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Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1880-12-15

certain tract Of land situate in Knox town.
ship, Cleardeld county, Pa, bounded aud de-
seribed as fOlloWs' beginning at a white pine
thence 40 degrees west l40 perches to stones
thence north 80 degrees east 100 perehes to !
hemock thence south 40 degrees east l4O perehes
to beech thence south 80 degrees cast 100 per
ches to the place Of beginning, containing 100
acres, with 60 acres cleared and having thereon
erected two story frame house, log harn, aud
other outbuildings, With an orchard Of about 40
apple trees
Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1880-12-15

At | o'clock, p NJ, the following described re
estate. 10 wit T.
Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1880-12-15
GEORGE B. GooDLASDER, Editor.
CLBARFIELD, Pa,

WEDNESDAY MORNING, DEC. is, 1850.
The Aberdeen examiner. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1866-current, 1880-09-02

We add several more counties to
day to the list previously reported
for 1880.
In every instance where loss is
reported in county, it is due to
populous districts having been taken
from it since 1870.
Our list this morning includes SO
out Of the IA counties, in the State,
and shows net gain on the Census
of 1870, of 130,358, in 26 counties.
1t will be observed that We make no
deduction on account Of those coun
ties reporting decrease--that is for
the reason that the falling eff is
simply due to loss Of territory and
is reported to the credit of "new
counties" and hence has no bearing
in computing the Census Of the State.
In the case Of Clay county, we carry
her total population to the column
OF "gain," for the reason that the
aggregate reports Of the four coun>
ties from which she was taken, show
a gain of 1890 without her, hence
she can be counted as net gain to
the Census of 1880. The same will
be found to be the case with most of
the other new counties when the full
returns are in. If Marshall county
reports as great population as she
had in 1S70-and we expect a large
increase-we will be able to carry
1871 to the gain column, on account
of Union and Benton counties; as
they were carved out Of Tippah
and Pontotoc, and Marshall and
Tippah, and the joint loss in the
three parent counties cannot, if
Marshall merely holds her own, ex,
coed $3.50, while the joint popula-
tons of the two new counties aggre-
gate 24,150.
We see no reason to waver in our
estimate of 100000 as the increase
in the population of the State in the
last ten years, and claim for her
population of 1.107,922.
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What We Omitted i'm Our Annual
Report.

In our annual statement we made
no note of the immense saw mill and
numbering interests of this city and
county, or OF the millions of feet Of
superior pine, cypress, white oak,
walnut and poplar saw logs cut on
the upper waters of the Tombigbee
river and it's tributaries and foated
TO the mills of Old Monroe or of the
extensive manufacture Of slaves,
shingles, boards, ETC., in our forests
or of the huge brick kilns that redden
the night; or of the two planning
mills in our city; or of our heavy ex-
ports of brick, to neighboring points;
or of the numerous tanneries in the
county. or of the import by rail and
wagon in immense quantities OF green
and dry hides by our city Tannery,
and the export of huge bulks OF
leather from Aberdeen to Baltimore,
Boston, and New York or OF the
index to advancement in resources
and wealth conveyed by the report
of the county Assessor this year,
which shows an increase Of S180,351
in the last twelve months, in the
amount Of personal property listed
for taxation or Of the fact that dur
ing the last twelve months the river
above Aberdeen has been opened up
to steam boat navigation for over Il
hundred miles, and that one of the
best freight steamers on the South
ern waters has been built, here in
this county, by Monroe county
mechanics, for Monroe county owns
ers, out Of Monroe county oak and
pine, for it's navigation, and that
| Mobile Is building Two steamers TO
compete with it in this new .feld; or
that lively Barge trade nas been
established on tho upper Tombigbee
and Old Town Creek, an feeders to
our trade and fiaukers to rival towns;
or that the probabilities are fair Of
our soon having II new Railroad that
will put the city and county in direct
communication with the Eastern sea
board, and the coal and iron mines Of
Alabama. These and many other
things we had not time to treat Of in
detail
The Aberdeen examiner. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1866-current, 1880-09-02
HOGS ASSESSED In MONROE COUNTY.

The short corn crop of 1873 made 1t
necessary for many to reduce hog droves
10 the smallest limit compatible VIII max
ing theis meat, and the low price OF the
hog product as Compared with former
years, in the Western markets, also had its
effect in discouraging hog raising on the
part of those largely engaged in cotton
farming, hence we miss numerous names
from the list of those who last appeared as
the owners of large doves. The ASSESS
ment for 1880 was made in the spring af-
ter the droves had fully yielded to smoke
house demands, and we are assured by
those best capable of judging, that we
speak within safe bounds in estimating the
number of swine now in the county at
%, 900, and that 10, 900 will not exceed
the number that can be spared for saugh-
ter between now and the LIST of February.
Our readers generally will be interested
in the following list of farmers in the
County who have 20 head or upwards,
of hogs, exclusive of pigs. In the list they
will find number who have always made
their meat, and others who are determined
to maxi their meat hereafter.
The Aberdeen examiner. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1866-current, 1880-09-02

A large portion of the corn imported
by Aberdeen was for the use of her two
large steam grist mills located near the
depot, whose propristOrs find it much
more convenient to import shelled corn
of uniform quality, delivered right at
their doors, in car load bulks, than to
buy in smaller lots and of various quail,
ties from farm wagons.
In order to make such q comprehen =
sive reports of the resources and com =
merce of our city RS we have often
planned, an immense amount OF labor
would be involved to say nothing of a
very considerable pecuniary outlay, and
to warrant the attempt sit was necessary
for us to be met in liberal spirit by
those who would be mainly benefited by
the work; but as appeals in former
years have convinced us that the neces-
sity for such an exhibit does not seem to
be realized by the merchants and prop
erty holders who control the destinies
of Aberdeen, we have been forced to con-
tent ourselves with compiling such facts
and statistics as will enable us to store
away among our files data that it may be
immensely expensive to disentomb
elsewhere in after years, when its impor-
lance shall be fully appreciated and it
will serve as ground work for more pre-
tentious statistical exhibits.
Meagre as this report is, however, it
brings to the eyes of our readers facts of
great import to progressive men, and
will awaken an interest in Old Monroe
and her Capital in distant States where
Mississippi is looked upon as poverty
stricken or yet paralized from the effects
of revolution that served rather as a
stimulent than narcotic. We only re-
greet that circumstances beyond our cen
troll prevent our making this resume
more satisfactory.
whats writ il writ would il were worthierU
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Our City and County.

With the 3lst of August ended the
commercial year in the cotton States,
year that is assumed to commence with
the marketing of the new crop of our
great staple-on September lst-though
in some of the States that contribute this
peer to gold and silver in the precious
motors Of commerce, large receipts of
the fleecy offering are usually announced
in the later days of August. This is nota-
bly, the case with Texas, which had not
q place in the sisterhood of States when
the usage was adopted that now regu-
lates the cotton year." Last season
she had marketed over 1000 bales
owing to unprecedented drought that
caused an early bursting of the bolls-
before the first of September, and this
year she was in the market with new
cotton in the earlier days OF August.
Our County of Monroe has been noted
for many years for the early presentation
of her "First Bale, and we are told that
she has had cotton in market on the 18th
Of August, and looking over our files we
obtain the following record which for
six years placed her first in the Eastern
Prairie tier of counties
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Fodder 81 Years Old.

Messrs. Hampton d Dortch, of the
Star Stables, send up a specimen
bundle Of lot of corn fodder sent in
by Mr.. A. M. Holiday, one of the
best farmers in this country, which
was "pulled," in 1S49, by Mr.. Jack
Boyd. Although it has survived all
the vicissitudes of the last 81 years,
it is still fresher and more nutricious
than the bulk of the fodder saved
last season.-Aderdeen Ecanainer.
MIR. W. j. Boyd, of Columbus says
he can vouch for the correctness of
the age of the fodder above alluded
to, as his father built the stable in
which the fodder was stored in 1S49,
and that it had never been empty of
fodder in all the succeeding years up
to the present time, some of the
fodder stored in 1849 still remaining
Columbus LaCle1.
The Aberdeen examiner. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1866-current, 1880-09-02

CoNKLNa's speeches this Fall will
be devoted principally to q statistical
comparison of the wealth, business,
population, and productive indus
tries of the North and South. He
has laid the bureau of statistics under
contribution for this purpose
Chicago Times.
We hope Senator Lamar will have
an opportunity to reply to Conkling,
while making speeches in Indiana.
We have faith that Roscoe will be as
badly demolished as Window was in
the Senate during the exodus dis
custom Vichs6urg Herald.
II Conkling will only call upon the
Census bureau for the statistics of
Mississippi for 1880, he will find
himself badly demolished before he
dips an oar. Doubtless Gen. Walker,
lust to accommodate a friend"--as
the pugilist remarked when invited to
pull off his coat, by village bully
will furnish advance sheets to the New
York Senator.
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SHEEP AND GOATS .

The larger focks in the county have
been greatly reduced in the last two years
by sales to new venturers in sheep farms
ing, ard while the number of flocks have
largely incrc ased, the new ones have but in
few instances more than the ten head of
old sheep liable to assessment, and lambs
are by common consent exempt In the
Judgment of those best capable of forming
al opinion, the total sheep flock of Mon
roe county, will not to-day full under 90
600, exclusive Of last springs lambs.
To give our readers an idea of the ex-
tent to which this important branch of in
dustry is engaging the attention of the
farmers, we append the following list Of
owners of flocks in the county that num-
Der twenty heads and upwards, exclusive
of lambs or kids
The Aberdeen examiner. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1866-current, 1880-09-02

provision in any of her departments of
government for the collection of statis-
tics other than those essential to the
gathering of taxes to meet her current
expenses, with possible exception in the
matter of reports Of educable children
And such statistics as she collects for
purposes of taxation are calculated
rather to mislead than guide the seeker
after information, for her Assessment
rolls only include the property liable
to taxes, and give totals, particularly in
the matter of live stock. that dwarf great
industries into insignifcance to the ken
of casual readers. A few instances in
illustration will be of interest not only
to distant renders but to many in our
own State. She exempt:
All wearing apparel,
All provisions for family consumption,
All farm produce in the hands of pro-
ducer.
One gun,
All poultry.
All household furniture not exceed in G
in vlue $3.50, .4g.
Two cows and calves,
Ten head of hogs, .t
Ten head of sheep or goats.
Colts under 8 years of age.
All farming utensils (Which may in
clude cotton gin $500; cotton press
1928; sorghum mill, $40, evaporating
pan $50; threshing machine, $125, now
err, $50; horse rake, $25; straw cutter,
ST; corn shelter, 81; cider mill, $25;
plantation corn mill, 500; wheat fan, $l5;
harrow, plows, hoes, pitch.forks, run
ming gear for gin, harness for pillow and
team stock, etc, ETC., etc., all of which
are extensively used an average of at
least $500 worth of which is to be found
on each plantation-and including the
steam engines, boilers and fixtures for
ginning, found on many large farms.)
The tools of all mechanics,
The libraries of all persons,
All pictures and works of art not kept
as merchandise.
All school property; cemetery proper
ty; fair association property; church pro-
perty, and all property belonging to
towns, counties or State ,.....
Now while we have not word to say
derogatory to this system of exemptions,
we call attention to it to show how IN.
adequately our wealth is reflected in
our Assessment rolls, which in addition
to pricing all things at minimums that
would discourage a cross roads auc-
tioneer if he received no higher bids,
leave out what would be considered in
itself competence" anywhere else. and
make no note whatever of what consti-
tututes the bulk of our wealth in "per-
sonal property" To further illustrate we
will take an average farmer: He has,
The Aberdeen examiner. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1866-current, 1880-09-02
Iand Democratic Rally at West
Point.

On Monday, September Goth, Gen,
Lowery and Col. Ethel Barksdale
will speak at West Point.
Extensive preparations are being
made to make the day the most brill
liant and rousing one Of the cam
paign. We are requested by Capt.
Fee Beall on behalf of the Democ-
racy Of Clay to cordially invite the
rood people of Moroe to attend.
The Aberdeen examiner. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1866-current, 1880-09-02
New Orleans and Houston, Texa

New Orleans and Houston, Texas,
are iubilating, and we'll may they res
ioice, for Saturday evening witnessed
the completion of the Rail Road that
connects the two cities, and on Sun
day the first train of cars from the
Lone Star State came bounding
into the emporium of the lower
coast. The Crescent has taken the
Star to its bosom and our hope is
that the unity may be perfect and
copgeniel.
The Aberdeen examiner. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1866-current, 1880-09-02
New Departure

The MOBILE DAILY REGISTER now
furnishes SEVEN COPIES per week to
all mail subscribers, and has reduced
its, price of subscription by mail,
postage prepaid, to Ten DOLLARS per
annum, FIVE DOLLARS for six months
and Two-AND- HALF DOLLARS for
three months.
The Aberdeen examiner. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1866-current, 1880-09-02

Weaver's success" in the canvass
in Alabama, has created quite de-
mand for his services elsewhere. The
Democrats of West Tennessee are
anxious that he should make Green
back canvass in that section, feeling
fully convinced that the line Of az,
gument and policy he pursues, will
drive every hayward Democrat back
to the fold.
The Aberdeen examiner. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1866-current, 1880-09-02

PERRY county in Mississippi has
but 664 voters within her limits; Of
these SOS are farmers, 8 are mer-
chants, 6 are lawyers, and 7 are
physicians. The remainder are me-
chanics and lumber men.
The Aberdeen examiner. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1866-current, 1880-09-02
Gen. PAUL o. HEBERT, ex-Governc

Gen. PAUL o. HEBERT, Ex-Governor
of louisiana, died at his home in New
Iberville Parish on Monday. He was
graduate of West Point, and was first
in the class of which Hancock, Sherman,
Thomas and Wheeler were members.
Resigning in 1916, he devoted his at
tention to sugar planting until called
to the command Of a Regiment in the
Mexican war, where he was breveted
for distinguished skill and gallantry in
the terrible assault upon Moline del
Rey.
After the Mexican war he served as
Chief Engineer Of the State and term
as Governor, and was Brig. General in
tho Confederate service. Since the late
war he has held many official positions,
though devoting himself mainly to his
favorite pursuits Of sugar planting and
stock raising, being at tn a0e o. his
Club,
The Aberdeen examiner. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1866-current, 1880-09-02

The National Board of Health re-
ports the entire country free from
epidemic diseases of any kind, except
Evansville, Indiana, where typho-
malarial fever is declared epidemic.
The Aberdeen examiner. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1866-current, 1880-09-02
PRESIDENTIAL, ELECTORS.

STATE AT LARGE
F. G.. Barry, G. 7. Nelson.
AAlternates--W. NJ. Inge, j. NJ. McCaskill.
FOR TIIB DISTRICTS.
lob. Mitchell. Alternate, w. ). Bates.
he. ID. Stands. Alternate. Thos. Spight.
RD--J. M. Ellis. Alternate, VIM. Price.
\m-Wm. II. Luse. Alternate. up Walker
-R. N. Miller. Alternate, q. w. Webb.
y. +. Stokes. Alternate, Joseph Hirsh
The Aberdeen examiner. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1866-current, 1880-09-02

The above list represents 2o6 proprie-
tors in Monroe county, who, in addition
to their cotton interests can aspire TO the
dignity of stock farmers in any commun-
ity outside of Texas, for the smallest
herd-including the ordinary proportion
of (unassessedD calves-is not less than
twelve, while several will exceed 100, and
many will range from twenty to sixty.
In the list will be found the names of
ladies as owners of herds and those of quite
anumber of enterprising colored farmers.
HORSES.
The numbers of horses listed by the
County Assessor during the five years
named, were as follows:
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DtMOC. EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE.
STATE At LARGE.

r...r STATE At LARGE
W. l.. Hemingway, Chairman;
Oliver Clifton, John ID. Bills,
Alex ycrger, Benjamin King, Sr.
FIRST DrsT jas Kincannon, II. w Banks.
sECoND DIsT.-S, &. Balch, J.W I. Falkner.
THIRD Dist. II. Campbell,J IL. Neville.
FOURTH DlsT.-E. +. Noel. John p Harris.
FIFTH DIsT-R II Thompson, Pat. Henry.
Sixth DIsT.-S. Thrasher. j. W. Lambert.
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D.. pyiIS rIiPIsyAsY, 10. Ii T. s.e ST., 81 LesL,
TRUSTEES SALE.

BY virtue of the power vested in u
Trustee in Deed of Trust, executed M
1877, by J. II. Clopton and his wife Sar
CloptOn, said deed being of record in
fee OF the Chancery Clerk OF Mon roe G.
Mississippi, in book Al. pages il9,
l21, of record of deeds and ais in
X, pages 48, 40 and so, of reco :, d of,
ChcGasaw county, Mississippi, Nv
coed to sell for cash to the highest bid
the court house door OF the county
roe, in the city of Aberdeen, on
The Aberdeen examiner. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1866-current, 1880-09-02

Of the above herds lumber are of the
most approved breeds, and mos, of our
sheep raisers have purchased blooded bucks
and are grading their tiocks up to high
standard; and we may say here that lsev-
eral of the finest hocks in the county are
kept by continual sales aud shipments of
"blue bio oded" lambs, down to a number
that excludes them from asse ssment.
The Aberdeen examiner. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1866-current, 1880-09-02

lives to the cotton field. The increase In
the population of the county in the last 10
years, as shown by the U. S. Census, is
6,l8l, and assuming that half of it has
come to us since 1875, our increase in
mules in that time would put plow-line
in the hands of more than half the new
eomers--if they could amicably arrange
the matter with the mules.
The Aberdeen examiner. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1866-current, 1880-09-02
cotton from Aberdeen in the seasons
named for years ending August S1st:

This shows steady, healthy gain from
year to year, with an increase in 1880 of
2,015 bales over last season, and 1921
bales in axcess of 1872.
As almost all of the cotton shipped
from Aberdeen is bought here and paid
for in cash, in compliance with a Gus
tom that always rules in well regulated
cotton markets, the season of 1879. so,
Just ended, represented with us the pay
ment to our wagon trade, on the item of
cotton alone, of over 81 ,03s, $50, or $414, :
$50 more than was disbursed over the
counters of our banks on that account in
1872, and $100,T50 more than was paid
out in Aberdeen for cotton in the season
of 1S7S-79.
We need not tell even our most dis
tant readers that cotton like every other
marketable product pays toll to the town
where it is sold in the way of storage,
profit, ETC., ETC., ETC., and that the far
mer who sells his cotton in Aberdeen
buys all of his groceries, dry goods, and
other supplies here; hence from the fig
rres given they are as capable of esti-
mating the trade of our city, so far as
the cotton basis goes, as we are. .tf
COTTON SEED.
The trade in cotton seed is annually
advancing as the demands for it's oil in
the various arts and manufactures in
creases and the use of cotton seed meal
and oil cake becomes more and more
general in this country and Europe, fol-
stock feed and now every bushel that is
not saved for planting or used as fertili
lizer finds it way to the mills.
The following totals represent the
purchases of cotton seed in Aberdeen fol
the last three years. .....
Year ending Sept. 1, 1878. /, 100, 900 lbs
Sept. /, 1879. !, 1920, 600 lbs
r" Sept l, 1880. :. 1868, 500 lbs
OF this cotton seed so car loads were
shipped by rail in 1879, and Ga car load,
in 1880 ''''
The above totals do not include th.
amounts bought in small lots by parties
in the city for COW feed, or the amour
shipped by river.
i
The Aberdeen examiner. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1866-current, 1880-09-02

This mark denotes those counties
that have had more or less territory TAX
en- from them, to form new counties, since
the census Of 1870.
The Aberdeen examiner. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1866-current, 1880-09-02

WE regret to learn that Mr.. SpIcEn
HATCH, of Columbus, who was wound-
ed last week in an ARRAY with Mr..
Hunter Sharp, died on Tuesday
morning
The Aberdeen examiner. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1866-current, 1880-09-02
Valuable Find.


Mobile News,1
A few days ago, near GAINESVILLE, Ga, q
boy named Ulysses G.. Bedford, eleven
years old, found large sapphire, per-
fectly transparent, in size nearly an inch
square, but wedge shape. weighing
thirty-seven and one-half carrats, the
largest ever found in America. w. G.
4 rubbe, of Cincinnati, o., is now the
owner, by Purchase, of this precious
store, which, according to Prof. J. ID.
Dana's method of determining the value
4 precious stones, is worth SOL 200 =