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The Hartford herald., 1880-03-31
COUNTY DIRECTORY.

CIRCUIT COURT.
Hon James stuart, Judge, Owensboro.
A. l.. Morton. Clerk, Hartford.
r.. II. Murrell, Master Commissioner Hartford
= W. Phillips, sheriff, Hartford. Deputies-
q. W. Bunger, Hartford; :. L. Taylor, bea-
yer Dam; r. IL. Cooper, FordsNille; ;. l..
t,SaTt begins second Mondays in May and
Move nber. and continues three weeks each
term. ..,
Hon J. A. Murray, Judge, Cloverport.
Hon. Joseph lIaycraft, Attorney, owensboro
T.. l.. Sullenaer, Jailer, Hartford.
Court begins ON fourth Mondays in March
and September, continuing two weeks each
term. -.
Ben. Newton, Judge, Hartford
capt. sam. X. Cox, Clerk, Hartford.
J. l.. Sandcrfur, Attorney, Hartford.
Court begins ON the FIRST Monday IN every
QUARTERLY COURT.
Begins on the third Mondays in January,
April, July aud October.
COURT OF CLAIMS.
Begins on the first Mondays in January
and octohcr.
OTHER COUNTY OFFICERS.
Armistead Jones, Assessor, Hartford.
Col. W. II. Porter, surveyor, Cromwell
\. d. Baird, School Commissioner, Hartford
POLICE COURTS.
Hartforl-W. II. CumminS, Judge, second
Mondays i'm January, April, July and October
r. &. Hariwick. Marshal.
Beaver DAM. 4. Cooper, Judge, nrsi
saturday In January, Aprll, yulN ANA pc'"per'
". II. Blankenship, Marshal.
IromweIl-P. W. Gilstmp, Judge, second
saturday in January, April, July and octo-
bcr. W. r. Tilford, Marshal.
Ier.,lvo-Henry Tinsley, Judge, second Sat
uriay i'm January, April, July and October.
Vacant. Marshal.
IIanilton-Wm. Hamilton, Sr., Judge, post
Office address, Mclienry, Courts held third
saturday in January, April, July and October.
Wm. Hamilton, Jr. Marshal, post-office ad-
dress. McHenry.
Rockpori-H. q. Roby, Judge, Dan. Tiche-
nor. Marshal. Courts held third "Wednesday
IN January, April, July and October.
Rosine-R r. Wedding, Judge, v. b. Rains
Marshal. Courts held FIRST Saturday i'm Janu-
AIRY. April, July and October.
JUSTICES COURTS.
FoRDsvILLE.
B.P.wlthers, Mar. Z June : sept Dec
James Miller,
p. u. Taylor, Mar. 10 June . sept. Dec
]. u. Holbrook," u II A." 10 4"
HARTFORD.
\. b. Bennett, Mar. June sept. Dec.
4 u RNerS . - u u
RoCkPoRT.
\. y. Brown, Mar. q June = sept. y Dee -
W L. Rove S@s,sr
VIM. Cannon. Mar. l5 June 4 sept. y Dee |,
J. u. Miller, Il 10 10 10
CROMWELL
r. %. Porter, Mar. l9 June Is sept. Il Dec. !.
Melvin TAYLOR" - ~ u II
CONSTABLES.
FordsviIle--Cieorge Bradheid, Post-office
address, FordsVille.
Buford-Thos. =, Taylor.
IIartford-J. 2. stevens. Post-ofhce Beaver
Dam.
Rock port-T. X. Bishop. Post-ofiice Center
town.
Rosine-W. W. Ezell. Post-office, Rosine.
CROMWELL. W. Daniel. Post-ofhce trom'
we'll.
The Hartford herald., 1880-03-31
Hew to Train the Mensry.

Your memory is bad, perhaps, but !
can tell you two secrets that will cure
the worst memory. One of them IL To
read a subject when interested; the other
is to not only ready, but think. When
YOU have read a paragraph or page
stop, close the book and try to remem-
Der the ideas on the page, and not only
call them vaguely to mind, but put
them in words and speak them out.
Faithfully follow these two rules and
you have the golden keys Of knowledge.
Besides inattentive reading, there are
other things injurious to- the memory.
One is the habit of skimmingOv news
papers, items of news, smart remarks,
bits of information, political reflections
fashion notes, 50 that all In confused
jumble, never to be thought Of again,
thus diligently cultivating habit Of
careless reading hard to break Another
is the reading Of trashy novels.
The Hartford herald., 1880-03-31


THE Press Association at its meeting
in Frankfort recently, memorialized
Congress, as follows:
Representatives ia the Congress Of the
United .X0tes:
Your petitioners would respectfully
Press Association. embracing nearly
one hundred periodical publications,
that the present duty upon the mate
rials which enter into the manufacture
of newspaper and other periodicals OPP
crate with great severity upon PUBLISH
ers, bat more especially upon the class
to which We belong-the publishers OF
newspapers and other periodicals. The
great advance i'm the cost Of printing
paper can be met by book publishers by
corresponding advance in the price of
the book when placed upon the market,
but the publishers of periodicals, owing
to the nature of their business, have
outstanding contracts based upon the
cost of paper prior to the advance,
which threatens serious loss. Coneed-
ing that a part of this advance is at
tributed to the general increase i'm
prices growing out of the revival OF bus
iness, and the speculative stimulus in
cident thereto, 1t is yet evident that
one of the chief reasons for the present
high price Of paper is the duty assessed
ON soda ash and other chemicals used
in its manufacture. This operates as a
direct tax upon intelligence and the lit
erature Of the press, since il is only a
question Of time when the price Of sub
scriptions to newspapers and other Pc
riodicals must be advanced in n ratio
proportioned to the increased cost Of
paper.
Your petitioners therefore pray that
the duty he removed from all articles
which enter into the manufacture Of
printing paper. -r..
j. SroDDARD JOHNSTON,
| President Kentucky Press Association,
+. l. McCHEsNEy,
UREY WooDsoN,
q. ALLISON HOLLAND,
w. I. HAvENs,
Committee.
Captain John "A. Robinson, Of the
Navigation Company, Is engaged in
maturing his plans for n new pas enger
boat. She will be finer and faster than
any boat heretofore built by the elm-
pany.- Bo'c,ing Gree" Intelligence.
The Hartford herald., 1880-03-31
SUBSCRIPTION RATES.
DIRECTORY

BARRETT y BRO, Publisher
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1880-1886, 1880-05-21
Garden Culture Of Strawberries.

EARLY spring is the time TO set
plants to insure a good and strong
growth of plants. Every family having
a garden should have a few rows, or a
bed large enough to give a good family
supply. Select a rich piece of ground
free from baking and the standing of
surface water; plow the ground and
pulverize finely; then make the rows
five feet apart and set the plants twelve
or fourteen inches apart in the row.
Early vegetables may be planted be-
tween the rows the first year. A little
guano in the bottom of the row is what
| use instead of manure, as it has
tendency to start the plants during the
wet part of the season. pick off all
the blossoms. keep them free from
weeds by constant hoeing, taking care
not to touch the roots or destroy the
runners, which allow to run all they
will until the middle of August, but not
to take root. About that time l pull
verize the ground and set the runners
about three or four inches apart,
uniform with each other, commencing
next the parent plant, taking care not
to break the runners loose from the
parent plants. l set the plant just deep
enough to make it firm, and it will soon
take root. The rnnners of most kinds
viii be plenty to make the beds full
enough.
cover the beds at the approach of
winter with heavy coat of fine light
stable manure; the finer the better.
In the spring l loosen it up with rake,
after the vines have grown a few inches
high. take up the young plants that
have rooted in the alleys, to make new
beds. then put straw or chaff' in the
alleys, as this keeps the soil from
getting on the berries during wet
weather. The manure put on in the
winter keeps the soil from the berries in
the center of the bed, and the chatf or
cut straw holds the moisture and is very
beneficial to the crop during a dry
season. I have grown from 5000 to
10000 quarts per acre, of some good
varieties, in this way,
There are a great many good kinds,
such as the Sharpless, Cumberland
Triumph, Miners Prolific, and Down.
ing's, and of these l prefer the Sharp
! less.-G. w. c., IN Country Gentleman.
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1880-1886, 1880-05-21
In and About the City of Mexico.

THE suburbs of Mexico are not by any
means beautiful, always of course ex-
cepting the rock and grove of Chapul-
tepec. just where the houses end stands
the statue of Charles w., the King of
Spain, whose legs were so strong that
he could squeeze a horse until it was
breathless. Luckily he is not repre-
sented in this act, and the sculptor has
succeeded in making one of the best
equestrian statues in the world. From
this point there is a straight drive called
the Calzacld de la Retorma, leading to
Chapultepec, which looks at the dis
tance not unlike Windsor Castle when
viewed from the other end of the famous
Long Walk. Here in the afternoons all
Mexico turns out to drive in carriages
or to ride on horseback. The carriages
here are almost all made in Paris, and
are, with the exception OF a few Nicto-
rias, altogether closed. The reason
given for this is that there is a rainy
season of three months, and conse-
quently during the other nine months
of the year the inhabitants are obliged
to use carriages only good for wet
weather. AS it is impossible to see into
these carriages when they are in motion,
they are drawn up in lines every now
and then so that the occupants can
have a good view of their friends
as they pass. The equestrian
part of the promenaders is di-
vided into two classes, those in En-
glish and those in Mexican saddles. 1t
would be considered very bad form for
a person riding in an English saddle to
dress in the Mexican style, bat when
mounted on a Mexican horse and in a
Mexican saddle the proper dress is the
leather trousers, jacket, and SOnlJrero.
The Mexican "swell " is as particular
about the number of buttons down the
outside of his trousers, the size of his
s0mbrerO, and the hang of his sword as
an English fox-hunter is about the cut
of his cords or the spotlessness of his
boots. Many ladies also ride, but they
generally go out early in the morning
when there are no carriages in the
Paseo. Half way between the statue of
Charles ". and Chepultepec there is a
90 circle" in the middle of which a
statue has been erected to Christopher
Columbus, and here the view of the two
volcanoes, with the rays of the setting
sun tinting their snow-clad SUBMITS
with a delicate rose color, is remarkably
fine. A row of trees has been planted
at either side of this drive, and they are
quickly growing up; at present there is
no shade and a great deal Of dust, fol
the watering cart has not yet reached
Mexico. However, men carry some
water in buckets and sprinkle it over the
dust, which is generally about six inches
in depth, but the results are scarcely
satisfactory.
As rule the streets are clean, but
badly paved, and before the rainy sea
son sets in the sewers are opened a
every corner and emptied. During thi.
! operation the smells, which are alway.
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1880-1886, 1880-05-21
A Female COlOred Soldier.

A VERY curious case has been devel-
oped before Prothonotary Mann, in Phil
adelphia. Ayoung colored woman who
served in the ranks during the war made
application for pension, stating that
she believed she was entitled, because
of her long service duringt the rebellion,
and having received three or four
wounds, one of which kept her in the
hospital for a number of months, She
is rather a neat-lOoking colored woman,
giving her name as Catharine Hill and
her age, as near as she can tell, about
thirty-two. She told such a straight
forward story, entering into all the de-
tails of her service in the army, that it
seemed impossible to doubt her, espe-
cially as She is able to produce wit
nesses TO substantiate her story. The
ProthonOtary questioned her closely,
and her answers were always ready.
The case was such an interesting one
that it excited more than ordinary at
tention. Catharine was in the service
between three and four years, and, al
though her sex was known after she was
in the hospital, she was permitted to
continue in the service, and at the close
of the war received an honorable dis
charge. She says that she enlisted in
the 9TH Maryland, and was passed by
Drs. Creek and Perry, of Baltimore.
The reason she enlisted was because she
got into " a little difficulty" She paid
one of the doctors $3.50 for passing her.
She was asked, "Were you wounded
at any timeP"
"Yes, SIR" she replied; "I was
struck right here" (pointing to the
scar on her fright cheek), "with a bull
let, that knocked two of my teeth out -
(and then showed the course of the bull
let.) a. was also shot here" " Tin the
thigh, cat Newbern, n. c., and was
wounded in the side.n
"How long did you serve in the
armyP"
81 was seven months in the hospital
and three years in the field. When ]
was wounded in the side went to New
bern, but l was not so bad that could
not 90 around.n
The name she enlisted under was
Henry Williams. She said she was
handy with gun, and rose to be a SER
geant. She marched with the rest, used
a regular musket and bit the cartridges,
although it was pretty hard on the
teeth" She kept her hair cut short
When she got into the hospital it was
discovered that she was a woman, but
when she got well they did not dis
charge her. There were six men in hel
mess. Her story is hard to believe, but
it is undoubtedly true, and Mr.. Mann
thinks a pension should be awarded her
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1880-1886, 1880-05-21

has hidden away; and hore" " Che knew
very well what II waO -" Is this string
Of any consequence"
"It is the lacei It Is the laceP" cried
Lucia.
"The lacei" echoed Jane. "And
that is Adele's room Just over the hollow.
room, and the wind 1uttered this end
into Adele's window while he was stow.
ing IL away; and that is what Maria
Meyer saw, II she saw any thing"
"Oh, my lace! my lacei It's ruinedl
IL is almost ruinedl" cried Miss Ma.
honey and then she remembered Adele.
" am 80 sorry, Miss Montrosei" she
said" 20 sorryl Indeed / ami How
can you ever overlook it?"
81 never cam" sObbed Adele, trem.
bling still in every fiber.
You may just pack your trunks,
Miss MahOney, for the afternoon stage, -
said Mrs. Pierson. 81 can't have"
"And here is a comb" interrupted
Philip still bringing ont one thing after
another" yours, by its air and bring
ing up, Mrs. Pierson. And a bow Of
ribbon, and a curl Of yellow hair, and a
stuffed humming-bird, and and what
is this, Adele?" and he held up a gold
chain and onyx locket.
"Oh, it is minel" exclaimed Adele.
ait is the one you gave me on my birth
day. / couldn't imagine what had be.
! come of it,"
"And you didn't make any outcry.''
"Oh, thought thought mean,
thought she never came honestly by
so many things, and / was sure she had
taken it TO add 10 the others, and II
didn't seem worth while to make any
fuss. So after that 1 just locked my
| drawers"
"SheP" CRIED Miss Mahoney, now
recovering her lost breath. SheI
MeP - Mahoney? Is it l, you lit
/ tie"
"Oh yesl' replied Adele. "And
am so ashamed! And you never can
forgive me-"
az never can," said Miss Mahoney
But directly afterward she broke into {
hearty laugh. "My dear Miss Adele, 3
said she, "I can, and / do; and yor
must, and you shall. As for that bad
Jack, he deserves TO have his necl
wrung; and I'll do it-indeed, then,
would-if | didn't need him to keel
Laddie in subjection. Now beg you
pardon heartily, and every body's, anC
/ know you're going to grant it. Thu
poor Devonshire point! that it will tax,
me weeks to restore, and suppose i
would have uncomfortable associations
too. But I've lots Of old Irish lace jus
as delicate as that, and it will look jus
as well as the finish to bridal toilette
And you mustn't feel hard. You see
we're quits; you thought as much o
me. I'm a well-meaning old thing
and perhaps Mrs. Pierson will let M
stay, after all. "-HarpeT's Bazar.
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1880-1886, 1880-05-21
Learning to Speak a Language.

THOSE who would learn a foreign
language should associate with those
who speak it. The reasonableness OF
this suggestion lies in the TACT that it
bids the learner follow the method OF
nature, which trains the ear to under
stand before it educates the tongue to
speak the language.
HammertOn, the artist and essayist,
tells how he once received excellent
advice as to learning French from Mohl,
the distinguished Orientalist. Calling
at Mohl's rooms, the. artist carried on
the conversation in English, as he spoke
French imperfectly. The Orientalist,
being master of French, as he was Of
several European languages, asked his
guest if he was making progress in
French. Receiving an evasiye answer,
he asked Hammerton if he understood
thoroughly French conversations when
he overheard them.
"Yes, every word, 4" replied the artist.
every well, " answered Mohl, "then
rely upon it that you will soon speak
fiuently yourself. For, when the ear
misses nothing, the tongue is sure to
follow, but it always lags little behind.
For the present, you should listen at
tentively."
When the ear can only catch about
one word in three of a conversation in a
foreign language, the tongue will NOT
speak correctly more than one word in
five. But it soon speaks tluently and
correctly after the ear has learned to
understand every word spoken by
natives Youths Companion.
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1880-1886, 1880-05-21
Corn in Hills or Drills.

TIE question as to which is the most
profitable, the planting of corn in drills
or in hills, is still considerably discussed,
and we noticed last season a number of
fields drilled that produced well. Ap-
parently there is much saved by the
drilling system, as it only requires that
the land should be marked out one way,
and the corn dropped along the furrow
and covered by the pillow. There is un-
doubtedly good economy of time by this
plan, and, if the plants be properly thin
ned, much more corn to the acre results
than when planted in hills in the usual
way. Three or four stalks in one hill
necessitates a strong struggle for food.
These four plants do not do so well,
thus struggling together in hills every
four feet apart, as when each plant is
but one foot from each other in a regu-
lar line. There are as many plants to
the acre in one case as in the other; but
each one being isolated, yields more
than when four are together in one hill.
If this were all, there would be no
question about the value of this system;
but we have looked into both methods
carefully, and have noted that the drill
system, though taking less labor at first
to plant, takes more labor to keep clean.
In the hill-culture it is necessary to have
considerable hand-labor, to keep the
weeds out of the hills until the corn gets
large enough to care for itself; but the
drill system gives us three or four times
the number of hills to look after. In
deed, every stalk is a hill. Thus the
manual labor is nearly quadrupled.
After all said about the profits of
farming, it is not so much the crops
which are produced, or the prices the
produce brings, which make our profits.
Labor-human labor-is the great draw
back in all questions as to what we can
make from our land and, as a general
thing, those systems prove, in the long
run, the most profitable, which produce
the best crops by the least amount of
hand-labor. In this mooted question Of
drilling or hilling corn, there is no
doubt but an acre of the former will
yield more than an acre of the latter; /;
but it costs more hard labor than the
other, and therefore does not pay well.
We have seen it carefully tested, and
know whereof we speak. When hand
labor can be had for twenty or thirty
cents day, we may have another opin-
ion. Germantown Telegraph.
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1880-1886, 1880-05-21

THE responsibility of man for his
wife's debts has been recently adjudi-
Gated in England in favor of the hus'
band. The court held that if woman
bought goods of a tradesman on her hus-
bands credit, there was prinla tdcie
evidence that she had his permission to
pledge his credit; but if he had forbid
den her to do so, his prohibition set
aside this presumption, and the trades-
men must suffer loss, even if they were
ignorant OF his orders TO her on the
subject. The case was appealed, and
the Judgment of the lower court al
frmed.
A COUNTRY editor has written to his
member of Congress that they must re-
move the tariff from paper pulp, add
ing that he will get on a tariff they
don't Cincinnati Saturday Night
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1880-1886, 1880-05-21

GOLD is found in fifty-siX counties in
Georgia, silver in three, copper in thr
teen, iron in forty-three, and diamonds
in twenty-six.
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1880-03-20
Didn't Believe In EN-.

You've got telephone here, haven't
you ?" asked citizen as he entered an
office on Griswold street, Detroit In
seeming great hurry.
"Yes was the reply.
well, / never believed In 'em to any
great extent, butt want to order some
coal from a yard up the river"
The owner of the office proceeded to
call" and when he got the coal deal
ers he said:
Mr.. Blank Is here and he wants to
know If you have any soft coal?"
"Yes-50O tons" az the answer.
"Well, he wants you to send him up
a ton"
"We'll see him blowed frstl He has
owed us bull for over two yearsl''
Yum ~ muttered the man as he
stepped back.
"Did they say they'd send lt?" asked
the other.
"N--o, not exactly"
"What did they say 2'
IL didn't catch 1t very well. Let
me repeat. Picking up the trumnet
again he stood with it to his ear and
asked
"Did YOU say you'd send it?"
Not by blamed sightp' came the
response.
"Well," asked the man, az painful
pause ensued.
WELL" replied the operator, "this
line isn't working very we'll this morn
ing, and you'd better go to the Office
four doors below. The dealers seem 10
hear me well enough, but I don't get
hold Of their answer plainly. The
other instrument is probably working
All right"
But | shan't bother any one else. ."
Rrowied the man. "As said before
never did believe in 'em to any extent
and now I've lost what little faith had
Much obllged--good day"
II his ear had been at the trumpet
his faith would have been as big as n
mountain.
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1880-03-20

4 NonpotSOnOus green color. 1t is
found that from thegrains OF raw coffee
there may be extracted, by simple
process, beautiful green coloring
matter, adapted 10 all the purposes of
the cook and the cOnfectioner. and
which will undoubtedly come into cx-
tensive use, inasmuch as the number Of
green coiors suitable for such uses, and
winch are not poisonous, is very linn
ted. This cOloriug matter, according
10 the account given Of the process OF
extraction, is obtained in the follow ING
manner: The coffee grains are crushed
ana The oil extracted by means Of
ether; they arc then dried and aqitated
With the white 81 eggs, 50 az TO form a
sort OF paste, and the latter rs exposed
Tor several days 60 the air. The pres
epco OF the white Of eggs then deter
mines the appearance Of an emerald
green. a simpler process Is 10 merely
moisten the crushed and dried coffee
OeTfles With water, expose them three
OF TOUR days TO the air, and extract the
c0lOfinR matter BY means Of alcohol.
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1880-03-20

physiological Erect Of Compressed dir.
In paper of peculiar interest on
this subject, by Stembo, Whose atten-
ton, II seems, was first directed to the
vital capacity Of the lungs as depend
ing on tbs barometric pressure-he
states that there is a steady increase I'm
the capacity while the pressure
increases, and, on the other hand, he
obtained a similar result outside of the
pneumatic cabinet. He then nvestiga-
ted any possible source Of error affect
ing these-ObseTvat Ons, the result being
q positive confirmation Of the increase
In lung capacity. The explanation
given by Stembo leads to the conclu-
sion that compressed air will have u
healing tendency In inGammatlons Of
the mucous membrane of the bronchial
tubes, also Ia acute catarrh of the
smaller bronchae, and in bronchial
asthma. With reference TO the temper
allure Of the skin under Comprcsse air,
the Investigations made by Stembo
show that, with Increasing pressure, the
temperature invariably sinks.