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Delta chief., 1885-04-22

arden and grass seeds and onion
~LMcGranahan Bros.
Delta chief., 1885-04-22

Prof VIM. l.. Marcy proposes erecting an
office and dwelling house combined some time
the coming summer. He says his residence
will be presided over by his neice, Miss Lois
Carter, but then one can't always sometimes
tell from hat these bachelors say what their
real intentions are.
Delta chief., 1885-04-22

All outstanding accounts on my books, both
for backsmithing and for goods, must be set
tied by the first Of May, either by cash or by
nate j. j. BARKER.
Delta chief., 1885-04-22

sUILou's vITALIZER is what you need
for Constipation, Loss Of Appetite, Dizziness
and all symptoms of Dyspepsia. Price 10
and 75 cents per bottle. Sold by |. NJ. Nc
Murray
Delta chief., 1885-04-22

the
a Mr..
With his
groceries,
ETC., at bed
BROS.
hased the market
i'll hereafter con-
stand.
new stock of dress
ansooks, and Swiss
It Bassler l. MacDon-
las n bunch of about one
ctle on Cottonwood creek.
range with John +. Mar
ID daughter, Mrs. Neldrum,
week for San Francisco, Cali
visit to friends, to be absent
.artin & Davis, contractors, just
heir hands full in erecting the
Lildings for which they have taken
acts.
saturday Receiver Jackson, Manager
and other high officials of the d. x
ware down inspecting the workings on
.obadoux bridge.
m. NJ. Hastings, claim agent Of the d.
:. c., is expected to arrive with his family
the 9TH of next month, and to remain the
st of the summer. He will reside on his
iarnet mesa ranch.
Emmett Vandeventer and Mr.. Boughton,
of Surface creek, left for Aspen yesterday
morning. by the way of the Grand river.
They were to be met at Whitewater by i.
NJ. Anderson. who is to accompany them.
Billy Cline, who has been working the
Robudoux bridge for some time past, passed
through Delta on Sunday last on his way to
Montrose. iIe says about eighty men are
now employed in the construction of the
bridge.
Going to the mesa for visit is getting to
be the fashion with the city folks. Mrs. a.
Il. Howard spent las. week with Mrs. }. J.
Milligan on her Cushman mesa ranch, and
this week Mrs. Ben. Gheen is recreating at
the same place.
Rev. Father Clark left last Monday for
Colorow. From thence he goes to Ouray and
Lake City, returning in about three weeks.
and goes from here to Grand Junction, after
which he expects to take vacation and visit
his family in Pella, Iowa.
Miss Harriette Eleanor Baldwin, sister of
Spencer S. baldwin, of Surface creek, was
married to Schuyler Walden in Brooklyn,
New York, Wednesday evening, March 25th.
Mr. Baldwin, who went home to attend the
celebration of his sisters wedding, is expect
ed back on every train.
Call and see the new line of notions, con-
sisting Of ribbons, ladies' fine skirts, table
ware, ladies' underwear, tides, ruchings,
lace collars and hose, just received at Bassler
& Mac Doncl's.
Mr.. L. +. Whitaker, formerly OF Tongue
creek, rs now located on East Salt creek. in
Mesa county, with some LOO head of cattle.
Mrs. Whitaker and the children are with
him. HIS son Willie met with a misfortune
a few days ago by being kicked on the knee
by a horse, and sustaining the fracture of a
bone lie is getting along as well as could
be expected, but it will be some time before
he gets over IT..
John +. Martin, n former citizen of Delta,
and now on Cottonwood creek, just over the
Utah line, with his cattle, was in the city
Yesterday. He is looking after the remnant
of his herd. Since leaving here he has be-
come the father of ten.pounl girl, born on
the first of February last. He reports the
range down there as just the opposite to that
of Delta county-plenty of winter range.
with excellent grass and water, but the sum-
mer range is very limited and the water ex-
tremely scarce.
Delta chief., 1885-04-22

GROUP. WHOOPING COUGH and Bron.
chctis Immediately relieved by shiloh's
Cure. Sold by /. NJ. McMurray.
Delta chief., 1885-04-22

School books at the postoflice store.
Delta chief., 1885-04-22

Sweet cider, 60 cents per gallon, at Bassler
& Mac cDOnell,s.
Delta chief., 1885-04-22
urday is Arbor

..ifee at Bassler & Mac
Delta chief., 1885-04-22

'nox'
4.aved out.
,urday is Arbor
.Afee at Bassler & Mac
.at the Arbor Day ceremonies
arden and grass seeds and onion
~LMcGranahan Bros.
II'he Ladies' Aid society will meet at the
presby terian church tomorrow afternoon.
The County. Commissioner, meet in adj
ourned session a week from next Monday.
Buy a pound Of baking powder at Bassler
{ Mac Donells, and get a. china cup ana
saucer.
Religious services in Delta next Sunday,
both morning and evening, by the Rev. L.
{. Alley.
The Chautauguans meet a week from next
Friday evening at the residence of Mrs. Hem
y Fadely.
This is the season of the year when the
slick, slippery, sliiny adobe shows up to its
best advantage.
Proud flesh in animals may be removed by
burning white linen cloth and applying
the ashes to the sore.
The knights and Ladies of Honor meet to-
morrow evening in Masonic hall. A general
attendance is desired.
Turn backward, oh, Time, in thy flight,
and let us have winter again, and not so
much fooling about it.
New stock of plain and braided ladies'
black Jerseys and gloves to match, just re-
ceived at Bassler & MacDonelPs.
Hundreds of acres of land are already
sown and planted, and hundred more are in
course of cultivation in Delta county.
Rev. T. S Day, of Grand Junction, will
hold services in the Presbyterian church on
the Sd of May, a week from next Sunday.
Our graveled streets are just the thing as
mud preventative during the heavy showers
of rain that have fallen the past two weeks.
Several of the Delta boys will soon leave
for the adjacent mining camps. Better stay
and let the ovcrcrowded mining camps alone.
Sheriff Gheen found his brindle greyhound
pup among the dagoes at Robadoux bridge.
A striking example OF the effectiveness Of adj
vertising.
Outside parties desiring excellent potatoes
will do well to purchase them at Delta. There
are any quantity of them Tor sale in the
county.
Work on the Robadou1 bridge abutments
has been temporarily suspended on account
of the high water, but is expected to be re-
Delta chief., 1885-04-22
.at tile Arhor Day ceremonies

SEX.
The St. Johns herald., 1885-10-01

There is no reason in the world why the public demand for silver dollars should not be satisfied by the Treasury Department. Silver is essentially the peoples money aZd if the people are given a fair they will soon absorb the entire issue of standard dollars, and as many more as can be coin- ed. It may not please the gold bankers and bondholders of New York, who have entered into a cor rupt conspiracy to secure the de. monetization of silver, and the de- ification of gold to have the people with silver, but it must be borne continually in mind that the gold bankers and bondholders of New York do not govern thls country.-Denver Daily News,
The St. Johns herald., 1885-10-01
NUMBER XXXvIII.
They Wouldn't Have It.

W. Cal. Brown, the enterprising photographer, went out to Manuel ito to attend the celebrated corn dance of the Navajos, and to take some photographic views, but su- perstition stood right square across the pathway of civilization, and Cal. was not allowed to take pie lures to his great disgust. When the wise old chiefs saw the myste- rious camera placed in position, they were at first afraid that it might go off, but Cal. managed to convince them that it was not load ed. They still objected, however, and insisted that any such contri- vance would be a regular hoodoo to their festivities, and would un- doubtedly bring bad luck in some form or other upon them. In vain Cal. reasoned and explained, and beseeched and imprecated. In vain he told them that photography was one of the most elegant and refn- ing adjuncts of modern civiliza- ton. The stolid aborigines were utterly obtuse to his appeals and arguments, and he had to fold his camera and blankets and silently steal away, or words to that effect. This morning he left for Laguna, where he goes to witness the an- nual dances of those Indians and take photographic views of the same.-Albuquerque Journal.
The St. Johns herald., 1885-10-01

Another sickening and loath- some custom of the Chinese has been brought to light in San Fran cisco, that of taking the remains of their dead, and boiling the flesh from their bones, the object being to send the bones back to the friends of the deceased in China. One of these Chinese factories has been discovered in the heart of the city, where the operation of boning the remains of Chinese was car ried on. The stench is described as most sickening, and the internal surroundings of the building, filthy and horrible in the extreme. Thus it appears that there is no limit to the depraved customs of these Mongolians, who are crowding our shores, and injecting the very air with their crimes, vice and depraved customs. No wonder Californians stand aghast and cry for an impass- able barrier against the invasion of such wickedness and putrid GUS toms as are common to the Chi. nese.-Tombstone.
The St. Johns herald., 1885-10-01

The attempts to introduce the American brook trout (Salmo fon- tinalis) into English waters have not been attended with success. During the last ten or twelve years thousands of fry have at various times been turned into different waters, but in no instance has the fish really been established. Occa- sionally specimen is taken here and there, but as years go by there is no perceptible increase, while in some waters, which were literally stocked, they have disappeared al- together-Scientiic American.
The St. Johns herald., 1885-10-01
LIVE STOCK NEWS.
Items of Interest to St0ckmen, Gath
 cred from Reliable Sources.


 Albuquerque Journal: Seven cars of cattle and one of horses from Howard, Kansas, were unloaded here yesterday and will be sent west.
 Reno (Nevada) Gazette: MT. Vail, the cattle king of Nevada began business twenty years ago with capital of $500. He paid the $500 for a Durham COW, and from that COW he has sold $4O,OO0 worth of high-bred calves.
 Colorado Livestock Record: Parties who are competent to speak estimate that hundred thousand Texas cattle have come into and been sold in Colorado the present season. Two-thirds of these have been of the ox-kind.
 Messrs. Conway, Derrick and Callahan will drive a herd of beef steers this fall from the vicinity of Rye to the A. & P. road, with view to shipping them to market. The herd will be grazed on the Mogoll- ons for two months, where there is an abundance of grass, before driv- ing north.-Silver Belt.
 Tucson Index: When the time comes that cheap through freight for cattle is obtained to the great markets of the east, and responsi- ble men in this territory are au- thorized by eastern purchasers to make advances here and ship to order, there will be method in the business and more money in Ari- zona.
 Exchange: Tough beef is said to be attributable in great degree to a scarcity of water on some of the western cattle ranges. In proof of this it is asserted that as the succu- lent summer grasses produce ten der and juicy meat, so the dry, cured grasses of winter produce the opposite kind of meat, even though the animals condition may be en- tirely healthful.
 Exchange: Near Alma, an old brindled COW ate up an old leather wallet that contained $200 in green backs, and now the owner is con yinced that it does not pay to put money into cattle. The man mis- interpreted the intention of the COW, which was simply attempting to prove that there is more money in cattle than is to be seen at first sight.
 Cheyenne Stock Grower: A few days since a telegram was received by Commissioner Atkins at Wash ington, from Captain Lee, the agent on the Cheyenne and Arapahoe Indian reservation, that only about 25,000 head of cattle now remains on the reservation, and gives it as his opinion that all will have been removed by the close of the month.
 Miles City (Mont.) Live Stock Reporter: o. H. Wallup came in from the ranch on Otter creek Mon day, where he had just turned out 200 head of horses and 80 colts pur- chased during the past two months at and near Spokane Falls. He re- ports that government agents are leveling the fences on the upper Musselshell in accordance with the Presidential order.
 Hoof and Horn: We are glad to see Arizona stockmen turning their 1 attention to better breeding of live stock. Several parties have lately | bulls of superior breed, and in time they will be we'll re- munerated for money thus expend- ed. In this connection the Terri torial Fair at Phoenix will serve as a great promoter of this enterprise, and we hope to see a grand display in this line next month.
 Southwestern Stockman: We of the remote southwest must be as- sured of the rapid and reliable
The St. Johns herald., 1885-10-01

A mail sack received from Ari- zona yesterday was cut open with a knife, and an accompanying note stated that the carrier had been killed by Apaches.-San Francisco Exchange.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-09-25


A new and simple way of securing any
queen that you wish to remove from a hive
wa reported to us last year. We trie1 it
several times with success. Some who find
the search for a queen tedious and difficult
may be glad to know it.
Put over a hole in the top of any hive a
surplus honey box with one or more glass
sides; have no other box on; smoke the bees
in the hive slightly at the entrance then
commence drumming on the hive smartly,
as when driving bees out. Watch the box
on top and you will see among the first bees
to go up into it the queen.
The friend who recommended this way
asserts that he has never failed to see the
queen go up within a few seconds Of TIE.
time when be began to drum the hive.
think, however. that this would not always
be the case. Where common box hives are
in use this would probably be the easiest
method Of finding the queen.
One OF our former partners, Mr.. Walker,
also discovered the above method when Ita..
ianizing black bees in the country. He re-
moved a great number Of queens, and pre-.
1ers this method to any other, even III
movable comb hives.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-09-25
The Peskv Little pins.

Feed and pasture in abundance are what
make fine fat hcgs and healthy pork. The
little pigs are often troublesome, and the
farmer shuts them up in a close pen, just to
keep them out Of mischief, and consequently
they are deprived of grass and green food
at the very time when it is most important
that they should have this kind of feed. To
avoid the mischief which little pigs may
do by running wherever they please, and at
the same time allo wing them the advantages
of pasture, every farmer should have a lot
Of ample size so fenced that the smallest
pig cannot escape from it, and then turn
them loose in it and let them have undis-
puted liberty.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-09-25

The taxpayers of V~icksburg are the
ones who should carefully consider the
shops question, and then explain it to
all the voters. We regard it is as I'm.
fortunate to appeal to the colored
voters to hold a public meeting, to
consider a question which it seems so
difficult to explain. All good citizens
must regret the outcome of the meet
ing at the Courthouse Friday night.
Although the meeting was to consider
an important question, and it was
intended to explain it to all, white and
black alike, it seems that the right of
public assemblage is anything but Sc
cure from Republican interference.
Several meetings have occurred recent
ly, and although 1t was well known
what they were held for, violent in
terruption was attempted.
How much longer the people will
submit to that sort of thing remains
to be seen. We think they have made
a great mistake In submitting to it at
all
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-09-25

Culture by Hon. Ii. X b...,
New York senate committee on foresOtg'
Forest Economy in Canada" By hon "a
G. Jolly, Quebec; walnut Culture in Nor0n-
ern Latitudes," by Hon. Il. 6. Jolly, Queoeci
State Of Forest Legislation in the Unlted
States by N. II. Egg!eston, Washington,
u. c.; ''Trees as Educators by Professor
Edward North, Hamilton college, \. ~
Relation Of Forests to Floods by Thomas
T. Roberts, Pittsburg, Pa Relation OF tne
Charcoal Interests to the Maintenance Oh
Forests" By John Birkinbine, Philadelphia
Pa. LAUNDERING Interests, Their DEPEND
ence on Systematic Forestry by John =:
Hobbs, North Berwick, Me-. Forestry OF
the Lower Southern States, and Their Prob
able Resources" by DR.. Charles Mohr,
Mobile, Ala. what are the Requisites Of
an Effective Fire Legislation" by s.. ".
Powell, Brooklyn, L. l.; What Have the
Different States Done in Regard to Their
Forests" by John Hicks, Roslyn, R. l.;
The Work of Experiment Stations" by
Al. Leue, Cincinnati, O.. profits of Forest
Culture" by Ben: Berley Poore, Massachu-
sets; "Arbor Day Celebrations in Schools
by John B. Peasley, PHI. D., Cincinnati, q
"Seacoast Planting, its Importance, Prac-'
ticability, Methods" by W. G. Strong, New
ton Highlands, Mass. august Planting OF
Evergreens," by W. G. Strong, Newton
Highlands, Mass; "The Osier Willow
and Red CEDAR" by Edmund Jersey,
bingham, Mass Spark Arres5ers for Loco
motives" j. N. Lauder, Boston, Mass. !;
"Lumberman's Waste as a Fertilizer" B. E.
Fernow, New York.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-09-25
To Can Siberian Crabs.

II procured stone jars holding a gallon,
small at the top with a iange to hold the
cover. l use a granite iron saucepan, hav-
ing a cover, for cooking fruits. Into this I
put a sufficient number of crab apples to fill
one jar, with as little water as would suffice
to cook the fruit tender. As soon as they
could be pierced by a broom straw I filed
the warm jar nearly full of fruit; the sugar
syrup being previously prepared and boiling
hot, was poured over the fruit till the jar
was filled, the cover placed on and the jar
sealed up by tying over it a paper dipped in
the white of ar egg, and over this two or
three thicknesses of paper. The syrup was
made as you would make sugar syrup for
eating on gridile cakes. The fruit kept
beautifully, was tart and of fine favor. Tn.
water in which the apples were cooked V
strained, mixed with an equal measure
granulatod syrup and boiled for a short
time, making a fine jelly"
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-09-25
Y CONTRACTS.

The following is a full list Of con
tracts made on the 14th by the Green
vile Levee Board.
Robertsonville LeYee, at Is cents, tC
Dan T. Hartnett.
New Hope Levee, at 15s cents, to J.
B. Reed.
Concordia and Victoria, at 194 cents
to Harvey s. Scott.
Kentucky Levee, at 163 cents, to
George Arnold s. Co.
Franklin Hoop Levee, at Isl cents,
to DeGaris & Arnold.
Connolly Hoop, at 19B cents, to Davis
s. Winter.
Choctaw Bend, at 10 cents, to R. H.
Purnell s. Co.
Deerfeld and Harfo I'd, at 21I cents,
to George Arnold & Co.
Elwood and lakewood, at 161 cents,
to T. F. Dufin & Bro.
Homochitto and Hollyridge, at 20
cents, to George Arnold & Co.
Duval, Burleigh and Ingomar, at Is
cents. to J. A. Cannon.
Chotard, topping and enlargement,
at IL cents. LO !. A. Cannon.
Brunswick, at Isl cents, to Harvey
& Scott.
Eagle Lake extension, at al cents,
to j. B. Reed.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-09-25
The American Forestry Conpro.,

Meets in Boston, as you are aware, begin
ming Sept. q. 1t will be held under the
auspices Of the Massachusetts, Horticultural
society, in conjunction with the New England
Agricultural society, the Massachusetts,
Board Of Agriculture, and the Society for
the Promotion Of Agriculture. The hotel
headquarters Of the association will be
the Adams house, Specially low rates will
be made for those who come to attend
Some of the best and wisest heads in North
America will be there, from Canada to
Alabama, from New York to California.
By all means attend the meeting if you can.
The forestry movement has been taken up
with enthusiasm, and the coming meeting
viii be the most important and Interesting
ever held. Below are some papers and
speeches that will be presented:
'"Phe Needs Of a National Forest Policy"
BY Hon Warner Miller, chairman United
States senate committee on agriculture and
Eorestryi "Growth Of Forestry in Nebraska
and the Wes3" by Hon. J. Sterling Morton,
ex-governor Of Nebraskat 'Profts of Forest
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-09-25

His height can be seen by observing how
far his head rises above that Of the groom
who holds him. He is six feet high, and
weighs l 1900 pounds. But he has a snub
nose and a very small, fat head, you will
observe, as though he had not much brains,
for all his sizs. He may not have much
horse sense.
Belgian and Flemish horses have always
been distinguished for their great size and
strength. An average number Of 25, 900 are
reared and exported annually from fat little
Belgium. They are not raised by large and
wealthy stock breeders, either, but the small
farmers here and there in a neighborhood.
The huge animal ip the illustration ives sold
into Germany, where he now belongs.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-09-25

THE esteemed Times Democrat does
not like Mr.. Cable, but it locates the
cottage where he was born. If it will
be kind enough to mention the name
Of the particular cavalry command he
joined then stationed in Mississippi"
and also"in what fight he was desperate.
lywounded, "iour esteemed contempor-
airy win add to the international obli-
cations under which it has already
placed us. In the days of grace Thomas
doubted, and why should not a news.
paper doubt, in the days of wickednessp
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-09-25

THE arrival this week Of Mr.. Fred,
Gebhard and eleven leather trunks at
New York is announced. To a New
York reporter he said he was not look
ing after the Lily while in England,
but after his raee-horse Eole. Prof.
Gebhard declares bis ace Of hearts was
no good against three Of a kind, Chef
wynd, LOndsdaIe and Wales, 90 he
threw up his hand, passed out and
came hack to America.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-09-25

Wanted--A Railroad to Canton.
Canton Picket.
Let us try to get the L., N. o. & T.
railroad to build a branch from Vicks-
burg to Canton, If We are men we can
do it. If not, then u city is d. d. d.
W. wrote of this several weeks ago,
but our people only opened their eyes
a moment and then dozed off to sleep
again. Now we would like to wake
them from another quarter and see if
we can't arouse them to an interest in
this important matter.
Will that able and influential journal,
The VICKsBURG COMMERCIAL HERALD
take hold of this and act jointly With
US to get the road built? 1t would be
great benefit to Vicksburg as well as
Canton. 1t would open up to
her a new field of trade,
and the country it would pass
through would pay better than any
other portion Of the State, and its
many sources of revenue to be derived
from this section would more than
refund the money required to build it.
The bed has already been graded
through Madison county, and, we be-
lieve, through a portion of Warren
and both Madison and Warren would
doubtless donate the work already
done to any company which would I'M
dertake to complete the road. What
says the HERALD? Cannot it, backed
up by the people Of Vicksburg, get up
a Vicksburg & Canton railroad boomp
H. L. W.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-09-25

DR.. TYING says; "Cigars are the
devils sugar plums," and playing
cards are the DEVILS picture.book,"
The Reverend Tying has lived so long
in Chicago, he ought to be thoroughly
posted ebout Mr.. Satin's housekeep-
ing arrangements.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-09-25
Things to Do and to Kno,r.

An ancient farmer says that the wheat
crop Is good in the even years and poor in
the odd years.
Leo Wilt, a very capable Ohio nursery
mar travelling in Europe, has been author
lied by the commissioner of agriculture to
make a collection of seeds Of the hardest
timber, fruit and ornamentaltrees of Russia.
1t will be Of great value to US in time.
To cure BLACK knot" upon plum and
cherry trees; Cut out the excresoence and
give the wound a coating Of turpentine, or
wash It with a strong solution Of chloride On
lima