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HINT Yourselves by making money
HNI when n golden chance is offered =.
nl2ui thereby always kee, ing poverty
from your door. Those who always take
advantage Of the good chances tor making
money that are offered, gent rally heroine
wealthy. while those who do moi improve
such chances remain in p verify. We want
many men. women, boys and girls 10 work
for us right in their own localities. The
business will pay more than ten times or
binary wages. We furnish an expensive
on.fi, and all that you need. free. No one
who engages fails TO make money very
RAPIDLY. You can devote your whole time
to the work. or only yonr spare moments:
Full information and all that IL needed
SEMI free Address sTINSON g. CO..
Cec, 10 ~. Portland, GaisS
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Their meal should be given regular

Their meal should be given regular
~ till the pasture is good enough to
make a full bite for all, both young
and old. Watch the sheep carefully,
should any get purged by eating the
cary grass give them some timothy
hav and trim off Immediately oil tue
wool that is soiled, Dc sheep cannot
thrive with lot Of tags 10 'rr itate 1t.
Calves and lambs that have been re.
Gently castrated should he examined
y, least once week till entirely we'll,
as the wound will frequently require
reopsning enough to make 1t discharge
freely, and death often occurs from me-
glecti"g this.
Never allow SOW to attempt to
raise more pigs than she is able to 90
Justice to-six good pigs are always
worth more money than eight or ten
Door ones. The great advance in the
price of the hog product should stlm.
ulste all to renewed effort to increase
the amount Of pork RAISED for the year
as there is good prospect Of being
we'll paid for any sur ,lus that we may
have.
Fat cattle now on hand that are
considered fit for market should be
sold betor. they get any sr IS, as they
will weigh much more on dry food
than they will for nearly a month at
Ter being turned On grass Ewes that
have lost lambs or failed 10 breed
ought to be well fed all the time, by
90 doing they Can be fitted for the ear
ly market; the price Is apt to be bet
ter at the time earl Lambs are IN de-
msud tina ANY other season. Calves
that are being fed On the milk t'oun
the COW will learn to eat lit'Ie bran
and meal mixed at very early date,
20 it is best 10 have u small trough go
arranged that the COW cannot reach 1t,
with a SINAI. quantity before them AL
the time, also IA snail bunch Of rice
hay where they can asst reach to pull
few stalks out, as i! they we're steal
ing it, will soon learn the calf to feed
ell and increase IT, growth.
In Growing Tomatoes in the family
garden, when more trouble may be IN
ken than in the field ru,ture, ire Uses
for their support will b, found con
yenent and useful in bringing better
and i4irer fruit. Trying to stake Is
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DECREASE IN THE RATE OF ASSESSMENT.
would
the the
membership
had deficit.
WHEN MEMBERS CAN MARRY.
either division to the date Of te
Will hr the
beneficiary suc certificates until the member becomes beneficial
PAYMENT OF ENDOWMENTS .
luhd
feasible otherwise assessment .-t
ANNUAL DUES.
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actually
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COMMUNICATION.
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CHAS. H. O. FOX,

offers 10 the puhlIc rare chance for
EXTRA BARGAINS.
n. B-Repniring in NIL its branches a.
usual. ALI wuik and sales guaranteed D!
CHAS II. y FOX,
No. IA W. Patrick ST., Frederick Md.
ian 6.ll
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P. II. EIAWMA \. N.2H
MARBLE DEALER
ME yHANlCSTO IN, Md.

Desires to inform his old Customers AMI
the pubic geArralIy, that he has removed
his shop from. south Water street /" N"r'll
Church street, opposite Catholic Church
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To encourage promote Msmny Divine Institution AS well as
establish desirable homes ,,, for viii ,s @ tine
and we" directed eli " on "v part make their sue
cum . s to Se ecu" ,% their n ,r %
IT, just s "S" an" s' %% d,a"E 5* "S" they
By r'is mm b. . n ' wn " M ear way Tie epon
death in t." "h"" h' isnr"cs ~ ho reo
I'D t." I" r |"," ~rc'""r d,rlm
h ,fbig may haze marriage by mutual assistance t" pr"
vide cnc, p,i" Of life Wis., marriage Wit" '"' "' st
v,"xni"~ for is menu mutual
, future Hs" 10 ." &c! rsr ' i'ur
offered institution heretofore "'S"@' II" tins @" ''y "
and weighing it, a tags the '"""ir aH t, i"
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upon olu"m''" winch the! are receive the " "
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By sa" y"mF 1 "f ony % " only I kt"p "n Of % but
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start IN 1T" TIA, viii tli hur is successful
10 nj r t the rs"mse fund ana certificate holders
10 T"i, Association. '.~n h ,ne nom M and
p"ii by agents and no medical examiners w "
is The "s.,'on strictly, dollar Of assessments will
the hands Of the and event occur" authorizing
"''''"''' MEMBERSHIP.
Any unmarried persons ale female from the n of 70 y"rs "
hr t PARENTS guardians in either of Divisions I"
with '. by complying with i % a" admission | t an" rg
pay marriage when and annual due" AS '" " '
"g plan .,pe- n,vlsIrN
Division slal cns, of members OF the following cF"S
f $:::::: ... *% g. 'Ss sS %: 's
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SaniyxR's SyRBP is the prescription q
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MONUMENTS,
HEADSTONES,
TABLETS,
CURLING,

Furnished at reasonable terms Thanks
for pas, patronage and hope to receive
liberal continuance OF the same.
Very truly
p. N. HAMMAKER.
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Given to all kinds Of Cemetery Wor'
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NOTICE.

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wear 1880, are now complete. aud
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acial Directory.

Ist Judge. ,,o,-,u>,>,
|,dct Attorney.
J. A. CHARGoIs.
LAsr1E BRoUssARp.
.yrsentativen; T., G.. -,,,s,
se,if l. Tax Coi'cc'"r,
''s G. Z. SHAW.
| t F''1s HayrpAuIs, President.
\ pan,r.try. JOS. TRAHAN,
n ! I y,ssLyKE, J. f. BRoUssAnD.
\ n yrsvz L. THIBEAUx.
Clerk Of Police Jary.
A.LACOUR.
Parish Treasurer,
ISAAC WISE.
Town council.
Lsoscs PERREr, Mayor.
II ! aB4DE, JACOB 1sAAcs,
4. NIsE. j. y. LEGE,
era 4. f,YoEs. Constable.
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|a PEsRET, w. B. WHITE.
kYors
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y NJ AK e MONEY.
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lst 1881, ali interest ard penal
ties will be RENTED.
W. " EDWARDS,
Abbeyille, aug elst 1850.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1881-01-15

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The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1881-01-11

There were twenty-five homicides com
mitted i'll the city Of San Francisco during
the year 1880. The Bulletin saws the aver
age is very high. and ADDS: slf the ratio of
70 homicIdes to each quarter of d million
were applied to the state OF New York. with
its population of five millions, the violent
deaths III that state in a year would reach 500.
But the average on the contrary does not eS-
coed Ice. l. follows that h0micides are five
times as numerous among us as in the state
in question. This cannot be said to he a very
G cd showing. 1t places us, as respects the
sanctity Of life, rather in the southwestern
than the northern group Of states. No doubt
murders are not as rife now as formerly.
There is considerable improvement observa-
bic. But twenty-five violent deaths in a Don
ulatisn of 100000 are out of all proportion.
The causes which lead to all this bloodshed
cannot be said to be actIy the same as those
which operate in the border states of the
south. There the habitual carrying of COLI
cealed weapons results 10 murder on very
triflng occasions. But we have laws against
the practice which are more or less rigidly
enforced. The fundamental trouble is a lax
ity in the administration of justice. That is
a cause which is also in operation in certain
states of the south. 1t is not certain that the
new constitution is not also, in that direction,
working some injury. Lawyers who have
studied the subject are of the opinion that in
formation will not turn out to be as effective
a method of setting the judicial machinery
in motion as the grand jury, when admins
tered with proper safeguard"