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Year: 1878

Coal AsHEs.-Coal ashes as u fertilizer
are said to be very beneficial for tomatoes
and potatoes, and to less extent peas and


beans. Moreover, they improve the me-
chanical condition Of the soil, and are there
fore especially beneficial to clayey and rigid
land generally. They should be worked in
deeply and uniformly in the proportion of,
say, one part Of ashes to two of mold ..1
it takes long time to decomposo them,
their fertilizing properties are slow in action,
but continuous. To obtain tho best advan-
tase from their use, somo other kind OF
manure should be applied in conjunction
with them. AS there arc seldom enough for
field culture, the garden is the best place in
which to use them, and inasmuch as they
arc generally considered mere inconvenient
| refuse, all the advantage secured from their
use will be clear gain.-Rvat " Yorker
Year: 1878

The DOCTRINE OE NO HELL.-It is cor
tain that the greatest of infdels have at
tackled the existence Of He'll as a prelim-
mary in getting rid of the tremendous idea
of God. 1t is only too apparent that in
spite of all assaults from philosophers and
philosophy, there is fixed in the human
mind the dread belief that if good deeds
shall merit hereafter a place Of refreshment,
light and repose, the works of evil will
bring upon their authors scclusion from
happiness, Punishment from the abode of
virtue, and confinement to place where
the wicked never cease from troubling and
the weary never are at rcst What appears
complex proposition may be reduced t.
very simple formulation. If men are des-
peratcly and deliberately intent upon evil
in this world, without repentance or amend.
mcnt, they will carry into another world
what they harvested here. IF they hated
virtue here, they shall hate it hereafter
If they preferred association with sensual
ity here, they cannot expect to keep compa.
ny with the pure hereafter. They would
not be happy in such an atmosphere, if ad.
mitted toit They 60 to their places-placcs
oftheir own selection. What those places are
may be conjectured but they cannot be
paradisical.-Augusta Chronicle.
Year: 1878

How TO GET RID OF WARTs-Warts
are very troublesome and disfiguring The
following is perfect cure, for even the lar
gest, without leaving any scar, and has been
tested by many. Take small piece of raw
beef, steep it all night in vinegar, cut as
much from it as will cover the wart, and tie
1T on if the cxcressence is on the forehead,
fasten the beef on with piece of sticking
plaster. 1t may bo removed in the day and
put on every night. In one fortnight the
wart will die and peel off. The same pre-
scription will cure corns.
Year: 1878

AMMoNIATED MANUREs.-Lct farmers
beware how they purchase ammon lated ma
nures. When we who live in wooded and
cotton.-growing country buy aurassaia, we
commit as great folly as buying coal to
carry to New Castle. This ingredient in
the manures We use is costly and constant
ly escaping. We have the material with
us to produce it in sufficient quantities and
at cost far less than what we now pay for
it. TO do this requires some management
and industry. Let us inquire how much
of this costly ingredient is necessary for a
good fertilizer. Experience il this, as in
most matters pertaining to our calling, is
the best guide. n few years since VIC were
told that sixteen per cent. of ammonia was
necde1 to make q first class manure now
two and half to three per cent. next,
will answer, none-that is, buy none from
tho manufacturer. | do not mean to saw
that no ammonia is necessary to the growth
and development of plants and their fruit,
but that We should not buy it. We have a
better and cheaper way to get it than that
We have been taught by experience that
corn requires different manure from cot
ton ; that one manure is not adapted for all
plants. 1t bchooves us, then, to study
carefully this matter, so that we may apply
our means and labor to the best advantage,
that nothing may be wasted.-'L" in An
dersOn Inteiiycncer.
Year: 1878

Next to rooster in rain storm or a
man with his mother in law on his arm, the
most wretched looking thing in the world
is candidate who has just overheard some
friend wanting to bet three to one that he
won't be elected.
Year: 1878

Tomorrow the Kent County Agricultural
Fair at Dover will be open to the public.
Every effort has been made to maks it a
success, and II, will no doubt surpass any
thing of its kind that has ever taken place
on the Peninsula. The HERALD will have
two representatives to report each days
proceedings, and give fnH account of the
exhibits, etc. As the HERALD is published


several hours in advance of the other
papers our citizens will have a good chance to
get the news at an early hour and in read
able form q . 2r-ls y..".
Year: 1878

Henceforth we will give column daily
to correspondence upon any proper subject
for discussion. It is expected that commu-
nications will be written on one side only
of the paper, and accompanied with the
e as endorsing a%s Of Oen ID any
pondents in this column.
Year: 1878

Mehemet Ali is dead, murdered BY an
Albanian mob, because he was endexvor-
lug to persuade them to submit peaceably
| to Austrian occupation. The fact in it.
self is another evidence of the intense
hatred existing in the Mussulman popula-
ton OF Bosnia and Herzegovina against
| their hereditary enemies, the Austrians,
and the sympathy which they receive
from the entire body of their countrymen
1t is the first ealZalion OF the blunders of
the treaty OF Berlin, which the English
have been so prematurely rejoicing over,
that Austria. instead OF taking peaceable
possession OF the provinces OF the Turk
lsh empire awarded to her. should find a
bitter aud prolonged war on her hands
which will not only tax her resources se-
verely, but bids fair to result in such q
state of anarchy and perpetual strife as
will render her territorial possessions .
loss rather than gain, at least for many
years. 1t is a sign of the intense vitality
and force of the Turkish people that they
resist dismemberment with such tenaciiy,
and that they will not submit even to the
DEGREES of their own government in being
absorbed within the limits of neighbor-
ing power. Perhaps the signatories of
the treaty OF Berlin may feel compelled to
call upon the Sultan himself to send an
army to enforce the surrender of his own
rebellious subjects to the power that was
to take them off his hands for the sake of
peace, as in fact his endeavor TO persuade
them TO do SO has cost him the lite of his
ablest general.


Like the Spaniards there is an inherent
force in the Turkish people, which resist
ed all incompetency and weakness in the
central government. and which is never
more formidable than when all its organ.
lied armies have surrendered, and treaties
have been signed, partitioning them out
among their enemies. England will be
fortunate II she does not experience some
trouble from this element in the Turkish
people, and find that the easy assumption
OF responsibility al Berlin does not turn
out very old Man of the Sea in weight
and tenacry. AS tor Mehemit Ali himself,
his career was in the direct line of those
adventurous renegades, who have afford
ed SO much material for romance since
the Turks settled in Europe, and became
the Alsatia for the boldest and worst of
the adventurers of Christendom, and his
tate was a characteristic ending for such
life. He was the son OF = German
trumpeter of cavalry, and running away
from home, was picked up while swim
ming away from n vessel which he had
deserted in the Bosphorous, and became
the petted servant OF Pasha. He spos-
tatzed, when perhaps too young TO know
the enormity OF the act, and fought his
way upward in the army by bravery, skill
and dexterity in intrigue.


tbs deatu is another illustration Of the
tate which has befalen alien and rene
gade in the Turkish service. They have
usually tailed by the jealousy and dis
trust Of their associates. and been pun
ished with death Tor that failure, or fallen
in some demand upon their courage or
desperation, which were the chief causes
OF their pIecarious prominence.
Year: 1878




We congratulate the village on the
fact that at last the government of the
village of Worthington has walked up
and given us two ordinances for the
suppression of disorderly or immoral
conduct on the public streets. One Of
these describes the kind of acts Which
are punishable and the other authorizes
the village Marshal and the Night
Watcl'man to promptly arrest persons
guilty of disorderly conduct. The
gathering together of persons to annoy
or disturb any person, is one of the
offences described and appearing on the
street in state of intoxication rs an
other.


Better late than never. We urged
the passage of such an ordinance year
or two ago, but then it was the fashion
of the town to look leniently on all
misdemeanors which didn't particular
ly annoy particular set.


But Worthington is in a fair way to
become the best governed and the most
orderly town in the Southwestern part
of the State, as it now is the best side
walked and the best lighted.
Year: 1878

70 FOREIGN SUBSCRIBERS


Subscribers to the ADVANCE living
outside Of Mobiles county will please
remember that when we notify them
of the expiration of their subscription
and they do not respond, we take it for
granted that they do not want the
paper longer. and our rule is to strike
their names off.
Year: 1878

Even If we are not smart we know
what to do when troubled with a cough
or cold. No doctor bills for us. We
take a Is cent note, 60 to the nearest
drug store and buy bottle of DR.. Bulls
Cough Syrup. One dose relieves US and
one bottle cures us entirely.
Year: 1878

were astonished to discover that his religion,

 his patriotism, his views on many other sub

 jects than temperance, differed so little from their own. Let us hope that the lesson will not be lost upon us. We have our own work to do in helping to nationalize the Irish-Amer- ican. That work will never be forwarded by hatred and misrepresentation of his religion, by scorn of his poverty, or by taunts of his ig- norance. Centuries of such evil methods have made the Irishman what he is. America must undo the work and unlearn the methods of England before she can make true citizens of her people of Irish descent.
Year: 1878

Never marry u man who has only
his love for YOU To recommend him,
1t is very fascinating, but it does not
make the man. If he is not other
wise what he should be, you will new
er he happy, The most perfect man
who did not love You should never be
your husband. But though fsarriage
without love is terrible love onIy Will
not do. Ifthe man is dishonorable TO
other men, is mean, orgiyen to any
vice, the time will come WLeI you
will either loathe him or sink to his
level. 1t is hard to remember, amidst
kisseg and praises, that there is any
thing else in the world to be done or
thought Of but love-makipg; but the
days of life are many, and the husband
must he guide to be trusted-a COM
panion, n friend az well as lover.
Many a girl has married man whom
she knew to be anything but good
because he loved her So" And the
flame has died out on the hearthstone
of home before long, and beside it she
has hPen sitting with one that she
could never hope would lead her hedv=
enward-or who, if she followed him
as wife should, would guide her steps
to perditiqn, Marriage Is a solemn
thmg-a chQiee for life; be careful in
the choosing:
Year: 1878

The manufacture and sale of gas to the
people of cities has been rendered, under the


force of circumstances, to II great extent a
monopoly. The investment for the manu-
tncture and supplying of this almost indis-
pcnsable article of domestic and business
comfort, in the way of machinery, pipe lay
ing, &c, is necessarily large, aud hence
when gas company gets possession of a
city ii is difficult to secure competition or
any safeguard against the grasping avarce
which seems to be the controlling spirit of
all corporations. The city of Washinnton
has one gas company that furnishes fair gas
at living rates to the stockholders if not to
the consumer, and does so thus far without
any fear OF competition. 1t keeps its own
accounts in its own way and the reported
state of the metre, no matter whether it is
inconsistent or not with circumstances, is
arbitrary, and If evidently incorrect under
the logic of circumstances, is is rs fixed as
the laws of the Medcs and Persians, the
consumer has no alternative but to pay or
have his supply cut off. This is u brief
statement of the case, and thus far gas con-
| Suhitlo W NhC -NutlOiltl NuUi are tnIlIelN
subject to the policy of one company, which
is evidently inspired as all interpretations are
with the idea of liberal dividends, and that
appears to be their chief consideration.


An effort is now being made in Congress
to secure charter for company which
has for its corporators several highly re-
spectacle citizens and which by new pro-
cess proposes to furnish a quality of gas to
the people Of Washington equal to that
which is now furnished at rate which
shall not benefit the stockholders in excess
of ten cents per hundred or one dollar per
thousand feet but it is blind as to what it
will cost the consumer 1t may cost the
consumer one dollar and half per thousand
feet to enable the stockholders to get their
one dollar, as there is no proposition as to
the cost to the consumer, and rs we under
stand Mr.. CRUTCIIET, the inventor of the
process by which thisgas is to be manutact-
ured and furnished, it can be manufactured
at less than fifty centsper thousand feet. This
being an accepted fact, and the proposed
bill securing to the stockholders one dollar
per thousand feet, the consumer has no
guarantee against an exaction in price to
enable the stockholders to realize their
benefits as established by law. Before the
bill is passed it should be so amended Us to
fix n maximum price to the consumer so
that it can be clearly understood whether or
not the difference Of saving is sufficient to
justify fresh tearing up Of the street or
sidewalk pavements to introduce its use
into the city II this new com
company is to be chartered let it be under
circumstances that will benefit gas consum-
ers but as We understand this bill it is
silent on that subject, except as to the bare
point of securing to the stock holders an as
surance of benefit of one dollar per thousand
feet from gas furnished, and we are told
orally by theinventor that the gas can be fur
nishcd at cost for price not exceeding fifty
Year: 1878

The Military Committee of the Senate
has had under consideration for some time
the subject Of purchasing two acres of land
at Camp Chase, near Columbus, Ohio, on
which are buried one thousand five hun.
dred Confederate prisoners, who died at
Camp Chase while in captivity at that point
pending the war. The owners of the land
ask $500 ioI the fee of it, the Government
having paid $50 per annum rs rental for its
use up to this time. The land is not re.
garded as uniustly high at the figure named
and the committee have ransacked classic
history for arguments to justify the pur-
chase They inject into the report the
statement that there are many ex-Conied-
crates in both Houses Of Congress who are
no less guilty of wrong than those who
died at Camp Chase, and express the opin-
ion that no one will dispute their right to
burial in the Congressional Cemetery when
they shall have departed this life. The re-
port, after this reminder to the Confcder-
ates in Congress that they are as guilty as
the poor fellows who died at Camp Chase
and that their guilt is still held in remem-
brance, concludes by recommending that
the Secretary of War be authorized to pay
$500 for the two acres of ground in question
in which are the remains of fifteen hundred
Confederate soldiers.
Year: 1878

cents per thousand feet. Why not fix n
maximum price to consumers in the bill ?
If that is not done VIC hope the bill will not


pass. If it is done, and it is clear that the


people are to be benefited, why then let
the bill be passed that an experiment in
the way of relief to gns-consumcrs may be
entered upon. We have no quarrel with
the existing gas company. We expect 10
use and pay for their gas at their own price,
and subject to their own rules of measure.
mcnt or accounting no matter how arbitrary
or unjust, for we have no alternative but
we entertain the opinion that 1t is about
time this matter of furnishing light to the
people of Washington shall be opened to
competition. This is our view and position.
Year: 1878

The action of the Democrats in the House
of Representatives and the countcnance
given them in the Senate of the Congress of
the United States in their revolutionary
measures begins to ripen the harvest of
tribulntion for the nation. When the law
makers themselves begin to cast discredit
upon the laws Of their own making-when
war is openly declared against the integrity
OF the Presidential title-when late Con-
fcdcratcs are jubilant over the labor troubles
of the North, and incite the worst passions
OF the populacc against the Government
1t is not surprising that the seeds thus sown
germinate and promise an early and fruitful
harvest Of mischief. The first open blow
against the majesty of the law and the in
tegrity Of the Government was struck at
Fort Sumter. Then followed bloody
war, then surrender, then a proclaimed
peace-whch on the part Of the conquered
had but little meaning-then came laws Of
tuition, guarantees of equal rights to all citi-
zens, none of which have been duly re-
spectcd by the people of the conquered ter
ritory, from the day GRANT declined the
sword of LEE at Appomattox down to the
recent revolutionary movement of POTTER
in the House of Representatives.


During all these years the lawless-
ness of the South, the brutalities, op-
pressions, and murders that have been
pcrpctrated there under assured immu-
nifty from punishment, have conspired
to spread like spirit among NAL
contents at the North and West The Mollie
Maguires of Pennsylvania, the Communists
of st. Louis, and the threatened and at
tempted labor outbreaks throughout the
land are the examinations of the seed sown
by unpunished outlawry in the late insur-
gent States and strongly countenanced by
the Democratic party in and out of Congress
The late revolutionary movement in Con-
gress against the integrity Of the Presi-
dental title is but a signal of disorder
everywhere. Already we are advised that
the muttering of the storm in Pennsylvania
betokens approaching danger, and news
comes to us that the State is moving to put
itself on war footing equal to the pros
pective demand for maintaining the majesty
of the law and preserving order.


The restless spirits at the North cannot
understand why they cannot disregard the
law and public peace with impunity when
want prompts to the act if the entire South
is tolerated in bloody violations of it with
ont restraint or punishment. Then, again,
if the lawmakers themselves revile and
disregard the law which is the title deed
of the Presidency, how can we hope that
such perncious example is to be lost with
malcontents and go without bearing the
very worst fruits of disorder? The times
are perlous, and the greatest peril centres
in the teachings and examples of Bourbon
Democracy This fact is too patent to be
denied and too alarming to 90 unheeded.
Year: 1878

WHILE General Ben. BUTLER is sticking
his nose into the newspaper business of the
country he recklessly ignores the fact that
the Government pays heavy tribute to the
manufactures of bunting, protects them
and buys its flags from them. The General
is the largest owner of direct interest in
bunting manufacture in the United States.
We propose the nation shall make its own
llgs
Year: 1878

DEMOCRATIC opposition in any shape to
General GRANT is always acceptable. The
Southern Democratic assaults against him
during the war developed his great capa-
bilities for leadership. Since the war similar
results have followed from similar causes.
This much we say by way of reminiscencc,
and forbear pertinent prophecy
Year: 1878

THE Democratic Ceramic is fifty-three
years old-a sufficient age to make it vnlua-
BILE If it were of the kind sought for by the
Keramophobists. In a few weeks, however,
1t will be for sale cheap at its own price.
Year: 1878

THEAmerican Greascrs in the House want
TO cut down the army for obvious reasons.
The Mexican Greasers on the South bank of
the Rio Grande want the army cut down
also for obvious reasons.
Year: 1878

Columbus Independent.


Galilee was right. The world does
move, and one of the latest aud most
agreeable evidences OF that fact is TO be
found in the appointment, by the " Lee
Monument Association of the Hon.
Charles Z. Furlong, Union soldier
during the late war, as its representa-
live in Mississippi. Gen. Furlong has
been a citizen OF Vicksburg ever since
the close of the war, and for four years
has served that city in the State Sem
ate, 4 position 10 which be was re.elect-
ed by the Democratic party at the No
vember election. During his late Sem
atorial term, Gen. Furlong served his
constituents with uu1tgging zeal aud
fidelity, and while never neglecting the
demands Of his own people, so deporl,
ed himself as 10 secure the high respect
and hearty friendship OF his associates
in the Senate Chamber. His appoint
ment to the honorable position as
signed him by the Lee Monument AS
sociation," is graceful tribute to a
gentleman who served In the Union
army, but who, when the war closed
tried to forget the bitterness Of our ira
ternsl strife We are glad that the ap'
pointment has fallen on Gen. FurlOng
because 1t shows the native generosity
aud magnanimity that have their home
in the hearts OF the people Of the South
and testihes 10 the fact that they art
capable Of letting by-gones be by
cones, that they are anxious to see the
bloody chasIh not only bridged over
but literally closed up forever,


We remember the eloquent speect
made In the Senate year or so sincC
by Senator Furlong, on the subject o.


the Lee monument, and the glowing
tribute he paid TO the memory OF ouI
great soldier still fingers among ouI
recollections OF the past. At the con


clusion of his speech, Senator FuTlonl


made q most liberal contribution TO thI
funds of the Association, and We doHb
not that his appointment IS the repre-
sentative Of the Monument Associa
ton in Mississippi, is in part at least
graceful and grateful recognition o


past kindness, while paying Q ftuDl
tribute to q former foe, but now Q re
Year: 1878

By an accident, Mr.. Marshslls name
was left out of the Judiciary Commit.
tee printed yesterday in the HERALD.
Speaker Percy will receive the thanks
Of all the friends Of this talented young
lawyer for hIs appointment to this i'm
portant committee. We have only to
add that we do not think better selec-
ton could have been made.
Year: 1878

IGNORING Us. - Numerous and
loud complaints have been made
about the steamer California failing
to call at this port in seasonable
hours during her regular trips to
Sitka. She has ample time in which
to make her round trip every month,
vet her calls at this port are invarla-
bly,, Of late, made in the nj ight. Be-
sides this, she makes it point to re-
main here such short time each
call, that freight cannot, without
great Inconvenience, be received Of
or shipped by her. There is no
doubt much truth in the assertion
that this is only sharp dodge to in;
fence trade in favor of Portland.
Whether this be true or not, we want
our rights, and are disposed to secure
them.
Year: 1878

COMPLAINTS have been made about
an alleged monopoly at Neah bay.
Undoubtedly there are different
stories concerning the matter, but
still when we hear from a substan.
tial source that men are driven of
the reservation for fear that they
might trade with the Indians, and
that important letters are refused a
safe passage to their destination, it
is safe at least to denounce such pro-
ccedings as disgraceful to a civilized
country, no matter who the censure
falls on.
Year: 1878

THE grand jurors did about the
proper thing when they mentioned
the fact that our county jail is stu
ated on low ground where the accu-
mulated stagnant water renders its
locality unhealthy; but that should
have been thought Of before the Jail
was b Ii,t.