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The Red Cloud chief., 1879-11-20
Irrigation Of Colorado Farms.

There is no doubt that nearly every
n who visits this region for the first
time, even if partially informed about it
beforehand, is g%rievously disappointed
at the arid aspect of the plains, and
finds it hard To believe in the power of
that great beneficent agent, Water,
which can make every inch of these
tablelands and valleys, or the sage-brush
wastes of the Humboldt region, or the
Egyptian desert itself. literally ..blos-
som like the rose" This is a compare
lively rainlesS area, the Z" barren and dry
land, where no water is" Of the Psalm
list and Yet a means has been found of
noe only supplying the place of the rains
heaven, of but also of making such supply
constant and regular. An intelligent
and experienced writer saws: sIrriga-
ton is simply scientific farming. The
tiller of the soil is not left at the mercy
of fortuitous rains. His capital and la
Dor are not risked upon an adventure.
He can plan with all the certainty and
confidence of a mechanic. He is a
chemist whose laboratory is a certain
area OF land: every thing but the water
is at hand-the bright sun, the potash,
and other mineral ingredients mot
washed out of the soil by centuries of
rain). His climate secures him always
from an excess of moisture, and what
nature fails to yield, greater or less, ac-
cording to the season, the farmer sup
plies from his irrigating canal. and with
1t he introduces. without other labor,
the most valuable fertilizing ingredients,
with which the water, in its course
through the mountains, has become
charged"
Water is thus both for the farmer and
the herder-and the ranchman, who is
both farmer and herder-the sine ana
non, the prime necessity: and Just here
did N see how well Uncle Pete had
chosen his situation. He had nine miles
water frontage on the ST. Charles
Creek, and the same on the Muddy.
Just where the former out of the
Wet Mountain range, and where no one
could take water above him. he had tap
ped it for his broad irrigating ditch,
which, after a tortuous course through
The estate, emptleS again into the stream
which II came, not a drop of its
contents being thus wasted.
Along the upper side Of the fields living
Oh this gentle slope before described run
smaller bitches. Then during the sea-
does the skillful Mexican laborer dig
title channels leading down through
hese fields. and. making little dams for
he purpose, turn the water into them.
The result is simple: Uncle Pete has
aised 10000 bushels of wheat, 5000 of ,
'ats, and 200 Of corn, and had a market !
or the whole on the spot, it being one {
# the charms of Colorado farming that =,
he "honest miner" is both hungry and :
and that the farm produce has 9
eady buyers. Suppose, however, that
our present purpose we call farming II
side issue. and come to the cattle
7hich this. ranch would support all the
round. 1t is said that when Ken b
lcky cattle men, fresh from the "Blue- "
The Red Cloud chief., 1879-11-20
School and Church.

In Georgia there are over 100, 0OI
colored Baptists, connected with -
associations.
1t is proposed 10 organize a nation
III association for the inspection of the
religious instruction in the public schools
of Scotland.
The year 1880 will complete asemi-
millennium of the English Bible, the
translation of the New Testament by
Nyckliffc having been issued in 1850.
In connection with S~puroeon'S
church in London are 50 colporteurs.
They visit 10000 families every month.
The visits last year numbered 92G, go.
The Methodist pastor at Oconto.
Wis, has informed his congregation.
officially, that he will o preach again
until they pay him enough of his past
due salary to buy a suit of clothes fit to
wear in the pulpit.
1t is estimated that over 100000
colored people have been added To the
Methodist Church since the war. They
have caused more than "a thousand
churches 10 be built, and more than B.
600 colorcd young men are in their aid
schools in the South.
The Red Cloud chief., 1879-11-20
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
Personal and Literary.

Mrs. Scott-Siddons has obtained a
decree OF separation 10y mutual consent
from her husband in England.
MIR. Herbert Spencer is said To have
lately almost suddenly recovered health.
and is better than he has been for Is
years.
Bret Harte is likely TO resign, on
OF the effect of the climate Of
Cufeid, Germany, upon his health.
Like James Russell Lowell, he does not
find the position Of a diplomat abroad
agreeable.
Edwin Arnold, who is becoming
well known by his Hindoo poem, The
Light Of ASIA" which Oliver Wendell
Holmes honors with lavish praise, is ~
years of age and one of the editors Of
the London Telegraph.
Miss Mary A. IL. Gay, a Georgia
lady, complains that Mark Twain has
been making liberal use of the contents
of a book published by herself il 1868,
under the title Of "Prose and Poetry -
IN the preparation Of his own "Tom
Sawyer" To make good her charge
b is about TO bring out a new edition
of her book.
Mr.. Thomas Littlcton Holt, the
English journalist who has Just died, is
reported To have been the original Of
queer, shabby Montague Tigg, in MAR
tin ChuZzlewit,m though so overdrawn
as TO be barely recognizable. Mr.. Holt
was akindly and genial man, and, rich
or poor, V without friends.
Stuart Robson SAYS Bret Hartc is
not lazy, but slow, faStidious, self-crit-
zeal and frightened. Even when Harte
was a reporter on San Francisco news
papers at hack work, he would labor
over "A little paragraph for hours. While
Harte was writing 1.-TWO Men of Sandy
Bar" Robson and Barrett had hard
work To keep him AT his pen, and he
would be two or three days fashioning a
little speech.
The Cincinnati Commercial saws:
Mrs. Margaret Sullivan, of the editorial
staff of the Chicago Times, draws $40
per week. Mrs. Emily V. Battey, of the
New York SIM, has a large income from
that paper. journalism offers one of
the most practical and lucrative profess
sio Is for The steady work, I'M
broken rs is teaching and many other
cmployments, by the tedious summer
~"vacatio a" the change, vivacity and
eXfilaration of il; its constant develop
my and educating power make il one of
the most delightful of professions to the
woman whose capabilities run i'm this
line. The opportunities it affords for
the culture and improvement of every
faculty are unlimited.
The Red Cloud chief., 1879-11-20

gas Region" see the plains. they are
entirely incredulnus a. Ia their fines,
for stock but the experiences stockmAn
smiles, well knowing that the n~utri,s,as
qualities Of the grass arr simply unsur-
passed. and that III. food for hi cattle
for the whole year j. ready at 4 mini
mum # cost. For their water. again.
Uncle Petc's splendid creek frontage
more than amply provided a. 4
Hayes, Jr., iH HaVsr's for Sor,DsB<r.
The Red Cloud chief., 1879-11-20

Miss Thicker, the author of "Sig-
nor Monaldini's Niece" upon the death
of her father, her mother being already
dead, fell TO writing for her livelihood.
and some of her early stories were pub
lished in Harper's and Putnam's maya
zines. Much of her work appeared I'M
der a pseudonym. During the war she
was sent to Washington by Gov. An
drew, and there she nursed the soldiers
in the Columbia Hospital, and at the
barracks in Judiciary Square Several
Of her other works have appeared in
book form, among which are "The
House of Yorke," "Grapes and
Thorns," and six Sunny Months"
The Red Cloud chief., 1879-11-20
Science and Industry.

Professor Gray, il Is announced by
The New York Tribune, has been recoS,
nized as the original inventor of IN,
telephone, and is 10 receive 20 per cent
OF The profits from the rental If the ma
chimes in America.
DR.. ID. l.. PIIARES of Wilkinson
County, Miss, it is said, has discovered
a proceSshy which he can make sorghum
slrup equal Ia finest Louisiana sirup. II
Is claimed, also, that from good sorghum
cane 200 barrels of molaSses, or 5000
pounds OF sugar, can be made 10 the
acre.
A striking Illustration of the COM
mercial changes that have taken place
during the last few wears is afforded Inv
me leather trade. Formerly the best
grades of leather used in this country
were imported from abroad. Now there
Is a strong foreign demand for Amcri-
can red sole leather, and il is developrd
10y our commercial reports, to-day, that
oak tanned leather is being exported 10
Europe from Allegheny County tan
nerieS.
"A new oil region has been discov-
cred in Trumbull County. O., and one of
ITS pecullaritieS is a well OF the finest
~iubrlcating oil, neal West Mecca. flow
ing live barrels a day, refined and ready
Tor use on the incest machinery. Speech
iators have leased 1900 acres in the Vi
cinlty at enormous prices, for the oil
brings $40 a barrel, while that of the
Pennsylvania oil region brings less than
20 cents.
Firearms frequently burst when the
muZzle has been accidentally closed
with earth, snow, etc. Prof. Forbes's
explanation of this fact is very simple.
III IN charge moved slowly a very slight
pressure of air in the barrel would he
sufficient to clear the muzzle. but, as the
charge actually travels with a speed
o than the velocity of sound, the re-
slstance offered by the obstacle becomes
excessive and the gun bursts. 1t has
been demonstrated mathematically that
the pressure generated by a plug of the
density OF AIR Is seven and a half tons.
1t would certainly be a great boon.
saws Prof: John Trowbridge, if the gen
eral level of scientific education could
be raised, SO that each Young man or |
woman when he or she leaves school
should have enough definite KNOWLEDGE
OF the great laws of the physical universe
to instantly denounce blue-glass theo-
mes N attempts at perpetual motion.
not from the pride of knowledge. but
from the feeling that error, credulity.
and superstition should be combated
with truth.
The Red Cloud chief., 1879-11-20
Foreign Notes.

81 have searched for truth. and no.
where could l find it, not even i'm NV.
self; therefore / die" This singular
note was found on the body of a Russian
nobleman who recently committed sui
eide with a pistol.
DR.. Falk has been nominated As 4
candidate for the Prussian Landtag in
more than a dozen constituencies. the
people not having forgotten that while
he was Education Minister the teachers
increased by 1900 and the pupils by
100000.
Much interest has been felt in Flor
ence at the discovery of over 600 paint
ings belonging to the masters of the six
teenth century, laid away to rot and
perish in Government buildings; the au-
thorities intend placing them in the roy
al gallery of the Ufizi. .
Eastern Siberia is menaced by fam
inc: the prices of grain r higher than
were ever known before, and the poorer
classes are suffering severely. The har-
vest is extremely poor and the cattle
The Red Cloud chief., 1879-11-20
Superintendent Elliott. of the r,

superintendent Elliott, of the Bos-
ton public schools, condemns school ex-
hibitions Is they are too often con-
Quoted, and says that "all the para
phernalia of rewards and punishments,
ranks, per centages, extras, merits,
checks and the rest are among the chief
hindrances 10 moral and intellectual
The Red Cloud chief., 1879-11-20

-Aufglnn le4T.~ arrauzr4 ou 3 -
velvet background aud framed ar
thing nea IN tbe xay - picture TIE
ieaF@ shoGh ~ g@l sad seems a
Town with neeziie aad THREAD
The Red Cloud chief., 1879-11-20

John e. Save MT stos1g. aH1 f
recent death a hfs ssi-t daaghf~r g
sarah r. s4xe. q b 1
him Phyieal iajay.
The Red Cloud chief., 1879-11-20

Mrs. Hemans never went to school,
but picked up an education. She began
writing poetry at Z.
The Red Cloud chief., 1879-11-20
Odds % Ends.

A brass band-Adollar-store brace
let.
-"This world is but a fleeing show"
and il is the same way with the circus.
-"Alas! this is a drop too much"
said the fellow who wa about to be
hanged.
The People's vindicator., 1879-01-18

On last Monday about II a. m. old
Sol made several poor efforts to show
himself but was sent to g.ass every
time in a handsome style by q dense
black cloud, much to tho dissatisfac
| ton Of the average hummer who was
in search Of warm place. After
several rounds and knock downs, old
Sol made one more kick and succeeded
in holding his own for the balance Of
tho day and the grandeur which he
put on gave Natchitoches a spring
like appearance. All mankind was
hapry and everything about town
looked serene and lovely. Had Bro.
Jasper, Of Virginia, been here, would
have been satisfied that the press is
entirely wrong in regard to his ideas
on the "Sun DO Move;' for wo did
see the "sun mOve"-a corner loafer
though, from one side OF tho street to
the other.
New ORLEANS. La, Jan. l3, 70.
Peoples Vindicator:
Constitutional Convention bill has
passed the House. Weightman the
only Democrat voting against it. Pas
sed first reading in Senate. Ten re-.
publicans opposing will delay ito
final passage until Wednesday. Hard
ly practable to adjourn on Saturday
as proposed. Hornsby very sick or
dered to hospital. Will cost Nat
chitocbes parish seven dollars per day
for guards. Shall We stand will she
pay it. MI. G.
Marshal Kile parades the streets
with no business in his hands. This
speaks well for the morals of our city.
To us, the Marshal reminds us Of a
picture We have seen on "Hope -
hoping for something to turn up you
know, and woe be to the fellow who
happens to fall in his hands, won't he
jerk him around lively, though, it is
our candid opinion that no will. You
bet!
Our City Fathers attention are needed
on Pavie street between Fourth and
Fifth, to a small lagoon near Mr.. Smiths
residence, which has been there for sev-
eral years to our knowledge, and makes
it very disagreeable for pedestrians to
travel on that part Of the street when it
rains. The dcnizens of that vicinity have
an idea that our City Fathers intend to
lot that lagoon remain as it is for summer
excursions to Sunday School children.
An enterprising gentleman in that locali-
ty is making preparations to put up a
dockyard to built boats for the benefit Of
those who wish to enjoy a pleasant trip
over the placid waters of that beautiful
lake where the voice of the musical frog
can Ike heard.
DOWN GOES THE PRICE!
The People's vindicator., 1879-01-18
NO MORE HARD TINES!

A Wright Good Lunch for 4Oc ut Gus
Wright's, consisting Of Oyster Soup,
Beef Steak, Java Coffee, Bread and But.
ter; pickles and all sorts Of seasonipgs
furnished free.
Oysters Stewed Or Fried, SOC per dozen;
Raw, 4Oc.
Families sending buckets for Big Fat
Opened Oysters will be supplied through
out the entire season ut 25c per dozen.
Some Of our fashionable young men,
who are now trying to educate and nurse
u moustache rs lady-killsr, we are
sorry to say are very extravagant with
their ''loose change" at the fairs. We
have been informed Of ono who went to
the ladies' fair, held for the benefit of tho
Methodist Church, remarked that "money
with him was no object when he spent
it for charitable purpose" Now this
young swell don't part bis hair in the
middle or sport q pin, but We must say
that his moustache 10 waxed q Ia Fisk
aud was never known to carry IN
opera glass for which we give him
credit. While taking stroll through the
hall, he saw fried oysters on . table tho
vendor Of tho bivalves was . beautiful
young lady, our young man braced him
self up, seen that tho cape Of bis over.
coat laid on his mantle shoulders, like
that he had seen in pictures Of tho noted
Italian brigand, that Shakespeare
wrote about, made one slept toward
tho lsdy's table, with all the style Of .
Chester6eliian, doffed his hat, made
ono step back and bowed. oh, you
should have seen that bow. How hor-
rid. 1t was damper on old Chester
field, We must Say. After parleying with
the rules ofetiquetto, he managed to cay {:
"A Boo-ti full evening, Miles," scene, an
other bow, and hat falls on the floor, bends
to pick itnp, and the way goss his COL
lar. Our young mans face gets a. rcd a.
a boiled lobster. Finally he says he is
feeling unwell, and would like to purchase
10 cents worth Of fried oysters, to which
the young lady very blusLingly replies
that they are oil sold, aud very sorry
that she cOuld not accommodate him, hut
it he lived long enongh, which abe hoped
he would, to No the briny waters in Cane
river, he could then satisfy himself with
as many as he choosed by merely fishing
for them. To which he replied, "thats
3d." and walked Of down % some house
and got himself on The outside Of glass
Of white wine to wash down the oysters
he didn't Rct,
The People's vindicator., 1879-01-18
THE SUN FOR 1879.

Tne Sux will be publishsd evsrv dav Aur1rr
the yesr 70 come. IL purpose and notheS viii
BE- tke ssme ~ In tho psst: To nrsssnf IN ~:
news in . readable share. and % tell tke frstS
though tho heavens fall.
Ths Sun has boon. is. and will continue - -
the truth and its own Convictions Of d1fy. fSs1
need ed Eve. fSst I. tho policy VhieS ~ ~ ~
this neWspepor tho con&deHos sad ffie1dsSin ~
= wider conetituency than NJ ever 6e(bfS an.
loved by any other lmorican joornal.
The Sun IL tho newspaper Tor tho pssple. Il
is not for the rich man sesinst the poor nas, "
weeks to do equal Justice to Ill intsrssts n the
community. Il 10 not tho organ Of any person,
class sect or party. There need b 20 ntstsry
about its loves and hates. Il 10 for tho henest
man against the rogues every time. Il Il lor tls
honest Democrat :. against tho aishonsst RsD.
nblican, and for tho honest Republican asagai1ss
the dishonest Dcmocrat. Il dess not take its one
organization. 1t gives IT. support unFoeeevodly
when men OF measures sro IN agreeoaeo With
tho Constitution and with tho pflucipolS upQn
which this Republic VA founded loP tho poColD.
Whenever tho Constitutaon end eo1stitstiesal
principles are violsted-ss In ths estEaessas
wss placed in tho rresident's o6es, vherS hs
nm remainsit spseks out for thS Iieht, Thati io
The sun;s ides Of ma udence. III An fssseef
there Vtll be no chanee n tho proefanme fof -
Tho Sun has fairly earned tho 6ooFty ho6soA
Of rascals. frauds. and hunbue of m ~ ~
sises. Il hopes 70 dss.rve Us 6as1si Ut ies
in tho year ts7s than IL ls7e, is77, o. ~ ~
wicked With unmitieated briehtaess.
while the lesson of the psst Ohould b 90.
1tantly kent beforo tho po0plo, Tho 6un dopu
NO propose TO make itselftn 1s5D naeasiao u
The People's vindicator., 1879-01-18
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS,
Estimate Parish Expenses.

Natchitoches, Oct. 2lst, 1879.
To tho Hon. President and Members of
the Police Jury Of tho Parish of Match.
itOches.
Gentlemen IL have the honor to sub
nit for your consideration, the following
Estimate of tho amount required for the
payment Of the Expenses Of this Parish
for the year 1879, viz: Sherifrs salary,
per annum, except maintaining prisoners
in Jail, conveying prisoners to Penitcn.
tiary; expenses in pursuing criminals
outside Of Tho Parish; conveying priso-
ners from another State under requisi-
ton executing prisoners condemned to
death, and the collection of forfeited
Bonds. Two thousand dollars. $4,000 90
The People's vindicator., 1879-01-18
A Steamer 8unk.

We learn It this writing (Thussdayl
that the Red river steamer Texas,
wss sunk at 8. P. landing on ysster-
day 18th inst. Particulars have not
been received. NJ lives Lost ~ fal
~ can 10 ascertained. Among the
passensers IN board THE i'll iatod
steamer were Col. Wm. N. Levy and
Jadge D. Pierson Of tbis parish-ths
former, ex.congressman from THE per-
ish and tho latter tho present presi.
ding Judge Of tho 18th Judicial Die.
trict. We congratulate tho gsntle.
man on their fortunate escape. It ID
said tho craso will be savsd and per.
haps the boat. PArticalars will b
moro fslly given - ascestained.
The People's vindicator., 1879-01-18
Grand Ecore
WAREHOUSE.

WIN. FRENCH, Proprietor.
HAVING purchashed tho business Of
III Chambers Il Barbeo ut this point,
and secured their services, am prepar.
ed to store and forward promptly, all
freights and cotton consigned to my care.
Rates Of storage in future will be q
follows:
Fifteen Cents per barrel for freights.
Thirty-fivo Gents per bale for Cotton.
WI. FRENCH.
March eft.
The People's vindicator., 1879-01-18
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""'y WHVsNOssssVc SOV WOW ~ NtO NC1O
nading party and was only sosry
that he had no "sOlid" refreshments
to offer them.
Boo-tifnl snow has departed, hut Mr..
Slash remaineth-he is u cousin Of that.
Bootifnl Sn- You knew. We are sorry to
announce that he is going to remain here
long enough to let Jos johnson sell out
all his wood. We have no objection to
Joe selling Oh the wood be can, but We
object most strenuously against Mr.
Slush remaining with us. Joe il about
the only one in this city who has any
love for this Slush. The merchants and
our country cousins are terribly down on
the whole Slush family. The people Of
our city and Ne ono Of the people have to
pay for Mr.. Slush's visit at sl.2s pr load.
There have been several games in
vogues during the cold snap in our city
which has placed . little money in cir
culation. "Twenty-oae and "Froeze Out, !"
seems to be tho leading games just now,
and il things don't take . change for the
hotter, the latter game win play tho
deuce with NEST Of % foe tho want Of
fuel. That Old citizen (ths old pioneer
veteran ws msen) ssys he doesn't cell 70
mind any sach cold weather we ass hav.
ing in I'll bis dsya. and that tho top Of
the North Pole has been broken and fell
somewhsfe aboat Sibleys Lake. He
must have made . terrible impression
upos sons of esr youns ffienda y W
ars isl6r,Ded that thsy we're sssn hlnt-
Ing ~ Pslaf bsae aad - Liea aseana
~ isshssp & ~ ni1l-lan.
The People's vindicator., 1879-01-18

A Wright Good Lunch for 4Oc ut Gus
Wright's, consisting Of Oyster Soup,
Beef Steak, Java Coffee, Bread and But.
ter; pickles and all sorts of se,.sonipgs
furnished free.
The People's vindicator., 1879-01-18
NOTICE.

NOTICE.
UNITED STATES LAND OFFICE. !
Natchitoches, La, Dec. ;, 1873.
Complaints having been entered st this
Office by William Ebert, Natchitochee La.
against James r. Smith for abandoning
bic Homestead Entry No. 937, dated July
2Sth, 1873, upon the South half Of tho
North East quarter Section IA, Township
North, Range SWest, In Natehitochss
Parish, Louisiana, With . Wow to tho
cancellation Of said entry, tho said par
tics are hereby summoned to appear at
this Office on tho 18th day Of February,
1879, st 10 o'clock A. ", to respond and
furnish testimony concerning said al.
legged abandonment.
L. DUPLEX, Register.
A. E LEAEE, Receiver.
Dec. 7-5t.
The People's vindicator., 1879-01-18

Bayard Tsylors lie was insured
for 90 co.