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The Columbus journal., 1879-02-12

The following very homely but
singularly instructive lesson is by
81. Phillip Neri:
A lady presented herself TO him
one day accusing herself of being
given TO SANDER. do you fire.
quently fall into this fault?" in
quired the Saint. 'Yes, fsther,ve
Often" replied the penitent. "My
dear child" said the Saint, "your
fault is great, but the mercy of God
lie still greater; for your penance do
as follows: Go to the nearest mar
ket, purchase a chicken just killed
and still covered with feathers; you
will then walk TO a certain distance,
plucking the bird as you 60 along /;
your walk finished, you will return
TO me-"
Great was the astonishment Of the
lady in receiving so strange a pen
ance; but silencing all human reas-
oning, she replied, 81 will obey you,
father, / will obey" Accordingly
she repaired to the market, bought
the fowl and set out on her journey,
plucking it as she went along as she
had been ordered.
In a short time she returned anx-
ious TO tell Of her exactness in ac-
complishing her penance, and de-
sirous TO receive some explanation
OF one SO singular.
"Ah!" said the Saint, "you have
been very faithful to the first part
of my orders; now do the second
part, and you will be cured. Retrace
your steps; pass through all the
places you have already traversed,
and gather up one by one all the
feathers you have scattered"
"But, father" exclaimed the poor
woman, that is impossible. / cast
the feathers carelessly on every side;
the wind carried them in different
directions; how can recover
them?"
"Well, my child" replied the
Saint, $50 il is with your words of
SANDER; like the feathers which the
wind has scattered, they have been
waited in many directions call
them back if you can. Go and sin
no more"
History does not tell if the lady
was converted; but it is probable.
1t required a Saint to give the les
son; one should be a fool not to
profit by it.
The Columbus journal., 1879-02-12

When the Philistine goes to the
church fair and sees the minister
draw the Shakespeare, the minister's
wife the set of furs, his daughter the
piano, the senior deacon the horse
and carriage and the sexton a barrel
of flour, be comes away sadly conf
dent that he knows why the heather
SO furiously rage together.
The Columbus journal., 1879-02-12

An old bachelor said, There's
more jewelry worn nowadays than
when was young. But there's one
piece that 1 always admired which
| don't often see now" "What is
that?" asked a young lady. "a
thimble," was the reply. He was
regarded with contempt and scorn
by every lady in the room for the
rest of the evening.
The Columbus journal., 1879-02-12

The rage for selecting funny titles
for sermons has extended all the
way TO the usually quiet town OF
Salem, n. j. A Methodist clergy
man of that place disturbs the ha-
bitually unruf1led calm which per-
vades the place by announcing that
he will preach on "The Devils Hog
killing Time"
The Columbus journal., 1879-02-12

Leonard Turner, of Muscatine
Iowa, has been arrested for obtain.
ing money under false pretenses
He claimed to be Jesus Christ, and on
that representation borrowed 5000
of an innocent old Dutchman. The
world is better than it used to be-
Jesus Christ couldn't borrow fifteen
cents in Jerusalem.
The Columbus journal., 1879-02-12

The two most precious things on
this side of the grave are our repu-
tation and our life. Bnt it is to be
lamented that the most contempti-
bic whisper may deprive us of the
one, and the weakest weapon of the
other. A wise man, therefore, will
be more anxious to deserve a fair
name than TO possess it, and this will
teach him so to live as not to be
afraid to die,
The Columbus journal., 1879-02-12

What are those purple posies
down by the brook? 2" asked Gus.
"If you mean," replied Clara, "those
glorious masses of empurpled effior-
escence that bloom in the bosky
dells and fringe the whipping
streamlets. they are campanula ro-
tundifiora.r
The Columbus journal., 1879-02-12

An old gentleman of "a, and his
bride, aged 80, entered railway car
the other day and took seat by the
stove. A youth, occupying the seat
behind, says he overheard the fol-
lowing: Old gentleman to bis bride
-"Who's a little lamb?" Bride
"Bofe of u.s.
The Columbus journal., 1879-02-12

We notice Mr.. Grimm of the State
Legislature thinks printers ought to
have enterprise enough to work for
nothing. Suppose Mr.. Grimm has
enterprise enough to pay his own
bills while he is working for the
people at the legislature. II is his
own physic he will not take.-Bur-
tOntdn.
The Columbus journal., 1879-02-12
I .adies are like urafchas-

Ladies are like watches-pretty
enough to look at; sweet faces and
delicate hands, but somewhat diff
cult to regulate" after they are set
sgoing.
The Columbus journal., 1879-02-12

One difference between sailors aud
soldiers is that sailors tar their ropes,
while soldiers pitch their tents.
The Columbus journal., 1879-02-12
JOB WORK

OF all kinds neatly and quickly
done, at fair prices. This species
of printing is nearly always want
ed in a hurry, and, knowing this
fact, we have so provided for it
that we can furnish envelopes, let
ter heads, bill heads, circulars,
posters, etc., etc., on very short
notice, and promptly on time as
we promise.
The Columbus journal., 1879-02-12
u MON PACIFIC
OFFICE,
SAMUEL C. SMITH Agent,

A TTENDS TO ALL BUSINESS per-
IA tainining to a general Real Estate
Agency and Notary Public. Have in
stTuctiOns and blanks furnished by
United States Land Office for making
final proof on HOmesteads, thereby saw
ing trip to Grand Island. Have large
number OF farms, city lots and all lands
belonging to u p. r. r. in Platte and
counties for sale very cheap.
Attend to contesting claims before U. s.
Land office.
0slce one Door West Of Hammond House,
COLUMBUS, NEB.
F. W. OFT, Clerk.
Speak. Germpn.
The Columbus journal., 1879-02-12

No other road runs Pullman Hotel Cars, or any
other form Of Hotel Cars, through, between the
Missouri River and Chicago.
The Columbus journal., 1879-02-12

Single copy sent 60 any address
in the United States for cts.
n. K. TURNER & CO.,
Columbus, Nebraska.
The Columbus journal., 1879-02-12
CHICAGO & NORTH WESTERN
RAILWAY,

kkAI6VVAK,
The Great Trunk Line from the West 20
Chicago and the East.
Il is the Oldest, shortest most direct convenient
comfortable and In e-ery respect the best line YOU
can take. II is the greatest and grandest Railway
organization In the United States. IL owns OF
controls
The Columbus journal., 1879-02-12
2ioo MILES OF RAILWAY

PULLMAN HOTEL CARS are run alone
by it through between
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1879-12-24
LATEST MARKET QUOTATIONS..
FLOUR. GR4IS AND MEAL

ATLANTA-Flour: Superfne, $; family,
$3.50; extra family, $7.75: fancy, $500 Rbbl.
Wheat-the following prices are miller's
buying prices: Tennessee, choice white,
$1.4001.50; Tennessee medium, $1.30G11 40.
Corn Choice white, 70(672c; yellow, 65067c.
Oats: 4715(150c for feed oats, and 0a75c for
seed Meal is in demand at 72a75c. Grits,
s4 p.
ST. LOUIS-Flour: Double extra fall, 500
05.8O; treble do, $5.OO@5.49; family $6.15
@6.2O; choice to fancy, $6.25@6.70. Wheat:
No. 2 red fall, S1.255sa$l, "a; No. 3, do $1.2434
Corn, lower, sc. Oats: 38a381ac.
LOUISVILLE-Flour: Family, $5.2505.50;
A No. 1, $6.00@6.25; choice. $7.00G7.25.
Wheat: Red amber and white s1;2Sa1 30
Corn: White, 46c; mixed, 48c. Oats: White,
4Oc; mixed SOC.
CINCINNATI Family, $615G6. 40.
Wheat: $1.29@l.35. Corn: 4la45c. Oats: 80
@42c.
NEW YORK-Flour: Common to fair ex-
ira S675a7 90; good to choice e. ., S710aS.30.
Wheat: Ungraded winter d, S1.4Sa1.55
No. 2 do, $1.47a1.4S. Corr Ungraded, GA
66He; No; ?. 6?24a6Se. . ats: No. B Ace.
ATLANTA-Eggs: 1Sa20c. Butter: Choice
Tennessee, % 15a25c. Poultry: Large, lSa23c;
hens, % 1Ia25c; small sizes, 13a17c. Sweet
potatoes: 60a65c pei bushel. Irish potatoes:
$1.75a3.00 per barrel.
BALTIMORE-Butter Prime to choice
western packed, 20a22c. Eggs: 2la22c.
Awe aTOt
ADVANTAGEOUS Tennessee cattle Sc
common 11%a2%e; Georgia raised, 1 1za2c.
Sheep &c for choice,
CINCINNATI-Hogs Common s2.75a3.40
light. sS.4Oa3.75; packing, 3.S0a4.90 butch
ers, 3.S0a3.90.
PEG VISEONE.
ATLANTA-Bulk meat: Clear rib sides,
re; pork strips, 611c. Bacon; Sugar cured
hams, 10%a 1O34e; sides, SIC; shoulders, 54c;
breakfast, SaS34c.
BALTIMCRE-Mes pork, sl4 90. Bull,
meats: loose shoulders, none; clear sides,
IKE. Bacon: Shoulders, &c; clear rib sides,
8%c;hams, 101&a11 re. Lard, refined in fierce,
SIZE.
CINCINNATI-Pork $3.50 Lard, ne.
Bulk meats: Shoulders, 47sc; clear ribs, On
67kc; short clear 794c. Bacon: Shoulders, lzc
short ribs, 73lc hams, 911ai0IGc.
NEW YORK-Mess pork, So 50a12 70
long clear, 7I9c; short do 72sc, Lard 81 ST.
a7.95,
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1879-12-24
Aw.a-a-y TO umana.
[BurIington Hawkeye.I


Occasionally you will meet a young
man who gets on the train somewhere in
Ohio, and when some fellow passenger
asks him how far he is going he will say
"Omahap in the tone of a brakeman
calling a station, and then looked up
and down the car to observe the amaze
ment and awe of the other passengers,
and you will notice that he looks little
bit disappointed because they do not
take off their hats and ask to shake
bands with him and want to know where
he comes from and all about him. But
by and by, when he learns from casual
remarks dropped carelessly now and
then that the man behind him is going
to San Francisco, and the one in front
of him is going to japan, and the old
fellow on the other side of the aisle is
Just returning from st. Petersburg, the
young man drops his voice to husky
whisper, shrinks down into his duster SO
that no one can see him, and tells the
next man who asks him about it that he
is only going out here little way.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1879-12-24

fruit trees thrifty and in healthy, grow
ing condition, the soil about them must
needs be fortified from time to time,
either by the direct application of barn
ward or commercial fertilizers, or the
blowing under of clover and kindred
crops.
In this section mode is adopted which
gives the best results, and which should
be more universally known and practiced,
viz late in the fall, place about each
treeclose to the base, nearly one bushel
of well r0tted barnyard manure, obserg-
ing chat 1t contains no other material in
which mice could build a nest After
the ground has become free from frost in
the spring, throw few kernels upon the
manure about few of the trees, and the
barn yard fowls, if allowed the run of
the orchard, viii soon scatter the manure
in a very thorough manner. This is not
the only point gained by this practice.
The fowls destroy millions of insects that
during the summer and early autumn
seek protection or burrow near the base
of fruit trees When this plan is fol-
lowed, year after year, the apple tree
borer is almost unknown, for the reason,
no doubt, that the fowls get accustomed
to, and do actually visit nearly every tree
daily for weeks after all the manure is
finely mixed with the surface soil This
plan also renders the blowing of orchards
quite unnecessary. Neither is it required
to dig up the soil about the base Of the
trees, rs the feathered tribe docs it all
quite effectually, and to the fruit grow
ers' satisfaction and beneft.-[New York
D9DpT
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1879-12-24
Care OF the Ewes.

A writer in HdrpeT's Bdz0r has an arti-
Gle on the care of the eyes, but as he
fails to exhaust his subject, we add a
few additional rules, and if they succeed
In exhausting the reader, we shall feel
amply repaid for our time and trouble
in compiling them:
Never read, write or sew by gaslight.
1t is exceedingly hurtful to the eye. Al
ways, when possible, use a kerosene lamp,
one low enough to enable you to sit with
it under your nose. Not only is this
practically recommended by The worst
oculists, but there is also the delicious
perfume so grateful to a cultivated
taste.
When outdoors, always protect your
visual organs with colored glasses. Be-
sides being a great ornament to the nose,
they prevent the daylight reaching the
eye. Nothing is so bad as daylight for
the eye. Of course you will remove
your glasses when you enter an arti-
ficially lighted room. It is only natural
light that hurts.
One of the very worst things you can
do for the eyesight is to tell a man big
ger than yourself that his veracity is
doubted. One instance of this kind has
often destroyed a persons sight for
months.
It is also a dangerous practice to use
the keyhOle as an avenue of vision. The
party on the other side may own brad
awl or squirt gun.
To tougher the eye, it is recommended
by good authorities that one sit in the
steam car beside an open window. This,
to be sure, is heroic treatment, but if
persisted in the eye will become so tough
that nothing can penetrate it, not even
light
Reading at twilight is excellent prac-
tice. ltaccustoms the eye to the change
full gradations of receding light until
complete darkness ensues. When blind
ness intervenes, this darkness is perma-
nent and exceedingly restful.
In reading, always place your book
on the table before you, and bend your
face down over it. This will serve to
concentrate your attention upon tho
volume. If you become short-sighted,
as you probably will, so much the better.
Your thoughts will not be likely to be
distracted by distant objects.
1t is a rule followed by all careful
gunners to close both eyes when pulling
the trigger. The danger of any detached
pieces of percussion cap striking the
eyes is thus obviated.
When an infnitesimal atom of dust
strikes your cornea, Immediately mop
your eye with a coarse pocket handker-
chief. 1t will cause you to forget the
pain made by the frst-named foreign
substance.
Space forbids giving the correct rules
for removing a cinder from the eye.
There are four hundred and seventy
three of these rules, any of them per-
fectly efficacious except in the case under
treatment AS signs of rain fail in dry
time, so do rules for extracting cinders
from the eye when there is one there.
Eyes are like good children, and
should never be crossed.
Gentlemen should never look at
brilliantly beautiful woman. 1t engen-
ders enervation of the eyelids, causing
them to nictitate in an unseemly manner.
The eye is the most precious organ of
the body.
President johnson was notaL-y fond
of it.
He spelled it thus: /.
But eye am getting egeyetistical.
Shall eye stop.
Aye!
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1879-12-24
MEXICAN

q Mustang LinimeHt.
81 1t pcnCtrltos muscle, membrane and
81 tissue, to the very bone, banishing pain
u and curing disease with n power that
a never fails. 1t is a medicine needed by
II everybody, from the rdnchero, who rides
his
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1879-12-24
Result of Absent Mindedness.

LH6ckensack hepuDLcansi
AHA! you won that bet, see," said
Main street man to his neighbor as
they started for the train yesterday
morning.
"'Won that betP" he wonderingly re-
piled; what do you meanT'
Oh, you know what mean; let me
congratulate you upon looking so sweet
this morning"
Selling his friend by the arm, the
astonished man who was " looking SO
sweet" turned purple with rage as he
yelled:
Look-a-here! I'm not going to take
any tafy" or nonsense from you;
what are you giving me?"
You needn't get mad about i" said
the taffy tosser; was only compliment
ing you on your new hat"
The "sweet looking" man yanked of
his head covering, gazed at it abstract
eddy moment, and exclaimed:
By lingo! it's my wifes Derby"
Then he lifted up his voice and bel
lowed
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1879-12-24
Well Satisfied.

Lady to peasant-"H How much for that
load Of peat|
Peasant Fifteen francs, madame"
Lady-"Oh, mercy me, that's too dear.
Besides, 1 don't want such small load
i want a two-horse load"
The peasant goes 20 a friend, borrows
his friends horse and bitches it to the
cart beside his own animal, and returns.
Peasant-"Here is a two-horse load,
madame"
Lady-"Ah, that is more like it. How
much?'
Peasant" twenty-five francs, ma
dame"
Lady-"Very we'll; / will take it"
NoTE.-This is very much like the
procedure of the average bar-keeper who,
being asked if that is rye whisky, affects
to be covered with confusion, puts the
bourbon bottle into the ice under the
counter, rattes it, hands it out again,
and beams upon the customer, who says
approximately; oar, that's right; always
give me rye"
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1879-12-24
THE MORRISTOWN GAZETTE
WE'D NEsRAYs DEG. "A, 1879.
s0UTHERN FARI And HOME.


1t is not every farmer who understands
or appreciates the value of c0rn-shucks
as feed for his cattle, and very few who
commonly use them as feed derive all
the benefit from their use that they
might. We have at hand 10 analysis
of corn shucks as compared with other
provender, but experience has often dem
onstrated that they possess value for
that. purpose superior even to corn
fodder, which most farmers have regarded
as a number one feed. Many lumber
men in eastern Virginia, who work
large number of mules and oxen, will
tell you that they prefer the shucks to
fodder, andEerlfy what they say by buy
ing all the1shucks they can get and pay
ing higher price than they will for the
latter. They say there is more nutri-
ment and strengthening principles in
them, and that their teams perform bet
ter work on them than on any other
feed. The lumber men ought to know
what they are talking about, and we be-
lieve they have truth on their side.
Shucks are excellent feed. We do not
say they are the equal to good timothy
or clover hay, for perhaps they are not
but Judging alone from results, apart
from analysis for which we have no great
faith they are certainly only second
best to them, and, cost considered, more
economical to use. AS commonly fed.
however, many farmers lose nearly their
whole value. They should never be
given to cattle uncut, and the cutting
should be as thorough and short as the
instrument is capable of making. All
half-rOtten and nodded shucks should
be rejected, and if well sailed with brine
after passing the machine the cattle will
eat them with much greater relish, not
leaving a single shred to be trOdden I'M
der foot in the litter of the she'd. Oxen
and mules and some horses also. with
nothing but the ordinary farm work to
do, will keep IN good order all winter
on salted shucks alone and mich cows
will also do well and yield plenty of
milk on the same feed, with the addition
of meal or bran, say about a half gallon
to each bushel of the cut feed, poured
upon 1t and mingled with the mass while
still wet with the salt water. In fact we
doubt if a better feed could be invented
for mich cows, and certainly nothing so
good for the same money could be pro
vided them. We advise farmers to make
the best possible use Of their shucks by
cutting them up and feeding them to
their stock during the winter, unless in
deed thoy can sell them for more than
enough to buy all the feed they will
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1879-12-24
A California Story,

Lsan Francisco Correspondence Baltimore SUM-
Pigs run at large in Kern County, AMI
become wild, knowing no owner. This
dry year has made forage scarce. Up
usual collections have been noticed,
seemingly in council, and pigs in pairs
have been seen to leave by different
routes, now supposed to be prospecting
parties, because lately there has been a
general stampede in the direction of
Buena Vista Lake. Into this lake all
plunge daily, and fish for clans that
strew the bottom, under cover of nearly
two feet of water. Their multitudinous
snortings are heard after as they emerge
from claiming to get air. This bivalvular
diet is relished, and fat slaughter is in
preparation.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1879-12-24
A Reverse of Fortune.

When Robert Stephenson was resid,
ing in Columbia and on the point of re-
turning home, he arrived at the port of
| Cartagena, wearied and waiting for a
ship, and while sitting one day in
! large, bare, cOmfortless public room of
| the miserable hotel at which he put up,
he observed two strangers whom he at
| once perceived to be English. One of
| the strangers was a tall, gaunt man,
J shrunken and hollow-lOoking, shabbily
dressed, and apparently poverty-stricken.
| On making inquiry, he found it was
Trevethick, the builder of the first rail-
way lOcOmOtivel He was returning
home from the gold mines of Peru penni-
| less. He had left England in 1916,
with powerful steam-engines, intended
for the drainage and working of the Pc
ruvian mines. He met with almost
royal reception on his landing at Lima.
A guard of honor was appointed to at
! tend him, and it was even proposed to
erect a statueot Don Ricardo Trevethick
in solid silver. It was given forth in
| Cornwall that his emoluments amounted
! to 100000 a year, and that he was max
| ing a gigantic fortune. Great, there
fore, was Robert Slephenson's surprise to
End this patent Don Ricardo in the inn
at Cartagena, reduced almost to his last
shilling, and unable to proceed farther.
He had indeed realized the truth of the
Spanish proverb that "a silver mine
brings misery; a gold mine ruin" He
and his friend had lost everything in
their journey across the country from
Peru. They had forded rivers and wan
dered through forests, leaving all their
baggage behind them, and had reached
thus far with little more than the
clothes on their backs. Almost the only
precious metal saved by Trevethick was
a pair of silver spurs, which he took back
with him to Cornwall. Robert Stephen
son lent him ESQ to enable him to reach
England and, though he was afterward
heard of as an inventor there, he had
no further part in the triumph of the
locomotive,
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1879-12-24
GEO. W. PAXTON,
House, Sign and Ornamental
Pain CT and Paper Hanger,
MoRRIsTowN, Tenn.
Country Work Specially and Liberal
inducements offered.
MORRIsTOwN, Tenn.

Propo a for House and Sign Painting, espe-i ally
cuul ry work so icted, aud when 0Hered me
i'll meet with lib c. sh -pric reduced ates. !
g1arAntsp t. give work III tt wi . cas- and on
T-asou able terms For terms etc, address me al
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