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Year: 1877

well known In financial circles and there are few mon
more competent than he TO discuss With voice and
pen financial ques.ions Tho articles in question ars
well worthy OF a thoughtful perusai.
Year: 1877

The usual meeting of the Liberal League
will he held tomorrow morning, at Me-
ClaryHall. The subject for discussion willie
Immortality from the text "If a man tie
shall he live again. Mrs. Chapman will
open the discussion by proving Immortality
from Christian stand point, after which
any lady or gentleman of whatever belief
may express their opinions.
Year: 1877

VIII be one of extreme pleasure to have
the opportunity OF visiting the far famed
n sort Of The northeast coast Of New Jrr-
sey, and narrows of New York Harbor, on
one excursion, for a low fare, will leave
Year: 1877

There is nothing which should be more frequently impressed upon the minds of young men than the importance of steadily pursuing some one business. The frequent changing from one employ ment to another, is one of the most common errors committed, and to it may be traced more than half the failures of men in business, and much of the dis content and disappointment which rem der life uncomfortable. It is very common thing for man to be dissatisfied with his business, and to desire to change it for some other, which, it seems to him, will prove more lucrative employment; :; but in nine cases out of ten, it is mis- take. Look around you, and you will ind among your acquaintances abundant verification of our assertion.

 There is an honest farmer who has toiled few yeals, got his farm paid for, but does not grow rich rapidly, as much for lack of contentment mingled with in- dustry as anything, though he is not stories of California, and how fortunes may be had for the trouble of picking them up; mortgages his farm to raise the money, goes away to the land of gold, and, after many months of hard toll, come home to commence again at the bottom of the hill for more weary and less successful climbing mp again. Mark the men in every community who are notorious for ability, and equally noto- rious for never getting ahead, and you find them to be those who never stick to one business long, but are always forsak- ing their occupation just when it begins to be profitable. Scientific Ameyican.
Year: 1877

have known country society which withered away to nothing under the dry

 rot of gossip only. Friendships, once as firm as granite, dissolved to jelly, and

 then ran away to water only because of this; love that promised future as en- during and as stable as truth, evaporated into morning mist that turned to a days long tears, only because of this; a father and a son were set foot to foot with the fiery breath of an anger that would never cool again between them {; and husband and young wife, each straining at the hated lash which in the beginning had been the promise of a blessed love, sat mournfully by the side of the grave where all their love and all their joy lay buried, and all because of this. have seen faith transformed

 to mean doubt, joy give place to grim despair, and charity take on itself the features of black malevolence, all be- cause of the fell words of scandal, and the magic mutterings of gossip. Great crimes work great wrong, and the deeper tragedies of human life spring from the larger passions; but woeful and most mournful the shipwreck often made of noble natures and lovely lives by the bitter winds and dead salt waters of islander. So easy to say, yet so hard to isprove--throwing on the innocent all the burden and the strain of demonstra. ting their innocence, and punishing them as guilty if unable to pluck out the
Year: 1877

The importations of corn were 39,- 95S, ,226 cwt., of which upwards of 50 per cent came from this country. Canadian exports of grain are included in those of this country. It will be seen that Rus sia and Turkey have furnished 22.6 per cent. of the supplies to England. In h. dia dearth prevails this year. Egypt being subject to the suzerainty of the porte, will be affected by the war, and whether the war is localized or whether it draws into it the other European pow CTS it is evident that the demand for American breadstuffs will be increased in the neighborhood of 25 per cent. in case of the cutting off of the Russian and Turkish supplies from market by pro- longed war. Italy imports very largely from Odessa, on the Black Sea, and war will also create an active demand for our breadstuffs in Mediterranean ports. In this country the visible supply of wheat is only about one.half what it was this time last year, and if the Russian supply is cut off from the English mar ket the supply of wheat until the next harvest will be very scant, and prices necessarily high. This will tend to make good market for corn, of which there is in this country more than twice the quantity in store than there was at this time last year. although the exports to England have been larger than last year. While much depends upon the area of hostilitics and the length of the war, it is the opinion of statisticians that the eastern war can not fail to ere ate an extraordinary demand for our breadstuffs. Boston Herald.
Year: 1877

We have received letter from young
farmer, asking us with what kind o.
plough would we plough cotton the
second time, and whether we would use
a sweep eighteen inches broad to lay by
cotton


There are hundreds of contingencies
resting upon the points contained in
these simple questions. First, what il
meant by the second ploughing of cotton
The first work usually given a cotton
crop is couple Of burrows to the row,
designed to threw the soil away from the
plants so that the hoe hands may easily
get at them to thin out the growth. This
working is frequently not considered as
aploughing, but siding" barring" "
running round" etc. When the
hoe hands have chopped through the
crop, the genuine ploughing then begins,
and we would reply to the above inquiry
by saying that much depends upon the
seasons, the condition of the soil, whether
in high season or otherwise, the advanced
or backward stage of the crop, and the
kind of soil.


If the seasons forebodc dry weather we
would advise deep ploughing; if the soil
is high in season, plough shallow, if the
crop is backward, plough deep and close !;
ii advanced, plough more shallow and at
greater distance from the crop; ii the
soil is light and sandy, use a sweep il
clay or heavy loan, plough deep and
close. 1t will be readily seen that we
are of the opinion that every farmer if he
observes closely and studies carefully
the nature of his soil, can know better
how to treat it than Others can who are
unacquainted with it.


As to "lsying by" with a sweep,
there can be no difference of opinion on
this subject. If the cultivation up to
that time has been thorough, and the
crop is clean, there IL no necessity for
doing more than dragging sweep as
wide as possible through the rows. This
working will efectually destroy any
young grass, and leave the soil so that
the loose top soil will act as mulching
to the roots of the cotton plants in the
event the next few days or weeks may
be dry and hot. as is usually the case at
that season. The wider the sweep the
less injury is done to the limbs, blooms
and bolls at this working of the crop
Charleston Neics and Courier.
Year: 1877

DANpELIoN CoFFEE.-Good coffee
three parts, hard extract of dandelon
one part, and chickory one part reduce
them to coarse powder, mix, and grind
together.


POLISH FOR OLD FURNITURE-Take
of 9S per cent. alcohol one half pint
pulverized resin and gum shellcc, of each
enc. fourth ounce let this cut in the
alcohol; then add linseed oil one-half
pint, and shake well.


ORANGE PIE.--Grate the yellow rind
of one fresh orange, take the juice and
pulp Of two large oranges; add to them
one cupful of sugar and the beaten yolks
of three eggs mix one cupful of milk
with the whites of the eggs beaten TO a
stiff froth bake in puff paste.


FRIzzLEpD Dry BEEF.-Take one pound
Of beef, put in stew pan with one
quart Of cold water; let it come to
boil then pour off the water, place the
pan ON the stove, break in four eggs,
keep constantly stirring, add one tea
SPOONFUL of butter, a little pepper, and
very little water or, omit the eggs, and
add -four instead TO thicken the gravy.


OUTDOOR WHIrEwAsHING.-Sl
lime in the usual way mix handful of
-four with cold water, taking care to
have no Jumps; then pour on boiling
water until it becomes like common
starch; pour it, while hot, into the
Stacked lime; add one pound Of whiting
and two ounces of powdered borax stir
all we'll together in bucket.
Year: 1877




With the usual method of sowing cot
ton seed quickly in the drill, it is very
important to chop and thin out at the
earliest possible moment. II Is very de-
sirable that the young plants should
grow off rapidly, but it Is impossible for
them TO do this If crowded together.
They struggle against each other, grow
up tall and slender, and, when finally
thinned out, are disposed to fall over.
Whenever this happens some time elapses
before growth fairly begins. Go over
rapidly then, and thin down, not to q
final stand, but as near 70 II as can be
safely be done. Chop out with wider
hoe than that subsequently used, that
the spaces between hills may be wide
enough to admit the hoe without danger
OF bruising the plants. II takes both in.
creased care and time to hoe between
two hills Just far enough apart TO admit
the hoe between them. II the ridge is
sharp enough, and soil sufficiently loose
for the hoes TO chop advantageously, II
may be done before plowing the cotton ;
but IL the ground is hard 1t Is well to
"run around" the cotton in advance OF
the hses. 1t is thought by many that
"barring OFF, and leaving the cotton on
a rather high and narrow ridge has two
feld good cfiect-the first to make the
soil about the plants warm up more
rapidly.


This Is probably true, a. in the spring
the air is generally warmer than the
earth, and the more the latter Is exposed
to the former, the warmer 1t will get.
The second advantage is that the roots of
the plant are thereby forced to run deep
and this guards the plant measurably
against subsequent drouth. The chief
objection to barring off" is the increased
liability of the young plant, not yet
strongly rooted, to fall down when the
cotton is chopped out. We repeat the
remarks made in connection with the
first working of corn: II the land is
hard, run close to the cotton, and plow
deep and thoroughly; il it is friable and
loose, use any plow that will facilitate
work and kill the young grass-the ter
rible May grass which will now spring
up, and is, by long odds, the most trouble
some 10 contend with ia working the
crop. Go over the cotton very rapidly
at this working, as 1t is very important
TO give corn its second plowing and get
back to the cotton again at an early day.
The second working Of cotton is the i'm
portant one, requiring unusual care and
demanding more time, which must be
secured by hurrying over quickly at its
first working.-'Southern Cutticdtor.
Year: 1877

1t is barely possible than Dan Monroe,
of Caddo parish, has not yet heard OF the
new resolutions which were adopted by
the Democratic members of the Legisla-
ture while we had company from abroad
staying with us. For we see that in a mo-
ment of passion he made an attack with
two pistols upon unarmed Allen Walker,
colored, for the purpose of settling law
suit which the courts had just decided
against Dan in Aliens favor. The press
report is thus:


For some time past there has been
lawsuit existing between Monroe and
Walker, and the cause was decided against
Monroe, who thereupon drew revolver
and remarked that he would settle the
case finally, then and there, and COM
menced firing on Allen Walker. he fired
four shots without effect, when Walker
closed in on him, and being better man,
physically, than his antagonist, succeeded
in wrenching the pistol from him, at the
same crying Murder murder !" when
Monroe got away from him, and, stepping
back few PAGES, drew another pistol and
fred again on Walker, the ball taking
effect in the abdomen. DR.. Allen was
sent for and, after an examination of the
wound, pronounced it dangerous if not
fatal. Walker was alive at last accounts,
Dan Monroe is still at large, but will be
arrested if he has not already been taken
into custody. The shooting occurred In
the Justices Office.


Now, though the bulldozer proper al
ways scrupulously limits his homicidal
attentions to political opponents, and
looks with horror upon the lower creature
who murders for pelf or selfinterest, yet
he can not be held entirely blameless for
Monroe's fault. For he has himself set
the example of resorting to arms for what
the laws would deny him, but which he
covets nevertheless. The bulldoEer lynch
es the prisoner in Jail because he wants
him killed before the lapse of time a.
lowed by law, or perhaps because he is
not sure the evidence will be sufficient to
convict. He shoots the colored man on
the way to vote, not because he is COL
ored, but because he is a Republican, or
he shoots him at the ballot box for voting
in defiance of ''the wishes of the people. !"
The bulldozer is thoroughly informed of
the ''wishes of the people, and will not
see them thwarted without making a fuss
about it.


Monroe has only extended this practice
trife. He probably thought that his
defeat in a court of law by a negro was
such an insult to the white blood of this
community, and withal SO detrimental to
his pecuniary interests, as to demand
blood. He, therefore, took an appeal
from the justice, whipped out pistol No.
l, and began vigorously to try his case in
a court where he was pretty sure of JUS
tioe, especially as poor Allen Walker had
no pistol and he had two. He gained his
case. His antagonist is believed to be
mortally wounded, and he is himself o
fugitive for few days, or until the thing
blows over. The paper from which we
quote, however, assures Dan that he will
be arrested, if he has not been already.
But we have our doubts about his ever
receiving much punishment. The regu-
lar buildozers will scold and threaten
him, peIhaps, and if his victim dies the
Governor may possibly issue proelama-
ton. And that will be the end of it.
Year: 1877

this they did well. Such q sacrifice Of
principle 70 etiquette would have forever
destroyed their influence in the great
cause which they seem to have at heart,
would have stamped them as common
place, time-serving, almost hunkeyish.
Never more could either have raised
word against the use of intoxicating
drinks, without having this answer flung
scornfully back: "Oh, yes; total alb
stinence for the world at large; but mine
at state dinners; we also will drink wine
when we want it, and consider our meals
state dinners"


AS for its being "uncivil" to refuse the
mockery of making believe to partake Of
what they would not touch to their lips
for anything, we do not regard it in that
light. Their guests were not obliged to
abstain because they did. Of course
when the host and hostess drank no wine,
the guests could not sit and guzzle it for
hours after the meal has finished, but
but they could partake of it during the
repast Believing as they did that


'Tis widom' sself that fills the cup


In spite of follys frOwn,


And nature from her vine-c,ad hills


That pours her life blood down."


the guests should have done as usual,
and taken no notice of the abstinence Of
their hosts. In our opinion, then, the
conduct of the President and his wife on
this occasion deserves commentator, not
censure. They have set to the youth of
the country an example of devotion to
principle of more worth than the approval
of an army of ambassadors If such ex-
ample should have the effect of making
temperance fashionable, they will have ac-
complished a greater work for the good of
the republic than could arise to it from
the good will toward them personally of
every court in Europe.
Year: 1877

There were merry doings at Grunewald
Hall on Thursday night. The sympa-
thigers with those who fell on the Demo-
cratic side on the fourteenth of September
were assembled to pay the usual quarterly
tribute TO their memory. This took the
form of eating and drinking, music and
dancing, amateur Thespian performances
and other manifestations of regret. The
affair, as is customary, netted a large
amount to the treasury of the enterprise.
Year: 1877

Governor Hendricks is reported to have
said in recent speech at San Francisco
that the Northern Democracy have not yet
given up the presidential contest, but
that, on the contrary, determined effort
will soon be made to secure the title to


ar. Tilden by writ of quo aoarTdnto or
some other suitable legal proceedings In
consequence of the hopes excited in the
minds Of Southern Democrats they do not
at present sympathize with their North
ern brethren in this movement, but that
will have little influence on the main
question, since the wing Of the party
north Of the Ohio river will pursue such
course as they think proper without ask
ing the cooperation of those who are
ready to sell out all tho "encient ira
ditions" for the privilege Of enjoying the
local patronage Of their respective States.


If it is finally decided to strike a blow
for Sam Tilden, however, the Southern
Democrats will not be very likely to in
terpOse any objections. Messrs. Hampton

and Nichols especially will have every
reason to wish the movement success, no
matter how they may be restrained by
what they consider gratitude to President
Hayes.


For both these political heads of petty
soyereignties have long since found ont
two very unpleasant facts: J. That they
were elected to put their friends in place.
2. That their friends ousnumber the
places at their disposal ten or twenty to
one. II would, therefore, be quite re-
lief to the Governors both Of South Caro-
lima and Louisiana for Mr.. Tilden to rein
FORE them with ali and singular the nu-
merous Federal Offices in the gift Of the
President The Northern Democrats may
rest assured thai whsn they are ready 70
60 ahead on that line fhsy win ind Che
Southern BaFkus Willin.
Year: 1877

BUSINESS PROsPECTs. sidering the
general depression of all branches Of
business everywhere throughout the
country, we cannot complain OF the out
look for our county. AT the lower end
ot the county farmers are preparing to
cultivate II larger area than ever before.
The Utsalady mill will be put in good
repair and run to its full capacity. The
mill company will have large store
which will he a great benefit both to
farmers and loggers Of that region at
tOrding also good market for all the
products d this and the Snoquamie re-
gion.
Year: 1877

THE bridge across the slough between
Mr.. Lords and Mr.. Lows place has been
so injured by the late high water as to
be unsafe Pity it had not gone entirely
1t was always disgrace to the road
and no credit to the county. What is
the use Of cutting roads through the tim.
ber and then have all travel blocked for
want OF bridges across few creeks and
sloughs.
Year: 1877

WE call attention to the card of Els
worth & Hartford in another column.
Mr.. Haniold has done too much business
tor our citizens to need further notice
from US; his acts speak for themselves MS
a careful, honorable and able lawyer
His partner was admitted to the Bar last
week at the session of the District Court
for this county. He appears to be gen
tleman thoroughly qualified; a practic
ing lawyer IN Nebraska before coming
here.
Year: 1877

DR. LOCKE is doing so well in the
dental line, that he has concluded to re-
main awhile longer. We are glad Of it.
Besides being an agreeable gentleman, he
is master of his profession. We recon-.
mend all who need anything in that line
not to let the present opportunity slip
by unimproved.
Year: 1877

LOGGING. far as we can learn, all
the camps, both up and down the river
are making preparations for good sea-
sons work. In a month more, If the
weather is favorable, they will make n
general move all along the line. We
hope this season that none of them will
advance backward.
Year: 1877

Across the river from our window, as
we write, we can see the plow turning
its furrow, the garden spade doing its
work, cattle and sheep grazing, and
every other indication of agricultural
thrift.
Year: 1877

DIR. Folsom, who was severely injured
about two months ago from fall, that
for time Threatened 10 have cost him
the loss of one OF his eyes, has nearly re-
covered. This week, Tor the first time
since the accident, he has been able to
contribute to the columns of the Star.
We are not only glad for his own sake,
but on our own account, as be has been
of great assistance to this journal, even
helping to issue the first number.
Year: 1877

Democracy in practically carrying out
localization or home rule in all phases
of political government.


If the Central Committee (which
is, in its general operation, som ewhat
foreign to district interests) should in
the exercise of its powers, assert
rights of control beyond those of
calling meetings and the ordinary
matters connected Herewith, and try
to supervise the votive power OF the
primaries, it would most emphatically
be highly obnoxius, and justly so, to
the persons participating therein.


The character OF the power residing
in the committeeman is but directory
and is so invested by the voice of the
Democratic party assembled in con-
vention. The sovereignty of the peo-
pie can in no wise be infringed by the
tardiness or absence of the commit
teeman from his post of duty. The
electoral power, can be freely exercis-
ed in calling meetings to order and
filling the stated requirements of the
call under which they are assembled.


The committee thinks that care
full construction of the resolutions
binds or limits none but themselves,
and suggests that their adoption en-
anated from sincere desire to merit
public appreciation in retaining known
abuses that have crept into the dis
trict management through the hasty
and injudicious action of the local
committeeman.


The outcome of the County Con-
vention is frequently governed to
large degree by the measure of har-
mony and unity of political action
that characterizes the district primary,
both in the methods Of proc lure and
tho final result. If an u +ood
limit of action was not .."t s-
Year: 1877

He waited minute for the men to
make ready and then raised the wild
est yell ever heard by Indian or white
man. Its ferceness fairly appalled,
his companions for an instant, but as
his-mustang sprang forward they spur
red after. Charging straight down
the ravine, with that wild scream
echoing from bank to bank, they had
gone nearly half mile before the sur
prised Indians comprehended the sit
uation and made pursuit. The ravine
bent and turned for miles and while
some of the Indians followed down it,
others rode along the banks, firing at
random and screaming in their rage.


"a mile further down." cried Lit
tie Dan as he turned in his saddle, "a
trail crosses the ditch. Well turn to
the right and make for the Injun viii
lage.. If you shoot straight we'll give
these devils chance to attend ID dozen
funerals at home"


Not shot had thus far been fred
BY the party. Two or three mounted
Indians had been encountered, sitting
on their saddles, and wondering over
the alarm, but they were knocked
down and leaped over like so many
toys. The little band were quarter
of a mile ahead of pursuit as they
whirled to the right, dashed up the
bank, and made for the hundred camp


fires mile away.


"Six abreast, now, and follow me 7
shouted the dwarf. Il want TO charge
right through the centre of the village
and I'll kill as many as all of you cal


wound Fire at everything on legs
and keep yelling like devils |"


Had they kept on down the ravine
it would have simply been test O
: speed between horses, with the odd
, IN favor of the white men. Little Da