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Farmers Fish Ponds

The editor of the Indiana
Farmer lately visited the farm of
Calvin Fletcher, Esq, and has
this to say about his fish pond:
We are glad to have an OPP
portunity of investigating sub
ject here that we have long been
Interested in, that of fish farm
ing. 1t has been our belief that
on large proportion of our
Indiana farms this might be
practicable and a profitable bus
mess. We think that our friend
has demonstrated at least the
first part of the proposition.
Fish culture is practicable
wherever spring Of ncver-fail-
ing water can be found with
patch of low ground below it,
susceptible of being damned
in.
Just back OF the house, three
years ago, was a small marsh or
bog, a few yards in width and
several rods in length. 1t was
then an unsightly, unhealthy
place, and the home of scores
of bull-frogs, water-snakes and
all such. Now, it is the beauty
spot ofthe place. During dry
season, after the farm work was
over, two or three hands were
put to work on the bog. Some
bikes and islets of different sizes
and shapes were staked off, and
the mud was dug out and
thrown on the embankment with
out. The banks and islets are
sloped at an angle of about IS
degrees and are sodded and will
in a year or two be shaded trees.
The bitches vary from four to
eight feet in width and average
four or five feet in depth. A
gentle current is produced by
the stream of water from the
spring, and the little winding
lakelets are the home of thous-
ands of young fish. principally
sun6sh and bass. The older
fish of each kind are of good
size for use already, and a large
mess has been caught with one
hook in a quarter of an hour.
At very small expense, Mr..
Fletcher has provided an abun-
dance of fish food for his family
and friends. In his pasture is
a large pond, fed by springs, in
which an eighty pound catfish,
taken in White river, has been
placed. Numbers of other fish
ofvarious kinds, are found there,
but where they came from is
hard to tell, as they were not
planted there by hand of man.
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Judge Robert, Mt corsieana.
Judge o. NJ. Roberts, Demo-

Judge o. NJ. Roberts, Demo-
cratic nominee for governor, de-
livered an elegant and impress.
sive address to a large audience
at Corsicana on Tuesday night.
His remarks were chiefly in
comparing the relative merits of
the Democratic and Greenback
platforms; commended that the
greenback in the Greenback
platform was in direct conflict
and violation of the constitution
of the United States, according
to the sprovision of the four.
teenth amendment of that
strument; claimed that
was no use for a new part
deprecated any excuse
split in the Democratic ram
unless the Democratic party
had shown itself deficient in
remedying the ills and evils
brought upon the country by
the scandalous- extravaganza
and dishonesty of the Re-
publican party, and those
hydra-headed monsters, infla-
ton and contraction. Did not
believe that a party having the
support of such men as Butler
and Pomeroy, worthy of the
confidence of any uanwho even
protested to be Democrat.
The speakerreferred, in glow
ing terms, to the administration
of Gov. Coke, with the beginning
of which peace, law, order and
prosperity again began to dawn
upon our people after years of
tyranny and misrule, riot and
bloodshed, consequent upon the
Davis administration. He re-
ferred to his former election as
United States Senator, and COM
pared himself to Moses while on
Nebo, viewing the promised
land he was never allowed to en-
ter; told of his trip to Washing
ton, with credentials in his peck
ct, that he was only permitted to
enter the gallery and look COM
placently down upon the seat he
was never destined to occupy.
His discourse gave general
satisfaction, and was greeted
with frequent ard hearty ap-
plausc. His arguments were
sound and supported by proof
positive.
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Destrustioa OF the Democrats
Party.

l intended to support the
nominations made by the Waco
Convention, and vote the en-
tire ticket. While | find that all
was not done that might have
been desired, and / am not strict
ly a Greenbacker, yet l find
enough that was good to elicit
my earnest approval of the ac-
ton of that body. 1t was the
best thing that we could get
under the circumstances. The
best thing that can be done for
Texas is to break doaoN tie
Democratic parry, and l look
upon this movement as going
far for the accomplishment of
that worthy object. 1t is GER
tainly nail in the coffin of that
party-it will loosen the chains
of the Democratic party, if it
does not destroy it altogether.
The Waco Convention acted jul
diciously in taking its principal
candidates from the Democratic
party-it is one way to ruin
that party.
Extract from Gov. E. J.
Davis speech at a ratification
meeting of the greenback fac
ton, August I3th.-AmstiN Ga
Seftr.
Davis is at the head of the
Republican party in Texas, aud
the above shows the desperate
strait to which the Republicans
are reduced. 1t is anything to
beat the Democrats.
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ANNOUNCEMENTS.
Election FRS, Tuesday In November.


FOR SHERIFF.
]. H. GRABow is hereby announced as
the Democratic nominee for Sheriff of
Washington county.
We are authorized to announce 7. II.
HUTCHINSON as the Republican nominee
for collection 10 the Office of Sheriff of
Washington County.
FOR DISTRICT CLERK.
Mr.. RUDOLPH KRUC is hereby announc-
ed as the Democratic nominee for District
Clerk of Washington county.
]. L. Moore is announced as the Re-
publican nominee for reelection to the of
fee of Clerk of the District Court of Wash
ington County.
FOR COUNTY CLERK.
We are authorized to announce HuGH
NJ. LEWIS, the present encumbent, as the
Democratic nominee for County Clerl; OF
Washington county.
FOR COUNTY TREASURER.
Mr.. X. L. BASSErr is hereby announced
as the Democratic nominee for County
Treasurer.
We sihtliOllZGl " sllllOuIlCc
CHAS. AsBECK as the regular Republican
nominee for the Office OF county Treasurer
of Washington county
FOR TAN COLLECTOR.
We are authorized to announce r. HoFF-
MANN as the Democratic nominee for Tax
Collector of Washington county.
r. A. HARvIS is hereby announced as
the Republican nominee for Tax Collector
FOR THE LEGISLATURE.
]. VI. WILLIAMS. OF Independence, is
hereby announced as the Democratic NOM
inee for the Legislature from Washington
county.
FOR SENATOR.
". X. HoMAS. of IuTisson county.
hereby announces himself As an Indepen-
dent candidate FOR Senator from the Tween
iieth Senatorial District.
FOR COUNTY scRvEYoR-
JAMES W. DALLAS is hereby announced
as the Democratic nominee for reelection
to the Office of County Surveyor.
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Maj. John Calhoun, of Gal
weston, is writing a series of
communication for the Bastrop
Adp9 hse,, holding the Demo-
cratic flag on the outer wall in a
style beftting the gallant writ
er. We clip as follows:
The other day meeting was
called or advertised denomina-
ted a greenback meeting, when
10 a gentleman of color, an ex-
member of the immortal
Twelfth Legislature, appeared
and addressed the assembly, adj
vising them to vote for the
greenback ticket, that Messrs.
Davis, Degrees & Co., would
support it, that the public debt
was SIS 900, 900 and there had
been SI,ooo,ooo,ooo interest
paid on it.
1t is said that Seneganbia
swallawed the dose and vocifer-
ously applauded the learned ex-
member of the Legislature.
Possibly that darkey gothis fig-
ures of the State Indebtedness
from what was proposed blythe
XII Legislature of which he
was a member. If SO, he was
not far wrong in what was pro-
posed by that thieving radical
body, but he made a slight mis-
take in computing the interest.
State GaSette.
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Earth's Population.

The filth population of Benin
and Wagner's well known
population of the Earth, 4"
makes the number OF the
earth's human inhabitants for
the current year I,439,145,ooo,
an increase of fifteen millions
over the estimate of last year.
The distribution of the popula-
ton among the grand geograph-
ical divisions is as follows:
Europe, 3I2, 99S,4So; Asia,
S3I,ooo,ooo; Africa, 2o5, 2Io,-
500; Australia and Polynesia,
-l,4Gt, 500; America, so, nc, 900.
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= The breaking of water
works machinery at Waco was
attended with good deal of
confusion and disappointment.
At Dallas such a fact would
never have been discovered eX-
cept in case of fre.-ANstiR
Statesman
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The Bellville Beacon contains
quite number ofitems concern
ing the progress made in Austin
county in the growth of ribbon
cane. The production of sugar
is an industry that is yet in its
infancy in Texas. The expert
ments made in the culture of
sugar cane in Austin county
have proved conclusively that
it can be successfully raised.
The crop is said by gentlemen
who are thoroughly conversant
with it to be much more profta-
bie.tllan that Of cotton.
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The Democratic Executive
Committee met at Corsicana
and by reclamation nominated
cx-Associate Justice Moore for
the chief justiceship, and Major
Bonner,of Smith county, for the
associate justicesliip.
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Public PRISrING.- Bids were
opened at Austin on Monday for
public printing, resulting as fol-
lows:
Firstand second class to A. H.
Belo & Co; third to Joseph a.
,Nagle, of Austin; fourth to R.
Won Boeckman, OF Austin; fifth
to the Statesman; Stationary to
]. A. Nagle. The bidding is
said to have been extremely low.
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Mr.. FLLEYs place has been
supplied by Mr.. Sam. Hayes.
II. steps into the very comfor-
table position of postmaster at
St,Loais while Mr.. Filley steps
down and out. Here is an in
stance Of Mr.. President Hayes
civil service reform. Filley is
said by the Missouri papers to
have been an able and efficient
officer.
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PINcKNEY DELL, a white man
confined injail at Murfreesboro,
Tenn, charged with killing the
constable of Rutherford coun-
ty while resisting arrest, was
taken out last Monday night
and lynched.
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Elder Patio. who a &c,

Elder Pattie, who a few
weeks ago delighted the citi-
zens of this city by his eloquent
and learned sermons at Ed
ridges Hall, has been SO unfor-
tunate as to have his house in
Austin, entered by burglars and
a large portion of his iarder
carried away. He invites them
to call again saying: our
latch-string always hangs out TO
such parties. .
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Look OUT.-People from the
country should be on guard
and careful avoid the the ac-
quaintance of strangers. 1t is
said that in one or two cases
dragged whiskey has been adj
satnistered. The police author
tiles haze their eyes on some
Of these chaps. and in a few
days a rich "loke" may be ex-
pected.
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The Walker and Black
case has been frequently noted
in the newspapers. On We'd
nesday last Black was tried and
acquitted at Wallisville, Cham
bers county. He had twice be-
fore been convicted. Almost
as soon as he had left the court
house he was fired upon, the
ball passing his head. a gen.
eral row was now iminent, but
happily all trouble ceased.
Black got away and his wherea-
bouts are now unknown.
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KEARNEy, in talk at New
ark, N. j., few days ago to a
crowd of about 5000 person was
frequently interrupted by ques-
tons of who paid him.
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The colored people of Texas
are responding very literally to
the appeals of the colored peo-
pie of the yellow fever districts
for aid. Remittances to the
Howard Association have al
ready been made by the color
ed people of several towns in
the State.
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HEED the mute and modest
appeals of the nickel boxes. !"
Who knows? The nickel you
contribute may buy a loaf of
bread for a starving woman or
child.
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Up to August 3Ist, there had
been six thousand cases of yell
low fever at New Orleans. IF
teen per cent, proving fatal.
The death rate seems to have
been much greater at other
places.
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II ARRIS & COOKE,
Receiving, Forwarding and
General Commission Merchants,

i'iSAilisaili, SN.tS.
Our charges this season for handling cotton
viii he ONLY FIFTY CENTS BALE, giving, as
Is claimed, TO the farmer y cents a bale
Having saved You last season 80 cents per bale
we ask continuance of your business.
We are agents for the celebrated TENNESSEE
WAGON, which is equaled by few and sur
passed by none; also, agents for Union Mills
Flour and Bran, which i offered to the trade
at Mill prices-freiyht added
Brennan, August 5lst, l57S-dlrn.
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E. P. CLAuDoN is now en-
gagged on the San Antonio Her
aid. He was once -proprie-
tor of the Houston Tues.
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The San Antonio Herald so
far from being dead is alive and
kicking. 1t thinks Schleicher
knows it is alive.
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TAKE drink or a cigar or
two less to-day and contribute
the amount to the yellow fever
sufferers, and a benefit will have
been accomplished all around.
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SUCH is fame ! The Austin
Statesman says that F. D.
Todon of BRENNAN has gone to
nurse the fever sufferers. The
gentleman alluded to is Iodon
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Estray Notice.

TAKEN UP BY MARY ]. JACKSON,
L on the Goth April, 1873, and estrayed
before Branch a. Watson, ]. P, Precinct
No. q, on the 10th Of May, gray mare,
or 10 years old. unbroke. about I4Hz hands
high, with Spanish brand on left Shout
der. with a colt about two months old and
dappled grey horse about AK hands
high, about three years old, unbranded.
Appraised at $1,000.
TlAKEN UP BY r. F. HALBERT,
L on the 10th August, 1873, and es-
trayed before Chas. Zurcher, ]. p, Prect.
No. Z, on the 3Ist August. 1873, one four
year old brown-black name and tail stall
lion, branded E on left side, and one three
year old bay geltiing, one hind foot partly
white, branded E on left side appraised
ii. NJ. LEWIS, C. c. C., W. Co.,
Rye. F. HERBsT, Deputy.
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In our report of the conven-
ton we omitted to state that A.
H. Adams, of Burleson. was en-
dorsed for Floater.
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THE Houston Telegram has
been enlarged to an eight col
umn paper. The Telegram, in
common newspaper parlance, is
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Neu AeO:f iiseNeqts.
NOTICE TO TAXPAYERS.

T WILL BE AT THE FOLLOWING
4 named places, either in person or by
deputy, on the respective dates, for the
purpose of collecting the State and County
taxes due for the wear 1878:
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THE San Antonio Express
wants information. 1t wants to
know whether the State has
been divided. fit has we are
wholly unadvised of the fact.
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ToHN A. RANDLE,
Real Estate Agent,
BRENNAN, IEXAs.
Established in 1851

Makes specially ofSelling and exchang-
ing lands and town property, the rendering
and payment of taxes, renting and look
ing after dwellings and storehouses; will
also loan, and procure money on real estate
and vendors lien securities. sept6'7S.
E,-S1 Office upstairs in GRADERS Building.
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= John Wesley Hardin goes
to Comanchc Monday 23d to
receive his sentence of 3 years
in the pcnitcntiary.
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After which time the office will be kept
open regularly from day to day in the City
of Brennan. r. A. HARVIN,
Collector of Taxes,
Washington County.
Brenham, Sept. 10, 1873. 37w4w
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WAsTED--
A careful tenant wishes to rent small,
neat dwelling house, in a good neighbor
hood. A short walk from the Square no
objection. Apply to
JOHN A. RANDLE,
Office upstairs over Graders Building.
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The Germans.

We are indebted to the Gal
weston Meas for the following
translation Of an editorial in the
Brennan FokSs6oh. Demo-
Gratis will do well to read and
heed. Let the race be made
on party. grounds. In unity
there is Strength.
The German committee,
vh;chAs,.s ores-sS1rS here NOT
, ! !. ! !.
y Gears
were nominatGSS the-con-
lhtion held last month, and
partly Of new candidates. We
have no desire to interfefe with
the right of everybody to vote
as he pleases, but when the put
ting Of a party ticket in the
field is involved, it appears to
us that unity and concert of ac-
ton are requisite above all 9TH
er things. With two Republi-
can tickets in the field we may
rest easy that both of them
stand excellent chances of be-
ing defeated. If the election or
defeat of q certain person to
this or that office were all that
was involved, we should philos-
ophically await the inevitable
result. But there is something
much more important at stake.
That question is: Shall the
party be split up and eventual
ly defeated by the common en-
envy? Shall Washington coun-.
ty cease to be a Republican
county,. 1t will probably be
said that the only object ofthe
party just now is to fill a couple
of county offices, and it is not
matter of very much impor-
lance anyhow. Allowing for
the sake of argument, that this
is the. principal object just now
with great many, it serves
very well to keep the party to-
gether, and the time may come
when the Republican party may
develop itself in force end infu-
ence outside of a few counties.
Where, then, will be Washing
ton county, if we are divided in
to two hostile camps, and have
been conquered and discomft-
ed by an inferior force of the
enemy? These are the consid-
erations that induce US to adj
monish the Republicans to uni
ty, and every conscientious Re-
publican will sustain it. We adj
wise both wings of the party to
act in concert, to put aside all
jealousies and i'll feeling, which
must result disastrously if not
speedily discouraged.
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Victoria county boasts of
a prolific sugar crop.
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Respectfully informs her old friends and
customers that she is now prepared to cut,
fit and make all kinds of Ladies Wear in
the latest style, Silks ordered for parties
desiring them. Satisfaction guaranteed.
Terms moderate. Can be found upstairs,
in the Onins building, East side of Public
Square sepI7m3
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FRIDAy, SEprEMBER-.1Sth.
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an excellent newspaper.
The daily gazette., 1878-04-17

SHERIFF'S SALE.
- BY virtue of II writ OF Levari Faoias.
to me directed, will be exposed TO Public
Sale, at the
LAFAYETTE HOTEL, s4l Shipley ST.,
Kept by John j. Dougherty, in the City OF
Wilmington, New Castle county, Dela-
ware,
ON WEDNESDAY,
THH 1sT DAY OF MAY, A. d., 1873.
AT O'Clock, p. M, the following described
Real Estate, viz:
All that certain lot or parcel of land sit
uated In the city of Wilmington aforesaid
bounded and described as follows, TO viii
beginning on the westerly side of Walnut
street at the distance of 90 feet from the cor,
ner formed by the intersection of Inc north
erly side OF Front street with the westerl '
side OF Walnut street, thence westerly par.
allel with Front street, 10 feet to q corner
thence noi therly parallel with Walnut
street 22 feet to another corner, thence east,
erly parallel with Front street 10 feet to tb,
westerly side OF Walnut street, thence
southerly along said side OF SAID street % n
| 10 the place OF beginning, be the contentl
wlthln said bounds what they may. Bool
| A, Vol. 3, page So, &c, with q three stor,
| Drlck house and a two story back buildinI
| thereon erected.
Seized and ken In execution as the pro
perty of Theodore Schmltt, deceased
lThomas j. Mellon, adm illustrator of Theo
| oore Schmitt, deceased, } and to be sold nv
| ISAAC GRUBB, Sheriff
sherifr's ONCE, New Castle, april 18th
"A. ". 1000 ap16-3tawts
The daily gazette., 1878-04-17
From the New York Herald.
ssHO for Africa "A Million Me IN
wanted for Africa

We borrow this heading from the very
interesting and circumstanital sketch of
the EXODUS Association" by our corre-
spondent at Charleston, printed in the
HERALD yesterday. 1t was kept stand
ing for many months at the head of the
columns of the Missionary Record, a
Southern religious newspaper, edited by
the Rev. Richard II. Cain, the colored
Representative in Congress from the
Second district of South Carolina, fur
nishing the keynote to animated and
persistent appeals to the colored popu-
lation of the South to improve their con-
dition by emigration to Africa. The
seed thus widely sown fell into a con-
genial soil. and at present emigration to
Africa is the uppermost topic among the
most intelligent and energetic portion of
the freedmen. This inspiring idea is not
freak of excited negro imaginations,
but business enterprise which will bear
its first fruit IN the sailing from Charles
ton to-day or tomorrow of the Liberlan
emigrant ship Azor with all the passen-
she was allowed to carry. This interest
ing voyage, which will be commemora-
ted in the future history of Africa as
that of the Maytlower is in the history
of America, is the result of many months
of preparation, and is the first step OF
what may turn out to be the Christiani-
zatlon and civilization of Africa, the
creation of a new and lucrative COM
merce and the solving of the destiny OF
the African race in American.
The daily gazette., 1878-04-17
DkOfOSALo FOR BUILDING

LlkOfOSALs FOR BUILDING A
II BANK.
sealed proposals will be received at the
Office of the City Engineer until 4o'clock
p. m. april Is, 1873, for building a bank
near the mouth of the Christiana river,
The bank Will be about 1900 feet long an
contain about II, 900 cubic yards.
For plans specifications or any informa-
tion call at the Office of the City Engineer
N. w. corner Tenth and King streets, VIII
mington, Delaware.
The committee reserve the right TO rejecl
any or all bids
PHILEMMA CHANDLER,
Chairman Opening streets Committee.
apl2-6t
The daily gazette., 1878-04-17

THByBeecher-Tilton scandal is grow
ing. The news mongers are all inpursuit
of the parties interested and the sensation
papers are filed with interviews on the
subject. Nothing new however Is ehcit-
cd and the disgust of all decent people is
eliminating against both Henry and
Elizabeth.
The daily gazette., 1878-04-17

THE national banks, according to their
last reports, now hold more specie than
ever before. On the 10th of March II
reached in amount S54, ,54S, 200.
The daily gazette., 1878-04-17

THE mint is reported to have on hand
about 81, 300, 900 of silver bullion for coin
age, and is making the new silver dollars
at the rate of so 600 daily.
The daily gazette., 1878-04-17
NOTICES..

n OTICE.-The undersigned gives notice
IN that he will be at the effice OF Messrs.
End story, on SATURDAY, the goth day OF
APRIL, from 8 a. m, to IL m, for the pur-
pose OF wing the bills against the county
passed by the Levy Court. Appropria-
lions for the sunday Schools paid at the
same time. VIM. HERBERT,
aprl3-6t County treasurer.