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Year: 1878

Last spring l put In . half acre of
6towelPs evergreen sweet corn for fodder.
After marking the ground one way, rows
three feet and nine inches apart, made
shallow furrows with . email shovel
plough. After scattering little super.
phosphate In the furrows, the corn was
sown with . garden drill and covered
with Bradley's reversible harrow. On
account Of the dry weather the corn came
up very slowly and the weeds got such q
start that did not undertake 70 clean
the rows, but run the cultivator twice
between them.


The latter part OF the season being
favorable, the corn made good growth,
and cared we'll, except In spots where 1t
was too thick. gathered several bush.
Gle OF ears for market and for drying, and
whom feared that frost might injure the
fodder, l cut It up with more than half
the ears still on the stalks. 1t was
bound In sznall bundles and set up in
small stocks, with the butts we'll spread.
About the middle Of November the corn
was drawn In. Part of II was set on one
end under cover, and part was made
Into thin stack. The latter part injured
someWhat. and was fed first. The other
made - good feed for horses and cows a.
one could ask for.


The bundles were heavyiwith the ears,
and cows fed upon It and a few pump
kins continued to give a. much milk a.
before they were taken from good pasture.
Horses also have done we'll upon 1t and a
feWeaFrots daily. One that had coughed
sev6soly when fed on hay, has not
coughed at oil since she began TO eat corn
fodder.


A great weight can be raised upon an
aero of good land. The only objection
b the difficulty Of curing and storing.
It ID useless TO think Of preserving a
large mass togegher In NOW or stack.
Even though the stalks were sufficiently
cured, there is too much moisture In the
thick cara It always keers well when
standing on the bnttA in uheds, or ia the
upper part Of the barn. II room is want
ing under cover to store In this way, II
may Be kept in very good condition out
OF doors BY putting four stocks into one
and binding the tops securely. A row
Of such stocks may be easily kept up.
right BY setting them astride Of pole
laid In crotchcs about two feet from the
ground.-[C. H. Damn, in Rural Home.
Year: 1878

Washington, Dec. 1.-THE commit
tee on banking and currency will finish
Tomorrow the consideration Of Repre-
sentative IIewitt's bill. which provides
that gold and silver coins of the United
States which are full legal tender shall
hereafter be interchangeable at their
lawful value, upon the demand of any
holder thereof, at the Office of the
assistant treasurer at New York, when
presented in sums of 800 or any mul.
tiple thereof, leaving the amount Of
silver to he coined to the discretion OF
the secretary Of the treasury.
Year: 1878

EDINnuRan may and may not have
said tile ugly things about Beaconsfield
and his policy attributed to bin by the
New York reporter. The probability
is that he did. An officer who was at
one time on the same ship with the
duke once told US that his royal high
ness was remarkably outspoken and
never hesitated expressing his opinion,
no matter who received the blow.
Year: 1878

THE affairs of the West of England
and South Wales district bank are
about as bad as can be imagined. The
entire capital and reserve funds are lost
and there Is a further deficiency Of u
million and half Of dollars for which
the shareholders are liable. English
financial honor is still ebbing.
Year: 1878

Mr.. Jennings writes form London to
the New York World that it is now
quite certain the commiug harvest in
England will be poor one, and conse-
quently they will have to rely upon
this country to supply tho deficiency.
He further says We no longer read in
the Times city article that England
cannot possibly suffer from foreign
competition. American calicoes are in
every dry goods store, American iron
is being used on English railroads
The change seems incredible, but I
have looked very carefully into the
facts, and there cannot be moments
doubt with regard to them. The trade
returns for May, which were only is
sued yesterday, disclose startling
s.ate Of affairs startling, that is, to all
who have an eye for facts and attach
more importance to them than to
theories. The exports again show at
falling off Of u per cent. In all de-
partments of the cotton and iron trade
we sell less and less to former custo.
mers. The writer of the Times city
article is now fairly scared. speak
ing of iron and steel manufactures, he
says: cat present it is trade which
must mean loss, and perhaps ruin in
the long run, to important sections Of
the community, for it is trade carried
on at an ohvions loss0


But what has all this got to do with
American readers? some one may say.
A good deal. In the first place, it is
America which is the most active and
most successful competitor of England
in her present markets. Then, again,
America not only takes away England's
foreign customers, but is underseliing
her at her own doors in London, Liv-
erpool any every large town. While
thus cutting her commercial resorces
down, America grows harvests which
no other country is able to produce and
which England, is obliged to buy.
This year you will have very fine
harvest can only say that it will be
needed in Europe. Russia has not
grown much more grain than she
wants, aud the yield here will be con.
paratively small And it is not for the
grain only that England now comes
with money in her hand to the United
States ports. The sale of American
beet is simply enormous, considering
that even in 1876 it was almost if not
quite unknown. And now We pay
something like s2O.OOO,000 year for
American beef, and the business is
| constantly increasing So that for the
''staff of lite,' and large portion OF
the meat consumed. this country must
now depend very greatly on the United
States. There is one conclusion which
should be disposed to draw, namely,
that this state Of affairs must inevitably
restore your long lost prosperity. 1t is
an i'll wind that blows no one any good


Foreign capital must necessarily pour
into your country, making up in q
large measure for the losses Of the last
few years, and infusing new life and
energy into all departments Of trade
| This is certain as that the sun will rise
tomorrow. The recovery OF trade in
| America does not now depend upon
accident or artificial causes, but is be-


ing produced by fixed laws-for there
are such things in connection with the


commercial as we'll as the physical
world, although they are not by any


means what the political economists
suppose them to be.
Year: 1878

Emperor Williams physicians have
issued another long statement 10 re-
gard to his condition They ascribe
his majesty's relative slow progress to.
ward recovery to great loss Of blood
and appetite, to the shock Of his sys
tenn, and to mental depression His
attainable degree Of strength is not
yet regalned; His power Of locomotion
Is small. His hands are helpless, and
he can only eat with assistance. The
physicians, however, arc confident Of
his recovery by the influence OF time
and exercise.
Year: 1878

Col. Rice, now of Gen. Miles Fifth
United States infantry, was in comp,
any on Tuesday last with gentleman
of our acquaintance, and the conversa.
ton naturally turned on Indian war
fare aud frontier experience, the day
being the university of the Custer
massacre. Col. Rice, who has seen
service in Indian campaigns, related
striking anecdote concerning the saga.
city of a horse which lost his rider in
the fatal fight. Some months after
the battle, steamer having on board
a portion of the Fifth infantry was
pursuing her voyage near the mouth
of the Powder river, on the Yellow
stone. The scout Buffalo Bill, who
was securing the country for indica-
tions Of hostile Indians, saw in the
distance an object moving slowly to.
ward the boat. They anxiously scru-
tinized it as it continued to approach,
supposing that it might be the advance
of body of hostiles. Their suspi-
cions were not lcssend when they dis.
covered it to be q horse, which might
be that of a scout watching their
movements or signaling the advance
of the enemy in forse. When the an
imal came down to the bank Of the
river, however, it was found to be IN
mounted and alone, and on nearing
the boat it neighed aud pranced, man
ifesting every sign of its joyful recog-
milton. The boat was stepped, and,
when the horse was taken on board, it
was found to bear tie brand, "Seventh
cavalry" The place where it was
found was 70 or 80 miles in bee line
from the scene Of the Custer fight.
The horse had evidently seen or heard
the steamer, and recoe enized it IS a
sign of civilization, and. being tired Of
its free life in the wilderness, gladly
embraced the opportunity Of returning
to its accustomed duties.


Another kindred incident, showing
the strength Of the second nature i'm
planted by human companionship in
domestic animals, was related by Col


Rice. Upon one Of the steamers used
in the campaign against the Sioux
was a small dog belonging to Gen


Miles, which one day fell overheard,
and was given up for lost. Six months
afterward, as the same steamer was re


turning. the singular sight was witnes
sed Of a small dog and a wolf trottine
along the shore in friendly companion.
ship. The dog was recognized as that
lost overheard The steamer was stop


ped. and the dog taken on board, de


lighted to meet his old friends, while
the wolf On the approach of the boa'
ran back into the bush. The intelli-
gent animal had apparently anticipat-
ed the return of the boat, and patient


ly awaited his restoration to his master
Year: 1878

The Interior Department has un-
earthed an extraordinary amount OF
crookedness at the Crow Creek Agency
DR.. Livingstone, the Agent has been
plundering the government and the
Indians in the most baretaced manner
forging vouchers and doing whatever
else was necessary to carry cut his
plans. The Agency is an uniuportant
and abscure one, which gave HIM a
better opportunity to practice his vii.
lainies than he would have had at a
more prominent place.
Year: 1878

It is stated that petroleum brings to
this country from abroad more gold
than any other commodity except cot.
ton. It is less than fifteen years since
the FIRST barrel was exported.
Year: 1878

will open Millinery store on I'd
street three dco ors from the Post Office
Thanking all for their liberal patron.
age, she would respectfully solicit its
continuance. Her stock will be much
more complete than formerly.
Year: 1878

TIE FACTORY OWNERS NOT OBLIGED TO INSURE


The ESCAPE OF THE HANDS IN CASE OF FIRE


BosrON Dec 30.-The Supreme Judicial
Court has sent down decision of more than ordinary
interest to mill aud their employees. tB held
that it the duty Of mill propriroFs TO their
wants employed In building which is properly con
structed for ordinary business carried within II TO
provide OF to insure the safety OF the
the consequences Of fire not caused by HIS
negligence. The issue raised In the case OF Ellen
Jones against the Granite Mills Company al Fall River,
In whose mill eOuhagratiOn occurred September 10,
1874 with terrible loss OF lite Palntln was an en-
pOye OF THIS corporation ana brought action of tort TO
for which she received at the tune Of
the DIRE through her inability TO escape from the sixth
story oil tho burning mill except from the gable window.
Year: 1878

In conversation with St. Louis news paper reporter few days ago, Prof. Wise' the eromaut, expressed his views of the possibilities of ballooning, as follows; Balloons may be made of boiler iron Il built large enough. You know it is the battle of cubes and surfaces. When the surface is doubled the cube is quadrupled and balloon of 400 feet diameter of cop per boiler plate will lift up man-of-wal ship and sail away with it. With such balloon stocked with bombs and other munitions of war, think what consterna ton could be carried into besieged camp But the mission of the balloon will be more for scientific explorations. That overshad owing science called meteorology vii vet provide its definition in the use of the balloon"
Year: 1878

It is stated that columbium has been found in large quantities in Marion, U. S., and in the Amazon stone of Colorado. In color it stands midway between nickel and tin. It can be applied to the surface of other metals like the two just named, and the Manufacturer and Builder prophecies that we shall soon hear of columbium- plating, It is slightly lighter than tin, and its chemical properties, while somewhat similar to the latter, are more nearly allied to those of bismuth and antimony. AL present there is little immediate prospect of its becoming an article of commerce. But we must remember that aluminium was not many years ago as little known and rarely seen as columbium, alias piObium.
Year: 1878

the enlightened present.

 Nothing but education-scientific edu- cation-can benefit mankind. We must find out the laws of nature and conform to them.

 Free labor will give us wealth. Free thought will give us truth.

 On every hand are the enemies of indi- vlduality and mental freedom. Custom meets us at the cradle, and leaves us only at the tomb. Our first questions are an swered by ignorance, and our last by su- perstition. We are pushed and dragged by countless hands along the beaten track, and our entire training can be sum- med up in one word-suppression.

 Disobedience IS one of the conditions of progress.

 The trouble with most people is they bow to what is called authority; they have a certain reverence for the old because it IS old They think man is better for being dead, especially if he has been dead for long time.

 Tyranny likes courtiers, flatterers, fol- lowers, fawners; and superstition wants believers, disciples, zealots, hypocrites and subscribers.

 To prevent thought is to prevent all ad- vancement except in the direction of faith.

 Not one of the orthodox preachers of to-day dare preach what he thinks, if he knows that the majority of his congrega- ton think otherwise. He knows that every member of his church stands guard over his brain with creed like club in his hand. He knows that he is not eX- pected to search after truth; but to defend the creed.

 Every pulpit is pillory, in which stands hired culprit, defending the justice of his own imprisonment.

 The highest crime against creed is to change it. Reformation is treason. Every new religion has little less su- perstition than the old so that the religion of science is but a question of time.

 The enfranchisement of the soul is a slow and painful process. Superstition the mother of those hideous twins, Fear and Faith, from her throne of skulls. still rules the world, and will until the mind of woman ceases to be the property of priests. Ours is the first government made by the people, and for the people. It is the only nation with which the gods have had nothing to do.

 The Declaration of Independence an- nounces the sublime truth, that all power comes from the people. This was de nial, and the first denial of a nation, ol the infamous dogma that God confers the right upon one man to govern others. It was the first grand assertion of the digni- ty of the human race.
Year: 1878

If the account given in Genesis is true, the serpent was the first schoolmaster, the first advocate of learning, the first enemy of ignorance, the first to whisper in human ears the sacred word liberty, the creator of ambition, the author of modesty, of inquiry, of doubt, of progress and of civilization.

 In nearly all the theologies, mythologies and religions, the devils have been much more humane and merciful than the gods.

 Each nation has created a god, and the god has always resembled its creator. Few nations have been so poor as to have but one god.

 No god was ever in advance of the na- tion that created him.

 Beyond nature man can not go even III thought-above nature he cannot rise below nature he cannot fall.

 Matter is indestructible, and the inde- s:ructible cannot be created.

 Neither matter nor force can be increas- ed or diminished.

 Force cannot exist apart from matter. Thought is a form offorce. We walk with the same force with which we think. In the whole universe there is not one atom in the state of rest,

 Nature embraces with infinite arms all matter and all force.

 Nothing but falsehood ever attested itself by signs and wonders.

 To prevent famine one blow is better than million sermons.

 There is an "irrepressible conflict" be tween religion, and science, and they can not peaceably occupy the same mind and the same world.

 It is better to love men than to fear gods.

 It is grander and nobler to think and investigate for yourself than to repeat creed

 All physical and mental phenomena arc governed by law, absolute, eternal, ana memorable.

 The glory of science is that it is freeing the soul-breaking the mental manacle' getting the brain out of bondage-giv ing courage to thought-filling the world with mercy, justice and joy.

 Science is the only lever capable O raising mankind.

 Ignorance worships mystery; reason explains it; the one groyels, the othel soars

 Aman with false diamond shuns tht society of lapidaries, and it is upon thl' principle that superstition abhors science

 Common sense belongs exclusively t( no tongue. Logic is not confined to, no has it been buried with the dead langua ges.

 One hundred and fifty years ago tht foremost preachers of our times would have perished at the stake.

 Every church pretends to have found the exact truth.

 A creed is the ignorant past bullying
Year: 1878

feel under increased obligations for the patronage so liberally accorded me as the successor of the old and successful house of Wm. B. Hooper & Co.,, and while ac- knowledging this fact, allow me to add that those dealing with me will find as complete a stock as was ever offered by the old firm with all that is new and desirable in addi- tion.

 JAMES M. BARNEY
Year: 1878

THg discussion which has been gong on
all over the country respecting the talk
about communism, illustrates the truthful
ness OF the remarks made by the. London
Times. That paper said ''The fabric of
American society is so strong that 1t can sus-
tain with little or no injury shocks which
would be fatal to weaker or more efete
constitutions In the United States freedom
If discussion is the safety-valve through
which great deal of superfluous political
steam escapes Americans have political
sagacity enough u distinguish sharply be-
tween Intempcrate or even revolutionary
speech and rebellions action. They have IN
bounded toleration 70, the one, but have
never shown any great fltiemce of TIE other.
We do not doubt ii they have TO deal with
any dangerous form Of t,mmunsr,, they
viii deal with it effectively. The social
fabric OF the United States IS Is capal.le of
successfully resisting such an .ttaek As that
of any state IN the world T,e liberation
that is manifested IN the discussion of the
theory would give place to energy, If any at
tempt were made to put the doctrine In op-
Grafton.
Year: 1878

\ SENSATIONAL paragraph appears among
the latest batch Of kilograms from Washing
ton to the effect that Ben Butler is devoting
his evenings TO the preparation of articles Of
impeachment against Hayes While the
STATESMAN does not believe the report has
any foundation IN fact, still i. is of the opin.
ion that Benjamin is, like Barkis, willing.
and would jump at any chance to deal the
imam from Ohio" death blow. Old Ben
may be wicked, but, in point of brains, is
the peer of any man III congress.
Year: 1878

There is marble mantel which is giving
New York courts and lawyers a good deal
OF occupation. A slate company put up
white marble mantel in the house OF
wealthy man named Meyer. He refused to
pay for it on account of some imperfec-
lions, and they brought suit. Since the be.
ginning of the litigation, he, his wife, and
one of his sons have died, and his eX-
ecutor has been substituted as defendant.
The house in which the mantel is put UP
has been sold under foreclosure OF mort
gage, and the estate OF Dir. Meyer is lnsol-
vent, so that even if the plaintiff should get q
Judgment it could not be collected: yet the
litigation is keptup all the same. The amount
sued for is $3.50, and the costs and expenses
now aggregate over $1,000. The case has
been on appeal three times to the general


term of the Marine Court and twice to The
Court of Common Pleas. OF the five
Judges of the Marine Court only two were
there at the beginning Of the suit. The
case was last tried last week, the result be-
ing verdict for the plaintiff Of S1l9, with
interest. The defendants counsel had the
Jury polled, and two Of the jurors said thai


they had understood the verdict to be fol
S119, without interest. The plaintiff IS coun


sci insisted upon the interest, the two dis
senting Jurors adhered to what they hat
said, and nothing, therefore, remained eN


cept to discharge the jury and permit th'
fourth trial to come to naught. -,
Year: 1878

I. To TIE FAIR GROUNDS Richmond
and Fredericksburg Railroad Company will
run trains to the Fair Grounds every day
during the Fair from Broad-Street station,
corner OF Eighth and Broad streets: The
ears will run to and from the grounds
every hall hour, as in former years.
Year: 1878

THE PUBLIc-SCHooL MAPs.-The City
School Board has bad the premium maps
drawn by the children in the white and col
ored public schools In this city handsomely
bound, and they will be exhibited at the
State Fair this week.
Year: 1878

When Lablache was only tWo-and-
twenty, his hair turned white in a single
night. He was playing the part of
Jupiter in q NEUROLOGICAL piece at the
San Carlo at Naples, and as the god,
seated upon a cloud and armed with
lightning, was descending majestically
from the flies, a cry Of horror rose from
the whole house, from the stalls to the
gallery. Jupiter, persuaded that his
hour was come, closed his eyes and gave
himself up for lost. The noise from the
house continued, but the unfortunate god,
with his ewes still closed and counting
the seconds mechanically, was surprised
to find himself neither rising or falling.
After a few instants of terrible suspense,
Iablache decided to open his eyes. The
cloud was motionless, equi-distant rom
the flies and the stage, but an untortu-
nate machinist, with his arm caught In
the pulleys that moved the machine,
was suspended in the air above the
singers head. How the poor man was
saved is not related, nor IS 1t material TO
the present story; but Lablache, who
descended safe and sound, and who sang
his great air in grand style, found the
next morning that his hair had changed
from raven black to snowy white.


When Mr. Billony went home and
saw a handsome bouquet repOsing on
one Of the parlor chairs he mentally OBJ
served that it was a shame to let such
beautiful flowers lie there to wither; so
he took them up tenderly, procured q
basin of water and placed them carefully
therein-and the same instant his we
gave a piercing shrek and tainted dead
away. But it was too late. Mrs. BlIo-
ny's new spring bonnet was utterly
ruined.