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Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1879-02-07

MONEY for the construction Of q
monument to Pope Plus TX. is being
raised in Puebla, Mex, by theatrical
performances.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1879-02-07

LEPRosY is said to prevail among the
Chinese fishermen in Santa Cruz coun-
ty, California.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1879-02-07
GENERAL NEWS,

PAGE county, Virginia, has forty-three
distilleries. Only one makes whisky,
all the rest making apple,jack.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1879-02-07

case had such an application as this
been granted, and there was no circum-
stance iii the case to take it out Of the
nrdinorH, co tltoorv
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1879-02-07
Benefactors.

When board Of eminent physicians
and chemists announced the discovery
that BY combining some well known
valuable remedies, the most wonderful
medicine was produced, which would
cure such a wide range Of diseases that
most all other remedies could be dis
pensed with, many we're sceptical; but
proof Of its merits by actual trial has
dispelled all doubt, and to-day the dis
ccverers Of that great medicine, Hop
Bitters, ale honored and blessed by all
as benefactors.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1879-02-07

An honest old farmer, on being IN
formed the other day, that one Of his
neighbors owed him grudge, growled
out: NO matter: he never paws anv-
thing.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1879-11-13

was too weak to stand the hot June suns.
Hence the verdict, my land won I make
clover
Every man that reads is aware OF the es-
innate put upon clover as a fertilizer
Throughout: Europe. and many of cur PEG
ple saw during the war what it had and was
doing for Virginia and Maryland. But my
time will not allow me 10 go into any details
as to these two sections.
Now, | will be pardoned for speaking OF
NV W experience, for 1t IS all really can
say, know practically. In 1865 | cleared
up, as we say, three acres Of pine old field
that with favorable seasons and Sood Guilt
vation would make about 800 pounds SEED
cotton per acre. Having been pretty well
ploughed and narrowed, q small amount of
of rottcd cotton seed and stable manure was
applied. and clover, orchard grass and tim
olhp W For four years this patch was
kept as q pasture. don't believe if it had
been left alonc it would ever have reached
up high enough to have been cut as hay
without a heavy top dressing, and yet IN
spring or summer it was just the place for
a horse, more and colt, or for the mules an
hour or two on Sundays. After the first
two yers the timothy was all gone, little
clover left. and the orchard grass ruled su-
preme. Since 1873 the said patch has been
cultivated. first in grain and then in cotton,
being fertilized at q cost of about $3.50 per
acre each year. The crop this year was
about thirty-seven bushels Of wheat the
year before it was three bales Of cotton.
The past season, as we say, was a dad
year" for wheat in our neighborhood. The
same quality of land cleared about the same
time made an average of i've bushels per
acre.
Now I am satisfied that the increase of
the crop has already paid for the manure
used, and we have three acres of land that
made 500 pounds seed cotton now making
just as easily 1900 pounds. How much
that clover sod had to d as the base of this
fertility you nave the facts and can judge.
TO be continued.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1879-11-13
llaster and Clover.

These two articles must be relied on to a
very great extent to improve the millions
of acres of worn out lands of the Southern
States.
A very small mount Of money invested
in mari, lime or other fertilizers will enable
the farmer to produce from the poorest land
a crop of wheat which will pay for the cul-
tivation, seed and fertilizer used, and if
clover seed are sown land narrowed in on
the wheat the following spring, and the
judicious use of lane plaster of Gypsum will
produce luxuriant crops Of clover which if
turned under will soon restore the worst
worn land to its original fertility.
The plaster should be finely pulverized or
ground and sown broadcast on the growing
wheat and clover or clover alone as the
case may be, when the clover is damp
enough to catch, retain and absorb the plas-
ter; just after a rain or early in the morn
ing when the dew is still on the pl ants. is
the time to SOW it.
With q little manure to start the clover,
plaster applied every few weeks while grow
ing and the crops fallowed as it is matur-
ing will greatly improve the soil and future
crops affords pasture for sheep from the
time the grain takes root a little, in the
fall till March, and after harvest till the
clover is fallowed which should be the next
fall year, or Is months from the time of
sowing, thus furnishing pas;urage for the
sheep free of cost, as the wheat, plaster and
clover pay largely in excess of ali cost, and
the sheep are not only fed fltc Of cost but
pay an additional heavy per cent towards
the net income Of the farm in several wavs
by eating such plants as %injure the land,
wheat and clover, by tramping lightly
which acts as cultivation to the rowin
crops, while their droppings ~fcrtilize both
the present and future crops, thereby pro
ducing wool and mutton free Of cost.
The great distance and cost Of transpor-
tation renders the immense plaster beds of
the country almost useless to the apricultu-
raj interest at the present. But when the
country will rccuperste as to enable the peo-
pie to build the proposed railroad from
Statesville on the w. y. &. due Y. to New
River and down that stream to Ohio, thus
connecting the roads of the South with
those of the North and passing the extern
sive plaster beds of Virginia and West Vlr-
ginia, the entire South may have direct and
cheap transportation for this most valuable
fertilizer which is indispensable to the
speedy reclamation of the greatly abused
lands of the Southern States. Seeing and
feeling the need Of this road the writer wa.
instrumental IN having a charter granted
for this road years ago, but the stringent
times and great anxiety to build other reads
have caused this one to be too long neg
lect.-,johp Z. foard, IN n. c. Furnlcr.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1879-11-13

New Berne Democrat: DR.. Jno. Nc
Donald, of Washington, n. c., was among
the purchasers who attended the sale of the
horses Of Mr.. Robert Bonner, which cam.
off in the Manhattan Athletic Club grounds
last Wednesday. Or. Mcdonald purchased
Ruric NeYel, b. s., 80 by Messenger Durec.
price S400.-The steamer Stout, of the
Clyde Line, sailed on Thursday last with
800 bales cotton, 2l5, 900 wooden plates.
100 barrels Of potatoes, and 3 barrels Of
tar.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1879-11-13
SALE.

" III pe sod on the premises, near Haw River Station.
a hne LOT OF Devon and Grade Aldermy Ca+tle AND
Merlno end south Down sheep. Belonging to the es-
,a'e q Y. v herr, deceased. The attention Of traders
Dutcilefs are called 70 this stock, as the best ever orr
cd TOT sale III this part Of the country. sale "a taLa
place November y. 1879. At the same time III ~
perlsnao1e properly belonging to real estate consistinr
OF horses, hogs, wheat, corn oats, &C.
c. J. KERR.
-. . > - ALEX. Wilson,
- Administrator
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1879-11-13
Raleigh Augusta Airline R P
Company.
CHANGE OF

To take effec. at 90 a. m. Monday. May 1e.h. j.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1879-11-13

49,. IN Liz. Oh
Us Clcse connection made at Statesvjl,
with the w. n. c. Railroad.
Auo j. J. GORMLEY, Sup't.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1879-11-13

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The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1879-11-13

Cotton Gins, Power Presses, Saw and Grist Mills,
Shaftlng, Puieys, Hangers, Boxes. Plans and Esti-
mates furnished on all classes of Machinery. We call
special attention OF the following goods, manu- factured
by the "A1LOR MANUFACTURING
which we are offering at Manufacturers prices.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1879-10-27

Governor Pitkin of Colorado sends de-
spatch to Secretary Schurz deprecating the
cessation of military operations against the
Utes, and urging vigorous and uninterrupted
warfare against the savages as the surest
method of averting the dangers which threat
en- the frontier The Secretary replies that,
Notwithstanding an attempt is making to pre-
vent general Indian war, military prepara-
tons are by no means relaxed, and that en-
ergetic action will be taken by the troops, if
the emergency requires.
The college fraternity of Theta Delta Chi
held its thirty third annual convention at the
Brunswick Hotel in Boston, Wednesday and
Thursday. Delegates were present from
chapters in the following named colleges
Bowdoin, Dartmouth, Tufts. Boston Univer-
sity, Amherst. Hamilton. Cornell Hobart,
Lafayette and Kenyon. Graduate members
were also present from the same colleges and
the Troy Polytechnic Institute and Brown
University. Thursday the following officers
were elected President, Charles. c. Kreisly,
DAYTON, Ohio; Secretary, II. ii. Eddy,
Tufts Treasurer, S. II. Nickerson, Hamil-
ton. Thursday evening the session closed
with grand banquet, rendered the visiting
delegates by the lambda Chapter of Boston
University. The Grafton was delivered by
o. S. Marden OF Boston University, and the
poem read by Charles ). Goodell OF Boston
University.
The King Cetawayo received a lesson in
the social duties of civilization while going
to Cape Town on the Natal-he was photo
graphed We will do His Majesty the justice
to say that he submitted to the operation at
first with extreme reluctance. Stratagem
was necessary to get him on deck, and he APP
pears to have regarded the camera with much
apprehension as something which might go
off and hurt him. When he found that the
portraying process caused no pain. he kept
still enough to furnish a negative; but when
the nsatiatc photographer begged him for an
other, the King sternly refused. One. how
ever, will be sufficient to furnish all the pic
ture shops of the Strand with six-pcnny
copies, and the ex-King will soon figure there
and by his supreme ugliness prove valua-
bic set of to the charms of Mrs. Langtry
and other handsome British ladies.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1879-10-27
paiIp Aennebet Sournal.
Augusta, Monday Morning, Oct. 81, 1879.
End of the scribner Case.

The trial of Jason p. Scribner, for MUIR
der, closed Saturday evening, with YER
dict by the jury of murder in the first de-
gree. The killing was admitted by the
prisoners counsel, the defence being in
sanity at the time the deed was commit
ted. While there is difference ofopinion
among those who observed the trial in re-
lation to the sanity or insanity of Scribner'
there is but one opinion of the necessity
and propriety of placing him in the State
Prison. He would be a most dangerous
person to q community, sane or insane, il
permitted to go at large, and no place
seems to be better adapted to his case,
than within the safe and solid walls of the
Prison at Thomaston. County Attorney
Webb managed the prosecution for the
State in an able manner, and the prisoner
was also ably defended by his counsel.
Judge Libbey's charge to the jury was a
clear and forcible presentation of the case
and of the law by which the jury should
govern themselves. The manner in which
he presided during the whole trial is espe-
cially commended by those who were
present. This is the third, and we pre-
sumo the last, trial of Jason p. Scribner,
whose terrible deed has scarcely an equal,
we believe, in the annals Of our State.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1879-10-27

then, one May day, in 1854. bade adieu to
their floating home and returned safely with
their fellows to England. One morning OF
Summer off the Labrador coast, an American
whaler named IIartstein' spied bark-rigged
ship, all a-taunto, but strangely silent, lying
aground He boarded her, and found every
thing in perfect order; every brace trimmed,
every rope coled, with colors flying at the
mizen peak, but not soul on board. Pres
emily he discovered that this was the Reso-
lutte. She had drifted for over thousand
miles, without starting rope. from Melville
Island. through Barrows Straits, through
Lancaster Sound, round by Cape Liverpool,
past Ponds Bay. down Davis's Straits, to the
shoals of Labrador. The ice had melted. the
foes had opened, currents had taken charge
of her, and the lonely ship. with none but the
forces of the sea for her pilot, and only IN
visible hands on her wheel, had hoated safely
and soundly past all the reefs and rocks
which stud so long a course, until such time
as this 'sseafaring man made her out. He
brought this abandoned British vessel into
Boston Harbor as sound as on the day when
she started from England. Onr government
behaved nObly about the Resolute. We PAID
Hartstein his salvage out OF the treasury.
Then the Washington authorities set .riggers
and shp-painters to work upon her, tidied
her up inside and outside, and then sent her
across the Atlantic under an eminent officer,
with the English flag at the main and the
Stars and Stripes aft, with the compliments
of 'Uncle Sam to her Britannia Majesty.
The people of England were greatly pleased
by this act Of generosity on our part and
Queen Victoria went herself on board to re-
ceive from our officers her ship, for which
she thanked them most sincerely. 1t is
pity that this old wanderer should have TO be
broken up; but it is eminently proper that
some sort of momento should come
out of her timbers to the widow of the Amer
lean gentleman who, at great expense, searched
so often for Sir John Franklin.-[ Ner York
Times
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1879-10-27
Personal.

Judge Edmunds, Postmaster of Washing
ton and formerly Secretary of the Republican
Congressional Committee, continues serious
ly i'll.
Conscience impelled somebody to send
$4,000 anonymously to Isaac G. jenkins, a
Syracuse merchant, with the words, 81 robbed
you Of this years ago."
Hon. ARENAS Hale, the oldest living grad
nate of Bowdoin College and the oldest ex-
Congressman, having served in 1846-49,
will celebrate his Goth birthday at Bridge
water to-day.
Lieut. Weir, who was killed by the Utes,
was brother Of Mrs. Casey, wife of Colonel
Casey, Superintendent of Public Buildings
and Grounds at Washington, and brother
of Robert W. Weir, West Point Professor.
| A relic of Burns has just been placed in
the Kilmarnock Museum. 1t is the draught
or checkerb0ard which was used by the poet
and his brother in the hours of recreation,
while they were engaged in farming togeth-
err.
Mr. Richard s. Greenough's statue of
Governor John Winthrop in the Capitol at
Washington is to be duplicated in bronze for
the city of Boston. Miss Anne Whitney's
model Of statue Of Samuel Adams has been
accepted by the City Government, which will
pay her for the finished work 81, 800.
The story is well known. of Senator Shar-
on stepping in and assuming Ralstons debts.
| For while he was so crippled with this bur-
den that it was toss from day to day when
he would go under, but a hard struggle has
brought him slowly ont from under the $ll,
900, 600 debt cloud that hung over him. For
this reason he spent little of his time in his
seat in the Senate. Absence at certain times
would have lost il all for him.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1879-10-27
tightening Inva ..

The popular impression, strengthened by
some scientific opinions, that consumption
cannot be cured, has no doubt fastened the
death of many invalids, by depriving them of
the consolation of hope. Persons afflicted with
pectoral disease should be supported by every
assurance Of a cure, not alarmed by the
gloomy, foreboding countenances Of those
around. For our part, we do not believe that
consumption is incurable, and let physicians
theorize as they will, we have a mass of evil
dence to prove that persons having all the
symptoms Of consumption, cough, deep,
bloody expectoration. pain and oppression,
sore throat, diarrhea, night sweats, burning
fever. &C., have been permanently cured by
"Dr Swayne's Compound Syrup Of Wild
Cherry" This old standard remedy pre-
pared only by DIR. Swayne { Son. Philadel-
phia Price 25 cents and 81, or six bottles
for S5. The large size is the most ecOnomi-
cal. Sold by all prominent druggists.
Gro. c. GOODWIN & Co., Boston. Whole
sale agents. octl5-teod&wtf
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1879-10-27

friendly guide board was consulted, when
to the grim amazement of the parties inter-
ested the startling announcement stared
them in the face: ''Coffins and baskets ut
-" naming the village few miles ahead.
We concluded it would be rather risky to
pass that way, and our companion perfectly
conceded with that opinions so we took the
road in the direction of "Russia Salve cures
corns!" At another place the guide board
pointed about midway between the forks of
two highways, in such manner "no fellah'
could tell which road to travel. 1t is bad
enough to see every rock and board fence in
scribed in brazen letters with the various
humbug nostrums Of the age; but to find guide
posts thus prostituted, provokes just indigna-
ton We would advise the town authorities
of China and vassalborough to appoint in
spectors Of guide boards, with full powers to
'shoot on the spot any and all invaders of
the sacred and silent guides intended
to point the transient traveller to his
destination. Other parts of the State are
undoubtedly cursed with this same propensity
for cheap advertising and almost every rock,
fence and guide post along the highway is
lined with s.chew Jackson's best" or some
other like Disagreement. Such nuisances
should be abatcd especially SO far as guide
posts are concerned
A small building formerly used as an of
flee by the Hallowel Granite Company, has
been moved from Granite wharf to Union
St, near corner of Water ST., and is to be
occupied by Mr.. Ira NJ. True.
Among the prosperous signs of the times
may be mentioned IA remarkable buoyancy of
the matrimonial market in our city and
throughout the country generally. Life con-
tracts. substantially ratified and faithfully OBJ
served, should lead to the prosperity and hap
piness of all interested parties.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1879-10-27
Misrepresentation Of Evarts Cor
rected.

rFrom The New York Tribune
II 10 curious that some newspaper writ
ers. commenting upon Mr.. Evarts's speech
1t the Cooper Institute, have jumped to
the conclusion that when the orator pre-
dicted that the people would not hesitate,
under circumstances Of danger to the in
tegrity and freedom Of the suffrage, "to
accord the full authority of their govern
ment to that citizen who best understands
and can best maintain the power of the
people on election day." he referred to a
third term for General Grant. AS a mat
tor of fact, it is certain that this is not what
Mr.. Evarts meant; and we do not see how
any rejecting person who heard the speech
or read it with care could so interpret it,
For Mr.. Evarts, almost in the same breath,
emphasized the fact that the American peo-
pie have already bestowed the highest
honors Of the Republic upon Gen. Grant
a. many times as upon Washington, JEFF
ferson, Madison, Jackson and Lincoln {;
and the most natural conclusion from this
passage would seem to be that if the
speaker was thinking about third term
1t all he thought it was superAuous.
What Mr.. Evarts said was that the people
would not tolerate interference with e
free suffrage; If the ballot is endangered
they will place in the Presidency somebody
who is able and willing to protect it; and
it Is nonsense to look for an Interior sig
nificance in plain sentence following
logically as this did from the general drift
of the previous remarks. The Cooper In
stitute meeting was not engaged in max
ing nominations. References to General
Grant were received with hearty applause,
and that was right; but when some fool.
ish person in the rear OF the hall started
cheers for General Grant. the next Pres.
dent of the United States" the clappine
was suppressed by an outburst of Kisses
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1879-10-27
The Greenback Party.

The official vote of Ohio shows the
greenback strength in that State to be
9,129. This in total vote of Cos, 667 is a
very diminutive showing. 1t is less than
one-seventieth part Of the vote cast. 1t
is not one-fourth part Of the num-
Der of votes cast for the greenback
candidate in 1873. 1t is not only very
small vote for such State, but it shows a
great decrease in the party strength when
compared with the vote Of last year.
The greenback party took root and
shape in Ohio as a political organization
at an early day. There the rag-baby was
nursed. The "Ohio idee" was bigthing
in politics a year ago. But to-day il is
without power in the State where it orig
mated and from which it took its name,
and in its fall it has carried down Senator
Thurman with it. who abandoned the prin-
ciples Of lifs-time 70 seek popularity
and power in following the greenback
will-o-the.wisp. = - g 80 80
What is seen in Ohio indicates what the
fate Of the greenback party is to be in the
country At large. 1t is rapidly dissolving.
The. yotsrs who compose it are prepar-
ing to separate and 60 their way
into ons or the other of the great parties.
Resumption struck it death blow and
saved the country another fierce strug-
gle with imitation. The members OF the
party dislike to acknowledge its overthrow,
but IN spite of their reluctance to accept
the situation, and their declarations in
convention or otherwise that they are 60
ing to abide in the ship, the doom of
greenbackism is decreed, and will soon
be 20 well understood that il is altogether
probable there will never be another
greenback nomination even in the State Of
Maine.