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Year: 1878

Portable shelter of Mr.. Jacob Walk
ers tavern, where q good bed and q
bountiful meal can always be had.
Daylight should find the sports
man on the ground, and he Is o
poor shot indeed who cannot bring
down as much fowl as 1t is com-
Portable to carry.


To the mbitious Nimrod, to
whom Devastating is a pastime,
and q tussle with a grizzly de.
light, there is every opportunity to
crafty his fancy. In the proper
season deer are plentiful in the hills
a few miles east of town, and we
have never yet known anyone to
hunt the gentle bear that returned
disappointed in his search. The
favorite haunts of the grizzly are
we'll known to many of our people,
and they will take pleasure IN Civ
Ing the most minute directions to
the inquiring stranger.-GaSette.
Year: 1878

The best and cheapest clothing
and furnishing goods can always be
found for cash at the Quincy Hall
clothing store. Ducommun Block.
You can dress stylishly and with
economy by buying your goods
here, octSl-tf
Year: 1878

A BILL has been introduced iDto the
Senate of Ohio to abolish the Bureau oi
Labor Statistics. Labor statistics surely
are matters Of importance to the people,
and all classes of people. We know not
how this Bureau has been managed in
our State--nor the objection of the au.
thor of the bill to Labor statistics. Such
Bureau is certainly demanded in a
State like Ohio, containing over three
millions of people, largely and actively
engaged in agriculture, and manufactar.
ing and mining. Statistical knowledge
is all important, and becomes more and
more valuable in after years. The na-
tions Of antiquity have transmitted to us
very limited information as to the every
day life Of the people, their business,
trade, &c. How valuable statistical la
Dor, trade and business knowledge would
now be. Modern nations are carefully
compiling these actual results and hand
ing them down to posterity. We want
Ohio to be up with the foremost in all
this useful information.
Year: 1878

We commend the following figures To
the careful consideration of any farmer
who has been inclined to take stock ~
the financial heresies advocated hy pO-
litical demagogues like Butler, Cary
and Field. They will also furnish b
lesson 10 those brsiness CD men who
are willing to check the tide of true
prosperity for the purpose of entering
upon an era of mad speculation when
must inevitably end in financial ruin:
Year: 1878

original color, ruth tie gloss and
freshness Of youth. Thin hair is
thickencd, falling hair checked, and
badness often, though not always,
cured bv its use. Nothing can re-
store the hair where the follicles are
destroyed, or the glands atrophied
and dccayed But such as remain
eal be saved FOR usefulness 10y this
application. Instead Of fouling the
hair with a pasty sediment. it will
keep it clean and vigorous. Its
occasional Use will prevent the hair
from turning gray or falling of,
and consequent, prevent badness.
Free from those delctcrious sub
stances which make some prepare
tions dsDg gcrous and injurious TO
the hair the Nigor can only benefit
bat not harm il. If wanted merely
for a
Year: 1878

Capt. Harris. of franklin last week
purchased ] 800 acres of excellent cot
ton land IN Edgecombe county for 81 -
an acre. Great Heavens, Why don't the
thousands of Industrious mechanics
ana business men of the North come
down and buy homes now: From
$500 to $1,000 will buy a neat farm of
lOO acres in any county in North
Carolina. with a house to live in.
plenty of wood to burn. and water to
drink; leaving only bread and meat to
raise by industry. True there is no
great amount of profit in farming on
a hundred acres, unless near enough
some large town to raise garden and
market truck. But comfortable
home, and good meal three times
day. are becoming not to be despised
now wadays up North, we hear


The aim Of the editor Of this paper,
since ever it was started, has been to
publish in its columns every item
CLEANED from the state press, and every
fact other wise obtainable, that could
serve to illustrate the condition, the
resources, and the natural advantages,
OF North Carolina, by way Of informa~
ton for Home>seekeTs from the less
favored, outside regions. In carrying
out these views we have frequently to
print articles of no special freshness,
or interest, to our home readers but
they will appreciate the effort when
informed that large, and growing,
list of our readers are residents of
other states, who have heard of the
many good qualities of the "Old North
State and subscribe to the FARMER
AND MECHANIC with a real desire to
inform themselves. For the benefit
of this class of patrons, we give else
where letter from Mr. n. Plumadore
written to the Boston Pilot and we
shall next week print an article ex-
ploding many misconceptions of the
Northern mind with respect to South
ern unhealhfulness.
Year: 1878

really worth the attention of the world.
sent articles to the Exposition, and the con-
sequence is that the number of our prizes
is out of proportion to the amount of our
display. Perhaps no nation exhibited so
many things of real value, SO many
improvements whose general adoption
would add to the sum of human conven-
ience and comfort. 1t is an old fable that
some animal which had litter at once
reproached lioness because she brought
forth but one whelp at birth.
''One," was the reply. "but lion" :"
Edison alone, to say nothing of the
other American exhibitors. justifes this
illustration. Wags may amuse themselves
in laughing at the titles bestowed on some
Americans but when these are bestowed as
marks Of real merit our national pride
would have been mortified if we had failed
to secure such tokens of recognition.
Year: 1878

CrOtx, w. j.


The negroes of st. Croix, West Indies,
have recently assumed an attitude that
should serve as awarning to the white popu-
lation of all the insular settlements in the
tropics. Without any premonitory signs Of
danger q wild revolt of the colored laborers
Of the Danish island has taken place and
very great deal of damage has been in
ficted on the planters by the indiscriminate
burnings Of their estates. Our account Of
the outbreak published to-day does not
suggest definite cause for the murderous
violence of the negro laborers, although
mention is made of an oppressive labor law
and government restriction in the procure-
ment Of passports. We must therefore in
fer that it originated in a drunken orgie and
under the influence of Voodooism,. which is
much prac tised by the negroes of Jamaica
and Barbados, many of whom are to be
found in the Danish and French islands.
This class of colored laborers has always
been one very difficult to keep in order 1t
possesses more intelligence than the ordi-
nary plantation hands of the West Indies,
and is known unfavorably even on the
main land of Central America. Being
vicious in the extreme, and always
ready for mischief, the ringleaders in
such an outbreak as we describe have little
difficulty in finding following willing to
join in the work OF destruction. It is fortu-
nate that prompt measures were adopted
for isolating the outbreak at st. Croix. If
a general revolt were inaugurated in the
West Indies fearful massacres might result
before anything could be done to check it.
As it is, the summary punishment of the
rioters has served its purpose very effectu-
ally, and all danger is for the present at an
end We must, however, recognizs in
these occurrences the lingering influences
Of slavery, which now form the whips that
scourge those who made that barbarous in
stitution profitable. The negro in the West
Indies is really only nominally free. The
lawmakers being the planters legislation is
entirely in their interest, and all movements
calculated to improve the moral and politi-
cal welfare Of the negroes are discouraged.
The governing idea is that an educated
colored man is an Improbable field
hand; therefore no effort is made
to lift the worker out of the condition of
mere animal dependence in which the greed
and inhumanity of the dominant race have
placed him. To hold the wretched unarmed
mob responsible for the excesses at st. Croix
is absurd. The leaders Of the outbreak
should and probably will be punished if
captured, but we deprecate the slaughter of
their unreasoning followers in the fort yard
at Bassin The way to control these men
is to do them justice and to teach them the
Laws of civilized life.
Year: 1878

WALL STREET YEsTERDAY.-The stock mar
ket was fairly active and prices were well sus-
tanned. Gold opened and closed at 1OO12, SELL
ing in the interim at 1OOos. Government
bonds were firm, States dull and railroads quiet.
Money on call was easy at six per cent and
closed at three per cent
Year: 1878

The INSANE AsYLUM patient who killed an
attendant few days ago has been pronounced
legally irresponsible. This is no more than fair,
for similar verdict, implied if not spoken, is
usually the end of inquiries when attendants
kill patients.
Year: 1878

SUBSCRIPTIONS ARE INVITED for the relief Of
the family of Lieutenant Benner, the gallant
officer who volunteered as commander of the
relief boat that went into the fever districts and
died at his post. Here is an opportunity to ex-
press humanity's material admiration for the
loader of n forlorn hone
Year: 1878

A CoRREsPoSDENr suggests to the managers
of the coming Cathedral fair rule which is
too good to be confined to any particular enter
tainment of the kind. 1t is that visitors shall
be allowed to purchase according to their own
tastes, without general and pressing solicitation
from the fair attendants of the tables. There
Ii but little danger that gentleman who visits
m attractive fair will carry away any of the
money which he takes with him, SO it is but
reasonable that he should be allowed some dis
,retion to what he purchases.
Year: 1878

The trial of Rande, the desperate, at Gales
burg, had proceeded so far on Thursday as &c
I've turned over that evening to the jury who
up to twelve o'clock at night, had failed tc
agree The defence hope to clear their man
on two grounds first, that under the laws OF
Illinois there is no hue and cry allowable, and
that when the mob, therefore, got after him
that Sunday when lie shot Bedcn, he was jus,
tfed in sclcdeiencc; and second, that he is
insane. The apparent difficulty on the part
Of the jury to agree indicates that there is a
chance OF an agreement to disagree on one or
the other OF these grounds.
Year: 1878

One of the particularly bright and shining
! lights Of the Garpctbaggcr SaturnaIla IN Hol'Ii


Carolina under the maign reign OF Grant 'i'


was Franklin j. Moses He was the son oI


the late chief Justice Moses, and a man OF clu


cation and more than ordinary natural abll'y
I In 1868 and 1870 he was elected to the SoIllI


Carolina legislature, and as speaker OF the
! house during his second term had shown Slcii


degree of sharp political acumcn and ability
| to manage his associates that in 1872 he had
no difficulty in getting the nomination ioi
Governor, an office 10 which, with the help ol
Grants bayoncts, he had as little trouble to
! to put it in few words, the most disgra~iuI
reign of unbridicd corruption, spoiatlon ana


bribery of which modern times show an eN
Iampc He went out of oilicc,in 1874, and al
though he had an amiablc wife and lovely
daughter, the dSsolutc companionship by
which he had surrounded himself Will III
Office had so dcbascd him that his family we're
driven away and, after gong out Of office he


was found living with and apparently depend
ing for support upon notorious Charleston
strumpct Finally this creature cast him or
the widow of the late Chiet justice, and his
wife sister and daughter were living at Il little
place called Sumter, about 40 miles north OF
Charleston, he went there, and remaining about
two weeks succeeded, by the most earnest
promises of better conduct for the future, in 50
far rcgaining their confidence that they gave
him some money TO 90 to Texas with, to find
Il location, as he said, to open law oiice.
This is how he redeemed that promise, accord.
ing to the New York IVorM:


Previous to leaving his mothers house he
bribcd the negro servants, and filled a trunk
full of valuable silk dresses and vclvCts be,
longing to his mother and her daughter Mrs.
MiChacls. He then went over to his WteS
house and took away the greater portion OF
her wardrobe and that of his daughter. And
with this plunder hc made off to New York


He seems to have lived for some time in
New York by selling or pawning this proper
ty, really worth some $4,000, but for which he
probably never obtained a fouth its worth.
Finally the family got an inkling of his where
abouts and put the detectives on his track He
was found a week ago in New York in con
dition so seedy and circumstances so reduced
as not to be above begging dollar of his
friends to procure Il nights lodging or meal
of victuals. In short he was n total wreck"
twas not considered worth while we believe,
to arrest him and carry him back to the south
for prosecution, though even to send him to
the penitentary would be raising him above
his present condition.
Year: 1878

For about the forteth time in the last five
years the Spanish officials in Cuba have an
nounccd to the world that the revolution in
that island is completely suppressed, and
that the era of peace and prosperity about
to dawn News now comes from Havana that
formal peace propositions have been drawn up
by the authorities and submitted to the insur-
gent leaders, who have virtually accepted them
by the dissolution of their government and the
appointment Of committee to treat for for.
nal and final surrender. The terms offered by
the Spaniards will result in the voluntary exile
of most if not all, Of the leaders of the long
sustained revolution.
Year: 1878

The little game Of the type founders ring OF
the United States to levy tax of a few mil


lions year on The book and newspaper print


crs through the swindling Wood tariff hill 10y
imposing a tax Of from 10 TO 75 per cent on
foreign type, needs, to perlec, il, an addendum
of tax of 80 or 100 per cent on all country
newspapers that don't paironize the patent in.
Year: 1878

Laborers and. carpenters are
busily at work on the new hotel
and other buildings of the new
town of Newhall. We reported
previously that the hotel was to be
located at the old Andrew's Sta
ton, between the track and the oil
refinery. We were in error, as we
observe now that the location is
about three .fourths of mile north
of that, and on the west side Of the
track. AS soon rs may be, after
the completion of the hotel, the
present Newbali depot will be
moved up to the new town. 1t is
also in contemplation to construct
new road between Newhall and
the Camulos ranch, following the
route OF the telegraph line, and
passing the mouth Of the canon in
which the oil wells are located, and
within II short distance of them.
This route shortens the distance
hence to San Buenaventura at
least six miles. All these things
speak of permanent progress.


The smoke which filled our air
so suffocatingly on Monday came
from fires that prevailed during
that day and the previous night on
the San Fernando mountains. The
fire originated near Andrews Sta
ton, and passing over the summit,
extended more or less into the San
Fernando valley. We hear Of no
damage other than the destruction
Of feed. Our informant says the
sight Of tho mountains Sabbath
evening was magnificently grand
and Moillt, being an artist, ought
to know.
Year: 1878

The public will please take no.
tice that the Mechanics Store re-
ceives new goods nearly every day,
and we wish to state that the pub
lie will find our prices lower than
elsewhere. We intend to give you
low prices at all times, and it will
be q great advantage to you to pat
ronize the MECHANICS STORE, 40
MAIN STREET, opposite the Saint
Charles Hotel.
Year: 1878

A quantity of well executed
counterfeit trade dollars have been
captured in Cincinnati. They are
composed of block tin, hismuth and
pulverized glass. They possess
pretty nearly the standard weight,
and have the exact color and the
true ring of the real dollars. The
only means of detecting them from
the genuine coin is ty means of a
weigher or by pressing them be-
tween the teeth, when the glass
which they contain admit of a
cracking sound.
Year: 1878

The pencil marks you see around this
paragraph (thus) mean that your sub
scription is out or unpaid, and that you
are requested to pay up &c once. We
would take great pleasure in extending
credit TO our friends and patrons, but
cash alone will Yay our expenses, and
we are forced to adhere TO a strict cash
rule. We hope you will comprehend
and appreciate the necessity Of such
course, and renew your su scription
without delay. We solicit your favor.


e2- We enter no new names on our
books without the money IN advance.
Year: 1878

cat the end of the first year
comes the Cotton Wedding" ex


plains an exchange. And that is
not the only thing that comes at
the end o: the first year. Some
times poverty comes, sometimes the
mother in-law, and sometimes twins.
Year: 1878

A three mile ride on a freight
train, suspended by his clothing
from hook on the side of a car,
was the experience of a tramp the
other night at Oxford, New York.
There was not mark upon him
when rescued, but his mental suffer
ing was intense, as he momentarily
expected to be dashed to pieces.
He had been stealing ride and at
tempted to jump off while the car
was in motion.
Year: 1878

No man is a gentleman who, with
out provocation, would treat with
incivility the humblest of his spe-
cies. 1t is a vulgarity for which
no accomplishment and no attain
ments nor dress ever atone. Show
US the man that desires to make
every one happy around him, and
we Will show you a gentleman by
nature and practice, although he
may never have worn suit of
broadcloth, nor ever heard of a
lexicon.
Year: 1878

No matter how thoroughly you
clean the house the wife of the next
man who moves in will declare it is
not fit for hogs to live in, and will
slop suds around over everything
trying to make it fit for hogs to
live in.
Year: 1878

There is not a business man in
the country who does not feel that
if Congress could be adjourned for
FIVE years it would do more than
anything else 10 clear the atmos
phere and aid in the revival Of bust
ness.-T Boston Advertiser.
Year: 1878

Even a newspaper man finds il
hard sometimes to believe every
thing he sees in print At any rate
that's the way il affected us the 9TH
er day when a nine year old boy
appealed To our generosity by lay
ing before us a card setting fourth
in unshrinking plea that he was a
poor widow and the mother of five
children.
Year: 1878

Not a single member Of the Muir
ply cause has fallen from grace in
this city, and there are more sober
people in it than there has been
since the first tree was cut down on
the public square, Brownsville ID.
Year: 1878

It. is a fact worthy Of constant
thought, says an exchange, that the
best men in any trade or depart
ment of life are always in demand.
The indolent, the inefficient and the
unreliable, are the first TO feel the
pressure of dull times. Industry,
energy and capacity combined sell
dom beg for broad.
Year: 1878

Probably no great political swim
die now on foot is so heartless and
contemplate as this Fenian one,
and none has been so successful,
for it is said that over 100000 has
been raised, from first to last, to-
ward the destruction of Great Bri-
tain, and all from the savings of
the very poor, and it has all been
spent by two or three score of hulk
ing adventurers on their own
clothes, whisky and tobacco The
Nation.
Year: 1878

What is needed is confidence and
mutual good will between capital
and labor. 1t is a repetition of the
old fable Of the wind and the sun
contending for the travellers cloak.
That which fierce gusts of passion
can not effect may be accomplished
by calm, persuasive measures
New York Mail.
Year: 1878

sure as you are born the live men Of the
times adopt this means OF reaching tho
MN public, and you are SURF 10 find
|kAkCAINS offered % f e d I there b r .
DIlIO there are any 10 bo had.
Year: 1878

There may be, and probably is, much
good within the power OF the Society for
the Prevention OF Cruelty TO Children. 1t Is
sad to think how much cruelty TO children
Is practised. And yet tho work Of such
society requires to be conducted with ex-
treme prudence. 1t is matter OF the ut
most dclcacy TO undertake, unasked, the
management OF other peoples children.
Such interference, unless clearly demanded
by circumstances OF the most urgent char
acter, is impertinent and Is. in fact, tres
pass upon the rights OF the natural guar
dians Of the children with whom II rneddies.


There does not appear to us to have been
either justification or excuse for the recent
attempt by force, TO prevent the numerous
children employed In the Italian opera from
dancing. The whole matter seems to re-
solve itself into the question whether we
shall have the best OF dancing or not. For
1t is the opinion OF those most familiar with
the subject that to make perfect dancers
children must begin very young.


SO far as the facts are made public the
children appear TO be kindly treated. They
are kept up late at night when they dance;
but, then, children cannot dance in the
opera without sitting up late.


II is nothing that Col MAPLEsoN was a
little airy when arrested. That can exert
no influence on the rights Of the parties.
He ought not to have been arrested at all.
II we have any act on our statute books
which gives color to such a proceeding,
such statute is an unwarrantable inter-
ference of the Legislature with natural
rights, and 1t ought to be promptly repealed.
Year: 1878

fast approaching when Congress, reused to
the assertion OF Its dignity, and In response
to general feeling Of resentment, will have
to decide whether there ought to be any
standing army at all. The militia, with
meritorious officers to instruct 1t, can be or
ganzed on a basis that will serve every
proper purpose far better and at less cost
than a regular army. Perhaps the experi-
ment Is worth trying
Year: 1878

The Ottawa Government has appointed
next Wednesday IA a daY of national thanks
giving throughout the Dominion. To celebrate
such festival. at the close Of tho harvest year.
is taxing one step-and. in fact coming fully
half way-toward an American institution; the
other half will be ACCOMPLISHED when the Ottawa
and Washington Governments name the same
day. and when the Provincial and state Govern
ments give the day legal effect in their several
domains.