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The Daily clarion., 1876-02-06

HERE Is rumor on the street that TT
.. District Attorney Dedrick has been
removed, and Chancellor II. r, Ware
appointed in his stead.
The Daily clarion., 1876-02-06
MISSISSIPPI LEGISLATURE.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. DAY.

SATURDAY, February 5, 1876.
Lt.-Gov. Davis (col.) in the chair. Prayer
bv Rev Mr.. New absent z.
Mr.. Reynolds gave noticed the lntrodhc-
ton of a bill.
The Daily clarion., 1876-02-06

GOLD opened in New York yesterday
at 1255.
The Daily clarion., 1876-02-06

SATURDAY, February s, 1876.
No session.
The Daily clarion., 1876-02-06

NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. DAY.
The Daily clarion., 1876-02-06

The Senate confirmed the appointment of
the following officials:
- TRUSTEES ALcoRN UNIvERsITY-H. w.
Warren, of Leake county; j. j. Smith. of
Claiborne county; Geo. w. Boyd (col !. of
Warren county, and J. Tarbell, OF Kinds
county.
The Senate has refused to confirm the
following:
TRUSTEES ALcoRN UNIvERsIrY.-A. IT.
Morgan of YaZoo county, H. H. Trueheart
(col.) of Holmes county.
TRUsTEE DEAF AND DUMB INsrIrurE.-J.
w. Hough, of Kinds county.
TRUSTEE OF BLIND INsTITUTR-A. q.
Packer. of Holmes county.
Adjourned.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1876-06-29
Granite i'll Shirts.

WAS walking along the canal banks
in the town of Bolton short time
ago, and my attention was called to a
barge load of pearly white substance
On examination it proved to be china
clay, and in my innocence | asked
where the porcelain works were locat-
ed, as | take great interest i'll such
manufactures. My inquiry was re-
ceived with loud laughter, and [ was
informed the kaOlin was consigned to
MeSSrS. , a Well-knOWn firm If
cotton spinners. ApT0pos of this lit
tie incident, and somewhat of a COM
mentary thereon, let me add that q
gentleman who processes to be ultra
religious told me the other day that an
eight-pound shifting now never con-
tains more than six pounds Of cotton,
and on my asking him if he traded in
this fashion, he piously replied: eve
must go with the stream" Perhaps
the nl0c7til1istes Sewing machines) are
uOC aware CldU olIe IeQueuU DI6cthlllS
Of their needles is mainly caused by
the resistance and friction of this min
eral adulteration. which is found in
abundance in almost all the cotton they
sew. Biologists tell us that china clay
is decomposed granite; no wonder,
then, that it should be gritty and break
needles. 1t also makes eminently I'M
healthy the occupation of the mill
hands, fact which [ recommend to
the special attention of the Society for
the Protection of Women and Chill
dren. Manchester. Manchester! this
china clay adulteration will be thy
death .-Lo11do11 Mo1aet0ry Gazette.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1876-06-29
Shade Trees i'll Pastures.

If any man can adduce a good rea-
trees i'll pastures, [ wish to hear from
him ut once, as we have read the agri-
cultural papers for years, and have not
seen solitary argument worth MOTTO
ing against shade trees in pastures.
What a brute a farmer must be who
would be willing to see his COWS, horses
| and sheep sweating under summer
sun With the thermometer in the shade
up to 90 OF 100 deg; he should be
stripped Of his clothes and exposed to
the same heat till he had learned to
appreciate the value of shade to animals
in summer. The only reason advanced
against shade trees in pastures is, that
COWS are inclined to spend too much of
their time under them, and cOnse-
quently give less milk than they would
if no shade existed. This is all talk.
Cows that rest portion Of the time
under trees feed more nights than
those do that have no shade in their
pastures. The farmer who advocates
cutting the shade trees Of pastures is a
heather in his feelings, and not wor-
thy Of owning live stock, because to
furnish such stock with no shade is
downright cruelty to animals, and
ought to be an indictable offense The
more comfortable and quiet we keep
our COWS, the more milk they will pro-
duce, and we contend that COWS that
have a shady grove to lie in, OF large
shade trees in different parts of the
pasture to stand or lie under, will pro-
duce as much milk as COWS do without
shade, and the animals are far more
comfortable, and their owners feel a
pleasure in seeing them enjoy them
selves in a cool shade during the heat of
the summer days.-COr. Ne1O England
Farmer.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1876-06-29
No Names Given.

ONE Of the uptown churches in New
York was filled by fashionable con-
gregatiOn about a week ago, on the
occasion of the marriage of a we'll
known society girl to the man of her
ch0ice-the scion OF popular Phlla-
delphia sugar merchant. Probably not
a dozen persons present knew the most
interesting fact in the history Of the
bride. She was poor, neglected wait
twenty years ago, and was found one
Wintry morning upon doorstep i'll St.
Mark place-then fashionable quar-
ter of the city. No clue to her parent
age was ever found, but the family
Chosen probably with that object,
having no child of their own, took in
the Waif, and treajed the little girl
with as much care as if she had been
their own. 4 few years after an ap-
plicati0n was made to Judge Charles
p. DAILY, Of New York City, for a de-
cree awarding legal custody of the
child to its protectors, and henceforth
she took their name. She was educat-
ed thoroughly, and became pet of the
family as effectually as if she had been
born into it. In time she was intro
duced into society as Miss C., and
met her present husband at a family
reunion in Philadelphia. Now she is
honored and petted by society, and
promises to become areigning favorite.
Who knows but somewhere the real
mother of this interesting woman may
not be watching the career of her
child, and that, some time, may make
herself known? Truly, fact is often
stranger than fictiOn.-N. Y. Letter.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1876-06-29
Old English Plate.

II is not SO very long ago since two
English country gentlemen entered in
to an angry alteration as to the COM
paratiye Importance of tleir families,
in which one of them rested his claim
to superiority on his SidebOard of plate.
We have no wish to depreciate the
merits Of that splendid array, which
no doubt fully deserved all the venera-
ton with which its worthy owner re-
garded it all we wish to observe is, as
we are about to write on English plate,
and on ancient English plate in partic-
ular-that if any of the medieval an
cestOrs of the contending parties could
have looked down on the SidebOard in
question, they would in all probability
not have exhibited such admiration of
its quantity and quality as its fortunate
owner evidently entertained; the fact
being that what we in these degenerate
| days would call a fine collection of
plate would have seemed to English
lords and knights and squires of the
fourteenth, fifteenth and sixteenth
centuries rather an insignificant
amount of paltry pieces. If our read
Ell desires proof of this, let him turn to
the inventory of Sir John Fastolf' S
plate, that old soldier of Henry
VS. wars, who, after his re-
tirement to his native Norfolk,
figures as a close-fisted landowner
in the ''Paston Letters" There he
will find page after page of great pieces
weighed by the pound, and clearly of a
form and fashion never seen on a mod
ern sideboard. The inventories of
| Kings and Dukes, as those of France
and Burgundy, we purposely set aside
as exceptional; but the centuries we
| have named, and to them we might
| have added the seventeenth, on the
authority of Pepys' DIARY" We're
emphatically plate-buying and plate
| giving times: all who had any money
silver and gold, so that the schedule of
the effects left behind him by any per-
son of rank OF station teens with
white plate, or parcel-gilt, or whole
gilt plate, in thousands of ounces.
Such schedule may still be seen an
neXed in the Depository of London
! Wills to the will of Nicholas Bacon.
Queen Elizabeth's fat and witty Lord
Keeper, self-made man, who, beside
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1876-06-29
killing Red Spiders in Hot-Beds

A CORRESPONDENT of the Journal
Of Horticulture gives the following di-
rectiOns for killing the red spider either
III greenhouse or hOt-beds:
One of the best means of eradicating
this pest, and one which [ have sue
cessfully practiced for many years, is
by creating fumes Of sulphur with the
aid of heated furnace shovels. If the
operation is performed with due care,
every spider will be killed and not a
leaf of either vines or cucumbers will
be injured. If, however, the work is
loosely OF carelessly done injury will
inevitably be committed. But of this
there is no real danger, for a safety
valve is always present, which if re-
garded will lead to satisfactory results
My mode is as follows:
On the evening of a still day, and
after the house containing the spider
has been closed, | secure the aid of two
assistants. One heats q shovel at the
fire, and runs with it to the door of the
winery. Here is placed a careful man
with pot of sulphur, which he
sprinkles very slightly on the shovel,
and the sulphur at first burns with q
flame. That is the danger signal. Ii
a few moments, however, the shovel
coolS and the sulphur smOlders, show
ing no incandeScence Whatever-that
is the safety-valve. At that stage he
hands it to me inside the house, and !
! sprinkle it freely, and continue to dc
SO as long as fumes are emitted. In
the meantime other ShOvels are being
| prepared outside. In a quarter of an
hour [ have light blue atmosphere
and as soon as my eyes commence
snarting | leave the house.
In the morning l have invariably
found every red spider dead, and every
leaf alive and uninjured. The slight
est incandescence of the sulphur inside
the house will cause injury to the foil.
age, but | have never found the slight.
est harm result if the precautions
named have been duly carried out. II
| is a matter on which none need err
for it is easy to perceive when the sui
phur does not show a flame outside
and as easy to know when ones ewes
smart inside the house. I have prac
ticed the plan for more than twenty
years, and always with the same result
of killing the spider and not iniurine
the foliage of vines, cucumbers, OF
melons.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1876-06-29
Pick Up!

VERY few of our farmers seem to
realize the Importance Of keeping
things picked up. The rule applies as
well on the farm as elsewhere, that
= there should be a place for every
thing, and everything in its place. :"
The wear and tear of the farming inn
plements is not nearly so much in a
whole season as is the destruction re-
sulting from month exposure to the
weather. when not in use. Add to
this the time wasted in hunting up the
tools when they are needed, and the
sloVenly appearance which tools seat
tered over farm give to it, and GER
family anyone can see the advantage of
having things put away ready for use.
Our farmers who have achieved the
greatest success are men who have
some plan and arrangement about
Their work and in the conveniences on
the farm.
On every farm there ought TO tool
house, which could be built for a trif-
ing expense, and would soon save its
cost III the improved condition of the
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1876-06-29

tools. The house need not be large
large enough to contain workbench.
as such an arrangement would be
found very convenient in rainy
weather. 1t should also be so arrano-
ed that each separate implement should
have its own place. 1t should then be
understood by every one on the farm,
that When ANY implement is used it
should be returned to its place, and not
left where it is used or on the middle
Of the floor in the Toulouse. Such
an arrangement would very materially
expedite and facilitate the farm work.
Let all the farmers consider this
matter carefully, and if they agree
with the writer that it would be to
their interest to erect such building,
act on the suggestion here set forth.
1t need not cost over twenty-five OF
thirty-dOllarS, as common timber will
answer the purpose, and most of the
work can be done by the farmer OF his
boys. OF course no plan for it could
be given, as each man must suit him
self as to that, and no two men would
perhaps build alike. The barn is no
place for the tools; they are in the way
there, and ought to have a place of
their own. Now is the time to build
Toulouse and gather in the old nipple
mentS. The new can be added as they
are bought A. c." IN ohio Farmer.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1876-06-29

being the father Of Francis Bacon,
built Gorhambury, and left a fine es-
tate both in land and chattels to his
heirs. Nor were the collections of
church and college plate less import
ant; the treasures of great abbeys
and monasteries were stored with
plate; as that of the Shrine of Beckett,
at Canterbury, carried away in huge
chests, and the plate at Westminster
Abbey, of which the inventory still eX-
lists, to make collectors mouths water
at its weight and beauty.-Lol1d0n
quarterly ReUieaC.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1876-06-29
Odd Patents.

IHE Whole examining force Of the Pat
ent Office at Washington number about
one hundred, of which two are ladies.
OF course, among such a large number,
there are to be found men of every
kind. Some are so i1liberal that they
will never grant patent where they
can possibly refuse it; others go to the
opposite extreme. Each one having
his own idea of what constitutes an
invention, of what is useful, many
ridiculous patents have been granted.
One man obtained a patent for a COM
bined pillow and cannon. The beam of
the pillow was made of iron, and bored
out so as to form a cannon. When
ever the farmer, while at work in the
field, saw savages or tramps approach
ing, he was to unhitch his. team, SO as
to get them from before the muZZIe,
apply his match, and say his prayers,
for the farmer was a good deal more
likely to be killed by the recoil, than
the savages by the shot. In case the
cannon went off while in use as a
pillow, it was unfortunate for both the
team and the farmer A patent was
granted to another person for tying a
brick to cows tail, so as to prevent
her switching her tail i'll his eyes while
milking. Another received a Patent
for placing house Oh rollers, so that
in case of an earthquake the house
would not be shaken to pieces. Still
another received a patent for a COM
bined trunk and house. The trunk is
made with triple walls, SO that by tax
ing the articles out Of the trunk, and
extending the two extra walls, a house
is formed. ~ Washington Chronicle.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1876-06-29

DR.. SCHENCK's PULMoNIC SYRUP, SEA
WEED Tonic AND MANDRAKE PIILs.-These med
icines have undoubtedly performed more cures of
Consumption than any other remedy known to the
American public. They are compounded of vege-
table ingredients and contain nothing which can
be Injurious to the human constitution. Other
remedies advertised cures for Consumption
probably contain opium, which is a somewhat
dangerous drug in all cases, and, if taken freely
By consumptive patients, it must do great injury
for its tendency is to confne the morbid matter in
the system, which, of course, must make cure
impossible. Schencks Pulmonic Syrup is war
raIlted not to contain particle of opium. 1t is
composed Of powerful but harmless herbs, which
act on the lungs, liver, stomach and blood and
thus correct all morbid secretions and expel all
the diseased matter from the body. These are the
only means by which Consumption can be cured
and, as Schencks Pulmonic Syrup, Sea Weed
Tonic and Mandrake Pills the only medicines
which operate in this way, it is obvious they are
the only genuine cure for Pulmonary Consump
ton. Each bottle of this invaluable medicine is
accompanied by full directions. DR.. ScheA OK is
professionally at his principal Office corner Sixth
and Arch streets Philadelphia, every Monday,
where all letters for advice must be addressed.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1876-06-29
Curious Revelation by an Acct
dent.

AT the sale in London of the pictures
owned by the late Chevalier de Listin-
gen, a splendid Ruysdael was bought
for $4,000 by Prince Demidoff. An
accident revealed some curious facts,
or what are supposed to be facts, in re-
gard to this picture and the artist who
produced it. In cleaning the picture d
blow knocked off one of the figures in
the signed date, and in its place was
found another figure making the date
1917 instead of 1867, which was the
date indicated before the accident. AS
Ruysdael, according to the books, was
born in 1885, it was considered impos-
sible that he could have painted so fine
a work at the early age of twelve years,
and it was concluded that some former
owner Of the picture, entertaining the
same idea, and thinking the original
date mistake, had caused the four to
be covered and six painted on instead.
Still the mystery Of the matter re-
manned, however, in the minds of those
interested in the discovery Of the alter
alton, and it was a matter of doubt
whether the artist could have made a
mistake of ten OF twenty years in the
date of his work. Accordingly, the
history of the artist has been very
thoroughly looked up, and it has been
found that ordinary biographical works
give the date of his birth incorrectly,
he having been born in 1925. He was,
therefore, twenty-five years old when
the picture was painted.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1876-06-29

ECoNoMY-You will save money by using
Proctor & Candles Original Notified German
Soap. It will not waste nor become soft
ike ordinary yellow soap when used in warm
water, nor is it cheapened with articles inju-
rious to clothes Remember, you obtain full
one-pound bar if you purchase their brand.
To protect their brand from imitators
Proctor 81 Gamble patented it, and the patent
was sustained in the United, States Courts.
Examine the stamp on the bars Cien you
bug. Take their Soap 0nL-f.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1876-06-29

THE GREAT FAMILY MEDICINE.-Dr. Will
hoft's Anti-Periodic or Fever and Ague Ton
ic! No case of incurable Chills has yet pre-
senJed itself, where this scientific and safe
medicine has been employed. No case has
been found SO obstinate as to resist its
prompt and mastery action. No man has
been so reduced by malarial influences, but
with its use has come up perfectly recon
structed. No pills or purgative required
with this medicine. G. R. FINLAT q Co.,
PruprictOrs, New Orleans.
For SALE RY ALL DRUGGISTS.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1876-06-29
Everybody Pleased.

Everybody who examines or uses the
CHARTER OAK Cook STOVE is pleased with
its great capacity, superior construction,
neat appearance, cleanliness in operation,
and the construction of its reservoir and
closet, and say it is unequaled as perfect
Cooking Stove
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1876-06-29

IF you have any form OF ague, no matter
how obstinate, or how much other medicine
you have taken to no purpose, Shdllenberger's
Pills will cure you. Price one dollar.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1876-06-29

HoLToN q HILDRETH, 225 ana 227 State
st Chicago, sell furniture lower than any
house in that city. Their goods are first-class.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1876-06-29

PPUsSING'S White Wine Vinegar, warranted
pure and TO preserve pickles. Asuperb article.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1876-06-29
pEsksFEa ar F. Weigle, 6 q North La Sale
SEsV r Sf A n ST., Chicago, Ill. Best in mar
tEN @ ~ RT&s ket for Picking and Table Use.
The CatGChiSm Of the Locomotive

is an elementary treatise the Locomotive written
In the form OF questions and answers. The book
tans 6O9 pages and $50 engravngs including Is full
page plates of different styles of locomotives.
The principles of operating details Of construc-
ton are so clearly explained enable any intei-
CERT person to thoroughly understand them The
book is written without The of technical terms or
absrruse mathematical calculations. and is intended
for all classes of readers.
Address THE RAILROAD GAZETTE.
70 Jackson Street. Chicago
National Republican., 1876-09-22

THE campaign in North Carolina pro-
crosses with extraordinary vigor. Judge
Settle and Ex-Governor Vance are still en-
gagged in joint discussion, the former being
the Republican candidate for Governor and
the latter the Democratic candidate. At
one Of their recent meetings, at Shelby,
September Is, Vance was foolish enough
to appeal to the Confederate sentiment of
his hearers in the following terms
"RENENBER, THAT ALL OF OUR
BRAT-E SOUTHERN HEROES WHO
DIPPED THEIR HANDS IN UNION
BLOOD, AND ALL THEIR LEADERS, IN
THE SOUTH, ARE FOR Reform AND
TYLDEN."
To this reasonable declaration Judge
Settle made fitting reply, in effect as fol-
lows
"Hear, my countrymen, to the old Confede-
rate Cry-a word to try and get the people
more divided-talking of the brave men Dip
ping their hands in l niOn blood l tell you
my people that the old warriors who desc
lated your homes, rushed your sons, fathers
and brothers in the front of battle in a hope
less cause and leaving on the battle fields their
bleaching bones, and who caused starvation to
enter your doors and the general devastation
of the whole country, would not let you join
hands with your Northern friends if you ever
so much desired it, for they know so soon as
you do they are forever damned. 1t Is he (my
competitor) that has kept emigration from
among us it is he who abuses the Northern
emigrants that are with us, and kept capital
lists from our country"
National Republican., 1876-09-22
WBTTLEY,s DEGRADATION

As rule We do not approve of newspa-
per comments upon case during the pro-
gress of a trial, but we cannot forbear the
remark that the developments in the Bah
cock trial yesterday render to US mex plicl-
bic the object of the late Attorney General
and District Attorney Wells in guarantee
ing immunity to such confessed and be-
wildered PeIjurer as Whitley was forced by
Mr.. Fullerton 10 admit himself to be- He
gave no evidence duplicating Babcock and
Sonmeryille, ard doubtless has simply
duped the law officers of the Government
for the purpose Of securing a full pardon
for himself This miserable counterfeit of
q man, who does not even hail by his faith
er's name, ard who is charged with having
robbed an Adams Express safe at Browns
vile, Texas, and afterwards having at
Iempted to cast suspicion and conviction of
Ihe crime upon others-Who is an ex magi-