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Sharp County record., 1880-02-26

the speck of termination to that of ma
turity; that the subsoil must be COM
pact and free from the line roots of
biennial plants, and have lain sufficient
ly long after plowing to have the whole
substance of it come together and
crystalized. With these conditions of
soil, the wheat plant will make a crop
as far south as 80 degrees, when proper
provision is made for its growth during
the winter, o. il spring, before the
summer heats have come on. In
deed, the state of the soil described
above is just what the pioneer finds in
the virgin lands of the West, where he
has to break and fine three inches of the
surface only, to insure crop. 1t is curl
ous to note that in old and well settled
countries, where other crops have been
leading ones, and where wheat cultiva-
ton is not understood, the errors made
in the first essay in wheat growing are
sure to be of nearly the same character.
Thus, in the corn and cattle countries
of Illinois and Iowa, where corn is
the leading crop, the farmers, when
first undertaking wheat, make the same
mistake that they do in Alabama and
Mississippi; that is, they give the land
the best possible preparation for corn,
which is the worst preparation for
wheat. In both cases mass of weeds,
weed-seeds, stubble, or all, are plowed
in, and upon this the wheat seed is sown;
and failure is sure to follow, that failure
taking the form of overgrowth of straw,
which rust or blight attacks. We re-
peat, the preparation made by natural
forces for wheat in the virgin prairies of
the West, is the best possible one to fol-
low in getting the sub-soil ready for the
crop; and going further, if we follow
the example of the pioneer, and fine no
more than three inches of top-soil be-
fore seeding, we shall be as nearly sure
of a crop as he Island and Home.
Sharp County record., 1880-02-26

districts be regarded as thoroughly safe
drinking water.
The glass factories at Pittsburg,
Pa, which have been running at barely
living rates for several years, now have
all they can do to keep up with orders,
and have raised prices 10 and 20 per
cent. on window-glass and tableware.
Formerly it took five bushels of
wheat to make a barrel of flour, but
now, by the new process, only four and
a half bushels are required. A gain OF
S40,000,000 is thus secured in one sea-
sons crop. This is good news fGf both
wheat-growers and bread-eaters.
1t has been estimated by reports re-
ceived at the Agricultural Department
of Georgia that so per cent. of the
farmers who raise their own supplies
make money by farming. Seventy-fve
per cent. of those who give liens and
mortgages, and pay high rates of inter-
est on supplies, fail to make expenses.
The New York Gas Company has
decided to abandon coal for gas-making
purposes about March l, and adopt the
system of the Municipal Company,
which makes gas out of water, and en-
riches the hydrogen with vaporized
naphtha. This gas, it is said, can
be made for 80 cents per 1000 cubic
feet.
Sharp County record., 1880-02-26

Spirits of Turpentine is one of the
most valuable articles in family, and
when it has once obtained foothold in
a house it is really necessity, and
could lily be dispensed with. Its med
ical qualities are very numerous; for
burns it is a quick application, and
gives immediate relief; for blisters on
the hand it is of priceless value, soaring
down the skin and preventing soreness;
for corns on the toes it is useful it is
good for rheumatism and sore throat,
and is the quickest remedy for con-
vulsions or fits. Then it is a sure pre-
ventive against moths; by just drop
ping a trihe in the bottom of drawers,
chests and cupboards it will render the
garments secure from injury during the
summer. 1t will keep ants and bugs
from closets and store-rOoms, by put
ting a few drops in the corners and
upon the shelves; it is sure destruction
to bed-bugs, and will effectually drive
them away from their haunts if thor
oughly applied to the joints of the bed
stead in the spring cleaning time, and
it Injuries neither furniture nor clothing;
its pungent odor is retained along time,
and no family ever ought to be entire
ly out of a supply at any time OF the
year.
Sharp County record., 1880-02-26
AN oiled floor for the kitchen is bet

An oiled floor for the kitchen is bet
ter than one finished in any other way.
AS to catching the dust, it does so no
more than a dark painted floor. A
good sweeping removes it, or even a
good mopping, which brightens it as
though it were vanished, and is much
easier and cheaper than scrubbing
grease spots, or being torn up every
year or two for painting. One advan-
tage is, you can use the floor without
injury in "a hours, when put on the first
time, and in less time for successive
coats. 1t can be put on after the even
ing work is done, and the next morning,
if the oil is pure, it will be dry enough
for use. Apply with clean brush.
Sharp County record., 1880-02-26
School and Church.

~ In the last 20 years the Methodist
missions have received upwards of ten
million dollars.
AT a recent session of the North
Mississippi Conference of the Methodist
Episcopal Church South, the Bishop de-
cided that a lady who had been elected
as a lay delegate could not serve. He
said both the discipline and the Bible
excluded women from holding church
offices.
A public spirited Mississippian, DR..
C.M. Walden, has made an offer to the
legislature Of Mississippi or the various
churches of the State to give $4,000
towards the erection of college at Val
den, provided that either the churches
or the lawmakers will give the other
$4,000 required.
The estimated number of religious
denominations among the English
speaking communities throughout the
world are: Episcopalians, 100000;
Methodists, 10000, 900; Roman CathO-
lies, 13,5O0,O00; Presbyterians, 10,25O,-
'O0O; Baptists, 5000, 900; Congregation
alists, 100000; Unitarians, 100000;
minor religious sects, 1900, 900; no par
ticular religion, 8,500,000. Total, 49,
0OO,OOO.
"A few years ago, on the occasion of
tie visit of Professor Huxley to this
country, he said within ten years the
natural sciences would be taught in the
common schools here. Iowa has moved
In the matter, with the usual prompt
ness of that State in educational matters,
and organized a State Academy of
Sclences, located at the capital, with
library, laboratory and museum, to be
open to the free use of all the normal
schools held at the capital.
THE Superintendent of Public In
sanction of Kentucky, in his report for
10y, claims that the public school sys-
tem OF that State has made a great
aFance within the last ten years.
Eighteen hundred school most
81 them tasteful and comfortable, have
peen built within the last eight years;
ana home supply of teachers has been
lurnlShed from the best young men and
women OF the State, who, choosing the
business for their life work, are taking
.ne places of the former temporary
teachers.
Sharp County record., 1880-02-26
Odds and Ends.

The chicken that swallowed hook
for fun will never 60 fishing again on
Sunday.
"A South American, plant has been
found that cures bashfulness. 1t should
be promptly tried on the man who
leaves the hotel by the back window be-
cause he is too diffident to say good-by
to the cashier and clerk.
--"What a dreadful affair."" indig-
nantly exclaimed good Mrs. Higgin-
botham, laying down the account of a
prize fight which she had been reading.
"The awful men actually struck each
other with their hands, and one of them
got so sick that he threw up sponge.
Such things ought to be stopped by
law. RocSlaa1d Courier.
When Mr.. William Winter of the
New York Tribune was about to leave
the shores of England he mounted the
bridge of the steamer, and, taking Off
his hat to the crowd assembled on the
jetty at Liverpool, exclaimed "Gen-
tlemen, if there's any body in your
island whom l have not given shilling,
now's his time to speak," A Agentleman
on the dock shouted back: "I'm the
only man in Great Britain that you
haven't beaten out of the drinks.n
1t is related of well known mer-
chant of a neighboring city that, after
making his will and leaving a large
property to trustee for his son, he
called the young man in and after read
ing the will to him asked if there was
any alteration or improvement he could
suggest. "Well, father,n said the
young gentleman, lighting a cigarette,
II think, as things 60 nowadays, it
would be better for me if you left the
property to the other fellow and made
me the trustee The old gentleman
made up his mind then and there that
the young man was quite competent to
take charge of his own inheritance, and
scratched the trustee clause out.-B0S-
ton Commercial Bulletin.
THE OLD MAN OF MoNTROsE.
There was an old man of Montrose
Who had a remarkable nose,
So long and so thin,
And so far from his chin,
Twas always in danger of blows.
One day the old man of MontrOse
Went out without mutfling his nose;
And it grieves me to tell
That this organ of smell
As stiff as an icicle froZe.
Soon after in sneezing ker chOo"
His nose into smithereens flew,
And left but a stump,
ridiculous lump,
That even in summer looked blue.
The frost bitten man of MOntrose
Used words that were equal to blows;
And so great his disgrace,
He soon quilted the place,
And where he has gone no one knows.
-Harper's Young People.
Sharp County record., 1880-02-26
Foreign Notes.

"A Zulu Princess ss-Amazulu-ha ar
rived in London with her suite.
The Princess Louise will be accom-
panied to Canada by two newly ap-
pointed ladieS-in-waiting.
Wives are being looked for among
the royal families of Europe for Prince
William of Prussia, eldest son of the
Crown Prince of Germany, and for the
Prince of Orange, heir to the throne of
Holland.
Mr.. Judah P. Benjamin, who has
been retained for the Tichborne claim
ant, expresses himself confident not
only of quashing the sentence, but of es-
tablishing Orton's identity with Roger
Tichborne. Important witnesses and
facts not presented at the first trial are,
it is reported, to be forthcoming.
For the first time in English history
a police agent has been attached to the
personnel of the sovereign, and rooms
have been fitted up for him and his
family at Windsor Castle. The palaces,
within and without, have always been
guarded by police, the military being
chiefly for ornament. The new agent
will always travel with the Queen.
Leopold 1. of Belgium had an ef
fective way of meeting discomfort. He
intimated on more than one occasion
that kinging it was matter of very
small moment to him, and that due no.
tice being given he was quite ready to
20 at any time, if the people, through
their representatives, expressed the wish
that he shouldsdo so.
M. de Freycinet, the new French
Premier, is about So years old, native of
the Ariege, an engineer by profession.
He is an unbelieving Protestant; his
wife is a fervent one. He lives in a
gloomy house in the Boulevard Hauss-
mann, and has charming daughter of
1S, who is described as being mignonne
gentilette pretty, fresh, refined, highly
educated and very natural.
Sharp County record., 1880-02-26

CHOCOLATE CAKE.-One and one
fourths cups of butter, one coffee-cup of
sugar, three eggs (whites of three re-
served), one-half cup of flour, one tea
spoonful of cream of tartar, one-haf
teaspoonful of soda, one-half teaspoon
full of vanilla. To the whites of three
eggs add one and one-half cups of pull
verized sugar Take out four teaspoon
fuls for frosting, and to the remainder
add six tablespoonfuls of grated choco-
late
Sharp County record., 1880-02-26

-Wafers One pound of sifted flour,
two tablespoonfuls of butter, a little salt,
enough milk to make stiff dough. Rub
the butter into the salted flour, wet with
the milk, roll thin, cut into small round
cakes, and roll those again into cakes as
large as a tea-plate and as thin as stout
writing paper. Lift carefully to Toured
pan and bake quickly. They keepwell'
Sharp County record., 1880-02-26

Prof. Colladon of Geneva has effect
ed an important improvement in the in
genious contrivance for enabling deaf
mutes to hear through the teeth, lately
discovered il this country. Fer the In
dia-rubber apparatus used by the Amer
lean inventor, which is somewhat costly,
the Professor substitutes piece of elias
tic cardboard.
Sharp County record., 1880-02-26
Science and Industry,

Njrginia's peanut crop for 1879 is
ooo orGtnam ddn County, Fla, produced 81
V"'OOo oranges last year.
ho, iIe Gieorge Root of Spencer, Mass, has
oo9snI OoO acres near Gordonsuille, Va,
village there. ''''' '''''- &c
IL mas been ascertained by careful
analy as SIS that rain which falls in towns
sen ;uv;a becomes heavily charged with in
JuiiouS properties, and can only in rural
Sharp County record., 1880-02-26

Mrs. Ann S. Stephens is said to be
the Oldest living American authoreSs.
Sharp County record., 1880-02-26

PINAPHoIsM-Better late than hardly
ever.
Sharp County record., 1880-02-26
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
Personal and Literary.

Wilkie Collins says he has earned
.s15O, 900 with his pen.
The Atlanta Constitution thinks Mrs.
prrne,t's Southern dialect is not the
correct article.
Mrs. E. L. Davenport, the widow OF
.tbedistinguished actor, is giving dramat-
ic readings in New York.
q Ouida - has written a new novel,
untitled "Moths," in which many noted
ra oersons will appear in very thin dis
;guise. ,.
flor her husbands song which appears
in the March number of st. Nicholas.
Mr. Samuel Smiles has received
from the King of Italy a valuable
.decoration as a mark of the royal
anpreciation of his books. |" Self Help"
trra5nslated, has been sold in Italy to the
number of $4,000 copies.
"A prize of 9200 has been offered by
,tbe Rev. Wyatt Edgell, through the
Sanitary Institute of Great Britain, for
the best essay that may be written by
Aug. next, on "The Cause OF Hered-
itary Tendencies in Health and Dis
easel"
MARY Kyle Dallas lives in New York.
She earns $4,000 a year from Bonner's
Ledqer, and although not yet 40 years
old her hair is snow-white. She wears
itdressed in puffs piled upon her head
and with bunch of crimson roses on
one side.
MARY Clemmer, the Washington
.correpondent, is woman of command
inc height, striking face, blue eyes,
delicate complexion and brown hair,
worn in clustering curls over her fore
head, and simply knotted at the back of
her head. She is energetic and electric
in conversation, a trifle imperious in
manner.
of the reported rupture of Miss
Julia Fletcher's engagement, the Lon
don Globe says: "American society in
Rome is just now much exercised by the
abrupt termination to the matrimonial
.encacement between Miss Fletcher,
sauthoress of 'Kismet, and Lord Went
worth. In this transaction no blame is
attached to the lady, but the gentleman
lis highly censured."
Mime. Colban is a distinguished
Norwegian writer who did not attempt
authorship until she was nearly 60 years
,old. She has produced since then five
,romances, which are described as charm
ing. Her children were established in
life, her health began to fail, and her
duties and amusements as a woman of
society grew irksome. So she went to
live in Rome, where she has renewed
lher youth in literary work.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1880-07-01

tai, he may insist upon showing to US
that he has done nothing inconsistent
with "the conduct OF an officer and a
gentleman" as the article of war runs;
but the great question is, Guilty or not
in manner ana form as be stands in
dictedP" and this can be legally answer
ed only by a jury of his country.
Gen. Hancock declines to interfere in ciVt
cont roUer8ies arbitrary pOwer has no buSl'
ness here-at is restrained by the COn8ttta'
ton.
Applications have been made at these
headquarters, implying the existence of
an arbitrary authority in the command
ing general touching purely civil contro'
v%ersies.
One petitioner solicits this action, an
other that, and each refers to some spec
ial consideration Of grace or favor which
he supposes to exist, and which should
influence this department,
The number of such applications and
the waste of time they involve, make 1t
necessary to declare that the administra'
ton of civil justice appertains to the
regular courts. The rights of l~itigants
do not depend upon the views of the
General they are to b. adjudged and
settled according to the laws, Arbitrary
power, sucn as he has been urged to as
sumo, has no existence here. 1t is not
found in the laws of Louisiana or Tex 8;
it cannot be derived from any act or acts
of Congress; it is restrained by a Consti'
%tution, and prohibited from action in
many particulars,
The Major General commanding takes
occasion to repeat that, while disclaim-
ing judicial functions in civil cases, he
can suffer no forcible resistance to the
execution of the processes of the courts.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1880-07-01

HoAR in his speech to the Chicago
convention, asked-"What has the Dem
ocratic party either done or tried to do,
except break down the legal safeguards
of elections, meaning the deputy mar
shals ?" The Springfield Republican, an
independent paper, after stating Hoar
himself would oppose these laws if en-
forced by a Democratic administration,
points to some things the Democratic
party has done, For instance:
Yes, the Democratic party has done
something else. 1t cut down the expen.
ses $40,C0 900 a year at the critical peri.
cd when a surplus revenue was neces.
sary to the accumulation of fuEd with
which to resume specie payments, and
after the Republican party had utterly
failed to respond to the demand for re-
trenchment. Extravaganza is a Repub-
lican rather than a Democratic vice.
And, asks the Springfield Republican
in conclusion /:
Is this the sum total of the Indictment
against the Democratic party; the same
old rebels" who for four years fought to
their last man for slavery; the men who
have been freely charged with the pur.
pose to get possession of the Govern.
ment only to plumber; to pay the rebel
debt and pensions; to pay for the slaves,
and TO repudiate the National debt?
When the country rocked with the ex-
element ola disputed Presidential count,
did not these same old rebels bristle
with bowie knives, raise a mob around
the capitol, sack the White House, and
carry in the man they belived to be cleo.
teC2 Have they not also precipitated
revolution by starving the Govern.
mentP" Is it true the war is only fifteen
years ag0ne; that the men who rebel.ed
then now participate in the Government;
that peace prevails throughout the en-.
tire land; and that the "wOrld abroad"
for whose pleasure simple Don Cameron
wishes to nominate Gen. Grant, already
thinks sO much of us, that it willingly
pays eight per cent premium tor our
four per cent bonds?
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1880-07-01

On the 2Sth of January, 1879, Secre.
tary Sherman said in a to letter "Presi-
dent" Hayes;
If, to secure the removal ofan officer,
it is necessary to establish the actual
commission of a crime by proofs deman-
ded in a Court of Justice, then it is clear
that the case against Mr.. Arthur is not
made out, especially if his answer is held
to be conclusive, without reference to
the proofs on the public records and ten
dered to the committee and the Senate.
But if it is held to be that, to procure
the removal of Mr.. Arthur, ii is sufficient
to reasonably establish that gross abuses
of administration have continued and
increased during his inCumbency; that
many persons have been regularly paid
OF his rolls who rendered little or no
service; that the expenses of his Office
have increased, while collections have
been diminishing; that brides, or gratui-
ties in the nature of brites, have been
received by his subordinates in several
branches Of the custom house; that eff
forts to correct these abuses have not
met his support, and hat he has not
given to the duties Of the Office the re-.
quisite diligence and attention, then it is
submitted that the case made out. This
form of proof the department is prepared
to submit"
Still, the supporters CT Sherman pro-
fess to believe that the Chicago Conven-
ton nominated a good ticket. Sherman
even has not displayed his indignation.
He dare not. He is not boss.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1880-07-01

SPEAKING of the nomination of Arthur
for Vice.P President, the St. Louis RepubH.
can says:
Here again the most willful disregard
Of the fundamental doctrine of Civil Ser
vice Reform was exhibited. The very
exponent and representative of civil ser.
vice abuse-the man whom President
Hayes dismissed for being guilty of de-.
basing and %corruptiDg the system-was
selected for the second place on the Ma
tional ticket. This dangerous inconsis-
tency and absurd paradox was perpe-
trated with extraordinary unanimity by
the Convention, the vote in favor of Ar.
thur being much more decisive than
that given for the Presidential nominee.
The party has thus, by it's own acts, de.
clared Itself against Civil Service Re-
form, and has set at naught all its high.
sounding declarations on the subject.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1880-07-01
N March 20, 1878, at the Republican

On March 26, 1873. at the Republican
county convention held at Warren,
Trumbull county, the radicals of that
county were so incensed at the course of
Mr.. Garfield, that they passed the fol-
lowing resolution with but two dissent
ing votes
ReSolUed, That James A. Garfield, by
his voting for the retroactive salary bill,
has forfeited the confidence of his con q.
s~tituents, and therefore we, the repre-
%sentatiVes Of the Republican party of
Trumbull county, in convention Assem-
bled, ask him to resign his office as Rep.
resentative in Congress.
The feeling against Garfield through
out that county and district is said to be
even stronger now than in 1873, and it
would not be surprising if he ran sew
eral thousand votes behind his tick ct in
November next.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1880-07-01

CIVIL service reform is to be illustrated
again. Mr.. Greene B. Raum is Commits.
sioner of Internal Revenue. He lives
in southern Illinois. The Grant mana.
gers wanted help in order to express the
wonderful Spontaneous sentiment Of
that state, and Mr., Raum volunteered,
in defiance of civil service order No. l.,
and it is said, against the Presidents ex.
press orders. He worked for Grant,
he presided over Logan's Springfield
convention, and he was a delegate to
Chicago. Now the report comes that
his head is to fall into the basket for his
offense This is interesting. II he had
worked and voted for Sherman, this
would not have been thought Of. The
whole Federal machinery of the South
was prostituted to his service, and yet
not a removal has been made, or rumor
Of a removal been heard.