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Year: 1879

ST. LoUIs, Aug. 14.-It appears that the party of colorcd men wno passed up through East St. Louis last night was got up by the mer chants and planters ofdifferentplaces in Mississippi, with view of giving such negroes as wish to migrate to Kansas an opportunity to go there, judge of the country for themselves, and, if they like it, stay, but if they dislike it they can re- turn--the expense of the trip being scarcely more than nominal. It seems that many planters aprre- hend that after the present cotton crop is picked there will be an eN- tensive exodus of negroes from the south. Some of them therefore got up this excursion under belief that the representative colored men who might go on it would be disappoint ed with Kansas and return, and that their unfaForable accounts would have a strong influence with the negroes generally and prevent any extensive migratory move ment. Quite large number of the whites, who took advantage of the cheap rates obtained, also joined the party, and a considerable number of them have gone to Kansas.
Year: 1879

The value ot winter rye as a for age crop to be grown expressly for feeding stock, either green or cured, says the the World, according to the needs of each farmer, is too well appreciated to call for any argument on the subject.

 Rye not only affords pastures when pastures is most required and makes an econimical hay, but it can be grown cheaply compafed to grass, and it can also be grown at D season when the ground would otherwise be Idle. Rye may be sown after almost every crop is harvested eX- cept cabbage and turnips, and 1t will be ready to take off the land in time for planting and sowing the ordinary grain crops in the spring.

 A diversity of practice prevails among the farmers about the time of sowing winter rye. Some urge ear iy sowing-as early as the month oi August-while others believe 1t IS better to defer sowing as late as November, or before the ground freezes. If it does not sprout in the fall, it will come up in tue spring. An argument advanced in favor of late sown rye is that it is not liable to be hurt by the late spring ffosts as is early sown rye. There are ear nest advocates, however, in favor of the early sowing of rye. Some SOW it broadcast over corn land just before the corn is laids by. By the time corn is gathered there will be 2 rich fall pasture to be fed off with calves or light stock. Where the corn crop isa partial failure rye pasture is especially valuable.

 The quantity of seed per acre dc bends on the quality of the soil, the season and the time of sowing Early sowing requires less seed than later. Generally speaking, one and q half bushels per acre on good corn ground, put in early are ardple lighter soils, if sown by the middle of September, will require an addi tional half bushel.

 Rye is sown, as other cereals, or well prepared land and the yield i: enlarged by the application of man ure. The seed may be either sowr broadcast or, when seed drills arc used, it can be drilled in and cover ed with the soil. Rural World.
Year: 1879

We are anxious to extend the cireu- lation of the DEMOCRAT. We want HOO subscribers in Pope county. We ought to have them. Our county has 24OO voters; surely we ought to get HOO sub scribers. We make the following lib- eral offers:

 First: Any one who will send us One Dollar and Fifty Gents in cash be- tween now and Oct. 1st, shall have the paper from October 1st, 1879, to Dec. 31st, 1880. This offer gives you the paper

 THREE MONTHS FOR NOTHING:

 Second: Any person who will send us One Dollar and Fifty Gents between now and Oct. 1st will receive the DEM- oCRAr and the St. Louis Midland Far mer F months. This offer gives you a good monthly paper

 TWELVE MONTHS FOR NOTHING.

 Third: Any person who will send us

 THiRTY-FIvE CENTS between now and Sept 18th will get the DEMOCRAT the remainder of the year.

 Fourth: Any person who will get US new subscribers and remit us the cash will get

 TIE PAPER FREE for the same length of time that the club runs.

 We ask our friends to help us circu- late the DEMOCRAT. Next year will be one of absorbing interest. Every voter should take and read his county paper next year. We have worked hard for near five years to keep good paper in our county. Will not each of our pres ent subscribers try and get us at least one new subscriber? If you can get your neighbor to take the paper you will not only be doing him great ser vice but you will be doing us favor also which we will appreciate.
Year: 1879

What Il home without n babyS"
Is a question We are tired ofseeimg
In our exchanges; 80 wc will settle
this matter at once. A home with
out a bnby Is ono where sou won't
gel hold Of q bottle Of paregoric
every time you make for your
whisky flask a place where men
are not made bowling manlacs by
sitting down on diaper pins; a
house where diminutive shoes are
not fshcd out of the soup, and
watches are not found floating In
the washbowl; u house where the
mau Of the house is at the head In
stead Of the foot Of the class q
place-but we don't want all the
mothers Of the land sailing into
Us; let somebody else continue the
refrain.
Year: 1879

The fatal error of the Democratic party is
that ii has never paid attention to public opin.
ion. Popular whims and prcjudices IL has con-
suited far too often for its own success. The
mearcst passions of the meanest rabble-pas-
sions of which the rabble itself is ashamed
when it gets cool-the Democratic party has
often stopped to fiattcr, feed, and obey. But it
has never had any comprehension of that
steady, intelligent, conscientious, slowly.grow-
ing public opinion, which rules everything in
this free country, and before which oven the
passions of the widest mob cover and COOL
NeC York Tribune.


The above paragraph is crammed full of
sound common sense and wholesome truth.
If the Democrats had consulted popular
sentiment outside their own charmed circle,
the rebellion, which was budding for years,
would never have blossomed and brought
forth the fruits that marked four years of
strife and blood upon the page Of American
history. If its counsels relating to the in
stitution of slavery had been i'll accord with
the popular sentiment of the country, in
stead Of being shaped by its own love of
power and aggrandizement, there would
have been no rebellion, no bloodshed, no
heavy national Indebtedness, no deep-seated
alterations; but slavery at the South would
have disappeared rs it did at the North, by
gradual emancipation, without collision,
bloodshed, or even disturbance. The slave
power ut the South counseled the Demo-
cratic party at the North before rebellion,
and, instead of receiving wise and patriotic
counsels, it was assured that if it would
strike the first blow upon the bond of our
national Union the Democratic party of the
North would aid the work of overthrow
ing the Government breaking down the
Union, and overturning the Republic. The
rebels assert this MS the reason why they
assailed the Government, and history fur
nishes the sequel. After cgging on the
rebellion until it entered upon its bloody
work the Democratic party of the North
retired from active business until the war
was fought to the end and the nation was
saved, never doing more than sympathi2ing
in mastery inactivity with those who had
been betrayed into open treason and rebel
lion.


If Northern Democrats had respected
popular sentiment and had been guided by
motives Of patriotism instead of party sell
llshness, there would have been peace in
stead of rebellion, and fraternity in the
place of sectional hate. And what is more
instead Of being Union of disiointcd links
that are held together by mere form ol
force we should now exist as n united
prosperous, and happy country, at peace at
home and with the rest of mankind. Al
our chief ills are chargeable to the account
Of the Democratic party, and yet it has tho
elrontery to ask the people to give il more


power and wider field Of mischief for ii
future operations.
Year: 1879

The Democrats have eyaded all debate in
the House on the Southern election out
RACES very successfully thus far. But the
day is near at hand when they will be
brought up to the consideration of this
question with n vigorous determination on
the part of the Republicans not to permit
them to cquiyocate or evade responsibility.
The consideration, which cannot long be de-
laycd, of the appropriation for the support
Of the Department Of Justice will provoke
debate which will end in square, fair
parliamentary battle, if the skulkers do not
run away from it.
Year: 1879

The Legislature of Florida will soon
meet, and among its first duties will be to
elect successor to Senator CONOvER,
whose term expires next March There is
a Democratic majority on joint ballot
therein of twenty-five, which assures tile
election of Democrat, although Senator
CoNovER will it is understood, receive the
entire Republican vote and a few from
Democratic members besides. This much
he is entitled to by way of compliment for
his conservative course in the Senate dur
ing the past year, and it is remarked that if
the Democracy of Florida were possessed OF
an atom of gratitude they might do much
more.
Year: 1879

The Louisville CoWiG-Jomnals sinks itself
to n very low plane of journalism when it
publishes the following as i'm extract from
these columns since the paper came under
its present control


There can be no doubt hut that the great
majority Of the party which will administer
the Government for the coming four years
is convinced that whatever reasons have here.
tclore existed for sustaining these govern
meuts, they exist no longer, and that the peo-
pie of those States should hereafter hc accorded
the privilege OF untrammelcd self government
The progress Of reunion among the people has
been confossediy retarded by these creatures
of contention. aud the prevailing sentiment is
that they shall stand in the way of reconcila.
ton no longer. But there is no thought of
violence in the suggestion. On the contrary,
the feeling is that peace should be maintained
between the cOntending parties, leaving the
stronger to win by its hold upon the people.
Nor will there be in this any abandonment Of
party friends by the Administration, which is
not demanded by every interest of the coun-
try and by the spirit OF the laws; for certainly
no one Will contend that any possible good can
result from further eXasperating the Southern
people by forcing them to submit TO these gov
ernmcnts, or that it is constitutionally within
the Federal power to uphold "A State govern
mont against the will of its people,


This paragraph may have appeared in the
columns of The NATIONAL REPUBLICAN in
1877 as is stated, and that fact would chal-
lenge no comment from us now in that con-
neClion but for the following direct intima-
tion that it is from the pen Of its present
editor: ave hope the venerable CLAPP
"will examine the sentiments he put forth
"as his own in 1S77.' 1t is very dishonest
in the COly3cr-JOdTHm to resort to this petty
trick TO place the present conduct of THE
REPUBLICAN before the country in an in
consistent attitude. The above paragraph
may have appeared in The REPUBLICAN
in the early spring or summer Of 1877, when
it was warming itself on the sunny side of
the White House-a performance that has
not been attempted by il since October /,
1877. At that date it passed under the
control of its present management, when il
was put in line with Republican principles
and policy, and has steadily pursued the
course then adopted without variation OF
shadow of turning. We no more inherited
the peculiar policy and customs of our pre-.
decessors than we did their pecunary re.
spOnsibiiities, and the attempt on the part
of the COUrier-JOurRm TO leave the above
waif at our door is an act too contemplate
for an ordinary tramp.
Year: 1879

GREENBACK contestants for the seats to
which Republicans hold certificates in the
next Congress are becoming more numerous
and at the same time burden upon the
Democratic exchequer. These contests can
not be made without some cash in hand.
Year: 1879

THE perpetuiiy Of popular form of gov
ernment for a long period depends more
upo. the purity Of the balot-bOx than upon
the strength of its army. The army can
crush rebellion and conserve the national
power for season, but it cannot purify the
ballot-boX and protect the right of suffrage.
That duty is with the people, and the dan
ger is greater than that produced by an
"amY with bannelsn
Year: 1879

The friends of General BANNING, who is
no longer the Bounding BANNING, since
TON YOUNG "bounced' him, are claiming
the credit in his behalf Of the authorship


in the main, Of the bill to reorganiac the
army, sometimes known as the BURNSIDE
army bill, Before long, if the bill contin-
ues to grow in unpopularity, Mr. BURNSIDE
will organize himself into mutual dis
gust society and adopt unanimous vote of
thanks to those eager admirers of the
bounced Buckeye for having robbed him in
this regard. But this wouldn't be his first
fortunate experience in u similar line.
There was his bin to introduce humility,
Year: 1879

THERE must be Il very small number of
modest, unambitiOus, and satisfied men in
the Senate if the remark of the Nicksburg
Commercial is true that all the Presidential
aspirants in that body refused to serve on
the TELLER committee. Bat it is certainly
true that none Of them improved theirpr
poets by so refusing,
Year: 1879

THE colorcd people in every Southern
State should organize, not for aggression,
but for the defense of their rights and their
lives. Unpunished bull-dozing and assss-
sination have gone far enough to justify n
pooling of issues OH the part of the remnant
Of 100000 of people, who are trodden down
and oppressed by the heel of Democracy.
Year: 1879

THERE was no excitement when business
opened at the Suh-Treasury yesterday
morning There is volume of sober argu-
ment in this simple statement 1t shows
with what care and wise prccaution the
Government successfully provided for the
transition from the instability of paper cur
rcncy to the substantial status OF specie re-
sumption.
Year: 1879

WHEN Confederate soldiers deck with flow.
crs tho graves of the Union dead no great
harm will come of hosting n battlc.tlag in
honor Of former commanders recovery
Iug,istd Chronicle


The Confederate flag is an emblem of
treason and rebellion, and it has no more
right to be displayed above ground than
open treason and rebellion themselves.
This country is not large enough for more
than one national flag at the same time,
and if the Lost Cause is extinct, its flag
should be buried out of sight
Year: 1879

Nm THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE SEC


OSD judicial District of the State of Nevada in and
for the County of Ormsbv.-James Gettys, plaintiff
Mary Jane Gettys defendant Action brought in the Dis
trc Court of the Second Judicial District of the
Nevada in and for the County of Ormsby and the
plant filed in said County Of Ormsby, in the Office of the
Clerk of said District Cour-The State of Nevada sends
greeting to Mary Jane Getys defendant: You hereby
required to appear action brought against you by the
named plaintiff in the District Court OF the Second
judicial District of the State of Nevada in and for the
County of Ormsby, and to answer the complaint filed
therein IA copy Of which accompanies this summOns)
within ten days exclusive of the day of service)
served within this county; if served of
this county but in this District. within twenty days
otherwise within forty daysor judgment by default will
be taken against The said action is brought obtain


decree Of divorce dissolvng the bonds of marmony
sting between plaintiff and yourself the grounds Of
year D. 1874 and in the early part of the year A. D.
1873, in the Territory (now State) of Colorado with
two certain persons. named in complaint, at various
and diverse times and places and various and diverse
times and places down this date with various other
persons; that to the times and places of said
various acts of adult ery that plaintiff is uniformed he
being said time in the State Nevada and upon fur
with plaintiff former husband living in Colorado by
Of Robert Harris all of which ia more fully set forth in
plaintiffs complaint And you hereby notified that
fail appear and the said complaint above
required the said plaintiff will apply to the Court for the
re ef demanded in his complaint


Given under my hand the Seal of the District Court
of the Secon Judicial District of the sta Of Nevada in
and for the County of Ormsby this fifth day of June, in
the year Of Lord, thousand eight hundred and
seventy y-nine.


TsxHAl j. H. MARSHALL, Clerk.


T. COFFIN Attorney II Plaintiff je6
Year: 1879

New York, Aug. 15.-The San
publishes from two sources an ac-
count of the meeting between ex-
Governor Sprague and his wife at
Narragansett Pier yesterday, the
substance of which is as follows
"Mr. Sprague met his wife here to-


day and had a stormy interview
with her, in which he charged her
with having been unfaithful to her
vows with some one whom he refused
to name. There is no mistake at
all about this as it was in the pres~
sence of witnesses. The Governor
took charge of his children and


said they should never again be in
costody of such woman. All
sort OF Rumors prevail here, but
they must be taken with allowance.
It is true their interview was
most unpleasant one, he
is said to have accused
Mrs. Sprague of poisoning the
minds of his children against him,
and alternating the affections of his
boy Willie through the influence of
the German tutor Linck. Mrs.
Sprague, in turn, accused her hus-
band of general brutality when
under the influence of liquor and
of circulating base and unfounded
stories against her character. She


said on more than one occasion she


had been in the peril of her life


from him, referring distinctly to one


occasion, when he had pointed a
Year: 1879

I'll make it up to her, all the same Never
Chidleigh. You know what the good
Book says about entertaining angels una
wares 3''


Poor aunt The look on her face was
too ludicrous. In spite of our relationship
| laughed till my sides ached. But Bere-
nice went to her room and cried herself to
sleep.


Well there is little more to tell. 1t real
ly was our uncle from China, who had
chosen to come to u.s. wearing the guise of
a beggar and if only my aunt had been
consistent in her charity, her long cher
ished expectations might have been real
ized


AS it was, the great China fortune went
to me and Kitty and Jack and Berenice
never got penny. And, moreover when
Horace Everleigh did speak Che had
spoken that evening before our uncle de-
clared himself), it was me he asked to be
his wife.


Bereniee takes it all bitterly to heart
and my aunt is inconsolable but I, believ-
ing that in this life and in the life which is
to come we get only our just deserts have
nothing to say.


Eyes, remarks my uncle, maggie and
Kitty and Jack shall inherit all | have
They were kind to me when they did not
know who I was that's the sort of peop.e
believe in. n."-Peterson's
Year: 1879

Opposite another GREAT REDUCTION
Other houses cannot buy Boots and
determined to sell them during
department! The


Shoes the variety in Southern California;
daily mark them in plain figures to sell
down!
Year: 1879

As we have been frequently asked to define the law covering the issue of pat ents, we condense the following from the Revised Statutes of the United States, which will fully inform our readers upon that question as we'll as upon some others which are of interest,"
Year: 1879




Need Of Employment.


In communication to US the Paten-
tees and Proprietors of the Centennial
Cake and Baking Pan ask US to refer them
to a party who would make them good
agent to sell the above named pan to the
people of our own and adjoining coun
ties, and as the beet means of bringing
the matter to the notice Of parties in tins
vicinity who are In want of business
that is light and easy to perform, and one
that there certainly is considerable money
to be made at, we insert this notice.


The following IS a description of the
pan: 1t is made of Russia Iron, and will
bake cake, a beautiful brown, much
nicer and more evenly than it can be
baked in the old fashioned tin cake pan,
and being provided with detachable rim, =,
you can, by simply raising hook. re-
move the rim of the pan from the sides
of the cake without breaking or injur-
ing it in the least, thus leaving the cake
on the bottom of the pan, very conven-
lent for icing or frosling, the bottom of
the pan being raised prevents the cake
from being burnt on the bottom; the
tube in the center can be removed by in
Serting~ common case knife in the slot
In the top and turning it half round when
1t will drop out; there is also a slide on
the bottom by which you can close the
hole after removing the tube, making q
PLAIN bottom pan for baking fruit cake,
bread, biscuits, etc, thus practically CIV
ing you two pans for the price Of one.
With all these advantages over all other
pans, an agent has no trouble at all in
selling from ten to twenty-five Of them
per day. One sgent has sold over one
thousand of these pans iu one county,
and reports that he has not gone over one.
half of it yet, and we wouli advise any
one out of employment to write at once.
to L. E. Brown & Co., l25 and 1877 Cen.
tral Avenue, Cincinnati, Ohio, mention.
Ing that they read this notice In our paper,
and they will send you descriptive cir
cular ana terms to agents and full par
ticulars as to territory, etc. ct
Year: 1879

Tux HABIT or gREADINa.-H and
Society discusses the advantage of read>
ing, and wonders why so few read sensible
books. "I have no time to read" is the
common complaint, and especially OF wo
men, whose occupations are such as to
prevent continuous book perusal. They
seem TO think, because they cannot de-
vote as much attention to books rs they
are compelled TO devote TO their advoca
tions, that they cannot read anything.
But this is a great mistake. II isn't the
books we finish at a sitting which always
do us the most good. Those we devour
in the odd moments, halfa dozen pages ut
a time, often gives us more satisfaction,
and are more thoroughly digested than
those we make "A particular effort to read /.
The men who have made their mark in
the world have generally been the men
who have ia boyhood formed the habit Of
reading at every available moment,
whether for five minutes or five hours. 1t
is the habit of reading rather than the
time at olr command that helps us on the
road TO learning. Many Of the most cul
t;vated persons, whose names have been
famous as students, have given only two
or three hours a day 10 their books. II
we make use Of spare minutes in the
nidst of our work, and read little, If
but . page or paragraph, we shall find
our brains quickened and our toll tighten
ed by just so much increased satisfaction
as the book gives us. Nothing helps
along the monotonous daily round SO
much as fresh and striking thoughts, TO
be considered while our hands are busy.
A new idea from new volume is like oil
which reduces the friction OF the macbin-
cry of life. What we remember from
brief glinpses into books often serves as
a stimulus to action, and becomes one OF
the most precious deposits in the treasury
of our recollection. All knowledge is
made up Of small parts, which would seem
insignificant in themselves. out which
taken together, are valuable weapons for
the mind and substantial armor for the
soul. "Read anything continuously"
says DR.. johnson, land you will be learn
ed"
Year: 1879

A GENTLEMAN who had been dining
out the night before went into bar
ber's shop one morning 20 be shaved.
He saw that the barber had been taxi
ing more than was good for him, for
his hand shook very much, and, natur-
ally Indignant, he began to give him a
little moral advice by saving; bad
thing, drink = Yes, said the barber,
1T makes the skin awful tender
Year: 1879

the by which they obtained success In snc
ercise Of their art The volume will be welcomed in is
present FORM both storehouse Of valuable instrne
ton. and curious specimen Of literary workmanship