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Nebraska advertiser., 1868-04-02

Are the peach-trees bearing? johnny
Baker he says that peaches donl't grow
here; but be says the cherries have
peach o in them. In nine weeks
my birth day will be here. How funny
twill seem to be eleven when I've been
ten so long. / don't skip over any but.
ton holes so my jacket N out even.
Why didn't you tell me / had a red
head? But l can run faster than any Of
them that are no bigger than l am, and
some that are. One Of the spokes Of
my umbrella broke itself in two yester-
day. the wind blew 50 when it rained.
We learn to sing. He says I've a
good deal of voice; but I've forgot what
the matter is with it. We got up and
down the scale, and beat time. The last
is the best fun. The other ishard to do.
But if 1 could only get up, | guess 1t
would be easy to come down. He thinks
something alls my ear. 1 thought be
said l hadn't got any at all. What have
a fellows ears to do with singing, or
with scaling up and down
Your affecIionate gr%andchild,
WILLIAM HENRY.
Nebraska advertiser., 1868-04-02
Annles fnr Nehraska.


4 committee consisting of H. K. RAY.
MoND, w. H. GRoee, and JNo. GILMORE
appointed by the Otoe County Farmer;
Club, have reported the following list Of
apples as being hardy and reliable here.
TIE committee are men of extensive e
perience, and their report is reliable.
Our W experience and observation
suslains their report:
sUMMER APPLES.
Red Astracan,
Early Harvest, hardy or nearly so,
Red June,
Early Penock,
Summer Pearmain,
Early Joe,
Early Red,
Early Strawberry.
FALL APPLES
St Lawrence,
Fameuse,
Mother.
Jersey Sweeting,
Duchess of O~ldenbUrg,
Williams Favorlte,
Hawley,
Milan,
Gabriel,
WINTER APPLES.
New York Pippin,
Romanstem,
Wine Sap,
Newtown Pippin, hardy or nearly so,
Northern Spy,
Rawles JANET,
Jonathan,
Red Canada,
Striped Sweet Pippin,
Detroit Red,
Willow Twig,
Ladies Sweering.
Nebraska advertiser., 1868-04-02

The Premium List and awarding com.
mittees for the coming Fair of the Ne,
maha County Agricultural and Mechan.
ical Associations, are now in the hand;
Of the printer, and will be out at the
earliest possible day.
The Board have omitted TO offer on
behalf of the Society, payable from the
Societies funds, premiums for speed of
animals. But private purses will be
made up and offered in time for all who
wish TO rum, pace, trot or walk.
A fine list of premiums are also being
maue up 10 De awarded TO female eques-
trians, for craftsmanship either in saddle,
double, single and tandum harness.
There will be nothing left unprovided
that will either amuse or interest those
who may attend The Fair this fall.
Nebraska advertiser., 1868-04-02
A SChOOl-BOy's Letter.
WILLIAM HENRY TO HIS cRANDmorH

WILLIAM HENRY TO HIS GRANDMOTHER
M Dear Grandmother: l think the
school that | have come to is a very good
school. We have dumplings. lived tied
up the pills that you gave me in case Of
feeling bad in the toe of my cotton stock.
ing that's lost the mate of il. The mince
pies they have here are baked without
any plums being put into them. So,
please, need l say No, l thank you.
ma'am, 10 'em when they come round
If they don't agree, shall / take the pills
or the drops? Or was it the hot fanels
and how many?
I've forgot about being shivery. Was
it 10 eat roast onions No, / guess not.
/ guess it was a wet band tied round nv
head. Please write it down, because
you told me so many things l can't re-
member. How can anybody tell when
anybody is sick enough to take things ?
You can't think what a great tall man
the sChOolmasier is. He has got some.
thing very long TO fog US with, that
bends easy and hurts.-Q. S. So jenny
says. Q. S. j. in the authorizations. and
stands for a-suficient quantity. jenny
says the master keeps a paint.pot in his
rOOra, and has his whiskers painted black
every morning, and his hair too, to make
himself look scareful,. jenny is one of
the great boys. But Tom Crush is big
ger. l don't like Tom Crush.
have a good many to play with /; but
/ miss you and TowseF and all Of them
very much, How does my sister dO7
Nebraska advertiser., 1868-04-02
Early Rose Potato

Is the newest variety of importance.
We see by the Eastern agricultural pa
pers that d. S. HIFFREN, of Utica, n.
Y, sold to a party in New Jersey one
hundred and fifty bushels for ten thousand
dOHars-Over sixty dollars per bushel.
To another party the same gentleman
sold at eighty dollars per bushel. The
Editor of the american .A~gricuLturiSt
says he has seen a letter to Bliss s. Son ,
in which one hundred dollars was offered
for a bushel of the Early Rose. This
potato is being retsiled this spring at
five dollars per pound.
Nebraska advertiser., 1868-04-02
Proceedings OF the Agricultural
and Mechanical Association.

The members of the Agricultural So.
ciety met in the front room of the i'd
UeTtiSsr Office, March 2Sth, 1868.
R. W. Furnas, President, called the
society TO order.
The committee previously appointed
TO prepare Premium List reported. The
report was adopted, and the Premium
List ordered published as per contract
with the FdUertiser Office.
On motion the admittance fee was
fixed at twenty five cents.
The name of the society was on mo-
tion changed to "The Nemaha County
Agricultural and Mechanical Associa.
iion."
On motion, the committee to award
premiums were appointed, and will ap.
pear in the published list.
On motion, the Fair of 1868 is to be
held at the same place as the Fair of
last year.
On motion, the Fair is open to "the
world" for competition in every article
n-the premium list.
On motion the time for holding the
Fair was fixed on the 22d, 22d, Oath and
25th days of September next.
On motion, Messrs. Brush, Kennedy
and J. S. Minick were appointed a COM
mutee to procure permanent Fair
grounds.
On motion, the society proceeded TO
elect officers to serve the coming year.
The following persons were duly elected:
R. w. Furnas, President,
Geo. Crow, Vice President,
II. o. Minick, Secretary,
Jas. Coleman, Treasurer,
]. L. COlhapp, Cor. Secretary,
F. A. Tisdel,
J. S. Mrnick,
X. V. Black,
J. w. Brush, NAanagers'
5. w, Kennedy
I. Redfern,
On motion, the society adjourned.
R. w. FURNAS, Pres.
ID. 0. MINIcK, Sec'y.
Nebraska advertiser., 1868-04-02
EUGENE has 1900 dresses, yet her
usband is not a model of faithfulness.
WILLIAM HENRY.

EugetQS mas S,UOO uIcSS6S3 yet hOA
husband is not a model of failhfulness.
A S~cotchman the other day sent a
cable telegram, at an expense of 500, &c
President Johnson, advising him 10 re-
sign.
The Sun anticipates a sharp and sud
den shortening Of expenses in every de,
partment of the Government after Gen,
Grant becomes President.
A retail dry goods store udvertises tc
knock the spots out of the cotton mar
kes.' A little water will do the same
thing to their printed calicoes.
A young man recently asscended the
tower of the London Crystal Palace,
read the appropriate portion of the Church
service, and threw himself down, killing
himself instantly.
The present estimate of the number
of cattle in Texas is 100000 head.
Raising beeves and selling Gotten to the
Mexicans are yielding a good profit to
the people of the State.
Application has been made to the
Mexican Congress for concessions to build
a railroad from the City of Mexico to
the Rio Graude river, the boundary of
the United States, a distance of 1900
miles.
Mrs. Kate Brown the colored woman
who was expelled from the Alexandria
(Va.) Raiload cars, a few weeks since,
has commenced an action against the
company for eiectment and injuries re-
ceived, laying damages at $4,000.
In Wilmington, Delaware, a clergy
man incidentally spoke of the fact that
Mr.. Lincoln, on leaving Springfield,
asked his friends to pray for him, and on
mention of Mr.. Lincoln's name several
women founced out of the church.
The Chicago Times says that the Dem
ocrats feel under the deepest sense of
obligation to The President for the 'Ob-
~stinate, though not very skillful, fight
which he has made against the canting,
rotten crew of demagogues and noodles
who are running the country straight to
the devil:'-but it adds that they desire
to manifest their gratitude in some other
way than by electing him to the
Presidency This is very true. Their
gratitude will take any shape but that.
One of the wide-awake Democratic
organs in the West is GresnSburg (Ind)
Herald. Speaking about the proposition
to intrust the work of reconstruction to
Gen, Grant, this representative paper
says:
when that time does come (when it
passes the Senate,) the sooner the earth
is rid of him the better; there will be a
lob for another Booth. BY the hair of
St. Michael, we would rather see him in
h-ll than king over an inch of American
soil; and it is our opinion, il His Equest.
rian Mightiness were to accept under
the new reconstruction law, he would be
seeking a bone in the above hot region
before he would ever reach the capital
of his new kingdom
Nebraska advertiser., 1868-04-02

The recent meetings of the Nemaha
County Agricultural and Mechanical
Association have been well attended
and an UNUSUAL interest manifested. As
will be seen by the proceedings Of the
last meeting, the time and place for the
coming Fair have been fixed, and it is
opened 10 the whole worId. 1t is the in
tention of the managers to make the
coming Fair one of the most extensive
ever held in the West. Let all prepare
for il begin now.
Nebraska advertiser., 1868-04-02

Nine-tenths of the diseaseases which
happen to the hoofs and ankles of the
horse are occasioned by standing on the
dry, plank floors of the stable. Many
persons seem TO think, from the way
they keep their horses, hat the foot of
the horse was never made for moisture,
and that, if possible, it would be benef-
ciaI if they had cow-hide boots to put on
every time they went out. Nature de-
signed the foot for moist ground-the
earth of the woods and valleys at the
same time a covering was given to pro.
tect it from stones and jumps Ohio
Farmer.
Nebraska advertiser., 1868-04-02
Total proceed. of SO acres..........$lOI6

Ten hundred and sixteen dollars in
crops on t~hiriy-six acres is not bad farm.
ing. Il is a fair sample of what is done
by the farmers of the Cedar Valley.
Suppose that SO acres of land is worth $50
per acre, its value is $3.50, so that the crop
for the past year pays for the land and
leaves a margin of 1926 to pay for fen
ces and hired help. Is not that profitable
farming? Mr.. Briscoe's figures gives a
return of about twenty-eight dollars and
a quarter per acre. Good land can be
bought to-day within ten miles of Nashua
for six dollars per acre, and equally as
good lands within six miles for from ten
to twenty dollars per acre. 1t is a com.
mon thing for men in Iowa to buy raw
prairie lands at FIVE dollars per acre,
fence it, plow it, cultivate it and pay FOR
the land, the labor, the blowing, the seed,
the fencing and taxes, with one years
crop, and have a margin left.-Er.
We publish the above article in order
to induce our farmers to publish such
items, as we know Nebraska can vie with
any section of the Union in productive
ness and average good prices.
Nebraska advertiser., 1868-04-02

For preserving meat, the N. E. Far
mer says: Pack the pieces in casks
giving a slight s~prinkling Of salt between
each piece !; cover with a pickle by boil
ing together, in four gallons of water,
eight pounds of salt, three pounds of
brown sugar, three ounces of saltpetre,
one ounce of pearlash for one hundred
pounds of meat. Keep a fiat stone on
the meat, that it may be immersed in the
pickle. Put down in this way beef will
keep a year., and rather improve by age"
Nebraska advertiser., 1868-04-02

Saw Dust and Chip Manure r ex'
cellent articles for promoting the growth
of vines, shrubs and small plants. They
should be thrown into a pile, after re.
moving the coarser portions Of the mass.
and thoroughly saturated Once or twice q
week with a mixture of urine and soar
suds. This will enduce insippient fer
mentation, and so far break down the
texture of the mass as to prepare it to
act with energy when applied to any soil
or cIop.
Nebraska advertiser., 1868-04-02

Mr.. Thomas ]. Damon, of Wayland
Mass, lately killed a hog twenty and
half months old, which weighed $50 lbs
dressed. When butchered they took
from bIm 90 pounds of fatand trimmings
which added would make $50 pounds
He was a cross of the Chester White and
Mackay breeds.
Nebraska advertiser., 1868-04-02
A Small Iowa Farm.

Nh. John Briscoe gives US the follow
ing items of his farming last year in
Riverton Township, a short distance
above Nashua. Mr.. Briscoe had thirty.
six acres of land under cultivation, and
divided as follows ::
Nebraska advertiser., 1868-04-02

Fences are a great expense. But.
IKE everything else, they are money ju-
oleiously laid out when well made.
Poor fences are a curse they make
oreeehy cattle and occupy the ground
and keep you busy with them uselessly.
Nebraska advertiser., 1868-04-02

The best looking apple trees, in all
respects, we have seen in this market,
are some from the nursery of JOEL DRA-
PER, of Nebraska City. They are fine
size hardy and thrifty.
Nebraska advertiser., 1868-04-02

Mulch is to our farms what blankets
are TO our beds. We do not mGleh en-.
ough for winter as well as summer.
Nebraska advertiser., 1868-04-02

Peas sowed late will in some localities
escape the bug.
Nebraska advertiser., 1868-04-02
Here are the results

IIIOIlY Hdy1
a acre-Broom corn enough for 10 dozen brooms,
III bushels White Beans, zoo head Of CabbGges, and
seven dollars worth Of Hops.
Reduced to dollars and cents, Mr..
Briscoe's summer work on SO acres of
Nebraska advertiser., 1868-04-02
Agricultural Department.
TIE Coming Fair.


r. w FURNAS, EDITOR.
The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1868-02-24

Rock ISLAND, February "a.
Fsou.-zSpring Doebls ExtfA, n bbls- $40 - =
svhnlesaie, and slf.06 1t RETAIL Sacks. el0,oo o
-hoies.le, and $1,000 ut retail. Looee, $3.50 a.
Wholesale. and $1,000 at retail a,o
wHEAr-No. l, $780, No. ?, $l,s5 NO NV
CoRS-65a6sc
: 0ATs-4Sa52c for 35 lbe.
. Ryg-l,S9a1,40.
4 BARLkY-No. |, 200. No. :. i-s'
= BEASs-4,00 - sgfssN
SALT load 90 per barrel .4.ssx
K.eoSexr VINO esaie, oarrei* inoiniod. SO
staii Tee.
IfegwfSs 81, 10
Oy1oSs-- Is per bush.
! PorAFoEs-I,2o
EGas-25c doI.
BursEnYesy chnise lot, i.a ruts.liag. will
bring 2j to Shc
PouIray---Liee chickens, s., 5i,.3 90 irer 'io=.
LARR -l2tc per b. ASS :
Hoss-For live hogs 54a6e. Dressed "aafa' I'll =
vidiag on 200 lbs.
CArrLs--Lire weight, common, o'oVa3'oe'
Prime shipping 4, 50a5, SO per hundred Peands,
HIDEs-Green Country, 7e; green cured NC
green calf, 1Osl2lc; dry flint, izaioc; airy SAT-
ed. l2tc.
Hay Prairie, ssa1o per ton /; Timothy lo,e'
a$I2,O0.
Woop--oak $500 70 ice cord.
Co.L-At the Coal Valley Isr'i, on the Levee,
GOAL is sold at IA CENTS the cost of delivering 20
De added. Akx8 -15s
From teams, in Market Square. at l5al6 cents.
The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1868-02-24

TIE DExocRATIc WARD MEErINss.--On
Saturday evening The democrats of the sew
eral wards held meetiGgs to nominate alder
men, appoint delegates and committees, and
prepare for the campaign. From all the
meetings we hear the same report, viz: that
they were the largest. most harmonious and
enthusiastic ever held in town. No schism
or dissatisfaction exists anywhere, and ev-
cry democrat seems determined to do his
level best to ensure success. The candidates
presented are unexceptionable,a and the demo-
Gratis are united and determined to elect them.
Everything looks promising for triumph
but democrats should not make mistake by
undertaking the strength of the radicals.
Their ticket is, apparently, very weak one,
what there is of it-but we should not there
fore relax any effort on our part, for that
might lead to a very unpleasant result.
The speech of Mr.. Norris, at the Second
Ward meeting is highly commended, by
those who heard i. He agreed that it was
no time, now, for democrats to cavil about
men it was the duty of all who were oppos,
ed to the radical, destructive, high taxation,
bondholding, Thad Stevens party, to stand
firmly by the regular democratic candidates,
and elect every man on the ticket
The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1868-02-24

A DANGEROUS MAN CAPruRED.-A series
Of burglaries, robberies &C., have been com
mitted in and around this place for some
time, and the police have strongly suspec-
ted man named John Beadham, who, with
his family, lived in a small house on High
land street. opposite the Warner Mills.
Beadham had left for parts unknown to the
police, but it was determined to ascertain his
whereabouts, and te search his house. With
this view Policeman Mitsch employed a man
to GO to Beadham's house, make the &C.
quaintance of his wife pretend that he had a
farm in the country and wanted to hire
Beadham and his wife TO go and live on the
place and work for him, and learn, if he
could, where Beadham had gone. He was
also instructed to look about the house, in
his various visits, to discover stolen or sus-
picious property. He succeeded well, and
after several visits he reported that he had
seen several pairs of new shoes, and other
new articles which he believed to have been
stolen He also learned than Beadham
was chopping wood on Horse Island, near
Rockingham, about four miles below this
city. City Marshal Chopper then procured
warrant and, with Policeman Mitseh,
searched the house, finding several articles
Of stolen property, which we're noticed in the
ARGUS some days ago, but the place where
they were found was, for prudential reasons,
not named.
The object then was to get hold of Bead.
ham, and Policeman Mitsch's confederate
got Beadham's wife to go down and see him
and learn if he would 60 and live on his farm.
She got him to appoint Sunday night as the
| time he would come to Davenport (he
wouldn't come to Rock Island) and see the
pretended farmer who wanted to hire him.
Mitsch then described the fellow to the Dav-
export police, and laid a plan with them to
arrest him and put him in jail, as soon as
they could lay hands on him. He came to
Davenport Sunday night, as agreed on, and
was promptly nabhed and put in Jail. This
morning the Davenport police brought him
| to the middle of the river on the ice, where
| he was politely introduced to Policeman
| Mitsch, whose plans for his arrest had worked
so successfully, and Mitsch delicately encir-
cling his wrists with "ruffles," committed
| him to our Jail, to await his trial for bur
| glary.
| Beadham is the confederate of the chick
en- thief who was taken, lately, and is be
lived to be the man who escaped arrest tha
night.
| LATER-After lodging Beadham in jail
Policeman Mitsch procured a search warrant
from Magistrate Connolly, (City Marsha
| Chopper being out of town on business), and
with Policemen Bartalow and Schneider,
and Deputy Sheriff Payne, proceeded t.
Beadhams house and gave it thorough
search. They found a large clock, which
was stolen from some church in Moline
one pair OF cloth gators, a lot of gum gore
Tor gators, some shoe thread, shoe strings
&C., stolen from Henry Reddig, last Septem
Der; a buffalo robe which belongs IN Dav
Davenport four pair of boa. oars, a new
skiff sail, stolen from Davenport larg,
tape line and two large door keys. all O
which was taken to Magistrate Connolly,
Office.
The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1868-02-24
YANKEE NOTION STORE
wHoLEsAxH AND RETAIL |!
ILLINOIS STREET ROCK ISLAND.
FIELD g. BROTHER.

The undersigned, (successors to A. HULL have
on hand n full stock of
xANEHEE MOTIONS.
consisting of Buck Mittens, Gloves, Pins, Nee
dies. Paper, Envelopes, Pens, Pencils, Machine
Silk, Thread, Bindings, Buttons Belts and Buc-
kles, Razors, SCISSORS, Pocket Knives, Toilet
Soap. Barriers Soap, Hair Oil, Perfumery Combs,
Purses, Calf and Morocco Wsllets, Rubber Chains
and Rings, Whips, Lashes. Hosiery, Cigars, Sus-
penders, Gun Caps, Spectacles, Shoe Laces, Head
Nets Chewing Gum. RufHes. Ladies' and Gents
Bosoms and Collars, Paper Collars, and q great
variety of fancy articles generally kept in No-
tion Store or by Live Yankee
We buy our goods in New York Of importers,
jobbers and manufacturers for the wholesale
trade, and can sell as cheap as any store west OF
New York.
FIELD 4 BROTHER,
Illinois Street, Rock IslAad.
The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1868-02-24

VALUE OF ADvERrIsING.-On November
last, Mr.. c. H. Smith, proprietor of a first
class hair dressing and je walry establishment,
located on Perry street, Davenport, com
menced advertising in the ARGUS to secure
share of Rock Island patronage. Last
week, being the first opportunity, he informed
us that the advertisement had been decid
ed success, and that the amount of business
he was regularly receiving from this city was
wholly unexpected, and more than he imag'
ined could result in so short time. The
business moral is palpable one.
The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1868-02-24

Telegraphed to the ARGus.
NEw YoRx. Feb. "a.
Cotton-nominal at % middling uplands-
Flour-shade frmer at 9,S0sl0,f5 extra state;
9,S5al4,0O for round hoop.
4 Wheat--not active; 54s3 No. spring In store;
SIS amber green bay in store.
Corn-le better at 24a6 new mixed western
afoat: 26a7 old do. in store; 80 do. afott.
Barley-scarce and tends upwards.
Oats-nominaI at S34a4 for western in store.
Pork-quiet at 90, 50a75 for old mess; "a
24,S7 for new.
Petroleum-quiet; crude 10: refined 25.
The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1868-02-24

COMMON SENsE.--Wbat is the use of having
two or three or half dozen different standards
of time in our city7 Why should Davenport
pretend or attempt to regulate its watches and
CLOCKS by Chicago timer Why not New York
time as sensibly - Chieago2 Why not adopt
Davenport time? This ID given W now by the
Arsenal clock. Our churches have adopted that
banks. aud stores! If This Is Davenport let n.
have Davenport time; or else let Us have Dayen-
port rubbed out wherever the word occurs and
insert Chicago" instead.-Dau Gas.
'esso' We might - we'll keep China
The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1868-02-24
uow MANI THOUSAND OF PERSONS
i III do we dailr behold. both male and female

uOw MANI THOUSAND OF PERSONS
i i do we daily behold, both male and female,
who are sufferirg out a miserable existence from
the effects of secret indulgence, or from virus
absorbed into their system from venerial dis
ease. Look at their paid, emaciated aud disfg-
ured faces, and tneir broken down constitutions,
depicting disease ard its horrible oonseq uences
disqualifying then rom marriage, or the enjoy
ment of life. Il is, therefore, important for
those sufferers to know that, by calling upon DIR.
7. KATES, they can be effectually cured. He
as a physician who has made private disease"
his especial study for thirty-two years, and who
has cured upward of thirty thousand cases in
Cincinnati alone within the last twenty years
He is therefore Competent to cure every form of
disease both recent and chronic, in the shortest
possible time, without mercury or other poison
GUS medicines. BE careful that you find DIR.
HATES at his old established office, 1853 Sycs-
more street, Cincinnati, Ohio, first house below
Fiftn street, west side. DIR. HATES attends to
his patients personally, and may be found in his
office from 8 O'Clock A. NJ, till 5 O'Clock p. n.
Sundays from Q A. M. till IL A. NJ All conf
Dental. Oct.23dawiy.