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Daily globe., 1878-09-03
THE CROPS.

| Rusnford Fillmore county, Stnr. Au,.
80 gentleman named Henley living eiel,
| miles north of this city this week threshea
twelve acres of wheat yielding thirty bushels
per acre, or $50 bushels for the twelys
acres.
Red Wing (Goodhue county, Republican,
aug. -: A correspondent writing from
Welsh, says stacking is mostly DONE Whea,
VIII average about fifteen bushels to the acre
but little No. l and not great deal o,
No. 2. =
Jackson Repubie, Aug 81; Threshina
| continues to develop the fact that wheat
averages full better than was expected a. ono
time. We are informed that Mr.. H. II.
Berges averaged sixteen bushels to the acre.
Farmers are now rushing along their having.
Never was grass better than at the present
season. Upland "blue joint is what they
are all securing this year.
Cannon Falls Beacon, Aug. 80: Mr Mar
tin Holland, whose farm is three and a half
miles east of this village, has threshed the
wheat raised on fifty acres of his farm this
season. The yield was 1000 bushels. an
| average of twenty bashels per acre. He had
samples of the grain tested, and they weigh
tifty-hve pounds to the bushel, which viii
grade it No. 2.
Mankato ReUtep, Aug. 80: Mr.. Thurston.
farmer living in Hebron, Nicollet county,
| at the beginning of harvest had a few acres
of wheat badly lodged, and not caring then
to occupy the time in cutting it, concluded
to let it alone until after harvest. Last week
it was cut and threshed and the yield was 20
h1c cboIc to- fha
many farmers in this and adjoining counties
have burned just such wheat?
Granite Falls Journal, Aug. 30: Last
week, r. c. Goddard, of Minnesota Falls,
threshed from thirty y-eight acres of Lost Ma
ton wheat LAO bushels, which is
an average Of thirty bushels
to the acre. Amount of seed
sowed sixty bushels, which averages seven
teen and tWo-thirds bushels to the busheL
The next place we hear from is g. Mooney,
of Stony Run, who, from sixty acres,
threshed 1880 bushels, an average of twenty
three bushels to the acre.
LIE Sueur Sentinel, Aug 20: We learn that
bushel of rejected wheat, weighing from
fifty to fifty-two pound, to the bushel,
ground by Cnas. Hayerland, at the old Paul
mill, near town, produced twenty-five
pounds of flour after having been tolled,
which, with the toll, would require
about 1-2 bushels of wheat for
barrel of flour, and we learn that at
some other mills it is claimed that seven
bushels are consumed in making barrel.
The relative prices are about IS cents per
bushel for No. 1, and 45 cents for rejected,
which leaves the milers over 81 III favor of
the rejected wheat in making barrel of
of -four.
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THE ASYLUM sWINDLE.
Rosr the Willy Fletcher Tempted Tal6o.
Until He Fell.
LIE Sueur Sentinel.i

LIE Sueur Sentinel.
The testimony of Rey. Kerr, Talbot,
Brown and Bartlett shows beyond dispute,
that in all the hundreds of transactions,
large and small, involving the expenditure
of over million dollars of States money,
not one solitary instance las been shoaon
aohere the trustees egen attempted to protect
the Stdte Not even the feeblest protest ap-
pears to have been made at any time by any
one against the increasing flow of extrava-
Gance and waste. The trustees were sworn
to protect the State were placed in their
positions for that express purpose-and yet
III no case whatever, where there was a
doubtful or false claim or demand presented,
have the trustees failed to decide against the
State! This is one of the most remarkable
features developed by the investigation, and
We venture to assert that nowhere, outside
of thoroughly organized bands of robbers or
public plunderers, can another instance be
found of such uniform action on the part of
any body of men. We are therefore driven,
irreslstibly, to the conclusion, that some one
or moro of the board of trustees had a
''dlyy' with contractors and certain out
siders, whereby the profits were 'poole d" for
mutual benefit.
The leading spirits about the institution
appear to have been Rev. Kerr, C. Z. Brown
and DIR. Bartlett. They run the whole bust
ness, so to speak. For the credit of this
country, we regret that Mr. Talbot allowed
himself to be enti apped by the willy Fletcher.
the oily Kerr, and the swelling Bartlett Mr..
Talbot does not pretend to be much of 8.
business man, in it's hard sense, and being a
stranger he was readily taken in. Mr..
Talbot, in testifying, made q clean breast of
it, and stated that he had first refused to
take mileage from Minneapolis to st. Peter
on Fletcher 8 account, but the crafty Fletcher
persisted in tempting him until he fell, and
since then his virtue became so easy that he
concluded it was right. He also stated that
Bartlett and his wife had often chided him
for his refusal to take more of the States
money for doubtful service, and that the
trustees and Bartlett protested against his
appearing before the committee because he
"talked too muchr'
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BLACKBURN's REPLY.
He Riddles Bill Wi.don.'s Bonus ri,
ares To Piices

| lie hi6dtes Bill Witdons's Bogus Fig
ares To Piices
The Democratic Congressional campaign
committee has published an interview with
General Joe Blackburn, of Kentucky, where
in, by the records of Congress, he refutes
the Misrepresentation of Senator Window,
with respect to the expenses of the govern
| ment under Republican and Democratic rule.
In this statement Representative Blackburn
shows that certain appended tables are cor
rect These tables show the reductions
made by the Democratic houses of the
forty fourth and forty-ffth Congresses in
eleven appropriation bills for the support of
the government for the three fiscal years,
1877. 1873 and 1879, footing up as follows:
deductions made by the House under the
amount estimated for by the departments,
Sl53, 7O6, ,OO3.24: amounts added to House
bills by the Senate, $5, ,118, ,3O8. .73, House re-
ductions for the three years of 1877, 1878,
and 1879, under the three years of 1874,
1875 and 1876, S114, 7S9, ,82992. Mr.. Black
burn shows that if we take the ten years of
Democratic conservative rule, beginning
with the fiscal year ended June 80, 1852, up
to the fiscal year ended June
30, 1861, both inclusive, we find the net
ordinary expenditures of the government to
have been $572,S72. .26O52, as against
$l ,52s,917,137.87 for the same purposes for
ten years of Radical rule during peace
namely, from the fiscal year ended June 80,
1867, to the fiscal year ended June 80, 1876.
both notwithstanding an excess of Republi-
can expenditures over expenditures under
Democratic conservative rule of 1856, ,O44,-
$780, being an increase of the net ordinary
expenditures under Republican rule of about
ITO per cent. The average ordinary expendi-
lures per annum for ten years of Republican
rule was $150,672, Gall, while the net or
dinary expenditures for the ten years of
Democratic rule above named were only
$57,287 ,225.O5, showing that the net ordin-
ary expenditures under Republican rule dur
ing decade of peace were nearly three
times as large as for a decade of Democratic
rule Immediately preceding the war.
Daily globe., 1878-09-03
Il Dismak Sheet.
philadelphia Times.

No more dismal newspaper ever came from
off press than the Memphis 1oalancAe of
Tuesday last-a pitiful half-sheet, made up
largely of standing advers''; devoid of tel
egraphic news save a few market and river
reports, the signal service indications and
telegraphlc promises of relief; with all the
local and editorial matter-of the latter less
than quarter Of Communicating solely
upon the fever. With record q column
long of new cases, and with list half col
umn long of deaths. There is something
very CHASTITY in the frequent illusions to the
fever throughout the colum or two of local
notes simply as sit" or by mere inference
to be deduced from the context. CLANS Lee
mems three children have it," .:W. w. White
case is a very serions one;" Father Maher's
condition is critical "Joe Russell, while
tending the Odd Fellows sick, was strick-
en-" 'the night-toilers have been struck
Fred r. Brennan, city editor of the appeal,
is down. He has bad case" And then
we come upon FIVE line tragedy like this:
s'B. A. Hollenberg's imprudence in giving
way to his anxiety about his wife and aris-
ing from his bed to go into her room prob
ably will prove his death. Fever in child
birth will kill his wife, In the advertising
columns, too, the pestilence stands out
sharply. Patterson & Ross, grocers, an
nounce; 'tFor the accommodation of the
few persons remaining in the city we will
keep open our store during yellow fever, a
kind Providence permitting"-it is not
often that grocers refer the opening or the
| closing Of their stores to kind Providence,
but these grocers of Memphis realize that
| they are living on the very threshold of
eternity and are standing almost face to face
with Almighty God. 1t is this same feeling
that shows out in the first of the one-line To-
Gals: "God help us!''-the exclamation SO
often made lightly, but here wrung out from
the depths of suffering hearts oppressed by
a great fear, and yet not utterly cast down
because God may indeed send the help for
which in their sore extremity they pray.
Very pitiful is it to mark the effort to be
brave in the face of the danger that menaces
them all. Careful nursing does the work.
s'Many are getting we'll, SO keep stiff upper
lip," writes the city editor reassuringly in his
local column; and in the little scrap Of BREWER
the editor writes: ''When the number of
deaths resulting from improper or careless
nursing and from the imprudence of the
patient are eliminated from the twenty-six
deaths of yesterday, the ratio of the remain
der to the number of new cases is not SO
large as to make sickness with good treat
ment and good nursing by any means
hopeless"
Daily globe., 1878-09-03
II Hope.
fred WING Rennhli

Red Wing Republican,
We only hope the "stalwart Republicans
will not so crowd around the President that
a genuine Republican of the last NATIONAL
convention brand cannot get to him.
Daily globe., 1878-09-03

Lanesboro Journal, Aug. 81: Wheat
turns out better than was anticipated. It
will make a good quality of flour, but will re-
quire more bushels to the barrel than plump.
er wheat.
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1t Would Come Handy.
Hastings Gazette. I

The Hon. G. G. Brandt, of Brown county,
is reported to have been confined to the
house for some time with rheumatism and
other ailments. That little $50 bill would
come in quite handy now if he only had it.
Daily globe., 1878-09-03
Playing Upon Popular Creduzity.

A trial has just resulted at Riazan, Russia,
in the condemnation of the accused persons
to transportation into Siberia. A band of
fve-consisting of an old woman named
Tchoubaref and her two daughters, a retired
Daily globe., 1878-09-03
DAILY WEATHER BULLETIN.

OFFICE OF OBSERVATION, SIGNAL CORPS, q. 8. A.
INGERsoLL BLOCK, THIRD STREET,
ST. PAUL, MINI.
Observations taken at the same moment Of
time at all stations
Daily globe., 1878-09-03

Farmers everywhere are now busy with
their fall plowing.
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Cheat Neck.
NeU Dominion.

Editors NeU Dominion:
John Bowers sold eight head of
cattle to Mr.. Parfitt for twenty seven
dollars a head. Mr. b. bought lot
of nice calves from SAINT Holt.
Sylvester Barker bought lot of
steamboat timber from several of the
farmers in this place. James Snider
is to do the hauling.
There was spelling school at Oak
Grove on the evening Of the gid ult.
A large crowd was in attendance.
After short race they debated on
the question, (Which is the greatest
evil, drinking or lying?' The debat-
ers are as follows: H. A. Dickson
and VIM. Donaldson against lying
and Jas. G. Warman and Frank Sni-
der against drinking. The decision
was that lying is the greatest evil.
A crowd of fellows from this place
went to Stewartstown to attend the
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Reedsville, Preston County.

Editors NcW Dominion:
A meeting of the citizens of Valley
District. Preston county, w. Va. was
held at Reedsvillc on the 23d ult. On
motion Thos. Watson, Esq, was elect
cd president and John ID. Hail. score
tary. The object of the meeting was
for the purpose of selecting the place
and time, and to make arrangements
for general railroad meeting. ID.
Wheeler, ID. c. linn, Sanford Watson,
G. W. Hortzell and G. w. Fairfax
were appointed n committee for the
purpose IF selecting place and time for
general meeting. The committee re-
tired and after wards brought in their
reports naming Rcedsvill for the
place and March 9th as the time for
the meeting. Their report was rcceiv-
ed. Peter Hartly, John w. Guscman,
+. NJ. Ford and others were called
on and made speeches. On motion
the directors and managers of the
Pittsburgh, West Virginia and South
ern railroad company were invited to
be present with us Mt our next meet
ing. The Secretary was instructed
to haveprinted posters put up through
out the county stating the time and
place of next meeting. The secretary
was also ordered to furnish copies of
the proceedings of the meeting to the
Kingwood Journal, the Argus, Nor
gantown Post, the NEW DOMINION,
Grafton Sentinel and Pittsburgh Com
merciat-Gosette with the request that
they copy. On motion, the meeting
adjourned to meet Mt Reedsville, Mar.
9th. at o clock NJ.
JOHN ID. HALL Scc'y.
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from John NJ. Helderbrand., unon

from John M. Helderbrand, upon
which he is building a new house.
j. r. Williams was back among his
old friends on visit few days ago.
Sam. Cannon has his house about
ready to move into. He and Joe.
Mercer have the contract for building
large two story house for John Ridg-
way.
Jesse Barb has moved into ne part
of VIM. Barb's hutse,ahd is going to
repair his house ahd barn for him next
summer.
The workmcn are to begin work on
Jehu Stephens house next week.
The Laurel Point and Jimtown Lit
erary Societies are to have a contest
the last Saturday night in March at
the Battle Ground. The question for
debate is Resoircd, that Indiscrimi.
nate Emigration to the United States
should be abolished. Aflirm-Benson
Waters and Mr.. Martin Deny-Geo.
Barb and l.. Wade.
nprAcrnN
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Aiumni meeting, and on their way
home attempted to ford the river and
started In at the wrong place. The
cause of them not knowing where to
start i'm at was that the moon was
eclipsed.
Jack Ridgway took Supt. A. l..
Wade's horse at the Alumni meeting
and rode it all the way to Lewcllen's
Ferry before no found out his mis-
take. Jack got girl on behind him
and the horse bcgats 10 kick up. Jack
says, II never knowc1 She erftter to
k-k-kiek ~ before"
John Jarrett, Of Pittstmrgh,. is Wis
itiug rclstN'cs and fricrtss M this
place.
John Goodwin and his sister, Car
oline, started for the West few DAYS
since.
Robert Biglow, of Brownsville, Pa,
is visiting frends and relatives IN this
meek o woods"
Miss Louisa Majors, of rhiont6wn,
Pa, is here on a fly, stopping at Mr..
VIM. Majors.
Francis Thomas has moved from
Scottdalc, Pa, in house on Smith,
Chess 4 Co. land. He intends to
farm this year,
Catharine Rublc moved from this
place TO Brownsville, Pa.
Beth Jcnncwine and Henry Beals
have taken contract TO chop several
cords of wood on Sam'l Ruhlc's place.
They are to deliver 1t at Greensboro,
Pa, for IIamilton's pottery. Henry
docs the bossing and Beth the chop
ping.
We are sorry we have to say that
Col. Snider is going to leave this place
in the Spring, as the Colonel is a
good citizen and good miller. John
N. Dawson will take his place in the
mill assisted by Thomas Hastings.
better known as Broadly. II Broadly
tends the mill much We will all have
to get shorter sacks and lower horses,
as b. is not very tall, a two bushel
sack would drag on the floor at both
ends.
We undc rstand that Vim. Lyons
has bought farm in Preston county,
near Hackelbarnct.
Rev. l.. Warman preached at Cal
vary church on the 18th ult. in the
place of Rev. Wilson.
John Snider, the railroad contract
or, was here n few days since cngag-
ing railroad tics.
John Adams sold his bay horse to
George Adams, of Fairmont, for $3.50
John T. Bates is going into the axe
and pick handle business. lie intends
to ship them to Pittsburgh.
Chris .Jennewine's familt numbers
one more since grounding day.
There Is great deal of sickness
prevailing in this place Mt time OF
writing. STrcKwELL.
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ArnettsviIe.
Editors NeU Dominion:

Editors New Dominion:
Mrs. Mary Glasscock q widowed
lady of SO years of age fell out of her
kitchen door on last Thursday night
breaking her leg just above the ankle.
DIR. Jacobs adjusted the broken bone.
Mac. Kennedy, son of Will. Kennc-
dy, cut his foot badly on Saturday
morning while cutting wood.
Cal. Brookover, of Cellar Valley,
started for Beaver city, Colorado, on
last Thursday morning to look after
the estate of his brother, VIM. II
Brookovcr, decd.
Pink. Arnett has returned from the
"sterile peaks in the vicinity of
Glover s. Gap, whittier he went to pros
pect for land.
r. Layton has located q steam saw
mill on the old Snyder tannery,"
two miles above Arncttsville.
The Pleasant Valley school, taught
by Clark Jones, closed on Friday Mar.
the LIST. Clark is a good teacher and
| believe gave general satisfaction.
S. G.. Hess has sold his interest in
the home farm to his brother, +. M.
Hess. Mr.. Ii. contcmplates a visit
to Kansas this Spring.
Pink Arnett sold fine young horse
a few days ago to man in the vicini-
ty of Barracksville, Marion county.
Charles Glascock sold fine horse
to Frank Reed of Fairmont one day
last week.
Rain, mud, bad colds and blowing
noses, are the pests of this vicinity.
We long for warm April showers and
May flowers when the glad voice of the
whip-poor-will and the chant of the
pe-wee will be heard in the land. d..
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brty rounds, Ratchet strapped ON
hlRs back, a long scabbard containing
his sticking knife" sisngling from
bis belt, his seal-skin cap t~sllcd well
down ON his ears and wrapped IN
military coat, With long tail scoop
ing over two foot snow, starting ff
the chase. an day long, over snow
capped hills, throssgh bramblcs, into
dense forests, peepfsg and pecring in
to each dark recess, ~Sick" travcrsed
the nethermost portion Of Mononga-
Ia and Marion counties ,n search of
rcTeating bruin, every mo7cent ex-
pecting to get into mortal combat, in
which he hoped to. imprint on the
pagcs Of the battle fields Of life, deeds
more heroic and daring than those Of
the pioneer trappcr and huhter Ken
tuckian. But In the great drama Of
life we often rnccs with disappoint-
ments. Sach was poor "Nhk's" fate.
Weary, dispiritcd and disguised,
about 4 7. NJ, as "Nick" ploddcd
homeward some one had the audac-
ity to inform him for the first time
that this was "sell No. 9"
w. w. X.
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CLAY D,s'r.-Misses Noble c. Ar.

CLAY Dis'T.-Misses Noble G.. Ar
nett, NJ. Belle Price, Lurana Warner
Alice Tenant, Arminta ID. Marshall
and Messrs. David 5. Hoffman, AL.
fred Shriver, Cassius c. Brown, An.
drew Brown, Alvy l.. Wright, Samu.
ell A. Litman, John c. Tennanit
GRANT DIs'T-Misses Rosi Lar
kin, Malcena Bonnifield, Helen Nc
Elroy, Annie Shafer, Francis VI. Ar
nett, Emma Layton and MessrS. An
drew Fox, McCletand Sanders, VIM.
+. Glasscock,. Jos. +. Clayton, John
ID. Cox, L. w. Arnett, |. Judson Nc
Elroy, Heath w Jones, Allen nj.
Jones, Jesse A.. Jamison, Uriah NJ.
Michael.
These young people should not be
satisfied with their present attain
ments nor lay aside their school
books, but should press on to the
higher branches with vigor born Of
the progress thus far made.
At each place the attendance gate
sufficient evidence of the interest felt
in the progress of the schools.
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EiVpimc0tt's Magazine.

LippincoTs Mago-tnc for March opens
with the second paper of Edward Kings
new series, it'll the Russians in Bulgar-
In" TO which recent events have given
special interest Prof. james A. Harris
sons concluding paper on Sweden forms
tho second illustrated article, and will be
found entertaining, The author Of the
Reminiscencc Of the First Iron.Clad
Fight, published in the last number, co.,
tributes m account Of the capture of Fort
Fisher, which he saw from the ast.head of
the "Ironsidcs,' afterwards visiting the
scene Of action, and noting many details Of
n striking or pnthctic character. Tho
Strange Story 81 Paul Scarron," by Edwin
DO Leon, Eurppe's New Coal~Ficld," by
David Ker and Small Farce and Com,
edy,' by Mary Dcaii, will all repay peru>
sal. "Without Inscription, by German
author, gives vivid ahd touching picture
of Jewish life in Eastern Europe. Jack
and Mrs. Brown" is concluded, and there
are other stories d papers Of an Amusing
kind, making good variety OF light read
ing.
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CORIsEsPONDENCE.
Laurel Point.
Editors NeU DOmini0n:-

Editors NeU DOminiOn:-
Seventy men and ninteen or twenty
dogs assembled at Cephas Wade's last
week for the noble manly purpose of
running down one poor little fox that
had been captured by one of Mr..
Wade's sons few days before.
John n. Webb bought from Squire
Rich four acres of land upon which is
a house and orchard and some out
buildings for 800 1t is located neal
the Union church.
c. Shafer has bought 2 acres Of land
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Editors New Dominion:--
In the issue Of the Post Of Feb.
9th, my attention was directed to en-
article in which Mick gives it's
readers his version of the freaks of
monster bear In the vicinity Of Ar
nettsvillc. How "Nick" lea ned that
"gruntcr," owned by John G.
Hogue, received the load of bird shot
Just where the bear was missed the
sequel of this article may disclose.
It is asserted that on that very eve
"Nick" was the happy recipient Of a
wonderful little piece Of music-yes,
the great musical wonder of the
world-the Italian Cothetto, which
he had previously ordered shipped
through Che mails from the city Of
New York. On that very right
Mick" was to have given grand
musical concert To d "select few"
who were specially invited to be pres
ent To- see the italian wonder" and
hear It discourse It's soul-thrilling ac-
cents in imitation Of the cornet band,
the trombone and perhaps thou
sand other musical fcats the little in
strument was TO perform. The as
sembled guests sat In ffeathfcss ST.
lence as Mick" wicked his lamps
and proceeded to open the package
that contained the musical wonder"
Seal on seal was broken and each
wrapper thereon carefully removed,
when at length mick" stretches forth
his hand and from the little paper
box, suspended between his thumb
and forcfngcr, he holds up to the
gaze of his astonished and tittering
guests, what?--A little Chinese toy
about the si5e Of a sndil-sheu! 1t is
needless to tell you, reader, that no
sweet strains of music fell on the
midnight air on the head Of POGO
drain that night. This was decided
ly ga sell No. L.
Very early next morning "Nick'
was aroused from his slumbers, in
which he had many forebodings of
the unwary traps and swindling bells
of New York, with the cry Of a bear
in the settlement! BY seven o'clock,
"Nick" could have been seen with
his fowling piece on his shoulder, his
fox-skin shot-pouch we'll filled with
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The Eureka Mills are now turning
out large quantities of the best work
ih the country. We have excellent
new machinery and always guaran-
tee our -four. Our facilities are such
that we seldom keep customers wait
ing and never compel them to make
an extra trip for their grinding.
A supply Of Flour, Meal and Feed
always on hand.
II -four is not as repre-, ented we
refund money.
Highest market price paid for
grain. THOMPSON " ALLENpER.
Morgantown, Oct. 9th.