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Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1875-06-06

Gov. SEYMOUR, in his recent address
recommended the microscope for use
among farmers, saying; alt enables
them to observe to some purpose. you
cannot expect patron of a cheese iac'
tory to take pains with his milk unless lies,
these fungoid growths prejudicial to milF
are shown him. A microscope Will snow
and convince. The farmer with the MI
croscope can learn what insect life
working for or against him. This instru
ment, he thought, was especially needed
in the dairy Even cheap microscope
would be partial substitute for liber"
education. by magnifying the powers o
our senses and observation"
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1875-06-06
American Farms.

The great improvements that have
taken place in transportation, which
make it possible for the wheat of Iowa
and California to compete in the English
markets with that raised on the Atlantic
ea-board, and which place Iowa in COM
petition with New England, have operat-
ed to specialize farming. The large
farmer of to-day raises fewer kinds on bis
farm than did the small farmer of the
last century. This specialization allows
the use of the higher appliances and the
use of capital as the former system could
not. The true farms have doubtless
grown in size, on the average The early
settlers of necessity could till but small
farms. The tax lists of Long Island for
the years between 1915 and 1855 show
that in nine English towns the average
land-holding was about twenty-five acres,
and in the five Dutch towns about thirty
seven acres, or for the whole fourteen
towns it was twenty-five and one-third
acres, and at that time over ninety per
cent. of the taxpayers were land-holders.
uC udtlUudi VI lC'U
1880, 1000 farms, only six and half per
cent. of which were of less than ten acres,
and more than half of the whole number
contained over fifty acres. The cash value
of the farms, implements, and live stock
was placed at upward of S1l 900, 100000,
and the total estimated value of all the
farm productions at about S2,44S,O00,-
600. Of the 12,50O, 900 persons engaged
in all classes of occupations" 5000, 900
were engaged in agriculture. We have
absolutely no statistics of the agriculture
of the colonies at the time of the Revolu-
ton; therefore the actual figures of pro
gress can not be given, and we refrain
from estimates. W. II. BREWER
in Harper's Nagazine for May.
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1875-06-06

AMONG the economies, seemingly small
but bringing very noticeable increase Sc
of income from the farm, the Hon: I. s.
Gold, Secretary of the Connecticut Board
of Aor;cnlture, in a recent address, es-
peciaIiv mentioned in the avoidance of
CLUMSY and rusty tools, insufficient help,
inconyer;snt buildings, water wasted that
might h. utilized for irrigation, old
wagons that require repairing every few
DAYS. imnsrfect or impure seed, procrasti-
mated tree planting, bad roads, and last
but mot IL last lack of attention to the
laws Of health. A littlesieak may sink
great sh;~ 'nn most farms are many leaks,
and thev drain, off the Pronts. !
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1875-06-06

THE prudence of the simplest Now
England man when present or prospective
thrift is in question is proverbial. hx-
ample: A Harvard professor went down
TO one of the beaches on the New Eng
land coast to battle one stormy DAY, Out
the men in charge refused to let him 60
in on account of the dangerous swell
On his way back he expressed his dlsap-
monument and indignation to the driver
Of the ompibus. swell, I'll tell you how
# is" said the driver; 1--WE don't IKE 10
have strangers come down here and get
drowned. IT hurts the beach,"
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1875-06-06

A CAREFUL farmer has found by expert
mcnt that two quarts of Jersey COW 8
milk made five ounces of butter, while
two quarts of milk from native COW
made but four ounces.
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1875-06-06

In one part of Norway the longest day
is three months. What splendid chance
for lazy man to start daily paper
st. Louis Globe.
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1875-06-06

In reply to an invitation to attend the
Centennial, Gen. Garibaldi has sent an
autograph letter in which he says: :!
will certainly make every possible effort
to have my country participate in the
magnificent celebration which Is to DC
held in Philadelphia. ! deeply regret
that shall not be able to come myself.
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1875-06-06
Financial DelusiOns in Eng land in 1920.

In London, besides the original South
Sea Company which began the frenzy,
there were started in the course of few
schemes, many of which, as given in
Anderson's History of Commerce, are of
almost incredible absurdity. The sum
called for by these projects was three
millions of pounds sterling, which WAS
more than the value of all the land in
Great Britain. Shares in Sir Richard
Steele's "ish pool for bringing fresh fish
to London" brought one hundred and
sixty pounds share Men paid seventy
pounds each for permits" which gave
them merely the pririlege of subscribing
to a sail-cloth manufacturing company
not yet formed. There was, indeed, a
great trade in permits" to subscribe to
companies only planned. Here are a few
Pennsylvania; "Puckle's machine gun"
settling the Bahamas; ''wrecks to be
fished for on the Irish coast" horse and
cattle Insurance.; insurance and improve
ment of children's fortunes" insurance
of losses by servants" 'insurance against
theft and robbery insuring remittances;
"to make saltwater fresh;" importing
walnut-treees from Virginia; improving
the breed of horses; purchasing forfeited
estates; making oil from sun-howers;
planting mulberry trees and raising silk
worms; making quicksilver malleable;
capturing pirates; ''for importing a num-
Der of large jackasses from Spain in or
der to propagate larger kind of Mules
trading in human hair ''for fatting of
hogs" "for the encouragement of the in
dustrious;" perpetual motion; making
pasteboard; furnishing funerals.
There was even a company formed and
shares sold for carrying out an ''undertak
ing which shall in due time be revealed"
The word "puts, NOW so familiar in Wall
Street, appears in these transactions of
1920. "Puts and refusals" were sold in
vast amounts. The prices paid for shares
during the half year of this mania were
as remarkable as the schemes themselves.
South Sea shares of a hundred pounds
par value reached thousand pounds. 1t
was poor share that did not sell at five
times its original price. AS in France,
so in England, the long heads, like Sir
Robert Walpole and Alexander Pope, be-
gan to think of realizing" when they
had gained thousand per cent. or SO
upon their ventures; and, in very few
days, realizing, in its turn, became a
mania, and all those paper fortunes
shrunk and crumpled into nothingness.
So many caricatures of these events
appeared in Amsterdam and London dur
ing the year 1920 that the collection in
the British Museum, after the lapse of a
hundred and ffty-five years, contains
more than hundred specimens JAMES
PARTON, in Harper's Magazine for June
AN INTERESTING REMINIsCENCE.-Mr.
Joseph s. Walton communicates to the
Sherbrooke (Canada) Gazette some inter-
esting memoranda of the memorable
snow storm which fell in Northern Yer
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1875-06-06

PRAISE a fair day at night.
The Hartford herald., 1875-06-16
LETTER FROM KANSAS.
SEDGwICK CRY, KANSAS,

June lst.
EDITOR HERALD-The most severe
hailstorm that has ever visited any por-
ton of this county, since its settlement,
passed from West to East over the South
line of this and West line of Sedgwick
county, Tuesday night ofthis week, doing
great damage As far as we have been
able to learn, it appears that it extended
over more Of Sedgwick county than of
this, (Henry), and that devastation to
crops has been immense. Whole fields
of grain that were mataring for harvest,
amid unusually favorable aspects. have
been blown down and rendered almost
worthless The breadth of the country
over which the storm passed appears to
have been about four or five miles, and
in length, it both began and ended beyond
our limits and present information, and
the size of the hailstones, in some places,
was said to have been as large as goose
eggs. All the windows fronting to the
west in Sedgwick City are completely de-
molished, and farm houses along the route
of the storm, have all suffered equally as
bad. G. w. BEAUcHAMP.
The Hartford herald., 1875-06-16
A Gard from the school Com.
missioner.

HARTFORD, KY, Jnne, 18th, 1875.
The Court of Appeals have decided that
the Act authorizing the purchase of
collins Historical Sketches OF Kentucky"
is unconstitutional
The Attorney General has also given it
as his opinion that the money with held TO
pay for same must be paid 10 the teachers
who have thus far been deprived of it.
I am therefore authorized by the
Superintendent of Public instruction to
notify teachers who taught Common
Schools in the County Of Ohio for the
years ending June 30th, 1872, and June
30th, 1873, of the above decision. Each
of them who contracted to teach the
Common School for the public fund ap-
portioned the district and who was SUBJ
jected to a deduction, will obtain cer-
tifcate signed by at least two of the
Trustees of the district to that affect, and
without delay file same with me.
w. L. Rowe, c. S. c.
The Hartford herald., 1875-06-16
In the Tolls.

Monday night John Wyatt, Deputy
U. S. Marshal, arrested D S. Stevens
('Dock") at his home in this county, and
brought him TO town and lodged him in
Jail. The charge against him is. selling
liquor without license, and originated in
his stealing a keg Of brandy from the
Hartford and Beaver Dam stage, last
January, and trading it to neighbor in
payment for some hauling. He was
brought before Commissioner Wedding
yesterday morning, who investigated the
case, and held him in..,,bonds of $500 TO
appear and answer at the next term of
the U. S. Court. Stevens was indicted for
grand larceny-for the theft of this same
brandy-by the late grand jury, and was
under bonds for his appearance at the
next term of our circuit court Between
the Federal and State authorities it will
be miraculous if he misses the peniten-
tiary.
The Hartford herald., 1875-06-16
Pass Him Around.

10. Brewer, who formerly lived in
Louisville, came to this county some time
this spring and set in to work and raise a
crop with Mr. Ashford Woodward. He
got in debt to Woodward in the sum oi
about twenty-five dollars, and skedaddled
very unceremoniously, leaving the crop
for Woodward to take care OF, and for
getting to pay "dot leedle pill" He is no
doubt at this time deceiving some other
honest and credulous farmer. Our ex-
changes may save some man from being
chiseled by this dead-beat if they will
pass him around.
The Hartford herald., 1875-06-16
DIR CANEYyILLE LETTER.
CANEYyILLE, KY, june IA.

CANEYyILLE, KY, June IA.
The Grangers Of Grayson county met
in convention in the courthouse at Leitch.
field Tuesday, the Sth inst, for the pur-
pose of bringing out a candidate to repre>
sent them in the next General Assembly
of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, and
nominated Mr.. Lev. Green. Thus we
have three aspirants, viz: DR.. R. W.
Brandon, ofthis place. R. Bratcher, ex,As-
SCISSOR ofGrayson county, and Mr.. Green.
The three gentlemen are men of merit and
qualifications, and either would make a
good representative.
A AGRAND BARBECUE.
There will be grand barbecue given
at this place next Friday, by j. N. Bran-
don and Henry Daniel. The gentlemen
are making preparations for the comfort OF
all who may come to participate IN the
festivity.
AGES AND WEIGHTS.
The united ages of four boys we saw
PLAYING marbles on Main street last week
were 2l4 years, and their united weights
were GI5 lbs.
DOG IN HOLE.
Mr.. Enon Patterson, living near this
place, was out in the forest about mile
from his residence one day last week, and
heard dog barking. but could not tell
from what direction the noise proceeded.
On walking on piece further, he discov-
cred hole in the ground, and dropped a
stone in the hole. and apparently it fell
about forty feet and struck water. On
STOPPING down and looking, he could see
the eyes of some living creature at the
bottom. He procured ladder and went
down in the hole, and found dog at the
bottom. 1t was one of Mr. Jos. Carrolrs
dogs, that had been gone from home nine
days. Mr.. Patterson says the hole at the
bottom is large enough to admit Of a wag.
on and team being turned around.
NO DOUBT OF GOOD CROP.
There is no doubt now that good crop
of tobacco will be produced in this county,
this year, if there are only seasons to set
plants. A great deal is already set, and
plants seem to be plentiful
MISS MoLLIE DURBIN,
of Grayson Springs. spent a few days in
town last week. visiting friends; but she
has returned home followed by the good
wishes of all her friends. and we hope she
may pay us another visit ere long, especial.
ly for the benefit of our express agent.
W. J. WILSON,
the agent and telegraph operator at this
place, will leave for Cedar Bluff College
next Friday, to attend the closing ex-
ercises ofits present session, and accom-
pany his sister to her home at this place.
J, T, N,
The Hartford herald., 1875-06-16
The postage on erery copy Of TIE HERALD is

The postage on erery copy Of TIE HERALD is
prepaid at this Office.
Our terms Of subscription are 81 90 per year,
Invariably in adrance.
Should the paper suspend publication, from
any cause, during the year, ,cs ,oM refund the
money due subscription, furnish subscri-
bers for the Hnerpired term 'oith any paper of the
same price they may select.
Advertisements of business men are solicited;
ercept those of saloon keepers and dealers IN in
toricating liquors, ,ohich toiU not admit to our
columns under any circumstances.
Al copmHnications and contributions for pub
location mast be addressed 10 the Editor.
Communications iH regard TO advertising and job
,oork must be addressed to the Pablishers.
The Hartford herald., 1875-06-16
Transfer Of Real Estate.

The following transfers of real estate
have been lodged for record since our last
report viz:
James A. Browns heirs by commission
er Cox to A. G. Brown, 2 tracts, lS7 acres
on Lewis creek, 81 ,030.
r. s. Foster by Sheriff Smith, to r. NJ
Barnes, 65 acres on Caney creek, 500.
Isaac Mortou's heirs, by commissions
Cox, to George Klein, part of lot 65 il
Hartford, S400.
Mrs. NJ. J. Bentley, to L. Friedman, 6
lot in Rockport, KY, $50.
John S. Campfeld to John L. Rock
40 acres on Pond Run, $780,
The Hartford herald., 1875-06-16
The Appearance Of the Crops.

We took flying trip to the Taylortown
neighborhood, on the Green River in the
southeastern portion of the county last
Sunday, going by way of the Nc Henry
mines, and returning by way of Cool
Spring Church and Beaver Dam. We
never saw finer stands of wheat and oats,
and the corn, to borrow an expression
from our fair friends, clocks perfectly
splendid" And the apples, too. were very
far from being all killed Unless cme
pest visits and ravages the fields, we will
be blessed with more abundant and better
crops this season than have been harvest
ed in this section for many a year.
The Hartford herald., 1875-06-16
Good Tcmplars' Convention.

The county convention Of Good Tenn
plars met at Taylor Schoolhouse, near
Green River, between Paradise and
Rochester, on Friday and Saturday oflast
week. The session was most harmoni-
Gus, and everybody enjoyed themselves.
The neighbors kept open house. and were
lavish in dispensing that genuine and
hearty hospitality which has made that
section proverbial. Rev. Bros Barnett
and Taylor delivered public addresses,
and Prof. Hawkins of Rockport read the
ESSAY, which we will publish next week.
Among other resolutions adopted by the
convention was this excellent one:
ResolUed, That we will not Of our ma
terial substance minister to the support OF
any preacher of the Gospel who uses in
toxicating liquors as beverage.
That has the right ring in it. 1t is
sound and sensible. We hope to get the
report of the official proceedings In tune
for our next paper.
On Sunday morning Mr.. Gruelle ad'
dressed very large and attentive audience
in the beautiful grove just below the
schoolhouse. The community is frugal
and temperate one, and as a consequence
are prospering beyond those communities
where the liquor traffic has inoculated
the people with idleness and drunken
ness.
The Hartford herald., 1875-06-16
Wonderful Feat Of the Mails.

Last Saturday We received a letter
written and mailed by"Bill Perkins, from
Sulphur Springso on the 18th day of A pril
last Considering that Sulphur Springs
is ten miles away, we don't see any more
use for railroads or telegraphs, or even
for chain-lightning, after this miraculous
annihilatiOn of time and space by an
United States mail-carrier.
The Hartford herald., 1875-06-16
West Point CadetShiD.

There is vacancy at the West Point
Military Academy from this, the Second
Congressional District, and cadet to fill
the same will be selected by competitive
examination conducted by a board of com-
petent and impartial gentlemen. The ex-
animation will be made on the LIST day OF
August, and notice ofthe place will IN due
time be given. To any one seeking this
appointment will furnish circular con,
tanning full information as to everything
required of a cadet | will thank the
editors of papers in this district if they
will republish this card.
JOHN YoUNG BROWN.
Henderson, May 3lst, 1875.
The Hartford herald., 1875-06-16
Public Speaking.

Col. o. z. johnson and Mr.. Geo. c..
Wedding and DR.. W. ]. Berry will make
political Radical) speeehes-the former
at Hines Mill on the 26th instant, and
the latter gentlemen at Sulphur Springs
on the Bird Of July. We have not been
advised whether or not they will be met
by Democratic speakers.
The Hartford herald., 1875-06-16
He Will not be There,

Mr.. Gruelle had promised to deliver a
Temperance address at the Sulphur
Springs barbecue on the 3rd of July, but
as the proprietors have ordered large
stock of beer and ale to be disposed of on
the occasion, he declines to fill the ap-
pointmcnt
The Hartford herald., 1875-06-16
RORN.

On the 27th OF February, 1875, in Lincoln,
Illinois, to the wife of our dear friend and
former townsman, WALLACE MALI, a daugh-
ter. KITE.
We know the little lady must be hand
some if she favors papa any. Accept our
congratulation, Wallace.
The Hartford herald., 1875-06-16
He Does il Every Day.

On our trip to the city ot Louisville, last
week, we stopped at Big Clifty and took
dinner with that genial landlord, Sam.
Goodman. They had a wedding there,
that day, but then passengers used to stop
ping there for dinner would not have
known it by the table. for Sam sets a
wedding-dinner erery day.
The Hartford herald., 1875-06-16
Personal.

Mr. Will R. Haynes, of the Leitchfield
Herald, was in town Saturday and Sunday.
He looked well, had recovered entirely
from the severe attack of Press Conven-
ton, and we are told has lost none of his
old fondness for and skill at croquet.
The Hartford herald., 1875-06-16

W. II. Rust, one of the most popular
and gentlemanly statesmen of the Green
River country, was in town last week,
representing the old and reliable firm oi
Wheeler d Riggs, of Evansville.
The Hartford herald., 1875-06-16

We received on last Wednesday eve
ming, the prettiest and incest arranged
boquet of the season, for which Miss
Leila Addington will please accept our
thanks. Its sweetness and beauty can
only be surpassed by the fair donor. d.
The Hartford herald., 1875-06-16
Marriage Licenses.

The following is list of the marriage
licenses issued since our last report:
Mr. Robert G. James and Miss Eliza
Wooley.
The Hartford herald., 1875-06-16
COUNTY DIRECTORY.
CIRCUIT COURT.

Hon. James Stuart, Judge, of 0wensbofo.
Hon. Jos. Hsycraft, Attorney, Elizabethtown.
A. L. Morton, Clerk, Hartford.
4. r. Murrell, Master Commissioner, Hartford.
T. J. Smith, Sheriff, Hartford.
E. L. Wise, Jailer, Hartford.
Court begins on the second Mondays In May
and November, and continues four wesks each
term.
COUNTY COURT.
Hon. W. F. Gregory, Judge, Hartford.
Capt. Sam. K. Cox, Clerk, Hartford.
J. P. Sanderfer, Attorney, Hartford.
Court begins on the first Monday in every
month.
QUARTERLY COURT.
Begins on the Srd Mondays in January April,
July and October.
COURT OF CLAIMS.
Begins on the first Mondays in October and
January.
OTHER COUNTY OFFICERS.
J. J. Leach, Assessor, Cromwell.
G. Smith Fitzhugh, Surveyor. Sulphur Springs.
Thos. ii. Boswell, Coroner, Sulphur Springs.
W. L. Rowe, School Commissioner, Hartford.
MAGISTRATES COURTS.
Caney District, No. 1.-P. II. Afford, Justice,
held March S, June IL, September 4, December
Is. E. F. Tilford, Justice, held March is, June
4, September IS, December 4.
Cool Springs District, No. "A. n. Brown,
Justice, held March 8, June Is, September 2,
December l6. d. J. Wilcox, Justice, held
March is, June 2, September 16, December 3
Centreville District, No. 3.-W. P. Render,
Justice, held March 81, June IA, September 80,
December IS. 7. S. Bennett, Justice, held
March l6, June 2s, September Is, December,
30.
Bells Store District, No. 4.-Benj. Newton,
Justice, March IL, June %, September IL, De-
cember 27. S. Woodward, Justice, March q,
June 10, September 25, December IL.
Fordsville District, No. SC. W. r. Cobb
Justice, March s, June 10, September s, Dccem-
Der %. J. L. Burton, Justice, March 20, June
z, September %, December 8.
Ellis District, No. &C. S. McElroy, March
., June 81, September 9, December %. Jas.
Miller, Justice, March %, june s, September
%, December 9.
Hartford District, No. 7.-Jno. P. Cooper,
Justice, March l3, June 25, September IA, De
eember %. A. d. Bennett, Justice, March Is,
June Ii, September 27, December l3.
Cromwell District, No. s.-Samuel Austin
Justice, March q, June l6, September 29, De-
cenber IL. Melvin Taylor, Justice, March IL,
June 80, September IL, December 81.
Hartford District, No. 9.-Thomas L. Allen,
Justice, March IL, June "a, September l3, De-
cember 2s. Jno. NJ. Leach, Justice, March &c,
June IL, September %, December IL.
Sulphur Springs District, No. IO.-R. G.
Wedding, Justice, March 10, June S, September
81, December Z. Jno. A. Bennett, Justice,
March G, June is, September Z, December 81.
Bartlett District, No. Il.-W. ii. Cummns,
Justice, March 10, June %, September 10, De-
cember "a. J. S. Yates, Justice, March %,
June Q, September "a, December 10.
POLICE COURTS.
Hartford-I. II. Luce, Judge, second Mon
days in January, April, July and October.
Beaver Dau.-E. W. Cooper, Judge, first
Saturday in January, April, July an October.
Cronwell.-A. p. Montague, Judge, first
Tuesday in January, April, July and October.
Ceralvo.-W. d. Barnard, Judge, last Sat-
urdsy in March, June, September and Decem
The Hartford herald., 1875-06-16
Chewing the Tobacco.

We learn that in one or two neighbor-
hoods Of the county the grasshoppers
have about totally devoured the young
tobacco plants, in more than one instance
making replanting necessity.
The Hartford herald., 1875-06-16

Miss Susie Gregory. of Louisville, is
spending few days in our town, visiting
the family of Judge w. F. Gregory, who
is her uncle.
The Hartford herald., 1875-06-16

Remember that to>night is regular
prayer meeting night.
The Hartford herald., 1875-06-16

Mrs. Hart, sister of Messrs. Klein &
Bro, Of this place, is on visit here and
will probably remain during the summer.
The Hartford herald., 1875-06-16
WIN. GRAVES, wM. T. cox.
House Carpenters.

We respectfully announce to the citizens e
Hartford and Ohio county, that We are pre-
pared to do House Carpente'ing. Furniture Re.
pairing, and any kind of Mood work, on shor
notice at reasonable terms. Shop in Mauzy.
old stand.
poli Gu GRAVES & cox
The Hartford herald., 1875-06-16
.NTIGE LINE.

Mr.. Waugh. will continue the stage twice a
day between Hartford and Beaver Dam. morn
ing and evening, connecting with all passen>
ger trains on the l.. p. l. Southwestern rail,
road. Passengers set down wherever they de-
sire, mol ly