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The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1878-03-20


A fine stock Of gcntlcmcn's hats just
received at the Old Reliable Store.
Do you want any garden seeds! If
you do, SO to Galley & Necly's and get
| the best.
Some friend has our thanks for the
little nosegay Of frost flowers left on
our window last Monday.
| Will the miserable cuss that Dor
rowed our dipper without our per
mission, please return the same.
County Commissioner Cone dropped
into our sanctum on Monday to renew
his subscription to the UNION.
The town clerk will be found in the
den hereafter, as the individual elected
has qualified and taken possession OF
the office.
The County Commissioners were in
session Tuesday and Wednesday,; their
proceedings will appear in next weeks
Union. .. H..
Several of Mr.. John Sadley's family
have been victims to a mild attack of
scarlet fever, but they are getting
along nicely.
The village schools will open on
Monday. Let all intending to attend
during the coming term, be promptly
there the first day.
School commences on Monday, and
you had better 50 to the Old Reliable
Store and get your school books be-
fore they are all gone. -~
Mr.. w. A. Trask says that he sowed
ID bushels of wheat on yesterday, 2lst
March, something that he has never
seen done before in this state at this
season Of the year.
Mr.. II. F. Barker and Miss Abbie
Cater are the teachers employed for
this term; they are both good ones;
Miss Cater will teach the primary
and Mr., Barker the advanced classes.
Mrs. John Allen and Mrs. Depew
arrived here on Tuesday evening on a
visit to their mother, Mrs. Thomas
Goulding. Mrs. Goulding is recover
ing, but very slowly.
Sam Vinson is going to commence
shoemaking in couple of weeks or
so. Sam can do a neat job and we
have not the least doubt .but what he
will be kept busy.
It's poor dog that is not worth
whistling upon; and when the people
of Princeton desire H. NJ. Atkins to
champion the interests of their town
they will let him know it. .
Mr.. James Corrie, dentist, in Balti-
more, writes: Il have used DR.. Bulls
cough syrup personally and in my fam.
lily for two or three years, aud am
prepared to say that there is nothing
to compare to it as remedy for
coughs, Colds. etc. ~ ...s..
Melvin Apologize, who has been
down to Witoka since July. returned
on Tuesday; Nell looks and talks the
same as he always has; he reports Alb
bott Buck as doing first rate, working
with a farmer down there.
S. M. Byers is the agent for the
Boston One Price Clothing Store of
Minneapolis, at this place; he will sell
their goods at the Identical same prices
at which they are sold in Minneapolis.
MIS-. byers started below yesterday
after the goods.
MIR. G. A. Miles bid adieu to log.
scaling for time at least, on Tuesday,
as he left on the stage that
morning; Perkins came down last We'd
nesday, and Morse still remains in the
woods scaling a log once in while.
M. V, B. Cater has got a splendid
blooded bull, of the famous Durham
short horn breed. which he, Mr.. Cater,
purchased from Bill King last fall
The farmers of this neighborhood
now have an opportunity of improving
their stock; for particulars see hand
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1878-03-20

Mr.. G. II. Moorehouse lost hore or
Monday night. :4' as&
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1878-03-20

The followin is speech supposed to
have been delivered at the reform
club meeting on Tuesday night: La
dies and gentlemen, thank you for
your very flattering call; all Of you
know on what side Of the blue ribbon
fence ! stand, as talking in public is not
my forte, will subside;'' and he did
subside fora ESQ FOUNDER blue Lacquer
sat down on him, z.ssS-y..
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1878-03-20
A fine stock Of gcntlcmcn's hats just
received at the Old Reliable Store.

Do you want any garden seedse If
you do, SO to Galley & Necly's and get
the best.
Some friend has our thanks for the
little nosegay Of frost flowers left on
our window last Monday.
Will the miserable cuss that bor-
rowed our dipper without our per
mission, please return the same.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1878-03-20

Its rather tough toshake aud SILVER
with cold while there is any amount
of feel right handy, at least that is
what the jury thought on Saturday
night when they started to build fire.
Weston Hammons publishes card
IN the Anoka Union, in which he states
his objections to having NJ. @, Butter.
field use "Quinqne''--the name Of
Mr.. Hammon's asthma medicine--as
a nom de plume to articles written ~
him. Buttcrfield, for the newspapers.
Ea.7s
Fruit trees for sale by Robert
Holmcs--plum trees, apple trees, cur
rant bushes--two years old with roots
.--tame grape vines; Lombardy popul:
ars, three years old, and other orna-
mental trees; cheap for cash, or on
time. Improve your opportunity and
get your fruit and shade trees now. .
The following were the officers
electedin Milo on town meeting day.
there were eight officers elected and
only eight votes. cast: Supervisors,
Comfort Pinkham, chairman. John A..
Emmons and L. ?, Northway; clerk,
c. W. Ayers; treasurer, Robert Ayers;
assessor, George Crooks; Justice, Nj.
r, Northway, (Sylvestcr Cone holding
over); constables, Curtis Dupey and
D. Chisholm. ''
Middletown transcript., 1878-09-21
London Letter.
ON cur regular cOrre.pOndsnt.)

4
| tFrom eur regular corTespondent)
LONDON, Sept. -1st, 1878.
From London to Paris is not more
than nine or ten hours, (they estimate
distance by time in EurOpe) but that
gives no idea of the immense changes
in scenery life, and manners involved
in the transition from one city to the
other. Paris is clean, whitewalled,
ever wearing an air of holiday and
refinement. In Paris the humber
classes are cheerful, happy, healty-
looking and cheaply, but neatly
alfred; her dandies are exquisite and
diabOlically gay, and her ladies, what
more need be said of them than that
they dictate fashion to the female
world, and are at the bottom of hard
times.
London is immense, labarynthine,
unclean, mephitic. Her lower classes
are numerous, blear-eyed, filthy and
meanly clad-they wear a worried,
wearied appearance, giving the i'm
preston of hard, struggling past,
and doubtful future. Her middle
classes have a SLOPPY air, homely
features, with ungainly physique and
elaborate but ungraceful manners.
The want of taste in dress Of the Eng
lish people is proverbial, but l am
disposed to think that the defect is
less in the eye and aesthetic sense of
the subject than in the want of a
proper figure for the display of good
clothes. The sartorial genius has not
yet been born that can make an Eng
lishman look like gentleman. The
average Englishman is neither an
Adonis nor Antinous. Either his
arms are too long, his shoulders too
narrow, his stomach too large, his
shins too short, or his toes are disposed
to turn in. | know that many who
imagine that they have seen English
men, will be disposed to criticise my
criticism but let no one suppose that
he has seen a people until he has seen
them in their own habitat. The only
way to compare the English with the
French or Americans, is to see them
in the mass, as they may be seen in
their respective countries, and I think
that those who have remained for a
few weeks in England, will bear me
out in what l have said. Next to the
there are perhaps fewer native
English people in the United States
than Of any other great nation, and
the specimens with US do not furnish
. sufficiently broad premise for gener-
d estimation.
Politically, the Englishman is loyal.
In spite of a discontented element
hat finds ftful expression here and
here, nineteen of every twenty Eng !
you meet viii speak with /
pride and praise when the Queen, the
Prince of wales, or any of the Royal
amiIy are referred to. The tenth one, :
lowever, will call her Britanic majes- {
y an old bag, and has awful stories to I !
Middletown transcript., 1878-09-21

mine! You grow pale; you tremble
1t will soon be over. A moments
pang; eternal happiness"
His arm is thrown tight around me.
| am pOwerless even to struggle in his
iron clasp. His words fall kissing,
one by one, on.the still air. Darkness
is gathering around me-thc darkness
of despair.
The little clock on the mantle chimes
eleven, and l remember, with thrill
of horror, it is the last time 1 shall
ever hear it strike, when outside sounds
a CHEEKY whistle, and a step reeog-
nize as my husbands upon the pave
ment.
Its firm, manly tread is unmistak-
able. / can fancy his glancing up at
the lighted windows shining forth their
welcome for him. Another moment
his latch kee will be in the door.
Victor" exclaimed, 'I hear them
coming. He, the spy, is on your
track. Conceal yourself where you
were before. l will mislead him and
return to you. For my sake, be quick.
At these last words his hold relaxes,
The old cunning leaps to his eyes.
For your sake" he whispers.
With a sudden spring he is again
hidden behind the folds of the curtain,
and in that moment my husband en-
tered the room, and l rushed to the
shelter of his arms.
"My darling, what is it?' Will you
explain. What. has happened? 1
found these men watching the house,
and they insist madman intrusted to
their care has entered here. l, of
course, have given them permission to
search"
l try to speak, but cannot.
The words die in my throat as 1
point, tremblingly, to the curtain where
I can discern, peering through, Vic
tors cleaning eyes.
"Traitress I hear him exclaim
and as the men sprang forward, there
follows dull fall.
Poor fellow! He had taken his sad
journey alone.
In his frenzy he had plunged the
steel through his own heart.
For weeks, I too, moved on the
graves brink, but my husbands ten
der love and care won me back to life;
and together we often visit one soli-
tary mound in the churchyard. with
the prayer that he who sleeps at last
found the journey, even as he thought,
"but one step to eternal happiness"
Middletown transcript., 1878-09-21
READ TESTIMONIALS.

My cultivated Wheat last year was grand
success, having raised GIL bushels per acre
This was on small plot of several acres
which was in high order. This year on a
feld containing nine acres and eighty. Eve
pefehes, without measure, raised 4543 bush
els Of Wheat, of the ClaWson Variety-an av-
erage Of 47a bushels per acre, which, taking
the difference 10 the quality Of the land and
the sire OF the field into consideration, con-
slider is even better than last years. YIELD Ny
Wheat was visited this year BY hundreds Of
persons, and vsriously estimated at from As
TO 55 bushels per acre. And am confident
if it had not been affected by the red rust,
which was universally the case throughout
this section this season, that the yield would
have been fully 55 bushels per acre. In all
my experience of ~ years farming, never
raised such Wheat and Grass as | am now
raising by cultivating in the spring.
Ny wheat was sowed and cultivated with
A. B. Groff's Combined Seeder and Cultiva-
tor which worked very well, and does all that
is claimed for it, LEVI W. CROFT.
Bareville, Pa, Aug. 6, 1873,
Middletown transcript., 1878-09-21

It is well known fact that the &C
cidental admission of air into veins
during surgical operations, hasin many
cases caused the death of the patient.
The knowledge thus gained has been
utilized to destroy old and otherwise
worthless horses. The instruments used
are fleam and gutta percha catheter.
The manner of operating is to open the
vein as in bleeding,then introduce the
tube into the vein,passingit downwards
toward the heart three full mutations
ofthe lungs are rapidly passed through
the tube, when it is advisable for the
operator to stand one side, for the animal
falls instantaneously without warning.
A few struggles for breath and the ami
NAL is dead. Toprevent the attemp-
to breathe, an assistant as soon as the
animal falls, draws the nose toward the
wind pipe, whenA long narrow blade
of knife is passed between the Occiput
and first bone of the neck perpendicu-
larly, dividing the medulIa, causing in
slant death.
Middletown transcript., 1878-09-21

This is the season of the year when
the night air is very dangerous, but
the girls face death at front gates with
the same heroism which has always
been one Of the chiefest adOrnments of
the sex.-C Cincinnati Bye0ktast Table.
Middletown transcript., 1878-09-21

tell about the stupidity of the Prince
Of Wales, his diseased body, and dis
olute life. All Englishmen praise the
superiority Of our railway cars, but
there their concessions cease, they
think they have the best government
in the world, and are ready to prove
by figures that our frequent elections,
BY breaking up industrial routine and
habits are indirectly a greater strain
upon the exchequer than the enormous
amount expended for the maintenance
of the Royal family. No Englishman
can QUARREL without informing his ad-
versary, at some stage of the alterca-
tion, that he is an Englishman, and
he cannot talk long with an American
without denouncing the protective
tariff Of the United States. That is
where the shoe pinches. If we would
but give free ingress to the numberless
cheap and excellent things they make,
they would love US more The mar
velous cheapness and superior quality
ofthe thousand and one articles that
are indispensable to civil life, here in
London, cannot but astonish Ameri.
cans, who cannot see how they can be
made for twice the sum asked for
them. A toothbrush that will cost
40 cents in the States, may be bought
in London for five or ten cents, and
thousands of other things in proper
ton. | cannot of course make a list,
but will say in general way that our
tailors and dealers in useful and fancy
manufactured articles are perhaps the
most extortionate sinners in the world,
and that one hundred and even two
hundred per cent. is not not an unus-
ual profit for them.
In England the cooperative system
is having very appreciable effect on
local trade. The object of this system
may be described as the furnishing of
members of a trading association,
formed for the purpose, with genuine
and moderately priced goods on the
principal of ready-money payments,
the cheapness being secured by econo-
my of management and contentment
with small profits. Notwithstanding
the opposition Of retail and even of
dealers, it has of late years,
made astonishing rapid progress in
London, where there are about thirty
cooperative stores, carrying on an i'm
mense trade. The chief company is
the 'Civil Service Supply Associa-
tion," which consists of shareholders
Of members belonging to the Civil
Service, who pay about sixty cents a
year, and of outsiders, (who must be
friends of members or share-holders)
who pay 81 25 annually. All have
The same advantages in the purchase
If goods but while the Civil Service
may have goods sent home,
,arriage free, the others must take
heir purchases away with them, or
,ay for their carriage. The associa-
ion now employs about 600 persons,
Who receive salaries amounting in all
o $250,000 annually. The cost of
tring, paper and straw, used in pack
ng goods amounts to $4,000 per an
um. The sales in 1877, amounted
0 the enormous sum Of $5,500,OOO,
he net profits being lite over two
'er cent. The articles sold comprise
roceries, wines, spirits, provisions, to-
acco, clothing, books, stationary,
ancy goods, drugs and watches. In
eed, SO complete and varied are their
torres, that it is not necessary to go
Isewhere for the purchase of any
hing. GAS.
Middletown transcript., 1878-09-21

A young man made his appearance
at DeadwoOd last week in a pair of
white pants. He was promptly es-
corted to the cars, put on board of
them, and an injunction placed upon
him never to revisit the place: eve
can stand a billed shirt, you know"
exclaimed a miner, "but when it comes
to wearin' billed drawers we just make
them git up and git"
Middletown transcript., 1878-09-21
Lancaster, Pa, August 3, 1873.

Have observed Mr. Levi W. Grofis culti-
waited Wheat and am free TO say 1 noticed
very much of a difference in favor Of cultira-
ton and believe the day is not far distant
when all progressive Farmers win adopt this
method. CALVIN COOPER,
Pres. Lancaster Co. Agr'l Hort'l Soc.
Bird-in-hand, August 5, 1878.
Middletown transcript., 1878-09-21

A gentleman tells of hearing Juliet
remsk to Romeo, as the former was
passing the City Hall last night: "HOw
beautiful the moon ID, bnt them stars
look sick p
Middletown transcript., 1878-09-21

mers' wheat crops generally would be If they
were properly cultivaled.
The attachments are simple, and will apply
to ell Drills.
Middletown transcript., 1878-09-21
T..tis,oniaT tyov, Pc. 3 q RaA,,on

Examined Mr.. GroGF's cultivated Wheat,
and am fully convinced that cultivation ben.
efts the crop very much. Noticed vast diff.
ference betWesn the cultivated and uncultiva-
ted Wheat in the neighborhood. The eulsiOa.
ted stood firm and eTea-the uncuEtiUated sCas
lodged. The Grass was very 6ne.
8. 8. RATHYON.
Middletown transcript., 1878-09-21
Bareville, Lancaster Co., Penn

| 10 Lhe faTn1eTS OF DeLdtCdTe ana the Eastern
Shore Of Maryland and Virginia:
GentlemeR-My attention was first called to
the cultivation Of wheat by reading an article
in the July issue Of the american Farmer, and
while it looked very straight and plausible.
yet as | knew none of the parties referred TO,
| determined to 60 TO Lancaster county. Pa,
to investigate the matter, see if it was real
and if as represented secure the right to use
the device at Wheatland. / found Mr.. A. B.
Croft the Inventor of the attachments (who is
a son Of Mr.. Levi W. Croft to be an exceed
ingfy courteous, intelligent, ,thourough-going,
practical Lancaster county farmer, and after
examining the premises, talking with his
neighOors, &C., found the representations Of
the papers fully sustained. was so well sat-
is6ed that it was the true way to raise both
wheat and grass that then and there deter
mined 70 put 10 my coming crop Of l55 acres
the same way.
/ little supposed at that time that would
ever do more than purchase an individual
right 10 use it; but upon further inVestiga-
ton am 90 firmly convinced Of the merit Of the
device that have secured the sole right Of
the entire Peninsula. And as the attach
ments for this combined improvement can be
adjusted to any make of drill, am now pre-
pared to furnish them to our farmers, thereby
enabling them to have the benefit of Mr..
Grotf's skill and ingenuity.
1t is not too late for this Falls sowing il
application is made to me at once.
Price for the whole thing, all
complete, with the right TO use
the same anywhere on the Pc
ninsula, $50.
Terms made accommodating
A Drill, with attachments, with specimens
of Mr.. GrOtf' g wheat and straw, will he on
exhibition at the Worten, Dover and Middle
town Fairs.
Fer further information, address
JOHN A. JONES,
Vt. Pleasant, Delaware.
Middletown transcript., 1878-09-21
Selttt Huetrp.
"
HE
A song OUT OF sHAsOH.


A soHG OUT or sHAsOH.
Half hidden in leaves,
One barely peFceives,
A bonny big baby called Ne;
A sweet little girl,
With her hair ell a-curl,
Up in the mulberPy-tFes
Her small fnger-tips
Are stained, and her lips
Are purple as purple can be;
'Twoud tell tales 70 kiss
Such merry young miss
Up in the mulberry-tree
firmly believe
This daughter of Eve,
This dimpled young dsmsel named Ne,
Would tempt one with fruit,
And then kiss one to boot,
Up in the mulberry-tree -HarPsrs.
Middletown transcript., 1878-09-21
Lancaster, Pa, July 2s, 1878.

Tsstimonial from Judge Patterson and Others.
We examined Levi W. Groff's cultivated
Wheat on the 9th day of June last never
SOW any better anywhere. In fact we are free
to say, it exceeds in excellence and yield any
thing We have ever before seen of Wheat kind
and believe it will yield about FIRTY Bushels
per acre. As to the Grass, win simply say
we never saw it's equal. A B. Croft . Com
bined Seeder and CaltivatOr is admirably
adapted for this purpose, and We are satisfied
that it will do all that ia claimed for il, and
DO It we'll. d. W. PATTERSON,
JOHN X. REED,
MOSES GEISRNBERGER
LaneaSSer, Pa., July 20, 1878.
Middletown transcript., 1878-09-21
Tssam0aial from Judge Livingston

1esnmoRtGt from Judge LiVingston.
was raised on farm, therefore claim 10
know something about the culture of wheat,
ETC., and hereby certify that closely exam
ined Levi w. Croft e cultivated wheat this
past season, and must acknowledge that it
was the finest wheat ever saw stand on the
ground, straight and strong in the straw, not
lodged. the heads SO uniformly large; have
no hesitancy in saying believe it will yield
from 30 to So bushels per acre over field of
ten acres. This wheat was cultivated with
A. B. GrOf's Combined Seeder and Cultiva-
tor, which is most admirably constructed for
this purpose, and am fully convinced will
do all that is claimed for it.
Very Respectfully Yours,
J. B. LIVINGSTON.
Tonaa.ka- D. T,lr 90 lo1o
Middletown transcript., 1878-09-21

Examining into Mr., Levi w. GFoff g cult
vsted Wheat, thoroughly convinced me Of the
great benefit in cultivation, both for Wheat
Middletown transcript., 1878-09-21

AtA maeting Of the Lancaster County Ag.
FicRlAhfal aha Horticultural Society, , COM
mittee Of four Of It's members were appointed
as Visiting Committee to 60 to the above.
mentioned farm and examine into this new
method Of cnltivating wheat, which they did
day or two before ii was cut, and they ad-
mitted that the difference in favor Of cultiva-
ton was greater than they had even expect
ed. All Of them approved Of this new method
and heartily endorsed 1t, and requested Mr.
Levi W. Croft to make report to the Agri-
cultural Society as soon as be had threshed it,
which be accordingly did. The Committee
therefore made the following reply:
We, the undersigned, visited the farm Of
Mr.. Levi w. Croft, about harvest time, and
fully concur in his report, SO far as we could
judge at that time.
H. ~ EEGLE, LEVI s. REIsT,
CALVIN CooPER, PETER S. REIsT.
Mr.. Engle said he had examined Mr.. Croft .
clover aud timothy, and believed it would be
very superior. He trusted that not few Of
our farmers would adopt Mr.. Croft s plan Of
cultivation. he would do SO himself, and
from his observation be was sure 1t would
pay.
Mr.. PownalI said that on former occasion
be had objected to cultivating the Wheat
ground that il would inj1re the grass that
was to follow the Wheat; but from an exper-
inient Of his own he was nov convinced that
il would not.
We, the undersigned, do hereby certify,
that we visited the farm Of Mr. Levi w Croft,
in the month of July, 1871, in the midst of
harvest, and examined a field of Wheat sowed,
in part, the ordinary way, and in part by
Drill invented land now patented) by Adam
B. Croft, which Drill by some modification of
parts is converted into Cultivator, and by
means Of (which the wheat is cultivated the
same as corn with the Cultivator. One part
Of the field we examined had been treated by
the new invention; that the Wheat on the
part of the field sowed by this new Drill and
treated as aforesaid, was much better than the |
other part of the field, larger and stronger in
the straw, and in heads proportionately still |
better, and in the yield in the bushel better
by eleven (Il) bushels to the acre, as verified |
by Mr.. Croft by separate threshing and meas
uring. [Signed
AND. NJ. FRANZ, GEo. K. REED,
WALTER G.. EVANS. D. p LOCHER
A. B. CROFT,
Middletown transcript., 1878-09-21

and Grass, and believe all progressive Farm
ers will adopt his method. H. NJ ENGLE.
! Ex-Prest Lancaster Co. A. .Horil Soy.
Middletown transcript., 1878-09-21

Mr.. Groff's cultivated Wheat is heavy and
strong in the straw, not lodged, large-headed
and well filed and decidedly the most prom
Using wheat we have seen anywhere for large
yield. We estimate the yield from FoRTY-FIvE
TO FIFTY BUSHELS per acre.
JACOB L. NISSLEY,
JOHN HENDRTCKSON.
MiddletOwn, Dauphin Co., Pa, July 2, 'Ts.
Middletown transcript., 1878-09-21

Mr.. GroEf's cultivated Wheat is a grand
success-coarse and strong in the straw, not
lodged, and large and uniformly headed. |
estimate the yield at about FHTY BUsHELs per
acre. GEO. HAUCK.
Mechanicsbg, Cumb. CO., Pa, July 2, 'Ts.