Claiborne guardian. [volume] (Homer, La.) 1877-188?, 1878-07-03

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good crop in ten years. Ii any of
Your readers don't know how to Spite
'em, let 'em TX Harris. lie wants
somebody toax him something hard.
Bet he don't know any more about
it than | did, and he can't find it,
for it amt in no dictlonery that he's
got.
But farewell for this time.
BILL ARP.
y. Il. Take notice.-Ax Harris |
which jaw of q COW has no teeth,
and what was the color of my gray
mare when she was a colt b. a. |
The correspondent of the St.
Louis Republican says that during
tho session just closed there were
introduced 6,G20 bills and DAB joint
resolutions. About $500 bills were
introduced in the house, which is
an average of nearly 20 to each
member. Of these bills, about 260
have been disposed Of, in addition
to the regular appropriation bills.
The most important ones were the
act remonctizing silver, the act al
lowing criminals in United States
courts to testify in their own behalf,
the act providing new form of gov
eminent for tho District of Column
bia, the Pacific railroad funding
act, and the act forbidding further
retirement of legal tender notes.
These are really all tho important
acts that Congress passed the last
session. Some of the most impor
tant bills considered are now lying
on the speakers table, over 22G bills
having passed the senate which
have not reached the house. The
senate has been very industrious,
and has cleared up its calendar.
The only important bills remain
ing on the senate calendar undispos-
cd of arc as follow: The bill to ere.
ate the territory of Lincoln, the bill
to amend and revise patent laws,
the Texas Pacific railroad bill, the
Japanese indemnity fund bill, bill
regulating compensation for mail
transportation and classification of
mail matter, and bill to regulate
counting of electoral votes. There
are more than five hundred bills on
the house calendar which were lett
undisposed of. The most important
of these are the bill to restore to
pension rolls those whose names
were stricken off for disloyalty, the
bill to regulate compensation of post
masters and prevent illegal traffic
in postage stamps, bill to transfer
the Indian bureau to the war depart
ment, several postal savings bills,
bill to retire circulation of national
bills, the bill to authorize national
banks to exchange their reserve for
bonds, the Texas Pacific bill, prorate
bill, bill for improvement Of the
Mississippi river, Geneva award bill
-Shrercport Times.
The harvesting of wheat in the
| United States begins in Texas, usu
ally the last of May, and from tina
| time until August the harvest con
tinues travelling northward as tn
r season progresses, and after tn,
: winter wheat is cut, which is usual
, ~ all done in Juno, comes tn
: spring wheat, which ripens about
t month later. This year the whea
; harvest began in Texas the frs
= week in May, and in some enter
}. prising localities new flour wa
$ made by the tenth day of tho month
but the harvest was not in full It'd
n until the middle of the month. Th
c wheat harvest has progressed nortf
r ward to Alabama and Tennessee
:. and some wheat has been cut |
c Kentucky, Missouri and Kansa
t but the harvest is not general
t. those sections. Southern Illino
n will come next, and this will
It closely followed by Indiana, Oh
It and winter wheat Iowa. The pre-
IL ent indications are that the ylel
g will be much larger than it vi
S. thought three weeks ago would
possible. The San Francisco Chro
lie icle says the prospect at this time
u that the present year will he,
IN millions of centals, the most prOdu
e, tive of wheat and other cereals ev
ly yet experienced by the farmers
id California. The acreage Of wheat
Mt probably 80 to 40 per cent great
Is than was planted in 1872, when o
n. exports were 1850, 140 bushe
,g leaving o homo supply OF not lie
n than 100000 bushels for seed al
in bread. 1t is also probable that t
Nv yield per acre this year will avera
IN above that of 1879.