senator: "By Jove! B
ought to thank God every day for the
pleasure ef owning such a beauty 1"
That man's aesthetic tastes waked up
too late, but they are correct.- Bos
ton Globe. ' .
The oldest paper in the United
States, the New Hampshire Gazette,
truthfully says: - t
: "A suggestive message is tacked to a
recent $5 subscription to the fund for ,
the Kansas and Nebraska grasshop-;
Er sufferers. Says the subscriber: '
et the people of these Western states
take ltetter care of their birds. For
years past they have waged such a
systematic warfare against them that
the markets ot even the Eastern cities ;
have been glutted with grouse, prairie
hens, wild turkeys, etc., which if not .
molested, would have kept the insects '
in check. We cannot derange Na
ture s balance of power and not ex-'
pect to suffer somehow. A law to
prevent the killing of any bird in Kan- ,
sas or Nebraska for five years would ;
be a better remedy then subscribing
money every winter for. these suffer- ,
ers." . ;
Yale is accused of turning out two
hundred Congressmen. . , -
If you wish to make a drum-stick
set it on the head oi a tar barrel. .
- . t . ..... - - .
No class of men ought to be more '
careful in maintaining the equity of
their moral consciousness than news
paper writers. , !
Thurlow Weed hss offered the nse
of $3 000 without interest to the.
Mount Lebanon Shakers, who suffered
so severely by the recent fire. ,
A man fell overboard from an En
glish steamboat. The captain only
asked, "Has that man paid his pas
sage ? If he has go ahead I . I did not
put him overboard."
Physician "Why don't yon set a
bound to your drinking, and not ex
ceed it?'f Patient "So I do, old
fellow, so I do: but then you see it's
so far off that I always get drunk be
fore I reach it."
"Mr. Smith's compliments to Mr.
Brown, thinks it unnecessary that his
piggs should go through this grounds."
Answer "Mr. Brown's compliment
to Mr. Smith, thinks it equally un
necessary to spell pigs with two g '.'.' ;
A Dubuque boy was rather troubled
for fear that he would not know his
father when they both reached heaven, '
but his mother eased him by re-'
marking: "AH yon have to do is to
look for an angel with a red nose on
him." ; , ';. ':.,:.';?.... '..:..
&The Noble county boss hog of this
season weighed 935 ponnds gross, ami .
825 ponnds net. It was twe years :
and two months old when killed, end
for over one ear of its life, had '
picked up a living front the public
highway. --sv- .j
Come hern, my little man, said a
gentleman to youngster of fonr years
of age, wbea sitting in the parlor
where a. large company were assem
bled: "do you know me 7" "Teav, sir,
I think I do." "Who am I then let ,
me hear ?" : "You are the man what
kissed sister Jane last night in the
parlor .'.,. Jane fainted. ; ; . f ; "
A Kentland mother oiled the heads
of her precocious youths with coal oil,
and then absented herself from the
house awhile. One of the boys light
ed a paper,1 which ignited his hair '
dressing and his hair owned off in a
jiffy. . , : -:- v; ( :'
Yonng Tom has stopped the New
York Staver- bees nse it contained
only eleven,, continued stories). , He
now takes the : New York Baver,
which is running fifteen sterise at one
time, and eight ef 'eas are "about
Injuns and Pirates," he sevs. Nor
risf own-Herald.
" A city ehap visited the Shaken at
Lebanon seme time since, and ns he
was wandering throngk the village.'
encountered a stout hearty specimen
of the sect, and teas attested hiss:
"Well, Broad br iss, an yon ranch of a
Shaker r "Nay." said the ether.
"not overmuch, but. I oao de a little
tint way.': So he seaed the aston
ished man by the collar and nearly
shook him out of tue
A CI
We have a rare budget of good
things from St. Nicholas. Th.i lle
t?"Bi.IBOD terrors for ihe
old feliow; he is out again frh a
sprug crocus. "The To l r'i."
by Paul Fort, is the story of a; bear
and a youth, and is well il u-trs-ed l,y
Gustavo Dore. Lvufce M. A'coii
continues her pretty story of Kiiht
Cousins." , A dreadful lockinr U How
is the "Water Ber." of which Mary
Treat writes, 'A Glimpse at NpW,f'
by Professor Haabrouck, will in ton -t
the little people, and o will "Little
Christie.' by Amnlie Le Forgr "Lo
Bonlsnger et le Marchand de Tal-sc."
overwhxh little sfn lents io F;cn.-h
may turn up their dictionaries, gives
us the story of a "ma i son curieue,"
or rather of the friendship exitt ng
between two youths, one of whom be
comes - Prime Minister of Turkey.
The house is a memorial of t hi
friendship, and is now used as a school
for girls. - William H. Rideivn's
"Training School for Sailors" jtives us
a graphic and well illustrated apfi nnt
of fife at Annapolis. "Little Gret
ehen and Her Kid" comes next; men
follows, oh I such a funny poem about
"The War of the Rars and Mice."
The k ne rat. mounted on a toirtoise,
and the king mouse, on a frg, meet
in deadly combat, while ail the other
military ints and mice lok on in
wonder. "Why Walter Changed his
Mind," "The Girl of StrV "A
Snow-Kingv" are all pleasant papers.
J. T.Trowbridge's "Young Surrey. .r"
keeps np its interest, nd the invmher
goes off like a rocket, all sor's of
pretty things bursting into light in its
closing pages. - j j
Thompson was boring a supper
party with a most interminable yarn,
a few evenings since, when one ot the
company broke in wilh, "I tell you
what, Thompson, whoever told you
that story did not tell yon the whole
of it." "Certainly he did." sa d the
astonished Thompson; . "I know every
word of it." "Must be some mi-take,
Thompson," twrsisted his Irend. he
never could have told yon tiie End
OF IT...JMr-,t.:.V
t When I was traveling io Massa
chusetts, some twenty years ago." e-id
a traveler, "I hsd s seat wish the
driver, who, on stopping at the rt"t
office, saluted an ill-looking fellow on
the step with, 'Good morning. Judge
Saunders; 1 hope you're well, sir?
After leaving the office I ssked the
driver if the man he spoke to was
really a judge. 'Certainly, sir, he re
plied. rWe had a cockfight last week,
and he was made a judge on that oc
casion!' " S'.
I. ' 1 e e i ii ii
. Two confiding old ladies of Balti
more bosrded a stingy old curmudgeon
of means for 27 long years, never pre
senting him with a bill, bnt relying
upon his assurance that he would re
member them irj bis bill. The oi l
men died lately forgettine all about
the nutter, and now his former Ian 1
ladies have entered suit againt the
administrator nf iht iifit far Ka
amount of their board bill
rref. Preeter em tee Bertla - As
. immell leifessaa. . .
r Mr. R. A. Proctor writa in tit
London Timee respecting a letter
addressed by Dr. Phipson to a
French fonrnal. exnressinrr lh
opinion that the recent - transit ob.
servationa are mules, becaiieti the
earth is continually drawing' nearer
to the sun an outcry that has made
sorao impression on this side of tlu
water. Prof. Proctor declares that
while daring1 the Itst century there
hoe been . uncertainty about the
Ban's distance, even to the extent
of millions of miles, astronomers
are absolutely certain that the
distance has not varied by a hun
dred,' or even by ten miles nring
that time. If the earth bad, as has
been stated, drawn nearer by one
thirtieth of her former distance, the
length of ; the year . would have
changed bv, one twentieth ot it
iornaer length, or by efhtn days
A cfmmre of s only ten miles in the
last 100 years wonid correspond to
a chancre of more than 300 mil
since the length of the year was
nrsc netermmed very exactly. This
would be abont 3tfl OOOth nf thai
san's distance, and . the length of
the year would have been changed
by about a 200,000th part this is.
by abott two mutates ud a hidf
Thin, however, is not suppor 'ed by
what historic evidence we have. '
Readers of M .fnlfn Vmr'i
4Trip Bonnd th World 'rv TV.-
tl . at e . a .
aays, wiu rememoer now tne cue
max ia reached and inieuauua ot
Mr. Philess Fogg's forgetting that,
by traveling eastward all the time
he had gained; a day. The one
hundred an eightieth degree from
Greenwich is, by common consent.
adopted as toe - place where the
chansre of dav takes nlaea. tlioncrh
as a matter of caarse thin is only
an arbitrary arrangement. How
ever, two remarkable atwmrtliee
have been diaeorered uwmm nf
Manilla and Alaska. Manilla ieone
day behind the other Last India
ialande, hawing been colonized- frtrsn
the Spanish posaeseions in America,
while the othem isJanda received
their TMPalation : an J tim i
Europe, Alaska on the ohr hand.
ia a aay anead. neaanso wnen the
itoenans wen thither- from the
west, ther Itronsrht with them thoir
ealendar, while British Colnmbia,
Tost across tne line hne our time
It would be, at least, interesting to
know whether the change of owner
ship in Alaska he alao involved a
change of time. St Louis Globe
A Brooilyn young woraan sends
this valuable information to a New
York paper: "AD girls are pleased
to have their attraction recoemfzed
in is general way the eysar linger
ing for an instant only but a pro
longed stare from a man. no rotter
how handsome he may be. 'excites
nothine bat a feelim? of aftnov&n.