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Year: 1877

Spring is a trying season. Indications of SICK
ness should at once be- attended to- Fatal diseases
may be caused by allowing the bowels to become
constpated and the system to remain in a disor
Gered condition, ntil the disorder has time to de-


veloD itself. An ounce of prevention is worth a
pound of cure, is an Old and truthful saying
Therefore we advise all who are troubled with the
complaints now very prevalent headache, indiges-
ton, disordered liver want of appetite, Nausea or
feverish skin, to. take, without delay, Schenck's
Mandrake Pills We know of no remedy so harnl-
less and decisive in its action. 1t at strikes
at the root of the disease and produces healthy
tone to the system People never need suffer from
any disease arising from disordered condition of
the liver If they would take this excellant medicine
when they feel the first indications of the maiady.
Families leaving home for the summer months
should take three four boxes of these pills with
them. They have an almost -instaneOus effect.
They VIII relieve the patient of headache in one OF
two hours, and will rapidly cleanse the liver Of
surrounding bile and will eifectually prevent 9
bilious attack. They are sold by all Druggist.
Year: 1877

New YORK, May 19.-The Tribune


says it has reason to believe the Russian


feet is how keeping strict watch along
our coast for the purpose of interrupting
vessels having munitions Of war on board
for Turkey, and it is stated that the Rus
sian commander had been informed that a
steamer would soon leave the vicinity Of
New Haven with large cargo for Turkey.
Year: 1877

WASHINGTON, May l9.-The supreme
court of the District OF Columbia yesterday
decided the celebrated suit of Admiral
Porter and officers and men of the North
Atlantic squadron for prize money on ac-
count of the capture Of Richmond. The
court unanimously reversed the former pro-
ceedings, and dismissed all libels. The Ii
belants still have the privilege of appeal.
ing to the supreme court OF the United
States
Year: 1877

The healing properties OF our own fragrant
balsam and pine and the gums OF the East are too
well known to require description. Their grateful
10 nu 1iug PLopestles =
accordance with late and important discoveries in
pharamaey their healing and strengthening prop
Plasteris is the beet in use without the aid Of eec
tric
Year: 1877

When good, sound corn is properly
prepared and made into bread by the
latest and best methods, or into
cakes, puddings and other similar
preparations, it produces a superior
quality Of food, in a variety of forms
adopted to universal consumption.
The fact is also worthy of notice
that the gain in weight of The bread
thus prepared from corn meal, over
and above the weight of the meal from
which it is made, is more than 100
per cent. In other words, pound
Of corn bread is tho product of less
than half half pound of corn meal.
Hence it appears that the value OF at,
acre Of this cereal, when measured
by the bread it Is capable Of plodu.
cling, is over 10000 pounds:


CoQuilles cold chicken and
turkey and separate the meat from
the bones break the latter and stew
for half an hour with pint of water,
two or three blades Of mace and halfa
dozen cloves strain the liquor from
the bones, teturn to tie stew pan,
and, when it comes to a boil, add a
teaspoOnful of -four, mixed with
tablespoonful Of cold water; when
the liquor comes to n boil, add the
meat chopped fine, little salt and
peppes, aud a piece Of butter the size
of an egg; grated bread crumbs must
cover the bottom of a shell OF dish
put in the prepared hash, CRATE bread
over the top, and brown slightly 10
an ovens SThis should 10 served in
shells, but, III tho absence Of shells,
saucers Or q dish will serve the pur.
pose. nir"
Year: 1877

THE article in the HERALD yesterday
in relation to the Planters Interest, Is
intended 10 urge upon them the neees.
sity Of controlling their own property,
so that in the future they will escape
unjust charges on their cotton. The
most practicable way to DO this is to
patronize markets near home, where
the charges complained Of are not ex-
acted. In New Orleans there are GER.
tain customs which are not found in
this market. In the Vicksburg market
no brokerage is charged, and we never
yet saw any deductions made for dam.
ages. While, Of course, It is necessary
to make deductions for damages some
times, ii Is exceedingly rare that il it
done ia this market, We never heard
OF q ViCksburg factor making regular
business of this pernicious custom.


While We are thus plaiu.spoken in
the interes. Of the farmers, we will
never agree 10 the foolish attempt some
of them are making to force the mer'
chants who have advanced them sup


plies TO accept their cotton in payment


for more than 1t will bring. The only
honest way for them to do is to stand
squarely up TO their contracts. AL
merchants who furnish planters mus
take q great deal Of risk, aud they eau,
not do il unless they arc paid for II
The cotton crop is very uncertain
one, and there are TOO many chances OIL
loss for any one TO dare TO furnish cot


ton planters without a promise of Z
large per cent. on capital thus invested
Year: 1877

sleeping inmates; bus they could give
no information in relation to the out
law. Next they visited the abode of
the girl of the mission. Her room was
entered. but it was found empty.


1--WE must give up the search" said
Haskell; @the little tigress turned him
loose. He is armed aud will fight like
a demon; besides, he is many miles on
bis way to the Nusees This Is bad
work ior u.s." The latter sentence he
muttered in low tones, as if dreading
the future.


The rangers left me at the mission,
and oDs month from the night of Mus
tang's Grey's escape was again in Vic
toria on the Guadalupe, where l
learned that the girl was the daughter
of Grey, and that she inherited all the
firece traits of her father.


Tha; eventful night she rode in the
gloom in the direction of the Rio
Gran6e, the route to which wild stream
she knew as well as any frontier scout.


While the conflict waged between
tue Uuiied Stated and Mexico, Mus
tang Grey proved himself of service as
a scout aud carrier in the American
service, and at Humantia he received
his death wound and died at Puebla.


The history of bis child is unknown,
as she faded from sight and memory of,
men as she sunk into the darkness of
the night when she and her father fed
from the old mission.
Year: 1877




An Iowa postmaster, whose income ID
S12 year, constructs words ont Of ink
in the following curious shapes; ito the
gineral postmaster at Washington City
my Deare friend i hope you will not ap-
pint me postmaster Of this here town
hal MT got no time to tend to it i suppose
you got the paper somehow my frinds
sent up Reckominden me but i hal MT
got time to do the thing up as it ort TO
be done In fact don't know hardly what
is a go in TO be done our shoemaker
would be very good man only he was
Grely square but which you know onfits
him for the position then there is our
storekeeper jim B-that wants the
position mighty bad as shure as you are
u living man jim B-kant read good
writin and that's the trouble You see
them that wants ii don't know enuff 10
tend it and them their that does don't
want to take it Jim B-was raised out
in the countery and jest come to town
last week and don't know enouf to be 4
postmaster but do as you think best only
do Mt apint me hal mt got time ever
your frind &C."
Year: 1877

Sol. Lofien, as he is familiarity known,
is one of the characters of Huron eoun-
ty. He bad rather be engaged in a law
suit than eat, and there are few lawyers
that know more about the legal aspect of
a case than does Sol. When he went to
farming first-class lawyer was spoiled.


Last season Sol had a race on hand
Che is very fond of race-horses and al
ways keeps several in his stables, land a
man whom we viii OBSTINATE as n, who
held a note against Sol for considera-
bic sum, wanted TO bet against Soils
horse. As it happened N didn't have
money enough, when Sol said he would
bet him an equal amount against the
face of the note, to which n agreed,
pledging himself to give up the note in
case he lost the bet


n did lose, but instead of doing as he
agreed refused to give up the note. Sol
refused to pay it, and n sued it and got
Judgment, bet not being good in law.


Sol was used to such things and SIM
ply kept his property out of the county.
(RIchland) so that the Sheriff could find
nothing to levy on. One day Sol had
occasion to go to Mansfield, and rode Il
fine racer to that place. While he was
attending to business, the Sheriff found
who owned the horse and forthwith took
possession to satisfy Ms execution, and
Sol wended his way home in deep cogi-
tation.


A few days after he again rode into
Mansfield on a fine horse, and seeking
the Sheriff told him he had race on
hand and wished to leave the other
horse in exchange for his racer; and the
last one being fully as valuable as the
first, the Sheriff agreed, whereupon Sol
took his racer and soon after had her in
this (Huron) county.


A day or two after this transaction Il
near neighbor of Soils called ON the
Sheriff of Richland county and said he
would ike tohave his horse. The Sheriff
found he couldn't hold another mans
property on Soils debt and was compel
ed TO give it up.


The Sheriff having levied on Soils
property, the execution was satisfied and
Ms note wasn't worth the paper on
which it was written. But the Sheriff
was the maddest man in Mansfield when
he saw how Sol Lohen had got the best
of that transaction. = Huron Cjunts
ChTDnicle.
Year: 1877

A FACETIoUs senior asked freshman
to tell him the difference between fac
simile and sick family; but the laugh
was on the senior, for the freshman in
staniy replied: NO difference. A sick
family is a family that is sick, and far
sfrriIe means the same
Year: 1877

Ever constant, ever true


Let the Word be, No surrender
Boldly dare and greatly doi
This shall bring us bravcly through
No surrender, no surrender!
And though Fortunes smiles be few,
Hope is always springing new,
Still inspiring me and you ~
With a magic, No surrender!
Nail the colors to the mast, .Ns
Shouting gladly, No surrender!
Troubles near are all but past--
Serve them as you did the LAST l
No surrender, no surrender!
Though The skies be overcast, -
And upon the sleety blast
Disappointments gather fast


Beat them off with-No surrenderi
Constant and courageous still,


Mind the word is. No surrender!
Battle, though it be up hill,
Stagger not Mt seeming ill, N 5.t
No surrender, no surrender!
Hope, and thus your hope fulfill
There's way where there's q will.
And the way all cares to kill


Is to give them-No surrender!
Year: 1877

When we have a fraudulent Presi-
dent, will not every man who takes
office under him be a sharer of the
fraud?


The above was started by the Bal
timore Gazette, and has been copied
by about every democratic sheet in
this State. Change the phraseology
slightly by substituting "Governor"
for President, and then let the GU-
zette answer the question. Governor
Carroll is Governor of Maryland to-
day through frauds that put the
bulldozers of Louisiana to blush,
yet great many democrats in Mary
land accept Offices under him and it
don't seem to trouble their conscience
very much. We conclude they
would have done the same if the
bulldozers had succeeded'in "count-
ing in" Slippery Sam.
Year: 1877

Those who are disposed TO ig-
more the profession of agriculture,
and deem it one unworthy of their
attention, should read what Dau-
iel Webster said on this subject
years ago. Agriculture is the
father Of all other industries and
the source from which our wealth
flows. Here is what he says


mo man is so high as to be in
dependent of the success of this
great interest: 70 man is go low as
not to be affected by its prosperity
or decline. Agricultu feeds, to
a great degree, it clothes US; with
out it we could not have manufac-
turers, and we would not have
commerce. These all stand to-
gether, but they stand together
like pillars in ciuster-the largest
in the center, and that largest is
agriculture. We live In country
Of small farms aud freehold tene-
ments: a country in which men
cultivate their own fee simple acres,
drawing not only their own SUBJ
stance. but also theilf spirit of in
dependence and manly freedom
from the ground and the plow.-
They arc at once its owners, its
cultivators and its defenders. The
cultivation of the ear h is the most
important work of man. Man
may he civilized in some degree
without great manufactures and
without his distant neighbors; but
without cultivation of the earth he
IS, In all countries, savage. Un-
til he gives up the chase, and fix
es himself to some place and seeks
a living from the earth, he is a
roaming barbarian. When the til.
lage begins, other arts follow. The
farmers are, therefore, the found
ers of human civilization"
Year: 1877

Water in which potatoes have
been boiled possesses a poison fatal
to lice. Dip into it a large sponge
or wollen cloth, and wash the cattle
freely, choosing sunny warm day
for the operation.
Year: 1877

The editor of the Republican,
with customary disregard for truth,
n1isrepresents our article of the 2oth
on the old railroad bonds, and then
proceeds to answer what he says we
said. Our contemporary ought to
know that the people are extremely
sensitive about subjects of this char
acter, and quick to withdraw their
confidence from one of whom they
have cause to suspect that he is in.
f1uenced by money to advocate the
measure. No matter what may have
been their previous opinion concern


ing him, they will denounce him as
mercenary and unreliable, and his
influence for good is destroyed.
Our neighbor, having no character
to lose, may care but little about
this consequence but with us the
case is different. We value our rep
utation and are, moreover, sincerely
desirous that this bond question
Year: 1877

We hope every subscriber of
the ADVANCE, and especially every
farmer, will attentively read the ar
1icle headed "Proposal for Land
ed Arlstocracy," and then devote an
hour or two to a calm retrospective
examination of his own experience
and observation. Tie facts which
the article and the review will force
him to recognize will be distasteful,
no doubt he will regret their exis-
tence, but he will have to acknowl-
edge that they do exist and are like
ly to lead to the very results which
the writer of that article sets forth
as desirable. How can this result
be avoided is a aquestion for serious
consideration. We know of but one
way and that is for the farmers of
the country to avoid running in
debt, by observing strict economy.
Instead Of launching out into extrav.
agant enterprises, in vain efforts to
get rich in hurry, let them be con-
tent to make comfortable livings and
augment their wealth naturally and
gradually. Let them form loan as
sociations amongst themselves and
confne their necessities to the lim-
its of their own capital, instead of
using that of Eastern owners at the
risk of losing their lands by so doing.
BY doing this they will drive East
ern capitalists to investments in in
dustrial enterprises. This will cre-
ate demand for laborers there, and
from such laborers there will be an
increased demand for subsistence
which will tend to enlarge the oppor-
tunities for marketing and increase
the price Of agricultural products.
But read the article carefully and
listen to the lesson it teaches.
Year: 1877

With Binder can be independent hired help only the
simple and least liable of but easily understood and du


b bind bundles and the bundles laid down easily that
hled however attached Haeers
made trade:
which
Year: 1877

In the coal PIT where joe worked, some
of the men would jeer and lsogh aS MIN
when he said cit is all for the best )" and
among these there was a man named lin,
who would never mics chance, when one
offered, to have q laugh at joe.


One day as Tim and Joe were getting
ready TO go down into the deep pit, Joe,
who had brought his dinner OF bacon and
bread with him, laid it on the ground for a
moment. Before he could take 1t up, hun
CRY dog seized it aud ran off. -,


"Ah, ha, ha !" laughed T,m, " that 10 all
for the best. is it Joe The lose OF thy
dinner is all for the best, is it man Now


+" Well, 1 do say yes," said Joe, " but as
I must eat. it is my duty to try and get
back my dinner. If get it back, it will
be- all for the best; and ifI don't get it back,
why it will be all for the best just the same.
God is 60 great that He can rule the small
est things as we'll as the largest.


So Joe ran after the dog ; and Tim, with
laugh and an oath, went down into the
coal PIT.


Joe ran a long way hut he could not
catch the dog. At last Joe gave up the
chase, and came back to the m ne, think
ing to himself that the men would all have
good laugh at him.


When he reached the pit be found the
men clustered around il, aud all pale with
alarm and awe.


Whats a narrow escape you have had,
Joe !" said one of them. g The mine has
caved in. and poor Tim is killed. II that dog
had not run IF with your dinner, you would
have gone down with Tim into the pit, and
been killed too"


Joe took off his hat, and while his breast
heaved, and his cheeks grew pale, and the
tears came into his eyes, he looked up to
the heavens, but said not a word.
Year: 1877

1t is scarcely possible to conceive Of
anything severer in the way of criticism
upon carpet-bag rule in the South than
the brief dispatch concerning the re-
quest of the usurper Kellogg for the dis
charge of man charged with embez-
zling thirty thousand dollars of school
moneys. 1t is to the reckless plunder-
ing of the school fund by the Republi-
can officials in Louisiana that the Kel-
logg party is indebted for the change in
the colored vote to the Democratic
party; and the conduct of the pretended
Governor of that State in the case re-
ferred to shows that the colored people
were entirely right in charging the plum
dering upon the party instead of looking
only to the individuals.


There was GOODNESS about the pro-
ceeding which is positively marvellous.
The idea of the State Executive interfer-
ing in the prosecution of a criminal, and
using the weight of his official position
to induce a prosecuting officer to aban-
don suit is a novel one; and the
novelty is not lessened by the easy
assumption that it is sufficient ground
for discontinuing a prosecution that the
Governor of State is satisfied that the
charge is measurably groundless. Meas
urably" groundless is good, even for
Kellogg, who may justly be considered
as only " measurably" Governor.


Another noteworthy phase of the mat
ter is the willingness of the alleged GRIM
inal to owe his release to Kellog's inter-
cession, instead of demanding-like an
honest man would in respect to "measur-
ably" groundless charges-a speedy trial
and acquittal. 1t must be very queer
state of society where a State Senator,
indicted for stealing school funds, dares
not face jury of his peers, and prefers
to owe his release to partisan and official
influence. Yet it is precisely such men as
this that the Republicans expect the col
ored voter of the South to vote for blindly
and unhesitatingly, and when he refuses
the party declares that he has been in
undated" And it is upon the votes of
such men that Kellogg relies for the in
dorsement of his Senatorial aspirations.
Verify, carpet-bag government is bless
ing-if at all-in the most impenetrable
disguise.
Year: 1877

IT is curious fact, says the Toronto
Globe, that in the whole of Newfound-
land there is not single grist-mill of
any description. Little grain is ripened
in the country, though as fine oats and
barley can be grown there as in any part
of the world, and in the western region
wheat ripens well. The people have
been SO accustomed to import every thing,
that it is difficult to get them out of the
old ruts.' There can be no doubt that the
erection of grist-mills would lead to a
wider growth of grain. A move in the
right direction has just been made in the
erection of -four mill.
Year: 1877

A SOUTHERN newspaper relates the
experience, rather briefly, of a colored
citizen of one of the Carolinas who, as
early as 1870, became Democrat, and
who has since voted that ticket regularly
at every election. When he first dared
to vote it for Mayor of village town,
he was ostracised, prescribed, turned out
of church, and had numerous threats of
bull-dozing and assassination to come to
his ears. Not a colored man for miles
around would associate with or hardly
speak to him. He at the time occupied
a position as carriage-driver in the
family where his wife was a cook.
The wealthy Democrats synpathized
with him, built him a house, furnished
it, and his better-half, who had
the good sense and true womanliness to
stand by him, opened bakery, the white
people assisting her, and had the
patronage of the best people in town.
When asked why he voted the Demo
cratic ticket as early as 1870, the colored
citizen replied that he thought every
man should labor for the best interests OF
himself and family, and when doing so
they we're laboring for the best interests
of the State. There were not
offices enough to be had for
all the colored men and their
white Radical brethren, and as tn


Democrats owned the land and paid
the taxes and gave employment to the
poor he could hardly imagine how it was
that sensible colored men could cling SO
tenaciously to the Republican party.
The colored Democrat we have referred
to instead of mingling in politics chose
this better part, and, by honest indus
try, has accumulated a snug fortune
within few years. He had also lived
to see hosts of other voters of dark-hued
visage walk regularly to the polls and
vote as he voted, for the best interests Of
their country and their race.
Year: 1877

Net decrease, as aboye.-.........-Sl,1O5 ,1O5, ,S96 %


From the foregoing statement it appears
that the State debt has been reduced during
the past year almost one and half million
of dollars, and that the indebtedness of
counties, townships, and school districts
has been reduced over three hundred thou
sand dollars. But cities of the first and
second class and Incorporated villages have
increased their Indebtedness more than ten
millions of dollars since the close of the
fiscal year 1875.


LOCAL INDEBTEDNESS AND TAXATION.


The attention of the Legislature has often
been called to the rapid increase of munich
pal Indebtedness and expenditures, but it is
SO important that do not hesitate to repeat
what has heretofore been said. The whole
people of the State are deeply interested in
this subject. The burdens borne by the cities
and towns must be shared, in part at least,
by all who transact business with them.
The town and the neighboring country have
a common interest, and, in most respects,
must be regarded as one community. | SUBJ
nit that, to the subject of local indebted
ness, the General Assembly should apply
the principles of the State Constitution on
the subject of State Indebtedness.


Under the provisions of the eighth article
of the Constitution, the State debt, notwith-
standing the extraordinary expenditures OF
the war, has been reduced from over twenty
millions, the amount due in 1851, until it is
now only about six millions. An important
part of the constitutional provisions which
have been so successful in State finances is
the section which requires the creation of a
sinking fund, and the annual payment Of a
constantly in Increasing gum on the principal
of the State debt. Let requirement an
alogous to this be enacted in regard to ex.
isting local Indebtedness; let judicious
limitation of the rate of taxation which
local authorities may levy be strictly adhered
to, and allow no further Indebtedness to be
authorized except in conformity with these
principles, and we may, believe, confidently
expect that within a few years the burdens
of debt now resting upon the cities and
towns of the State will disappear, and that
other wholesome and much needed reforms
in the whole administration of our municipal
government will of necessity follow the
adoption of what may be called the cash
system in local affairs.


Under any limitations and safeguards
which the Legislature may adopt, very
large discretion must necessarily be com
mitted to the local authorities. The wisdom