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The weekly Panola star. [volume] (Panola, Miss.) 1857-1881, 1870-03-26
A Useful Table.

To aid farmers in arriving at no.
curacy in estimating the amount Of
land in different fields under Guilt
walton, the following table is given
5 yards wide by 968 yards long
contains | acre.
10 yards wide by iS4 yards long
contains ! acre.
20 yards wide by 2l2 yards long
contains | acre.
50 yards wide by CO., yards long
contains l acre.
1876 feet wide by 220 feet long
containsone acre,
so feet wide BY 40 feet long con-
tains | acre.
so feet wide by 726 feet long con-
tains | acre.
125 feet wide by 1863 feet long
contains | acre.
1919 feet wide by $50 feet long
contains l acre.
Snoo Fly, at Mathews & Sons.
HrSr FOR THE SrAsoy.--A check for four
hundred dollars is not near SO bad on the sys-
tom as a check on the PRECIPITATION, but 5 cold
on the chest or lungs thus produced can be al
ways cured with Hungarian Balsam of Life.
Dealers in house furnishing goods,
curtains, window-shades, and every
variety & style of wallpaper &C..
should call and examine the new
stock of goods of Mr.. J. Grieshaber,
292 Second ST., Memphis, Tenn.
His stock Of Goods is unexcelled by
any house in the city besides he is
one of the Oldest citizens in the
place aud his reliability guaranteed
by leading merchants. If.
DoLBEAR's COMMERCIAL CoLLEGE33(
Mainstrect Memphis,opcn nightan(
day the entire year. New pupils cal
begin any day Writing Art and
Book Keeping Sc, &c, &C.,
~sep18-6m
CoNFEcrtoXARY.--Thc best place in Mem.
phis 10 get unadulterated coufectionaries is a
August Berton's wholesale and retail eslah.
lishment Nos. 1871 and 1870 Poplar Street
Our patrons should remember this and wheI
they visit Memphis act accordingly.
dec1s-3m
"Ifyou want TO have a good time
Jine the cavalry"
If you want to buy goods cheap
Go to Mathws's.
HISr FOR THE SEAsoN.-The difference be
tween a child with a cold in its head and til
north wind ia Gleenland is that while on
blows its nose the other blows its SHOWS, bu
nevertheless the child could be cured very quicI
" with the Hungarian Balsam Of Life the be,
cXpcctorant known.
A young lady in California brok
herneck while resisting the attemp
of young man to kiss her. Youn.
ladies should be careful not to rests
such attempts. 1t is extremely dan
gerous.
Latest Styles of Ladies Sprin.
Hats at Mathews 4 Sons.
Fifty-five horses are in ttainiu.
in the principal stables in the Blue
grass region for the Spring races q
Lexington. Among the numbC
are Barney Stone, Erin, Nirgi
Bonnie, Sally Of the Valley, Gingc
; Grassland, Grand Dutch, S. Asteroi'
!, Twinkle, Queen Victoria, Exchan2
and Vauxhall.
: Drugs Cheap By Mathews & So.
The principal representative
the Republican party i'll the reco.
t, struetion of Georgia, is one A A
: peoria Bradley, a negro State Sen
y tor, who served out his time as
: convict in the pcnitcntiary Of Ne
York at Sing-Sinc.
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Extra Special Notice !


Smith Ton'e Syrup has been countericitcd,
end the countcrfeitcr brought TO grief.
SMITHS TONIC SYRUP.
The genuine article must haze DR.. joins
BULBS private stanp on each bottle. Dr.. Jons
Bull only has lie right 70 manufacture and scil
the original JonN } .Sat1H's TONTCSrREP.
Of Louisville, Ky. Examine well the label on
each bottle. lfmy private stamp IS not on the
bottle, do not purchase, or you will be deceived.
Sec my column advertisement, aud my show
card. : viii prosecute any one infringing oo
my right. The genuine SNirH. ToNIc sYrr.
cou oHly be prepared BY N. self.
The plblics servant,
DG JOHN BCI.i.
lYe-g.l,e O5f.2l I,j-
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PartOr Wusjc Hall,
235 SECOND STREET,
lfemphjs. Tom

WrHIIHI"' IVH
JOHN ". THOMPSON, Lessee and Map fer.
GEO. c. THOMPSON, Stage Ma { ger.
Engagement extraordinary of Ciucinna Il
greatest Song aud Dance Artist the "
Also, ofDan Conner, the Ethiopian Comm q
together with the largest aud most tai IT
Variety Combination in the city.
Admission ........... - cents.
Orchestra Chairs ...""".",."."." 90 cents.
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Monday the 4th day of April 1870,

it being the first day Of Couaiy Court, sell It
public auction to the highest bidder, for cash,
the following described property, to-wit: A
certain dweiling-house situated on . fraction
Of the northeast Of section ~, township 2,
r,ugc 6, west in said county 10 sati said wit
anl'al co-ls. Sale within Law fl tou.s.
frb5q-5t ". e. NcGGWAN Sif.
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PLANTATION BITTERS.

This wonderful vegetable
restorative Is the sheet
anchor of the feeble and
debilitated. As a tonic and
cordial for the aged and
Ianguid 1t has no equal
among stomachics. As a
remedy for the nervous
weakness to which women
are especially subject, 1t Is
superseding every other
stimulant. In all climates,
tropical, temperate or
frigid, it acts as a specific
In every species OF disorder
which undermines the
bodily strength and breaks
down the animal spirits.
Wherever 1t il intr0<
duced it becomes a standa
ard article "A medicinal
staple. 1t is to-day the
best and purest tonic, and
the most popular medicine
In the civilized wOrld--be
sure and get the genuine.
Sold by oil Druggists, GroS
GERS and Country Stores.
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THE EYE.

0fall the organs Of sense, the eye is most
frequently the scat Of disease, .nd yields most
readily to judicious treatment. Atmospheric
influences are chief among the causes which
produce disease of this organ, and, in the Val
ley of the Mississippi, the existence of malaria
contributes greatly to its frequency and inten-
sity. Tracoma, or " granular lids is the dis
ease most Common in the West and South
This exceedingly painful disease, DR.. G. B.
Norris Of Memphis, Tenn, has treated success
fully for several years, and VIC have, ourselves,
known several instances where the parties were
almost totally blind being cnectually cured by
him. There are, doubtless many persons in
the South who think themselves hopelcssly
blind, but who could be restored by judicious
treatment, and all such, We would advise to
consult DR. c. B, NoRpis, No. 1913 Main Street
Memphis, Tenn. dccl7-3m
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PROVISIONS.
Plantation Supplies.
NOTICE.
T0lhe Tax Payers of Pamela COun.
~ Mississippi.

The Tax Collector ofsaii county vill visit
the diactcnt lace Throughout thc County On
the day. mentioned ID The following list for the
accommodation o.ths Taxpayers, who are edr-
nostly requested to cone promptly forward and
pay their taxes bringing a.iA 'bom The mum
Der Of their lands
Pleasant luuut Monday March Ith Ie-h
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Two negro policemen do duty in
Houston, Texas.
The heart is the only thing that
increases in value by being broken,
There are too classes of precious
things in this world those that God
gives us for nothing-sun, air and
life, and secondly, precious things
which he gives usfora price, "world-
" wine and milk" which can never
be obtained without labor or an G.
quivalent. Do wewantto be strong?
we must work. TO be hungry ? we
must starvc. TO be happy? we
must be kind. TO be wise ire must
look and think.
Nebraska advertiser., 1870-02-03
THE 0TOE INDIAN TREATY.

Much has been said in u own State
and elsewhere concerning the treaties
made with Otoe Sac, Fox and Iowa
tribes ofIndians; that they were being
cheated out Of their lands. A late ar
tiele in the Chicago Tribune asserts
that the lands in question were to be
sold for 60 cents per acre. That the
public might know something as near
the truth rs might be, we have asked
our Senator Mr. Upton to give what
information he could consistent with
his duties as Senator-one who has to
act on these Treaties. He furnishes
us with the following letter, not ex-
pressing an opinion as he yet has to
vote in the case. He says:
If the treaty is confirmed the st.
Louis and Nebraska Trunk Railroad
shall shave the privilege Of purchas-
ing" that part Of a certain division Of
the OtOe Reservation lying in the
State ofNebraska at the rate OfS1'25 per
acre, having also paid the expenses of
survey and appraisement and the es-
timated value of the improvements.
TO pay 1900 within go days of the
publication of the Treaty, and in 60
days from completion of survey pay
expenses of survey and value of inn
prOvements, &c. The balance in five
annual installments with interest. No
Patent to issue until 40 miles are COM
pleted from Nebraska State line to-
ward Omaha, and each patent shall
show on its face that the land has to
be put into market and sold within
five years from its date.
The Reservation being divided the
balance of this fractional part, being
in Kansas under like circumstances,
shall be purchased by the Atchison &
Nebraska Railroad company patents,
issuing on a construction Of sections
of 20 miles toward Omaha. AS this
Treaty only contemplates the sale of
80, 900 acres of the Reservation in case
the Indians desire to remain on the
balance. The Sec'y of Interior, who
is their agent in all things, shall see
to intended disbursements for them,
and insert the remainder Of their
finds in bonds Of the L. s. and pay
the interest thereon to them annually,
with their present annuities.. But if
the Indians finally remove then the
aforesaid Railroad company shall be
allowed to purchase the remaining
portion of the Reservation, in manner
as above described, as to the purchas-
er of the first part.
~ These, / believe are the material
facts from the text Of the Treaty,
which the people desire to understand.
Another Treaty is before the Senate,
for the sale of 10000 acres Of the Sacs
and Fox's Reservation in Kansas and
Nebraska, and their interest in 6,4Q0
acres of trust lands, at 50 per acre, for
the Reservation, and 81 per acre for
the trust lands, the same to be divid-
ed between the same roads, and on
the same terms of purchasing and
patenting.
The IOwas agree to dispose of their
interest in the above described lands,
on the same. conditions.
Nebraska advertiser., 1870-02-03
NERRASKA

Our old friend and former towns
man. RObt. w. Furnas, who emigra-
ted TO B~rOwnville, Nebraska, some
twelve or fourteen years ago and COM
menced the publication of paper
bat who has not been connected with
the press for a number of years past,
has again taken his position on the
editorial tripod" He is now the
editor and one of the proprietOFs Of
the aAdUertiser-the Same paper, II
we are not mistaken, that he estab-
lished. Robt. is q very clever fellow,
as every old settler in Troy is fully
aware, and we wish him any amount
OF success. ftlCt
This Newspaper business is some
what like the whisky drinking busi-
ness. When an individual becomes
confirmed in it, there Is little hope
that he will ever reform, permanently.
The last time we saw u Nebraska
friend, he assured US that he would
never, under any circumstances, en-
gage in the newspaper business again.
We thought so, too, once, not many
years ago. But we fell, and now our
friend Bob has been again victimiZed
by the insatiate habit. So we go.
The above is from the Miami Union,
published at Troy Ohio, our native
town, and edited by a friend of yore,
J. w. DEGREES Esq, John knows the
failings of newspaper men, who have
it "bred in the bOne.n
Nebraska advertiser., 1870-02-03
DRAWING As A STUDY IN OUR
COMMON SCHOOLS.

We have received from w. M.
S~CRIBNER, General Western AgentfOr
WOoLwORTH, AINswORTH & Co, III
Washington street, Boston, copies Of
Bartholomeu's Drawing Books, also a
package of Drawing Cards by the
same author, and a sample of various
sizes Payne, Dunton & Scribner's
Steel Pens. In examining these
books we are led to inquire, why is not
drawing taught i'm all -Our common
schools? Children can learn to draw
as readily as they a learn to write.
Why may not the two be combined
and taught simultaneously? Every
person, of what profession or calling,
has need many times ola knOwledgeOf
drawing to enable him to render his
ideas plain. The lawyer before the ju-
ry; the doctor in his illustrations, and
especially the mechanic i'm his voca-
ton, can make the art of practical
utility. Many blunders, and even
great wrongs are committed without
such knowledge.
The children now in our common
schools are TO be our future profession
al men, mechanics and ~artizans. It's
safe to conclude under all the circum-
stences, that it will pay in all respects
to teach Drawing in our common
schools. With the assistance render
ed by these books, each one of which
is accompanied by a full and explicit
guide, any of our teachers can teach
the useful art. But we do not propose
to enter into a discussion of this sub
ject, but simply to call attention. Prof.
Geo. B. MOORE, of this place, through
whose kindness we received these
books, will gladly render aid in pro-
curing them, and at low rates.
They have been recommended by the
State Superintendent of Nebraska,
and we hope will become Of general
use.
Nebraska advertiser., 1870-02-03
THE RIGHT KIND OF TALK.

A gentleman resident in Philadel-
phia, Pa, writing us under date Jan.
2lst, renewing his subscription to the
Advertiser, among other things, says :
1 take three daily papers, and
my boys take various periodicals, but
in non of them am / so much inter
ested as in the Nebraska Advertiser,
Especially in the Agricultural De-
partment), of which I have been a
subscriber about two years aud wish
to continue it. 49,
I own some land in your county,
and / don't care how heavily you tax
it for education, school houses
and railroads, and would vote aye
on the question now before you if /
could vote at all.
Nebraska advertiser., 1870-02-03

o 1t seems we have opened up a
prolific question WomdH's Rights
and are thereby doomed to i~nterroga-
lions adj intnium. Be it so.
Another lady wishes to know of US
''if a woman performs the labor of a
man, should she not receive the same
compensation ?D To this question we
answer unequivocally yes! Wher,
the price of any given labor is fired
by day, week, month, year or piece,
we care not whoperforms it, be it man,
woman or child, in justice the same
pay should be given forthe same labor.
We "cauCht this idean when a boy
fifteen or sixteen years of age, work
ing side by side with a "grown man"
and receiving but twenty-five cents
per day, while he received seventy
five cents. At a latter day when an
apprentice in a printing office, the
''idea" was still more ''fOrcibly i'm
pressed upon our mind" by the
Foreman" paying US but ten cents
per thousands ems for 'Over-work, y
while 'jOurs" were receiving twenty
five cents per thousand, simply be-
cause, forsooth, apprentice work"
should not be placed on a par with
'tiour work. In both instances we
did precisely the same work as did the
''grown man" and "jour," and for
the life of us we could never see the
Justice in not receiving the same pay.
We have not changed opinions on this
point.
We believe the principle is being
very generally adopted, that where a
woman performs the labor of a man,
she should receive the same pay. For
instance, in school teaching, as far as
our personal knowledge extends, all
else being equal, the pay is equal. So
with clerkships. This is right, and as
&c should be.
Nebraska advertiser., 1870-02-03
MEETING OF THE REVENUE OFF,
GERS oENEBRASKA.

On the recommendation of the
Commissioners of Internal Revenue,
the Revenue officers of Nebraska met
at Nebraska City on Thursday last.
We copy the following from the Ne,Us:
The gentlemen present were Col. T.
J. Majors, Assessor; j. L. Lancaster,
Collector; J. S. Bowen, Asst. Asses
sOr, LIST Division I; w. Il. Clark, Asst.
Assessor, I'd Division John Kellom,
Asst. Assessor, Sd Division; DIR. F.
Renner, Asst Assessor, 4th Division /;
De Forest Porter, Asst. Assessor, 5th
Division /; S. Linderman, Asst Asses
sor, 9Th Division. sl-- HfH 'it
It was agreed to commence with
the annual assessment2at once, mas
much as the amended act of Congress
makes it the duty of any person liza
BILE to annual tax, on or before the LIST
day of March 1870, to make a return
to the Asst Assessor of the District
wherein he resides, of his income,
and of other taxable articles owned
or kept by him.
Every person failing to make such
return by the day specified, will be
liable to be assessed by the Assistant
Assessor, according to the best infor-
nation he can obtain ; and in such
case the Assistant Assessor will add
fifty per cent. to the amount. of the
tax, and from the valuation and
enumeration SO made there can be no
appeal.
Every person served with an in
come blank is bound to return the
-, G11nI IN md cvrrn-n m nVvnn if
his income for the past year did not
exceed the sun of S $1,000, exempt by
law.
In case any person shall deliver to
an Assessor any false or fraudulent
list oil statement, with the intent to
defeat or evade the valuation or emu
meratiOn required by law, the Assis-
ktant Assessor will add one hundred
per cent. to the tax. +.7-r...
The assessment list, when comleted,
will be returned by the collector, who
will ''give notice by advertisement in
one newspaper published in each
county in his collection district, if
any there be, and if not, then in a
newspaper printed in an adjoining
county, and by notification, to be
posted in at least four public places in
each county in his collection district,
that the said duties have become due
and payable, and state the time and
place within said county at which he
or his deputy will attend to receive
the same ~ and to any sum unpaid
after the thirteenth day of April,
and for ten days after demand, there
will be an addition of five per cent.
as a penalty for such neglect, and of
interest at one per cent. per month.
Guardians, trustees, executors and
administrators, and persons acting in
any other fiduciary capacity, are re-
quired to make returns of the income
belonging to minors, or other persons
for whom they act, and the income
tax will be assessed upon the amount
returned, after ~deducting such sums
as are exemted by law prOVided that
the exemption of one thousand doll
lars shall not be allowed on account
Of any minor OF other beneficiary Of a
trust except upon the statement of
the guardian or trustee, made under
oath, that the minor or beneficiary
has no other income from which the
said amount may be exempted and
deducted.
Nebraska advertiser., 1870-02-03
ICONMUNICATED.1
LECTURE.

The friends of education request me,
through the Advertiser, to make men,
ton of the lecture by DeForest Porter,
of BrOwnville, before the students Of
the London Academy on the evening
of Jan. 26th.
The lecture certainly deserves favor
able notice. Il twas intensely practical,
which was its chief excellence. Such
lectures cannot be too highly praised.
1t is the kind Of speaking and writing
the world needs. Both young and
old people want practical lessons
taught them. Mere rhetorical efforts
and literary display are not enough.
People need teaching to instruct
them how to live right. So many
people are making an utter failure Of
life. They need to be set in the way
Of a correct education and proper de-
velopement. Any one who has a gift
or an ability to instruct the people,
owe the excuse of it to humanity by
easOn of their relationship to the
family of man.
The friends of education are fortu-
nate in having the ability and influ-
ence of Mr.. Porter with them in their
efforts to advance the cause of educa-
ton. May he live to do much good.
Where is Bro. Church ? We want
to hear him talk out here in London.
JEANETTE HARDING.
London, Ne6.
Nebraska advertiser., 1870-02-03
The Colors most readily Distinguished.

Experiments made to ascertain what
cofors are most quickly and easily per-
ceived by the eye, seem to show that
bright yellow is the color most easily
distinguished, and violet and red are
the least readily recognized. After
yellow, blue is most quickly seen.
These experiments may be of some
value in improving our system of rail-
way signalling. The cOlOrs most read
lily distinguished at the greateast dis
lance are obviously the best to employ
for signals. Now, according to these
experiments, red comes last or last but
one, and green stands but just before
it. Bright yellow and blue, the col
ors most easily recognized, would
therefore seem to be preferable for sig
nal lights.
In connection with this we may
mention an interesting fact, but one
of no. practical importance further
than showing that the perceptions OF
the lowest animals seem to accord
with our own. When a basin of wa
ter contains some of these active little
animals, the water feas, is surround
ed with blackened paper, the animals
sink into inactivity, and when a
strong beam of light is sent through
a hole in the paper, they spring al
once into activity, and collect in the
Illuminated part of the water. Far
Their than this, if a spectrum be pro-
jected through a slit in the paper, the
greater number of animals collected
in that part of the water illuminated
by the orange yellow rays, and the
fewest in the line of the violet, which
would seem to indicate that they toe
most readily perceive yellow light
Mechanics Magazine.
Nebraska advertiser., 1870-02-03

There has been some misunderstood
ding, and consequently some feeling
manifested in regard to efforts of late,
tending to a reunion of Nebraska
Soldiers. We have received a num-
Der of letters, some complaining and
others enquiring. The difficulty seems
TO be whether the contemplated re-
union is intended to he a reunion of
all Nebraska Soldiers, or whether it is
intended to be for some certain por-
ions. We are authorized to say, by
Col. MAJORS and others who COM
posed the incipient meeting, that it
was and is the intention to make the
gathering and demonstration aRliUeT-
SAL and to form a Union by all Ne
braska Soldiers of whatever regiment,
division or corps they may heretofore
have been connected with. We are
glad to be able to thus announce, and
hope we may have a general and glo-
Fious good time. Nebraska sent as
good a set of men into the services as
ever shOuldered muskets, and they
done as much good work as any 9TH
ers, and they should not be forgotten,
nor forget each other. These reunions
are being established throughout the
land as a means Of perpetuating the
hallowed associations of the tented
field.
Nebraska advertiser., 1870-02-03
THE EFFECT OF A RAILROAD.

The BrownvilIe Advertiser copies
some remarks of urs showing some
of the many advantages Plattsmouth
had already derived from the build
ing of our railroad and adds:
"Thc Herald might have added too,
that the population of PlattsmOuth
has nearly or quite doubled since they
have had a railroad, and that real
estate has more than doubled in value;
which is the fact"
Tina! is a fact Col. and our pOpula-
ton will again double before the first
of July and more houses will be built
i'm PlattsmOuth during the. coming
season than it now contains. We are
glad to note that Brownville has
givin a decided majority in favor of
bonds to help build a railroad, and
has thus shown that she, too, is alive
to the benefits of railroads, and in
tends to keep in the foreground in the
ace for commercial Importance
R0ttSmOuth Herald.
Nebraska advertiser., 1870-02-03

HELENA, NJ. t., Jan. 27.-On the
15thinst. an expedition against certain
tribes of Indians, who have been
stealing stock and numbering whites
for the past several months, left Fort
Shaw under the command of Col. Ba-
ker, and comprising four companies of
the I'd cavalry and one company of the
18th infantry.
An Indian that arrived at Fort Ben
ton to-day reports that early on the
morning of the 23d Col. Baker sur
prised Bear Chiefs camp Of over thir-
ty lodges, and killed men, women and
children. No quarter vas given. The
surprise was complete, only eight men
escaping. Bear Chief was among the
slain. He is known to have murder
ed several whites. Col. Bakers loss
is trifing.
Other tribes of Blackfeet, upon
learning of the affFay, Immediately
made all haste to reach the British
Possessions, but it is understood that
the expedition has got permission to
cross tile boundary in pursuit.