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NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Compiled from Telegrami f Accompasjio; Ditn.
Monday. J an. 25.
A New Orleans dispatch of the 23d gives
a document signed by eight Northern cotton
buyers and merchant at Shreveport, Jan.
23, expressing astonishment at the statement
made ty Gen. Merrill and others, represent
ing that community in a condition of anarchy
and 1U people lawless and defiant, etc.
Oen. Merrill' statements are pronounced
outrageously false and groundless, and the
document asserts that the only disorders
there known to the signers were eaused by
Merrill, just before election, sending his sol
diers raiding over the country and arresting
unresisting citizens for imaginary offenses,
who had not been held for trial because there
was no evidence of guilt.
A proposition" has been made at New
Orleans by the Conservative members of the
House returned by the Returning Board and
those claiming to have been undoubtedly
elected but defrauded by the Board, to have
the Congressional Investigating Committee
taice the returns of 1874, together with all fair
and relevant testimony, and upon such re
turns and evidence declare what members of
the Legislature were fairly elected. The
Chairman of the committee has taken the
matter under consideration.
Tns election in the First Illinois District to
fill the vacancy in the Forty-third Congress
caused by the death of Hon. J. B. Kice oc
curred on the 23d. Bernard O. Caulfield, Dem
ocratic member-elect for the Forty-fourth Con
gress, was the successful candidate, he meet
iug with no regular organized opposition.
The Kansas House of Representatives
has adopted resolutions Indorsing the
President's recent message on Louisiana af
fairs and the course of Gen. Sheridan at New
Orleans, and declaring them entitled to the
thanks and confidence of the country.
Kino Alphonso has issued a proclamation
offering full amnesty to the insurgents if they
will lay down their amies.
A Vjexna. dispatch says the difficulty be
tween Turkey and Montenegro has been com
promised. Rev. Ch ahles Kixgsley died in London on
the 24th.
Tuesday, Jan. 25.
A pakm-hocsk occupied by Pierre Dulude,
in Boucherville, Canada, was destroyed by fire
on the morning of the 25th, and Dulude's wife
and eight children perished in the flames.
The eldest child was thirteen years old and
the youngest a babe. Dulude was himself
seriously burned in his efforts to save his
family, and is not expected to live.
A firs in Washington on the 25th serious
ly damaged a portion of the Navy Depart
ment building, and a few public documents
were destroyed.
Wednesday, Jan. 27.
According to the annual report of the Cen
tennial Commission the enterprise is moving
forward with encouraging rapidity. The
buildings will be entirely completed by the
1st of February, 1876. It is stated that the
commission will not apply to Congress for
an appropriation to aid in the erection of the
buildings or other work, as this has been amply
provided for, and while an appropriation
would give additional success to the enter
prise the commission feel that the success of
the exhibition is guaranteed without regard
to aid from Congress. An appropriation will,
however, be asked for, not to exceed f 400,
000, t provide for premiums to be offered to
contributors.
According to recent Madrid dispatches the
Carlists have abandoned the Biscay provinces
and moved into Navarre with all their ma
terial of war. Six hundred Carlists have sub
mitted to King Alphonso in the province of
Casleton de la Plana. Fugitives from Estella
assert that Don Carlos has shot several offi
cers for treason. The Carlists have fired on
a British vessel laden with telegraph cable off
the BUcayan coast.
Gen. A. E. Burnsidb has been elected by
the Rhode Island Legislature to succeed Mr.
Sprague in the United States Senate, and ex-
President Andrew Johnson has been chosen
United States Senator by the Tennessee Leg
islature, to succeed Mr. Brownlow.
Mr. Moulton's cross-examination in the
Beecher trial was concluded on the 26th.
During the day he received intelligence of
the death of his mother, and was much af
fected thereby.
Turret and Montenegro have withdrawn
the troops which had been collected on the
border in anticipation of hostilities.
The Emperor of China died on the 12th,
aged nineteen. .
Lent will begin this year on the 10th of
February.
Thursday, Jan. 28.
The Commissioner of Agriculture, in a pub
lished statement relative to the grasf hopper
affliction, says the area of the destructive vis
itation comprises from 200 to 225 miles wide,
extending from the settlements of Southern
Dakota through Nebraska and Kansas, over
500 miles in length, and inclioing to the
south. A few western counties of Iowa and
Minnesota report injuries, but not to compare
in severity with those of the country west.
He thinks the area of territory visited by the
grasshoppers in 1874 very considerably ex
ceeds 100,000 square miles, and docs not think
it out of the way to estimate the number of
people more or less severely affected by this
pest at from 75,000 to 100,000.
An unsuccessful attempt was made on the
night of the 24th, by four or five men, sup
posed to be detectives, to capture the James
boys at their mother's residence near Kearney
Station, Mo. A desperate encounter took
place, and the house was fired in four differ,
ent places. The assailants were driven off.
A hand-grenade thrown into the house
was cast upon the grate by Dr. Samuels, step
father of the James boys, and its explosion
killed a lad ten years old and so injured the
arm of Mrs. Samuels that amputation was
necessary. It is asserted that the James boys
were not at the house during the fight.
A second fire, supposed to be incendiary in
its origin, occurred in the Navy Department
banldings in Washington on the 2fith. Damage
small.
Mr. and Mrs. Sartokis, son-in-law and
daughter of President Grant, have arrived at
New York from Europe.
Theodore F. Randolph (Dem.) has been
elected United States Senator by the New
Jersey Legislature.
KinoKalakaca and his suite have arrived
at San Francisco, en route for Honolulu.
Friday, Jan. 29.
Mrs. Bkadshaw and Mr. Franklin Wood
raff have testified in the Tilton-Beecher suit.
The former evidence was unimportant. The
latter (Mr. Moulton's partner) confirmed Mr.
Moulton's statement relating to a former in
terriew with Mr. Tracy at which the guilt of
Mr. Beecher was affirmed by Mr. Moulton,
and the witness stated that Mr. Tracy had
said that in this rase lying wis perfectly jus
tifiable, and had recommended that either
Moulton orTilton be sent to Europe. Mr.
Tilton was called to the stand on the 2Sth,
and the question of his being allowed to tes
tify was argued.
Thi Illinois House of Representatives has
adopted a series of resolutions condemn,
ing military interference (except, in the
manner prescribed in the Constitution) in
State affairs, and censuring the Administra
tion for its maintenance by Federal authority
of th Kellogg Government in Louisiana in
opposition to the will of the people, and es
pec i ally condemning the alleged military in
terference with the organization of the Legis
lature of that State.
The Mayor of Philadelphia has addressed
a circulat to Justices of the Peace and other
prominent persons living in neighbor
hoods in which it is thought the supposed
abductors of Charley Ross operated after the
abduction, appealing to them to personally
interest themselves in seeking for the missing
child, and that a general and thorough search
be made in all secluded places. The (5,000
reward is still offered.
The New Hampshire Republican State
Committee has sent a telegram to the Repub
licans in Congress, calling on them to stand
by the Civll-Righte bilL
Saturday, Jan. 30,
A report from Fort Sully, D. T., states that
the recent cold weather there was the severest
ever known in that country. The thermom
eter for several days ranging from thirty-eight
to forty-four below. Many cattle and ponies
were frozen to death.
A Madrid telegram says three important
positions have been captured from the Carlists
in the valley of Carascal, and that there has
been a gradual advance all along the lines,
Zaranz has been occupied try a Spanish bat
talion.
CONdRESSIONAL.
In the Senate, on the 25th, in the ab
sence of Vice-President Wilson, Mr. Anthony
was elected President pro tern a letter was re
ceived from the secretary or w ar transmitting
copies of the correspondence in relation to cer
tain disorders in Louisiana.... After the transac
tion of some other business the Louisiana discus
sion was renamed. Mr. Johnston condemning and
Mr. Pease defending the coarse of toe Adminis
tration in that State.
In the House, on the 25th, several bills
were introduced and referred, among them the
following: To establish certain telegraph lines
in several States and Territories as post roads,
and to rewilate the transmission of commercial
and other intelligence by telegraph; for a branch
mini ai m. uouis; lor lue improvement m me
Minnesota River bv the construction of a lock
and dam at Little Rapids.... Richard B. Irwin
was discharged from arrest A resolution that
no dilatory motion should be entertained daring
the remainder of the session, pending the con
sideration of any bill or joint resolution failed
to receive a two-thirds vote in the affirmative, and
was defeated, as was also a motion to saspend
the rules and take op the Civil-Kights bill.
In the Senate, on the 26th, a message
was received from the President transmitting the
report of the commission appointed to investi
gate a permanent plan for the reclamation of the
alluvial basin of the Mississippi River A bill
was introduced and referred to provide for and
regulate the counting of votes for President and
Vice-President ofthe United States The Lou
isiana question was further debated by Messrs.
Pease and Thurman.
In the House, on the 26th, majority
and minority reports were made from the Com
mittee on Elections on the proposed constitu
tional amendment relative to the election of
President and Vice-President the majority re
port favoring the plurality system and the minor
ity recommending a direct election by the people
A joint resolution was offered proposing an
amendment to the Constitution extending the
President s term of office to six years and render
ins him ineligible fur re-election, which resolu
tion was, after considerable discussion, rejected
for want of a two-thirds affirmative vote yeas
134. nays lot.
In the Senate, on the 27th, a bill was
introduced to establish certain telegraphic lines
n the several States and Territories as post -roads.
to regulate the transmission of commercial and
other intelligence by telegraph A resolution
was submitted and ordered printed to repeal the
twentv-eecond joint rale of the two houses of
Congress in regard to the counting of the electo
ral vote Mr. Thurman spoke on the Louisiana
question, argning against the course of the Ad
ministration. Mr. West briefly responded, and
Mr. Conkling obtained the floor and yielded to a
motion to adjourn.
In the House, on the 27th, after the
transaction of some routine business, a motion
was made to reconsider the action of last session
rernmtnlttin? the Ci vil-Risrhts bill to the Judi
ciary Committee, when dilatory motions were
made to prevent the consideration oi the bill.
Alter several hours spent in this manner a com
promise was offered by Mr. Butler proposing, on
the part of the majority, to allow the offering of
six amendments and that four hoars should be
given for debate, pro and eon, on the bill, and a
resolution was offered to this effect. Several dil
atory motions followed, and at 1 :35 on the morn
ing of the 28th filibustering was still going on,
with little prospects of an adjournment.
In the Senate, on the 28th, a bill was
passed providing for the appointment of a Com
missioner to ascertain the right of subjects of
Great Britain to lands in the territory which
was subject or the award or the hmperor or wer
many nnder the treaties of 1846 and 1871 between
the United States and Great Britain A large
number of petitions were presented The Loui
siana debate was continued. Mr. Conkling be
ginning a lengthy argument in behalf of the
Administration.
The dead-lock in the House continued
after an all-night session, and at midnight of the
28th the roll-call showed the presence of 150 mem
bers. The Republican side hoped by thus refus
ing ro adjourn to bring the thirteen refractory Re
publicans to join them, and thus give them a
two-thirds vote and enable them to bring np the
Civil-Rights bill; while the Democratic members
hoped for an adjournment before Monday, Feb. 1,
and that by this means the bill would be thrown
back on the calendar and its consideration this
session be thus defeated. Should an adjournment
not be bad beore the 1st the bill conld be reached
on that day by a majority vote suspending the
rr.les. uuatory motions were continued up to
midnight.
In the Senate, on the 29th, the joint
resolutions of the Missouri Legislature condemn
ing the military interference in Louisiana were
presented An adverse report was made on the
bill for the relief of certain settlers on public
lands in certain portions or lows, Minnesota,
Nebraska and Kansas Mr. Conkling concluded
his speech en Louisiana matters, and was fol
lowed by Mr. Gordon Mr. Schnrz wished to
modify his resolution by prefixing a preamble to
the effect that whereas any military Interference
with the organization or proceedings of a Legis
lature is repugnant to the principles of constitu
tional government, and that whereas such inter
ference with the Louisiana Legislature was with
out warrant of law, therefore resolved, etc.... Ad
journed to the 1st.
The House adjourned at 10:25 on the
morning of the 39th, after a continuous session of
forty-six hours and twenty-live minutes. There
was no compromise. A motioa to adjonrn was
carried by a vote of seventy-five yeas to sixty nays,
nineteen Renublicans votinir in the affirmative.
The roll was called seventy-five times during the
protracted sitting.
XII K MAKKKTS.
New York. 6'otfo-15Vai3?c. Flour Good
to choice, 4.8.va5.a": white winter extrs, .".3(t
6.00. Wheat No. 2 Chicago, tl.Gftfcl.ll : No.2
Northwestern. SM0&1.13; No. s Milwaukee
Spring, 8l.l31tl-l4H. Ry Western. &4tf&6c.
Barley S1.3S&1.40. Corn 4-&8.V,4c. Oat Mixed
Western, 67tjeyc forKew mess, S13.40GA
10.45. Lard 13tt&13.e. Cheete 12461-.
Wool Common to extra, 434V;. Kerr $10.00
CfclAOO. Hog Dressed $7.87H8.5u; live,
$ti.5CK&6.87Vi- Sheep Live, $tt.00t&7.00.
CntCAGO. Beer Choice. V30&6.00; good.
$4.75a5.25; medium, $4.254.SO; batchers'
stock. 2.75f4.0i; stock cattle, $i.75a
3.75. flog Live, good to choice, $6.60j&7.0O;
dressed, $7.1-Vff.7.50. Sheep Good to choice,
$4.50ftJS..N). Butter Choice yellow, 30037c. Egqt
Fresh, 2.VTC2HC. Pork Mess, new, $17 8J17.90.
Lard $13.a4i,13.2!. Cheese "Sew York Factory,
ltVftlti'.-tc: Western Factory, 15ST.16c.
flour White winter extra, $4,252(6.50;
spring extra. $3.754.75. Wheat Spring
No. 2, 88tf?.88?ic. CorwNo. new, 6tf"
640. OaUSo. , 53V1552SC. Rye "So. ii.
J5HjSc. Barley Ho. X, $l.i24.l.22. nooi
Tab-washed, 45G?.60e; fleece, washed, 40
50c; fleece, an washed, 27?537c. Lumber
First-clear, $52.005.00; second-clear. $46.00
&50.C0: common boards, $11.0CX&1.0; fenc
ing, $12.0tXa.l3.00; -A" shingles, $3.00&3.25;
lath, $2.00(2.25.
Cihcim !ati. Flour S4.9nft5.05. Wheat Red.
$1.05ai.l0. Com-New, 68jl70c. live Sl.lifia
1.1. Oafs Wa63c. Barley t.35ai.40. Pork
$18.0oai8.12V4. Lard 13W3.14c.
St. Lons. Ca'tU Fair to choice. 15.r0fiT6.01.
Hog Live, $6 50I&6.90. Flour XX Fall, $4.35
4.50. Wheat No. 2 Red Fall, $1.05H1.0ti.
Corn o. , new. 634&64c. OatSo.i. 555a .
55Sc. Bye $1.1S1.01H- Bnrley No. 2, $1.?4
troTK. jaes, ib.i:s418.s5. lAxra 136c
MiiWAncaa. Tor Spring XX. S5.25PT. 50.
Wheal Spring. No. 1, 93H&93j'c: No. 2. 8-Jta
8?Xc. Com No. 2, 60!4blc. Oat No 2. 50'
&51c. Byeio. 1, 94V4(Sl5c. Barley Xo. ,
$1.28Hai.v.
Clevzlakd Wheat So. 1 Red. tl.l04?M.ll;
No. 2 Red. $1.04'.i&1.03. Corn-New, 71&72c.
OaU No. 1, 59260c.
Detroit. Wheat Extra. Sl.13tfU.131. Corn
t;ef.70c. Oat I6'i5fc. Ifretted Bog
f7.Vg,:.75. 1
Tvutpo. Wheat Amber Michigan, fl.OT1
1.07(4; No. 2 Red, $1.06ai.06'4. Corn Hign
Mixed, new, 68V44668XC. Oato. A, 56HQ-c
Bcffalo. Beeve $4.7?&6.12t4. Hog Live,
$6-37tt&6.62H- Sheep Live, 15.0U&6.25.
East Llbertt. Beeve Best, $6.'25(&& (l4 ;
medium. $5.25&5 50. Hog Yorkers, $rt.0
6.80; Philadelphia, $7.3txa7.40. Sheep Best,
So.UX26.50; medium, $5.0O&5.5O.
Observation.
We have before referred to the value
of well conducted experiments on the
farm, and have urged the necessity of
each farmer nutting them into operation
for his own benefit. General directions
for the cultivation of all crops, and for
tne successiui management of all farm
operations, can be given, but no special
rules can be laid down that will apply to
the peculiar condition of each farm, or
the surroundings of each farmer. In the
minutiae of all these 'things each man
must ascertain the facts for himself, and
hence arises the absolute necessity of in
dividual tests and close observation.
The ordinary farmer cannot enter into
costly and extended experiments, and
they are not necessary. What he needs
is a knowledge of the capacities and
requisites of his particular farm, and
these he can ascertain in the course of
his ordinary operations, by varying his
methods, and closely observing all the
tacts that present themselves, and care
fully recording and comparing results
That there is a great lack of this observa
tion is but too evident. A farmer will
feed stock for years and years, and will
then inquire how much a cow, a horse or
a nog will eat in a day, or how much is
necessary to sustain life, or keep
in good condition. He has fed blind
ly and never noted results. Another
will feed and fatten and kill litter
after litter of pigsof different breeds and
ages, and then ask which breed is best.
how much corn ought to be, fed, at what
age hogs ought to be killed, etc., all of
which he could easily have ascertained
by simply observing his own common
operations. Another will ask what
variety of wheat is the best. Some one
can tell him what succeeds best on his
farm, but cannot answer for any other
man's soil. In all such matters it is but
too evident that nothing can take the
place of personal attention to, aDd the
closest observation of, all the details of
farm operations.
The beginning of the year is the time
to begin the work of closer observation.
Let it include every operation, as, in the
progress of the seasons, each comes in
to demand attention. ISegm with the
feeding and care of stock, procure varie
ties of seed for coming spring cultiva
tion, and lay plans lor future develop
ment. Begin and conduct every opera
tion with a determination to learn every
lesson it contains, so that you may be
prepared to conduct all future similar
operations intelligently, and in the light
of all the experience you have had.
Agricultural science is yet in its infancy.
Great truths lie bidden in the fields and
orchards and vineyards and herds and
nocks, and every son of toil may aid in
bringing them to light, to benefit himself
and bless mankind. Ohio Farmer.
A Mesalliance "ot a Mistake.
There is in the Department of the In
terior at Washington at least one heroine
of a mesalliance who has made a woman
of herself, which she never would have
been had she stayed at home and proba
bly married without a choice. Her father
was a wealthy New York merchant,
and took his daughter traveling with
him over Europe for a couple of years.
She was the only daughter of the family,
and her father and mother and brothet
watched her closely and cared for her
tenderly. In fact, they forgot she was a
human being, and always wanted to keep
their angel in the house. JNone of the
young men were good enough for her,
and she was not allowed to receive or go
into company. But she was allowed to
drive out in a fine carriage, and on the
box was a good-lookiDg young coachman.
He was the only young man she was al
lowed to talk to, and he warmed her
heart. And both were human. What
wonderful resolution it must have taken
to induce her to marry him! He was a
conscientious boy, too, but he could not
resist such a chance. It would not
have been human had he refused
to link his life with that of the girl. And
their lives and fortunes were joined, and
the house raged, but the young coupl
kept out of the storm. They went to
living for themselves, and both put their
former lives aJl behind them. She began
teaching music and writing for the peri
odicals. She did her first work, and
really just began to live. He was busy,
too not driving a coach. They breasted
the cross currents of the world together
and thrived. She is a Government clerk
at a good salary and is well paid for lit
erary work, too. He is educating himself
up to her high station of perfect inde
pendence. And both are happy and
comfortable and live ; they do not simply
stay. Her father is dead. Her mother
ana brother are enjoying the luxuries of
fortune in New York. She would not
go back to that life again for double the
fortune. Life is worth more than that.
It may be called a mesalliance, but it
was not a mistake, for it resulted in a
happy, active life. is't. Louis Republican.
Happy Husbands.
It is a man's own fault if he is unbap
Fy with his wile, in nine cases outoi ten.
t is a very exceptional woman who will
not be all she can be to an attentive hus
band and a more exceptional one who
will not be very disagreeable if she finds
herself willfully neglected. H would be
very easy to hate a man who, having
bound a woman to him, made no effort
to make her happy; hard not to love one
who was constant and tender; and when
woman loves she always strives to
please.
The great men of this world have often
been wretched in their domestic rela
tions, while mean and common men have
been exceedingly happy. The reason is
very plain. Absorbed in themselves,
those who desired the world's applause
were careless of the little world at home ;
while those who had none of this egotism
strove to keep the hearts that were their
own, and were happy in their tenderness.
Tio woman will love a man the better
for being renowned or prominent.
Though he be first among men she will
only be prouder, not fonder ; and if she
loses nun through this renown, as is
often the case, she will not even be
proud- But give her lore, appreciation,
kindness, and there is no sacrifice she
would not make for his content and com
fort. The man who loves her well is her
hero and her king. No less a hero to her
though he is not one to any other; no
less a king though his only kingdom is
her heart and home. Exchange.
"Yom young friend stayed uncom
monly late last night, and I was quite in
clined to come into the parlor and dis
miss hint," said an indulgent father to
his pet of sixteen. "Oh I yes, it was
pretty late ; but we got so interested in
discussing Ritualism that we did not no
tice the fleeting hours, papa! " Discuss
ing Ritualism ?" Bternly queried the
father, and then he walked slowly away,
with his hands nnder his coat skirts, try
ing to remember what they called it
when he was young.
Msrha Washington breakfast caps
for young maried ladies are new. They
are not e$pc-aly prettv. and if Marl ha
ever w re one ebe riU't have looktd a
veritable guy!
The History ofthe Potato.
The first discovery of the potato by
Europe tns seems to have been made
during the first voyage of Columbus.
While visiting the island of Cuba some
of his men went some sixty miles into
the interior of the island and obtained a
peculiar root and maize, or Indian corn
This root seems to have been the potato
This was in the year 1492. It was after
ward found growing wild in Andean for
ests, from New Granada on the north to
Buenos Ayres on the south. It has also
been cultivated by the old Aztic races
from time immemorial. At cuzco, in
Peru, Quito, in Equador, and perhaps as
far north as Mexico it formed an im
portant article of diet for the aboriginal
inhabitants of the American continent.
At just what time it was first intro
duced into Europe we are not informed,
but it must have been early in the six
teenth century. Certain it is that it was
cultivated in Spain in 1550, whence it
soon spread to Italy, Burgundy and the
Netherlands. In 1565 it was carried
from Spain to Ireland by Capt. Hawkins,
a slave-trader. It was introduced into
England by Sir Francis Drake in 1585,
but did not attract any special notice
until it was a third time introduced, this
time by Sir W. Raleigh, who brought it
from irginia, in America. Authorities
differ as to the exact time when this took
place, but it is probable that it was about
the year 1586, though some put it as late
as 1623. It was taken to Germany about
1710, and to France near the same time.
It found its way to Scotland about 1728.
In view of its present popularity it ap
pears strange that it should have been so
long in working itself into public favor.
It was at first cultivated in the gardens
as an ornamental plant.
The idea that it possessed poisonous
qualities was very common and no doubt
hindered its becoming popular as an
article of diet for many years. Even yet
we often see it asserted that some of the
wild varieties are quite poisonous, but I
am unable to trace these assertions to
any reliable source. It is true the
plant contains a small proportion of a
poisonous substance nearly allied to if
not identical with nicotine, the oil of
tobacco ; but it is in very small propor
tion, and does not in any case, I believe,
affect the tuber, which is the part used
for food. Raleigh first took it to En
gland, and had the tubers planted in his
garden, but his gardener, thinking the
secaballs were the part to be used as
food, reported it to his employer as a
worthless weed. Raleigh thereupon or
dered him to pull them up and throw
them away, but in doing so he found a
lot of well-grown tubers.
For many years the potato was grown
only for the tables of royalty and the
very wealthy, being regarded as a deli
cacy too rare and costly to be used by
the common people. The table of James
I. was supplied at two shillings per
pound. The use of the potato was strange
ly opposed in Scotland on religious
grounds. It is not mentioned in the Bi
ble, therefore, argued these conscientious
dol Puritans, it ought not to Ye used as
an article of diet.
Many methods were employed by those
who had learned the value of the potato
as an article of food to introduce it to
the favorable notice of the general pub
lic, but it took many years for it to be
come in any degree popular. Their mer
its as well as the best methods of raising
and cooking were published and circu
lated. One Parmentier, a Frenchman,
on returning from Germany, where he
had 6een the potato growing, set himself
to the work to secure that appreciation
of it among his countrymen that its
merits demanded. He wrote and spoke
in its favor, calling the attention of both
rich and poor to its value as an article of
food.
In order to attract attention to it he
planted a field of it and set a guard as if
to protect it from the thieving propensi
ties of the peasantry, at the same time al
lowing word to go out that it was an
article of very great value for the table.
After a time the vigilance of the guard
was purposely relaxed, thus giving all
who desired to an opportunity to clan
destinely carry off some of the valuable
esculent. The peasantry were not slow
to avail themselves of this chance to give
the new root a trial. The result was its
popularity was established. But not
withstanding the efforts of occasional in
telligent men to secure a general recog
nition of its merits by the people the po
tato was very slow in working its way
into popular lavor. Ihe Government or
Germany used coercive measures to pro
mote its cultivation in that country.
It was not till far in the eighteenth
century that it was generally used for
food. A severe season in 1742 drew gen
err.l attention to it as a reliable food
crop, after which it gained rapidly in
popularity till it became the main de
pendence for food for the poorer classes
in some of the countries of Europe es
pecially in Ireland. It yielded large and
sure crops, and as the climate seemed
well adapted to its growth it soon be
came their chief dependence for food.
In 1842 a disease generally known as
the " rot" appeared in the potato fields
of Germany, near Liege. Two years
after it ravaged the fields of Canada, and
in 1845 it was very destructive over
nearly all parts of Europe. Theseason
seemed to favor its development, and it
carried destruction wherever it appeared.
The loss during that one year to Great
Britain and Ireland was estimated at
$110,000,000. The distress caused by
the loss of the potato crop, especially to
the poor, was exceedingly severe. Ire
land experienced a famine that caused
wide-spread suffering and death from
starvation. Since that time the rot has
lurked in the potato fields of both the
Old and New Worlds, and when the
seasons have favored it has still been
ready to develop its destructive power.
L. J. Templ.n, in Indiana Farmer.
A Trne Philanthropist.
Among the first settlers of Oxford
CountjT, Jle., was David McWavne.
He bought a large tract of land on the
broad, beautiful eminence in Waterford
still known as McWayne's Hill, and here
he cleared and improved, and success
fully cultivated, one of the best farms
in the then District (this was long before
Maine was admitted as a State). lie was
an eccentric man, but a true friend to
the unfertunate, and when David Mc
Wayne died the poor men of that section
lost their chief stay.
On a certain season the corn crop
failed almost entirely in that couDty. It
was McWayne's custom to keep a year's
supply of corn on hand in advance; and
then, again, on his elevated land the
late frosts of spring and the early frosts
of autumn did not trouble him as they
troubled his neighbors of lower farms.
And so it came to pass that in this win
ter of scarcity that David McWayne had
enough and to spare. Some people over
in the adjoining town of Norway hear
ing that he had plenty of breadstuff, and
knowing his liberality, drove over for the
purpose of purchasing. They asked him
if he had corp. to spare.
" Yes," said he, " I have corn to
spare."
They wanted twenty bushels.
" Have you any money to pay for it!''
he asked.
M Yes, sir," answered the spokesman
of the party. We should not. have
come without money."
" Then, gentlemen," said McWayne,
with calm decision, " I cannot let you
have corn. If you havp money you can
send to Portland for jt. J oin surrounded
to
hv rnnr neonle who have no money an
no corn. I must supply them, and let
them pay me In work. 1 hey wouia sui
f'pr plsp "
And through that long, hard winter
David iMcV ayne adncrea to ins resoi
t inn T man who had the lllOHeV
pay for it could buy his corn, but to th
poor ana penniless ne emptied nis ga
ners. allowing them to work for him i
return at their own convenience. Aw
York Ledger.
Survivors of the Lost Cause."
A State Convention of the survivors of
the "lost cause" was held at Atlanta, Ga.,
on the 20th itsL There was much en
thusiasm, and the papers give long ac
counts of the speeches and other pro
ceedings. As indicating the SDirit of
some ot the orators, who were immensely
cheered by the assemblage, we quote
briefly from the speeches.
Gen. Lawton, who was chosen tem
porary Chairman, said :
It is fit that we should meet together, that we
who went out to those vast fields of blood should
be quick and ready to see that justice is done to
those who lie beneath the sod, and that the cause
they lived and died for is sustained in the eyes of
mankind.
We do not apprehend that the cause
these men lived and died for will ever be
"sustained in the eyes of mankind," and
it seems very idle to hope lor such a
thing, temporary successes may come
upon tbem and their sympathizers, but
the sober judgment ot the world must ai
ways condemn them; and as mankind
grows better and more just, and advances
toward a more perfect humanity, this con
demnation will be more pronounced and
severe. These men fought for slavery ;
the right to make another race sut
servient to themselves. Such an act
never yet received the applause of an un
prejudiced posterity, and until the world
relapses into barbarism it never will
Heroes are made from those who fiehtf.r
the elevation, not Ihe d gradation, of any
portion of mankind. The ex-rebels at
Atlanta, however, talked as they have al
ways talked before, not only of the gloii
ous days and glorious cause which weie
past, but of those of a similar charact r
yet to come. Said Gen. Gartrell :
I only regret that I was an humble member of
the Confederate army, and could not have con
tributed more to the success of a cause I ever
have held dear, and one I ever will hold dear as
longas life lasts, and I trustthat we may one drr
yet see our rights vindicated, and it is partly for
tnis we are nere assembled. e want to let pos
terity know of our glorious straggle and of the
jueute ui our cuue. n e musi lusiiu iuio our
sons the same feelings.
What are the lights for which Gin.
Gartrell fought and which he trusts he
may "yet see vindicated t" Surely thty
are not the simple privilege of living
peaceably in the South, of voting his
sentiments, and enjoying his life and
liberty? All these "rights" he had be
fore he went into the rebellion. When
we remember the causes which led to
the late war we must believe that the
rights to which he refers are the lollow-ing:
1. The right not only of owning abso
lutely human beings and selling them as
chattels, but of taking them anywhere-
wiihm the limits of the Republic.
5s. Ihe right ot compelling people
whose moral sentiment revolts at such
barbarism to capture and return any man
or woman belonging to Gen. Gartrell and
who may escape from him.
3. 1 he right of a niinoi lty of the people
to break the union into fragments when
ever the majority elect a Chief Magistrate
distasteful to them.
We do not think that even Gen. Gar
trell will deny that these are the "rights"
for which he contended. And now he
tells us: "I trust that we may one day
yet see our rights vindicated, and it is
paitlyfor this tee are here assembled "
Ve think he will be disappointed in
this, but as showing the hopes and aims
of these men his words are worth placing
before the people in order that they too
may judge of the prospect. In'.er-Ocean,
Jan. 25.
Cure for Laziness.
A colored employe at Bellevue Hos
pital was so often missed from duty that
at length a diligent search was made
and Bill was found snugly stowed aivay
in a coffin in the basement, sleeping
soundly. The surgeon who made the
discovery, instead of getting Bill dis
charged, undertook, with the aid of some
other youths of the scalpel, to correct
his shirking habit. The next time Bill
was called for and was not forthcoming
a rescent was made on the coffin depart
ment, and the sound of screwing down
a lid was heard, accompanied presently
by circumscribed floundering and fright
ened cries from the awakened darkey.
" Poor fellow! ' came to his ears in a
well-known voice, 44 his death was sud
den, though he's disliked work for some
time; he was probably ailing when we
thought him lazy. Dr. Joe, be so good
as to pass me that pall."
44 les, make everything suug, said
the person addressed, 44 for, for my part,
1 suspect some awful contagion has car
ried Bill off. Otherwise we could use
him on the dissecting table."
14 As it is," joined in a third, 44 he must
be hurried into the ground forthwith.
Doctor, please order the hearse for poor
Bill."
44 I've done so, and it is waiting. Trot
him out."
The desperate subject, who seemed to
have done his best, concluded that he
was without the power of motion and
that his cries and struggles were purely
imaginary.
44 Oh, gorra massy!" came instilled
tones from his narrow sleeping apart
ment, 44l's on'y nappin' I nelier liab
done died, but I shall dis yer way. Fur
de lub o' heben, le' me out o' yere."
It was altogether in vain; the tiineral
proceeded, the coffin being lifted and
conveyed along the passage. Even on
the foot-board being cracked by a lusty
kick the occupant of the coffin had the
poor satisfaction oi hearing it remarked
that it was of poor stoi k, but good
enough for a shiftless fellow like Bill.
One more kick, however, sent the splin
ters flying and brought the darkey feet
into view. Whereupon the astonished
surgeons hastened to raise the lid and re
lease the prisoner.
From that day Bill was not given to
napping, and the doctors declared they
had never performed a more remarkable
cure. Boston Transcript.
The Power of Snuff.
Dk. Rudolph Vox Gukdexkield. chief
physician in the Bavarian army during
the Napoleon wars, tells the following:
Once 1 was gathering plants in a small
forest near Moisen. Suddenly I came
upon a man who was lyingon the ground
and whom I at once supposed to be dead.
On drawing near to him, however, I per
ceived he was still alive, but in a faint
ing state. Vigorously I shook him ; at
ast he opened his eyes and asked me in
a lamentable and scarcely-audible voice
whether I had any snuff with me? When
I gave a negative answer he fell back
into his former condition. I now went
in search of snuff, and was fortunate
enough to meet a peasant, who kindly
came with me to the fainting man, and
gave him some pinches of snuff. The
man soon recovered, and then he told me
that he had to travel a certain distance
as messenger, and on starting in the
morning had forgotten to take his snuff
box. As he went along so violent became
his craving for SDuff that he was com
pletely exhausted, and had fallen down
in a swoon at the spot wnere i iounu
him. But for my opportune arrival he
sitid he must surely have died."
ALL SORTS.
A New Haven boy wrote to King
Kalakaua,lately,asking for his autograph.
The King gracioufly and promptly com
plied with the request. Recent dis
patches from the seat of war state that
the boy has shown the King's scrawl to
seventeen of his school-fellows and suf
fered eight eye-punches at tLe hands of
jealous ones in consequence.
New Haven (Conn.) people who have
so long been troubled by an incendiary
have now ascertained how he has been
doing his work. In a building that whs
set on lire recently was found a stone
wrapped up in cotton cloth and having
an odwr of kerosene. The hall had
doubtless been ignited and thrown
through a window.
In boiling potatoes for pigs, says the
Gardener's Vhronicle, they should be
strained, as the water from them is in
jurious to a lessor greater degree, as it
contains the poisonous alkaloid called
solanine, which, it should be noted, is
more abundant when the tubers begin to
chimp or bud out.
When a Dubuque widow with seven
teen children is turned out of doors for
failing to p:iy rent, her fellow-beings do
not pass around the hat and raise a
thousand dollars for her, but they catch
the landlord and duck him. They find
that to to be the cheapest way. Cincin
nati Commercial.
A gentleman whose house was re
pairing went one day to see how the job
was getting on, and observing a quantity
of nails lying about said to the carpen
ter: 44 Why don't you take care of these
nails? they'll certainly be lost." 44 No,"
replied the carpenter, "you'll find them
in the bill."
John II. Mclvlnley, well known in
New York, hat! $250,000 four years ago.
lie spent 1-50,000 in fitting up a bar-room
on Broadway, and used the rest of his
tortune in similar foolish operations, and
now he talks with his friends and cus
tomers through the bars of the debtor
room in Ludlow Street Jail.
A gentleman entered this office the
other day and asked the senior if he
wanted a seasonable poem on the snow.
The county records contain the follow
ing: 44 John Fin against editor of A tae
nia Times. Assault and buttery. Ver
dict for defendant, $100." Amenta (X.Y.)
Times.
The heavy grades of leather made
in this country arc so far superior in
quality to those manufactured in Eu
rope that an effort is about being made
to introduce them in Germany, in
which country our leather can be de
livered below the cost of that made in
Europe.
Business is reviving at Brhintne
Mass. The shoo factories are all run
ning, some ol laem on lull time. I lie
paper mills are doing a brisk business.
and tne nail and shovel works, which
have been idle most of the time duriiig
the past three months, have resumed
work.
A resident of San Francisco has con-
structed a boat upon an entirely new
principle. It is intended to sink down
to any depth and navigate below the
surface, which the inventor cltims it can
do in any direction and at a high rate ot
speed. Its principle is compressed air.
This doesn't art ue well for dress re
form: A Paris female quarreled with
her lover. She threw open a window in
the third story and jumped out, but the
wind made a balloon of her skirts, and on
reaching the ground &he called a cab and
drove away.
-rIr. Frank Jones, of Portsmouth, N.
II., has had his life insured for $200,-
000. This is said to be the largest life
insurance carried by any individual in
New England except Charles C. Stor
row, of Lawrence, who is insured for
250,000.
There is a story from Paris of a dog
that lias been sleeping ever i-ince the
11th of lat November. Alas! there are
no such doss in America. The Ameri
can dog not only stays awake himself,
but keeps every other living thing
awake.
It is said that black eyed ladles are
most apt to be passionate and jealous.
IJiue-eyed, soullul, truthful, atlectionate
and confiding. Gray-eyed, philosophi
cal, literary, resolute, cold-hearted.
Hazel eyed, quick tempered and fickle.
Senor Mato, a Spanish Spiritualist,
says that the disembodied hover for a
time between the earth and the moon;
and whirl in space so much a longer or
shorter time according to their right
eousness or wickedness here below.
The largest annual branding f-f
calves we have ever heard of is that of
Capt. M. Kennedy, owner of the Rancho
te los Liaurelee. We are informed that
the number will reach 10,000 head.
Corpus Christ i Tex.) Gazette.
44 Mrs. Samuel Revolver Colt is going
to found an orplun asylum." If the asy-
l'im is intfnded for the orphans her re
volvers have made we t-hould like to
know where sue is coingto find a vacant
lot large enough for it?
The Kansas City (Mo.) Journal says
that there is a young lady living in Clay
County, about live miles from the cily,
twenty-five years of age, who has for
years shed her finccr and toe nails and
her teeth every year.
A Pennsylvania bull caught sight of
an elephunt going to water and charged
him. The man who owned the bull said
that there was nothing worth 6aviDg ex
cept the ring in the nose, and that was
badly bent.
When a Tennessee man spits tobacco
juice over the tombstone of a departed
neighbor in order to insult ihe memory
of the dead th'i loc-il p iper speaks of it
as a 44 shocking case of petty di pravity."
Sir Charles Lyel', the eminent En
glish geologi-t, who has scaled moun
tains and r-insacked the bowels ot the
earth, tell down-stun? ti e other day and
was seriously injured.
The most inoffensive Tliinss set into
turn dangerous in thes - da;, a. .V New
Haven man was smothered 'he other day
by a seal skin ctsp which tlrofq.td over
his face when he fell in an epili pt;c.
In 1847-M8 potatoes formed the only
sustenance of the Irish j ea-;.n'ry. The
in'eilig''nt compositor put it t!m: "In
1847 lorty-i ight potattn-s formed the only
sustenance of the Irish poasui.try."
In Poplar B'uH, Mo, a man courted
the younger of two gills u a family, and
courted h-r successfully; but they put
up a job n him when he was drunk, and
married him to the elder.
Clara Louise Kellogg tells untruths.
She says she wouldn't marry the best
man in America." It is a joke, however.
She knows we've been married a number
of years. Rochester Demociat.
The Origin of Indian 'ames.
A member of Maj. Powell's expedi
tion, which has been engaged in the
Government survey of the Territories,
furnished the Tribune some interesting
notes of the discoveries made in the
origin of Indian names. It seems that
each tribe or primary organization of In
dians, rarely including more than 200
souls, is, in obedience to the traditional
laws of these people, attached to some
well-defined territory or district, and the
tribe takes the name of such district.
Thus the U-in-tats, known to white men
as a branch of the Utes, belonged to the
Uintah Valley. U-imp is the name for
pine; too-meap, for land or country;!
U-im too-meap, pine land; but this has
been contracted to U-in-tah, and the
tribe inhabiting the valley were called
U-in-tatf.
The origin of the term L'te is as fol
lows: U is the term signifying arrow;
U-too-meap, arrow land. The region of
country bordering on Utah Luke is called
U-loo-mcap because of the grent number
of reeds grow ing there, from w hich their
arrow-shafts were made. The tribe
formerly inhabiting Utah Valley wan
called U-tah-ats, which has been cor
rupted into the term Ute by the white
people of the country. The name U-tah-ats
belonged only to a small tribe living
in the vicinity of the lake, but it had
been extended so as to include the great
er part of the Indians of Utah and Colo
rado. Another general name used by
white men is Piutcs. A tribe of U-tah-ats
being defeated and driven away by a
stronger tribe, who occupied their coun
try and took their name, were obliged to
take a new name corresponding to the
new home in which they settled them
selves. But they also called themselves
Pai U-tah-ats, or true U-tah-ats. The
corrupted name Piutes in now applied to
the Indians of a large section of coun
try. Several of these tribes have numer
ous names, and in this way the nuia'ier
of Individual tribes has probably been
much over-estimated. 44 Scientific iliscH
lany" in the GnUtxyfor February.
A Perverse Ticket Agent.
Yesterday afternoon an old man ap-
r eared before the Detroit & Lansing
tail road ticket window at the Central
Depot and asked :
41 What you charge for a ticket to Lan
sing?" 41 Two-sixty, sir," replied the agent,
wetting his thumb and reaching out for
the money.
" Two dollar uud zixfy cents!" ex
claimed the stranger, pulling his head
out of the window.
"Yes, sir, that is the regular laic."
41 Then I sthays here by Detroit forty
years!" said the man, getting red in the
face. 44 1 have never seen me such'n
swindle as dat!"
41 Two-sixty is the regular fare, and
you will have to pay it if you go," re
plied the agent.
44 1 shurst gef you two dollar uud no
more," said the stranger.
"No, I can't do it."
44 Veil, den, I sthays mil Detroit lill I
dies," growled the old man, and he went
away and walked around the depot. He
expected to be called back as he left the
window, as a man is often called back to
44 take it along" when he has been chaf
fing w ith a clothing dealer. Such an
event did not occur, and after a few min
utes the old man returned ami called
out:
" Veil. I gef you two dollar und ten
cents."
44 No, can't do it," replied the agent.
44 Veil, den, I den't go, so help me
grashus. I have lived ia Detroit three
j ure, und shall pay bolicc tax, sewer
tax, und want to grow up niit dis town,
und I shall not be swindlet."
He walked off again, looking back to
see if the agent would not call him, and,
after a stroll around, be returned to the
window, threw down some money, and
said :
41 Veil, dake two dollar und twenty
cents, and gif me'n dickette."
44 My dear 6ir, can't you understand
that we have a schedule of prices here,
and that 1 must go by it?" replied the
ugent.
44 Veil, den, I sthays mit Detroit von
dousand yare!" exclaimed the stranger,
madder than ever. 44 1 bays boliee taxes
and sewer taxes, und I shall see about
this by the Sheaf of Boliee!"
He walked off again, and as he saw the
locomotive bucking up to couple on to
the train he went back to the window
und said :
" Gif me'n dickcttc for two dollar and
thirty cents and 1 rides on de platform!"
" Can't do it," said the agent.
44 Veil, den, I spikes to you what I
doses! Here is dem tw o dollar and sixty
cents, and I goes to Lansing ami never
comes back! No, zir, I shall never come
back, or I shall conn? mit de blank road!
I bays taxes by tem boliee, and by dem
zewers, und I shall show you dat I shall
haf noddings more to do mit dis town!"
He went on the train. Detroit Free
Press.
" The Heathen Chinee."
Among the most frugal residents of
this city are those people who have made
for themselves a temporary home in
Detroit, 41 the pig-tailed, almond eyed
children of the sun." They come un
heralded (seldom singly), and after hav
ing carefully surveyed the town from on"
end to the other they linully rent an old
and dilapidated shanty, as centrally lo
cated as possible, avoiding the payment
of an exorbitant rent lor its use. After
having hung out the traditional red sign
with white letters, bearing the name of
the principal partner in the concern,
they announce their readiness to execute
every conceivable kind of laundry work,
from the plainest ironing to the most
difficult fluting. These strange 44 Celen
tials" conduct their household affairs, and
particularly the culinary department
thereof, in the most economical manner,
producing three meals outot the quantity
which would constitute but a single meal
for the Caucasian race. In going to
market they seldom banter unless they
know that they are being imposed upon
by the vendor.
"In a few years "John" accumulates
sufficient wealth to enable him to live
comfortably in his native land, and after
having relinquished his well-established
custom and scant supply of furniture to
a succeeding brother Chinaman he
quietly purchases a second-class ticket
for San Francisco, where, w ith hundreds
of his kind, he shakes the American dust
from the soles of his shoes, takes passage
on a ship bound for China, and after
having passed through the 44 golden gate"
homeward bound, he laughs in hi broad
sleeves as he knowingly remarks: "Me
likes Melica great way off." Detroit Froe
I'-ess.
A Perillous Ride.
In the records of famous journeys per
formed by sailors one undertaken on
Monday evening deserves a prominent
place. The hero, John Smith, wishing to
travel from London to Liverpool by rail,
tried, from motives of economy, to go
underneath ii stead of inside a carriage.
It appeared from the evidence and pris
oner's own admission that on the night
previous he got underneath the carriage
of an express train that leaves Enston Sta
tion, London, at nine p. m.for Liverpool
and travels at a high rate of speed, not
stopping until it reaches Rugby, at eleven
p. in., a distance of eighty-two and a half
miles. When the train reached Rugby
the wheel-examiner saw a man's leg pro
truding from under one of the railway
carriages, and looking further under he
saw the prisoner coiled around a piece of
iron the brake-rod not above three
inches broad, in a most curious position,
on which he bad traveled all the way
from London, intending, as he said, to
make his way to Liverpool. The bottoms
of the carriages are only eighteen inches
from the ground, and when the engine
takes water as it travels he would not be
more than six inches from the trough.
The Bench said it was a miracle the pris
oner was not killed, and en account of its
being such a dangerous ride they only
inflicted a fine of 2s. Gd. and cos-t., or
fourteen days. Liverpool J'l tt.