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The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1885-04-25

Referring to the fact that {. 2. Bailey,
II Battle Mountain, was awarded the
5rss premium on goats at the New Or.
leans Fair, the Sacramento Bee says; TN
the midst of general hurrah over the fact
that California took the gold medal for
citrus fruits at the New Orleans Eyposi.
ton, it should not be forgotten that Ne
vada bea. the world on goats.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1885-04-25

The Louisville Courier-Journal says
that in New York this year shirt is
made for two and half cents. Next
year the poor woman will be required to
throw in collar button-if she can find
one.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1885-04-25

c. W. Horn deserted from the Con,
federate army at the battle of Gettys.
burg, and has since been mourned as
dead. Last Friday he returned to his
home in Toomsborc, Ga, and surprised
his wife, who thought he was a ghost.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1885-04-25

The Douglas county authorities have
offered reward of $500 for the restora,
ton Of Henry Vansickle, and Governor
Adams intends to offer State reward
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1885-04-25
Notice to Creditors

ESTATE OF A. @. CLAY, DECEASED.
~ Notice is hereby given by the undersigned,
Administrator OF the Estate Of A. G. Clay. de.
ceased. to the creditors Of and to ali persons
having claims against the Estate Of said dc.
ceased, to exhibit them with the necessary
vouchers and verihcations on or before the
twenty.fourth day Of May, 1885, to the said
county, Nevada, OF they will be forever barred
aylsl j. H. REECE,
Administrator Of the Estate Of A. @. Clay, de.
ceased. jA.6w.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1885-04-25

Judge Rives, Of Eureka, las ordered a
new trial in the Albion Richmond case
and advised that the cause be transferred
to some other county.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1885-04-25

Hon. Geo. w. Cassidy is in hopes Of
securing an Authorship i'll one Of the
Departments in Washington. The salary
is $500.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1885-04-25

), A COW attached to the gubernatorial
mansion at Jefferson City, Mo-, having
been MIXED for five years by convicts,
now refuses to allow anybody in citizens
dress to approach her.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1885-04-25

The doctors and police of Constantine
pie, writes a correspondent, have com.
bined to drive out the magicians. The
magicians are mostly black men from
Morocco, and their studies are in nearly
every street. They perform more cures
than the doctors and catch more thieves
than the police, hence the professional
opposition to the wise men Of Morocco.
The Sultans Government has directed
the officials to prosecute the magiciana au
frauds and rogues.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1885-04-25

A Vermont man claims to have a hen
thirty-nine years old. He is probably
waiting until it reaches its second child.
hood when he will sell it for Q spring
chicken. IN. Y. Graphic
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1885-04-25

Mexican soldiers are said to be all
shades Of color, ranging from nearly a
pure white TO perfect black.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1885-04-25

Some genius has invented a fishing rod
that registers the precise number and
weight Of the fishes caught.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1885-04-25

It is estimated that the baseball clubs
of this country will cost the people Sl6,-
600, 900 this year.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1885-04-25

Court is now i'll session in White Pine
county.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1885-04-25

Poison ivy leaves grow in clusters Of
three; the five.leaved ivy is harmless,
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1885-04-25

General Grants condition il improv-
ing,
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1885-04-25

Captain Bob, one of the leading Indians
of Battle Mountain, was in town Monday
night seeking particulars of the arrest Of
the two Indians now in the Elko jail for
highway robbery. After having a talk
with the two Indians, Captain Bob came
to the conclusion that they had been pun.
ished enough and said they ought to be
discharged. He couldn't understand
how it was that an Indian should be put
in jail for taking two dollars from a Chi.
naman, Indian heap good" remarked
Bob, "Chinaman all same my dog -
i Elko Free Press.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1885-04-25
LATEST FROM TIIE FEOHg.

ST. PETERSBURG, April 20. The arm.
ing of men.of.war at Cronstadt continues.
Orders were issued to-day to have all
put to sea.
Advices from Samarcand state that
General KomarofTs victory over the AZ.
chans has favorably impressed the inhah.
itants Of Bokhara
The report gains ground that England
has made fresh proposals, which Russia
Is inclined to accent. The newspapers
here welcome what they call ''the retreat
Of the British. and agree that peace ia
assured.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1885-02-19

There is no occupation so grand, so
noble, and that which makes one so
independent as farming. Itgiyes you
an opportunity for mental culture
during the winter, and physical
strength during the summer. 1t is a
home where good morals can be enter
tanned, without those allurements
which are always predominant IN city
life.
He who tilis the soil is engaged in
an honorable occupation. Agriculture
is the greatest among the arts, for it
is first in supplying our necessities; it
favors and strengthens population; it
creates and maintains manufactures;
gives employment to navigation and
materials to commerce. 1t is also the
strongest bond of well regulated So
ciety, the Surest basis of internal
peace, and natural associate of good
morals.
So the young man who desires to
leave the farm and go out into the
wide world for himself, perhaps to
some far off city, or some spot On his
native land, where he imagines there
will be paradise open for him, such
a step in life should be well consid-
cred before taken.
1t is a good thing to fit yourself for
a lawyer, doctor or minister, but
it is better thing to know that you
can be one. Young men, favored
with every opportunity for enjoy
ment at home, aud not over
worked, imagine that they
can do better than to guide the OK, or
to turn the stubborn glebe. And,
with the merest trifie of considera-
ton, the hands are withdrawn from
the implements of agriculture and
given to the office or the shop work of
the city. And thus thousands of
young men are utterly ruined. If
they would only stop and think,
what can make of myselfw
The,question, "To what is my ability
mostly adapted?" then they might go
forward into life's journey with a bet
ter prospect of success.
Ever remember" writes Gold
thwait, "that for health and substan-
tial wealth, for rare opportunities for
self-improyement, for long life and
real independence, farming is the best
business in the world"
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1885-02-19
RataS0.

1t is within the bounds of reason to
estimate that one lively rat in the
barn or corn crib will eat or destroy
one bushel of grain in twelve months.
No doubt two bushels would be
nearer the truth, but let it be one
bushel per year to each rat. Then, ii
there are on the average through the
year only twenty rats in the barn,
the loss in grain from this cause is no
less than twenty bushels, o. five lar
rels. A pretty heavy per cent. on,
say, thirty, fifty, or even seventy-fiVe
barrels OF corn. In some cases the
ratage is not so much as this, in many
others it is, no doubt, much more. Is
not this enough to cause farmers to
stop and think? Can they afford to
pay such heavy 1.-THE for any such
cause? We trow not. Let lis see if
there is any remedy.
| Cats and terrier dogs will destroy
great numbers of rats. if they are al
| lowed ingresS into the buildings in
| tested with them. But this affords
only partial relief, for the creatures
find hiding places where dog or cat
cannot-get at them. Poison will kill
many, but this is very Objectionable
on account of the disgusting odor
from the dead carcasses lying about
| the farm.
Evidently, the best way to circum-
vent Mr.. Rat is to build rat proof
corn cribs. 1t is not difficult mat
ter to do this, and suitable houses
may be constructed at trifing cost.
The following is as good plan as any
that we have seen.
For the majority of one and two
team farms, crib fourteen by six
teen, seven feet in the clear, is quite
large enough. Erect this house well
away from any other house, tree, or
other object that rat can use to get
upol or in the house. Plant six strong
posts of a timber that lasts we'll
Invert as many cup tins OF
baking-pans on these posts, and
lay on the sills, and construct the
crib in the usual way. There is now
no way for rat to enter the crib, and
as this extends so far over the posts
that the rat cannot crawl over, he has
to remain outside. Take care that nc
piece of timber is left standing
against the crib to offer the rat way
to get in. This is the secret. Care
and vigilance viii keep them out
Rural Messenger
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1885-02-19

temperature. Pasteur was soon over.
wheimed with applications for this
"penlgn" vaccine. At the end OF 1881
close to 1000 animals had been vac
cinated, white in 1883 the number
rose to nearly 100000.
Splenic fever, or malignant pustule,
is very l0athsome, disease and the
sutferiDgs of animals dying from it
are obviously very great. An ac-
count of the symptoms which pre-
cede death would be by no means
pleasant reading. Some years ago l
Normale, and was shown there by
PaSteur himself the formidable organ
Ism with which he was then occu-
pied. 1t was curious to reflect how a
thing so mean could exercise such
brute. Pasteur and his as
sistants had to be wary in dealing
with the organism, for a single one Of
its invisible spores, getting into the
blood through scratch on the hand,
might prove fatal. In room adjacent
to the laboratory stood a large cage
containing guinea pigs and rabbits,
some sprightly and munching their
AOOu, oO4uC OlOhoJ dnu 1duS uill, oOulo
in their last agony and some in the
rigor OF death. It was subsequent
to those experiments that Pas
teur operated upon larger an
imals, subjecting them to the
"cruelties' and the ''tortures" here
described. Imagine a certain tender
hearted Bishop-with whose kindly
feelings L have every sympathy
the laboratory of Pasteur and
seeing him SOW this malady among his
victims. What would the
Bishop have done under these circuna-
stances? Were it in his power would
he not have invoked the arm Of the
law to stay such damning
cruelty? Most assuredly he would. !
And yet in doing so he would have
affixed the brand of cruelty upon him
self. In lieu of the few animals saved |
from the operations Of the man of |
reience ne would have handed over |
tons of thousands of the same animals |
Of the rayagss of splenic fever.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1885-02-19

An old poultry raiser, who believes
In milk for fowls, says: sit is both
meat and drink. Some Of the finest
chickens ever saw were raised upon
the free use of milk with their food
Hens lay as well or better when fur
nished with this than any other known
article of food offered them"
Another poultry. raiser says: ga
neighbor Of ours whose hens, to our
evaporation, kept laying on when
eggs were fOrty-6Ve cents a dozen,
while ours persistently laid off during
the same season, on being questioned
revealed the fact that his had pail of
SKINNED, perhaps clabbered, milk each
day, and no other drink. On compar-
ing notes we each found that our
management of our fowls was always
exactly alike with this single diff
ference-a difference that put many
a dollar to the credit side of his
ledger, while our own was left blank
during the same period; and this
thing had been going On for years,
with the result always in favor of a
milk diet"
Sour milk, sweet "clabbered"
milk, buttermilk, are. all excellent for
every sort of poultry. at all ages, and
whoever is situated so as to command
a good supply, is favored with one Of
the elements of success in keeping
fowls in thrift. 1t is especially valu-
able to give to poultry kept shut up, as
it is nearly Equivalent to insect
forage
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1885-02-19
Divide the Ri. Counties.

Several Of the leading newspapers
in the state are advocating the diYi-
sion of the counties of Ell Paso, Presi-
dec, Crockett, PecOs and Tom Green
into those of Constitutional size. Of the
propriety of this action by the legisla-
Gure there is no question. The
to the state and to the peO-
pie by the division of the Panhandle
country are direct and well understood
by all. Investments have been made,
stock has been placed, colonies located
and counties organized which would
not have been done if the county lines
had not been drawn.
What has been demonstrated in the
will prove true of the
Jumbo counties if they are divided.
In every instance, of the counties
above named, the county seats are
off in one corner or on the border,
where they are of no convenience to
the people living several hundred
miles away from them, and they have
no more interest in them than if they
were the capitals of other states.
In these so-called county seats are
the county officers and few other
gentlemen interested in jobs of build
ing extravagant jails and courthouses,
and they are the fathers
of all the opposition to es-
new counties. When
new counties are made the county
officers lose a portion of their fees. If
a new county is not able to organize,
it is attached to one that is, for juoi-
cial and land surveying purposes.
This breaks the heart of the county
officer and he writes his member Of
the legislature, "For Gods sake don't
favor any more new counties" The
county officers hire lobbyist and send
him to the capital with instructions
to say that the people of the proposed
new counties have not enough taxable
property to sustain county organiza-
ton; that there are not enough free
holders to perform jury service; that
the petitioners are premature in their
prayers, and much other rot. The as
sumption of these county officers and
courthouse jobberS is simply tire
some.
There is no instance on record
where new county has not been
able to support itself and assist in
supporting the state.
Have the people no rights? In
these large counties must they pay
taxes to build fine courthouses and
jails in one corner of a county only to
have the county divided in two to
repeat the same burden at the other
extremity, a hundred miles or more
removed, before they are permitted to
build one for their own convenience
We think not.
The only solution to avoid afurtheI
annoyanceS to the people and future
legislatures, and at the same time aid
in the development and progress OF
West Texas, is to make the division
of the aforesaid large counties.
LEGISLATOR
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1885-02-19
PIeure.pnea monla Among EEogs

Rural World.
The loss by the hog disease in Wash
ington. Burt and Dodge counties
Nebraska, will aggregate 100000. It
is impossible to describe on paper
the ravages OF the plague. The
hog business, which has been the
chief industry in Eastern Ne
braska, is ruined. Veterinarians
now agree that the disease is
cholera. The lungs in dead animals
are always badly iniamed, and there
are other signs of pleuro-pneumonia
In addition to the symptoms noticed
in dispatches there is a falling of
in flesh, loss of appetite, a bad cough
and droppingS almost coal black in
color. The universal custom of Ne
braska hog raisers is to turn their
swine into the cattle yards, and make
them pick their food out of the filth. It
if thought this induces the disease, as
hogs that are kept in pens or clean
N@stuTes, and fed literally on suitable
food, are not affected.
Pleuro-pneumonia IN the above is
noticeable. The paragraph is from
the Drovers' News OF Kansas City.
"The lungs in dead animals are al
ways intiamed, and there are other
signs Of pleuro pneumonia Ist dot
so? Is not our brother little too
previous? Shall we use an expression
more forcible than polite and say
damn your pleuro-pneumonia? ?"
Heretofore men who have had hogs
die have attributed it to cholera, when
it was the merest and the sheerest
neglect and the most inhuman treat
ment. Now, the hogs have the pleuro.
and why? VIII the
breeders and the feeders answer? AS
to pleurO-pneumonia in the hogs.
Fudgel
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1885-02-19
Tbeuyriene Of Live Plants.

The controversy as to keeping live
plants in a room at night continues to
be carried on with vigor and acri-
mony. although most people have
probably supposed that it was long
since set at rest. at medical con-
ference recently held in France 1t was
demonstrated to the satisfaction of all
the savants there present, that plants,
as long as they are plants only, may
safely, and even with advantage, be
admitted to the elysium from which
they have so often been eXiled. These
ornaments, as a learned writer now
declares, "far from being hurtful, are
beneficial, inasmuch as they exhale
q certain amount of ozone and vapor,
which maintain a healthy dampness
in the air, and, besides that. are de-
structive of the microbes which pro-
mote consumptive tendencies in hu-
man beings. 1t is only flowers, and
not the plants which bear them, that
do the damage. Fers are inocuous;
roses and sunhowers ale pernicious
at least while they are in. bloom -
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1885-02-19
CoRNwELL-srELFox.

The Happy wedding of Loving Hearts.
Rev. DR.. E. IS. Wright, of the First
Presbyterian church, was called upon
Yesterday to soiemnize the wedding
rites between Mr.. NJ. =. Cornwell, OF
Elgin, and Miss Minnie Slelfox, of
this city. The happy event eliminated
at the residence of the brides parents
and was witnessed by number
of relatives and friends of the con-
tracing parties. The young gentle
man w.o has thus invaded Austin's
circles. and carried away one of her
fairest maidens, is popular druggist
of Elgin, where he stands high in the
community. His charming bride is a
daughter of the well-known Congress
avenue merchant, Mr.. John
Stelfox, and is beloved
bv scores of 8dmiring friends.
The bridal presents included many
articles of rare and costly value. At
ter receiving the warm congratula-
tions of those present, and partaking
OF wedding supper at the bridal
home, Mr.. Cornwen and wife depart
ed, via. the 6 p. m. Central express, for
New Orleans, where they will spend
their honeymoon. THE STATEsMAN's
best wishes go with them.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1885-02-19

oe serious without being suIien, and
cheerful without being hilarious. Il
becomes every one, then, to keep up
conptenauca Of rOcd rheer-a sort
OF Christmas o. New Year holiday
countenance, as it were. It is this
that will always render their presence
gladdening instead of Saddening; that
viii cause their society TO be sought
after instead of avoided, and that will
carry with 1t a sense of comfort in
stead of depression. Such temper
aments communicate happiness
and rebuke detection, as
the sunshine gives warmth
and d1sperses the fog. This spirit of
cheeriRess-nerve it may be called-is
the magic power which the world SO
ardently admires and applauds. 1t
marks the man of GOODNESS, self-reli-
ance and superior resource, and it
opens to him at once the hearts and
homes of his fellow-men it gathers
about him troops of friends and finds
for him a welcome in every social cir
Gle and a place at every freside his
IS ever the enlivening presence that
makes those about him forget the
clouds OF misfortune and doubt that
are continually rising, and dispose
them TO contentment with their lot,
and to greater benevolence to human
lty. How advisable it is that We
should cultivate nerye-the power of
being cheerful under all circum-
readers of this homily
can judge for themselves.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1885-02-19

81 have" writes w. II. IL. to the
American Field, of Chicago, "a bright
bay carriage mare, weighing over one
thousand pounds, with white hind
feet, which seems to be in perfect
health, except that she is slightly
troubled with what are called
scratches, and every morning the
hind legs are somewhat swollen or
stocked. This swelling almost en-
tlrely disappears after half an hours
drive. Within the past three days 1
have noticed that she appears 10 have
the scratches, or a crack with Slight
discharge in her right fore.foot, but
no swelling. What is the best treat
ment for her? Is she liable to get en-
tirely well, or grow worse? She
shows no Iameness and is kept in a
tirst-clasS livery where she has excel
lent care. Is it best to keep her legs
loosely clipped, or allow the hair on
chem to remain long?
To this, DR.. n. Rowe, the editor, re-
plies: The trouble came from humor
in the blood with the mud and water
the exciting cause. Clip the hair off;
p0ultice TO remove fever, then dress
with iodine one drachm, lard two
ounces, mix, rub little well in twice
a day. Give internally ball of alCes
five drachms, ginger one drachm, gen
tian root two drachms, mix. Do not
allow the legs to be- washed on COM
ing in from driving, but have them
rubbed down with Wisp of straw
and then cleaned well with a good
brush when dry.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1885-02-19
HOME FARM AND RANCH.



We have said before, what we now
repeat, in brief, that the great
! poultry interests of this country are
most intimately connected with the
! business of the farmers of the L nlted
/ States, in large majority. The
fancy" the amateurs, and small
breeders (who, as a rule make up the
contributors TO our public fowl shows,
of late years. compose but 3 mo1ety OF
/ the vast numbers of persons IL this
land who raise good poultry and large
quantities oYit in every direction
To supply the current daily demand
for this important article OF food, this
assumption must be correct, since we
all know what enormous quantities of
chickens, fowls, ducks, geese and tur-
keys are constantly required to salts
fy the market demands for ordinary
consumption in the United States.
And surely this branch OF the bust
ness is conducted to no great extent,
nor is this supply furnished by the
class recognized as modern fowl
fancieTS.
The farmers are the people who
answer this call; and those who have
followed up the business in regular
but moderate way all their lives
raising few dozen OF scores of birds
perhaps, annually, in most cases-are
the class of poultry breeders" Z. 49,,
supply our people and our markets
with this desirable commodity (and
with the eggs we eat) in the aggre-
gate.
That our "fanciers" are very use
full and needful adjunct in the pro-
fessi0n must also be admitted; for TO
this enterprising and now wide spread
cl IS of workers Is the generalinterest
universally indebted for the advance
ment III the good quality of American
poultry that has obtained a place
among Us in the past twenty years
And the keeping alive of this great
aid ia the cause is a matter of vast
consequence to our future in this
laudabIe work, and as all are aware.
Yet to the farmers we must look TOR
this supply of chicken food in our mar
kets. And to this class of breeders we
CONCEIVE it a duty constantly to appeal
in the Columns of our publications, |
which are devoted exclusively to the |
speciality of poultry production, and |
the best ways and means to effect re- |
results in this direction,
and advantageously.