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Year: 1879

at the residence on the Pillow Mound Place,
in the county of Lee and State Of Arkansas
proceed to sell to the highest bidder, for cash
about one thousand bushels Of corn, and the
following described land lying in the county
of Lee and State of Arkansas, to-wit: Begin
ming at a stake in the north line and west of
the center of the southwest quarter of the
southeast quarter of section seventeen, in
township one north Of range five, cast; and
running thence east, upon and with that north
line, to the section line dividing said section
seventeen and section sixteen in same town
ship and range thence south with, and upon
said section line between sections sixteen and
seventeen, twenty and tWenty-one, and
twenty-eight and twenty nine of same town
ship and range, to the southeast corner of the
northeast quarter Of the northeast quarter of
section twenty-nine; thence due west, with
and upon the line between the north half and
south half of the said northeast quarter Of
section twenty-nine, TO a stake in that line
and west of the center, Of the northwest
quarter Of the said northeast quarter of sec
ton twenty-nine; thence north TO the point
of beginning-it being part Of the planta-
tion Of the said Gideon J. Pillow. known as
the Mound Place, and the said meets and
bounds embracing four hundred acres, more
or less.


Title has been examined, and believed to be
good. W. L, ANDERSON, Trustee.


May 5, 1879. $3.50
Year: 1879

JOnn a. OrhBS LII I1OHIu1au


The growing of fruit as a source of
profit in Middle Florida, may be said
to be yet in it's infancy, Although
most persons have cultivated with
success, around their houses, several
varieties of fruit for their own use for
years, there are but few that have
entered into the business, or have
given it any particular attention as a
means of increasing the income of the
farm. We would venture to assert
that not more than one farmer in
twenty-five and we believe we would
be within bonds if we said one in fifty,
raise enough fruit to give bountiful
supply to their families. Why is it :?
We have in our section every variety
of soil and a climate unsurpassed.
The pear of some varieties gives US
two crops a year, and the fig from
two to three. We can grow all the
fruits OF the North, with few excep-
tions, together with the semi-tropical
fruits. The fact is our people have
been a community of planters, not
farmers. Anything that occupies but
e few acres was considered hardly
worth while giving time or attention
to. The broad acres OF cotton and
corn were their subject of converse.
tion and held all their attention, and
to a large extent the majority still
follow in the same track. A few
have made departure; others are
watching them, rmaking a beginning,
Year: 1879

WASHINGTON, Feb. 23.- Senator Conkling,
in executive session yesterday, began an un-
called-for attack on Senator Burnside, who
was on his feet In regard to Rhode Island
nomination. Conkling rose aud charged
burnside with trickery in committee. The
latter was much surprised, but contented
himself with saying that tue statement was
not correct. Conkling then repeated his as
sprttons, and appealed to Senators to sustain
him. At his Spencer Jumped up and de-
Burnside at length found it necessary to use
very decided language to protect himself,
and at last declared emphatically that Conk-
ling was lying. Senator Hoar, IN the chair,
attempted to stop him, raped to order,
and directed him to sit down, but Burnside,
feeling himself insulted, took occasion to ex-
press fervent wish that he had the tongue
Of Blaine, Ia order that he might make q
fitting reply to the Senator from New York
This allusion to the famous personal attack
of Blaine on Conkling In the House In 1866
was keen thrust from Burnside, who went
on further to declare to the Senate, that
in his experience, he had never known so much
duplicity and fAlsehood crowded into any
case as had been injected into this one by Mr.
Conkling. The latter WIS taken considerably
aback at last by the vigor and courage Of
Burnside's return strokes. After some time
Of the most unseemly confusion, Burnside
took his hat and left the Chamber There is
general evidence to the effect that Gen. Burn
side bore himself with more forbearance thar
could be expected, and only used his strong
est Englishwhen 1t became entirely justifiable
TO emDlOy il.
Year: 1879

visor to register their names before they
could vote. All this trouble and Inconvenience
imposed upon the people In the registration
of their names before voting does not afford
as much security against fraudulent voting
as that OF the former system of appointing
commissioners to decide the qualification for
voting.


The right OF suffrage under the law is
simply age, residence and citizenship, and
can be more readily adjusted on the day OF
election Mt the ballot box, by commissioners
appointed to take the evidence and ad-
minister oaths, and would afford not only n
greater safeguard against Illegal voting, but
would be q greater convenience to the people.
In cities containing so much transient and
unsettled population system Of registration
might facilitate against Illegal voting, but
not In the country parishes,


Article 80 requires residence OF one year
In the State and only ten days In the parish
before voting. Tho nominal time Of ten days
residence In the parish was evidently intend
ed for party purposes and advantages OF
practicing fraud In the transportation OF %
certain class of voters from one parish to
another for the benefit Of the Radical party,
the authors of this provision Of the constitu-
tuition. Six months residences In the parish
and twelve months in the State should consti-
tute the residence for voting required In the
constitution OF the State.
Year: 1879

It is provided in article 25 OF the eonstltu,,
ton OF 1868, that the General Assembly shaii
require that the name and residence OF all
qualified electors shall be registered In oroef
to entitle them to vote In the country par
ishes especially this law has operated q very
great incumberance upon the time and busi-


ness of the people in traversfng the country.
before the election, in hunting up the super
Year: 1879

The Springfield Republican calls atten- ton to a trait of farmers, in which it thinks they differ, as regards each other from the members of any other guild. Each man is eager to show his neighbor any new discovery or acquisition which he has possessed himself of that is likely to help on the business of farming. If he thinks he has good thing he wants others to know about it, whether it be the result of some successful experiment in raising a. crop, an improved breed of cattle or variety of vegetable, or pack age of superior seed which has come from a distance Apparently he does not for a moment entertain the idea that it would be to his profit to keep such knowledge or specimens to himself. And if another farmer comes to see him, he is pleased to show all his possessions; and there are no corners of the place by which the visitor is hurried because some ex- perimenting is going on there which the owner does not care to have seen, as is often the case when visitor makes the grand rounds of a factory. Contrast this habit of the farmers with the way that neighboring merchants and manufactur- CTS do their business. Why, when it was first proposed to connect the paper mills in Holyoke with their offices in this city by telephone, objection was at once raised that the papermakers might possibly learn each others secrets as a consequence"
Year: 1879

Little more than quarter of a cen- tury ago, says the Albany Times, in humorous vein, no gentleman deemed himself dressed for the street unless he was crowned with such a contrivance. In 1852, Kossuth, the great Hungarian exile, electrified this land with the elo- quent recital of his country's wrongs; and having aroused our sympathies, set his mark upon us in the shape of soft hat bearing his name. From that time the silk hat has been losing caste, and year by year has become more and moro an adjunct ofceremony, murky relative to the white kid glove, and the symbol of extraordinary events. Observations shows that bridegrooms run to plug hats as naturally as they subsequently run from tie wifely broomstick. The reason why men about to be immolated upon the hymenal altar rush into high hats has never been fully explained. Investiga- tion in this branch of domestic science is still in its infancy, but the commission recently appointed are at work, and a re- port of their labors may be expected at the earliest practicable moment.

 Without wishing to make any invid- ious comparison, it may be said that at the shrine of the plug hat bow down at the present time bank and insurance presidents and first-class gamblers. But outside of these classes, all of whom seem to think that an air of dignity and responsibility is extracted from the trou- blesome, awkward and fragile cylinder this head-decker is constantly being pushed further out of the daily life of the masses. It belongs principally to weddings and funerals, Sundays and other holidays; but determined move ment is on foot to confine it to funerals, so that the friends may do a proper thing for the departed by wearing a mourning weed around their hats. No uoubt the time is not far distant when plug hat will betoken attendance at a funeral as surely as crape on a bell knob denotes a death in the family. In this hat there turks much innate de- pravity, which manifests itself at most inopportune times. It delights in get ting between a person and chair, in tumbling off into mud puddles, and in exchanging itself for a worse one of its kind. In fact, it is q cruel despot, making a slave of many worthy man. Its vicious qualities have worked its ruin, and soon plug hats and suspend CTS will no longer distinguish civilized people from barbarians.
Year: 1879

Nigh to a grave that was newly made, Leaned sexton old, on his earth-worn spade His work was done, and he paused to wait The funeral train through the open gate; A relic of by gone days was he, And his locks were as white as the foamy sea And these words came from his lips so thin, "I gather them in I gather them in .'' "I gather them in fsr man and boy, Year alter year of grief and joy, Eve builded the houses that lie around In every nook of this burial ground. Mother and daughter, father and son, Come 10 my solitude, one by one But come they strangers, or come they kin. gather them in gather them in "Many are with me, but still Pm alone, I am king of the dead and I make my throne On a monument slab of marble cold, And my scepter of rule is the spade hold Come they from cottage, CT come they from

 hall,

 Mankind are my subects-ali, all, all Let them loiter in pleasure, or toilfuliy spin I gather them in I gather them in "I gather them in, and their final rest Is here down here, in the Earth's dark breast, And the sexton ceased-for the funeral train Wound mutely over that solemn plain; And I said to my heart-whcn time is told, A Inightier voice than the sexton's old Will sound OCT the Last trump's dreadful din "I gather them in, Igather them in ,"
Year: 1879

When you read about man with a fire proof character, against which the slightest disparaging thought was meyer entertained you can set it down as a fact more stubborn than woman with last years bonnet that he never tempted public sentiment by carry ing home molasses in jug.-E. F. Brouas Cincinnati SEurd1y Nig M.
Year: 1879

An address to parents, from the COM
mittee on education of the yearly meeting
of friends, contains this hint: Gas edu-
cation neither begins nor ends with
school, home influence has most i'm
portant part in it. Much depends on the
readiness and patience with which a
child's first questions in the fields OF
knowledge or Of thought are answered.
An encouraging answer will stimulate
thought and Investigation; and an I'M
sympathizing and Indifferent answer will
leave the child to choose inferior ways Of
finding pleasure, and so begin to form
the bias of its life. True Christian ten
derness and seif-denial cannot be better
exercised oftener than in trying to under.
stand the mental difficulties of children
who are not naturally quick ofapprehen-
sion. 1t is in the very early years of life,
generally, that the habit is formed Of
loving to think, and no doubt the scale
has often turned in favor of disliking, on
account of some difficulty which the child
might have been helped to master by
sympathizing parents, but failing in its
efforts, it becomes discouraged, grows
tired of repeated endeavors without the
pleasure of success, takes up the pressing
belief that it cannot think anything out


and goes on through life under this dis
ability; and thus a loss of intellectual
pleasure, and turning of less profitable
source follows, as we'll as failure to fill


up the intended measure OF usefulness
Year: 1879

Immediately pay OFF the national debt in
greenbacks and other kindred absurdi-
ties were adopted and the convention
adjourned In wild disorder. More than
half the delegates were at the Ewing
meeting shouting for the Democratic
ticket. N" N!'i
Year: 1879

THERE could hardly be worse
sign for the future of the .Republi- :
can party than that 10 lis twenty
seventh year, after eighteen years
of such power as 10 party has ever
had, it should be so barren3in mep,
should have done SO little to bring
talent and character to the. front !;
that it should not be atle to pro
duce Il single civiliah to save it from
the necessity of giving Il third term
to a soldier whose want of the civil
capacity had al,eady deprived il
of the control Of the Government.
The 9patton, Rep. E9al
Year: 1879

lard is TO keep it clean AMI well 1stir-
red. Inns. may usually he doDesby
two workings in the proper--linr,
though third working will -often be
very henefitial. If-the iand is. freshly
hilled. about two weeks after planting
the hills should he scraped down and
a little fresh earth drawn round each
plant: about three weeks after this
it should be hilled up, and in ordinary
cases this will he sufficient, except 20
keep down the sprouts that may put
mp. Tobacco ought not to be worked
alter topping, as it will break and
bruise the leaves. Flowing smooth
new land once at the last working is
of service, but if it is rough and
stumpy, keep plow out OF it alte-
gether. ....
Old land requires more work than
new AS soon as the plants gets suf-
tlclent holi,, narrow up your cultiva-
tor SO as to disturb the roots. and 90
throughlt once for the first hoeing.-
Then cut up the remaining grass and
weeds with hoe, and level the soil
arolnG the plaEts stirring it slightly.
In ten days or fortnight go over it
again with a pillow or cultivat or. twice
in row, using a short singletre TO
avoid iniurirg the plants. This time
you can stir the ground more freely
around the plants, and should hill
them slightly in hceing, being careful
not to cover any of the leaves. After
this, it is hesier to perform all the





work with hard labor, in order 10 save
the plants Fl ON injury. Stir the ground
with hoe as often as necessary, to
keep down the weeds. 4n


Ii worms are plentiful the plants
should be examined at least twice %
week, though three times a week
would be better. All the worms, as
we'll as all Of the eggs To he found on
the leaves should he carefully de-
stroyed.


The work OF topping should be per-
formed as soon as the seed buds ap-
pear. No rule can be given which
will apply to all cases, as much de-
pends on the variety grown, condition
Of the soil, and whether your crop 10
well advanced or otherwise. With an
early crop, or rich soil, do not take
off with the top more than one or two
OF the top leaves, if any. at all; while
on the contrary, if your sell Is poor
and crop late, top down to that mum.
Der Of leaves which according 10 your
Judgment, will fully ripen. The num-
Der OF leaves TO be left on the plant
varies, in different sections and under
different circumstances, from eight to
twenty.


Printing consists in removing the
lower leaves of the plant to the height
of five or six inches from the ground
they are removed for two reasons:
First, if allowed to remain they will
lie made worthless by coming in con-
tact with the soil. Second, to i'm
prove the quality of the remaining
leaves, as in topping. DO not COM
mence priming until the principal part
of your topping is done; then contin-
ne it regularly, and save every leaf
with as much care as if it were gold.
Though in weight, you will get some
rs fine tobacco from these primings
as any in your crop, and it is simple
folly TO throw them away. t


All the suckers OF sprouts, or small
leaves as the bases OF the larger ones,
as you may be pleased to call them,
must appear, otherwise they will re-
tard the growth ard prevent early
of the plant.--American
Year: 1879

There is little doubt :hat the de .
bate in the Senate will lead TO such
notifications of the rider on the
army bill as may be shown to be
necessary to accomplish the put-
poseto keep troops from the polls
IL anticipation of disorders. and to
do no more than this, and with
such notifications, the President
will scarcely venture on veto Of a
measure which was approved by
the leaders of his party ut the last
session, and now again, and the
tac&lng of which to the army bill
has been declared by Gen. Gan field
himself TO be an orderly and con-
proceeding.
Year: 1879

A large shoe manufacturer of New
York State recently advertised in Boston
and New York for % shse filters to work
10 his faetosy. He was ready to pay full
current rates and furnish steady work. bu,
he'd only one application. Apparently
there are no large body OF sh0emakers out
Of employment.
Year: 1879

Snow HILL, June 19.-The jury
in the Duer case came into court at
9:15 a. m. with a verdict, "guilty of
murder, with a recommendation to
the mercy of the court The
Judge informed the foreman that
the verdict must be formal, and the
reply must not be guilty of murder,
but guilty of manslaughter. A
formal answer was made, but before
the verdict was recorded Mr.. Girls
field, counsel for the defense, de-
manded poll of the jury. When
the name of the eighth juror, Ed
ward F. Consey, was called he
answered ''not guilty" His reply
caused a sensation in the court, and
appeared to afford relief to many
in the court house. The Judge
then said as the jury had not agreed,
they would have to retire for.
further consideration.


At LILO the jury again came
into court, and in reply to the usual
question answared, ''not guilty of
murder, but guilty of manslaugh-
ter"


The Sheriff took charge of pris-
oner, and the court took recess until
2 o'clock.


Judge Wilson pronounced SEN
tence upon Miss Duer this after-
noon for the killing of Miss Ream.
In view of the prisoners previous
good character and the recommend
alton of the jury to mercy, the
Year: 1879

TIE one item of stationery, used
during the extra session has cost the
country the small sum of S4S,O 600. And
what sweet boon this same extra
session has been. In effect the Dem
oerats have subscribed the cost of it 10
the Republican campaign fund.
Year: 1879

DEMOCRATS have begun to talk
about the terrible Republican frauds
In Ohio. Well, that is a we'll under
stood move. They have already given
up all hope of carrying the State for
their much mixed ticket and are only
hunting a soft plaEk in The ceiling on
which TO knock their heads.
Year: 1879

The following dispatch, received here from Mr. M Nor
ton explains itself:


SAN FRANCISCO, March 15th


M. NORTON Los Angeles Utter and complete demor-
alizaton of the Market in consequence of the failure of
Messrs Godchaux Bros and several of the largest retail
houses in the city, Sell balance of bankrupt stock any
sacrifice, in order to make for immense quantity
goods bought here at prices unprecedented in the his
tory of trade (Signed1 M. NORTON.


In obedience the above instructions, will sell the
balance of the Great Bankrupt Stock Greater Sacrifice
than ever, must make room for the NEW STOCK
just arrived and which comprises the and latest
styles in all lines of goods purchased in San Francisco and
through agents in New York such prices will
able to sell way below former figures


We ask only that intending purchasers Of DRY GooDs
FANCY GooDs Hosiery CLOTHING, Doors SHOES AND
FURNISHING GooDs into whose hands this paper comes
should patiently read this column and then make it their
business call and examine the goods advertised.


is useless give Price Lists which often look very
entcing paper but which, examination of the goods
advertised prove to be dear at any price.


D<eWe only say more, COME AND SEE
us, WE PROMISE TO SURPRISE YOU!
Year: 1879

lady writes thus very sensibly to a Western paper: Make home home, and make 1t one in every sense of the word. My husband is a great smoker; he loves to play cards, dominoes and chess he is at perfect liberty to smoke in any room In the house, and I am always ready and willing to join him in the different games. I endeavor in every way to be not only a h6pmate, but a companion to him, and the result has been that have and enjoy his society; he prefers spending his evenings at home with me to seeking other society. cannot understand why women will run the risk of losing their husbands society and love merely for the sake of satisfying an over-fastidious taste. If they do not like tobacco, did they object to his using it during their courtship? And if they objected then and failed, why did they marry? If men will not give up such habits at the solicitations of their sweethearts, it is not likely they will be persuaded out of them by their wives 1; therefore, I think 1t unwise for a woman to risk her happiness by quarrelling with her husband over venal fault, the exis- tence and extent of which she knew and perfectly understood before she took upon herself the duties of wife.
Year: 1879

The announcement Of the appearance OF the yellow
fever at Memphis created considerable sensa
sion in this city yesterday. In commercial err
ccs especially the received with
alarm at the loss OF the Mississippi Valley
trade would exert very serious influence the
mercantile community The early appearance OF
the scourgc OF the South regarded foreshad
owing a season OF unusual unhoalthin In ordi
nary years yellow fever cases are not generally devei


oped until August or September. The news from the
Wcst Indies Is also far from reassring us tho typhus
and yellow fever outbreak in Hayti, which had ap-
Year: 1879

The atmosphere anything but pleasant when
the sun yesterday morning. and the appearance
OF that fiery orb did nothing to make it agree
able. On the contrary the higher it climbed in the
heavens and the more directly its beams shot down
between the towering structures Of the city. the
more uncomfortable tho heat became. Rvery thing
followed the in its ascent. the mercury in the
thermometer particularly, and the public demand
for cooling drinks no less. to say nothing of tho
blood in the veins of the sweltering citizen, which
quickly to boiling point and remained there
till late hour in the evening. 1t would have been
another matter IL breath Of air had occasionally
swept across the dusty island, but the winds were
hushed and leaves hung unshaken from the
boughs. At half-past three in the afternoon the
sun stood still somewhere the zenith and
.fercely shed intolernble day." The mercury made
a determined effort to reach an equal height. but
paused at the meritorious altitude of ~ degrees
Fahrenheit. aud thereafter dropped slowly down
again, growing small by degrees and beautifully
less. The shower which fell early in the evening
came as an undisguised and not untimoly blessing.
and at bedtime sleep followed gently in its train.
Several of sunstroke reported during the
day, but none of a fatal nature.


The following record will show the changes In the
temperature the past twenty -four hours. in
parson with the corresponding date of last year.
indicated by the Thermometer at Hudnuts pnar-
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