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Orangeburg times. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1872-1875, 1873-10-09
GROUND rEAS.

These should be dug before frost touches the
vines, or Immediately afterwards. If thus
man aged-by pulling up the vines, nearly all
the pods will come up with them. If left for
some time after frost, the stem of the pod rotn
andwhcn the vines are pulled, most Of the
mods are left nthc ground. Lean two punches
together top to top so as TO allow the pods to
dry. When dry, stack or house. The pods
should never have rain upon them after they
are dug, as they are liable to blacken md be-
come unsalcable.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1873-08-01
How Much Will Keep a Horse!

A horse weighing from 1000 to 1000
pounds will eat about six tons of hay, or its
equivalent. in a year. And w suppose
the real point to get at Is, whether one
can keep his horse cheaper on some other
product than hay. This IL an exceeding
ly difficult question to answer. IL depends
so much on circumstances. Three and a
half tons of corn stalks and two and a
half tons of corr will keep a horse a year
in fully as good condition as six tons OF
good hay. We may estimate. also, that
Ii will take three and a half tons OF oat
straw. and two and a half tons Of oats,
to keep a horse a year. A bushel of oats
weighs thirty-two pounds, SO that 1t will
take over 155 bushels and three and q
half tons Of straw, TO keep a horse a year,
Ii would take about two acres Of good
land to produce this amount.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1873-08-01
Personal and Literary.

The Wonaan's Journal states that
Christine Nilsson Is the daughter of IN
American mother and a Swedish father.
DIR. Eliza Walker has been appointed
house physician TO the Bristol (England)
Hospital for women and children.
Miss Harriet Fenimore Cooper, a
daughter of the eminent novelist, Is
writing a history of the Oneida Indians.
The papers say that Jay Gould Meth
er smokes, chews, drinks, o swears. He
only CANDLES. Good man!
Mrs. Duniway has announced herself
a candidate for the mayoralty Of Portland,
Oregon.
Gen. Grant, on being asked, the other
day, If he liked music. replied, +" Yes,
everything but chin music" His interlo-
cutor shut up.
A woman Is keeper Of a police sta
tion-house in Albany. Her name is Rob-
bus. but she locks up robbers Of every
name and style.
The Presidents daughter, Nellie, Is
at work on a summer book to be called
sketches from Life at Long Branch"
-" Kearsage'' is not, as many suppose,
the Indian name for n mountain In New
Hampshire. 1t Is a corruption Of the
name Of an early white settler, kiah Sar-
gent.
President Grant has appointed a Mr..
Nantz as postmaster of Ladiesburg, Mary
land. We should have thought that La
diesburg, at least, would have been en-.
titled TO a postmistress.
Mary Nichols, Of the Patent Office,
has been promoted to Imposition OF Third
Assistant Examiner. This is high for q
woman, but there were three other ladie:
equally willing and qualified for the post
Fame is a delicate boon. When tn,
New York Herald prints the name Of
Longfellow, 1t explains in parenthesi'
whether 1t the poet or the horse.
The Boston Post Gays that Professor
Light made a Fourth of July balloon as
cension, and at the height Of two Thousand
feet dropped a chicken from his basket
which alighted unframed.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1873-08-01

The very remarkable vote I'm the British
House OF Commons, last week, on the
subject of arbitration, will excite the at
tention OF the world. Mr.. Richard, men,
Der for Merthr-T ydvil, and Secretary Of
the London Peace Society, moved that in
the opinion Of the House her Majesty's
Government should communicate with
foreign powers for the purpose of improv-
ing International law and with the view
Of establishing arbitration as a permanent
resort for the settlement OF differences be-
tween nations.
Mr.. Richard in a speech In support OF
his motion stated that he had received a
large number of letters from America ex-
pressing sympathy with his proposition.
He proceeded 10 show that the danger CT
war kept 1000, 900 Of men armed annually
In Europe. rendering necessary a taxation
Of 81. o ,000, 900 and the payment of a
yearly interest on war debts of $3.50, 1000
600. In addition 10 this the value of labor
withdrawn from industry was estimated
To be 81 $50 O0, 900. In Germany the con-
%scription forced an emigration which was
d~epopulating the country, and Russia,
France and Italy were financially crippled
by the expenses OF their enormous militia
ry establishments.
Mr.. Gladstone opposed the motion. He
al = z tllat " NOhAA A ~ " W.
ject. because the Continental nations held
widely different views on the subject. He
asked the gentleman TO withdraw the mo-
ton. Mr.. Richard declined 10 withdraw,
and the House divided. The division re-
suited in a ties yeas 10 9S nays. The
Speaker gave his casting vote In favor Of
the motion, which was adopted.
Ii is very remarkable that on such a
question the House, with nearly two hum
dred members present, should be equally
divided. Ii is very rare that a tie vote Is
had on any question. That it should
occur on a question of such vast moment
as this is very extraordinary, and we re-
joice that the Speaker was right IN the
question and gave his casting vote in
favor of the great advance step of the age.
This pleasure is dampened by the UNI
fortunate position assumed by MIR. Glad
stone. We can find an excuse for him,
but not justification, I'm the fact that the
proposition might appear to be an indica-
ton of weakness and an apprehension OF
the results Of war. As the head Of the
Government he may have thought Ii his
duty to resist the motion, while he Is quite
willing to carry ii into practical effect.
| Such a course is not like Mr.. Gladstone.
He is a man of courage, and ought to
stand up boldly in favor of a proposition
that commends itself to the judgment
and conscience of the entire Christian
world.
Let us hail the adoption of the resolu-
ton, by one pote, as the great event Of
the year. the first real. practical result Of
our Geneva Arbitration, and one vote
more for the reign Of peace on earth.-N.
Y. Observer.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1873-08-01
Benefits Of Thorough Cultivation.

The Ne,o England Farmer thus sums up
the benefits OF hoeing. II the farmers of
the West will, for hoeing, substitute cul-
tivating with any of the more popular
machines i'm use, it will apply equally well
TO the prairies as to the more laboriously
cultivated soils Of New England:
Too many persons who use the hoe sup
pose that the chief benefit derived from it
Is to kill the weeds. That certainly Is an
important work, and one greatly neglect
ed. Weeds are not only in the way of
cultivating the crops which we plant, but
they rob them of much of the nutriment
which they need. Hoeing, then, Is an
essential service in respect TO destroying
the weeds.
There are other advantages, however,
which are quite commonly overlooked.
Let us see:
/. The loosening of the soil in the opera
ton of hoeing is beneficial to the plants;
as much as the destruction of the weeds,
or more so.
2. Moisture abounds in the atmosphere
during the hottest months, and Is absorbed
and retained most abundantly by a soil
which Is In the most friable state. Prof.
Schluber found that 1000 grains of stiff
clay absorbed in twenty-four hours only
t~hirty-six grains OF moisture from the air;
whilst garden mold absorbed forty-nve
grains. and fine magnesia absorbed seven
ty-sfx grains.
3. linen, again, pulverizlng soil enables
it better to retain the moisture absorbed.
4. The soil, in order TO be healthy and
active. must breathe. A light. porous
soil admits the air and, thus 1t Is fed
and greatly i~nvigorated by the atmos-
phere.
8. The suns rays heat a hard soil much
quicker than a loose one, and the hotter
the soil is, so much greater will be the
evaporation from It. So that the hard soil
Is deprived of its moisture much sooner
than one Of a loose texture.
6. The roots of plants can find their way
through a moist, loose soil, in search Of
food, much better than they can through
a hard dry soil.
z. The soil that has been plowed well,
| and then kept loose near b surface by
the action of the hoe, will receive and
hold the rain water that falls, while a
hard soil will allow most of 1t to run
off into the valleys and streams as 1t
falls.
Let us hoe thoroughly all the season
until the crops are perfected, and while
engaged in work observe and discuss the
! benefits we NAV derive from it.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1873-08-01

=" Most Northern " Is suggested rs a
name for the child born TO the wife Of
Hans Christian, the Esquimaux, Of the
Polaris survivors, on the floating ice-field,
one hundred miles further north than any
habitation Of men Is known TO exist.
1t Is now said that the late Charles NJ.
Barras' estate will not be worth more than
$4,000, though IL has been estimated at
three times that sum. That Is hardly
enough 10 satisfy all the relatives who
have come to the surface since Barras'
decease.
philadelphia Is not to be outdone In
the matter Of a transatlantic balloon trip.
one Colonel DE Alma being reported 10
purpose an aerial jaunt TO Europe from
that city and, like the Ephesians of old,
the Quaker citizens cry, "Great Is De
Alma J"
The New Hampshire Daily Patriot
has brought forward Gen. Winfield Scott
Hancock, Of Pennsylvania, and Mr.. w.
5. Groesbeck, OF Ohio, as It's candidates
for the Democratic nominations for Presi-
dent and Vice-President in 1876.
A Philadelphia asserts that Edwin
Forrest was a confirmed believer in spirit
ualism. and that recent communications
from the departed actor announce his en-
tire satisfaction with the new sphere he
has entered.
Grace Greenwood is reminded, by
Judge Hunts course in Miss Anthony's
case, of the sermon of the colorcd brother
on woman. the heads of which discourse
were: "Firstly-What am woman ? Sec
ondly-What did she come FROM Thirdly
Who does she belong TO? Fourthly-
Which way am she gwine to-"
Phoebe Couzins, of st. Louis, paid her
tax with this attachment to it: Paid
under protest. 1t is in violation of the
fundamental principle which says there
shall be no taxation without representa-
tion."
Mr.. Smalley says Mark Twain is at
Edwards Hotel, In London, with an Earl
on one side of him and a Count on the
other, and Disraeli under his feet. In the
midst OF these aristocratic surroundings
he keeps his loyalty to Republican insti-
buttons, and hates a joke as much as ever.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1873-08-01
Foreign Items.

A laboratory has been opened i'm Lon
don for the use of ladies studying expert
mental chemistry.
Waterloo and New Orleans veterans
in England support themselves on a pen
sion of one shilling a day.
The Shah of Persia eats in the most
handy way. and makes no bones about
throwing things under the table.
1t Is proposed to call a little island
near the Isle of Man the Isle of Woman.
So the good cause progresses.
The Queen has thanked the Lord
Mayor of London for the magnificent en-
tertainment provided for the Shah at
Guildhall.
English newspapers always speak
d~eferentially of students of the Royal
Military Academy, Woolwich, as ''Gen-
tlemen Cadets"
Prince William of Wurtemberg, and
Princess Marie. eldest daughter of Prince
Frederick Charles Of Prussia, are be-
trotied.
the National Union for the higher
education of women in England, appears
TO have worked well during The year and
a half of its existence.
1.-THE finest fleet in the world" re-
ceived the Shah at Dover. and the English
press went into ~ecstacies of many columns
over his supposed enjoyment of the
sight.
DIR. Beke. the traveller and Biblical
scholar, is i'll in England, having been re-
moved. while fayorably disposed, from
Nice, where he was attacked by his sick
ness.
Sir Bartle Frere ate some objects in
an Africans hut which he took for mush-
rooms. but on the mans return, he told
him they were the ars of his slain enc
mics.
The girls who make artificial flowers
in Paris are agitating for more wages. 1t
appears that. by working fifteen hours a
day, they only earn about forty cents.
"A tipsy ~workingman. Edward Jones,
recently bought q baby of its mother for a
penny, near Manchester, England, and
has since been trying to induce some one
to take it off his hands for a pound.
The Cardinals have been informed that
any violation of the rules of the Papal
election will arouse the German Empire to
opposition, in so far as the results of an
irregular Papal election affect Germany.
Testimony sets dead against the
Claimant TO the Tichborne estates. and
there Is enough to prove him a perjurer,
but the mysterious ways of the law will
probably require the trial TO go on for
months longer.
The new treaty between Germany
and Persia opens with the following piece
of "hifalutin - ain the name of the good
and all-charitable God! His Majesty the
German Emperor on the one hand, and
His Majesty, whose standard Is the sun,
the holy, illustrious, and great monarch,
the absolute ruler and Emperor, the Em
peror of all the States of Persia, on the
other"
AT Moscow a lady, renowned for hel
beauty, ventured TO call OF the Shah witt
an m bouquet. The Light OF
the World accepted the floral present
examined the fair visitor carefully and
leisurely for a considerable period with
his eye-glass, and then, probably over
come by admiration. turned his back upor
her and retreated to his apartments, with
out deigning to utter even a royal mono
syllable.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1873-08-01
Horticulture for Ladies.

An able writer says 1t has long been a
matter of astonishment to me that In the
present dearth of remunerative employ
ment for women, no n has yet thought
making them gardeners. OF course !
do not mean women who are afraid of
of selling their hands or spelling their
compilations by being much In the open
air. MY suggestions are G for those
who look upon the duties Of life seriously,
and who, being compelled by circum-
stances to earn their daily subsistence,
would find horticulture a remunerative
and comparatively pleasant occupation.
The want Of scientific knowledge among
working gardeners is so great that In TAX
Ing up the profession they might simply
step into a gap now existing between tne
shining lights of Horticulture aud Botany
and the ignorant obstinate workman VINO
very often takes the name OF, without any
knowledge of the duties Of, a gardener
Milaoaukee Monthly.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1873-08-01

The first Christian school opened in
Jerusalem was opened in 1917 with nine
members now there are five schools,
with upwards of four hundred scholars.
The Rev. J.. X. McDougall, of
Florence, has purchased, for $4,000, a
suppressed Roman Catholic church and
monastery for the use of Santa Croce
schools and the Free Church of that city.
Rev. DIR. Stone recently delivered a
sermon In San Francisco on the Chinese
question, taking ground against exclusion
and persecution.
Rev. j. s. Willis. Of Stamford, Conn.,,
was the poet of the day at the late COM
mencement of Dickinson. lie Is reported
to have won golden opinions.
Rev. DIR. Howard, late President of
the Ohio University, is recruiting his
shattered health In Santa Clara. Cal.
Rev. David Coyne, of the Presbytery
of Marion, Ohio, has joined the Baptist
church.
Rev. w. w. Wilgus, a graduate of
Union Seminary, at Chicago, has accepted
a call from the Pine street Baptist church,
st. Louis, Mo.
Rev. Charles A. Hayden, Of the Chi
cago Seminary, has accepted a call to the
p~astorate of the Baptist church, at Akron,
o.
The colored Baptists have organized
a General Association for themselves.
They are to meet in council in Paris, KY,
August Ia.
Dickson College, Carlisle, Pa, in
which Rev. DIR. Crooks, editor of the
Methodist, was for some years a professor,
has conferred on him the honorary degree
Of LII. ID.
Southeastern Nebraska, according to
a correspondent, has only one self-sup-
porting Baptist church, and very few pas
tors who devote themselves solely to the
work of the ministry.
The statistics of the Lexington (col-
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1873-08-01
Scientific and Industrial.

The experiment at Westville, Conn,
OF afactory for the extracting Of oil from
cotton waste has proved adecided success.
ny this process old grimy, greasy rags
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1873-08-01

The Catholics OF Kentucky number
10000.
, 1873-06-19


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MACHINERY.

MACHINERY.
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(jd WcRt MahiEoMSt.
, 1873-06-19

INFORMATION WANTED,
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The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1873-10-10
Success with Sheep.

There have been indications for some
time, and from various quarters, that
wool is going to advance in price The
demand appears to be heavy in England,
and this affects our own market We
have watched the wool and sheep busi-
ness for twenty years, during which time
there were several panics, sheep being
butchered for their pelts and tallow, but
Immediately after prices rose, and then
every sheep was saved. Meanwhile,
those who have kept on steadily and sold
at going prices have done well; while
those who held their wool over year or
80 thereafter were we'll paid. The truth
is, there is no better business, year after
year, than that of sheep husbandry, and
for the reason that the increase of our
population is so constant and great as to
keep up steady demand for all kinds of
wooden fabrics. As it has been in the
past, so it in quite certain to be in the
future, and those who have sheep may
safely get more. But let not inexperi-
enced men rush in, for complete knowl-
edge is required, and constant attention.
The best way to get good flock of sheep
is to raise them, because there are few
chances to buy such sheep as win pay TO
keep, unless at high price. He who
has good sheep knows it as well as any
body else, and, as a general thing, if he
offers to sell sheep, they will be culls.-
BY commencing with few sheep pains
taking man can learn how to manage
them as fast as they grow, being like
some school-teachers, who learn as fast
as their scholars do. 1t will take from
three to five years TO learn the sheep busi-
ness, and by that time the flock should
be Of respectable size. We hardly know
of an instance of young men going
blindly into the business with 500 head
who have not lost their whole invest
ment-N T. Tribune.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1873-10-10
Faithful Watching.

A man named Weston was lately
murdered at a farm house near Albany,
New York, where he was staying. Wes-
ton had friends in Brooklyn, who set
themselves about discovering the murder
er and bringing him to justice. There
were three ladies in the farm house, one
of whom was very pretty young girl,
named Mary Cochrane. 1t was deemed
necessary by the authorities to secure
the ladies, in case it might appear upon
investigation that they were in some
manner connected with the murder.
They were accordingly taken to Albany,
placed in hotel, and a trusty officer,
Amos r. Walker, was selected to keep
guard over them. He performed his
duties remarkably we'll, and scarcely
ever allowed the fair prisoners to be
moment out of his sight. 1t was cheer
less and lonely outside of their apart
ments, and so he went inside to keep
closer watch upon them. He tried to
make himself agreeable and entertain
ing, and found his prisoners very pleas
ant, especially one of them-Mary. In
fact he, SO far from thinking that Mary
Cochrane could have had anything to
do with a murder, began to consider Der
the very best woman in the world. On
the other hand, she regarded her jailor
with growing respect, and the two
watched each other more and more at
tentively. When, one evening, the Off
Ger told Mary he loved her, and asked
her to allow him to watch over her for
life, she readily agreed to the proposition.
The next day the prisoner and the faith
full guard were duly married, and Off
Ger Walker affords bright example of
integrity in the performance of police
duties. Business strictly attended to
sometimes becomes the greatest pleasure
of life.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1873-10-10
A German Sunday.

From the Atlantic Monthly for October.
The Germans idea of Sunday is any
thing but Puritanic.- 1t is the very OPP
posite. 1t is for them day of amuse-
ment. 1t is no unusual thing to be ask
ed By German on Monday morning,
A We'll, how did you amuse yourself yes
terday?" There are those among the
Germans, of course, who respect and
keep the Sabbth; but then there are al
ways enough of them who do not; and to
judge by the numbers in which they fire.
quent their places of amusement on Sun
day-the parks, beer gardens, and public
halls-a stranger might possibly be
tempted to inquire whether the Germans
had any idea of Sabbath. Men, wo-
men and children, elder men with their
wives, and younger ones with their
sweethearts,. throng these places every
Sunday and enjoy themselves, careless of
what impression they make on their fell
low-citizens of American origin, to whom
the sound of brass instruments on the
Sabbath air is anything but welcome or
edifying. In the cold days of winter,
when the parks and beer gardens are
dreary and shorn Of their beauty, the
German seeks amusement in some hall
instead. Here he treats himself to COM
pound of rather heterogeneous elements
to music, beer and smoke; and to all
of them at once. Any Sunday afternoon
in the cold Of winter you may find him,
with his wife or child, or both, in some
large hall, one of a. hundred or five hun
dred, smoking his meerschaum or his
cigar, slipping his beer, wine or coffee,
and listening to selection from Meyer
beer or Beethoven. Were il summer he
would add the odor of roses to the fumes
of his tobacco and smell of his beer; for
he is as fond of flowers as he is of these,
and is never happier than when the air,
trembling to the notes of the orchestra,
is redolent with tobacco smoke, the per-
fume of the rose, heliotrope and hop, and
he is himself in the midst of them all.