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The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1875-07-09
Letter From Ohio.
[ ours as eY,
June 26th, 1875.

BELLEVUE, O., July l, 1875.
ED. misunderstanding tc
promise 1 now pen a few thoughts.
hoping to interest, if possible, the
readers of your we'll known paper.
left Roscndale on the 22d of June,
took the northern route, which prov.
ed a pleasant one. The last / saw OF
the grasshoppers was between Hop.
kins and Creston. Between these
two last places mentioned / was de-
lighted in seeing a granger contend
ing, as he thought, for his rights. He
knowing that three n per mile
was a fixed matter in law through
Iowa, he made the ready change for
the conductor and gave it to him but
no sooner was the money put in his
hand, than did the conductor claim
twenty cents more, and if not paid
before arriving at the next station, he
would put him off: The granger re-
marked that it would take two to
play at that game. The granger be-
ing absent some time, was not aware
that his right to ride on the cars for
three cents per mile, consisted in buy
ing a ticket, otherwise if collected on
the train, the conductor could claim
his extra. This too the granger learn
ed to be the case at the next station
and paid his 20 cents.
[ am glad to say that the best corr
and wheat I saw on my way east
ward to the Ohio line, l saw in Mis-
souri,. Sorry to say however, that
the fields were few. enough however
to convince the traveller that North
west Missouri is second to 10 other
portion of the country in very many
particulars, when not visited by the
grasshoppers. Even then has the
ability to stand and do what very few
can do with the same plague.
The crops, as 1 saw them, while
passing along on the cars, were not
looking very we'll through Iowa and
Illinois. Leaving Chicago in the
evening and reaching Toledo at 2:3O
a. M, l am not prepared to say how
crops do look between these two cit
les.
Wheat crops here are looking fine,
much better than farmers looked for
some few weeks ago. Many think
there will be fully two-thirds of a
wheat crop. Corn and oats looks
we'll, but SO little of it farmed, in
comparison to the west, thatI am OF
the opinion, should you have plenty
The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1875-07-09

The army worms destroyed a
meadow of timothy belonging to Mr..
Hisel just east of town, and he has
cut it, in hope of getting a second
growth of grass on the ground. They
also made inroads on crops belonging
to Edward ALI and John Meyer, but
these gentlemen fought them of
without being greatly damaged. The
worms appear to spring into life i'll
various sections, and are without
system in their operations. They pre-
fer grass, but if it is not convenient
will eat corn, or weeds, or one anOth-
er. We hear of them i'm different
parts Of the county, at points remote
from each other, and moving in diff
ferent directions. Farmers in this
neighborhood have found ditching an
etfectual mode of disposing of them.
When a field is threatened, a ditch
is made around it with a plow, the
side of the ditch next to the field be-
ing cut to slant down and in. The
worms tumble into the ditch, but are
unable to climb up the opposite side.
When the ditch is full, or nearly SO,
the farmer a slaughter them in
any name which suggests itself to
him as sure and quick. We do not
apprehend that they will injure crops
in this county to any great extent
Brunswicker.
The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1875-07-09
Eads.-His Work at the Mouth of
the Mississippi.

St. LOUIS, June 29.-Capt. J.. B. Eads
arrived home to-day from New Orleans.
Just previous to leaving that city he
wrote to President Grant and Secretary
Belknap, advising them of the progress
Of the %jetties at South Pass. The main
point in the letters is that the provision
al works, one thousand feet long, has
already been constructed on the line of
the east jetty and is being pushed for
ward at the rate of two hundred feet per
day. Two hundred mechanics and la-
borers and four pile driving machines
are at work and a large quantity of stone
and other material is ready at hand and
additional machinery and accommoda-
tons being prepared, and in a short
time the working force will be largely
increased. Telegraphic communications
have been established between New Or
leans and the head of the pass, and the
line is being extended to the works at
the mouth of the pass. Capt. Eads says
the provisional work mentioned is what
is known as the sheet piling, and while
it is only preliminary IN character it will
temporarily serve the same purpose and
produce the same result as permanent
%jetties. which will follow it as rapidly az
possible The Captain is quite sure that
there Will be twenty feet or more water
on the bar at South Pass by tho first of
next February.
The Globe-Democrat's Jefferson City
special says that the Sheriff of Shelby
county, Tenn, arrived here to-day with
a requisition from the Governor of that
State for the arrest of Gen. Waddy
Thompson, one of the lessees OF the
Missouri p~enitentiary, on a charge of
crimes alleged to have been committed
there about enc year ago. Gen. Thomp
son is sick abed, and has not been ar
rested yet, but Gov. Hardin has issued
a writ for his arrest.
The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1875-07-09
Killing ~Grasshoppers.

If anybody has doubted the efficacy of
the bounty system for the destruction of
grasshoppers, that doubt will be dissi-
pated by the specials to the Pioneer
Press this morning from the infested
district. Under the stimulus of bouD-
ties, ranging from 81 to 81 per bushel.
the farmers and the unemployed men
and boys in the towns and villages have
tnrned out in large numbers and are
rapidly exterminating the grasshoppers
in Blue Earth, Nicollet, LIE Sueur and
Brown counties. Our Mankato CORES
pondent estimates that by last night q
900 bushels OF hoppers were received in
the six infested towns in Blue Earth
county-and the insects are low grow
ing so scarce that some of the boys are
retiring from the business. AtSt. Peter
on Saturday and Monday $50 bushels
were caught and destroyed.
In three towns in LIE Sucur county
about 300 bushels of those trophies OF
the combat have been received by the
authorities. As the result of a few days
work, over 2,5OC bushels of these de-
structive pests have been delivered over
to the authorities and the flames. At
Mr.. Green's estimate, 800, 900 per BUSH
ell, here is an aggregate of 75O,0Oo,OOC
locusts destroyed by this means alone,t to
say nothing of the multitudes destroyed
by other means. Here were enough. II
they had lived, to eat up the State OF
Minnesota.
Brown county, too, has gone into the
business with an offer of 50 per buShel.
In Meeker county the hoppers seem to
be very scarce, only six and one-fourth
bushels having been delivered under An
inducement of S. per bushel. But the
work is o progressing finely all along
the line, and if Sibley and Mcleod
counties will close up the gap and send
their baltalions of infantry into the field
the grasshoppers will be pretty we'll
stamped out before the week is over
St. Paul Pioneer-Press.
The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1875-07-09

Col. Grosvenor, of St. Louis, the
great leader of Liberal Republicanism
i'll the West, has again declared his
allegiance to the Republican party,
and has accepted an invitation TO take
the stump in Ohio for the regular
ticket. There is left but two roads
for the Liberals, the one is, to follow
this example, and the other is, to 60
with the Bourbon Democracy.
The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1875-07-09

Sam Cary, ono said in a speech at
Pixies opera house, Cincinnati, that it
was his prayer that 1.-THE wombs of
Southern women might become bar
ren and that the paps of those giving
suck might be dried up" Such Ian
guage as that disguised the Republi-
cans, to whose party he then belong
ed, and his bid for Office was utterly
refused. Now he is q candidate of
the Democracy for Lieut.. Governor
of Ohio, but the old paps of bourbon
ism will probably let him dry up be-
fore he gets the place he seeks. Some
peoples memories are so outrageous.
The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1875-07-09
The Government is still pcrsiste.

THE Government is still persistent
~ and successfully Furnishing the
whisky ring, and is determined to
punish all persons concerned in the
whisky frauds. Fresh evidence is be-
ing accumulated every day, and it
appears nov that the power of this
gigantic and corrupt ring is about at
an end. In this effort to bring to JUS
tice the perpetrators of fraud, the
Government has the support Of ev-
cry right-thinking citizen.
The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1875-07-09

Nine gentlemen of New York met
at an entertainment last week, who
hold and represent $3.50, 900, 200. They
are q Mr.. Shook, A. T. Stewart, Cor
nelius Vanderbilt, r. l.. Getting, Jno.
j. Aston, August Belmont, Cornelius
2. Garrison, Jay Gould and Robert
HUtchinpS.
The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1875-07-09

God has not taken so much pains
in framing and furnishing and adorn-
ing this world that they who were
made by him to live in 1t should de-
spise it.
The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1875-07-09
Terms Of Advertising.
FRIDAY MORNING, JULY9, 1915.

United States troops are concen-
traiing along the Mexican border, and
a man-of-war has been ordered to the
mouth of the Rio Grande. Uostilities
seem hmm inent.
The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1875-07-09

Montgomery Queens great Menag-
erie and Circus Of the century will
exhibit at St. Joseph, Friday, July
10th.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1875-12-04


The most universal cause Of dyspepsia is
eating too often, too fast and too much The
general rules should be:
l. Eat thrice day.
g. Not an atom between meals.
g. Nothing after two o'clock bat piece OF
hot drink.
4. Spend half an hour at least in taking
each meal.
5. Cut up all meats and hard food r pea.
sized pieces.
G. Never eat enough to cause the sl htest
uncomfortable sensation atterward
7. Never work or study hard within half
an hour Of eating.
The most universal and intalllble indica-
ton that person is becoming dyspeptic is
some uncomfortable sensation coming on un-
iformly after each meal, whether that be in
the stomach, throat or anywhere else. The
formation Of wind in the stomach, indicated
by eructatlon, belchings or otherwise, dem
onstrating that dyspepsia is fixing itself IN
the system. Then there is only one course 10
pursue, and that IS iniallible; eat less and
less at each meal, until no wind is general,
ed and no other uncomfortable sensation is
experienced in any part of the body. No
medicine ever cured confirmed dyspepsia
eating plain food regularly and living out OF
doors industriously will cure most cases.
HAIRS Journal Of Heath.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1875-12-04

Tar and sweet Oil, thoroughly mixed, will
make boots waterproof,

Tar and sweet OIL thoroughly mixed. will
make boots waterproof,
Always fill a coal oil lamp every day be.
for. - ME bowl should aaver be al
lowed to get empty and be lighted in that
condition, for the vacant space is always full
Of explosive gas.
BREAKFAST CAKEs.--One quart of flour,
one pint of milk, two eggs, butter the size of
AN egg, one teaspoon of soda, two teaspoons
of creamIof tartar, baked in quick oven and
heated pans.
FROZEN CUsTARD-One quart of cream,
two quarts of milk, one and half pounds OF
sugar, yolks of four eggs. Mix milk, eggs,
and sugar, put on the fire and let them scald {;
just cook.
COoKIEs-Two cups Of sugar, one cup but
ter, tour eggs, one teaspoon OF soda, two tea
spoons of cream OF tartar and flour to roll.
Carrywav seeds or spice to taste. IT put in
stone jar they will last for long time.
Coil oil lamps will be much safer to use, if
the bowl is loosely filled with raw cotton or
tow before putting in any oil. In case of ex.
plosion or falling on the floor, the burning
Auid cannot fly all over everything.
For damp closets and cupboards which
generate mildeH, trayfui of quicklime will
Re found to absorb the moisture and render
the air pure bui it is necessary to renew the
lime from timr 10 time as 1t becomes fully
slaked The l,-' remedy will be found use
ful In safes auu stOrlng rooms, the damp air
of which acts frequently most injurously on
the valuable urcds and documents which
they contain.
SAVING WuEK House maids can save
themselves a AT deal OF work by using
care in various ways. a particular nail for
each cloth used about the sink, makes 1t easier
to keep the table at hand, in order, and to
cleanse The pots and kettles perfectly, and to
make the pantry shelves neat. When water
is stopped upon the floor, If 1t is wiped up,
the rest of the floor is saved from soiling.
Whole days may be saved in the course OF
the year, and any amount of irrltated temper
spared, If every dish and kitchen utensll Is
put away IN its place. An intelligent girl
will save her time and strength by using her
head along with her hands.
CREAM CHEESE FROM BUTTERMILK.-Put
the buttermilk in a kettle over the fire and
heat slowly TIL it curdles, but do not let il
get warmer than will be pleasant to the hand
when placed in 1t. Remove ftom the fire and
let it set on the back of the 'stove til, the
curd separates from the windy, then strain
through sieve or Tag. Work the curd fine
with the hands, salt IT very little, and then
put IN cream, mixing it Thoroughly with the
.curd.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1875-12-04
Iron Versus Wood on the Farm,

Gas look at my iron field gates" says the
celebrated English farmer, |. j. Mech, iron
wire fences, iron sretp hurdles supplied to
me by my friend Garrett, thirty odd years
ago, but all perfect now, and when l compare
them with the rotten gate posts and other
wooden matter of an equal age, l can only
wonder that agriculture still runs in the old
wooden rut Iron tubs and iron barrows
stand alike heat and cod-no coopeIage and
carpentering. The posts which support our
sheds should if of wood, have their feet
placed within the socket of any iron pipe
driven in the ground. saw this admirably
done at the Earl of Essex's, Glastonbury
where the lower end of urplaned fir poles
rested IN the socket Of iron pipes (5s. EACH
firmly EMBEDDED in the soil. Pig troughs and
drinking troughs for animals and poultry APP
pear to be nearly everlasting, while the
water in them is always acceptable. We find
the large circular pig trOughs very conven-
tent in the sheep fold, for their weight and
form prevents their being upset by the sh eep,
and the water lost The temperature of the
water is also slightly raised by the heated
iron. | have seen lambs injured by drinking
water Immediately taken from a spring at a
temperature OF about As deg, in hot weather.
NV twelvelrOn rick frames Carrots PATENT
are worth as much as they were thirty odd
years ago, when first rut down-uo rats. BY
the by, this reminds me that my practical
friends sarcastically suggested thirty years
ago that | should want no such frames, Tor
should never grow up enough to fill my new
barn We evidently, on the score of profit,
should pass more rapidly from the old wood
en- age to that Of iron, coal and brick, with
steam as mouvc power. Who would have
thought forty years ago of building iron
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1875-12-04

Stove DAMpERs.-These nuIsances are
now quite common, and becsuse they save
wood and thereby save money, they are
popular. BY shutting of the upward draft
they throw back into the room all the pols.
onous gas generated by the combustion of
fuel, and are therefore very destructive to
health 1t is a subject OF common remark
that an open fireplace is more healthy than a
stove, and it ia largely owing to the better
circulation of air through the open, upward
draft. Now, il Is true that wood might be
say d in fireplace BY covering up the top
of the chimney; but we should not wish to
live IN The house. And that is exactly the
principle on which wood ID saved by means
., of hampers in stovepipes. Fire may be cas-.
lily checked By shutting off the supply of all
air in front, and this Is the only safe method
of checkilg It in stove. IL all the AR
could be shut off from the fire in front ii
would go out "a quickly as if il were i'm
Inersci in water Thus it may be seen that
fire may be we'll controlled if the stove Is
tolerably tight in front when closed up. All
who DO not wish To commit suicide no< un
dermine the health OF the family will do well
to discard stoYePiPe damPeEs.-Laes q
Life.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1875-12-04

have never known a case OF cholera that
was not traceable to indigestion, and had the
ile.lisman oy2.tITti, he would have noticed
the symptoms of approaching disease VIZ:
extreme Incidence, thirst, costlveness, dlsor'
dered skin, tickle appetite, etc. weeks before
the i;,yasL assam, / he violent fun called
cholera. If the herl has bee neglected,
and disease is allowed to progress till it AS
,,umes type of cholera, it may be arrested
except in extreme cases, by giving salt ashes,
sulphur and charcoal, and dieting upon sour
milk or wheat bran cooked. | have advised
this treatment in numbet Of cases, and 1t
has invariably proven successful. If diet
and care will not arrest the disease, it has
gone too far for medicine.-Lice Stock Jour
Il
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1875-12-04

SAYS the american AgriculturiI: IAN
early sow crop of rye will furnish valua-
BILE winter and early spring pasture The
cost would be as follows: Flowing one acre,
seed two bushels narrowing or drilling, and
if necessary some fertilizer Really, the
whole cost will be the seed, because the labor
will be well expended on the land A por-
ton of this cost will be returned in the ma
nure left upon the field by the cattle pastured.
The return will be at least equal TO the value
Of one ton of hay per acre, which will be a
handsome profit. In addition to the value
of the feed gained, the condition of the stock
will be greatly improved by healthful
change OF feed at a time when il Is much
needed. What is left of the crop after it has
been pastured will be valuable to pillow under
and the ground will be in excellent condition
for q spring crop"
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1875-12-04
FARM AND GARDEN.
Around the Farm.

Chimnevs are excellent lightning conauc
tors. In view Of which II Is recomHien,oeu !.
First, that. they be kept clean; men, al NY
CRATES liz house be connected ny means "
a strong wire, such as is used for telegraph
purposes, with the iron gas or water p'fe''
Horses will work much more easily, anu
lose lcs s at their effective force, 10y worship
abreast, than when they are placed III s'hs'e
file If four horses are to draw loau III oiie
wagon. i, is better to have long uoupie
whiffie,ree, with one span OF horses on each
side of the tongue than to have one span
placed before the other.
varnish brushes should never be allowed
tn touch water, as IL not only injuries the
elasticity of the hair, but resnous sub,
lance Is -. ned in The hilt of the brush,
nhich can never be thoroughly removed, and
which will work out little by little when the
brush is used, destroying the CLASSY surface
which otherwise might be obtained.
A skillful sawyer, in saving log into
scantling, which he knows will spring, will
first mark of the end into cuts and then,
after saving once through on one side OF the
log, will saw slab of the other side, and
hnish in the middle BY this means the lum.
ger will be about rs true as if the timber
were not inclined to spring at all.
That Kentucky has not long ago taken
rank as one Of the chief woolgrowing
States of the Union, is due to the pusilani
nifty of our legislators, who have been afraid
to levy Il tax on the dogs of the dear poor
man. The Changers have now taken the mat
ter in hand, and we have reason to believe
that the next Legislature will pass law tax
ing dogS-PadVcdh Hcntuckjan.
AS REGARDS cooking for animals, intelll
gent farmers have been buying steamers tina
are now lying III the fence corners. Gralr
may be plenty in one place, fuel cheap II
another Who can tell under precisely VIVA
circumstances it will pay to cook catl food
One superfine butermaker declares that onl!
from raw food will his cows bring the mos
pericct butter-OicottS COurdnt.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1875-12-04

We challenge any one to show that sin.
ole box of 1t was ever branded or marked
Oleomargine cheese, or that it has ever reach
ed the consumer abroad or at home in the
legitimate channels of trade upon its own
merits. If the article is rs good as is
claimed for it, and is designed to be sold rs
an Improvement on skim-miIk cheese, and
not as a substitute for full cream cheese, we
fail to see why there should be any objec'
ton to branding its name on it.-Bosto@ UT
TRAITOR
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1875-12-04

Worth makes the man" No doubt, but
on this earth
II all depends upon how much he's worth.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1875-03-17

DR. De KoveB seems 20 have pertinacious
hsnkering for that bishopric- Now that it
has become apparent that majority OF the
standing committees OF the forty-three do
ceses are opposed to confirming him as
bishop, his friends make the point that the
committees have power only TO pass upon
his election as a matter of form and legal
technics; that it is beyond their Jurisdiction
to nullify the choice OF the Illinois diocese by
rejecting him on account Of his theological
opinions. The De Koven party will, IL Is
stated, go TO the House OF Bishops on this
point, or IL necessary to the courts. with
full belief that IL can be sustained.
Mast I'm his last cartoon, styled Hammer
ing Woke them at Last" represents our good
Vice President In the character Of "Pumble-
cbook." This is not respectful.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1875-03-17

Probably the most important advantageous
result Of the recent opinion of the Attorney
General relative 10 the guarantee OF the
United States for the payment OF the interest
of the 365 bonds will be the placing of these
securities on the list OF the New York stock
exchange Heretofore the examining COM
mittee Of that board have repealed these Sc
curities from their lists, and Tor the reason
that the guarantee OF the interest on the part
of the government was ambiguous and eva
siye. The pointed opinion of the Attorney
General, in addition to the legislation rela-
tive TO the guarantee by the last session OF
Congress, is sufficient TO hereafter and for
ever settle that the United States does in
dorse and guarantee TO pay the bonds, prin-
cipal and interest. Under this state Of facts
these securities ought 10, and undoubtedly
will, stiffen in prices.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1875-03-17
PERSONAL.

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