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The Bonanza Farms Of the West.

The two great facts shown by obser-
vations of the Bonanza Farms of the
West are, that those who have gone
into wheat growing on a large scale,
making use of the most improved ma
chlnery and cheap labor, are making
colossal fortunes at seventy cents per
bushel for wheat, limited only by the
number of acres cultivated and the skill
with which the work is done, and that
wheat may be grown at large profits for
less than forty cents per bushel; but
that, on the other hand, the small
farmers, depending mainly on their
own labor, with limited capital and
less machinery, are not making q
comfortable subsistence, but are run
ming behindhand, and must go under,
and that further reduction in the
market price for food products must
hasten their end.
The development of the large farm
interests has the direct and immediate
effect of impoverishing the sections in
which the farms exist, and skinning the
lands without any compromising bene-
fits. Not one dollar of the gross
amount or net profit received from the
products of the soil is returned and
placed upon the land from which it
is taken, except in the construction
of the fewest buildings necessary
to shelter and protect the laborers
in the working season, and for the care
of all the work stock and the tools. On
the whole $500 cultivated acres of the
Grandin farm there was not one family
finding permanent home by virtue
of title in the soil, where there should
have been at least one to every fifty
acres of plow land, or LOG families.
This would give LOG houses in place of
the five there at present, and LOG barns
in place of three, with other buildings
in like proportions; and q population of
at least 500, where there is not now one
fixed inhabitant, with all the accesso-
ries of household comforts and home
improvements that do not now exist in
the smallest degree. -i
The large development of the tenant
system of farming is an evil of the
greatest magnitude. The effects of the
system have been too apparent in Eu-
rope to require any discussion in these
pages. But with us it has features
worse than any ever known in Europe.
The tenants in England hold leases and
occupations that practically run for
life, and often are kept in families for
generations, which give encouragement
for great improvements, and the farms
are practically homesteads. But with
us the leases are uniformly for short
terms, with no encouragement for i'm
provements, and the farms are never
homes. In England the rent has rare
ly reached, and never exceeded one
quarter the gross product; but in the
United States it is commonly one-haf.
Under the English tenant system the
land is thoroughly cultivated and inn
proved; with US it is impoverished.
There is not one redeeming feature in
the whole system in America, and it is
in every way worse than in Europe.
January Atlantic.
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A Christmas Stocking Filled by the
Paragraphers.

As the children grow older they
take less stockin' Santa Claus.-Yon-
kers Gazette.
The crusty old bachelor now figures
up how many nephews and nieces he
has and sits down on his pocketbook
with a weary sigh.-EGstos Free Press.
The average editor won't hang up
his stocking; but will indulge in profit
less regrets that he was so imprudent
as to hang up his Worcester
Press.
The Christmas slipper is now get
ting soled-and, come to think of it, so
will be the happy recipient when the
shoemaker presents his bill.-CdtskiH
Recorder. .- r.-. --t--S
When a boy examines his stocking
just before Christmas, and finds big
hole in the heel, he "darns" it, and
then hands it to his mother to darn
No7ristoUn Herald. fx
With many people Christmas gifts
will only come through the imagination.
This, however, will enable them to ex-
hibit great presents of mind. Cincin-
| ssats Saturday Night. .5,zgd,r
A new Christmas present has been in
vented. 1t is to slipper ten dollar gold
piece in the hand of deserving person
on Christmas. N. B.-We are always at
home on that Whitehall Times.
With the approaching Christmastide
we encounter whole bushelfuls of fancy
yarns about the house, and the Ip-toe
of an unfinished pair of slippers peeps
out from some obscure corner-Rhine-
bee Gazette.
1t strikes us that "in the bright here
after when the angels sing" there will
be front orchestra chair reserved for
the man who shall have devised ga
noiseless drum as Christmas present
for boys here below.-N. =. CONNER
cial. -
There is no time, perhaps, when the
indulgent parent of a family of girls
more fully realizes the changes which
the years produce than when on
Christmas eve he notes the yearly in
crease in the capacity of a suspended
row of stockings.
The World says the phrase, ga Merry
Christmas" is only corruption of GA
Myrrhy Christmas" alluding to the
offerings of Myrrh. Very likely. And
probably "A Happy New Year" is
only corruption of "a Hoppy New
Year." alluding to the offerings of
Bern r Graphic.
This is the week when the cat kindly
refrains from breaking any crockery;
when the most supercilious domestic
will carry hod of coal up to the fifth
! story without q murmur; when Milli-
cent Aurelia's pianofore is guiltless of
candy-smirches and when John refrains
from tearing his trousers, and brings
home a clean report book from school,,
Next week will be different in style.-
Puck.
Every home is as full of mystery now
as market mince meat, but on Christ
mas morning, when the head of the
family finds pair of slippers two sizes
too small for him, wedged into his
shoes, and blue-nosed dog modelled
into a pen-wiper tumbles out of his hat,
he will understand then that the sig
ni6cant looks between his wife and
daughter all this while only indicated
that they were skirmishing around to
promote his happiness.-Csncinnati
Bredkfast Table. r---.
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blaze of light must have dazzled my
eyes, for pretty soon saw her coming
from the opposite direction. while the
music quickened and the children sang:
Merrily comes the glad New Year,
Look to the Eastl her steps are near,
With kiss and q greeting and smile of good
cheer, 5zli4ZE a...
Merrily comes the glad New Year.
Mrs. Eva March Tdppa's, tn Christian
Union. rgi
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s4 w q - 0WELLINGToN, O., THURSDAY, JANUARY l. 1873
and gracing the Sunday breakfast table

and gracing the Sunday breakfast table
Of the descendants of the Puritans.
The cod resorts to the shore for feed
ing purposes; but who that is not cook
or a scullion cares always to be in the
vicinity of the 6ning-room? Naturally
he is an off-shore, deep-water fish, for
at distance from the land he is always
sure of finding those strata of cold
water in which he delights There
are times when he will not leave
these, even for food; but the sea-
sons in which fresh-water fish
revisit the scenes of their childhood are
also the seasons when the water is cool
inshore. While hot weather remains,
with sea-water warm enough to lure
human beings into the surf, the cod
abhors the beach, and takes what food
is nearest at hand, preferrine, like sum-
mer dodgers elsewhere, to endure the
plainest fareSfor the sake of cool quar-
ters. When, however, the temperature
of the water allows him to follow the
shad and other fish 70 the shore, he
never travels alone; if he is not accom-
panied by family, he takes so much
company with him that those who ex-
tend hospitable seines to receive him
take sometimes as many as thirty thou
sand fish at a single haul.
The cod is wonderfully prolific, de-
posting from three to seven millions of
eggs at time. 1t not only prefers to
spawn in the winter months, but in the
coolest water it can find, and yet avoid
an icy coverlet; a temperature of thir-
ty-two degs. is the favorite, while moth
ing above forty degs. is tolerated. The
largest spawning grounds of the cod
are in the vicinity of the Loffoden
IslsRds, though the American members
Of the family put up with such accom-
modations as they can find near home.
The domestic arrangements of this fish
are so informal that the eggs have no
special abiding place, nor any protec-
ton whatever. OF the millions of eggs
that are deposited by single female, not
more than a hundred thousand, proba-
bly, not more than ten thousand, result
in full-grown fish. Like the small boy
who, if he could not whip larger boy,
could at least make faces at his sister,
the smaller fish upon which the cod
preys find delicious revenge in eating
the eggs of the latter, while the mass
of "low-down'' inhabitants of the
ocean are true to the instinct of low
downers everywhere to prey upon
aristocracy, particularly upon the
younger scions thereof. It is proba-
BILE, TOO, that many of the eggs which
escape the keen eyes of searchers after
delicacies do not become fertilized.-
John Habberton,. in Harpsr's Magazine
for January.
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Practical Russian Philanthropist.

Two notices, framed, glazed and
suspended upon the walls of dram
shop on the new canal at st. Peters
burg. close to Nine. Sassetzki's :. Ref
uge for the Homeless" run as follows:
- / exhort the gentlemen who honor my
establishment with their patronage to
forego robbery and theft while within
its precincts, not to thrash one another,
and, on the whole. not to make un-
pleasant noises. Those who act in con-
travention to this warning will receive
punishment in my dram-shop, of a sort
that they will experience no difficulty in
feeling" The second notice affords q
quaint contrast to the first, which en-
wraps hideous threat in exquisitely
courteous phrase, while the native
benevolence of the eccentric dram-sell-
,er shines. out genially in the following
kindl ADVERTISEMENT: 'sAs soon as the
cold and rainy weather shall set in, five
copecks will be here advanced to each
needy and weary man, that he may pay
for bed whereon to rest his body" 1t
appears that the author of these re-
markabie notices faithfully adheres to
the text of both. ? If his customers mis-
conduet themselves he lays into them
with a cudgel, but any poor wretch pre-
senting himself after eight in the even
ing for assistance receives the promised
five copecks, after he has exhibited his
legitimation papers and listened to a
short exhortation read aloud to him
from a religious book.-London Tele-
graph.
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QuT Ron,H 6oMs.
THE CLOSING YEAR.

Faster than petals fall on windy days
From ruined roses,
Hope after hope falls fluttering, and decays,
Ere the year closes
For little hopes that open but to die.
And little pleasures,
Divide the long. sad year, that labors by
Into short measures.
Yea, let them goI our day-lived hopes are not
The life we cherish:
Love lives, till disappointments are forgot,
And sorrows perish.
On withered bows, where still the old leaf clings
New leaves come never;
And in the heart, where hope hangs faded
springs
No new endeavor.
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1880-01-01

BALBRIGGAN sits down to his dinner,
chuckling mysteriously. Tell me-"
says Mrs. Balbriggan. "Rich thing
in our neighborhood," he says; " there
was baby left at our neighbor's house
last night" Mrs. Balbriggan, eager
ly, "Yes, and who was the woman?"
Brute of husband innocently, "OI
his wife," Short dinner in disguised
silence and no dessert, Eye,
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-" That's what beats me-" as the
boy said when he saw his father take
the skate strap down from its accus-
toned nail.-HatDk- Eye. -,s
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1880-01-01

The God of lawyers-More-fee-us.
M y, People.
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1880-01-01

Hysa >.s . as.s-ei.ss Shave. HAIR Cut. or Sham
80 cHuae noh1nson,sO. 4 shaving Saloon. Liberty
Dsosk "a fun assortnene Of HAIR Oils, PomsAes anA
Hair Restoratfves- We also keep the best brand Of
Rasors. and warrant them Razors honed or ground
70 order. Z. I. ROBINSON.
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Slowly move the Days along,
Slowly sing the parting song,
The old year diefh sl0 Rlv

"What q nice time they have had"
1 turned to say to Mrs. New Year, but
she was not close beside me as l had
thought, and imagined for a moment
that saw her moving away in the di-
rectiop of the sunset. l suppose the
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1880-01-01

= q, EvNA1Tr. H. Q. srAK1
RvEmTT . STARR Manufacturing Chemists.
and wholesale and Retail dealers In Drugs, Medi-
etnes and . fun line Of Motions and Druggists Sun
srss.. HogtA ssds Ldberty Street
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1880-01-01

The Anglican Church costs En-
gland 0ss, ,0o6, 900 . year.
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1880-01-01
Planning MIL.

WELLINGTON FLAMING MILL Manufacture,
and dealen In sash. Doors Blinds Brackets. Bat
ting. Lumber. Shingles, Lafh, Cheese and Butter
Boeea Scroll Saving. Matching and Planning done to
,rdsr. d. L. wadsworth, Prop. Once, near rail.
-osd Depot.
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1880-01-01

WI A1WH0RD. Aanufscsurer and dealer IN
Beoes ssa sAoei and al kinds Of arst class custom
v9k An vsrk and materials fully warranted. Shop
0su1A ~ e Lfbersy strfet weningtoo, o.
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1880-01-01
RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL.

The Free-Will Baptists will cele-
brate in 1880 the centenary Of the exist
ence of that denomination. Their first
church was organized at New Durham,
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1880-12-15
River TeIegrams.

PITTsBURG, December 15.-Rivel
8 feet 8-inches and rising. Clear
and cold.
LoUIvILLE, December 10.-Rivel
falling, with s feet 6 inches in the
canal, and 6 feet 6 inches in the chute
on the falls. Weather cloudy and
warm. Arrivals and departures -
Boaz and tow, to New Orleans Silver
Cloud and Sidney, from Cincinnati
to Tennessee river.
CAIRO, December 15.-Arrived-
Tom Reese, Ohio, II pm. Departed
Thomas Sherlock, New Orleans, s
@.m.; Tom Reese, New Orleans, IL
E. II. Durfee, St. Louis, II, Rainy
and cool.
CINCINNATI, December 15.-Rivel
s feet and falling. Cloudy and mild
EVANSVILLE, December 15.-Ar
rived, G. P. Davis, Z a. m; j. B
Williams and tow, II p. m; San
Roberts, 3; J. D. Parker, 3 a. m, De.
sparted-Guthrie, Louisville, 10; The
Williams and tow, New Orleans, Il
p. m.; Clyde, Florence, 2; Virgie Lee
Memphis, 2; Parker, Cincinnati, II
a. m. River falling, southerly winds
weather cloudy and warmer.
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CnnnrnsaInnnI-

WASHINGTON, Dec l5.-SENATE.-
Bills introduced and referred;
BY Mr. Hill, of Colorado, For the
retirement of small legal-tender notes,
by Mr.. Pendleton, To regulate the
civil service of the United States and
to promote the efficiency thereof.
Bill to protect federal officers
claimants from making or receiving
assessments or contributions for po.
litical purposes.
Mr.. Call offered resolutions instruct.
ing the Judiciary committee to inquire
into and report upon thealleged abuse
Of power by the United States courts
laid on the table, TO be called up BY
Mr.. Call hereafter.
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annrome Comrf nccisIons.

judge W. f. Cooper delivered on
oninion Saturday in the case Of Joe
Nancy VS.. the State, Of which the fol-
lowing is synopsis
The act of 1879, which makes 1t a
misdemeanor to catch fish in the
waters Of certain counties by any ther
means than by hook aud bait, is con
stitutional. but under the proviso of
the second section THAT the act shall
not apply to persons Ownip private
ponds, or to persons owning lands on
both sides OF running stream, the
same being closed by a substantial
fence, party will not be liable to
Che penalties Of the act who catches
fish bv net in a stream within the pro-
viso by th Q verbal permission Of the
owner Of the land, although in his
absence. a
Special Judge Edwin H. Ewing de-
livered the opinion OF the supreme
court Saturday in the case Of thomas
j. Harding, administrator, etc, vs.,
the heirs and creditors of John Wa
ters, deceased, in which the following
points were decided:
|. A party who puts his name on
the back of a promissory note for
money loaned, or to be loaned, to the
maker, thereby undertakes, prima
facie, to be responsible asaeoommoda.
tion guarantor or surety for the pay.
ment of the debt, and will be so held
p.,less the contrary is shown to have
baor the terms Of his contract.
m . real purpose or undertaking
ofbo nnrtv to be arrived at from all
tbe Sci c;renmstonc,'s Of the transaction
is to be the measure oil sueh party
liability. This decision Verrules IN,
case of Comparee VS.. BrocA way
Hum, 355-and cases following it.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1880-12-15

THE next thing II order will be for
Receiver Meriwether to proceed under
the act of 1879 to collect the back
taxes due the old city government at
the time its charter was repealed and
divide out the revenue so received
among the creditors pro rata. This
will take time; the act was intended
to give everybody fair chance. After
the delinqueuts havepaid up everybody
will be on something like equal foot
ing. Then it will be time enough to
discuss basis Of settlement, and
the additional amount we should pay
the bondholders and other creditors.
As soon as the mandate of the supreme
court is received here Major Mcrri
wether will proceed to exercise the
authority of his Office. 1t seems emi
nently proper that he should ill this
position. lie advocated the repeal of
this city when many Of our ablest
lawyers and best citizens opposed
the idea and said it could not
be done and would never he sanction
sd by the courts. But it has been de-
oide1 by the supreme court OF the
United States (lst) that the repeal
was legal and cd that courts cannot
levy and collea5 taxes. There were
Others who thought as Major Meri-
wether did, but he took, perhaps, a
more prominent and persistent part
than any one else. The Shelby dele
CATION in tho last legislature was al
most solidly in favor of the repeal
or else it would not have been accom-
pIished. A number of citizens con-
neeteI with the cotton exchange, as
we'll as seme of our ablest lawyers
took a large responsibility and deserve
greot credit. Major Meriwether is a
man o,c painstaking habits, great cour-
age and executive ability, and is in
every sense qualified for the important
and onerous position he is called to
fill.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1880-12-15

Sara is one ahead in Boston. The
blue blood feminine were introduced
and delighted. The Philadelphia
Press states:
She has prevailed upon number of
its best people-the dwellers on Bea-
con street and the Brahmins of the
highest c3ste-to visit the studio
where she has placed her paintings
and sculpture on exhibition and to
give her the benefit ofsthe criticism
born Of their famous culture. Over 200
of them accepted The invitation and
attended the reception, and, as the
dispatch says, many ladies were in
trOduced to the actress, and were
pleased with her charming ways. :"
The names of the more distinguished
guests who were present, and which
include those of Col. Thomas Went
worth and family, 7. w. Higginson
aud family, the venerable James T.
Fields and his wife, DR.. Samuel
Green, the historian, and president
of the historical society; Mr..
Ernest Longfellow, Mrs. Ruders-
dorf, Mrs. 7. Sargent Head, Mr.. Ma.
thaniel W. Curtis, Mr.. and Mrs. Viii.
liam Amory and Mr.. and Mrs. Nathan
Appleton, show that the best repre-
sentatives of Boston society had no
scruples about being presented to the
French actress. They probably acted
on the well-establisbed New England
theory that the genius of the artistic
could be recognized and a tribute
paid to it without the question of her
morals being introduced or brought to
Judgment.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1880-12-15
NOn-ResidenI Notice.

No l03, r. DIN the Probate Court Of Shell.
by county, Tenn. Margaret Campbell, ad
ministratrix of John B. Campboll, deceased
VS.; tho unknown heirs Of said John B,Camp-
bell, deceased.
ON motion OF petitioner, and It appearing
" from the petition. which is sworn to. thai
the unknown heirs Of snid John b. Campbell
deceased, whose names aAd residences ar,
unknown and olhp6t be hsceftainad upor
diligent INQUIRY, are belieYed TO be non-rei
dents Of tho State Of Iennessev; il is there
fore ordered by the Court that publication b
made for four successive weeks In tn,
Memphis Public Ledger, newspape
published In the city Of Memphis. State o
Tennessee, requiring the said unknowi
heirs to enter their Appearance be--i-
ard plead, answer NJ - % ..;l ~ al
tiOn on or before tho first Monday in De
eembor next, otherwise the same will be take
for confessed and set for hearing ex-parte,
This NoYember 9Th, 1880.
/ A copy-Attest;
OWEN DWYER, Clerk.
By HUGH b. CULLEN, D. O..
Isaac Morrison, Solr. 606iT278
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CLEVELAND.
Daring Incendiarism-.-KilIed on
the Eve of Marriage.

CLEVELAND, o., December 15.-
A painstaking attempt was made last
night to burn Sly & Farman's nickel
plating works. Nineteen pals, pans
and cans filed with benzine and coal
oil were distributed in all the rooms
of the building and connected by a
string and wire, with cord leading to
the basement. The fire was started,
then the cord pulled, but some of the
vessels failed to upset. The flames
were discovered at half-past two this
morning aud extinguished after a
stubborn contest The loss is esti-
mated at from two to three thousand
dollars; insured for nine thousand.
Harry Thompson, a young farmer
of west Cleveland, was killed this
morning by the accidental discharge
Of a gun while hunting. lie was to
have been married this evening,
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1880-12-15

THE agricultural report from Wash
ington City, issued to day, and re,
ceived by telegraph, says there is a
decline in the returns in the condition
of cotton in the states bordering on
the Mississippi river, owing to the
continuance ofrain and cold weather,
and the estimated yield is lowered in
consequence.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1880-12-15
Cincinnati Market.

CINCINNATI, December 15.-Flour
active; family s475 to So; fancy s. %
to Sc; wheat quiet; No. 2 amber 81 O3
No. 2 red 81 O4. Corn, fair demand
No 2 mixed, shelled 46 to 47c. Oats
quiet; No. 2 mixed, 37c. Barley, in
good demand; No. ? fall So to $50,
Pork, dull and nominal; 13 to 1910
Lard, quiet 1925. Bulk meat, dull
and unchanged. Whisky, in fair de-
mand at Sl.10.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1880-12-15
ourEaswARE.

IT seems to be an accepted fact that
Jay Gould has bought the Iron Noun
tain railway and with it the control Of
the Memphis and Little Rock road.
This brings Gould's vast system to
Memphis. We have nothing to lose,
perhaps much to gain.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1880-12-15
CINCINNATI.
An Episode in the Celebrated
Hoffman Case.

CINCINNATI, December 15.-In the
singular and celebrated case of Ohio
against City Auditor Hoffman, in.
dicted for embezzlement, the hearing
of the main case has been interrupted
this forenoon by the hearing of argu.
ments on mandamus, taken out by
County Prosecuting Attorney Drew
who was thrown out Of the case by
order Of the court yesterday. At hall
past twelve o'clock to day arguments
on this episode we're in progress.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1880-12-15

COMMISSIONER J. B. Killebrew
is receiving from forty to fifty letters
a day from distant parts Of the country
making inquiries as to the condition
and prices of land in Tennessee. He
estimates the number of immigrants
who have settled inTennessee during
this and last year at 7O0O