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l. z S P A n A /.

Baio ell tftuio que precede, Et Cos
tariceaSe, 6rgano del presidente de
Costa Rica, la Guardia, en- su hume
70 de 16 de enero iItimo public6 un
artfculo en- que Sc hace comp'eta JUS
ticia { nuestra nacion. Al reproduclr-
10 damos las mas expresivas gracias
4 su autor. Pluguiera Dios que todos
los escritores hispano -americanos CO
nociesen as1 los grandes merltos de Ia
patria de que descienden y no ten
drfamos nosotros que decirIes indig
nados a veces verdades que amargan.
"Mal haria quien juzgara de la
grandeza de IN pueblo 8 de una raza,
por una Gpoca determinada; expo
niGn1ose q equivocar 70 bello con 10
deforme, 10 ruin con 10 sublime.
No faltan fasos talentos que juz-
guen a la Espana por la inquisicion
de Felipe II, 8 por la abdicacion de
Carlos " en- Bayona; que es como
81 juzgdramos de la antigua Grecla
por Ia muerte de Socrates, 8 por las
bacanales; de la antigua Roma por sus
auspicios, 8 por la elevation de Dido
Juliano; de la moderna Alemania por
sus guerras de religion; de la Gran
Bretana por Juan-Sin-T TERRA; y de la
Francia por Saint Barthelemy, 8 por
la invasion de Eduardo III. La nacion
espanola tiene tflulos muy caracterfs-
ticos de grandeza que la distinguen
noblemente entire los pueblos euro
peos.
La Espana antigua, en- tiempos en-
que ell denuedo militar era una gran
necesidad social, sostuvo un range
elevado en- presencia del valor roma :
no. Viriato humill6 muchas veces las
! aguilas del Capitolio; y fu6 precise el
empleo de Ia perJfdia para dar al con
sui Cepion un triunfo tiznado con la
le,onla. Saguntoy Numancia han dado
sus nombres a los siglos, y Cesar, ell
mayor captain de la antigiiedad, dJo
alguna vez: cen todas parties he com
batido para veneer, en- Espana para
salvar mi vida"
Mas no solo por ell brillo de las ar
! mas fu9 grande la Espana en- la anti
giedad. Ella di6 Roma ell agr6no-
mo Culumela, ell geografo Pomponio
Meia, ell historiador Julio Floro, ell
poeta sagrado Aquiino, ell poeta he
r6ico Luciano y ell poeta satfrico Mar
ciai. En- su suelo nacieron el orador
Qaintiliaho, ell fil6sofo Seneca, ell
consul Balbo ell mayor, ell gran pom
tifce Balbo ell menor, general famoso
y primer caudiIlo extranjero que OBJ
tuyo los honores de un triunfo roma
no. En- Espana vieron la luz ell apo
logista Orosio: Oslo, ell prelado que
preside el Concilio de Nicea; y les
emperadores Trajano, Adriano y Teo
dosio ell Grande.
Los arabes en- sus mejores dias sc
aauenaron de la Espana por medic
de laperfdia; pero la Espana, refu-
giada en- las montahas de Asttrias,
di6 al mundo un espectdculo dnico
en- la historic de los grandes caract6-
res nacionales: una lucha de mas de
siete siglos, trasmitiendo al traves de
veiute sgeneraciones ell culto de su,
Dios y los Inisterios de la patria, has
ia lamar del suelo de sus mayores ell
arraigado poder de los altivos maho-
metanos.
La Espana tuvo c6digos antes que
ningan otro pueblo moderno europeo.
Mas tarde prohij6 a Colon y des-
cubri6 un mundo, iIustrando los nom
bres de Cortes, de Pizarro, de Val
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VII.

Han pasado dos dias. Ell sol pugna por hum
dirse en- el ocaso. Innumerables nubes cargadas
de eectricidad adelantan su agonia le envuel-
ven en- extenso manto de color plonnizo.
Ell horizonte esta oscuro, triste.
Las aves amedrentadas por la proxirni-
dad de una recia tormenta Sc retran precipitada-
mente cru7ando ell espacio en- numerosas banda-
das, los nidos a la espesura.
I'll viento Drama en- violentas rAfagas
no estar en- la primavera, estacion de di-
cha de poesfa, podria creerse que tan impo-
nente tormenta era un preludio del invierno
Completa soledad en- ell vale La montana.
Acerquemonos al dintel do la puerta del
caserio que va conocemos, y veremos sentados,
y departiendo tranquilalnente al vieio padre de
Rafael, ocupado en- liar cachazudamente una
cuerda de esparto, (2)y una j6ven, cosiendo,
% Aunque esa simple nara por 10 tragea parezea
exagerada inveros1mi no dea de ser hist6rica
~ 0supac0n Dc aque0s natasles sa los ratios de 6cio
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EN- vENEZ UEL A.
PAZ EN- Ell EsTADO FALCON

General MIGUEL Gil, Jefe d
Grande Estado Mayor General, y
generates LEON CoLINA, Jefe de
fuerzas del Estado Falcon, y ROMUl
DO FALCON, presidente del mismo
tado, han convenido en- ponerle tern
no a la guerra proclamada ell II
octubre del ano pasado, del modO
guiente:
1o-Los generates CoL1NA y Fl
CON Sc comprometen a entregar
das las armas y municiones adquid.
por la revolucion, y & licenciar to
los jefes, ofciales y tropa de su I
pendencia.
2o-Tambien han convenido
que los jefes principales de la revo
cion Sc iran al extranjero mient
Sc reorganiza Ell Estado conforme
su Constitution.
3o-El general Gil ofrece en- no.
bre del Gobierno Nacional a los CO..
prometidos en- dicha revolucion,
mismas amplias y seguras garant
en- su persona y propiedades de Z
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ofEo8 (Gontin@acioss.J .
Fl anciano exha6 IN suspiro, dirigiendo-
aa & r afael hahI6 en- los sguientes tRrminos.

FL anciano exhal6 IN suspiro, dirigiendo-
se Rafael habl6 en- los sguientes t6rminos:
& ss.e..as--Hijo mic, hora es va de que tie liable
conforme corresponds 4 IN. padre. Tu conaucta
= de algunos meses esta parte no puede ser mas
reprensible Todos los dias, cegado por tu mall
dita passion por la caza, la hacienda queda aban-
donada, u va arruinandoee, gracias tu punible
cenportashientc, etedifcio del porvenir de tus
hijos que tanto sudor tantas vigilias la costado
tus mayOres levantar. Todo yaee en- la incuria
s1y en- Ell olvido.mas espsntesos Como ha de If eI
rebano 81 Ell pastor 10 ha abandonado9 Yo va es-
toy al bOrde de la aepalidra; me es impossible
regir por mas tempo Ia maquina de esta hacien-
de, que II dnicamente corresponds. ST no va
g rias totalmente tu desidioso proceder que cuen-
;. ta daras malana tus infortunados e6 inoeentes
hijOsi-...
.s I el ancianO, pronunciadas les G..;imas fra
sesi guagd6 silencio.
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segun un colega los personajesc
recientemente han abrazado ell cat
Iicismo son ell duque de Sajonia {
burgo Gotha; ell principe de Schoe
burgo; el conde de 1ngenenhe
S. A. r. el duque Federico Augu
de Hesse Darmsta II; Lady ViCto
Quirwan, hermana del marques
Hastings, y de la condesa de Londo
monsenor Haslees, jefe supreme
la iglesia protestante de Baviera;
princesa de Bismarck, hija del G,
Canciller de este nombre, tenaz p
seguidor de los cat6licos; la hija
famoso general Honvedes; Art
Gorges; Lady Russell, lnadre
lord Odo Russell, y, ademas, inf
dad de personas de Inglaterra y a.
mania, pertenecientes a familias {
tables.
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La Gaceta publica ell siguiente til

La GdcetG puO1ca el slgulente ltl-
nerario:
rs E. teniendo que apresurar su
regreso la Capital para recibir al
limo. Obispo de esta Isla que llegara
en- ell proximo vapor de la Peninsula,
ha determinado salirde Ponce e. saba
do 20 pernoctar en- Guayama, ell 21
en- Arroyo, ell % en- Yabucoa, Ell %
en- Humacao, ell "a en- Fajardo, ell 25
en- Carolina, llegando ell 26 la Capi-
tai. Despues de recibir al Sr Obispo
y correspondence de la Peninsula,
continuara su vista por ell interior y
recorrera los puebIos del ftoral que
ahora no ha podido yisltar."
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La Gaceta de hoy con.iene ell

La GacetG de hoy con.lene eI 81
guiente anunciO Official:
"Habiendose dispuesto por ell Gobierno
General la circulation de las c6dulas de
vecindad que han de regir en- ell presente
ano y distribuido acadia una della munich
palidades de esta Isla, con objeto de que
desde el Is del corriente mes Sc proceda
q su expendicion; este Centro con tai
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clones rnuy provechosas para el por
venir Quseralo Dioss
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segun ell impreso que copiama
continuacion, ha termirado felizme-
ell conficto armada de Venezuela
aquf el tratado:
TERMINO DE LA GUERRA
EN- VEN EZURE4A.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1875-07-08
Among the Thinkers.

Very few of our readers know what q
TINKER is. A TINKER is one of Chris
ian gathering that live in the high hills
or mountains of Virginia, Maryland,
and principally in Pennsylvania, the
old men despising hats and wearing
long boards, and the equally quaint old
women habited in linsey- woolFey dresses
but discOuraging boDnets. Last week
the funny-lOoking Thinkers held an an
nual convention near Lancaster. Pa,
and they came down as usual from their
coigns of vantage in remarkably shabby
out of-fashiOn wagons to enjoy them
selves in a good old fashioned TINKER
prayer meeting, aud dispose of their
produce and a few fxings to pay the
cost of the trip. The fuckers are so
comlcal IN their exterior as to attract a
large crowd whenever they convocate,
but their earnest sincerity and Christian
simplicity are so manifest that they
command respect from the more worldly,
even if they cannot proselyte. They
preach and pray and sing hymns in
Pennsylvania Dutch during the day in
the evening they meet in a big barn
where they indulge in a delight
full lOve-fesst of mutton broth,
and then further regale them
selves by washing each others feet.
Ihere IS nothing heterOdoX IN mutton
broth and feet washing, for after this
humility the Thinkers partOok of the
communion with a devotional feeling
which commanded the sympathy of ali
who had gathered to witness their oddi-
lies with the intention of laughing at
them. The Thinkers in other ways are
equally singular. They ALLURE the
pomps and vanities of dress. There are
no panniers and chignons among the
Tunke1esses, nor patent feathers nor
flash ties among the Thinkers, and their
homes are as plainly attired as their
persons. They never quarrel publicly
or privately they carry no arms save
those which nature gave them, and their
wisdom anneuOces itself by their never
going 20 law. They declare work to be
an essential of religious life; their
preachers receive no pay, working as
others work they build no churches
whose ambitious spires seek to spike
His fOOtstOol, and they walk humbly
and spotless through life, and although
frequently made the sport of boys who
think them almost as good ss a circus,
they pass on iOrgivingly and content.
Such are the Thinkers who expect to go
to heaven by addressing the throne of
grace in Pennsylvania Dutch, and who,
judging from the above description will
be as likely to arrive there perhaps as
many who make larger pretensions.
81. Louis Republican.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1875-07-08
Northwestern Crops.

The Western Rural has collected a
large amount of information about the
crops in the northwest, and the follow
ing is n summary: The wheat reports
clearly indicate that the acreage of
wheat this year in the western states L.
less than last year. Thus in Illinois
but three reports indicate increased
acreage, while twice as many show but
cne-half as mu IN or even less. In Wis
consin no reports show an increase, and
but two an equal acreage, while seven
show not more than one.half. In Iowa
the same condition is shown. In
Michigan the acreage was not materially
reduced. In some of the newer states,
increased acreage is reported.
As to the condition, the reports are
not unfavorabie, the majority of all in.
dicating at least an average condition.
Michigan makes a poor showing. Hi
nois stands we'll. Wisconsin and Iowa
complain very largely, but the general
average is not bad.
Undoubtedly the acreage of corn
planted in the vest was larger than any
former year. In Illinois no report
shows less acreage than last year, with
eTorts of an increase of 20 or % per
cent Iu Iowa the same is true. with
several reports of an increase of so per
cent. Wisconsin is not great corn
state, but shows an increase of at least
% per cent in acreage. Michigan and
Missouri also show a considerable in
crease.
The reports OF the condition is rot so
good as is desirable, but it is probable
that many of the unfavorable reports
indicate a lateness of the crop rather
than bad condition otherwise. Bearing
IN mind the comparative quantities
grown in the different states, our re-
ports show prospect at the middle of
June of about four-fifths of an average
cop.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1875-07-08

1T WAS an ancient custom OF tue
Spartans. in order to inculcate among
their youth an adherence OF Intemper-
ance and its kindred vices, to make
their slaves drunk with wine in the pub
lie market-places, SO that the rising
generation, upon whom would some
day devolve the honor and safety OF the
I,acedemonian Republic. might see be
fore them all the CHASTITY details OF the
drunkard's disgrace, his loss of reason,
and of physical strength. 'Twere well,
perhaps, to day, could some of our
young men contemplate similar IN
structive lesson drawn from the lie,
showing them, by sharply drawn con-
trast, the advantages and true loneliness
of abstinence and virtue.
For such as appreciate these, VIM
epar Bitters is the beverage best adapt
ed, it being purely vegetable draught'
devoid of alcohol or mineral polsons,
and possessing all the virtues, but none
of the damning curses, of the different
poisons which year by year are sweeping
away thousands of dollars and lives.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1875-07-08
The Colorado Potato Bug.

For nearly or quite sixteen years
this beetle has been advancing, or,
more strictly speaking, spreading over
the country from its native habitat, the
plains near the base of the Rocky
mountains, where it was first discovered.
Taking the ratio of its progress east
ward for the first few years after it was
fornd, it would not havereached the At
Iantic coast until 1873, but it has doubt
less been helped along by the railroads,
specimens flying into the car windows,
and being carried miles before they
could escape.
This insect crossed the Mississippi
river from Iowa into Wisconsin In 1864,
or the spring of 1855, and has conse-
quently advanced more than one hun
bred miles per annum in a direct line,
instead of about sixty, the rate at which
it moved through Nebraska and Iowa.
But it has at last reached the Atlantic
coast and abounds from New York
southwark for several hundred miles.
It's progress through the New England
states is only question of time, proba-
bly, not extending beyond the present
season.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1875-07-08
FoX's ROYAL FAMILY.
Searching the Pastures of the United
states Tor FLOODED Cattle.

Searching the Pastures of the United
states tor FLOODED Cattle.
Reclining on the clean yellow straw
in battered old building at 81 Pavonia
avenue, Jersey City, duke a duchess,
several princesscs, and other descend
ants OF royal blood were contentedly
chewing their cuds and switching their
tails yesterday. To-day they will sail
in the steamer Holland for their home
in Elmhurst, Staffordshire, England.
They are all short horn cattle that have
heen selected from all parts of the
United States and Canada, and are prob
ably the most superb specimens of this
breed in the world. Every means has
been taken to get only cattle that are
perfect in every point, and fabulous
prices have been paid for the herd.
They belong to Mr.. George Fox, the
foreign partner of A. T. Stewart, who
came to America in April last, and with
his agent, Mr.. William Dolby, made the
selection. Fifteen animals were bought
for 1925, 900.
The most noticeable of the herd is
the bull, the twenty-fourth Duke of
Airdrie. He weighs 1890 pounds,
and is simply faultless in structure,
quality and handling. His lines are
even and perfect, his color is roam, his
hair is soft and fine, and his massive
limbs are clean and splendidly shaped.
The Twentieth Duchess of Airdrie, sis
ter 10 the Duke, Is much like her
brother, and to a breeders eye is a
triumph of superior breeding. These
two animals are from the famed Wood
burn herd of MIR. A. J. Alexander,
Spring Station, KY. and $50. 900 was
their cost. The Processes are the
Damask Second, Third Princess of
Oxford. Sixth Pnnceess of Oxford, and
Third Princess of Thorndale, all splen-
did cattle. The other cattle are animals
that any breeder might be proud of.
Stalls with padded walls viii receive
them IN the steamer early this morning.
Man York SIM. lime d
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1875-07-08
Sherman at Bunker bill.

Yes, feliow-citizens," said Gen.
Sherman at Bunker Hill, "this battle
was a series of bluuders from be-
ginning to end, and what in merry Hal
ifsx yen are celebrating it for I cant
for the life of me see. CCheers. J
There was Warren-Dr. Warren--a
mere sawbOnes-labeIled naior-general
for the occasion and sent over to super
intend the battle. There was Prescott
"a roUgh-and-ready fighter, but no
soldier. And old Put, a clumsy farmer,
who once killed a wolf and slid down
stairs on horseback, for which they
made him a general. Qronical laugh
ter. Nobody knew who vas command
er, and in fact there was no head what
ever to the misshapen animal Why.
gentlemen, will you believe me when I
assure you that there was not q single
West Point officer IN the entire Ameri-
can force engaged on that day-not one.
painful sensation.) Still [ have the
highest admiration for those fellows
who got behind the fence there and had
a pop ct the British on that momentous
day, and, gentlemen, we must remem-
Der, that we can't all be accomplished
soldiers, an6-can't all write our own
memoirs" Disorder.) At this point
the general was struck by a shower of
cookies and fish balls thrown by iDdig-
nant descendants of the Warrens, Put
mans and Prescotts, and his speech came
to an abrupt close.-BU6dlO Express.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1875-07-08
wasteful and Unproductive Farming.

An author who brings the light of
science and experience 20 bear on Mas
sachusetts agriculture makes the follow
ing instructive statements " Farming
is an occupation in which a man with a
small capital cannot safely invest, IN
less his nearness to a growing manufac-
turing town renders the future sale of
his land for other than farming pur-
poses probable" If the above state
ment be true, it presents truth for our
consideration of almost infinite import
ance. It implies that "man with a
small capital, which will include
ninety-nine in every one hundred Amer
lean farmers) may proftably buy land
and wear out its fertilizing properties,
| if near a "growing manufacturing
town." and then sell it for building
purposes, and clear some money by
| farming and gardening and on his real
estate bargains. But Ia what condition
does this system of agriculture leave the
soil for the support of the next genera
ton Humane society does not and
cannot stop at the border of an impov-
erished field, garden, or rundown or
chard. Humanity lives, and must eat
often. For the last five years while
some farmers were burning corn for
| fuel in the west, Massachusetts farmers
have been paying eight dollars a cord
for common stable manure and it Is
this high price of manure that drives so
many men of industry and more or less
capital, out of all farming business into
other pursuits. In all parts OF the
United States industry, want and new
ideas keep the public In active commo-
ton. Industrial revolution is the order
of the day. Our author says: "The
day of large farms with small capital,
worked by individual owners, must in
evitably follow the rapidly declining
number of small manufacturers and
small dealers The enterprise of our
native population is adverse to the slow
methods and improbable returns of
such Investments. The west must feed
the east for there the prairles offer an
opportunity for the aggregated capital
and the congTegated labor necessary tn
the economical production of food. As
well might We hope TO 60 back to the
old methods of textile production, or
our large cities depend on the we'll and
cistern to supply their wants with water,
or the uncertain yield of oil with light,
as to hope that the teeming millions of
the future are to be fed by the wasteful
and unproductive individual farming of
the present.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1875-07-08
Oats, Peas and Cotton, in

Oats, Peas and Cotton, in Rotation.
For the several years that have now
been planting oats (the red rust-prooD
on an extensive scale, I have found that
it is a we'll paying crop; and from the
experience and observation which /
have made, 1 find the following a good
rotation:
First, cotton second, oats third,
oats, ana fourth, oats, to be followed
by cotton again. I have a four-feld ro-
tation, because my lands lie naturally
in four divisions also, the longer the
period before the main crop COTTON
returns to the same field the better /;
and, lastly, I consider one-fourth of the
arabic land in cotton as sufficient,
preventive of an oversupply.
The cotton is manfred with all the
manure which is made by the stock on
the farm. I compost this with the cot
ton seed, adding as much acid phOs-
plate as necessary to furnish the suffi-
cient quantity of phosphoric acid. Tue
oats following cotton is not MANFRED.
I plant some of it at last ploughing of
cotton. Assoon as the oats is taken from
the field, replant In peas, manuring
these with two hundred pounds acid
phosphate. The peas commence bear
ing by the middle of September, and
are turned under for oats. Every sue
ceeding crop of oats is treated in the
same way. In the one followed by cot
ton, the latter gets the benefit of the
peas. The phosphate furnishes the
suitable nourishment for the peas, and
the turned under pea-vines furnish the
best manure for the oats. Bv this pro-
cess, land which will make ten bushels
OF corn, with fifteen bushels cotton seed,
will make twenty five bushels oats, with
the same outlay of manure, but much
less labor. The fodder of the corn
don't pay much above cost of pulling
the same.
The cost of planting an acre of oats
in this manner, including seed for peas,
phosphate, seed for oats, etc., in fact,
everything coming to its account until
| the oats lay clean IN the granary, and
the straw in the barn, or proper stacks,
paying Graders one dollar per day,
! found was 81 so (seven and one-half
! dollars) per acre. Twenty-Five bushels
OF oats produce about one Thousand
pounds straw, which should be worth
! fifty cents per hundred pounds, but
counting it only at thirty five cents,
amounts to three dollars and fifty cents;
/ deduct this from seven dollars aud fifty
/ cents, leaves four dollars, as cost of the
] twenty five bushels of oats, which is
| sixteen ceuts per bushel. In the
country clean oats is always worth
/ as much as corn. If any rough
forage is desired, different from
that Of the cat straw, oat chat,
mixed with meal, is excellent for work
animals, saves twenty per cent. ON the
grain, and is healthy. There are always
three fourths of the whole area IN peas,
at different stages of growth, of which
| hay could be made in any quantity. and
of the very best quality W. Claus
| sen in Rural CdTOli0idn