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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1876-07-06

BY tie passage Of tie Post0fice Aprropria-
ton bill, il has been shown that even a very
WIDE divergence between the two Houses can
be closed when both are willing. There is
therefore, fair hope for the other appropriation
bills vet pending. The impeachment trial
alone blocks The way TO an carly adionrnmeni
and doubtless some method of disposng OF
that matter will be found If it were not for
the fear that party capital might be made oui
Of such a move, the Senat" would probably be
very willing to postpone the Trial tn Fall.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1876-07-06

A shower last night before midnight, though
brief, did welcome service III laying the dust
and cooling the air. Tnere is happily pros
meet that the swcltcrng heat OF the season
Will nov be more frequently interrupted 10y
cloud and rain
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1876-07-06

Can't Eads makes public some of the annoy
onces from which he has suffered at the hands
of Government officials who do not favor bis
enterprise at the mouth of the Mississippi.
The worst effect of such interference is that 1t
NAV embarrass the work, since it tends to dis
courage the private individuals who are
advancing money to carry forward the PROJECT
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1876-07-06

Boston has secured permanent resting
place for the fine arts in the completion OF
the first wing of a museum. Although TINS
portion of the structure has cost more than
quarter of million dollars, it does not afford
more than room enough for the art treasures
already collected.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1876-07-06

The election of Gen. Boisrcnd Canal as
President of IIayti now seems assured ile
absurd attempt made by Gen. Nord to establish
q Federal Union has ended i'll failure. The
people are convinced that one honest efficient
Government is sufficient for their needs. II
five were established the anarchy would he
continuous.
The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1876-08-17
GEN. TUTTLE.
Why lie Left the Democratic
Party.

Report of his Des Moines Speech.
.M. Chairman and Gentlemen Of The
Hayes and Wheeler Ciub::
When | concluded to change my
party | thought that l might be al
lowed to do it quietly. 1t was a
private act, and required no public
announcement and there was no one
to whom | was obligated to account
for such an action. But as my course
has been 50 assailed, and | have been
called so severely to account, l may
as well embrace this opportunity to
tell both my Democratic and my Re.
publican friends why have left the
old Democracy, and why | am here
tonight. The act of my change was
a private one, but my reasons for so
doing were public ones, and they
may be told, and shall be. | am no
speaker, and make no pretensions of
being. But l can talk to you as
neighbors. have been considered
doubtful by many Democrats for
nearly two years. Indeed | never
have been Democrat if the issues
on which they are fighting this year
are the principles Of the party. But
nearly two years ago the course of
duty was developed much more
plainly than it ever had been before.
What | had seen before that that
that was wrong, | had continued to
hope would be found to be mistakes
that would be mendcd.
The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1876-08-17
TIE EX REBEL PROGRAMME.


Said one, "Give us possession Of
the government, and the North will
be the rebels next time" This was
the talk, and the talk in earnest-as
was the talk Of the same men in 1861.
They mean it. They talked it over
coolly and seriously. Said they had
already an united South, which would
be nearly enough, and that their
Democratic allies in the North dare
not deny them the little more,
the few more votes, that they would
need. This is their idea to-day-to
gain by legislation, by means Of di-
plomacy and trickery, what they
failed TO gain by means of force. |
believe it; I know it. All their ex-
pressions suggest it, and all their
actions prove it. What else do they
mean? Why is it that the State of
Missouri has issued to every former
owner Of slaves in that State . GER
tifcate for one thousand dollars for
every slave, payable when the gen.
eral government will pay it? This
very thing, the total amount of the
value of their emancipated slaves, is
now estimated as part Of the State
debt of Missouri! l used to think
that this was Republican falsehood,
the certificate matter. But it is an
actual fact, and these certificates,
and all certificates or showlngs oi
losses sustained throughout the State
are being saved up as carefully as
money against the day when the
Democracy, and the rebel element
ruling it in tho national government
shall have attained to power. II
Missouri will do this thing, and hold
out this promise to pay for al eman'
cipated slaves, why will not oil the
Southern, all worse rebel States dc
it, and will not they do it!
The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1876-08-17
BEN HILLS SPEECH.

That speech Of Ben Hills, and the
record that the Democratic party has
made in regard to it, would have
been enough of itself TO send any
man who cares for his country out of
all fellowship with it and the party
in whose name and by one Of whose
leading members it was made. Hill
in that speech defended Anderson
vile and the atrocious treatment Of
Union prisoners in the Southern
prison hells. Could | endorse that,
and still remember my own comrades
who suffered in them more than death
and hell? Can any party succeed
which even tacitly endorses sentl-
ments like these? Hill also said in
that speech, "We went out Of the
Union hugging the Constitution, and
we came back into the Union hYg-
ging it," What hug! That was
what they went out for, not to be
rebels, but to "hug the Constitution
of the Union they were trying SC
hard to destroy. l have seen them
when they were doing this "hug-
ging." remember one morning in
April, 1862, the first day Of the battle
Of Shiloh, as the rebel troops came
bearing down upon us, that ! ascend.
ed an elevation to watch them
through field-glass as they came
1t was grand sight, as they came in
three colums with their muskets al
"right shoulder shift'-that form in
which an army looks its grandest
and by which it always appears te
have three times its actual strength
There was blaze and shine of glory
on those advancing columns that
took to be the lustre and shine O
bayonets in the sun. But l Judge
now, since Hills speech, that it wa.
not bayonets they were bearing, bu'
Constitutions that they were carrying
along and hugging. / saw them do
ing good deal of this hugging
these rebels who were not rebels, bu
The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1876-08-17
EEBEL DEMOCRATS.

Nearly two years ago l was in St.
Louis. Now there is nothing pecu-
liar in simply having been at St.
Louis. But | was there also in 1861.
That was just after the first battle Of
Bull Run, and St. Louis was thor
oughly, wildly, insanely rebel. It
was worth mans life then almost to
be seen in the Union uniform. A
Union officer abou. the hotels, where
congregated the noisiest secession
elements, was hooted at and derided,
and told with sneers, "1es, you'll 60
south, and you viii come back, as the
Union soldiers have just come back
from Ball Run, with your tails
tucked" But as l remember it, none
of our troops from Iowa ever came
back in that shape. That was the
feeling in St. LOUIS in 1861, and this
feeling | found there again, in the
same spirit and in the same places,
re-expressed by the very same men,
when was there in 1874. 1t was
then l heard the news that the Dem
ocrats had elected majority of the
National House, and these same fel-
lows who swarmed about the hotels
talking treason and deriding Union
soldiers in 1861 were exultant and
delirious with joy this last time. l
remarked to gentleman who had
been comrade with me in the war,
"This looks like the same set of fel-
lows who were spouting treason here
at the beginning Of the war. What
is it that is exciting them SO, and
what ais them?" We asked squad
Of them what it was that made "them
feel so good?' l heard one of them
say, 1--WE have got them this time.
We can beat them this time" We
asked who they meant by "them?'
They replied, "We'l elect the next
President, and then we've got them.
Then we'll get pay for all our prop
erty destroyed in the war, and then
we'll get pay for our lost slaves. We
have the House overwhelmingly now,
and in 1876, the Centennial year, we
can get the Senate and Democratic
President. Then we can appoint our
committees to suit ourselves, and
choose our own Southern Claims
Committee or Southern Claims Court,
and make good our losses by the
war; They meant that they would
get pay for all the property destroyed
by the Union army, and Fay for all
their emancipated slaves.
The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1876-08-17

(Conclssa1ed on fourth p0as.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1876-08-31
A Patriotic Jury.

Jurors are sometimes sympathetic.
and allow their feelings to run away
with their Judgment. This fact is
often used by shrewd lawyers so as to
gain verdict which neither law nor
evidence would justify. An incident
that illustrates this is told of Charles
NJ. Lee, a well-known criminal lawyer
of Rochester, N. Y. esss~-ssms-e ~
Lee was defending an old Revolution.
airy soldier for passing a forged prOmis.
sorry note for some thirty dollars.
There was hardly the faintest doubt
of his guilt, but Lee contrived to get
before the jury the fact that the &C.
cused, when nineteen, was one of: the
storming party that followed Mad An.
thony Wayne in his desperate assault
upon Stony Point and. helped to carry
the wounded General into the fort
during that terrible fight. g '5sa
In summing up. Lee, after getting
over the ugly points of the evidence
as best he could, undertook to carry
the Jury by escalade, on the ground
of the prisoners Revolutionary ser.
vices. .ss.z 5;&s s. q .,
He described in graphic language
the bloody attack on Stony Point, the
impetuous valor Of Wayne, the daring
exploit Of his client, and wound up
with this stunning interrogatOry
s'Gentlemen of the jury, will you
send to the State Prison. for passing q
contemplate thirty dollar forged note
an old hero Of three-scOro and ten,
who in vnnth chearn6 kha heart If
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1876-08-31

~
his country In the darkest honr of the
Revolution by storming Stony Point -
This was poser.
The chins of some of the Jurors
quivered. but the foreman, q bluff
farmer, put on an air which seemed
to say that storming Stony Point was
good enough thing in it's line, but
what had that to do with passing this
forged note .g. " aruE#-. no
8 After being out couple of hours,
the Jury returned to the courtroom,
when the clerk went through the
usual formula: .-...
"Gentlemen of the jury, have you
agreed upon verdict :"
''We have.'' -r..... -. ....,.,
do you find the prisoner at the
bar guilty or not guilty !'.~ s..,'f - ?
''N0t guilty because he stormed
Stony Point!" Numbered the stalwart
foreman, who, it was afterward
learned, was the last to come to an
agreement. 97:2 - 80. i}...a 49,. n.
The audience applauded, the crier
raped to order, the district attorney
objected to the recording Of the YER
dict, and the judge sent the jury out
again, telling the foreman, in 4 rather
sharp tone, that they must find All ul.
conditional verdict of guilty or not
guilty. 80 ~.. '%
After an absence of few minutes,
they returned, when the foreman rem.
dered a simple verdict of not guilty,
adding, however, as he dropped into
his seat,
lit was a good thing, though, judge,
for the old Revolutionary chap that
he stormed Stony Point!'
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1876-08-31
Modern Women.

It is u sad commentary upon our
boosted civilization that the women of our
times have degenerated in health and phys
ique until they are literally race of inValids
pale, nervous, feeble and back-achy, with
only here and there few noble exceptions in
the persons of the robust, buxom ladies char
acteristic of the sex in days gone by. By a
very large experience, covering a period Of
years, and embracing the treatment of many
thousands of cases OF those ailments peculiar
to Women, DR.. Pierce, Of the Worlds Dis.
pensary, Buffalo, N. Y, has perfected by the
combination OF certain vegetable extracts, a
natural specific, which he does not extol as q
cure-all, but one which admirably fulflls q
sjngleness of purpose, being most positive
and reliable remedy for those weaknesses and
complaints that aff1ict the women of the pres
ent day. This natural specific compound is
called DR.. Pierce's Favorite Prescription. The
following are among those diseases in which
this wonderful medicine has worked cures as
If by magic and with certainty never before
attained by any medicines: Weak back, ner-
avous and general debility, falling and other
displacements Of internal organs, resulting
from debility and lack OF strength in natuaal
supports. internal tever, congestion, inflam-
nation and liberation and very many other
chronic diseases incident to women, not pro-
per to mention here, in which, as we'll as in
the cases that have been enumerated, the
Favorite Prescription effects cure-the marvel
oil the world. It will not do harm in any
state or condition of the system, and by
adopting it's use the invalid lady may avoid
that sevefest of ordeals-the consulting of a
family physician. Favorite Prescription is
sold by dealers in medicines generally.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1876-08-31
The Drill Culture of Wheat.

No branch Of improved industry has
attracted greater attention among the
wheat and grain growers than the
drilling of wheat and other small grain
by the use of appropriate machinery
for the purpose. We believe that by
the use Of these labor saving machines,
better crops are secured than when
the grain is sown by hand, at all events
the crops are more even, and again,
there is a saving in seed. Another ad-
vantage by using the drill, the ground
receives pretty thorough cultivation,
and still another advantage, much more
land can be sown in day, and when
grain is sown, the plants are so even
throughout the whole line of rows.
The roots will become SO completely
interviewer in each other, the tops or
stalks form sort of umbrella covering
to the roots, which to some extent
protect them from the severity of the
frost. It is true the ground should be
previously, thoroughly and efficiently
prepared. The work cannot be done
when the ground is rough, or uneven.
We believe that the seeder is as neces.
sary to the farmer as the reaper or
thresher.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1876-08-31
Cure for Sweeney.

Take 3d. of a pound of fat pork and
fry the grease into a slave !; stir 3
handfuls Of salt into the grease when
warm, until it is perfectly dissolved !;
then bruise Well three eggs, shells and
all, and thoroughly mix with the first
two ingredients, after they have be-
come sufficiently cool to not cook the
eggs. Apply the salve to the part
affected, at intervals of three days
each, rubbing the part thoroughly,
then warm in with 4 hot iron, holding
it as near the part affected as possible,
so that it may be well was warmed,
but not burned. Three applications
will generally cure; but if the sweeney
is bad, more applications will perhaps
be needed. The following is another
cure: Take oil origanum and spirits
of turpentine, each one part; wet the
part affected sufficiently to irritate or
partly blister. This also have never
known to fail. It is also the best
remedy for corns / have ever known,
only needing to wet the corns fire.
quently, and as fast as the surface be.
comes soft, scfape of with a knife,
then wet again, and in short time it
will be gone. I have known it to cure
some of the worst c0rns.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1876-08-31

in common with every practical man,
will have some doubts about the
measurement on account of the OK
treme minuteness of the fractional
part of that last inch. When we di.
vide an inch into "a parts, and claim
that a furrow can by any possibility be
measured SO as to- split a quarter of
an inch, we begin to think that the
measurer has brought microscope
along to help him keep tally. In this
report the breadth of furrow is made
out to be Is inches and 23-24ths of an
inch. 1t only lacked one twenty.fourth
of an inch of being l6 inches wide.
When we consider that the horses
havpto walk very steady, and the
plow must be guided as true as plan.
ing machine, not to make. the other
24th through the whole length. of the
furrow, we will see it. must be nice
work on the part of the ploughman
not to .deviate that minute fraction
while he is blowing that particular
furfow. Give us measurements,
I,messieurs committeeman, that. are
within the scope of the ordinary plough.
man, and don't fritter away your ef-
forts to bring results that are more
nice than wise or useful, and, in which
certainly, no ordinary man who has
any practical knowledge of ploughing
| can have any faith.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1876-08-31
Foot Rot In Sheep.

This a disease which scarcely even
effects the sheep in this State. Dur.
ing residence of nearly thirty years
we cannot call to mind more than two
or three instances where sheep have
been troubled with this disorder. The
following remedy, says. Woods, Rural
New Yorker, is to be used.
"When foot rot has been for some
weeks neglected and the sheep contin.
on soft ground, which favors the SUI.
perabundant growth of degenerate
horn, it becomes confirmed and diff.
cult to cure. The secreting textures
persist In pouring out lymph and weak,
faulty horn, instead of the tough, firm,
protecting covering Of the healthy
foot. The first step, however, must
be to with a strong sharp knife, while
the hoofs are soft) carefully cut away
all loose, unsound horn. Where the
hoof is extensively affected, this can.
not be done all at once two or three
operations will be necessary. Fungus
is got rid of by using butter of anti.
mony, mixed with equal parts of i'm.
pure carbolic acid, diluted with two or
three parts Of oil. Copper sulphate
ointment, in the proportion of one to
four Of fatty matter, is used il: some
districts
We do not believe that the disease
is in Ill cases contagious, though we
learn that in many localitiesit IS con.
sidered so.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1876-08-31
A RACE FOR LIFE.

One hundred years ago there lived
upon the shoresof Stephens river IA
small stream entering into the Casco
bay) a man named Peter John, an hon.
est, upright fellow, a good neighbor
and friend butswit one abominable
habit that won him many enemies,
and caused discomfort and even suffer-
ing to thole around him. This was an
almost irresistible fondness for prac.
tical joking that would not allow him
to let an opportunity pass unimproved,
wherein he could crafty this special
passion ofshis being.
There camosa time, however, when
the exercise of this popularity brought
upon him an Ordeai so sharp that
it cured his unfortunate propensity to
the great Joy: Of his friends and family.
The process was disagreeable, but the
cure was effectual and permanent.
One day Peter had been at work a
few miles from home. After his days
labor was flushed, his employer in.
vited him to partake of the evening
meal with him. This invitation Peter
accepted, and then his system fortified
by a hearty supper, he commenced his
journey homeward. .ssss,-,
The path that Peter trod that night
would lead one to-day through cultivat.
ed fields and by many pleasant farm.
houses; but then it was an unbroken
forest. es~s sgr,s g.f s>@e = b
It was dark, cold. December night;
the wird. swept rfitfully among the
great pines and beeches, and strange,
moaning sounds went sobbing through
the forest; now and then an owl utter
ed its hoarse cry, OF. the sudden rat
thing OF the coarse leaves told where
some timid animals scurried away
from sounds Of footsteps. sr,fs z
But Peter was strong and light heart.
cd, and trudged quietly along without
paying much attention to the sights
and sounds around him, until he had
achieved perhaps one.haH his journey,
when suddenly his ears caught the
sound of a horses feet descending the
long rocky path behind him. Grad.
ually the sound grew nearer, until the
sharp peculiar voice Of the horseman
could be heard urging his beast to a
faster gait.
"Ahi hal" said Peter to himself, as
he heard the old familiar tones, .s'tllat is
uncle Tom Harry.
Now uncle Tom and Pete were neigh
bors, that is to say, their clearings lay
about q mile apart. and none knew bet.
ter than Pete that the ola man was nat.
urally ofAstimids disposition, end fur,
thern,ore, that nothing inspired him
with greater fear-there was nothing
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1876-08-31
Exaxxeration About Implement Trials.

ExagKeration About Implement Trials.
Commenting on tendency among
implement manufacturers to grossly
exaggerate matters of detail when ex.
tolling the merits Of their respective
machines, the Michigan. Farmer says
Of . recent plow trial over the lines |:
We have some idea Of what a pillow
should do, and IL such trials are in
tended to be Of use to the farmer, they
must be put in such measures as an
ordinary practical farmer can under
stand. When we are told that the
depth of q furrow is seven inches and
eleven twenty fourths Of an inch we,
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1876-08-31
Harvesting Corn.

A friend suggests that if the farmers
Of the State would cut their corn stalks
close to the ground when they cut up
their fields in the fall Of the year that
they would obtain considerable more
corn. He says that about the middle
of September, he selected 4 place of
uniform appearance in soil, size, and
ripeness. He then proceeded to cut
close to the ground across five rows,
taking two hills from each, and placing
them together in an upright position,
binding the TOYS tightly. Next, cut or
topped the stalks from an equal num-
Der of hills in the same row. and last
ly, left two hills natural, in each of the
same rows, making thirty in all, or ten
Of each kind. When husked and care
fully weighed each parcel separately,
the result was as follows:
10 hills cut close to the ground :. 10 lbs Is OF.
10 hills stalks cut above ear 90. .l3 lbs 6 OF.
10 hills left natural 900. ~ lbs Is OF.
Next year tried again as follows:
20 hills cut close to the ground :. % lbs IA OF.
20 hills stalks topped go. ...... Is lbs
20 hills left natural .... 90. .... 25 lbs
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1876-08-31

Pimples on; the. face, rough skim.
ohapped hands, saltrheum, and ali cutaneous
affections cured, the skin made soft and
smooth, by the use Of Juniper Tai Soap.
That made by Caswell, Hazard & Co., New
York, isthe only kind that can be relied on,
as there are many limitations, made from COM
mon tar, which are worthless.