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The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1875-08-12

The manufacture of glucose, or corn
syrup, should be very profitable in this
country. The foreign article, of which
immense quantities have been imported
since 1867, is charged 20per cent. duty,
besides ocean freight. This advantage
to the home manufacturer is enhanced
by the fact that the raw material in the
United States is far cheaper than in
Europe. A bushel of corn in Illinois
costs from 30 to 60 cents, in New York
S5 cents, while the European manufac,
turer of glucose and grape sugar has to
pay $l,25.
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1875-12-18
why She stopped her Paper.

From the Detroit Free Press.
She came bouncing through the
sanctum door like cannon ball,
and without pausing to say "How
dye dO?" she brought her UNI
brella down on the table with a
mighty crash. and shouted.
Il want to stop my paper
'All right, madam
Stop it right off, too she per-
sisted, whacking the table aga n,
for | waited long enough for you
to do he square thing.
She quieted down for II minute
as we run our fingers down the list
of names and when we reached
hers and scratched it out, she
said {:
Now mebbe you'll do as you ought
to after this, and not slight "a
woman jest cause she's poor. If
some rich folks happen to have a
little red-headed. bandy-legged,
squint-eyed, wheezy squaller born
to them, you puff it to the skies
and make itoutan angel but when
poor people have baby you don't
say aword about it, even if it is
the squarest-toed, blackest-h haired,
biggest-headed, noblest little kid
that ever kept ii woman awake al
nights. That's what's the matter
and that's why stopped my pa
per-"
And she dasned out as rapidly IS
she came.
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1875-12-18
An Unpatriotic Paragraph.

The Philadelphia Bulletin has
this statement: "An Indiana pa
per. abiding to the death of the
man who designed the great seal
of that State, remarks that 3any
snan who would try to make peo-
pie believe full-grown buffalo
hull would deliberately rush up to
., granger who was chopping down
"A tree at sunrise ought 20 die But
the State seal of Indiana is not by
any means the most remarkable
OF the devices employed for that
purpose Georgia offers some
thing more astonishing i'm pie
turp of an absurd summer-house
supported by three pillars, and
guarded by Continental soldier
with weak legs; and Kentucky
actually presents figure of Gen.
Washington in the act of holding
up an intoxicated friend in order
10 keep him from ia ling against
Il b0okc Sc in the background.
After this California's device OF
Minerva sitting on stone, while
cinnamon bear nibbles her LEFT
ley, seems artistic and nice"
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1875-12-18
From the Microscope to the
WO0dpile.
From the Detroit Free Press.

EfUUt lftt ADttbtat a stt a 1905
The other day Detroit father
purchased a microscope for his son
"a boy of ten. patted the lad on the
shoulder and said TO him
my son. take this microscope,
and go out and study the beauties
OF nature"
The boy left all other amuse-
ment- for that, and he took such
reat inter It and improved so
rapidly that at the tea-table, to
whi,.l, several visitors sat down
with the family, he felt that he
must make some remarks. Turn
ing to one Of the ladies, he inuuir-
ed
Did you ever look at cheese
through microscope ?"
Il don't think / ever did," she
pleasantly replied.
Well, you just ought to see 'em
things crawl"
John ! John exclaimed the
father shaking his head at the boy
across the table.
John -ubdued for a min ate or
two AMI WHEN his mother passed
the chee-e around everybody said,
"Thank YOU, no." Pretty sU n
the y,unl student desiring tn moi
ify nj, father, asked
"Taliht.r, did yeu ever look al a
toad through u nicrorcope -
John was rather disappointed at
his failure to arouse enthusia>m.
aud just as the wi,trrirS We're
bel ~ passed around the table, he
remarked
We'll, you just ought to look at
a strawberry once, through IA mic
roscope. They look just like warts,
they do, and you think you see
bugs running
'JaWn = said his mother
Boy! warne,. his father.
We'll, they look wOrse'n flies
heads protested the boy, who
Imagined that they doubted is
veracity, "for flies
'BOy!' said his father, making
q motion for J Ahn tn leave the
room.
John left, aud as soon as ii was
convenient for him to do SO, the
father escorted the lad to the wash
room in the basement, bounced
han around and said
My sun,gi'nme that microscope
| and you take that ak AMI go out
and study the beauties OF that
wood pile
II that boy continues 10 feel in
the way he does at present,h will
become bank robber instead Of Il
naturalist
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1875-12-18
Consumption Of Forests.

Ii is said that nearly une-hslf Of the
surplus hard woods uf the country are
to be found in West Virginia. How
sion. Taking the one item IT railroad
ties, and we find that the country re-
quires ior.lts annual supply 1880, 900
cubic feet, equal to 1885, cords OF
solid timber, to secure which at least
2,000, ono o,rds nf standing timber
have to BE- cut down. The average
prot'uct per acre Of tho forests OF Vir-
una il given by n. F. Maury, at from
I,Tty IL tlfy cords pes acre; so that,
taking this maximum Yield, our rail-
road ties alone destroy annually 10000
acres of woudland. The annual CEN
sumption If the country for fuel is es-
timatcd \, over so 100000 cords of
wood, Of which three tifths may be as
sumed to be good standing timber cut
expressly for tuel. This aives an an
nual Gearing Of 100000 acres. The
iron fonndries consumed in 1870, $780,
900 tons Of charcoal. and :, furnace
that makes six or seven tons uf iron n
day will Use up 200 acres Of wmn'and
year The annual prnduci of char
coal iron is now abolt 10000 TONS,
using up 5000 acres year The pine
lands of Michigan, the best in the coun-
try, yield 10000 feet to the acre, broad
measure.
The annual consumption OF the
country in manufactured lumber is g.
900, 900 900 feet, representing an an
nual clearing of 100000 acres The
fencing of the country requires $4,000,
900 acres 60 be cleared in order to make
it, and the annual repairs no fencing
destroy 25,000,000 acres of forest Our
shipping tonnage represents $4,000
acres of oak forest destroyed, and de-
mands ior repairs 1000 acres year.
The hard and turned wood manufac-
lures of the country use up an annual
average of 100000 acres of timber.
Taking all these items together, we
have an aggregate annual consumption
Of 8 5000 0 acres of forest. AS our
total forest lands amount to $50, 000,-
900 acres, they will last at this rate
only seventy years. A certain percent
age of forest destroyed is allowed to re.
new itself, and, as in seventy years a
pipe woods can be cut over twice, this
renewal amounts to n very considera-
BILE figure, but it is scarcely sufficient
to offset the increasing demand fer TIM
Der for every purpose to keep pace with
iuceasing population and eXieent in .
dustries IN the same period. In other
words, with our present system OF bus
haudry and our present growth of pop
nlation, seventy years make the maxi
mum period that the forests may be ex-
pected ,n hold out IN W York World.
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1875-12-18
The Herald Office in Paris

Colonel Forney in recent let
ter says that the New York Her
ALL office in the Place d'Opera,
Paris, is one of the most agreeable
re-orts in the French capital On
Abe broad panes of the bulk win
dow OF the first floor you find every
day tine latest cable dispatches
from all parts Of the world, par
ticularly from the United States.
iuSide on this floor are the bust
aess offices OF the Herald, where
you find the clerk and the chief.
ON the second floor you enter by
convenient stairs into reading
ruom admirably furnished. There
are rWo-hundred American papers
stn the files, IA larger variety than
Is found anywhere else in Europe.
'Ghere are always gathered the
uost Intelligent of our country
e4eople, ladies and gentlemen. 1t
has all the advantages of a club,
without the disadvantages, and
you make and renew many valua-
ale acquaintance. There is an
air ofcomfort and quiet--an Amer
ican home-feeling-in the place
perfectly delightful.
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1875-12-18
COlOred POlitfic Views.
Colunlbia MOI Her0ld.


On the morning of the cleo
ton the following dialogue took
place between two darkies, hear
the court house in this place
We'll, Josier, how's you gwine
to vote?
Vote ! how's | gwine to vote ?
| dun no! What you talkin' bout
niger ?"
II axed you how's you gwine to
vote on de constitution"
"De constitution What const'-
tior ?'
"Well, | declah you de biggest
fool niger Iebber did see lnean
de constitution of the United States
Oh MisSoura De com,npnwrtf Obj
all NV u--0ne aud no 10 hr ctp'
ated dc land uf Abraham Lin
kin, Muses ard the pairtnrches-
and a hundred dozen mo whose
names / iuu forSo who suff red
triberla,ions and d,l rad,ler dan
see de poor Niger pine under de
monuments OBJ equality, and died,
yes sab, died, to make de niger a
chattle oh circumstance and
voter at the polls
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1875-12-18
A Specimen Cine Snn natl
Gambler.
[ From tie Gaze matt Gnrstfe !,

John w. CoZard, now retired
from the sporting arena, was ONE
of the most successful of Cincinnati
gamblers in his time, and strange
to say, his success was not in back
ing or dealing games, but in play
i'm against them. For several
years after he became a full fledged
faro iiayer, he was the terror of all
he saues he played against, al
most uniformly winning largely
evrrg play he made. His success
continuing 10 the utter demoraIi-
zttiU Of the men he played
against. it was finally concluded by
all lie dealers that he was either
,e-t'Sspd of some secret charm
frnn the Almighty or in league
wi The devil, ami he was barred
of also sether-i hat Is, none of
tn III would allow him to play
against their games.
y w, the fact is that CoZard was
neither protected from on high or
below, nor was he able to exercise
any cnarm of magic over the
checks he pitted his own against.
But he was gifted with a singular
~ keen eye and remarkably re-
t-ntive memory. By the aid of
the former he was able to detect
any popularity in the scrollwork
or Towering on the backs of the
cards as the dealer shuffled them,
an! the latter was capable of so ar
ranging such peculiarities in his
mind so AS to have perfect
knowledge Of their faces on seeing
Fhpir backs.
This was his great and only
percentage against faro banks.
1t Is sud by gamblers that no two
str'ls in square deck of fifty-twO
are exactly alike, and CoZard so
watched the cards and memoriZed
cir peculiari;ieS that in two deals
h,e was bound to know twelve or
fourteen Of them. This knowledge
VT course, gave him pull against
the turn of the last three cards
.ArOugh the deal, and Ii he caught
Any If them in an the last turn,
Won Il 'caIl the turn" sure, and
win hundreds of dollars.
Ire only way lhe gamblers nau
RI stand him off ou the remarkable
faculties he possessed was to change
cards every deal. and when that
was done CoZard stood them off by
not playing at all. He has not
s.en identified with the gambling
fit ternity for some years now ,hav-
tas taken to real estate specula-
Far@ @r poker. The money he won
ss.tm-E faro ne invested with a
ShrewdnesS that naarks him ms the
same close calculator he was when
playing "the bank" and to-day,
~ sides owning large amount OF
valuable city property, he has a
town named after him in the SUI
burbs of Cincinnati, "COzarddale, "
and another growing up in Neva-
il known as COZard citV.
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1875-12-18
NOTES AND NEWS


Peter B. SweeDy lives comfortably III
Paris.
Braxtea, Va, has extensive iros
works that pay we'll.
Senator bones of Florida was born in
Ireland in lss4.
There are fn,NiDss OF gigantic whis-
Ky ring in Chicago.
The Providence Journal wants Grant
to help the Liberians.
Baroness Coutts takes great interest
in the London doll show.
Mrs. Shupp, a Reading consumptive,
eats dog meat regularly.
Thomas Jefferson was an earnest
friend of colonization in Africa.
The press is agreed that Babcock
must submit to the civil ordeal.
Senator English Of Connecticut has
been in public life 20 years.
Senator Burnside was once in busi :
ness with Mcclellan. in Chicago.
In the Boston schools the children
sing in their middle register only.
Chicago,s FIRE department is bounded
by lot of military red tape.
Prof. Swing is going to preach every
Sunday in a Chicago theatre.
An Easton school has been nauseated
by dead toads in the register.
The Virginia City sufferer, have be-
GENE accustomed to their lot.
The Rio Granie gnerilas should be-
outiawed BY both governments
An exchange admits that .'c.assiciiy"
ir the bnghear OF many concerts.
A bear is loose in Clarified, Pa, and
there is no "baggoting" fro;a school.
Connolly, the Tammany fugitive.
fluctuates between Switzerland and
Italy.
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1875-12-18

Boston has 6 high schools.
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1875-12-18

Noses are fashionable, and have
always been followed
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1875-12-18
A Suggestion TO Senator Her
nan.
The Tribune says :

The Tribune says:
There is one man in the present Con-
5ress who can do much to defeat the
schemes Of politicians willing and anx-
ious to arouse religious strife for parti-
sau purposes. Senator Herman of this
State is a Roman Catholic and Dem
ocrat but friend to the common
schools. who has distinguished himself
by his opposition to sectarian appro-
priations.
II Senator Herman will take the sense
Of Congress and his party on this ques-
ton, he may be able to show the coun-
try that there is no real difference OF
opinion among good citizens of all re-
lisicns and parties as to the necessity OF
preserving the common schools.
e. a 4. a L L..
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1875-12-18

Feeling noses for drinks is the
popular method in southern In
diana The one thai has the worst
chill treats.
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1875-12-18

lirndon papers are full of the CON-
iug toy Shaw at Alextndrs palace.
Bah frs Signed his Mcdonald lie =
patch ''Sil,.% - tg'n made the ~ .
The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1875-06-18
Died of Grief.

LEAvENwORTI. June 16. Mrs.
Ramsey, wife of Sheriff Ramsey, who
was killed in an attempt to arrest
outlaws in Ellis county. died this
morning o. the hospital of the Sis
tiers of Charity IL this city. About
the time of her husbands death she
had a strange presentment that some
thing terrible had happened to him,
and she could not be persuaded other
wise. She and some friends started
to meet him and get his remains. On
the way home to this city the shock
was so sudden and narrowing to her
feelings, that reason vas sethp0ned
and with a short lucid interval re-
manned so until The close CT life. She
was tenderly cared for, but no kind
ness could save her, and she died this
morning of a crushed heart.
The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1875-06-18
BUNKER HILL.
The Centennial Celebration Yes
terday---Oyer 100000 on the
Grounds Boston Beautifully
Decorated---Firing Of Cannon,
Ringing of Bells, etc.. etc.

BosTON, june Flew of the three
hundred thousand inhabitants OF Boston,
or of the hundred thousand strangers
who were chartered in the city last
nioht, needed the clangOr of the church
bells or the thunder Of cannon to arouse
them at ~&:nrisc to-day. The whole city
was astlr at dawn, and the whistles OF
the locomotives, laden with people from
the suburbs, had begun TO resound
across the north and south of the ci,y.
All the freight business on all the
roads that enter the city is suspended
to-day. and their passenger carrying ca
.Dacitv is taxed tOsthe utmost. As early
As eight some of the troops began to u.s.
semitic on Baron CommonG, in prepara-
ton for the great review OF the body OF
active Massachusetts militia by Coy.
CASTOR, and even carriage ways III all
That nciGhbOrhood were dcn8ely
tfronmed. | walked over part OF She
route which tle procession will follow
before it reaches Bunker Hill. The dec
Grafton of Washington street extension,
from Cornhill onetoward Charles riyer
bridge. is is effective IA that around the
Commons.
Ino.ice comparatively few sentiment
al notices. British ships of war lay in
Charles river, and c~annonaded Charles
town. The rcdOublet on Breeds Llill
where the monument stands, the line of
rail fence sloping to the Mystic, and
the place on Bunker Hill where an 1t
tempt was made to tortity and where
Putnam tried in vain to rally the re-
treating ContinentalS.
The pavilion in which Judge DeTanS
is to speak covers 4 great part of the
srassplot near the monument, and
booths and pavillions of all kinds so en-
cumber the ncighborhood that the place
is hardly recOGniZable.
The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1875-06-18
A Tunnel Under the Straits of Gil
bralter.
Translated from the Globe.1

The Frankfort Germany Gazette
speaks of a stock company recently
formed in Spain, whose object it IS to
unite Europe and Africa by a tunnel I'M
der the Straits of Gibralter. As now
projected, the tunnel is to be construct
ed in Il straight line. and be extended
between Tarita and Algeziras, on the
Spanish coast, toward Ceuta and Tan
:gier, on the coast of Morocco. The
submarine part will be 44,a60 feet long,
OF nearly nine English miles. This en-
terprise, however, presents greater diff
ticulties than that under the English
channel, through the latter is twice as
long as the former. The mailman
depth of the channel at the points to be
Gu through is but 1852 feet, while that
OF the Straits amounts to 2,621 feet. In
case the tunnel under Gibralter be Dor
ed at a depth OF 1000 feet, its total
depth beneath the surface of the sea,
would be more than 5000 feet, while
the galleries leading to it on each side
would be three miles long.
The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1875-06-18

THE newspapers Of Sioux City con-
1inue TO wax indignant oyer the cap
turc of GordOn's Black Hills party
and the destruction Of their outfits.
They are Of the opinion that the mill
tary should have eXacted of these
well-warncd people a promise to
abandon the Black Hills project, and
should then have let them gone-tO
the Black Hills. The Government
practiced that plan sufficiently during
the early part of the war Globe
Democrat.
The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1875-06-18
Terms OF Advertising.
Fourth Of July Celebration.

Pursuant to previous notice, Il sec
.ond preliminary meeting was held by
the citizens OF Savannah, 1t the Court
House, on Saturday evening, to COM
plete arrangements for celebrating
the approaching Fourth OF July. l..
y. Carter was chosen Chairman, and
+. NJ. Taylor Secretary. y people
with crops destroyed, ana business
sta@nated, and living Oh the ragged
edge of uncertainties to the future,
are not in the mood for celebrating,
however patriotic they may naturally
be. This state of things having its
weight with the meeting, it was
deemed best to postpone the meeting
until Wednesday evening next, and
await developments as to movements
of sraoshoppers and crop prospects.
The various committees appointed
at the first meeting r urgently re-
quested to be present, to make their
reports on this occasion.
The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1875-06-18
Executors Notice.

NOTICE is hereby * Aen that letters Testament
~ tary upon the estate Oi Daniel Whlttaker,
late of Andrew county, DECEASED, have been
granted to the undersigned, David Rudkcy, by
the Probate court of andrew county, Missouri,
beering date the 18th day of May, 1919. All
persons having claims against said estatc arc re-
uuired t. present them to me for allowance,
within ore year from the date of saitt letters, or
they MAJ be precluded from any lenelit of said
estate, and if said claims be not exhibited with
in two wears from the time of the publication of
this notice, they will be forever barred.
DAVID hDDkEY,
Executor of the estate Of David Whitaker, dec.
,Tune II. iS1J-35Ts
The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1875-06-18

DURING the past week the heavens
have been literally alive with grass
hoppers. On Sunday last particular
", they were flying in vast i}iimitable
numbers. Wednesday was another
great day for them. Language is beg
cared to furnish all idea of even an
approximation to their numbers.
Covering a supposed (but unknoWnl
width of fifteen or twenty miles, AMI
in height from about a hundred feet
to probably a mile, and flying four to
ten miles all hour, the huge swarm
were eight or mn hours in passing.
SO soon as the first began to leave, a
good portion of eur energetic farmers
commenced their preparations for re-
planting, and quite a number have al
ready accomplished this task. The
resolve, is generalwe believe, "to pick
the flint and try it again." Large
numbers Of TIE grasshoppers yet re-
main - probably sufficient to again
bring to naueht the laboTs Of the far
mer, but as their wings are about
grown and they all seem to be in a
leaving humor-not much being left
for them to live on, it is hoped
they will follow their brethren before
the replant comes up.
After two or three days Of unusu-
ally warm weather, a timely rain fell
on Wednesday night last, and should
the above hopes be realized, and we
he favored with a fitting season, our
unfortunate farmers may yet recover
the greater portion of what they have
lost.
The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1875-06-18
DELINQUENT TAX LIST FOR 1874.

A LIST of Land and Town Lots situated in Andrew coun-
N tv, Missouri, upon which Taxes remain unpaid, with
the taxes due thereon, as appears on the Textbook of said
county, for the year 1874, and which were returned Defn-
quent on the First day of May, 1873, by n. S. Chittenden,
EX-Collector of Andrew county, Mo.
The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1875-06-18

LIEUT.. GEN. L. Ill. SHERIDAN was
united in marriage Thursday even
ing, June 3, to Miss Irene Rucker, Of
Chicago.
The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1875-06-18
Manhood How Lost, f,V Restored

- just published, a new edition of
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The celebrated author, in this admirable Is,
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without the dangerous use Of Internal medicine
or the application of the knife; pointing out a
nnode Of cure at once simple, certain, and etlec-
tual, by means of which every sufferer, no mat
ter what his condition may be, may cure himself
cheaply, privately, and radically.
r1hi Lecture should be in the hands of
every youth and every man in the land.
Sent under seal, in n plain envelope, to any
address, postpaid, on receipt OF six cents or
two post stamps.
Address the Publishers,
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1877 Bowery, New York, ost Office Box 1886.
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