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Year: 1878

THINGS WORTH KNowNG.--ThAt
fish may be scaled much easier by first
dipping into boiling water about a
minute


That salt fish are quickest and best
freshened by soaking in sour milk.


That milk which has turned or
changed may be sweetened or render
ed fit for use again by stirring in little
soda.


That salt will curdle new milk hence
in preparing milk porridge, gravles,
etc., the salt should not be added until
the dish is prepared


That clear boiling water will remove
tea stains and many fruit stains. Pour
the water through the stain, and pre-. &.
vent its spreading over the fabric.


That a teaspoouful Of turpentlne
boiled with your white clothes will
greatly aid the whitening process.


That boiled starch is much improv-
ed by the addition Of salt, or sperm,
or both or a little gum arabic dissolv-
ed.


That kerosene will soften boots
that have been hardened by water
and will render them pliable as new.


That blue ointment and kerosene
mixed in equal proportions, and ap-
piled to bedsteads, IS upfailing bug
remedy, and that coat OF whitewash
is ditto for the walls Of a log house.


That kerosene will make your tea
kettle as bright as new. Saturate a
woolen rag and -+nb with it. 1t will
also remove stains from the clean var
nished furniture.
That cold rain water and soap Will
remove machine grease from washable
fabrics.
Year: 1878

WASHINGTON, Dec The Greenbackers
intend holding another conference next week
to agree on some plan for future action. They
admit being in a slight quandary IT is hard
for them to determine what course to pursue.
lf resumption Is q success, they are forced to
admit that the greenback factor In the cOul-
try's politics will dwindls to a very fine point
or disappear altogether.


II it is not successful, which all GrecnbaCk-
ers predict not at the same time wholly be-
levDg their predictions however, they know
that their theories will be popularized and
the party strengthened greatly. While wait
ing for resumption to succeed or fall the
greenbacker does not know really what to
do He wants to keep his party before the
country, but there being no chance for in
fation legislation this session he does not
know how tog go about 1t, The only financial
Legislation that can be agitated by the party
appears to be the war on national banks.


This war has already been commenced
somewhat feebly and will not, It Is predicted
by members OF Congress, amount to anything
more potent than f great deal Of talk.


From the present outlook things therefore
have rather a blue appearance for the Green
hackers even taking into consideration the
thirteen or fourteen men with whom the party
claim it will hold the balance Of power in the
next House. Unless some new plan can be
hit upon to bring their ideas prominently be-
fore the people, the Greenhackers must walt
for resumption to be put INTO operation, and
if successful be content to see their ranks re-
duced to n eorporaTs guard, or if it Is u fail
ure, prepare to contest the politics of this
country, as a leading GreenbaCker said last
evening.
Year: 1878

LONDON, Dec. TN military circles there
is n conflict Of opinion as to whether it will be
possible to complete the campaign in Afghan
istan this year, or whether the English ar
mics will not find themselves compelled to
winter at the posts already occupied and
wait until spring for an advance on Cabul. It
is strongly urged on ono side that bold dash
now would place tho army safe in Cabul,
with the Ameer the prisoner of the
English commander, and roads for sup
plies could easily be kept open. High
authorities on the other hand declare that the
Ameer has thus far been only making a
fegned resistance, and he wishes to draw the
English troops into the fatal trap he has set
Tor them. This latter opinion does not re-
eelve much popular acceptance.


At the Carlton Club and the Army and
Navy Club 1t was freely said tonight that
Earl BeaGonsiield and Lord Lytton had pre-
pared another agreeable surprise for the
country; that at the close Of the Afghan cam,
paign the ruler of that country would find
himself dethroned, that the country would
be cut In half, the northern portion Of 1t to be
given to Russia and the southern half an
nexed to British India.
Year: 1878

NEW YORK, Dec. The anticipated de-
cision OF the Supreme Court Is said to have
Just caused Prince Harry Genet's tight from
the city. Genet was convicted during the
strong impulse which led to the prosecution
of all the men concerned in cheating the city
of New York. His own particular fraud was
the duplication Of bills for building The
Harlem courthouse. He WAS under So Dos
haiI for trinI
Year: 1878

Under the above heading the Rural
World says:


Working at business without being
educated for it is the cause of the hard
lite OF So many of our farmers. 1t seems
IL be prevailing idea, not only among
the other trades and professions, but also
among the rural people, that farming is
business that requires no education of
any kind to carry it on. but that any
educated man can, if he has strong arm
and good health, and will strike fast all
the days of the year, shew that he is the
right man in the right place. A more
fatal and foolish error could not possibly
enanate from the unthinking world. OF
all the business men work at, of every
profession students educate themselves
tor, there is no vocation which requires
such constant thought and study as
farming. The lawyer, the doctor and
the scientist have an easy task beside
that OF the farmer. They can graduate
in their school and master their profess
sion. But life is not half long enough
for farmer to finish his education. His
school is perpetual and permanent, and
the more he learns the more he finds there
Is to learn. Common ounces can be tu-
rored for passable actors in some pro.
fessiens, but only the strongest minds and
most thoughtful students can attain
that degree of mental culture evi.
denced by a systematic. skillful and
scientific farmer.
Year: 1878

"RADIx," in one of his recent New
York letters, makes a good point apropos Of
life insurance Investigations and troubles
generally, by calling attention TO the fallaey
OF judging OF the reliability OF companies
scco riding to their bulk. Many such inst-
tutious seek TO dazzle the public eye by
printing their large gross assets IN the heav>
Test type and by laying great stress upon the
nominal millions under their control TO win
confidence and prevent any close analysis of
the whole statement. He points out the plain,
but ofter-'orgotten fact, that even conced-
ing the equally good quality of the assets OF
two companies, il is not necessarily the one
with the most millions which is safest for
the policy holder, but the one whose net
surplus pears the largest ratio TO its whole
property. Judged by this sound and search.
ing principle, Radix finds the Etna Life
Insurance Company, OF Hartford, TO be one
of the strongest, il not the very strongest,
institution OF the kind In the country. With
little over twenty.four millions of assets, il
has about four and quarter millions Of
clear surplus. The special commission ap-
pointed by the Legislature Of Connecticut a
year ago, to investigate all the life insurance
companies of that State, say OF the 4Etna
that it is "not only solvent, but financially
sound, and under the management of off,
GERS and directors OF large experience, sound
judgment and unblemished char icter, and
entitled TO the entire confidence of policy
holders and the publIc." Taking the above
facts and this official Endorsement together,
it is evident that this writer's estimate Of the
Etna is one that can be everywhere safely
indorsed.
Year: 1878

Maud Muller, as Whittier drew her
was a comely young woman In briar.
torn dress and ragged hat, Innocent as to
shoes and stockings who helped her
father during the busy haying time,
hired help being scarce and high This
WAS certainly commendsble in Maud /;
though, a. she paused in her work, and,
leaning ON the rake handle, glanced to
the far.off town, she couldn't help wish
ing that Fate had cast her lot different
from a meadow lot, and that she was a
clerk In a ninety-nine cent store, or
something like that. She asked herself
whether the life of female book.
canvasser was 80 very hard, and wondered
il any lady clerks were waited in the
post office.


While she is thus rejecting, the judge
comes riding slowly down the lane.
Whittier doesn't tell us what he ia a
judge Of, though we conclude he is a
tolerably good judge OF rustic beauty,
for he drew his bride Cat some church
iair) and asked the maid TO fetch him a
drsught of water from a convenient
spring, although it was far into the
summer at the time. This she did, and
blushing deeply as she recollected that
her shoes and stockings were " up to the
house." handed the cup to the judge,
who gallantly remarked that
Year: 1878

Now let the truly radical papers of the
north howl oyer the great outrage in radi-
cal Iowa. Had such thing been done In
the south the northern heart would be
fired with Indignation aud all the battles Of
the rebellion would be fought over again
in the Interest of the republican party.
A West Liberty correspondent of the Mus
catiue Tribune writes that paper concern
ing the alleged insult to lady by negro
as follows:


h'1t now comes to light that the young
lady spoken of in my last letter says that
the tramp who was SO brutally whipped on
her account yesterday did not insult her.
cor Say anything of bad character to her;
but as near as we can learn bis only offense
was in going along the same road and in
the same direction that the young lady
was. He also talked to her and offered to,
and did carry her baske. and books for
some distance and in the course of conver.
sation asked her if the road led through
any timber, and if she was afraid, etc
That is all and nothing more. At least
this is all we can learn so far. for which be
the tramp was arrested without warrant
and locked up in the calaboose without q
bearing He was not even identified By
the lady as the one that had been bel
travelling companion, He was released
without trial. and was afterwards caugh
BY the same parties and whipped almost t,
death
Year: 1878

thanked God that he had been reformed
and considered it his duty to aid in the
reformation of others who were unfortu-
| nately addicted to the wine cup; that
wearing a red ribbon was not necessarily
branding man as reformed drunkard,
but it was the christian duty of every man
| to encourage drunkards to reform aud by
respectable men wearing the ribbon it


made it respectable and induced the drunk
ard to wear il. He said that drunkenness
was not the only, nor by any means the
greatest sin, in the world; that there we're
many other vices the practice of which de


barred a person from an entrance to
heaven; such as hypocracy, theft, lcen-
tiousness, and host of others He spoke
at considerable length censuring presum-
| tious temperance advocates who could see
no virtue in any method but their own, and
was loudly applauded throughout his re-
marks


Whatever any one may think of Mr..
Haney's position on the question of tenn
perance or the Reynolds movement, they
place to 60 into Mr. Reynolds meeting and
attempt to throw cold water" upon it.
lf he be Temperance advocate and his
uCtuOu fdIlcS lFOu1 1e6guOluS he Is
certainly not so blind but that he can see
some good results from the latter's work
and should keep silence if he could not in
dorse it. The test of policy is the result
| of its workings and dr. Hane7 has very
few indorsers Of his policy of legal
suasion, as he calls it.-prohibition, as its
results compare unfavorably with the
moral suasion policy, and very few men
l. u r..


ed failure of prohibitory law. 1t is alto
gether probable. however. that the reasons
best known to himself for refusing to be
labelled with red ribbon have no very
remote reference to the coming congress
sional election 10 which he aspires to the
nationals candidacy. but thinking men will
tail to see the consistency of his course 10
championing the liquor interests as a
politician and deneuncing it in the pulpit
in order to satisfy the demands of his
congregation.
Year: 1878

For ten years my wife was confined to
her bed with such a complication of all
ments that no doctor could tell what was
the matter or cure her, and [ used up a
small fortune in humbug stuff Six
months ago I saw u S. flag with Hop
Bltters on it. and thought would be a
fool once more l tried it, but my folly
proved to be wisdom. Two bottles cured
her, and she is now as well aud strong as
any mans wife, and it only cost me 81.
Be We like foolishr'-H. w, Detroit
Mich.
Year: 1878

and that said committee for the pur :
pose of executing this resolu-
ton shall have power to send for
persons and papers, 10 administer oaths,
and to take testimony, and IN their
discretion to detail sub committees with
like full authority of said committee in
every particular aud with power TO sit in
Florida and Louisiana, which sub-commit-
tee shall be committees of this house, and
the chairman thereof shall be authorized
to administer oaths; the said COM
mittee and sub committee may employ
stenographers and be attended each by
deputy sergeant-at-arms and may sit
during sessions Of this house and during
vacation, and that said committee proceed
in this inquiry and have leave to report at
any time.
Year: 1878

spring Is :rying season. Indications Of sickness
should at once be attended to. Fatal diseases may
be caused by allowing the bowels to become con-
stipated and the system to remain in a disordered
condition. until the disorder has time to develope
Itself. An ounce Of prevention is worth pound of
cure, is an old truthful saying Therefore we ad-
wise all who are troubled with the complaints now
very Observation-Disclosures, indIsgestion, disordered
liver, want of appetite, feverlsh skin
to take, without delay, Shenck's Mandrake Pills.
We know OF no remedy so harmless and decisive
in its action at strikes at the root of the
disease and produces d healthy tone to he system
People never need suffer from any disease arising
from isordered condition of the liver If they would
take this excellent medicine when they feel the
first indications of the malady. Families leaving
home for the summer months should take three or
four boxes ofsthe pills with them. They have an
almost instantaneous effect. They will relieve the
patient of headache in one or two hours, and will
rapidly cleanse the liver of surrounding bile, and
viii effectually prevent bilious attack. They are
sold by all druggists.
Year: 1878




WAsHINGTON, June 5.-Therc is likely to
be some lively work over the confirmation of
Leonard and Marks, owing to West, who s
perfectly frantic at the prospect of losing his
dividend on the salaries of the present inCum-
bentS.


Yesterday West met Kellogg, and after
some trivial conversation said he would oavc
no means untrod to prevent the confirmation
of Leonard and Marks, and particularly the
former; Kellogg told West he had better not
make any fight. and intimatod that he would
make it unhealthy for him if he did.


Further words passed, in the course Of
which Kellogg pretty distinctly intimated
that If necessary h" would not hesitate to
slaughter West along with Lacey and Cock
rem, by exposing the entire job connected
with their original appointment by Grant.
West really seems to have no means of sup
port outside Of his receipts from Lacey and
C0ckrcm, and hence his desperation is that of
u man who is fighing to prevent bread from
being taken out Of his mouth. Kellogg, how
ever, has him on the hip, and will use his ad-
vantage without mercy if necessary, so that
the confirmation Of both Marks and Leonard
is practically assured. Eustis will pursue
about the same cOurs" in regard to these ap-
pointmentB as h" did in Smiths ease"


HI'FI.T,
Year: 1878

THE MAN WHO CAN Run A NEW sPAPER
He stands in the "ffice with his back to the
stove aud tells how he could run news
paper, no" he would be independent as a
hog on ice, and call things by their right
names; how he would expose corruption
III high places; how he would write good
sound common sense, and none of your
frivolous try-tO-be-funny stuff Then he
criticises other PEOPLES methods of con-
ducting newspapers. and just wishes some
body would give him chance to show his
journalistic ability. The way to cure one
OF these is to get him to agree to write
sensible article every day for a week. Be
fore the week is out he is sure TO be pump
ed dry, and will cape worse for an idea
than chicken with the pip i E1.
Year: 1878

Iu thus breaking down the banks can
any one see that we have produced any
kind OF taxable property that will take the
place of the bank-stock and bank-notes
destroyed, and pay to the people of the
States the same amount Of tax that they
are now paying! YES" says IA friend OF
the bill. sit the Government will take these
Treasury notes which it has issued to sup
ply the place OF the bank-nOtes and pur-
chase gold with them, and with this gold
pay of the bonds OF the banks, then the
proceeds of these bonds will be In the coun-
tty to pay the taxes the same as the bank
stock aud bank-nOtes." IN this my friend ia
mistaken, Tor the reason That by this pro


cess he has stated we do not Increase the
property of the country one cent for taxa
Year: 1878

also provide sufficient amount OF cur
rency to enable all to transact their busI-
ness with profit"


"Hsve not nearly sll who have spoken
on the subject of finance during this ses-
sion Of Congress held nearly the same
views on the effects of COntrsction|


"Certalnly, and how they can no" cast
their votes in such wsy as to cause the
impression that it is dishonesty and not
contraction that has produced these re-
suits, is something l cannot comprehend:


What Is your opinion OF the law as 1t
stands?" o.,


81 am not sufficiently acquainted with
it to Judge; 1t may need amending or =
new law may be required, but what l
say is this, that it will be an unpsrdona-
bic crime for this Congress to leave the
country for one hour without bankrupt
law Of some kind
Year: 1878

The moons influence on vege-
tation was formerly discussed
periodically in many OF the
agricultural newspapers OF the
dav, but as neither the moon
nor the discussion of her powers
ever had the slightest effect
whatever upon vegetation, the
discussion has gradually died
away before the march of i'm
provement and the growth Of in
telligence which have almost
entirely displaced the old super
stitious notion Of past ages.
We have never paid the slight,
est regard to those old sayings
about the moons influence on
vegetable and animal life. We
wouldno soonergo to an almanac
to learn when to wean a calf or
to kill a pig, than we would con-
suit it's pages when to look for
a storm, with the words strung
along down the calendar through
fifteen or twenty days. There
is a proper time for cutting tim
ber VARYING according to the
object desired. If to secure the
best sprouts for a second growth,
cut in the spring. If to kill the
trees root and branch, cut late
in the summer; but there are no
one or two days which are prac-
tically better for these opera
tions than other days during the
same months. We have heard
Of a man who would consult the
almanac to learn when to build
a rail fence. There were a num-
Der Of letters published upon
"Lunar Influences" in the month
1y New England Farmer of the
year 1856, but we could hardly
recommend you to look them
up, except as a matter Of curl
osity. The best time to kill a
hog is when it is fat, the weather
cool and the pork needed for
home use or for market. The
best time to plant or sow is
when the ground is warm and
in the best condition to receive
the seed. The best time to kill
weeds is as soon as they appear,
and the best time to harvest a
crop is when it is ripe for the
harvest. Finally, the best time
to study the Influences of the
moon upon vegetation is when
all other subjects have been
COMPLETELY exhausted. .-EX.
Year: 1878

BY NIX BONUS, OF POLK BAYOU.


Late in Aug, 1878.


He was standing on the street
corner, grinding his teeth and
pouring out blue blazing bitter
oaths against the sinful practice
of supporting public schools.
Vinegar, gall and sulphuric acid
were sweet as strained honey in
comparison with the language
he used in crying down those
who could lend their aid in the
unhallowed scheme Of educating
the people at the public expense.
His daddy had educated him
right, and paid for it like a man,
and he thought if others could
not do the same way their chill
dren ought to go without an
education. He had COTTON his
living honestly, by hard licks,
and did not believe it was just
for him to pay for schooling the
Widow Jones' or John Smiths
children. He would school his
own, as his daddy and all his
ancestors had done theirs.


The annual school meeting
closed. For tax, 8; against tax,
80. His views had prevailed.
He affixed his name to a petition
to sell the remainder Of the
school lands in his district
thus-X; and then he went out
in the cold world to seek for
missionaries to send after the
heather inhabitants of st. Louis
who were wasting their money
on the people Of Memphis and
New Orleans, and foolishly
squandering a million dollars
annually on public schools.
Year: 1878

l would respectfully inform
the public that l have taken an
agency for the above named
cotton gin and condenser, and
am offering them at very low
prices, considering their useful
ness and general merit. Those
who contemplate purchasing a
cotton gin will do well to call
on me and examine illustrated
catalogue and price list of the
Emery before purchasing any
other. For further particulars,
call on or address


L. S. HILL,


Ash Flat, Ark.
Year: 1878

WASHINGTON, July 4.-The day has been one
OF unusual quiet. The terrible heat has kept sensible
people who remain in town within doors and the only
indications OF patriotism have been the
crackers md squibs OF the gamns Even this actiOn
has come In mder form than usual, ~ result OF
partial enforcement Of the police ordinance against ne


works The President and Cabinet have been absent.
The Potter mill has temporarily ceased TO grind Ihe
departments have been closed and all who have been
Year: 1878

Most ministers freely assert that the
average attendance in churches is in
the ratio Of three women to one man.
Some people 60 so far as to assert that
the women outnumber men three to
one in heaven, and the men outnum-
Der women in the same proportion in
hell. If our memory OF the Bible
serves us right, all the angels spoken
Of in that good book are OF the mas.
culine gender.
Year: 1878

An sncient city was .besieged,, and
at length obliged to surrender. In
the city were two brothers, who had
obliged the conqaering general, and
received permission to leave the city
before it was set on fire, taking with
them as much of their property as
each could carry. The two youths
appeared at the gates Of the city, one
of them carrying their father, and
the other their mother.
Year: 1878

"Habit" is hard to overcome. If
you take off the first letter it does not
change IA bit Ifyou take off an
other you still have "bit" left. II
You take off still another the whole of
''it" remains. Ifyou take of another
it is not ''t' totally used up. All of
which goes to show that if you want
to get rid of "habit" you must throw
il of altogether. .f
Year: 1878

IL will take three years TO finish the
revision Of the Bible which is now he
ing made by the American and British
Committee. Until then, people must
20 To heaven the hest way they can
with the old one. ..