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The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1883-03-29

The object OF this suit Is to obtain deere 10
favor Of the plaintiffs Against the defendants ioi ht
Lum OF threa thousand, one hundred aud iOTiy
Leyen dolAnRpd thirty I've cents, for rvmmLsCm
aud money expended duo 10 the sid p!AiIiHaM v,
]. WeFntz and d. Edward sttlnaker, RS mcintFHu
the late Hrm Of Smiley d wcTniE, by The rad DE-
PENDANTS, Mosler, BRhmAnn 4 Co. and y y SMILEY
And II appearing from al fdAvit filed her inllAs
tho Said defendants, MOGler, BAhnisnn 4 u, ana
u. @. kmiley, are non.rchdentIO Of the state oiM es
Virginia, the said defendants, MOslCr lAhmalhA
Co. and u. q. Smiley, arc hereby required nSpLcIt
here within one month after tho date VI The hlH
publication OF this order, and d. what isnete.@!
10 protect their interests.
SAMUEL u. McC0LL0-lI, CleIt.
THos. L. NICHE, O. mi-i9-
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1883-03-29

STATE OF WEST VIRGINIA, COUN.
y TY OF OHIO. In tho Circuit Court oil Chic
County, West Virginia. March Rules, lsS1.
Gene 8, Reed, Plaintiff,
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1883-03-29

The object OF the above entitled suit IL 10 obtain
for plaintiff decree OF divorce from Del and board
from said defendant, JBneJs Reed. for the cGuIe
that said defendant has Wiliully abandoned aud
deserted the plaintiff, and for the iurher cau.e
that said defendant after his marriage with Md
plaintiff became an hAbltuAl drunkAri. And y
appearing from the affidavit Of raid plaintiff Gltd
In said suit ut Sald rules that tho Seid defendant
James S. Reed, |, not resident Of tnSSAIe Of IVES!
Virginia, on motion Of sid plainlii Il Is SnifSa
and he Is hereby required to appear within One
month after the date Of the lint qualification hereof
aud do what Il pcCes HTy 10 protect his interest,
and that this order aud above summons be ptled
and published according to law,
In testimony whereof have hefGpnt0 s!SneIuy
name as ierE oil said COult, this 9Th dAyOl March,
A. d., 1883, ut March rules, 1854, III The LltIEi
ONCE Of said Court III the CITY OF Wheulitg Wtat
Virginia. ..,
Teste: SAMUEL Z. McC 0LloCH,
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1883-03-29

An engineer calculates that the earth car
ried down by the Mississippi river retards the
motion Of the globe one thirty.siI hundred
thousandths part Of an inch each century.
The retardation OF the earth and the progress
Of the Democratic party exactly balance each
nthar
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1883-03-29

Me-. srRAour, e1.husband, &c, may be .
great reiormer in all that the word reform
implies, but there are Democrats in the con.
tracted limits Of Rhode Island, who have
swallowed Greeley and Butler crow whose
palates refuse the nauseous diah that William
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1883-03-29
HENRY N. RUSSELL,
ALFRED CALDWELL,
WILLIAM i. HUBBARD.
RRuIRY ~ 1893. HbIctAl COmtnlSSj ana

I, Samuel B, McColloch, Clerk Of NId Court, Crr
tiy that bond with security has been given By lie
above named commissioners as required by law ia
the penalty OF $780, rs provided for In aid decree
SAMUEL B. McC0LLoCH, CLERK.
WHEELING, February p, 1883. igA
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1883-03-29

The above s,le Is adjourned until Monday, Aphl
HENRY N. RUSSELL,
ALFRED CALDWELL,
WILLIAM p. HUBBARD,
MARCH % 1853, kptClAl Commissioners
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1883-08-03
Wait Awhile, GIRLS.

When man chooses the profession
of law he does not expect to be a musi-
clan and journalist also he knows
that if he would succeed he must devote
himself to the one calling When a
woman marries she realizes that in
order to reach the lofty heights in wife
and motherhood she must sacrifice les
ser aim. She must be willing to lay
aside the delightful occupations that
make her girlhood pleasant she must
know that from the hour when her
baby is laid in the little cradle, dressed
with loving forethought, to that darker
hour when the mature man lies down
in his sleep, that she will give full
meaning to the words constant care !;
that her mind, once unfettered, will be
at liberty no more but is bound by
ties stronger than life or death to those
come TO her from out of the great un-
known. Wait awhile, girls think it all
over before you promise TO become
wives-to take these duties and bur,
dens upon you. Sweet and satisfying
as are the obligations of wife and moth
er they are not to be taken lightly. A
husband must not be looked upon as a
sort of perpetual beau, as children as
extremely uncertain and importable
adjuncts Unless, like Wilhelm Meis
ter, your apprenticeship ended, you
reach out yourself and ask for largel
duties for wider field of labor, you
had better stay at home with father
and mother, dignifying the relation o.
daughter, filling the old-establisheC
home with mild radiance which woulC
seem but dim light in new one.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1883-08-03

GooD AND TRUE.-In accepting
membership of the York, Pa, Jeffer
sonian association, Governor Butler, of
Massachusetts,, wrote: To no man does
this country owe so much as to Jeffer-
son. But for him our form of govern
ment would have descended into a gov
ernment of the few, which is worse
than an actual despotism, for in that the
people have only to contend with the
vice, ignorance and extravaganza of
one tyrant. In government of the
few people may have tyrants to con
tend against, till they become an intol-
cradle burden, only to he removed
through such tremendous upheaval as
was the French revolution. From this,
Jefferson's example and teachings have
thus far preserved us. If the country
wanders much farther away from JEFF
ferson's doctrines and the burdens of
monopolies and special privileges in
crease much more despotism must be
the result, if the people are not obliged
to appeal to other means. 1t seems to
me that it is part of true craftsmanship
to so change the present system OF
the conduct of affairs as to avoid these
evils. d.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1883-08-03
N Kill the Weeds in August.

There is no better month in which to
kill the Canada thistle, as well as weeds
generally and the destruction of bushes,
than August 1t is also peculiarly a
time when farmers are not so much
hurried, and when the weeds have fully
developed themselves The farmer can
see it at glance, indeed has seen all
the season, the necessity of commenc-
ing the work of destruction
The best thing to be done with weeds
of all kinds extilpated from the land is
to use them in compost heap, OF to
gather them in large heaps to remain
there until dry, and then burn them up,
''root and branch The practice of
some farmers who look only to their
own selfish purposes, who live for them
selves, and rarely have aneighbor with
whom they are on friendly terms, is to
pull up and throw into the public high.
ways the weeds from their fields, There
they sare left to ripen their Seed and
the first heevy shower of rain that
comes, they are carried away, some
times for miles, either into the land of
some other farmer, or into stream, to
be landed along the stream for a great
distance. We have more than once
seen people calling themselves farmers
and Christians, engaged in this mean
business.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1883-08-03
A Lot Of Metal.

A man would hardly dare attempt to
compute the weight of Federal metal
hurled into Vicksburg, from first to
last, says NJ. Quad in letter from that
city, but he who would visit the place, and
look for what he might consider legiti-
mate results, will be greatly disap-
pointed, There are not six buildings
in the city showing signs of lombard
ment. Not more than two or three
buildings were fired and destroyed,
and the citizens do not remember a
case where any one was killed in a
house. Cannon balls and pieces of
shell and grape-shot were thick enough
in the streets, the bullets could be
picked up everywhere, and yet the fire
from The river, from first to last,
amounted to little more than throwing
away ammunition. Upon one occa
sion an iron-clad steamed slowly along
a distance of two miles, throwing
grape into the town as fast as hel
guns could be fred, yet only one house
was hit hard enough to leave any scars
That house is there to-day, and so are
hundreds of people who passed through
it all, and lodged death so often, and
in so many different forms that they
come to consider themselves bullet
proof.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1883-08-03
How Bret2els are made.

The best white flour is used, and
yeast dough is made similar to that
used in the manufacture of bread. In
the bake-room is twenty-gallon kettle
filled with boiling lye, made with water
and potash, which is bought in cans A
workman seizes piece of dough, rolls
it out into long rolls, as large as bolo-
gna sausage, and then cuts the roll into
pieces about three inches long. One
of these pieces is rolled into large
strip, large in the middle and small at
the ends. The workman places thumb
and forefinger at each end of the strip,
crosses his hands in twinkling, dabs
the ends into the fat part of the strip
by the same motion, and the bretzel is
shaped and ready for the lye kettle.
Another workman drops them into
the boiling lye in patches of twelve and
keeps them there only moment while
he fishes out twelve be has just put In
a few seconds before About four
seconds is the time required for the
dough to take on a mahogany color.
While the bretzels are still wet they are
sprinkled with salt and then showed in
to a very hot oven, where they are
quickly baked,
Steamed or hard bretzels are made
from cracker dough. A machine mikes
and rolls the dough, and cuts the rolls
into short lengths, which the workman
makes INTO bretzels by hand He makes
$50 an hour, After boiling them in
the lye, sailing them and baking them
in an oven, they are put in boxes, where
they are dried by steam. This process
renders them friable.-Neo Yook lS,e,a
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1883-08-03

ErrEcr or FLooDs.-In winter, when
trees are dormant, inundations which
do not bruiie, mutilate or tear up trees,
can do but little harm, and they will
then bear a months immmersion better
than one days growing. A German
journal states that the resisting power
of different plants is very unequal.
Grapes, apples, pears and pluns, how
ever can bear several days or even
weeks flooding without harm the
cherry not quite so well, and the cur
rant and gooseberry still less. A few
days under water after the buds swell,
will kill lilac's as well as the Philadel
phus and spirpas, but elms. ash, oaks,
and thorns have more resisting power.
Hyacinths perish at once tulips and
crocuses will bear water little longer,
while dlifodis ard snowd rops are
uninj jmed. The late foundations in
Germany appear to have taught these
facts in a very distinct manner.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1883-08-03

From recent reference in the South
ern journals to the prolific richness Of
the truck crops per acre produced in
some of the Gulf states, with an OBJ
vious purpose of emulating the success
OF the western land operators in cor.
responding way, coupled with an invid-
ious comparison with the products of
farming at the Northern seaboard, we
think il may be advisable for those who
may have capital to invest in agricul-
ture to be informed that the chances of
profit in this line of business have been
by no means diminished in the way
spoken of. In point of fact, the sup
plies Of fresh vegetables and domestic
fruit for the dense population of the
New England aud Middle states are
chedy derived from their own farmers,
and the only advantage possessed by
the Southern farmers is In being able
TO anticipate most of our Northern
truck by about month
Nevertheless, despite this fact we
have heard of Jersey farmers in the
valley of the Delaware who ON an Or
dinary sized farm of about a hundred
and fifty acres, have made clear an
nual profit of $1,000 on their crops 1t
is true that these men are intelligent
persons who have worked hard them
selves, studied economy and applied to
their business both capital and science
as well as experience. But nevertheless,
| such examples are neither few nor far
between, and any person who fairly
undertakes TO examine the subject can
didly will be surprised TO find how
many of these Middle states farmers
have attained comfortable indepen-
dence by working farms of that kind,
while many of their friends who have
| gone West have done very badly. OF
course truck farming in the Middle
states requires very different sort of
management from the same busines in
the Gulf states. The land is always
kept in first rate order, and the very
best stimulants are used as fertilizers
We have said heretofore that many Of
these Jersey farmers raise four crops
per year on the same soil, and this is
no exaggeration, nor does it wear out
the land. For by the system of man
agement which is there pursued, these
Jersey farms are always in good con-
dltion aud sell for prices per acre that
would make Georgia truck farmers
mouth water
There is of course a good deal to be
said with regard to the machinery used
by the farmers of these two regions,
but the greater part of the success in
the North is due to sheer skill, good
management, the personal direction of
the farmer himself, and the closest
economy of labor, expense, material and
time in the whole business. Hence, no
matter how prolific the Southern soil
may be, the Northern truck farmers
will always be able to do a thriving
business.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1883-08-03

BENEFIT OF UNDERpRAINNe. In an
address at the Spring Meeting of the
Western Michigan Farmers Club, the
Hon. 7. W. Palmer thus spoke OF the
question of farm improvements : al
have now over 270 acres underdrained,
and hope hereafter to report to you
good results. The ground was 80 fiat
and the descent so gradual that l had
all the tile laid under the supervision
or a surveyor, who took the levels of
my mains and laterals. The average
depth of my laterals is two and half
feet, and, although many have said
that should have put them deeper, l
have as yet seen 10 reason to think SO.
In my heaviest soils | have put them
four rods apart where the subsoil af
forded a free passage to water | have
put them eight rods. The result so far
has been that | can get on TO any of my
fields to plow or cultivate short timc
after the heaviest rains. In Former
years | had to wait until June for some
of the same land. The average price
of my titles and laying them has been
90 cents per rod The expenditure
may seem large, but came to the con
clusion that | might as we'll try to
farm on the bosom of Lake Erie as OH
land saturated half the year and baked
the other half. .
"Underdraining makes the farmer
master of the situation. 1t lengthens
the season for the plants and for the
farmer If man cannot spare the
money or the labor, which is the same
thing to underdrain more than half an
acre, let him do that much. There are
methods of economizing in every fam
lily which will enable him to do that.
In fact it will pay a young man to DO
it moonlight nights if he can accomplish
it in no other way. | am told that it
pays to undcrdrain all lands where
water will stand in a hole two and a
half feet deep the wettest season of the
year That being the case, believe
there is very little land IN Michigan
which would not be benefited by under
draining. sou
"After yon have got your land in
such condition that the water will not
retard the growth of farm products,
the next thing is to add to it what will
make it more productive taking care
that it does not cost more than it comes
to-" t
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1883-08-03
Clean the Poultry Houses.

A correspondent of the Country
Gentleman gives some instructions for
getting rid of mites in the chicken
houses He says the two mites that in
the houses are soft kind and a hard
kind, or those that appear to have a
shell and those that do not. The soft
sort at this time of the year may be
found in large clusters on the under
side of the perches, and look like dark
masses of blood. Crush them and they
are found to be filled with blood In
this state they are tender and easily de-
stroyed A thick coat of hot limewash
will destroy them, while when they
are advanced to the stage when they
have shells they are not quite so easily
gotten rid of. When arrived at that
stage they swarm all over the house,
and completely fill it, living on the
droppings alone. They hibernate in
the winter, and are ready to crawl out
again when warm weather approaches.
They are easy to come at now, for they
are confined to the perches. A month
or two later they will have spread all
over, filling every crack and crevice in
the walls and in the floor. Thus they
will live for years. Nothing will rout
them but frequent strong doses of lime.
When applying the lime remove the
perches from the building to some dis,
tance. Do the work thoroughly, and
give good coat on each end. Apply
the lime TO every place where there is
any harbor for the nuisance.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1883-08-03

FooD FOR PAsTUREs-An English
paper, in commenting upon the subject,
remarks that the Cashier dairy farmer,
by free use of bone manure laid on the
grass lands, make his farm which at
one time, before the application of
bone manure, fed only twenty head of
cows, now feed forty. In Cheshire
two thirds or more, generally three
fourths, of dairy farm are kept in per-
feet pasture, the remainder in tillage.
Its dairy farmers are commonly
bound to lay the whole of their man
ure, not on the arabic, but on the grass
land, purchasing what may be neces-
sary for the arable.' The chief improve
ment besides drainage consists in the
application of bone manure. In the
milk Of each calf reared and sold off
farm parts with as much earthly phos-
pilates of lime as it contained in half
a hundred weight of bone dust Hence
the advantage of returning this miner
al manure by bonning grass lands. The
quantity of bones now commonly given
in Cheshire to an imperial acre of grass
land is 1870 to 1900 weight This
dressing on pasture land will last seven
or eight years, and on moved about half
that period.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1883-08-03

Corn BREAD One reason why
corn bread is so often so unsuccessful
is that the batter is made too thick it
should be thinner than for jonny cake,
as the flour helps to thicken it. Then
one ought not to rely too implicitly on
receipts some kinds of flour and meal
thicken more than others, so it is well
to observe carefully the first time you
use flour or meal from new sack. On
account of this difference many cooks
prefer to purchase flour by the barrel,
even for very small family.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1883-08-03
Songs Never Sung.
GLOW does that verse run? Something like this,
iSn'tito

GLOW does that verse run? Something like this,
isn'tit?
! There are who touch the magic string
t.,. And noisy fame Is proud to win them;
Alas for those who never sing.
But die with all their music in them."
ayes, that's beautiful, pathetic and true" said
your representative. "The poet alludes to people
who are somehow suppressed, and never get their
full allowance of Joy and air. Which reminds me
OF letter shown me the other day by IIiscox &
Co.. of New York, signed by Mr.. f. c. Williams, OF
Chapman, Snyder Co., Pa, a prominent business
man Of that place. lie writes:
81 have suffered with asthma for over forty
years and had terrible attack In December and
TO take PARK RS TONIC | did so and the first day
! LOOK tour doses. The effect astonished me. That
night slept rs II nothing was the matter with
me, ana have ever since. have had colds since,
put no asthma. My breathing Is now as perfect as
II had never known that disease. II you know OF
PARKER's TONIC Will cure it-even after forty
years There was man who escaped the fate OF
those whom the poet lamentS.
. ThlS preparation, which has therefore been
known as PARKERs GINGER Tonic, will hereafter
pc advertised and sold under the name OF PARKER's
TONIC. lnasumch as ginger Is really an unimpor-
tant ingredient, and unprincipled dealers are con-
stantly deceiving their customers by substituting
INFERIOR preparations under the name OF ginger we
drop the misleading word
There Is no change however, In the preparation
itself, and all bottles remaining In the hands OF
dealers, wrapped under the name OF PARKBRs GIN
GER ToTc cor tain the genuine medicine II the fac
OF the outside wrapper
July 21-3w d
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1883-08-03

SALMoN.-Salmon, either fresh or
canned, may be made delicious dish /;
if fresh, boil the fish in salted water
until it is tender, then put layer of
bread or cracker crumbs into the bot
tom of pudding dish, then layer OF
fish season with pepper and salt ; fill
the dish with alternative layers of fish
and crumbs with milk, or, if this is too
rich to suit your taste, use hot water,
bake for long hour, and have the top
well Drowned. This is a dish especially
designed for supper
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1883-08-03
The Act Of Dying.



O.. NJ F
OH penJamli Brodie, professor of
chemistry IN the university OF Oxford
auo an eminent English scientist, in an
interesting work,entitled, "Physchologl
Ca, inquiries, gives the following re
saits OF ms professional experience OF
the last moments OF lite' ~
heaHy, according to my observation,
the mere act ot dying Is seldom, IN any
sense OF the word, avery painful pro-
cess IL is true that some persons die
IN aslhte OF oodily torture, as in cases
Oh tetanus' that the drunkard dying OF
uellrlupl tremens rs nauuted by terrible
visions, and that the victim of that
,iioSV nor.ioie oi al diseases, hydropho-
bla, IN addition 10 those peculiar bodily
sutferings from which the disease has
derived its name, may be in n state of
terrer-from the supposed presence of
firightful objects, which are presented to
him as realities, even to the last. But
these and some other instances which
might adduce are exceptions TO the
general rule which is, that both mental
and bodily suffering terminates long
before the scene is finally closed. This
as to the actual fear of death; 1t seems
to me that the Author of our existence
Tor the most part gives it to US when it
Is intended that we should lives aud,
takes it away from us when it is III
tended that we should die Those who
have been long tormented by bodily
pam are generally as anxious to die as
they were to live. Soft often is with
those whose life has been protracted to
alFeNtremegold age, beyond the usual
period OF mortality, even when they
labor under no actual disease 1t is not
very common Tor any one to die merely
OF old age:
Like ripe iriit to drop AKA
INTO MS mothers lap"
Pu' l nave known tnls TO happen;
anu hapPy conclusion IL mas seemed
10 oe oI wordly cares and Joys. twas
liNe lailihg 10 Sleep never TO wake
again IN tnis state OF existence. Some
uie retaining all ttieir faculties, and
qulle aware that Iheir dissolution is at
hahd' others OTTER no recognition of
eXternal ooJects, so that 1t IS impossi-
pie i0r US 10 form any positive opinion
"neghe. tney 40 OF 40 Eot retain their
sensioihty; ana Others again, as | have
Already stated, VINO appear to be lnsens-
lole ana UNCONSCIOUS when carefully
wa'cneo, are round not TO be so IN reality;
D9t they die contentediy' l have my
sell never known put Two instances In
which, IN the act oil dying. there were
ma maniiesc indleations OF the tear OF death.
Inc individuals TO whom l allude were
unexpectedly destroyed by hemorrhage,
h Whic,l' lrom Peeullar circumstances
which,i need not now explain, it was
Impossible 10 suppress. The depressing