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The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1881-10-27

Cheapest Crockery, Tin-ware, Wooden
ware, &c., at Kohlman's.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1881-10-27
Married.

On the 25th inst, at the residence of Mrs.
Boswell, in Brookhaven, by Rev. w. B.
Lewis, Mr.. G. w. Woelper and Miss Ada B.
Brungard.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1881-10-27

Do you want fine coat or pants? Buy
from Nc Grath.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1881-10-27

Women that have been pronounced incu'
rable by the best physicians in the country
have been completely cured of female weak
ness by the Use of Ly dia E. Pinkham's
Vegetable compound. Send to Mrs. Lydia
f. Pinkham. 233 Western Avenue. Lynn
Mass, for pamphlets. oct27-2t.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1881-10-27
If YOU DON'T BELIEy

There is bargain in the fall and winter
goods at Henry & Meek's, call and examine
hem.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1881-10-27

Swift's s. Specific cures Scrofula, Mercu-
rial Poison, old Sores or any impurity.
octI7- Inn al.s-.....
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1881-10-27

Malakoff Bitters, the best in the world
or sale by W.. Smith.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1881-10-27
VoTE FOR HODGES, BYRD,

Buy your shirts, hats and clothing, from
McGrath.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1881-10-27
"NEyER SAY DIE"

This is game rule observed at Kohl
mans Great Cash House, which means 1--WE
will not allow any house in the country to
undersell us" Call on us and see for your
selves.
FALL AND WINTER GOODS,
Cheaper than ever at
HENRY & MEEK's.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1881-10-27

McGrath's hosiery, lace ties, fishus, &c.
are elegant.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1881-10-27

McGrath's line OF handmade shoes are.
warranted equal to any shop-made goods.
Call and see them before getting pair made.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1881-10-27

McGrath's embroidery and laces are i'm
menSe.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1881-10-27

Try 4 bottle Of Malakof Bitters, atW.
J. Smiths.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1881-10-27

Go to Henry 3 Meek for fall and winter
goods.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1881-10-27
Sara Light Eoo$z
BARBER,
FRONT STREET, -BROOKHAVEN
Gloon Reasons FOR THE DocroR's. FAITH


MONROE, Ga, March %, 1880.
We have Tor twelve months been prescribe
ing ("Swift's Syphilitic Specific" in. the
treatment Of Syphilis and many other dis
eases for which it is recommended, and the
results have been most satisfactory, not
having been disappointed in a single in
stance. We think, for all diseases it is
recommended TO cure il stands without a
peer, and that all the medical profession
will, sooner or later, be forced to aclznowl-
edge it in the treatment of Syphilis, as a
siue qua non.
n. L. GALLOWAY, M. D.
j. I. RoBrNsoN, Nj. D.
ATLANTA, GA. May ", 1879.
One OF our workmen had bad case of
Syphilis, of FIVE years standing, and was
cured entirely with "Swift's Syphilitic Spe-
cific." VIM. r. & T. w. HoopER.
THE SWIFT SPECIFIC COMPANY
Proprietors, Atlanta, Ga.
5 Sold by DR.. T. T. Meade and Daughtry &
Smylie, Broookhayen. Call for copy OF
"Young Mems Friend" oct It.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1881-10-27

neutrality-suspicious..
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1881-08-25
Lincoln.s Gettysburg Grafton

-Four score and seven years ago our
fathers brought forth on this continent
a new nation, conceived in liberty and
dedicated to the proposition that all
men are created equal.
Now we are engaged in a great civil
war, testing whether that nation, or
any nation so conceived and so dedi-
Gated, can long endure. We are met
on great battlefield of that war. We
have come todedicate portion of that
field as final resting place for those
who here gave up their lives that the
nation might live. 1t is altogether fit-
ting and proper that we should do this.
But, in a larger sense, we canrot ded-
icate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot
hallow, this ground. The brave men,
living and dead, who struggled here,
have consecrated it, far above our poor
power to add or detract. The world
will little note nor long remember
what we say here, but it can never for
get what they did here. 1t is for US,
the living, to be dedicated here TO the
unfnised work which they who fought
here have thus far so nobly advanced.
1t is rather for us to be here dedicated
to the great task remaining before US
that from these nonored dead we take
increased devotion to that cause for
which they gave the last full measure
of devotion-that we here highly re-
solve that these dead shall not have
died in vain, that this nation under
God shall have a new birth of freedom,
and that government of the people for
the people, shall not perish from the
earth. ABRAHAM LINCOLN.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1881-08-25
Working Butter.

Maryland Farmer.
The working of butter is manipula-
ton that requires the utmost skill, for
overworking destroys the grain of the
product, and any motion of the "work-
er that produces grinding should be
avoided, and to detect this and correct
it, takes a quick eye and steady hand.
The chief purpose of working butter
is to solidify it, and at the same time
expel the remaining buttermilk, and
thoroughly diffuse the salt through the
mass, and this last should be done
with as little mixing as will exactly
accomplish the requirement, for the
grain of the salt cutting the globules
of the butter Injuries the grain of the
latter, and the butter becomes waxy.
The butter should never exceed a
temperature of 60 degrees when worked,
as higher point causes the butter to
gravitate toward sickness, and when
worked at too low point, the butter
becomes mealy and the texture is des-
troyed.
If at the last working there is adj
ditional salt required, care must he
taken that the butter has not become
dry, so that it will not he dissolved,
and many dairymen throwa few quarts
of water into the worker at this stage
to aid in dissolving the salt, and car
ry with it the particles of buttermilk
that have remained over from the
previous working.
There is mistaken notion in regard
to salt adding to the keeping quality OF
butter, the truth being that salt viii
preserve the different substances Oc
cupying the interspaces between the
globules of butter, for it is fact thai
no chemical union ever takes place be
tween the butter and the salt, and th'
long keeping Danish butter perfect!
worked, but never receiving particle
of salt, proves the latter is not, so fa
as il relates to the keeping of butter
a preservative agent, and that M
amount of salt will keep butter, unles
certain rules are observed and require
ments met. The papers team wit
notices of butter preservatives an
inventions to keep butter indefinitely
but it is probably long time befor
any of them will come into genera
use; and for years to come the Ions
keeping butter will be found to be a
article made from cream, where pei
feet cleanliness was observedin obtair
ing it, and the butter churned and pu
into packages under a system OF rul:
relating to age of cream. temperature
and working.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1881-08-25
Causes of the Prepotency in Horses.

Says the National Live Stock Jour-
nal: The custom of leaving all the
males entire, which obtains in France,
undoubtedly gives French breeders a
great advantage over countries where
this plan is not followed. There the
horse that developes the greatest de-
gree of adaptation to the work re-
quired is used for the purpose of re-
production. Elsewhere only those that,
by accident or design, are left entire,
say at two years old (the usual peiod at
which castration is performed,) can
be used; and it not infrequently hap
pens, even in this country, that the
very best specimens of the race are
emasculated. The breeders of trottinp
horses in the United States have never
ceased to regret that Dexter, that
greatest of all trotting horses of his
day, was not permitted to perpetuate
his own great powers; and SO of the
other great performers, Rarus, Edwin
Forest and 81. Julien. Who can say
how much more rapid might have
been our progress in creating a breed
OF trotting horses if these great horses
had not been gelded, but like those
other renowned trotters, Andrew Jack.
son, Geo. NJ Patchin, Geo. Wilkes
Green's Bashaw, Ethan Allen, etc., had
been saved entire to perpetuate the ex
cellence for which they were distin
guished?
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1881-08-25

Ford returned the visit of their rela-
tiyes by spending the New Year holi-
days with them. AS they were seated
about the tea-table on the night of
their arrival, Mr.. Ford said:
Aunt, what spell did you cast upon
Millie while you were with us? SIZE
always was good wife, and seemed to
me little the best woman in the
world, but she is perfect now. hope
she will not grow any better, or 1 shall
expect her to leave for higher re-
gions."
Mr.. and Mrs. King laughed quite
heartily over Mr.. Ford's speech, but
Millie, instead of thanking her hus-
band for the compliment, raised hel
earnest eyes to her aunt's face, eyes in
which were written, as plain as words
C,uld speak, THANK YOU"
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1881-08-25
A Famous Estate.

Montpelier" well known as the
home of President Madison, and one
of the historic places of Virginia, was
advertised to be sold at public sale on
July %. The homes of the several
Presidents of the United States con-
tributed by Virginia have all been re-
garded with considerable national in
terest but except Mount Vernon, the
home of Washington, comparatively
little is known of them by the public.
Montpelier is beautifully situated, in
Orange county, about eighty miles
south of Washington, on the line of the
Virginia Midland railroad, and is what
is known as the Piedmont section of
Virginia. section noted Tor fertility
of soil and pictufesqueness of scenery.
The estate comprises over a thousand
acres of land. Immediately above the
old homestead are eighty acres of i'm
proved grounds, handsomely graded,
with graveled walks and drives. Di-
rectly to the front and to the right of
the residence is an avenue shaded by
fully developed white pine trees, said to
have been planted by President Madi-
son in his youth, and beyond this is a
grove of stately walnut trees, whose
age IS measured by centuries. At the
base of the hill there is n valley wa
tered by perennial stream, which is
capable of being converted, at an incon-
siderable expense, into a mountain
lake, which would materially enhance
the beauty of the landscape. AT the
rear of the house is an exquisite lawn,
which was the garden spot of the pa
rents Of President Madison. The pres
ent garden was located by Mr.. Madi-
son, and occupies terraced hillside
about three hundred yards in the rear
of the residence.
The view from the eastern side is
bounded by the wooded slopes of the
Southwestern Mountains, which mate
rally add to its beauty and grandeur.
The architectural design of the house
is similar to that of Mount Vernon
and Monticello, being constructed of
brick and stone. with portico in front
supported by stone columns; but with
respect to the interior convenience, the
Montpelier homestead is far superior
to Mount Vernon and Monticello. The
estate passed out Of the control of the
Madison family some thirty or thirty
five years ago by sale, since which it
has several times changed ownership,
but has successfully been occupied by
the owners themselves.
The remains of President Madison
rest in the family burying-ground on
the estate, and are marked by plain
granite shaft erected by the citizens of
Orange county, as fitting emblem of
the Doric simplicity of his mind and
character. The descendants of the
Madison family are, for the most part,
still residents of the neighborhood, and
the same can be said as TO the descend.
ants of these who were President Mad
ison friends and neighbOrs.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1881-08-25
Sad Sights in Oran.
Gibraltar Chronicle.

The Spanish papers are full of sad
details of the despoiling of their col
ony in the province of Oran by the
Arabs and the loss of life and property
thereby Occasioned. The colonists
are flying in all directions, and already
over three thousand have left the coun-
try in the men-of-war Numancia, Vul-
caDo, and other vessels, many of them
suffering from severe wounds, and I'll
destitute. Reports say that the con-
duct of some of the French soldiers
was bad, and the terrible heat impeded
the movements of othelS. Great in
dignatiOn exists among the Spaniards
in the country and disputes between
them and the French in the sire cts and
cafes are constant and very bitter.
1t is stated the authorities refuse to
issue arms to the cOlonists, and that
the columns have retired from the open
country to the fortified towns. The
captiveS taken by Bou-Amema are said
to be very numerous, and that he has
with him 10000 horsemen well sur
piled with provisions and modern arms
Water is becoming scarce in Oran O
account of the great increase Of inhab-
itants, and the crops everywhere pre-
sent the worst appearance. The raid
of the Arabs is ineligible enough, con-
sidering the agitation which has been
caused among the Mussulman popula-
ton O. Northern Africa by the inva-
sion OF Tunis, and it would only be
in conformity with all the traditions
of Oriental warfare, that such a raid
if it did occur, should have been ac.
companied by circumstances of ex.
ceptionsl cruelty and atrocity. What
ever excuse may be made for this out
break of savagery, l. is obvious that ii
will have to be punished sternly and
decisively. No nation occupying the
position that France does in an ORR
entail country can allow its subjects Il
be masacred with impunity.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1881-08-25
The Social Rank of the Farmer

Professor Abbott, President of the
Michigan State Agricultural College.
recently delivered an address on the
above subject, in which he held that if
farmers were depressed socially. thew
alone were to blame for it. We pub-
lish the following extracts from his
speech, as presented in the columns of
the Western Rural, which will be of
general interest to all of our readers:
Farmers must get rid of the notion
that work was deteriorating to their
social condition. 1t was hard work
that accomplished the desired end. and
all worked who attained any eminence.
1t was the first feeling that farmers
work was degrading, that made it so,
and this idea reminded him of the old
lady who said, as she sat in the cool
sitting room of the farm house placid
ly rocking and knitting the while.
watching gang of harvesters Il sthey
toiled OH in the burning sun, swinging
the cradle and lying low the golden
grain, at does make me so made to see
those lazy men out there swing, swing
all day long. while l am knitting the
very life out of me- There is moth.
ing good nor bad, but thinking makes
it so. If man has his heart in his
work, and brings intelligence to bear
upon it, there is no drudgery in it. The
artist gets enchanted with his picture.
and then works on without eating. if it
is necessary, until, in the harmony of
the outline and blending of the colors,
his ideas rest on the canvas to delight
the thousands.
1t is not menial labor that gives me-
nial appearance. 1t is that there is no
intellectual side to farming. 1t is the
idea that any one can be a farmer, and
the Professor thought that farmers
were to blame. Fathers sometimes
said to him, ''My boy is going to be a
farmer, he don't need any education" !"
When the farmer comes to see that he
does need an education, he will be
more successful in his business, and
his home center of good taste. When
the farmer comes 10 feel that he is an
intellectual being, and demands his
rights, there will be little need of law
yers representing him at the legisla-
ture, or congressman making his
speeches at their annual meeting.
Farmers must realize their business
is profession. The knowledge of
science on which agriculture is based
is making vast and daily growth, and
is fast coming into TIE rank where il
will have to be acknowledged us such
Farmers sons cannot ;!ffoik 10 give
two or three yeaIs to learning Latin
and Greek; better give the same
amount of time to learning the English
language. The men who study princi
pie have always been ridiculed of theiI
researches, The sciences that have
made the NEST rapid progress are those
that have had the hardest workers
and it is this that will bring up the
science Of agriculture, and give skilled
and true dignity to the farming class
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1881-08-25
The Monument Growing.

Some time since information was re-
ceiyed by the government authorities
and published in the Post that the king
Of Siam was about sending stone as a
contribution to the Washington mOnu-
ment. The king has followed out his
good intention, and the stone has ar
rived. The letter accompanying it
states that it was excavated by his
majeSty's orders from the quarries in
the Korat hills, distant about one hum
dred miles from the city of Bangkok.
His majesty, during his youth, while a
prince of the realm, conceived a pecu-
liar fondness for America and her
liberal institutions, derived in great
part from the instruction of our mis-
sionaries resident there, and assumed
the title of George Washington" For
many years prior to his elevation to
the throne he was familliarly addressed
as Prince George Washington, and
even to-day enjoys reference to that
circumstance. The king left it optional
with his agents to have the inscription
on the stone engraved in English OF
Siamese. As it was found difficult to
correctly engrave the Siamese charac-
tiers, the English were adopted. The
original of the inscription in Siamese
language is, however, inclosed on a
slip Of paper. The full name and title
OF the royal donor is: Ellis Majesty
Krom Phra Ratcha Wang Borwang,
Satan Mongkong, Second King of
Siam" The stone is small, being
about six inches by twelve, and is of a
peculiar yellowish brown color. The
inscription says: Presented to the
Washington Monument Association by
His Majesty, the Second King of Siam.''
Mr.. Larkin G. Meade, the sculptor,
who is now in Florence, some years
ago made a proposition to embeliish
the monument by four bronze panels
on the sides of the shaft near the base,
giving base relief representations OF
scenes marking epochs in Washington's
life. Mr.. Mead has already made de.
signs in clay for two of these panels
The first represents the surrender OF
Corvallis. The second has Just beer
completed, and Mr.. Meade has sent q
photograph of the design to the monu
ment association. 1t represents the
inauguration of Washington on tht
portico of the old custom-house in New
York. The proposition to place thes,
panels on the side of the shaft has me
with some favor, though no official ac
ton has been taken. Work on til,
monument is progressing favorably
The shaft is now two hundred an,
twenty-seven feet high, sixty-fve fee
having been added since the work wa
resumed. 1t is expected that befor
the first of next January at least fort,
i foot mora will he added To its hainbt
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1881-08-25
Robert Collyer,s Home.

The boyhood home of this eminent
man in Yorkshire, Eng, is thus de-
scribed:
"Let me make little picture of the
house. A cottage of two rooms and
an attic, looking right into the eye of
the sun, and away toward the great
purple moors. a bit of greensward
and clump of roses. A bright open
fire, and the walls white as snow: a
floor so clean that you could eat YOUR
dinner on it, and only hurt the floor: a
bureau and chairs so bright that they
shone like mirrors; the tall old clock
we cherish down there in the city; a
lot of willow-ware for great days; a
mirror and pictures that must have
cost half a dollar each-pictures Reu-
bens could not have painted to save his
life; pure white linen enough for all
uses, and once a week a good sound
scrubbing with yellow soap from top
to toe. who hath red eyes, who hath
contention, who hath strifeY Solomon
cries, and / answer, the Collyer children
| In the tub, with the mother to work
! it. But there and in the snow-white
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1881-08-25
Land in England Depreciating in
Value.

Land in England is depreciating in
value. The Estates Gazette Nondon)
says: A considerable number of es-
tates have been put up to auction re-
Gently, chiefly by order of the mort
gagees, but very few sales have been
effected, the biddings not even reach
ing the amount of the mortgage. Thus.
for the Tiptree-hall property, the farm
of the late Mr.. Mechi, $500 was the
utmost that was offered, though a
mortgage of e4,500 existed. In an
other case where $4,000 had been adj
vauced to an estate, $4,000 was the ex-
Uent of the bidding. This shows how
land has fallen in value, whether per-
manently or not, no one can say. In our
results of country sales the amount
reached in our last issue is only Elsa
6l7, whereas last year it was fl,OI3, ,464.
Estates are bought in Ear more fire.
quently than sold. A fancy place NAV
sell, but nothing in the way of an in
vestment is looked at.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1881-08-25
A MOTHERS LOVE.

The brightness Of n mott 3Is ,ovc,
Can never pass away;
10 watcheth like the brOOding dove
From eventide till day
10 sitteth by the couch ~ pain
With quiet placid eye,
lis Tree from every dark'ning strail
Of mans iniirmity!
\ mothers love Oh who can breathe
oh, who can tell Cts worth,
Its patient suffering until death,
Zen from childhOOd's birthp
lis chainless, fathOmless and deep;
10 Is ~ lOt o. sigh,
To wait and watch our fevcrish sleep
When none, save God, Is nigh.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1881-08-25

purity of fresh lime and eternal scrub.
bing was our bulwark from the fever
and there is one reason why, in these
fifty-seven years, 1 have not been fo,
one day sick in my bed. A small shelf
of books-Bunyan, Crusoe, Goldsmith
England, the half of Sanford and Mer.
ton,' and the Bible with lots of pictures
the Young Mans best Companion. j
the Pleasing Instructor and Fleet.
woods Life of Christi"
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1881-08-25
Cured of Drinking.

"a young friend of mine was cured OF
an Unsuitable thirst for liquor, which had
SO prostrated him that he was unable TO 90
any business. He was entirely cured BY
the use of Hop Bitters. Ii allayed all
that burning thirst; took away the appe,
fife for lIouor made his nerves steady, and
he has remained q sober and steady man
for more than two years, and has ne de-
sire to return to his cups; / know OF 9
number OF others that have been cured OF
drinking by it.n-From leading Il. X. o :
fetal, Chicago, Ill.-TiHcs.