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Year: 1879

DRAlSAGE.-prof. IIilgard, in his
Agricultural Report of Mississippi,
says the advantages of drainage are
not confined to land which is absolute
ly wet, but its beneficial effects will be
experienced in all those soils In which
water can remain stagnant, at any
time, at q less depth than three or four
feet beneath the surface. Like shall
low tillage, want of drainage compels
tie roots Of plants to remain near the
surface Of the ground, whore they are
not only exposed to all tho vicissitudes
of weather, but are also compelled to
seek their nourishment within very
narrow limits. Drainage. therefore,
loosens and acrates the soil and sub
soil, in such manner that the roots of
the plants are enabled to penetrate
deeper. to strata which are rarely, or
never, sufficiently affected by drouth
TO allow injury to vegetation,
Year: 1879

4 London newspaper relates that
when a Frenchman, who fell overheard
from the steamer which took the Cob
den Club back from Greer 11chs was
rescued and returned to the deck, the
first thing he courteously said was rna5
he hoped he had not kept the steamer
waiting.
Year: 1879

4 perplexed German who had made
a garment for !. youth, and found him..
self unable to dispose Of tho Snrplns
fullness which appeared when trying it
on the young candidate, declared voci-
ferously that de coat Is good. 1t is no
fault of de coat. De poy is too slimW
Year: 1879

A Hell-dressed woman drew quite a
crowd together IN Cincinnati street
by striking man across the face sew
eral times with q whip, and then finish
ing the. punishishment with her fists.
She coolly explained that he was her
runaway husband, whoa she had la
boriously traced for the sole purpose of
whipping him.
Year: 1879

Above all other earthly gifts q good
mother stands pre-eminent; she is bound
by q sacred tic to her child-onc that
can never be broken to the very steps
OF the scafold she will follow him, pray
for him, ana always believe that he was
innocent,
Year: 1879

A young man went into restaurant
the other day, and, rerAarking that
Time is money! added that as he had
half an hour to spare, if the proprietor
was willing, he'd take it ont in pie


New York News.
Year: 1879

he intimates that the members OF the


Board knew that lie had committed per.
jury, but for tho sake Of bribe paid 10
them by Mr., Frew as agent for the banks
Winked at his perjury and thus committed
perjury on their own part.


Now there Is no bank officer in this city,
that we know Of, nor any member Of the
Board Of Commissioners, whose word will
not go further than that Of the man who
wiltully mutilated the public records Of
this county. A man who would for the
sake Of Sunday sensation thus impute
such basenesS TO 10 large a number Of
prominent citizens Is just tho kind Of a
man to tamper with the presentments Of a
grand jury.


Mr.. Frew voted last year in the Board
Of Commissioners against receiving the
returns ofthe banks on the ground that
they claimed:improper exemptions. He
was at thattime, as now adirector in the
Exchange Bank and as director Of the
bank lie concurred in instructing the
Cashier to makea full and correct return
ofits properly subjectto taxation.


Mr.. Frew,s efforts and labors in the Board
and out Of 1t to keep down expenses to
the Taxpayers of this community, and
especially to save them from the nonstrous
job that the Sham Relormer sought to
saddle on them last year without their
consent, whereby lot Of paupers were to
be put at work in competition with the
mechanics OF this community, are too well
known to need rehearsal here.


Tho Sham Reiormer is a great bowler
about his interest in the dear public. His
howls are bogus through and through. He
would saddle big jobs oil the Taxpayers
without their consent and take the bread
out Of tho mouths of the poor by getting
up in our midst an institution for the em-
ployment of criminal labor. This Is the
sort Of Sham Retormer hc is. Hishowl-
ing is on par with his mutilatlon of the
records. .l.l ....
Year: 1879




Rev. MARCUS ORMoND, U. p. min
lister living at Burgettstown, on the
Pan handle Railroad, is suffering from
a very peculiar misfortune. He some
time ago met with the loss of his house
by fire, and his library was destroyed
as the same time. This weighed upon
his mind to such an extent as to seri-
ously impair his mental faculties He
then became ill of fever, and when he
recovered his general health, he dis
covered that he had lost his fine edu-
cation, not even being able to read.
He is now endeavoring to regain his
lost knowledge by studying the al
phabet, commencing at the. very foot
of the ladder OF learning, as a child
would do.-[Ohio Patriot.
Year: 1879

er he spoke again while asleep, and


whether he said anything foolish"


Some time since q physician who
thought to prove that Mr.. Troyer was
only "acting 'possum," knelt down
with him while he was praying in this
unconscious state and slyly inserted a
silver needle intas the fleshy part OF
his leg below the knee to the depth
of one and half inchs, but the preach
er gave no indications of having sense
of feeling and the doctor was convinc-
ed. However the next morning Mr..
Troyer complained of soreness in bis
leg for which he could not account.


Whatever may be said for oragainst
this new departure in preaching the
gospel, the fact remains that Mr.. Tro-
yer is doing good work. He has al.
ready converted many of the hardest
cases who only came to scoff at relig-
ion in general and the sleeping
preaching" in particular. No one can
hear him and remain unmoyed, and
whoever hears him once is earger to
hear him agaln.-[Vistula Times.
Year: 1879

A PERPLEXED German. who had
made a garment for q youth, and
found himself unable to dispose of
the surplus fullness which appeared
when trying it on the young candidate,
declared vociferously that de coat ish
goot. It ish no fault of de coat. De
poy ish too slimp .uutte
Year: 1879

A CHILD's hair has turned from dark
auburn to snow white in Oiean, N. Y.
A few weeks ago the little girl, who is
nine years old, saw two or thre drunk
en- men in the street and was terribly
frightened. She cried for three hours
and her paroxysms of grief were well
nigh uncomfortable. Soon afterward
her hair began to turn gray and now it
is white.-[New York Tribune.
Year: 1879

DrFPERENCE BETWEEN THE OLD RELIGION AND


THE xEw--LEcTURE By PROFESSOR ADLER


There three courses of conduct possible with
respect to the Church. said Professor Felix Adler in
his discourse at Standard Hail. They are hearty
agreement and submsson--that is to be found
among tho majority of the common peoplc-carnost
opposition in the interest OF Improvement and totnl
indifference. The number of those Indifferent in


gious matters Is very large In the State of Ohio IL
has boon estimated that among the three million
persons who constitute tho population per-
haps million In no way afhliated
with any church or form OF worship. Now.
II free thought is so widely diuscd throughout the
community. why does 1t not rise conspicuous TO tho
surface? The reason Is that those who style tiem-
selves free thinkers often not ut all free thinkers
They may be in measure free. but they arc not
thinkers. II you examine the manner in which they
have arrived ut liberalism you will ind that IL
hardly by dint of reflection and hard spiritual strug
glcs. They were orthodox formerly by force OF cir
cumstanccs; they liberal now by force of cir
cumstances. In this manner largo class has been
formed OF persons who are out of sympathy with
less to build up new convictions for themselves.
They are absorbed in material interests.
Often they incapable Of intellectual
culture and takc no pleasure in art.
Well nigh the only trace Of dealsm To Do found in
the lives of these people is due to their domestic
affections Tho family is for them also the school of
unselishness. protects thcn from moral degenera-
ton and is their safeguard in their present pcrilous
midway station between the old ana the new In the


interest OF the large class OF indcrcnts. II is


sary that frcc religion should be organized. We do
not believe In the Divine policy of doing nothing,
we do not share the superstition that things
win come right Of thsinsslvss, we do not
Year: 1879

cal faith and the belief of spirituaism is that the
former selfshly says. save your own soul and not
that of your neighbor. while the latter counsels
not to think OF our own self or soul. but to
lose them in trying to neighbor.
Christianity says give up business. forsake your
self and ny to the wilderness with the Holy
Spirit; the new method OF faith teaches US to get
deeper into society not to get away from it; to
suit the wants of fellow beings. You cannot get
it what they ought to be- they what the
imagination paint them would now be in heaven
and we must endeavor to change and transhgure
about "when it does then the code Of honor will be-
despised; everything that it suggests will be indis
putabe; then instead OF the code of honor shall
have the law Of justice. and tho law Of justice will
yield to the law OF equity. and the higher law of
equity will be the law Of love-
Year: 1879

Don't let the blood stagnate in your
veins. You can prevent its doing so by
increasing its volume and purity, by
stimulating the digestive organs and
encouraging assimilation, with that
Stomach Bitters. People not afflicted
with any organic or inorganic disease,
grow wan and haggard simply because
their blood is thin, watery, deficient in
nourishing properties and so meager in
quantity that the extremities are very
imperfectly supplied with it, and The SUI
perficial circulation extremely feeble
Hence the bloc iless appearance of the
countenance. But when the Bitters are
used to enrich and quicken the blood,
the rosy hue OF health returns TO the
cheek, the frame acquires substance as
we'll as vigor, the appetite improves and
no digestive qualms interfere either with
its qualification or the subsequent trail
guilty of the stomach.
Year: 1879

The facilities of the HERALD Steam
Printing House for doing job work are not
surpassed in California outside of San
francisco and Sacramento All work en-
trusted to us will be executed with neat
ness and dispatch at the lowest living
rates.
Year: 1879

To LET A COLD HAVE ITS OWN WAY, is
often to assist in laying the foundation
of Consumption. To cure the most
stubborn Cough or Cold you have only
to use judiciously DR.. Jayne's Expecto-
rant.
Year: 1879




GooD TAsTE.-A lady of good taste
can be detected the moment she enters a
shop for the purpose of making pur-
chases. You win see such lady turn
ing away from the assurance Of shop
mon and the recommendations of milin-
EN-. She cares not how original pat
tern may be, if it be ugly, or how recent
. shape, IL it be awkward. Whatever
law fashion dictates, she follows a law of
her own, and is never behind it. She
wears very beautiful things, which peo-
pie generally suppose came from Paris,
or at least were made by a French mill
ner, but which as often are selected by
herself, and made up by her own hand.
Not that her costume is either rich or
new !; on the contrary she wears many q
cheap dress, but it is always pretty, and
many an old one, but it is always good.
She deals In no gaudy confusion of colors
nor does she affect studied sobriety
buts either refreshes you with spirit.
sd contrast, or c0mposes you with q
judicious harmony. Not scrap of tinsel
or trumpery appears about her. She
puts no faith in velvet bands, or gilt
buttons, or twisted cording. She is quite
aware, however, that the trimming is as
important as the dress all her inner
borders and braidings are delicate and
fresh; and should anything peep out
which is not intended to be seen, it Is
quite as delicate as that whichis. After
81, there is no great art either in hel
fashions or her materials. The secret
simply consists in her knowledge of bel
own station and her own looks. And
no woman can dress we'll who dees not
After this we need not say that whoever
y attracted by the costume will not bt
disappointed by the wearer She may
not be handsome or accomplished, but
we will answer for her being even tenn.
pered 7; well informed, thoroughly sensi.
BILE, and a complete lady.
Year: 1879

LEAvEs.-Leaves from the woods fur
n1sh excellent litter for all kinds of
stock, but is particularly useful in hog
pens to be tramped up and converted
into manure. 1t will pay the farmer to
go to his woods, rake up the leaves and
haul them home.
Year: 1879

THE Use OF BoNEs.-The chief val
ue of bones as source of plant food is
the phosphoric acid and nitrogen which
they contain; and whether broken up
or unbroken, rendered soluble or not,
bones should always be applied under
meath the surface of the the ground.
Year: 1879

To USE UP COLD FowLs.-Take the
remains of cold fowl chopping fine;
cover the bottom of a pudding dish with
fine bread crumbs; put in the chicken,
seasoned with pepper and salt, pour
over a half teacupful of gravy, cover
quite thickly with bread crumbs, and
then strew over bits Of butter cover
and place in the oven for ten or fifteen
minutes: take off the lid and break in
enough eggs to cover the top; sprinkle
eggs are well cooked.
Year: 1879

OMELET.-Allow two tablespeonsful


Of milk to each egg; beat the yolks and


whites separately add little salt; pour
into hot skillet, in which a piece Of


butter, the size Of walnut, has been


melted. The skillet should be as hot as
it can be without scorching the butter.
As the omelet bubbles and rises. run


thin -bladed knife under now and then
that. it may not burn !; cook two or three


minutes, or until the eggs set; fold over,


shake the skillet, turn on to hot plat
ter, and serve at once.
Year: 1879

1t cannot but be admitted that there
is a great deal of truth in what Rev. II.
M. Turner, a colored preacher who has
Leen very conspicuous in behalf 'f his
race, says in writing to the Atlanta, Ga.
Constitution. He says: 81 see no
future for the negro here. I think the
sooner he gets out of it the better
Therefore, am an African emigration
ist, squarely and fairly, and have been
for some years. | used to think the
North wished us big things, but | find
white people are the same everywhere.
None of you care fig for the negro
beyond the extent you can use him.
have no charge against the South that
do not m Ike against the North"


Notwithstanding the main truthful
ness of what Mr.. Turner says, and no
doubt feels from his present standpoint
in Southern State, there are hundreds
and thousands of persons all over the
North and South who are sincerely and
devoted y interested in the future of the
oolored people, and many thousands of
dollars have been given and expended
for their benefit without any other hope
of r-" ra than an approving conscience.
Year: 1879

WHAT IS CALLED hazipg," at col
leges, has received its due punishment
at West Point Military school by the
summary dismissal of six Of tn. hazing
students from the Academy. The sec
retary of war, and General schofeld
are unable to see why one cadet who is
being educated at the public expense
should be allowed to bully and insult
another cadet, who is in the same posi-
tion, or how man can indicate his
fitness for position in the United States
army by marrying and torturing lad
who has come defenceless and friend
less, a stranger to the academy. Haz-
ing used to seem very amusing to the
hazers, but it will hardly appear to be
so productive of fun ow that it will
result in the hazers being kicked ont OF
school. Besides the six that have been
expelled, there are still ten others un-
der arl est and will be tried by court
martial, but it is probable that the
pun shment will end with the cases
already acted upon. General Schofeld
in expressing his views of the affair,
regar the action of the third class to
have been caused by "pure cussed-
ness" and believes the Academy will
bs better without young men who give
themselves up to the practice of " haz-
ing' than with them. The Generals )
head is level on that score, and it
would not be amiss If some of the boast
ed colleges in the country would make
use of the same remedy to prevent the
det,s,abl. habit of bazing.
Year: 1879

Edwin Booth desires that Gray, the lunatic that shot at him, shall be kept securely in the asylum. II trust Gray will become gray indeed,' he says. " in kind but careful confinement, or if earlier released, that his exit may be from this earthly stage of his dramatic exploits to that celestial scene where idiots cease from shooting and actors are atrest. 1.-The be ever again at liberty, my own life I shall not value worth a rush
Year: 1879

st. Louis Republican,.


Senator Window wants to move thu ne
groes to States where they will be let vote as
they wish. Send half million or so of the
field hands Of the South into Minnesota and
let them set up to rule that State as they
once did the South. and Window himself
would soon be at the head Of the worst lot
Of ''oulldozers'' the country has ever seen.
Year: 1879

The watchman at the Merchants hotel dis
covered fire in the extension of the build
ing adjoining the Academy of Music, on
Hennepin avenue, occupied by Trussell &
Boutell. The flames were first discovered in


the rear of the building. The combustible
nature of the goods stored in that part of
the room caused dense smoke, SO that q
family named Krauer, who occupied the
third floor Of the building, were nearly snf-
focated and had to be removed from
the building By means Of a ladder from the
third story window. The store was 16Q feet
Year: 1879

New Orleans Democrat.


The Teller committee, like our United
States grand jury, appear determined to hear
only one side of the case. It is willing to
tsten only to witnesses that can swear to
have seen intimidation. It is useless to at
tempt any contradiction of the testimony; it
will not hear such witnesses.
Year: 1879

Albany Argus.


1t would be an un-American thing and
dangerous thing to begin third termism any
where in our system, even to indorse it in
the action of one of our parties, for 8 prece-
dent would be established dangerous to the
peace and safety Of our Institutions On be-
half of them we are all Democrats and we
are all Republicans.
Year: 1879

memory of the late Representatives
Schleicher and Quinn were adopted
and the Senate adjourned.


HOUSE


The House refused to consider the
reports from the Committee of Ways
and Means, or to proceed with the
Legislative Appropriation bill, and
is now at noon in Committee of the
Whole for the consideration of the
Census bill.


The House went into Commit
tee of the Whole on the Census bill,
the first amendment transferring the
power of fappointing supervisors from
the Secretary of the interior 10 the
Governors of the several States,
with an amendment so as to provide
that if any Governor shall fail to
make the nominations of Supervi-
sors before the first of April, 1880,
the Secretary of the Interior shall
make such appointments, which was
agreed to without further action,
when the House took a recess.


To-night's session is for the dis
cussion of the Legislative, Executive
and Judicial appropriation bill.
Year: 1879

The statesman of the present Gen
eral Assembly of Tennessee is the man
who can put through ia the shortest
time a motion to adjourn sine die.
That man will be unanimously re-
elected.
Year: 1879

The Olean LINES says: Living in
plain cottage situated between
two farms on the main settlement
near Portville, about seven miles
from Olean, is a young woman
named Mary Langdon. Her
mother has been an almost help
less invalid for many years. She
herself has long suffered with a
terrible cancer on the upper part Of
her left arm. To cure this, or to
alleviate the torment of mind and
body which it has caused has boon
her constant thought, her ever
present care. Tho aid Of compe-
tent physicians has been called in,
and every kind of treatment resor-
ted to, but with no hopeful result.


Expert medical men pronounced
tho case a hopeless ono, and the
poor girl was regarded by all, and
by herself, as the doomed victim Of
the dreadful disease. A lady doc
tor of reputed skill in the treat
ment Of cancers recently visited the
sufferer, but gave no word OF en-
couragemont. After sho had gone
Mary shed no tears, but resolved
upon a desperate and dangerous
expedient, and when she had re.
solved speedily carried her design
into execution. She ran o stout
needle beneath the cancer, drawing
a thread through it. With this
thread she tied the artery, using
her teeth to aid her. She then
took 4 sharp table knife and cut the
cancer, which was Of unusual size,
out Of her arm.


This done, she took the mass OF
quivering flesh which she had re-
moved from her arm, and, without
n word to any, buried it in ths
rear of tho cottage. So quietly had
tho girl gone through with the
terrible operation that no one in
the honse was aware Of it until
sometime after: Having bound up
and covered tho terrible wound in
her arm, she went about her house
hold work as usual. OF course the
result Of this fearful piece Of sur
gerry is difficult to predict. The
girl is not at present suffering any
i'll effects, and it is sincerely to be
hoped that SO much courage and
endurance will be rewarded by q
complete euro.
Year: 1879

a lawyer in Delhi, New York,
who was employed by alady in
Hancock to collect an account,
neglected to remit the amount, and
when a demand was made on him
for it, coolly said that the whole
amount was fiften dollars less than
his usual charge in such cases,
but soeing that his client was
a woman he'd call'it square. AL
tho lawyer did was to write TO the
debtor,
Year: 1879

Burlington Ha9heys: There is poem
in the November Atlantic starts of by
saving, There CAME three queens from
heaven Never d, you believe it, well
het you a thousand dollars one of them
was dealt TO MIN, and he pulled the other
two out of his boot.
Year: 1879

1t was not black men, but white men,
that order was intended for: and yet, We
believe. no committee Of investigation was
demanded, nor denunciatory speeches made
by southern members Of congress. Nor was
the Howe company deferred from appealing
to congress for An extension OF ITS patent
privileges. There Is, after all, difference
between the green tree and the dry tree.
Year: 1879

The foreign news is not very encouraging
lust now. There is plague In Russia /; ? great
strike is imminent II England there Is a fam
inc in Switzerland. and the small pox n LIE
land.
Year: 1879

To me I:ufLaad Og5ce We wish you to dis
charge anv OF your sub OrtiinateS who vote the
democratic ticket We believe that the success
of the democratic party will he the ruin OF our
country and business, and viii not support any
one who viii not stand by Us in this This is Il
great struggle between the intelligent and re
spectacle portion. Z the community, and the
ignorant and rou,,hs and rowdies Of the cities
Mr.. StockweII fully concurs with me in the
above. Write to all your agents to the above
effect and what We wish