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Year: 1877

them compact, as in the foregoing case;
and when the time comes to spread the
manure take team and sled with NOV
able sideboards and proceed to remove
some of the manure to other places, so
that when it is spread it will be evenly
distributed. It would be but a short
operation to remove part of the ma
nure in that way, and I think the labor
can well be afforded by farmers, rather
than lose 80 large portion of their stable
dung by evaporation, rs the ordinary
method of hauling out manure in the
winter is sure to cause.


Potatoes on Poor Soil.


N. J. L., Brush's Mills, N. Y, writes:
"I have piece of sandy land that has
been under the plow for forty years, and
I have tried to raise potatoes on it, but
never have succeeded in getting over one
hundred bushels per acre, with plenty OF
good stable manure. Now, I want to
know how it will do to use nitrate of
soda, and how much to the hill should
be used; clear, or mixed with some other
fertilizer, and will it pay to use it at
eighteen centp per pound? Would salt
be of any beneft2"


Reply. Nitrate of soda would be of
no use in this case. The value Of this
fertilizer is only four and one-half cents
per pound, and at eighteen cents no one
could afford to use it for any purpose.
What is wanted is doubtless potash.
If one hundred bushels Of wood ashes
per acre could be applied to the land, it
would probably add very much to the
fertility. Salt would be no help to it.
If wood ashes cannot be procured, 300
pounds per acre of muriate of potash,
costing three or four cents pound, would
be very good substitute. Or, perhaps,
$50 pounds of superphosphate of lime
and $50 pounds of muriate of potash
mixed together would be better still.
Potatoes need potash and phosphoric
acid, and not nitrogen, which would
make stalks, but few roots.


Black Teeth In Hogs.


A. s. Plummer, Edinburg, o., sent to
the American farmers club two black
teeth which he had just extracted. The
hogs in his county (Portage) are begin
ming to be troubled with these teeth,
which, if not removed, are certain to
cause death. The symptoms are: First,
the hog refuses it's feed; second, there
comes weakness about the back, and
finally the animal fails to getup and dies.
These teeth are found in each jaw-in
the upper one near or over the tusks, and
in the under jaw some are found between
the front teeth and tusks.


As no one present could give any infor.
nation on the subject, the club desires
farmers who may have any knowledge as
to its causes and cure to communicate
! the same to them.


Soft Eggs.


O. E. F., writes: My chickens lay
eggs with soft shells. What shall I give
them?


Reply.-Give them rest. They are
laying too many eggs, more than they
have material to finish properly. Some
bones burned and powdered should al
ways be given to fowls when laying, but
if the hens are supplied with variety
of food and can get plenty. of gravel and
earth or coal ashes, and are in perfectly
good health, they will not lay soft eggs.
This defect is on Indication that they are
fed too highly and are overta1ed.
Year: 1877

Ten years ago handsome young man
passed through Monticello, Ky, and was
noticed by a young girl sitting at the win
dow of the most aristocratic house in the
town. She fell in love with him at first
sight. She had wealth, culture and
beauty. He was poor, and then on his
way to seek fortune as cattle herder in
Texas. After many ups and downs he
found himself the owner of silver mine
in New Mexico. The girl bloomed into
a rarely beautiful woman, with literary
ability, and became contributor to the
apostolic Times. She learned who the
unconscious object of her fancy was, and
they corresponded throughout the ten
years. She never wrote word of her
personal attractions or family, nor did he
speak of his good fortune. A few weeks
ago he wrote her proposing marriage, and
soon followed his letter to her Kentucky
home, where he saw her for the first
time. Recently they were married, and
Miss Annie Berry, that was, learned on
reaching Silver City that her husband,
R. B. Metcalf, was the greatest capital
list in New Mexico.
Year: 1877

A young man in Dubuque, Iowa, went
on Saturday week to country dance and
did not return to his home until the
church bells were ringing the next morn
ing. His father told him he must 60 to
meeting, and he went. Before the min
lister had finished the opening prayer
the young reveler was sound asleep and
dreaming of the dance. An old lady
who sat next to him touched his hand to
arouse him, whereupon he seized her
wrist and shouted: call join hands
and circle to the left. Swing the girl
with the blue dress on"
Year: 1877

Sowing the seed by the daylight falr,
Sowing the seed by the MONDAY glare,
Sowing the seed by the fading light, >
Sowing the seed in the solemn night


Oh, what shall the harvest be?
scvn in the darkness or sown in the light,
Sown in our weakness or sown in our might.
Gathered in time or eternity,
Sure, ah sure, will the harvest be,


Oh, what shall the harvest be?
Sowing the seed Of lingering pain,
Sowing the seed Of maddened braln'
Sowing the seed of tarnished name,
Sowing the seed Of eternal shame ~


Oh, what shall the harvest be?
Year: 1877

feminine dissatisfaction expressed
in the lines


From agate box the newest modes


Her snuff Miss Bid takes In 3 she'll;


A thousand times to me she's vowed


lis faint, It's lsnguid. has no smell"


Steele inveighed loudly against
the impertinent custom the women
had fallen into; which, whether
performed coquettishly or with a
sedate, masculine air, was in hi9
eyes equally disagreeable.


He describes Mrs. Saunter taking
snuff as often as salt with her meals,
with such wonderful negligence
that an upper lip covered with snuff
and sauce was presented to all who
had the honor of dining with her;
while her pretty niece made up for
not offending the eye to the same
degree by startling the ear with a
nauseous rattle, as she stopped her
nostrils with her fingers. He could
bear with beauties who manipula-
ted the snuff-box for the sake of
displaying a pretty hand; but
thought Flayille went q little too
far in pulling out her box in the
middle of the sermon and offering
it to the men and women sitting
near her ; as well as inviting the
church warden to take a pinch as
she dropped her contribution into
the plate. Sir Richard declares
how truthfully who shall say?-that
a learned lady of his acquaintance,
whom he had vainly tried to talk
out of the evil habit, happened one
day to have a pretty fellow hidden
in her closet when some company
called. She made an excuse to 90
to the closet for something they
we're talking about; her eager gal
liant snatched a kiss, but, being un-
used to snuff, some grains from her
upper lip set him sneezing, much
to the astonishment of the visitors,
who thereby learned that profound
reading and very much intelligence
could not fill up her vacant hours
so much but she was obliged to de.
scend to less intellectual entertain
ment.
Year: 1877

I.-That upon our Annual Carnival visit,
all political strife shall cease and ger tie har-
mony prevail among our subjects


H.-That we will enter and take possession
Of our good city of Memphis. at high noon on
Year: 1877

The sermon preached last Sunday in
which Mr. Beecher abolishes hell is in many
respects a very remarkable one. 1t is, in
fact, q denial of revelation and the promul-
CATION of a new religion, based solely upon
the private taste of its inventor. lie takes
the ground that belief in the doctrine of
the Trinity is OF no sort of consequence. As
far as he is personally concerned, he admits
that he rather believes in the doctrine. since
it is taught in the Scriptures, and it is hence
rather easier to accept it than to reject it.
Still. he calls it downright "heathenism to
require q belief in it as a prerequisite to
church membership. Now, it is clear that
if the Scriptures are revelation from God,
any doctrine taught therein-as Mr.. Beeeher
assumes that the doctrine of the Trinity IS
must be of divine origin. OF tcourse, be docs
not mean to say that when God teachea a
doctrine it is of no consequence whether we
believe it or not Hence he must REJECT the
theory that the Bible is divine revelation,
and that 1t has any supernatural authority
whatever. Having thus abolished the in
spiration of the Scriptures, Mr.. Beecher
greatly simplifes the task OF abolishing hell.
Whether tine existence of hell is or is not
taught in the Scriptures is a matter OF indlt-
ference to the Plymouth preacher. In fact, he
virtually admits that it is so taught. Speak
ing of Adams fall, he remarks: at is said
that Adam sinned, and that in consequence
of that sin the whole human race fell.
Although he does not say where this is said,
but mentions it as though it were current
rumor of unknown origin, he knows that
ait is said" in the Bible. and that no sect
protesting to recognize the inspiration of the
entire Bible dreams Of denying it. Being
thus of Scriptural origin, the doctrine OF the
fall and of the consequent punishment. OF
sinners, is, like the doctrine OF the Trinity,
matter OF no sort of consequence. We can
not be required to believe either in the
Trinity, the fall, or the existence of hell,
since none of them has any better authority
than the collection OF ancient writings COM
monty called the Old and New Testaments.
Ali obstacles being thus cleared out of his
way, Mr.. Beecher rejects the doctrine OF the
existence OF hell with immense enthusiasm.
Ii God created hell, he asserts that he Is "a
monster more hideous than Satan himself
Essentially the same remark has frequently
been made by avowed disbelieye-s in revela-
ton, and it has generally been stigmatized
by pious people as blasphemy. Now that it
is reiterated by a minister in good standing
in the Congregational denomination, 1t, OF
course, loses any possible taint of blasphemy
and must be regarded as an eloquent state
ment of religious truth.
Year: 1877

MAYOR ELY, of New York, has yielded at
last to the combined pressure Of the Tam
many Democracy and the whiskey sellers,
and on Tuesday called Police Commissioners
Erhardt. Wheeler and Nichols, to show
cause why they should not be removed, for
not making the most of the street-cleaning
fund, and for 'caprieious execution of the
laws of the State" in the recent police raids
on the unlicensed saloons. The latter is,
of course, the real crime. Commissioner
Erhardt, in an interview with Times re-
porter, on the subject, showed no signs Of
backing down. He said


There is the law, and while it remains on
the statute book it will be enforced by the
police as far as am concerned The highest
court in the State has declared it constitu-
tional, and while it remains unrepealed its
provisions must be enforced, and they shall
be enforced as long as am Police Commits
sioner. As understand it, it is the duty OF
the police to enforce every law, ana l, there
fore, approve of the action of the police IN
arresting liquor-dealers who do not respect
the law While am in the position now
occupy, will see that the law Is enforced,
no matter what may be the consequences. to
myself or any body else, and in despite of
any political or personal consideration what
ever


The New York Times which has had
libel suit with the commissioners, approves
the Mayer's action but the New York Re-
publicans generally do not agree with 1t
and the Republican Central committee
unanimously adopted resolutions, declaring
that the mayors charges are based, IN part
at least, upon matters as to which he has
himself declared that the commissioners are
not in fault, and denouncing the act OF the
mayor as transparent attempt to secure
partisan police board
Year: 1877

TIE tribute paid to the poet Whittier
through the columns of the Literary World,
in anticipation of his seventieth birthday
(which occurred on Monday last), BY hrs
literary friends and eo-workers in the cause
of liberty, was one of which any man might
have been Justly proud, though probably
few have less pride than the quiet, unpreten-
tious Amesbury poet, who shuns rather than
seeks popularity. From the many poetieal
and prose offerings in honor of one who has
so well and worthily won the honor of a
noble genius, united with blameless life,
we select the following, as expressing the
spirit of an occasion, which will find a re-
sponse in all hearts that love freedom, or feel
the mower of song
Year: 1877

IT was pretty solemn temperance lecture
which nigh, have been read in the light CT
the flames Of the burning eands factory in
New York city. Some fifty souls hurried
into eternity; as many homes darkened
with the shadow of death half a million OF
dollars worth of property destroyed by the
act or omission Of drunken engineer Rum
did II
Year: 1877

Two collecting lawyers. both members OF
fashionable churches, and very prominent in
them, absconded this week, with something
like quarter of million OF money belong
ing to their clients. 1t is the old story
high living and speculation in Wall street
They bad the confidence of everybody, and
they did the business of the best houses in
the city. But they would speculate, and
they did lose, and flight to Europe was the
way they settled it. And speaking OF fiji an
cial troubles,
Year: 1877

Smoking was introduced into England
during the latter part of the 10th century
the early part of the 18th has been called the
golden age" OF tobacco. Smoking became at
once the rage and fashion Poets sang It's
virtues in laudatory strains it figured con
spicuously in the drama of the period (even
in Ben Jonson's cOmedlesl, books were
published entirely devoted to its interest.
and tobacco shops sprang up like mushrooms
IN the great metropolis.


One of the most interesting of the hooks
was called "Braithwaites Smoking Age, IN
which there is an amusing picture OF three
men in an inner apartment of "A tobacco shop.
One sees Just the end of the shop
shelves ON which are pipes, tobacco-jars and
large figure such As are common to this day
before tobacconists, typifying the Genius ot
Tobacco or an Indlan-lke figure. well
provided with tobacco. Through an open
doorway we see three men cled IN the ruff
fies and big hats of the period. sitting before
board supported by barrels. smoking for
dear life on long clay pipes. On the board IS
a supply Of the weed, tobacco box and a
broken pipe.


The quaint men of that olden time went at
their pleasures as men of modern times do at
their business. What they had to do they
Year: 1877

WHEN a child picks flowers in field
and brings US the whole handful, one up
and one down, all see more clearly the
beauty, the harmony in color and form
that is so good to our sight. We arrange
them, and altogether they blend in a
beautiful whole, so that we do not look
at one, but at the whole boquet. This
perception of the harmony of beauty is
an instinct in us, lying ia our eyes and
ears-these bridges between our souls and
the created things, even in the beating OF
the waves of the air made manifest in
sound.
Year: 1877

Both the quality and value of hops are
impaired if leaves and stems are mingled
with them. Pick each hop singly and
separate the clusters. Set apart or re-
ject all discolored, poor and rust-smitten
hops, and wherever this is impossible,
thoroughly mix the whole pile before
baling, to secure uniform quality. Never
pack green and brown hops together, un-
less you want to injure the value of your
goods. Be very careful in drying your
hops. Those too much dried or scorched
loose their rich flavor and aroma, while
those not sufficiently dried will heat
when baled and become worthless. Bale
on rainy day, as the hops are then most
pliable and pack better. Let each bale
be neat and trim; for in hops, as in but
ter, bad packages lower the price Of the
best of goods. Well pressed bales sam
pie better, while in those compressed so
tightly as to exclude air the hops are
quite likely to heat, especially if slack
dried. Mark your name in full plainly
on the narrow side, near the top of each
bale, with stencil plate and turpentine
mixed with lamp-black, and be sure to
put the date of growth on every bale.
Just before shipping, especially to a great
distance, make certain that the goods are
in proper condition to bear transporta-
tion, by examining the center of each
bale with "trier." In prudence, as well
as from honesty, resist the temptation to
mix old hops with those of this years
growth buyers are neither rash nor mex
perienced, and such an attempt at decep-
tion is pretty sure to recoil on the Of
tenders. s.-RuraL Ne,o Yorker.
Year: 1877

YAMs IN FLoRIDA.-A correspondent
says; I'VE plant yam sprouts early in
the spring, say a thousand, and from
them we cut cuttings or vines, and cut
them about eight inches long; have our
ridges made, and dig a trench in the center
OF each one, in order to hold the water,
then drop them about twelve inches apart
and go along with forked stick to push
them in, and then we are done until dig
ging time. Our digging time comes off
In September, and, in fact, we can have
yams at almost any time, as we can plant
at any time. On new pine land yams
will yield from 100 to 800 bushels. They
are selling at 81 per bushel, and never
lower than IS cents, and think it will
pay well to raise them. Horses, cows
and hogs eat them as we'll as corn, and
they are an easy crop raised"
Year: 1877

TOLEDO, June 23.-An attempt was
made. last night, to rob the express car of
train No. 6, bound east over the Air line
division of the Lake Shore & Michigan
Southern R. r., shortly after the train left
Legonier, Ind. The car was entered by
four men who accosted the messenger and
were about to bind him when they we're
suddenly confronted by force of officers
and expressmen, headed by Chief of Police
Purdy, of this city, who had been notified
that the attempt was to be made, and had
concealed himself and men in the cars. A
short but most desperate struggle ensued
resulting in the capture of the entire band.
They were all residents of Noble Co., Ind.


There was a slight frost in this vicinity
last night.
Year: 1877

WASHINGTON, June 23.-The Freed
mems bank commissioners expect to be
able to pay fifty per cent of that institu-
tion's Indebtedness. They have now 10
per cent. ready for distribution, but as
twenty thousand depositors have amounts
under FIVE dollars in the bank the cost
of getting their share to them would be
greater than the amount received.
Year: 1877

To all who are suffering from the errors and in
discretions of youth, nervous weakness, early de
cay, loss of manhood &C, will send recipe that
will cure you, FREE OF CHARGE. This great
remedy was discovered by missionary in South
America Send a self-addressed envelope to the
REV JOSEPH T. INMAN Station D, Bible House
New York City,
Year: 1877

a n Electro-Galvanic Battery, combined with the
~ celebrated Medicated Porous Plaster, forming g
the grandest curative agent in the world Of medi-
cine and utterly surprising oil other Pasters here
tOfore in use. They accomplish more in one week
than the old Plasters in a whole year. They do not
palliate, they CURE.
Year: 1877

Burlington HaaCk- Eye. OF
twenty-three young men who
only last month stepped across
the threshold of life from an
Eastern college, and went forth
upon the trackless ocean of life
TO battle with relentless fate,
and win renown or glorious
death in the arena, eleven are
clerking in auction stores at
fourteen dollars a month, one
is running a fish boat, two are
learning the house painting
trade, one starved to death be-
fore he had been out a week, one
is driving a team on a street
contract, TWO are tramps, and
the others are living with wild
owed mothers, who are their
only support. Fact is, breth-
rem, when old life grapples its
hooks into a mans collar il
shakes all his arena and ocean
and battle business out of him
SO quick that in six weeks, if
he is alive, he knows, more in a
minute about the price of pork
and -four than he can tell you
about a Greek root in six
months.
Year: 1877

A Haywards woman believes
in having everything in readi-
ness. She purchased a coffin
for her sick husband ten days
prior to his death and kept it in
the house. She also had a sty-
lish mourning suit made, in an
ticipation of the event. Most
any man would be willing 10
die if he had such a thoughtful
wife as that. Sacramento Bee.
Year: 1877

In the year 1884 the fall elec


tion in New York had been pre-


ceded by a campaign Of universe


excitement. The great Demo


cratic leader, William L. Marcy


was the candidate of his party fol


Governor. 1t was expected thai


there would be lively times or


the day of election in the city of


New York, and several Hartford


merchants arranged to 60 down


together to see the fun, and al


the same time take advantage of


the trip to purchase goods. They


arrived in the city by boat on the


morning of election and took rooms


at the New York Hotel, which
stood on the present site of A. T.
Stewart & Co.'s down town store
on Chambers street. Among the
number were David Clark and
A. S. Porter. The whole party
visited some of the voting pre-
cincts and saw the "fun," which
included many street fights and
minor rows.


During the afternoon Mr.. Clark
and Mr.. Porter were looking over
newspapers in the reading room
of the hotel, and were seated a.
part. At one end Of the room
was the bar. While Clark was
busily engaged reading his atten.
ton was attracted by loud voices,
among which he recognized Mr..
Porter's, and looking up saw three
young fellows somewhat excitedly
engaged in conversation with Mr..
Porter. He went at once to learn
the cause of the debate, and found
that the strangers were demand.
ing that Mr.. Porter should pay
for a bottle OF wine which they
alleged be had lost on a bet. or
course be had made no bet, and
the fellows were trying to impose
upon bin. Mr.. Clark was then
a spare nan--not as portly as he
is now--but was muscular and
strong and was a dangerous sub
ject in a rough and tumble.
When he heard the spokesman
Of the party of three declare that
unless Porter paid the wine every
bone in his body should be broken,
be stepped up to the fellow and
said, "You try that once, and I'll
take every one of you singly and
throw ycu out of that window
pointing to a window not far up
from the floor. The clustering
young man looked up at the tail
form before him, and seeing two
sledge hammer fists and long arms
ready for business, took the hint
to depart, and his companions
went with him.


Mr.. Clark was considerably in
in the episode, and before
be left New York learned that
the fellow thathe had talked with
was Louis Napoleon, who was
hen leading fast and reckless
lie in the metropolis. When he
saw the man again it was in 1857,
but under different circumstances.
It was in Paris, and the youth
had become Emperor ofthe French,
and Mr.. Clark did not think it
to introduce himself as
she person who twenty odd years
before showed fight in New York.
Year: 1877

A Danbury man describes a
church festival for raising mon
ey as an operation wherein one
half the church buys berries at
fifteen cents quart and sells
them TO the other half for a
dollar.
Year: 1877

A Cincinnati liquor dealer APP
piled, to a customer for a letter
Of recommendation of a certain
brand of whisky he had recent
ly sold him. The customer
wrote: 81 have tried all sorts
of insect poison, and find none
equal to your old cabinet whis-
KY"
Year: 1877

A newspaper at Ashland,
KY, says that An investigation
of the records of the State show
that not a single man or woman
in the whole Commonwealth is
under the present laws legally
married.
Year: 1877

The boys took advantage of the little
snow that fell yesterday. The pavements
on both sides of Market street, from Third
to Second, we're for short time pretty
lively with sleds, but it was promptly put
stop to by our police.


In Philadelphia, the Thirteenth street
cars were stopped yesterday afternoon by
the snow. 1t was showing there all day.
Year: 1877

Yesterday afternoon country team, in
going out Front street, became frightened
and ran away. The wagon struck lamp
post, on From, between Washington and
West Stree IS, and the axle was broken
close to the wheel. Some men succeeded
in catching the horses, thereby preventing
q complete smash up.