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Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-10-02

A tank may be placed in the top Of the
house, to which water may be pumped from
we'll or cistern. From the tank it can be
made to flow through pipes anywhere in the
house it is wanted-to bathroom, laun-
dry and kitchen. The illustration shows
such an arrangement. A still better way,
perhaps, would be to have the tank in the
top of the windmill tower itself. Then the
water can be conducted any where. A rub
Der hose pipe will lead it throughout the
grounds, The lawn and flower beds may be
watered by a spray nozzle or umbrella
fountain.
Precautions must be taken against the
freezing upof the tank and pipes, but this
can be prevented without much difficulty.
Windmills such as we describe will pump
water for from 100 to 1000 head of stock.
There are now so many inventions for
convenience and comfort that the energetic
farmer may have the happiest and most
beautiful home of all men. Hard work is
it, and d~rudgery, and being tied down.
year in and year out9 Well, will you be
kind enough to tell us what isn't drudgery
and being tied down wherever work amounts
to anything in this world. 1t is all the
same, whether you shove a pen or a pillow,
and the intelligent farmer has the best time
of the two.
To close with another word about wind
mills. They are in use in factories and
diaries commonly. But we know a gentle
man, a city man, who is building a
beautiful country home. He is planning a
windmill as an adjunct both Of use and
beauty in his grounds. 1t is to be a stone
tower, higher than the house, Of fine archi-
t~ectural finish A winding staircase will
lead up the inside, and the tower will be an
observatory as well as pumping engine.
With a Virginia creeper climbing over its
stone walls, what could be handsomerl
4 AS to the kind of windmill that is best Of
course this is not the place to say. There
are half a dozen good patents. A ten-foot
mill costs 800 to S125 all complete, gear
ing pump, etc. When you give an order,
always state the depth Of your well.
The companies set up the engine in place
and guarantee to keep it in running order
for a year. Be sure you have this written
guarantee.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-10-02


This scourge, too, is going the rounds Of
western herds and stock yards. It IS best to
nowledge facts. The cattle that die era
mostly those from the far west, Texas In
dian territory and the plains. When
brought to the stock yards in Chicago and
other cities, the fever appears among them
and they die. The disease has been bad in
Michigan and the state of Illinois. An ex-
pert in diseases Of animals has pronounced
the fever malaria, with, in some cases, other
complications. Cows have the ague. as
well as people. The expert has been very
successful in treating the fever. Here IS
his way Of doctoring, given by himself:
Pulv. Nux Voniica Hoz. Sol, Extract Of
Iron 1Soz.
Dose, tablespoonful In feed.
This at cnce started their secretions, and
| Immediately gave each animal a small
tablespoonful Of q~uinine, dissolved in a pint
Of whisky ard water, one dose in six and
one three hours previous to time of rising
Of fever. In three to four days the animals
were well.
l I'm well convinced ~that'quinine is an
cellent prescription for fever, and had !
used it in the first fever / am satisfied /
could have saved the animal l lost.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-10-02

A perfect pasture should last forty years
It will not wear out unless it is allowed 10
be cropped too close or trampled or cut up
in wet weather. Here Is a list Of grasses
that is said to be the most approved forma-
ton for pasture god;
Timothy, Q pounds; medium clover, 9
pounds; alsike clover, 8 pounds; blue grass,
poa pratensiS, 4 pounds; orchard grass
dactylis glomerata), 4 pounds; fat-stalked
blue grass (poa COMPRESSED, 4pounds; red top
(agrostis ~vulgaris, 4 pounds; perennial rye
grass, 5 pounds; rough-stalked meadow
grass, 2 pounds; sweet vernal grass, 1
pound. This list ought to establish an ex-
cellent permanent pasture on good land.
Now, to keep this pasture good a dressing
Of wood ashes every six years, and If In
clined to sandy, one bushel Of plaster would
greatly aid it. Pastures should have gem
circus treatment as well as meadows.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-10-02
Hog Cholera.

This dread plague is again ~ravaging the
northwest, and, unfortunately, some other
localities also. An Iowa farmer lately lost
900 hogs in five weeks. Another lost in the
same time $50, leaving him only ten alive.
In a few townships in Montgomery and
Mills counties, that state, quite five thous-
and hogs have died, being rs per cent. Of
the swine in that region.
The plague has also broken out in Illinois.
There seems to be no staying or understand
ing il. The animals in clean pastures with
pure water, have been among those worst
stricken. There is no known remedy that
will reach the cases. No ~precaution seems
to avail What a pity it is we have not a.
single scientific man in America who can
take up this hog pestilence and study it, and
find a remedy-a man, in br ref, who would
be to the United States what Louis Pasteur
is to France.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-10-02
WINDMILL ON BARN.

Herewith is a picture showing a windmill
upon a barn in the act Of grinding feed for
farm animals. It is to be observed, how
ever, strictly in the interests of truth, that
the farmer must be always sure to select a
windy day for grinding feed and for doing
his threshing, else this motor cannot be-
started up. The gearing is SO arranged
that the Stats or strips Of the wheel can be
disconnected when desired. Thus the ma
chine can be stopped and the water pre-
vented from stopping over.
There are many pleasant possibilities in
connection with a wind engine. It can be
used for pumping water from a large els
tern Or well, either. 1t isgusually fixed into
a we'll, but there is no reason why it should
not do duty for a cistern at the same time
by fixing q connecting pipe.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-10-02

Wind engines are great helps on the farm.
Agood one willpump water for the house and
barn and furnish power besides for running
a threshing machine and mill for grinding
feed or any other Of the manifold purposes
for which a motor is wanted on a farm
In winter and summer it obviates the driv-
ing Of stock to water. It becomes, too,
when tastefullY built, an object of beauty
in the landscape. The necessary parts Of it
are the wind machinery of the engine, the
iron tubing and a force pump for times
when thers is no wind. The pump Is at
tsched alongside the windmill tower.
The mills are Of different sizes, the wind
wheel being eight, ten or twelve feet in
diameter, according to the force wanted. A
wheel Of ten feet is sufficient for all ordi-
nary farms. These windmills are a real
godsend on the western prairies, where
running water is scarce. Fortunately, too,
it is in exactly these localitigs that the wind
blows most CONSTANTLY
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-10-02
rhInre to Do AMI 70 KNOW.

The price Of wool is advancing.
The Early Sunrise is said to be the earliest
potato.
A clay soil is better for small fruits than
a sandy one.
Clay soil is the best to try commercial
fertilizers on.
The ice remedy for the cabbage cater
pillar seems to be a failure.
The Bee Keepers Magazine says the new
American is to be recommended as chean
hives for general purposes
The editor of The Canadian Hortfcnl-
turist thinks that Canadian fruit erowers
may get a hardy race of peaches by raising
seedlings.
The farmer who expects the little, delicate
wheat plants to do their best among lumDs
and clods, nc matter how rich they might
be, will be mistaken.
The Western ~Agriculturlst says that IL
there is one error more apparent than
another, it is that Of allowing too many
fowls to run and roost together.
Potatoes which are dug in clear weather.
and thoroughly dried inthe sun viii kean n
much better condition In the cellar khan
those put into bins without being sun-dried.
'His official Observations were taken frou
the cushioned seato a carriage, and occnpied
nine minutes by the watch.p This Is fha
way q Washington bureau Of animal indns-
try official IS said to have investigated the
wine plague In the far vest
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-10-02

LoGAN's book is called "The Great
Conspiracy" He will trace the origin
of the troubles leading up to the civil
wal from 'Way-back. John is prob.
ably in possession Of data going to
prove that the first seed out Of which
the great Rebellion grew were planted
in a disagreement between Mrs.
Martha Washington and her colored
cook about putting too much Cuttings
in the family corn-bread during hog
killing time. This incident moves
John to remark "Tall aches from little
we corn's grow" After which he
sails his boat out into the open e of
history. Logan are some pumpkins on
fax and will make a holyghost of
grammar and rhetoric on thel affairs of
his country,
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-10-02

which are 70 be dug twenty fsss sn-rt "a
hye feet deep at a cost Of ESQ Der acre
Neither VIII every farmer ray even far
bis share Of a $4,000 oo1nty rlahk
and then expend $500 an acre more s. 8
ging drains. But It Is q new idea, ana s.
there has been no agricultural novelty sina
cemented cellars were christened 'siloe,
and moldy cut corn fodder was called Ten
silage," this new agriculture may find BE-
levers and patrons / have large and deep
stone drains on Indian Hill farm, dug and
filed BY my father fifty years since. and l
viii frankly say that / prefer -two-inch
tile pipe drain, but l am an old fogy, and
not crazed BY every new-fangled notion OFF
fered by crafty spectators. Those who de-
sire, however, to invest their money IN the
new agriculture have an undoubted
right to do SO. | well remember that
among the sentences in copper-plate chirog.
raphy at the head Of the pages Of my copy
book there was one which read: "A fogl
and bis money are soon parted
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-10-02
The Presidents Nerve.

Chicago News.
"Daniel, have you been drinking? p
asked President Cleveland of his pr.
vate secretary.
"No, sir"
elias anybody started a distillery
neal here?"
mot that 1 know Of"
"What, then, is this dreadful smell ?"
81 don't know, sir, unless
"Unless what, Daniel ?"
swell, there's a Chicago Alderman
out in the other room waiting to see
you"
"Ah, there is, eh? Well, Daniel, you
step in and tell him to go over to
Georgetown and call me up by tele-
phone"
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-10-02

IN CertihcatiOn under the civil service laws ard
r gulatiOns Of this State and the cities thereof,
and upon passing such examination successfully
priority in certiicatiOn and appointment over
all other persons.
We favor lengthening and improving the
locks of the canal, thereby doubling
their capacity and reducing the cost Of
transportation between the lakes and ocean.
The efforts Of the Republican legislatures Of
1884 and 1885 having proved inadequate to pre-
vent the manufacture and sale Of counterfeit
compounds, in stimulation Of genuine butter and
cheese, the products Of dairy, we demaud the
enactment Of such laws as shall effeetually pro-
tect the people by prohibiting snch fraud and
deception.
We oppose all sumptuary and other laws that
interfere with the constitutional rights Of per
sOnal liberty and favor the enactment Of
such exsise laws as shall be alike just to all,
considering the claims Of all and respecting
their individual rights.
The platform was then adopted
without a dissenting voice.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-10-02
nTora Nnt.Ranrinn rrea.-

To the hardy nut-bearing trees mentioned
may be added yet Others. There is the
Spanish chestnut, the fruit very large and
desirable for market, the tree exceedingly
handsome. The Japan giant chestnut is
another. Japan fruit and ornamental trees
in general are beautiful and desirable.
Almonds Of fine quality are beginning to be
cultivated with great success in the south.
They will grow wherever the peach can.
When we can raise everything to eat in the
United States on our own soil, fruits. veg
etables, meats, Of all kinds, then we shall
have attained perfect civilization.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-10-02

IF the programme Of the anti-shop
men should be adopted, the vote for
the shops defeated, suit instituted
against the L., N. o. & T. R. R. for
the old claim, with which it had moth
ing in the world to do, and a policy of
antagonism entered upon, it would
prove exceedingly dangerous, If not
downright ruinous to the future pros
perity of the city. 1t would be a
struggle between a giant corporation
and a weak, divided city. The old
claim would pan out nothing and the
road would take the trade from our
very doors to New Orleans and
Memphis. As it is now,
Vicksburg is dealt fairly with in
freight and passage rates, but if the
anti-railroad people are to control her
destiny and force her into fighting a
powerful corporation, the blunder will
soon be apparent. Let us secure the
shops of the L., N. 0. & 7. railroad,
deal fairly with it, and it will greatly
aid in building up our city.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-10-02
Ben Perley PORES opinion Of a Great
Hnmbug.
american Cultlvator. ]

And now we have ''the new agriculture"
patented, Of course, with county rights for
sale OF $40, 900 to those who + always
anxious to possess any new craze. 1t is
claimed that it will make the soil grow five
times as much as. a usual crop, and OF
changing SO as to grow tropical products
in northern New York, and all by means Of
digging trenches on hillsides and filling
them with stones as a means Of collecting
water for subsoil irrigation, at a cost Of
$500 per acre.
To be sure, il is not every farm on which
there is a dry hillside, having a hard-pan
subsoil impervious to water, and containing
enough stone to partly Hll the trenches
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-10-02

MR.. Cox got nothing, he says, from
the Sultan. Those books and iewelry
were for Mr.. Hewitt. Is it possible
the nations humorist has been acting
in a harem scare'em manner with the
Grand Turk thus to receive so much
cold shoulders. Samuel leave the girls
alone.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-10-02
Helen Wilmans on Hens

Hens are very vexatious persons to deal
with; they don't know anything, and they
will not listen to reason. All they are ft
for is to lay eggs, and il they could find
any other way than the right way to Jay
them they would do it. Get an Incubator.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-10-02

Mr.. HALsTEAD will givea handsome
chrome and a years subscription to
the Commercial-Gaz to the person
who perpetrates the most bloodhound.
ling Southern outrage between now
and the Ohio election day.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-10-02

PREPARATIONS are going forward
slowly but surely looking to the final
disposition of Maxwell's remains in a
trunk by the Sheriff of st. Louis
county. 1t will not be a Saratoga,
like Preller's, but made Of plain pine,
oblong in shape, and cut bias.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-10-02

The New York Republicans, waved
the bloody shirt very feebly in their
late convention. The refusal to en-
dorse John Sherman's extreme utter
ances is pointed and significant.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-10-02

The Washington correspondent of
the New Orleans Times Democrat says:
William A. West, Of Mississippi, made
chief of the p~ostofice inspectors, is a
resident of Secretary Lamar's own
town Of Oxford, and owes his appoint
ment to the influence Of his distin-
guished neighbor. He is, moreover,
a son of the gentleman who in the last
campaign ornamented the tail of the
Butler ticket. Mr.. West is a planter
without experience in Office.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-10-02

BEFORE the November election
there will be few to acknowledge they
ever thought Beck could beat Worrell
for Sheriff. There is no earthly show
for Beck, unless the Democrats stand
idle and allow him to buy up enough
voters to thwart the will of the ma
iority.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-10-02

IT was developed in the trial of
Editor Stead of the Pail Mall Gazette
the other day that Mrs. Broughton n
Of the witnesses on n occasion pawn.
ed her husbands pants to raise money
to pay her landlord. The breaches
were rent.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-10-02

GEN. BOB TooMBs is now eighty,
but has not yet lived long enough to
carry out his boast made thirty years
ago on Boston Common that she
would yet call the roll of his slaves at
the base Of Bunker Hill monument"
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-10-02

p The gold men use a great many
arguments against the silver dollar,
and it is only fair to say it is the most
popular money with cotton laborers
ever invented. 1t is not too heavy for
cotton pickers, and large quantities of
silver are used in paying them off.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-10-02

We have just dug two more lots Of pota-
toes grown in a rich soil infested with wire
worms. The potatoes were entirely free
from scab. The seed pieces covered with
soiD received, as did tie others, adjusting Of
flowers of sulphur.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-10-02

SHERMAN is booming business for
the gun dealers of Ohio. Many Re.
publicans are fixing themselves, so
that. when the terrible rebels cross the
river they'll be ready for 'em.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-10-02

The people in the circus tent at
Martinsburg, W. Va, the other night,
had all sorts of fun until it was blown
down on top of them and they got
mixed up with the other animals.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-10-02

Col. j. L. MCCULLUM, who made
the New Mississippian the most prom
inent anti-Lowry paper in the State,
has gone to Arizona to fill a Govern
ment position in the Indian depart
ment. He has a beautiful scalp but
we hope he will be able to retain it.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-10-02

Col. WILL s. HAYS says he never
knew a man without children who
was not mean. The colonel is very
hard on the married men who are
childless,
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-10-02
The Superstition as to the Rings ON a
Trea Trunk.

It is an exploded theory that one ring
grows upon a tree every year. The agricuE
tural department at Washington finds that
trees of six years showed twelve rings; Of
twelve, t%wenty-one; of five, eleven; and Of
twenty-four, twenty the trees being respect
lively locust, hickory, crab apple and oak.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-10-02

THERE is no obstacle in the way of
the best feeling and most hearty CO.
operation between the races in this
county, except a few selfish, ayaricious,
INSCRIPTIONS whites.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-10-02

MANUFACTURERS Of wire have ad-
vanced the price of wire from 10 to
Is per cent. Never mind they wire
wherefore" So it increases the wages
of the laborers who make it,
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-10-02
broke up Immediately,

HON. ANTHONY M. KELLEY was re-
elected, for the thirteenth time, Pres
ident of the Irish Catholic Benevolent
Union of America, in Convention as.
sembled, at Brooklyn, on the 10Th inst.
When he entered the hall the demon
stration lasted several minutes. He
declined the honor, stating that proba.
bly, it would be the cause Of remarks
and censure on account of his rejection
by the courts of Italy and Austria
but he was reelected by a rising vote
In his speech of acceptance, appears
the following paragraph: II hope that
this generation shall live to hear the
thunders of the guns of this great
harbor welcome the Emerald Green
and Golden Sunburst, as it waves
above the first vessel from the Repub-
lie Of Ireland"
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-10-02

A CoLoRED youth named Robert
Bowie, went to see Buffalo Bill played
in Washington Monday night. Next
morning he took his half brother out
into the back yards, stood him up
against an ash barrel, and with a pair
of revolvers tried to show him how a
scene was done in "The Wild West"
One of the pistols accidentally went
off and so did the half brother, and the
show broke up Immediately.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-10-02

THE arrest Of a poet for assaulting
the London police impels us to declare
that poets are nearly always Bold and
Bad.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-10-02

The official demise of the monster
white elephant, Anthony Kelly, seems
to be borne with more cheerful resig-
nation than the untimely death of
Jumbo,
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-10-02

JOHN LAWRENCE SULLIVAN, al.
though a distinguished pitcher, is of
the kind that goes to the bar instead
of to the well.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-10-02
NEW YORK DEMOCRACY.
COZ HILL RENOMINATED ON
THE FIRST BALLOT.

The Platform, While Endorsing the
President, Does Not Take Kindly
to Civil Service Reform as Admin
Istered--The Coinage of Silver
Dollars Opposed, Etc.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-10-02

SISTER CLARA BELLE has replied to
Brother Sam Jones' assertion that hell
is full of fashionable ladies with the
statement that "if bell is full of us
then there won't be any men worth
counting in heaven" We hope the
Brother and Sister will defer further
discussion of this question till after
frost.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-10-02

THE supposition Of Riel's insanity is
based on the fact that he offered to fur
nish the Indians good whisky at a dol.
lar a barrel.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-10-02

Mr.. SHERMAN has no reply for the
man who asks him why hog cholera is
raging in SO good a Republican State as
Kansas.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-10-02

THE Democrats of North Carolina
have recommended and secured the
appointment Of a colored man as Con-
sui to Liberia. The President has also
appointed a negro to a good clerkship
in 4 of the departments at Washing
ton. Probably no Republican news
paper in the North will give publicity
to these facts. Perhaps they will ig-
more them for the same reason that
apart from Bruce, the negro just given
a place, is the only n Of his race
who has been appointed above a me-
NAL position in any of the depart
ments at Washington for nearly a
quarter of a century.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-10-02

DAKOTA threatens to secede. They
won't let her in SO she wants to go
out.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-10-02
Now wen royster with the oyster.

YESTERDAY week Secretary Lamar
was sixty years old.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-10-02

Rev. Mrs. WOODWARD, the Hoosier
Evangelist has laid out Sam Jones and
the other bowling dervishes who are
roaming the country calling sinners
to repentance in the name of the Lord
and for a consideration of 5000 a week.
IN a grove near Muncie, last Monday,
she closed a two weeks meeting with a
congregation estimated at 5000 peo-
pie. The telegraph tells US that "the
woods rang with the shouts Of the
new converts, while here and there
lay men and women by scores in
frances apparently dead" Mrs. Wood
ward is not only entitled to all the
camp-meeting cake but she Is in full
possession of the e~cclesiastic bakery.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-10-02

"BECK's boys are not at all bolster
Gus just now. 1t is limited that the
bari is closed for the present.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-10-02

IN the present rsvolutionin Roume.
Liza Russian Bear tracks are plainly Wis
ible.