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Nevada County picayune., 1886-11-03
A Neglected Crop.

It would be better for us if we considered the manure made on the farm CTS a crop; and it IS strange that we do not do so for it is a product of the farm and has a money value as much as corn or or hay or cotton. When we once consider manure as a crop, we will take just as much pride in making a big crop of manure as of corn; and we will no more allow part of the manure crop to go to waste, than we would part of the wheat or hay crop. Generally but little can be charged against the produc. tion of the manure crop; all the cost is often the expense of har- vesting (gatherng and storing), {, this crop. On the most fertile farms this crop is worth several times the cost of harvesting it.. And it is the greatest wonder of our farming that we do not start out in the fall with a determination to make a better manure crop than your neighbor, and we start ont in the spring with determination to make better oat, potato or to- bacco crop. The cleanly man will harvest large manure crop, be. cause he will gather mp all refuse and put it in the compost heap. He will have clean stables, clean barns clean yards-a clean farm; and cleanliness is the preserver of health. Thus we see that while the wheat or potato crop supplies strength and energy, the manure crop, closely gathered and well kept, prevents the agents of dis ease from stealing away that strength. Pride in the manure crop goeth before wealth and health. American AgriculturiSt for November.
Nevada County picayune., 1886-11-03
TEMPERANCE COLUMN. BY REV. Y. W. HAYES
Will Burn, Will Massacre.

Mir. E. NJ. Davenport, proprietor of St. James Hotel, Chicago. is Chairman of the Cook County Pro- hibition Committee. He recently received letter which read as fol- lows: .....
 CHICAGO, Aug. 2i, 1886. E. II. Dareaport, Chairman Cook
 County Prohibition Commitfee: SIR:-You Prohibition cranks have broken up our business in Kansas. Iowa, Maine, Rhode Island, Georgia, and other parts of the country, and yon are now work ing like mad devils to drive us out of business in Illinois. Perhaps you think you'll sometime close up the saloon in Chicago. We want to tell you that before this is done every damned Prohibition fanatic will die as Haddock did. We will kill every preacher, burn every church, massacre every member of every temperance society and all the praying women, before we will surrender our liberty or give up our lawful business. If we pay our license to help support the schools and the city, the anthOri- ties are bound to protect us. If they don't do it we will protect ourselves, if It takes a civil war to doit We want to tell you that un- less you resign your position on the County Prohibition Committee, and quit organizing Prohibition clubs in Chicago, you have not got many more days 10 live. We must make an example of some body here in Chicago, to let the cranks know that we mean busi- ness. We have you marked for our first victim. If you don't want to be sent after Paddock, let up on the temperance business at once and attend to your hotel.
 In earnest,
 SALOON KEEPERS.
 When law has warmed into life business that makes such threats is it not time to needle-gun the l ballOt.b box to kill 1t!
Nevada County picayune., 1886-11-03
COULDN'T HEAR 1T THUNDER

An interesting letter from MT. John w. Weeks, superintendent of Deknalb Paupcr House: =.#.
 From a feeling of gratitude and n desire to benefit others. voluntarily make this state, ment. 1 have great reason to be thankful that eyer heard of B. E. B., as know what n blessing it has been to me. l have suffered with Bronchial Catarrh tor n lumber of years. Six months ago was taken with severe pain in right ear, which in few days began to discharge matter. with terrible and almost unpcarable palptation and all sorts oi noises in my head. In ten days after the commencement of discharge and pain in my ear began to grow deaf and in six weeks was so dea that l could not hear 1t thunder.
 1 was then compelled to use conversation tube, and it was often that l could not hear with the tube. then commenced taking IS. B. B.. and the running of my ear ceased run ming in five weeks. And can now hear With out tfe tube. My general health has i'm proved, palptation ceased, and feel like q new being, and appreciate the benefit have received from E. B. B. tmade in Atlanta Ga.) with gratitude to God and thankfulness to the proprietors for such medicine. cheerfully rocco mend it to ai who arc a tflict. cd with deafness and catarrh. Try 1t; per serve in its use and you will be convinced oi its value.
 JOHM W. WEEKS. Superintendent Dekalb Paupcr Home.
 Decatur, Ga, May l, 1886.
Nevada County picayune., 1886-11-03
AGRICULTURAL.
Chicken Cholera.

The symptoms of cholera are great thirst, nervous, anxious expression, greenish droppings, and rapid prostration. It's work is done quickly, usnally killing the birds in twenty-four hours or less. When it attacks q flock the sick birds must be separated from the others, and thorough cleaning and disintectiOn of the whole premises-yards, GOODS. and even the rOosts and nest-must be made by sprinkling with water to every gallon of which an ounce of car. bolic acid is added.
 Although hundreds of remedies have been proposed, it is doubtful if sure cure has yet been discov- cred for this scourge of the ponl- try yards. The best mode oftreat- ing a large flock of fowls is to al- low them no drinking water at all, but add teaspOonfnl of sttong liqud carbolic acid to q quart ot water for mixing the soft food, which should consist oftwo pounds of corn meal, one pound of parched flour, half pOnnd of fenugreek and an ounce of bread soda. Boil a pound of the inner bark of the red oak tree in half gallon of water down to a quart. Take a pound of the mixture, pour 'n gill of the red oak bark decOction, stir 1t well, and then add the carbOlic water until the whole is of the con- sistency of dough, but do not have it too stiff. Give them all they will eat of it. In fact, keep it be- fore them all the time. Those that do not eat should be forced by craming with tablespoonful of the mixture twicea day. This will be absolutely necessary with tur- keys. Then add twenty drops of carbolic acid and tablespoonful of red oak bark solution to each pint of the drinking water. Keep the sick birds dry and warm disinfect all droppings as soon as they accumulate, and bury or burn all dead brds.-American Agricul- turist for November.
Nevada County picayune., 1886-11-03
Gods Best and Last Gift to Man.
shnOur world would not have been

aF#& s&N f#
 sk Our world would not have been a success without woman. She came at the right time and finds the right place. With all her faults as a piece of humanity, she could not well be improved upon. aIns all civilized countries and among all honorable men, she passes current at her face value. Sheis the fariest of all, and some
 time. though not often, the frallcst of all. She is at once the poets dreams, tbe warriors inspiration, the theme of the statesman, and the charming aetuality of our home. No home should be with out one. She out rivals the lIv of the valley in beauty. The carna-
 tion of her checks deties the most exquisite concept of the artist. Though called the weaker sex, she is stropgerthaa msn in virtue, in tIip power of self control. As a sweet heart there is none like her and while she may sometimes ap- pear a gay deceiver, yet when fairly trayed she is there, and there to stay, unless death or divorce in. tervenes. AS a wife, she fills the billexactly, if the man she en- thralls is of any account himself, If not she often makes the household lively. In the well ordered home she reigns in.queenly grace, brings
 order out of chaos and set thingns
 to rights generally. Though be- fearfplly and wonderfully made up, and often bundle of contra. dictions, the very fertility of her resources, and the diversity of her characteristics renders her the more lovely and interesting. In themtter Of marriage, it is safe to say, that a husband makes a go0d wife oftener than a good wife makHs good husband. As a mother, woman shines forth in all the beautitude of her character. Here indeed she is the power be. hind the throne, shaping the desti- ny of the race for veal or woe. Here she is the ministering spirit of love and tenderness, whose tire less vigils extend from the cradle to the grave. Alas! how few ever repay mothers love or devotion.
Nevada County picayune., 1886-11-03
How Bad Detr oit Youth Sacri- feed His Fathers Pet
 BuIl-Dog. ;.

"May be you know my boy Shaker" queried Mir. Duncer, as he entered the Central Station yes. terday.
 II think have heard you speak of him." replied the sergeant.
 ''Shake wash as sharp ash a hoe. He subscribed init a shporting pa, per und knows all about games. Shakeis gone again."
 Whats the matter now?"
 "Vell, n butcher oop my vhay he puys himself a black bear few days ago und puts him in a shed Last fall some theiyer shtcal all my shickens, l puys myself a bull dog. His name wash Bismarck. Yesterday Shake says to me:
 "Fadder, l like to take bismarck out on hunt"
 "Ails far wash itN N@e.v v.R
 ''Only a leedle vhays. l like Co see if he knows wild game"
 Dot seems all right to me, ser. geant, and tell Shake to go along. In feefteen minutes l hear sooch awful hOwls und wells ash nefer vas, und when goes oudt py der back vhay my hair shtands oop. Shake had put dot dog in init dot bear. He says he likes to see if Bismarck knows bear from a lion.n
 "Did he?"
 "I belief did. He makes a shump for dot bear, und dot bear makes a shump for him. und in one minute Bismarck wash dead. More ash feefty boys wash areundt dot pen, ud when goes for Shake c eaferybody runs avhay, Sergeant 2
 "Ies."
 If catch Shake yesterday doan' know vaht l does nit him, wash so madt, but last night feels better oafer it, und if he comes home now forgives him. lfyou see him you tel him dot. May be he liks to train our Bis marck to catch wild game, und he "an't know about bears like an oldt man" Detroit Free Pres.
Nevada County picayune., 1886-11-03
Personal Liberty.
BY JUDGE HENDERSON.

Sumptuary law is regulating what people shall drink, eat and wear. Prohibition does not tell you what you may drink yourself, but it proposes to have something to say about what you shall sell me aud mine to drink. If Prohi' bltion Is sumptuary, then regulii. ton is too. Ii partial Prohibition is good, total Prohibition is better. Ii it Is good to prohibit on Sunday, 1t Is better to prohibit on Monday, too, and all the rest of the week. If it Is good to prohibit on elec- ton day, it is better to prohibit all the other days. It you can pro. hibit selling to minors, why not to men? Ii to confirmed drunkards, why not to moderate drinkers? Ii you can prohibit selling after II p. m, why not before II?
Nevada County picayune., 1886-11-03
HIN DE ERCORN N s

The safest surest quickest and best cure for Cons bu'oens Warts Moes, Callouses 6c Hnderstheir fur thor ,~pwth stops pain. 6vesnot trouble Makes the feet comfortable. Hindercorns when everything else falls Sold by Druggists at i5c. IiscoN& O., H H
Nevada County picayune., 1886-11-03

The managers of the Pennsyl vania k. R. Company have agreed to make no more contracts for Sun day excursions, and all trains aot loaded with stock on the main line are stopped from six o'clock Sat urday night until twelve o'clock Sunday night, and the men go ,o their homes.
Nevada County picayune., 1886-11-03

First Boy -"My pa blows horn in the bands." Second Boy. ''That ain't nothin'," F. B. "Misclief if ain't, moan your ole pa can do. My pa goes to parties am picrics an your ole pa car t go there.v $ B.-"Yes, and my pa is in the peniteptiary an your ole pa can't go there either."-- Ark. Traveller.
Nevada County picayune., 1886-11-03

Superintendent Dekalb Paupcr HoI Decatur, Ga, May l, 1886.
Nevada County picayune., 1886-11-03
BRIGTT's DISEASE

have been d sufferer from Kidney and Bladder troubles for several years. l have latel had what is termed Bright's Disease, and have had considerable swelling of my legs and shortncss of breath. The urea has poisoned my blood also. secured and am using (B, B B. Bontanic Blood Balm, and lind it aets Jo,re Hoiiy and ce ryq"jciy and an delighted witnits effect. l had prev iously used large quantity of various ad- vestised remedies, and several eminent phy- sicians also waited on me, but B. B. B.. stands at the top
 JOHN A. MARTIN. Rock Creek, Ala, May 4, 1SsG,
 All who desire full information about the cause and cure of Blood Poisons, Scrofula and Scrofulous Swcllings, UlcerS, Sores. Rheumatism, Kidney Complaints. Catarrh, etc., can secure by mail, free, copy of our S2- page Illustrated Book of Wonders, filled with the most wonderful and stratling proof ever before known.
 Address, BLOOD BALM CO., Atlanta, Ga.
 For saleb by II. Moncref .S Bro; J. 0. Howell, Cor Main and Front Sts.; Milner X Milburn, Prescott, Ark.
Nevada County picayune., 1886-11-03

"Rachei, my tear, prihg you d vine engagement ring" But Isaac, ips Nbeari. mld pearls are on
 luekX,k aiirt it.r Don't say a word, Rachel. l thought of dot, und SO l take me an imitation vol. out of stock {" Chicago Rambler.
Nevada County picayune., 1886-11-03

When law has warmed into life q business that makes such threats, is it not time to needle-gun the ballot-boX to kill 1t!
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1886-05-08
FIRED AT 1880.
How Thomas 0beyed Orders Hot
Wisely but About -Four Hun
dred Degrees too Well.

They engaged new porter at the
Lahr House last night. He was an &C
tive young man with Hibernian cast Of
countenance and large, horny hands
about the size of hams, Everybody
liked him, he was 80 cheerful, 80 Obli-
ging, and 80 rigourously and scrupulous-
ly exact in carrying out every order
given him.
On last Tuesday Mr.. j. B. johnson,
the Vice President of the Omaha Chilled
Plow Works, put up at the hotel. Mr..
johnson is q very dignified and polished
gentleman, and extremely particular
about his room and service. That even
ing q very extraordinary thing occurred.
Some say it was about 8 O'Clock, others
place it as late as 1890. At any rate
somewhere near that time Mr.. johnson
was amazed to see the door of his room
open and . man step In.
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1886-05-08
The BartholG Statue.

The Last stone in the pedsatal on Bed
loes Island, on which BarthOldi's colossal
statue Of liberty enlightening the world
was laid last week. The statue
will b unveiled September 8, the
anniversary Of the day when represents
tives Of France. England, Spain and the
United States signed the treaty Of Paris
recognizing the United States as an indie
pendant nation.
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1886-05-08

"WhO the devil are yon?' asked Mr..
johnson.
"Oi am the porter" replied the stran-
ger, deliberately removing his coat and
rolling up his sleeves.
"Well, what is the meaning of this sim
gular conduct ?'' inquired Mr.. john
son.
Thomas did not reply. He spit upon
his hands executed rapid and fantastic
jug and leaped suddenly upon the as
tOnished guest.
''Help Murder!" beloved Mr.. John
son, "crazy man killing me!'
''Shut up, We dirty spalpeen," ex-
claimed Thomas, obtaining a firm grip
upon the bust of his trousers ard pro-
polling him rapidly out of the room,
sits none of the loikes of We that's wan
ted in decent house.
but. my good mani" gasped Mr..
johnson, his words coming by excited
jerks. "there Is some mistake! Let me
explain!" :.
''Niver word We hOodlum!" replied
Thomas, rushing him toward the stairs,
'.were on to We! The house has had We
spotted!"
The next instant the guests in the
corridor were amazed to see two figures,
one spluttering and kicking, and the
other, grim and determined, shoot down
the staircase, plunge through the lobby
and disappear into the outer darkness.
In q few moments Thomas returned,
painting and rolling down his sleeves.
What in the name Of heaven were you
doing !" asked Mr.. Weekly, the proprie-
tor, when he recovered sufficiently from
the shock to speak.
81 was firing that dirty blackguard
johnson, replied Thomas.
"Firing himP Hold me somebody.
Who put such an internal idea into your
headp"
Here she is, replied Thomas, hold
ing the slate before the proprietors
eyes.
By-the-great-horn-spoon," gaped
Mr.. Weekly, and swooney away.
This was what he read:
Fire No. 40 at 10 :30."-Tampa Ola
Trihune
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1886-05-08
PUBLIC SALE.
SUCCESSION OF CHARLES
-, GUERIN1ERE SR. b.

No. 1857. Probate. st. Martin Parish.
BY virtue of an order and q commis-
sion from the Honorable the Twenty
First Judicial District Court, in and fol
the Parish of st. Martin, in the State Of
Louisiana, and to me directed. l will
offer for sale and will sell at Public
Auction, to the last and highest bidder,
at the Court House door, In the Town Of
St. Martinsville, beginning at 10 O'CLOCK
A. II. -trIi e.. .45t' ...
ON WEDNESDAY THE 18th.
OF MAY A. D. 1886. ,-.
the following described property be-
longing to the Succession Of Charles
Gueriniere ST., deceased, viz:
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1886-05-08

Reports are current in Washington to
the effect that the President proposes to
keep in office the men whom he has ap-
pointed, whether the Senate rejects them
or not. Under section 1899 of the Re-
vised Statutes the President is required
as soon as practicable to appoint another
person in place of any man who has
been rejected. 1t Is claimed that the
President will not find it practicable to
appoint other men In the place Of those
who have already been or may be re-
jected until after the adjournment Of the
Senate, and will thus punish the Repub-
lican senators for refusing to confirm
his nominations. The Republicans adj
NIT that the President has the power to
do this. That such programme Is to
be adopted is, however, very improba-
BILE. The President may continue in Of
fee few appointees who have been re-
jected out Of pure cussedness on the part
of the Senate, but doubtless the general
practice will be to send in new nomina-
tions.-Erie Herald.
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1886-05-08
A Determined Saloonkeeper.

A dispatch from Ipswich, Oak. says: A
man named Lemieux opened a saloon in
Roscoe, this county yesterday. He was
waited upon by q committee Of prohibi-
tionists and ordered to leave town imme-
diately. He promptly refused. In the
crowd were about dozen women, one Of
whom carried a rope. with the alleged
intention Of hanging the young man If
he refused to 60. He defied the crowd
and barricaded his doors. Had it not
been for the presence Of officers, the sa-
loon would have been demolished. Shouts
of Hang himr filed the air, and 1t is
said that some Of the females In the crowd
were the lOudest In the clamor for the IL
quor sellers blood. At the latest accounts
Lemieux was in the saloon with two
pistols and gun, while the mob out
side was attempting to effect an entrance
Trouble If expected, as he declares he
will shoot the first person who enters his
door, man or woman.
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1886-05-08

No. 1857. Probate. st. Martin Parish.
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1886-05-08

All work will be neatly and
promptly executed.
We guarantee entire salts
faction.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1886-03-13
The Average of Fire Losses.
TMillstone.l


Fire insurance companies in computing the
amount of premium for which they may prof
itably write a risk" base their figures upon
their past experience, keeping record of
classes and causes, together with losses upon
each class, etc. These statistics are interest
ing and should have extensive publication to
the end that policy holders may know the
relative position their own particular risk
takes with the many others. We venture
the assertion that miller who has lived in
one community all his life without ever hay
ing seen a mill destroyed by fire, would dis
credit the statement that an average of one
flour mill, representing a cost of $4,000, is
consumed by fire every working day, yet such
is the fact, or at least, that is the average
given in the statistics for 1884. Dwelling
houses burn at the rate of one an hour with
an average loss of 81, 1856. Barns and stables
fifty per week. Country stores, three per
day. with loss of $4,000 per week. Ten
hotels burn weekly, with a loss per year Of
81 100000. Every other day a lumber yard
goes up in smoke, each representing S2O,O0O
Forty-four cotton factories, the loss in
each case being $4,000; torty-three wooden
mills at $4,000 each; and forty-tWO chemi-
cal works at $27, 600 each, were destroyed by
fire last year. Forty-tWo boot and shoe FAC
tories we're consumed, the loss being $4,000
each. Theatres were Tapped up by the flames
at the rate of five per month, average loss,
$4,000. Only about half as many court
houses were destroyed, the cost of each be,
ms. about $4,000. Georgia was the most
unfortunate State, the aggregate losses being
equal TO the cost of maintaining the State
S ohtIht tI ana paying interest on the State
DEBT thirty per cent. of the losses last year
We're caused by incendiarism, ten per cent.
by defective flues, and the balance by pom
f faneous So, combustion, hot pipes, expl, ding
gar stubs, etc
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1886-03-13
THE RAILROAD STRIKE.

The strike on the Missouri Pacific grows
out of strike on the Texas & Pacific, and
the strike on the latter road had its origin in
the discharge Of one man from the ear de-
partment. The Texas & Pacific is a bank
rupt.road and is managed by receivers I'M
der the direction of the United States court
The discharge complained Of was, therefore,
really the act of the United States court.
The Texas & Pacific road connects with the
Missouri Pacific but the latter road has no
control over the former in any way, shape or
manner. The Missouri Pacific was not,
therefore, in the slightest degree response
BILE for the discharge of the man from the
car department Of the Texas d Pacific
The Knights of Labor, have no grleY-
ance against the Missouri Pacific, and, fur
thermore, do not pretend to have any The
strike on the latter road was ordered SIMPLY
and solely to assist the Knights Of Labor III
bringing the Texas & Pacific to terms. The
Missouri Pacific Company has in the past
been exceedingly indulgent to labor 0rgani-
zatlOns About a year ago strike was
threatened, but the managers Of the road
consented to submit the matters in dispute
to arbitration, and they were settled salts
1actorlly to all parties concerned. There
nave been no complaints since, and harmony
has existed between the company and its EN-
ployes until the trouble on the Texas &
Pacific broke out. The first intimalion of
trouble on the Missouri Pacific came on the
sixth of this month, when all the shopmep
most of the yardnen and many of the track
men stopped work, giving as reason, mere
ly that they had been ordered so to do by the
Knights of Labor. The Missouri Pacific is
powerless to end the strike because it does
not grow ont of any grievance on that road,
but on another road over which it has no
control whatever. 1t has no power to re-
store the discharged laborer on the Texas
and Pacific if it desired to do so, and the mil
lions Of people who depend upon it for the
transportation of their supplies are incon-
yenienced, not for any fault on the part of