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Daily Davenport Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1864-1874, 1868-11-18
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Daily Davenport Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1864-1874, 1868-11-18
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Daily Davenport Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1864-1874, 1868-11-18
MILLINERY
MRS. N. Il. CURD.

mrPRnS GREAT BARoAlNO IN MILLINERY
0OOD6 for twenty deys. Hats and Boerets seid
as reduced rates. Also fitting and naAing done il
the latest style.
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Information Wanted.
THE ADDRESS OF MRS. LAURA J. NA0HE
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Daily Davenport Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1864-1874, 1868-11-18

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Daily Davenport Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1864-1874, 1868-11-18

TOUR TRUNKS CONTAINING PERSONAL
l. Baggage will be s0ld fer charges nt the renn0yi l.
vaDia ouse. on November esth, unless owneas call
and redeem previous to that sats. novlo dtf
Daily Davenport Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1864-1874, 1868-11-18

Pscksss leavs daily from this peint .
connect with beats at Savanna snd Pert
Byrss.
Daily Davenport Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1864-1874, 1868-11-18

t. CenlucteA ~ the spaaisA 0evernneat-
sse eashsd and infor nation fufnishsd The hishssa
price paid for Doubioons and oil kinds Of Gold anl
silver. TAYIOR CO..
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To.Oav'S Advertisements. u


no DO GENERAL HOrSEWORK IN A SMALL
Family. Apply At THIS UFPlCG.
Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1868-02-20

Notwithstanding their greater opportuni-
tiea fof information, and better knowledge
Of the diseases Of cattle, we must be per-
mittsd to doubt entirely the opinions Of
writer's in ssnne Of our prominent Agricnl-
tural publications who believe that our cattle
in this country are infected with what has
become known in Europe as "Rinderpest-
The references of our friend and contributor,
elsewhere, DR.. Stewart, to the matter must
therefore be taken with several grains Of
allowance, If we are right in our opinions.
From late number of the monthly re-
ports of the Commissioner of Agriculture,
we take the following
Stories are circulating in agricultural pa
pers to the effect that rinderpest exists In
Maryland, Virginia, and other sections. Not
q particle Of evidence is found to sustain
such statements. Not case Of 'riAder-
pest, 1t is perfectly safe to say, has ever ar-
peared In this country. There has been
some fatality among cattle In Maryland and
Virginia, in some cases lung disease, in
others sthollow horn" &C., but no European
cattle plague, or anything like it. If that
disease ever does appear, 1t will make itself
felt and known without laborious efforts to
advertise 1t into notoriety.
This is pretty positive in Its statements,
and like confident assertions often are, may
be wrong after all. Its reference to "hollow
horn" as disease, excites suspicion in
itself. But we are inclined to think, as is
said, that no such extensive and fatal plague
among cattle, as the European disease, has
Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1868-02-20

THE REAL ESTATE MARKET.

Three-fourths Of the South is for sale
Real Estate may be had of every kind, in
any sized tract, and at lower prices than at
any other time for twenty years, in every
State South of Delaware, while in this State.
there is still large quantity in the market,
much OF it, all things considered. being of
fered at low figures.
Circumstances positively compel the
Southern landholders to sell at least por-
tion OF their possessions, and they are desi-
rous OF doing SO. They have made up their
minds to sell, and are placing their proper
ties in the hands of agents for that purpose
On the other hand, there are many buyers,
OF several different classes, who are looking
toward the purchase of these lands. Many
Northern men, some of whom come frsm
States in the far West, are DESTROYS of find
ing more genial climate, where they can
escape the extremely severe winters Emf
grants from the East who have attempted to
live in ATTITUDES like Minnesota, where for
three months the mercury ranges from %
to 40 degrees below zero, lose u considerable
per centage Of their number in those who
wish to return to Delaware, MARYLAND. or
arther South, where the winter average is
as many degrees above zero. There are, be-
sides, many renting farmers in Pennsylvania
and adjacent States who have saved enough
money to buy farm, at the cheap rates Of
these lands; Others want less rocky and
easier titled soils others still have other oh.
jects in view, while the continuous tide Of
foreign immigration adds to the number Of
the purchasing classes.
Now we want to call the attention of oul
agents, and of sellers South, and buyers
North, to the fact that Wilmington is the cen
tire for all this business. From this city two
great lines of communication run down into
the district of country for sale. Within eos,
reach of us is the whole of the Peninsula
and all of tidewater Virginia and the Caro-
linas. Baltimore, as larger city, may seen
to intercept our prospect by that way, bu
the fact OF her greater size is in this bushes
no advantage whatever. AS for the cite
further South, they are all sellers, and hay
neither the money necessary to buy, them
selves, nor the credit which will procur
buyers. But this is city of capital, of ex
cellent credit, of good repute. 1t has buyer
of its own, and it can obtain many Others
The attention given to the business by ON
agent produced him in short time thre
hundred inquiries from persons proposin
to purchase. That number can Just as we
be made three, or ten. thousand.
We recommend gentlemen to look at thj
for themselves. See who want to sell, wher
they are, and how many there are of them
Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1868-02-20
The Manufacture of Peach Baskets.

A correspondent at Smyrna informs us
that Peach Baskets, an important item,
now, in the peach business, were first made
in Delaware in the year 1928, by colored
man named Perry Hamilton, who, at that
time lived near Wilmington, but subsequent
ly removed to place near Smyrna where
he still resides.
He first made baskets for Alex. Pringo
and Chauncey P. Holcomb Esq. Hamilton
was poor man, working as a laborer dur
ing the day and making baskets at night.
By continued industry he acquired some
money in the course of a few years, and
purchased a few acres of land near Smyrna.
He did not go there to live, however, but
continued the business of basket making
with considerable profit and rented his farm
out.
In 1849 circumstance occurred which
caused him to change his residence. II
happened in this wise: Hamilton owned a
COW which he allowed to run the road.
One day as he was driving her home dog
belonging to one Of his white neighbors,
Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1868-02-20
THE CULTURE OF cRANsERRlEs,
The Peculiar Adaptation OF Delaware
Lands to that Fruit.
ny r. s. MRRRIMAN. RED BANK, n. j.


Having heard that there were low lands
in the Southern part of Delaware and Mary
land, we were induced to take trip through
that country, for the sole purpose of exam
lining those lands as to their capablity of
growing that most useful and most profitable
of all fruits, the Cranberry. Having had
large experience in the culture of this fruit
in New Jersey, we are happy to be able to
say that our expectations are more than re-
allied. We examined the lands particularly
at Laurel and Salisbury, and vicinities,
where we spent night, and we found them
in many places fully equal to the cranberry
lands in our own State of New jersey
We found the wild vines growing in pro-
fusion in both of those localities. We are
satisfied that there are large quantities of
these lands, now comparatively worthless,
that can be reclaimed and made to produce
from three to eight hundred dollars per acre,
per annun.
The culture Of the Cranberry is now no
experiment, but is fully established and
known to be as profitable, and we may say
truly, more profitable, and with very much
less trouble whenever started, than any
other fruit.
The land owners in the counties Of Kent,
Sussex, and Somerset would do well to
look into the culture of this fruit, as they
have all the advantages for it, and it will go
far to supersede even their peach culture.
Many man in New Jersey, who ten
years ago was struggling hard in working
his sandy uplands, and barely making
poor living, is now independent, from the
culture of five or ten acres of his worthless
swamps.
We wish particularly, Mr.. Editor, through
the columns of the TRIBUNE, to give our
sincere thanks to Messrs. Brown and Sewall,
officers of the Delaware Railroad, for their
kind and courteous treatment, and also to
Messrs. Fook and Wilson, and many others
at laurel; and Col b. Toadvine, of Sails
bury, for his very gentlemanly conduct and
interest he took in the subject of Cranberry
culture, and in showing us his beautiful
wild bog, which almost made us feel that
we were home in our own New Jersey
swamps.
Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1868-02-20
EATING DINNER.

Many very good people despise &C French
Cookery" with all other things that are
Frenchy. English people who go to Paris in
sist on having roast beef and plum pudding,
regardless Of circumstances, and utterly in
considerate of the enjoyable, digestible, and
excellent meals which are within their reach
FIR less money.
30 there are also many people Of habit,
who adhere to the old customs in cooking,
and whose bill of fare for the three meals of
to-day, is substantially the same as that Of
their predecessors fifty years ago.
Neither of these classes includes the by
gienic self-deprived people, who do not be-
lieye in eating in haste to repent at leisure,
nor that fifty years Of soups and sauces is
better than cycle Of cold water and Ora
ham crackers. There are many of these
last, and the arguments with which they sup
port their theories Of abstemiousness are too
respectable for us to treat with contempt.
We shall not, with the demon of Dyspepsia
shaking his CORY locks at us, dare to say a
word against ''ths laws of HEALTH" or a
Hygienic diet.
But then, after all, the large majority of
us eat through the whole bill of fare, in
some form, and what we want to suggest
here, is that not enough attention to cook
cry is given by those who get our dinners.
1t is one thing to eat another to enjoy; a
third to digest. And what the cooking ye-
men of our day, be they wife or servant,
mistress or maid, most need to know is in
formation, first, how to vary their dishes
and second now to thoroughly cook them.
1t is not too much to say that nearly every
species Of food can be varied in the pro-
cess of preparing it for the table, in a
! thousand different ways, all of which shall
t'bc healthful and delightful. To do this en-
tails trouble, it is true, but is it not time and
labor well spent? 1t must be remembered
hhat the stomach gives tone to the head,
Fcharacter to the mind, impulse to the heart.
To avoid tie blues and suicide treat it well ;
to be happy dine on no dinner which it has
not cost thought, time and labor TO prepare.
Elaborate and careful cookery is not nee.
essarily expensive. On the contrary it is
the companion of Economy, and the most
thorough cooks in the world spend the least
money. If you live on saleratus cakes and
throw into the swill pail all left over; oil
give to the dogs the cold meat from dinner,
you are following straightforward and
simple plan it is true, but one which is in
all respects most expensive. To save money,
elaborate your cooking.
Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1868-02-20

they will lime and rinse clover, and dress
literally with Peruvian guano and bone
dust at first, and afterwards with good gu
per-phosphate, they WIN soon find the crops
increasing, their grass growing, their cattle
improving, and the land paying fair per
cent, and although il does not, nor cannot
at first my as good an interest as improved
land at treble the price, II eventually will
have treble the number of acres for the cap
ital invested. The richest land, though the
price be high, pays the best at first, but it's
value will not be enhanced by keeping,
while the poor land, under improvement,
is increasing in value every year, and is a
sure thing as an investment, not liable to be
seriously affected in It's market value like
stocks Of the various kinds. ia man has
capital invested in six per cent. dirt banks,
Congress may run a tilt against National
Banks whenever it has a mind to, and dirt
banks will remain firm, and never suspend
payment while they have good and judicious
directors.
SPRING MILLS, Feb. 18th, 1868.
Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1868-02-20
The = Rindorpest" or Cattle Disease.
BY DAVID STEWART, NJ. D.

MgssRs- EDiToRs Information is exceed
ingly desirable at this time with regard to
this matter. "Forewarncd forcarmed' is an
old adage. The last TRIBUNE informs us
that this scourge has appeared in Delaware
County, Pennsylvania. The last american
Farmer, published in Baltimore, informs
us that cit is prevalent in Maryland, and
that it travels on the wings of the wind, and
thus appears in remote localities almost
simultaneously without the aid of direct
bodily contact Infected animals should
not only be killed promptly, but deeply
buried in pit with lime, so that no dog can
exhume the carcass. AS it is most probable
that the dogs are the ''wings of the wind
that convey the infection to remote locali-
ties without the aid of direct bodily CON
tact, as stated by the able authority that l
have quoted, some one should be author
lied 10 compel the observance of these i'm
portant sanitary measures. This old agri-
cultural journal is, no doubt, among your
exchanges, and the article from which the
above is copied may save many thousands
OF dollars in the stock of your subscribers,
ifrepnblished in your next issue. The au-
thor is manifestly all expert in his profess
sion as a Cow doctor" as he appears to be
familiar with the anatomy and surgery, also
the physiology and pathology of such ami
mails He certainly deserves the gratitude
of the agricultural community for the able
and valuable essay he has published, exhib-
iting the symptoms, &c, of this terrible
ma!ady. As only five per cent of those in
fected in Europe escaped, l would suggest
that the proper officer of the County Agri-
cultural Society, call meeting of all the
farmers in each Hundred of New Castle
County, in order to adopt some plan by
which the impending calamity may be avert
ed, viz: by stopping, ifpossible, all impor-
tation Of cattle to this Peninsula from other
States, or by establishing quarantine, or
provide a mutual insurance to encourage
prompt destruction and burial, or combus-
tion of all infected animals and pay half
their assessed value. About one thousand
cattle were slaughtered in the most salutary
manner in Massachusetts, in 1859, ''drawing
the Gordon sanitaire, and them by relcnt-
less slaughter the pest appeared to be cx-
tirpated.' As our peninsula may be more
easily isolated, and the value of one thous-
and bceves would not compensate for the
depreciation in value of the whole of the
stock on this Peninsula, by the presence of
one case of the pest, the delay of reason
able precautions so clearly indicated, must
be regarded as the most puerile carelessness
or sluvish improvidence. 1t is the province
of medical men to anticipate evil of this
kind, but unfortunately their advice is often
gratutous, and therefore not appreciated,
especially where spontaneously given and
unsolicited. This is unsolicited but not
without much solicitude.
| February Sth, 1865
Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1868-02-20
sTERLING's AMBRosIA OIL,
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PRICE. so CENTS PER BOTTLE.
~ FOR SALE BY ALI DIR y isa f2'
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This ia another preparation OF still greater eicaos
It may be applied by iteel but is most snecs ih
used with the Ambrosia Oh, especiaiiy "heu
Hair is falling out very rapidly.
Nxw YoRk, May 8, 1861.
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Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1868-02-20

CRATES sKATEst. Two arc closing 9c css IT,
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Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1868-02-20

COMPLETE MANURE.
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PHILADELPHIA,
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Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1868-02-20
STERLING's AMBRoSIA OIL.

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Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1868-02-20

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Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1868-02-20
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Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1868-05-15

WOULDN'T STAY PUT OFF.--One
day as conductor Jones was running
from Elmira, on the Erie road, he
found, among other passengers, a boy
who had no money, who told him he
was poor and alone in the world and
...---.t~-' e. - ~T~Ooo, "r-o-~ f.~ ---is
do better than he could at the East
The conductor, of course, told him
that he could not ride unless he paid
his fare, "and" said he, "when we ar
rive at the next station, Corning, you
must get off"
The boy promised that he would dc
so. On his passage through the cars
after leaving Corning, the conductor
came across the boy again.
'Did not tell you to get off al
Corning
eyes, sir" said the boy, "and die
get off; but | got on again"
"WelI, sir" said the conductor
"when we get at the next station,
want you to get off and stay off"
The boy acknowledged that the con
ductor told him so; "and" said the
boy, Il did get off, and was going tt
stay off, but just as the train was
starting, you said "all aboard" and
thought you marnt me as much as any
body"
1t is perhaps needless to say tina
the conductor acknowledged himself
beaten, and gave the boy free ride
to the end of his route.