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Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1886-02-27
Preparing for Farming.
Spirit of the Farm.

Spirit of the Farm.
The time for planting rapidly APP
proaches, and it behooyes every one
to be awake and alive. Much de-
ponds on start in being successful.
If any remissness is shown at the out
set its effects will be felt all through
the year. 1t will also be felt in the
receipts. Unless everything is ready,
make it 50 before starting. One of
the principal things is to have good
implements. No man can do good
work with poor tools. A carpenter
cannot build a house with an ak and
a saw, nor can farmer do good work
on his farm with Indifferent imple-
ments. He must have good plows
and good stock to pull them. The
time of farming with old, wornout
plows and poor horses is past. He
must get the most improved nipple
ments, and if his stock is too poor to
pull them, if possible, he should get
better. He must also have his land
in proper filth. He cannot succeed
as our forefathers did, who had rich,
virgin soil to work he must put his
land in the best condition. A gentle
man told us he cultivated 100 acres OF
corn last year with three hands. We
asked him how he did it. He said he
eHorked it principally before he plant.
ed it; his labor was but little after.
ward. 1t is not the best plan to cuI.
tivate so much, unless all the condi.
tons are good. AS rule, more fail.
ures are made by trying to cultivate
too much than is lost by working toe
little. The labor of twenty-five acres
put on half the ground will generally
make more. The work improperly
done, or insufficiently performed, will
show itself in the yield. The best
plan is to have everything ready be.
fore beginning, and it will save
much dissatisfaction afterward.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1886-02-27
To the Editor of the Living Church

To the Editor of the Lining Church,
Chicago, III.
There was published in the Roehes-
ter On. W Democrat and Chronicle
of the 3lst of December, statement
made by j. b. Henion, M. D., narrat-
ing how he had been cured of Bright's
disease of the kidneys, almost in its
last stages, by the use of Warmers
Safe Cure. l was referred to in that
statement, as having recommended
and urged DIR. Henion to try the
remedy, which he did, and was
cured. The statement of DR.. Henion
is true, so far as it concerns myself,
and / believe it to be true in all other
respects. He was a parishioner of
mine and | visited him in his sick
ness. l urged him to take the medi-
cine and would do the same again to
any one who was troubled with a
disease of the kidneys and liver.
ISRAEL FooTE, Cd. DID,
(Late) Rector of st. PauPs Epis-
copal Church. dorchester, ~ Y.
1t seems impossible to doubt further
in the face of such conclusive proof.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1886-02-27
10000 Bottles

of B. B. b. have been sold to parties living
inside the corporation of Atlanta since it
was started two years ago!
Why this wonderful sale of new re-
medy in so short time with so little adver-
Using?
1t must be confessed that it Is because B.
B. B. has proven itself to possess merit in
the cure of blood skin and kidney diseases.
Hundreds of home certificates attest the
fact OF our claim that in Atlanta and many
other points B. B. B. are con top" and will
stay there Many persons desire TO know
how the b. B. B. acts on the system. By
entering the circulation, it modifes the
vitiated blood globules, increases the red
corpuslces, antagonzes all poison, vi,alizes
and regenerates the tagging forces, furnishes
the pabulum for rich, new blood, eliminates
all poison through the secretions, and in.
creases the appetite, while, by its wonderful
action upon the pores of the skin, the kid.
neys, liver and glandular system, all effete
and impure matter is speedy conducted
from the body, leaving the blood pure, fresh
and healthy.
BY its magical Alternative powers, B. b. B.
unloads the blood of all impurities, unlocks
the liver, arouses all secretions, restores ma.
tuIS W llS COHulllOuj uHClOuuS tUt
troubled brain, clears and beauties the com.
plexion, cheers the Respondent, strengthens
the feeble, Gains the disturbed nerves, and
induces quiet and peaceful slumbers 1t
has been in use over twenty-five years as a
private prescription in the south,
1t is no farfetched, foreign found or
dream-discovered subterraneun wonder, but
is a scientific and happy combination of re-
cognized vegetable blood poison agents,
effected after many years of constant use
and experiment in the treatment of thou
sands of some of the most appalling cases OF
scrofulous, syphilitic and cutaneous blood
| poisons ever known in the state resulting
in complete and unparalleled cures Of
pronounced incurable cases.
Send to Blood Balm, Atlanta, Ca, for a
copy of their Book of Wonders, free filled
with information about Blood and Skin Dis.
eases, Kidney Complaints, &c.
SOLD By
j. B. RTTCHEY, DRUGGIST,
McMINNVILLE, TENN. Il
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1886-02-27
1901 THE CULTIvATOR 1909
lOO1 AND lOOO
@Gountryx gepheman<
THE BEST OF THE
AGRICULTURAL WEEKLIES.

The Country Gentleman is the leading
journal of American Agriculture. In the
amount and value of contents in extent aud
ability OF correspondence in quality Of pa.
per and style of publication, it occupies the
first rank. 1t is believed to have no superi.
or in either of the three chief divisions of
Farm Crops and Processes.
Horticulture and Fruit Growing,
Live Stock and Dairying.
while it also includes all minor departments
OF rural interest, such as the Poultry Yard,
Entomonogy, Bookkeeping, Greenhouse and
Grapery, Veterinary Replies, Farm Ques-
tons and Answers, Fireside Reading, Do.
nestle Economy, and a summary of the
News of the Week. It's market reports are
unusually complete, and much attention is
paid to the prospects of the crops, as throw.
ing light upon the most important of all
questions, When to buy and when to SELL It
is literally illustrated, and is intended to
supply, in continually increasing degree,
and in the best sense of the term, a
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1886-02-27

The Government of Mexico is con-
sidering proposition to hold an
international exhibition at the City
of Mexico in 1892 to commemorate
the four hundredth anniversary of the
landing ofColumbuS.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1886-02-27
j. B. HENIoN, NJ. ID.

ROCHESTER,, n. Y, Jan. q.
SIRs: The best proof we can give
you that the statements made by DR..
Henion are entirely true, and would
not have been published unless strict
ly so, is the following testimonial
from the best citizens of Rochester,
and card published by Rev. DR..
Foote. III. H. WARNER d Co.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1886-02-27

Ifevery one dressed plainly, but
neatly, for church services, persons
IN moderate circumstances, and the
poor would be more likely to attend.
Open-face craftsmanship is what
The country needs and the Senate
should indulge in no other. The Sc
Cret session should go.--Philadolphia
Press.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1886-02-27
To Whom h.Mdy Concern:

TO Whom h.Mdy Concern:
We are personally or by reputation
acquainted with DR.. Henion, and we
believe he would publish no state
ment not literally true. We are also
personally or by reputation well ac-
quainted with H. II. Warner & Co.,
proprietors of Warmers Safe Cure,
(by which DIR. Henion says he was
cured) whose commercial and per-
sonal standing in this community are
of the highest order, and we believe
that they would not publish any
statements which were not literally
and strictly true in every particular.
C. r. PARSONS, (Mayor Of Roches-
ter
VIM PURCELL, editor Union and
Aduertiser.)
w. d. SHUART, (ex-Surrogate Mon
roe County,
EDWARD A. Frost, (ex-Cleyk Mon
roe County,
E. B. FENNER, (ex-District Attor-
ney Monroe County,
J. NJ. DAvY, (ex-Member Congress,
Rochester,
JOHN S. MORGAN, County Judge,
Monroe Coz
HIRAM SHELLEY, Capitalist and
Seedsman.)
JOHN VAN VooRHIs, (eX-Member
of Congress.)
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1886-02-27
Live Agricultural Newspaper.

Although the Country Gentleman has
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$40 and an additional copy free to the
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ditional copy free to the sender of the club.
GS- ALL new subscribers for 1886, paying
in advance now, will receive the paper
weekly from our receipt of the remittance
to January LIST, 1886, without charge.
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40 Albany, N. Y.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-03-11
Starving Irisb paonIa

LONDON, March 10.-The governments
mas placed gunbOats at the service of Mr..
luke in his work of relieving the distress
among the inhabitants of the island along
the Western Irish coast. Indescribable dis
tress mas been developed among the people
lhhaoltlng the Arran Isles of Galway. who.
besides having hardly anything to eat but
moss and sea grass, are without fire and
o1ten without clothing and shelter. 1t is
not rare 10 ind girls II and IS years of aga
cept IN forced hiding during the dav time
because bereft of every thread of clothing.
long ago bartered away for seed potatOes
or roots TO feed the smaller children. Fish
ing Inspector Brady recently went among
the miserable people of Arran to distribute
relet furnished by an organization OF the
irish police. His funds ran short to-day.
and he still had so much pitiabIe Wretched-
ness TO relieve that he applied TO Mr..
BusSey, who is charged with the distribu-
tlOn or the fund raised in America through
the New York Sun for the impoverished
fishermen of Achille and Boffin islands.
ana begged him TO divert part of his store
Tor the benefit of the ArraneSe. This Mr..
Bussey was permitted TO do, and he reports
that, IN order TO save the lives of scores of
people now dying of starvation in these
western Islands, it is imperative that re-
Ilet on large scale be at once organized,
The lord mayor of Dublin has called a
meeting to be held at the Mansion house
tomorrow to consider the subject of the
distress existing among the working
classes Of Ireland. The earl of Aberdeen.
lord Lieutenant, has expressed his intention
to attend the meeting.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-03-11
Labor Notes.

Thirteen miners who have been working in
the New Hampshire mine, Cumberland, Nd,
since the strike com mmenced, were yesterday
induced to stop, thus making the suspension
in that region complete. 1t is observed that
the men there are considerably vexed at the
iudecision OF the Clearfield miners, and as a
result, it is said, the executive board for
District No. 3 will 60 TO Clearfield and hold a
session there, in order to ger some decisive
action on the part of the miners Of that re-
gion.
Five hundred and fifty miners in the Broad
Top, Pa, coal district. and the operator last
evening announced that the strike will not
assume greater proportions, unless the Clear
field men, whose decision the Broad Top men
have decided to accept, go out. A large
number of miners have committed them
selves in favor of arbitrating the difficulty,
but concluded 10 remain out until next Mon
day.
1t the convention OF the coal miners of
the Fourth district AZ Dubois, Pa, yesterday,
il was decided 10 present TO the operators a
scale of wages similar to the one adopted at
the Columbus convention at once. II salts
factory adjustment Is not reached before the
ed inst, a strike of the 1000 miners viii be
ordered.
The spinners in the knitting mills at Cohoes,
y. Y, were ordered out yesterday morning
by the knights OF Labor, causing a general
shut down. The spinners claim that in the
recent adjustment OF wages they were not
given a fair consideration. IL looks like a
long lockout. About 5000 operatives are in
Terested.
The boot and shoemalers' strike in Milwau-
kee is at an end and the last of the strikers
will go TO work this morning. The strike, on
the part of manufacturers and employees, has
been conducted in decidedly orderly man.
ner, and the strikers have succeeded in get
ting all they demanded.
The Toronto street railway employees, hav-
ing formed a branch OF the Knights of Labor,
were yesterday dismissed from service by the
company. Three hundred men are thus
thrown out OF employment. The president
OF the company says that no union men will
be employed Very few cars are running.
The Consolidated Street Railroad company
OF Toledo announced yesterday that il would
advance the wages of its employees and re-
duce the hours of work. They now work
sixteen hours. This action is voluntary on
the part of the company.
The Cumberland, Irwin, Clearfield and
Huntington, Pa, miners are nearly all idle.
AS the Clearfeld diggers have decided in
favor of arbitration it is thought the trouble
will be settled in that way.
The Western Nail association passed reso
lutions yesterday at Cincinnati reafhrming lis
position regarding its relations with its work
men, and offering nothing in the way OF com
promise.
No strike is expected among the street rail
way employees OF Pittsburg. The demand tC
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-03-11
VESTS PAN-ELECTRIC.
The Little MissOurian's Purchase
of the Famous STOCK.

WASHINGTON, March 10.-Messrs. Hale
and Millard, designated for the purpose
by the house special committee TO in
vestigate and report the facts concern
ing the ownership of Pan-Electric Tele-
phone stock by certain public officers. took
the deposition of Senator Vest at his resi-
dence this afternoon. The senator stated
that the first he heard of the Pan-ElecIric
Telephone company was through printed
circular sent to him through the mails some
time in April, 1884. The circular gave the
names of the officers of the company and
the purposes for which it was organized.
He noticed that the name of Senator Harris
of Tennessee was mentioned in the circular
as connected with the enterprise. He called
on Senator Harris and by him was referred
TO Senator Garland. who was represented
in and well acquainted with the status of
the company and its relations 10 the Bell
company. After obtaining Mr.. Garland's
opinion. the Senator said he concluded to
take and did take 100 shares of Pan-Elec-
trio, for which he gave his check for 81, 200
OH the Metropolitan National bank of
Washington, which was paid on the follow
ing day, and for which he received a con-
tract showing that he was entitled 10 100
shares of stock. which, owing TO the incom-
plete organization OF the company, it was
not at that time ready to issue.
THAT STOCK
was issued TO me-" said the senator, ''about
one year ago; that is ninety shares of il.
The other ten shares were retained by the
company as an assessment TO defray the eX-
pected litigation with the Bell company.
After this matter got into the papers Mr..
StitSon Hutchins of this city offered 10 take
my stock of my hands and pay me what IL
cost. This offer J refused, as it might look
like retreat, n retreat under fire. con-
sidered il a mere speculation, but was willing
TO take my chances. ! have received a divi-
dend of Sl2 or SIS since have owned the
stock. l have had no conversations with Mr..
Casey Young, the secretary of the Pan-Elec-
trio company, and / have never met and do
not know Mr.. Rogers, VINO ii appears was
prominent in the organization of the com
pany. Mr.. Garland represented 10 me that
in his opinion the Bell patent was illegally
obtained and that the Pan-Electric stock
might be worth some money. At that time
Mr.. Cleveland had not been nominated 10 the
presidency and of course Mr.. Garland was
unthought Of in connection with the attorney
shin
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-03-11
Proved Him No GentIeman.

SAN Francisco, March lO.-T. L. Burke, a
reporter on the Daily Examiner, called last
Thursday upon United States Sub-Treasurer
Brooks for information regarding the alleged
shortage of $4,000 in the sub-treasury cash.
Mr.. Brooks charged the reporter with hav-
ing stated the day previous that he (Brooks)
was no gentleman. The reporter acknowl-
edged that he had done so, whereupon Mr..
Brooks seized paper weight and threw it at
the reporters head, missing him. He threw
a second one, and then, as stated by the
reporter, thrust his hand into his hip
pocket in such a significant manner that
the reporter feared his life was in
danger, and fed to the door, but
found 1t locked. Cashier Maynard, who
was present, interfered, and the reporter es-
capped. Sub-Treasurer Brooks was arrested
the following Monday on warrant sworn
out by Burke. The matter has been taken
up by all the reporters in the city. They
held a meeting tonight and adopted the fol-
lowing resolution: THAT the attempt of
the assistant United States treasurer in this
city to entrap and assault reporter VINO
had expressed his opinion that the official
was no gentleman served to prove the cor
rectness of the opinion, and was an act of
cowardice deserving our utmost adherence"
A subscription was taken up among the re-
porters to prosecute the case.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-03-11
GIGANTIC CANARD.
The Reports OF Chicago Railroad
Strikes GrOundless.

CHICAGO. March 1O.-The st. Louis
dispatch regarding a strike on the North
western road was generally discredited in
railway circles. 1t served, however, to
create a stir on the board of trade for a
little while, but the excitement soon died
away. the improbability apparent in the
news being accepted by nearly everybody
as proof that it was a canard. At the
principal downtown railway Offices a
similar feeling prevailed. At none of these
places was il known that there was any
thing of q misunderstanding between any
railway company here and its employees.
Mr.. Wellington, assistant general freight
agent of the Wabash road, said:
There is not any trouble at this point that
we have heard of, and we do not expect any.
We are sending out our freight and passen-
ger trains the same as If no strike was in
existence anywhere, the only difference being
that we are not accepting any freight to
points on the Missouri Pacific road. We
have no Knights of Labor connected with
the road here that we know OF. We got rid
Of them about year ago.
The managers of the Chicago & Alton
and Chicago, Burlington Il Quincy railroads
stated that there was no foundation for the
report of strike here, and that nothing of
the kind was anticipated. Commissioner
WICKER of the Chicago Freight bureau,
when asked if the strike on the Gould sys-
TEN had affected the freight business of
Chicago. replied that it had not materially,
yet He said there was a belt of country
in Missouri, Arkansas and Texas, where, if
the strike continues until the middle of
next week, it will make trouble. Freight
shippers can reach points in Texas by the
Illinois Central and the Atchison, Topeka
IL Santa Fe roads. 1t is not the merchants,
/ but the manufacturers who will feel the eff
| fects of the strike. Manufacturers of plows
and similar implements are the ones who
feel the effect most seriously.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-03-11
WASHINGTON WAITS.

President Bates of the Baltimore & Ohio
Telegraph company yesterday concluded his
argument before the house committee on
postofiices and post roads. He said average
rates east of the Mississippi were % cents,
while west they were much higher, owing TO
the Western Union monopoly. Mr.. j. c.
keife of New York said two-thirds of the
Western Union stock was clear water without
speck of dirt in it. Congress should make
laws to prevent consolidation rather than es-
tablish postal telegraph system Western
Union Representatives viii be heard on Tues
day.
The senate committee on foreign relations
yesterday passed suitable resolutions regard
ing the death Of its chairman, Gen. John F.
Miller, and sent letter of coincidence 10 Mrs.
Miller.
reports the visible and invisible supply of
wheat in March to be l59. .OOO, 900 bushels,
against 2l2, 900, 900 bushels last March.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-03-11
Must Purchase in Open Market.

WASHINGTON, March 1O.-The secretary
of the treasury sent TO the senate to-day
his reply to the resolution of the Sd inst,
directing him to inform the senate how
much, if any. the actual payments and pur-
chases of the principal of the public debt
since July l, 1877, have been in excess of
the requirements of the laws regulating the
sinking fund, and how the existing laws
can be carried out in relation to said fund
from this time until the $3.50, 900, 600 of l1S
per cent. bonds mature. The secretary
says:
The reduction of the public debt from July
l, 1877, to June 80. 1885, has exceeded the
requirements of the sinking fund by $3l2.-
6+7,531. The amount of per cents. out.
standing is SIS4. .6s3,250, and these are the
only bonds now outstanding redeemable a;
the option of the government. As these bond:
may be absorbed before the maturity of the
AZ per cent. bonds of 1891, which come next
in order for redemption, further additions to
the fund can only be made by the purchase
of bonds in the open market.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-03-11
BLACK UNDER FIRE.
Was the Pension Bureau Once n PO.
liiical Machinel

WASHINGTON, March 10.-The senate
committee on expenditure OF public money
began an investigation of the charge brought
by Commissioner Black in his report that
the Office under his predecessors was avOw-
edIy political machine. and of the manner
in which the pension Office has been con-
Quoted and administered by the present
commissioner. Gen. Black was present,
and requested that he be permitted to give
the committee the names of witnesses
whom he desired to have examined before
he made his own statement. This the
committee refused to allow. Questioned
by Senator Harrison, Mr.. Black said he
would furnish specific cases of political ac
ton by the department at later meeting
Of the committee. In reply to further in
quiries he stated that he had made from
155 to I60 appointments in the pension bu-
reau since the beginning of his term, of
which 142 were Democrats.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-03-11
I'm SeIf-nefencn.

NEW YORK. March 10.-George W. Cur
tim, a peddler of cheap jewelry, surrend-
cred himself to the police to-day as the
murderer of Barkeeper Malloy, who was shot
in his saloon on South Fifth avenue yes
terday. Curtinn alleges, and the allegation
has beer verified. that MallOy and others
some time ago. robbed him of a portion of
his stock; THAI he went to the saloon yes
terday to demand restitution, and that
MallOy ordered him out. threatening to kill
him and making motion as if to draw a
revolver. Curtinn says he does not re-
member what followed. but supposes he
shot Malloy. He did not know that the
barkeeper was dead until he read of it in
the newspapers to-day. He says his family
is starving in Brooklyn.