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TIE USE OF FALLEN. LEAVES the
Gardeners Monthly Mr. Meahan says:-
These have 70 be gathered up. They
are excellent to mix with hot bedzzMaEe
rial. and where practicable, should be
saved for this purpose They do not
heat so rapidly as stable manure. and In
this have an advantage, Ias tsmperiags is,
violence, making it last longsr.s and
maintaining regular heat. They are
frames to protect bali hardy plants, "A
board is put up the height Of The ftalh9
boards, and about . foot iof aore from,
them, and the leaves filed in bet'Hekh,
1.-THE plants are somewhat tender the
bottom Of the frames may alled.rin, q
few feet with leaves Much : heat is
thEowA or during tire decomposition Of
fhe leaves, Which, though not enough 10
k4e6 out severe frost, yet mod flies nsDnle
what the temperature. These leavesy
after they have been Tvs Or tkre4 yeas
deserving make sdminalaas ntulE Tor pot
Inc Snd flowers in.geHepal, 4 @
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As a preventive the same dose is. to be
used say four times a year, one dose a day
for week. The doses, Of course, to be
graduated according to the age of the hog.
Prairie Farmer. a>ss --------
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.IhmN u. RArrnN.

JOHN W. PATTON.
III a-.ftn fsF.. lsr ...a..f .r
N mstIce % the Peace umd NOD
% Msmhahe-Once Do GARRIsOn'8 blN
INd, over A. Afhsgro4e's Bank Opposite
btate Capitol. JusTGCE'a CouuT8.--til
Third Thursdays Of each month,
HoURs-From 0O'oiock A. m., 10 0'oioeL
unless abstnt OF official business
attention given to business VI. ~
jana 7s-ly.
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PROCLANTATTOy
500 90 StEVyARD


WHEREAS, II appears by inarr..
w ceivcd by me-. TINT KorrHr n
sos, in 'CdrroiI'cmluty. in this st.,. .'
18th day Of March, 1875 murdered
SrRoUp AMI thar suid Thompson sF
escape and is still large;
' Now, thtrefbrt ~ ~ STONE e..
Of Mississippi do oAertbruhlve r...
addition 90 the reward uutLur.f.#
statute. FIR the arrest aud dpliyrr,. ...
Robert NJ Thompson go the sheriff sfr.
cohuty, said reward ~ .lOO ruthlt..
yiciiOn And do moreover rfuurt.r
GERS br this Stata to Doe i4rul Boa IIe....
to arrest said fugitive, Rob DO T0.mt.
Given under my hand and tbe G.....
W. - G9RSSHt T-si8ria ' 6ny l ,I,
1878.
ID nI fl..tI.Ir ...tI...s .. Id. NJ B LII.
BY the Governor;
KINL0CmFALcONtR Socrulyot s..
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NoTIoE 10 coNTRAGTlls.

GEALED Proposals for thp Rausu- of
- Old County Jahat Raymond ass0rIH.
specifications now on file iu ihc CH.
Clerk Office in the Second District H.
received until the Flrst Monday BOZ Mas N
when said bidswl be opened nud rlu.U#
by the Board Of Supervisors. lIry rcam
the right to reject any ana all bids
By order Of the Board
'tn,' .rnr .. W. 4. RATLFF. CIrL
Raymond, March n, 1878 Pun.
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Leprosy Among the Chinese.

At the meeting Of the San Francisco
Medical Society, last evening, says the
Bulletin, DIR. Blach, City Physician, ex-
hibited a Chinaman afflicted with lep-
rosy. The mans face was hideous in
the extreme, being ridged and furrowed
in every direction.
DR.. Bach read a paper on the case.
The patient was born in enc OF the low,
marshy regions in China, where he was
engaged in the business of a merchant.
He is married and has three children in
China. The disease revealed itself about
three years ago. He does not think it
il contagious, and SAYS that there is or
d~inarily no pain in the tumors. His
general health Is good.
Loo Chang, a Chinese physician. said
that he had seen the disease in China,
but had not seen much of IL here. In
China II is common in low, marshy dis
%tricts, and is caused by miasma and
poor food. II Is durable AT first, but not
after it has run for two or three years.
1t is not considered contagious except
in sleeping or eating with the infected
person. The disease assumes no less
than thirty-five different forms. In some
cases the skin Is covered with the bright
scales. This form is thought to be very
contagious.
DIR. Blach found il to be the opinion
of the Chinese that the disease died out
after the first generation. Leprosy K
lists now in Africa. Asia Minor, Hawaiian
Islands, Japan, etc. At one time the
disease assumed a most violent form,
and only declined after the fifteenth or
sixteenth century. The progress of
leprosy is slow, taking many years,
sometimes, before there is any pro-
nounced development. In elcphantiasis
gr1ccoynm tnbercniosd-the forms Of
the disease exhibited BY the patient
the skin was thickcned and wrinkled,
and sometimes the face presents the APP
pearance Of that Of a lion. 1t is the
opinion 81 many authorities that the
disease is not ordinarily contagious, but
might be communicated to another I'M
der certain circumstances and condi-
tons. DIR. Blach thought that in Cali
fornia leprosy might become epidemic
in the low-lying parts Of the great val
leys from an oyer-crowding Of popula-
ton combined with poor food.
DR.. Stivers said that the Cinnamon in
the cells Of the City Prison made the
patient sit by himself in a corner, say
ing that II one touches n leper he will
catch the disease.
DIR. Irvas thought that the disease was
contagious, and DR.. Fiske said that the
Chinese in Amador County, whore there
Is a leper settlement, believe il 20 be
contagious.
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One Of Shelby's old soldiers writes as
follows from Trinidad, Col. TO the Sc
dalia D. mocraf:
Two weeks ago l cut from a local pa
per here this paragraph:
skobeleh i a f~aialist, and what brilliant
soldieri. nots He rides gray horses in bat
tle. and has had a. many as four killed under
him In one day. He does not like gray horses,
however, and would not ride them a. all II
be had not begun the campaign on q gray
horse. III he were 10 change now, he says,
he could never be the same man To his SOL
diers. because his soldiers believe that the
Turks have had special orders 70 kill II they
can every man upon a gray horse. He Is = fa-
talisf. however, to the extent Of believing
that he can never be killed while riding q
gray horse in battle, but he does not like
them because they get 30 many OF his broth
er officers killed.
This paragraph at once brought to
nay mind a similar superstition on the
part Of Gen. Jo- Shelby Of Missouri, I'M
der whom ! served throughout the en-
tire war. His color was sorrel. He
firmly believed ard used often TO say
that he would never be killed in a fight
while he rode a sorrel horse. And the
fact seemed TO bear him out in this. He
was wounded three times during the
war, but never once while riding a sor-
rel horse. He had "a horses killed I'M
der him in the various engagements
where he was no hit, and in every sin
gle instance where the horse was killed
and the rider escaped the horse was a
sorrel.
Once at Springfield a ball struck Shell
by fair in the middle of the forehead.
Ii knocked him clean from his stirrups
something difficult to do, for he was
a splendid rider-and back over his
horse and heavily upon the ground.
Those about him thought him killed,
but he was on his feet in a second and
on his horse in another, saying in the
cool tones Of an ordinary conversation
IL al not be killed to-day, for l am
riding a sorrel horse Sure enough
the brim Of his large felt hat had caught
the ball and broke its force. II knock
ed him from his saddle and drew some
blood, but beyond this, no other harm
was done.
Indeed. ! have watched Skobeleff's
career closely during the Russo Turkish
war, and according to my ideaof things,
there Is much in commop between
this dashing soldier and Gen.
Shelby. Both had the same power over
men Both were supremely Indifferent
in battle Both were superstitious. Both
loved hard fighting, desperate charges
and enterprise that was considered i'm
possible. Both were military handles
that is to say, both were fond of gold
lace. snowy uniforms, silver spurs,
floating plumes, splendid saddle trap
ninrs and fharouOhhrad horsas Roth
always said to their men, "Come on -
never $50 onir Both were idolized
by their soldiers, and both had the same
fatalistic ideas of the kind Of color their
horses had to be 10 make the riders safe.
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Richard Kenyon, 4 Lynn (Mass.)
loeksmith, was strangled to death by
being caught in a line Of shafting.
William Trainor, n 16-year-old
school-boy in Berks County, Pa, butted
his head 50 violently against the head Of
one Of his school-fellows. TO see which
could stand the hardest knocks. that he
ruptured a blood-vessel and died.
A l~3-year-old son OF g. l.. Miner,
living near Mitchellsville, Ky, acct
dentally hanged himself. 1t is supposed
that he was play Ing about a rope which
had been used for weighing with steel
yards, and in some way got the loop
over his head. and the basket turning
over from under him, he wa helplessiy
suspended. When found life was nearly
extinct.
George Elliott, aged 60, a well
known resideni 81 State Line, Ind, was
kicked to death in a pasture where he
had gone TO feed his horses. When
found he was dead. his skull evidently
having been crushed in BY a horses
hnof.-Sylvester Marvin, Of Eaton
County. Mich , was killed by a kick u
a horse ia the abdomen.
Martin Dennis, engineer in Emcry's
saw-mill, near Roanoke, Ind, a in
stantly killed BY the explosion Of the
boiler. When found, his body was w.
ing III a field $50 yards from the mill.
Ii presented a terrible sight. The head
was scalded until It cracked open, caus-
ing the brain To ooze out. The body
was bruised beyond recognition, and
was disemboweled.
Mrs. Jessie Sibert, Of Anderson,
Ind, left her 5-year-old son (who was
a mute) alone al home while she went
10 a neighbours TO assist in laying out 4
corpse. In her absence the boy secured
the c~oal-oil can and emptied the con
tents on himself, which ignited from the
fire in the stove, and before assistance
was rendered the child was so badly
burned as TO cause his death In a few
hours.
Some recent suicides Anton Beck,
who lived near Lexington, Ky, blew the
top Of his head oil with a shotgun He
waS 4 hard drinker. and was afflicted,
besides, with financial aud domestic
troubles.-Miss Minnie Mckenny, Il
beautiful and intelligent young lady Of
Richmond, Va, was engaged to be
married 70 q worthy but poor young
man. A few days ago he asked her u
release him from his engagement, os-
tensibly on account Of being unable To
support \ wife. The girl
was apparently heart-broken and
took a fatal dose Of landanum TO end
her troubles.-At Kennedy, n. r., An
drew Gustafauson, a sober and quiet
citizen, out 81 money and unable 10 OBJ
tain employment, lay down on the rail-
road track, with his neck on the rail
and his arms folded, and coolly awaited
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science and Industry.
Connecticut Valley tobacco-raisers
have nearly stripped this years crop,
and report that IL is an unusually good
one, despite contrary opinions earlier in
the season. Prices promise 10 be lower,
the New York strike having had a de-
pressing effect.
The value OF the ore reduced and
marketed 10 the Black Hills in 1877 is
estimated at sl,5OO,OOO The yield Of
the placer claims has been less than last
year. and will not probably exceed
81, OOO. 900. This makes the total pro-
duct of the Black Hills for 1877 about
o~ne-fourth as much as that Of Colorado.
-Glycerine may be burned in any
lamp 50 long as the flame is kept on a
level with the liquid. On D Of
rs yiscidity il will not ascend an elevated
wick. The flame produced is colorless
and affords a pure, clear light.
A ferry-boat has been patented
which is impelled across rivers BY the
action II the current. The boat Is adj
justed at An angle with respect TO the
crossing rope, 50 that the current will
strike the directors at an angle which
may be increased or diminished at will.
-Watermelons are looming up in the
near future as the great Ameri-
can product" Experiments ia Califor-
MIA show that sugar can be extracted
from the melons at a cost Of two cents
per pound less than from sugar-cane.
Besides this, oil il made from the seed
and alrohol fran tho rind
Nitrate Of lead il found to possess
great value As a deodorizer. A half-pint
dissolved in a pint or more of boiling
water j. added TO two drains Of common
salt which has dissolved in a pail Of
water. The sediment is allowed to SET
tie. To purify and swccten a foul at
mosphere, dip a cloth ia the liquid and
hang it up IN the apartment.
The Lehman Manufacturing Com
pany, situated one mile above Prattville,
Ala, on Antauga Greek, runs 100
looms and y,3s4 spindles, requiring 10
operatives to keep the machinery 90
ing. The water supply is abundant,
and in a short time they intend putting
in a new Eclipse turbine wheel. l25
horsepower, whichwill greatly facilitate
operations.
A patent has recently been taken
out in Bohemia for the manufacture of
mother-of-pearl glass, which is said TO
furnish an article Of great beauty. For
this purpose a quantity Of mica in a very
finely divided state j. introduced into
the cruciblc Of melted glass, and stir
red round until it is intimately mixed,
on the surface Of the glass. with an
enamel color, and then burned in in a
mufilc.
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king Humbert, Of TALLY, is a Free
mason.
Caroline Of Denmark, who has just
completed her sith year, is the Oldest
Princess in Europe.
-Meissonier has never drawn a female
figure, and would never allow the model
Of one in his studio.
offered a prize Of 1000 francs for the
best history Of the Turco-R oumanian
war.
Queen Victoria has written to King
Humbert, Of Italy asking as a keepsake
some articles from his dead fathers
writing-table.
The Tronto Globe says that Messrs.
Alexander Mackenzie and George
Brown have been offered and declined
the honors Of knighthood.
The American prima donna, Mile.
Litta Marie Won Elsner), is singing
:. Martha at the Theatre ~italien, Paris,
with great success
The Khedive Of Egypt is running
himself 10y extravagance. He sustains
upwards Of ~ palaces, in which be sup
ports in luxury three "proper wives
and 300 women of the harem. Each Of
the grown Princes Of the blood also has
his separate palace and retinue of serv-
ants, and the horses in the stables Of
the father and sons are numbered by
hundreds.
Rome. on the days Immediately pre-
ceding Victor Emanuel's funeral, was
fuller than il has been for centuries. The
hotels and cafes were allowed 10 remain
open all night. Many Of the troops
were quartered in the suppressed mon
asteries. The Colosseum presented "A
strange sight. with the soldiers camping
around their watch-fires and the horses
tethered under the tiers Of the vast
amphitheater.
MIR. Gladstone, In a recent speech
At Oxford. said when you speak of
the Government, you mean Lord Bea-
consfeld. [Cheers and laughter
There are many men in the Government
who will compare very ho%norably with
Lord B~eaconstield in many respects
but there j. not one man in the Govern
ment hat has a tenth part Of the tenac-
ity Of will and the patient purpose which
belong TO Lord Beaconsfield."
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Mrs. Culver, ~ Nassar. Mich, his
taught lOf terms OF school. She began
III 1920.
Mrs. Caroline a. Soule, in Ncbras-
ka, on Sunday, December 10, organized
the First lniversali-t Parish, al Tecum-
sch, with ~ members.
Examinations II pupils ia some
Hartford schools show that Is per cen
are near-s:ghted, the largest proportion,
~ per cent. being in a room in which
the scholars Sat : 0 as to face the light.
In q recent installation sermon at
Buffalo, Dr. Calkins recalled this char
acteristic remark of the late DIR. Brain
ard, Of Philadelphia: "Thcre are three
qualifications Of ministers piety, ideli-
~ and poverty. The first two we must
obtain Of the Lord by PRAYER; but we
trust the stinginess Of the churches for
the last"
The American Bible Society is sadly
short Of money and calls aloud FIR Sl4O,-
vuv- IT. annual expenditure G. are about
S1JO,VVO- Its receipts are made up Of
collections, and Of donations from indi-
viduals, also ~ legacies. Not 50 many
people are dying and leaving money %
tiie society as there were some time ago
although Il ! remembered in the wills Of
many wealthy people who are not dead
yet.
The Rev. v. W. Harcourt, ~ India,
has adopted the plan Of uniting singing
with preaching IN his evangelistic tours.
a choir ~ six lads from y 10 II years 81
age, with their schoolmaster, who plays
the violin, goes about with tho mission
airy. Large crowds have been gather
81, containing persons Of almost every
caste that Is recognized in South India.
Most ~ people listen attentively.
a count has been made Of the min
listers Of the Black River and 81. Law
renee Association, with a view 10 the
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The True Way to Advertise.

The superiority Of advertising in first
class newspapers 6 yer all other forms i
thus aptly pointed out by the Boston
Post:
The ingenuity IF business men has
been taxed 10 the utmost during the mad
competition OF the last score Of years to
devise the most effective neal of adver-
Using. They have turned vandals and
painted the picturesque rocks with in
etiaceable puffs Of what they could do or
had TO sell. They have printed and dis
tributed cards and circulars; they have
framed and mounted posters in railway
stations and other places where the pub
lie congrcgate, and they have tried many
other WAYS of catching the public eye;
hut none have stood the test so well,
none have made such assured returns as
their patronage Of the first-class news
papers. The shrewdest business men at
the Detroit Stove Convention, held some
time ago. advised the trade to adver-
tise exclusively with the newspapers.
The head Of a large and successful
business house in New York, who had
had nearly halt a century's experience,
said recently "For forty-seven years
nine-tenths OF our advertising has been
in iirst-class newspapers. OF our whole
expenditure all that we regret i con-
tanned in nat other TENTH Advertising
in newspapers i an art, and those who
advertise 4 good deal seem to under
stand il 20 a. 10 make their
ments attractive and striking. In this
city rs well as in others, our most sue
cessful business men are those who do
the most advertising. They are better
known at home, and especially are they
better known 10 those who come from
other places TO Boston to trade. This j.
one Of the most conclusively demon
strated facts Of business,and when spring
trade opens il will be aprofitable factto
remember.
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Odds and Ends.

1t seems to Turkey like the day
after Thanksgiving. Trenton Gazette.
-Placard announcing a famine in
Boston. Nofa Bcna !"-Bu6ato Err
press.
The mule is a musical animal. His
voice has remarkable volume, and its
hind legs are full Of shoe-fly.
II will never purchase lottery tickets
so long as ! can hire q man 70 rob me az
reasonable wages.-Josh Billings.
Winnie Ream is making a life-sized
bust Of David Davis, and if she i faith
full 10 the original it will be her greatest
work. Worcester Press.
Mrs. Moore came naturally enough
BY her poetic genius. She j. a descend
ant from Tom Moore, 81 her husbands
side.-DanbHry News.
"A correspondent asks, "What Il
the best method OF feeding cattle in win
ter?- We don't exactly know. One
man might prefer to take the OK in his
lap and feed him with a spoon. Others
would bring his into the dining-room
and let him sit AZ the table with The old
folks. Tastes differ in matters Of this
kind.
A a belonging 10 4 family on
South Hill has reached the ripe aye Of
III years, and has entirely lost all power
Of expressing it, emotions by audible
sounds. And it j. just heart-breaking
I . see that ~voiceless cat 20 out in the
moonlight and climb on TO the shed
roof and try, by violent and emotional
pantomime. TO express a yowlthat could
break a pane Of window-glass 500 yards
away Harkeyc.
He was saying, s.As the pearly col
ulnn II smoke in a winters atmosphere
rises unbroken heavenward. so my heart
rises to thee. As the sInlowcr follows
the cruel sun which gives il life, 80 my
heart follows thine. As the blue brook
runs its unhindered course to the sea, so
my soul. in slavery, goes to thee Said
shc: "Henry. now that we're engaged,
will your nail-hlade cut corns?-
-" DO not tranpie on the lowly.
Let you tread he FIRM and sure:
Step above the fallen slowly:
Darling, keep the door mat pure"
This little ballad i composed and sung
by the man who trails a lot Of Iowa rca.
estate into The house with him every
time he goes home. The song il dedi-
Gated 70 his wife and daughter. (P. $.
W. are the MANI
If the signs Of the times mean any
thing = new era Of miracles and mar
wells i upon us. a man At Bellevue,
Ohio, recently fixed up a little gun
powder plot IN his wood-pile 70 find out
who was frying bacon AZ his expense.
On the following Sunday the stove in a
church near his premises flew to pieces
just as the pastor was clinching a most
convincing argument 10 prove that there
VAS 4 hell. From the celebrity with
which the congregation dismissed them.
selves without waiting for the usual
formalities IL seems probable that the
impression was prevalent the disputed
region was manifesting itself too near
home 10 be comfortable. II Is surmised
that the owner Of the wood-pile enter
tains no equivocal notion on the SUBJ
jcct.-Brcdktdst Table.
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This country exported 55o,0Oo,oo0
gallons Of petroleum from 1866 70 1871,
which brought an average price Of "a
cents 4 gallon. amounting TO sls1. OOO,-
COO. From 1871 To 1876, covering the
same period Of FIVE years, there were
shipped l,ioo. 100000 gallons, or twice
as much oil, which sold st the average
Of Is cents per gallon, realizing $l65,-
100000. The increased exports Melted
less money w 81. OOO.0g q than the ship
ments Of the iirst-named period.
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king Alfonso has given Queen Mer-
cedes a crown composed wholly Of dia-
monds; also gowns costing altogether
about $4,000; also mantillas At $4,000
apiece. "A mantle worn by the Queen
al the state dinner on the wedding-day
cost $4,000.
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The body Of Victor Emanuel was
shrouded for burial in the superb white
mantle Of a Grand Master Of the Order
Of S.. Annunziata, in which garb the
sovereigns Of the house III. Savoy are
80 ~ BY lin u
NJ p!viogi
idlv. undo
.yulrivn.
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the approaching train, which instantly
killed him.-Mrs. AdaF +. Hunt. Of North
Charleston, N. III , shot herself through
the heart. II was apparently a case Of
somnambulism, and the pistol was
bought for her 10 defend herself when
her husband was absent. She was ~
years old, and leaves a young child.
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1t i said that there Is truth in the rr-
NOR hat Prince Leopold Of England,
Queen victoria's youngest son, Is going
10 enter the Church. The Prince wishes
ii very much, but the Queen opposes his
desire, fearing that in the Princes weak
state u health he viii only do himself
harm BY undertaking any active mental
or physical labor.
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~ascertaining Of their belief rs 10 future
punishment. This association Is the
largest in the State Of New York. The
Rev. w. ID. Westeryelt, who prosecuted
the inquiry, reports: "Of those con
suited, every one believes the doctrine
Of eternal r%ctribution. In fact. our as
sociation j. very earnestly orthodox"