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The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1877-01-11


On Cape Cod Soon after going ashore she com
menced TO break up, and the crew were obliged to
take to broken pieces of the wreck, on which
they drfed to the shore, with the exception of the
colored cook who drowned. Capt. Remission
carried to the life saving station in insensi-
Die condition, but has improved rapidly since The
yTssel had cargo Of 1000 bushels corn to Woods,
Mathews & Baker, which was insured. She was 50
tons register and was owned in Rockand.
The horse attached to the milk sleigh of John
Walton, on Saturday morning, got frightened near
the bridge, charged up the steep hill to the City
Point road then turned towards the city, with the
sleigh swinging from side to side and the milk cans
dancing jigs. AT Custom House Square the animal
I"rned down Main street, everybody the route
getthg out oil the way with great alacrity. Turning
INTO Cross street. this furious dairy runners upset
Itself upon an unfortunate cat that crossing the
street, crushing out the tenes life and spilIing the
milk i'll the snow. Poor puss lay in its midst, hay
ing taken the milky way to the paradise of cats
The milk team driven by Percy Edgcomb, was also
overturned and spilled a quantity of milk.
TnE WEEK on PRAYER. This is the "week Of
prayer"-January 9TH 18th. The Evangelical Ali
Issued the following programme for guidance
of ministers and Others
Sunday, January Z: Sermons-Christian fellow
ship Il John i. y.
Monday, January s: Thanksgiving and confession
in review of the past year.
Tuesday, January 9 Prayer for the Holy Spirit OF
the universal church Joel H. 2s) for its deyeranc
from aud corruption, and its increase of faith
activity, holiness and christian charity.
Wednesday, January 10: Prayer for families: fol
the unconverted for sons and daughters at schoo
and college, and for those abroad; for any in sick
ness, trouble temptation and for those who have
been recently "added to the church."
Thursday January II: Prayer for nations; fol
rulers, magistrates and scamen for phanthropit
and benevolent institutions; for pure literature
the spread OF sound education among the people
and the maintenance of peace.
Friday, January Il: Prayer for Christian missions
to the Jews and gentiles luke XIV 40 for SUNDAY
schools, and for the conversion of the world t.
Christ.
Saturday, January 13: Prayer for the observanc,
of the Christian Sabbath for the promotion of TEN
perance, and for the safety of those "who 70 dow1
to the sea in ships that do business in great waters
one sd aDa
sians ". 5-6).
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1877-08-09
A BED CONFESSION OF A
RUTHLESS MURDER.

"Myers, this will never do. The
scheme is far too risky. If we should
get caught the people of Augusta
would tear us to pieces.
"Pshaw, Tennis! The night will be
a very dark one. and we shall have
every chance to get away across the riv-
er into South Carolina.
"It is desperate job, Myers.
"But mighty profitable one, Ten
mis-. Here are fourteen hundred dol>
lars. You shall have one half right
away, and he is going to send us to-
morrow morning. after the deed is done,
two thousand dollars more.
"But who is he, Myers?" -,
81 will tell you. Tennis. if you will
swear that you will join me in the un-
dertaking." :,
This conversation was carried on be>
tween two desperate looking young
men. dressed in very shabby clothes,
with pistols and bowie-knives in their
belts and with rifles slung over their
shoulders, in the woods.at short dis
tance east of Augusta, Ga, late IN the
afternoon of the 25th of June, 1S43.
Tennis. the younger of the two men,
kept silence for few moments, then he
said quickly:
"I will swear that I will join you
Myers. Give me the seven hundred
dollars and tell me who we are going to
do the job for" :,
"Hold on-not so fast, Tennis SAID
Myers. You know what you have done
at Macon. He knows it, and he Will
have You punished IN case you blow on
him, and in that event, let me tell you
I should cut your heart out. | mean
every word ! say"
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1877-08-09
The Best Fertilizer.

The Illinois Industrial University,
at Champaign, made an experiment
with thirteen different fertilizers on
yield was from barn manure. Twenty
loads on one acre yielded 93 so bushels
(of seventy pounds dry per bushel.J
The lowest yield was with potash AMI
superphosphate of lime-7l 81 bushels
of corn. The highest yield without fer
tilizer was 80.S5 bushels, and the ave-
rage OF all the plats was 79.1l bushels
of corn.
1t was narrowed soon after the fertiI-
izers were applied. June 10th it was
cultivated, and again June 24th, When
it was thinned to two stalks to the hill
July 81 cultivated, and cultivated and
laid by July 14th. This was all one
way, north and south. October 2Sth,
29th and 3lst, the crop was gathered
and weighed, allowing eighty pounds of
ears to the bushel. The land was never
before manured, and had never been in
grass. Had been in corn most of the
time for twenty five or thirty years.
The corn, as stated, was gathered 0o~
tober 3lst, and eighty pounds allowed
for bushel. At the time eighty pounds
were shoyeled from the load and care
fully preserved. November goth it
weighed seventy-eight pounds; Decem-
Der Goth, seventy-six pounds; January
II, seventy-nine pounds. 1t then ap-
peared dry, and was shelled, and gave
sixty-three pounds of corn and one
hundred and twenty pounds of cobs,
showing that seventy pounds should
have been taken for bushel.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1877-08-09
RROOK OKHAyEN MISS, THURSDAY. AUGUST 8, 1877.

Johnstone had been murdered by tine
two young men. The mulatto girl had
rea woke to consciousness, and had CIV
Ell the information. She was sent for
and fully identified Myers and Tennis.
This raised the fury of the people to
the highest pitch.
Hang them Hang them!' they
cried.
But Tennis and Myers piteously
begged to be allowed to make state
ment; but no attention was paid to
their supplications, and ten minutes
later their lifeless bodies were dang
ling in the air.
Mr.. Bagley who had been in feeble
health for some time, died i'll conse-
quence of the violent excitement.
Miss Johnstone's murder was univer-
sally lamented. She was a wealthy Or
phan, and believed to have been muir
dered for her money. In fact Mr..
Loudendale testified at the inquest
that the money found on the persons of
Myers and Tennis had been paid by
him the day before to Miss Johnstone.
No oiSe suspected that he had itr.
stigated the two foul crimes, but, on
his death bed four years later, he con-
fessed that he had caused Miss John
stone to be murdered because he want
ed to get exclusive control of the fifty
thousand dollars he held in trust for
her; and that he had Bagley's house
burned in order to bring about the
destruction of certain valuable papers,
to which he had forged the signatures
of wealthy gentlemen.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1877-08-09
The Thrifty Farmer.

The above character is mysterious
individual. He is always busy at some-
thing. He never allows anything to go
to waste on his premises. Ii he has
nothing else to do he pulls stack OF
hay from the indigenous grasses that
grow about his farm. He is always
careful to cut down and save all the
corustalks that fail to bear fruit. When
he finishes laying by his crop he care
fully puts away his farming implements
under shelter, where the weather can
not iniure them. He makes diurnal
trip around his plantation, to see that
his fence is in good condition, that no
stock has broken into his field to de
stroy the fruits of his labor. He makes
it practice to look after his COWS, hogs,
sheep, etc., to see that they are all in q
flourishing condition and properly cared
for.
The truth OF the matter is, the thrifty
farmer will make money out of what
the indolent and negligent man will suf-
fer to be destroyed or wasted.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1877-08-09
Summer Eating.

One of the things which the public
does not concern itself about as
much as it ought to is the
kind and amount Of food it shall
eat during the summer. The general
ity of the people go on i'll the same
way during the summer that they do in
the winter with respect to the food they
eat, varying it only as the seasons them
selves vary it. The average man or wo-
man is not apparently aware that the
heat of the human body may be materi-
ally increased or decreased according to
the kind and amount of food that is
imbibed True, most people when the
hot weather comes along rush spon-
taneously to fruit, and cram themselves
with berries, cherries, peaches, water
melons. cantelopes, pears, and often
swallow much more than is good for
them. Hence cholera morbus, diarrhea
and other similar affections of the
stomach But very little or no care is
taken in eating heavy beef in as great
quantity us during the coolest months
III winter. 1t Is 10 infreqreus sigist to
see man sit down, when the thermom-
eter is ninety five degrees in the shade,
at table groaning with fat-forming,
heateproducing meats. On these he
gorges himself, until he is as filled to
repletion rs during the coolest days of
December or January. 1t takes repeat
ed warnings and a long experience to
teach him that it is just as senseless to
do this in the depressing days of July
and August as it would be for him to
wear his thick winter hannels and over
coat. True philosophy would teach us
to be as careful to eep the inside OF
the body as cool as the outside.
a great deal of stuff has been writ
ten concerning the danger of cold drinks
and eating ices and creams. There is
danger under certain circumstances, as,
for instance, when large quantities are
gulped down while the body is over
heated. But when no more heat is ex
perienced than what is inevitable in
warm weather from any, ever the high
est exercise, draughts of water may be
quaffed by mouthfuls at time, or even
the coolest of ices or creams be slowly
eaten with a spoon, without any risk,
save in exceptional cases. OF course
there are many ignorant and obstinate
people, who, eating and drinking habit
ually like pigs, cannot be satisfied with
this quiet and temperate mode of en-
joyment. They pay the penalty OF
their disqualiications. But for intelli-
gent people, who will learn how to eat
and drink reasonably, there is album
dance of healthful pleasure for the pal>
ate, even during the hottest of hot
days. Eating and drinking correctly
are arts, and have to be acquired.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1877-08-09
American Railroad Interest.

According to advance sheets from
Poor's R0iirood Manual for 1S77-7S,
the prospect of American railways is
much better now than it has been for
some years past, taking the increased
net earnings of the roads as the basis OF
Judgment. The comparison of 1876
with 1873 is remarkable and surprising.
The figures for 1876 are as follows:
Number of miles operated, 73,509: cap
ital and funded debt. 81, 46S, 591, ,935;
gross earnings, $497 ,257 ,959; net earn
ings, 1886, 452, 752; dividends paid, $6S,
O39, sos. In 1873 the net earnings were
S183 810.562, and the dividends paid
$67, ,120, 709, both these sums being con
siderabiy in excess of the correspond
ing returns of 1872, while they fall
more than two and half millions be-
low the net earnings, and nearly a mil.
lion below the dividends paid IN 1876.
In spite of the extraordinary financial
difficulties in which every interest in the
United States has been involved, the
railroads have, ON the whole, shown a
marked improvement
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1877-08-09
Proper Time for Slaughtering.

1t has been discovered by French
chemist that the flesh of animals which
are killed in the latter part of the night
will keep much longer without sailing
than it will when they are killed i'll the
day time. This proves that the flesh is
better fitted for keeping when the life
and blood are taken from the animal at
the time the temperature is the lowest
and respiration the least active. Hence
the reason that the flesh from animals
that have been highly heated or hard
driven will scarcely keep at all.
1t is no new discovery that the meat
of an animal killed after rest will keep
better than that killed Immediately af-
ter exercise. As animals rest in ths
night, the meat will, of course, be bet
ter in the morning.
The reason why the above facts are
so, is this: Exercise draws the blood to
the extremities, and distributes 1t
through all .he veins. After rest it
gradually returns to the vitals, and cir
culates more sluggishly, Of course il
an animal is then killed, the arteries
and large veins being cut, the blood is
at once emptied. But if he is killed
while the blood is at the surface, dis
tributed through the small veins, it will
not be discharged. AS blood corrupts
sooner than flesh, the meat spoils.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1877-08-09
1H1isre1langy.
For the BroUkh1ven Ledger.
Musings.
BY SALUDA.

Who that has known Joy or sorrow in
early youth (and who has not known
both?) can look upon the familiar tace
of the moon and not live in the past?
Has he drank deeply of the waters of
Marah? Then will the bitter cup be
conjured mp, while the placid face Of
the moon will seem as that of sympa>
thizing friend of the past, who has out
lived many other friends and many a
cherished hope. If flowers have pre-
dominated over the thorns in his path,
then will Memory lead him to the most
pleasing pictures that adorn her gallery
all coloeur de rose. The words ''never
more" that involuntarily escape his lips
may be as the echo of the knell of his
hopes which was rung in the ''long ago, "
yet may it chime harmoniously with his
feelings as the night winds whisper of
re union and endless happiness beyond
the skies.
Romeo swore by the moon, and lovers
from time immemorial have preferred
making their VOWS by moonlight, made
sometimes to be broken; if so. then will
that silent witness, the moon, be ever
after q reminder of these false VOWS.
"Wild were the heart whose passions sway
Could rage beneath the sober ray"
The moon, we think, may light the
murderer to his victim, and he may be
firm in his diabolical purpose while his
gaze is earthward, but should he chance
to fix it on the face of the pensive moon,
even while preparing to aim the fatal
blow, methinks he would falter, his
heart would fail him, and his arm would
fall powerless under an influence sub
DUNG as the memory of the face of a
dead mother.
The holy moonlight! Who has not
felt its influence? 1t is the same to
night that it was of yore, and as we did
then we hear n)w the never obsolete
ditty of the katydid and the plaintive
cry of the whippoorwill from the grove.
Many, doubtless, under the same intiu-
ence are thinking tonight of lang syne.
We are thinking of moonlit lawn
where on such night in the long ago
we sported with our loved ones, when
together with the katydids in the home
stead oaks we made the welkin ring.
But hushed forever on earth are the
voices of our loved ones, and tonight
The pale moonbeams silver the narrow
beds where they sleep in the silent city
of the dead
Moons will wax and wane as the ages
go by; future generations will rise. en-
Joy the blessed moonlight and return to
dust as we will have done, aud none
should fail to thank the Hand that hung
tho moon in the heavens
BRooKHAvEN, July 2Sth, 1877.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1877-08-09
Garmr nofes.
Turnips an Infallible Remedy for
hog Cholera.

Maj. John s. Mellen, a well-known
real estate agent of this city, says the
st. Louis Times, has remedy for hor
cholera, and 80 great is his faith in 1t
that he has filed claim for ten thou
sand dollars reward offered by the State
for this disease. Maj. Mellen says that
while acting rs commissary in the
Confederate army he had charge at one
time of many Thousand head OF hogs.
The hogs weye collected together in
Mississippi, and the cholera broke out
among them. The Major says immedi-
ately upon discovering the prevalence
of the disease, he began to exert him
self to save as many as possible. He
separated them as well as possible, keep
ing the infected ones apart. He had on
hand also, large quantities of turnips
which he began to feed to the hogs
Very soon he obserred marked I'M
yprovement anu tifen-1Ie iusde Rumerous
experiments. He selected some of tho
diseased hogs and penaed them apart.
They were fed on turnips and nothing
else, and al of them recovered. He
says his experiments demonstrated the
fact that turnips are not only cure but
preventive for cholera. He has in1-
parted the secret to many farmers in
this State, all of whom found the rem
edy sure. One wealthy farmer in How
ard county. the Major says, had thirty
eight hogs afflicted with cholera. He
was advised of the turnip cure, but
placed no faith in it. However he cons
cluded to give it trial, and selecting
one worse affected, he put it in the pen
alone and led il on turnips. The result
was that the hog recovered and all the
rest died. Maj. Mellen states that un-
less a hog is too far gone to eat, the
turnips will cure him. The remedy is
a cheap one and easily procured, and it
can do no harm for farmers to give it
trial
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1877-08-09
Lemons a Cure for Consumption

A correspondent of all English med
ical journal furnished the following re-
ceipe as a new cure for consumption
Put dozen whole lemons in cold wa
ter and boil until soft (not too SOFT.
roll and squeeze until the juice is all
extracted. sweeten the juice enough to
be palatable, then drink. Use rs many
as a dozen day. Should they cause
pain or looseness of the bowels, lessen
the quantity and use a dozen again.
By the time you have used five or six
dozen, you viii begin to gain sSrength
and have an appetite. Of course as
you get better you need not use 50
many. Follow these directions, and
We know that you will never regret it if
there is any help for you. Only keep
it up faithfully. We know of two cases
where both of the patients were given
up by the physicians, and were in the
last stage of consumption, yet both
we're cured by using lemons according
to the directions we have stated. One
lady in particular was bed-ridden and
very low; had tried everything that
money could procure, but all in vain,
when to please friend she was finally
persuaded to use the lemons. She be-
gan to use them in February, and in
April she weighed one hundred and
forty pounds. She is a well woman to-
day, and likely to live as long as any
of MS
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1877-08-09
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Starting in the World.

Many an unwise parent labors hard
and lives sparingly all his life for the
purpose of leaving enough to give his
children a start in the world, as 1t is
called. Setting young man afioat with
moley left him by bis relatives is like
tying bladders under the arms Of one
who cannot swim; ten chances to one
he will lose his bladders and go to the
bottom. Teach him to swim. and he
will never need the bladders. Give
your child a sound education, and ycu
have done enough for him. See to it
that his morals are pure, his mind cul-
tivated, and his whole nature made sub
servlent to laws which govern man, and
you have given what will be OF more
value than the wealth of the Indies.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1877-08-09
The Grave of S. S. Prentiss.

We have always been under the i'm
preston that the great Mississippi ora
tor, s. s. Prentiss, was buried in New
Orleans, where he died, but in late
letter to the Leader, Hon. j. B. Hemp
hill, on his way to Texas it seems,
passed by his grave in Adams county,
Miss. He writes as follows: 1.-TWO
miles from Natchez, in Adams county,
on the road to Woodville, is the grave
of S. S. Prentiss. In a lonely and
secluded spot stands the plain marble
slab, with the simple inscription OF his
name thereon, shaded by the thick
overhanging boughs Of the staid cedar,
that seems to give melancholy grand
eur to the scene"
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1877-08-09
Wheat.

The enormous crop of wheat harvest
ed and being harvested in the country
is beginning to make an impression
on the market. About seventy thou
sand bushels of new grain was received
in the city Thursday from the Southern
States. 1t is not quite up to the stand
ard of No. 2 winter, but is a fine sam
pie of what the South can do in wheat
growing under favorable conditions.
The receipts yesterday, together with
the prospect of still larger receipts from
the Southern States, caused a decline
of ten cents bushel, the highest bids
for No. 2 winter heing 81. STA little
more than half the price il was run up
to few weeks ago. The state of the
market was further illustrated by the
sale of July wheat at 81. 25 and August
at 81. 81. Evidently, we have year Of
cheap bread before us-and cheap
bread is blessing that cannot be over
estimated. st. Louis Republican.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1877-08-09
Unmanly Men.

Is there any Joy greater than that
which is experienced by one person
when he helps another person? There
are some men so low down that it is said
they cannot bear to have the smell OF
their clover go into the highway fol
fear that other folk will get something
that belongs to them without paying
for it; there are some men who are said
to begrudge bees the honey which they
take from their flowers without leaving
anything behind; but that is doubtless
imaginary. A man whose heart does
not respond to an act of doing good o.
giving happiness is no longer man
He has passed the line of manhood
and should be ranked among beasts.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1877-08-09
Politeness.

Many man raised from poverty and
obscurity to wealth and honor can trace
his rise to civility; it is sure to repro
duce itself in others, and he who is al
ways polite will be sure to get at least
as much as he gives. We believe it was
Macaulay who defined politeness as be-
nevolence in small things. The French,
who are nothing unless satirical, declare
politeness to be the zero of friendships
thermometer,
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1877-08-09
Friends and Fortune.

With clear sky, bright sun, and a
gentle breeze, you can have friends in
plenty; but let fortune frown and the
armament be overcast, and then your
friends will prove like the strings of a
lutte, Of which you will tighten before
you will find one that will bear the
stretch and keep the pitch.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1877-08-09

DoN'r sit down and say, Damn the
Dutch" Do like they do. Get up
and go to work. If things amt lively
enough, put your shoulder to the
wheels of commerce and trade and aid
in getting the road wagon of old Fogyism
out of the mire. Hitch the mule of en-
ergy in the shafts, take the whip of en-
terprise in your hand, and make the
dust fly along the road Of progress.
Get up, dod blast your lazy hides, ad-
vertise your business, Jet people throuhg,,
out the country know who you are and
what you've got TO sell, and our word
for it you'll have something else to 40
and think about this fall than to 81
around and wait for business to come to
you and "cuss the Dutch"
-CoRr,er-Jo Journal.
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