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The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1876-01-06

AN intelligent correspondent OF the
New Orleans Times submits some striking
facts showing the cause of the existing
business stagnation in Louisiana is largely
owing to the neglect of its farming in
terests. The total land under cultiva'
ton, it seems, is but as one to ten of that
suitable for the purpose. Of the popu-
lation in 1S70-726, ,000-lcss than 1885,
600 were producers of agricultural pro-
ducts. What is wanted now to revive
business generally in the State, says the
correspondent, "is ten men at the plow
handle where we have one. We want
much less land to the hand and more
complete cultivation. We want hun
dreds of thousands of small farms. In
1870 Louisiana had but 2S,000 farms and
plantations. 1t ought to have at least
100000 farms. Our State, if under Il
high state of cultivation, like some por-
tions of Europe, with large investments
in home factories, mills and machine
shops, could easily support population
of five millions. 1t now but poorly sup
ports one-seventh of five millions, The
German Empire, with surface about
equal to that of five such States as Lou
isiana, and with a soil far inferior to ours,
supports forty-three millions of people, a
larger population than that of the United
States in 1870.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1876-01-06

A GIGANTIC new bridge is about to be
built across the st. Lawrence at Mon
treal to accommodate street cars, car
riages and foot passengers as well as Iail-
road trains. A viaduct 1890 feet long,
in twenty spans, will conduct from Sher-
brooke street to the river; five spans of
600 feet will cross the river to st. Helen's
island, which will be traversed by a
viaduct with twenty spans Of 100 feet
each, while twelve spans will cross the
unnavigable channel south of the island.
The bridge will be 13O feet over the level
Of the river.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1876-01-06

DR.. GLENN, of California, is doing a
fair farming buainess. He is now ship
ping his wheat crop, amounting to 5000
tons, to San Francisco. The grain is
placed on boat at Jacinto, carried to
Knights landing, thence by rail to Val
lejo, where it is reshipped by water to
San Franci.co. The crop at present
prices will net 100000, the freight Of
the same amounting to $4,000, leaving
the doctor the snug little sum of
S2S0,000.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1876-09-30
A Girls Pic Mic.

The girls got up a hen picnic last
week, and had glorious time of it alto
gether. They had lots of tea and sugar
and milk (Which all got souri, but no
matches, and plenty Of pickles, sponge
cake and butter, but no bread And to
this that each of the girls got her moth
er to let her bring roast turkey, so as
to astonish the rest of the girls and
show that she could do things in style,
and they had no knives and forks, aud
though lots Of plates, no drinking uten-
sils, it is not difficult to see that their
commissariat was well organized aud a
source Of much harmony, pleasure and
satisfaction to all concerned in its prep
aration. After several life long quarrels
and such comments as 81 don't care y
"You're just as mean as Dirt" "Well, it
wasn't my fault, anyway" they made
frugal repast of dismembered turkey,
cold water, pickles, and sponge-cake,
then decided to amuse themselves as
best they could for the remainder of the
day. One girl undertook to fish, and
having put on. her gloves, introduced a
hook to her worm, but the fierce animal
gave a squirm, and with terrific yell
she dropped the wild beast right down
the back of friend and young COM
panion dear, who was sitting beneath.
The f. and y. C. d. went into active hys-
terics, and the author of the tragedy
impaled her thumb on the fish hook and
tainted at the sight of blood. After
this, one of the girls stepped into a
swamp about half way up to her ears,
and another got beetle into her ear,
aud a third unearthed a horrid snake
seven inches long, and while devoted
member of the excursion was stopping
down to collect specimen Of that rare
and valuable plant, the sorrel, Mr.. Ke-
hoo's merino ram stole upon her and
butted her over seveu.railed fence, IT.
retrievably running 81 thing to mako
her dress puff out behind. Then they
went home to find out what was good
for sunburns.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1876-09-30
Finding Fault with the World.

There is class of people in the world
who make it the chief business of their
lives to depreciate existence and its
blessings, who speak of this world
as a vale of tears an ''abode or sin
aud sorrow" ~ daily cross, "a realm of
blasted hopes, aud so on through the
entire category OF such expressions.
Life they tell Us, is not worth living
for they wish they had never been
bora, or had died in infancy, aud we
cannot help indulge in the thought that
if they had, nobody would have been
the loser by it.
Everything looks to them sad and
lusubrious Their spectacles are smoked
glass and their Iundiced eyes seeeycry-
thing bright through this dusky medi.
um.
Every misfortune which comes, every
streak of i'll luck which belalls them, is
direct judg ament from the Almighty,
as though they believed that the God
of Love and Power spent the whole
time in studying out refinement aud
dren whom He protessed to love.
If man eats too much dinner, drinks
too much, and smokes too many cigars,
dies of appoplcxy at forty, when he
ought by the laws of nature 10 have
| lived to eighty, God is arraigued, aud
the mans friends and the clergyman
who breaches his funeral sermon, call
his death mysterious dispensation ot
Providence.
If 4 mother dresses her little child SO
AS to show It's bare neck and arms and
its plump legs-beautitul We admit
but none the less sensitive To cold on
that account, il she fills the chlIds
stomach with bon bons, and lis head
with knowledge only intended tor nper
years, and the child dies, rs OF course
it will, then everybody sympathlzes
with her, and urges her To bc resigned
TO the will of Providence. And the
afflicted mother weeps and wonders
what she has ever done TO deserve such
an affecting stroke.
Men who are brought up 20 know
right from wrong, cheat and lie, aud
swindle, and speculate, and build up
fortunes, and invest them in fancy
stocks which rise into existence like
soap bubbles, and by-and.by the bnb-
bic bursts, the fine things arc swept
away, aud these men have the assur-
ance 10 say that God has dealt harshly
with them aud that the punishment IL
harder than they can bear
"Thc Coils help those who help them
selves"
As true line as was ever penncd,
and in nine cases out of ten our world
is just what we make it. Ii we resolve
TO see only the dark side, we shall of
course see no sunshine. 1t We choose TO
live in cclar,the sun will not be like
ly to come down out Of the heavens
and seek us out in our obscurity.
If we meet trouble half way it will
accept tacit invitation and be ever pre-
sent with US.
"a merry heart doeth good, and the
greatest things which can be showered
upon family arc good nature and
cheerfulncsS s
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1876-09-30
THEY SAY.

A more sneaking, cowardly, fendlsh
liar than "They say" does not exist,
The parsonage is universal scapegoat
for personal gossip, envy, and malice;
without form of flesh and blood, when
invoked, and yet stalking boldly in
every community. The character is
myth, and yet real; intangible, and yet
clutching its victims with remorseless
power. 1t is unseen, and yet from an
exhaustless culver, wings its poisoned
arrows from day to day. And no mall
is proof; no character, position, or sex
escapes; no sanctuary is too sacred; no
home is bulwarked against its assaults:
When one base heart wishes to assali
some persons character or motives,
"They say" is always invoked That
is the assassin who strikes IN the cloud,
the Thug who haunts the footsteps OF
the offender, and tortures from careless
word or deed, an excuse for the stilletto
Men dare not always reveal their own
feelings. With smiles and pretended
friendship, they present the envenomed
shaft as coming from "They say" BE
sure, reader, that when some villlanous
tale is told you, and the relater cannot
give an author more tangible than
"They say" for it that the slander is
the creation of the heart by your side,
reeking with the poison of envy and
hatred, and earnest with wish to have
the falsehood of "l'hey say" bud into
reality, and become current coin in the
community. IL.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1876-09-30
A Novelty i'm Crime.

In Fridays Daily Binner appeared a
short account Of tragical affair some
twenty miles east of this city, which re-
suited in the suicide Of young man
aud the dangerous wounding of a young
lady. The full particulars We learn
from the Pierce Guy Record. The oc-
currence took place at Round Grove,
in Lawrence county, and, for peculiarly
of arrangement has no parallel in ali
the murders and suicides ever commit
ted. Two young men, residents OF
Round Grove, both loved the same la
dy, Miss Henderson. For reasons
best known to herself, she had cncour
aged neither OF them, and her friends
say that on all occasions she avoided
their society as much aspossible. Yet 1t
seems both young men were infatuated
with her-earnestly in love-but, for
wonder, were not i'll the slightest de
gree Jealous of each other. A short
time ago both young men proposed and
were rejected. Then the blind passions
of their love were stirred up, and they
determined 10 commit crime. We
are informed that the young men made
their arrangements and carried them
out to the letter, according to the fol
lowing particulars
On Wednesday morning, armed and
prepared, they went to Mr.. Henderson's
house Mr.. Poland went into the house
and told Mr. Henderson that Mr.. Nor
ris wanted to see him at the gate. AS
Henderson reached the gate he heard
pistol fired in the house and scream.
He rushed back, and as he neared the
door he heard another shot and when
he entered the house he beheld his
daughter on the floor, near the middle
door, unable to rise, while Poland lay
in the middle of the room dead. The
lady says that when her father went out
she arose TO leave the room, rs she
feared Poland had a knife and would
hurt her, as he kept his hand in his
breast all the time. When she got to
the door Poland drew his pistol and
fired, the ball entering the back on the
right side, below the shoulder blade,
and passed through the body. came out
on the left side just beneath the ribs.
The lady is in a very dangerous con
dition, but at last accounts still alive.
When the girl fell Poland placed the
pistol to bis breast and fired; the ball
entered near the centre, in line with the
nipples. lie tell, and Immediately ex-
pired. Morris filed his part OF the ar
rangement by engaging Mr.. Henderson
out side while Poland committed the
murder. We think this is certainly the
first case that ever occurred where two
young men agree to murder the girl
they both loved The to be regretted
most is that the other lunatie, Morris,
did not get a chance to shoe; himself
Carthage (No.) Banner.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1876-09-30
TO MY PATRONS.

HAVING determined to make change
III in my business on April lst, my books
will then be closed and ready for settle
meut. Those indebted to me will please
call and settle by cash or otherwise.
Having tried both the cash and credit
systems and believing the former to be
the best for all concerned, on and after
April 1st, will sell for CASH or take in
exchange COUNTRY PRODUCE. in
tend in the future to buy for the lowest
cash prices and sell accordingly. \ por-
ton of my present stock will be sold All
AND BELOW COST.
Returning thanks for past patronage and
hoping to merit your future favors, l am,
most respectfully, yours
W.T., LEMEN.
April |, 1876. II
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1876-09-30
OUR DEAD.

Oh no, we ne'er forget them
Though the bending willow waves
Its shadowy, dropping branches
O'er their lone and peaceful graves.
Though the fondly loved the cherished,
Have long since from us fled,
They are still our dearest treasures;
We ne'er forget our dead.
At the dawn of early morning,
At the evenings hour of prayer,
When our path is bright and sunny,
Or dark with clouds Of care;
When we bow our heads in sorrow,
Or when joys are round us spread
Whate'er our lot in life may be,
We ne'er forget our dead.
Those who have passed blooming youth
The bright, the fair, the gay:
Those who have meekly born the heat
And burden of the day
They now are calmly resting
In their quiet, solemn bed;
Yet in memory still they live
We ne'er forget our dead.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1876-09-30
How To Discourage Eour Pastor.

Hear him snow aud then" Drop in
little late. Do not sing do not find
the text in your Bible. If you take 4
little sleep during the sermon, SO much
the better.
1. Notice carefully any slip he makes
while you are awake; point out the dull
portions to your children and friends; it
will come round to him.
2. Censure his efforts at usefulness
deplore his want of common sense; let
him know that you won't help him be-
cause A. B. does, because you were not
first consulted, or because you did not
start the plan yourself.
3. Let him know the tollies and sins
of his hearers. Show him how much
he overrates them, and tell him their
adverse criticisms on himself.
4. Tell him when he calls what Z
stranger he is how his predecessors
used TO drop in for an hours chat, and
how much you liked them.
5. Occasionally get up little gaiety
for the young folks. This will be found
etfectual about the communion season.
There is a time to dance
6. Give him no iutimation when You
are i'll of course he should know and
your offended dignity when he comes to
see you, will render his visit pleasant
On no account intimate your recovery.
I. Require him to swell the pomp OF
every important occasion, unless indeed,
there are prudentials reasons for passing
him over.
s. If he is always in his pulpit clamor
for strangers, il he has pnbic duties,
and sometimes goes abroad, complain
that he is never at home.
Patient continuance in courses like
these, modified according to circumstan-
ces, has been known not only to dlscour-
age, but 10 ruin the usefulness, and break
the spirit OF ministers; TO send them oil
TO other charges and often TO their
graves. Those who desire to avoid such
results should avoid the practice of such
things as here referred to. Let us ''heIp
one another.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1876-09-30

IT is BErrER.-It is better to wear a
calico dress without trimmings, if it be
paid for, than to owe the shopkeeper
for the most elegant silk, cut and trm-
med in the most bewitching manner
Better to live in log cabin all your
own, than in brown stone mansion
belonging to somebody else.
Better walk forever than run in debt
for horse and carriage. ..-.
Better to use the old cane-seated
chairs and faded two-ply carpet than
tremble at the bills sent home from the
upholsterer's for the most elegant par
lor set ever made.
Better to meet your business acquain-
tances with free, "don't owe you-a-
cent" smile than to dodge around the
corner from dun.
Better pay the organ grinder two
cents for music, if you must have it,
than owe for piano.
Better gaze upou bare walls than
upon pictures unpaid for.
Better to eat thin soup from earthen
dishes,if You owe your butcher nothing,
thaG 10 dine off lamb and beef and know
it does not belong to you.
Better have fit of Mysteries than run
in debt for furniture, cloth, or anything
else that you may wish for.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1876-09-30

A CHEAP CARPET.-An Eastern
lady says: Have any Of you spare bed,
chamber seldom used which you would
like to carpet at little expense! 10 TO
the paper-hangers store aud select a
paper looking as much like carpet as
YOU can find. Having taken il home,
first paper the floor of your bedroom
with brown paper or newspaper. Then
over this put down your wall paper.
A good way to do this will be to put a
good coat of paste upon the width OF
paper and the length of the room, and
then lay down unrolling and smoothing
at the same time. When the floor is
all covered, then size the varnish; only
dark glue and common furniture var.
nish may be used; and the floor vii!
look all the better for the darkening
these will give it. When it is dry, put
down few rugs by the bedside and
before the toilet table, and you will
have as pretty carpet as You could
wish-a carpet, too. that will last for
years if not subject to constant wear,
and at q trihing expense. l, myself,
used a room one entire summer prepared
in this way-used it constantly; and
when the house was sold in the Fall,
the purchaser asked me to take up the
oilcloth, as he wished to make some
alterations which would be sure to injure
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1876-09-30
NEW YORK, Jan. II. 1866.
Extracts FROM VARIOUS LETTERS

Il had no appetite; Holloway's Pills
gave me Il hearty one.
Your pills are marycllOus.'
II send for another box, ana keep them
in the house"
"Dr. Holloway has cured my headache
that was chronic
Il gave one Of your Pills 20 my babe for
cholera morbuS. The dear little thing got
we'll in 4 day"
My nausea ofa morning is now cured"
"Iour box of Holloway's Ointmen:
cured me of noises in the head. | rubbed
some of your Ointment behind the ears,
and the noise has left"
''Scnd me two boxes, l want one for
poor family"
II enclose dollar, your price is 25
cents, but the medicine to Inc is worth Il
dollar"
''Send me five boxes of your Pills"
"Let me have three boxes of yom Pills
by return mail, for ChillS and Fever
| have over 200 such Testimonials as
these, but want of space cOmpelS me to
conclude.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1876-09-30
MARK THESE FACTS!
THE TESTIMONY OF THE WHOLE
WORLD.
HoLLOWAY's PILLS.

Us Let the Suffering and diseased read
the following.
gE- Let all who have been givenup bv
Doctors, and spoken of as incurable, read
the following.
s8- Let all who can believe facts, and
can have faith in evidence, read the fol-
lowing.
KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, That
on this, the Twentieth day of June, in the
year of Our Lord, One Thousand Eight
Hundred and Sixty-SiX, personally came
Joseph Haydock to me as such, and being
duly sworn disposed as follows: "That he
is the sole general agent of the United
States and dependencies thereof for prep
arations or medicine known as DR.. HollO-
ways Pills and Ointment, and that the
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1876-09-30

Ak Ere TO EcOsoar.-A man enter
ed the Chicago Tribune Office and left
the following advertisement
"PersoHf.-The advertiser desires
TO make the acquaintance OF lady Of
refinement and good looks, S feet Az
inches high. and weighing about 1876
pounds; bust measure 39sinches, waist
measure % 3.4 inches, sizeof boot 8 IA
ditto of glove 7-S; complexion pro-
uounced ifunette, deep hazel eyes, with
view TO matrimony. Address w,
1898, Tribune ofice." ~.
.-.Seerns TO me you're mighty particn.
lar about the size aud kind OF wife you
want" observed the advertising clerk.
"Well, perhaps 1 am; but yoa. seq my
wife died before we had been married
long, add she hadn't oegnn TO half wear
out her clothes, and her father gave her
an awful sight Of EN-. 50 it seems 70 me
kinder like flying 10 the face OF Proyi-
deuce when silk and things is so dear,
and the c,untry laboriag in the throes
of financial coayalsiou 10 take anoth-
err mite, aad let the IN pths break
through aud rast and corrupt all them
duds. 81 just want q wife TO nl'tci
them things. ~
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1876-09-30
GOTH YEAR !
LOOK WELL BEFORE YOU BUY!
The
WILLOUGHBY GUM-SPRING DRILL
NOT EQUALED BY ANY IN USE
FOR SOWING GRAIN
FOR SOWING FERTILIZERS
FOR SOWING GRASS SEEDS.

THE Willoughby Drill has been greatly
i improved for this year. Farmers in
want of First-class Drill should see it be-
fore buying any ofthe other Drills offered
by Agents.
1t has two gum feeders, working in such
a manner that it will not choke, break
the grains, nor feed in an irregular man
ner.
1t has gum springs that allow it to sow
over all distractions, without stoppage or
breaking, putting in the grains close up
to the obstruction.
1t sows readily, Wheat, Rye, Oats, Grass
Seed, and all kinds of Fertilizers.
1t can be thrown in and out OF gear
without stopping the team.
1t can be regulated in an instant to sow
Il greater or less quantity, even whilst the
Drill is in motion.
1t sows up hill, down hill, or side hill,
with the same regularity and precision.
1t has surveyor, which shows exactly
the amount sown. When the Drill has
the hose hoisted, the surveyor does not
turn.
The Drill has been greatly improved in
the past year, and the many hundred far
mers who have bought and used the Drill
say it is PERFECT.
Among the different styles made to suit
all counties, the Manufacturers are build
ing this year in addition to their regular
Drill, one with Shafts like cart, so that
three horses may be worked abreast-thus
suiting farmers having sandy and yield
ing soil, or very hilly ground. The
WILLOUGHBY
I.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1876-09-30
HOLLOWAYS PlLLS.-TIIE

UOLLOWAYS PlLLS.-TIIE
TURN OF LIFE.-FROM the age ot
forty-fiye TO fifty, woman has arrived at
a critical periol OF her existence the
stream of death flows before her. across
it is bridge, cilIei ''the turn Of life"
beyond it is delightful garden. The
path is beset with dingrrs, aud guarded
by the fierce dragons ol disease, Drop.
sy, Erysipelas, Hysteril, Nervousness,
and other disorders too numerous to
mention bat armed and prepared by
HolIoways famous Plila, she will pas,
with security into those beautiful re-.
gions, and enjoy herself till the sun Of
life sets in the serene evening Of old
age. Negligence at this season is pro
ductive OF the IN Ist frightfdl conseqnen.
ces and death itself would be far pref
cradle TO such nockery Of life. Tho
nervousness, flusbes end fainting fits,
the general prostration Of the system,
may all be preySntei by q timely re-
course 10 tiieSs incompatible remedies.
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