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The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-02-24
Grants Hazy Impressions.
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p'iN-iSt'iA'J
The President inquiries: 'What is there to
prevent each Of the States recently readmit-
ted to Federal relations on certain conditions
from changing their constitutions If the
dongs OF Arkansas are allowed to pass unno-
ticed and unpublished?
Nothing whatever, sir, provided these
States keep within the limits Of the Federal
Constitution. which is the supreme law of
the land Within these limits Georgia and
Mississippi are free to modify, alter,
amend or replace their local constitutions as
New York and Massachusetts. They have
the same rights and powers in the premises;
neither more nor less.
1t is humiliating that man occupying the
Office of President of the United States
should stumble this way over the very alpha
bet of our political system. The confusion in
the Executive ideas matches the confusion in
the Executive grammar. Mr.. Grant would
seem to be resting under baZy impression
that the people of the Southern States have
abiured and surrendered for all time the
right to regulate their local institutions; that
any attempt on their Part to exercise this
right would be breach Of contract, and q
proper occasion for Federal interference;
taat the assembling Of a Constitutional Con-
Tention in Atlanta for lis auce- would be a
reb llious procedure, ealing Y prompt notice
ND action on his part. His coEundrum
III ais that, il 1t means anything. Il would 1.
If one could get at It. to find out
what is notion Of the conditions" to which
he refers really is. Tie New York N4tio1s hits
the nail on the head. "Unless something is
done to clear his mind with regard to his
relations TO the State governments, It would
be but decent to give him the title Of Lord
Protector at once The functions with which
he now apparently considers himself charged
are not those of the officer known as President
of the United States"
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DOMESTIC MARkETS.

NEW YoEk, Feb. -. II 3oP NJ. Cotton
spot quiet and firm Ordinary Isl, Good
Ordinary IA Low Midiling 49, Middling
~, Middhlg Alabama Il, Middhng Or
leans 49,.
Futures less active; ow Middling for Feb
ruary i lI-lGa H. for March 15,ttl5 l5-l6.
tor April IL 5-lGGtl6., for May 1Gan Il ll-lG.
for June lG,tl6 1916, for July l7lC&
~ 3.l5, for August II 5-l6@l7s, for Septem-
Der l6ICl6,.
New lohE Feb. ., Evening Cotton
closed quiet Mitdling Uplnnds l6, Orleat 5
lG,; sales to-day 2512 bales, net receipts 56i,
gross 340S.
as follows February i 3l-j2, March
IL 1892, April ~ 9-32@'l6 IL, May l6 2l-32,
June ~ l5-ItG IL 3l-32. July Il 3-16Ga
i 2-32. August II 5-l6Wl7 1882, September
1890 lt.
Southern Eloar shade frmer, common 70
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0, good to choice do

fair extra 81 SOFAS 50, good to choice do
IS SOFAS Or.
Wheat shade frmer; fair demand at
| 81 2lGrl - for winter red Western, 81 26fa
| 81 2Gb for amber DO, 81 2G(ol 81 for white
Western. Corn opened tirmer, closed heavy;
| holders more disposed to realize; Si(aS6 tor
Wesern mixed SJ@SG for Western yellow,
| So for new white Southern and Western.
| Coffee quiet and unchanged. Sugar dull.
Rice steady; Carolina 7IN17t; 64h65 cnrren-
CIV, for rangoon. Tlliow quiet, city 81. Rosln
| lower - O5Ml2 10 for strained. 1urpentine
| lower 81 Pork dull; new mess, job lots,
| 10 2J Lard heavy: prime steam 1874 Whis-
! XIV lover. 81 O6. Frei2h's active and tirmer.
Cotton by s'eun " 2-52
CINcINNATI Feb. 2}.-Cotton firm; fair Mid
ding D.. Flour dun ana unchanged. Wheat
steady; rcd n G7fo ~. Corn dull, GGh,
c. Oats tirm, J9Ga G3. Mess pork quiet ana
held at 49, kettle l4Ge a. Bulk meats quiet
and linn. shoulders f5Gl1, clear rib 9img.,
clear 10 GllOi. Bacon steady shoulders $,
clear RIB Ii, celr | li Whisky steady, s %.
ST. Louis, Feb. - Cotton firm; Mid
ding l5l Flonr firm: shade better; SUI
periina winter 81 l5fa -, extra winter
81 2jhsI 70. Wheat duIl; NJ. red winter
81 O5ih ~. Corn No. , mixed Gih1 ~
oats finn; No > y. Whisky unsettled; few
sales at = Oh; offered at the close at II ".
without buyers. Pork dull and nominal;
5lS 80. Dry s lit meats doll; only small!
jobbing trade az prayious prices. Bacon
active and firm shoulders Slt' 81, clear rib
l0i, clear llGnilt. Lard dull III.
LOUISVILLE, Feb. ~. Cotton steady Mid
ding =. Flour and wheat quiet and IN
changed Corn GSt" 49, Oats nomin.l, GO,
%. Pork So 5OM2O Bacon shoulders =
as. clear lib lll@lli. clear 1ll@ IL. |
Bulk meats firm: shoulders Il, clear rib
lOI clear 10, Lard firm; good IA, II |
tcrcc Ill., keg l5ln. ~. Whisky firm, u o.
Baggn9 quiet ard very firm, l2sGl3.
CmcaGo, feb. 23. Flour quiet and I'M
changed. Wheat dull; No. . spring Chicago |
S5,. Corn No mixed GlimGi!. Oats dull /
No. , 53G153. Pork demand fair, SIS 10.
Lard dull, l3 Bulk meats dull shoulders
8, short rib lnddles 9aM95, shor. clear 81,
Ill lnnSe Whisky Il u
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When people say, "Oh, the dickens !"
The dickens it is many of them are not
aware that Shakespeare wrote, q cannot tell
what the dickens his name is, sentence
that first gave circulation to the use Of the
word : dickens, and it has been rustling
around the English-speaking world for more
than two hundred years |. occurs in the
Merry Wives of Windsor Act III.
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MlSCtILANE DiIN.

HAGmsIrEG. Feb %. The Senate, by vote
Of "a to q, nstructs Senators and requests
Representatives in Congress TO favor the pas
cage Of the Texas Pacific bill
New NoaE, Fob %. A billiard match for
$1,000 ana Tho championship, thhee balls, was
Won by Maurice NIgnaux. Rudolph scoring
$50.
OMAHA, Feb. ~ heavy northeast wind,
accompanied by tai Of about five inches of
snow, prevailed in this section to-day.
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The NV RULE. The first operation of the
new rule adopted by the House was to prevent
a vote upon Buffers telegraph bill at the ses-
sion last night. Upon his demand for the
previous question it received majority, but
as tae new rule requires three-fourths for
secondin9 demand for previous question
upon the first day for consideration OF ques-
Iion, the previous question was not ordered,
and the bill went over. Butler was very far
from satisfied with the effect of the rule for
which he exerted himself so assiduouslv.
Cincinnati GazeHe
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MISSOURI PROTECTS ARKANSAS.

ST. LOUIS, Feb. % Tho Missouri Logisla-
ture adopted concurrent resolution depre-
eating Grants course regarding Arkansas,
and urging that She be let clone.
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culties which so strongly press u

culties which so strongly press upon all
classes Of the people.
CHAs j. LEEDS, Mayor.
ED. PILsBURY,
Administrator Of Finance.
]. G.. Brown
Administrator of Public Accounts,
Committee.
The report was ordered spread upon the
minutes and referred to the Administrator of
Public Accounts.
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EXECUTION or A muRnERER.

puroprEa, Feb. q. Ernest Ortwt in, who
murdered tha IIlmmett family, consisting Of
the husband, wife, two daughters and IL bound
boy, and hrad tie house. was hanged to-day.
Drtwein was a farm hand and had been
treated as one Of the family He was a Ger
man and had been in this country two years
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GRKlNsA. SIrPoRrs THE MEXICAN VETERAN
PENSION BILL.

LIITLE Ron, Feb. 23.-Thc General AS
scmbly to-day adopted memorial to Con-
a;reas, asking he passing Of IN net granting
pension. &. ..le soldiers of the Mexican war
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MasutNcr1y, Feb. % During Wednesday,
n the Gull States. falling barometer and
aoutherly winds, followed 10y rising baron
cter, cooler weather. northwesterly winds.
partly cloudy ana clearing with a norther in
FGNas.
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Til. pOLAR WhNE.

ST. Pau, Feb. %. A heavy snow storm
l7 prevailing tonight, with high wind. 1t is
probable al railroads in this region will be
hlock ldcA tn.mOrroM
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An exchange asks: IF there's place for
everything. where is tie place for boil?"
II has been said that the best place for such
an ornament is on some other fellow, and we
don't think better location can be dis
covered.
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No time to lose
No time to lose
Only one week elapses
Only one week elapses!
Before it draws
Before it draws
The next great single number drawing of
the Louisiana State Lottery takes place on
the 9th inst. Capital prize $50, 600.
Judge Poland is in danger of being read QUO
OF the party on account of his Arkansas re-
port. lie must begin to feel quite respectable
again Boston Xerad
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"And now, Mrs. Sullivan. said the eoun-
sci, will you re kind enough to tell the Jury
whether your husband was in the habit Of
st tl you you' With impunity:' .'Wid what,
slr; with impunity:' Gle w1z, sir, now
and tim; oat ne sthruck NE of;hener wild his
tisLt
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BENJAMIN FRANKLIN.

CERTAIN STATEMENTS IN REGARD TO THAT
VENERABLE EXEMPLAR, THRILLING IF NOT
TRUSTWORTHY
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Plymouth Pictures.
[Phila delphia Bulletin. !

10 many people sitting Tor photograph IS
more of a torture than sitting Tor tooth
drawing, for il the latter one can take the
laughing-gas, and soon be through with the
misery. But Mr.. Beecher, Mr.. lilton and
others of the actors in this Brooklyn ,ileness
seem to have had passion fer being photo
graphed, and they appear in the shop win
dows of New York and Brooklyn in infinitely
various positions. The illustrated papers
have printed dozens Of portraits Of all of
them in as many different positions, all from
photographs. And the vulgar, obscene YER
SONS of them and of the other dranatjs per-
son0, which have Keen prepared for exhibit
ton in b r-rooms, gambling hells, brothels
and other haunts of vice, are equally numerous,
Aging from the talk OF hotel offices, billiard
rooms and other such resorts, where talk is
free, and where even decent men are some
times momentarily detained when travelling.
There has probably never before been a social
scandal that has of red 50 much nasty, de-
moralizing testing as this one Of Plymouth
Church, and it has taken the various forms of
ryhmeS, of caricatures, Of burleSque, OF OBJ
SCENT of everything. indeed, that could
make an abominable thing more abominable
to such degree that one can not help
thinking that ii would have been mercy and
q benefit to the cause of moral il Plymouth
Church had been swallowed up wears ago by
the rest of the congregation We're assembled.
But to return to the portrait business, in
which Mr. Beecher has been SO profitable
sitter to the New \ rk and Brooklyn artists
Sitting for his photograph was not, perhaps,
his partickler vanity. as Dir. Sam Weller
describes hot rum and water, Of which an
other famous divine, the Rev. Mr.. S iggi1s,
was rather fond Mr. Beecler also sat often
70 portrait painters. and to one artist, Mr.
Page, be sat, according to his own statement
before the church cour, at least hundred
times, for a picture ordered by bis dear friend
Theodore. \ hundred sittings for portrait
in oils must mean hundred or two hundred
hours, and the idea of any one mans giving
up so many valuable hours Of a life that we
all find too short, for one picture is scarcely
mprehensible, especially when the man i,
one who is often preaching about the short
ness OF life and telling Us that AL is vanity
TIE GREATEST Man When old Jesse Grant.
the father Of his Excellency Ulysses. was post
master at Covington, Ky, little boy entered
his Office to get a ten dollar bill changed
Please, sir, Al you change a ten dollar bill
for me-" he asked Yes. certainly, nv
little man, said the father to his son, pro-
ducng roll Of bills and proceeding to count
out the change. When about to hand it over |
he remarked to the boy. Ny son. do YOU
greatest man the world ever saw" The little |
fellow started with amazement, exclaming.
: What are you the father of Stonewall Jack |
son = This was settler to the old man. and /
with grutt " Get cut !" he pocke+ed the bin /
and disappeared within his sanctum, 70 lowed |
by the shouts of the bystanders
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The Council was called to order at noon by
Mayor Leeds.
A report from Administrator Bouny, an
nouncing an appointment in his department.
Adopted.
Financial.
An ordinance, appropriating 5792 for ex-
penses incurred in the Department Of I'M
provements, and $40 Is for the Surveyor $
Department. was put upon its final reading
and passed.
The following ordinance, offered by IIr.
Bertoli, was put upon its final reading and
passed
h Il or,jai,,ed etc. That the sum Of 5000 be
and is hereby appropriated, and that the Ad-
mlnistrator Of Public Accounts warrant on
The Administrator Of Finance III the sum $50
monthly, commencing from the fifteenth Of
October, 1874, in payment of rent OF office
used in storing notariel records, whenever
there shall be money to the appropriate fund
and not otherwise appropriated.
A communication from Thomas Layton,
asking that ordinance No 1885, relative to
the payment OF back taxes, be rescinded was
received and spread on the minutes.
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No time to lose !.
No time to lose :
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1875-10-29

with just dry hay enough for waddiug, and
not let them out Of the stanchions until time
TO slaughter, as they need no water and will
have too soft aesh 10 exercise. The beef 30
made will be tender and juicy. My way to
feed them is this: Roll the pumpkins upon
clean floor and bat we'll with spade, To
loosen the seed, which will fall out when the
pumpkins are cut open, and not be eaten by
the cows, which is very desirable point to
gain, as well as to save them for the next
crop.
This is the cheapest way l know Of TO
raise them As soon as the frost is out,
take a six.tined fork and dig holes about as
big as a bushel basket, 10 waste places, about
fences or among rocks or stumps. Some
times an orchard is used for the purpose
About the 18th or Goth of May throw the
dirt back, with a little manure put in with
the seed, and good crop is generally the
result. The long, sweet variety is prefera-
Bile. We have raised some this season that
weighed forty pounds. We always plant
them with corn, and have known large crops
raised with potatoes. A dairyman need
not fear Of growing too many; they make
rich milk and 6t the COWS we'll for winter.
7. @. NARAMoRE.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1875-10-29

Our correspondent at Hsverhil makes
good suggestion in regard to fall plowing
for the potato crop. fhe would also spread
and harrow in the manure in the fall it Is
possible that he would get even better crops
than he does. The best crops we have ever
raised were upon land where the manure
was narrowed in in autumn and cross
pag~sa in spring. The food afforded by the
manure becomes diffosed through the soil
where it is available for a quick, steady
growth and is reached by the roots just as
soon as their greedy mouths are opened for
food. Manure, which il applied in spring
would injure the quality Of the tuberS may
be applied in autumn with good results.
Long manure is best for potatoes. The more
straw and litter mixed with it the better,
especially for spring application.
In recent visit to the pleasant home and
farm Of Col john B. Mead, Of the Vermont
board of agriculture, he showed us one Of
True's potato planters, which cuts and drops
the seed, also the fertilizers, and covers them,
doing the work well.
The potato crop is an important one. Tho
efforts of experimenters, such men as Pringle,
Brownell aud others, are working n great
improvement 10 the potato. And yet the
average crops are very small compared to
those of former days. If we can, by better
system of culture applied TO the old or new
varieties, add fifty, or even twenty-five per
cent to the average yield, the crop will pay
better than coru.
The selection Of varieties has become a
matter of considerable moment. The farmer
who raises potatoes for market finds that he
must have varieties which are not only
hardy and productive and ripen at the right
season, but they must suit the CaPriciou'
taste of purchasers. The day when one
sound potato is as good as another is gone.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1875-10-29
Big Farm in Kansas.

The tremendous scale on which Mr. Geo
Grant Of Victoria colony, X Ansas, carries on
farming on his half million acre tract
cOlonizod by people from England, is chiefly
valuable for the example he sets in the
effort to establish a model farm and for his
enterprise in improving the stock Of the
section, by the importation Of thoroughbred
animals and the crossing with the common
stock of the state. He has 10000 sheep
and 1000 cows. Some of the items in re.
gard to bis operations, found floating in the
papers, are of course, ridiculous, as the one
that he raised on eighty acres 776 tons Of
Hungarian grass, and STA bushels of seed.
1t is not impossible that he raised sixty
three bushels Of seed to the acre, but the ten
tons Tor nearly that) of fodder to the acre
would be Of no value.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1875-10-29
Do ThOrOughbreds Revertl

The opinion Of most people is that domes-
ticated animals tend constantly to revert to the
original or wild type. Atthe Hartford meeting
Of the American association for the advance
ment Of science, W. H. Brewer, professor of
agriculture In Yale Scientific School took
occasion to differ with that opinion. He
cited remarks by an eminent scientist at
previous meeting, that:
The hog has been greatly changed by do
mestication, and yet when left to himself he
soon returns to the original type. During
the late war some of the most improved
breeds were turned loose and left to shift for
themselves. Three years after, found them
possessing all the physical characters of the
wild boar Of Europe.
He also stated that q similar fact had been
observed with Durham cattle.
This statement, and all similar ones Prof
Brewer sharply challenges. He refers to
the confidence which owners and breeders of
thoroughbred" have in the permanenco Of
acquired qualities, and says he has failed to
find single instance of reversion. nor has
he found any one who knows Of its having
taken place. He suggests that the dogma
(reversion) is used as an argument to sustain
certain scientific hypothesis. In order to
ascertain the facts, Prof Brewer has issued a
circular containing the following inquiries,
and promises to give the results obtained at
some future meeting Of the association.
l. Have you personally ever known any
case where thoroughbred Short Horn cattle,
because of climate, poor feed, neglect, or any
other cause, have become in character any
thing else than Short. Horns-in other words
where from any cause thoroughbred Short
Horns have degenersted into animals Of any
other breed or type?
2. Do you personally know of thorough
bred animals Of any other breeds so chang
ing or revertiug?
3. Have you ever heard Of such thin
taking place, in the experience Of other
breeders, so we'll authenticated that you be
lieve it 10 be factf
The professor concludes his circular with
the following remarks
That grade animals often "revert," tha
curious freaks and "sports" often attend vi
olent crossing (and also that breeds deteri
oratc under bad management or bad cond
tious), are we'll enough known, but thes
facts do not affect the specific questions aske
where the blood is supposed is to be keT
strictly pure.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1875-10-29

pure strains desire 10 check the production
Oc eggs until they are worth two or three
dollars per dozen for Matching or selling, how
long will II be before the useful qualities Of
the various breeds Of fancy poultry will be
bred out, and their capacity to improve
common poultry destroyedH wal our cor
respondent throw ray Of light into the
darkness in which we gropei
We are not to be understood as casting
any imppiation upon the great value of pure
breeds Of fowls. On the contrary, we be.
lieve in blood in poultry as in quadrupeds,
for improving the common stock. We raise
pure bred poultry on small scale for use on
The farm, and We are open to conviction tha.
"breediug to feather as practiced is not au
unmitigated humbug.
If all breeders Of fancy poultry we're as
jsdieious in management, and as honest and
reliable in their sales as Mr. Mex cen, the
business would hold greater promise Of use.
fulness than il does.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1875-10-29
For the VERMONT FARMER.
Raising Potatoes.

In your paper Of October Is, brother
farmer inquiries how to grow potatoes. AS
| succeed sometimes quite well, it may not
be amiss to give him my way. want my
ground plOwed in the fall. and in the spring
l put on from eight to ten cords of barn
yard aud stable manure to the acre. Let it
be spread nicely; am particular about
that aud then we'll plowed in, but not more
than four or Eve inches deep. Mix with the
earth as well as possible with the harrow,
and then harrow as long as narrowing will
make the ground look any better.
If the land is level mark with marker
rows two feet and ten inches apart and only
two inches deep. Cut your potatoes SO as
to leave only two eyes in piece aud put
one piece in hill, the bills from eight to
twelve inches apart. BE careful in cover.
ing not to put on the hill anything that the
young sprout can not pass through.
As soon as the potatoes are out of the
ground be ready with your cultivator and
stir the ground as well and as deep as you
can without disturbing the hill much. Guilt
vate again in one week and as soon as your
potatoes are four or FIVE inches high plow them
with spade plow passing the dirt around
the potato, but be sure and not cover it uT
as anything that troubles the stalk above
ground Injuries the coming crop. Pass with
the hoe and complete the work. Take out
all the weeds and make narrow, pointed
bill that the sunlight and air may not be too
far from the potato when it commences to dC
its work. 1t is good plan to pass through
the field with hoe in hand in duh weather il
haying to uproOt any weed that has out.liveC
the former hoeings.
All that farmer can do is to make ever,
effort to grow good growth Of tops
In good seasons they will bottom well
in poor seasons Of course they don't d,
as we'll, but you must get good growth o
tops to get good potatoes.
In digging put the tops down between tn
rows, and as you dig the hill cover up tn
tops to enrich the land for next year.
would not have man dig in my field 70
nothing if he would not cover up his tops.
Change your seed as often as every tw
or three years, and as rule get your sec
as near the potato ball as you Can, if it hn
been planted long enough to be we'll d.
vsloped. G.
HaVerhal, N. II.