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Year: 1879

one year, and, at the same time
greatly enrich the soil with what
grows upon it. To repeat:


1t requires about four months to
mature a crop of corn with us.
When the corn is ripe, there is usu-
ally a growth of grass and weeds
sufficient, if turned under, to restore
to the soil the fertility exhausted by
a growth of corn. Now if we plow
in these weeds and grass and add to
this the two or three crops which
may be grown upon the land during
the next eight months, or even one
half OF that growth, as green manure,
we shall find our lands annually in
creasing in fertility while we take
from them one valuable crop every.
year. But we can even do better
than this, for by feeding and saving
manure we can return to the soil
nearly everything that we take off OF
it and all else that may grow upon it
during the whole Of the year. In
our climate something will grow
every day of the twelve months. 1t
is a we'll known, scientific fact, that a
large part of the nutrition of plants
comes from the atmosphere; hence,
instead of dragging labor out of our
little ponies. we can hitch up the
forces of nature and keep them at
work the year around to enrich our
lands. Plants are the machines, the
sun is the power engine, driving
these machines, to gather up, from
the atmosphere and from the deep
subsoils, fertilizers for our fields,
while, at tbe same time, the growing
plants, chemically and otherwise,
modify the mineral elements in the
top soil SO that they are more readily
assimilated by the succeeding crops.
Therefore we are admonished by
science as we'll as by common sense,
supported by experiment, wherever
tried, to enrich our fields by plowing
in green crops. If, to this, we should





add the practice of saving more feed
and thereby improve our animals and
make, by feeding them, more manure'
and cultivate less acres, getting
larger aggregate crops, we should be
taking some OF the rocks out of the
bag.


1t is doubtful, if there be another
state in the Union where so large a
proportion of the agricultural out.
lay is wasted. Prior to emancipa.
ton it was slave labor versus brain
labor and there has been none too
much brains since. Many of us, new
comers, don't know how to use what
brains we have. Everything is new
to us, climate, soil, tools, animals,
crops and ways of doing things. We
have to start new, and learn to un-
learn many things, and when we
have repeatedly failed and the eli.
mate has taken its share Of snap out
of US, our pluck seems to 60 too.
But it costs nothing to hold on to
our common sense. We know, by the
weeds and grasses that grow SO as
tonishingly, and battle our efforts, as
well as by the remarkable speci.
mems" we sometimes see that the
climate and soil of Florida are pro.
ductive, and the fault is in us and
not in them, that we produce SO lit.
tie of everything and utterly fail
in so many attempts. If we have
not that pluck which says I" 1t is in
me and it shall come OUT" we should
have that common sense which sees
that "it is in the soil and climate y
and the right way will bring it out.
The right way is the way of success.
Year: 1879

Among the other attractions at the
Shields Ball this evening will be the
presentation to the Haymakers of Ches-
ter, Of the beautiful testimonial which
has been on exhibition in the window
Of Ball L Anderson during the past
week. Quite a number of invited
guests from Philadelphia and Chester
will be present.
Year: 1879

A praise meeting will be held in the
Household Of Faith church tomorrow
morning at 10 O'Clock. The choir will
sing number OF beautiful hymns dur
ing the service.


The regular Thursday evening meet
ing for prayer and testimony will be
held at u o'clock.
Year: 1879

Dr.. Bush lost one of his large fur
gloves on Sunday and on Monday ad-
yertised the same in the columns Of the
REPUBLICAN. That evening the glove
was brought to him by the finder who
saw the notice in reading over this pa
per. The REPUBLICAN, without doubt
is the best advertising medium in the
city or State, and our merchants would
do we'll to let their wants be known
through its columns. Try it if only for
one month. 1t beats the periodical
street circulation and holiday journals
in everys respect as it has bonifide
circulation aud is read by the best fam.
lilies in the city.
Year: 1879

The Washington Assembly removed
Yesterday from its old quarters in the
Telegraph Building to handsome suite
of rooms in the Askew Building, Sew
enth aud Market streets. The Associa-
tion is thriving and will give q grand
ball on the first Friday after Lent.
Year: 1879

"THE OTHER In reference
to the unpleasantness existing between
the North and South an able contempo-
rary very plainly points out the mistake
which the Republicans made in the
treatment OF the conquered peop-. Had
The Republican party treated the South
In friendly way they could have COLI
verted every State TO their party. I'm
fortunately, after the hard fought strug-
gle was over in 1865, and the South was
ready to submit to any fate without
murmuring, the Rep bl c'n party in
stead of taking them by the hand and
evincing the friendship Of race and
country which they had all through the
war promised if they would come into
the Union, turned upon them with such
vindIctiyencss and hate as was never
shown to a people in history, ancient
or modern. No where in history is il
shown where conquered people were
subjected to be ruled by their previous
slaves, and these slaves of an entirely
different race, and of the most ignorant
and debased character. A Republican
contemporary says: "The South is solic
on one side of the political argument a
this time as much through the fault o
the Northern political majority a
through the fault or error of its owl
leaders,"


1t is easy to unders' and, when it i
considered that the Republican part
abolished slavery and defeated tn
South in the field, that Republicans ar
not highly esteemed in the Southern
States but all the hatred AMI ill-wil
the South had against the Republica
party should have ended with the wal
The Republican party had then tinishe
lhe work to accomplish which il wa
called ino existence. If then it Ia
ssid IN hearty good will TO its opponent
,hat the time for real peace and genuin


UNION mad come, and acted upon ths


aeciaration 1t might have made hun


urens vi u GU sands Of friends for tse


among its old enirs. but instead ,


oolng That 1t took advantage Of is DOW


er In Congress to keep alive all the hi,


ter memories Of the war. and sonobt
Year: 1879

1T Is quite evident now that had the
Delawa are Legislature taken the advice oi
the GAZETTE and authorized the refund
ing of her debt, four per cent bonds
could have been sold to redeem the
whole of it, thus saving to the State
one-third of the principal at once, and
lessening the interest one third yearly
thereafter also.
Year: 1879

HERE comes another State which is
going to get along without taxation.
The coming report of the Controller OF
New Jersey will show that the special
taxes on railroads and the funds now
invested, the interest of which is avaia.
BILE, will afford sufficient income to pay
all the State expenses for the coming
year and leave a surplus, without any
State tax. Governor Mcclellan is ex-
pecting to put in his message recon-
mendaton that no more tax be levied.
Illinois also expects to be living exclu-
sively on her RAILROADS in short time
they having already largely reduced The
State debt.


Mr.. Bayard is the favorite candidate OF
nearly all the Southern papers.


Senator Randolph thinks New Jersey
! is all right for the d, mocrats next year
Year: 1879

A BASE ISLANDER base SIAN
der sent abroad by the non-partisan and
Republican papers of this city in regard
to the finances thereof is being extensive
ly copied over the country; and we find
the following in the Philadelphia Tele-
graph of last evening:


1.-The city OF Wilmington, Del, is in
bad financial quandary. TIE new year
will begin with an empty treasury, and
for six months there will be no funds to
pay sala' les or maintain the schools
Heretofore iemedywas found in borrow
Ing, but this is now declared illegal, and
it is asserted that the members Of Coun-
Gil voting in favor of such a course would
render themselves liaole personally"


The papers opposed to the Democra>
that set the falsehoods afioat know they
are false and are injuling the credit OF
our city, but they do not contradic
them.


The city government has been in the
hands of the Republican party for n arl.
twenty years, AID all the time it had
been mourning debts until it run the liza
bilities from about four hundred thou
sand to twelve hundred thousand do
lars what the debt would have beer
increased TO had they not been put out q
power by the votes of the people NO on
knows. But it would doubt less hav
been several hundred thousand more.


Now the city is clear of debt by TN
management of the Democrats and ha
$43, ,000 III bank last week and viii hav,
81, 5,0n0 still in bank on the first of Jsnu
ary, enou h to pay exp nses with econo
my; and thereafter tie income will b'
quite sufficient TO keep out of debt, bu
they will not be able TO make any ad.
di:ional improvements until July next
Then the tax-s will be due and payable
and the city VIII start with full trea
sury, and no floating debt. This LA
not been the case for many years. Tn
Democrats in the Council are act in
very wisely. They know their duty be
ter than any preceding Council and a.
determined TO try to run the city on
tax rate ten to fifteen per cent. lower tina
the Republicans did The Repubiico
says this cannot be done. We be ieve
can, and shall not cease to urge Il
Democrats to make the effort.
Year: 1879

NOT TRUE The Republican does


not tell the truth when it says that the
GAZETTE said "that there will be in
bank by the 1st Of January 5000 and
all floating debts paid" The GAZETTE
said So, 900 and all floating debts paid.
We cannot give eyes to the blind; nor
make the ignorant reason intelligently
But those who read the article in Mon
days GAZETTE referring to the Kent
Ne,os will discover how untruthful the
Republican is by its remark that we then
said there would be S., 900 in bank, when


we said $4,000. The deception at
tempted to be practiced is easily detected
Year: 1879

The supreme court of the United
States decides that where note bears
interest at certain agreed rate, and is
unpaid at maturity, in the absence of
any express stipulation as to the inter-
est after maturity, it only bears inter
est at the rate fixed by law. This is a
question (says the Legal Ne,rs) of some
interest to commercial men.
Year: 1879

Ths organ Of the mormon church
sneers at the presidents remarks in his
message about polygamy, and says that
they will not have the slightest effect
on that gnarled relic of barbarism.
And the organ is right, argument and
expostulation having proved futile long
ago. Pittsburgh Telegraph.
Year: 1879

Indignation and CONSERVATION pre-
vail in the New York butter market, las
appears from dispatch this morning,
at the discovery and publication of the
fact that over two thousand packages of
oleomargarine are sold daily as dairy
butter. Inter- Ocean.
Year: 1879

Make All Territories States.


All the territories ought to be admit
ted as states at once on a sweeping act
and thus settle the province system for
ever. If the population of some OF
them is small it will soon be large. 1t
would give the far west fourteen more
senators and seven more congressman
to start with. In the senate, New Eng
land, with her selfish influence, would
thus be counterbalenced. Such an act
could be passed by the south and west
and the president would hardly veto it.
-[Denver News.
Year: 1879




The following is the closing paragraph in LORD
Beaconsfeld's address to the committee OF English
residents in California upon the presentation OF the
gold and silver casket and memorial


GENTLEMEN The history of Cyprus is a romantic
history but in all its records will venture to say
that there ia incident romantic as that OF q
body of Englishinen working in an FL Dorado,
the real El Dorado which they have discov-
cred, pursuing labors of fascinating and
absorbing character as those which are pursued
by my fellow countrymen in California, and who
yet, amid all the excitement of their unparalleled
life still stop to reflect upon the for
tunes OF the much-loved country which they
have quilted. and who. in an address in .
golden casket offered to me by the youth of Cali
fornia. have shown how deeply they feel for those
who are trying to uphold the country which they so
much love. loud cheers). What return can make
for this beautiful Offering which you have given me
cannot send you golden caskets and blazoned ad-
dresses, like those which / have just received,
but send you gratitude and sympathy.
ask you who return to California
to tell those who remembered me that
shall never forget them. (Cheers And believe me.
beautiful this object is precious in its materials
fine as n work of art deeply interesting from the
history of your life that it incloses some of those
mineral treasures which have already affected by
your industry and fortunes the character OF the
world-this casket incloses something still more
precious to me- and that is the expression which has
Just been read of your kindness and regard. Cheers
Year: 1879

BEEF CANNING ESTABLISHMENT IN FLAMES.


ST. LOUIS, Jan. g. 1879. .
The extensive establishment of the st. Louis
Beef Canning Company, on the corner of Fourteenth
and Poplar streets, caught fire at n quarter to
eleven O'Clock tonight. and ut this writing that
part of the building facing on Fourteenth street
Is nearly destroyed In the rear of this building is
an alley, the opposite side of which is another
men are now trying to save with some show of sue
Year: 1879

Carrie Smith. negrcss. known to the police as the
"one-cyed dwarf was arrested in Thompson street
last night by Officer Valley of the Eighth precinct.
charge of intoxicaton and disorderly conduct
She was taken to the Prince street station house,
aud, while being put ia cell drew
from her shoe knife with which she
attempted to stab the officer. but disarrncd. She
told Captain Mcdonnell that she had purchased the
knife for the purpose Of cutting out ofcer Valley
heart.
Year: 1879

as good as his bond. Our obligations
should bs as sacredly regarded as the
Oraclss Of God.
TIN. harmony among ministers, off.
cials, and members.


Sth. The hearty unificatior and CO.
operation of the better elements in the
church.


9th. Less thought and talk abou,
the evils and more effort to develop the
good among us.


Scott church as branch of Whining
ton Methodism may do more good than
in all the PAST.


Between the beautiful Brandywine
aud the Christiana may it like the tall
oaks Of Bashan grow higher and higher
and spread its branches further and
further until many people shall find
rest and refreshment in its shadow. Dig
around it carefully, water it with the
tears Of affectionate prayer, defend it
from the assaults of the enemy, and
may its ripe rich fruits drop plentifully
into your lap and make up large part
Of the joy of your eternity.
Year: 1879

Quite a number of Wilmingtonians
left for Dover this morning, on the 9.l5
train for the purpose Of using what in
iluencs they might have in favor of re
moving the County buildings. 1t is
expected the bill will come up before
the House today, and pass will. only
one or two opposing votes.
Year: 1879

colonel Thomas A. Scott writes from
'ypt that it would prove a great com
IT to any busy American who could
ARE the time to come over there and
10Y trip thro ugh that wonderful
od; but he adds that he sees nothing
that side of the Atlantic to com
'F+ with our own America, and that
Shall return to her confirmed in the
'IIef that we have the best and great
country on the face of the earth.
Year: 1879

The NEW Court House bill as We pre-
|icted did not come ~. for action
'esterday in the Legislature, but prob.
Ibly will to day. Its fate is uncertain
d some of the New Castle members are
aid to be- hedging and trying to swap
|otes for other bills. We hope we shall
y able to announce the passage of the
iii in our late edition.
Year: 1879

eign arm, 1 should not have wondered


If there had been ten times the resist
ance that there has been to reconstruc-


tive measures. Never in history has Il


people borne so much with so much


patience, gallantry and patriotism.


The spectacle Of moral grandeur and
substantial good intent aud honor in


those who have been SO terrifically
scourged Is without parallel. The spirit


which would set the North against tho
South, the East against the West, tho


Germans against the Old Puritans, or


the Old Puritans against the Germans,


tho whites against the blacks, or the
blacks against the whites, is not only
politically criminal, but it is absolutely
subversive of tho fundamental in
stincts of humanity. There is yet tho
power and the honor in this county to
hold mon together In charity and unity,
and what we need now are love, char
ity, union. Though hated slavery
did not hate tho stakeholder. 1 loved
him and 1 love him still. l love all
not only for what they are,
but for what they are going to be-"
Year: 1879

In recent lecture Mr.. Francis Dar-
win gave some curious instances of the
way plants are protected from insects
and other dangers. Opium, strychnine
and belladonna, he said, three of the
most deadly pOisons, were all formed by
plants as a means of defence to preserve
them from cattle. etc. A curious use
was made of this poisonous property, as
recorded by Livingstone, who states
that at one place in South Africa the
natives were in the habit of catching
their zebras by MASKING up some poison
Gus plant in their drinking places Pop
pies are protected by poison from the
attacks Of goats and probably of other
cattle. The strychnine plant was good
example of the way in which poison was
limited to the part Of the plant where it
was needed. Almonds were also pro-
tected by poison, cultivators generally
sowing the bitter kind, as the sweet kind
was eaten by mice. Other plants were
protected, not by strong poisons, but by
some aromatic substance. The fennel,
anise and carraway seeds were examples
of this, which were not eaten by the
birds on that account. The lime, which
was protected by this aroma, was able
to grow wild and bold its own any
where, whereas the orange, the citron
and the olive requires to be carefully
preserved and watched. The mint was
another example of plant protected
against cattle by this aromatic princi.
pie. Flowers are often more aromatic
than the leaves of the plant on which
they grow, and owe to this principle
their safety from attack, and caterpillars
will even starve TO death sooner thar
eat the flower of plant the leaves o
which they readily devour. Water
plants are unprotected, for the reason
that water was protection enough. TIL,
most peculiar protection perhaps wa
that enjoyed by the common lettuce
which, when pricked, even by an aunt


foot, spurted up a sticky juice, and en-
veloped the intruder, who, biting tn


leaf from vexation, drew down upol
himself fresh shower of cabbage wrath
in which the unfortunate ant wa
drowned.
Year: 1879

Take q carrot the larger the better, q
symmetrical-formed and fair one, cut off
one half and cast aside; then, with a
table-knife, scrape out the center of the
larger part--that is, the part from which
the sprout shoots when it begins to grow
When ready to suspend, it is shaped like
cup, and will hold over gill of wa
ter. Tie in cord like basket-handle,
to hang it up by, fill with water, and
suspend in sunny window. In few
days the bright, green-fringed leaves will
appear and multiply, and soon the car
rot itself will be completely enveloped
in and hidden by its own beautiful foli-
age. The water should be lreplenished
every day, and not allowed to be left
half absorbed. This is very pleasing
experiment. The carrot should be laid
in cold water few hours before scooping
it out, as otherwise it is apt to break
Health and Home.
Year: 1879

You will always consider that when q
man is anxious TO tell the truth, he uses
the simplest language possible; words of
three sylables or more seem to have been
made on purpose to lie with.-JoSh BIZ
I1sgS.
Year: 1879

PIzzINI received on yesterday some fine CAN
DiES-such as LEMON CREAM, CHocoLATE
CREAM. PINEAPPLE CREAM, &c. These arc fresh
from the manufacturer. and we advise all who want
something nice 10 call at once.
Year: 1879

Que day the bear met the fox, who
came shirking along with a string Of
fish he had stolen.


Whence did you get those from }"
asked the bear.


'.Oh, my Lord Bruin, I've been out
a-fishiug and caught them"


So the bear had a mind to learn to fish
too, and he bade the fox tell him how
to set about it.


"Oh, it's an easy craft" answered the
fox, and soon learned. You've only
got to go out upon the ice and cut hole
and put yonr tail down into it, and you
must go on holding it there as long as
you can. You're not to mind il your
tail smarts little that's when the fish
bite. The longer you hold it there the
more fish you'll get; then all at once
out with it with cross-pull, and with a
strong pull, too"


Yes, the bear did as the fox had said,
and held his tail long time down in
the hole, till it was fast frozen in. Then
he pulled it out with IL cross-pull and it
snapped short off. -


That's why bruin goes about with a
stubby tail to this day.
Year: 1879

4


For chickens would recommend, for
the first week after Matching, a hard
boiled egg to be given, chopped fine, at
least twice day; wheat stepped Ill milk
and coarse Indian meal, bread crumbs,
canary and miIIet seed, etc, etc. A
change of food is not only advantageous,
but necessary, aud would. advise that
twice per week the food be changed,
substituting cracked corn for wheat.
They must also have constant opportit-


mites of picking among grass and other
herbs. They should only be fed so long
rs they will run after their food: as
soon as they are careless about it they
have enough. Fowls in confinement
will pine to death with leaps OF corn
around them unless they laye tlese
opportunities.
As tie chickens get older they will


require feeding less often, but they
must never be allowed to fall off i'll
condition, and after from ten to twelve


weeks III tle summer, or from fourteen


to eighteen in tue a.Eter; they will be
ready to fatten it required.


Next, as to water. 1t is too much the
idea that any description will do, and
that, provided there be some within
their reach, though it may haze been
standing week, notiilng more IL Ie~
quired. This is a mistake. Water tor
fowls and chickens should be very
ctean; the vessel containing it should
be we'll ripsed out every morning. 1t is
a good plan to put little gravel at the
bottom, and it should be changed TWICE
a day. ! am aware, many will be dis
posed to think this unnecessary; but l
will ask any one who has the opportu-
+r,x, r,In
stream of water running through the
yard, they can cause the poultry to for
sake it by placing water nearer to their
haunts; it will always be found they
prefer going to tie stream, to drinking
out of the pan or Tub.


There is little doubt many of the
diseases of poultry arise from the filthy
water they are obliged to drink from
ponds full of decayed vegetable matter,
and tainted by the fall of leaves in
autumn from orerhanging trees.