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Year: 1878

Cheap and good manure is getting to be more and more important every year. We are finding 1t harder to buy manure, says the AgricatIturist, and more diff cult to get concentrated fertilizers that are to be depended upon. Nevertheless farmers make little use of green manure crops. It is hard to change old pract1oes sufficiently to blow under good crop of clover or even of buckwheat. 1 have very poor opinion of buckwheat as green manure. Rye is much better, and one can blow that under early enough to SOW something else, to be either harvested or plowed under, as the case may be. For instance, witnessed the following suc- cessful treatment of a rough, stony, poor gravelly lot, and hope to be able to carry out something quite similar myself this year An old neglected lot, five acres of which would hardly pasture sheep, was plowed and sowed with rye, which win tered well. A good many stones were picked of, and about the 1st of June, when the rye was heading well, it was rolled down and plowed under. Stones were partially picked off again-that is, the larger ones were-and about the list of July buckwheat was put in. Of this a good crop was harvested, and the straw, with little addition of some other light I manure, was spread back, and rye was sowed in the autumn. This gave another opportunity to pick off the stones, and the result was that when the rye was a second time plowed under, the quality of soil was so good that corn was planted with fertilizer in the hill. Of this very fair crop was secured, and other farm crops followed. Now if cow-peas could have been sowed at the last hoeing ol the corn, they would doubtless have covered the ground we'll. Then they might have been plowed under just be- fore frost-as soon as the corn could be cut up and removed then wheat or rye might have been sowed.

 Light, poor land, really needs grow ing crop to cover the soil all the time Rye offers several advantages over othel crops. It occupies the soil from Octobe to June--eight manufacturing whicl time, when the ground is not frozen, thu roots are absorbing nutriment and grow ing, so that when the warmth of Sprins comes the plant makes most rapidly thu astonishing growth with which we ar all familiar. It is very certain crop not being liable to winter kill. Beside it is cheap, the seed costing seldom ove $1. 50 per acre.

 Red Clover is no crop wherewith t. manure poor land, though one of the bes for land in good heart. It must, how ever, occupy the land fully year, bu after good crop has been plowed unde and the land lined, almost any crop ma, follow.
Year: 1878

IT WAS YoU.-Mr. Moody told his Springfield audience the other night that he can tell on looking over congrega- tion the believers by the expression of their faces. Then he told them story about poor woman, who, hearing rap, thought it was the landlord come to de- mand the rent. She refused to answer, and thus turned away friend who wished to give her money. The audience laughed at this, but Moody stopped them abrupt ly by crying "You laugh at that wo- man, but it was you, yourself, sinner. J
Year: 1878

The North Coming to It's Sober Second


Senses About the Southern "Out-


RACES"


The stalwart Radicals overdid tho
business. By their howls thoy
dazed the whole North, and even
carried away the philosophical old
correspondent Of the New York
Herald. But Mr.. Nordhoff has
worked off his bile md sees moro
clearly. This is what he now has to
say on the subject of Southern out
RACES.


"The temper of prominent party
leaders of both sides is for the
present remarkably conservative.
Both sides feel that neither can
afford to loso o trick, and there is
q for greater and moro noticeable
disposition than at the opening Of
Congress for q number of years past
to be careful to shun exciting ques.
tions and to give the other side q
chance to make blunders.'


"The Republicans express fears
that the federal election laws are
not SO framed as to cover all the
cases of wrong charged. They are
forced to acknowledge that. there
has been no ointiinidation. at least ID
the South and they doubt whether
Year: 1878

the frauds can be punished rs they
deserve. But the Republicans
themselves framed and enacted
these federal election laws, and
they made them odiously severe in
many particulars. It is not proba-
BILE that this or any future Congress
will add to them. The Republicans
would like to get up n new excite
ment about Southern outrages
Several of them came here with the
intention to present resolutions
ordering an investigation or looking
to decrease of the representation
in the Southern States, on The
ground that the negro vote does
not come forward. Indeed, in some
quarters there is q disposition to
,iisfranchise the blacks out light by
! way of lessening the Representation
of the Southern States. But all
these schemers receive Il check from
the fact that the more closely the
conduct of the Southern elections is
scanned tho more it is seen that
frauds and disorders were local nnd
sporadic and not systematic, anl
that there is very little material for
ia new anti. Southern cry. The
more prudent Republicans incline
to wait for the results of the trials
which will presently begin, and
think it better to found any action
which may seem advisable upon the
developments before the courts.
But it is probable that some super
Jealous persons will offer resolutions
Of investigation. These give as u
reason for Congressional inquiry
that the colored vote has to some
extent disappeared in many of the
States, but there are many reasons
for this. Every Southern Republi~
can knows that tho colored vote
cannot be got out wiGhoat a great
deal Of preliminary work and the
expenditure Of money and promises.
The mere desire to cvade the pay
ment of Il poll tux dcters many


thousands of colored men from vo-
ting, and it is notorious that they
have Il habit of selling their regis
tration certificates, which has on
previous occasions caused the mys-
terious disappearance of thousands
Of colored votes and a. great and to
many people puzzling discrepancy
between the registration and the
vote. 1t is doubtful if the Demo,
Gratis will oppose q Congressional
investigation if it is demanded by
their opponents. They believe it
will do no harm"
Year: 1878

1t is a great pity to see how many
people allow cough or cold to 20
unnoticed, and thus pave the way
to an untimely grave from the
effects of consumption. A pleasant,
safe, reliable and cheap remedy is
DR.. Bulls Cough Syrup. Price 25
ccnts. "
Year: 1878

The dog excitement still continues and
tie public sentiment remainss strong as
it was several days ago


Occasional complaints III cont ue to
come in 10 the police sta ..,,. and it ~ gen.
afly thought that the dog law which We
have should be rigidly enforced.


In this city there are propably $500 dogs
only about 400 of whom are registered.
Members of the police force inform US that
in the meaner portion Of town especislly
among the colored population it is very
frequent occurance to find 9, and dogs
in one family when the family has hardly,
the means Of support. Expressly is this
the case in Greely, Decature and Locust
s reefs and ID very little better in Church
street.


1t is verv easv 10 see the duty Of cur city
guardians in this matter and considering
the great prevalence OF recent cases and
those d d,iIy transpiring Of dogs biteipg peo-
pie it is imperitively necessary that they
carry out that duty


The first clause Of Sec. the ordinance
reateing to dogs is as follows. The May
or Is hereby authorized to afpolut as manV
r,ersop as he may consider nescessary for
the purpose of c3useing to be caught, in
paneled killed and buried, all dogs at
large in this city not registered according
10 the provision ofthis ordinance
A case which we would cite is that which
was complained of on SATURDAY.. A fu-
rinus dog belonging to Isaac Mckay bit
the little child OF Charles Willen residing
at Spruce and Lord sts. There is much
dissatisfaction among the neigbbors as the
owner will not let the dog be killed and
few days bef're the same deg severely
hit little girl in the same neighborhood.


The feeling il very strong in the neigh
borhood OF Seventh and Poplar streets
ADJUST two dogs that are act ng very
strangely and who it is though may have
been bitten by the dog what caused The
death of little aurance Cars,n,
Year: 1878

THESE PREcocIoUs CoAcHED-UP CHILDREN
are never well. Their mental excitment keeps
up a flush, which, like the excitement caused
by strong drink in older children, looks like
health but has no relation to it. If you look at
the tongues of these children you see them to
be furred or covered with many red points
like a strawberry, or to be too red and very
dry. If you inquire into the state of the ap-
petite, you will find that the appetite is ca
PRECIOUS that all kinds of strange food are
asked for, and that the stomach never seems
TO be in order If you watch the face for
long you note that the frequent flush gives
way TO an unearthly paleness. If you watch
the eyes, you observe that they gleam with
light at one time and are dull, depressed and
sad at another, while they never are laughing
eyes. Their brightness is the brightness of
thought on the strain, an evanescent and dan
gerous phenomenon. If you feel the muscles,
they are thin and habby though in some in
stances they may be fairly covered with fat.
If you inquire as to the sleep these children
get, YOU hear that it is disturbed, restless, and
sometimes broken, passing through strange
abodes and narrow crevices which it seems
impossible to squeeze into; and waking in q
start, with the body cold, in what is common
ly called a nightmare, and sometimes in SOM
nambulism or sleep-walking, The bad sleep
naturally leads to certain over-wakeful Ian
guor the next day, but strangely enough, it
interferes with the natural advent of sleep the
next night so that sleeplessness at night be-
comes a habit. The child must be read to
sleep or told stories until it is of, and thus it
falls into slumber fed with the food of dreams,
worries, cares and wonders. In this period of
early education, first state of what may be
fairly called the intemperance of education,
the recreations that are adopted for the little
scholar are often as pernicious as any other
part of the system in which he or she is train
ed. During the day -pastimes, want of fresh
ness and freedom prevails, almost of necess-
ity, in large towns and this want is often
made worse than it need to be by inattention
or deficiency of knowledge. - GentIemGns
Magazine.
Year: 1878

Coon ADVICE To YOUNG MEN Who ARE
TRYING TO GET AHEAD.-Never complain that
your employers are selfish. Not that they are
otherwise, but it will not help matters to
growl about it. They are selfish. Their en-
ployers, when they were young, were no
doubt selfish, and from them they learned the
lesson. You, too, will learn it, and when you
become employers you'll be selfish too. 1t is
from selfish motives that men engage in
trade, and selishness rules their actions OF
course it would be better, and wiser, and all
that, if they were not selfish, but they are.
Now, what are you going TO do about it !?
Why, make it for their selfish interests to do
better by you, and they will. Respect your
selves, and you'll make them respect you.


Remember that you are at a disadvantage,
that there are a hundred ready to climb into
your place if you do not fill it, and that those
who employ you are fully aware Of the fact
and ready to make the most they can out of
it. Remember that if you are getting $1,000
this year and want $500 next year, you've
got to earn the $500 this year. You've got
TO pay for promotion, often an exorbitant
price, and as you have no other means to pay
with, you've got to pay in work. OF course
it's unjust, of course il seems hard that your
employer should keep and spend money that
you have justly earned, but, Causeur's word
for it, it won't pay to fret or growl about it.


Never be satisfied with having learned your
money" Earn more than your money, and
then, in a manly, straightforward business
like way, ask for more pay. Ten chances to
one you'll get it, If you don't, look about,
and as soon as you've found better place,
discharge your employer. The hard work
that you have DONE the record of it, and the
reputation you will have established for hard
work, will make the task of finding new EN-
bloyment comparatively easy, Your capacity
for work is your only capital. Invest heavily
and you are sure to win.-BOstOR Transcript.
Year: 1878

Grid me with the strength Of Thy steadfsst hils
The speed of Thy streams give me!
In the spirit that calms with the life that thrills,
would stand or run for Thee.
Let me be Thy voice, or Thy silent power
As the cataract or the peak
An eternal thought in my earthly hour,
OF the living God TO speak
Clothe me in the rose-tints Of Thy skies
Upon morning SUBMITS laid:
Robe me in the purple and gold that flies
Through Thy shuttles Of light and shade;
Let me rise and rejoice in Thy smile Alright,
As mountains and forests do;
Let me welcome Thy twilight and Thy night,
And wait f)r Thy dawn anew!
Give me Ct the brooks faith, joyously sung
Under clank Of its icy chain!
Give me of the patience that hides among
Thy hill-tops in mist and rain
Lift me up from the clod; let me breate Thy breath
Thy beauty and strength give me!
Let me lose both the and the meaning Of death
In the life that share with Thee!


Lucy Ldreonl in Sunday AfttrnoOH.
Year: 1878

Dr.. J. G. HOLLAND, talking to the assem-
bled boatmen of Alexandria Bay the other
day, said; II neither drink wine nor give it
to my guests. Strong drink is the curse of
the country and the age. Sixty thousand men
in America every year lie down in the grave
of the drunkard. Drink has murdered my
best friends, and / hate it. It burdens me
with taxes, and denounce it as a nuisance,
on which every honest man should put his
heel. do not ask you to put your heel on
the drunkard, but to make the spirit of your
guild so strict and pure that no man of your
number will dare to trihe with your opinion
and sentiments on the subject"
Year: 1878

A private letter has just been received
from Mr.. Scott, dated London, June 18th.
He says:


am happy to say that since we set out
upon our journey we have been greatly
favored and blessed in every way. The
ocean trip, batting few days OF foggy
weather ut the first, was an unusually plea
SAINT and comfortable one, aud many agree
able acquaintance were formed on ship
board. The ship was the same in which
DIR. Brown and the brethren to the Edin-
burgh Council crossed over last summer,
and is & fine ship and eXcellently oficered.


We have visited many points OF interest
both in Scotland and England, and are
now, as you see, in the worlds great me-
tropolis. would like to speak OF some OF
these, and especially OF the old town and
castle of Stirling, where was perhaps
more interested than at any point before
reaching London; but you know how inn
practicable 1t is to write full and interest
ing letter in the hurry and attendant weari-
ness OF sightseeing when you have but y
limited time in which to do great deal.


We spent last Sabbath in Edinburgh, and
a delightful day it was. In the morning l
Heard DR.. Lindsay Alexander. and in the
afsern0on DR.. White, OF Free st. Georges;
both able and excellent sermons. But that
which specially delighted me was the way
In which the Lords day is honored and OBJ
served in that Presbyterian seat. The
streets were thlonged both morning and af-
terno0n with the people going or returning
from church, but quiet and decorum
prevailed everywhere which could not
fail TO impress the stranger us he looked
Year: 1878

Editors Dispatch: Be so kind as to allow
me to ask through your valuable journal il
there is not some one in this city or State
who will give Il disabled Confederate soldier
employment.


Recently was discharged from clerk
ship that had held for some time; moi for
any fault. but simply because business had
become so slack that there was actually no.
thing for me to do. know that the gen.
tlemen in whose Office | last served rs as.
sistant clerk will say that I was as prompt
and faithful in the discharge of my duties
rs any man curld well be. Let no one sup
pose because ! have Il buIet-hole through
my body that aui unfit Tor service. On
the contrary, there are many, many posi-
tions in which can make myself useful.


Disabled in defence OF this city, earn
estly appeal to such as have it in their power
to give me steady work. hy which l may
support myself and family. / am Il fair
penman, quick and accurate at figures.


A postal addressed TO "Georgius," 81
north Fifth street, will meet with prompt
attention,
Year: 1878

A CHEAP AND PLEASANT EXccRsIoN.-
This evening at = O'Clock the ladies OF the
Grace-Street Presbyterian church Or.
Read's) will have an excursion down the
river on the elegant steamer Ariel. a fine
opportunity is offered to get away from the
heated air OF the city and no. lose any time
from business. The ladies OF this church
are notedly good managers, and on this oc-
casion they have net spared any pains to
make this excursion pleasant affair. Be
sides the pleasure to be had, this effort IS to
repair the loss suffered by the destruction
OF this church by the fire Oh the Sd OF April,
1Se5
Year: 1878

Ball ct Chester.-We understand that on
Friday night next a bail will be given at the
Chester Hotel. which promises to be most
delightful affair. The authorities OF the
Richmond and Petersburg railroad will
doubtless run an excursion train, or allow
those who may desire to attend the ball from
Richmond or this city to SO and return at
reduced rates.
Year: 1878

ANNIVERSARY OF THE BATTLE OF Bull
RUS.-The anniversary Of the old First reg


iment and OF the battle OF Bull Run will bt
celebrated at the James-River Brewery by
the members OF the old First on the 1911
instant. Transportation will be furnished
from the corner OF Fifteenth and Mair
Year: 1878

THE PoToMAC Boat LINE, AGAIS.-The
Board of Directors OF the Richmond, Fred


ericksburg and Potomac Railroad Company,
at a meeting held Monday afternoon, deter
mined. in view of the action OF the Board
OF Public Works on the subject Of the re-
storation OF the boat line on the Potomac to
the exclusion of the rail line on the day
schedule, and the protest of the Railroad
Commissioner against the same. not to take
any action under the resolutions adopted
at the late meeting Of stockholders looking:
to the consummation of this scheme untli
the action Of the Board OF Public works
and the letter OF the Railroad Commissioner
are submitted 10 the stockholders. They
have therefore resolved to call general
meeting for that purpose on the Goth OF Sep
tpmber next
Year: 1878

CLUB-HGsSES AND THE SALE OF LIQUOR
The argument rs to whether the club-houses
in Richmond have a right to sell liquor
without special license therefor was con-
cuded yesterday before Judge Christian,
and he took the case under consideration.
Year: 1878


All OF our stores Yesterday received the following
from the head OF our house, who Is no;
abroad buying fall and winter goods


"LoNDOS. ENG. June "a.
FROM TIE RECEIPT OF THIS UNTIL ny
RETURN YOU WILL USE EVERY MEANS IN
YOUR POWER TO REDUCE YOUR STOCK.
SHOULD 1T BE NECESSARY. SELL TIE
GOODS At LOSS. As We 10 NOT WISH TO
CARRY OVER ANY GOODS THAT CAN POS
SIDLY BE SOLD
Year: 1878

Or old or young, or grave or gay,
Those who now let their teeth decay,
With breath we can't endure:
The thought their after life will haunt.
That they neglected SozopoSr


That would have kept all pure.
Year: 1878

Condensed from Boston Papers.l


A most daring and brutal robbery
was committed at the fremont House
in this city the other day. The rob
berry has just come to light. On the
afternoon of the 18th inst, New York
lady arrived over the Bocton and Al
bany line. She had been visiting near
the city. At the depot a gentleman
acquaintance met her by appointment
and paid over $3.50. The lady counted
the money over, and while doing so
noticed that she was being scrutinized
by man of genteel looks. She took
cab to the fremont House and short
ly after going to her room saw the
same man on the opposite side Of the
street. This mysterious person gazeG
at her through an opera glass at the
Boston Theater, where she had gone
that same evening to witness a per-
formance of "The Exiles. " Her es-
cort's attention was called to the man.
The lady went to her room about half
past II o'clock, the stranger being in
her thoughts. She took the precau-
tion Of hiding her roll of notes in the
bottom of her trunk and secreting the
key. Shortly after 2 o clock she was
awakened by the presence ofa man who
stood by her bedside. She tried to
scream, but the man caught her by
throat, sat down on her stomach so
! that her breath was taken. and bound
a handkerchief across her face. The
handkerchief was chloroformed.
When the call-boy went to the room
about z o clock, the hour at which the
lady wished to be called, he was met
by a strange sight. The lady was
prone upon the bed, which was in great
disorder. The handkerchief was still
over her face, which was covered with
blood. The lady appeared to be re-
gaining consciousness. The contents
of the trunk were scattered over the
floor. Medical aid was summoned and
the lady is now doing well, though her
bruised body leads to the belief on the
part of the physicians that a crime
more horrible than robbery was com
mitted. The money was gone from
the trunk. The robber, who had
priced open the door of the room with
a jimmy, bad left nothing behind to
tell tales except the fact that the lady
| still recalls the appearance of the mys-
terious stranger. Her husband, a gen
tleman Of high standing in New York,
is on, and the police are hard at work
for clues,
Year: 1878

to sick headache, that infallible symptom Of
disordered stomach, liver and bowels.
Many suffer from it as many as three or fsur
times a week. They do so needlessly, for
Hostetter's Stomach BitteTs, by toning the
digestive organs and regulating the bowels
and liver, removes the cause, and dispels the
painful symptom. The intimate sympathy
between the brain and the abdominal region
causes the slightest disorder affecting the lat
ter to be reflected, as it were, in the organ Of
thought. The reform instituted by the Bitters
when the digestive, secretiVe and eyacuative
functions are in state of chaos, has other
and more beneficial results, viz the complete
nutrition Of the whole physical economy, the
restoration Of appetite and repose, and an
increase in the power of the system 70 resist
diseases Of a malarial type.
Year: 1878

Helena Graphic, DecembeS 27th.l


The public find by long experience
that the Lee Line of Memphis and
Friar's Point steamers are all that one
could wish. Two excellent boats are
maintained summer and winter, and
so punctual are they, and obliging and
solicitious are the officers, that Mem
phis is at ones door as it were. If a
shade of zephyr is wanted, or yard
Of goods, or little article that re-
quires a little more attention to pro
cure than could be accomplished by a
letter, the clerk of the Cheek or
Coahoma is selected to attend to it,
and we have yet to hear of a case
where they have refused such favors.
Again, when Helenian arrives at
Memphis out of funds and anxious to
get home, if he is a man of any stand
ing, he steps ON board one of these
steamers and registers as boldly as if
ne were bigger man that old Grant,
well knowing " it's all right" Ere
quently the boats accommodate her
customers to the extent of cashing
drafts to pay other expenses. A lady
can go on one of the steamers to Mem
phis shopping or visiting as safely as
if escorted by her nearest male rela-
tive. With all this, the steamers Of
this line give excellent table fare,
good, clean beds, swift passage, and
charge very moderately We take
pleasure in calling attention to the
above facts, for we find there are toe
many who patronize outside boats
even on a single shipment, if a few
cents can be made thereby.