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The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1878-07-25
Selecting Seed Corn.

s A writer III the Lancaster Farms
says: '
II have been improving corn by Sc
lee ing the first years. that get ripe and
this is my seventh year since 1 began
this practice always planting the lar
gest and best developed ears. For the
last seven years I have rejected the
tips and butts OF she ears, and shel>
ling off all the grains that are not well
developed. To-day I have as goo 2
sound, well-develoyed ears as any man
en- raise. and filed to the very tip. so
much So that there is no room for an-
other grain. / have also madS my
corn, much earlier by gathering the first
ears that get ripe The reason why !
reject the tip grain is this. they are
not so we'll developed and will not oom e
up SO strong and make so rank u
growth. 'fss
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1878-07-25

join Deacon Stubbs. The mule either
scenting mortal remains of her defunct
ancestor about the instrument, or from
somescther cause, stretched her long
neck, advanced step or two until her
nose was within few feet of the speak
ing trumpet, set mp one OF the most
dismal and heart rending brays that
ever mule gave utterance to.
Brother Harmon, again. Said
Ben us his acute ear caught the first
whine of the mule, ''and singing too,
by George! Hold up, Brother Harmon!"
shouted Ben, through trumpet, for he
was anxious to answer the egg question,
besides, he did not care to listen to any
of Harnpn's music
l "Ahi-------a. ah! !----a! Hold upl
again shouted Ben. much excited.
''He----ha ah --hadp was the
answer. F'* ~ Z 80
Ben could stand it no longer, throws
ing down the instrument in a rage, he
turned to the crowd and SAID:
s(Sontlemen. don't like TO cnss, 5ut
that old fool Harmon has gone to sing
| ing one of his damn long wasted
hymns, and if that aint enough to bust
any telephone this side of hell, I'm a
liar.
The next moment his coat tail was
seen turning corner towards his
honse.
Thus ended the telephone exhibition
that day, at least, but it was not the
end of Ben.
1t seems that parson Harmon's lit
tie boy was spectator of Ben's opera
tiops. and witness Of his remarks on
the occasion. He, Of course, informed
his father, and poor Ben was hauled mp
before the church on charge OF using
language unbecominS a Christian aid
member of the church; beside defamlng
the pastor. Ben plead guilty OF the
charge, and admitted that he was al
ways opposed to Harmon's singing in
church, but when he undertook to ma
nopolize his telephone for that purpose,
| it was more than he could stand.
Brother Harmon protested his limo
cence in the matter, and produced wit
nesses that he did not sing in the tele-
phone, but all to purpose. Ben was
cofident twas Harmon's voice. and on
refusal to beg pardon of him, was turn
ed out of the Church.
After the circumstances become gen.
erally known, his chances for Congress
have grown less, as he looses the sup
port of the,church. But still his faith
in bis invention is as mistaken as ever,
and when last heard from he had sent
for Bob Ingeisol's orations to while
awav his leisure moments between the
perfectlng of his telephone and the en-
suing election.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1878-07-25
MISCELLANEOUS.
vEGETINE,
FOR D r Up S Y.
never shall
Forget the First Dose.

MIR. II. r, STEVENS
Dear Sir-I have been a great sufferer from
dropsy. I was confined to my house more than
wear Six months of the time was entirely
helpless. was obliged to have two men heip
me in and out CT he'd. was swollen 10 inches
larger than mf natural size around my waist.
suffered all man could and live. tried all
remedies for dropsy. had three different doc
tors. My friends all expected would die many
nights | was expected to die before morning.
At lst Vegetine was sent me by friend.
never shall forget the ficst dose. could realize
its good effects from day TO day; | was settihg
better. After hal taken some five or SIX bot
ties could sleep quite well nights. began to
gain now quite fast. After taking some ten
bottles, could walk from one part OF my room
to the other. My appetite was good; the dropsy
had at this time disappeared. j kept taking the
Vegetine until | rcgained my usual health.
heard of great many cures by using Vegetlne
after | got out and as able to attend to my
work. | am a carpenter and builder. Will al
so say it has cured an aunt or my wlfes OF neu-
ralgia. who had suffered for more than % years.
She says she has not had neuralgia for eight
months have given it u one of my children
for Clnker Ilumor. | have no doubt in my mind
1t will cure any humor; 1t Is great cleanser of
the blood; it is safe to give ehBa. i VIII se ,
olliM3nd itttD tic world. Ny father is 50 years
Old, and heIsays there is ncthlng like it TO give
strength ann life to an aged person. l cannot
be too thankful ior the use OF IL. | am,
Very truly yours, JOHN S. NOTTAGF.
ALL DISEASES OF THE BLooD-It vegetine will
relieve pain; cleanse, purify and cure such dis
eases, restoring the patient TO perfect health
after trying different PHYSICIANS, many remedies
ana suffering for years, Is 1t not conclusive
p.0of, II you are a sufferer, you can be cured?
Why is this medicine performing such great
cures? IL works i'll the blood, in the circulating
mud. 1t can truly be called the Great Blood
Purifier. The gr at source of disease origin
atcS IN the blood; AMI no medicine that does not
act directly upon it to purify and renoVate, has
any tISt claim upon public attention.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1878-07-25
Vegetiae
Owe Ny Health
70 YOUR VAIUABL e
VEGETTN.E e.

NE"TVhI, MI +fV4 -, Io3'.
MR.U. X. STEvENs:--
Dear Sir-Having suffered from a breaking
out of Cankerous sores for more than five years,
caused by an accident OF fractured bone, which
fracture ran into running sore, and having
used every thing ] could tniuk OF and nothing
helped me, until had taken six bottles of you
valuable medicine which MIR. Miller, the apothe-
cary, recommended very highly. The sixth bot
tie cured me, end all can say, is that owe my
health to your valuable Vegetine.
Your most obedient servant,
ALBERT Won R0EDER.
at is unnecessary for me TO enumerate the
diseases for which Vegetine should he used.
know of no disease which will not admit OF its
use, with good results. Almost hume. able
complaints are caused by poisonous secretion'
in the blood, which can be entirely expelled
the blood is perfectly Cleansed, the disease rap
idly Yields; all cease; heal ny action is promptly
restored, and the patient is cured.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1878-07-25

Low language is used when high
wordsIare spoken. # A h
Who built the engine that propels
the train Of thought2
The tug Of war comes on the harness
of battery wheelhorse-s n aSe is-s ! /.
After returning from funeralsin q
borrowed wagon, the Graplrcs man re-
marks, ''in the midst Of hfes we are in
debt assn ffsy
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1878-07-25

i.'Braz Is treasury is empty Eom
Pedro. old boy, shake; two souls with
out a single cent, twoshearts that long
for tin--but when did yon start pews-
paper?
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1878-07-25

Our ice men have again abandoned
all hopes of securing crop OF ZOE this
winter. Prof. Tice, however, predicts
another cold snap about the middle Of
July.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1878-07-25
~ 3 MccRATH. CHAS. Cunning
McGRATH & CUNNING,
ATTORNEYS ATTAIN,

DHUUhHAFEN ~"I''',
WIN nrac.tce in all the courts of this and adj
joining counties. Special attention given 70
collections.
o hae upstairs in DAILY Building. sepI2o-lyr
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1878-07-25
% U I $ y l. L II
Great Southern
RAjlRCa LINE.

P.TLLMAN PALACE CARS WITHOUT
CHANGE
N'e ran between New Orleans and
J ouisviile, via Milan; Little Rock and
I 0uisNillc. via Memphis; Memphis;
and Nashville, via Mckenzie.
For information about Tickets and
Emj-rant Rates. address,
c. i. Al MORE, Gen. =. & 7. Ag't.
Louisville. Ky
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1878-07-25

Sheep and swine in the orchards are
recommended to exterminate the cod
ling moth.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1878-12-11

For the two years just past, the
State tax aggregated only So cents Oh
the dollar. For the next two years
while tho times are growing harder
and individual expenses have to be
curtailed, the tax is raised to seventy
cents, And yet, so lavish and foolish
were the appropriations of the legis'
lature, that even this largely'increased
sum will not pay the bills. Chairman
Sprague, of the Ways and Means
committee, made tho statement in his
place in the House, that, even il the
aggregate tax was raised to 90 cents,
it would not be sufficient to pay ex-
penses and appropriation, and money
would have to ba borrowed TO bridge
over. AT this rate the people will
soon realize the need OF an Independ.
ent movement throughout the State,
to overturn things Brattleboro Re.
fermer.
The above Is trna nf tho Rnr"li'
can party, but the Independence" OF
our contemporary never aided very
much to bring about different state
of affairs. What you want to do,
brother, is to "git off do fence"
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1878-12-11

RrMARKApLE ESCAPE FROM DRowS,
NG.-Rcv, A, ID, Tatlock, Of Gray
sou county, Kentucky, was recently,
with his wife and child, visiting his
father, . Presby tcrian minister and
President OF King College, Bristol,
Tenn. On his way back by Pound
Gap, in crossing Clinch River at
Rocky Ford, the high waters washed
the horse from his footing and over
turned the buggy. Mr. Tadlock c!ung
to his wife, and she to the child until
it was washed from her arms. lie
was mantully swimming, although on.
tangled in the lines When she
shrieked at the loss of her child, he
succeeded in graspng it and retaining
his hold upon his wife. The horse,
meantime, was partly swimming aud
partly washed down by the current,
dragging the buggy aud the .ntangled
swimmer The lines now proved
their salvation. Reaching slack water
the horse dragged them ashore, the
gallant husband and father still cling
ing to wife and child and managing
TO Keep 'anoat. The cnld was un.
conscious when the shore was reached,
but was revived and suffered no last
ing i'll effects. The buggy was torn
up considerably, but the preacher was
soon ready to return to Bristol for a
new outfit and to be embalmed as the
hero of one of the narrowest escapes
recorded
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1878-12-11

William DOran, q NJ Adams cloth
lug dealer who vas put into bankrupt
oy ia January, 1877, has been sent 10
Burlington Jail because he has seoreat'
ed, and refuses TO pay over 10 his
creditors, ss6sO,
1T was Foster More Of East
Concord who Was fatally shot
while on n hunliag excursion last
week, lIe was ~ years old, The
family are SO fearful that tho young
mans body will be stolen for some
medical purposes that they have burr
ed II near the houE aud watch the
grave night aud day, keeping q light
ed lantern upon tho grave every night,
During the pasI eleven moNths,
according to the Burlington Free Press
l2o death. by Violence occurred
IN Vermont,
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The .WezVS.
GENERAL M VS.,

The California Constitutional Con-
yenlion Is considering the proprlely
If doing away with lheGand jury
system,
Nearly Tour thousand employees
In the big pork packing establishment
at Chicago arc ldle, not because there
Is not work enough 10 do but because
$50 OF them cannot have their wages
raised from s2,75 10 ~ per day
-liey Frederick lipll, formerly OF
Brooklyn, n y, now holding revival
meetings in London, Ii charged with
immoral conduct with u servant Of
the house where hs was guest,
Louis A Cooley. The founder Of
Godeys Ladys Book, aud It's publish
81 aud proprietor until within two
years, died suddenly In Philadelphia
Nov, 20, aged seventy five years,
Robert j liurlcu, the lamou'
Photographer Of tho Burlington Hawk
eye, delivered his lecture on "ThC
Rise aud Fall Of tho Moustachcs" to q
large audience IN fremont Temple
Boston, Wednesday cycnin,f
Texas has shrunk from 275,0OO
square nile TO 20G,G9i, An accural,
remeasurement of tho State Is tho
cause,
Mis- Elizabeth Thompson, the
phiianthropic New York lady. OF
Vermont birth, who gave the money
to send the yellow fever commission
down South has given five hundred
dollars for another commission OF
doctors to investigate the alleged
success OF homeopathic physicians in
treating the fever,
"All writing" says Emerson, SCENES
by the grace Of God All Wil'ary
icllors" will please take notice, and
hold their heads high,
-Calio,nias constitutional con
vcnlion has added to the bill Of rights
the declaration that that state will
stay in the Union forever.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1878-12-11

We suppose that however cool a
reception the Message received from,
the secular press, Its mildness and
gristly commonplace would re ap,
proved by the politico, religious jour.
nails but here is the Christian Union
coming as near dammingit with faint
praise as sheet of that kind can ap.
proach damn, for it says: "The
Presidents message will excite neither
rancord nor enthusiasm. 1t is no ban
ner to be riddled by enemies or to
rally friends. The country waited
for a ringing declaration, 1t listened to
voice of courteous persuasion it
asked for a trumpet, it received flute.
One looks in vain for single electric
sectence like that of Lincoln's sGov-
eminent of the people by the people
for the people shall not perish from
the EARTH Poor Rutherford /! Ap.
parently there are none left friendly
enough to do him any reverence.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1878-12-11

Now for another howl from the
bloody shirt organs Colored Con
gresham Smalls OF south Carolina, II
soon 10 be summoned home from
Washington TO begin u lhreeycars
residence In tho State penilenllary,
The fact that 10 was convicted OF no.
ccptlug bride on the nth Of Noyem'
Der, 1877, aud that his case has been
appealed 10 the supreme court aud
fought to tho very last resort, will
make little difference with Republican
editors, II Il always persecution IN
their eyes to punish these fellows Tor
their chimes, Carlozc, the OK State
treasurer who was convicted ut the
same time OF conspiracy to deilaud
tho State, and sentenced to two years
in the county Jail aud a fine Of $4,000,
Is in the sane box, his appeal having
also been dismissed, Il liattlcboro
Rciormcr,
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NEW HAMPSHIRE.

Exeter has n daily paper about
the size Of small pocket.hand-
kerchief
The women were allowed TO
vote on the lager beer option question
at Plymouth the other day, and the
sale Of the liquor was prohibited by .
vote OF three to one.
"A J Ridley, former resident OF
Great Falls, was found dead at Nor.
folk, Va, after spree.
Joseph Degerelon married at st.
Poscolle, p O., fifty years ago, and
after living with his first wife twenty
years and having four children born
to him, he eloped with another woman
and moved to Lebanon. The couple
lived together till recently when the
woman died and Degerelen went to
Nashua. While there his first wife
learned of him, and sent one of his
children, q man as years old with as.
surance Of her forgiveness, and now
after a long separation, the old man is
going back to his first love and for.
mer friend.
The Littleton woollen mill, owned
by Jordan Marsh g. Go. of Boston,
and which has been laying idle for
several years, was sold on Friday to
Ira Parker & Co. glove manufacturers
of Lltleton, for $1,000 cash. The
purchase includes mill, machinery,
water privilege, clearinghouse, two
acres OF land, at mill and G5 acres of
woodland about two miles from the
village. Jordan Marsh q Co. bought
the property in 1862 tor $4,000, and
used it for the manufacture of woolen
blankets until about 1870.
Mrs Sarah Clement, mother of the
late proprietor of the Mousilauk
House. at Warren, died on Saturday
at the age of nearly one hundred
years.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1878-12-11
. VERMONT.

-Ninty three carloads of hogs
passed st. Adams Sunday and Mon
day, December LIST and I'd.
Mrs Geo b Richardson, of Bur.
lington, slipped ON nail which ran
into to her loot, the 2sth. and taking
cold died of lockjaw Saturday.
"A rock weighing several tons fell
in the Vershire copper mines at
Ely Wednesday. killing an English
man and probably fatally crushing
John Bitters, another employee, while a
man named Faid was considerably
hurt.
The death of Mrs Bridget Cleary
of Burlington, who received help from
the city and was supposed to be very
poor, has just developed the fact that
she had $1,000 IN city bank, mort
gage on fifty acres of land in Belsidere
and other property.
The meanest man in the State
is said to have just returned to Will
Jamestown from the West Several
years ago he seduced young woman
under promise of marriage, and then
persuaded her to commit suicide was
the best thing for them both. After she
had cut her throat, however, he sneaked
out OF his part Of the agreement, but
she lived long enough to expose the
william.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1878-12-11

PETERsoN's MAGAZINE is already on
our table for January, Il triumph of
art, literature, and fashion. Either of
the two steel engrav,ngs "The Play
nates,' or "The Letter at the Gate"
is worth the price of tie number.
Then the treble-sized colored pattern,
persian Embroidery in Applique,
&c. the very newest thing out,
would be cheap at fifty cents. There
is supplement, with full-slze pat
tern for Winter Mantilla, the very
latest style. To praise the stories in
peterson is unnecessary. The price
is only two dollars a year. To clubs
1t is cheaper still. Address Charles j.
Peterson, 3O6 Chestnut Street, Phila.
delphia, Pa. Now is the time to sub
scribe.
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Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1878-12-11

C. L. Folsom of Dover, N H.,
has been appointed to postal clerk
ship on the line between North Con.
xay and Boston, and among his ell.
dorsers as an applicant vas Senator
Rollins.