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Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1882-10-04

A gentleman talking the other day
to a bright little five year old boy who
lives up street, somewhere, asked him !:
"Do you ever fight at homer" 40,
yes" said the boy. "Well, whom do
you fight WITH" go, my sister"
"Well, who whips?' 30, mamma
whips buffalo Express.
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1882-10-04

"What is lover" asks all exchange.
Love, my friend, is thinking that you
and the girl can be an eternal panic
TO each other.-Ex.
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1882-10-04

The best reason yet advanced for
having Monday washing day, the
next day after Sunday, is because
cleanlinessi is next to godliness.-Low-
ell Citizen.
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1882-10-04

Is there any double meaning any
where, when a member of the forty
seventh Congress says: 81 have no
doubt that my constituents will go by
me "-Louisville Courier-Journal
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1882-10-04

Roughs in Texas break up camp
meetings and convert them into dances,
and when the meetings get prolonged
and the roughs don't appear, the
women get awful nervous.-Ex.
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1882-10-04

English naturalists have discovered
that the English sparrow picks the
eyes out of the young of other birds.
The more one learns about the English
sparrow, the less good one can say of
him. We believe he eats onions, and
sucks cows.-Burlington Hawkeye.
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1882-10-04

Teacher-And what comes after T a!
Pupil-You do, to sec my sister Ann
Maria.-Grip.
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1882-10-04

John Van Buren, was one day riding
in the cars with lady friend, who,
happening to see some boys in bathing
close to the track, said: "Isn't it a
shame that boys are allowed to bathc
in such places? ?" Van Buren, slapped
on his eyeglasses, looked sharply at
the boys, and then remarked; "They
arc boys, amt they PIX.
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1882-10-04

Young men think old men fools,
and old men know young men to be so.
DIR. Metcalf.
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1882-10-04

A country women presents in a
photograph studio. 81 have come sir,
to have a picture Of my poor, dear
husband made. He-he died three
months ago." "Havc you any da-
guerreotype or portrait or anything OF
the loved and lost" emo, sir but
-burstinginto tears-'I have brought
his birth-certifcate !"-Ex.
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1882-10-04

Could Pagan-ini be called an iniid-
die baltimore American.
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1882-10-04
Advertising Rates.

BusineIs Cards one year. dollar for every line.
local Notices ten cents per line for each insertion,
and all notices continued for three months longer
. discount of per cent.
Advertisements sunaccompanied by verbal or written
directions will be published three months.
Advertisements, under contract ordered out be-
fore expiration of time will be charged full rates.
No paper discontinued until all arroarages paid,
except at the option Of the publisher.
Transient advertisements must be paid in advance.
RS-Terms CASH payable quarterly.
Only Metal Cuts inserted.
Prices and Terms alike to all.
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1882-10-04

Imagination rules the world.-Na-
poleon.
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1882-10-04
Detroit & Bav City Railroad.
GOING SOUTH.
GOING NORTH.

Day and Evening Express daily, Sundays except
cd. Night Express daily, Saturdays excepted.
II. b. LEDYARD, HENRY c. WENTWORTH,
Gen1 Manager, Gen'l Pass. & Ticket Agt.,
Detroit, Mich Chicago III.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1882-12-13

snAusuccess on high VIZ esane, though
except fol. experiment, would never
plant such land hammock do not
like. as the crop keeps poorly after
gathering, while with a rotation Of
COW pas, sowed at The rate of Two
bushels to the acre, and lett to die
on the ground, l can make high pine
land very rich.
Fourth. Plow the land thorough.
ly, and mark off in rows three feet
apart, and sprinkle the fertilizer along
the turrow. / mix thoroughly with
the soil, by running cultlvator along
the row; then furrow out about six
inches deep, and drop the seed in the
bottom, covering about two inches
deep, usually giving the crop two
hoeings, the secoud and last, having
the ground slightly raised. The crop
will mature in ninety to hundred
days, but can be LETT in the ground
until July. prefer to plant from
December Doth to January 10th,
though any time, until March, will
do.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1882-12-13
Salt For Hogs.
Southern Farmer.

'oONttcTH rUHeeT'
have seen salt fed to hogs for
fifty years, and in the last twenty
years have fed many heavy hogs,
ranging from 800 to 600 pounds nett.
| feed them all literally with salt
have never lost one, nor has one been
sick an houK These hogs have been
fattened in close pen, and their
principal food was corn meal made
into dough. This dough l have salt
ed at least once day. Sometimes
my hogs would tail to clean out their
trough, in that case | would put
handful OF salt into my bucket, with
some water. pour it into their trough
and they would lick it up with much
relish. In addition to the salt, | feed
Goals from the stove. / make it a reg
ular custom to feed Goals, and it Ii
astonishing what quantity a hog
will eat, and how healthy and robust
it will make him. Let The hogs have
plenty of salt and charcoal, and we
shall hear less OF the cholera.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1882-12-13

st Cl's2d CPS PALATKA DIV. LIST CPS Ind CPS
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1882-12-13
Good for Babies.

With baby at breast nothing is so
useful for quieting my own and baby's
nerves as Parker's Ginger Tonic. 1t pre-
vents bowel complaints, and is better
than any stimulant to give strength and
appetite. "A NeaOork Mother.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1882-12-13
CONNECTIONS.

CONNECTIONS.
At Palatka with all fast River Steamers for
all points in South Florida, st. Augustine,
Green Cove Springs, Jacksonville, and all
points East, West, and North.
At Waits Crossing with Peninsula Railroad
for Waldo.
At Perry junction with Ocala Division for
Micanopy, Orange Lake, Ocala and interIned1-
ate points.
AT Gainesville with Transit Railroad for
Cedar Key, Pensacola and New Orleans.
At Ocala with Peninsula Railway for all in
terror points in South Florida, Tampa
and Charlotte Harbor and hacks for Silver
Springs.
Passengers leaving Ocala at a. M, Gaines
vile at 10 10 a, m, arrive at Jacksonville at 8
p. NJ, connecting with Waycross train which
leaves at 6p. m.
Tourists and Sportsmen Tickets at greatly
reduced rates on sale.
III. S. MING, S. II. BASS.
Gen. Supt. Gen. Pass, and Ticket Agt.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1882-12-13
DECEMBER Is.
Irish Potatoes in South Florida.
". IN South florida Journal.

W. IN SottIh Florida Journal.
After having tried numerous ex
periments and having had many fail
ures, think that l have established
the tact, that potatoes can be grown
here at profit and become one Of
the surest crops we can raise. One
experiment in agriculture proves
nothing, yet several consecutive trials
all giving conclusive evidence to-
wards one method, determines me
to believe that at last | am able to
tell "what l know about farming"
Without enumerating in detail
many failures, which would be of no
possible use 10 any except the merest
tyro, by telling chow not 10 do it."
the entire method can be briefly
stated. First, then, l try and get
my seed from Nova Scotia or New
England, using Early Rose, but shall
try St. Particles and Burbanks this
year, besides. This selecting seed
from the northeast may be of no
possible consequence, but with the
seed grown in tina. section l have
had the best returns. The potatoes
should be cut to two eyes, about
ten days or weeks before planting,
and il land plaster (pulverized gyp-
sunny can be had, it will pay to sprink.
lie this freely among the cut pieces
to absorb moisture. With rows three
feet apart, seed dropped eighteen
inches apart in the drill, it takes
just tour barrels for an acre.
Second-Fertilizer. After trying
every kind, but one, that is sold in
this country, / have settled on For-
rester's special potato manure as the
best. / know that some writer's,
who are considered authority, deride
special fertilizers for special crops,
but with me it pays. What if it is
ringing the changes on the three
main chemicals" employed, it pota~
toes have grown better on its special
than where any other mixture was
used. The experiment of substitu-
ting other than that manipulated for
each crop. have tried but two con.
secutive years, using tomato for rota
TO, and vice vers0 &c, with several
brands of Forrester's; and at the risk
OF being laughed at, must say that
| believe in special fertilizers. /
raise produce as much for profit as
information, ana it pays one to fol>
tow the directions.
nn ThirdSoii. prefer high pine
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1882-05-18

A HANGING IN LONDON.-After the SEN
tence of death has been passed the conde emned
person is at once placed in solitary confine-
ment, where he remains under close survel-
ance until the time Of his execution arrives.
When the fatal day arrives the paraphecnalia
of death is brought forth in the shape of a
movable scaffold, which is kept in conven-
lent place ready for service, and hardly week
goes by that it is not used. The executions
all take place in the jail yard, which is paved
court surrounded by high stone wall. The
scaffold is surrounded by rope ten or twelve
feet distant OH all sides, to keep back the few
spectators. When the appointed time arrives,
which is generally about II o'clock in the. day,
the condemned man is led from his cell ac-
companied only by priest or preacher, ac-
cording to the creed of the condemned, and
single guard. Standing upon the raised plat
form, awaiting their coming, is the man who
is to do the work which requires so much for
titude and physical courage to carry out He
is dressed in plain black clothing, and his
face is covered with black domino. When
the condemned man is placed over the trap,
short time-say ten minutes-is allowed the
priest to offer up prayer for the rest OF the
soul of the departing man then his arms and
legs are firmly bound, the black cap placed
over his head, the moose properly adjusted
around his neck, the lever pulled, and the
man drops through the trap about four feet
and all is over with him. When the prison
doctor pronounces life extinct the body is cut
down and taken into receptacle under the
Jail and buried in quick lime, which causes
it's almost immediate decomposition. There
you have the end of an English murder in
London.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1882-05-18
Sf1isfellauepns &eadiua.
TWO MUTILATED COINS.

An old man entered Little Rock store, and
taking from his pocket an old buck skin pouch,
he emptied two coins on the counter, and then,
after regarding the silver for few moments,
said:
''Mister, I want to buy some goods to make
DRESS" --.-,-...-r'. --.---
''That money is mutilated, old gentleman.
This twenty-five cent piece has notches in 1t,
and this fifty cent piece has been punched.
You see, they have been abused. can't take
them.''
"Abused,' said the old man. "Abused, -
and he took up the fifty cent piece and looked
at it tenderly. "And you won't take it on &C.
count of the holes. Heaven grant that did
not have to offer it to you. Years ago, when
my first child was little girl, Ipunched hole
in this coin and strung it around her neck. 1t
was her constant play thing. At night when
she went to bed, we'd take it of, but early in
the morning she would call for her watch.
When our John-you didn't know our John,
did you No. Wellhe used to come to town
a good deal"
HWhere is he now ?'' asked the merchant,
not knowing what to say, but desiring to show
an appreciation of the old man g story.
ssHe was killed in the war. Isay that when
John was a little boy strung this quarter
around his neck. One day his watch got out
of fix, he said, and he filed these notches in it.
He and his sister Mary-that was the girls
name-used to play in the yard and compare
their watches and see if they were right.
Sometimes John wouldn It tlike it because Mary's
watch was bigger than his, but she would ex-
plain that she was bigger and ought to have q
bigger watch. The children grew up, but as
they had always lived in the woods they were
ashamed to wear their watches. When a
young man came to see Mary once she forget
fully looked at her fifty cents. What are you
doing asked the young man, and she looking
at her watch he took it as hint and went
home. After this she did not wear her watch
in company. Well, Mary and the young man
married. John went off in the army and got
killed. Mary's husband died, and about two
years ago Mary was taken sick. When her
mother and I reached her house she was dying.
Calling me to her bed, she said "Papa, lean
over" I leaned over, and, taking something
from under her pillow, she put it around my
neck and said, "Papa, take care Of my watch"
The old man looked at the merchant. The
eyes of both were moist 'sDo you see that
boy out there on the wagon ?" he said. "Well,
that is Mary's child. wouldn't part with
this money, but my old wife, who always
loved me, died this morning, and have come
to buy her shroud." When the old man went
out he carried the bundle in one hand and the
watches in the other.-Little Rock Gazette.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1882-05-18

AFTER EIGHTEEN CENTURIEs.-The Nkele-
eton of woman with child has been discov-
cred at Pompeii in a narrow street about
twelve feet above the level of the ancient pave
ment. It is well known that the catastrophe
of 79 A. D. commenced with thick shower
of small pumice stones, by which the streets
of Pompeii were covered up to the roofs Of the
houses. Stones were succeeded by ashes,
which became solid owing to the action OF sue
cessive showers of boiling water ; and these
ashes now form the top layer of the materials
which cover the ruins Of Pompeii. Most OF
the unhappy beings who remained in the
houses after the eruption first reached the
town made their escape through the windows,
but the greater part Of these fugitives could
have taken but few steps, and must have
been quickly .sufocated by the poisonous
fumes.
With one arm the woman whose skeleton
has been found was clasping the legs of the
child, whose body shows contraction in the
arms and legs and general emaciation, which
lead US to suppose that the child must have
been very i'll. It was little boy about ten
years of age Doubtless the woman was the
mother of the child. Some jewels found on
the female skeleton indicated person OF con-
dition ; two bracelets of gold encircled the arm
which held the boy, and on the hand were two
gold rings, the one set with an emerald, on
which is engraved horn of plenty, and the
other with an amethyst bearing head OF .Mer-
curry. .r
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1882-05-18

FACTS ABOUT SPECIE.-The American
Register prints table giving the amount of
both the imports and the exports of specie to
and from the United States for twent.r-six
years, from 1856 to 1881 inclusive. The ex-
ports of specie exceed the imports by not less
than one thousand millions of dollars.
From Mr.. Spofford's valuable annual ws get
the following interesting facts
1. There were $3.50, 100000 of specie in the
United States on the first of November, 1881,
according to the estimate Of the director Of the
Mint
g. There were, according to the same au-
thority, only $39S, ,541 ,683 in specie in the
United States on the first of June, 1879.
8. The excess of imports of specie during
1880 and 1881 was only s167, ,OO0,O 600 lin round
numbers).
a. The amount of specie produced in the
United States from 1857 to 1881 inclusive was
only about 81 300 100000
s. The amount of gold produced in the uni
ted States from 1S45 to 1880, inclusive, ex-
ceeded the amount of silver produced by more
than one thousand millions of dollars
g. The estimate of the aggregate production
of silver and gold in all countries from 1883 to
1876 is SIC, ,sO2, 1929, 343-that is to say, nearly
eleven thousand millions of dollars. ....
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1882-05-18

whipped out-foored. You shan't 60 unpaid,
either. Martha Martha % called he, turn
ing his face towards the rear Of the building,
and at the third summons spare, sharp-nosed
old lady, spectacled, and with lace cup, look
ed out from the same door from which old
Joe had issued at my summons.
"Martha," said the old man, quite meekly
and benignantly, to his better half, bring me
the gourd with the nest eggs off the top shelf
of the cupboard. You have to take the arm
chair or you'll never ritch it,"
The old lady, who was as thin as lath,
in few seconds returned and silently handed
to the bulky old jailer huge gourd that
might have contained peck and half A
circular piece some six inches in diameter had
been cut out of the top and formed close
fitting cover The gourd, it struck me, had
in shape quite family likeness to old Joe
himself.
"Now, Mr.. Richards, I don't say to man,
60 in and win, and keep out Of the ring my
self. Now, I can't jine in the fight myself,
but can stake my money on you and here, I"
said he, unrolling a striped cotton rag that
he took from the gourd and handing me a
bank-bill- -"there's frty dollars to begin with. :"
"Why, what does this mean, Mr., Stacy?"
''It means that I'm going to back Mrs. La
roche with the last egg in the next" answer
ed old Joe, proudly. "The Others ilinched
from her because they thought all the money
was on the other side. You have come up
to the scratch like a man, and I'll see to it
you shall get something besides thanks, for
standing up to the poor creatur'. Take it and
doyour best, for I can swear, if I was swear
ing man, that she never made herself
widow.'
'sNever mind, Mr.. Stacy returned L, ''let
me win first" and seeing that he continued to
advance upon me in a determined manner
with the bill in his hand, as if it were weapon
with which he was going to exterminate me,
added: "You had better keep it until the
trial is over, for then Mrs. Laroche may stand
in much more need Of help than of fee."
''Well, but this amt lawyer-like proceed
ing," said old Joe, ruefully." But maybe
you are half right. It's here for you all the
time though whenever you will have it. Now
60 up and see what you can make of the case,
and if you come to Il knotty point-outside of
the law, mind you, just call me up and I'll
give you my help" And giving me hearty
slap on the back by way of encouragement,
the bulky fat old fellow, with his bunch of
keys in one hand and his gourd of nest eggs
under the other arm, waddled slowly off to
his private apartment towards the farther end
of the hall, leaving me to proceed on My way
to consult with my unfortunate client.
TO BE CONTINUED NEXT WEEK.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1882-05-18

SPARE MoMENTs.-A boy poorly dressed,
came 80 the door of the principal of cele-
brated school one morning, and asked to see
him. The servant eyed his mean clothes and
thinking he looked more like beggar than
anything else, told him to 60 round to the
kitchen.
''I should like to see Mr. w. said he.
''You want breakfast, more like %
s'Can see Mr.. w." asked the boy.
"Well, he is in the library if he mus; be
disturbed, he must"
So she bade him follow. After talking
awhile, the principal put aside the volume
that he was studying and took up some Greek
books and began to examine the newcomer.
Every question he asked the boy was answered
readily.
Upon my word" exclaimed the principal,
'syou do well. What, my boy, where did you
pick up so much %
I'm my spare moments" answered the
boy.
He was hard-working lad, yet almost tit
ted for college by simply improving his spare
moments. A few yearslater he became known
all the world over as the celebrated geologist,
Hugh Miller. What account can you give
of yoatr spare moments :" .'-.-
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1882-05-18

OLD ENGLISH LAW AGAINST BEGGARs.-
For an able-bodied man to be caught third
time begging was held crime deserving death,
and the sentence was intended on fit occasions
to be executed. The poor mans advantages,
which have estimated at so high rate, were
not purchased without drawbacks. He might
not coange master at his will, or wander from
place to place. He might not keep his children
at home unless he could answer for their time.
If out of employment, preferring to be idle,
he might be demanded for work by any master
of the 'scraft" to which he belonged and com
PEELED to work whether he would or no. If
caught begging once, being neither aged nor
infirm, he was whipped at the carts tail. If
caught the second time his ear was slit, or
bored through with hot iron. If caught a
third time, being thereby proved to be of no
use upon this earth, but to live upon it to his
own hurt and that of others, he suffered death
as felon So the law of England remained
for sixty years. First drawn by Henry, it
contained unrepealed through the reigns OF
William and Mary, subssting, therefore, with
the deliberate approval of both the great par
ties between whom the country was divided.
Reconsdered under Elizabeth, the same law
was again formally passed, and it was there
fore the expressed conviction of the English
nation that it was Detter for man to die
than to live worthless life. The vagabond
was sore spot upon the commonwealth, to
be healed by wholesale discipline, if the gam
creme was not incurable to be cut away with
the knife if the milder treatment of the cart
whip failed to be of profit.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1882-05-18

PREPARATION OF PEANUTs.-Peanuts to
be prepared for the market are placed in a large
cylinder, from which they enter the brushes,
where every nut receives fifteen feet of a
brushing before it becomes free. Then they
are dropped on an endless belt, passing along
at the rate of four miles an hour. On each
side of the belt stand girls, and, as the nuts
fall on the belt, the girls, with a quick motion
aWns G s1 in e G Sess a % ppss e ekg orge
Those that do pass drop into bags on the floor
below. When the bag is filled it is sewed up
and branded as ''cocks,' with the figure of a
rooster prominent on it's sides. The peanuts
caught by the girls are thrown to one side,
picked over, and the best singled out, bagged
and branded as ''ships.' These are as fine a
nut for eating as the first, but in shape and