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Year: 1879

A GOOD story is told OF one of the
Grand Jurors from Mortified, VT. in
attendance upon the last term of court at
Montpelier. He was afraid he would not
wake in season to take the six o'clock
train to the capital, which he talked over
with his wife on retiring. lie had just
got into sound sleep when his faithful
spous Sc awoke him, suggesting that il
mus: be time to get up. He did ; found
it was only midnight, and retired again.
Soon he was again aroused, and this time,
oily two II. m. Somewhat disgusted and
angered at being so often broken of his
slumbers, he again sought his couch, ad-
monishing his wife thus: "Look here
you keep your elbow out Of my back, and
mouth out of my ear till morning."-
Feeling herself relieved Of any further
responsibility, she went to sleep for good
and left her lord and master to wake
when he chose, which ho did at -four
o'clock. Thinking it would not pay to,
try and get any more sleep, he built a FIRE
put on his hat and overcoat, took his valise
in his hand and sat down before the fire
for few minutes. Meanwhile his wife
slumbered on until seven o'clock, when
she woke to find him gone, whereat she
felt quite badly, saying she intended 10
bave eot him a warm breakfast. Leis-
urely proceeding to dress herself, she
sought the kitchen, whore, to her aston
ishment, she beheld her husband, equip
ped for his journey, satchel in hand, sit
ting bolt upright in his chair before the
stove, fast asleep, with the train gone
over an hour.
Year: 1879

ing the last two days of the week the list was marked
by great irregularity.


So great has been the demand on the Erie Canal
for boats and to navigate them that the wages
of drivers have been nearly doubled.


The latest and most intelligent estimates of the
crop deficiencies in England place the amount of
wheat that must be imported at l2s 900 bushels.
This is about 35 900 bushels in Of an aver
age year, such as 1889.


Glass sleepers for railroads the latest thing in
that line in England. The glass is toughened by
process discovered by Frederick siemens. OF Dres-
den the cost per ton being about the same as that
of east iron, but there three times rs many
sleepers in ton.


In 1873 the advance in pig iron overdone.
and the subsequent movements Of the metal were
thereby rendered even more unsatisfactory than
they would otherwise have been. An evidence Of
the feverish and unwholesome excitement which
portion of the trade is believed to be giving way to
is the fact that many sellers more conservative
than buyers, and deprecate too rapid advance in
prices.


The following is complete list Of the State securi
ties for which bids made at the Board yester-
Year: 1879

SPRING LONGING.


Oh, for the silver bells


Ofthe wild flowers In the dells
That mucys listening ear sweet cariiOns ring out;
While, like gamesOme' boy,


Whom tasks no more annoy
The breeze goes By with JOY, with roundelay and
shout


When the peeping tribes begin


BY the river side their din.
The nights have lost their chill and summer days
are near


Then April II will please


To reclothe the naked trees
Brew nectar for the bees and TO all the world bring
cheer
Year: 1879

There is more money made and
more money saved 10y farmers adopt
ing the cash system in all their deal
ings than is often made from the
profits of one crop. Farmers generally
sell their produce for cash, and they al
ways should do it, and they should
endeavor to raise such crops and stock
as will bring in cash income through
out the different months; then you can
always buy cheaper for the cash, you
will be surprised at the end of the year
to find so great saving.


The credit system has been a great
curse to the West, and if the Grange
can successfully bring about a cash sys-
tenn which they SO ably advocate, that
alone will more than repay the entire
cost of the organization.


With the coming of the New Year
let farmers universally, with one accord
adopt the cash system and practice it.
Never bay what you cannot pay for.
That system is adopted by European
farmers, and is strictly lived up to there,
and they save by it handsome profit
every year. Then, too, every farmer
should keep an account Of all sales and
purchases, to see what pays best and
where the money gOes.-West Agri-
culturist.
Year: 1879

There arrived in Crystal Springs Il


few days since, a number of Swedes,


direct from Sweden, who have been


induced to come here through the in


fluence of Mr.. A. f. Andre, and will


settle on his place about two miles


from here.


They are all robust, hardy looking


Young men, and they seem to be much


pleased with our genial climate at this


season of the year, when, no doubt,


everything in their own country is


bound up in ice and snow. Swedes


are generally very sober and indus


trious people and full of energy, and


we believe they will all do well III


this country. We know several who
came out a few years ago, have
done well. One of them already
owns Il nice little place, and is married
and settled. Also, a gentleman from
Chicago is down here for the purpose
of engaging in the culture of fruits
and early vegetables for the Western
markets. He is also very much pleas
ed with our wonderful climate, and
thinks that there will soon be Il large
immigration from that portion of the
country early in the spring or next
fall. AS soon as the resources of our
climate and soil are properly found
out, we think we will have large
immigration here. A majority of the
immigrants, heretofore, have remain
ed in the cities and sought work there,
rather than go out on the farms to
work. We need good and reliable
labor to settle up our waste places.
There are thousands of acres of good
lands lying idle here, for the want of
good, practical farmers to cultivate
them.


Immigrants have been prevented
from settling here by the terrible re-
ports which have been circulated at
the North for political effect, as to the
unsettled and deplorable condition of
our country. But when immigrants
from the North and from Europe come
here and see for themselves, they are
bound to correct these false statements,
and will form the nucleus for a larger
and better class of sturdy tillers of the
soil, armed with capital and enter
prise-ready to aid in developing our
unbounded resources.


Owing to the oppressed condition OF
ireland, and bad crops throughout the
whole of Europe, there is a larger i'm
migration than usual pouring into the
Northern States, and now is the time
to do something towards turning the
tide to some extent Southward.


Unless we do. something to induce
them here, they will be drawn to the
fields of the West by glowing descrip-
tions of Kansas wheat and corn fields,
while the malarial districts and yellow
fever regions of the South will be used
as arguments to drive them from the
South. {


Our present prosperous condition !
our bountiful crops-our political con- {
peace reigns supreme at {
home and abroad-our almost entire {
freedom from almost all kinds Of in Z
fectious diseases during the present i
year-can all be used as strong and l
potent arguments to convince the {
large influx of immigrants from the G
I'D countries that we have one Of the I
most desirable countries on the face Of C
he globe, and susceptible of the great Y
ast development. Q
Year: 1879

The growing of the cotton trade in st.


Louis the past few years has been some
thing remarkable. In 1866, the receipts of
cotton We're only 10000 bales, and this year
the receipts will amount to about $1,000
bales, judging from the amount received al
ready. The strangest thing in this connec-
tion is the fact that nearly every bale is
shipped away again-to the eastern and En-
glish manufactures, where ii is turned into
cloth and clothing and shipped back here
again to be worn. Why manufactures of
this character are not established in st.
Louis, where labor and fuel are so cheap
and provisions much cheaper than in the
East, is one of the conundrums that should
be solved. 1t looks like very inviting
field for the idle capital in bank vaults
througout the country.


We take the above extract from the
Rural World, published at st. Louis.
We admit it is strange that cotton
factories are not established in st.
Louis but we think it great deal
stranger they are not built up at the
South, where there is not only an
of wood and water, but we
have the raw material at our own
doors. The time will come when fac
tories will be smoking in every little
village.
Year: 1879

A London Journalist of rather ripe
imagination says at recent dinner
given in New York the peaches de-
vOlved an altogether new and unex-
pected feature. They bore the mono
gram of their owner traced distinctly
i'm their velvety bloom. The process
he describes thus: Letters cut from
paper are pasted on the peaches while
growing. When the fruit is ripe, on
removing the paper the letters are
found picked out in the most delicate
green, the rest of the fruit being rosy
hued.-Exchange


This is an old but quite interesting
process for. marking both peaches and
apples. The paper letters are pasted
ON the side Of the green fruit exposed
to the sun, and as the fruit ripens and
cOlors, the shading Of the letters pre-
vents the skin underneath from color
ing, thus leaving the letter marks in
green on the fruit. - Enter-Union
Agrieulturist.
Year: 1879

FREDERIC, July 18th, 1879.


EdHoi% Il hc0lanche@The glorious
Fourth las passed us by with scarcely
any pero eptible change if ] may ex-
cept the scarcity of men. Whether
that is due to loss of sleep resulting
from st, ying up all night to witness
the grand display Of firaworksat Gray
ling. or 20 the effects OF Grayling
'Iiootcienoo. / can NOT say. but IL
must be one or the other as they cer-
tainly al! went TO our future county
seat. The railroad company have fin
ished f ing the sinck hole Just below
here. and trains are now running over
it The have also taken dirt enough
away from Forest to make room for "a
side tracl. Of sufficient length TO hold
40 cars. in addition 10 what there is al
ready luid. Orders have been received
for the laying of said track as soon as
they can do So II is TO be hoped that
we may have new depot built and an
agent established here the coming fall.
These are improvements that have
been much needed here, and The com
pany have suffered considerable incon-
venience from having so short a side
track at this place


c. w Wight is about putting an adj
dition to the rear OF the building put
up last year by Supervisor j. i. Hum,
and | understand intends removing his
store from the hotel, thereby giving
him more room which he will need very
much the coming winter, should much
numbering be carried On here, which
we anticipate will be the case.


Our crops are generally doing well.
Potatoes are growing very rapidly. Let
me here make a suggestion which may
be of use to those raising pototoes, and
in the habit of picking bugs. Take a
tin pan and nail to the outside perpen-
dicularly, "A handle made of strip OF
inch board 2 or inches i'm width, and
9 or feet in length, with the upper
end tapered to a convenient size for a
handle. Nail from the inside of the
pan. Then take a paddle, or club of
the same length to knock the bugs in
to the pan, and you will save many a
backache, beside getting over the vines
much faster. If you will put half a
teacupful or thereabouts, of Kerosene
oil in the bottom of the pan, the bugs
will not give you much trouble in their
cawling out, as they will not long sur
vive such bath, and saves the disa-
ereeable task of killing, by scalding or
otherwise. Try it.


Mr. Lewis has good engine and
boiler on the road, which he expects
to arrive at Forest by Monday, the
18th, We are in hopes then to have a
shingle mill at this place, capable of
doing good business. We understand
that Mr. Lewis takes e timber in toto
off of Mr. Hanson's hanCs, and is to
run the busines entirely upon his own
responsibility Success 10 hiu, ~.
Year: 1879

Jennie June in Baltimore American.l


The revelation made in the affairs
of Mr.. Harry Palmer, the colleague
Of Mr.. jarrett in the management of
Booths theater, and the enterprising
and successful manipulation Of so many
great dramatic and musical enter
prises, has been a great surprise to
that portion of the public which imag-
inc because man has to do with bus
mess in which a great deal Of money
passes through his hands, therefore he
must be rich. Probably there never
was time when so many people who
have the appearance of wealth were. in
reality, poor as now. 1t is not only
the misfortune. it is the ruinous fault
of this country, that every one tries to
manufacture an appearance of being
much better off than he really is.


Ex-Surrogate Robert B. Hutchings
remarked that nothing had surprised
him more in the course of his official
duties than the disclosures which
death made of the baseless founda-
tions upon which regulations for
wealth were built up. Thousands Of
men who live on Fifth and Madison
avenues, while they are here, whose
daughters are sent to expensive
schools, whose sons drive T-carts, and
whose wives figure as patronesses of
charities, are found to be worse than
poor, for they have no honest and re-
spectacle foundation upon which their
children can buid even a livelihood.
They have thrown themselves away
upon "cats and dogs" their resources
are represented by worthless securi-
ties, and their great expectations are
mere air-bubbles. Such men have
the greatest confidence in themselves
and their wisdom. They resent any
Iintimation that they can not control
future events, and never dream of the
necessity for warding off calamity by
reserving provision from the overflow
of the present. The speculative hab-
it and tendency is so strong upon them
that all other considerations are sac
rihced to it; in fact they refuse to
entertain them as possibilities.


Nor can women be charged with


blame in the matter The most pros


porous of to-day, almost the only ones


that are built on solid foundation


are those in which the wife assumes


the interior management. The inter
ests are identical aud the confidence
complete. 1t is not natural for womer


to live on uncertainties they are usu
ally too timid. The majority would
E far rather depend with safety on an in


come ever so small than take the
chances of a great deal or nothing
Few wives of speculative men have
, however, any control over the fnan


cial affairs of the family. The house
hold is run on bills Their maui
ries and expressed wishes for NOR,
! fixed methods are met with rebuffs


they hear a great deal of inflated tall
, about the money made in this, that o,
the other, and as they find it easier tC


make "bill' of Sl00 than to get pos


session of s. in cash, and are compelled


by force of circumstances to preserv,


the same appearance as the people
among whom they live, why, they do it
and they could not do otherwise
Year: 1879

snobbish regard for the social position
of the parties concerned that the
cornerstone of the Herald is laid
in the sewers Of New York, and that
the Tribune is a conduit Of one Of
the most notorious defamers in the
financial world" 1t should be men
toned also that the Tribune printed
supplements in order not to miss a
syllable Of the Beecher scandal. and
that it was the first newspaper in the
United States to give the scandal
concerning Senator Carpenter to the
world.
Year: 1879




New York Herald Interview with Editor
Screwsl


The people are building up solid
prosperity Take Alabama, for in
stance. We do not owe cent of in
terest on our indebtedness. Since we
have had a Democratic State govern
ment all State officials are paid
promptly, and so is every creditor.
We have not scaled cent. We have
only lowered our interest. Our rail-
rd DIS instead Of carrying full freight
ca into the State and carrying moth
ing out of it, now have an equal
amount of return freight. Our prin-
cipal products after cotton, are lum-
ber, coal and iron. In these we are
doing a very large export business
and are shipping great quantities. We
have six iron rolling mills in the
State, and they are working day and
night. Their present orders will keep
them so employed until March. There
are ten cotton mills in the State, all
fully employed. We shall build more
factories and it may be regarded as
certain, not only of Alabama, but Of
the South generally, that in the near
future nearly all the manufactures
that we now buy of the North We
shall make for ourselves. Every day
is bringing us nearer to this. We
need these factories for the employ
ment of those Of our people who arc
physically unfit for field labor. There
is no reason whatever for our no
sending our cotton in the form o
| thread
Year: 1879

Summit Times, August 29l


We learn from reliable parties that
the cotton crop is being seriously in
jured in many sections in this neigh
borhood by rust, rot, shedding, etc.
One farmer informs us that the seed
are sprouting in the boil, on his place.
The corn crop will turn out much
better than had been anticipated, and
in many places it is unusually good.
With hay, which will be fine, an
abundance of oats, and wise system
of fall and winter preparation for
corn by hauling out and depositing
rough manure, in order to plant early
maturing varieties as soon as the
season admits next spring, our farm
ers will be able to work through with
out buying corn. In fact merchants
should let it be known at once, that
they would not furnish corn next year
to any farmer who has the opportu-
nifty thus to provide for the next
season.
Year: 1879

Knoxville Chronlele.l


BY reference to a notice to the
holders of Tennessee bonds in
another column, published by order
of Justice Strong, of the United
States Supreme Court, it will be seen
that upon the motion of the counsel
for Calvin Amory Stevens, Eugene
Kelley, John I. Terry and Peter
Geddes, special master has been
appointed in the city of New York,
with power to take evidence and to
receive and file the claims Of such
bondholders as may wish to become
parties to the suits instituted against
the solvent railroad companies in the
State The object is to consolidate
all the bonds issued for internal i'm
proyement purposes to these roads
and embrace them all in one suit.


If that is done the suit will begin
to assume magnificent proportions.
No one can blame the bondholders,
after the shabby treatment they have
received from the State, for enforcing
their rights by legal process if they
can. But if the bondholders sue.
ceed, the debt of the State remains
the same and must be either paid or
repudiated. If there is any one fool
enough to believe that the successful
termination of such suit against the
railroads will prove any relief to the
State. he will find out his error sooner
or later. There is trouble ahead that
reputation will not avert. The
State has sown the seeds of dishon-
esty, aud will surely reap the harvest.
Year: 1879

VICE PRESIDENT WHEELER. we
learn from an Eastern paper, 1is un-
derstood to be pushing Senatot Pom
eroy as the most available Republican
candidate for governor of NeE York
The Vice Presidents induetce is a
silent one, but it is none the less Wig.
orous because of that" HIyes said
in 1877 that he was going to make
Wheeler something beside figure
head, and it appears that the Vice
President has been detailel for the
work Of political hummer.
Year: 1879

Local Aufeftistt.l


We have visited Mrs. Theobalds s
park, and inspected DR.. Blanton's S
apiary Of 40 colonies of Italian
bees, all handsomely housed beneath
the grand forest trees in Langstrops
hives. Our clever friend has given
much time and thought to bee cul-
ture, and has practically proven that
an apiary in our section on large
scale is not the visionary dream of a
sensationalist. We cannot now tell of
all the interesting and mysterious
sights, but can assure all who are at
all curious that they will be amply re-
paid by an evening visit to the apiary.
The park now, with its magnificent
trees and inviting shade; is more
lovely than ever, while the numerous
hives Of a snowy whiteness suggest
the idea Of so many cottages in a min
iature city. The workshop and store
room of the establishment are models
of neatness and convenience. Here we
examined the honey and wax extract
ors; near by was circular foot-power
saw for making hives; then there was
the bellows smoker for quieting the
little workers, On looking around
we noticed the artificial comb that
assists and guides the bee in making
perfect combs. The shipping cases
are constructed with glass sides, to
expose to view the beautiful coml
honey. Our genial host informed us
that the present season had been SC
far poor one for making honey. owins
to late frosts in April anda cool snap
in May. The harvest to date ha,
been about 1900 pounds of comb anC
| 1900 pounds of extracted honey. The
doctor uses the movable frame hive
with glass section boxes in the uppel
story, so that he can manipulate thC
comb and bees with as much ease a.
the gambler does deck Of squeezers
We were also informed that, except
ing California, there is no country
better adapted to bee culture thar
the alluvial lands of the Yazoo delta
The doctor is thoroughly versed il
beeology, and takes pride and pleasur,
in furnishing valuable information t,
all citizens interested. Thus ended
pleasant visit, and we'll B sure to g,
again.
Year: 1879

SUBSCRIBERS who wish to re-
new will do us "a favor by SEND
ING MONEY before their time
expires, as our mail list Is very
large, and our force to do the
work small. NO USE TO SEND
ORDERS WITHOUT the MONEY.
Year: 1879

The subscription price Of the IAILY
PUBLIC LEDGER is s5 per annup and
SOC per month forlsss than one year The
WEEKLY LEDGER Is 81 per snum-
postage free,


Persons leaving the city for the Ammer
can order the DAILY LEDGER at loo per
month in advance, with the privilege Of
changing pOstofiOe.
Year: 1879

The New York Herall and New
York Tribune are making themselves
ridiculous by the position they have
taken with reference to the Conkliug-
Sprague scandal, The Times reads
them both a severe lesson. 1t says
justly that they will seek eagerly and
print scandals Of a lesser nature; that
their only motives in suppressing
mention of the present affair is a
Year: 1879

Mary Keesueker, one Of The NEST
enthusiastic of the converts at camp
meeting at Urbana, Ohio, fell into a
trance while praying. Her friends
believed that her condition was the
result Of a special blessing, and would
not permit a physician to do anything
for her She lay unconscious several
days, and finally died Of spinal menin-
gifts.
Year: 1879

Richard Croxall, son Of one Of the
prominent manufacturers of Rocking.
ham and yellowware, of East Liver
pool, O., shot himself near the heart
at five o'clock Sunday evening. He
had been out iding most of the day,
and going home retired to bed, where
he committed the act. No cause is as
signed other than that he was tired OF
life and he had been drinking heavily
for some time past. He is about
twenty one years OF age. The physi-
clans says he cannot recover.