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Year: 1878

The time of election will soon be al hand, and the day for closing the reg. istration of voters is not far of. There is some misapprehension regarding the qualifications of voters, owing, perhaps, to changes in the law by the last legislative assembly.

 Before February ', 1877, the law re quired a residence of six months pri- or to the day of election, and the pay ment of poll tax; since that, the resi- dence in the Territory must be one year (and in county or precinct ten days, but payment of poll tax is not required. Under the law as amended February ', 1877, any foreigner having the proper qualifications of age, sex and residence, and who has properly declared his intention to become cit izen of the United States, and is duly registered, may vote. This avoids the necessity of complete naturalization prior to exercising the right to vote.

 Under the new law, any justice of the peace is registering officer, and must register every person qualified for registry who applies to be register. ed, and that, too, without any charge to the party applying for registration. No person can vote unless his name is upon the Great Register prior to the day of election, for the law prohibits the registration of an elector on the day of any general or special election.

 All persons qualified 10 vote should without delay see to the registration of their names, or if done, to be sure it is correctly done. All justices of the peace and the County Recorder may be applied to in this behalf.
Year: 1878

CONGRESSMAN WooD, of New York, nredicts that the American people are m the eve of the greatest prosperity they have ever known. As Chairman of the Ways and Means Committee, he has as good opportunities to form a correct opinion on such matters as any man in Congress.
Year: 1878

THE Directors of the Union Pacific railway are now on the Pacific coast, and heinz "dined and wined " while visiting Yosemite, and perhaps doing a little business ill connection with an ertensiou of their road 10 the Pacific, or talking business with the Southern Pacific
Year: 1878

"Going in and going out,

 Something there or thereabout,

 Leaving person still in doubt

 Whether going in or going out" And was built so crooked that when 6 hog crawled under from the outside he still found himself on the outside. Fol about four miles nothing can be seen but huge boulders of granite piled in every direction. Ten miles from Pi nal ranch is the next stopping place,
Year: 1878

WINDOWS IN STABLEs.-It is we'll under
stood and admitted that sunlight is nearly
as essential to human health as pure air.
No person who lives in dark room can be
well. Sunlightis just as necessary to animal
health and thrift as it is to human. No
farm stock will do as we'll in dark stable
into which the sun cannot shine as it would
in bright, sunny one. Therefore we can't
afford to not put plenty of windows into
our stables During the winter our best
stock cannot we'll stay in the yard more
than three or four hours day. 1t needs
at least six hours of sunlight, and it should
get the rest through the stable windows.
But in putting in windows don't do it in
such a shiftless way as to have cracks which
will admit too much cold. Our cattle need
both warmth and light and one should not
be sacrificed to the other.
Year: 1878

Our readers are we'll aware of the value |
of the poultry business to the farmers of
the Peninsula. They know now that two |
dozen of eggs are worth as much or more
than bushel of cornl Under such cir
cumstances it is largely to their interests to
raise eggs for market rather than corn.
As in fruit, so in the egg business, we have
the advantage of Western farmers in our
nearness to market, and Delaware and
Jersey eggs always command better price,
and are preferred to those. which have
borne long transportation. It's, therefore,
our interest to pay special attention to the
egg producing business, and to this end we
wish to call the attention of our agricul-
tural readers to the new machines for
Matching chickens. Such machines are
now in market, and threaten to do away
with hen hatched chickens, because the
eggs can be hatched out so much more
successfully by machinery. A gentleman
with much experience in this business says
his experience leads him to lay down the
following principles for successful egg
Matching: Heat should be applied on top
of the eggs rather than all around the
temperature should be 1912; the egg should
be turned daily; ventilation should be per-
feet. Under these conditions eighty chick
ems may be counted on from one hundred
eggs. Chickens thus raised are free from
lice and much more thrifty and growthy
than those Matched in the natural way
they are also very gentle, the natural wild
ness of some breeds being entirely over
come Instead of waiting for setting hens
which are not always to be found when
wanted-the poultry raiser can set his eggs
whenever he is ready and produce hi:
chicks when they are wanted by the
market.


Under this system the hens are kept a
the laying business, for which no substitute
has yet been found, and the best layers are
selected for this purpose. 1t is believed
that with proper attention to this busines
and the right kind of machinery for match
ing, men and women who attain the skill
can make money. The subject at any rat
is worthy of fconsideration.-Peni Ne,cS
Year: 1878

PRUNE PEACH TREEs.-Now is the time
to begin to cut back the branches of peach
trees. Cut very freely, fully one-third or
half of all the long limbs; this will cause
better bearing next year, prevent so much
frost-killing, and save so much splitting
down of long branches besides, the fruit
will be larger and fairer. There is no
danger of too much trimming; the danger
is all the other way. The peach tree, more
than all others, needs free pruning and
close heading-in, as it is a great sprawler
and makes much tender or immature wood
NJ the .uds: and then much effort to
f -ary sap to such distance
Is required by the tree.-Fr,at Magazine.
Year: 1878

FALL PLANTING OF ORCHARDs.-There are
many reasons why trees do better planted
at this season than at any other. The fol-
lowing from the New York Times contains
about all that need be said:


There are several advantages in this.
There is more time and opportunity to per-
form the work we'll and, if not well done,
it were better not done at all. The trees
come fresher from the nursery, and are
generally better in kind and character
than can be procured in the spring; there
is also full stock on hand, and the varie-
ties desired are more certain to be received
than later, when the stock has been sold
down. The trees are generally planted
with more care at this season, and the roots
begin to grow at once and become estab
lished before the growth begins in the
spring, and are then able to withstand with
more vigor any untoward influences o.
season or weather. All these advantages
are very important, and are sufficient to in
sure success in the majority of cases.
Year: 1878

NEATNEss IN FARMING.-Nothing gives
evidence of thrift and enterprise in farm
ing better than keeping everything in order.
There are times when even the most pains
taking men are compelled to let things go
somewhat at loose ends, but upon the first
occasion of spare time and due diligence
thereafter, the wanted appearance of things
about the premises returns. At the cost of
little time and labor, when required, the
appearance of an untidy farm may be so
improved as to add considerably to its
value, and the price obtained in the event
of a sale. The contrast between neat and
slovenly kept farms represents more in q
pecuniary point of view, very often, than is
generally supposed. Take a farm which by
its appearance shows clean culture, from
which stumps and brushes have been re-
moved, the buildings kept in repair, the
fences and gates in order, the rubbish kept
from the roadside and fence corners, the
tools housed when not in use, and the
stock exhibiting evidence of good care and
attention, and in the event of its purchase
it will bring relatively much more than one
equally fertile but kept in a slovenly way.
Weedy farms, tumble-down fences, gates
with broken hinges, buildings out of repair,
implements scattered about the farm where
they were used last, rubbish everywhere,
and inferior looking stock, take from a
farm naturally fertile, good round sum in
the event of sale.
Year: 1878

true there was some little cheat On the lined
lands, none, however, compared to the 9TH
er, and have since heard, that by using
lime and ground bones he had been enabled
to secure good crops almost every year. |
once filled box with earth and mold that
l felt certain contained no lime. and planted
aquantity of good wheat in it, watching it
carefully 1t came up wheat, but before it
commenced to head there was but few
stools Of wheat, the balance all cheat. 1t
will pay farmers to experiment in the above
direction. Why is 1t red clover plowed in
is great benefit to the wheatcrop? Simply
because the plant has a great atluity for
phosphate Of lime, which its long tap roots
bring up from the sub-soil and deposit in
the leaves and blossoms, which turned un-
der furnish a supply for the wheat grown on
the soil. No good farmer should permit Il
bone to 60 to waste, but by throwing them
in the manure pit decompose them for the
benefit of his wheat fields, wood ashes
thrown in with the bones are beneficial
The excrement Of hogs, cattle, sheep, and
fowls should also 60 into the same pit, which
also receive the urine from the stable, thus
increasing the quantity of ammonia III the
manure. Let this 90 into your soil and
you may rest assured you will have much
and heavy wheat, and but little cheat. Cor.
IN Joumal Agriculture.
Year: 1878

1t has been truthtully said that but few
men can become great breeders of stock,
but this is no reason why every farmer may
not do something in the way OF being
stock breeder iii the highest sense of the
term.


The best time to top-dress grass land is in
August or September, before the tall rains
occur and after the burning heat OF summer
is past. ii then applied, the rains soak it
and carry the fertiizing properties directly
to the grass roots, where they are needed.


The earth is round, and moves in circle.
So do all natural courses run. The ocean
furnishes vapor tor the clouds, the cloud
furnishes the earth with rain, which returns
again to the sea- So from the elements OF
the soil come the vegetable growths, Which
furnish food for animal bodies, and these IN
turn furnish the fertilizers back to the soil
This cycle is absolute, and in it are all the
| hopes Of Il paying agriculture
Year: 1878

1t is remarkable the amount OF inquisi-
tiveness New Highlander developes in
the course OF his lite. There is nothing
awkward or constrained about il. IL
comes easily, naturally and gracefully.
In no part OF New England is this trait
so carefully cultivated as in our own
dear Connecticut Its fruits are shown
In the record OF the patent office. There
are other fruits. however, not quite 80
happy, which never get inside OF q pa
ten. office; and il is just as well they
don't. Here is an instance in kind. A
Danbury grocery firm have taken the
agency for hammock. One of the arti-
cles they have hung at the front in the
shade OF their porch. They hung it
there as a sample and as an advertise
ment, but numerous people have'got in
TO it to see how it worked. 1t hung so


low they could easily sit iu it, and un-
doubtedly the motion was agreeable and
comforting. Rut Ihe grocers didn't fan
cy this performance, especially as the
hammock silters were not hammock buy
ers, Saturday afternoon they removed
the loop to one end from the hook. and
fastened it by bit OF twine instead.
Shortly after man came in Tor Two
quarts of molssses. 1t was put up in
his pail, and paper tied over the top as
be had forgotten to bring cover. When
he passed out he saw the hammock. His
curiosity was aroused at once. The gro
GERS were busy inside so ne thought he
would investigate on his own hook.
With that keen intuition peculiar 10
New England man, he saw at q glance
that it was something TO get into. de
knew il was nothing to wear, and was
equally sure il could not be arranged for
cooking. He sat down in it. Then be
swung backward and lifted his feet up.
Then the twine fastening gave way. 1t
was a dreadful affair. He had the pail OF
molasses sitting on his lap, aud there
was a dog sitting under the hammock.
Neither the dog nor the molasses expect
ed ANYTHING, any more than the man him
self did. 1t was terrible surprise TO al
of them. The man and the dog lost
their presence of mind. and even the
pail lost its head. The molasses went
into his lap, and ran down his legs, and
swashed up under his vest. and insinu-
ated itself some way in between himself
and his clothes. And when he went
down he bit the dog with his heel on the
back, and the dog was so wild with ter
ror and amazement that it set up head
splitting yell and fed madly down the
street, having first taken the precaution
to bite him on the leg and to tip over q
tier of wooden water pals. When the
pals went down lot Of hoes were car
ried over with them, and that started q
box of garden seeds mounted on box,
and they in turn brought away q
pile OF peck measures whose summit was
crowned with q pyramid of canned to-
matoes. Ii was q dreadful shock to the
man, and fairly paralyzed him with its
magnitude; but when one article follow
ing another came svalanching atop of
him he thought the evil one himself had
burst loose. and he just screamed as loud
a. he could. The molasses was all over
Year: 1878

AS the national bankrupt law will soon be
repealed, it may interest our readers to know
it is held by many lawyers that the state in-
solvent law cannot release debtor from any
obligation contracted prior to thetime it be-
came a law, viz: March 21, 1878, nor from
any debts due to a citizen of another state,
and payable in that state. Such seems to
be the purport OF the decision in Ogden and
Saunders in the Supreme Court Of the United
States, q Wheaton 1927 and In Griswold and
Pratt in the Supreme Court of Massachusetts,
70 Metcalf ~ case arising under the in-
solvent law of that State. The power of a
state in this direction, it is argued, is confined
to transactions subsequent to its legislation.
The matter is one of great moment to those
who are compelled to avail themselves of the
bankrupt law, as it may make much differ
ence under which law they are forced into
bankruptcy.
Year: 1878

THE Republicans of Kent county, Del, at
a meeting on the 18th inst. resolved ''to re-
frain absolutely from voting any tickets of
whatever party or complexion, or to take any
part whatever in the coming election"
This extraordinary proceeding grows out of
the action Of the Democratic Levy Court
Commissioners, by which more than 1000
Republican male citizens of Kent county of
lawful age have been deprived of the right of
sufraJp
Year: 1878

whole negotiation was in the presence of
half dozen leading financial officers of the
Government; was known and recommended
by leading bankers who were competing for
the loan; was read by a number of the 9TH
ers, and has been communicated to Congress.
1t is just as certain to result in accumulatlng
in the Treasury by the first of January next
of S5O,OO0,0o0 in coin as any contract to be
fulfilled in the future can be.
Year: 1878

ONE of the declarations of the Nationals
is that the public lands shall be reserved for
actual settlers. So long as an acre of public
land costs less than bottle of whisky it can
not be said that the Government is dlscour-
aging honest and industrious men who wish
to make homes for themselves.
Year: 1878

MASSACHUSETTS which desires to excel in
most things has carried its ambition to so
great lengths that it has come to stand near
the head in the matter of defalcations and
breaches of trust. 1t is indebted greatly to
the treasurers of the Fall River corporations
for its advanced position, and should reward
them according to their merits.
Year: 1878

IT is the opinion of the Neo Era that the
revival of the Beecher scandal is a device Of
the Money Power to divert attention from its
misdeeds. Perhaps Shylock bribed Mrs Til
ton to confess. though the bribery has here
tofore been ascribed to Titon.
Year: 1878

appointed Governor of the settlement,
and his rule Of 500 lepers has been re-
markably wise and kind. He married
a young woman there, and seems to
have tried to be as happy as possible,
with the certainty Of early death be
fore him. A cousin of Queen Emma,
a leper, is likely to succeed Ragsdale
as Governor.
Year: 1878

BY TELEGRAPH.
ASSOCIATED PRESS REPORT.
TO THE DAILY 1NrRz11eENcER


CONGRESSIONAL.
a Spicy Discussion in the House.
Demsgogue Cox Gets a Well De-


served Hacking.
o'NsiI His the Nail on the Head.
Better for the People If Congress


Had Not Met.
Tho Tariff Agitation Keeps Millions
Of Money Idle.
Wright Threatens q Motion to Lay
tho Democratic Bantling


on tho Table.
Year: 1878

constantly hunted, the whale fishery will


probably soon bs given up a. q regular


branch Of industry. A white whale wa,


captured in the Cult OF st. Lawrence In


1861, and kept on public exhibition in


wster-tank for nearly two years. He


was ten feet long and weighed ZOO


pounds. During his confinement he
showed some capacity for education


He was sufficiently well.trained 10 allow
himself tO'be harnessed to car, In which
he drew young lady around the tank.
he learned to recognize his keeper, and
would allow himself 10 be handled by
him, and at the proper time weuld come
and put his head out of the water 70
receive the harness or take food. At
times he showed q playful disposition and
amused himself with splashing about In
the water, and at other times with toss
ing stones with his mouth. He often
took In his mouth q sturgeon and a
small shark, which were confined In the
same tank, and alter playing with them
or while allowed them to 20 up.
harmed. An anatomical description Of
this animal, illustrated by plates, has
been contributed to the Boston Society
If Natural History.
Year: 1878

WASHINGTON, May 2S.-The open
letter of Postmaster General Key, sent
out tonight, has caused great surprise
and invidious comment in political cir
cles here, and will probably have the
same effect on the country at large. The
radical republicans say that it is no more
than brazen bid on Mr.. Keys part to be
kept in the cabinet. 1t is understood
that at the cabinet meeting to-day Mr..
Key submitted to the President and his
associates the draft ofthe letter. There
was, of course, no objection to his pur-
pose. 1t is said tonight that Mr.. Key has
given sufficient proofs of his willingness
to completely identify himself with the
republican party.


In his letter it will be noticed that he
uses the same term of "Mexicanize" as
that adopted in the address of the republic
can congressional committee on the Pot
ter investigation, and that his letter is in
some portions couched entirely in the
same line of argument. Some of the
democratic members, who are quite as
much opposed to any attack on the title
of President as Mr.. Key can possibly be
think that, to say the least, Mr.. Key has
been a little oflicous, and that he has laid
down premises and drawn conclusions
which are entirely unwarranted.
Year: 1878

MR.. FARRELL AND THE DoAhD or
ED1rcATIoN.-There ought to be no
trouble about the seat which Mr.. Farrell
occupies in the Board of Education. 1t
appears quite conclusive that there was
majority of legal votes against him. II
Mr.. Farrell can show this not to be true
there will be cause for futher inquiry; and
he has the right to determine whether to
make it or not. As Mr.. Farrell and the
GAZETTE parted company several years
ago, we do not propose to foreshadow any
course for that gentleman to pursue; nor
do we know that he needs any advice from
us. He is ambitious, conceited and vain,
like the old belle who covers her cheek
daily with rouge, hoping to eaptivate
some bright young chap. So Martin
Farrell, the lad with the rosy tinge, the
GLIDE tongue and merry twinkling eye and
dauntless courage, loves popular favor,and
possesses faculties that if directed in u
proper channel would be of value to the
cause that he might espouse. If he
would only turn his attention to the
Sabbath school and pursue the religious
course which its teachers are supposed to
walk in he would be just the man for a
leader in this line.


Under the restraints of religious in
fluence he would be just the man to lead
the children; but without that influence
he is still Martin Farrell, with the ruddy
cheek and the dauntless eye and the
GLIDE tongue, regular Jack Cade, with
out the ugliness of Jack having the comli-
ness of an Irish lad of forty-ready for
fight or fun-just as you like it. A lad
with so many graces and so much popu-
larity, should have some dignity. And we
will not assert that he has not. Now, our
idea is that Mr.. Farrell is ready to con-
cede the right of the Board of Education
TO be the judge Of its own members, and
just as a member of Congress-, who had
been sworn in, can be unseated by vote
of either House, so can member of the
Board of Education be unseated. To be
sure man might attempt to occupy his
seat in the Board, Notwithstanding a ma.
jority was against him; but then his name
could not be called nor could his vote bt
recorded.


1t is therefore easilya to be seen tina
dignity requires, and self respect admo
nishes one in Mr.. Farrel's position +
pursue the only course left to man VIII
honestly believed himself to be fairly an
legally elected; and that course is to IT
signor withdraw, get out in the mos
deterential and respectful way, and thu


disappoint the hopes of some people VII


are not so honest even as Mr.. Farrell wi


would delight to find him pursuing


course that would enable them to show


further display of spite and pure dem


goguism at his expense.