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The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-04-01

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Civil Sheriff Of the Parish Of Orleans.
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The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1879-02-07

A DEFINITION OF AN EDIToR.-We
have seen many definitions of many names, -,
words and phrases, but the following of an
editor, given by Josh Billings, is about the
best we ever yet encountered:
An editor is male being whose buziness
is tonavigate a nuze paper. He writes
editorials, grinds out poetry, inserts dcths
aud weddings, sorts out manuscripts keeps
waste basket. blows up the "devil," steals
matter, fites other peoples battles, sells his
papers for two dollars and fifty cents year,
takes white beans and apple sass for paw.
when he kan git it, RACES large family.
works l9 hours out ov every "a, knows no
Sunday, gifts damned bi everybody, and
once in while whipt bi sumbody, lives
poor, dies middle aged, and often brok en-
hearted, leaves no money, il rewarded for
life ov toll with a short but free obituary
puff in the nuzpapers.
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1879-02-07

Benjamin Hunter, the Philadelphia mur.
dersr, left an estate valued at $4,000. His
expenses since he undertook to collect the
debt due him from John M. Armstrong
with hatchet, have amounted 70 about
$4,000. After deducting all this Instantly
will bo left in very fair circumstances 1t
seems from this that the incentive t, mur.
der Armstrong was one of revenge and
greed rather than necessity. DR.. Andrews,
who assisted at the execution of Hunter in
medical capacity, says that the story Of
the attempted suicide was greatly exage.
rated, and that the wretch would have
died from terror and cowardice If he had
not been strangled promptly by Sheriff
Calhoun's patent choking apparatus.
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1879-02-07

INcENDIARY Wasps used to
be considered dangerous only on account
of the excellent facilities they possess for
carrying on warfare, but it has been devel-
oped that they are dangerous in another
way. An exchange has discovered that
the frequent mysterious burning Of hay
stacks and farmers buildings has led to the
discovery that they are set on fire by wasps'
nests, and that the nests are ignited by
spontaneous combustion. This is said to
be produced by the chemical action of the
wax in contact with the paper.like substance
Of which the nest is composed, compar-
atively small excess Of oxygen being sufi.
cient to make it burst forth in a blaze
Therefore it remains for our citizens to seek
and destroy these internal machines.
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1879-02-07

CABBAGE Worm REMEDY.-I will give
you sure remedy for tho cabbage worm
Make strong solution of lime water, pour
it over tho cabbage in tho evening; if the
lime-water is made strong there will be no
live worms left that the water touches
Last fall [ had nice patch of cabbage in.
tested with the worms. After trying all
other remedies I could think of, 1 resorted
to the lime-water, and to tell the truth, ex-
pected to find my cabbage cooked next
morning. but I was agrceably disappointed
next morning to find the cabbage green and
bright, and the worms laying all over the
patch dead as q door.nail.
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1879-02-07

A MOTHERS INFLUENcE.-It is hard
for young mother who has not yet over.
come the wayward tendencies Of her own
youthful nature, to realize the influence she
exerts over her little ones. She is contin-
ually surrounded by critical imitators, who
copy both her morals and her manners. As
the mother is, so are her sons and daughters.
If a family of children are blessed with an
intelligent mother, who is dainty and refined
in her manners, and does not consider it
necessary to be one woman in the parlor
and an entirely different person in her every
day life, but who is true mother, and
always tender, charming woman, you will
invariably see her habits of speech and
pleasant manners repeated in her children.
Great rough men, aud noisy active boys will
always tone down their voices, and strive
to stay quietly, and to be more mannery,
when she stops to give them kind word
or pleasant smile, for true mother will
never fail to do oil the kind and pleasant
things she can that will in any way help to
lift up and cheer those whose lives are sha-
ded with toll and care. The mother of TO-.
day rules the world Of tomorrow. Think
oft when you are tempted to be fretful and
impatient, and guard we'll your hcEe treas.
ures.
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1879-02-07

CHAMoMILE.-Ad decoction Of the leaves
Of common chamomile will destroy every
species Of insect, and nothing contributes
so much to the health Of garden as O
number Of chamomile plants dispersed
through it. No green house or hot-houso
should ever be without it, in green or
drieded state; either the stalks or flowers
will answer" 1t is singular fact that IL a
plant is dropping and apparently dying in
nine cases out Of ten it will recover if you
plant ohamomile near il.
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1879-02-07

Children are quick to perceive the stan
dard of integrity held by those arounll
them, and to catch the prevailing tone Of md
raj feeling. When they hear injustice con-
demned in large things and paliated in small
ones; when their own childish depredatious
are treated with levity, or passed over with
indifference when deoeitfnl practices are
tolerable and simply troublesome habits pun
ished, it is not strange that they learn to
measure the guilt of dishonesty only by the
material less or annoyance eutaiIed.
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1879-02-07
WHIrE LABoR..

One very Important lesson that the result
OF tho Var has taught the Southern people
y, that white men are capable of earning
their bread by manual labor in the field as
well as the negro. Numbers Of worthy
young men, reduced to the alternative Of
work or want, have resolutely taken hold
OF the plow or hoo, and have learned what
it is to do days work in all weather with
the best hand in the field. Today many
OF these men are Independent; they have
md to work more, they havc learned
to manage their farms successfully: and
having learned this they are matters Of the
situation by natural right and result Tho
negro .labsgsss sea.3Re et adpss k1scss swish y
sebbiance and show Of work Which is only
half work or hardly that and it is found
too that labor does not debase the c6arac.
ter OF true man or disfgure his manly
form-that work is healthful and a wonder.
tul developer of muscle, strength, and ap-
petite.
All this was known indeed to many q
white man in the South before Cuffes's
emancipation, for thousands of men of An
Slo Saxon descent were used to daily labor
in the field before the war. And it was
men of this class, who, at Appomattox, lay
ing their weapons to rust on the field of
carnage, returned to their desolatcd homes
and went at once to brighten the plow in
the field of labor, that taught the men of
softer muscle who hesitatcd awhile that
they could work too, if they would but try.
Example is contagious, and the action of
Lees veterans, who returned to their homes
in April '65, and starting de novo, suscoed.
ed in making fair crop, inspired many
an idle young man to attempt the same thing
the following year, and the effort made in
general brought success. Every year, since
then has added more and more to the num-
Der Of Southern farmers who are at the
same time their own overseer and laborer.
Thus it came to be generally known that
the white man ran no extraordinary risk
at labor in the open field at any season any.
where in the Southern country. And
this white labor has been gradually super.
ceediug colored labor, till now we should
not be surprised if the number of the for.
mer who toll daily on the farm does not ex-
coed the number of the latter. We do not
mean that the white man is generally found
90 . hiroiips e~eh "a -..A A.. -oaae. .eys=.y
prefer to farm on their own hook, and we
lind them to be the most successful and the
most thrifty Of all farmers.
The success of white labor in the South
will therefore no longer be questionable
one. After thirteen years test the prob
lem is answered in the affirmative, never
more, we trust, to be subject to doubt.
Let none now say he cannot farm because
he is white man. He can il he will but
try.-RuruK Mcsscn 1er.
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1879-02-07

The immense number of worthless "cur
dogs" to be found in all parts Of Virginia
is disgrace to the people of tho State and
q burden upon every productive interest.
Let us all work together to remove it
Start rebellion an euery county.--iSo.
Planter and Farmer.
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1879-02-07

Lime On land sown to wheat hastens the
maturity of the crop. Prof. Johnston says
the same is true of nearly all our cultivated
crops.
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1879-02-07

Too MUCH LAND.-We knew q farmer
who, ton years ago, owned one hundred and
fifty acres, and was doing well; he now
owns FIVE hundred, aud is worse off than
before. And why because this large
farm is great bill of expense to him; he
cannot afford to keep it up in good condi-
tion, aud it hangs milestone of care about
his neck. His wife and children, both
sons and daughters, are obliged to work
hard to keep the great machine running
We presume his boys daolnra they will
leave home as they are old enough; and
the girls say they will die before they will
marry. farmers. Neither sons nor daugh-
ters are educated as they deserve to be F.;
they cannot be spared for this from work
on the big farm. Now We declare that
such farm is curse to its possessor and
his family, and an injury to the whole ag-
ricultural interest. if that man wants to
save himself and his household, he should
sell at least one half of his land, improve
the remainder to make it more productive,
release his children from bondage, and try
to make his home comfort. He will live
longer, lay up as good property, aud will
train up more intelligent aud happier
family Ayricuhwisf
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1879-02-07
NUMBER i, 6.

with any kind Of gun in any Of che fresh
water rivers, creeks, lakes or other streams
IN said counties between the Let day OF May
and the 1st day Of September in any year
hereafter."s
approved December %, 1873.
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1879-02-07

reader, aud verify this statement, and if
found correct, be an advocate of q higher
education for the farmer. The struggle to
accumulate money swiftly by raising expeu-
sive crops on extensive areas by inferior n.
Dor, is an inevitable failure. a. tho rothor
har.i up old "colorcd lady" said when she
went to tho commissary for raticns, "If I
don't get no meat, but all the God.blessed
freedom ias." So with grass fasfners.
1t tIey don't handle much money. there is
blessed quantity of comfort and peace of
mind in 1.-THE wind works it, the ar
feeds it, the dews and rains water it, and
the stock gathers and nanures it. Now,
in conclusion, 1 would advise farmers to
|@sks shsiF1 xupplies a. zhoms makeaegts
Ton their surplus crop. It Is easy Co
prove on paper that grain cannot be raised
for its selling tice, that no animal can be
raised on the farm for its market value; vet
we find that those VINO pursue that course
do not house their crops in barns covered
in mortgage deeds, nor live from year to
year the slave of necessity. Therefore
burst these bonds that bind you, and arise
to freedom and independence. Look only
to your fields and your energies for your
supplies. If you are in debt, surrender
your property don't undertake to borrow
money at t,centy per cent. until you learn to
make four per cent. on that you have al
ready got invested. heard a conversation
the other day between farmer and a
shrcwd mechanic, which is worthy of note.
The mechanic contended he could not take
less tor the buggy without selling the ma
terlal for less than it cost him The farmer
could not pay for it without taking less for
his produce than it cost him to make it;
therefore no trade. Deny yourselves and
get out Of debt, then We will Le the hap.
piest people under the sun.-A. j. HEATH
IN Southern Planter and Farmer.
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1879-02-07

We have now one dollar and twenty-five
cents to prepare the land, plant it, and cul-
tivate il, and taking into consideration the
more cotton made the less the price, would
It not be more profitable to have had half
ofa in broom sedge? Isentoff four hun
dred pound bale Of wool which brought one
hundred dollars. I also sent off four
hundred pound balo of cotton, made on one
acre which brought thirty dollars-the
wool cost me the least to make il Stats
tics show that ia the South during tho last
three years, wool has paid go per cent. for
growing, while cotton has not paid 5 per
cent but somebody says, what If everybody
goes to raising grass and stock, what then ?
With the same propriety might be asked,
IF everybody goes TO Heaven what will be-
come Of the deuilS
We have the brain, and it is as necessary
to work it as it is to work the muscle, for
as intelligent application is used and less
actual labor, greater prosperity is found
We must think more, and as an aid TO
better thinking, must read more, and
/. sake our farms our constant study. Go,
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1879-02-07

An ACT TO require all Clerks of Courts
Sheriffs and Trial Justices TO make
monthly Reports of all Licenses, Fines
and Penalties collected by them to the
Auditor and Treasurer of their several
Counties:
BE 1t enacted by the Senate and House
OF Representatives of the State of South
Carolina, now met and sitting in General
Assembly, and by the authority of the
same:
SECTION /. That all clerks Of courts,
sheriffs and trial justices be, and they are
hereby, required, on the frat Wednesday in
every month or within ten days thereafter
to make, in writing, to the respective audi
tors and treasurers of their several counties,
q full and accurate statement of all moneys
collected by them on account of licenses,
fines, penalties or forfeitures during the
past month; and, in default, thereof, upon
conviction thereof, shall be liable to fine
not exceeding one hundred dollars or i'm
prisonment in the common Jail not exceed
ing two months, or both, at the discretion
of the Court.
Sec. 2. All acts and parts of acts inconsis.
tent with this act are hereby repealed.
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1879-02-07

AN ACT to amend an Act to prevent Fishing
with Nets in the fresh water Streams of
this State at certain seasons of the year..
s Be 1t enacted, &C., That thi title of said
act be 30 amended as to read as follows:
can Act to prevent the capture and de-
struction of fish in tho fresh water streams
Of this State at certain seasons of tho year."
and that then the firstsection of the said act
be SO amended as that it shall read "That it
shall not be lawful for any person in tho
Counties Of Horny, Maricn, Darlington, Clar-
endon, Chesterfield, Georgetown, Marlboro
Williamsburg, Richland and Chester to fish
with nets or gigs, or set traps, or shoot fish
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1879-08-08
How One Phrase Originated.

The phrase acknowledge the corn
is variously accounted for, but the follow
ing is true history of its origin:
In 1928, Andrew Stewart, M. c., sale
in a speech, that Ohio, Kentucky ant
Indiana sent their hay-stacks, corn
fields and fodder to New York ant
Philadelphia for sale. Wickliffe, o.
Kentucky, called him to order, declaring
those States did not send hay-stacks OF
corn-fields to New York for sale.
well what do you send?" asked
Stewart.
"Why, horses, mules, cattle and hogs.
"Well, what makes your horses
mules, cattle and hogs? You feed a
hundred dollars, worth off hay to horse
you just animate and get upon the TOP
of your hay-stack and ride of to market
How it is with your cattle? You make
one of them carry fifty dollars, worth Of
hay and grass to the Eastern market
how much corn does it take at thirty.
three cents bushel to fatten it?"
Why, thirty bushels"
"Then you put that thirty bushels
into the shape of hog and make it walk
off to the Eastern market"
Then Wickliffe jumped up and said
"Mr. Speaker, acknowledge the corn.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1879-08-08
Thirty Thousand Miles a SecOud.

The idea of motion must help us con-
ceive the idea of space. In no other
way can we get an impression of the
awful spans of the sky, and the mon
strous distances between the Stars. A
scientific lecture suggests the follow
ing:
To give an idea of relative distances,
suppose voyager through the celestial
spaces could travel from the sun to the
utmost planet of our system in twenty
four hours. So enormous would be his
velocity that it would carry him across
the Atlantic ocean, from New York to
Liverpool, in less than tenth of a
second of clock.
Starting from the sun with this We
locity, he would cross the orbits of the
inner planets in rapid succession, and
the outer ones more slowly, until, at the
end of single day, he would reach the
confines of our system. crossing the
orbit of Neptune.
But, though he passed eight plan cts
the first day, ne would pass none the
next; for he would have to journey
eighteen or twenty years, without dimi
mutton of speed, before he could reach
the nearest star, and would then have
to journey as far again before he could
reach another.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1879-08-08
THE CHINESE FAMINE.
Terrible Extent of the visitstion-Some Start
ling Figures.

Terrible Extent of the visitation-Some Start
ling Figures.
Mr.. Forrest, the English Consul at
Tientsin, reports his belief that during
the late famine in China the deaths
from starvation and want reached the
enormous total of about $500, OOO-that
is to say, that population Of more than
twice that of Portugal was swept away
within a few months. This estimate
would appear scarcely credible were 1t
not supported by the report OF Mr..
Hitler, of the consular service, who
has lately visited the desolated prov
inces. His account of the condition OF
things is deplorable in the extreme.
Towns which a few years ago were busy
centers of trade, and villages which were
populous and well-to-do, are now silent
and deserted; while houses which used
to TEEN with life are now only tenanted
by the dead and the few survivors who
are left to tell the miseries they have
undergone. Shocking as the sight
must be of the mingling of the dead
with the living, the explanation is even
more CHASTITY. When the famine was at
its height the starving people, goaded
by the pangs of hunger, and unable to
obtain food, dug up the bodies of the
buried dead. Survivors preferred,
therefore, to share their homes with the
coffins of their deceased friends rather
than run the risk of committing them
to the uncertain keeping of the ground.
Atintervals the sides of the roads are
strewn with the whitened bones of wan
derers who had lain down to die where
their strength failed them and the hor-
ror of the scene is aggravated by the
presence of troops of wolves. Soon af-
ter the outbreak of the famine large
quantities of stores were collected by
the Chinese Government at Tientsin
and elsewhere for transmission to the
famine-stricken districts, but, owing to
bad roads and inefficient means of
transport, they arrived on the spot in
such small quantities and at such un-
certain intervals that they failed to do
more than relieve the sufferings of
few. "Camels, oxen, mules and
donkeys," Mr.. Forrest says, "were hur-
ried along in the widest confusion, and
so many were killed by the desperate
people in the hills for the sake of their
flesh that the transit could only be car
ried on by the banded vigilance of the
growers of grain, assisted by
the train-bands or militia. The way
was marked by the carcasses or skele-
tons of men and beasts; and the wolves,
dogs and foxes soon put an end to the
sufferings of any wretch who lay down
to recover from or die of his sickness in
those terrible defles."
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1879-08-08
A Pioneers Big Lift.

An old pioneer was hugging the his
toric stove in Judge Knox's courtroom,
last evening, and, as usual with the old
timers who visit that temple of justice,
was in a reminiscent frame of mind.
Though poor now, he had, as matter
ofcourse, been once rich. II was lead
in citizen of Muckallamy hill in 49," he
said. I'm them days l was in the dust
buying business. had my sign out IS.
Compra Orc Acqui, up stairs you know.
and all that sort of thing. tell We it
takes smart man to get along in that
ere trade. Jenkins g. Co. was the boss
at it when first went into it at Muck
albany hill, but it wasn't six months
afore I'd took half their trade away. /
had to tussle to do it. You see the
boys was allus very anxious to do well,
an the first that offered the coin made
the rifle. Jenkins q Co. was pretty
heightened, an used to wait every night
fur that man to go down the hill to the
express office an bring up their money
in handcart. saw my chance an used
to be on hand when the stage came in,
an just shouldered my own coin when
the driver throwed it off. Nick Mon
kins was the driver in them days. He
was afterward killed by road agents.
Many's the time Nick's throwed me
down my sack with a clean $4,000 in
gold coin III it, and I've chucked her
across my shoulder an trotted up that
there old hill and had every bit o. dust
bought up afore Jenkins & Co.'s hand
cart arrived"
How much did you say you packed
up the hill on your shoulder" asked
Judge Knox's clerk.
-Four hundred thousand oftener than
less" replied the pioneer, with melan-
choly pride.
See here" said the clerk, figuring
rapidly, "gold's worth $18 an ounce, and
there's twelve ounces to the pound, troy
weight; that makes pound worth $216
Now 216 into 100000 leaves something
over 1851 pounds, pretty nearly ton.
How far up the hill did you carry that,
did you say?"
The old pioneer looked at the clerk
with fixed contempt for moment, and
then, merely saying, You're plagued
Johnny ome-Lately, that's what you
arel" arose and left the courtroom
Virginia Chronicle.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1879-08-08
Those Useful Conduits,

The kidneys and bladder, sometimes become
torpid and weak from unascertainable causes.
When this occurs, their dscharging function
is Of necessity very imperfectiy performed, and
certain debris, which is the result of natural
bodily waste and decay. does not escape as il
should. but remains to corrupt the blood and
develop poisonous humors and dangerous az
we'll az painful diseases II is one of the be-
neficent effects of Hostetter's Stomach Bitters
to gently stimulate the urinary organs, and pre-
ty, always provocative of their inflammatory
degeneration and decay. How much better,
then, is it to adopt this mild diuretic as q means
Of melting them to action, than to incur the
danger of this destruction. To expel from the
system waste matter through the bowels and
kidneys, and to regulate and arouse the stomach
and liver, are among the chief uses of this val
liable remedy