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The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1880-06-11
Winter Egg-Production.

To obtain a breed of fowls that are
perpetual layers is the object that many
aim at. This is an impossibility, for
nature will exhaust itself and must have
a period of rest. In order that we have
a perpetual production of fresh eggs, the
business must be arranged beforehand.
There is difference in breeds, some
laying better than others at any time of
the year, and others, again, will give
their eggs in winter. There is little
difficulty in obtaining eggs in summer,
but the winter eggs must be worked for,
and the fowls managed beforehand.
Hens that have laid we'll during the
summer cannot be depended upon for
fed, but will generally commence in
January and keep it up through Feb
ruary and March, giving a good supply
of eggs if not too old. But it is better
not to allow such birds to go into the
winter. They are generally fat, after
having finished the annual moult, and
should be killed for the table. After the
second annual mou1t hens are apt to be-
come egg bound, especially if well fed
and fat The excess of fat that accumu-
lates about the lower intestines and
ovaries weakens these organs, and rem
ders them incapable of performing their
offices. Hence the fowl suffers and
becomes proftless. When left too long
the bird becomes feverish and the flesh
is unfit for food. The better way is to
avoid this trouble, since there is no cure,
by not allowing the birds to go into the
second winter. Trouble of this kind
seldom occurs with pullets or young
hens. To obtain supply of winter
eggs, we must have the chicks out in
March or April. Leghorns and some of
the smaller breeds will do in May or the
first of June, but the Brahmas and
Cochins must come off early, that they
may have the full season for growth.
The Asiatics are generally good layers in
winter, and need less artificial heat, as
nature has not furnished them with any
ornamental appendages which suffer by
exposure to frost. For them it is not
necessary to spend large sums in warm
buildings. What they can dispense
which must be given regularly.
The combed varieties require warmer
quarters anu SUMMER exposures than the
Asiatics, and are good winter layers after
December and early January. They
will lay in the fall if early Matched, but
the change of fall to winter, and the
getting into winter quarters affects them,
and they seldom commence again before
the days begin to 1engthen, at which
time Brahmas will cease egg-p production,
and become broody. Where one has the
convenience it is well to keep both
kinds, in order to insure supply of
eggs. It is useless to expect many eggs
from old fowls of any variety. Have the
buildings ready early and the fowls of
the right age and in condition to insure
success. The business of our domestic
hen is to produce eggs, and we must
feed her for it.-C. B, IN Country Gentle
man.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1880-06-11
Russian Customs.

The Russians have some curious Gus
toms-for instance, their funerals. When
q man dies, priest comes and takes pos
session of the room in which he lies. The
room is darkened and number of can
dies lighted, the priest continuing to
mutter his prayers until the funeral
takes place. The body is carried to the
church where the relations come and
take the hand of the deceased, asking
pardon for any offenses they have given
him in life. A paper is put into his
hand, testifying that he was an honest
man and member of the Greek Church.
When he is put into the ground and the
grave filed, food is placed near it for
the purpose of pTopitiating the spirit.
Drunkenness and disorder frequently
prevail at this ceremony. Their mar
riages are also singular. They are al
ways in church at the door of which
the priest meets the couple and kisses
their hands, at the same time giving
them his benediction. They follow him
to the altar, and a crown, light, and gen.
orally made of silver, is placed upon
their heads. This is called the marriage
crown. He puts wax taper in each OF
their hands and reads portion of Scrip
ture; sweet and bitter drink, emble-
NAUTICAL of the joys and sorrows of mar
ried life, is given to each. The whole
service lasts about an hour, and ends by
the bride and bridegroom, with all the
spectators, follow the priest around the
altar three times. When merchant
gives dinner, he and his wife stand be-
hind the chairs of their guests and wait
upon them, receiving the dishes from
the servants and placing them upon the
table. Every time one of the guests
asks for more sweetening in the wine the
merchant must march round the table,
meet his wife and salute her. When a
newly-married couple, this ceremony,
from the frequency of its being required,
often becomes fatiguing to the parties.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1880-06-11

THE INFLUENCE OF MICROSCOPIC
LIFE.-What is too small to be seen is
generally apt to be regarded with con-
tempt or indifference, as of no practical
consequence. This is one of the grossest
of popular errors. There is not only a
profound scientific interest in the realm
of microscopic life which is every day
becoming deeper as its organisms are
viewed from the standpoint of evolution,
but they have q significance in the econ
omy of nature, q usefulness to man and
value in the Industrial arts, OF which
but few glimpses have been popularity
obtained. To the inquiry, Of what serv-
ice are those swarms of inhnitesimal OBJ
jects which are revealed only through
the microscope !? do they subserve any
other purpose than to amuse infatuated
microscopists ?-the reply is, that their
operations in nature are on grand and
imposing scale, and that their influence
on man and other organisms, as well as
on the air, the water, and the solid earth,
is nothing less than enormous. Al
though we do not see these infnitesimal
creatures at work, their proceedings are
none the less real; and though their OPP
erations are infnitesimal, the aggregate
results are vast and in the highest degree
important. It may be shown. That,
as food, they feed a greater number of
beings than any other kind of organisms;
2. That, as scavengers, they eat more
refuse than any other group of organ
isms; 8. That, despite their minuteness,
their fossil remains are much greater in
bulk and of far more consequence than
those of larger quadrupeds and serpent
like monsters, such as the mastodon, me
gatherium, plesiosaurus, ichthyosaurus,
etc.; 4. That, as builders, they have pro-
duced immense structures, which far
surpass in size all the colossal works of
man. The evidence of these statements
will be presently given; but meantime it
may be remarked that such grand results
redeem the study of microscopical OBJ
jects from that pettiness which is often
imputed to it.-ScientDSc Monthly.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1880-06-11

Christ will come and the millennium be-
gin in September, 1881. according to the
calculations Of Mr.. Rev. Rounds, an Ad-
ventist of Portsmouth, n H, who has
devoted seven years to figuring out the
matter on chart 200 feet long.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1880-05-02
KIND WORDS.

The ST. Louis Times, metropolitan
paper, and one Of the best newspapers of the
day, says of the HERALD, under the follow
ing heading;
a TEXAS NEWSPAPER.
1t is with genuine pleasure that we OBJ
serve the marvelously rapid growth of the
Dallas ally HERALD, paper whose manly
Independence, enterprise and vlgor freely
entltle it to the wide circulation and COM
handing influence it has obtained in the
Lone Star state. Democratic in principle
and in policy, the HERALD has risen by
following two unerrng guides to success, viz:
To print all the news and to speak out boldly
what it intelligently believes to be for the
best interests of its constituents and Of the
people whom it reaches. Nowhere, perhaps,
outside of Young and lusty State like
Texas. would it be possible to record such
rapid journalistic progress rs that which the
HERALD has made during the past eighteen
months In recent issue il saws:
"About year aud a half ago the paper
was only tour.page Journal of seven col
umns; ii then increased in size to an eight.
column paper, which IL was when it oonsol-
dated with the Commercial. Its prosperity
increased so rapidly after the merging OF the
two papers into one that it became necessary
to again enlarge, and it became nine-uolumn
paper. Its business still grew so fast that
the use of supplements became a necessity
very frequently. and the propriotors, to keep
pace with the times and with its steady de-
velopment, again made a change, adopting
its present sty lie of eight pages, with six col
umns to page, or forty'eight columns in all,
the HERALD being the only daily paper in
Texas OF quarto form.
Devoted To the interests of the State, and
especially of Dallas and North Texas, gath
ering up and disseminating live news of the
day, the HERALD already numbers its read
ers by the thousand, aud has fair promise of
q future growth measured only by the
progress of the peerless empire State Of the
far Southwest
The Terrell Star says, and being home
paper ncarus, We appreciate its good opm-
ion most highly:
last Tuesdays edition of the Dallas
Daily HERALD contained twenty-four special
kilograms, from US many different places in
this State. These kilograms aggregated two
hundred and siNtydvc lines, and are in ad-
dition to the Associated Press dispatches
and daily correspondence. The consolidation
of the HERALD and Commercial may have
been good thing tor the proprietors of those
papers, but it is infinitely better for North
Tpvhs -
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1880-05-02

as power within itself which II was as
a Republic, but which blessing it gave up
to become an integral part %
the Union States, and the same eternal fit
ness Of things has preserved all those element
of independent greatness and power which
il can still, as State, exercise in CONNER
clal sense by following the course we out
line, Our people are under no obligations to
enrich st. Louis, Chicago, New Orleans nor
any other point with their trade, for there Is
no return of benefits for the same, but with
grand seaport such as Galveston
can be made, and magnificent
city such as the frst-class harbor will de-
velop, the obligation to center the trade and
commerce of the entire State there must be
apparent for il becomes a mutual thing, rs
the money of the people is kept at home to
be circulated among themselves. Let us all
strive In theinterest of Galveston MS II sea-
port for our own benefit. Let every section
and locality bring its influence to bear upon
Congress, and especially upon our own dele
CATION, to this end, and in u few years Texas
will indeed be the empire State in the
Union
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1880-05-02
THE MAI-FEST.


Tomorrow the grandest Mai-fest ever
held in Texas will be inauglratcd in Dali
a', under the management Of the various
German societies Of the city. For months
past preparations for the occasion have
been going forward, ana the indications
now are that the elimination will be one
OF the most magnificent events of similar
character ever witnessed in Southern or
Southwestern city. The signs are the most
hattering. The attendance of thousands
from abroad is assured, and the psrtcipa-
ton by citizens will be almost universal
Nothing but the most unfavorable weather,
which, from present appearances, seems not to
be npprehended in the least, can prevent the
realization of these predictions. The follow
ing is the order of procession determined up
on yesterday by the Grand Marshal, Colonel
John q. Mccoy and his aids:
ORDER CF PROCESSION.
Mounted Police
FIRST Dlvlsion-Grand Marshal, John c. Nc
Coy; Assistant Ma sha, j g. Eblin,
BaGd
Mayor, City Council aud ity Onicer, in Car
r!aS s.
orat ors and Repr 5 NATIVES Of The Press in
Corr ages.
Gate city Quarts, uf Deni'o
May Queens har,t
Lamar i'll *.
Queen CT y Guards.
sec1r Il Division-As.istant Marshals " c.
Connor and Frank DC rcll.
sherman COrnet Bad
Visiting + remen.
Dallas Fire Department
Third D vlslon-Assstant Marshal spelgel.
Band
Visiting Societies.
German ocletieS of Dallas
Fourth Diylsion-Assistent Marshal Knepfly
Band.
(ttiz ,ns generally.
Filth Division Assistant Marshals Gross
man and Long.
Decorated FiOaS5.
The military under Marshal Eblin, will
form on the east-sde of Lamar street, the right
resting on Commerce, at 10 o'clock a. m.
Meet promptly to arrange prelimnaries.
Fire departments, under Marshal Connor
will form on the west-side of Lamar street.
Meet OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES from to 10
o'clock am.
Dallas and visiting societies, under Mar
shall Spegel Meet at Turner hall A. Q a. m.
Refreshments unlimited both in quantity and
time.
Decorated floats, under Marshals Gross
man and Long, form at 10 a. m. on Houston
street, west side Public Square, right resting
on Commerce street. First float on the
ground will be given the right of line.
Citizens generally, under Marshal Knepay,
form on Austin street, right resting on Com.
merce, at 10 n. m. Refreshments at Grad
docks, Cauthorns and the Grand. Windsor.
A general waking up will be made Mt n.
IN. by firing cannon Retire early Sunday,
SO rs to get a good nights rest, and be ready
for the Ma-fest merriment.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1880-05-02
state Press Re.Uniou at Houston

Following is the invitation of the Bohe-
mian club, of Houston, to Major John f.
Elliott, of the HERALD, to deliver the ora
ton on the occasion of the forthcoming
State Press Reunion, and his acceptance:
HoUsroN, April ~, 1850.
Colonel ] +, Elliott.
DEAR SIR-At a meeting of the Bohemian
club held this morning, for the purpose of
pertecting arrangements for the State Press
reunion, to take place here during the Volks-
fest you we're selected by {, unanimous vote
to deliver the Grafton of the occasion, at 0
o'clock a. M, May 18th. Please notify us
Immediately should you accept.
ID. l.. MCGARY, President.
d. ID. BRYAN, Secretary.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1880-05-02
Hirth Dny Dinner.

Major R. V. Tompkins, a prominent citi-
zen and one of Dallas staunohest business
men, attained his forty-ffth year yesterday,
which he celebrated by giving a dining at
his residence TO u number of his friends
There was superb spread, sparkling wine
etc, and toasts were drank to the gentleman
BY his guests, who wished him long life OF
happiness.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1880-05-02
Ex-senator Bayard Sick.

Wilmington. Del, May l.--Ex.Senator
Bsyard has been confined to his room a
week or two past, but his physician expresses
no apprehension concerning his recovery
and his complaint is pronounced to be physi-
cal weakening, but there has been improve
ment during the past two days. His son,
senator Bayard, arrived in town last night
and is in attendance at his fathers bedside.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1880-05-02
Railroad News

Savannah, GA, May LIN the United
States Circuit court o.day, Judge Woods in
the case of Morris r. Jessup, Surviving trustee
vs.. Sa annah, Florida II Western Railroad
company, and the Railroad Commissioners
of Georgia, granted restraining order until
the motion in the injunction can be heard.
restraining said railroad company and com.
missioners from proceeding un Ter the tariff
of rates established by the latter.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1880-05-02
A Good Showing =

Seven men last year rented the farm Of D
w Florence, ncar Mesquite, in this county.
Their total crops amounted to ninety bales
of cotton, twelve hundred and forty bushels
of wheat, two thousand bushels of corn, be-
sides minor articles. The marketable value
of the crop yields of the farm netted for each
of the seven renters at least one thousand
dollars
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1880-05-02

Notwithstanding the threatening weather
early in the morning May day was celebrated
by the Lamar st. Methodist church Sunday
school yesterday in a BETTING manner, and
n goodly number of children and young
ladies and gentlemen enjoyed the festivities
There was an abundance of refreshments, and
swinging, boat-racing and other pleasures
were heartily enioyed BY all who attended.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1880-05-02
Methodi.t conference

Cincinnati, o., May 1.-The Twenty-third
Qusdriennial General Conference of the
Methodist Episcopal church convened at
Pixies Opers-house this morning. Bishop
Scott Censor presided. The address Of
welcome was made by Bishop Wiley, res.
ident of Cincinnati, and was responded to by
Bishop Simpson. After the selection of
seals the conference adjourned.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1880-05-02
Latest peruvc.rh,,,nu Adv,ces

New York, May photographic advices
received at the Peruvian legation in New
York, via Panama, May l, announce that
the GILLIAN squadron had bombarded Callao
with effect Two divisions have been sent
from Arequipa against Moquea. Cclerabs-
ella ,aptured 800 GILLIAN cavalry at Lo-
cumba. President Campero, of Bolivia, has
arrived at Tacoma.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1880-05-02
Harrison & Co.'S News stand.

We are again under obligations to Har-
rison II CO., the popular news dealers, Main
street, next door t, the postofiice, for bun
die of late New York papers. including
Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper. This
firm keeps the largest stock of periodicals
and stationery in the city. Call on them for
your resd NJ matter.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1880-05-02

The Vollis fest, or Mai.fest rs it is ordi.
narily called, which comes off Monday and
Tuesday, will b. an Important epoch for Dali
las. From information we have, we are sat
isfed that not less than two thousand people
resident outside of Dallas county will be
present. In addition to these there will be
rs many or more livingn the county in at
tendance. This will be large crowd and
the business men Of Dallas ought to make the
best of it. Every citizen ought to turn out
to the fest and do all in his power toward
entertaining the strangers who will be pres.
ent, ct US all see TO it that our visitors are
Hospitality treated. Lets make them feel at
home; lets give them good impression of
Dallas.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1880-05-02
500 Hats Given AMnY.

Goldsmith Rosenthal & Co.,, will give
away five hundred Ladies' Misses and Chill
dren's hats from their wagons during the
Mai-fest procession. Don't miss it.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1880-08-26

LIFE AND HEALTH
A NDERF Ill MEDICI
SAFE AND SURE.
Tue GREAT INTERNAL AND EXTERNAL REMEDY
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1880-08-26

ROCK ISLAND. :. ILLINOIS


Lhe Sepunncan EaTty anu the south
l st. Loais Republican,
There has been no strife between the
two races at the South since the spring of
1877, when Mr.. Hayes set aside the Grant
policy that had been maintained for eight
years. and substituted for it the policy of
leaving to the people themselves.
The two races have lived together Ia peace
and concord. and both have prospered as
they never prospered before. And this
state of things would be recognized TO this
day If there had not been a presidential
election this year The Republican party
reioices in strife and disorder, or at least
In reports of strife and disorder. The
South is as peaceful to-day as il was rec
ognized to be year ago. But this does
not suit the Republican party. 1t does
not thrive in condition of peace. While
Grant was president it kept the whites
and blacks almost continually at war, and
now that more benign policy has been
applied to the South, it is seeking by false
hood and misrepresentation to convince the
people of the north that the negroes are
maltreated, intimidated and dsfrauded of
their votes. 1t can retail these falsehoods
at The North with impunity, because it
takes the Southern press q long time to
deny and disproye them. and even then
the denials are not accepted by Republican
readers.
The attempt to dstort the facts connect
ed with the recent Alabama election-an
election which. from all trustworthy
accounts, was unmarked by either vio-
lence, intimidation or frauds in keeping
with the general strife loving spirit of the
Republican party. and warns tho country
OF the disastrous policy which 1t will revive
it it should again come into complete
power 1t does not intend that the South
ern states shall be left to the peaceful self
government they have enjoyed for the last
three years. If they give no opportunity
for military interference, the Republican
party will, if it can. make an opportunity
by Just such misrepresentation as it is
indulging in with regard to the Alabama
election. The Southern states are Demo~
cratic; it will. if it gets the power, seek TO
make one half OF them Republican by the
same agency with which it made them
Republican under Grant-the bayonet.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1880-08-26
Wicked for CIergymeu,

u believe it to be all wrong and even
wicked for clergymeu or other public men
to be led into giving testimonials to quack
doctors or vile stuffs called medicines, but
when really meritorious article made of
valuable remedies known to all. that all
physicians use and trust in daily, we
should freely commend it. ! therefore
cheerfuIly and heartily commend Hop
Bitters for the good they have done me
and my friends. firmly believing they have
20 equal for family use. | will not be
without them"
Rev, -. Washington, D. G,
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1880-08-26
Chancery Notice.
ILLINOIS. >

sTATE.OF ILLINOIS. as
Rock ISLAND COUNTY.
In the Circuit Court At sthe September term A D.
1890.
uy5IIiau John Fotter. John SiSswarth Bill
for specific PerformaEce.-In Chancerv.
no fhr ahove named defendantsTohu Sigsworth
.asda,1;t If vnur npn.residence having been aied
IN the afiee of the Clerk of said Court; Notice IL
hereby given you. that the aooye n.nled complain-
ant has fled IN said Court his bill Of complaint
gsinst van on the chaneeFy side Of said fiourt :.
1hst a sllmmons ia ehaneery has been issued
agafnst you fe.urnahle to the next term of said
Ss7-cn5t Cont TO be begun anf holden at the Cent
Hanse in the city of Rock Island III said comfy
~ The first Monday of September. A. D. 1850 az
VI -, ,in4e and place you will appeal ana nisaS
a,.ar or demur to said bill. The same viii he
sasen As confessed By you.
neIed at Rock Island this s7th day of July. d.
1880. LEVI y u.ns
.,.srx- JACKSON q WALLER, -.1 eoail l.
SWEEP solicitors for Complainant. 7-s7d4w
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1880-08-26
" ashington, D. G,

Printing and binding executed ne;
quick and cheap at THE ARGUsQFFICR
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1880-08-26
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Wall Street, New YORK. buy stocks On reas enable
margin, and, when desired will advise when and
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