The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1870-04-22
CHICAGO CORRESPONDENCE.

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CHICAGO, April II, 1S70.-The weather ha:
| been remarkably pleasant most of the time
for the past week, and the work of farming
and seed-sowing has begun in earnest in the
farming region in this latitude and as far as
a hundred miles north of us. We have had
several excitements here this week. First
we had
MRS. sTBNToN's LECTURE,
at Unity church-Robert Colver,s- Sabbath
evening, which was crowded to its fullest ca
paclty; IN pews, aisles, pulpit platform. gal
lerles, ana Vestlbule, and more than q thou
SAND persons went away unable to get even
standing room inside the house. Next,
THE COOK COUNTY woMAN's FRANCHISE Asso-
CITATION
was formed by a large convention-chiefy of
ladies-at Farwell Hall, Tuesday. Every one
seemed surprlsed at the number in attend
ance and Ma interest excited at mere busi.
ness meeting. Mrs. Stanton is expected to
lecture In Farwell Hall next Monday evening.
The same day 10000 citizens quietly assem-
bled on the Lake Front to show their respect
for the memory of
MAJOR GENERAL THOMAS,
whose remains arrived from the West al d.
m on the C., B. & Q. Railroad, and we're soon
afterward transferred to the Southern Michi-
gan Depot where the funeral car remained
TIL p. m. As the train came in sight a sa-
Iute OF thirteen guns was fired, and one gun
every ten minutes afterward till o O'clock
The Court House bell tOlled, at intervals of
I'VE minutes, afternoon and evening, and the
hags on all the public buildings were at half
mast. Northumberland Sheridan and the
other United States officers, with commit
tee OF the Common Council, met those in
charge of the body at distance from the
city as an escort into the city.
CELEBRATION OF THE FIFTEENTH AMENDMENT.
On Thursday, the colored people OF the
city celebrated the ratification of the Fifteenth
Amendment to the United States Constitution
by grand procession in the day time, and
resolutions, speeches and music in FarwelI
Hall, at night. The procession was two miles
long, numbered two thousand people, and
was orderly and impressive. The various So
cieties were in uniform, and largo numbers
were in carriages and on horseback
The great wagon containing a pyramid
OF girls dressed in white each carry
ing flag representing one of the
states of the Union, elected much admit
ration, and another huge wagon containing
two church bells, which were kept ringing
proclamation of political equaity-called
out hearty cheers all along the line of the
procession. 1t was very successful demon
stratiOn.
In the evening Farwell Hall was filled by
great crowd of all hues-two-thirds cOlOred
and the proceedings were marked with the
greatest harmony and enthusiasm.
Last evening there was q grand
MEMORIAL MEETING
at Farwell Hall, the chief exercise being a en-
logy on Major Gen. Geo. II. Thomas, BY Gov.
John NJ. Palmer. The speech read much bet
ter than it was delivered.
TRADE
has been very active this week at the princi
pal wholesale houses. At J.V. Farwell / Co 3
the buzz of conversation throughout their
vast stores between statesmen and customers,
was Ike the sound of 4 distant waterfall.
The. wholesale millinery house of
D. B. FISK & co., SO AND 55 LAKE ST.,
swarms with country miIliners from top to
bottom, ike vast beehive, and they are hav-
ing the busiest time of their lives. One
swallow does not make a summer, but a
thousand milliners at Fisk's in one week is an
event worth noticing.
WHOLESALE CLOTHING TRADE.
Chicago is the chief mart for supplying
clothing for the trade of the Northwest. The
most extensive clothing houses in the coun-
try are established here, and their trade ex-
tends TO all the states and territories west of
the firm Of
PHILIP wADsvoRTH & co., 81 AND SO LAKE ST.,
established in 1852, and during a period of
eighteen years, their business has Increased
from about $780, 900 to a million dollars
year. Having large manufactures within
Chicago and at the East, their long and thor.
ough acquaintance with the trade of the
Northwest enables them to manufacture
goods suited to its wants. Their goods are
distributed through all the Western and
southwestern states and territories. and
their name is the synonym for enterprise.
integrity and fair dealing wherever their
trade extends.
MONEY
is abundant and all business men look for
ward to the coming season in hopes of abun-
dant and remunerative crops For when
IArmers prosper, trade and commerce
flourish.
One of the most important duties of farmers
is to procure the right kind of seed for both
planting and sowing. Good seed producing
beautiful crops OF excellent grain exhaust the
soil no more than poor seed producing crops
OF poor quality. And though the soil be ever
so rich and in the very best condition, the
product of poor seed must be a partial. if NOT
total failure. For the primal law of vegeta-
tion, announced by God at the creation. tnat
seed produces seed after its kind (Gen. l. II. y
governs the vegetable kingdom to-day as ab.
solutely as when Adam was installed the
gardener OF Eden. And it is the worst pos
sible economy to SOW poor seed because it is
cheap. The best seed is the cheapest at al
most any price. The best seeds come from
Northern ATTITUDES, and do better when taken
from colder climate than the one where
they are to be sown. There has been a great
deal said OF late about Norway Oats, and some
experienced agriculturists, disgusted with
humbugs, but who have now made trial of
them, have suggested that they were the old
fashioned grey oats. But they have been
tired now several years, and thOse who have
raised them-many of them personally known
to me to be trustwol thv-are enthu-
siastic in their praise. And the testimony of
a great number who have raised them in two |
thirds of the States Of the Union is over
whetming to these points, viz: that the pro-
duct Is twice as much per acre as that Of the |
common oats; that the berry is larger and
heavier with thin hulls and plump meats:
that the straw grows more vigorous and
strong so that 1t prevents lodging, and is |
more nutritious as food; and that the Norway
oats require less seed, one bushel being sufi-
clent for an acre. 1t will take some time to
supply the whole country, for if all the Nor
way oats raised last year we're sown this
spring the product would not be sufficient to
supply more than four or five of our largest
States with seed. The supply is now being
rapluiy exhausted, ana though farmers are
slow to adopt new varieties of seed, there will
scarcely be sufficient to meet the demand
this year. And as there are spurious kinds
in the market the easiest way to get the gen.
uine
RAMsDELL NORWAY OATS
is to purchase of ID. W. Rsmsdell x Co. Mr..
Ramsden sowed the first oat, received in a
package OF Norway peas, is straight for
ward Vermont farmer-noted as his oats,
over which he is ADMINISTRATION pur-
ehasers can see daily at the Chicago Norway
Oats Depot, III Lake street. B.
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