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The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1876-09-06

. TERRE HAutE, Sept. b.-The Republi-
cans had a very large mass meeting to-day:
Gen. Ben Harrison and Gen. Terry, OF
New York, spoke in the evening, and to-
night 1,100 torches we're carried through
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1876-09-06
PRIZE FIGHTER CAPTURED.

Patsy o,Hara, another participant il
the prize fight which resulted in youhs
Kostlas' death, was arrested this morn
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1876-06-13
Qoetrg,
The Cross.

The Cross.
Blest they who seek,
While in their youth
With spirit meek
The way of truth.
To them the sacred Scriptures new display
Christ rs the only true and living way,
His precious blood on Calvary was given
To make them heirs of endless bliss in heaven
And e'en on earth the child of God can trace
The glorious blessings OF his savior grace.
For them he bore
His fathers irown:
For them he wore
The thOrny crown.
Nailed 10 the cross,
Endured its pain,
That His life's loss
Might be their gain.
Then haste 20 choose
The better part
Nor cen dare refuse
The Lord thy heart,
Lest he declare
81 know yon mott
And deep despair
should be your lot
Now look 10 Jesus who on Calvary died,
And trust on Him who there Wa, crucldeI.
Quaint though the construction be Of Tue above
poem, yet never has the story Of the eros bceu
told with more truthful simplicity,
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1876-06-13
UHe,s q Brick

Ii it is slang. II is really classical slang.
And yet OF the thousands Who use the
term. how few-how very tew--know its
origin, or It's primitive significance.
Truly, it is heroic thing to say OF
man to call him brick. The word so
used, if not twisted from its original ex-
tent, implies all that is brave. patriotic
and loyal.
Plutarch. 10 his life of Agesilaus, King
OF Sparta, gives the origin OF the quaint
and familiar expression.
On a certain occasion an ambassador
from Epirus. on diplomatic mission, was
shown by the king over his capital. The
ambassador knew of the monarch's fame
knew that though only nominally king
of Sparta, be was yet ruler oi Greece
and he had looked TO see massive walls
rearing alolt their embattled towers for
the defence OF the town; bnt he found
nothing OF the kind. He maryeled much
at this. and spoke of il 10 The king.
sSire,' he said, i have visited most OF
the principal towns. and ! iiud no wall
reared for defence. Why is this P
Indeed, Sir Ambassador replied Ages
ilaus, thou cans't not have loked care
fully. Come with me tomorrow morn
ing. and I will show you the walls OF
Sparta
Accordingly, on the following morn
ing, the king led his guest out upon the
plains, where his army was drawn up in
full battle array. and pointing proudly TO
the serried hosts, he said:
There thou beholdest the walls of
Sparta-ten thousand men. and every
man brick r-Bchool Journal.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1876-06-13
Qoetrp.
For THE oXFoKD DEMOCRAT.
The Last.

near that the aged man Is dead.
Ana' to-day be is laid in his eArthv bed.
Ans iAst' last one OF the pioneers
knew 30 well in my early Years:
lhe earnest men whose constant toll
has len is marks on my native soil.
Ohe oy one they have bowed the head.
And len The paths they were wont to tread.
NeA'h 'he hillock they ienc'd in youthful years
Lheir children have laid them down with tears:
Never again 10 behold race
Aoie aui willing 70 on their place.
And this Wss the last OF those hardy men.
Ihis hero of four-scOre years and ten
Ne may call them heroes each man who came
''h heart Of courage and iron frame,
Prom The Old Bay state. 10 win home
For generations yet 20 come.
Gardens and orchards now are seen
" here 'he iores, lil(ed its heads OF green:
Houses and barns now rise In pride
Nhere The cabin stood on the sunny side:
And broad. smooth dells stretch out to-day
Where our fathers cut the woods away.
remember This man who has died Al length,
Inc yo0uSes. OF all that band OF strensth.
remember him ere his youth had nown.
Ills round red cheek and peculiar tone:
When wife aud children made labor light,
And brighten 4 the hours in their steady fight.
often think Of that ueighbOrs are
Aro..ud which ssiher'd both son and sire.
zach drawing his chair TO the genial blaze.
AM i'll'r- The stories Of other days;
Ol mAEke. journeys, OF limbs that froIe,
OF scaniy comforts aud endless SHOWS
That Ore now warns another race;
Those men have gone to their resting place
Zach hero Of scyIhe, and axe and plow.
Heip'd burr IA, comradc with thoughtful brow,
And now, almost IN his dwellings, shade,
For the youngcsi and last a grave Il made
Peace 20 that banl OF hardy men
Their voices We shall not hear again.
They have len no names on history's page
To grow bright and brighter from ace 20 age,
But Jiil each of younger race departs
Their names viii linger in human hearts.
OIrHoNA.
BU'AFIELD, Feb q.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1876-06-13
Seltttr0 Storp.
VI \ PR Q = II + Il .

STAY 10 tea. do" said Aunt Desire,
with that ridiculous hospitality OF hers
that tain would share her salt with every
creature that comes 10 the house. "lt's
Sadrs birthday. aud We ought to cele-
brsie ii in some way"
do you sill count birthdays, Sadi7'
said Mrs. O5enreiser.
Certainly. This Is the twenty sixth. "
Hush. my dear; speak low. You
look very young still. You need not own
70 more than twenty-five for some years
yet"
why should hide il ?"
"One would think you desired nothing
better than to be sn old maid. staying at
home all the time. rocking your mothers
babies. and y ing ulself down as it you
were already a married woman, or never
meant 10 be one"
Perhaps | don't"
That ainr natural. OF couIse you
want 10 get married. but you never will
unless YOU go half way. I've been mar
ried tw ice, and nothing to boast Of in The
way Of looks. did not run after the
men. if they wanted to ind me, did not
wear out their patience looking Tor me.
Ifs girl is al old msid. il's her own
fault; that's ms doctrine"
IL have never seen any one 10 this
place that like better than my brothers
and sisters
Make visits then. Go out OF this
place"
"Bul | have no Invitations"
"Well, at least, you could go buckle
berryiug into The next town"
laughed and yielded that point VII
lipslv. Aunt Desire had knit into the
middle Of her seam needle by this time,
and now laid down the stocking. She
then took vf her glasses. wiped them'
and smoo,hed down her apron. As she
never did but one thing at time, these
were well known signs that she meant TO
give Us "a piece of her mind"
I'm an old maid. as everybody knows
and perhaps my doctrines would not nave
so much weight as woman's that mao
bsep married twice bu. seventy years
will gather some wisdom. ii only oy
rubbing against people so long NY
d,c,,ine Is that h's no use running arounu
altar a besu. You may get one that way
mn, ha wont stick. or woa't be good Tor
any thing it be does. II a girl has nus
hand waiting tor her anywhere IN Tue
world he'll probably find her sooner OF
later. Tne men who are best worth nav
i,y don't look for their wives in pubic
nlaces. when they have on their oest Oios
and tuckers. They like tosurPrise ghi
unb a dus,er in her lap. or baby orother
- her lap. 1t has more effect on them
tbsn fiu,tering ian and making eyes 81
them alI Gay.
..N,n were more sensible in your young
days~ said Mrs. Obenreiser.
Not bit. They are always sensio'e
.aouph if women don't spoil them
"Do you think every woman can marry
II sbe chooses, Aunt Desire :"
$40 be sure. | should have married
years ago if l had time; bot | was
sIw.ys so deep in other folks troubles
,b., / could no, give my mind to it."
.r.npsall about it," said Mrs. Ooen-
reiser. 3.
WHAT said Aunt Desire, with
,ouch of that complacencs which every
woman ieels when she counts her ScalP''
The last offer"
"Oh, that was that winter "nen "'N'
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1876-06-13

.,,xrING Of Every Description
is 80, and Neatly LHeCuted.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1876-06-13

.-..-.e,n ,eil. BY cNagniu'es 9Th. the color co i 81
% s f.s5, T ,s. iss %0iSI or ,se .9SSnee SSSi Se5
.-.f 4. u, hv mad. or hand % the
80. a~ert j .-s." ou the slip, means
a. e.. Ia $40 thaI date. when money
ase SOD b. .aAru o. examine the slip,
r. 4, -, i. ~; credited within iNo weeks
: espp-.rd oi .i-
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1876-06-13

BUcAFlELD, Feb c.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-04-22

Of all producers of so-called mysteri-
Gus sounds, DIR. Tyndall's sensitive or
vowel flame is one of the most curious.
Out of particular kind of gas, with a
burner of peculiar construction, the
learned professor produces lighted Jet
of fame nearly two feet in height, ex-
tremely narrow, and so exquisitely
sensitive to sounds that it sings and
dances up and down in response to every
thing that is sung or said, with different
degrees of sensibility for different vowel
sounds. THE slightest tap on distant
anvil reduces its height to seven inches.
When bunch of keys is shaken, the
fame is violently agitated and emits
loud roar. The dropping of sixpence
into hand already containing coin, at a
distance of twenty yards, knocks the
fame down. 1t is not possible to walk
across the floor without agitating the
flame. The creaking of boots sets it in
violent commotion. The crumpling or
tearing of paper, or the rustic of silk
dress, does the same. 1t is startled by
the patter of a rain-drop. l hold
watch near the flame; nobody hears its
ticks; but you all see their effect upon
the flame at every tick it falls and roars.
The winding up of the watch also pro-
duces tumult. The twittering of a dis
tant sparrow shrieks in the flame; the
note of a cricket would do the same. A
chirrup from distance of thirty yards
causes it to fall and roar" In reference
10 the power of the fame to respond to
poetry, the professor says: "The fame
selects from the sound those to which it |
AN respond; it notices some by the
slightest nod, to others it bows more
distinctly, to some its obeisance is very
while to many sounds it turns
IN entirely deaf ear" -Chambers' Jour.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-04-22

The standard remedies for all diseases of the lungs
are ScHRNcK's PULMoNIC SYRUr, SCHENCK's SEA
WEED Tonic, and SCHEECK's MANDRAKE PILLS,
and if taken before the lungs are destroyed speedy
cure is effected.
To these three medicines DR.. J. II. Schenck, OF
Philadelphia, owes his unrivaled success In the
treatment of pulmonary diseases
The Pulmonic Syrup ripens the morbid matter in
the lungs; nature throws it off by an easy expecto-
ration for when the phlegm matter is ripe slight
cough will throw it off, the patient has rest and the
lungs begin to heal
TO enable the Pulmonic Syrup to do this Schcnck's
Mandrake Pills and Schenck's Sea Weed Tonic must
he freely used to cleanse the stomach and liver.
Scbenck 9 Mandrake Pills act the liver, removing
all distractions, relax the gall bladder the bile
starts freely, and the liver is soon relieved.
Schenck's Sea Weed Tonic is gentle stimulant
and Alternative; the alkai of which 1t is composed,
mixes with the food and prevents souring. 1t as
sists the digestion by toniDg up the stomach to O
healthy condition, that the food and the PumOn-
ic Syrup will make good blood then the lungs heal
and the patient will surely get WE'LL If care is taken
to prevent a fresh cold.
All who wish to consult DR.. schenck, either per
sOnally or by letter. do at his principal office
corner of Sixth and Arch Sts, Philadelphia, every
Monday.
throughout the country.
E. HART& CO., Nos 70, rs and II Tchoupitoulas
Street. New Orleans, Wholesale Agents.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-04-22
CHuJd aud Peanuts,

The Rural Carolinian says: Quite an
interest has latterly been manifested in
the culture of the chufa and since the
war the peanut crop has grown into a
sort OF recognizable agricultural power.
Either or both of these crops NOWADAYS
prove remunerative on small scale.
wherever the land is suitable. Of pea-
nuts, or pindars, every family in the
south might grow, almost without cost,
enough to use on the table in lieu of i'm
ported almonds, or other less valuable
nuts, which have to be bought before
they can be eaten. And if the chufa is
the old grass nut we used to plant when
a boy, in corner garden, we think
small patch might also be cultivated by
the boys in the family to give them
something to do at odd times We do
not know great deal of the chufa,
and hence are not prepared to endorse
the following from the Mobile Register
which says:
1.-The entire country seems to be run
ming wild about the chufa. Everybody
wants to plant it, and all who talk or
write about it declare it to be entirely
on a level with the negro's rabbit-good
for everything. We lcok upon much
said in it's favor as entirely correct, but
we find a devotee going a
little beyond the mark of our humble
Judgment. The last writer on the sub
ect, read by us, declares it to be most
'erfect substitute for coffee Parched |
nd ground, and put through the reg |
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-04-22
ECCLESIASTICAL.

The pulpit of DIR. Isaac Watts is still
in use in small place of worship in
London.
The general assembly of the United
Presbyterian church will meet at Phila-
delphia, May "a.
Bethany church, San Francisco, has
twenty-eight Chinese included in its
membership.
The third congress of the Protestant
Episcopal church will be held in Boston
next November.
| The King of Burmal asks for more
Christian teachers, and promises them
protection and aid.
The general conference of the Afri-
can Methodist Episcopal church is to
meet in Atlanta, Ga, the first Monday
in May.
The Methodist membership in Kan
sas exceeds $4,000, which is said to be
more than that of all other denomina-
tions put together.
The Baptists of Hoboken, Alabama,
ton with the Masons and Changers, the
last two bodies occupying the upper
room.
Hon. J. P Wicksham, superintend-
ent of instruction for Pennsylvania,
claims that the Bible is now read in A.
600 of its II 1000 public schools, without
giving serious offense to anybody.
"A Bible, translated by Wicklif, one
of the forerunners of the Reformation,
has lately been sold in England for the
sum of $1,000. This Bible seems to be
of the fourteenth century, and bears on
the title page the autographs signature
of King Richard Ill.
In ITO the population of the colo
MES was 100000. There was then one
Baptist to every 432 of the population A;
in 1884, one Baptist to every 81; in 1872,
one Baptist to every ~; in 1910, one |
Baptist to every 81; in 1912, one Bap-
fist to every IS; in 1875, one Baptist to
every %; against to 432 one hundred
and sig years ago.
Trinity parish, New York, Is the
richest in this country. In 1873 it re-
ceived an income from property valued
at S8,00O,000 1t contains seven churches
and sixteen clergymen, and contributes
yearly to eighteen other churches. There
ire 5000 pupils in the Sunday schools,
? 900 in the industrial schools, and 900
N the day schools
During the late revival at the NJ. E.
church at Mansfield, Ohio, young con-
yert, after being taken into the fold, rose
o address the brethren, and being more
amiliar with baseball nomenclature
han pious phrases, clothed his few re-
marks in the following language: az
ave made the first base, and by the
clip of the Lord will make the home
I'm % !
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-04-22

ular process, you could not possibly tell
it, he says, from real "store coffee"
Well, we know something about that
we tried it for coffee last year. Wedidn't
relish it, though our dislike may have
been the result of a prejudice. In con-
federate times we contracted a decided
dislike for butternut-bark pills, and as
the man is not living who, testing chu
ia coffee and butternut-bark pills, and
tell t'other from which, this may pos
sibly account for our dislike"
But of the peanut, or pindar, we
know enough to say, every farmer ought
to grow few bushels for home use. Our
friend " c." gives lis very good reason
for believing it would be profitable to
pay much more attention to the peanut.
He says:
1t is only few years ago that a
friend of mine, living near Columbia,
gave up an attempt he made to raise
| pindars, or peanuts-the Ardchis hypOgTd
of the books-becausc he could find no
market for his crop. He was unwilling
to parch and peddle them in Columbia,
and wanted a market where he could
sell his crop in the bulk. They were
quoted in none of the New York papers
and SO far as my inquiries went, there
was no general market for pindars. l see
now that Norfolk, Va, does a consider
able business in this line, and doubtless
did then, but we did not know it. The
prices range from $3.50 to $3.50 BUSH
ell, rarely falling below $1.25, and some
times touching $3.50 bushel. The
highest prices are paid in March, April,
and May, and the lowest in November.
The Norfolk market received during the
year ending September so, 1875, an ag-
gregate of 81 ,4O7 bags. Petersburg and
Richmond received between $4,000 and
10000 bags during the same year. The
state of Virginia raised in 1874, 1917
bags. A bag means about three and q
half bushels. Virginia's crop of pindars
in 1874, amounted, then, to 3S2,6lC
bushels and this, at 81 .65-average price
"a bushel, is worth $731.396. Isn't the
Ieanut worthy the attention of our plan
tiers? A planter of peanuts in Sussex
county, Virginia, in 1875, raised 49,
bushels on five and half acres of land
that is, over sixty bushels to the acre
Thus, at $3.50 bushel, the planter real
ICES over 800 to the acre, and ten acre.
would yield $1,000.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-04-22
AGRICULTURAL.

TLiuHs Farm Should Not Do
We publish below a short article from
the Indiana Former, advising farmers
what they should not do. The only adj
vice our farmers have had proffered them
latterly (and it has come from every
quarter of the compass) was that they
should plant less cotton. Whether they
have needed this advice we cannot tell,
nor will we know until next fall. But
we are sure there are some good sugges-
tions in the following, that can be profit
ably applied TO himself by every farmer
in the south. Let every one who reads
it ask himself the question, am | not
guilty? rs he reads each suggestion: A
farmer should not feed his stock in the
public highway, thereby losing the drop
pings of stock, and the time and trouble
of hunting his stock that may stray off I;
he should not let his open bitches be-
come filed with falling timber and de-
laying grass, but keep them quite clear
he should not leave his ploughs and har-
rows out all winter, should not keep
more stock than he could feed well
should not put off going TO mill until
the meal tub is empty; should not put
off hauling wood until the wood-house is
empty; should not go to town oftener
than no has business and VIXEN he does
60, should keep away from the grog-
shops should not beat his stock unmer-
| cifully; should not run his wagon with
out grease should not put his ploughs
away covered with mud should not cut
| wood with dull axe; should not bother
his neighbor too often to turn the grind,
stone for him; should not let his wife
milk in bad weather; should not suffer
gaps left down in the fence should not
throw the grubs from the fence corners
into the public highway; should not let
too much fence rot down before begin.
ming to repair; should not keep scrut
stock of any kind; should not put of
ditching until ploughing time, thereby
having two jobs on hand at once and but
one hand to do them; should not let
corn stand out all winter as feed fol
birds and mice.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-04-22
DOING THE CENTENNIAL.

The proposed prices At Philadelphia
and the railroad fare thither are not cal
culated to attract people of moderate
means to the Centennial exposition.
The railroad fares are reduced only
twenty-five per cent. 1t will cost every
person living west of the Alleghenies
from $25 to $40 to go and return. The
" clearinghouse company has decided
to charge $3.50 day for its coupon
tickets, emitting each person to a room,
breakfast. and supper. Of course, among
the 5000 or 1000 heuseholders in Phil
adelphia with whom this company has
made contracts, there is likely TO be a
wide variety of opinion and taste as to
what constitutes good room, good
breakfast, and a good supper. The
purchaser of the coupon must take his
chances in this "grab-bag," "pot-luck"
lottery. The company, by contracting
with nearly all the householders likely
to rent their houses and take boarders,
have made "corner" in the lodging
market. There will be less competition,
therefore, than if the househoIders were
with which the people Can reach Il tie Eek" ex,
position grounds from the suburban
towns and villages, and the difficulty of
getting out of the city itself to the
grounds will probably settle the matter,
and the too greedy Philadelphians may
find themselves without dodgers.
One of the projects of which there are
likely to be repetitions and limitations is
"The Patrons (of Industry Centennial
Encampment." 1t has rented forty
acres of land three miles from the expo
sition grounds, on which it is new erect
ing long one-story buildings, full of we'll
but not extensively furnished rooms,
calculated to accommodate two or three
thousand people. These rooms are to be
rented at 81 per day to one or two per-
sons. Parties can bring provisions with
them, or plain meals and luncheons will
be furnished at low prices. Plenty of
pure water, light, police, laundry, bar
Der shops, ice cream saloons, cigar
stands, and all other conveniences but
barrooms for liquor, will be provided on
the grounds. There will be a hall for
lectures, performances, or religious ser
vices. Hourly trains will be run to The
exposition for fifteen cents for Ground
trip" ticket. This and similar plans, if
properly conducted, will help solve the
problem of ".seeing the Centennial" for
many with large desire and small purse.