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Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1873-08-21
A UCTIoNEER & CONSTABLE.

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Isaac Painter Strasburg. Va. viii attend
promptly to all business entrusted to him
jan II tt.
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1873-08-23

81 wish I was deadl" is an expres-
sion not unfrequently made use Of by
the dyspeptic aud sufferer from liver
disease, the depressed spirits uniting
the mind for any thing, aud almost driv-
ing him to despair. But be of good
cheer, there is life and health for YOU
yet, so those that have taken Simmons
Liver Regulator attest It regulates
the liver, dispels dependency, and re.
stores health. A23t3E1
HoMIcIDE.-The coroner was called
yesterday morning, TO hold an inquest
on the dend body OF one Alfred Will
linms, colored, who was reported to have
been shot near Lydia, by George Lee,
white. on Wednesday night last. We
hear nc. particulars. l
Darlington Southerx@.
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1873-08-23

CLEAR GRir.-Commcntire on the
"heroes' brought out by the recent rail.
road disaster or the Chicago aid Alton
Railroad. the Chicago Triiune says the
record Of the deeds Of heroism OF that
night would be incomplete without
reference TO tie clear grit OF Mr.. Letlc,
OF Springfield, WHO, while in the agony
of death, sent for the sleeping cer con-
ductor, tod him his name. made his
will and signed it, aul handed over his
watch AID iewe!ry to lie sent to his wife
ard family, and then requested the con-
i:ctor 70 leave him md help those to
whom help wou!d ne 0; avail. That
mar was made il the heroic mould.
He was horribly =ca!del, boiled and
mutilate.;, and yes lie would rot die
until lie had er.orncd his las. duty like
mar.
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1873-08-23
NEW ORLEANS, August 22.-Ootton

new ORLEANS, August 22.-Cotton
demand limited-mildling 1871; net
receipts 3O3 bales; gross 354; exports
coastwise 3; sales o.day 200; last even.
ing 300; stock 1860; weekly net re-
ceipts l.3lS; gross 255; exports to Great
Britain 5.367; to the continent 22O;
coastwise 1,C5l; sales 2, 700.
NoRFoLK, August 22.-Cotton dull
and nothing loing-low miad,:ng Is;
net receipts 260 bales; exports coastwise
40; sales CD; stock 1,5S2; weekly net
receipts 2.351; exports coastwise 3,1OS;
sales 800
CRY PolST. August 22.-Cotton-
weekly net receipts 2G bales.
MEMPHIS, August 22.-Cotton dull
-niddling 10; receipts 176 bales; ship
ments 1lO; stock in 1872, 2,5l3; in
1873, o.33S; weekly receipts l, ITO; ship
ments 2.937; sales $500.
PROVIDENCE, August 22.-Cotton-
weekly net receipts 40 bales; sales 1,SO0;
stock 12.O 900.
NASHVILLE, August %. Cotton quiet
low middling l69I7; weekly receipts
9o2 bales; shipments 1895; stock in
1872. 40; in 1873, 1, 33l
SAVANNAH, August 22.-Cotton bare
-mlddling 17}a; net receipts 24O bales;
exports coastwiss $50; sales /; stock
S32; weekly net receipts 1,OoG; exports
coastwise 1,22S; sales 1l3.
BosToS. August 22.-Cotton quiet and
strong-middlins 2O3s; gross receipts
GIL bales; sales 900; stock $500;
weekly net receipts IS; gross 2,74S; ex-
ports to Great Britain So; sales 1850.
W1LMTSGroS, August 22.--Cotton
firmer-middling lSi..; net receipts %
bales; stock 917; weekly net receipts
20; exports coastwise 15l; sales 24S.
MONTGOMERY. August 22.-Cotton
quiet ard little doing-low middling
l714; weekly receipts 43 bales; ship.
ments 1l3; stock in 1872. 2lO; in 1873,
LAS.
CHARLESTON. August 22.-Cotton
quiet-middling liz; net receipts 322
bales; gross 452; sales 100; stock i, ,46S;
weekly net receipts 1,637; gross LIT;
sales 1,7G1.
GALVESTON, August 22.-Cotton quiet
and nonina!-good ordinary Is; net re-
ceipts q bales; exports coastwise 6;
sales 90; stock C.363; weekly net re-
ceipts 4SS; exports coastwise $50; sales
700.
COLUMBUS. August % Cotton dnll-
low middling 1Gha; weekly receipts 80
bales; shipments $50; sales 22O; stock
IN 1872. III; in 1873, 1,l76.
MACON, August -Cotton-weekly
receipts IL bales; shipments 90; stock in
1872, 401; in 1873, 1,556.
BALTIMORE. August 22.-Cotton dull
-mlddllng 1914; net receipts 1875 bales;
gross 213; exports coastwise 10; sales
%; stock l.2s3; weekly net receipts 1872;
gross 5S1; exports coAstwise 3GS; sales
PHILADELPHIA August 22-Cotton
quiet middling 100000; weekly net
receipts 1,4G5; gross 2,245.
SELNA, August weckly
receipts - bales; shipments 43; stock in
1872, SO; i'll 1873, 222.
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1873-08-23


IuE RECENT CHINESE DuEL.-A fatal
Caei between two Ctinameu Of Lincoln
County, Arkansas, has brought to Light
family history as full OF sanguinary 70.
ma:cc US the chronicles OF an Italian
dneLy Enmity had for years existed
between two families OF Canton, China,
one ramel Iung and the other Camm.
Ino Camrns took part in rebellion,
which was subdued, and the head of the
Camm family, after solae preliminary
tortnring, was slowed away for execu
ton. He made his escape, murdered
1nng, and at once committed suicide.
One survivor of each family drifted to
Lincoln County, Arkansas. In con
versation abou. home, they discovered
each others identity. Revolyers were
the weapons. They embraced and
fired. Cnmm fell dead, and Yung is
awaiting tria! il the Jail at Jefferson.
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1873-08-23

All styles of Staples and Demestics, to.
gether with regular Stock Goods, on hand
IN good unbroker lines, ct prices to please
our patrons.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-05-01
Our Personality in Dreams.

One remarkable thing as to the stuff
OF our dreams is well worth a moment S
conslderation-and it is this Of what
ever stuff we are ourselves made $50 far
as regards our moral constitution and
character, that is), of such stuff our
dreams will assuredly partake, in a very
great degree, whatever may be the forms
and phases-grotesque and ridiculous,
or awful and solemn-under which they
occupy the mind in sleep. 1t has been
frequently asserted by writer's on this
subject that the dreamer is at one time
brave as a lion, at another a mere pol
oon-at n time a knave, at another a
saint, ETC., etc. But all such descrip-
lions are false and baseless-the moral
individuality undergoes no change in
dreams. The coward neUer dreams that
he is valiant, or the brave man that he
is a coward the sordid man has no gen.
erous emotions In the land of shadows.
nor does the free-handed, hospital man
become a churl In his sleep. The dreams
Of the miser will never be visions of
self-sac1ifice and ~benevolence, nor those
of the base, mean, and impure, be a
whit more noble or elevated than the
ohSh WANING LOuAS. IL Is True
that in dreams we often acquire wealth.
honor, dignity, reputation, or power in
fact, we may, and it is likely enough
that we do, in our dreams realize, as it
were, in the cours of our lives, all those
various longings and ambitions which
we are IL the habit of picturing to our
selves in those waking myths and day
dreams in which all men, from the neces-
sites of their nature, indulge more or
less. But, throughout all these changes,
endless as they are, the moral Individual
remains the same, and cannot, or will
not, undergo a moral change. Again,
IN dreams we never lose our personal
identity one man never dreams that he
is another man, or ten men, or twenty,
yet each and all of these will be none
other than himself, multiplied he knows
not how. From these considerations
and others which they have a tendency
to suggest, it would appear that we have
ourselves a part to play in furnishing
the stuff of our dreams. To what ex-
tent We are ourselves the creators of our
dream-life may perhaps be shown in
subsequent chapters. -Leisure Hours.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-05-01
Diversified Industry, Prices, Produc.
tiyity.

The proportion which the number of
persons n agriculture bears to the num-
Der IN all occupations, in any State or
section of the country, is an unfailing
index to the prices of agricultural pro-
ducts IN the vicinity of the farm, and to
the productivity of the cultivated land
itself. This important truth cannot be
too often or too deeply impressed upon
the minds of our Western farmers.
Diversified industry is the key to a home
market and local prosperity. To give
practical Illustration to our proposition,
we have compiled the following compar-
ative tables. First we give an exhibit,
prepared from the census of 1870, show
ing the number of persons in all occu-
pations. the number in agriculture, and
the ~latter's percentage of the former, in
the States specified:
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-05-01

scale, into proximity to the farm. Ac-
cord1ngly we find the soil of New En-
gland, once proverbial for its sterility.
and often taken as a symbol of ey-
haustlon from excessive tillage. almost
equal in fertility, in a wide range of pro-
ducts, to the virgin lands of the West.
only lately rescued from the wilderness
OF nature. Massachusetts, Connecticut,
and Rhode Island greatly exceed the
graln-growing States of the Mississippi
Valley IN the per acre yield of wheat,
and realize, besides, much higher prices
per bushel.
Our farmers throughout the West
have pursued a scourging and exhaustive
system OF agriculture. They have en-
tered upon lands heavily maanured by
nature, and every year are extracting
he fertlllzing constituents of the soil,
IN the shape of cereals, which are
shipped away to distant markets. Very
little is returned to the fields to repair
this waste of vegetative elements. and
the consequence is a regularly diminish
ing yield per acre. Virtually u
farmers are selling, at cheap prices, the
manure of their lands, and are gradually
impoverishing themselves and their
farms. The fertility of New England is
advancing; that of the West is declin-
ing.
The tabular statements we present are
worthy of serious consideration. par
ticularly by our agricultural classes,
showing conclusively, as they do, that
diversified industry, remunerative prices
for farm products, and productivity of
the soil, constitute a society of CO.
operative agencies. There is an intimate
connection between the prices for cereals
and development of mining and manu-
featuring resources in the neighborhood.
There is an idle factor of agricultural
resources in the coal beds which underly
so much of the surface of Iowa. There
is a promise of rising quotations of
grain in the whir and rattle of every
new factory which dots the Western
pralries. No truth is truer than this,
that the tendency of land and labor to
increase in value, and of farm produce
to ascend in price, is in proportion to
the diversifcation of industry.-Chicaqo
Inter- Ocean.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-05-01
Turpentine for Headache.

DE-. Warburton Begbie advocates the
use OF turpentine in the severe headache
to which nervous and hysterical women
are subject. "There is, moreover, he
says, another class of sufferers from
the headache, and this is composed OF
both sexes, which may be relieved by
~turpentine. I refer to the frontal head
ache, which is most apt to occur after
prolonged mental effort, but may like
wise be induced by unduly sustained
physical exertion-what may be STYLED
the headache of a fatigued brain. A
cup OF very strong tea often relieves
this form of headache, but this remedy
with not a few is perilous, for, bringing
rellef from pain, it may produce general
restlessness, and, worst of all, Danish
sleep" Turpentine is also highly rec
commended for external application in
sore throat, pleurisy and kindred COM
plants.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-05-01
Girls Should Learn Domestic DUTIES,

A mother has no right to bring ue a
daughter without teaching her how to
keep house; and if she has an intelli-
gent regard to her daughters happiness.
will not do it.
By knowing how to keep house, we do
not mean merely knowing how books
should be arranged on q comfortable.
and how to tell servants what is wanted
to be done. We mean how to get a
breakfast, a dinner, a supper; how to
make a bed how to sweep a room how
to do the thousand and one different
things which are requisite to keep a
home in order and to make it pleasant.
A person who does not know how to
do a thing well, does not know how to
have it done well. No number of ser.
wants makes up for the want of knowl-
edge III a mistress.
A family employed a girl to do gen
eral homework. She came just at
night, and the first thing assigned to
her to do was to wash the supper dishes.
She washed them in cold water, and
without soapl
A gentleman sent home a roasting
piece OF beef and a quantity of cut por-
ter-house steaksl When he sat down to
dinner he learned that the new cook had
roasted the steaksi
Yet many a boarding-school miss, at
he time of her marriage, might make
either of these mistakes.
Not n woman in a thousand knows
how to make bread as good as it can be
made. And sour tempers, seedlings,
dyspepsia, with its indescribable horrors,
and even death itself, not unfrequently
result from bad cooking.
Mothers, whatever else you may teach
your daughters, do not neglect to instruct
them IN all the mysteries of housekeep-
ing. So shall you put them in the way
OF good husbands and happy homes.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-05-01
Josiah Quincy on Newspapers and their
Work.


To any one disposed to use some con.
science in his reading, there comes this
perplexlng question What ought I dc
Q newspapers? To which inquiry.
at least this partial answer may be con,
fdently returned: You cannot do with.
out them. Doubt any ones good sense
who speaks scornfully of newspapers.
There is much in them that is trihine.
and, perhaps, demoralizing but. in the
pest OF them, how much hat is wise and
noble! What wealth of enjoyment and
instruction they may bring to every
home where they are rightly selected
n rightly read! I have a few choice
volumes on my shelves, among them an
Ol1vet Cicero and a folio Shakespeare
but L would save my newspaper scrap.
books before either of them. have no
volumes that contain so much sound
thought, good English, good sense and
important knowledge. If you ask for
wit, L will agree to match every jest and
sarcasm in "The School for Scandal
with something from my scrap-book
quite as good in the way of epigram,
and flashed upon some mischief which
1t is important should be seen. Here
are full reports of lectures on history by
Iyndall. Here are Mills speeches in
Parliament, his free-trade letters to New
York admirers, and Mr.. Greeley's reply
to them. You will find capious extracts
giving the heart of the best modern
books, and intelligent summaries of the
systems they advocate. Here are occa-
s1onal sermons into ichleadingAmeri-
can dlvlnes have put their most earnest
thought. Here arevigorous expressions
OF the best political intelligence clipped
from the leaders of the best newspapers.
And, quite as important, here are little
crisp criticisms of laundering political
work from indignant citizens whose daily
duty has brought them face to face with
a~hsurdities of legislation. Take the
best newspapers by all means-as many
OF them as you a aford-and then
take nine-tenths of their reading mat
ter for granted. Some of it is good for
nobody; much of it is good for some
body; but only a small part is wanted
by you. But how precious are these
fragments, if wisely chosen! If YOU are
interested in the investigation of any
political subject-and every American
citizen should have some study of this
sort-you will find in almost every news
paper an illustration of some ASPECT of
it. Remember it is better to subscribe
to q first-class newspaper, that you NAV
read at home with a scissors in your
hand, than to glance over a score of
them in a public reading-room. Almost
everything that It is good and useful to
know gets said or copied or suggested in
some column of our free press. Veneer
able absurdities are exposed by thinkers
OF acknowledged ability and i~nstitu-
lions worth preserving are defended
against the assaults of the foolish. So.
If newspapers may be put to noblest
uses, they may be so used as to ener-
vate, and even to generalize. Let US
love them wisely, but not too WELL
Old and NeU.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-05-01
Women and Wine.

On last Thursday afternoon, a meeting
composed OF some twenty members of
the order of the Sons of Temperance, of
both sexes, was held at the residence of
Parson Reese. The object of the meet
ing was made known to the outside world
by a deputation of about fifteen of the
weaker persuasion, who marched two
abreast with becoming regularity, as re-
garded their "dress up" visiting the
city drug store, the drug palace and the
drug store of DR.. Jennings, where the
following mote of warning was read
to the several establishments-with the
exception of DR.. Jennings. The doctor
was not at home, but an accommodating
opening under the door of his store adj
mltted the document, which he no doubt
perused without spectacles on his return.
Here is the note as it came into our DOS
session:
"You are hereby warned that your
nefarious whisky traffic, under drug
license, behind which you are deceitfully
crouching, is working moral and physi-
cal rum among youth and citizens
IN which you are violating every princi-
pie OF moral honesty, the denial of which
will only add to your crimes that of
falsehosd. That we feel ourselyes and
families, the cause Of morality and re-
llgion outraged +; that we will no longer
tolerate this slaughter of our people.
eve hereby ask you to quit this
business or put away from it all spirit
uous liquors within ten days, which, if
you fail to do, we will put it out for you
by lawful measures. "-Mansfeld (1U.)
Democrat.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-05-01

This table, in conjunction with the
other two, is exceedingly suggestive and
instructive. 1t is a whole commentary
on the traditional stability of the soil Of
New England. There nature has been
literally subdued to the use of man.
John Adams, of Quincy, Mass. in a
letter written to Elkanah Watson in
1912, says: "Full ffty-fve years have
L observed, inquired, read, and tried ex-
per1ments to raise wheat in New En-
6. nd. The result is total DESPAIR"
But persistent, intelligent effort con
quered the difficulty, SO that in 1871 the
per acre production of wheat in Massa-
chusetts largely exceeded that of the
virgin soil in Iowa and Kansas. It is
especially noteworthy in this connection
that the diversification of employments
has been signally operative in New En-
gland since 1872, the comprehensive v s
tenn of manufacturing industry. with its
wide division of labor, which now DIS
tlnguishes and prospers that section.
having had It's rapidly expansive deyel.
opment almost altogether within the
past sixty years. One important Sc
quence of the change from foreign COM
merce to the reproductive arts has been
a steadily increasing productivity of the
soil throughout New England, since the
improvement of land through the rota-
ton of crops and bestowment of more
labor is a certain result of bringing
manufacturing industry, on an extensive
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-05-01

There is a volume of meaning in these
figures. They show that, in the latter
States, nearly three times as many per-
sons are engaged in agriculture, in pro
portion to occupations, as there are in
the former States. In case only
about a fifth of all are employed in the
production of food, while in the other
more than half are devoted to the same
pursuit. At the East, the growers of
breadstuffs and the producers of pro-
visions constitute less than one-ffth of
the consumers but at the West these
classes represent very nearly 541 per
cent. OF such consumers.
Let Us now see what effect these differ
ent conditions have upon prices of agri-
cultural products. We compile the fol-
lowing tabular statement from the
Agricultural Report for 1871, that for
1872 not yet having been published.
For the several States named is given
the average price in each State for GER
tain representative growths of the soil:
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-05-01
Beautiful Figure.

Two painters were employed to fres-
coe the walls of a magnificent cathe-
dral both stood on a rude scaffolding
erected for that purpose, some eighty
feet from the floor. One of them was
SO intent upon his work that he became
wholly absorbed, and in admiration
stood off from the picture, gazing at it
with delight. Forgetting where he was.
he moved backward slowly. surveying
critically the work of the pencil. until
he neared the verge of the platform on
which he stood. At this critical mo-
ment, his companion suddenly turned,
and, almost froze with terror, beheld
his imminent peril /; another instant and
the enthusiast would be precipitated
upon the pavement beneath if he spoke
to him it would be certain death-if he
held his breath, death was equally sure.
Suddenly he regained his presence of
mind, and, Selling a wet brush, flung it
against the wall, scattering the beauti-
fLl picture with unsightly blotches of
coloring. The painter flew forward and
turned upon his friend with fierce i'm
precautions but startled at his CHASTITY
face, he listened to the recital of dam
ger, looked down suddenly over the
dread space below, and, with tears of
gratitude, blessed the hand that saved
him.
So, said a preacher, we sometimes get
absorbed in looking upon the pictures
of this world, and in contemplating
them, step backward, unconscious Of
our peril when the Almighty dashes
out the beautiful images, and we spring
forward to lament their destruction
into the outstretched arms of mercy
and are saved.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-05-01
FOR THE LITTLE FOLKS.
Country

Country CA1ldren.
Little fresh v%iolet.,
Born in the wild wood,
Sweetly illustrating
Innocent childhood;
Shy as the antelope
Brown as a berry
Free as the mountain air,
Romping and merry.
Blue Eyes and hazel eyes
Peep from the hedges,
Shaded by sun-bonnets,
Prayed at the edges,
Up in the apple trees,
Needless of danger,
Manhood in embryo
Stares at the stranger.
Out in the hilly patch,
Seeking the berries
Under the orchard trees,
Feasting On cherries;
Trampdng the blossoms,
Down 'mong the grasses,
No voice to hinder them,
Dear lads and lssses.
No grim propriety-
No Introduction;
Free as the birdlings
From city restriction!
Coming the purest blood,
Strengthening each muscle,
Downing health armor
'Gainst LIES coming hustle.
Dear little ~innocentsi
Born in the wild wood;
Oh, hat all little ones
Had such a childhood
Gods blue spread over them,
Gods garden beneath them;
No sweeter heritage
Could we bequeath themi
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-05-01

garden with her night-gown on? How
strange the child looks. / believe she
has been walking in her sleep.
Some time after Rosy told her man.
ma about the queen of the morning
glories, but though mamma listenedand
looked astonished, Rosy fancied that
she believed after all that she had been
only dreaming.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-05-01

N~AsHvILLE's oldest inhabitant is much
interested in Bryant's Homer" be-
cause, as he says, although he didn't
know Ajax personally, he was very well
acquainted with A. Jackson and voted
for him for President.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-05-01

In these two tables a very remarkable
set of correspondence is to be found.
Those States in which the general prices
OF farm products are highest are exactly
those in which the numbers of persons
in agriculture is smallest in proportion
to the numbers in all occupations. This
fact is quite as conspicuous in the States
West as it is in the States East. The
entire range of prices in Michigan is
much higher than the similar range is in
the same group of States and there it
IS that the percentage of persons in
agriculture is least of all the percentages
belonging to that group. Without
further pointing out the significance of
these tabular statements, We leave them
to the study of our farmers.
Next we give a comparative exhibit,
compiled from the Agricultural Report
for 1871, showing the average yield per
acre of hay and certain cereals. in the
States already specified: