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Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1879-09-13
PITH AND POINT.

A. Nj. GRISwOLD of Felchville, VT,
claims to have 1S1 boils. If he has not
tampered with the returns, Mr.. Girls
wold is a bigger man than old job
Chicago Tribune.
THANK heaven, the tramps will soon
have to go into winter quarters. But
what's the goodp There's nothing to be
thankful for, after all. Just about the
time the tramp season is over the lecture
season begins.
LIGHTNING struck tree in Georgia
| to which mule was tied, splintered it
to kindlings and melted the buckles on
the halter, and yet that mule was brOws
ing on the fallen limbs when hunted up,
Are mules non-conductorsp
A WOMAN who comes into church half
an hour late in order to show off her
good clothes should be looked upon
mildly. She is simply making room
Detroit Free Press.
WE know girl who will wrestle with
a croquet mallet in the hot sun for hours
and not complain. But just ask her to
hold on to the wooden end of broom
for few minutes and she'll have fit.
-Egchange.
THERE Is something passing strange
about human nature. If a man had to
support his family by playing billiards
at two dollars a day he'd swear he had
to work awful hard for Hving.-Mid-
dtetoo0n Transcript.
SAID grizzly old pioneer to Remenyi
after late concert in Virginia City: 81
amt much on the fiddle myself, mister,
huf uot, hot x,o,. Gfa T Ipnrxr cronJ ,,Ia
when | strike it. l was to hear you last
like it. You're a fiddler from Bitter
Greek, that's what you are, an 1 kin
lick the man 'at sez you ain't.'
SEVEN young ladies received the de-
Sree of A. b. at Northampton recently.
" But, asks the Lowell Courier, show
can a young woman be q bachelorP''
Pshaw! A. b. don't mean that in q
lady's diploma. 1t means "after bach
elors," and signifies that the young lady
that received the degree is qualified for
matrimony.
DEAN STANLEY was not equal to his OPP
portunities when he performed the mar
riage ceremony for Prof. Tyndall. The
Dean should have asked the groom: sDo
you take this anthropoid to be your CO.
ordinate, to love with your nerve CEN
tiers, to cherish with your whole cellular
tissue, until final molecular disturb
ance shall resolve its organism into its
primitive atoms?''
A CELEBRATED German surgeon had
lost his wife. One of his friends has
tened to offer him consolation. Draw
ing a long face, the friend entered the
house of death. 1t was deserted. No
body in the parlor, nobody in the draw
ing-room, not soul in the bedrooms.
Z" Oh, horriblei'' he exclaimed; has
the poor man, in his despair, put an end
to his life?'' trembling with fear and ex-
element, he ran to the savant's labora-
tory, the sole apartment which remain
ed to explore, and there he found the
widower, knife in his hand, TRANQUILITY
engaged over dead body. '.WhatP"
he exclaimed; ''you are not dissecting
your wife?n "Why," said the man of
science, with honest astonishment at his
friends horror, "she's dead r'-French
PUJer
Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1879-09-13
COMMERCE. AND INDUSTRY.

The Postmaster General has ordered that
the ree-delivery system he extended to To-
peka, Kansas.
The Chicago Interstate Industrial Expo
sition opened on the Sd.
Reports received by the Italian Minister Of
Agriculture confirm bad accounts concern
ing the crops i'm that country. The yield Of
corn in several provinces is only half that of
ordinary years, while i'm other places it is
considerably below the average. The wheat
crop is also generally an unfayorable produce
tim, being equal only TO third Of that of
1878.
The Bureau of Statistics has received the
reports Of exports and imports from all the
Collectors of Customs throughout the United
States, and compilation of them shows the
balance Of trade i'm our favor for the fiscal
year ending June 30, 1879, Of S264, 1851 ,6G6, as
against a balance of S257 ,sl4 ,23i for the lis
cal year ending June 80, 1873. The total
value Of exports was S1l0,439, AL, aud of
imports, Sii5,IT1, The total exports
of coin and bullion for the year were
4,1i, al, and the total imports, 81, ,296, ,OO0
There was more sugar imported than any
other single article of merchandise, although
the amount was over S2,OOO,OO0 less than the
previous year. The next article in amount
Of importation was coffee, which also fell off
about S2,O0,OW worth. The imports of tea
fell off per cent. during the year, but the
imports Of fancy articles, silks, diamonds and
other luxuries, increased, which is one of the
surest signs Of better times. The imports Of
fancy China and earthen ware also increased
largely. The largest increase of expectation
was Of wheat, which went up from 96,0O0,-
900 in 1873 to I3O OOOO 900 in 1879. The export of
wheat -four increased 10 per cent; horned
cattle about ca per cent; iron about 33 per
cent, and tobacco about 10 per cent. The
exports Of provisions were about the same,
but the exports Of cotton and oil fell off.
Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1879-09-13
Rayages Of the Recent Storm in Lou.
isiana.

NEW ORLEANS, Sept. 5.-It would
appear that the hurricane struck the Louis
lana coast along the southern shore line of
Tcrrebonnc, st. Mary and vermiIlon Par
ishcS. 1t then took Il northeastern course,
sweeping over that portion of the State
bounded on the southeast by Il line runnin.
from Atchafalaya Bay directly east to the
river, and thence north along the course Of
Pearl River. The northwest boundary
seems to have commenced in the
western portion OF FcrmiliOn Par
iSh, tending north and crossing
the river below Natchcz. Included
with the limits thus assumed lie the par
l.afourchr, Assumption, Lafayette. Iberia,
81. Landry, -. Martin, part of jefferson,
ANuyrllcS, poinic Coupe, West Baton Rouge,
lhcrvillc, Ascension, St. James, ~. John, st.
Charles. Orleans. -: Tamlnany: Tangipahoa,
81. Helena, Lnvn@ston, East Baton Rouge,
East and West Fciciana. There is more or
less damage in all these parishes. The ad
vices received by Il prominent firm in this
city indicate that crops in all the parishes be-
tween this city and the mouth Of the Red River
have been devastated. The Picdynae special
correspondent, sent TO Morgan CITY, sends
distressing" accounts Of the devastation i'm he
southern section Of The State, but il is a mere
repetition on Il larger scale of what has al
ready been tclcgraphcd you. One instance
shows the power of the gale. AT Berwick,
opposite Morgan City, ID dwellings were
moved bodily from their supports and Is
houses demolished. At Faurnc Point, near
New Iberia, five lives were sacrificed TO the
fury OF the tornado. Congressman Ackln
says if there is an early frost the sugar crop
will yield nothing. The last number OF the
Baton Rouge IdrOcdtc, besides giving long
list Of houses blown down and property de-
Stroycd, states that the loss on the cotton
and corn crops will reach fully 81 per cent.
There is not plantation between Baton
Rouge and New Orleans which escaped with
out some damage. A correspondent from the
rice district says the rice crop will he failure
In Lafourche Parish u large llanter dis
charged i25 rice cutters on the day following
the storm. and his loss alone will be SIC, ,000
Correspondents from the lOwlands of Missis-
sippi agree in asserting that the cotton and
corn crops will be damaged 30 per cent. at
least. From Summit, Miss, the report comes
that the negroes are very much discouraged
at the ruin Of their crops, and there are grave
fears that ii will increase the Kansas exodus
fever,
Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1879-09-13

III. w. Curtis, Register of Deeds Of Wash
ington County, Kansas, is a defauter to tho
amount of $4,000 or 10000, and has left the
country-gone to England, it is supposed
which is the land of his birth. II is believed
he took with him in cash nearly or quite the
amount stated. He left a wife and two chill
dren entirely destitute.
The harvests i'm Western Switzerland and
i'm the departments of Savoy and Ain in
France are abundant and excellent, and have
been successfully gathered.
Gov. Tabor has sold out his one-third in
terest in the Little Pittsburg Mine at Lead
vile for S1,0OO,0O0 cash. David Moffat and
Jerome B. Chaffee were the purchasers.
Crops i'm Bulgaria having failed, the Govern
ment has forbidden the expectation of ccrc-
ais
Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1879-09-13
The Maine Election.

The State election in Maine was held
on the Sth. The only State officer to be
chosen was Governor, for which Office there
were three candidates, viz, Daniel +. Davis,
Republican,; Alonzo Garcclon, Democrat;
Joseph l.. Smith, Grccnbacker.
The vote of Maine i'm recent years has been
as follows:
Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1879-09-13
MeteOric Rivers.

There are four or five of these masses,
but that of August, which we encounter
every year, and that of November every
thirty-three years-the most astonishing
of all-are the chief ones. The great
November mass is supposed to have
existed outside of the solar system till
about the year 126, when it ran near
enough Uranus to be dragged from its
course by the attraction of that huge
planet and set in motion round the sun.
We have met it every third of a century
since, but the records are very incom-
plete. 1t is estimated that it is now
about 100000 miles through and over
500,OO0,OOO of miles long, so that the
head is almost touching the earth's orbit
while the tail is back between Jupiter
and Uranus. Its length is so great that
moving twenty-five or twenty-seven
miles Il second it takes two years to pass
clear round the earth, and the conse-
quence is that we have two meteoric
displays in two successive years,in 1882
in Europe, in 1888 here, in 1866 in
Europe and in 1867 here. The August
ring is encountered every year, and
spreads clear round its orbit, though it
probably started in II lump, like the
November body. If SO it is an older
body than that of November, the latter
not having been subjected to the dis
jointing attraction of the sun long
enough To be drawn out from u" lump"
into II line. a comet is travelling ut the
head of each of these rings. In Il few
millions of years the November meteors
will be stretched out into IL complete
ring all round their orbit, and then we
shall run through it every year rs we
now do through those of August, and
shall have no more such sights us that
of 1883 or 1867, for the string will be too
scattered to make Indianapolis
,TDurDUI
Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1879-09-13

Returns from the recent election, received
up to the Sth, indicate that Perkins, Repub-
lican, is chosen Governor, together with the
entire Republican State ticket with the pos
sible exception of the candidate for Chief
Justice. The estimated plurality for the Re-
publican ticket is from 1900 to 10000.
Kalloch, Workingman's candidate, is elect
ed Mayor of San Francisco, together with
the majority of the candidates on same
ticket.
The Republicans elect three of their Con-
grcssmen, and possibly the fourth.
Legislature undetermined, but presump-
tiNclN Republicnn.
Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1879-09-13

ON n recent Sunday evening 1,2O0
persons in st. Johns Roman Catholic
Church, Rochester, Mimi, stood up and
repeated, after Father Turner, II solemn
pledge of abstinence from all intoxicat-
ing drinks for one year.
Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1879-09-13
The California Election.

The California State election was held
on the Sd. The officers chosen were a Gov
crnor and minor State officers, members of
the Legislature, and four Congressman. For
State officers there were five tickets in the
field rs follows: Republican, Democratic,
New Constitution Party dubbed by Dennis
Kearney the Honorable Bilks), Working
mems, and Prohibitionist. Voters were also
given the privilege OF expressing their wills
rs to the continuance or prohibition of Chi
nese immigration, by placing on their ballots
the words, "For Chinese ImmigatiOn' or
against Chinese Immigration.
The vote of California i'm recent elections
Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1879-09-13

TIE Barcelona papers state that in
the Ampurdan district landowners are
daily receiving letters from brigands
threatening them with assassination or
incendlarism in default of paying cor
siderable blackmail,
Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1879-09-13

DEPTH TO Sow WHEAT. A great
deal has been said first and last rs to the
depth ut which to SOW wheat, remarks
the Prairie Farmer. Experiments have
shown that upon ordinarily compact and
moist soil, wheat terminates most
promptly and produces the strongest
plant when sown ut Il depth not exceed
ing one inch; from thence up to six inches
it came more and more feebly.
Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1879-09-13

WINNIE REAM IIoXIE's statue of Adj
miral Farragut will soon be east ut the
Washington Navy-yard.
Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1879-09-13
DESCRIPTIVE PRICE LIST.

DESCRIPTIVE PRICE LIST.
REGULAR PAD-S7.oo; Incipient diseases, first
stages Chls and Fever, etc.
SPECIAL PAD-S3.oo; Chronic Liver and Stom-
ach Disorders, and Malaria,
SPLEEN BELT-S5.oo; Enlarged Spleen and
Liver and Chill Cake.
INFANT PAD-Sr.5o: Preventive and Cure of
Cholera Infantum and Sum-
mer Complaints.
I Auxilaries for Ner-
BODY PLASTERS-5oc. vous and Circulatve
fTroubles, throwing
FOOT pair-5oe. off distractions and
removing pains.
Auxiliary for Colds,
ABSORPTION SALT Sick headachs numb
box, a5c; boxes. SI.2S ness of extremities,
etc.
For further information as to diseases reached
Ivy the Pad and its Auxiliaries, consult our pam
pilvt. Address,
HOLMAN LIVER PAD CO.,
Rooms 2 and s, Singer BHiidia0s, 81. Louis a,
MARTIN & APPLEGATE,
DHUdGISTS.
Sole Agents for the sale of Holman Liver
Pad Company's Remedies I'm Keytesvflle, Mo
Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1879-09-13
WE ARRIVED OFF YOKOHAMA

ut half-past 8, Sept. ?. All are well, and no
deaths have occurred during the voyage.
The Vega is the first vessel to make the pas
sage, and think the voyage from Europe to
Asia by Behring Strait is certain and safe,
tion in the Northern seas, from Japan to the
mouth Of the Lena River. There are no diff
culties in the proper season for experienced
sailors. The Lena River taps Central Siberia,
and large prospective trade can readily be
developed. The Vega will remain ut Yoko-
hama about fourteen days"
Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1879-09-13

These remedies which the sole exponents Of
the Cure by Absorption as opposed 10 Dos
hug. have been proved the cheapest and Most
Malaria a Disordered Stomach or Liver,
and it is a well-known tact that nearly all the
seascs peculiar to the human system can be
traced directly or indirectly to these two organs
NuInberIess Cases, Finally Ac-
kuowIedged to he Beyond the
Reach OF Medicine, have been
saved under the Mild Action of
These Remedies Alone.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1879-07-09
Measurement of an Acre.

To aid farmers III arriving at accu
racy in estimating the amount OF land
in different fields under cultivation,
the following table is given
5 yards wide by 96S yards long, l
acre.
10 yards wide by asa yards long, l
acre.
20 yards wide by 252 yards long, l
acre.
40 yards wide by 121 yards long, l
acre.
70 yards wide by 50 yards long, l
acre.
so yards wide by 60 yards long, l
acre.
60 feet wide by 726 feet long, l
acre.
11Ofeet wide by 800 feet long, l
acre.
12Ofee wide by 1868 feet long, Il
acre.
22O feet wide by 1913 feet long, l
acre.
24O feet wide by 1S1 feet long, l
acre.
44O feet wide by SO feet long, 1
acre.
A box 24x16 in. % In. deep, holds
l barrel.
A box 16x16 in. 8 in. deep, holds
l bushel.
A box s4xs4 in. 8 in. deep, holds
peck.
A box AKA in. A in. deep, holds
i! peck.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1879-07-09
JULY g
The Chewstick of Jamaica.

The "chewstick, though not indig-
enous to Jamaica, is perhaps better
known there than in other islands,
where varieties of it are known. 1t
is named by botanists Gouania Dom
iugenSis, and is very beautiful thick
bushy vine, with protusion of foil
age, climbing upon the trees growing
in its neighborhood, and with stem
varying in thickness from that Of
pencil to that of cane. The stem is
very fibrous, and when these ibres
are detached at the end of section
of the stem by chewing, it becomes a
rude but most perfect toothbrush,
giving out in the mouth, when rub
bed over the teeth, saponaceous
froth of a pleasant aromatic bitter
taste, which remains in the mouth for
some time, and which not only serves
the purpose of a tonic when used in
this way, but also whitens the teeth
and hardens the gums; on this &C.
count it is very popular in Jamaica
as dentifrice among all classes, and
has attracted good deal of favor in
foreign countries. 1t possesses also
another peculiar property. If
quantity of the bruised vine is stepped
in water, beer, or any kind of watery
infusion, there is communicated to it
warm, bitter aromatic taste, and if
the fluid so treated be poured out
from one glass to another, it will be
found to have acquired all the ap-
pearances of beer (minus its alcoholic
favor) in a high state of fermentation.
On the latter account the chewstick-
plant ought to be very useful to
brewers, since stale or immature beer
would be improved by its use, giving
to such fluids warm, aromatic taste,
more agreeable than that given by
hops, though certainly it does not
possess the narcotic principal which
makes hops so indispensable to the
brewer and others.-Scientifc Amer
1o091
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1879-07-09
Drought i'm Manatee County.

The long drought has greatly in
iured the orange trees in and around
Manatee. Some are injured to such
an extent as to render them unfruit-
full for several years, and it will re-
quire The greatest care and attention
to make them yield an average crop,
even at that length of time. 1t is
really saddening and discouraging to
walk through some ofthe finest groves
in this portion of the county that only
six months ago were clothedin all the
tropical luxuriance Of verdue and
beauty, and see many of the trees to-
tally berefr of their leaves and their
bodies actually parching for want of
DEMONSTRATING moisture. noticed, in
observing orange trees in different 10.
calities, during this long dry spell,
that those growing on the high sandy
land, were kept clean and we'll cult
waited, stood the drought much better
than others on lower and richer land,
with the same attention. The only
way can account for this strange diff
ference, is that the high sandy land is
naturally loose and porus and con-
quently is capable of receiving all the
moisture, however slight it may be,
that either rises or falls; while the
lower and richer land contains more
soil and is naturally so compact, that
it is rendered almost impervious to-
any small quantity of moisture that
might approach its surface from either
direction Tampa Tribune.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1879-07-09
Figs and Fig Trees.

The San Francisco Bulletin gives
the following interesting information
on fig culture in that State, that may
be OF interest to our people:
Three or four miles north of Win
tiers is fig orchard of twelve or fiji
teen acres, the largest we have ever
seen. The soil is rich loan, fine or
chard land, fifteen feet to water, trees
of good growth, although not so large
or luxuriant as others we have no.
ticed on bottom lands. 1t is claimed
that figs used for drying, as Is the
produce of this orchard, ought not to
be grown on very moist lands, where
the figs, although larger, are more
watery. This orchard has yielded
well, and its owners state, has paid
much better than the same extent of
wheat would. The figs are simply
allowed to get ripe and fall on the
ground, where they are dried by So
Tar heat. Wasps and other insects
do not prove materially troublesome.
When dried sufficiently the figs are
gathered up,treated to a wash in warm
water, spread out on platform a
few minutes and then sacked for
shipment. This is the quintessence
of cheap processes, and might, we
should think, be improved upon by
asserting somewhat and sacking only
the poorer qualities, putting the best
in different sizes of boxes. A little
more care adds more than it costs to
its returns. We may state, in this
connection, that a gentleman on Pu-
tab has an avenue of very large trees
OF the black California variety, and
he ships the first crop to market,
drying only the second crop. The
earliest figs in this section will be
ripe in about one month, and the Sec
ond crop two months later. The i'm
preston is quite general amongs fig
growers that the black California or
Mission fig is the most profitable for
drying. The usual mistake made in
drying figs is, that they are dried too
much, and so become tasteless and
hard. A few years ago this was the
objection to nine.tenths of our pro-
duct; and even now it is applicable
to large part of the dried figs ship
ped to San Francisco.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1879-07-09

Parties in sending money to the U. S.
Land Office should send it to the Re-
ceiver and not to the Register.
The sale of public lands in the former
st. Augustine district. (or all lands east of
range 243, from the Georgia line, south
to township 20), and the lands in the
Tallahassee district, Cor all lands west
of the Suwannee river, will commence
May 9th, 1879, and last two weeks.
Persons desiring to buy any of these
lands can appear in person or by agent.
All single minimum lands, that is lands
not within miles of railroad, cannot
be bought for less than 81 .25 per acre );
all double minimum lands, that is lands
within miles of railroad, cannot be
bought for less than $3.50 per acre.
All lands that are offered and not sold
will after the sale be subject to cash
entry, homestead entry, or presumption
entry.
D. EAGAN, Register. JOHN VARNUM,
Receiver. RICHARD M. STADDEN, Clerk
in Registers Office. JOHN P. VARNUM,
Clerk in Receivers Office. G. DYER,
Jr., Draughtsman.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1879-07-09
The Field Pea.

The field pea is to the South what
clover is to the North. A legumi.
nous plant, like clover, it draws much
of it's aliment from the atmosphere !;
and it is, says Randall in his 'Sheep
Husbandry in the South" as sensibly
affected by the same cheap manure,
plaster. The haulm or vine, if cut in
a green state and cured, makes
good fodder that is relished by all
kinds of stock. For sheep, Randall
says, there is no feed in the world
equal to nicely-cured pea-vines with
the unripe peas left on. He recon-
mends it, especially for breeding
ewes; says it gives them condition
and vigor, and fits them to yield
bountiful supply of rich milk to their
young. This fact accepted, how
great are the inducements to the far
mers of this section to engage in
sheep husbandry. Despite poor land,
here is a crop that will grow almost
anywhere, which yields all the pro-
vender the sheep can need.
Peas are greedily eaten by every
sort OF stock-cows, sheep, swine,
and poultry-and are not unapplica-
BILE to man, forming a diet at the
same time cheap and highly nutri-
tious. 1t will ripen among the corn,
planted between the hills, or sown
about the time that crops are laid by.
Sown broadcast in June, it yields
bountifully, and greatly benefits the
land for future crops. The analysis
of this plant, seed and vine, given by
Sprengel, shows 1885 per cent. of
potash and soda, 1906 of lime, 4.30
of phosphoric acid, and 400 per cent.
of sulphuric acid.
AS manure, pea-vines are worth
ten times as much, as the straw or
small grain, and some assert are bet
ter than clover. No Southern far
mer should neglect to employ it
largely, both as an improver of land
and as provender tor stock. 1t yields
a large amount of forage per acre.
Try it and be convinced,-Rural.
Messenger.