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Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1881-04-16
Snow Hill, Nov. %, 1873.

Gents Il used your Super-Phos-
plate on oats and corn last Spring, and
| assure you it came up to my expecta-
tious. largely increasing the yield OF
both. prefer it to Peruvian Guano.
Respectfully,
DEWITT G.. FooKs.
Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1881-04-16
| '
Pocomoke Civ Dac Ok 1e

Pocomoke City. Dec. Is 1879.
Mess. f.. l.. & u. This year |
used about 800 lbs OF your Phosphate
per acre along side the best bogpeu man
ure and compost heap. and the corn
where the Phosphate was applied held
mp Its end with the best, although the
Phosphate was applied on the poorest
side of rha field. The yield on ten acres
of rd'nary land being $50 bushels of
fine corn sixty ears of which shelled a
busbel. shall continue its use, as
said 10 my former note.
Yours,
w. U. ScHooLFIRLD.
Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1881-04-16

10 the Circuit Court for Wore, ste,
County, in Equity. No. S74. January
Term, 1881. to wit: March 18th, 1881.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1881-08-11
An Ingenious Kind of Bird.

One of the most interesting and COM
mon birds here Tin the Adirondack re-
gion, Northern New York; is a large
woodpecker that bores holes in the bark
of spruce and then plugs them up with
acorns and nuts of any kind. One piece
of wood taken from tree of about eight
square inches, contains ten of these
plugs, so closely and tightly wedged in
that knife had to be used to force them
out. A fine specimen of this ingenious
work can be seen in the cabinet of the
Museum of Natural History, Central
Park. The piece of bark looks as if
wooden bullets had been fired at it and
just covered themselves. The general
impression seems to be that the birds
put them there and eat them in the win
ter or later, but squirrels, it would
seem, would have the best of il. We
have seen the birds picking at nuts or
acorns that had evidently been lodged
in the wood some time, and were i'm
pressed with the idea that they had
been placed there to collect grubs and
other live food that would work into
them, and then the woodpecker would
visit the trap he had set and reap the
reward of his labors. The amount of
work woodpecker does in making a
hole three inches deep can be imagined
when it is known that in some of the
pieces of wood bored ten or fifteen pecks
of their bills hardly make any impress
sion. How many thousand it would take
to finish the work mentioned, and the
consequent wear and tear of patience,
can be imagined.-NescY York Times.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1881-08-11
The Romantic Story of John Burnside.

The will of the late John Burnside, of
New Orleans, who left an estate valued
at 5,O00,0O has finally been discover
ed. 1t bears date of 1857, and names
Oliver Bierne as residuary legatee. Be-
quests amounting to $500, 600 are made
to members of the firm of McStea &
Valve, and to various charitable institu-
lions in New Orleans. There seems to
be considerable of romance connected
with Mr.. Burnside's history. A good
many years ago Andrew Bierne, an Irish
man, was the capitalist of the Greenbrier
region in Virginia. According to the
gossips, one afternoon as he was riding,
and had stopped to water his horse at a
little brrok, he found an infant boy,
carefully wrapped up, asleep on a bed.
of rushes. Quite startled at the sight,
after riding around and hallooing half
an hour for the owners of the child,
night approaching, and wolves being
numerous in the forest, he took the child
and carried it to his house, where he
placed it under the care of his favorite
attendants, John and wife. The parents
never turned up, and in due time the boy
was named John Burnside name sug-
gested by the place where he was found
by the side Of burn or brook, word
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1881-08-11
Bananas anu HIantalnS.

A pound of bananas contains more
nutriment than three pounds of meat Or
many pounds of potatoes, while as a
food it is in every sense OF the word far
superior to the best wheaton bread. AL
though it grows spontaneously through
out the Tropics, when cultivated its
yield is prodigious, for an acre of ground
planted with bananas will return, ac-
cording to Humboldt, as much food ma
terial as thirty three acres of wheat Or
over 100 acres of potatoes. The banana,
then, is the bread of millions who could
not well subsist without it. In Brazil it
is the principal food of the laboring
classes, while it is no less priced in the
island of Cuba. Indeed, in the latter
country the sugar-planters grow or
chards of it expressly for the cOnsump-
ton of their slaves. Every day each
hand receives his ration of salt fish or
dried beef, as the case may be, and four
bananas and two plantains. The banana
it should be called plantain, for until
lately there was no such word as banana
is divided into several varieties, all of
which are used for food. The platino
mauzanito is small, delicate fruit,
neither longer nor stouter than a lady's
III Is Uu0 IIlOSU tHIl
priced of all the varieties of the plan
tain. Ell platino guinea, called by us
the banana. is probably more in demand
than any other kind. 1t is subdivided
into different varieties, the principal of
which are the yellow and purple bananas
we see for sale in our market; but the
latter is so little esteemed by the natives
of the Tropics that it is seldom eaten by
them. Ell platino grande-known to us
as simply the plantain-is also subdi-
vided into varieties which are known by
their SAVIOR and their size. The kind
that reaches our market is almost ten
inches long, yet on the Isthmus of Da-
rien there are plantains that grow from
eighteen to twenty-five inches. They
are never eaten raw, but are either boil
ed or roasted or are prepared as pre-
serves.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1881-08-11
Our Young Folks.
IT'S HARD TO BELIEVE.

Very warm was the day, very drowsy and
And the farmer sat reading the news;
And the wife Of the farmer was milking tine
And his eldest son blacking his shoes;
And the ma OF the farmer was on the back
porch,
Making apple and blackberry pies.
Looking at her with sleepy blue eyes.
And the maid i'm the kitchen was washing the
With many "Oh. dears!' and s.Oh mys.''
And The nouse-dog was lying upon the door
mat.
A lazily swapping at flies
When some Maps. just escaped from the coun-
Came noise essIy flying that way;
And the funniest FRANKS that small Maps ever
In moment they managed to play.
From the hands of the farmer the paper they
snatched,
From his head jerked the kerchie: of silk;
And they tumbled his wife from her stool
'gainst the cow.
And away went the pail of new milk.
They logged the boys elbow. and up flew his
arm,
And the backing splashed over his nose;
little dream,
And then dropped big plate on her toes.
Close together they Brought Pompey's teeth
just catching the tip of his tongues;
And the ma of the farmer they teased, till at
Half her fruit in the garden she flung
And they closed baby's eyes, and she slid from
the chair,
And lay on the floor i'm a heap:
And yet these same Maps, though tbs hard to
Are the children of quiet Dame Sleep.
--hdTGdret EHthtge, IN HdTDers Young Pefpte.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1881-08-11
common in Scotland and in the north of

common in Scotland and in the north of
Ireland.
The boy grew well, and in due time
became the supervising clerk of Mr..
Bierne's many stores. From his bust
ness exactitude and industry he was q
great favorite with Mr.. Bierne, but with
few others. He was taciturn, reserved,
and morose, even when young man.
But his business habits and talents rec
commended him, and Mr.. Bierne estab-
lished him in New Orleans with his son,
Oliver Bierne, where his characteristics
remained as they were in early life. He
had no social feeling, no sympathy. no
public spirit, but was pre-eminently sue
cessful in trade.
Whether this story be true or not, Mr..
Bierne never denied it. One thing is
certain, the deceased never conversed,
nor would permit any one to converse
with him, about his origin or birthplace.
One of his fellow clerks with Mr.. Bierne,
Andrew Mennis (brother of the late
Hon. Callohill Mennis, of Bedford Coun-
ty, Va.,) called on MIR. Burnside when
in the zenith of his mercantile glory in
New Orleans, was kindly received, but
happening to recur to the story of his
birth, and contrasting it with his great
success, Mr.. Burnside flew into a rage,
jumped up from the table, and never
spoke to him afterward.
During the war Mr.. Burnside re-
NAMED in Louisiana, and when his great
caop of sugar was seized by Gen. Butler,
got it all back on the plea of being a
British subject.
The finding OF the will gives color to
the story of his babyhood. 1t is thought
that there will be a big legal fight over
the will by persons claiming to be rela-
tives of Burnside.-COr. NeV York Sun.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1881-08-11
Clean Clothes for Hot weather.

OF the various methods of keeping
cool in hot weather none are to be en-
tirely despised. unless it Is that of drink
ing spirits. Better than almost any Of
them, however, is the frequent chang
ing of underclothing. So much moist
ure escapes in the form of Precipitation
that the skin seems to have no time to
dispose of anything else; but the truth
is that the perspiration carries with IL q
great deal of waste matter that is not,
like most of the moisture, carried by
absorption through the various thick
nesses of clothing and into the sur
rounding air. This waste remains in
whatever fabric it first reaches. and IL
soon accumulates to degree that either
retards perspiration or prevents its alb
sorption. Servants may grumble as the
family wash increases In hot weather,
or laundry bills may increase; but it Is
cheaper to devote more money to both
than to spend larger amount for
liquor or other tonics to remove the
sense of oppression that always follows
INSTRUCTED perspiratIon. The fire.
quency with which athletes, actors, ex-
perienced pedestrians and others who
exercise freely in warm weather change
their clothing would astonish many peo-
pie who imagine their own habits to be
extremely clearly; but the changes
richly pay for themselves in comfort
~ y. Herald. ~ r
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1881-08-11
Two Cents and a Principle Involved.

A suit involving the immense amount
of two cents has been decided by Justice
Forney, of Hanover, York County, Pa.
The Hanover & Baltimore Turnpike
Company brought suit against Mr.. Levi
B. Miller, of Penn Township, for two
cents toll due for passing through the toll
gate south of Hanover. Mr.. Miller re-
fused payment because he was on his
way to attend religious meeting at
Hoff's Westinghouse. At the hearing
it was admitted that he did pass through
the gate, and it was shown that he at
tended religious meeting. The Justice
decided that Mr.. Miller must prove that
he positively went there to worship, and
gave Judgment against him for the two
cents and costs. Mr.. Miller will take
the case to higher court and hVe the
principle decided. Pittsburgh 1e1e
0Y9Dh
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or passing from the milky to the hard
state. the cane is ready to cut for the
mill. If long delayed, the juice in the
bottom joints will lose its sweetness, and
suckers will appear at the top joints,
which also rob the cane of saccharine
strength. And if sugar is desired, the
granulations will be much the most sue
cessful from the first cuttings. For sew
eral seasons the amber cane has been
ready to commence grinding by the 1st
of September. This gives from seventy
five to ninety days to handle the crop,
and affords ample. time before freezing
weather to make it up. An outfit capa-
bic of grinding at the rate of two acres
per day could thus handle, at least, one
hundred and fifty acres
The cane should be stripped before it
is cut. This is best done by using a lath,
and striking down between the stalks in
each hill. A stout boy will easily strip
an acre per day. The fodder is very
valuable-nearly as much so as corn
blades; but unless labor is cheap and
plentiful, like corn-fodder, which is
rarely saved, it will not pay to save the
cane-leaves-at least, not until hay and
oat-straw become a great deal dearer
than they now are.
A good corn-knife is also the right inn
plement for the canefeld. In cutting
the cane gather the hill with the left
arm, cut off the stalks, usually with one
blow, above the first joint next to the
ground. Then tnrn so as to bring the
seed ends over the place where pile Of
seed is desired, and top the cane below
the first upper joint. This part of the
operation should be carefully performed,
as any seed left attached to the cane
spoils the taste of the syrup. After
topping lay the cane across the rows,
the butt ends on one row, the top ends
on the next, so as to enable the loader to
pass his arm readily around the canes.
Put as many canes in each pile as will
make good armful. In this way tho
seed will all be in piles, and can DO
hauled at any time before the snow falls.
and will be found very desirable food for
cattle after the winter feed begins to get
scarce. The cane will all be in arm
fulls, convenient to load, and the cutter
will get along very fast-will cut an acre
per day. The cane should be piled in
ranks, like cordwood, near the mill, and
under shelter, if possible, unless it is to
be ground Immediately.
A frost will not injure standing cane.
On the contrary, a light frost will fire.
quently increase the quantity and quality
of the yield. But freeze will spoil the
cane-as soon as it thaws it will turn
sour. In Louisiana it is usual when
freezing weather is expected, ordinarily
about the middle of November, to win
row the cane. This is done by cutting
the cane, unstripped, and laying it down
in the furrow between the rows in such
way that the leaves on the tops pro-
tect the cane from the effects of pretty
severe freezes. The same plan could be
pursued here, but better plan, which
the earlier ripening of the northern cane
permits, is to commence in season and
get through before freezing weather. 1t
is a tedious job to lift the cane out of the
winrow, strip the leaves, and top the
stalks one by one.-Cor. Chicago Times.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1881-08-11

Mr.. Joseph Parton says that Curl
Gus circumstance occurred many years
ago, when testator in England left two
thousand pounds to friend, but with
the condition that one-hah the sum
should be buried with him in his coffin.
The legatee took advice on this matter.
g Where is the money nowP" asked his
friend. ssIn the bank" was the reply.
"All right said the adviser; write a
check for a thousand pounds and put it
into the old gentleman's coffin, payable
to his order.''
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1881-08-11

The anti-French agitation in Italy
has aroused the somewhat astonished
attention of Frenchmcn. 10 the great
number OF Italians inhabiting France.
The floating population of Italians in
Paris amounts to the large total Of 50.-
600. The other cities in which they
swarm are Lyons, Marseilles. Toulon,
Mines and Bessancou. One sees little
OF them in other places. but where Ital-
,ans assemble they cluster thick and
live together.
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10 Owners of Gins and
Sewing Machines.

have new process for sharpening gins,
done with two machines, one to give
ptns teeth the proper length and the other
to round them, leaving them regular, so
they will not break, cut, or nap the cotton;
!, gins fast, cleans the seed and leaves good
sample. I ELL brushes and boxes, and make
old ribs do as good work as when new. l
repair all kinds of sewing machines and
have new parts for different machines.
put in such new parts as the machine needs
when l repair one, making old machines
do as good work as new one. Parties =
the country wishing gins or sewing NJ
chimes repaired will drop me pos
Terms reasonable and work guarants
All kinds ofmachine needles, aftacb,S
parts, oils, etc, for sale by the undl
ed. Do not let cobblers work on
gins, or machine agents on your
machines, nor fool you out Of til =
have them repaired and save money
Write to me or leave your order -
. Brockschmidt's, and will call aud do your
work Can give any reference in regard to
fwork. am going to travel in this and adj
'joining. counties and work this year. II
you wish the best sewing machines in the
market, call at c. Brockschmidfs and get
the White. C. w. DAVIS,
wtosepI BRENNAN. Texas
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.ENTZLIN,
Zay Natlce.

by II. Jurries at his res
Gsyed before 5 A Hackworth,
bet No. 3, on the zfa day Of
a Chestnut Sorrel Horse, blaze
lnds high, two years old, no
SC, white star in face, about
ecs about s years old, branded
-alder. Valued at SIS.
II. N. LEWIS,
G.C.c.w.C-
F. HERBsr, Deputy.
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Z Honorable County Court of WASH
couny,hayin granted, on the sd
4 June, 1881, letters Of administers
Jon the estate Of II. F. Windwehen
sed, to the undersigned, he gives no.
pit he requires all persons having
1gainst the estate of said II. F.
Chen, deceased, to present the
sithin the time prescribed by law, j.
e.hin IL months after said June sd,
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THE STATE OF TEXAS, !

pEr a. nns U oy sTA4a LT.H Row
MAN, Secretary OF State for the State of Tex
rs, do hrreby certify, that the foregoing are
true copies of the proposed amendments to the
constitution of this State, passed by the 18th
Legislature, and published by direction Of the
goyernor, in accordance with the provisions
-: sronstimtion and laws OF the State.
. Witness my official signature and tho
seal of Stare affixed, at the city OF AUS
tin, this 18th day Of May, "A. u. ISL.
I. IL. BOWMAN.
Secretary of state,
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f1Es Tor Wash
nd Ia obedience 10
rom the Hon. W. N.
bf the STATE OF Texas, I
VIII, on the first Tues
VII, the 9Th day there
be door, In the city OF
sell At public out-cry,
the statnts, 50 much OF
~ Of the respective par
4icient 70 safisfy their
ses. rs set forth hereafter,
> OF may accrue thereon |,
aid sale from day to daY
hount OF said property Is
fes thereon:
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v. WITTE,

Administrator OF the estate OF
II. F. Windwehen decd
y. o. address, at Burton, Washington
tunty Texas, Resijencd about one mile
pm store Of said late windwehen-
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! 81
eck u Washington, els IS
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lawrence leasue, .
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at Office, in the city Of
Is day Of June, A. d.
!. A. HARvIN,
axes Washington Co.
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ttclo Ill OF the CONSTITUTION Of the State-of
Texas
SECTION l. BE 1t resolved by the legisla-
ture of the state ofTexas, That section fwen-
ty-four ca of article } of the constitution OF
the State of Texas be so amended rs to hereaf-
ter read as follows wiz;
SECTION "a. The members Of the legisl1-
ture shall receive nom the public treasury
such compensation for their services az msy
from time TO time be provided by law, not
exceeding five dollars per day. In addition
20 the per diem, the members OF each house
shall be entitled TO mileege in going TO and
returning from the seat ofgoyernment, which
mileage shall not exceed ave $500 dollars
for every twenty-five miles, the distance to be
computed by tho nearest and most direct
route oftrarel by land regardless Of railways
or water routes; and the comptroller OF the
state shall prepare and preserve a table Of
distances to each county seat, now or hereaf-
ter TO be established, and by such table the
mileage of each member shall be paid, sst no
member shall be entitled to mileage for any
extra session that may he called within one
day after the adjournment OF regular or
called session. proyieed, the regular session
of the legislature shall not continue longer
than one hundred days,
And be II further resolved, Thatthe govern
or be requested to submit to the vote OF the
electors of the state the foregoing proposed
amendment to the constitution. At IN election
TO be ordered on the first Tuesday In Septem-
Der, ID. 1851, In accordance with the provis-
Ions Of article II Of the state constitution.
PASSED. March y, hy vote OF two-thirls Of
all the members elected to each house.
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[im1rteitn &N

returns; and 4 - appear from he re-
turns that majority oshe votes were cast for
said amendment. Il shall be the duty Of the
governor on the followinwing day to issue his
proclamation setting forth the fact that said
amendment has received q majority Of the
votes cast at said election, and shalt proclaim
that said amendment has become and is 4
part of the state constitution, and this amend
ment shall take eject from and amer said
PROCLAMATION.
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|otice to Creditors.

F. HERBsr, Deputy.
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!. A. HARvIN,
faxes Washington Co.
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Joint Resolution amending Section "a of Ar
iiele Ill OF the Constitution Of the State-oi
Texas

Passed March Il, ISL, by vote ftwo-t thirds
of all the members elected to each house.