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The Republican journal., 1877-12-06

those OF last year, but for the crop year,
beginning August /, they promise to he
largely in excess of previous seasons. AS
an Indication of this it may be stated that
the receipts of grain al the lake and river
points OF the west since August j have
been up to November 3 75,3I7 900
bushels, against 6l,72l 600 bushels dur
ing the same time last year and only 80,
925,O0O bushels during the same period
in 1875. Here is an important increase
for the present crop year, though taking
the receipts at those same points since
January and they are 6,OOO,O0O bushels
less than during the same time last year.
The wheat crop is especially large this
season. Already the receipts at the west
ern markets since August have been
3, i64 900 bushels, against 2l0O0,OW
bushels the same period last year. 1t is,
of course, not easy to estimate what the
exports to Great Britain win be this sea
son, but we may gain some idea from the
fact that during the fiscal year ending
July 81, they We're, IN round numbers.
60 600 900 bushels. of which $4,000, ,00U
bushels were corn. Great Britain also
purchased 2O,000000 bushels of grain
from Southeastern Europe during the
same period making in all $4,000, ,0O0,
whereas it is estimated by one of the
writer's above quoted that l3,O00,00o
quarters, or l04, 900, 900 bushels. will be
needed this season. In 1874 our exports
10 Great Britain We're comparatively
modest, vet "a per cent Of her imports
were from the United States, and during
the present crop year it would not be
surprising if she purchased 73.0oo,0oo
bushels from this country.
We export grain to more than sixty
different countries. Last year the ship
mento from all our ports to all countries
reached 55073, l22 bushels of wheat,
warth S6S ,:}S2 900; 3,935,5l2 barrels Of
wheat flour, valued ut S24 ,48,O0, and
-, 493, ,372 bushels of corn, worth S3}
265 900, besides considerable other grain,
The total exports Of all kinds Of bread
stutls were valued at nearly @l32 900 600,
grain being next to cotton IN our list OF
exports. Finally, it may be stated that
while the wheat crop OF 1876 was 2St.
coo, 900 bushels, ii is estimated tina, the
present. yield will prove to be 325,OO0,oU0
bushels, with a corn crop OF l,2SooU0,U0n
bushels.
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Total. .?6.334.s75 2o.aI5. 2sd y $50. .2es

Total 26334.s75 29,3l5. .2S6 1860 29s
This shows considerable gain during
the last month, though the supply is still
nearly 3,00O, 600 bushels behind 1876,
while we are at present 2,67@, 900 bushels
ahead Of 1873. The stock of grain here
included in the above statement was ear
" in the week 7,6G0,0OO bushels, against
7,S66,:}37 bushels at the same time last
year, and o,E 900 bushels in ,o75.
The foreign exports Of grain last week
We're not So large rs the week previoue,
when the clealanccs Werd fully eighty
vessels, including the ocean steamers
Still, considerable bIeadstut1s are con
stantly being shipped to Europe, and
from this port since January the quan
tity has reached l,I3s,7O barrels Of
wheat tlour, lG,lll 500 bushels wheat,
~ 256, 900 bushels Of corn, Loss, ,O0u
bushels barley, and ,9O5 900 bushels rye
during the same time last Year the ship
mtnts were - 49,. .ONO bushels wheat, I5,-
1872 ,7o~ bushels corn, ,612 - barrels
wheat -four, only 26,.9123 bushels barley
and 97S, 200 bushels rye. Here it will be
seen that there is a falling of in our rX-
ports Of wheat and wheat flour, but a
large increase in our shipments of other
bleadsui1s. The enormous increase in
the foreign trade in ba 'ey, as above
shown, is due to the failure OF that crop
in England. The shipments Of rye show
an important increase also. as France has
taken more than usual tins wear is 1t
not unusual, however, in rye here. Dur
ing the Franco Prussian war the trans
actions in this cereal. for account Of the
belligerents, We're immense. Indeed, one
of the first positive indications Of that war
i'll the minds of the grain operators was
the sudden and large German demand
for rye Immediately preceding it.
1t is Of interest To see what our share
of the grain trade of the country during
the past year has been. To mention cN-
act figures, the receipts at New York
up to the 9Th instant, this year, have
been 2,7o3, 3i3 barrels flour, Is, $50, ,65l
bushels wheat, ~, 50O,92O bushels corn,
10, ,4.6,'I.n bushels oats. 3..}11 c23 bushels
barley, Sol bushels malt, and SO
tE}l bushels rye, during the same time
last year We received 3.3O3,3ll barrels
OF -four, II ,676 SIG bushels wheat. "A O02,
15- bushels corn, lO.36l7O1 bushels oats,
,, ~ ,9O2 bushels barley, 81, ,4-l BUSH
els malt, and ,}33, 292 bushels rye. The
total receipts Of New York, Boston, Port
land, Montreal, Philadelphia, Baltimore
ana New Orleans up to November , Of
this year, being the most important sea
board ports Were as follows. with com
parsons
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At The Last.


From the Boston Transcript
There must be something after all This Woe
\ sweet truition from the narrowed past;
kest some day for this pacing to and fro:
\ tender sunbeam and dear flowers at last
There VIII be something when these DAYS are done
something more fair by far than starry nights
prospect hmitless as one by one
Embodied castles crown the airy heights
80 cheer Up. heart, and for that morrow wait
Dream what vou will. but press toward the
dream;
Let fancy guide dull effort through the gate
And face the current would she cross the stream.
Then when that something lies athwart the way
Coming unsought as good things seem to do
| will prove beneath the flush Of setting day
nobler need than now would beckon Won
For lifted up by constant forward strife
Hope viii attain SO marvellous height
There can be nothing found within this life
After the day TO form fitting night
So heaven alone shall ever satisfy
And Gods own light be ever light enough
TO guide the purified, emnobled eve
Toward the smooth which lies bcvond the rough
There will be something when these clouds skim
bounteous yielding from the fruitful past
Sweet peace and rest upon the pathway he
Zen though but death and flowers al the last
James Berry Bensee.
The Republican journal., 1877-12-06
VOLUME 4S.
SquaShes.

Keeping squashes in winter seems to
be attended With considerable difficulty.
They cannot be kept where it is DAMP
as IN most cellars, or where frost can
reach them; nor will they keep 50 well
" here 1t IS very warm. The best condi-
llon 1or keeping them seems to be where
the air IS cool and dry, vet safe from frost
An attic chamber until winter: then a
closet near the chimney where the frost
cannot reach Or the temperature does
not rise very high, is the best most fami-
Hes can command. Extensive market
gardeners often keep them in houses
oullt Tor the purpose, where they can
MAINTAIN an even temperature by the aid
OF fires and ventilation.
The squash is very rich in flesh and
lat-lormlng elements, consequently it is a
valuable iood for stock, and all the waste
OF the crop should be carefully saved and
ted The specked and green ones, boiled
up and mixed with meal and shorts, make
excellent food for swine and poultry and,
cut up raw they are valuable for COWS
and young stock. When feeding them to
hens and COWS giving milk, the seeds
should be removed, as they have diu-
retic effect, which tends to dry up the
milk and cause hens to cease LAYING.
Squashcs are worth half as much per ton
to feed as good hay.
The Republican journal., 1877-12-06
Quick Conversion.

A hard old customer was Badge. He was never
known to attend church, and considered the
wickedest man in the small town in which he
lived. One night his old COW was prowling about
the house seeking what she might devour, and
stuck her head in the swill barrel Al the time
the barrel was empty, her head was SO far in that
she made blind rush to free herself from the in
cumbrancc. As luck would have it, she struck II
bee line for the house, and directly for the front
door. The old man was sitting inside telling his
family all about great murder trial, when the
gave frightful below, which was prolonged
by the empty barrel into an uncarthly roar At
the same time the front door crashed from its
hinges, and the COW, with her uncommon head
gear bolted into the room. "Old wickedness"
gave one agonized look at the trightful demon
which confronted him each separate and indi-
vidual hair stood on end; a shivering feeling
crawled up and down his back his eyes protruded
from his head; altogether he picture of alb
ject terror Suddenly his tongue loosened, and he
screamed, "For heavens sake, take Mary She's
better prepared than am Since that eventful
night the man has joined an easy going church,
which is one step progressive and he only swears
now when he sees old Brndle or the swill barrel
The old COW "fetched him"
The Republican journal., 1877-12-06
What Man Was in the Past.
ACCORDING TO rEor DENTON


We see as we 70 farther and farther back that
the are of man is immense l.ort a French scirn-
fist considers that we may make. tour dl visions OF
human beings These. are not NV statements thcv
are those OF scientific. men ET WEIGHT Thcs.
periods are those of the cly, bear the mammoth
and rhinocrros the reindeer the Two former Ami
mails being gone and lastly the eront fossil OK or
aurochs The men M TIM fr>t nrriod wrrr ..yr
iwcllers. They were naked powerful hairy say
aces nnrslliIg their tnnI with no wropnus but
rlubs and eating ID raw A. ttny ht1 mo knov-lc,l II.
Of fire They lived in rt.,- which wrr. rnnl Il,
SIMMER ana warm in winter ,nL from which thr
wild beasts were easily barred out There Is no
uucstjou but that they were caruibals tor th,.
homes of mrn women and chiLIr.u ara ti,,,nd il,
these caves among those of animals ANA cracked
50 that we So they nytroctrd thr mnrrny trnm
them Some of the caycs have brrn usrd for
burial places ana bv thr skeletons Of mn nrr
founl those of animals evidently placed for food
for the departed thus shnwinn thnt eyen thrsr
early, sayaaes had rudc ideas of = nlturn .t,tr
These men were laroer Nan vrn nrr rhr, MN.
from liz feet fnur to six i.rt si < in, IS hoh From
tban have come tha nol;s ;sh.d man IN. Ia j,,. vhnm
wnr. still cave dvrllers Rut th., haI fire. m,Iy
ana cookpd tbc,r food They tnnL. M NTH. tr,,,
the skins of beasts and with r,tdn avis m n from,
the bones and thread from th. siu4vs thrv spwru
themselves garments Do ynu tnipl tbns. NAN
mnst have been unrnmt,rtailp, \ot so thc, h,I
lu they wanted 10 sustain Gf4 wer. strnnr onI
hralthy and their slpep was nor 1stnrhrd IN,
dreams Of The tax gathercr Now comes another
nerod in which the caves hnrnmn Zoo t,.u, f., suu
bort the ipcreasine human rarn On thr Swiss
lakes they drove piles and built rude huts thereon
There are found there many flint wcanons W.
know more 10 day Of thr manner Of Iifr 81 thnsa
peoul than we do of many nations of rho historir
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NUMBER %.
Marketing the Grain Crop.
New York Graphic 7

The grain crop is coming forward to
the seaboard quite rapidly, and the
transactions at this port during the last
few weeks have reached an imposing ag-
gregate During the last seven days the
business on our produce exchange has
involved 900, 900 bushels Of wheat 2 600
900 bushels of corn, 100000 bushels of
oats, $4,000 bushels Of rye, and 275,O0o
bushels Of barley besides, more than
100000 barrels Of flour. At the latest
statement the "visible supply" Of grain,
namely, the stock at the principal points
Of accumulation on tie lakes and at the
seaboard was as follows, with compam-
The Republican journal., 1877-12-06

\ young farmer in sheldon, Vermont,
bought q dairy farm stocked with sixty
cows During two years he has sold, ex-
changed and reduced the number Of his
DAIRY cows, 50 that last wear he had but
thrty-tiye, l!e reports having made as
much butter from the thirty-tive selected
COWS as was formerly made from the
original sixty. II is easy to see that IN
reduced attendance ana diminished cost
Of feeling with equal products, his profits
mus1 be lrgeLN merease,.
The Republican journal., 1877-12-06
BELFAST, NAME THURSDAY, DECEMBER g. 1877

flying to New York, anticipating the let
tcr which we had written. and John post
ed over night tor the early stage If it
should DC lost in the mails When morn
lng came, was too fidgcty to employ my
self i'll any way. But about noon John
walked in, comfort in his eyes.
"Why, John, how funny to see you here
at this hour Why do you look so You
haven't heard yet YOU can't for the let
ter is only halfway there"
But | have heard | got ahead Of the
letter-drove over to the junction, tele-
graphed. paid for the answer, and here
it isl"
Blessed John This was the tele-
gram
Send file at once Cheek ready to your order
?. HALLIDAY.
How we cried and laughed and kissed
each other. How much that message
meant To John and Sue, the satsfac-
tion OF their love, life spent together, the
frultlOn Of deferred hopes to me the lift
ng Of heavy weight, home security, the
shelter Of MY sisters wing, the added
riches Of a brother who was brotherlv in
every deed. And all this for thousand
uoildl > ~, HOW lltcu uiOntN can 90
sometimes. and at other times, how lit
tie We had grown somewhat calner,
though Sue still kept her sweet wet face
hidden on Johns shoulder, and quiycrcd
and sobbcd now and then, when turned
emotion INTO new channel by sezing a
tttmblel Of water and proposing this
toast ''To the memory Of the late Samu-
el +. Morse"
John seized another, and added, ''The
lntelligencer may it rise like . pheniX
from its ashes "
| leave YOU to eneas ii Nedid not drinl-
this heartily
The Republican journal., 1877-12-06

Rose Eytinge employed Il fashionable San Fran
cisco dressmaker to create her costumes for An
tony and Cleopatra The artistic in silks. satins
and aces being little at sea called to inspect
Pcous great painting at well known gallery,
thinking II might afford suggestions. After bref
inspection, she came hurryng from the place, re
marking as she passed out that the matter might
more properly be referred to jewelcr. The COS
tune of Cleopatra it will be remembered, consists
merely OF a necklace, armlets and anklets making
it more costly though scarcely less primitive than
the draperies of Eden, Other models We're after
ward chosen.
The Republican journal., 1877-12-06

Malboro', \. Y, fruit growers are cut
ing down their apple orchards very ex-
tenslVely, and planting peach trees in
their places. 1t is said that over 10000
peach trees will be set out in the spring.
California exported last year over 5O,-
100000 pounds Of wool, worth 8,OOO,-
100. There are several wool growers
who own from 1000 to 10000 sheep each.
The Republican journal., 1877-12-06
Winter Milk.

Thomas Wbitl,,rr of Nerdhaut. Mass
yiyts It'll ulo,no1 M rrn9fir- sforE in
winter. .In .b. winter ,r, fo tLe Harm
1T baIf-pa., fyr o,lorIl IN tbn nu,nin~
rather sooner pcrhaps than a rood many
iDen vogld ljkc NJ 10. oiyr ra,b rov a
small handful of lay. and thpn 90 to
GROOMING them Hi~t The same rs sj,ould
d horse. inst tbe rurrycoul then the
coru-broom brush. and tbcD the hair
bln.h zrnIjng tbrn su,nIirI MIN bav
I,., Tb.n. .tL,. 1,o,.,.,ilI.
The Republican journal., 1877-12-06

Henry Gorham a Utah Mormon, with six wives
lately undertook to " correct" all six of the Mrs
Gorhams with horsewhip at one session. but they
made common cause against him and he was
scratched and bitten to that degree he came near
dying. He will probably do his wife whipping by
retail rather than wholesale hereafter
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COL. DARDEN AND THE COM
MERCIAL.

At the average rate of assessment
of realty in Texas, $1.S7 per acre,
there is $71, 10000 worth of un-
taxed land in Texas. This area OF
land for five years gives the sum of
1856, 600, 900, which owes 81, 700, 600
to the State Treasury. Instead of con
vening the Legislature, the Dallas
Commercial would have Comptroller
Darden collect this sum. We hope
it may be possible, but greatly fear
that he has gathered in the last dollar
he can reach. When he obeyed the
letter and spirit of the law and went
for the smoke houses of the GrangeIs
and would not play the demagogue or
evade the discharge of sworn duty to
capture votes, as ne might have done,
when he dared everything that politi
clans dread in order to gather in every
resource of the State, we are much in
clined to believe that If 81, 700, 900
were lying around loose, as the Com
ulereial thinks, Col Darden would be,
even now, In hot pursuit. Give Oar
den, in quest of revenue, an inch and
he willjtake an "'ell," and thus the
origin of the word, now very common,
Dardenelles, referring to the ''straits"
to which Darden and taxpayers are
reduced.
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MORGAN AND PIERCE AND AUS
TIN.

Morgan outgenersls Pierce. Three
hundred wagons from San Antonio
were recently In Cuero for freight
brought by Morgan's steamers to In
dianola for distribution over Western
Texas. II Austin merchants and prop
erty-owners would make this busy,
active, prosperous capital they would
compel Morgan to extend his road
from Cuero to Austin. If northwest
ern counties were proffered here a
choice of routes to the Gulf and also
to New Orleans and New York, the
whole wealth and travel of northwest F.
ern Texas would be concentrated at
the capital. Therefore the necessity
for the construction of narrow gauge
towards Brownwood. 1t would not
have length of twenty-five miles be
foreiMorgan would grow impatient.
He would monopolize the commerce
Of Texas. Nothing less will appease
his Unsuitable appetite. He is mon
strous anaconda among steamships and
railways, and while confessedly master
on the sea he must be omnipotent on
land. Pierce and the Sunset route are
helpless. They cannot compete with
a man who fixes at will rates of
freight charges both on the Gulf
and on the Atlantic and compels San
Antonio to abandon highway at her
very doors giving preference to another
perhaps sixty miles away. If this
wonderful Morgan, whose genius and
strength grow with his years, saw that
Austin must become the center of trade
for rich and populous northwestern
counties of Texas, he would grasp this
rich resource for his steamers. No
body could compete with him. Rail
road managers and owners are cog
infant of these facts and they would
not have Morgan come to Austin. He
is near enough, as their interest may
he affected by his proximity, to the
State capital. Therefore all owners
and officers of roads converging at Aus
tin use every possible influence to pre-
vent the construction of the North
western Narrow Gauge or Texas and
Pacific. Even men of intelligence have
been induced to believe or to say that
they would not have road on any
terms to Lampasas or Brownwood OF
Bolton. When the Chamber of Com
merce and county court have accom-
plished the little local task occupying
their energies they should undertake
another that will double the wealth
and population of the capital and
practically giving Morgan's steamers
an untaxed wharf at the foot of the
Avenue, make this the most prosperous
city of Texas or of the South.
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cinating eloquence. Fields wrote as
inspired by the occasion" He was
natural. There was never even the
semblance of affectation in any SEN
tence he constructed. He was not de-
void of temper, and addicted some
what to prejudlces. He did not like
some people, and his persona. predi-
lections or enmities often gave tints
and shadows to the pictures he painted.
He endeavored now and then to linn
the stroRg features of Governor Hub
bard, but, for reasons suggested, no
body ever recognized the likeness, and
Fields at last threw away the brush,
kicked the easel, smashed all the por-
traits in his gallery of art with his
lcOnoclastic fist and naturally rushed
to the bar-the lawyers bar-to give
vent to pent-up, soul-harrowing disap-
pointment. He will return to his
newspaper. The constant occupation
it gives becomes necessity to an ac-
tive, restless spirit, and Fields, young
and impatient and 'earnest," only rests
from his labors.
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And in their opinion concur eighty-six
noted commentators, of whom there
are sixteen Presbyterians, five Method
lists, twenty Episcopalians, fourteen
Reformed Lutherans, twenty-ona
''ChrIstian Fathers" and ten Catholics.
1t would be difficult to find passage
of Scripture on which there has been
greater unanimity of views than upon
this.
To sum up, we have forty-seven trans
lators of our Bible who never translate
baptiso by sprinkle or pour; sixty-three
lexicons defining 1t TO immerse, and
grammars, concordances, reviews and
encyclopedias, to the number Of twen-
ty, agreeing with the dictionaries;
enc hundred and fifty distinguished
pedo- Baptist authors saying the same.
modern Greek scholars and the practice
of the Greek church adding their testi-
mony to tho already overwhelming
proof that bdpti:o means "immerse,
aud consequently Christ commanded
His disciples to be immersed when He
said, be baptized. We have six distin-
guishedPedc-B Baptist commentators say
ing our Lord Himself was immersed,
and eighty-six declaring Paul taught
that baptism was immersion.
Baptism does not save ne. IL is the
answer which the good conscience
makes to the question, Win ye be My
disciplel 1t is, however, the most i'm
portant of the ordinances. BaptiEing
and baptism are mentioned niuety-nine
times, while the supper is referred to
only in twenty places in TIE Bible.
We draw no invidious comparisons,
for it is the Lords Supper, aud 1t Is
the Lords baptism. While it does not
save the soul, it is essential to church
organization. DR.. Griffin, very DIS
tingulshed Presbyterian divine, says,
mo baptism, no church." Thus We
have the testimony OF several hundred
distinguished Pedo-Baptist scholars.
who say that bdptisO primarily and or
dinarily means to immerse. Some Of
them, like Prof. Anthon, the editor OF
a school series of the classics, himself
an Episcopalian, declare that 'tsprink-
ling, etc., are entirely out Of the ques-
tion."
At the conclusion of the sermon Mr..
Chaplin baptized twelve persons In the
new baptisterium.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-06-21

A LARGE trade has grown up be-
tween Liverpool and st. Louis in
horses and cattle. The animals are
shipped direct by rail to New York
and thence by steamer. If the Presi-
dent accomplish his declared purpose
giving the West an open highway to
the sea from st. Louis, through New
Orleans, the cost of transferring cattle
to Europe will be lessened one-half.
Texas sends the cows and ponies to
st. Louis, one thousand miles, and the
cost from st. Louis to New York by
rail is thrice that from 81. Louis, by
water, to New Orleans. II Eads give
Us deep water at the Balize and the
bar at Presidents Island, eight hun
dred miles from the Gulf, be deepened,
the largest sea-going steamers afloat
can ascend the Mississippi to Vicks-
burg, Memphis and Cairo and, through
three months in the year, to st. Louis.
The practical distance of the valley of
the Mississippi from Europe will be
lessened one-half. Animals taken on
board at Vicksburg or Memphis win
be delivered, without transfer, at Liv-
erFsol, and the great saving in the
freight charges accrues to the cattle
grower Of the West What an enor-
nous trade might be done through
Galveston with Europe in horses and
cattle If this city were properly acces-
sible from the sea and the harbor
properly land-locked. These defects
Of Galveston, as great seat Of trade,
impel the owners Of the International
to turn their anxious eyes towards
Yelasco and induce them to count the