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Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1880-04-01

JAMES b. ANGEL has been nomi-
mated by Mr.. Hayes as Minister to
China, to take the place of George F.
Seward, recalled. Seward is the rogue
whom the administration and Repub-
lican members of Congress protected
from impeachment in the last Con-
,rresa
Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1880-04-01

DoN CAMERoS-finds the third-term
a heavy load to carry in Pennsylvania,
but the Senator has youth and vigor
on his side, and with the encouraging
plaudits of his aged sire will stagger
along with the burden regardless that
the effects of the overlooking may be
visible in the future.
Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1880-04-01

THE civil service reform order No. |
of Mr.. Hayes, it appears is in full tide
of successful operation in Louisiana,
where it is said that not less than sixty
members of the State Republican Com
mittee are composed of Federal Office
holders.
Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1880-04-01

THE Washington monument at the
Federal city, which was commenced
over thirty years ago, and for which
subscriptions were asked and received
throughout the country, is still incom.
plete. 1t is now proposed to pass a
bill providing for joint committee of
the two houses to sit during the recess
for the purpose of definitely selecting
plan, and making arrangements for
completing the monument.
Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1880-04-01

Mr.. ELLIS, n member of Congress
from Louisiana, has presented petit
ton in the House from the National
Union Soldiers Association asking
Congress TO appoint "a committee to
go to New Orleans to investigate into
certain facts now in possession of said
association, which facts will prove that
certain Federal ofiice.holders there
hold other positions through CONN.,
vance at frauds which implicate three
of the first officers of the government,
including the President himself" 1t
would seem that n sufficient number
committees have already visited New
Orleans, and obtained abundant evil
dence TO prove all that this association
desire investigated, and more than
enough to show the connection of
the Hayes administration with the
'=most profigate and graceless scoun-
drels of the age-now residing in
New Orleans and scattered through
out the world under pay from the Ma.
tional Treasury.
Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1880-04-01

"DID GARFIELD LIE% queries the
Washington Post. Townshend, of IL
linois, says he did, but it must be a
mistake. Besides being a General he
is also a Reverend, and could no more
tell lie than sell his influence to
speculators.
Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1880-04-01

The Democratic State Committee
of New York has issued call for the
State convention to be held at Syra-
cuse on the 26th of April. The Tam
many division of the party have de-
termined to hold their Convention at
the same time and place. What the
result of the two conventions may be,
is hard TO tell, whether in hopeless
discord or a union of the two factions.
The indications at present, however, do
not look promising, as the fight be-
tween the Tilden and Kelley men still
continues with undated bitterness.
Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1880-04-01

The quantity o: la1i 1ssi and coke carried
over the Pennsylvania railroad for the
second week Of March was leo, ,793 tons,
Of which S7,535 tons were coal and A..
25s tons coke. The total tonnage for
the year thus far has been I,333,5il
tons, of which 1908. .0l2 tons were coal
and S30,ig9 tons coke.
Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1880-04-01
Thursday Morning, Aprill, 1880.

4 STATE CONVENTION of county,
city and borough School Superintend-
ents of Pennsylvania, is to be held ut
Harrisburg on the Goth, 21st and 22d
of this month.
Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1880-04-01

In imitation of his distinguished
stalwart brother of New York, Sena-
tor Don Cameron has made the "great-
est effort of his life." On Thursday
last he made a speech in the Senate,
proposing joint commission, with
authority to sit during the recess Of
Congress, to consider legislation for
Interstate trade in connection with
railroads and canals. His speech il
not remarkable either in length OF
matter, but as a maiden effort it il
due to announce that Don Cameron,
the junior Senator of Pennsylvania,
made speech.
Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1880-04-01

THE independent. Republicans of
New York who last fall made such q
lively scratching demonstration against
the election of Gov. Cornell, have
entered the field against Conkling's in
structions for Grant. They are FORM
ing vigorous organizations in different
counties, and preparing to demand re-
cognitiOn at Chicago in favor Of some
good man. Sherman, perhaps. They
repudiate Grant and Blaine. But
then Sherman, as a good man, is not
much better than Grant or Blaine.
Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1880-04-01

EX-SENATOR STANLEY MATTHEWS
is credited with the assertion, on his
recent visit to Washington, that Sher-
man cannot possibly get full delega-
tion from Ohio-that he has no show
of nomination, and that if he were
nominated the State would go against
the Republican nomination. This is
not promising for John, but we doubt
whether Stanley Matthews is the best
authority.
Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1880-04-01
The Centre 9ematrat.
FERNS $3.50 per Annum, in Advance

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The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1880-12-09
Small Potatoes.

A correspondent of a leading publ
cation writes that he made an expert
ment the past season which he thinks
fully explodes the theory that small
seed potatoes will only return small
crop of small potatoes. Any theory of
That kind was exploded we suppose be-
fore that writer was born, aud the whole
letter is an admirable illustration of
class who are continually fancying they
are exploding when there is really moth
ing to explode.
Still there is some misrepresentation as
to this small potato seed business, and
it may be worth while to set it right. 1t
is not the size of the potato but the vigor
and strength of the eyes on the potato
that makes up the case. These are
often as large on potato of moderate
size as on very large one. If the eyes
are of the same strengthen equal vigor
it is the same as if they were all cut
from the same tuber. A strong eye
starts to grow and almost Immediately
sends out roots of its own, and has no
further dependence on the old piece. 1t
gets its food wholly from the earth. If
it is a weak, puny sprout of course it
takes a whole season to get strong. and
in the meantime can only send out very
weak threads that must be able to form
nothing but very small potatoes.
If it were i question of the potatoes
size and not of the strength of the eyes
in the potato the correspondent would
not even yet have exploded the the
DRY. Let him plant real small potatoes
potatoes about the size of beans-pO-
tatoes with small weak eyes, and then
he will find that small potatoes are small
potatoes, first, last and all the time, and
no mistake. His crop will be in pro-
portion to the size of the seed used.
Aside from this, however, tits wholly
a question of the strength of the ewes.
and these are likely to be quite us good
on averaged-sized tubers, such as are
generally known as seed potatoes, as on
larger ones. 1t is from want of a
recognition OF this fact that makes 81
much barren discussion as to the proper
size of sets to plant. -Germant0wR IT,
egraph.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1880-12-09
Terrified by a Mirage.

In Watchapreague Inlet, off the coun.
ty of Accomack, Virginia. on a recent
morning about twenty fishing boats
were riding at anchor. The sun arose
behind a thick fog bank. Presently the
fog grew thinner until few pale rays
shot up above. All the crews were
busy at their lines, when a shout from
one of the boats was heard. A grand
transformation scene had occurred in u
single minute. Apparently not quar-
ter of mile away lay the island
Chincoteague, with its tall white tower,
its dwellings, its trees and shrubber5.
and little boy driving a flock of sheep
along the shore and even little Cir sit
ting in the door of the light-keeper'S
house with doll in her arms. In an
other minute a fog bank rose up between
them and the shore, shutting out from
their vision their own homes. Imayin.
ing that by some unaccountable and
mysterious influence they had been
suddenly transformed distance Of thir-
ty miles from where they actually were
they broke anchorage in the gre2teSt
CONSERVATION many of them in their
fright steering directly out to sea. An
hour afterward the mist vanished and
the sun shone out. The mirage htI|
but there was no NJ ~
fishing on that day. Y. San.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1880-12-09
FARM AND PRESIDE.

Use coal ashes or wood dust, or
both, in all your vaults daily. This will
prevent all bad odor, rendering the
cleaning as easy as shovelin,g sand, and
will prevent all danger of wells becom-
ing poisoned by the drainage.
Baked Goose.-One goose, bread
crumbs, sage, onions, mashed white
potato, one egg, pepper, salt. When
4 goose is drawn and ready to stuff,
boiling water should be poured all over
it, inside and out, to remove the strong,
oily taste. Mix the bread, chopped
onion, sage. mashedpotato, pepper and
salt. well together. Bind with the egg
well beaten. Stuff the goose; put in a
pan with q little water, and bake Gerry
slow for three hours.
Cream Cheese.-Mix pint of warm
new milk with quart of fresh cream, a
lump or two of sugar, a spoonful of
rennet; place it near the fire until the
curd comes; make a shape of straw or
rushes something like fiat brick, sew
the PUSHES or straw together, make the
top and bottom in the same way, but
they must be loose; put the cord into
the shape on the loose bottom, and cover
with the top; take it out the next day,
and turn it every day until ripe. A one
pound weight will be sufficient to place
on this cheese.
There are three practical ways to
change the bearing-year of apple trees,
two of which are known to me: l. En-
rich the ground heavily in the spring of
the even, or fall of the odd year, us
suits convenience; this treatment in
duces a set of fruit buds for the odd
year. 2. Take good working pair of
scissors and cut off the blossoms the
even year, which will pay. 3. Graft
trees from scionS cut from trees known
to bear only the odd year. This last
way is unknown to me yet, but prom
Uses well. and is expected to be known
next year.-Cor. N Y. Tribune.
Cabbage Coral.-Shred or chop six
or seven heads of white cabbage and
five or six red peppers. Pack in jar and
pour over them boiling brine made of
a heaping tablespoon of salt to- two
quarts OF water. After twenty-four
hours drain off the brine and pour on
boiling vinegar. Ii very sour it may be
made half water. The next day pour
into colander, wash out the jars, re-
pack the cabbage with little whole
mustard seed. Cover with cold vine
gar, turn plate over, and it is ready
for use next day, and will be as brittle
as raw cabbage after standing few
days. Any unsweetened pickles, Scald-
ed twice in this way, will. keep a year
or two if pure cider vinegar is used and
they are not kept in the cellar. Black
pepper and cloves added to this pickle
spoil its bright clear color, as they do
of Chill sauce, which we here give for
its excellence, although not new. Peel
thirty large tomatoes and ten onions
and cook two hours with seven red pep
pers. Then add cup of sugar, half
cup of salt, quart of vinegar and ia
blespoon of ground mustard. Strain
through sieve, cook half an hour longer
with constant stirring and Their bottle
for use.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1880-12-09
Brain Farming.

Some people imagine that farming
requires but little outlay of brain power
to make it successful. But as some one
has truthfully said Brains make the
best fertilizer n man can use" Take
two men, one of them with half the
ply steal strength of the other, the
weaker of the two will accomplish more
than the other if he exceeds the latter
in brain power. Wehave known large,
stout, healthy men, who were hard
workers, and yet always on "stern
chase" with their work; they were al
ways in hot water, always poor, from
the simple fact that their bodies were
better than their brains. Such a man,
if he is doing rs simple work as picking
up stones on a hillside, will get his
stoneboat on the upper side of large
boulder, and then by stress ofmlnd and
muscle roll it on the drag, while the
weaker, but wiser man, would place the
boat on the lower side of the stone, I'M
hitch his team, place the chain above
it, and in a twinkling have it loaded,
and save his own strength for some more
important occasion. And so it goes to
the end OF the chapter with the man
who does not g think, and this law APP
plies to indoor as well as outdoor work.
If men and women would take time to
plan their work they would secure bet
ter results than to hurry and scurry
about without thought or system. We
honestly believe that if every farmer
would have study and library, like a
professional man, with a few good
agricultural papers, and spend an hour
or two each day in reading and planning
his work, he would secure better re-
suits than to spend twice that amount
of active labor on the farm. This is
the time and the hour for labor saving
inventions in every direction, and no
farmer can entirely ignore this increased
knowledge, and compete with those who
have their eyes and ears open.-EaStern
Chronicle.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1880-12-09
LIFE IND DEATH.


Life and death-ahi who can tell
whence We come. and whittier we go7
luto world With a sudden cry.
Out Of the world wi.h meanings low.
" no can tell what his fate will he?
Ever the seeming sport Of chance
To-day IN the flush OF pride and hope
But c1anges must come as the years ac-
vance.
a man may rise at the dawn OF day.
And YEARLY work till the sun goes down
What does IL matter,-'tis all the same,
II II be for wealth or a Just renoWn.
Fire, or flood or merciless men
In night NAV leave him naked and cold.
And fame Is a hreItb through pipes OF straw,
Or burden TO bear, when one grows old
Life is a riddle hard to read
Finding no answer we think OF God.
And the wheels Of the universe
Faithfully follow His guiding rod.
If it be true that He cares for US,
Cares for the creatures He has made.
What have we, but 10 cleave to him.
Nothing should make our hearts afraid.
Earthly passions perforce grow cold,
As the hairs grow white, and the eyes grow
dim.
Cleave 10 and love Him with heart and soul
What's to love, if we love not Him2
-Ffulicts L. Gardner, Ia the Springfield ReT1tt-
hcdn.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1880-12-09

"A little boy named Johnny, from
the interior of the State, who had been
raised on q stock ranch, and had heard
good deal about the consequences of
stockmen killing yearlings that did not
belong to them, came to Galveston to
live. The other day .Iohnny's Sundar-
school teacher asked him: Why did
not Abraham offer up IsaacP" s'Per-
haps Isaac didn't belong to the old
mans mark and brand" This answer
was not precisely correct, so the teacher
asked the next boy, who happened to
be the son of a Galveston butcher, why
it WAS that Abraham did not kill Isaac
"Maybe Isaac wasn't fat enough to
KILL" was the response. These little
Texas boys are lightning strikers.-GoI
UeStoR NelCS.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1880-12-09

How We Were "Guttonho,ed."

Look here don't want to buttonhoie
you with any political intentions; but if you
have minutes time, let me tell you some
thing that may benefit some Of your readers"
We'll, what is iti''-we remarked to our old
friend and subscriber as he stopped US in
front of the Boody House yesterday MORN
Ing. - was Only going to remark that
those Hamburg Drops, Of which you publish
a notice in your paper, is really the best
Blood Medicine in the country; l tried it,
and so have some OF my friends, for serious
ailments, and III be hanged il it amt enti-
tied to the med.l" We cheerfully make
space for the above candid opinion of one Of
cur readers.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1880-12-09


Mr.. Flndlay Dun, member of the
Royal Agricultural Commission in Eng
land, ates that throughout the midland
and eastern counties the position of the
English farmer is critical, and show.
little sign of amendment. To render
English farming less precarious and
more profitable, Mr.. Dun recommends
greater diversity. Less dependence than
heretofore must be placed on arabic cul
ture; less wheat must be generally
grown; more. live stock must be reared
and fed; more Gairying, vegetable, aud
fruit culture must be prosecuted. The
old lands of England he considers could
not be economically farmed on the rough
and ready system successful in this coun.
try. They require increasing capital,
skill, and resource to make them yield
even a fair reward for the labor ex-
pended on them. For the advantage of
landlords, tenants, the community at
large, in fact, MIR. Dun thinks that the
old laws Of entail and primogeniture
should be either abolished or so changed
as to suit the requirements of modern
times. They were good enough in their
day, but their day is gone. The posi-
ton of the English farmers has become
a national question. Shortened farm
crops, disease among live stock, and
other causes have combined to shrink
English farm returns from 410,000,000
to E20, 900, 900 annually.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1880-12-09
a Cru.aae AGAINST Tobacco.

A RESOLUTION of a very alarming
character respecting tobacco smoking
was passed ut q meeting of Sunday
school teachers, Band of Hope con-
dGctorS and others, held at Manchester,
the other day, to consider the ''increas-
ing habit of Juvenile smoking and the
best means to counteract it." 1t was
moved that, Gas physicians of the high
est eminence declare tobacco TO be inju-
rious to health and longevity; as smok-
ers smoke to crafty the same artificial
craving which induces drinkers to drink;
as careful statistical investigation shows
that the smoking teetotaler is five times
as liable to break his VOW as the nom
smoking teetotaler; as smoking is an
unmanly leaning on a solace to care
and labor, neither sought nor needed by
women, enabling the smoker to be idle
without growing weary of idleness, tend
ing to take the ambition out of him and
to make him happy when he should be
miserable, and content when his divin.
est duty is discomfort; as it is almost
impossible to smoke in an inhabited
country without causing discomfort and
nausea to others; and as, finally, the
passion for tobacco has been the cause
of many serious fires and disastrous ex-
plosions, this meeting entreats parents,
teachers and all others who have infu-
ence with British boys to warn them
against this barbarous habit, both by
precept and example" The resolution
was carried unanimously, and those, if
any such exist, who have influence with
British boys will no doubt give them
the desired warning; but it is only far
to point out that some physicians "of
the highest eminence" declare that they
have never seen q case in which tobacco
smoking has caused the slightest injury
to health, and there are even doctors
who maintain that if women were to
smoke they would be less liable to
hysteria than they are at present. If
tobacco, as alleged makes the smoker
"happy when he should be miserable,
and content when his divinest duty is
discomfort" he ought beyond doubt
be made to put out his pipe on all occa-
sions when he feels the necessity of be-
ing unhappy and discontented.-St.
James GQzefte.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1880-12-09
no CnRRESpnNnENrs

an Communications for this paper should be
accompanied by the name of { e author not
nece ssaI1Iy for publication, but as evidence Of
gcnd faith on the part OF the writer Write
onlyOa one side of the paper BE particularly
careful IN giving names and dates, to have al
letters or figures plain and distinct
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1880-12-09

Don't take any o the quack rostTums, as they
are re.imental to the human cistern; but put
your Trust in Hop 3 tiers which will cure
general diia7idatiOn, cosuve habits and all
comic diseases. They saved Isaac from
severe extact OF tripod fever. They are the
ne plus uAtlDt OF medicines.-BoStOia Globe.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1880-12-09
[Cleveland Icadcr.l


Happy is Knox, the famous New York Hat
.er. Mrs. Knox, who had been a requent
and painful sufferer with rheumatism, was
speedily cured by the use OF the Great Ger
man Remedy, st. Jacobs Oil Consequently
the great Broadway Halter is hannv
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1880-12-09
Rest Stove We Ever Used.

After many years. trial, we are satisfied
that the CHARTER OAK is the best Stove we
ever used, and cheerfully testify that ii is
the best adapted 70 the wants OF the general
public Of any stove in the market.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1880-12-09
Advantage of HEAVY Plates.

The soft bituminous coal used in the West
is so destructive on ali cast-iron that the
heavy plates in the CHARTER OAK COOK
STOVE viii be appreciated by housekeepers
as well as dealers. This advantage, with ex-
cellent draft, quick and uniform baking,
make the CHARTER OAK the most desirable
stove liz the market.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1880-12-09

DURING one month this summer the Phila-
dephia Mint coined S6UO.0UJ, and how they
all got PISS; Us with ut our seeing one of
them is what astonlshes us--BHFib,gton Hdsat-
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1880-12-09

THE sales of the Frazer Axle Grease are
increasing every day, because it is as good as
REPRESENTED.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1880-12-09

Parsons INDELIBLE MARKING INK has n
record Of .fffy years. Sample mailed for Soc.
by F. II. Stoddard & Co, Northampton, Mass.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1880-12-09

IF afflicted with Sore Eyes, use DR.. Isaac
Thompson's Eye Water. Druggists sell it. 25c-
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1880-12-09

A DISTINGUISHING feature of Redding's Rus
STA Salve is its power to reduce Inflammation.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1880-12-09

There is no civilized nation IN the Western Henri
sphere in which the utility Of Hosic;tcrs Stomach Bit
tiers as tonic. corrective. and -boUs medicine Is
not Known and appreciated While Il is 4 medicine for
all seasons and all climates Il is especially stuffed 20 the
complains generated By the her, being the purest
and best vegetable stiInulant in the world.
For sale by Druggists and Dealers. whom apply for
Hostettcr's Almanac Tor ISL.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1880-12-09

Revolver. steel barrel y calbre, for half price
mailed post paid receipt OF 80 Send registered
letter p O. order send for circular OF other special
ties to LAGONDA SPECIALITY CO., Springfield, U.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1880-12-09
PTRE TEAS $s.afi T2@5a2 'E Ss{f: sc
cur THIS OUT And AsH: o Ssnd ! VII, .!ia1

stock in the country; quality and terms The best CoUn
try stOrckeepers should ca or write THE WELLS TEA
COMPANY, 2Ui Fulton ST.. Y Pc. Box 4550
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1880-03-31

At Westminster Police Court, London
recently, parrot was allowed to give evi
dence. NsYs THs
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1880-03-31

"A large lot Of toilet soaps, very cheap,
ust received OF Bosenbury's Pharmacy. MIA.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1880-03-31
Fish are often in seine.

People of settled conviction-Prisoners.