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St. Landry democrat., 1878-03-30
Pulyeriization Of the Soil

The average returnsof cultivated crops
may be largely increased by thorough
authorization of the soil, because the
more a soil is pulverized, and the greater
the state of division in which its parts
are, the greater is its absorbent power.
The action of the hoe increases the
attraction for moisture, encourages the
circulation of the atmospheric and
nutritive gases, and thus, be the soil what
it may, adds to its fertility. By the
mechanical operations of agriculture, we
divide and renew the surface, and en-.
deavor to make every atom of the soil
accessible to the action of the carbonic
acid and oxygen Of the atmosphere. In
this way we distribute the excess Of
mineral food found at one spot to others
in which it fails, and thus enable new
generation of plants to find everywhere
the materials which are indispensable to
their growth and prosperity.
The pulverization of the soil by plow-
ing, grubbing, narrowing, rolling, hoeing,
mellowing, and other operations, is a
main department of agricultural labor,
and one which is far too much neglected
by a majority OF farmers. While tillage
cannot practically be offered as a
substitute for manure, yet it quadruples
the effectiveness of the latter. Every time
the earth is broken by any sort of till
age or division, there must arise some
new superfces of the broken parts which
never has been open before. Fibrous
roots, which alone maintain the plant,
can take in no nourishment from any
cavity, hence the necessity of so pulver-
izing the soil that each particle can be
reached by the roots. The finer the soil,
the richer will it become and the more
plants will it maintain.
Successful cultivation can only be
maintained by the intermixing of air
with the soil. The presence and circu-
lation of the air in the soil, in as many
minute streams and as large aggregate
quantities as possible, is important to
free and luxuriant vegetation. The
grand means of efIecting sucl aeration
are such as maintain the porosity of the
soil. Air is thus supplied, however, not
only In a direct manner by the atmos'
phere, but indirectly and quite as neces-
sarily and efficiently by water. The fine
parts of the earth are impregnated
throughout their whole substance with
the riches contained in dews and gentle
showers, and in such soils the most weak
and tender roots have free passage to the
utmost extent, and have also an equal
pressure, everywhere giving the needed
contact with the minute PARTICLES OF
earth. The subject of the thorough
pulverization of the soil demands in
creased attention from every practical
agriculturalist.- American Cultivator.
St. Landry democrat., 1878-03-30
Hope for the Republic.

Ralph Waldo Emerson lectured in
Boston, Tuesday night, on the " Future
of the Republic" concluding as follows:
o. Young men must not be idealists alone,
but must have ideas. They must not be
dazzled or sun blind, but must have
glimmer enough to keep from knocking
their heads against the wall. We want
men of originality who can also take in
the interests of the race and Of civiliza-
tion. They must be able to take
forward step. Columbus was not back
feeling crab, nor was Luther, John
Adams, Patrick Henry or Thomas Jefer-
son. The genius of America is not slug
gard; it is an incessant advance. Our
civilization is yet incomplete. lis not a
question of whether there will be large
number of people here---that is settled
but whether we shall be new nation, a
guide and law giver for other nations.
To buy and import much goods from
England and France does not make us
better men. Every town and village
has its fashions and college from Eng
land. America is provincial. 1t is an
immense Halifax. Our politics threaten
England, and her manners threaten us.
Our tendency is to make all alike and
extinguish the individual. The builders
of London give you your houses and the
Bishop Of London your faith. And we
find that the passion for Europe casts
out the passion for America. Those who
support houses in Paris and London can
be spared to 90 there and liye.
The new times need the new men. The
complemental morality is the object Of
government. We want state of things
in which crime will not pay; state
which allows every man the largest
liberty compatible with the liberty of
every other man. hope America will
come to have its pride in being nation
of servants, not OF served. The helm is
given to better guidance than. our
own, and ! have much faith in the future.
feel that in all directions the light is
breaking; that trade and government will
not lose by the overthrow of the enc
mics of mankind; that the useful and
the elegant will be exercised with us as q
nation; that reason, the noblest and
purest religion, viii find their abiding
home in our institutions.
St. Landry democrat., 1878-03-30
Why Wheat Soil Fails.

In the course of q sensible article on
the uses of wheat-straw, Mr.. L. A.
Hansen, Of Mississippi, remarks:
have also lately read several articles
on wheat culture, and among others, the
extracts from the report Of the commits
sioner Of agriculture for the state Of
Tennessee. The average production is
given as from five to seven bushels per
acre, with exceptional yields of as high
az forty bushels. Does this not give
material for serious thoughts Although
we will presume that many may have
aown wheat on roll not properly adapted
to Iwheat, there can BE- no doubt that
these low averages have largely been
produced on soil which naturally is
wheat soil. If this supposition is cor
rect, wherein lies the fault? / have no
hesitation in saying that those fields
(the majority Of them) have been crop.
ped with wheat year after year for gen
erations, without receiving the proper
amount of manure, and that the straw
has been stacked and burned in the
field to get rid of it. My reason
beliving this to be the fact in
Tennessee is because I have seen
that practice indulged in year after year
In other states. In those states thirty
years ago, wheat would average from
twenty to thirty bushels per acre, al
though the preparation Of the ground was
greatly deficient.
10 illustrate this, will mention that
have seen wheat sowed from horseback,
because the weeds were so thick and high
that man ON foot could not have dis.
tributed the seeds at all After thresh.
ing, the straw was burned, and new
cropsf wheat sowed. So they have gone
on ever since then, until the same soil
to-day will not return ENOUGH to nav fo,
seed and labor. Thst is the reason vhv
our wheat lands il general dc not pro.
duoe mere than from five TO ten bushels
per acre, where they otherwise, If ma.
nured properly and rotated, would have
increased in yield.
/ know Of . grain-growing country in
Europe where forty years ago the aver
age yield of wheat was not above twelve
buahelsper acre, and to-day, according e
St. Landry democrat., 1878-03-30
Negro Emigration to Liberia.

The Liberian Exodus steamship COM
pany of Charleston, S. c., has purchased
of Samuel W. Dabney for the sum of
$3.50 the barque Azol, four hundred
and twelve tons burden, which now lies
at Fixes wharf, and is taking in gene
raj cargo of stores and provisions for the
first party o. colored emigrants coon to
sail from Charleston to Monrovia. Liberia.
The vessel, which, during the rebellion
was called the Fredonis," and sailed
under the British flag, is the same which
was once commanded by Capt. Burke,
who threw overheard cargo of fruit,
while On voyage from Faval, in order
to make room for the crew and passen-
gers of a shipwrscked vessel. She is a
stauneh and fast sailing craft, and has
been fitted up with accommodations for
two hundred emigrants. The voyage
from Charleston to Monrovia will occupy
about twenty-five days. One OF the
leaders of the enterprise, Rev. A. F. Por>
ter, president Of the company, is in this
city experimenting the dispatch Of
the vessel. The movement, indepen-
dent Of all other colonization schemes,
finds support and material aid not only
in the Palmetto State. but throughout the
south, and sufficient encouragement has
been received to induce the company &c
enter into negotiations for the purchase
of one or two steamers of large capacity
to carry out this scheme of emigration
to Africa. The company was organized
in September last and duly chartered
under the laws OF South Carolina fel
St. Landry democrat., 1878-03-30

Mothers Mothersi I! Mothers II! !! Don't fail to
procure Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup for all
diseases incident to the period of teething in
children. It relieves the child from pain. cures
wind collie, regulates the bowels, and by giving
relief and health to the child, gives rest to the
mother. It is an old and well tried remedy.
St. Landry democrat., 1878-03-30

The Greasesi Discovery of the Age
Is DIR. Tobias celebrated Venetian Liriment
30 years before the public, and warranted to cure
Diarrhea, Dysentery. Collie, and spasms, taken in
ternally and Group, Chronic Rheumatism, Sore
Limbs, Back aud Chest, externally. 1t has never
failed y @ family will ever he without it after
giving it q fair trial. Price, 40 cts DR.. 1OBIAS'
at One Dollar, is warranted superior to any other or
NO PAY, for the cure of Collie Cuts, Bruises Old
Sores, etc. Sold by all Druggists. Depot 10 Park
Plat New York.
St. Landry democrat., 1878-03-30
/. An old darkey who was asked if, in

An old darkey who was asked If, in
his experience, prayer was ever answered,
replied: well, sab, some pra'rs is ansud
an some isn't; 'pends on what you axes
TO-. Jest arter the wah, when it was
mighty hard scratchin' fo' the cullud
breddsrn, | Observed that when ebber
pway de Lo'd to sem one O. Marse Pew
toms tat turkeys for de ole man, dere was
NO notice took of do partition but when
/ pway dat he would sem de ole man fo'
do turkey, de matter was tended to be.
10 aunup mex mornin', dead sartin!''
St. Landry democrat., 1878-03-30

published statistics, the average yield is
thirtv.two bushels per acre. High cul>
ture, iudicious manuring and proper
rotation have worked this result. Why
not follow this example? ? They have
increased the Weld of wheat from twelve
to thirty-two bushels per acre, and we,
in the same time, have decreased this
Weld from thirty to seven.
St. Landry democrat., 1878-03-30

THERE are probably a hundred or
more persons in this and neighboring towns
who daily suffer from the distressing effects
of kidney troubles, who do not know that
Johnsons Anodyne Liniment is almost q
certain cure. In severe cases, great relief
may be obtained, If not . perfect cure.
St. Landry democrat., 1878-03-30
FRa@s, EssAsanpan W.

Is it true economy to use cheap, adulter-
ated baking powder, which is highly injuri-
Gus to health, merely because it is cheap ?
Common sense and experience say no !
DooLEY's YEAST POWDER, which has been
we'll known for twenty years as an absolutely
pure, wholesome, and in every respect reli-
able article, is within the reach of all those
who practice true economy in this respect.
St. Landry democrat., 1878-03-30

MANY suns go down while it is yet
noon, and many life goes to an early gave
which would have been spared many years
had they but known of the curative powers
OF HOME STOMACH BITTERs. Prepared by
the Home Bitters Co., st. Louis, Mo.
St. Landry democrat., 1878-03-30

WE notice that agricultural newspa-
pers all over the country are now exposing
the worthlessness OF the large packages Of
horse and cattle powders. We put the ball
in motion and claim the credit of it. sheri-
dams Powders are absolutely pure and are
the only kind worth haying.
St. Landry democrat., 1878-03-30
SANDAL

4 positive ,smsdy for all diseases ofths Kadne y,
Bladder aud Urinary Organs; also good for
zsropsaeal CompIaSnts. 1t never proSucessick-
cess, 10 certain and speedy in its sction. II Is
fast supersedne every other remedy. Sixty capsules
cure in sig or eight days. No other medicine can
do this .--.. -.a-. ..y.. g-
Beware Of anzSGsssieass, tor, owing to its gre 4
SUCCESS, many have BEEN offered some most
dangerous. causing piles, etc.
DassdGs, Dick ID Co.'S Genuine sof Cap
suiss containing Oil oil Sandalwood. sold OF ali drug
stores Ask for circular send for oDa to IS and 81
Wooster street, New York,
St. Landry democrat., 1878-03-30
At this season of the
,@ Al
Simmons Liver Regulator,

Skznxnons' Liver Resulstor has been in use
for half century, and there is not one single in
stance on record where it has failed t. effect cure
when taken III time. according to the directions
1t ia without doubt the Grea test Itver Mesaa-
ci iss ahe Vyor Id; is perfectly harmless being
carefully compounded from rare roots and herbs,
containing no mercury or any furious mineral
substance 1t takes the place OF qainine aud Gallo
mel and has superseded these medicines in places
where they have heretofore been extensively used.
Procure a bottle at once from your druggist; do
nctdeay; give it q fair trial. and YOU Will be more
than satisfied W ith the result obtained.
The daily intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Territory [i.e. Wash.]) 1876-1881, 1878-07-10

that could feel the palpable darkness.
and as the hours dragged it's slow
length along l began to realize the
word eternity. Ny brain was again
becoming benumbed with the terrible
pressure, when slight, almost impar.
ceptible rustic close tesiie me, restored
my self-posession.
The next moment a hot breath
seemed to scorch my face. and sim
ultaneous with loud thud, which re-
sounded from Jacks body, | drove nv
revolver against the form above me and
fired.
Then my overstrained sense gave
way, and | knew nothing more.
NV eyes opened on blaze OF light
a half dozen of candles illuminating
the tent In every part, and was sur
rounded by lot of miners, whose
scanned faces expressed sympathy and
commiserasion. Then came with
rush the flow of recollection-the mid
night assassin. the probable murder of
Jack, and the pistol shot in the dark
Rising to my feet saw stretched
on the ground before me. where he
had fallen, the body of Claud Devries
stone dead, small oriice in his fore
head marked the entrance Of the lead
en- messenger
Scarcely glancing at the stiffened
corpse, with its petrified scowl of death
agony, stepped to the entrance of the
tent. and. alas my great fear was con.
firmed-for there reposed on a rudely
constructed bier all that was mortal of
Jack Hood, my old mining chum and
partner. The newly risen moon bath
ed the pallid features iniia silver flood
of light and besutified even that rough
unshaven face, which had alway. in
life wore kindly expression.
The rest is soon told OF course
Devries must have overheard our plan
to apprehend him. and so determined
to put an effectusl end to it. The
boys, alarmed at the pistol shot, had
found him dying, and his knife sheath
ed for second time in the body of
Jack. They always believed that Dew
ries was melted to the deed by the
hope of plumber, and l did not en-
Tighten them.
And these whitened locks and pre-
maturely aged feature safest my life
long sorrow and remorse that / ever
sought that $4,000 reward.
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THE GREATEST WHEAT CROP
YET.

To the Editor OF The iSun-SR: The
greatest wheat crop ever raised in the
United States is now heading ou all
over the West. The winter wheat crop
IN acreage and yield will be fully third
larger than ever before raised in the
United States. The standing crop is
universally good. I have looked at the
growing wheat fields within the last ten
days, from Cairo to Chicago, and from
Pittsburgh to Dss Moines, and I have
not seen bad piece of wheat. In each
section I visit everybody is wondering if
it is possible for the wheat to be as good
in other sections as in theirs. When /
tell the farmers THAI the wheat is as good
in one place as in another, they all say:
"Ihen wheat will go to sixty cents a
bushel after harvest"
Wheat harvesting will commence in
about six days in Texas. The heads. I
am told by travelling Texans, are now
yellow and almost ready for the reaper.
In five weeks (by June pa, whea. in
Kansas and Southern Illinois and Indi-
ana will be harvested, and by July the
reaper5 will have finished in Illinois.
Iowa, Wisconsin, and Michigan.
The only danger now is that the too
rank growth of the stock will lodge the
wheat and cause it to decay before har-
vasting. 1t is thought that no insect can
trouble it. Nothing but hurricanes and
great storms of rain and hail can hurtthe
growing crops.
The crop is twenty-five days earlier
than usual. 1t is heading out as far
north as the line of Fort Wayne, Rock
Island, and Dss Moines.
Spring wheat also looks well, but it is
yet too early to speculate about it. At
least half more spring wheat than usual
is sown.
A Chicago wheat man said to me to-
day, "Wheat will drop to 60 cents in
Minnesota this fall, So cents in New
York, and / believe We will be able to
lay it down in Liverpool at close to 81 a
bushel.''
If American wheat can be laid down in
Liverpool at 81 bushel, it will ruin the
English farmer, who expects to sell
wheat made on land worth 5000 per acre.
Five-dollar wheat lands in America, cul-
tivated in large tracts, will ruin 5000
wheat land in England and Germany,
cultivated in small tracts.
ELI PERKINS.
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COUNCIL PROCEEDINGS.

Board met pursuant to adjournment.
Mayor Schuette in the clair. Roll call,
all the members present except KuhL
Minutes of the last meeting read aud APP
proved. Petition of Jere Daley and
others to remove nuisance on Ninth
street, LIST ward, was referred to the CON-
mittee on sanitary affairs.
Petition of II. Stoke to purchase a
part of the land known as the cemetery
grounds, was referred to the committee
on Public improvements Petition of
John Sachs and others of the village of
Centerville, to purchase the Torrent
Engine and hose cart" was referred to
the committee on Fire and Water.
Petition OF Carl Fl. Schmidt and others
asking for the appointment of police
man for the Bird ward, was on motion
laid on the table.
Official oaths of C. E. Ertz, surveyor,
and II. Morrison, street commissioner,
were fled.
The following accounts were received
f
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IN PROBATE.-MANTrOW co COURT.
i In the matter OF the estate OF Henry I. Belitz
deceased On reading and filing the petition of
Helene Beiltz, OF SGhleswig. in said county. rep
resentlng among other things that Henry 7. ReliJz
late OF SAID county on the 3lst day OF March a. d..
1878 atthe town of Schleswig in said county, died
intestafe leaving goods, chattels and estate with
IN this state anu That the said petitioner IS the
widow oi said deceased, aud PRAYING that admin
lstraton OF said estate lee 10 r. Sehichting of
Chiffon, Calumet county. Wis granted. ii is order
cd that said petition be heard before the Judge of
this Court, on Monday. the Srd day of June a. d .
1873, al 10 q cioeS a. n, at my office in said
county.
Ordered further, that notice thereof be given 10
the heirs of said deceased and to ali persons
Interested ny publishing copy OF this order for
three successive weeks prior TO said day of hear
Ing. IN the ManiIowoc PILpT weekly newspaper
published al Manitowoc in said county.
MICHAEL kIRWAN, County Judge
Dated al Manitowoc, the Sth day of May. a. d.,
ISIS. Sy-eX-Inay2S
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DanYille, Ind, May Ii.


THE sentimental morality of the good
people of Rockford ILL., is outraged by the
esthetic fancy of the architect of the
splendid courthouse which is an adorn-
ment to that city. Some figures in las
relief which embellish the semi dome are
too natural, too much like the Venus de
-Hedici in nudity if not in excellence of
execution, to suit the fastidious tastes of
the excessively modest community. They
are inspired with the same aversion to
fidelity to nature in sculpture, that early
christians were to the artistic work of
heathens, and threaten to revive the ICON
oclastic era. They first tried the ''lewd
picture" ordinance but the grand iulysa
down on it. They then resorted to Mead
Holmes and that reverend gentlemen
sought to apply the remedy of petition
which is one OF the personal rights usu-
ally granted by state constitutions. This
also failed and the much abused citizens
are now restricted to the satisfaction
which may be.dervied from ''good mouth
filling oaths." Rockford will certainly
be the new Jerusalem.
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First publication May 16, 1871 No


IN PR0BATE-MAnITowoC COUNTY COURT. In
/ the matter of the Guardianship of the minor
heir ofCharles Liersch deceased.
on reading and filing the petition of John F.
Liersch, guardian of said minors, representing
among other thing, that they the said wards arr.
seized OF certain real estate in said Manitow oc
County and that il is necessary that all the same
should be sold and praying for license TO sell the
same and il appearing TO the court from said petit
ton that il is necessary and fol the best advantage
for said minors to sell said real estate il is ordered
and directed that the next of kin To said wards.
and all persons interested in said estate appear
before me, Monday, the seventeenth day Of
June, a. d., 1873 at ten o'clock a. m, at the Pro
bate Office in said county. then and there TO show
cause Of any there bel why license should not be
granted for the sale OF said real estate, according
TO the prayer of said petition.
And il is further ordered, that q copy of this
order shall be published for four successive weeks
prior 10 said day OF hearing in The Mantowoc Pilot,
a weekly newspaper printed AT Munitowoc,i in said
county.
MICHAEL KIRWAN, County Judge.
Dated ut MamtOwOc, the 18Th day of May, II. d.
Franz u Treat. eX-Junc-6 4w.
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lFirst Publication MAY 18th. 1s,sA No. 5:


IN ROBATE.-MANIT0WOC co. COURT.
( In the matter of the estate of Joseph Wadcek,
deceased. On reading and filing the petition of
MARY Wadcvk. widow Of deceased, representing
among other things that Joseph Nadcek, late of
Franklin in said County on the 18th day of April,
\. d. ISIS. at Franklin aforesaid, did interstate,
leaving goods chattels and estate within this state
and that the said petitioner is the widow of said
deceased. and PRAYING that administration Of said
estate be 10 Joseph Nowck granted. il Is ordered
that said petition be heard before the Judge OF this
Court. on Monday, -" 10th day OF June, A. ID.
1873. at 10 o'clock NJ ~ Office in said county
Ordered further. that notice thereof be given In
the heirs of said deceased and to all persons Ia
teresIed. by publishing Il copy Of this order for
three successive weeks. prior TO said day OF hear
ing. in the MASrTowoC PILor weekly newspaper
published al ManitowOc in said county.
MICHAEL hIRWAN, County Judge.
Dated the 18th day of May, A. ID. 1873.
J. ID. Markham eX-may3}-3w
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CITY CLERKS OFFICE

CITY CLERKS OFFICE,
Manitowoc. Wis, May %, 1873.
NTHEREAS. AT y REGULAR MEETING OF
w the Board of Aldermen of the city OF Man
itowoc. held on the 10Th day of May 1873, a petit
ton was granted for the building of q sidewalk on
the north side of Jay street, between Ninth and
Tenth streets.
Notice is hereby given, that owners of lots on
the north side of Jay street, between Ninth and
Tenth streets, in the city of Mantowoc, direct
ed to build good and substantial sidewalk on said
north side of said street to be completed within
80 days from the date of this notice. Said sidewalk
is to be not less than five feet wide, of sound two
inch plank, with curb plank. and be built the
established grade Of said jaw street between Ninth
and Tenth streets according to the record in the
office Of the City Clerk.
GEO. HAGEN,
may-2}4W Street Com. 1st District.