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The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1868-11-14

Persons losing themselves in forest or a snow
storm invariably manifest a tendency to turn
round gradually to the left to the extent of
eventually moving in circle. This has boon
attributed to tho alleged fact that the limbs and
muscles Of the right side are generally better
developed than those Of the left side the superior
energy Of the right limb thus throwing tho
pedcstrian insensibly round TO the left.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1868-11-14

obtaining money under false pretenccs"--
vending miserable hair preparations. A
trade that is fast dying out, however, for the
universal popularity Of "Barrett's Vegetable Hair
Restorative" is rapidly putting an olfectual stop
to such contraband hailic--Rictm0Hd Li.gutyor.
Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1868-01-16
s,.r.n OF III MOVEMENT FOR GRANT.

SPREAD OF THE MOVEMENT FOR GRANT.
The movement in favor Of Grant for the
Presidency is spreading all over the
country. One Of the most significant
signs Of his popularity is the recent ac-
ton of the Loyal League of Philadel-
phia, composed Of the very bitterest
Radicals in the land, formally endorsing
him as the next Republican candidate
for President. If it is thought the next
Presidential election is so doubtful as
to require Gan available candidate"
rather than one who has long served
and is thoroughly imbued with the dis
t~inctive principles of the Republican
party" General Grant will be the man
beyond question. In that event the
Democrats might rs well hang their
harps upon the willow-for all their
speculations and all their predictions
will 20 for naught. From present indi-
cations it would seem as If he would
sweep tho country like an avalanche.
His recently.published testimony before
the Impeachment Committee is calcuia-
ted to reconcile even the whites OF the
South to his election, and to satisfy
them that in him they will find a gener-
GUS friend and observation-disclosures
Washington Correspondence.
Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1868-01-16

In London the houses number more
than $50, 900, and the streets, If placed
in a line, would extend from Liverpool
to New York, and are lighted at night
by $50, 900 gas lamps, consuming every
twenty-four hours about l3,o00,o 900 Gu
bic feet Of gas. OF the water supply
A, 3s3, 1928 gallons are used per day.
The travelling public sustains 5000 cabs
and 1900 omnibuses, besides all the
other sort of vehicles which human
need can require or human wit invent.
Its hungry population devour in the
course Of every year 1908, 900 quarters
of wheat, 249, 900 b~ullocks, l,7oo, 900
sheep, $4,000 calves, 8 $4,000 pigs, TO-
oOo, 900 head Of game, 5000, 900 salmon
and innumcrable fish Of other sorts, and
consume 43, 2Oe, 900 gallons Of beer,
zoo, 900 gallons of spirits, and $500
pipes of wine. As n consequence 2,4oo
doctors find employment. London,
finally, supports $50 churches, which
are presided over by $50 divinss OF
greater or less note. It is also compu-
ted that the average extension OF Lou
dom is at the rate Of two miles of nm.
ished buildings per day. The need OF
this rapid construction can be estimated
when Il is known that tho railroad inn
provements projected, and now being
constructed, will, during the present
year, necossitate the removal OF 2o,ooV
dwelling houses. A majority Of these
are Inhabited oy tho industrial classes
Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1868-01-16

SoxE time ago, when a number OF
workmen wero fitting u tire on n wheel
at the Royal Arsenal, woolwich, Eng
land. it was found necessary to give a
bevel to the tire Of about three-eighths
of an inch. One Of the men suggested
that the bevel could be given BY heating
the tire red hot and then immersing 1t
one half its depth in cold water. This
Was tried and found to answer perfectly,
tho part which was out Of the water
beipe reduced in diameter. The tire
WAS three inches wide, q half inch thick
and four feet two inches In diameter.
Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1868-01-16

To NIL Whom IL May Conccrn.-o. T. Bar
Der 4 Co., Gold Hill. have now on hand and for sale
n good assortment Of new and secondhand stoves
both cook and psrlor. Tinware. wholesale and re-
tail. I'm quantities to suit. Also. mill nxtures-sueh
as en- ameled kettles. wooden buckets. snoveis.
scoops, hand brooms and brushes Do all kihds OF
,obbinr-sueh as cutting and nttinS gas pipe. wa
ter pipes repaired. Tin. copper aud snee' non war.
made TO order. A good assortment OF wooaen =
hollow ware-such as pals. tnos, e'e.
baeks-all OF which will be so'd enssp, ~ -
Also, 600 pounds old lead for sale. HiV'"'
Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1868-01-16

1.-THE most quiet place I know said
Ezekiel, ais Woodville, in Mississippi (;
there's no quarreling or r%owdyism, nor
fighting in the street. If q gentleman
insults another, he's quietly shot down,
and that's the last Of it,"
Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1868-01-16

~ washoe Exchange Billiard Saloon, oPpo-
site enterprise Building. G street. Virginia si1
ans tables with latss, improved cushion, and IN
good order. Finest wines, liquors and cigars. a
comfortable place to stand read the Atlantic ana
Pacific papers. Call and see. ldr3-t.1
Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1868-01-16

GRouypswELL. - The Idaho World
saws: eve chronicle the larceny Of a
hot stove and all the pipe attached, from
ahouse in this city. Since then we hear
of q theft of a pair of new pants, which
were pulled from the person Of the
owner"
From this remarkable item the Salem
Unioni,t infcrs that there has been ano-
Their Democratic grouudswell' in
Idaho.
Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1868-01-16
MISCELLANEOUS
Delinquent Tax List.
STATE OF NEVADA, COUNTY OF sTo.
y rey, District Attorneys Office,
ofsuits Commenced,

~ Ieyr NY 6S"NSt
Notice ofSuits Commenced.
To the following named defendants, and to all
owners Of or claimants Of the real estate and
improvements thereon; or improvements when
assessed, separately, herelnafterd described known
or unknown.
You are hereby notified that suit hos been
commenced In the Justices Court, Gold Hill,
Township No. 3. by the State Of Nevada plain.
tiff, against each Of the defendants hereinafter
named, and each of the following described tracts
or parcels of land, situated In Gold Hin, with the
improvements thereon, and improvements when
separately assessed; and all owners or claimants
Of the same, known or unknown, to recover tho
tax and delinquency assessed TO said attendants,
against said property, for the fiscal year, com.
msncing on the FIRST DAY OF JANUARY, A.
d, 1867. and ending on the THIRTY.FIRST
DAY OF DECEMBER, A. d. le67. and that
Summons has been duly Issued In each case.
And you are further notified that unless you
appear and answer the complaint filed In said
cause, on or before the SIXTH DAY OF FEB.
RUARY, A.. 1868. at the hour Of 20 o'clock a.
~, Judgment will be be taken against you and
the real estate and improvements herein dc
scribed for the amount Of tax and delinquency
specified. and cost Of suit:
Belonging to John Doe, Unknown
Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1868-01-16

READ rHIsl-Fresh Shell Oysters. Fresh
CLANS. Game. Of all kinds, aud q first.eass
LnneA, can DO had ut OLIVER skrRs hetiesn-
msnt Stand. In Gibson 4 Cross Saloon Gold
AN, at all hours.
Nebraska advertiser., 1868-12-24


AS an instance Of the per cent.-if
we may use that expression-that tree
planting viii yield in this country,
wewill mention a case in point, which
recently came under our observation.
About twelve years ago q ''claim' was
taken by a gentleman, in OtOe county
in this State. He had what his neigh
bOrs called 'tree on the BRAIN" and
paid but little attention to anything
else. eplanted trees and seeds to the
extent of his ability-planted osage
hedge and honey locust hedge. He
planted everything he could lay hands
on. The total expense ofhis planting,
we are informed, did not amount to
over five hundred dollars. AT the
end of seven years from the time he
commenced 'tinkering with plants, y
as he termed it, another gentleman
came in--fsom Illinois-leoking FOR q
farm, and paid the original proprietor
ten GtOusdnd dollars cash for his farm
The farm we refer to, is now owned
and occupied by Mr.. Gilmore, a few
miles west of Nebraska City. Last
week weenjoyed the pleasure Ofa brief
visit to Mr.. Gillmore's farm, and will
hereafter speak of him and his inn
prOvements in detail.
Nebraska advertiser., 1868-12-24
Birds VS.. Grapes.

We have heretofore been among those
who advocated protecting the birds uh-
der .all7eircumstances. Experience,
however, has shown us that no bird
can be tolerated among grapes. We
like birds, but fruit better. Grape
growers are pretty generally agreed
as to making war on the birds. In
fact we don't know what else can be
done. They have proven terribly
destructive among our sweet grapes.
Next to the birds yellow jackets and
hornets were most destructive among
Delawares and fDianas. We noticed
that at the last meeting of the Mis-
souri, State horticultural Society this
question was brought up and many
serious complaints were entered
against the birds. Some lost entire
crops, and others were damaged to
amounts of hundreds of dollars, and
only saved grapes at all by keeping a
standing army of boys with guns,
shooting birds by the hundreds.
Nebraska advertiser., 1868-12-24


This subject is much talked of, and
by many praeticed. Those who have
thoroughly tested the plan all testify
in it's favor. The RltraI Net0 YORKER,
in speaking of this matter, says:
"Cutting fodder does not add more
nutriment to it, but changes its me-
chanicalconditiOn, and enablesstOck to
consume it in less time, and thus have
more for rest and digestion. This is
valuable consideration for hard worked
horses, but not as great a one for ami
mails that chew their cud. Again, cut
hay or straw slightly mOistened and
sprinkled with ground grain is much
more palatable, and stock prefer it to
unmiXed and whole food, and main
tain more vigorous appetites than if
confined to the unprepared food. A
baked potato, with salt, pepper and
butter, is a dish that q hungry king
wouldn't turn from; but a beggar
would despise the meal if obliged to
devOur the potato first, then the salt,
and the pepper and butter. It's the
faculty of mixing the food right that
tickles the palate. Every observing
farmer who has tried the experiment,
kROl0S that his stock prefer cut feed
and ground grain mixed and moist
ened to the same articles fed whole.
Though there is no more nutriment
in food thus prepared, yet the animal
system gets more out of it, and less is
passed off in the excrements. The
question of economy in the matter
must be decided by the value of labor
as compared with the value of food in
each locality where stock is fed"
Nebraska advertiser., 1868-12-24
Specimens of Grain to the
DeDarfmCnt.

In order to show our farmers that
specimens of grain they have fur
nished for the Department at Wash
ington are received there, and for what
purposes they are used, we copy the
following extract of letter we re-
ceived from Gen. Capron, the Com
missioner of Agriculture, under date
Dec. 4th.
"PIease accept the thanks of the
Department for your kindness in for
warding the packages of grain, all of
whice arrived safely. If it is within
your power I shall be glad to receive
also a specimen of rye from Southern
Nebraska. The object in collecting
these cereals from different portions of
the country, is to execute upon them
comparative chemical analyses, in
order to determine their relative rich
ness in food material.
With my grateful acknowledgements,
I remain,
Very truly yours,
HORACE CAPRON,
Commissioner.
Nebraska advertiser., 1868-12-24
Hogs. Fruit and Hedges.

On the 18th of the present month";
business calling us to Nebraska City,
we were favored with a hasty look
about the farm of Hon. J. s. Morton.
A bitter cold day found two political
Iy bellieose individuals juxtapOsited
in light cutter, behind a snorting cali
leo PAGER, facing a "nOr-wester," pos
sessed to the fullest extent, of Ne
braska peculiarities. Mr.. Morton has,
from his earliest settlement in Ne
bEaska, paid great attention TO agrioul-
tural developments. He was among
the early ones to have faith in planting
fruit trees. His large orchard, now
in excellent bearing, fully confirms
that faith. The largest and best
trained apple trees we have looked at
in the west, we found in this orchard.
They have been well taken care Of,
and show a healthy, thriving cOndi-
ton, and we are informed, bore abun-
dantly the past season. This is anOth-
er of the evidences that apples can be
grown in Nebraska. He has many
other varieties of fruits. We speak of
apples particularly, because he seems
to have paid more attention to them,
We next,looked at his fine prospects
for Usage fences. He has planted
largely and with success. The stand
throughout is excellent, much Of
which is now ready to turn out.
His pen of SufOlks are not to be
surpassed any where. Mr.. Morton
feeds cooked food altogether, and his
hogs are a practical demonstration OF
the superiority of this mode of fatten-
ing. The animalis is superior in weight
for age, and the plan is far more eco
nOmical.a
Then his thousand bushels of pota-
toes of different varieties, nicely and
safely stored away in his winter proof
cellar, is evidence of his devotion to
this branch of farming.
Whatever we may or think of ].
Sterling Morton politically, we take
great pleasure in giving him the credit
Justly due, of being practical, zeal
Gus and faithful laborer for the'agri-
cultural development of Nebraska.
Nebraska advertiser., 1868-12-24
No.1I.
cIippinqs and Jotlinqs Aarieullural.

Strawberries set in September Will
yield half, not a whole, crop next
year.
The United States contains 108,-
SOC, 900 hens, with an annual laying
cadacity of Is, 250, ,000,0 900 eggs.
On good sized farm, 500 a year
are saved or lost, according as now
ers, reapers, and other implements are
cared for. @ l
During 20 years poultry has been so
so improved that eggs bring three
times more than before the improve
ments. We're commenced.
In England this year the climate
has been semi-tTOpical. Potatoes, no
larger than marbles, have taken a sec
Ond growth, and the only good eropis
wheat. a
The greatest grain-growing State
in the southwest will be, In five years
says its farmers, Mississippi. They
are nearly all determined to abandon
cotton planting.
The California wheat crop is so large
that if there are NJ mistakes it was
never equaled in any country. They
talk of 20, so, and in one case, OF 100
bushels to the acre.
The English pay more attention to
grass than any other people. In seed
ing meadows well, as many as 20 diff
ferent varieties of native grasses are
sown, and after the sod is formed it is
never to be broken up.
On the rocks of high mountains in
California, where rain seldom falls,
grows the rose Everlasting" 1t
blooms only once a year, has leaves at
no other time; it can be placed in a
box and kept for years, when if placed
in bowl of water for "a hours, it will
bloom. Put back in the box it viii re-
main unchanged during other years.
The Omaha Replt5licdn says, q Mr..
Thomas of Cass county, has raised,
after five years of reproduction, forty
two bushels of wheat from few keF-
neIs which he picked up off the floor
of a store in Plattsmouth, that seems
to be very prolific, and it is estimated
will yield thirty bushels to the acre.
It gives a good quality of -four yellow
tinged, and he calls it Canary wheat.
Nebraska advertiser., 1868-12-24
A NEGRO BALL.
BY JAMES PARTON.

From the Atlantic Monthly for JaauaEy.
What a joyous scene is one Of the
negro balls so frequently given in
some of the New England villages b.
In the morning, the stranger notices
upon the lOrdly, wide-spreading elm
that shades the pOst-Office a neatly
written paper, notifying the public
that an 'entertainment'i is to be given
that evening for the i'benefitT of some
afflicted person, perhaps a woman
whose husband a ruthless constable
has taken off to fail. All who wish
to enjoy a good time are respectfully
invited to Oattend, admission, twenty
five cents,p for which q substantial
supper of pork and beans and new
cider is furnished. Soon after eight
in the evening the village TesOUnds
with the voice of a cOlOred StentOr;
who calls out the figures Of the quad
rille, and all the world is thus notified
that the entertainment" has begun.
The scene within the ballroom might
make some persons hesitate to decide
which destiny were the more desirable
in New England, to be born white
or black. The participants seem so un-
consciously and entirely happy! An
ancient uncle, white-haired and very
lame, stands near the entrance, seiZes
the newcomers with both hands, and
gives them a roaring and joyous Nvel-
come; and there is a one legged man
with a erutch, aud four mothers with
infants in their arms, who 60 through
quadrille with the best of them.
The mothers, however, when they
grow warm with the dance, hand the
blessed baby to q passing friend to
hold. The band, which consists Of
two male fiddlers and woman who
plays the accordion, is seated upon a
platform at one end of the long room,
and plays with eyes upcast, ecstatic
and keeps heel apiece going heavily
upon the boards. The room itself
seems to be quiverihg. There Is no
walking through aquadrille here; but
each performer, besides doing his pre-
scribed steps, cuts as many supplement
tary capers as he can execute in the
intervals. A dance begins, tits true,
with some slight show of moderation;
but as it proceeds the dancers throw
themselves into it with q vigOr and
animation that increase every moment
until the quadFille i'm a glorious riot
anu uclihllilH "a utiiAtC otllu ltiilsl NJ
Mussulman would ask these people
who they did not require theirservants
to do their dancing for them. On
the contrary, that famous pacha,
catching their most contagious merFi-
ment, would have sprung upon the
floor, and dashed his three tails Wild
Iy about among those shining
cOuntenanees. Nevertheless, there
was not the smallest violation Of de-
corum; all was as innocent as it was
enjoyable. AS the room was lined
with white spectators, perhaps we
shallsOme day learn the trick of cheap,
innocent, and hearty enjoyment One
thing was very noticeable, and would
certainly be noticed by any one fanlfl-
far With the South, the purity yOf blood
exhibited in the faces of the company.
Among the one hundred and ffty
dancers, there were perhaps ten who
were not quite black and this Wss an
ancient settlement Of eolOTed people,
dating back beyond the recollection of
the present inhabitants.
Nebraska advertiser., 1868-12-24
Lonk Arfer YonrI Iaors

Below we publish a scrap of golden
advice to parents from one of our ex-
changes. is commended to the at
tentiOn of parents in general:
The practice of allowing boys to
spend theirevenings in the streets is
one of the most. dangerous, and mis-
chieVOus, and terrible things possible.
Nothing so speedily and surely marks
their course downward They acquire
under cover Of night, an unhealthiness
of mind, vulgar and prOfane language
obscene practices, criminal practices,
criminal sentiments, and lawless, riot
Gus bearing. Indeed, tis in the street
after nightfaH, that boys generally ae-
quiTe the education and the capacity
for becoming rOwdy, dissOlute men.
Parents, do YOU believe it? VIII you
keep your children home nights, and
see that their home is made pleasant
and profitable .v.r e+r-.7
Nebraska advertiser., 1868-12-24

He
Senator SDrague Is prOepeellbg tot
cotton mills IN Augustsi %.
A submarine cable nom San Fran
cisco to Hong Kong IS talked oi, ss
-Fsshionabls funerals In Paris ara
ticketsd 70 keep out the eroWeq, 90
Ohio has q law permitting eLiEll-
inals to testify In their oWn oenait.
whales were recently pursued OF
the coast Of Amagansett, u. H. ou0
none were captured. 80 l
Good oxen bring q thousand dol
lars yoke in Oregon.
"A Macon Ca editor was presen-
ted with ripe strawberFies and 2 Wa
termelon last week.
The Rev. Henry Ward Beeoher
was driven 70 exelaim recently ~ g
sermon at PlymOth chureh 4he
name Of Judges stinks.
Lard oils now almost exclusively
used in the lighthouses. Sperm has
been superseded, and petroleum ls 100
dangerous.
IA vein Ofsilver ore has been struck
in the artesian well now being SUNK
at the Illinois State penitentiaEy at
Joliet.
"A womanin Providence has borne
five children within the past eleven
mOnths-triplets ia the first instance,
and again twins.
The other day an Augusta (Ga.)
editor was eOwhided in the street by q
rival quill driver. Editorial abuse IN
dueed the eastigation.
A physician thinks the Greclan ban
ders viii soon ask his profession
"Cans't thou not minister 70 q spine
disease. "
The span from rock 10 rock Of the
new suspension bridge at Niagara Is
ll9O feet, and between the towers 1858
feet.
The MOrmOns have inverted anew
alphabet, IN which one hundred thou
sand new school books have been
printed for the instruction Of the ris-
ing saints. vg-b
Charleston, South Carolina, con-
tains seventy-twO miles Of streets, and
is well PatrOled, day and night.
Fourier states that, in theprOgress
of the world, the ocean is % lose itS
saltness, and acquire the taste Of q
peculiarly Favored lemonade.
I Ua
South Carolina wages 90 blacks are
500 a year and "fouud y TO farm WOr-
kers women, from S. to 81 per month
and "fOund." Mechanics get more,
masOns average s. per day. Es
Nebraska advertiser., 1868-12-24

The AMERICAN ENToMoLoGIsT for.
december, among other good things
and numerous answers to correspon-
dents, contains an exhaustive article
on shat curious insect the. seventeen
year ctcada, or locust. It also treats of
the western grass hopper, which has
so ravished the western country the
past few seasons; of the "Twig Grid
ler'-"Hellgrammite Fly,n ETC., etc.
lsds fully and beautifully illustrated.
Nebraska advertiser., 1868-12-24

BAUENDAHL & Co., Wool Commits
sion Merchants, 45-47 Park Place New
York, have kindly furnished US with
specimens of imported Asiatic Mohair,
Kentucky Three-fourths Blood, and
Pennsylvania, Ohio, California. Aus
tralian and Canada Combing woods,
with. present prices in currency,
This is perhaps the most extensive
wool house in America. They have
the confidence of wool dealers through
out the country. Having entrusted
them with our own business in their
line, we cheerfully recommend them.
Nebraska advertiser., 1868-12-24
Cashmere Goat Wool.

Col. r. w. Scott, of Kentucky, who
has been for years engaged in raising
Cashmere Goats and other stock, writ
ing us a few days since relative to
agricultural matters in general, closes
his letter with this paragraph -
"Messrs Bauendahl of New York
writes to me that they have orders for
10000 pounds of Cashmere Wool at
highest market price.n
Nebraska advertiser., 1868-12-24

The new postal treaty with Great
Britain, which goes into effect Janu-
ary 1st, requires twelve cents postage
on each single letter weighing halt
an ounce, Prepayment being optional
but on unpaid letters five cents addi-
tionaI postage viii be levied. News
papers will pay two cents on each four
ounces, and books, pamphlets, seeds,
ETC., two cents for each ounce, under
four, and above that, at the rate of six
cents for each additional four ounces.
All MISTER must be prepaid. 1
Nebraska advertiser., 1868-12-24
Agricultural Department.

- This Department of our paper Is Edited oy
and under the control Of Col. r. W. fURNAss "
whom all Communications on Agriculture shoolo
be addressed.