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Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1883-09-22
Grass for Hogs.

Peoria Transcript
The story of the man that raised
corn to feed hogs to buy land to raise
more corn upon to feed more hogs to
buy more land, ETC., is generally repu-
dated by farmers. At least, so far as
devoting the whole farm to corn with
which to make the hogs diet. Grass
is now considered Of equal importance
to corn in successful pork productions,
and the prospects are that it will be
more extensively made use of than at
present, by providing better pastures,
keeping the hogs on grass a greater
number Of months in the year, and by
making use of clover hay as a part of
the pigs winter rations. Red clover
has generally been regarded as the
proper article with which to seed pas,
lures for hogs, but we have seen lot
OF hogs that have been kept on a pas"
ture of white clover and blue grass,
that have done remarkably well. In
fact, the hogs appeared to relish the
white better than red clover. But be
it red, white, Or blue grass, it is the
only means of solving the problem of
cheap pork, and those who are so stu
ated that they can pasture their hogs
during the spring or early summer on
good pasture, and then have meadow
to turn them into when the second crop
has made good start, can raise hogs
at a profit, regardless of market prices.
A gentleman who made small fortune
of late years out of hogs, said he could
make a pound of pork in September,
when hogs are fed on corn and run on
second crop clover, for one-half the cost
of that produced in November or De-
cember from corn alone. We are be-
coming more fully convinced every day
that three-fourths of the failures in
hog raising are due to following the old
idea of hog and corn, and that the only
way we can compete with feeders in
cheap corn counties is by making our
pork principally from grass.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1883-09-22
Pea Vine as a Fertilizer.

Southern Industries.
Hon. j. T. Henderson, the efficient
and leYel-headed Commissioner of Ag-
riculture for Georgia, in one of his re-
cent reports, speaking of the pea vine
as fertilizer, says that the practical
results Of experiments on this line have
fully sustained every reasonable claim
that has been made in favor of this
method of increasing the productive
capacity of the soil.
The growing of peas, clover, ETC.,
is PROFESSIONALLY cheaper and more
certain method of improving land than
any plan that involves the purchase of
commercial fertilizers, or transporta-
ton to the field of composts and fertili-
zing material of any kind. CONNER
cial fertilizers and chemicals are good
|
in their place, and when judiciously
used, and composts have been repeat
eddy and strongly recommended by
this department for the past eight
years. But the great cost of CONNER
cial fertilizers must necessarily limit
their general use to the purpose of
merely fertilizing the current crops to
which they may be applied; while
composing material cannot be gener>
ally had in sufficient quantity, or trans
ported with economy of time and la
Dor, to bring up large fields and farms
to high and more less permanent
state of productiveness.
The resort must be to the growing
of ameliorating crops on the soil itself,
and for this purpose there is no plant
that may be more quickly, easily,
cheaply and universally grown than
the COW pea.
The seasons of rain which follow the
harvesting of wheat and oats should
be awaited of to plant the fields in peas,
planting in rows and fertilizing, if the
soil is thin, with acid phosphate. 1t is
not necessary to pillow them under.
Indeed it is claimed, with good reason
that better results will follow if the
soil is not disturbed-after the crop is
grown-until the next spring. Hogs
may be turned in TO consume the ripen,
ed peas, or they may be gathered. In
either case the peas themselves will
usually more than repay all the ex'
penses of their cultivation, and the
, soil will respond, next year, as if il
had been treated to very liberal APP
pllcatlOn OF the best commercial tertlll
ger or compost.
The beneficial effects of such treat
} ment of the soil will not be surprising
when the fact is considered that one
ton of green pea-vines-roOts, stems
and leaves-contains the identical eIe
ments, and in almost the same percent
= age as ton of good stable manure
1t is true that the inorganic element
that are found in pea-yines, are drawn
from the soil itself; but a large pro
portion was before in an insoluble con
dition, or so deep in the subsoil as t.
i, be unavailable to the ordinary crop
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1883-09-22
Farmers Congress.

The following extract from the adj
dress of the president gives an idea of
the purpose of the Farmers Congress,
which meets at Louisville, KY, the
first Wednesday in December next;
1t is made my duty to make known
to you the objects of the Farmers
Congress, and to solicit the earnest CO.
operation of all who till the soil.
The first session of the Congress was
held at ST. Louis in October, 1881
the second session in the same city in
October 1882, and the third session will
be held at Louisville, KY, on the first
Wednesday in December next.
The association meets annually, and
is composed of one delegate from each
Congressional district, one from each
Territory and one from each State Ag
ricultural College. 1t is intended to
be a representative body Of the farmers
of the United States.
It's object is to bring the farmers
from all sections Of the country into a
common council, that they may deter
mine as to the best policy to protect
and advance their interests. The neces-
sity for union of American farmers
has long been felt, and the future of
this organization is looked to with the
deepest interest. The questions for the
consideration and action of the Far
mers' Congress overshadow all others,
whether we regard them as to the num-
Der of our people employed, the amount
and value Of farm products or the cap
ital engaged in the cultivation of the
soil. Agriculture is now, and must
ever be, the most important interest Of
the American people. That it furnishes
seven>eighths of the exports of the
country is conclusive proof of this.
1t has patiently borne FACTIONS and
burdens to foster and build up all
other industries without having, as al
otherpursuits, union and concert O
action for its own protection.
The result of this policy on the par
of farmers has been to have only {
minority of farmers in most of tn,
Legislatures, but few representatives il
the lower house of Congress and on,
or two in the Senate of the United
States. The banking, railroad, manu-
featuring and commercial interests hav'
their paid lobbyists in every State Leg
islature and at Washington, while tn
millions of farmers are toiling at hom
to meet the taxes and burdens Unjust,
levied upon them, 1t is believed tina
the Farmers Congress, in which tn
humblest former can be heard, vii
secure that kind of union and and CO
operation so much needed and desire
by American farmers. They dc nc
ask or desire class legislation, but the
do demand that the machinery of gov
eminent shall no longer be used fc
their oppression. Among other thing
they want the Department of Agricu
ture represented in the Presidents Cal
met, and so expressed themselves unal
imously at the last session Of this body
They want the tariff modified and ju
tice done the great body of consumer
They want the internal revenue Law
repealed as inimical in their operatio
to free institutions, and its Thousand
of officials and informers dismissed flol
public service. They want policy il
augurated in which equal and exa,
Justice is done to every industry, VIII
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1883-09-22
LIFE.


Life know not what thou art,
But know that thou and must part;
And when, or how, or where we met,
own to mes a secret yet.
But this know, when thou art fed,
Where'er they lay these limbs, this head,
No clod so valueless shall be
As all that then remains of me.
o, whittier, whittier dost thou fly, ..
Where bend unseen thy trackless course,
And in this strange divorce,
Alb, tell me where must seek this com.
pound |
To the vast ocean of empyreal flame,
From whence thy essence came,
Dost thou thy fight pursue, when freed
From matters base, encUmbering weed?
Or dost thou, hid from sight,
Wait, like some spellbound knight,
Through blank, obliyious years the appoint
ed hour
To break thy trance and resume thy power
Yet canst thou without thought or feeling
be?
0, say, what art thou when no more thOu'rt
thee!
Life we've been long together,
Through pleasant and through cloudy
weather;
'Tis hard to part when friends are dear
Perhaps twill cost sigh, a tear;
Then steal away, give little warning,
Choose thine own time;
Say not good night-but in some bright
cline
Bid me good morning.
i Mrs. Barbauld.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1883-09-22

no favoritism in legislation or in the ac-
ton of the Government.
THos. j. HUDSON,
President of the Farmers Congress.
Lamar, Miss, July, 20, 1883.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-01-15
Interest allowed on Deposits at the rate o.
per Cent. per Annzm.
Deposits received in amounts OF 81
and Upwards.

SECURITY AND ADVANTAGES
The private property OF the Trustesrts respopsib,
20 the deposltors. The officers prohibited from
borrowing any OF lite moneys. Minors and married
women protected by speciallaw.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-01-15
Through the Snow.

For what should I watch when the snow lies
white
On the top of the distant hill?
For what should listen when all is hush'd
And when even the brook is still?
wait, for know that my love will come.
On some errand of mercy bent,
And my lady's face will be glad and bright
With the charm of q sweet content
@e'+s So wait for the crGckle of frozen snow,
For q step that setteth my heart aglow,
AS my lady comes through the snow.
know she will come. for the snow is hard
When it lies at the poor mans door,
And therefore my love with her gentle heart
Thinks the rich should befriend the poor.
SO not vainly shall for her coming wait,
And perchance 1t may even be
MY lady shall learn from to-day TO own
That her pity should reach to me-
So wait for the crackle of frozen snow,
For n step that setteth my heart aglow,
For voice whose music 100 we'll know,
AS my lady comes through the snow.
And then when she comes through the crisp
white snow
Will she meet me with glad SURPRISE?
Ali then, shall read what my heart would
know
In the CLEAN of her sweet blue eyes?
/ know she will give at least smile,
And my heart in its light shall glow.
For love. in its warmth, can defy the cold,
So wait for the crackle of frozen snow,
For step that setteth my heart agfow,
For a voice whose music too we'll know,
AS my lady comes through the snow.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-01-15
The Early Texas Pioneer
Texas siftings

mo, sir, )" continued the early settler
came here fore the woods was burned
I like the freedom of the frontier an
know / would not feel at home in the
streets of city. / was born in sight of
Stone Mountain, in Georgia, when the
Indians were thar same as they are on the
frontier now See that SCARF
The early settler took off his hat and
showed us a heavy scar raining from the
top of his head almost to his left eyebrow.
THAT thar is what / got from an Indian
tomahawk when | was bout 8 years old.
My oldest brother was killed and my faith
er was runnin' to hide in a cornfield with
me in his arms, when | got that The
old man had an ak in his hand and he
split the red skins head clear TO the teeth.
Not much civilization bout those diggin's;
no, sir"
mot much style about thos early Geor-
ian pioneers I reckon?' SAID the reporter
Style! Why, was II years old when
L got my first pair of boots. Don't l re
member them yaller tops Folks in them
parts mostly tanned their own leather, but
them was genuine store boots. They got
me into two fights. l had to fight with
two other boys the first day put EN- on,
and | was the under dog in both fights.
the bows didn't approve of style in them
days. | was man growed fore ever /
saw an earthenware plate. We had moth
in but pewter plates to eat off and wood
en- noggins to drink out off; but, bless you,
we never wanted for somethin' to put in
them. We had lots of bar meat and cords
of all sorts of game. No, we didn't know
nothin' of flour bre&d--co1 n bread was the
staple. Whisky! | should say so! Most
everybody made their own, but if you
want fixed to make it'yourself, you had
only to carry bHshel of corn to neigh
boris still and come back with demijoh
o. pure juice. When we had corn
shuckin', log rollin, a house raisln', or
any such frolic, the whisky just sloshed
around like water. We only got coffee
on Sundays, but we got whisky all the
time. and it was whisky AS was whisky
not the adulterated pizen they cal by that
name now. You could have got fullerna-
goose on it, and it wouldn't hurt you"
AS the early settler said this be sighed,
wiped his mouth on his shirt sleeve, and
shook his head in regretful sort of way,
Indicating his belief that those good old
days when whisky actually 'sloshed
around" were gone.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-01-15

That innocent country peoplemay know
how the President is appareled on gala
days. it is well to state that court journal
says that ION New Years morning the
President assembled the grand staircase
promptly at II o'clock. the Marine band
playing Hail to the chief He was attired
in well fitting black suit. His coat was
of the Prince Albert make, silk faced and
adorned by crimson rose en- the lapel
He wore standing collar, black tie and
white gloves. He was attended by Private
Secretary Phillips. Colonel Rockwell, Mar
shall McMichael, Secretary Frelinghuysen
and chief clerk Sevelion Brown, Secretary
Folger, Mrs. John Davis, Mrs. Van Rls
Wick, Postmaster General Howe, wife and
daughter, and Secretary Chandler"
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-01-15

The Cincinnati Commercial utters sound
sense and philosophy when it says. that it
is "a queer object to the civil service re
form bill that it allows but two members
of family to be employed in the same
grade of Office. But it is really mercifu
provision. Two members of the same
household in government employ. on q
salary of from 81, 300 to $1,000 a year,
ought to be considered sufficient Gala
nifty for one family. The other boys,
thrown upon their own wits for living,
will probably not only win it, but attain at
least local distinction, while the office
holders will plod on at the old pace, as
needy and dependent after having been in
Office twenty or thirty years as when they
entered upon Office. 1t is a wise provi-
sion, therefore, to restrict the ambition for
an office to no more than two of any one
family. To allow them all to crowd in,
means the extinction OF that particular
branch. The Office holder will grow thin
ner and feeble. because childshly de-
pendent, knowing no other way of earning
a living, but by clerical work at small
salary, and finally fade out altogether,
leaving neither name nor offspring, There
is no more melancholy spectacle outside
the penitentiary than young man labeled
as de rartment clerk, and doomed to tn,
routine of an unpromisiDg service.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-01-15

Do you agree to take this woman to
be your lawful and welded wife, to
freeze to her through thick and thin
henceforth and foreverp Do you agree
to cut stoye-wood, make fires on cold
mornings, furnish rations regularly.
and be model husband in every res
pectP" Such was the ceremony employ
ed by an Atlanta, Ga, justice of the
peace who offieiated at a marriage in
that city. lnasmuch as the young man
answered Eyes, it is unnecessary to
say that negative answer would have
placed him under bonds more .irksome
than those of hymeneal nature.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-01-15
LAUGHED OUT OF A PROPOSED DIVORCE.
Atlanta PostsA DpeaI

A countryman and his wife came to
town yesterday morning with the avowed
purpose of getting divorce. They sought
lawyer, TO who their claims were dis
passionately told. The trouble originated
in dispute about creeds, the man being .
Primitive Baptist and the wife a blue
nose" Presbyterian. The lawyer, who
was unusually clever, laughed awhile and
then began to smooth over matters until
the parties began to get ashamed of their
crabbedness and foolishness and were
anxious to getaway and start home. When
last seen they were at street candy stand
buying lot of goodies for the little
Country crackers"
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-01-15
HOTELS FOE.
Fiery Flames Destroy the Ser
wants Quarters at the
Planters House.
Three Persons. SO far, known to.
have Persisted.

ST. Louis, Jan. IA fire broke ont
shortly after 4 O'Clock this morning in the
Kitchen of the Planters House, occupying
the block on Fourth street between Pine
and Chestnut streets, ana extended to the
pantry storeroOm and servants quarters
These We're all in the building in the rear
of and detached from the hotel, which was
not injured. One servant was suffocated
to death, one burned, and two others have
broken limbs. Great excitement prevailed
among the guests and other occupants of
the hotel. Nearly three hundred people,
flied with horrible reeollections of the
Milwaukee holocaust were dashing hither
and thither through the main corridor and
down the several stairways into the Of
fee.
The hotel employees acted with good
sense and pr0mptness, rapping long ana
loud on every door. and five minutes later
making a second trip to insure that every
body was up and advised of the danger
Very few waited to dress, as the smoke
from the rear of the building, where the
fire was located, had already invaded the
corridors, and was making it's way into the
rooms. Stopping only to grab every arti-
Gle of clothing, men women and children
fed in dismay, and would not halt even in
the Office where there was light. comfort
and little smoke. AS the engines which
arrived first, within fifty seconds of the
sounding of the alarm, dashed up to the
hotel, the stream of fugitives began to
pour from it's doors.
There were men in naught but their I'M
derclothes, women with but night-dresses
and possibly shawl or cloak over their
shoulders, and little children hastily bun
died in blankets O. other wrappers Few
wore shoes and a great many were in their
hare feet. The lights of the Republican
and Globe Democrat offices, and of the
gambling house. all of which were within
the distance of block, led the half crazed
people to temporary refuge and warmth,
whence carriages in few moments re-
moved them to other hotels Some of the
scenes were thrilling, their effects being
intensified by the rattling clang and shrek
of the engines and shouts of the firemen.
Soon the main body of the hotel was
cleared of the guests, and the building was
in the possession of the firemen. who with
in twenty minutes had thirteen engines at
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-01-15
Col Bliss was retained in the Star route

Col. Bliss was retained in the Star route
prosecution, September 1, 1881. at sti-
pend of 500 per day; so it is reported
From that date to January 1 1888, the
time is 535 days, making the amount of
his emolument $5s 500. Merrick, it is un-
derstood, receives as much as Bliss. and
for counsel fees. counting nothing for as
sistants, in the prosecution to $133, $50.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-01-15

| poor Theresa, turn
!. Read it to me,
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-01-15

OFFIcxRs IS. ". WHEElocR, President. JolfR
GOOD. Vice President; c. K. HEMEEwAY Cashf,r
TRusTEEs:-S W. Wheelock Porter skinner &
W. Lohdell, Nelson Chester, Ii W Candee { 2
5rantz, a 5; Wright, c. f. Hemuway Jcrr
GOOD, j. M Christy G. Ii. Sfoddard
~ The only cha cred savings laub 80 R..s
tFiAno county auE2dwy
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-01-15

There sprang leap in Noat,s ark
And then the dog began to bark:
Noah took its nose to stop the hole.
Hence dogs nose is always cold.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1883-01-16
An Irish Kew.

LoEdon, 14.-Davitt appeared at Old
ham last evening to deliver an address
on Irish questions. When he COM
menced to speak he was howled down by
an organized gang who attempted to
storm the platform, but we're repulsed
with chairs by occupants ofthe platform.
A free fight followed, chair legs and
brass knucklss being the principal
weapons. Many persons were hurt.
Dsvitt called the disturbers coWardly
crew, and declared if twenty men would
follow him he would clear the hall ofthe
gang. he thereupon advanced toward
the mob, but was restrained by police
men. Addressing his opponents Ggain
Davitt said they were miserable, con-
temptibie, cewardly dogs. When they
were sitting in tsverns, he said, he was
fighting the British government They
were drunken blackguards and dis
grace to the name of nationalist. i
Ireland were made up of such she would
earn the contempt of the civilized world
He bad travelled throughout England
aud Englishmen, although his enemies
had given him hearing. What
spectacle for the English, he exclaimed
was afforded by these professors of black
guerdism at time when Ireland wa
asking for safe government Tn
police finally succeeded in removing III
disturbers from the hall. vote of THANK
to Dsvitt was then passed, and the meet
ing shortly sfterward adjourned.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1883-01-16
fELEGRAPHIC NEWS
Fire.

Fire.
Milwaukee, IA. - SeatineLs Nineah
special: Ths loss by the fire reached
far over SlOO,O The origin was un-
doubtedly incendry.
Oak Harbur, o 14.-This morning the
jail took nre, and q man locked up the
night before for being drunk was burned
to death.
Uxbridge, Ont, I4.-The roundhouse
Of the Midland Railway and four loco
motives was burned to-day. Loss,
$50 OOO
Bangor, Me-, IA. - The paper mill Of
j. & 3. Crosby & Co., 225 by 20 feet,
burned with is contents.
Tarrytown, n. Y, Is The fine resi-
dence Of Samuel G. Lewis, having a
frontage Of 100 feet, together with all the
furniture and pic ures, burned Loss
over 500 600.
Stoughton, Wis, Ia - F. G. Mardit's
carriage and wsgon works burned. Loss,
500, 900; insured, $4,000.
Ne nab, Wis, IA number of bust
ness houses burned. Loss. about 500,
600, partly insured.
Memphis, 14.-Fire tonight destroyed
the First Presbyterian Church. Services
had been held there and the congregation
was dismissed only quarter of an hour
Loss, $25 600; insurance light.
Chicago l5.-Ths works OF the Chi
csgo Smelling and Refining Company
corner Fortieth and Clark streets, wer,
totally destroyed by fire at O'Clock thi
morning. Less, 10000; insurance
$4,000. There was some delay il
calling the fire department, and in turn
ing on the water, and before the stream
were turned on. the min building
which was 220 by Is feet, and the sepa
rating building, 20 By $50 feet, and th
smaller building, 20 by $50 feet, were TO
tar involved to be saved. The building
were two and half stories high. Th
cause is unknown.
st. Louis, Mo-, Is. About l o'clOc
this morning the Duggan S Rarke
Hardware Companies works were d.
stroyed by fire. Loss, $40, 600, insure
FOR SIS, 600. Severn Scobolt, silver plate
who occupied the second floor Of th
building. lost 81, 800; insured.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1883-01-16
The End Of the World.

Speculations about the probable
date Of the worlds destruction are
ridiculous. When a man dies that's
the end Of the world to him; and if
the reader of this paragraph is
troubled with bad cough, cold or
sore throat, or difficulty of breath
ing, hoarseness or any affection of
the bronchial, tubes, the best thing
he can do is to postpone the fatal
event indefinitely by a prompt re-
sort to aAIEs HONEY OF HoRE-
HOUND AND TAR, which will as
suredly prevent the complaint from
terminating in consumption, and
soon restore his respiratory system
to a vigorous condition. Sold by
Druggists everywhere at 50 cents
and 81. Large size much the
cheapest. Pixies Toothache Drops
cure in one minute.