The patron of husbandry. (Columbus, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1879-06-07
Number 2I.
Gen Shields is dead.


Cotton is firm at last weeks quotations.
he Hayes has signed the Quarantine Bill.
% The Senate has done nothing with the
Warner Silver Bill nos ianas st
q A big fire in Shreveport, La. last Mon
day. Loss $4,000 odi 10 s3@9la... -a-
Great care should be taken to avoid the
introduction of. pleuro. pneumonia by the
importation of fine blooded cattle from the
regions where that disease prevails Pur-
chases of fine stock should be made only
from stock raisers of well established rep
utation.9 q .il .2fir-grggo aT 81 par
One good effect of the exodus will be to
make merchants shy of advancing sup
| plies to negroes on crops to be made. 1t
is to be hoped that there will be a general
demand for the wiping out of the crop
mortgage law when the next Legislature
meets suT JaI .laEiofHI Ylqssa a-ar
: The Ohio Republican State convention
lastweek waved the bloody shirt, ,whooped
the old war yell, denounced State sover-
eighty and the further agitation of the
finance question, approved the vetoes of
the Fraudulent President; and nominated
Foster dandy Chatley-for Governor
The nominee for Lieutenant Governor is
Andrew Hickenlooper- heavens, what
name! s."-~ 2i'+@' -...s -i D'''' ili.>..
The cotton future sales predicated on
the crop Of 1880, amounted to 100000
of bales-three times the amount of the
whole crop. ,'''.-.' '.'.'' ........-.--.
The sub committee Of the Louisiana
Convention report that of the bonded
debt OF. $27,9S7, 500, bonds to. the amount
of $3.50, 900 ought to be paid, and bonds
to the amount ann'u of $19,693p 400 ought not to
be paid ..,,.t... Il, -; =. ..a,....
Money sharks will have to seek some
other investment for their surplus funds
besides State, county and city bonds 1t
is safe to say that no more such bonds will
eyer be issued in the United States. When
ever a new constitution is adopted by
! State, their issue is prohibited. In States
where no such prohibition exists, the peo-
pie will see to it that their Legislators vote
for. no scheme that authorizes the issue of
suc;h, ( bonds } III uo17als lrss5 3o a7lss
The bill making silver coins of less de-
nomination than one dollar interchange
: able for lawful money in sums Of twenty
dollars, was amended in the Senate so as
to make such coins legal tender for ten
dollars instead of twenty. The House
concurred, and the bill has gone to the
| President.
hhA convention met at Eufaula, in the
Indian Territory, last week, to consider
the Entertainments of white settlers on
their territorial rights as guaranteed by
treaty All the civilized tribes were
, largely represented by their leading men,
A large majority of the Southern Sen,
ators in Congress were Wings in the an
j, te beIlum days, and supported Bell and
t Everett in 1860. .-od i. ,ler,o-lt =
! .Advices, from lHayti report that yellow
! fever is raging there, with great yirulence.
t The French Minister and two of his Sec
D retaries are dead, and the remaining menu
: Der of, the legation had been attacked by
ue pestISnCS dt taSt aeeouis'' rs
e On Monday the House suspended the
rules and passed the bill creating the Mis-
: sissippi River Commission, whichis pre-
s liminary to the Improvement of the nav
S igation Of the. river, -. .,4ea,.,i
e Bayard has introduced bill in the Sen
q ate repeating the juror test oath and all
: the laws for the packing of juries in the
: Federal Courts. ...,., ..f.sa -,
e The Democrats in caucus have ,conclu-
I ded to vote the appropriations, but no
: money will be appropriated to pay elec-
!. !. ton ,Isuperyisors and their deputy mar
/. shals. s-ngi9!iaoq tffal saf 10 elsaEil aa
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Mr.. H, F, Peer of .Teeterville, Ont, sc-
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