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WrNcdEsTER PREsBYTERY.-
This body met at Oakland, Md,
las. week,
The Presbytery was opened by
Rev. J. NJ. Woods with an au-
dience sermon on the "Grace Of
Giving"
Rev. j. l.. Sherrard was chosen
moderator. There were nineteen
ministers and seventeen elders in
attendance,
Rev. 2. d. Stephenson, OF La
fayette Presbytery, Missouri, was
invited to seat as corresponding
member. Ee will take charge Of
the church at Hancock. Rev. G.
s. Lingamfelter was dismissed
to the Presbytery of Maryland,
and will become pastor OF a church
in its bounds.
LoEdoun-Street church, Win
chester, was chosen as the place OF
meeting in the spring. All the
churches in the bounds of the
Presbytery thirty fivein number
areresGlarly supplied with preach
ing.
Two evangelists give eEcourag-
ing reports of t cir work in our
destitute regions. Efforts are be-
ing made to put another man in
field formerly occupied by the la
mented Cosiner, who died in the
midst of his successful labors last
fall.
Whilst al no former period in lis
history has the Presbytery been
more fully supplied with the
preached Word, there is still much
territory to be occupied.
Tbirty-tWo churches contributed
S5S991 to home missions; 80
churches contributed $6O4 p TO
svangelistic fund and $4lS 50 TO
invalid fund. Whole amount con-
tributed to these objects during
the year. 81 ,61305.
White Post church petitions the
Presbytery to be united with
Front Royal church under the
pastoral care of Rev.C. w Hollis.
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Too Much Land for Profit.

The extent OF the farm, the capital in.
vested in tools and stock, and the amount
of labor bestowed, are often very much out
of proportion The average price of good
farms in this vicinity, one OF the Oldest
and best counties in Iowa, is about $40 on
acre. The value Of an S0-acre farm is 81, 200.
The house. barn and fences ought to be
worth $1,000, but usually are not worth
more than $1,000. The value OF teams,
tools and stock animals is about $500.
The young farmer ofton begins with ST.
800 Of capital II he is a good economist,
has good wife to help him, is good man.
ager with good health, he soon works his
way up to the condition Of well-todo
farmer, with farm aud stock worth $4,000
But too often, instead Of buying an 80
acre farm with his $1,000, he buys 100
acres, and ploughs and fences what he
can. But he has so much to do on the new
farm that his crops are not properly tend
ed, his horses are worked too hard, and
himself and wife work too hard, and his
large farm suffers in ever, way for the
want OF the right proportion Of capital and
labor to the quantity Of land. He is not
able to build good barn; his few animals
suffer in the cold, stormy winter weather;
his tools are not housed; he has not time
to set ont fruit trees, shade trees and wind
breaks to protect his buildings. and crops;
and the sloughs and wet places on his farm
cannot be drained.
When he bought his farm, he expected
his sons would grow up and he could divide
his farm among them. But alas. while he
has had the place for pleasant and at
tractive homestead, he has failed to make
it so; and his sons and daughters do not
like the farm. They go to town to escape
the drudgery Of the farm, and for lighter
work obtain higher wages than the farm
ers pay. Meanwhile age is advancing On
the farmer The mistake he made was in
having too much land, and too little Of the
other necessaries for comfort and profit =
En-.
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OuR PLAN WITH PouLTEY.--First. hen,
to do we'll, must have = warm, dry place
with plenty Of sunshine. We always KEEP
a box OF ashes for them TO wallow ia, which
should be kept perfectly dry. Every few
weeks and sometimes oftener, the hennsry
is thoroughly busted with dry ashes, occa.
sionally adding little sulphur And
once in while we wet the roosts with ker.
osene. A spring. bottom oil can Is jus! the
thing for the purpose. Attending to these
rules carefully, you need not have lice.
which is an important item in Keeping
poultry. Our chief object Is eggs, and
there is generally ready market aud good
price. And TO lay we'll. hens must have
plenty to eat and Of the right kind. We
generally feed corn, aud 10 the winter let
them she'll Il for themselves, after giving
each ear blo~ or two with the hammer.
or something Of that kind TO start the ker.
nGs, THIS gives them exercise and keeps
ibcw iEss sa,.pg too much
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RENEWING GRAss LASp.-When O

RENEWING GRASS LASD.--When grass
land gets run out, as the phrase goes, the
best way TO renew it, unless it is very rocky
or rough land, is to break it up, and, il
il is not available or desirable for cultiva-
tion, to manure heavily and reseed. This
month, after the hay is cut, is the best
time for breaking up sod. II can then be
MANFRED, Thoroughly narrowed and re.seed-
ed with grass, or sown with rye the last
part, of the month. In sowing grass seed
only those kinds shoull be sown together
tIst mature together. Herdsgrass and red
top go well together, but orchard grass,
june grass and the other early varieties
should be sown by themselves Twelve
quarts Of herdsgrass and three pecks oired
top make very good seeding for an acre.
II bcfdsgrass is sown alone on very heavy
land ii should be- sown more thickly, 10
that IT will not grow too rank and coarse.
Orchard grass should be sown very thick.
! yor,itwill grow in clumps. From bush.
\ and half to two bushels OF seed 10 IN
acre gives good result. Massachusetts
Pbughmm.
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Agricultural.


II Il well. perhaps. 10 touch upon ihi'
subject. as the tine Is approaching vher
We must prepare rcom 10 store the winter
apples In ihis. Az In almost everything
else. people differ as 10 The best method Of
keeping apples through the winter rs we'll
As into spring In fact. they are frequent
" kept until June siih the favor very lit
lie impaired. OF course the utmost care
mus, be taken in gathering them from The
trees. then sorting them and putting them
lightly into dry -four casks The barrel
should be heapcd somew hat, and the head
Ing pressed down firmly, being careful
not tn bruisc them. These casks shonld lie
left under dry. open shed until rs far in.
10 Noyembc, as the frost will admit Of
Light freezing weather will no. harm the
fruit. IN fact In is only when there is dan.
ger Of freezing that II should be removed
The barrels should then be taken into a
fireless room where there will be no dan
ger Of freezing; or which we would much
prefer, a cold, dry cellar When carefully
disposed Of ia this way, there is little dan
ger Of apples becoming nnsound through.
on, the winter aud spring, provided they
are OF fair keeping variety, such as.
Smiths Cider. the Courthouse, the Bald win.
the Rhode Island Groening, the Spitzen.
burg. the Northern spy, etc.
II must be remembered, however, that
barrel, say Of Baldwins from one tree and
one place, viii not, perhaps, keep as well
as barrel from some other II may be from
some peculiarly Of the soil, though per
haps as likely to be from some constitu'
tional defect in the tree. One thing is well
aseertained, that fruit from an old and
wornout tree will not keep as well as from
the same variety, OF which there may be
but moderate quantity on the tree. II
seems, therefore, that fine, large, healthy
looking fruit Of any one kind should have
the preference as ''long keepers"
II these precautions are taken the apple
is not hard to keep. Most fail from keep.
ing them too warm. The usual storeroom
of the house, where they are generally put,
is not the best place for them. Indeed as
we have already said, little frost does
not hurt them, provided low temperature
is regular. A frequent change from cold
to warm is fatal TO the keeping quality Of
any fruit, much more the apple. - German
torn Telegraph,
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LOCAL NEWS.
Vocal and Instrumental,


There could hardly have been happier
combination of conditions for insuring an
enjoyable concert than those belonging to the
concert given at the Opera House Wednesday
evening under the auspices of the Ladies' Aid
society of Christ church The audience was
large and notably select, the programme was
judiciously made up of choice selections of
vocal and instrumental music, and it was
splendidly rendered from first to last by some
of the best of our local talent assisted by
Mrs. E. Louise Thompson, of New Haven,
Mrs. Kinsley, of New York, and Mr..
Thompson, of New Haven. The two ladies
are by no means strangers to this city, how
ever, Mrs. Kinsley having sung several times
in public here when she was Miss Hobbs
and Mrs. Thompson, then Miss Sanford, hav-
ing formerly been a member of the choir of
Trinity church. The efforts of both these
ladies added greatly to the attractiveness of
entertainment of rare excellence through
out. Among the most charming things of
the evening were the two solos rendered by
Mrs. Thompson, and the encores to which she
responded upon each. In the 'sPolonaise, :"
from Mignon, the birdlike quality of her
voice and the briliiancy of her execution were
specially manifest. Her singing fairly capti-
waited the audience -B7idQeDort Farmer
Morning journal and courier., 1881-02-25
FoRTY-sIxTH CONGRESS.
WASHINGTON, Feb.

WARRINGTON ISDs 2t.
SENATE.-Im after the reading of
the journal, the Senate received in mournful
silence the announcement by Mr.. Cameron,
of Wisconsin, of the death of his late col
league, Matthew FL. Carpenter. Mr.. Came
ron said that at some convenient time here
after the Senate would be asked to consider.
resolutions COMMUNICATIVE Of the life and
public services of the dead Senator. After
an expression of his own sorrow for the loss
of his colleague and friend and an allusion to
the profound sorrow which the people of
Wisconsin would feel in the death of their
most gifted and distinguished representative,
Mr.. Cameron offered the following:
Resolved, That the Senate has heard with
profound sorrow of the death of Hon.
Matthew Fl. Carpenter, late Senator from
the State of Wisconsin that committee of
five Senators be appointed by the Vice
President to take order for experimenting
the funeral of Mr.. Carpenter, and that as a
mark of respect by the Senate for his
memory 4 the remains be removed from
Washington to Milwaukee, Wis. in charge of
the sergeant alarms and attended by said
committee, who shall have full power to
carry this resolution into effect; that the
secretary of the Senate communicate the
foregoing to the House of Representatives,
and that, as an additional mark of respect to
the memory of the deceased, the Senate do
now adjourn.
MI 164C16tOus liz SCOOA0AAS b44O AOSO1O-
tions, spoke of the deep sensibility with
which, he was sure, every member of the
Senate had received the notice just made and
their full share in the sentiment of sorrow
expressed The resolutions were adopted,
and at 11:20 O'Clock the Senate adjourned
until tomorrow.
The late Senator's chair in the Senate was
covered with funeral drapery.
HousE.-Mr Baker, of Indiana, from the
Committee on Appropriations, reported back
the fortiication appropriation bill with the
Senate amendments, recommending concur
renee in.some and non-concurrence in others.
The report was agreed to.
Mr.. Cox, of New York, demanded the reg
ular order, being the consideration of the APP
portionment bill.
Mr.. Burrows, of Michigan, raised the ques-
ton of consideration. At first the Republic
cans refused to vote, but upon the second
roll call they, at Mr.. Conger's, of Michigan,
suggestion, cast their votes in the
negative The result was yeas LA, nays 6S !;
SO the House determined to proceed TO the
consideration of the apportionment bill
Mr.. Cox demanded the previous question:
Morning journal and courier., 1881-02-25
THE WEST.
Wisconsin,.


MADISON, Feb. 24.-The news of the death
of Senator Carpenter was received here just
the two houses of the Legislature were
called to order, and its reception cast gloom
over all at the Capitol Feeling prayers were
offered in each branch and the oil was called
by the clerks in low voice, the Senators and
Assemblymen answering to their names in
hushed voices. Both houses Immediately
adjourned, the Senate until evening and the
Assembly until tomorrow, when appropriate
measures will be taken in regard to the fu-
neral Already canvassing has been begun
to fill the position of the great Senator and
candidates are plentiful, among them Angus
Cameron, E. w. Reyes, Senator Price and
Charles Williams
A large delegation of leading Republican
politicians from Milwaukee and other places
are already here, canvassing for asuccessor to
Senator Carpenter. Angus Cameron's friends
claim fifty votes for him and that he will be
nominated on the first ballot in the caucus.
which will be held March Sd.
Morning journal and courier., 1881-02-25
NEW YORK.

General Hancock Going to the Inaugura-
tlon-Chunks OF Wisdom From the De-
feated Candidate.
New YORK, Feb. 24.-Some comment hay
ing been excited by the announcement that
General Hancock had accepted an invitation
to attend the Inauguration of General Gar
field, reporter called upon the former at
military headquarters on Governors Island.
In response to the question why he had de-
cided to attend the Inauguration, General
Hancock said: II do not think it would be
proper for me to express my political views
regarding Mr.. Garfield or the Republican
party at this time as I do not wish to be
drawn into a discussion or controversy of
any kind. But I will say that I have re-
ceived formal invitation to be present at
the inaugural ceremonies, and have acted in
accordance with my sense of what is proper
in accepting the invitation and in promising
to be present I am asked to become guest
of the chairman of the committee, and he
has pressed me to take Mrs. Hancock with
me and become inmates of his own private
residence in Washington. But have en-
gagged rooms at Wormley's Hotel A great
many of my political, military and personal
friends will no doubt visit me while in Wash
ington, and can receive them much better
in my own rooms at the hotel than in anoth-
er mans private residence. Another good
reason is the fact that would not feel it fair
to ask private host to entertain guests
friends"
'fWill you attend the Inauguration in a mil
itary!capacity or merely as citizen ?' Gas to
that cannot exactly say. Some time ago
General Sherman requested my presence in
Washington on the 4th of March, long be-
fore I was invited by the committee.
shall not attend the ball in the evening, but
will be present during the ceremonies in the
Senate chamber. 1t is not my intention to
appear in the procession By virtue of my
official position as chief officer of the military
division of the Atlantic will be in reality in
command over all the troops that will be in
Washington on the 4th of March. The mill
tary barracks in that city are virtually under
my charge. In regard to my personal
opinion of the election of General Gar
field as President of the United States, Il
will say that the Democratic Senate and
House of Representatives have declared him
duly elected President of the United States,
and such being the case, it is proper that
any person who is a resident of
the United States should attend
the inauguration exercises. Some
persons have doubted the wisdom of my ap-
pearance in Washington on the 4th of March
and others say there is no harm in my at
tending. 1t seems right to me. OF course,
in this matter the merits or dement's of the
different political parties are not question.
General Garfield is to occupy the presiden-
tial chair for the next four years and there
can be no harm in seeing and hearing him
when he takes the oath of his high Office.
say this without any reference to parties or
disputed political questions