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Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1880-10-09
MR.. GROVE.

We preferred him for State Senator 10
any one else, but we oppose HIN Tor this
office because we are firmly persuaded
that he does not possess the peculiar
qualities necessary to make successful
Judge. He entered the whirl, excitement
aud temptations of Maryland politics at
the very time of life that he ought TO
have been disciplining his mind in the
severe school OF the first ten years at
the Bar. The characteristics which
make a successful politician, are the
very opposite of those that constitute an a,
efficient Judge. The object of the poll
tician is to please the people, 10 win
popular applause. and any man who cul-
iivates this object, (unconsciousiy) I'M
fits himself for the office OF judge
while hunting for votes, habits OF
thought are acquired and the mind receiv-
es bent of which it cannot be divesied.
Again. Mr.. Grove has not applied him
SELF, continuously TO the practice; he Is
not regarded as learned in the law; he
has had little or no experience in or
courts, and it is no disrespect or refiec
ton TO saw, that he has not been a stu
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1880-09-16
Destruction of Cedar Forests.

Dallas Herald
1t is painful to see the cedar
forests of Texas SO rapidly de-
stroyed. This valuable tree is
actually being cut down and
sold in our markets for common
fire wood, and the owners get
no more than they do for the
oaks, hickory and black jack
As an article of commerce it
ought to rank with maple and
next to walnut. When it gets
scarcer it will. We only appre-
ciate a virtue that is lost. We
prize most that which is hardest
to get. Two eggs of the great
aux supposed to be extinct,
recently sold in an auction room
in Edinburgh, were bought by a
MIR. Small for $40. They were
afterwards resold in London,
one fetching $500 and the other
Io2 guineas. This is supposed
to be the largest price ever paid
for an egg, except single spe-
cimen OF a moa egg. which was
sold in London IN 1865 for $1,000
or Goo. If they were as COM
mon as hen eggs they would
not fetch over Is cents per doz-
en-; and SO it is with our cedar
trees. There are acres of them
being destroyed now. which in
a few years would sell for more
than the whole farm, including
the crop.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1880-09-16
Feeding Fruit Trees.

We enrich soil to procure good
crops of corn and other things.
Why should orchards be neg
lecteda The elements consum-
ed in the production of a fruit
crop, should certainly be restor-
cd to the soil. Trees should
not be starved. If they are, the
fruit will become small and in
ferior in quality. Alternate
bearing years are a result ofthis
treatment, as is shown by the
abundant crops that may be OBJ
tanned every year by thorough
cultivation. The barren year is
natures method of aiding the
tree to collect from rain and at
mosphere material for produc-
tive year. 1t is just as reason
able to expect that good crop
of corn can be taken annually
from a field to which nothing
has been returned as to expect
good fruit from soil constantly
growing poor.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1880-09-16

BE SHoRr.-Long visits, long
stories, long essays, long exhor-
tations and long prayers profit
not those who have to do with
them. Life is short. Time is
short. Moments are precious.
Learn to condense abridge and
intensity.
We can bear things that are
dull if they are only short. We
can endure many an ache and
i'll if it is over soon, while even
pleasures grow insiped; and pain
intolcrable if they be protrac-
ted beyond the limits of reason
and convenience. Learn to be
short. Top off the branches;
stick to the main fact in your
discourse. If you pray, ask
what you would receive and get
through; if you speak tell your
and hold your peace,
boil down two words into one
and three into two, Always
earn to be short,
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Improving Poor Land.

GLOW can these old fields be
made to produce abundant har-
vest at a cost that will enable the
crops to pay a fair interest
on the investment and
fair investment for the labor?"
This question, put by the New
England Homestead, is a very
important one for Canadian far
mers as well as others. Land
has been neglected, and, worse
still, exhausted by repeated
cropping with scourging crops,
till the average of our wheat
production has been lowered to
eighteen bushels, some of them
to so low a yield as to be an ac-
tual loss to the farmer. There
was some excuse for the system
of the over-cropping when the
farmer had to rely entirely upon
the wheat market; but now, with
good markets for meat and
wool, butter and cheese, there
exists no longer plea for an
uninterrupted succession of
grain crps till the soil is thor
o ghly exhausted.
The farmer who would res
tore to impoverished lands their
former productiveness, m
feed sheep and fatten cattle on
his land. But that land is SO
impoverished that live stock
would starve on it. Let him,
then, sow buckwheat, oats, rye
and clover, not to sell the grain
grain, but for soiling and to
pillow them under crop after crop
till there is again a vegetable
mold within the soil that will
pay MN a remuneration Tor his
labor. This is the work of
time; it is, however, the requir-
ing of a new farm that will
yield as heavy crops as the old
farm did in the clearing. Wheat
as the only market crop, will
not bring as high price now
that the British markets are
sure of an abundant supply
from every point of the COM
pass; but there is a profit from
the SHAMELESS and the dairy, if
you supply none but best quail
ity.
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If every one attempted the
same thing there could be no
proportionate success; but happ-
lily agriculture is well diversified,
and there are SO many distinct
occupations that there is a
choice for all. In all of these
some persons will be more
successful than others; but there
are general principles for the
guidance of all, and one is to
consume as much as possible
the produce of the farm upon
the farm. All of the wheat
produced cannot be so SON.
sumed, neither can all of the
corn. Large quantities must
be scld, but do not sell corn
and neglect stock; keep corn
sufficient to fatten the steers;
keep some to make into butter
and some for the production of
wool and mutton. Diversity
yonr products so that if one
fails you may have success with
others.
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Save the Best Cotton Seed.
Waco Examiner]

Waco ESaminerl
1t is a well known fact that
scrops are dependent in a very
large degree upon the character
bf the seed, and that the careful
ELECTION of seed which is fully
developed, of large size and the
most perfect of its kind is a mat
ter of prime importance. In
the selection of seed corn, the
careful farmer takes the largest
and best ears. aud from those
ears only the perfect grains, and
from this careful selection of
seed corn year by year, the corn
crop has grown up to perfection.
The same is true Of some other
crops, and it is also true that
by an indiscriminate and care
less use of seed, crops will de-
generate year by year. There
are difficulties attending the Sc
lection of seed cotton, and very
little attention has been paid
to save the purest seeds, the
largest and most mature, SO that
we may reasonably assume that
the cotton growth is far below
what it should be, as a general
thing and that one of the most
important points to be made
by farmers at present, is to bring
up the grade Of cotton, as that
ofother crops have been brought
up. We are of the firm belief
that cotton can be made to aver
age a bale to the acre, and that
it has reasonable possibility OF
two bales to the acre, by care
full breeding up and superior
cultivation. Especially is this
increased production of the acre
desirable and profitable in cot
ton, because the more cotton
to the acre, the less cost ofpick-
ing, and picking is the greatest
cost of the cotton crop. To
breed up the cotton crop by
the selection of seed, is perfect
ly feasible, and every farmer
should at once begin to put it
in practice now. Let seed for
half-acre or an acre, be this year
selected by hand from the finest
cotton, the cotton crop is the
largest, most perfect bolls in
size and shape, and let the cot
ton bolls be pulled flon the
stalks and piled together, and
left until the processes which
go on in the dissemination of
the oil be perfected. The seed
and the cotton can then be taxi
en- from the bolls and ginned,
and the farmer will then have
choice seed. Let an acre Of
ground be prepared in the
spring as it for garden, and let
the cultivation of that cotton be
conducted on purpose for seed,
the cotton wide. apart, the cul-
tivation perfect, the aim being
(. to produce the largest and fin
est cotton. The cotton may
be topped or picked out SO as
to force extra growth into lin
tied number of bolls, and thus
seed for the second year be
produced, which vii be valuable
seed. By raising a limited
quantity of cotton just for the
seed, and by changing seed, by
forced cultivation every farmer
can breed up his cotton TO dou-
BILE its first yield.
There is a bonanza for those
who will practice this, and this
method of seed selection can
be carried out with very little
trouble and no expense. 1t is
not in increased acreage that
money is.to be made on cotton,
but in improved seed and breed
ing up to higher excellencies in
the plant, and now is the time
to begin selecting the best bolls
for next years planting for seed.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1880-09-16

THERE will be a large meet
ing of rice planters at Charles
ton, S. C., on the 10th of No
vember, for the purpose of us
ing their influence to prevent
the passage of a bill which has
been pending in Congress for
some time, having as its object
the removal of the duties on
foreign rice. The rice planters
of all the Southern States have
been invited to attend.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1880-09-16

The idea that potatoes mix
in the hill is quite general and,
indeed, its truth does not seem
to be out of the range of posi-
bility. It's true that there is
not at present any scientific
knowledge on which such a
theory can rest but there is a
lack Of knowledge, which leaves
a margin of possibility. As
that part. of the potato plant
which is a true stem, of which
the potato is a part why could
not a process Unnatural grating
take place which would be more
apt to affect near part of the
stem than an ordinary graft
would be TO affect the more fruit
of the stock upon which the
scion was placed? The other
view, that the polIen-tube in
fluences the stock of transmits
sion through the nucleus of
the ovule, is hardly SO tenable
though even here some peril
nent questions might be asked.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1880-09-16

Michigan had I,S35,IoI acres
under wheat this year, against
LOO, no acres last year. The
crop was an average one, and
the yield is estimated at from
100000 to $1,000, 900 bush
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1880-09-16

Corn loses one-ffth by drying
and wheat one-fourteenth.
From this the estimate is made
that it is more profitable for
farmers to sell unshelled corn
in the fall at Is cents than at
81 a bushel in the following
summer, and the wheat at sI.25
in December is equal to 81. soin
the succeeding June. In the
case of potatoes-taking those
that rot and are otherwise lost
together with the shrinkage,
there is but little doubt that
between October and June the
loss to the owner who holds
them is not loss than 50 per
cent.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1880-09-16

During the season of 1879
SO, 10000 barrels of oysters
were exported to Europe, an
increase of 10000 barrels over
the quantity for 1880. 1t is
estimated by dealers that the
wholesale trade in New York
city alone amounts to nearly
$4,000 900 annually. The num-
Der of oysters handled in this
immense business is 100000,
coo, equal to 100000 barrels.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1880-09-16

The late drought has serious
ly damaged the corn crop
throughout the northwest, and
the supply viii be cut short full
ly Is per cent. in Illinois, Iowa,
and Nebraska, while a shortage
is also evident at many other
adjacent points. In view of
these facts, the Chicago market
jumped at once. and a consid-
cradle advance in the price OF
corn is now bul,etined.-Rural
World.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1880-09-16

THEarmy worm has made its.
appearance in the eastern part
OF Halifax county, Nova Scotia.
1t has also appeared in Sher-
brooke, doing much damage to
the wheat. barley and other
grain crops.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1880-09-16

THE Right Rev. ~. N. Little
john. D. D., bishop of Long Is
land, has been Invited by the
syndicate Of Cambridge, Eng
land, to deliver a series Of SER
mons in the university pulpit
This is the first time an Ameri-
can Clergyman has been invited
TO Gil the place. 1t has always
been customary ITO invite the
leading clcrgymen Of the church
Of England to occupy the uni
versity pulpit.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1880-09-16

Nv. NJ. Edwardy, a member Of
the recent acknowledgement
back-labor conference IN Mont
gomery and editor of the cen
trail organ of that party, who
met Gen. Weaver at Birming-
ham, accompanied him to some
of his appointments and intro
duced him to his audiences,
published, on the 18th inst,
a three-column card in which he
declares that Weaver is in daily
communication with the lead
ing republican papers of the
northern capitalists; that the
greenback and republican ma
tional executive committees
are to meet at Chicago in Sc
cret session on the 9th Of Au-
gust; that no republican electo-
raj ticket is to be put upln Ala
bama; that the greenback cleo
toral ticket in this state will vote
half for Garfield and half for
Weaver il elected; that the nat
ional republican committee is
to furnish money for the green
back presidential campaign here
that, through Sloss, the Alaba-
mo greenbackers have asked
aid from the republican nation
al committee in the state can
vass; that Weaver, in private
conversations, says the main OBJ
iect OF his movement is to over
throw the democratic party in
the south; that a host of IN
tied States marshals, backed by
hundreds of northern roughs,
are to be used to create distur-
Dances and set our people to
fighting among themselves;
and much more of the Same
sort. He says he went Tito the
movement in good Asliat
having learned irs
plans, SO hostiIa
SO wicked and
feels it his d
and sever witt
party sailing i1ise col
ors. His statement is very full
and names and dates are given.
1t bears upon its face evidence
Of truthfulness, and to the ex-
tent If is believed it will drive
from the republican-greenback
alliance every honest man who
has been seduced into it
Southern Argus,
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sand acres of land
bought in Delaware
ony of 5000 German
les from Southern Rus

distress among the la
classes in the neighbor-
of Fernroy, Ireland, is re-
led as very great, hundreds
hg destitute and the local
Gcrnment board apathetic.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1880-09-16

THERE are two four-in-hands
at Saratoga. Mr.. Leonard Je-
rome has a half drag, with four
superb horses. The half drag
differs from the tally-ho. 1t is
open, has seats for four only
independent of the driver and
the high rumble at the back for
the footman. The groom is
dressed in yelloy top boots and
livery.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1880-09-16

II has been usually regarded
as fact that a presidentialelec-
ton brought with it inactivity in
the channels of trade and bust
ness circles, that public enter
prises suffered, and dull times
generally prevailed. The COM
ing event will be marked by no
gloomy surroundings. The skies
were never brighter. Prosper
ity, contentment and general
security are the features of the
fall campaign, and despite the
distressing pictures painted by
political agitators, white-winged
peace hovers over all the land.
Rural World.
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IRoN is fast becoming one of
the important products of the
South. Georgia now produces
100000 tons of pig iron per an
nun, and it is asserted that the
ores of Tennessee and Alabama
can be worked at a greater prof
it than the British ores of Cleve-
land. The development of the
iron industry in Virginia has re-
ceived a great impetus during
the past year, and in the various
portions Of the South the hidden
wealth in iron is undoubtedly
enormous.
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Agency Established |
A. D! 1869. j
The Portland daily press., 1880-03-30
Timber Growth in Maine.

In late correspondence with the State
botanist of Vermont, c. G. Pringle, learn
that he is to report officially on the forest
growth, and value of the same in Maine, in
connection with the census of 1880. This
exploration, if caused by the general govern
ment seems to be the initiative of measures
for the preservation of what remains, if not
the promotion of its future increase We all
understand how forest fires in summer and
bankrupt numbering in winter, have wasted
untold millions of forest value that a COM
ing generation may feel the want of.
As public attention is called to this sub
Ject in the west, with the outlay that has
already begun, another century NAV see
these great prairie States better supplied with
lumber and fuel than our own pine tree
state. Maine cannot so soon raise forests
from seeds as the west, but we NAV do some
thing to save what remains and aid the slow
growth OF timber, where destructive fires and
vandalism have laid waste.
In the science OF botany, some safeguards
are found against fruitless efforts to raise
such forest trees as the climate will not al
low or. BogwoOd and black cherry have
their limits seventy-fve miles shor. of Names
northern line, near the Aroostook river. The
white oak, as is proved by experiment, may
be extended to the same limit, while walnut
and chestnut can only cross the most south
ern lines of Maine. Though white ash makes
out to live near the northern boundary, il is
worth but little north of Patten. HemIock,
though losing its value for lumber about
midway of the State, natures sufficient
for tanning bark fifty miles further, but en-
tirely disappears on the ST. Johns river,
towards Canada. The butter-nut tree pre-
sents an anomaly While so much at home on
the Kennebec it is not a native tree on the
Penobscot above Bangor that 1 ever saw,
while in New Brunswick it is a stately ma
tive tree in the primeval forests to Grand
Falls. where single tree will make thous-
and feet of boards; and what is most singu-
lar, limits follow our eastern boundary over
the top of Mars Hill, just north and south,
more than one hundred miles. Experiments
prove, however, that it may be cultivated
through most of Maine territory Spruce,
pine and cedar reach, think, to the highest
ATTITUDES and attitudes of the State.
The sugar maple disappears on the upper
st. Johns at Big Rapids, five miles above
the mouth of Alegash, and this leads me to
notice more particularly the facts involved
AS we come north, the yield of sap is much
less than farther south. But as the sap
yields about the same sugar to the pailful, a
larger number of trees can be cared for by
the same help. and the same work makes
nearly the same sugar as in Canada or YER
mont. The most astonishing thing in the
maple sugar enterprise is that the oldest,
best cultivated farms all over Vermont Weld
the most sugar from the little hooks of Sec
ond growth, four times as much as the pri-
meval forests; but it needs care to save and
help this second growth, not yet thought of
here in AroostOOk DirigO Rural
The Portland daily press., 1880-03-30
ECZEMA ON The SCALP.
Breast and Limbs Cured.

Messrs WEEKS g. PoTTNR: Gentlemen,-I can
not refrain from adding my debt of gratitude to you
for having placed within my reach the wonderful
CUTICURA REMEDIES, which have rendered unnec-
essary all further experiments of physicians and in
remarkably short space of time have rid me of a
loathsome disease. 1 dispensed with all physicians
two years ago believing they did me no good. The
CUT1cURA has stepped this unsatisfactory expense
even if it were necessary and had the courage
any longer to follow their advice-and brought the
long-lookedfor cure and happiness.
have been afflicted with Eczema or Salt Rheum
my scalp, breast, and limbs for five years. during
which time have been under the treatment of ply
sicianS or at mineral spring, or taking some kind
of medicine have been treated by DIR. - of
-, and DIR. - of -, and visited sulphur springs
and taken numbers Of patent medicines, all without
the faintest approach to a cure.
April last, began the use of CUTICURA, which
was Immediately successful in my case entirely
curing me. have not had clean scalp for Is
years until the use of the CUTICURA entirely healed
it and left it clean and healthy The other parts of
my body were affected in a more aggravated form,
but are now completely healed. believed myself
completely cured. shall continue the CUTICURA
REsoLvENT as directed, for its wonderful action on
the stomach and bowels land cooling influence on
the blood. 1t will afford me pleasure, as l have
done in many cases, to urge the afflicted to use
these wonderful remedies.
Yours, ETC., STEPHEN CROWELL.
NEW BEDFORD, Sept. 80, 1878.
The Portland daily press., 1880-03-30
Portland and Worcester Line
PORTLAND & ROCHESTER, r, r..
WINTER ADVANCEMENT.

WINTER ARRANG<ENEENT.
On and after Monday, Dec. Is,
.::.sss9a.ses. lSss, Passenger Trains will leave
S -.-1s-.sz5 Grand Trunk Depot, PERT
-land, for Worcester at s.IO n.
m. and LOO p. in. Leave Preble st. Station at
1870 n. m. nnd III p. M, arriving at Wor-
cester at 2.15 p. m. and 7.30 p. m. Returning,
leave Union Depot, Worcester, at 7.30 a. m. and
II. lie a. M, arriving at Portland at LIS p. and
600 p. m.
For Clinton, Aver juno, Fi,chbarg,
Nashua, Lowell, Windham, and Ep@
ping at 1870 n. m. and LOO p. m.
For Manchester, Concord and points North, at
For Rochester, Springvaie, Alfred, WATT
erbOrO and SacO River. Leave Grand Trunk
Depot at 7.2O a. m. and 100 p. RM.; leave
Preb,e st. Station at 5.3O n. M, 4. s p. M,
ester at (mixeO 6.45 a. M. .O5 a. M, and
$40 p. M; arriving at Portland (nixed) 9.35 a.
M, LILO p. m. and 600 p. m.
For GOrham, Saccarappa, Cumberland
Mills, WestbroOk and WOOdfOrd's.
Leave Grand Trunk Depot at 100 a. m. and
LIS, q. Is and (mixeG 6.45 p. m.
The 90 p. m. tt ain from Portland connects at
Aver juno with HOosac Tunnel Route for
the West, and at Union Depot, Worcester, for
New York via Norwich Line, and ali rail,
via Springfield also with N. v. a. N. H. Y.
phia, Baltimore, Washington, and the
South and with Boston 4 Albany IL. H. for
the West.
Close connections made at Westbroolk juno
ton with through trains of Me. Central Il. R., and
at Grand Trunk Depot, Portland, with through
trains of Grand Trunk r. r.
Through tickets to all points South and West, at
Depot offices and at collins Adams, No. % Ex-
change Street.
def5dtf JIM. LUNT supt.