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Year: 1878

There is at present no single interest ia
all the improved stock that has made great
or progress and achieved a greater financial
benefit to Western farmers than the heavy
horse interest. The Introduction into our
Western States by importation from France
and Scotland of the Percheron-Normana and
Clydesdale horses has been of great benefit
in increasing the market value of Western
horses, and while all other stock has de-
clined, the heavy horses, though rapidly in
creasine in numbers, are in constant demand
at what many are pleased to call fancy
prices. We find the demand still increas-
ing beyond the supply. The demand is
becoming quite general for the imported
and homebred full blood horses for breed
ing. and the best high grades for the same
purpose command prices beyond the reach
of farming or freighting purposes, while
the half-bloods are eagerly bought up for the
city markets for freighting, where they are
giving the very best satisfaction. Active,
powerful, hardy, they are attractive and
useful, and while team of such horses are
desirable on the farm, the tempting prices
paid by the horse buyers beguile them from
the plow and the reaper, where they can do
snch grand work. to the busy streets for the
heavy freighting of manufactures and mer-
chandise.


The small horses have severely felt the
depression of the times, and no longer pay
for raising, while the trotters, alas are but
little better with nothing for training.


The success of the heavy horses makes
Western farming more successful, as al
most every farmer raises one or two sur
plus horses to sell every year, and if they
are OF tie heavy horse fraternity. they COM
mand remuner,tive prices above other
farm stock, and with the present rapid
progress, we hope soon to see more of these
heavy horses ON every farm. The full
bloods have proved to be powerful breeders
and make an excellent cross with our best
common mares, which has been abnndantly
nroyen the last ten years.
Year: 1878

Gen. Miles telegraphs the Lieutenant
General that the Nez Perces who escaped
from him and found refuge in Sitting Bulls
camp are very desrous of surrendering to
the United States authorities. They COM
plain bitterly of the treatment they are re-
ceiving at the hands of the Sioux. Flog-
ging is a punishment that is meted out to
them for the amusement Of their torment
ors. They have been told by Sitting Bull
that all of their tribe who surrendered to
Miles have since been tried and hung.
This cock and bull story they have been ln-
clined to believe half true. They now ask
that one Of their tribe be allowed to meet
them on the border, and if he tells them
that their former comrades are still alive,
they will recross the Canadian line and sur
render to the military.
Year: 1878

It is said of Ethan Allen that lie
once attended church where the
minister made an estimate, the re-
suits of which was that out of the
whole human race, not more than
one in a thousand would be saved.
On the announcement of this result,
Allen took his hat and walked onr.
saying as he went. Gentlemen,
if any of you want my chance you
are welcome to it. 1t is not worth
staying for 20
Year: 1878

A YOUNG LADY recently attempted to com.
init suicide In Richmond because her brother
told her she ought to wash her face and comb
her hair. II everybody was as sensitive as
that young woman there would not be enough
people lett In the world to hang around the
eiection.-IPefersburg Indexr Appeal.
Year: 1878

A MASSACHUSETTS YOUNG MAN asked TO ac-
company young lady home from prayer meet
ing. She declined the honor. ThereupOn he
drew revolver and told her to take her choice
between his company and death. Thereat
she pounced upon the young man, snatched
his revolver away from him, and kept it to re-
member him by.
Year: 1878

scope does for those that come
through the eye. Speaking Of
this great thing the st. Louis
Republican says:


1t increases and exaggerates
sound to such an extent that it
is claimed that the '.lightest
touches of a feathers edge or OF
Il camel's hair brush on the
sounding. board of the telephone
produce a cracking noise of
which the intensity is almost
painful to the ear" 1t is even
said that if a house-fy walks
across the sounding disk of
telephone, the footsteps are dis
tinctly andible in connecting
telephones miles away. The
construction Of this machine Is
very unsatisfactory described in
the papers that speak Of it, but
the following paragraph will
give a faint conception OF the
principles on which 1t depends:


.Two pieces Of charcoal cheat
ed to q white heat, are plunged
into mercury; they are then
placed in a glass tube and press
ed end to end, making part of
an electric circuit; if a telephone
is introduced in the circuit, and
a sound is sent through the two
pieces Of charcoal, it comes out
at the end Of the circuit sensibly
increased in volume. Heat,
light, sound and electricity are
supposed by many physicists to
be interconvertible. The proba-
bilities are that we have here a
conversion Of electricity into
sound"


Edison says the invention Of
Prof. Hughes is nothing but q
"big steal" from the telephone;
but this is evidently as unjust as
it would be to call the magnetic
telegraph a big steal from Frank
lyn's lightning-rod.
Year: 1878

II you are troubled with nervous
ness, are disheartenee-, tired Of life,
fear death or feel out of sorts, as the
saying is, you may safely conclude
that you have the Dyspepsia or
Liver Complaint. The liver is apt
to become torpid at this season OF
the year as poisons arising from
stagnant water or decaying vegeta


ton are more numerous and are
through inhalation taken into the
blood. Unless the liver is strong
and active. and furnishes supply
of fresh and pure blood to drive out
the impurities, the above mentioned
symptoms surely follow, and if not
heeded. end in more terrible dis
eases and death. Whites Prairie
Flower proves itself the Great Liver
Panacea. It's action on the liver is
different from any other medicine
ever compounded. Its cures are
truly wonderful. Try it. Price, 25
and Is cents. m29-3m-d&w
Year: 1878

Kast evening as Mary McGregor was
walking along coming from st. Paul's
Church in front or Prices tannery she
stepped aside in order to allow number
of persons to pass her, and as she did SO,
her foot slipped and she fell to the pave
ment breaking the cap of her left knee.
She was carried to her home on Madison
street above Seventh, and medical aid
summoned.
Year: 1878

An astonishing feature of latter-day
Democracy, in this State at least, is the
deposition on the part of its statesmen
to throttle, cripple and. if possible,
starvc out the Democratic papers.
Prices for public and judicial printing
have been scaled toD such an extent
that no country journal can realize
respectable living at the business. 1t
is only by systematic, clear-headed,
economical way of doing business that
they arc enabled to "fght the wolf
from their DOORS" We stop tor fear
that anger may get the better of u.s.
NfctrkSUiUe Bulletin.


And the press is greatly to blame for
this state of things. They meekly ac-
cept the position of hewers of wood
and drawers of water for the party
sufficient honor for them to enjoy the
high privilege Of "whooping up'' the
sovereigns in the interest Of Jones, or
Brown, or Smith We have served an
apprenticeship at the business for long
Year: 1878

| New Orleans Democrat.I


There can no longer be any doubt of


the sentiment of the people OF the State


in regard to constitutional conven-


ton. But, no matter what determine
! ton may be reached on this subject,


the amendments to the constitution to


be voted On at the next election must


be overwhelmingly defeated. Outside
OF the many infquities of the existing


constitution which they fail to touch


at all, it is questionable If, in single


instance, they afford a full and thorough


remedy for the evils they attempt to


deal with. Certainly those of them


which abolish the existing judiciary
system and erect new one in its
stead, If adopted, will operate a great,
an incalculable injury. The present
administration of justice is bad and in
efficient enough, God knows, but to
make it worse, in fact to absolutely de-
stroy it, for the sake of economy only,
will be found in the end most dam
gerous and even costly experiment to
the people, at least. If these amend
ments are adopted, the result will be
to absolutely destroy the Independence
OF the judiciary, and it will cease any
longer to be a separate and coordinate
branch Of the government, so COM
pletely will it be under the control of
the legislative department. There is
not a single court, from the Supreme
Court down to the justices of the
peace, over which the Legislature is
not given powers that must prove fatal
to the independence of the judiciary.
To begin with the justices of the peace.
everything in relation to their courts
is under the control of the General
Assembly. The General Assembly
also has the power to abolish, change
and create district courts at its will
and to regulate the salaries of their
judges. 1t has the right to create
or not, as 1t chooses, a system of circuit
courts with separate and distinct iur-
isdiction peculiar to itself, and to de-
terlnine the Jurisdiction of the Supreme
Court itself. This virtually DESTROYS a
coordinate branch of the government
and hands it over bodily to the Lepis-
1ature, to be twisted and turned and
altered as venality or partisan zeal may
dictate. What is to become Of the in
dependence and purity OF the judiciary
under such conditions as these These
amendments must be defeated, no mat
ter what becomes OF the rest, The
people of Louisiana will not contide
the protection of their liberties of per
son and the determination of their
rights OF property to such tribunals as
these, that are as shifting and treacher-
GUS as the quicksands. The judiciary
establishment must be strong, stable,
reliable, and built ON a solid founda-
ton OF its own, laid in the constitution
itself. 1t is coordinate branch of the
government, of equal if not superior
dignity to the other two, and its pow
ers and pay must in nowise be depen.
dent upon the sweet will of political
legislatures. Parties which control
legislatures have their day, but law
and justice are eternal and changcless
as the sphynx.
Year: 1878

TARIFF OF ADVERTISING RATES.


Advertisements will be inserted at one
dollar and fifty cents per square Zone inch
Of space or less) for tho first, and seventy
five cents for each subsequent insertion, for
any time under one month. For longer
periods as follows:
Year: 1878

BoB lseERsoLL's confession is credit
able. He says; at doesn't take much
intelligence to vote. think woman
certainly can judge as we'll as man on
some matters in politics. certainly she
can do no worse than many of Us in the
last campaign, who worked hard to
bring the country into its present
muddle.'
Year: 1878

TnE immigration of eolored people
into Kansas continues, in squads of Eve
TO one hundred. They are settling on
government lands in certain western
sections, apart and separate from the
whites, At Solomons valley there is
not a single white man in a colony OF
several thousand.
Year: 1878

THE war cloud in the east thickens
daily England seems to be wrought up
to the necessary pitch. although the
enemy is in full possession of the point
in dispute. Her 6ght would have been
a simple matter had il been made when
Russia approached the Danube, now it
IA doubtful
Year: 1878

THE repeal of the resumption act is
now creating little talk IN Washing
ton The general impression. however
is that the bill will be repealed. but the
repeal will receive the presidential veto
We do not think so Hayes will be a
title chary in future of exercising that
inestimable privilege.
Year: 1878

WHEN the theories taught by the
democratic party, if faithfully applied
fail to relieve the necessities of the peo
pie and get all the good out of the situ-
alton possible. the country will be in q
bad fix. truly.
Year: 1878

THE Legislature of South Carolina has
closed its sessions, and the record OF il.
work will mark one OF the most event.
ful epochs in the history OF not only
that state. but the entire south
Year: 1878

WE ARR glad to learn that a majority
of the executive committee ara in favor
Of holding the democratic convention
early in July, The place where it will
be held will be determined very soon.
Year: 1878

Give US homes furnished with books
rather than furniture. Both if you can
but books at any rate To spend several
days at friends house and hunger for
something to read, while you are tread
ing on costly carpets, and sitting upon
luxurious chairs, and sleeping upon down.
is as ii one were bribing your body for the
sake of cheating your mind.


Books are the windows through
which the soul looks out. A house win
out them is like room without windows.
No man has right to bring up his
children without surrounding them with
books, if he has the means to buy them.
1t is wrong to his family. Children
learn to read by being in the presence of
books. The love- of knowledge comes
with reading, and grows upon it. And
the love OF knowledge in young mind
is almost warrant against the inferior
exctements OF passion and vice.


Let us pity those poor rich men who
live barrenly in great bookless houses.
Let us congratulate the poor that, in our
day, books are so cheap that a man NAV
every year add hundred volumes to his
library for the price his tobacco would
cost him. Among the earliest ambitions
TO be excited in clerks, work men, Journey
men-and, indeed, among all that are
struggling in the race tor life-is that of
owning and constantly adding to library
of good books. A little library growing
larger every year is an honorable part of
young mans history. 1t is a mans duty
TO have books. A library is not luxury,
but one OF the necessities of life.
Year: 1878

the signs were net visible yesterday
morning. He wears a rough looking
blue suit, with a soft hat, and the
checked shirt already mentioned, and
to make long story short, as he walk
ed through the entry after his speech,
IN search of the bathroom, he looked
like smart young Irishman with little
schooling and plenty of intelligence.
aud enough good nature in bis face 10
warrant anybody in asking him for a
cigar light


AS soon as be had made himself pre-
sentable after his long journey he went
to bis mothers house in Brighton,
where he spent the day in rest.
Year: 1878

at the hour Of ten o'clock. A ", OF said day, for
the purpose OF nominating q candidate for Dele
gate 10 Congress. and for the transaction Of such
other business SIS will properly come before IL.


The Committee hss fixed the sppOrti0nment Of
DELEGATES 10 said Convention as follows: One
delegate st large. for every county in the Terri
tory ard one additional delegate for every one
hundred votes and for every majority portion of
one hundred votes cast in each county at the gem
era election in 1876, for the Republican Candi.
date for Delegate 20 Congress. Upon this basis
the various Counties Of the Territory will be en-
titled 20 representation in said Convention fol.
Year: 1878

THE citizens of South Carolina seem
determined to have little government
Of their own independent in the greatest
degree Of the national government.
They should remember that the Estates
rights" doctrine is dead.
Year: 1878

USUALLY 'virtue is its own re-
ward" But the porte is seriously In
clined to believe that letter should be
thrown in. Thus it sends to the czar,
by special ambassador, an autograph
letter from the sultan thanking Alex
ander for his promise to observe the
Berlin treaty-something that he had
obligated himself to do.
Year: 1878

They have a curious custom in Ca
bul in selling a horse. A man want
ing to dispose of one is desirous that
the horse should not be aware Of his
wish to part with him, the fear be-
ing that if the beast knew that his
master wished to get of him that he
would take it to heart and lose flesh
and consequently decrease in value.
From this strange idea the sale of a
horse is carried on in silence, SO that
the animal may not hear. The two
men put their hands under kummur-
bands, and the price in rupees is in
dicated by repeated pressure on the
fingers, but not word is uttered
during the bargain. This fanciful
delusion seems to ascribe considera,
BILE sagacity 20 the horse.
Year: 1878

A man may sneer at a woman all
he will because she can't sharpen a
lead pencil, but she has the smile on
him when he stands holding an un-
occupied suspender button in his
hand, and wonders whether it will
hurt less to pull the needle out Of
his thumb the same way it went in
or push it on through.
Year: 1878

"Mo:her wants you to let her take
your polonaisc pattern, and be so
kind as to fill this cup with yeast, and
is your clock right, and what time is
it, and little meal in this can, and
won't you write down your receipt
for rye mullins, and please do not let
your turkeys roost on our fence any
more, cause dad says he'll shoot
'em."
Year: 1878

Poughkeepse, N. Y, is to have
no more locomotive whistling. A
bell, worked by electricity, is set up
at the depo., and when the trains
come within a mile OF the station it
will ring until they arrive. The
danger signal is thus given, and the
waste of steam is avoided, to say
nothing of the racket. Any engi-
neer who whistles hereafter when in
Ploughkeepsie loses his situation on
the Hudson river road.
Year: 1878

Every man is liable to commit an
error, even to do g"ievous wrong, in
a moment of carelessness or excite
ment; but it is not every man who
has the nobility to frankly acknowl-
edge himself in the wrong.
Year: 1878




Ooe thousand shingles laid four
inches TO the weather will cover one
hundred square feet of surface, and
five pounds of shingle nails will mai
them.


One.fith more siding and flooring
is needed than the number of square
feet of surface TO he covered, because
Of the lap in the siding and matching
Of the floor.


One thousand la,hes viii! cover sew
enty yards o: surface, and eleven
mounds of lath nails will nail them
on.
Eight bushels Of good lime, six.
teen bushels of sand and one bushel
of hair will make enough of mortar
to plaster one hundred square yards.
A cord OF stone, three bushels of
lime and a cubic yard Of sand will
Law one hundred cubic feet of wall.
Five courses of brick will lay one
foot in height on chimney, nine
bricks in a course will make flue
eight inches wide and twenty inches
long, and eight bricks in a course



will make hue eight inches wide
and sixteen inches long.


LEMON PIE--Put three teacups OF
milk in a double saucepan, and when
at the boiling point stir in two'th'rds
of cupful of corn'starch, or flour,
mixed smooth with two thirds OF a
cupful of milk. Stir to prevent
Jumping and when it has thickened
and boiled, pour the mixture slowly
onto the yolks of five eggs beaten
verp light with a cup and a half full
of sugar. Stir constantly until well
mixed, then return TO the saucepan
and cook very little to set the eggs;
cool for FIVE minutes and flavor with
the grated yellow rind, the juice Of
two lemons and pinch Of salt.
Bake two under crusts and fill them
with the mixture. Beat the whites

of five eggs with five ounces of pow
dered sugar aud flavor with some Of
the lemon juice reserved for the pur'
pose. Spread this meringue on the
pies, sift powdered sugar over the
top and put in the oven to color
delicate brown.


PINE APPLE PlE.-Cream together
one cupful Of sugar and half as much
butter; add the yoIks of FIVE eggs
and beat uulil very light, then stir
in a cupful of rich milk, two cupfuls
Of grated pineapple (canned) and
lastly the whites Of three eggs beat
en- to a stiff froth. Bake with an un-
der crust, and cover the top when
done with a meringue made OF the
two remaining whites beaten with
three tablespoonsful of lemon juice.
Sirt powdered sugar over the top and
put in the o5en few minutes to col
or. This is a delicious but very rich
pie. A simpler pineapple pie may
be made by using either the grated
or sliced canned pineapple sauce or
sliced apples, and sweetened to taste
with sugar. Bake with an urder
crust arranged across the top in dia.
mcnd shape.


1t is suggested that the telephone
would be very useful for farmers. A
line running along country roads and
terminating at the nearest village
would save many trips to town, as it
could be employed to call doctor,
to order goods, to engage hands for
extra work, or to send messages to
be telegraphed to a distance. If
farmers furnished the posts a line
could be put up for $40 per mile.


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Year: 1878




"Come, Ellen. All stratagems are fair in
love; and if you don't drop such hint of Cou-
sin Anne's alarms as will frighten Lesbia May
nard into joining us in our sudden flight to
Castle DAILY, I'll be forced to forge q letter
from her precious brother to summon her to
Ireland in q hurry. He'll have to get his head
broken in scrimmage ;----or stay, he shall
fght q duel with Darby ORoone end be shot
through the heart, dead; and the sister, hurry
ing to meet the corpse as it is brought in at
the front door, shall fall down and break her
leg. I'll write neat letter from old DR..
o'Moore conveying the pleasing intelligence,
if you persist In your obBtinacy: for, to leave
the darling at tWenty-four hours notice, just
after telling her she's the jewel of my heart,
and without knowing how she takes the news,
is what Connor Daily is not the boy to do-let
Pelham Daily cay what he will"


"And you would frighten her to death to
prove your affection !"


"Onoe get her safely wiled away with us,
and leave it to me to comfort her, and let her
know. all in good time, that the letter vas Just
o slight misund Outstanding"


"Sne would hate you forever afterwards for
giving her saoh . fright"


mot she, when che understood it was all the
Year: 1878

PoRT DISCOVERY, Dec. 3, 1873.


EDITOR ARGUS:-LaSt Friday evening
we had the qualification of listening to
one of the ablest and most vivid temper
ance lectures it WAS ever our fortune to
hear delivered. The speaker was DR.. j.
W. Watts, of Oregon, who Is gaining for
himself public notoriety rs one of the
abes: and most energetic advocates of the
Temperance Cause on the Pacific coast.
The Doctor handled the subject in a mas
tery style, carrying conviction to the
minds and conscienres of nearly all, II not
all of his audience. We wish him God
speed in the good cause.


Christmas is coming, and we have the
pleasure to announce to the public and
pleasure seekers in particular, that the Ia
dies OF Port Discovery have taken charge
OF The matter, and are making extensive
arrangements for givinga grand ball and
supper on Christmas eve. As all of the
proceeds arc to I've given to the school
fund there will be no pains spared to make
1t success; and, rs the tickets will be
only one dollar each for the gentlemen, 1t
will be within the means of every one.
We shall hope TO see all of our friends
who have an interest In training up and
educating the rising generation do all
they can towards helping us along, for
which wo will ever feel grateful.


First-class music has been furnished,
gratis, for the OCCASION. We will be
able to let you know more OF the partiru.
ars anon.


The President sent us the Thanksgiving
Proclamation, but no one sent the turkey.


Now AND THEN.
Year: 1878

OUR readers, after peruSing this week
communication from Port Discovery. wilt
become aware Of the fact that the folks
over there are preparing to have much
ado and good time generally on Christ
mas. The school fund of that precinct
being in rather depleted condition, they
have determined upon this method of
helping il along.