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Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1876-01-11
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A KILN OF Fresh Burnt Lin for ss1e bv
n WERLICH ( WELLER.
pERKIEs' Patent Vented Nu,serJ Both. hS, al.
VantAees over all oIbsrs. il bein 90 Constructed
thAt ihe vent can be regulated, thus insuripR the
perfect control Of the supply Of milk IL alec All.
lows the child toBUrSe naturally nd pr.y.pts inS
rom e1terinE the stomach, which causes trim
ny ana often severe sjcknesS. Physcian1 ali over
the country are reoomTne ndiBg Ibi 10 bottle Cfysit
triAl just received BY
ERENFIELD's Hor,e and cSttIs Po.at11 o..
rom AL mineral medicines. yet 30 compoubd.
ca Of various ronts, herbs. barks &c -, 40 r..
proInPt in lite eiects snd able give relief in al
TIE prornn eDt diseases Of the horss. Tor sale by
DREPA RED Mustard Pisst.rs0,un,.iot, 80 ro,,.
1 mon mustard plssters, always ready for in.
msai.te use; clean and not liable 70 change
SEt FoAA-suopEer than any ye;., or Bsii.1
y 70 TdsT in the World Light and nuiritisuS
biseuit and CHkeE made With il Win bot lit
We uoooIe- c. =. BELLER.
FODDER Yarn. Rattan Hamp.r.- goT,, HAL.
,S NST T. Jas Law ", i so OF z co.
pr N Lot 81 Oak Shingles, Plast.TipR LAths
PAii"EI and Frame Lumber. for sale By
nownrp Jas Law. HOnFF CO.
L Powder and Shot in tn. county. for sale BY
-rSp,. las. Law. HooFF 4 co.
~ = Line OF PAints. Oils. Brushes. VaTniskes,
TurPen zine. ke.; just received aBd Tor saio ~
<,arp~s JAS LAW. HooFF co.
T. ets- Tob. set Eet.. Measures, Kegs. Book
: NoZ 10. 1875 Jas Law. HooFF co.
TO; q LIGHT i''elliug Cashmere Poqusts Soap
to T. LIGHT is selling Lamps from 90 e.nts
s1., "oi Ser s9-EeLy best. chimDsys ebss per tkan
SOL before seBts by the b.If dozen.
- ShhooI. BOOKS sold lover BY Geo r Light
co.,. 80 nv one IN town. Copy Books 5 and 10
- initial Paper IS cents per box Legal Cap
sovs.nee, 2. ls1s GEO. T. LIGHT.
New citron, Currents, Raisins, Fig., Dat...-lS
Motions nc :. jast received and fs,J,sSie b,
uvp,c.~ IS DALGARN
a r " Ash BLUb, Tor sale BY
- Dec. z. tsI5 s. DAIGARN.
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NOV. 20 WzsHIE0TQfS & IfPRRF.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1876-01-11
THE SMOKER's PFT

TIE SMOKER'S PET.
I'VE Novel Un19nAuming Cigar. Pipe. and CT
gar Holder The merits Of this inp. ution are
at onfe appreciated by every smoher as BY using
this 9rtiele Thich is light and portable as CT
gar all sTDoEers the best rotaecoes IT lees
than one fsHH she expense of poo[ t:issT oispep
sing entirely with the cumbrOuT - WsiEhty pipe,
THE 2eInK aI~AyS clear and free ftoIn auv strobg
June Is. 1878
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1876-01-11

A KILN OF Fresh Burnt Lius for ss1e bv
"A WERLICH L WELLER,
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1876-01-11
SITUATION WANTED.

DLoUG Hs.-If you need Two. horse Plough
vnrrantsd to Plsaseo or no sale try the Heel
March is, 1875. Jas. LAW. HooFF 4 co.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1876-01-11
NOTICE.

HAVING sold my stock of Goods to D. 8 Hughes
n notice Is hereby given to all parties ndsbted
once. J. OGDEN MURRAY A1t
January IL. 1876
Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1876-10-12

in practice, the movement of one past the
other gives a shearing motion to the teeth.
The two plates are mounted on a brass box
or casing, designed to fit. the hand, and to
carry a pair of small geared wheels, just fit
ting into each other, and made to turn free
ly IN either direction. One Of these wheels
carries a pin that engages the vibrating bar,
and imparts the motion of the wheel to it.
AT the side of the casing, and opposite the
junction of the two wheels, is a small pipe
designed to receive the rubber tube that con-
veys the compressed air from the compress
sor, and on the opposite side is an escape to
the exhaust. When ready for use, air un-
der a pressure Of about five kilos for twenty
five square millimeters (ten pounds per
square inch is delivered to the cutter, and,
entering the casing between the two wheels
Tend to push them apart in opposite direc-
tons, and they impart to the cutter a speed
of about l 800 strokes minute, a speed suf-
fcient to shear a sheep in five OF six min
utes. The c%utting-tool is about fifteen CEN
timeters long and five thick, and may be
conveniently held In the hand. The COM
pressor, designed to accompany the shear
ing-tool, will, with steam or water power.
drive twenty-five cutters at once, and,
worked by hand, will supply two or more.
The flexible tube, used to convey the air,
makes the cutter available in any position,
and at any convenient distance and it would
seem as if the apparatus might prove of
great value in shearing sheep, clipping
horses, and in removing the wool from pelts.
With some slight alterations, the same de-
vice may be used as a boring-machine for
making the pin-holes in piano-forte work,
or IN cabinet work, Or as a drill in drilling
holes in piano-forte plates, and in light riv-
eted work. In the latter classes of work, it
would save the moving of the plates, as the
apparatus is portable, and takes its power
through a flexible pipe.
Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1876-10-12
SHEEP SWEARING MACHINE.

Many attempts have been made to pro-
duce a sheep-shearing machine that would
be at once cheap, effective, and pliable. The
most recent effort in this direction. employs
compressed. air as a motive power, and a
cutting apparatus, constructed on the gen.
eral plan OF the omnon moving machine.
1t consists essentially of three parts,-the
cutter, a simple, condenser. and, a flexible
pipe to unite the two. The cutting device
is tormed' of steel plates, finely serrated on
one edge, and placed one oven the other.
hi OF these has a slight latenak motion, CIV
enito 1t by a vibrating bar ofsteel, to which
it is affixed. The other plate is fixed. and,
Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1876-10-12

ton through their produce to demand high
fees, but they are few and far between. 1T
will not pay to breed common or ordinary
mares of the country to 800 and $3.50 stall
iOhs.
We firmly believe that it will pay a ma
iority of our farmers better to breed and rear
the old style coach and carriage horse than
it will the %trotter, especially when you take
into consideration the cost of the stations
services, and the expense necessarily in
Cured to develop the trotter. There are a
number of men who made a speciality of
breeding t%rotters, and it should be left with
them. If a farmer possesses good mares he
had better breed on the shares or farm them
to some reliable breeder, than to breed him
self, and have the country dotted all over
with tracks, his sons driving young trotters
to the neglect of more important work on
the farm. The farmers of this State have
enormous advantages over other less ia
vored sections Of country. We have better
material than is to be found elsewhere, from
the long and free use of thoroughbred sires.
which enables our farmers to enter into
breeding under more favorable circum-
stances. We are in possession of the most
delightful climate, the finest soil and most
luxuriant grass region in the world andneed
fear no rivals; and the large number of
thoroughbred horses bred annually that are
not good enough for races, furnish capital
material to produce the coach, carriage and
general utility horse.
Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1876-10-12
PELTING IN CALIFORNIA.

The destruction has begun in California
in earnest. The low price of wool, the gen.
eral encouragement and poor prospect in
future, joined to the ravages of scab and
other results Of over p~asture-haye produced
that same disgust among flock-masters that
we had hoped not to record thus soon-in-
deed, never again. We believe there's real
~ no need ofthis, and that it will soon cease.
Large 1ocks are being bought and driven
out of California into Montana, Arizona,
Oregon, and everywhere else where better
BILE again. OF course sheep are very low in
California. 1t is a capital time to go there
to speculate in cheap sheep. Many, too, are
doing so. The season is too far advanced,
perhaps, to drive them north, but they may
be driven south and east at any season of
the year when water will allow. There are
routes over which this may be done very
safely all the time.
We hope the pelting will be confined to
the diseased and more worthless 1ocks, and
not extend to a general destruction, as it
did formerly.-Cokman's Rural World.
It California wool-growers We're only full
" aware of the advantage that Montana Of
fers tos that business, we are satisfied they
would not destroy their f1ocks for their pelts.
There is a good demand here for sheep, and
even when the limited capital Of our people
becomes invested, which will not be the
case for a number. of years yet, the pas
lures will be by no means exhausted, but
thousands upon thousands of square miles
will still lie open for occupancy. Yes, miles
of pastoral lands with all the conveniencies
for wool-growing, where sheep may roam
the year round without feed, other than
what nature affords.
Diseased and scabby flocks can also be
treated with good success here. Flocks
have as yet in every instance been cured.
Our unbounded range makes the treatment
of this disease easy. We, therefore hops>th
woolgrowers of California will not sacrifice
their focks, but drive them to Montana
where there is good market, and where
the only cost in keeping them is the hire of
a shepherd.
Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1876-10-12
A SHEEP PICTURE.

Last January we left the green fields,
balmy air, and glorious sunshine of Califor.
MIA for home. We had crossed the Sierra
Nevada Mountains with its SHOWS. Then
we entered Nevada with wintry winds,
some SHOWS, and not a little gloom. The
narrow valleys, up which the G. P. r. r.
passes, give you but little chance to est
mate the extent of the country. Zig gag all
day long among the mountains. We were
laboring up the Humboldt valley. The
stream was rapid and dashing. The can
yons echoed to the mountain torrent. Very
little evidence Of white folks outside Of the
towns. 1t was very early in the morning.
one minute we would see the mountain tops
lighted up by the sur Then we would pass
into a deeper, gloomier canyon. In the
canyons could be seen Indian ponies feed
ing, and maybe some boys idly caring for
them. Farther up would be seen the wig
wan, and an ugly Iadian with a blanket
over his shoulders standing like a post,
looking at us. Again the river would run
down to n side or the other, leaving quite
a nice little valley on the other side. We
were enjoying the scene. It was unlike any,
thing we had ever seen. Suddenly we made
a sharp turn, and there on the other side
was q picture worth an artists pencil. There
were, perhaps, 1900 sheep in the little val
ley, lying quietly and in%nocently in a short
turn of the river. The shepherds cloth tent
was in the midst of the flock. No smoke or
sight OF man was to be seen. Half a dozen
shepherd dogs were to be seen. Two of
them ON the bank of the river, nearest the
train. Others out among the sheep, and up
by the tent. Three OF four little iaekasses
we're in sight. They belonged to the flock
az pack animals, The whole sight was ro-
mantle. The mountains high, rocky, and
inspiring; the,rising sun {; the stiffness and
beautiful quiet Of that winter morning.: the
CASE proximity to Indian wigwams. and
lhse tat, healthy sheep, lying there by the
river the %corrals, tent and sleeping sbep-
meas and watchful dogs-impressed us
strongly and forever.
Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1876-10-12
Jersey CATTLE FOR SALE.

I now offer for sale my herd of Jerseys-one hn,,
two cows and two calves. If not sold before Snnt'
25th; they will be sold on the Fair Grounds ~,
Helena, to the highest bidder. These are thoronoh h'
bred and superior animals. I have, also, for Sale
on reasonable terms some grade jersey calves
heifers and bulls, and some high-grade shorthor,
bull calves, sired by. =" Gallatin Chief,' one of tbs
best shorthorn bulls in the Territory. For pariicms
lars. address: LEN. LEWIS
Camp Baker, Nj. #.
Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1876-10-12
COSMOPOLITAN AND
ST. LOUIS HOTELS.
(C-ONsoLIDATED)
SCHWAB & ZIMMERMAN, Proprietors,

Having fitted up this elegant are-proof brick
building, Nos. 81 and 80 Main street, Helena, Mon
tana, will open the same on or before the 25th Of
September, 1876. We will retain the st. Louis Ho-
1 h1as using ,s;1gi the sn same l for re, lodging only, while the ia
new mode of arrangement we can offer ample ac-
commodation to all the travelling public.
The rooms will be kept t~irst-class in every respect.
best the market affords. In fact, it shall be our Gu
deayof to make the consolidated
The Rest Hotel i'm Montana.
and charges reasonable.
N. B.-Visitors desiring to stop at our hotel will
please call first at the Cosmopolitan, Nos. 81 and 80
Main street.
EIRsT NATIONAL BANK
OF HELENA
Designated Depository Of the United States,
s. T; HAusER, President.
T. H. KLEINsCHMTDT, Asst. Cashier.
We transact q general Banking business and bur q.
the highest rates,
GOLD DUST, COIN,
GOLD AND SILVER BULLION.
And Local Securities; and sell
Exchange and Telegraphic Transfers.
in all parts of the United States and Can
adas, Great Britain, Ireland and the Continent,
collections made and proceeds RENTED promptly.
Helena, January 20, 1S76-tf
Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1876-10-12

GOLDSMITH MA1D.-Friday Sept. 10Th,
.heiargest crowd ever seen at a,race-course
IN olae locality assembled at the Island
a I4mse, at Albany, n. Y, to. witness the
hest t;u VI Goldsmith Maid to beat her
weahe "H a. TOE. a purse of $4,000. The
aoae.aaking it impossible for the Maid f. AZ.
.2;2oaa 2:l7, 2:2la.. Ane 'naoe was
Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1876-10-12
ERKSHIRE HOGS.

i claim to have this celebrated breed in n, :.
purity. Pigs well selected in pairs or trios no,
akin, at low figures. II. WILCOX
Cold Spring Ranch, three miles east of Helene
Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1876-10-12
NNEI'T & GOODALE.
Importers and breeders of pure-blooao.
w l. SHEEP

Are now. prepared to supply the wool-growers =,
the Territory with pure-bloods of either sew ~
spection invited. Z. O.. address: Camn R,lnn
NhohCaiia. sepl4-43-3m
Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1876-10-12
LIVE STOCK DIRECTORY
= w. COOK & BRO.

Ofer for sale a few choice thorourhhred -
and have also some fine gradcs~one-ha,fF ', LINZ
three-fourths bloods. Postoflice address. and
D"hei' oh''h sep14-43-3m
Smyrna times., 1876-12-13

THAMES BUTTER.-Whatever incredulity
has been felt in reference to the manufac-
ture of butter from Thames mud, there now
appears, says the Medical Examiner, to be no
doubt of the fact that such butter is made,
and in no inconsiderable quantities. But
the precise nature of the material and its
mode of collection have, we believe, re-
mained an undiscovered mystery until the
present time. 1t appears that as much as
IS. Cd. a day can, under favoring circum-
stances, be earned at low tide by explorers,
properly equipped and with keen knowl-
edge Of their work, on the north bank of
the Thames, below Dagenham. Here these
persons collect oleaginous globes. These
globes, originally made of cork, matted
with hair and woody fibres, are diligently
planted for the purpose, grow to the size OF
walnut or cricket ball in the water by the
action of the tides, which cover them with
grease. The grease thus obtained is from
the drain pipes of our factories and slop
sewers of our kitchens, and in consistency
and color it resembles Russian tallow. The
process by which this questionable fat is
ultimately manufactured into an article oil
food, unobjectiounable to the eye and
palatable to the taste, is necessarily exciting
public curiosity Lancet.
Smyrna times., 1876-12-13
Farming in Delaware.

Few subjects have more general interest
the head Of this article, for, upon the
Farmers success depends the success of all
other avocations. Situated as we are
within reach of Baltimore, Philadelphia,
New York, Boston and other growing cities
and towns all our products may be turned
into money, at prices that are genearlly re-
munerative. We only want capital and
skill to make this Peninsula the finest
farming region in the country. Our lands
are easily titled, free from stone or other
obstructions, and susceptible of high
degree of improvements. The all impor-
tant question is how to make our lards rich,
impoverished as they have been by genera
tions of thriftless farmers. Of all the hard
lives that men live perhaps the hardest is
lived by the man who, year after year,
tills barren and unproductive fields, and by
patient and persevering toll ekes out a
scanty substance, living poor, dying poor,
and leaving poor lands to his heirs who 90
| Oll WIN tilS oellHV dlVStiJ IOuIlu StIcIdllOIl
after generation. But let these proverty-
stricken fields be made fertile and how
marked the change. Instead of five or ten
bushels of corn per acre, let the product be
from forty to sixty bushels, and instead of
three or five bushels Of wheat per acre let
the product be from twenty to thirty
bushels, and how marked will be the
difference in profit. In the one case it i.
hard and unrequited toll; in the other il
is cheerful labor bestowed with the assur
ance of ample reward. But as propose
Mr.. Editor, with your permission, to write
a series of short articles on farming in Del
aware, | will make the improvement il
lands the subject of the next article. C.
DOVER Dec. Cd, 1876.
Smyrna times., 1876-12-13
POetrY.
CHILDISH WISDOM.

Twas the hour of prayer and the farmer stood
With thoughtful heart and lowly mind.
And prayed to the Author of every good
That the Father of all would be very kind
And bless his creatures with raiment and food,
That the blessings of each day might be renewed
That every want might find relief,
And plenty for hunger, joy for grief,
Be measured out by the Merciful One
To all who suffered beneath the sun.
The prayer concluded, the godly man
Went forth in peace to inspect his farm;
And by his side delighted, ran,
Glowing with every healthful charm,
His little son, sprightly boy,
Whose home was love, whose life was joy;
And the father said: THE harvest yields
A plentiful crop, my son, this year
Ny barns are too small for the grain, fear"
And they wandered ON through row upon row
OF plumy sheaves, and at lengh the child.
With earnest look and rosy glow
On his shining cheek looked up and smiled
And said: "My father, do you not pray
For the poor and needy day by day,
That God the good would the hungry feed?"
81 do my SON. well, think as you plead"
His eye waxed bright, for his soul shone thrO' it,
" That God, il He had your lchedt, trOuId do it,"
Smyrna times., 1876-12-13
A Remarkable Coincidence.

In 1858, four gentlemen entered their
sons at a boarding school at COkesburg, in
South Carolina. They had been for years
intimate friends. and wero clergymen in
the Methodist Church. These boys re-.
mained at this institution, as room-mates
and classmates, for two years and entered
Wofired College, standing relatively first,
second, third and fourth. They remained
at this institution four years, and were
roommatss all the time, graduating rela-
lively first, second, third and fourth, in a
large class. They entered the law office at
Spartansburg and studied under the same
chancellor. The war broke out, and at the
call for troops, they entered Jenkins Rife
Regiment from South Carolina, and were
mess-mates in the same company. Being
near the same height, they stood together
as comrades of battle in this regiment
AT the second battle of Manassas, August,
1868, a shell from the enemy's battery fell
in the ranks of this company, and killed
these four boys and no others in the com
pany. They are buried on the battlefield
and sleep together in the same grave.
Their names are Capers, McSwain, Smith
and Duncan, and the sons of Bishop
Capers, Rev. Dr. McSwain, Rev. DIR. Whit.
ford Smith and Rev. DIR. Duncan, of South
Carolina, and the last brother Of Rev
DR.. Duncan, of Randolph Macon College
The grave is marked by a granite cross and
enclosed with an iron railing.
Smyrna times., 1876-12-13

Archbishop Wood (the Catholic Bishop
of Philadelphia) sat in his Philadelphia
sanctum the other day. In came a reporter
OF the Inquirer and said: "They are going
to burn the body of Baron de Palm to-
morrow at Washington" Then answered
the Archbishop (says the reporter): "And
his soul will be burning in the other world
probably, for learn that he was member
of a society of unbelievers."
Smyrna times., 1876-12-13

A man rushed into Main street restaur-
ant the other day in an awful hurry, and
Popping down in a chair, called for "calf's
head soup" "Calf said what, sir2" in
quired the waiter. "Calfs head soup p
roared the impatient guest. Admonished
by the wrathful tone, the waiter moved
away, but paused to inquire, as kind of
appendix, "You didn't hear him say what
kind of soup, sir?'
Smyrna times., 1876-12-13

At certain hour every afternoon Wash.
ington loungers on suburban drives meet
an old gentleman jogging along on a very
trusty, sure.footed animal. 1t is George
Bancroft, the eminent historian. His gray
hair and long floating gray beard run
together. His large spectacles seem to be
held on by the shield of the low cap he
wears, and his slight, trim, 1.-the form is
always closely compassed by snug-fitting
double breasted coat. He rides with ease,
and for so old a man, with grace. Mr..
Bancroft is as vigorous as many men of half
his age. His habits are regular, studious,
methodical. He rises early--at about 5
o'clock in the Winter-kindles his own
grate.fire takes a cup of coffee, and works
He has taken upon him many of the habits
of the student men of the old world, and
performs much of his labor before the day
of modern political mon begins. The
afternoon he spends in taking his "consti-
tutional" exercise, In the evening he
either receives his friends, or attends the
reception of some distinguished person.
Smyrna times., 1876-12-13

Two persons were once disputing so
loudly on the subject of religion that they
awoke big dog, which had been sleeping
on the hearth before them. and he forth
with barked most furiously. An old divine
present, who had been quietly slipping his
tea while the disputants were talking, gave
the dog kick, and exclaimed, "Hold your
tongue, you silly brutel You know no
more about it than they do"
Smyrna times., 1876-12-13

Walt Whitman the poet does not believe
in cremation. He said the other day that
ait makes fellow tremble to think of the
iron-hearted progress of the age. When
the life has gone out of the body rather
respect the old shell for all it has been as
we'll as for all it has contained"
Smyrna times., 1876-12-13

"The way it is" said little Johnny, de-
scribing a rattle at church fair, "you see
somethin' and you give half a dollar for
chance to win it, another fellows always gets
1T, and they never offer you your money
back"
Smyrna times., 1876-12-13

President Grant has been telling Senator
Gordon this story, which is not the worse
for having been told before: "When the
three Commissioners met us at Fortress
Monroe, Mr.. Stephens came swaddled up
from top to toe in an enormous overcoat.
Lincoln called me aside as Stephens was
disrobing, and observed, Grant, what does
that performance of Stephens's remind YOU
Off | answered, Mr.. President, do not
know. But what does it remind you Off
With one of his queer winks, Lincoln said :
1t reminds me of the biggest shuclxs off of
the smallest ear ever saw in my life.'"
Smyrna times., 1876-12-13

A number of the Turks who sold Holy
Land curiosities at the centennial bazars
have been thrown out of employment by
the close of the exhibition, and " "Begorra,"
they say, "we waz fools for not houldin' on
till our jobs on the gravel trains"