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Year: 1879

HOW THE SECOND VETO MESSAGE IS RECEIVED.


The republicans in Congress are of course
elated over yesterdays veto message, declare
that 1t Is an able state paper, and more than
that, the act certainly demonstrates that the
President Is In complete accord with the party
were not much surprised. While some of them
declare that the message is insolent and dlsin-
genious, the abler minds In the afty frankly
meaning OF the bill he has vetoed In q fallactous
light, that the message is as strong document
In defence OF what they say Is the the Presidents
made, and is formulated In strong argumenta-
tive way. 1t is impossible to predict what


The NEXT MOVE OF THE DEMOCRATS


Wl be- for the good tia
know. The Bourbon elements OF the party
say that the democrats must now either back
squarely out or sail in. BY this is meant that
without the political riders, or that Congress
must adjourn and let both bills fail. The trou-
BILE with the latter plan is that the party cannot
OF attempting 1t is that it would probably fail
and then the party would be placed in a bad
light before the country. Another plan which
sand men, abolish the Office of general and
keep the forces to the front and lop OF all whose
headquarters have been In cities and who are
known as citizen soldiers.


THE PLAN MOST SERIOUSLY CONTEMPLATED
Lnough Is TO go ahead and pass the legislative
bill with the political riders attached In the
Senate; Then wait for the veto, which is
assuredly expected. Next pass the political
riders in separare bills, and IL they are vetoed
pass the legislative bill without them, with the
proviso In all the items for the Department of
Justice, that not one dollar is to be used for the
pay ment OF SUI Lervisors or deputy marshals. If
the President signs the bill In this shape, which
is an open question, the army bill will then be
passed with restrictions in the items providing
np.nane f9r the transportation Of the troops. The
seek to accomplish in this roundabout way that
which they have failed to get in g direct way
that the President will again veto the bill
on the ground that it aims to restrict his DOW
eIs under the Constitution as commander-in-
ch1ef OF the army. Should he do this there Will
De three horns to the democratic dilemma:
aSa Back out and pass the pending bill; pass res
o!ut1on extending the disputed bill on the basis
1a1l. There are some who favor passing the
legislative bill and to let the army bill fall. It
is expected that joint caucus will be held to-
morrow to consider the matter


Ldfer:-1t has been decided not to hold eau
Gus until after the joint caucus committees Of
both houses have had conference and make
some recommendations.
Year: 1879

Yazoo City Herald: If Gen.
West is disposed to test the strength
of his greenback platform, let him
resign his seat in the State senate
which the democracy of Marshall
gave him aud go before the people
for re election on the idea just allud-
ed to. What democracy hath given,
democracy can take away, aud
blessed be the nime of democracy
Year: 1879

into the summer park determined to be.


stow this trinket upon somebody before


the day is over, but having no idea when


he sets out as to who the fortunate re-
cipient shall be. In Russia Easter en-
gagements are said to bring money;
those at Ascension health; those at
Trinity numerous progeny, and those
at Whitsuntide peace in the domestic
circle; wherefore cautious folks who
hold by superstitions have an inclination
for these last Pail Mall Gazette.
Year: 1879

Miss SUSAN KING is Maine woman
who has amassed fortune of half mill
ion of dollars by the sale of tripe in the
city of Boston. That was her founda
tion stone to fortune; investing the
money derived from this in real estate in
New York, she has gradually but surely
built up q large business. She was q
poor girl and made this by her own clear
brain and individual exertion.
Year: 1879

A GREAT work was recently perform
cd in one day in changing to the stand
ard grade the 700 miles of the Iron Noun
tain railroad. Three thousand men did
1t and the manner in which it seems to
have been planned was perfect.
Year: 1879

The National Board of Health are taking
steps to enforce rigid quarantine at the
mouth of the Mississippi river, and to pre-.
vent, if possible, the introduction of yellow
fever in New Orleans. A large building is
to be erected below New Orleans, and q
number of officers are to be appointed
whose duty itshall be to make q critical in.
spection of every vessel bound ny the river
for New Orleans. and to detain such as come
from any country where yellow fever exists.
Year: 1879

THERE are said to be five or ten mil
lion spiritualists In this country. Their
principal occupation seems to consist
in gathering. in communications from
the other shore. Since this intercourse
seems uncertain and difficu we don't
see why the Postmaster General has
not eYinced a deeper iuterest in the
matter and established little post
routes
Year: 1879

IT is not brutality to convicts that is
so much to be deplored, but brutality
to the people who must witness it for
ever and become accustomed to the in:
cidents of the horrible degradation of
these convicts. 1t were infinitely
wiser to thrash the scoundrels out of
Texas and h@ve done with them. 1t
costs infinitely less in money aud NOR
ais and dGcsncv.
Year: 1879

A FELLOW advertised that ne wruld
leap from the foot bridge below Mag
ara Falls. A great multitude went T.
witness the idiotic show, but the
"leper' was too drunk to appear, and
the vulgar mob were as furious as thai
which at Houston was denied the ex
quisite pleasure of seeing two knAves
Year: 1879

In 1866 | had worn farm that needed |
renovation, and not being able to procure
manure enough by ordinary farming, |
bought leached ashes. They cost, delivered |
two and half miles from home, twenty |
five cents per bushel. l applied them at
the time of seeding, at the rate OF one num-
dred and fifty bushels to the acre, IN con-
nection with other manure, the whole being |
well narrowed in. This practice was con-
tinued for ten years, having used in that
time seventeen thousand bushels. My soil
was hard gravel, and in some cases hard
clay loan. The ashes produced both me-
chanical and chemical effect on the soil.
They made the soil finer, and in my opinion
set at liberty latent plant-food by breaking
down the minerals in the soil it was dark
er in color after the application. The
effect was to largely increase the hay crop.
AS this course was begun before the high
price of hay in 1901, it proved very prof.
table. Hay then sold at thirty dollars per
ton at the barn, twenty tons being taken
from seven acres in the latter year at
single cutting. When the crop showed
signs of failure we ploughed and seeded
with ashes and manure as before, but with
hardly as good results as at first. 1t took
more ashes for the second than for the
first application to produce the same amount
of hay. This is the general verdict OF those
who have used them extensively. The
ashes induces the growth of red clover,
which continued from year to year. We
cut our fields twice in a season, often getting
more at the second time than at the first
cutting Our fields came to be known far
and near for their productveness. We
had continued this course so long that a
change was thought desirable. We have
taken bone, using half a ton to the acre
with manure, with satisfactory results. 1t
is much easier to apply, having sown about
ten tons the present year. Some OF the
large farmers in Salisbury, Mass, Ia few
miles from here) who formerly used large
quantities of ashes, have for years given up
their use and substituted bone in place,
with the very best success. An Irishman
who had worked for one of them bought an
old run-out farm in town miles away, and
surprised the natives considerably by buy
ing number of tons of bone-dust. They
predicted that it would never pay and that
they would look long time at fifty dollars
before paying it for a ton of bone. After
several years trial l find on making in
qury that it has proved q successful anC
paying experiment.-Lettsr to GermantO,0,
telegraph.
Year: 1879

TURNIPs FOR Cows.-Mr. Nathan Hart, at
a recent agricultural meeting in Connecti
cut, in advocating the use of turnips for
feeding 'milch COWS, said: A few winters
since was feeding common turnips, and
when the supply was exhausted l had the
curiosity to estimate the value of turnips
per bushel for feeding purposes from the
returns that 1 actually received from the
milk. We were then getting 6 cents per
quart for our milk. The diminished flow
of milk resulting from its cessation shows
that turnips were worth 25 cents bushel
to feed to cows. Irefer to the common fiat
or field turnip. But as to their saving hay
l do not think they do. | think they act
as an Alternative, and their use will cause the
cow TO more perfectly digest her food. 1t
seems to be adapted to the wants of the
COW, and produces a good digestion. feed
just before milking"


Mr.. Hart practiced feeding the turnips
just before milking at night. Immediately
thereafter, the last feed for the day is
given. He could not find that they in.
duced any bad ordor in the milk, but
thought it important to begin feeding them
gradually and to slowly increase the amount
to the full feed, and also important to feed
just before milking.-N. Y. Evsning Post.
Year: 1879

Many years ago, at Carne farmhouse,
where relatives of mine We're then living,
the household cat was observed to enter a
bedroom in course Of being spring cleaned.
Tho looking-g glass being on the floor the
eat, on entering, was confronted with its
own reflection. and naturally concluded
that he saw before him a real intruder on
his domain. Hostile demonstrations were
the result, followed by a rush to the mir
ror, and then meeting an obstacle to his
vengeance. fruitless cut round to the
rear. This manTuvre was more than
once repeated with, of course. equal lack
of success. Finally, the cat was seen to
deliberately walk up to the looking-gla
keeping its eyes on the image, and then.
when near epough to the edge, to feel care
fully with one paw behind, for the sup
posed intruder, while with its head twisted
round to the front it assured itself of the
persistence of the reflection. The result
of this experiment fully satisfied the cat
that he had been the victim of delusion,
and never after would he condescend to
notice mere reflections. though the trap
was more than once laid for him.--Noture.
Year: 1879

One of the best points about our North


American forests is that a careless, person


may ramble In them for month and come
to NO harm from poisonous vines or shrubs.
Saving few species Of nettles, which are
not SO virulent as the European species,
and an occasional poisonous Rhus, the flies
and musquitos have no competitors. It is
different in the autipodean forests. Not
only has the traveller to be constantly ON
the alert for about q hundred different
kinds Of poisonous snakes, but there are
trees and shrubs whose poison is virulent
enough to make the vspors from the IA
nous upas tree harmless in comparison.
There is ONE growing in Queensland
which actually kills men and horses if o
part Of their body is stung by it. The GU
rious thing is that the sting leaves no
mark, but the pain is maddening, and
comes on again and again in every change
OF temperature, such as the body expert
ences when in bed. Horses become 80
frantic when stung that they have to be
shot, and dogs gnaw off the affected parts
If they can be reached. The shrub is not
named botanicaliy. It grows from three
inches to fifteen feet. In the old ones the
stem Is whitish and red berries usually
grow on the top. Il emits peculiarly dis
agreeable smell, but is best known By the
leaf, which is nearly round, having point
on the top, and is jagged around the edge,
like the nettle. All the leaves are large
some larger than saucer. 1t usually
grows among palm trees.
Year: 1879

How Is iri-Aro you kind to your
mother who guarded you in health,
and comforted you wheniIl7 Whohung
over your little bed when fretfal and
put the cooling drink TO your parchsd
hpsf Who taught you how to pray
and gently helped you learn to read 7
Who has borne with your faults and
been kind and patient with your child
ish ways2 Who loves you still, and
contrives and works and prays for
you every day you live7 II is your
mother, your own dear mother. Now,
let me ask you, arc you kind to your
motberf
Year: 1879

Correct formation OF habits is the
best education. Training of self TO
correct habits is Of the most impor-
tance. Some may think that grammar
or arithmetic will do him the most
good. Not so. Our knowledge is OF
value to us only as it helps us to form
habits.
Year: 1879

Crack one third OF the kernels and
put them in the jar with the peaches,
which should bc pared, stoned and
sliced. Heat in pot of boiling water
stirring occasionally until the iruit is
well broken. Strain, and to every pint
Of peach juice add the juice Of lemon.
Measure again, and to every pint Of
peach juice add a pound Of sugar.
Heat the sugar very hot, and add
when the juice has boiled twenty min.
utes. Let il come to a boil and take
instantly from the fire. This is very
fine for Jelly cake.
Year: 1879

spec al Dispatch TO tho hrOn &C.
NASHVILLE, Oct. %, 1879.


The Repudiationjsts met in this
city this morning. DR.. Sloan, of
McMinn county, was made chair
man. This was done, it is to be
presumed, as a special honor to
East Tennessee, as he is the only
man from all that section of the
State in the Convention. Savage
and the other leaders did not use
their whip quite effectively enough
at the first and the proceedings
were very inharmonious. The at
tendence is very snail, there not
being over one hundred delegates
pres ent.


The whole Of the afternoon was
taken up by a bitter discussion OF
the character of the platform which
should be adopted. Finally State
Senator Wilson offered resolutions
in lieu which were adopted, and
which are in effect notice to the
Democratic State Committee that
they shall organize in their interest
or the Repudlationi8ts will bolt, and
nominate candidates of their own.
Year: 1879

The fact that the MUrmons were al
the bottom of the recent Indian out
break is another strong argument why
they should GO. 1t is charged tia.
every Mormon is compelled to take q
solemn oath to do every hing he or
she can to the detrment of the United
States and this is another one.
Year: 1879

Fifteen thousand Menopites, who now reside
in Russia, are preparing to emigrate to
the United States this year. Some years
ago large number of Menonites emigrated
from Germany to Russia because they enter
tain conscientious scruples against war and
fighting, and in consequence of Russia guar
anteeing them protection and exemption from
military duty, which guarantee Russia has
Withdrawn. The Menonites are German Pro-
testant Baptists, and are an Industrious, sober
and excellent people. An exodus of Is, 900
Of such people from Russia will be great
loss to the latter country, while they will be
a corresponding benefit to the United States,
which they intend to make their future home


They are all practical agriculturalists, and
with the means they can command they will
be able to found new State in the Great
West, and people it in q very few years. What
q sad spectacle this item of news presents to
the minds of rejecting people? Fifteen thou
sand people compelled to leave their homes


and seek new ones in a strange land to escape
the exactions of military despots, who to gra-
tify their mad ambition would feed those peo-
pie to the cannon's mouth without remorse, and
all this in the name of Christianity and the
cause of religion in the nineteenth century.
Alas poor human nature.
Year: 1879

The L. S. steamer Richmond which left the New
York Navy Yard Saturday to join the Asiatic squad
roa has her cabins and stateroom elegantly furnished
for the comfort Of General Grant and son. the latter
travelling aide. New and elaborate carpets and
furniture have been added the cabin aud wardroom
and the interior fittings give paatiAl appearance
The Admiral's cabin has been fitted up in a sump-
tuous for the express odation of Gen.
Grant and suite. The officers selected for this
special cruise. ..-..r


We find the foregoing in the San Jose
Weekly Mercury of January l6, and if the
Richmond left New York Oh the previous Sat
urday that would be the llth. From this it
seems that if Gen Grant intends making any
thing like protracted stay in the East. he
will not and cannot be along this way till
some time next summer. We have seen so
many contradictory accounts of Gen Grants
movements in connection with the q. S. steamer
Richmond, that we can hardly arrive at any
definite conclus ion as to any of them. The
extract from the Mercury seems to be more
definite than any other statement we have
seen, and we presume is more reliable, and
therefore we publish it.
Year: 1879

Next week we will give a corrected state
ment of the census returns of the Hawaiian
Islands for 1878, prepared by the Secretary of
the Board of Education, from which something
like accurate information can be drawn by
those curious enough to investigate the tables.
An accurate census is matter of great i'm
portance, and should be taken and compiled
with the utmost care by persons competent to
do so. In country like this, where the most
efficient persons cannot always be had to col
lect the details necessary to make truthful
statement of the population, condition and re-
sources of the Kingdom; we can well imagine
the trouble and labor of compiling the facts
imperfectly gathered by those officers charged
with the duty of correcting and tabulating
the details. Happily for this Kingdom,
however, it has gentleman as Secretary of
the Board of Education, who is not only a
painstaking, but competent officer, and who
will see that the materials furnished him will
be put in the best possible shape to afford sat-
isfaction to the public.
Year: 1879

The Constitution tinkers of California have
had great deal of trouble with number of
perplexing questions during the sitting of the


Convention now in session, but with none of all
of those questions have they had more trouble
than with that of taxation. The opinions of
members on the tax question have varied
about as much as the countenances and quail
fcations of the members themselves, and no
one seems to have had sufficient grasp of
thought or knowledge as Statesman to solve
the difficulty. The San Francisco Post has
hit the nail on the head, we think, in recon-
Inending the Ohio system of taxation under
which all property in the State is assessed at
its full value, the membranes thereon being
RENTED on proof By such sy stem of taxa
tion the owners of property only pay tax on
what belong to them, while money lenders
and others pay the taxes on what belongs to
them. The only true theory of taxation for any
country is to make it uniform and just to all
parties. The greatest difficulty and the great
est curse to the people of the United States
on the tax question, is the almost universal
exemption of certain corporations from contri-
buting their proper quota to the public treas
ury. If California has heretofore indulged in
this vice it would be well for the Constitu-
tional Convention to cut it up by the roots,
and commence with new and square deal.
Year: 1879

We learn from our exchanges from the E asst
that the colored people of the Southern States
have become very much dissatisfied with
their condition, and are making arrangements
to migrate to the Western States in large
numbers. Senator Windham and several
other western Senators are interesting them
selves in the business, and are making all
needed arrangements for this exodus of colored
people to populate the Western States. Those
Senators know what they are about, and feel
that if they can once obtain start among the
colored people of the Southern States, that
there will be an immense emigration to the
West which will be of great service to what
ever section they may chose to move to.


Now would be most opportune moment for
the authorities here and the planters to make
a move to secure at least portion of the col
ored people of the South for these Islands. We
have done what We could to induce action here
on this subject, and if our recommendations are to
be unheeded, we venture to predict that with
in the next two years those more interested in
this business than we are Individually, will
have reason to regret the neglect of the best
of opportunities to supply these Islands with
hardy, thrifty, docile and educated race of
agriculturalists, who if brought here would, by
their skilled labor, make the wilderness bios
som as the rose, and at the same time supply
the void that time is making in the population
of the Islands with such alarming swiftness.
We have been told by some persons that the
colored people of the Southern States are
averse to emigrate, and that they could not be
induced to come to these Islands. Such is
not the fact, however. All that is wanted is
for the Board of Immigration and the people
to make the effort, and they will find that the
colored people will flock here by thousands
if they are only encouraged to come. Every
thing is favorable to their coming. The
salubrity of the climate and the nature of
the occupations they would be employed in
here, contri butte to make these Islands the
most desirable locality for the coIored peo-
pie of the South, who are determined to
change their localities because of the sur
roundings in the Southern States. In this
connection it may not be out of place to men,
tion, that the cotton crop of the Southern
States for the year 1878 is the largest ever
raised, SO with rice and all other Southern
productions, thus showing that the colored
people are industrious and ambitious to thrive
like the white man. So it would be on these
Islands, with such people TO do the labor on
the plantations. Neglected opportunities on the
part of nations, just as with individuals, bring
their bitter regrets with them, too often when
too late to apply the corrective. Our people
Year: 1879

AT Constantinople. on the 10th of January
last, definite treaty of peace between Russia
and the Porte was signed; but what the pro-
visions of that treaty are we are as yet uuin-
formed. 1t will be remembered that the trea-
ties of San Stefano and Berlin, were both
signed with the distinct avowal that neither
Of those treaties were intended to interfere in
any manner with the final treaty between the
two countries lately at war. This fact has
caused good deal of misconstruction on part
of many persons who did not watch with sufi-
cient care the strategetic movements of Russia
on the one hand, and Turkey on the other.
Indeed the diplomatic difficulties, consequent
upon the declaration of peace, have been as
perplexing to the representatives of both coun-
tries as any other causes since the breaking
out Of hostilities. 1t will be interesting to
consider the terms of peace between Russia
and Turkey, as fixed by the definite treaty
AIRY, and we will look for the document with
no small degree of anxiety. The Sultan, by
the results of the late war, has been reduced
to mere dependant of European governments
with Russia as a taskmaster that will be hard
to satisfy, and who will be as exacting as cir
cumstances will permit The process of dis
integratiOn of the Turkish power in Europe,
which the late war has inaugurated, will not
be seen in all its force and fullness for some
time to come, but when the whole scheme of
Russian policy with regard to Turkey is de-
veloped, the world will see how far reaching
and astute that policy has heen
Year: 1879

Islands, many of whom would avail themselves
of the privilege, and at the same time swell
the receipts of the company. If the steamship
company make liberal reduction on the fare
between Honolulu and Sydney during the ex-
hibition, we know quite number of persons
who will go from these Islands, who without
such reduction will stay at home.