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The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1878-09-05
DIBRELL'S PACKED
CONVENTION!

The "Cabbage Seed" Congress
man RenomiDaied!
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1878-09-05

lis own obligations.
The Nashville platform
" insists flat the financial
n shall be temporarily laid on
plf. The Tennessee Democra-
pIe lofty aud patriotic ideas con-
ecrning the confinement Of the Ma
tionol Government to constitutional
limits, but none whatever as to the
payment of the interest on Tennessee
bonds. The platform plaintively re-
marks, however, that these differen-
ccs of opinion afford no just occasion
for disturbing that unity which IS SO
essential to the complete success OF
the party in its great struggle for
the liberation of the country This
is noply true; it is a patriotic self
sacrifice. The Democracy, generally
speaking, will offer State homes ty on
The altar Of liberty. 1t will be inor'
dinarily virtuous in a large way
while States and counties are impair
italy robbcd.-N. y Times.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1878-09-05

force Of arms and with muT''VIO''' Vi
war to suppress the playful attempts
at rebellion ia which tie tennessee
St. Landry democrat., 1878-07-13
ssThis Animated Miasma.'

What a patient, long suffering people
we are. Is there nation born of man
on Gods foot stool that would submit
as we do to a car peddler? Would not
any other people rise in its wrath, from
behind barricades, and crying a bas le
! scoundrel elevate him to lamp~post?
One is seated in the car-some asses call
| it coach because it is rot coach--say
| an invalid, one threatened with Bright's
| disease, not in the brain, but the kidneys,
and the fiend enters. He is armed with
weekly journals that turn ones stomach
in the mere sight of them. They are
! edited emetics. He thrusts one or two
upon you. You are expected meekiy to
hold the nauseous things until his re-
turn. He comes back on a charge, a
charge of ten cents. You decline invest
ing in weekly wash-tub. He scowls at
you and disappears.
In ten minutes he reappears with
: books. Holy Moses, what books! "Eliz,
abeth Tiiton's Latest Confession"
Vanderbilt's Posthumous Filth"
"The Black Avenger of the Spanish
Main" "The Red Rover OF the Sierra
Nevadas," "Confessions of Bigamous
Abductor," Brigham Young Behind
the scenes-illustrated." Bad books,
dreary-good books, very dreary. He
thrusts them under your nose. He
leaves several on your knees. He adds
insult to injury by asking you again, on
his Infamous return, to purchase. He
is gone.
You are dropping into doze and are
startled into life of misery by cry of
gum drops. What horrible inspiration
of Satan originated that nauseous com.
pound; what yet more satanic invention
gave that name-gums Swollen infam-
nation, shooting pains, lancet and pull
likens, start up, and drops, not gum, but
of perspiration, start out.
At intervals during the day the fend
reappears. He never gives you a rest.
Now it is rotten figs in boxes, oecayed
dates, hard apples and horrible oranges,
cream candy and maple sugar.
The smoke and cinders, the confined
air and the unconfned yeIls of sick
St. Landry democrat., 1878-07-13
Egyptian Cotton.

New Orleans Picayune: For some
time past DR.. Armand MERCER, president,
| and the members of the Louisiana Ath-
eneum, have made strenuous efforts to in
troduce in the south the Egyptian
"Bamiah'' cotton. Last year CORE
spondence with Judge Morgan, now in
Egypt, was entered into. Judge Nor
gan. in reply to the inquiries of DR..
MERCER, sent him samples of the cotton
and quite quantity of the seed. The
samples were at the time submitted to
Messrs. Christ and Melleur, the experts
of the cotton exchange, who pronounced
the cotton OF superior quality. The
seed was Immediately distributed among
number of planters, who undertook to
cultivate them. The efforts of the Ath
eneum are this year crowded with un-
questioned success. Among the persons
in the immediate vicinity of the city to
whom seed were distributed, are the
Messrs. Cavaroc, below the city, and Mr..
Fendel Horn, on St. Charles street.
Mr.. Cavroc has planted one acre of the
seed, and the plant on his place has
improved wonderfully, promising splen-
did crop. At Mr.. Fendel Horns resi-
dence, on St. Charles street, the seed
which he has planted has acquired for
the season wonderful proportions. The
seed was sown on the sixth of April last
and one of the plants bloomed on the first
Of June. The flower is of a brilliant
yellow, with a beautiful red tinge at the
base of the petals. Contrary to the
flower OF the ordinary cotton, which
gradually fades, the flower of the b.
miah preserved its bright yellow color
until it persisted and fell to the ground.
One of the plants has already attained
the hight of four feet, and another three
feet six inches, and are daily growing
rapidly. In the state of Mississippi, at
Bay St. Louis, Mr.. Tulman sowed about
the same time one hundred plants, which
are all very promising, and already the
bolls are forming Indeed, much is due
to the lndefatigable energy of DR.. Mer-
cier in introducing into our state a
species of cotton which, while being as
easily cultivated as the other, yields
more On the same quantity Of land, and
ommands better price in the market.
St. Landry democrat., 1878-07-13

chest. He did not know at the time, til
| told him, that they were good for any
thing else.
| PLAIN New England cookies; One CUP
and a half of sugar mixed with one-halt
cupof butter, and halt nutmeg, or les:
[ if you like; dissolve a teaspoonful OF
saleratus in spoonful of water, which
should be strained, and enough more
-four to enable you to roll the dough out
easily; if very stiff, they will not be
good; -four the board and roller; have
the dough about half an inch thick !;
cut it into small cakes, and stamp them,
if you like; bake them on buttered tins,
in hot oven. These are very nice and
light, if this receipt is followed.
NEURALGIA AND RHEUMATIsM.-A
very simple relief for neuralgia is to boil
small handful of lobelia in a half pint
of water till the strength is out of the
herb, then strain it off and add tea
spoonful of fine salt. Wiring cloths out
of the liquid as hot as possible, and
spread over the part affected. It acts
like charm. Change the cloths as soon
as cold, till the pain is all gone; then
cover the place over, so as to prevent
taking cold. Rheumatism can often be
relieved by application to the painful
parts of cloths wet in a solution of sal
soda in water. If there is inflammation
in the joints. the cure is very quick ; the
wash needs to be lukewarm.
St. Landry democrat., 1878-07-13
Stranger Than Fiction

A fortnight ago Thomas Lynn was as
sailed in lonely spot near New York,
by boy, who demanded his money and,
upon his refusal, fired at him three times
the bullets happily being turned aside
by memorandum book and suspender
buckle. The boy who come SO near be-
ing a murderer, and two companions
who watched but did not take part in
the assault, have been captured, and
tell dramatic story. Incited by read
ing dime novels, they had get out with
the firm purpose to become highway
men. Lynn was their first victim. They
were armed with seven. barreled revol-
vers, clubs and knives, and intended TO
go TO Texas when they had gotten money
for their passage by highway jobs at
home. After Lynn's escape, finding
St. Landry democrat., 1878-07-13
THE FUTURE LIFE.
BY THE LATE WILLIAM CULLEN BRYAN.

How shall know thee in the sphere which keeps
The disem bodied splrits of the adj
When all Of thee that time could sitheI sleeps
And perishes among the dust We tread?
For shall feel the sting OF ceaseless yajn
Ii there meet thy gentle presence not,
Nor hear the voice love- nor read again
In thy serenest eyes the tender thought
VIII not thy own meek heart demand me there
That heart whose fondest thIobs to me were given
My name on earth was ever in thy prayer,
And wilt thou never utter it in Heaven
The love that lived through all the stormy past,
And meekly with my harsher nature bore,
And deeper grew aud tenderer, to the last,
Shall 1t expire with life and be moreY
A happier lot than mine, and larger light,
Await thee there; for thou hast bowed thy will
In cbeerful homage TO the rule Of right,
And lowest all, and renderest good for ill.
Yet, though thou wearest the glory of the SKY,
wilt thou keep the same eloved name.
The same fair. thoughtful brow, and gentle eye
Lovelier in Heaven sweet climate yet the same
Shalt thou not teach me in that calmer home,
The wisdom that learnt so Ill in this
The wisdom which Is love--tilI become
Thy fit companion In that land of bliss?I
St. Landry democrat., 1878-07-13

babies, the man who masticates tobacco
! and the horrible creature that hawks and
splits, are one and all bad enough, but the
peddllng boy is the browning misery. 1t
Is Anthony Comstock OF obscure fame,
Plg-iron Kelley, Dodger Dawes, 'cut into
little pieces and distributed along trains.
Have We not an amended constitution
and moral law? Have we not an
agricultural bureau and John Sherr an =?
Are they not misery enough, without
this animated miasma, the peddlipg
hend on passenger cars p Washington
Capital
St. Landry democrat., 1878-07-13

WILHoFT's FEVER AND AGUE Tonic.
This medicine is used by construction
companies for the benefit of their employees,
when engaged in malarial districts. The
highest testimonials have been given by con.
tractors and by the Presidents of some of
the leading railroads in the South and West.
When men are congregated in large num-
bers in the neighborhood OF swsmps and
rivers, Wilhoft's Tonic will prove valuable
addition to the stock Of medicines, and will
amply reward the company in the saving OF
time, labor and money. We recommend it
to all. WHEELoCK, FlNLAY & Co., Propri~
etors, New Orleans.
For sale by all Druggists.
St. Landry democrat., 1878-07-13
improvements in Bal,Oonino

IN recent paper in LAeronsutc, Col.
Lausedat gives the results of experi-
ments made by commission appointed
By the French minister of war, For
captive balloons it is absolutely necessary
to employ the best silk and cordage,
which, with the least weight, offers the
greatest guarantee of durability. After
much research special varnish has been
found which renders the aerostat imper.
meable 10 gas. Instead of numerous
ropes held by men as in former military
oalloonlng, single cable has been
adopted to work by simple but secure
capstan. Captain Renard has discovered
rapid and economical new process OF
manufacturing hydrogen. For postal
balloons Captain Renard also has devised
secure and easily worked valve. A
liquid instead of & solid ballast has been
resolved on, and fluid is being sought
which will not CONCEAL in the low tenn
peratures of the upper atmosphere. The
valve and the ballast may work auto
matically and maintain the balloon at any
given leight. Among the methods of
stopping tie balloon experimental on
are the javelin anchor Of Meusnier and a
sort OF iron arrow devised by Captain De
Ia Haye. For directable balloons the
principles which guided Dupuy de LONE
have, for the most part, been adopted by
the commission. The experimenter
found that with an engine of eight horse~
power turning a screw he could deviate
from the direction of the wind by a
considerable angle with ordinary winds,
and even travel, with reference to the
earth, in all directions which it would
be wished to follow. The commission,
however, instead of placing the screw in
the car, at great distance from the
point of application of resistance of the
air, have constructed the balloon 80 that
the screw may work in the very centre Of
the aerostat.
St. Landry democrat., 1878-07-13

STICK HALL.>One ofthe most charming
halls for concerts in New York city is the
Justly celebrated Steck Hall No. II f. 14th st.
The seating capacity is about 500, and the
acoustic properties of the building are SO ex-
cellent that they surrass those of any other
similar establishment Connected with this
hall are the warerooms of the renowned Steck
pianos, the manufacture of which was started
a quarter of a century ago by Mr.. Geo. Steck
These instruments are unrivaled for tone and
durability, and have taken the first prize at
the Vienna exhibition in 1873, and at Phila.
in 1876. The firm in full sympathy with the
times offer intending purchasers every pos
si5le inGucement as to prices and terms.
St. Landry democrat., 1878-07-13

they were unsupported, the 1G-year trio
went on the road again, and, by their
queer actions, aroused the suspicious of
policemen, who 'took them in" Balds-
meeder, who shot Lynn, had practiced
at target until he was an expert, and
killed many dog to show how we'll he
could shoot. He is now in Jail awaiting
St. Landry democrat., 1878-07-13
FARM AND HOME.
Hungarian Grass.

hungarian GfdSS
Several years ago | tried the expert
ment of raising Hungarian for grass
crop for winter feeding, and 30 satisfac
tory were the results, to me, I have
raised several acres yearly since. There
were many objections offered, the exhaust
i've character of the grass upon the soil
and the extra labor to properly secure
the crop, etc., but find that the OBJ
jections we're, when tested, only myths
do not regard it az more exhaustive
crop than oats. The plan L follow is to
put about ten loads of barn manure PEI
acre, pillow about seven or eight inches in
depth, thoroughly harrow, SOW about
three pecks Of seeds per acre, then roll
with a moderately heavy land roller.
The crop is cut when the seed is in the
"milk." Selecting a day when the
weather promises to be fair for few
days, [ put the moving machine at work.
The roller has sunk the small stones and
Jumps out of the way of the cutter bar,
and, if the knives are kept sharp no
trouble will be found in cutting. The
grass is left upon the ground until the
following afternoon, when it is raked
with the horse rake-a revolver is best
and cooked up, about hundred pounds
being put in each cock. After standing
three or four days the cocks are rebuilt,
the bottom thus coming on top. The
day following the tumbles are tipped over
and the work of gathering commences.
It has been my practice to stack in the
field, putting about five loads in each,
and draw to the barn as needed in the
spring, for I save it for March and April
feeding. 1t is to be classed with the best
coarse feeds, and for dairy COWS it has no
superior. Fed once per day upon it, my
cows are healthy and strong, and the flow
of milk this spring has been nearly equal
to the usual June supply. With this
system of putting in the crop have no
difficulty in securing about three tons of
cured grass per acre, value for feed
closely approximating five tons of the
best timothy hay. Golden millet is re-
garded by many as the full equal, if not
superior to Hungarian, and in an un~
usually dry season will stand the drought,
perhaps, better Correspondent Practi-
cal Farmer.
St. Landry democrat., 1878-07-13
The srie:.re OF Life, or self-Preservasion

Two hundreth edition, revised and enlarged lust
published, It is 8 standard medical work, tine best
great ex perience, to v hom was awarded gold and
ieweIed medal by the National Medical Association
1t contains beautiful and very expensive steel plate
engravings. Three hund red pages. more than nifty
valuable prescriptions for all forms Of prevailing
successful practice. Bound in French cloth; price
only g. sent by mail. The London Lancet says !;
:. No person should be without this valuable book;
The author is noble benefactor." An illustrated
sample sent to all receipt of 8 cents for postage
Address DR.. Fl. PARK Err, No. Bulhnch Street
Boston, The author may be consulted on all disease
raGuirirc akilL and exnerienca.
St. Landry democrat., 1878-07-13

LIFE is full of disappointments. We
recently offered to cure bad case of Rheu.
matism for years subscription in advance,
but just as were on the point of lifting the
shekels, a sympathizing friend suggested
Johnson's Anodyne Liniment, and the
money and the patient vanished instanter.
Parsons Purgative Pellets make new rich
blood, and Will completely change the blood
in the entire system in three months. Amy
person who will take one pill night from
one to twelve weeks may be restored to
sound health, if such thing is possible.
St. Landry democrat., 1878-07-13
The WidOWer and the Widow.

When Mr.. Thomas Thompson was
counting the widow who became his
sixth wife, said he, taking pinch OF
snuff and looking wise, II will tell you
what I expect of you, my dear. You
are aware that have had good deal of
matrimonial experience. Hohum it
makes me sad to think of it. Ny lot in
the cemetery is almost full, and I may
truly say that my cup of misery would
be running over at this moment if it
were not for you. But to business. I
was about to remark that Jane, my first,
could make better coffee than any other
woman in this world. | trust you will
adopt her receipt for the preparation of
that beverage"
"My first husband frequently remark
ed" began the widow.
"And there was Susan" interrupted
Mr.. Thompson. "Susan was the best
mender that probably ever lived. 1t was
her delight to find a button off, and, as
for rents in coats and things, I have seen
her shed tears of joy when she saw them,
she was 50 DESTROYS of using her needle
for their repair. Oh, what a woman Su"
san was!'
"Many is the time," began the widow,
chat my first hus-'
"With regard to Anna, who was my
third" said Mr.. Thompson, hastily, II
think her forte above all OF" ers was in
the accomplishment of the cake known
as slarjack. I have very pleas
ant visions at this moment of my
angelic Anna as she appeared in the
kitchen of frosty morning, enveloped
in smoke and the morning sunshine that
stole into the window, or bearing to my
plate particularly nice article of slap
jack, with the remark, That's the incest
one yet, Thomas. Eat it while it's hot
Sometimes, l assure you, my dear,
these recollectiens are quite overpower-
ing"
He applied his handkerchief to his
eyes, and the widow said, "Ah yes,
know how it is myself, sir. Many is the
time that l see in my lonely hours my
dear first hus-"
'sThe pride and the joy of Julia, my
fourth, and 1 may say, too, of Clara, my
fifth" interrupted Mr.. Thompson, with
some apparently accidental violence of
tone, lay in the art of making over
their spring bonnets. IF you will be-
lieve it, my dear, one bonnet lasted
those two blessed women through all the
happy years they lived with me. They
would return them, and make them over
so many, many times Dear, dear! what
changing world-what an unhappy,
changing world
81 say 30 to myself a hundred times
day, SIR" said the widow with sigh.
81 frequently remarked to my first
hus-"
MADAME % said Mr.. Thompson, sud
denly and with great sterness, "oblige
me by never mentioning that cheap man
again. Are you not aware that he must
necessarily be out of the question for
evermore? Can you not see that your
continual references to him sicken my
soul ? Let us have peace, madame-let
us have peace"
every we'll, sir" said the widow,
meekly. II beg your pardon, and
promise not to do it again.
And they were married, and their
lives were as bright and peaceful as Mr..
Miller's shutdown seas Buffalo Elk.
press.
St. Landry democrat., 1878-07-13
Start Right and then Stick

A great many men throughout the
country are "going back to farming'' this
year, and an unusual number of young
men are looking out for start in the
same business. The reports that come
from the west, of revival of the old
time importing of new settlers, and the
accounts of the taking up of old farms
in New England, are among the best
signs of the times. II the new farmers
will only start right, and then stick to
it, their success may be insured in ad-
vance. Want of foresight in choosing.
and stability of purpose and effort, are at
the bottom of half the failures in farm
ing, for it is even more disastrous for q
farmer to make sudden and radical
changes in his business plans than to
"put all his eggs in one basket" by de-
pending on one crop. The farmer who
''rotates" from sheep to cows, and from
COWS to grain, and from grain to fruit,
with every fuctuation of the markets,
spretty sure to get in one crop that he
can't "raise''-a mortgage.
Every farm is better adapted to some
industries than others. 1t the land ia
low and springy and cold, foot rot or
other diseases will take the profits off of
sheep. If there is not plenty of pure,
cool water, and pasturage especially
adapted to COWS in its chemical charac-
teristics, and that does not shrivel up by
the end of July, dairying will not
prosper. If the grain-producing ele-
ments in the soil are exhausted, or in.
sect-enemies or climatic influences inter-
fsre, grain crops will fail If fruit trees
must stand with their feet in the
water" owing to lack of drainage,
orchards will prove disappointing.
Then again, men are as different as
their farms. Some have just the knack
to bring together dairy of COWS, nearly
every one Of which shall be "good
mixer" and by gentle, clean, provi.
dent management secure large returns
for the best of products. Another has the
faculty of having his land, his seed, his
fertilizers, his times and seasons, Just right
to coax fields of waving grain from the
soil. Another will have a flock of
sheep, every one of which looks as
though bred to enter for the premium at
the county fair. Still another will plant
aud prune and shape an orchard of half q
Thousand apple trees SO that they shall
all stand uniform, smooth, symmetrical,
yielding just such apples, in just such
quantities as he planned when he bought
the trees from the nursery. The point is
that everysman, in farming as in other
occupations, should ascertain what his
combined inward forces and outward
circumstances viii enable him to do best,
and do that. As rule, diversified farm.
ing ia the best, except in localities pre-.
eninently adapted to one branch, like
St. Landry democrat., 1878-07-13
Amen.

/. Its Origin.-Amen is Hebrew
word, of Hebrew origin. Prior to the
time of Christ it was found in no other
language but the Hebrew. Pagans did
not make use OF it in their idol worship.
But with the introduction of Christian
ity it has found it's way into the lam
guages of all nations who have received
the Christian as their religion. Ia the
Greek, Latin, German and English
tongues, it is the same in photography,
in Specification, and, with very slight
deviations, also in pronunciation. 1t
has been left untrapslated, and has been
transferred from the Hebrew just as it is
found there, because there can not be
found in any language any single word
that expresses its precise and complete
sense and meaning.
2. Its Sense.-Luther, in his Smaller
Catechism, defines it thus: "Amen,
amen, that is, yea, yea, it shall be So"
Cruden says of it: "Amen in Hebrew
signifies true, faithful, certain" Itisused
in the end of every prayer in testimony
of an earnest wish, desire or assurance to
be heard amen, be it so! So shall it be-"
Webster says: "Amen, as noun, signi>
fies truth, firmness, trust, confidence as
a verb, to conform, establish, verify as
an adjective, firm, stable. In English,
after the Oriental manner, it is usedat
the beginning, but more generally at
the end of declarations and prayers in
the sense of, be it firm, be It established"
All these definitions agree in making
amen to mean: Verify, true, certain,
be it 80, shall it be-" Some ancient
forms of ritual have rendered it into
! English, namely, $50 mote it be-"
It is used in address by man to his
| Maker, and by Him to us, and accord
ingly, as used by either, differs some
| what in application, as must be evident.
For man makes favors, and God bestows
them; God makes promises, and man
pleads them. When man says amen, he
claims the divine assurance; when God
says amen, He confirms it, Lutheran.
| Of every Thousand mon twenfv die
St. Landry democrat., 1878-07-13

"A large ear denotes generosity. A
small ear denotes fckleness. A deformed
ear denotes freak of nature. A cropped
ear denotes freak OF justice. An ear
that has been partially masticated is a
sign that Chicago editor has visited St.
Louis. Il ears are of unequal aize it is
q sure sign that the intellect is not we'll
balanced. An ear pointed at the top il
sharp.