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The south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1879-1883, 1879-12-23

There are some situations where
fever and ague prevails every season,
and this is the case in the vicinity of
creeks and swamps. An acquain-
tunce Of ours, who has resided for
several years OH one of these creeks,
never has had a single cnse of fever
and aguc in his family while all his
neighbors have, been more or, less
affected with it every season. IIe at
tributes his immunity from this trou-
blesome disease to the use of . good
fire in his house every chilly and
damp night in summer and fall,
When tho, Indians travel at night OF
early in the morning in swampv re-
gions they coverthe,rBose a nd mouth
with some part of their garments to
warm the air which they inhale
and this they say prevents chllls and
fevcrs.
The south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1879-1883, 1879-12-23

A rancher in the Sacramento valley
being asked how many cattle he had
answered rs follows; "In 1864 ]
owned n heifer which, when three
years old (lS6D, had a female calf
The same COW has also had n female
calf every year for the past II years
Each of her CALVES commenced tc
breed when three years old, all bear
ing female calves every year there
after. The same rule has attached to
all the herd. Mono have died, been
sold or stolen. I stopped counting
some time ago. Please tell me how
many cattle / have got"
The south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1879-1883, 1879-12-23
NOT 4 CANAAN.
What a Nashville colored Man
Knows about Kansas-Asad Story
NJ ofDeoeption and Suffering: n

lufis r4.pIi y Std
| John Wesley, q blacksmith, who
left here OH the 18th of last Sepiem-
Der with n party of 800 or 400 colored
people, has returned, having, as he
said, got "sorely tired of that sup
posed blackman's Canaan. It did not
take him long TO find out, OH reaching
Topeka, that no and the crowd he
went with, and the hundreds that had
gone before them, Ind been most oIt-
\ ragcously duped. He went into tho
barracks, into which 400 colored pco,
pie had been huddlcd, with little to
eat and less to wear. Provisions
were very high, Three prices were
paid for them. Bulk meat was worth
IA and 10 cents per pound. Wood
sold at 80 and $40 per cord. Rooms
eight feet square rented at IS and $40
per month, and rooms from ten 10
twelve feet square from $40 10 % per
month. Labor WIS worth only 80
cents per day, aud the only work that
could be obtained was husking corn
now and then. No fund had been
provided TO help.1h needy. Nine
hundred colored people were lying
in the barracks at Walbounsey, and
were at the point of starvation. The
women aud children were suffering
for clothing, tile weather being very
cold. When Wesley left Kapsas the
snow was knee deep.
10 went out to Kansas as an ex-.
Federal soldier in hope OF getting
some land, but found that the Gov
crnmcnt lands were $3.50 miles away
from nowhere, in a prairie country
over which the winds from the Rocky
Meuntains swept almost continuous
blasts. The land nearer the railroads
were inlthe hands OF spectators, who
required the settler,to pay down one
fsixth Of the valuation, and charged
fourteen per cent Interest On there
mainder, which generally left the
buyelSas. poor asowhen he landed in
the country" .p,rt..e. ioo .i',iar
1t was estimated that al least 5000 in
cash was necessary TO secure per-
maneut location in Kansas. ~ ag
Wesley, left Solomon Lea, OF the
Thirteenth district of this county, and
Emanuel Grayson, Of Columbia, a,
Kansas. City, on their way back home
They werc footing il. and expected to
reach here BY Christmas, I ! 4
Three hundred and fifty colored
people died in Topeka, last winter
Wesley says, from cold and hunger
| Soon after Wesley's return be was
visi,edby one Young, an emigration
agent, Who hadths impudence lto Tell
him that "all tlie'honest negroes were
| In Kansas ausctlpl ,.rs INK
lie ,tbla Yohhg to move out of hii
shop or he wouldmaul him with q
hammer. Such men as Young ant
Henderson and Griffin were, deceiv'
ing the colored people for the sum Of
81 per head, paid them by railroads to
take them from homes of comfort tc
bleak and ,Pheerless country Hun
ldreds OF colored people would return
il they only had tie menus. "
The south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1879-1883, 1879-12-23
Marrying for Money

al
A magistrate in one, Of the, cities OF
this State wasreccntly observed idriv-
ing through the public street with
his wife, who was evidently engaged
in q yiplent ,altercatien with him,
Finally the wife sprang from the car
rage and threw herselfon a railway
track before q rapidly approaching
locomotive and train of cars. SHE
was rescued by some by ISLANDERS, JUS
in time 10 save her lite, gfk
In the war of words which fol-
lowed the woman said 10 hcrnhus
band; "You married me for my
money"
Whether true or not, these must be
very bitter words for a husband tc
hear. "A piece Of advice given by Tho
profound philosopher, Edward Bull
wery I,yitop, tofa Young friend was
"Neycr marry money, Your wife
may be the best Of women, bnt IL
come wnguardcd moment, and per
haps playfullY aud in ihesoftest tones
she will inevitably remind you oft
II islrue every young man should
hope 10 gnd,a fortune in his wife, !
sooula be however, not In real estate
or in bonds, or in bank accounts; bu
in her own proper precious person
The south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1879-1883, 1879-12-23
"a Tsn.Aore Wife,

u.,l.,,c.,..l c,aii
yesterday solomon OlaSs' COZ
oreu man whose experience III ag'i,
cultural pursuits has ehl'gn'enee MS
Encouragement inYt%,. cpnhP y 'yyn WIN .
yiGw % getting d divorce from my
VIE ,.,.',,,,s " III ..e .,, asTea upon whq'
stoanu q ~ .cpt,yu 5.,ls,,.s,..
- o % Is1, w eiosnas VI uls occa
SION " men l;rel'eu Ten acres ana
Wcikea one ihnie maffi N oman
suitable lor u 'e. pc 1SY nov lsp'
siA,y /, s ao,es 'o' ,'an anu anu WON ilVe
mules My :s wis . lis' : ah.enty
gooa 'cu aofG WIZ ou' sno do., 81 7
.e occasion ~ s,A.y 'I'es. :, "'oo'
om 1, VAIN Gun sp'eal, lio'c'
nen .eiu ~ 's .. 'ia' 'lle
GROUNDS weie NV su'i0'cn'' no ~
hsrAea.
Nh produce ,. q n n'Slly % snow
wiiar III catecA. isa icafneu MAJ
The south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1879-1883, 1879-12-23
NUMBER 49.
HORRIBLE.
AND LIKEWISE MIRAcuLous7-A hoy s
HEAD SAWED IN TWO, YET nE LIVES.

Especial Dispatch to the Cincinnati Enquirer. {!
New York, December. 0-Jolm Nc
Evoy, aged fifteen OF Paterson, crawl
ed under The tQble ofa Circular saw
for sawdust. Tie saw had ibecl stop.
ped to mend the belt, and the man in
charge not noticing the boy started
the saw. The next minute he saw a
hat fly from under the table. He
stopped the muchine and looked
under the table, and saw The boy
with his head literally sawed in two.
The saw had run from near the back
of the left ear across the top or the
head, down through the forehead be-
tween The eye and the nose without
injuring the cyc-ball and through The
nose, SO that ono nostril was. sawed
clear from the other. The saw penc-
trated the brain around ,hc ear to the
depth OF from one aud II half 10 three
inches. The boy relailed his con-
seriousness while. he was being taken
to the office of DR.. Garnet, where
tho scall'iwas scwed up. The 'phvsi-
cian could see 7thc pulsations Of the
brain through tho opening. The 3 lad
said ihe pain was very great, but he
rcfrqipcd from crying, and pinchod
Inc mills OF his hand Into The palms
iiintil'the blood ran. At the Sisters
IIospitalhowas able to lift glass OF
stimulantTto his lips. DR., Marsh
lprobel the brain to the deplh of
nearly two inches without touching
tile bottom Of the cut made by the
saw. l,rhe oljoyhwas able to aaIk in.
telligcnlly alliday, but he sai'l thai it
panied him 70, converse, and he was
Kept as quiet as possible. lie is
yet alive and conscious to night. The
physicians shySlIiat itisa miracle TINT
he has lived .llyuI aii o. yuoa 1.ii p
The south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1879-1883, 1879-12-23

When adog snaps at fly that has
been fooling around him four or five
hours and misses II, ho feels Just like
girl who pours the full tide OF her
affections over u young man and sud-
denly discovers that 1t won't soak IN.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1879-01-16
A Novel Scare Crow.

A very successful plan has been
tried by placing in Mr.. Crows way
a number of grains with horse hair
run through them. He is bound to
swallow one, and his note of alarm is
soon sounded. 1t is impossible for
him to dislodge the grain, and if he
can be watched for sufficient length
of time, he will be seen to cat his
own throat by scratching at it. His
usual note is changed, and can as
sure you, life to him is such mis-
cry he would even wish he was dead.
1t has been noticed that after the
note of alarm has been sounded, all
the crows 10 the vicinity will leave
the field, and approach it no more
that season. 1t is a simple thing,
yet all who try it will fud it a sue
cess.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1879-01-16
FEEDING COWS.

Experienced dairymen say that
COWS should not be fed too long on
the same food, no matter how good
il may be. They have discovered
an increased flow of milk from a
change, even though the article,
substituted for another is no way gu
perior in milk producing qualities.
A cow will never yield as much
milk. no matter how we'll fed on meal
shorts, or peas, alone, as when to
either is added a mess of carrots,
beets, sweet potatoes parsnips, tur-
nips, &c. Turnips are good, but
they impart an unpleasant taste to
the milk. We suggest as the best
plan of feeding as follows. Give
boiled peas, with dew proportion
of either of the roots, for four or FIVE
days, then change to meal and roots
for the same length of time, follow
with shorts and roots, and thus con
tinue to alternate winter and sum-
mer. In summer, if the COW has
pasturage, less quantities of the meal,
shorts, &c, will be required ; if she
has DO pasturage, larger quantity
of roots must be given, and, if con-
v.nient, she should have a bunch of
green oats or rye, daily. If fed in
this way she will keep in good con
dition and yield milk to her fullest
capacity. If the food is boiled, ii
will produce more than if fed raw.
That is the universal experience and
ahe increase more than c"mpensates
for the trouble and expense
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1879-01-16
se'isfellaup.
now TO HELP YOUR WIFE GET
RICH.

RICH.
A correspondent writes that the
bar keepers in MAY sville, Kentucky,
pay upon an average, 81 per gallon
for whisky. One gallon contains an
average Of sixty-6ve drinks, and Of
ten cents q drink the poor man pays
$3.50 per gallon for his whisky. In
other words, he pays 81 fer the
whisky and 81 80 to a mar for hand
iog il over the bar. Make your
wife your bar keeper. Lerd her
two dollars to buy gallon Of whis'
Ky fer begiaisg, snd every time
YOU want q drink 60 to her and pay
ten cents for it. By the time you
have drank a gallon she will have
$3.50, or enough money to refund
the 50 borrowed of you, to pay for
another gallon of liquor, and have a
balance Of 50 90 she will be able
90 conduct future operations on her
own capital, aud when you become
en- inebriate. unsble TO support your
self, Stunned aud despised by all re,
spectacle persons, your wife viii
have enough money to keep you I'M
til you get ready to fill a drunkard's
grave.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1879-01-16

MARCH OF THE CHoLERA.-ln
San Francisco movements are on foo.
for quarantining all vessels from
Hong Kong. The Chronicle says
there is very little doubt, from the
tone aud language of our latest news
paper files from Japan, that Asiatic
cholera exists in an epidemic form
at Hong Kong and in some other
cities Of China, and is causing alarm
at Yokohama and Toxic. 1t will be
kept a secret as long as possible, for
the reason that as soon as it shall be
known commercial intercourse and
local BUSINESS will suffer.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1879-01-16

Forty acres of pigeons roOst night
ly in the Indian Territory about ff'
ty miles southwest of joplin, Mo
The hunters spend the night in the
woods and Kill with shot guns and
clubs till morning, when they load
wagons with the birds and drive
away to sell the pigeons at from 10
cents TO % cents a dozen. Scores
of wagon loads have thus been dis
posed OF, still there is no apparent
dimioution in the number of birds,
nor do they fail to return nightly to
their roost.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1879-01-16

The plaintiff 10 one libel suit, at
least, regrets that he brought it.
DIR. c. G. O'DoNNELL, a member of
the Constitutional Convention of
California, was charged with murder,
arson and other crimes, by the San
Francisco Chronicle. A suit for
damages was the result. The Chr0m
icle substantiated its charges and
won the suit. O'DoNNELL was ar
rested before be could leave the
court room, on a charge of murder.
In the trial which followed he was
convicted and sentenced to be hung
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1879-01-16

Con has written on the flowers
that sweeten the air-upon the
breeze tina, rocks the flowers upon
the stem-upon the rain drops that
refreshes The spring Of moss that lifts
its head 10 the desert-upon its deep
chambers-upon every penciled
sheet that sleeps in the caverns of
the deep, no less than upon the
mighty sun that warns and cheers
millions of creatures which live in
its ligbt-upon all his works be hes
written: "None Iiveth for himself"
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1879-01-16

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The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1879-01-16

If you want your job pr nting
done heater and cheaper than it ca o
be done elsewbere, brig it to th e
Journal Office.
The Portland daily press., 1879-06-11
Wiscasset's Debt.
A Reply to Criticism in the Lewiston
journal.

To the Editor Of the Press:
Several articles have recently appeared in
the Lewiston Journal and have been more or
less fully copied by other papers in the State,
bearing down rather heavily on the action of
the town of Wiscasset in asking compromise
with its creditors; fifty per cent. reduction of
its bonded debt and lower rate Of interest on
its new bonds. The articles referred to are
particularly severe on the proposition, and,
assuming Wiscassets ample ability to pay its
debt, the writer quotes largely from legal de-
cisions and intimates that the bankrupt town
must pay in full or payment will be enforced
by the sheriff, or the U. S. Marshals, backed
up, if necessary by the United States army
All that sounds well, and perhaps serves it
apparent purpose-to encourage the bond
holders to refuse compromise, but it does not
change the hard facts of the situation, nor
help to pay single dollar of the debt.
The main question is not ought Wiscasset to
pay; but can she? 1t is not question of hon
or, but of ability. Wiscasset numbers among
her citizens no phlanthropic millionaires who
are ready to patriotically pay the towns debt
from their individual fortunes. No millionaires
live -phianthropic or otherwise. If the
debt is paid it must be paid by direct, heavy
and long continued taxation. And that taxa
ton must bear hardest ON the middle and poor
er classes. But it is not even question of in
dividual hardship. The question is can the
debt be paid at all, as it now stands. Let us
then examine some of the arguments advanced
by the Journal writer and others, who hold
that it can, in the light of common sense as
well as common law.
1t is said-and here is the strength of the ar
gument-that the assets of the town are about
The Portland daily press., 1879-06-11
| Republican State Convention
NOROMBEGA HALL, BANGOR,

NOROMBEGA HALL, BANGOR,
Thursday, June 90, 1879, at II o'cpk A. M.
ernor, and for transacting whatever business may
properly come before it.
The basis of representation will be one delegate
for each city, town and plantation, and an addition
al delegate for every sevenyve votes cast for the
Republican candidate for Governor in 1876. A
majority fraction will be entitled to delegate.
The State Committee will be in session the evening
preceding and at o'clock the morning of the Con-
vention, to receive the credentials of delegates.
In selecting the Delegates the Republicans are
urged to assemble in full numbers and to invoke the
aid and cooperation of all voters who willing to
unite with them to the following ends
L. To maintain the power and prestige of the
Union against all attempts to subvert or oppose its
Just authority and to insist that the Government of
the United States shall be controlled by loyal men.
2. To discountenance and reprobate the treason
able and revolutionary course of the Democrats in
Congress, who threaten to cripple and destroy the
functions of the Government constitutonally pre-
vented from enaeting their partisan measures into
law.
3. To uphold the right of the United States to
enforce its own laws wherever they are to operate
anu lO IrOWu uOWu diu pun uOWh eh0 uahSOAouo
heresy of the States Right secessionists who have
already plunged the country into one bloody war
and who are now attempting to control the Govern
ment of the Union with the same measures that
preceded the rebellion of 1861.
4. To insist upon free electons-not only free
from National military inference, which no one de-
sires, but also free from the interference and vio
lence of socaled State militia and the assassns who
with deadly weapons have seized the polls in many
of the Southern States driving innocent and de-
fenceless voters from the ballotbox and making
mockery of elections, which war upon free suffrage
has been made distinct political issue by every
Democrat in the Senate and House voting against a
measure designed to prevent and suppress it.
5. To uphold the financial credit of the Govern
ment and to assure to the people of all sections
sound currency equivalent to coin at all times and
in all places, and redeemabe in coin. And to this
end to oppose all distracting, repudiating aud mis-
chievous efforts against the peace, welfare and in
dustrial prosperity of the People.
g. In these aims and purposes all citizens of
Maine are invited to unite, that the hands of the
President and of the Republican minority in both
branches of Congress may be strengthened in their
efforts to uphold the honor of the Government and
the Just authority of National Law.
By order of the Republican State Committee.
GEORGE G. WING,) S,h
G. A. BOUTELLE, r.,,o;t+oo
FRED N. DOW, ooniiii''ee'
May 22 1879. j. o. SMITH, Secretary,
The Portland daily press., 1879-06-11
JOHN M. S. HUNTER.
Foreman Portland Press Job Office.
SEheYiH'S Sale.

STATE OF MAINE, CUMBERLAND SIS.
fENHIS day seized ON execution end will be sold by
n public auction, to the highest bidder, on Mon
day, the seventh day of July, A. d. 1879, at ten
O'Clock a. M, at the Shertf's office in Portland, in
said county, all the right i'll equity which Jacob G.
Baker, of said Portland had at the time of the at
tachment of the the ORIGINAL writ in the suit
in which said execution was issued to wit, attach
ment made by the officer on the 2Sth day of Decem-
ber A. d. 1875, at ten O'Clock and thirty minutes
in the forenoon, and received and recorded in the
Registry of Deeds of said county the same day at IL
O'Clock and 10 minutes in the forenoon, to redeem
the following described real estate from certain
mortgage deed given by said Jacob G. Baker to the
Maine Savings Bank dated Oct. Is, A. d. 1875, and
recorded in said Registry book 425, page ST. to wit:
Two certain lots of land with the buildings there
on situated i'll said Portland, one the southerly
side of Danforth street, being the premises num-
bered 100 (old number) said street, and the
conveyed to said Jacob G. Baker by Edward Kelley
by deed dated Sept. H. A. d. 1857 and recorded in
said Registry, book 2S1, page 336, bounded as fol
I ows, viz:Beginnng on the southerly side of said
Danforth street at post and fence eghty-eght feet
and six inches from the weJtery side of Salem Lane
formerly so-called, now Briggs street, thence south
easterly as the fence now stands eighty-nine feet
thence northeasterly parallel with Danforth street
fortyone feet thence northweSterly eighty feet
parallel with said fence to Danfortn street at point
fortyseven and half feet from said westerly side of
said Salem lane now Briggs street, thence southwest
ery Danforth street forty-one feet to the place
of beginning.
The other lot situated the northeastery side of
Franklin street numbered (od numbeD on said
street, being the lot described in deed of mortgage
from Jonathan Hanson to said Jacob G. Baker, re-
corded in said Registry book 363, page 46S and re-
recorded in said Registry book 1896 page 81 bounded
follows, viz Beginning on the line of said street
at the southerly corner of land owned by Charles
Averill in the year 1865, and now supposed to be
owned by Charles NJ. Plummer; thence southeasterly
by said street thrty-one feet to stake and to
land or formerly of Enoch Sawyer, and from
these two bounds to extend back northeasterly from
said street holding the same width by said land for
mery of said Averill the northery side and land
now or formerly of said Enoch Sawyer on the south
erly side seventyone feet less to land for
merly of said Sawyer supposed to be of Eunice
Lawrence.
Dated at said Portland this third day of june A,
D. 1879. GARDNER NJ. PARKER,
je4d1aw3wW Deputy Sheriff.