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Year: 1877

LAST ONE OF THE SKAsoN--How
TO AVOID THE TOBACCO FLY.-We
learn from the Liberty (Va.) Bed.
ford Star that Mr.. Read, the
manager of Major Sutherlin's s
"Sunny Side" farm, IN Halifax
County, Va, who has been planting
tobacco for thirty years and has
never had trouble with the tobacco
fly, gives the following remedy =
"He barks pine poles and lays them
across the plant beds, and like the
old hare in the tar trap, the flies get
stuck in the turpentine. Another
sure remedy he has tried is fresh
stable manure well dried in wag-
on body, and then sift it fine and
add to it littlo guano and ashes
aud sprinkle it well on the plants.
The stencil is as strong as hart
shorn in fact the fly cannot get to
the plant. This plain plantation
talk we give from practical farm
er." A gentleman who has tried
the remedy, tells us that the tobacco
fly can be destroyed by sprinkling
fine ashes on The leaves; or SCOT,
which he says is even better than
ashes. SCOT or ashes will kill in


sects on cabbage and squash plants,
Year: 1877

This is the exact fashion in which
the brave and brilliant Francis
Marion once wrote to General
Greene-as In a letter Just pub
lished for the first time: "SR-I
had the honor of wrighting you
the 10th Instant, & Inclosed a
treaty made with Gainey since
which [ find the greatest part of
those people will submit--a few OF
them pretends to Stand out & / am
Just on the march to mars bluff
where l shall pass the river and
march to the north line where the
Disapinted live & hope in ten days
to put an End to the Expedition
and Leave this part of the country
III peace. Tanning went of two days
ago will sixty-one men to Chas.
toun, he was seen at Black river
but cannot Learn where his men is
gone, but Emagin they have taken
the same rout as their Leader"
The gallant soldier was not hamp
cred BY any absurd punctillios o.
spelling.
Year: 1877

THE FARMERS FATAL MISTAKE.
ALI know, who have tried both
ways, that one acre well planted
and cultivated with far less labor
mad wear and tear Of horse flesh, but
makes larger crop, and it is saved
with less labor. Yet there are
hundreds of farmers who, after half
preparing their land, plant twice as
much as they onght, get hopelessly
in the grass and weeds, arc always
in a hurry, yet never catch mp with
their work, and after all make n
poor crop. This is not sensible and
does not pay. Good cultivation is
absolutely essential to successful
farming, hence every farmer ought
TO get the very best tools. They
may cost little more, but they
pay in the end. Crops should be
planted in ground we'll prepared,
and so early as the farmer is ready
for the grass before it is ready for
him; then there will be some
chance OF keeping ahead of it. A
crop once badly in the grass never
fully RECEIVERS from it.
Year: 1877

THE SILVER QUEsr1oN.-Mr.
French, Assistant Secretary of the
Treasury, has rendered an opinion
to the effect that all the bonds
issued by the United States since
1870 must be paid in gold, and
that to attempt to discharge such
obligations in silver would be fraud
upon the creditors Of the Govern.
ment. At the same time we have
a statement OF Secretary Sherman s
views on the silver issue. He seems
to desire no legislation in this con.
nection, and is of the opinion that
all that is necessary is to make the
silver dollar a legal tender precisely
as the paper dollar now is, and LET
the amount OF coinage be regulated
by the wants of the people. TIC
those who desire TO exchange paper
for silver he would give the fullest
opportunities, and he thinks thai
there would then be no trouble
about what sort Of currency they
have.
Year: 1877

When you see young fellow
who a year ago used to step up
and order lager for the crowd with
the utmost sang froid, patiently
trundling baby carriage along
the street on Sunday afternoon.
and looking chap-fallen in his last
seasons hat, don't it speak vol
umes for the reforming influence
of woman's society
Year: 1877

There is touch Of pathos about
doing even the simplest for the last
time. 1t is not alone kissing the
dead that gives vou this pain. You
feel it when you have looked the
last time upon some scene you have
loved-when you stand in some city
street where you know you will
never stand again; the singer, whose
voice is hope!essly cracked, and
who, after this once will never
stand before the sea of uptnrned
faces, dispnting the plaudits with
fresher voices and faircr forms; the
minister who has preached his last
sermon-thesc all know the hidden
bitterness of the two words "never
again" How they come to us OF
onr birthdays as we grow older =
never again younger. We were too
old to walk any longer OF our stilts,
too tall to play marbles on the
sidewalk. Yet there was papg
when we thought we had
played with our merry thonghts
for the last time, and life's serious,
grown up work was waiting for us.
Now we do not want the lost toys
back; life has other and larger play.
things for us. May it not be that
these, too, shall seem in the light
| cf some far-of day AS the boyish
games seem to our manhood, and
we shall learn that death is bnt the
opening of the gate into the new
land of promise I?
Year: 1877

WAS THE Moon ALWAYS DEAD 7-Now
that astronomers have almost by unani-
nous coasent accepted the doctrine Of the
development of our system, which involves
the belief that the whole mass of each men,
ber of the system was formerly gaseous
with intensity of heat, they can no longer
doubt that The moon once had seas and an
atmosphere of considerable density. The
moon has, in fact, passed through the same
changes as our own earth, though not ne
cessarily in The same exact way. She was
once vaporous, a. was our earth, though
not at the same time nor for so long time.
She was once glowing with intensity Of
heat, though this stage also must have con-
tinued for a much shorter lime than the
corresponding stage of our earth's history.
Must we not conclude that amer passing
through that stage the moon was for time
a habitabe world as our earth is now? The
great masses of vapor and of cloud which
had girt our moons whole globe, even as
in the youth Of our earth her seas enwrap-
ped ber iu cloud form, must at length have
taken their place as seas upon her surface.
The atmosphere which bad supported those





comparison with the present lunar atmos-
phere, perhaps even by comparison with
the present atmosphere of our earth. Then
the glowing surface of the moon gradually
cooled, until at length the moon must have
been fit abode for life. But whether,
when thus swept and garnished into fitness
for habitation, the moon actually became
an Inhabited world, is a question which
will be variously answered according TO
our views of the economy OF nature in this
respect. Those who hold that nature makes
nothing in vain, will need only to ask
whether the support of life is the one sole
purpose which planet can subserve; If
that should appear probable, they would at
once decide that the moon must, during its
habitable stage have been inhabited. 9th
ers who, looking around at the workings OF
nature as known TO us, perceive, or think
they perceive, that there is much which re-
sembles waste in nature, will be less conf
dent on this point. They may reason that
as of many seeds which fall upon the
ground, scarce one subserves the one pur-
pose for which seeds can be supposed 10
have been primarily intended, as many
younglings among animals perish untime-
ly, as even many races and types fail OF
their apparent primary purpose, so our
moon, and possibly many such worlds,
may never have subserved and never come
to subserve that one chief purpose for which
the orbs peopling space can be supposed to
have been formed.-COrnhtu Magazine.
Year: 1877

Extract from letter from late eminent
English clergyman, the Rev. J. ]. Taylor !:


81 think some nonsense has been written
and some fanaticism displayed in connec-
tion with the teetotal movement; but 1t
seems TO me impossible to deny that the
question is now assuming n very formida-
BILE importance. I do not regard the mod
crate use of the stimulus furnished by fer
mented liquors TO be either pernicious or
morally wrong. But the thing has become
in its abuse a positive curse to society
a moral pestilence which sweeps down
whole multitudes Of men and women and
even children, who have not moral vitality
TO resist the attack, and whom, IL we are
not absolutely bound to protect against
their own weakness, we ought at least TO
guard from gratuitously multiplied and ar
tifcially stimulating temptation. When
such an epidemic seizes human society, Il OBJ
serve, in the or dinary course of human af-
fairs, nothing can resist it but some intense
reaction, pushed by the very necessity OF
its existence into some extravaganza, aud
headed by leaders whose moral esrnestness
almost takes the form of monomania, aud
in whom the sense of an awful evil TO be
overcome, masters for the time every 9TH
er consideration. | can often discern the
weakness and the limited application of
some Of the arguments put forth by such
men but they are strong from the intens-
ity of moral purpose which animated them,
and 1 perceive, that in these vast tidal
waves of popular influence, urged on by
the profound moral sense surging up from
the popular heart, the greatest evils of So
ciety have been constantly swept away.
Here I am compelled to recognize the
working Of the spirit OF God"
Year: 1877

The calmness Of this noontide hour,
The shadow Of this wood,
The fragrance Of each wildling flower,
Are marvelously good;
o, here craEed spirits breathe the balm
OF natures solitude.
It is most delicious calm
That reSteth everywhere
The holiness Of soul-sung psalm,
OF felt but voiceless prAyeTl
with hearts too full tJ speak their bliss
Gods creatures silent are.
They silent are but not the less
In this most tranquil hour
OF deep, unbroken dreAminess
They own that love and power
which, like the softest sunshine, rests
On every leaf and flower.


William Mothefwell.
Year: 1877

One would not expect to find three Wellington Watsons. Yet till recently there were at least that number of pco- pie of that name in the United States two, father and son, living in this county; aud a third. who shielded lately in Detroit.
Year: 1877

The new temperance reform movement in Ono is doing a smashing work. In several of the villages canvassed the great CT part of the mae population are wear ing the temperance colors-red and blna.
Year: 1877

This is a spick and span bran.nsw first class hotel. Every room is bright and cheerful, we'll ventilated, and elegantly furnished. It is located just across the where every traveller may stop without having to hire carriage. It is kept on the European Plan, and the scale of pri- ces is very moderate. Don't fail to give 1t trlal on your next visit to the city.
Year: 1877

The people of Connecticut have learned to place high estimate on the ability, candor and conscientious thoroughness of the firm of HALL & READ of Bridgeport, and there is no doubt 1t is an excellent place to buy Dry Goods and Carpets. They ar1 uireaa5 making arrangements for spring, and are introducing some new de- signs in the celebrated ingrain carpetings of their own make. Their stock of fine carpetings and house furnishing goods is always attractive. while they are always offering some real bargains in Dry Goods.

 It is becoming an established fact that the interior of our dwellings can be furn- ished with carpets and wall decorations by Messrs HALL X READ of Bridgeport in better taste and at less expenditure than by any other firm for the following req sons: They make their own carpets and control the designs of the new decorations and can therefore not only fit up houses with good harmony in the fittings but save the purchasers one profit.
Year: 1877

In a great majority of cases a lady's
elopement is unwise, giddy, ungrateful,
immOdest, and evinces a lascivious ap-
petite and reckless disposition. Why
should she desert and distress those who
have loved, nurtured, and cherished her
through all her past years to throw her.
self into the arms of a comparative
stranger, who has done nothing for her,
and whose protestations of affection
have yet to undergo the first trial? 1t
is every way unworthy of pure and gen.
tie maidenhoOd to do so.


We can imagine but one excuse for
her elopement, namely, the efforts of
parents or guardians to coerce her into
marrying some one she does not love.
To avoid such fate, she is justified in
running away, for no parent has or ever
had right to cOustrain a daughter to
marry against her will. But where the
parents are willing to wait, the daugh-
ter should also consent to wait, until
her choice is assented to, or she attains
her legal majority.


There is some truth to be told about
the "common run" of masculine prowl-
ers by night, about garden walls and
under bedroom windows, in quest of
opportunities to pour seducing batteries
into the ears of simple misses; but we
have not time to tell it now. AS a gen.
eral rule they are licentious, good-for-
nothing adventures, who would much
rather marry living than work for it,
and who speculate on the chances of
"bringing the old folks round" after a
year or two. A true man would not ad-
wise, much less urge, the woman he
loved to take step which must iuevit-
ably lessen the respect felt for her, and
violate the trust repOsed in her by those
who had loved and cherished her all her
days.-HODle Circle.
Year: 1877

Never write with pen and ink. It is
altogether too plain, and doesn't hold
the minds of the editors and printers
closely enough to their work.


If you are compelled to use ink, never
use that vulgarity known as the blot
ting pad. If you drop blot of ink on
the paper, lick it off. The belligerent
cOmpositor loves nothing so dearly as to
read through the smears this will make
across twenty or thirty words. We
have seen him hang over such piece
of copy for half an hour, swearing like
pirate all the time, he felt that good.


Don't try to write too plainly. 1t is
sign of plebeian origin and public
school breeding. Poor writing is an in
dication of genius. It's about the only
indication of genius that great many
men possess. Sprawl your article with
your eyes shut, and make every word
as illegible as you can. We get the
same price for it from the rag man as
though it were covered with copper
plate sentences. Avoid all painstaking
with proper names. We know the full
name of every man, woman, and child
in the United States, and the merest
hint of the name is sufficient. 1t is
great mistake that proper names should
be written plainly.


Always write on both sides of the pa
per, and when you have filled both
sides on every page, trail line up and
down every margin and back to the top
of the first page, closing your article by
writing your signature just above the
date. How we do love to get hold of
articles written in this style! And how
we would like to get hold of the man
who sends them-just for ten minutes
alone-in the woods, with a cannon in
our hip pocket.-BUrliRgtOn HaaOkeye.
Year: 1877

Ingersoll says: "If you want to con-
vert a man, wash him." An exchange,
in commenting on the popularity of the
free baths in New York City, says it is
a source of national congratulatiOn, for
'as men get IN the habit of keeping
themselves clean, they will in time fall
into the other good habit of voting the
Republican ticket" No city offers
better spiritual harvest.
Year: 1877

A trip around the world
is not an undertaking Of the
magnitude it was in the days OF
Capt. Cook. 1fis becoming an
everyday occurrence. The tour
will shortly be made by the
Woodruff scientific expedition
a scientific school afioat-in
which a number of cadets enjoy
the pleasures of travel and sight
seeing, as an offset for the irk-
of the study, and the
benefit of instruction impaired
by corps of first-class profess
OrS. -.aFt...r -.f
Year: 1877

SMALL FRUITS IN GARDENS
few people seem to know the
value of small fruits to family,
when grown in their own gar
den. You commence with straw
berries; they continue about a
month. You pick, perhaps, from
six to twelve quarts day. You
have them on your table as des-
sert, if you please, at noon, and
your tea table is loaded with
them at evening, and you want
little else but bread and butter.
Your family consume, in one way
and another, about eight quarts
a day, and while they last no
medicines for bodily ailments
are required, as quart of straw
berries daily will generally dis
pei all ordinary diseases not set
tied permanently in the system.
After Strawberries, raspberries
come to continue about three
weeks; then we have blackber-
ries where the climate is not too
cold for the cultivated varieties;
then the currants ripen, which
remain until the early grapes
mature; and taking the season
through any family with half
acre Of land in a garden can
grow small fruits that make
country life delightful, and at
the same time hundreds of dol
lars can be saved in the supply
Of the table.
Year: 1877

In our dispatches this morning will be


found an appeal from the Mayor of Port


Royal asking assistance for the sorely strick-
en- little community over which he presides.


About two weeks ago the yellow lever un-
fortunately made its appearance at Port
Royal, and since that time the forty or fifty
families who make up its population have
been making q gallant struggle against the
fatal disease. In the meantime many of
them have died, and the condition of the
survivors is truly pitiable. 10 quote the
words Of the Mayor they are in want of TODD,
nourishment and means to procure nurses
for the sick. The fact is the little settle
ment with its two hundred men, women and
children, nearly all of them very poor has
become plague spot, where to tho horrors
Year: 1877

bending of some other elbows besides the
elbow of the river on the evening the
monster was seen, and that the formidable
bill presented to the captain was nothing
more than Mississippi River snag. But
we see no reason to be sceptical The
''devil fish" which we can now see as
reality, with its body ten feet in length
and seven feet in circumference, and its ten
arms, two of them measuring thirty feet, is
certainly. not quite equal to the Mississippi
leviathan. Nevertheless, it shows that
there are some queer kinds Of inhabitants
down in the deep waters. We should have
more faith in Captain Carraways story if
the monster he encountered had not been
seen at late hour, and if there were no
snags in the Mississippi and no liquor in
the towboat lockers.
Year: 1877

The WEArHER.--The centre OF lowest pressure
has moved from the Mississippi and Lower Ohio
valleys 10 the lake region and Canada attended
by very heavy rains and high winds. The undu-
lation of high pressure behind the disturbance is
following it closely and with steady baromctric
rise. Another area of low pressure is developing
d short distance west OF the Missouri Valley, but
as yet without threatening indications. The
slow movement OF the depression now in the
lake region is due to the resistance of area Of
unusually high pressure directly in its track.
The highest barometer continues on the coast,
but has moved toward Nova Scotia, where the
pressure is gradually falling. The zones Of high
and low pressure arc now arranging themselves
after the recent great storm The present
storm IL but Incident Of this process and owing
10 the unusually high prcssurcs prevailing in adj
vance Of it is one of marked energy. Low tenn
peratures continue to prevail. The weather in
New York to-day will be cloudy and cool, with
rain and increasing southeasterly to westerly
winds, followed BY clearing weather.
Year: 1877

perilous retreat Of famine-stricken men
toward far distant point of safety and relief
over a route wholly unknown as to its diff
culties and natural perils, and through the
midst of cannibals who harassed the travel
lers at every opportunity. Yet, despite all
this, the object Of the expedition is held
sacred by Stanley. He fulfils his duty to
the HERALD and the Daily Telegraph and
to civilization in the midst Of perils
calculated to awaken only the most selfish
thoughts in the mind of man. TO Judge of
the cool deliberation with which Stanley en-
barked in this his last and greatest enter
prise we need but read his letter dated
at Nyangwe, OF which we print this morning
copy of the duplicate preserved by him,
the original having been sent to the East
Coast. He fully appreciated the dangerof
the journey down the Lualaba, but wholly
undaunted by it he remarks, 1T must be
very strong tribe indeed that can turn US
back now" BY this simple sentence he in
dicates his determination to proceed, no
before he had penned this expression OF
heroic resolve he had lost many men by de-
sertion and sickness. His hitherto most
faithful follower, Kalulu, had left him, al
though he afterward returned to his duty.
He was short Of supplies and six months
journey from Zanzibar and assistance. Yet,
with the true adventurous dash that half
wins the battle, he plunges into the un-
known and emerges conqueror.


Stanley's first letter from the West Coast
of Africa is that Of man who has been just
relieved from great mental and physical
strain. He claims the forbearance of those
who SO anxiously await his story until his
strength and nervous tone return. He
deems himself unfit to deal with the grave
matter of his journeys and discoveries until
with recruited health the absolute newness
Of his existence among civilized people
wears off and he begins to feel again equal
to the task Of writing. To a man in his con-
dition and after accomplishing his work
this allowance will be generously made.
The pleasure Of knowing that he is safe and
about to unveil the mysteries Of Equatorial
Africa rccompenses for any delays that may
occur in the publication Of these important
records and discoveries. So far we give the
letters thnt have reached us, addressed by
Stanley to the HERALD and the London
Daily Telegraph, in whose service Mr. STAN
ley has accomplished the greatest geograph-
ical success on modern record.