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Year: 1878

Whatever on the farm does not rise to a
certain dignity in the estimation of the
farmer, is usually sadly neglected, if not
otherwise abused. While every farm has
Its Orchard, on great many 1t is consid
cred OF very little account, being used
only for supplying the home wants. We
have heard farmers go SO far as to say
that it was cheaper to buy fruit than tc
raise it. This opinion, however, does not
find general favor, we are happy to say;
but while it is usually thought desirable
to have an orchard, it is frequently the
last 1hing cared for, if ii is ever cared for.
We have seen trees in cultivated orchards
shamefully abused, and that it was per-
mltted by the owner could not be ac-
counea for, for if tree is worth plant
ing, It would seem that the owner would
realize that it was worth preserving. Not
only does the owner himself sometimes
show an astonishing disregard OF the in
terests OF the apple trees by plowing
through the roots, and breaking the trees
with the whifiitrees, but he looks COM
placently on while the hired man does
the same thing. Sometimes man will
be careless of his own, so far as his own



does what he does, he is aroused to see
the nature of his own misdemeanor, as
well as the one who is doing likewise, and
demonstrate. But some farmers appear to
be utterly indifferent as to who abuses the
trees OF the orchard, or how it is done.
They will suffer the pruning to be done
not c1one in slovenly way, but in an in
jurlous way. The man is sent into the
tree with rough, heavy boots, and he rubs
Oft the bark at every step, and does more
damage than any respectable pruning
would compensate for; but the pruning is
often not respectable. 1t is simply butch
ering. If the limbs get of, however, the
owner seems satisfied.


Then, perhaps, some beautiful looking
apple. attracts his eye, or the eye Of some
one else, and he hurls club among the
branches or suffers some one else to do it.


One would be led to suppose that he
thought the tree the rock of Gibraltar.
1t is no wonder that tree treated in any
such manner fails to give its owner salts
faction.


4 tree is endowed with life, and the
machinery of life. 1t has a circulation,
lungs and skin, and these are susceptible
Of injury, and when injured must decrease
the vitality of the tree, as the vitality Of
the human body is decreased by disease.
While the farmer in many instances no
doubt thinks that our pomologists are ex-
travag4nt in their ideas of needs of the
orchard in the time they devote to it, it is
not true, and very much benefit might be
derived by all of us if we would strive to
initiate them. There are difficulties in
growing an orchard which are often dis
couraging. The varieties selected are
often unfit for the locality, and other
things come up to dishearten, but it will
pay 10 deal with them all, and by pa
tience and perseverance to have good
orchard on the farm and to take good care
Of it when it is grown as well as while it
is growing.
Year: 1878

An English writer thinks one cause of
the greater frequence of blindness in
horses than in other domesticated animals
is the inconvenient position of the hay
racks from which many of them have to
feed. Placed, as these frequently are,
high up On the stable wall, the horse must
seek his fodder with raised head and out
stretched neck, and its removal is accom-
panied by shower of dust and small,
sharp-pointed particles Of chaf and seed
which naturally fall into his eyes Fur
ther causes Of this very common affiiction
may be found In the pungent ammonia
gases so freely diffused in ill-ventilated
stalls, in the trying eross-lights common
in stabling, and in the indiscriminate en-
ployment Of ''b!inders," which divert the
line of vision from the natural direction.
Year: 1878

Corporal punishment might soon
he suppressed did parents make it
their constant care to render II unnec-
essary. Begin with your child in the
cradle, and govern him by gentle
methods. DO not accustom him to
be shaken or slapped every hour of
the day. You can so train him that
violence will never he necessary. Its
possible to guide with a look, reward
with smile, and punish with a frown.
Forbear threatening. 1t is probably
even worse for a child's moral nature
to he accustomed to constant threats
Of the rod than to be occasionally
punished with it. You are 10 excite
n fear of doing wrong-not a fear OF
punishment. The former mstive
strengthens good principles; the latter
in its excess always debilitates the
character. Great harm is often done
by furnishing a child ia presence Of
Others. II whipping must he done,
let it take place with the utmost priv
acy. This principle should be carried
out in all methods OF correction. BE
sure child understands your com.
mand before you rebuke him for disc.
bedience. [Goley's.
Year: 1878

The theory that there can he hut
one true love--ihat each soul has its
single, predesiined mate, and can new
er he truly united To any other
seems To us full of mischief.


Th;. il the way il works: Two per.
sons. believing themselves destined
for each other, marry. After a time
thew find that the eternal ecstasy which
thew expec,ed from the union of two
souls belonging to each other. is no:
perfect. Then comes the doubt wheth.
or they have not been mistaken. Each
has chosen the wrong mariner.


II is easy to see what misery might
be caused by such a theory, so carried
out. Il is equally easy to see thai
such a theory has no real foundation
There may be, somewhere in the
world. that being who is best quail
Year: 1878




Those who suffer from disorder or inaction
of the liver will never get the upper hand of
the unruly organ so long as they use such
irrational remedies as blue pill, calomel and
podophyllin. But from the tried and popular
medicine, Hoststtef's Stomach Bitters, they
may expect relief with certainty Of obtain.
ing it. The influence OF the bitters upon the
great hillary gland ia direct, powerful and
speedily felt. The relief afforded Is not spas
mt die, but complete and permanent. The
saloWness Of the skin, furred appearance Of
the tongue, indigestion, costiveueIs. head
ache, nausea, pains through the right side and
shoulder, In fact every accompaniment Of
the obstinate complaint are entirely and
mablc medicine, In behalf Of which testimony
is constantly emanating from every quarter
and from all classes Of society,
Year: 1878

The man who does nothing, don't
amount to much. He is only a
stagnant pool, without energy
enough to start ripple. He diff
fuses a moral miasma over those
around him. DO something; don't
stand on the corner gaping with
your hands in your pocket, like an
idiot. The world was made to work
in, and if you fill your hearts with
good angels bad spirits will keep
out, for there is no room for them.
Year: 1878

ONE or two country papers where
there is a quarantine against Mem
phis, cut back at the LEDGER's
comments and say that Memphis
set the example Of a quarantine
and has no right to say anything.
The only answer necessary to make
is this: Memphis lost over 2OOC
people by yellow fever in 1873, while
these towns never lost a case. We
are liable to the disease certain
years. these towns are not, ant
their little quarantine will be nc
credit to them. The sooner it il
taken down and repudiated the bet
ter
Year: 1878

HE HOWARD ASSOCIATION asks and
enjoins it upon all c,tizans as special and
personal duty, to watch and report to US all
nurses who fail Of their duty in the least par7
ticular, or who give the least evidence Of be-
ing addicted to drunkenness. neglect. or any
other falling or bad habit that would inter
fere with the proper performance of a duty to
which the members of our Association have
pledged their lives. Our reputation depends
upon the faithful performance Of duty by the
nurses we employ. hence our anxiety to have
every case Of neglect or inattention promptly
reported to US.


A. D. LANGSTAFF.


Vice President and Acting President.


l5I H ii
Year: 1878

uDUPoNT & Co, Of Louisville,
have offered all the powder neces-
sary to thoroughly test the theory
Of destroying the germ of yellow
fever by conclusion. We published
the fact nearly a week ago, yet no
one has tried it. We have used
nearly all known remedies but this
Why not give it a trial? We are
in receipt Of a letter from an emf
nent scientist upon thissubject who
urges the experiment. Will not
the board Of health order at once
the trial to be made?
Year: 1878

IT is ENTERPRIsING. FEARLESS. RE-
liable and newsy, and the peer Of any weekly
newspaper published in West Tennessee. con-
tanning all local events of Importance in the
city of Memphis and Shelby county. No
labor or expense will be spared to maintain it
in every department at the highest possible
standard, and to commend it in all respects
to the confidence and approval of the best
classes in the surrounding country. being
strictly
Year: 1878

TN THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE l Third Judicial District, Territory of Arizona, County of Mohave

 Nancy A. Pierce, plaintiff ys.J T. Pierce, defendant

 Action brought in the District Court of the Third Judicial District, in and for the County of Mohave, in the Territory of Arizona.

 The Territory of Arizona sends greeting to J. T. Pierce: You are hereby summon ed and required to appear in an action brought against you by tie aboye-named plaintiff, in the District Court of the ThIrd Judicial District, in and for the County of MOhave, in the Territory of Arizona, and answer the complaint filed with the Clerk of this Court, at Mineral Park, Tn said County Ca copy of which complaint ac- companies this summons), within twenty days Exclusive of the day of service) after the service upon you of this summons, if served in th1s county; but if served out of the county, and within this District, then within thirty days; in all other cases forty days.

 The said action is brought to obtain a decree of this Court dissolving the bonds of matrimOny now existing between the Plaintiff and Defendant and giving the plaintiff the care, the custody and educa- tiOn of the minor children of the parties, and for general relief.

 And you are hereby notified that if you fail to appear and answer the complaint as above required, the Plaintiff will apply to the Court for the relief demanded ill said complaint, and costs and disburse- ments in this behalf expended.

 Given under my hand and the Seal of the said District Court at Mineral Park, this 24th day of June, A. D. 1S7S

 CALDWELL WRIGHT, Clerk. w. G. BLAKELY, Attorney for Plaintiff
Year: 1878

THE Steamer Coquille, from Guaymas and other Mexican ports, is due at the mouth of the Colorado August 26th. A stage will leave here on the 23d, to take passengers for her return trip. So far the Coquille is said to have done very we'll and to have more than earned her expenses If this has been done on her first trips, it is certain that lucrative trade will be developed by her. She is very stiff boat, rolling less than most of the steamers on the coast. There are some reports that she will be withdrawn from the Mexican trade, but these have probably grown out of other reports that her owners are about replace her with larger steamer
Year: 1878



 The damage done to Yuma, and to Arizona, by the late Indian Scare" here, can hardly be esti- mated. A fewchOice spirits have chuckled over theIr drinks, and have had a chance to say " Aint we raised hell?n as newspapers come in from all parts of the United States, reproducing the Murderous plot to massacre the whites at Yuma," that was fabri- cated for sensational purposes by those reckless men. While hard working men are making every effort to induce capital to invest in our mines and to invite settlers to occupy our lands, few foot loose fellows have raised the very hue-and-cry that, of all others, is best calculated to defeat those ends. The scare has served its political purpose, and IS enjoyed by its oFiginators as a good joke. For them it is now all over; but Yuma County and Arizona will feel its bad effects for a long time to come. It is easier to tear down than it is to build up. It has taken years to make all Arizona truly safe from Indians, and to make men of capital and men of families realize that it IS so, and to give them confidence in our Territory; it only took few hours tO destroy that confidence by a story that the wires have carried all over the country and that few men will have the facili- ties or inclination for inveStiga- ting. This may be "Smart," but it is neither patriotic nor honest

 We respectfully ask editors to consider this matter, and to help repair the damage done to Ari- zona by their publication of press dispatches based upon a menda- cious rumOr. The Indians along the Colorado River were thorough ly whipped and coWed more than twenty years ago, and have never since made a single hostile de- monStration. Hungry Indians have stolen food; vicious ones have stolen other things; and drunken ones have taken life: but vicious and drunken white men have done the same thing here to a greater extent. These river Indians hunt nothing larger than rabbits; they have very few firearms. The Whites very greatly OutnumbGr them and, as on every frontier, are well armed. The Indians have long known these facts, and too well to even contemplate an uprising. So many of them have been to Los Angeles and other large cities of California, that they all know the power and strength of the Whites. All of them around here have ridden on the cars, and all of them on the Colorado know how quickly the railroad could bring men enough here to oeXterminate them.

 We speak more particularly for the southwestern part of Arizona; other Territorial papers can speak for their sections as they may be prompted by conscience and knowledge. The time has gone by for raising Indian Scares, and crying for troops; quartz mills and gang-plOWS bring more profit to the country than do army con- tracts and cavalry horses. Ari- zona needs miners and farmers more than she wants soldiers.
Year: 1878

of him through his tedious illness. The
sight of her pretty face bending over
her embroidery, or engaged in weaving
some delicate crotchet pattern, seeming
to him like tangible promise that he
was not to be left lonely old man.


So the days wore on until the pale
young soldier came home. Then there
was quite wedding-the festivities con-
sequent upon the marriage OF the heir
of the manor being reserved until the
return of the bridal pair from a length
ened tour in Italy, when it was fondly
hoped that Cyril would be fully restored
to health and strength, so that the ten
antry could be made happy by his pres
ence
Year: 1878

REDMOND, THE OUTLAW, PROPOSES TO SUR
RENDER.-A telegram to the N. Y. Herald,
from Greenville, S. c., August l9, says Your
correspondent yesterday visited the noun.
tains twenty-five miles north of this place, and
after great difficulty and fatigue secured an
interview with the hunted man, Redmond,
Ohe mOOnShiner) last night in the Businesses
of the mountain, and found him to be young
man OF about twenty-six years old, with little
OF the appearance OF an outlaw. He expresses
himself ready to stand his trial; says ne has
done no more than his many companions, and
has nothing to fear from fair trial in any
court He cannot understand why he should
be singled out for vengeance, says he has been
greatly slandered. and all his acts have been
magnified by his pursuers in order that the
pursuit may be continued to their pecuniary
pIOfit. He says he has never killed but one
man, and then in selfdefence, several years
ago, when deputy marshal, who was one of
his former companions, tried to arrest him
without a warrant and threatened his life with
3 pistol in order to compel him to surrender.
From representations made to him by your
correspondent it is probable that the outlaw
Will come In voluntarily one day this week
and give himself up in open court. He proudly
declined to submit to arrest for his own pro-
lection until he should reach the court room
The community is greatly excited over the re.
port that he Is coming in on Wednesday next,
and public expectation is curious as to the trial
and its result.
Year: 1878

POPE LEOs CONSENT to leaving Rome for
time for his health is said to have been largely
brought about by Cardinal Guibert who pithi-
ly remarked that he thought sit would
neither be convenient nor amusing to have
Year: 1878

About four O'Clock yesterday afternoon
as the southbound freight train OH the
Wilmington u Northern Railroad was
passing Dupont station, five freight cars
jumped from the track. FVlsunately the
train was not running very rapidly at the
time and the cars were not damagdd, nor
were the train hands injured. Workmen
were at once sent up from this city TO
clear the track and the passenger trains
were not delayed more than half an
hour. The cause of the accident is un-
known. ~
Year: 1878

Between Maurice Cleveland and Mary Eus.
tace, a sort of intimacy had naturally sprung
up, resulting from constant association, and
the familiarity of intercourse nearly always
brought about among persons long staying
in the same house. She was inclined, too, on
nearer acquaintance, to think more favora.
bly of him than she had done at first and
this was not surprising, inasmuch as he al
ways wore his very best aspect in her pres.
ence, aud spared no pains to win her regard
and esteem. Although young, he was man
of the world, and we'll versed in the art of
pleasing and it must be confessed, that in
the present case, his desire to make good
impression was unusually strong.


Perhaps Colonel Dacre would not so freely
Year: 1878

bg A remarkable casei is reported from Iowa.
Two years ago, a little child drank quantity
of concentrated lye water, and has never since
been able to digest particle of solid food ;
but it has lived and is now thriving on diet
of milk, tea and coffee.
Year: 1878

Florida ought 10 be a summer para
die for spOrtsmen. But there are
draw backs. The air is black with mos
quitoes, and swarms of sandflIes annoy
the hunter. Jiggers are not unknown.
Ticks Of all sizes and colors, and decil-
lions of red bugs burrow in a mans
flesh. Scorpions visit his tent, ard
venomous snakes may lie in wait for
him. No exaggeration can equal the
truth about the mosquitoes. Natives
assure us they have raised their guns
to shoot. and the barrels and sight
were covered before they could get
aim. At Turtle Mound have landed
and seen mosquitoes rise like cloud
and approach me. In ten seconds my
clothes were so covered that my COM
panion could not distinguish the color.
Dogs spend hours lying on the barely
covered sand bars with nothing but
their noses above water. They have
been known to run round cabin all
night long to clear themselves from the
annoying insects. Horses on the sea-
coast are so pestered that they fire.
quently break loose and run into the
piney woods for miles without stopping
Cattle cluster together at night for mu-
tual protection, and those on the out
side fight till broad daylight in their
efforts to obtain central position.
Poultry fly from the roOst in the MORN
ing with combs, legs and toes as white
as the riven snow. The insects draw
the blood from them at night. Families
have been driven nearly to insanity.
The bars are made of unbleached cot
ton cloth, and there can be no ventila-
ton. In close nights it Is impossible
to sleep under them, and the victim
would rather run the risk with the
mosquitoes than smother. In some
cases bars within bars are used, for the
insects are so thick that millions steal
in while the prosecuted man is crawl
ing to cover. Nor is this all. Fleas,
horsefiies and deerflies annoy the hun
ter. The soil seems to be composed OF
feas, and the air seems TO be made of
insects. There are thousands that do
not sting and hundreds not mentioned
that do. OF course there are days
when a strong wind gives the sports
man comparative freedom from these
annoyances. And at such times, if he
can wait fer them, he will find such
sport as in his hours Of sleep he never
dreamed of.
Year: 1878

Recently several young men went
out hunting on horseback, and when
near William Nelson's farm, in Wash
ington Territory, they suddenly came
upon two huge bears. They fired upon
them and succeeded in killing one, but
the other ran for the timber and passed
out of sight, Notwithstanding that one
of the boys put four charges of buck
shot into him at short range. As the
bear seemed likely to escape, one of the
party said he would ride around the
thicket. which was short one, and
head him off. He accordingly started
off alone, and reached the other side of
the thicket before the bear. He dis
mounted and tied his horse to a tree,
and had waited but few minutes
when the infuriated beast burst from
the timber and rushed foT him. He
fired two snOts but the bear was upon
him. The beast rose upon his hind
legs as he struck at him with his
rifle. and knocked the weapon from his
hands. Then with the stroke of his
paw he feiled the man to the earth,
knocking him between two logs, and
commenced to bite and claw him.
The PROSTATE man held the beast from
his throat by grasping him by the
shaggy hair on each side of his head.
He is a powerful young man, but he
felt his strength beginning to fail, and
he knew that his only hope was in the
knife that he carried in his belt. He
let go of the bear with his right hand
and reached for the knife, but found il
was gone. Thrusting the empty sheath
into the bears mouth he gave himself
up for lost. The bear was mangiing
the muscle of his arm in terrible man
ner, and would soon have killed him
had not dog that was with tine party
came upon them. The dog attacked
the bear fiercely and compelled him TO
leavv his victim, who managed to
crawl upon his horse and ride back to
where the rest of the party had stopped
TO skin the other bear. When he
reached them he was too weak to tell
them what had happened. His friends
carried him home, and on the way he
managed to tell them he was not anxious
to box with a bear soon again. The
hunters went to look for the bear, but
found that it had escaped.