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Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1879-07-12
School and Church.

propose organizing female high school
this fall. Holly Springs will bid 10 have
it located within its limits.
Seven years ago there was not q
Protestant Church in Japan; now there
are 43, in addition to about 14O places
where the Gospel is preached. There
are also 81 Sunday-schools.
"A young Chinaman. named Su, who
has been for three years pupil of the
High School of Northampton, Mass,
has just passed credita5ls .eHamiha-
ton for admission to the Van Rensselaer,
Polytechnic, Institute, at Troy. When
he came to Northampton, six years ago,
he was entirely ignorant of the English
language, yet at this examination he
stood highest of all the candidates in
spelling and geography.
DIR. T. Dewitt Talmage has had a
remarkable reception in Dondon. On
Sunday, June Is, he preached at the
Islington Presbyterian Church to- an
enormous congregation. A dense crowd
blockaded the streets leading to the
church. Half a mile before the church
was reached, his carriage was lifted
from the ground and carried bodily to
the church. 1t was the most singular
ovation ever paid to an American
preacher in London.
The contributions of Protestant
Christians In the United States to for
eign missions do not exceed S2,000,O 900
annually, which is estimated to be
about 80 cents year for each COM
municant. The amount given by the
various denominations Ia as follows:
Methodist, $342, 900; Congregationalist,
S45T, 600: Presbyterian (North, South
and United), S562, 900; Baptist, S242,-
600; Episcopalian, 800, 200; Reformed,
$55, ,000-making a total of S1,74S,OO0,
which is increased to about $4,000, 900
by the sums expended by the Bible and
Tract societies.
President McCosh of Princeton has
made an announcement which reflects
much credit upon the College of New Jer-
sey, and insures what may be called per-
petual prudence for the future in one very
important particular. He states that the
College is absolutely out of debt, and
has signed an agreement not to contract
any debts hereafter. The adoption of
such policy by some weaker institu-
tions might be a matter of great diff
Guilty, but this example of Princeton
will do much to make such system
general.
Boston has a society to encourage
studies at home, which is doing large
work in very quiet way. Its purpose
is to induce young women to form the
habit of devOting some part of every day
to study of systematic and thorough
kind. Courses of reading and plans of
work are arranged by the central man
agement in Boston, from which women
may select one or more according to
their taste or leisure, and aid is given
them from time to time through direc-
tions or advice. The whole is conducted
through correspondence. During the
past year Z, ,158 letters have been written
to students residing in 35 States and in
Canada. The term of correspondence
is from October l to June l.
Science and Industry.
Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1879-07-12
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
Personal and Literary.

Annie Louise Cary received S2,400
per month during the last opera season.
Charles Dickens's last letter. dated
June 8, 1870, has been presented to the
British Museum.
Mr.. Robert G. Ingersoll is about to
publish third book, /" The Religion of
Sword and Flame"
Miss Lillian Taylor, the accomplish
ed daughter of our late Minister to Ger
many. hos translated the play of Masks
and Faces into German, and it has been
successfully produced at Berlin.
Mime. Christine Nilsson has receiv-
ed offers from the royal theaters of Hol-
land and Belgium to sing there in the
months of December and January. She
is to receive 10000 francs for eight per-
formarces, besides all her expenses to
be paid.
The British Museum is about to
| acquire a well preserved Egyptian
papyrus, belonging to the time of the
later Ptolemies. 1t contains nearly the
whole of the thirty fourth book of the
Iliad. The Museum has secured another
papyrus even more ancient, recently
found in an Egyptian tomb, and con-
tanning almost a complete transcript of
the eighteenth book of the Iliad.
Miss Thompson (Mrs. Butler) has
been requested by Queer Victoria to
paint for her two battle scenes, one of
them being of the field OF Rorke's Drift.
This is considered great compliment
in England-a condescension, indeed,
since it comes in the form of an amiable
"request," when in other cases it has
been command"
The people who have always per-
sisted in calling the sage of Menlo Park
"Professor Edison, may now be accu-
rate, and at the same time satisfy their
craving for a scientific title, by calling
him DR.. Edison. Rutgers College has
bestowed tibon the farrous graduate of
the baggage. car and telegraph office the
honorary degree of Ph. ID.
1t is said that the late G. w. M.
Reynolds had made more money by his
60 or 20 cheaply sensational novels than
many of the most distinguished authors
in Great Britain. His earnings frbm
his stories have been estimated as high
as $500, 600, which may be an exaggera-
ton, although that would not be much
more than $4,000 a novel, and some of
his novels are reported TO hsve brorght
him in $4,000 and $4,000 apiece.
-Bunyan's "Pilgrim's Progress" has
had larger circulation in England than
any book except the Bible. Next in
popularity would probably rank !" Rob-
inson Crusoe." After that would come
the Waverley Novels" Nevertheless
there are signs that all of these old
classics OF the people sre waning in
popularity. Shakespeare alone steadily
grows according to the test of editions,
and this fact is itself the highest proof
of the sublime genius of this mysterious
man.
Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1879-07-12
Science and Industry.

Professor Alexander Agassiz of
Harvard University has been awarded
the Serres prize for researches in anato-
my and zoology, by the Paris Academy
of Sciences.
Last year not pound of cream of
tartar was imported. A few years ago
millions of pounds came annually from
England and France. Manufacturers
at home now supply all that the country
needs, and prices are 80 per cent. lower
than formerly.
The importation of crockery has
decreased by about one half in the last
ten years. English manufacturers have
concluded that the American market is
rapidly clio ing to them, and English
capital is being employed in the estab-
lishment of new factories in this
country.
The notion that ice purifies itself
Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1879-07-12

tions are of the usual character; the finan-
cial plank OF the platform favors ga curren-
ey Of gold and silver and paper, the pa
per to be kept at par with coin at all times,
and in favor of free, unlimited coinage of
silver"
Lieut.. B. NJ. McCauley, Thirteenth In
fantry, u. S. A., committed suicide at At
lanta, Ga, on the 3Oth ult., shooting himself
through the head. Cause not stated. He
leaves a wife and daughter, the latter most
beautiful and interesting young lady.
At Lake Quinsigamond, near Worcester,
Mass, on the 4th, the excursion steamer
Isaac Davis, loaded with passengers, careen-
ed, the hurricane deck broke off, and hun
dreds of passengers were thrown into the
water. John Cahill and his young daugh
ter, Lewis La Chapelle, Nellie Shackrow and
three others not identified were killed,
several were injured and three missing. By
the breaking down of crowded steamboat
wharf at Morris Island, Just below Trenton,
n. j., on the 4th, about 10 persons were
thrown into the river. Mrs. Andrew john
son, her 5-year- son and a little girl
named Miller were drowned and others were
injured.
Mrs. Henry Larue and her sister jumped
from a moving train at Turner's, n. Y, on
the Erie Railway on the Sd. The former, n
bride, was instantly killed, and the latter
aged II, was seriously injured;
Nimrod Spattenhuber, a young German,
was hanged at Lebanon, Pa, on the Sd, for
tho murder Of John Ivison.
At Newcastle, Pa, on the 4th, Miss Rhet-
Ia REM, a young German girl, was burned
to death by her dress taking fire from a
burning fre-cracker while walking along
the street; and at Poughkeepsie, n. Y,
Miss Jessie Dunbar, aged %, met with the
same horrible fate.
The Unitarian Church at Scituate, Mass,
was burned by e-crackers on the 4th.
In New York City, on the 5th, Mrs. Mary
Anderson and her infant were both burned
to death. The mother kindled her fire with
coal oil.
Bernard Helms, a wealthy farmer who re-
sided in the town Of Alden, n. Y, on the
Buffalo and Batavia Railroad, on the even
ing of the 9th, in a drunken fit, shot his
wife, inflicting mortal Wound, and then
took his ovn life.
At Buffalo, n. Y, on the 9Th, David d. Alt
man, aged Is, son of the President of the
Third National Bank, was fatally injured by
the fall Of his pony while engaged In a game
of polo. He died within "a hours.
The four daughters Of Capt. Appleton
Oaksmith of Carolina City, n. c., were
drowned on the 9TH while crossing Boque
Sound, by the capsizing of the bo.:.
Joseph Aktns, aged II, a gardener of
Greensburg, Westmoreland County, Penn,
on the 9Th shot and instantly killed his wife,
aged 70, and then placed the muzzle of the
gun under his own chin and blew his head
off. The trouble is believed to have arisen
from quarrel about little piece of land
which the husband had decided to the wife,
and which she Subsequently refused to con-
Vey back to him.
Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1879-07-12

"Reminiscences of the Great Pedestrian as
Reporter and Poker-p1ayer-His Ridtc~
ulous Improvidence.
Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1879-07-12

Sole Agents for the sale of Holman Liver
Pad Company's Remedies in Keytesville, Mo.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1879-03-08
inventors Models.

IT, connection IN the practice ui dentistry. and a. thc
urgent solicitation uf friends have prepared To- make
-rsrll'y INVENTOR Modes Satisfaction guaranteed.
Price reasonable. Al ouumuHl iyus syictg conHdei'
nal J. 70. GUOnELl.
T.ll Msr~Jiffs-, II sale rsunty. IN.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1879-03-08

Providence. in His wisdom, made salt COR
the chloride of sOdium) 10 pcrNauc almost
everything 1t is not dependent on the ocean
for supply On the contrary 1t Is native in
all SOILS, rocks marlS, sandstone, gypsums, as
well as all vegetable growths. 1t is Il mineral,
and is the only one which is universally re
nuired as an article Of food by man and the
higher order Of the animal kingdom. The
elements to create commercial salt are about
60 per cent of chlorine aud 70 per cent. OF so
dunn Yet impure salt contains different guam
titles of at least dozen impure salts Iheab
sence OF these impurities Is why one salt IS bet,
than another.
The salt of the ocean depends on the disintc-
yratiOn of rocks and soils and land by rains,
violence, decomposition and natural decay,
and is taken by streams and rivers to the ocean.
If by this process more salt Is carried 10 me
ocean than its water can hold in solution, 1t Is
deposited in deep places ana caves oil the sea
And tai, will account Tor the vast deposits
found in varou, places ON the face ct the earth,
There are in uuy Western Territories immense
deposits o, the purcst rocl, >llj, and as soon rs
railroad, can overcome the almost impossible
mountain barriers they will supply cont
mental demand. 1t has been the fortune OF the
writer to sec some magnificent specimens OF
these salt deposits In The northwest part OF
Arizona, III the gorgcs OF the Naoatch Mount
aims, and canyons Of some OF the tributaries OF
the Colorado River, and eight hundred or Il
thousand miles beyond the reach Of any con
templated railroad there are said to be salt de
posts cropping out in perpendicular bluffs
from one to three hundred feet in height for
hundreds of miles in extent In Texas, also,
there are horizontal beds Of rock salt In st.
Domingo there are entire mountains OF 1t.
These in the past history of our globe Che re
mote period Of which makes the head dizzy to
contemplate, were deposited by the oceans,
Uphca>ai> and physical revolutions OF the
earth have transformed them into dry land and
mountain sorres. II is not our object, how
ever, TO follow these spccuatlons into the dim
and misty past,
Salt peryadcS earth and water 1t pcrvadcs
all animal foods. In many countries they 0b.
tain enough saline matter in GRASSES and vcgc-
tables In Others it Is necessary for their health
that it should be supplied. 1t is necessary for
he human and animal systems. stop The sup
ply and blindness would cnsuc, as well as 9th.
cr physical DEFICIENCIES. The hcaith and thrift
Of cattle. sheep, horses and hogs depend upon
Z due proportion Of salt in their food. This
article is written i'll reply to a query II too
much salt Is not given 10 stock. We think
frequently toe much is given nj Il time BUTT is
not Li,tn "ftcn enough. When taken in right
quantities il aids digestion and assimilation,
aud without 1t physical development is impcr-
feet and unhealthy. IOtra state RegiStCC
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1879-03-08

Col. \. c. Jones, an official OF the Agricul-
tural Department at Washington has cont
pluted an interesting paper upon the SUBJECT
of the dried fruit trade from which the follow
ing summary Is made:
THE abundance Of the truitCT0p OF the INT
ed States is one Of the most gratifying results
Of the progress of agriculture in the country
In the "trip between the De aware and ChcSa
peakc bays more than j,OOU,Oj0 Of peach trees
blossom annually Ihc cranberry has been
found to be very profitable in Minnesota, where
in 1877 there was Il crop of 10000 bushels OF
The value of at least Sl50000. The European
demand for American fruits increases with the
supply, and proves to be very generally rcmun.
cratlve, There IS fruit enough raised in the
United States to supply both our country and
Europe. The first expectation OF apples was
thirty years ago, when apples commanded
from Sc to IS a barrel in Liverpool. That city
now receives 10000 barrels OF American apples
annually. The value of fruits exported last
year was 81, 931, ops Incorporation Of canned
fruit has never been equal 20 the demand. The
extraordinary increase in thc production with
in the last few years has been met by still
greater consumption. No census 81 this trade
has ever been taken New York i the largest
truitprOduCing slate, and the bulk OF il is mar
keted at Buffalo At Chicago the trade in dried
fruit is very large as II Is distributing point
OF considerable importance for the west and
northwest. The secretary Of the Board OF
Trade in Chicago, in Il letter To the Depart
ment of Agriculture, states that thc receipts OF
dried fruits in 1871 were rs follows: Dried
apples 10000 barrels, Of 200 pounds each drie(
dried peaches $4,000 barrels, of 25O pounds
each; dried blackbcrrics, 5000 barrels of 20l
pounds each. \ proportionate amount of The
smaller fruits and berries WAS received. Th'
general trade in dried fruits Is not increasing
the demand being supplied within few year
by the increase in canned goods"
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1879-03-08
TEMPERANCE.


In rrimblc county, Kentucky, Judge Bart.
lett some time AGO, refused To license any one
10 sell intoxicating drinks in the county, and
though there was a IOud cry OF opposition and
rcmunSWnCc, he stood firm Ia the decision,
resolved that through his agency no more
whisky dealers should be allowed to work rum
to themselves, to their families, and to the pco-
pie Of the county; and what is the consc-
QuCncc: To-day, says the Natjo"W Prohj6i
HOaiM there is not Il criminal case on the
docket Of the county not criminal III the
Jail, not II pauper in the county to be support
ed, and not a licensed Dar.room and 1T the
last County Court, though the county town
was crowded with people, not n drunken man
was seen in the place; GOOD order and good
will prevailed, and no husband or father went
home To his family intoxicated, to abuse his
wife and children.
And new look Al the other picture. Ander-
son county, says the same authority, continues
to grant licenses to the whisky shops and tav-
crns. And what is the consequence there: In
one week two murders were reported and
numerous arrests for violence and disorder,
jefferson county licenses; and it has over
twenty murders, or attempts to murder, i'll Il
year: and five hundred and thirty-srvcn ar
rests III one city in Il single month. Pulaski
county licenses; and it has ten whisky muir
dcrS in few months Scott county liCcnCc, ::
and its docket is crowded with offences and
crlme> And 50 in every county Of the state
where licenses are granted; murders and quar-,
rels, and violence and abuse Of wife and chill
drcn are reported abundantly; and the greater
part OF all county expenses is found TO come
from the courts and jails and prisons and Off
GERS rendered necessary by the offences and
crimes committed by men under the influence
of intoxicating drinks --iHVS'rutod christian
IF..lI
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,yIos1 Io.onh NTnI l0--I,- Los IN orDnInI
~ ~ lno hat rccnntI, died in Thar
", " VIA r,, known If Mo J9r i. that TEN
n:,r. rn hn r,,,inr;n, .Iy ,n,rrI mn nj thr res
i"nH " ~ Irhm vhnrr hn r,nnincd
y, ",,'' ," and nr that i'nn
va iva ',""o n",,c ~ th nnI;rn
f,ro anI dnmn ,, Ii,n.cf in .uc niamno,
~ - i,, thn " A1irn pinrrnn n
,o IN, nm,o o,i' rhn"c lo,or;u. IT,. fnIo,ycI
tLc ''rI on ," ,hou, In, Ind nighttr,t one menu
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The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1879-03-08

Washington Star. \ remarkable corn cob,
more than foot long and OF the same CirCum
terence, that Indicate Il large-graned variety
Of corn, has been received al the dcad-lctter Of
fee. 1t was sent 10 Massachusetts paper by
a Kansas granger, who made the postage ON
his package insufficient BY scribbIng ON it the
following explanatory note: in Kansas we
iatten our purp on the corn. and then we use
these cohs for stove wood TO roast the purp
with; and thus in our prairie homes we make
Doth ends meet (meat!) In favorable seasons
one stalk has n ltrlc gourd of SHIELDED corn
growing on it for chickens"
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1879-03-08

Fowio n ORClGNRps-Last fall We visited
m orchard in which fowls were kept the own
er of which told us that before the fowls were
confined in it, the trees made little or nc
growth, and only Il corresponding amount Of
fruit was obtained But what change was
evident now The grass was kept down tho
weeds killed, and the trees presented M ap
pearancc of thrift. which the most cnthu~ia>
tic hOrticuturlst could not but admire and en-
w. The growth of the trees WAS most y;gnr
Gus, and the foliage remarkably lUHlri'"' -,
trlllt was abundant, OF lar..- SIZE ana free from
worms and other impcrtcCtlOn-. The excel
lencc was accounted tor by the proprietor, who
remarked that the chen ate all the worms and
curcuho in their reach even the Cankcr-Worm :
He found less trouble with their roostiny il
trees than he expected, and that II picket fence
SIX feet high kept them within bounds. His
orchard was divided into three sections, and
he fowls were changed from one TO another
as the condition Of the fowls or the orchard
sections seemed to require PANTRY IT"rH.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1879-03-08

A correspondent of the Westcw christian
.iRc0cdtc estimates that mot less than 14OOOOO
gallons of whisky ale sold annually by the
druggists of the United States and that, in
edition to this, the drugstore traffic i'll bran
dies, wines, cordials, bitters, and other forms
Of intoxicating drinks, sold in the n0,"c Of
medicine will amount to ten million gallons
annually. lie ventures the opinion that more
than "nincty.nnc hundrcdths of tins goes to
make drunkards rather than to cure disease
and ",nat 4 causes a thousand times more di-
scasc than it cures" There il little doubt that
the estimate OF the extent of the drug store
liquor traffic though large, is rather under
than ovcrstatcd. That it greatly aggrayatcs
disease, and leads thousands too proud 10 pa
troniAc common drinking saloons and grog
shops, is only too painfully certain. 1t is q
phase of the liquor problem which we com
mend to more General and thoughtful consd-
Grafton, with Il view 10 RESTRAINING the great
evil involved
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1879-03-08

In 1890 thirty drstlllcrics made 100000
gallon, ef liquor in Maine; now there is not
u di>tilery or brewery in the state In 1882
there were sold by 1000 taycrns, hotels and sd
looms Sl0,000000 worth of liquors, or $50 to
each inhabitant In lS,T the aggregate sales
of one hundred and sixty town agencies were
100000, or fifteen cents 10 each inhabitaRt
Including clandcstiuc sales. the highest total
for the year claimed is $lO00000, or 50 iol
cACh lnhAhiinML
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When freshly spilled, ink can nr removed
from carpets by wctting IN milk. Take cot
combating and soak up all the ink that twill
receive, being careful not to let tsprcad. Then
take fresh cotton wet in milk and sop it NJ
carefully. Repeat thi. operation. changing
The cotton and milk each lImr After most OF
The ink has been taken up in this way, with
fresh cotton and clcan, rub The spot Continue
until all disappears; then wash the spot IN
clean. warm water and u little soap: rinse IN
clear water, and rub until nearly dry. Fol
INK spots on marble wood or paper. apply
ammonia clear; just welting the spot repeatedly
till the ink disappears.
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FARM AND GARDEN.
CnrresnOn,ience

We shall be glad to receive for publication
in tliS department, short and pointed commu
nicationS from farmers gardeners Htock-rai''
crs and others, ON any topic Of general inter
est to agriculmrists The name and poNtolilrr
address should accompany each letter, MOI
necessarily for publication, bat a. "a guaranty
OF good faith. Ii Is our purpose to open thIS
column to Il free exchange of experience ana
opinions between its readers.
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rla- 40 equal ut,r market. We warrant u ., worr wei
with .rhrr hard or SOFT coal or VOID.
CAN Hul uNBIulUuI.
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Is publication that must prove OF incalcuiaIlc bnh
FarmGra. Mechanics and Business Mcn IL II so RAPID
and Oyg atsrtle the most scholarly, ana yet so
simple ard I,Tcir1! that The most Nheioto In tgues can
GStgrpeGq,ig hccomc Ills own accountant II enables
thu- and ICcGI Dh in mlHutc what they could not
iedfuU &C. calculate H. many months.
Tho hrat part contains ~ entirely He NBden o! iaOes
which show Jiucr the exact vane OF all Kinds oil
Grain stock Hay. Coal Lumber, Merchandise, etc, from
uO,ha up iOGd and Tor any price ina. the mar
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g. = aud ~ Der correct measurement of AL KINDS
of Lumber, Saw Logs Cisterns, Tanks Granaries Bhs
Wagon Beds. Corn Cribs Time, Waves and many other
valuable tables
The Second part il p,0ctild Arithmetic and embodies
a smplt mathematical principle which enables ann 0ne
familiar with the fundamental rules TO become H1htnmg
rirUy aud by which over hrO hdS OF the figures and
labor required the ordinary methods aad ftpconS with
their int rcacirs, are entirety dr0iief .
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and elegantly hound In pocket boo" shade ana II accom-
panied hy sicute slate memorandum and pocket tor
papc II by far thcmost complete comprehensive ana
convenient pocket manual ever published. 1870 -
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