The Hartford herald., 1879-08-06
Island station Letter.
FARMERS.


The most hopeful sign of better days
i'm this section of country, is the unusu-
al care and energy farmers have mani
tested here the present season. More
attention to fertilizing and better sys-
tenn of cultivation are being inaugu-
rated. And the unusually promising
condition of the corn and tobacco is
already cheering their hearts.
If the farmers i'm this country could
lust see the importance of dividing
their labors-less tobacco, more wheat,
grass and stock-it would constitute a
this country.
OUR MERCHANTS.
We have here, three mercantile es-
tablishments. Our merchants are very
independent. They don't give them
selves any trouble TO find out what the
people want. Nor do they seem TO
care. They keep such stock rs suits
themselves and whose business is il Z?
What right have Others to tell them
what kind of goods to keep? Here is
an incident that shows the independ-
ence of one of our merchants to pecu-
liar advantage. (Said merchant is ex-
pected to commit matrimony as soon as
his house is done.) A lady customer
priced and agreed to take some window
curtains; to which he replied "Well,
| would like to accommodate YOU, but
when my house is finished, I'll need
them.n Next, she priced and agreed
TO take some table linen; to which he
replied again, 'Im very sorry 10 disap-
point you, but when | get to keeping
house I'll need something of the sort" !"
''Then," said the lady, "measure me of
two yards of that jaconet up there on
the shelf" TO which he said, "rm very
sorry / can't let you have it, / think
I'll want about all that to make shirt
bosoms after a while" Can Hartford,
or any other town, i'm this country,
boast of such a careful, and at the same
time, such an independent merchant
HEALTH.
The health of this neighborhood was
never better at this season of the year,
than now. DIR. Williams has very little
to do, except TO play kro k, and talk to
the girls. If it were not for his pleas
ant contented look, we would suppose
he regards this rs a "distressingly
healthy time"
THE HERALD.
1t is not necessary to say that the
HERALD is the best paper published in
this country. Where is anybody that
doesn't knowthat? But what we wani
to say to the HERALD is, hurry up that
proof about those two men cradling l:
acres of wheat i'm one day. Lots o
people over this way want to see tho
proof.
Again, We want to ask something
about that big cabbage that Judge Greg
Ory raised, that you say measured more
than three feet across. Was not that 9
"whopper ?r-I mean the cabbage, o
course But what we want to ask is
how much over three feet did it meas
ure?
REBELLION.
Your Point Pleasant correspondent
gives Grant some very just thrusts; bu
seems TO be about as wild and inconsist
ent i'm his notions as Grant ever was
He thinks rebellion against the Gov
eminent, when the Republicans wer,
administering it, very ugly thing. S,
wicked that he felt constrained {,
shoulder his musket and help to figh
it down. But now, i'm case the Demo
Gratis should lawfully obtain the posi-
ton then occupied by the Republicans
he more than intimates his willingness
; to take up arms in rebellion agains
the Government. Verify it makes
great difference when the other mans
OK is gored. SLocUM.