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Year: 1879

In building chimney. put a quantity
of salt into the mortar with which the in
ner course of brick are to be laid. The
effect will be that there will never be an
accumulation of SCOT in the chimney. The
philosophy is thus stated: the salt in the
portion OF mortar which is exposed, alb
serbs moisture from the atmosphere every
damp day. The SCOT. thus becoming
damp. falls down in the fire place. This
Is an English discovery and is used with
success in Canada.
Year: 1879

1t is said that the Chinese have a meth.
cd of preserving grapes during the entire
year by cutting circular piece out of a
ripe pumpkin or gourd, making an aper-
ture large enough to admit the hand. The
interior is then completely cleaned out,
the ripe grapes are placed inside and the
cover replaced and pressed in firmly. The
pumpkins are then kept in a cool place.
and the grapes will be found to retain
their freshness for very long time.
Year: 1879

In the latter half of the last century, the


Lord Chief Justice of Scotland, who had a


fiac avenue Of trees leading to his country
house. though not growing on ground
which he could call his own. happened to
displease the proprietor, who caused all the
trees to be cut down. The damage was ir-
reparable. but his lor,lship, who was of a
mild and amiable disposition. submitted to
it in silence. Two or three years afterwa,u
it happened that this laird's whole estate
WAS put in jeopardy by the next heir-at-law
producing prior will, which, though it
had long lain dormant, appeared SO plain
and genuine that the laird nearly gave up
his right, and abandoned all hope when he
found it must be decided by the man he
had SO deeply injured. The strict integrity
of the judge was, however, . sufficien.
guarantee that justice wonld be impartially
administered. The Judge, when the cause
came before him. sifted it with indetatiga-
ble industry and zeal for public justice.
when lie discovered that the will was
forgery, and thus, contrary to all expeeta-
tons. the laird gained his cause. He then
Waited on the judge, with shame and con-
fusion, and acknowledged that he would
never have recovered the suit had II not
been for his lorelsAip, as his own counsel
had given it up. "You have nothing to
thank me for" said the Judge, 'sbut my
hiving taken due pains to do you justice.
This was duty owed to myself. and ]
should have been unworthy Of the place /
occupy if suffered any injury done to my
self to influence me in the administration
of justice"
Year: 1879

The race is not to the swift. nor the bat
tie to the strong, nor is it the man with
the largest mouth that gets the most fav-
ors in this world. Yesterday forenoon a
very quiet stranger entered real estate
office on Griswold street and softly asked
il he could use blotting pad moment.
One was handed him and he sat down to Il
table. looking around, and said:


''Ah! thanks, but have you pen and
ink?''


They were furnished him. lie tried the
pen on the pad. shook the ink around and
modestly continued:


''lf you could spare a sheet of paper p


A sheet OF paper was handed him. He
wrote brief letter, and folded it up, and
whispered:


81 shall have to beg an envelope from
you"


An envelope was passed over, and when
he had directed it he looked all over the
table, under the table, up at the ceiling,
and inquired:


you couldn't lend me a stamp, could
you?"


A three-center was handed out, and
when it had been licked on, the stranger
arose and started out. saying:


"As you have no office-boy. suppose
shall have to take this letter to the office
myself"
Year: 1879

It is the Unchecked prairie boy OF the


West. who would rather plow the prairie
than the sea, would rather watch the wav-
ing grain than the oceans biTlow, would
rather work fcr living among the break
ing plows than among the breakers Of
some st rm-beaten coast. God bless the
noble western boy. 1t is to him We must
look for strength and hope in the great
struggle OF hsssfaR fife in the years -
come. 1t is to him upon whom will rest
the greatest responsibility OF a successful
preservation OF the boon Of liberty, and
we have no fear but what he will be equal
to the task. Our greatest and best men
have sprung from the agricultural districts.
and as an agricultural life seems to be the
best f;tted for the earlier years, a purer
school for mental development than any
other occupation.
Year: 1879

In the case OF Hathaway vs.. the st. Paul
Fire 4 Marine Insurance Company, Judge
krekel gave lengthy instructions to the
jury. in which one or two points are
touched upon that have never before been
adjudicatetl. 1t will be remembered that
the suit was upon two policies Of insur-
ance On certain personal effects of mum.
Der OF army officers. shipped in May, 1879,
from Leavenworth, on the steamer Cam
cron, government boat carrying supplies
for the troops in Montana. The pilots OF
the boat were not licensed for the Missouri
river. the government not requiring such
license on its own boats. but making H.
cense obligatory on all other pilots. The
boat was sunk by a snag. and the compa.
ny refused to pay the insurance, because
the pilot was not licensed,


After stating the facts of the case the
judge instructed the jury that the United
States is not a common carrier, that pilots
in the employ of the government are not
required to take out a license that the de-
fendant contracted with full knowledge of
the fact that that vessel was in the govern
ment employ that the inefficiency of the
pilot is no defense. On the point that the
government is liable to the officers of the
army in this case. the judge says the gov
ernnh.nt can not be sued, and the company
can not protect itself from payment on
this ground. On the question as to the
amount OF damages and the manner of
ascertaining the same. the judge said: The
provisions of the policy in this regard are
as follows: In case of total loss the ad-
justuncnt of the same shall be upon the
valuation specified in the policy. if any !;
but in the absence Of a valuation, then up
on the invoice price without reference to
the market value of the article insured
In case Of partial loss or damage,
reference must be had to the market value
of the article insured to tx the per centum
OF damage, which shall be the difference
between the cash market value and the ar
ticle in its damaged state, which per cent
um OF loss or damage must be applied to
the value fixed in this policy, and in the
absence of such valuation. then upon the
invoice price to determine the sum tor
which the company is liable.


Under ths instructions, the jury gave a
verdict for the plaintiffs, assessing the
damage in favor of General Miles and his
officers in the following DrODOrtiOnS.
Year: 1879

fLADY's REvENGE.-The people OF Rouen are
taking about an amusing case OF attempted
murder, which is to be tried by the trfbunai In
a few days. AT the end OF last summer Young
Yarried lady OF good Norman society, while at
1ne seaside, was insulted by young man whose
10 her husband, but determined TO take her
revenge herself. Being a good swimmer. She
waited one morning till the young man took his
such q duck1ng that he was within an ace OF
drowning. The young man has now brought a
cnarge OF attempt to murder against the lady,
got what he deserved
Year: 1879

FATAL FIGHT AMONG TRAMPS.-A general
fight took place on Saturday night at one of the
police stations in Philadelphia amongst about
twenty tramps who were staying over night for
was stabbed in the lungs, from the effect of
which he died yesterday. The entire party is
held In custody, but they will give no informa-
ton with regard to the affair, and the victim
before his death also refused to make any dis
closures, owing, perhaps, to the fact that his
brother was participant in the row.
Year: 1879

THE BANNING BIIL.-The House, at half-paSt
two O'Clock this afternoon, in committee OF the
whole, adopted a bill for the reorganization of
the army, offered by Gen. Banning, as an
amendment to the army appropriation bill A
separate vote Will be demanded in the House.
and 1t is quite questionable whether it will be
adopted on an aye and nay vote.
Year: 1879

Deacon Wilder, I want you to tell me
how you kept yourself and family 80 well
the past season, when all the rest of US
have been sick so much, and have had the
doctors running to US so long"


Bro. Taylor, the answer is very easy.
| used Hop Bitters in time and kept my
family well aud saved large doctor bills.
Three dollars worth of it kept US all well
and able to work all the time, and will
warrant it has cost you and most OF the
Deighbors one to two hundred dolIas apiece
to keep sick the same time. l guess you'll
take my medicine hereafter See other
column.
Year: 1879

The Ice Beginning to Move at St. Louis.


ST. LOUIS, Jan 2S.-Considerable more
Ice tioated down from the gorge above the
bridge this afternoon, and at one time the
whole mass from bank to bank, aud nearly
a mile in length, moved. and indications
were that it would break up, but it lodged
against the bridge piers and now remaius
there. Tugs have been butting at it since,
but have made but little headway in break
ing it, Up the gorge and below Arsenal
Island, it remains solid and is not likely to
move immediately. Two barges belonging
to the Storm, laden with salt for this city,
sunk Sunday night about thirty miles be q
low here. The number of steamers, bar
ges, wharfboats, tugs and other river crafts
IN this harbor and along the river front is
probably between forty aud fifty, but none
of them are of any great value


About O'Clock tonight the ice above
the bridge started again, and come down
in great masses. Striking the bridge piers,
it was broken in pieces and float
ed through the harbor without
doing any damage so far as known
AS no rise has occurred here it is supposed
the Missouri river ice is still solid. A rise
of six feet is con ing down that river from
the Gasconade, and it is only question OF
day or two at tarthest as to the opening
of the lower END Of that stream.
Year: 1879

WASHINGTON, Jan. 28.-At the cabinet
meeting to-day there was an extended
legal discussion with reference to the con-
struction to be placed upon a certain por-
tion OF the pension arrearsges bill. 1t is a
matter Of great Importance as to when the
payment Of arrearages begins, whether at
the date ofthe discharge of the pensioner
from government service, or at the period
at which the disability commenced After
considerable debate on this topic the mat
ter was left for the opinion OF the Attorney
General
Year: 1879

Science never conferred a greater boon
on man than POND's EXTRACT. Those
acquainted with its remarkable soothing
and healing power, are never without it,
for the reason they regard it as essential
to their health and comfort. 1t has done
much good, 1t is constantly doing good
steadily working lis way into prominence.
The grandest curative agent discovered
No family should be without it. 1t can be
applied to the most delicate organism OF
adult or child without the least danger OF
injury. Beware of imitation. All drug
gists keep POND's EXTRACT.
Year: 1879

Of the thousands who die annually of
consumption, how many there are who
could be saved by timely care. The very
best remedy is SLOAN LACTo PHOSPHATE
OF LIME, IRON & CoD LIVER on.


1t is so delicately favored that even an
infant will take it willingly.


The Philadelphia hospitals use it with
great sucanNS Get a bottle OF it. nWI
Year: 1879

Washington Post.


The sudden burst Of speed on the
homestretch, which saved the race to
the Maine Radicals, is not likely to be
permitted in Ohio. is the policy Of
the Buckeye Democracy 10 exhaust the
wind Of their opponents before the last
quarter is reached.
Year: 1879

The waynesburg, Pa, College build
ing corner stone was laid yesterday with
great ceremony. The Governor OF the
State and several other gentlemen OF
equal prominence had promised to b
present,
Year: 1879

You meet in this world with false
mirth AZ often as with false gravity; the
erinning hypocrits is not more uneom.
mon character than the groaning one.
As much light discourse comes from a
heavy heart as from hollow one. and
from Q full mind as from an empty head.
Year: 1879

We send copies of this issue of THE
PATRON to all the working Oranges, and
TO several hundred dormant Oranges, in
Tennessee. We respectfully request each
Master or Secretary receiving a copy TO
induce as many members to subscribe as
possible. AS THE PATRON is the only
strictly Grange journal in the Southwest,
we belive that it is to the interest of Pa
irons and farmers to subscribe for it and
give it wide circulation, that its influence
and efficiency as an advocate of their
cause may be enlarged and increased. 1t
is our purpose to make it of special value
and interest to members of the Order in
Tennessee, and we hope to receive club
of five, ten or more from every Grange,
active or dormant, in the State.
Year: 1879

We will in a few weeks present the
portraits and biographical sketches of the
members of the Executive Committee of
the Tennessee State Grange. These por-
traits will be arranged in a group, and we
think the Patrons of Tennessee will be
pleased with the appearance of the active,
earnest men who are at the head of their
organization. Thus it will be seen that Pa
trons and farmers of Tennessee will find
The PATRON specially attractive and in
teresting to them; They should subscribe
in time for the aboYe number.
Year: 1879

We are quite sure the members OF the
Order in Tennessee will appreciate the
compliment we pay them in presenting in
this issue of THE PATRON the splendidly
executed portrait of their well-tried and
popular leader, Worthy Overseer Han


cher. Our grand organization has no
more earnest or patriotic advocate of its
cause than the veteran Granger" of East
Tennessee, and his handsome portrait,
which indicates heart ''overf1owing with
the milk of human kindness" should
have place in every Grange hall and
home in Tennessee. ~.
Year: 1879

3a Worthy Master Put Darden, of the


State Grange is making splendid can
vass in Central Mississippi. Wherever
he goes large crowds assemble, and his
speeches create a profound impression.
AT no time since the organization of the


Grange have the farmers in the counties


that he has sited eyinced a deeper in


terest in the cause, and the Oranges are
already beginning to feel the good effect
of his stirring appeals to the farmers to
rally to the support of their organization.
III. Worthy Master Darden is an able and


eloquent speaker, and we hope he will be


able to visit all parts of the State during
Year: 1879

There are many well meaning farmers
who have lost interest in the Grange and
think its power has passed away, because
it makes less noise than it did when the
politicians, lawyers and merchants crowd
ed in. But there is no good reason for
this loss of interest, and for any lack
OF confidence in the capacity of
the Grange as a reformatory organ
izatlon. The Order is really more efficient
at this time in most of the States than it
ever was. The men at it's head are ear
nest, working men, who are thorough
going Patrons, and who believe strongly
in the principles of the Ordea. And of
equal importance, the work to be accom-
plished is more clearly defined and more
practical, and the ways and means to give
form and force to measures better under
stood and more at command. The far
mers knew that they We're shamefully
robbed and oppressed under the old
business system, and earnestly sought
relief through the Grange, but their eff
forts at first were worse than failures. The
agency system and the joint-stock stores
proved inadequate to the ends so earnestly
desired and expected, and their failure
naturally dampened the hopes and spirits
of the farmers at large. 1t was not until
the Rochdale cooperative system, as rec
commended by the National Grange, be-
gan to be adopted and successfully prac
ticed, and which opened the way of es
cape from the tyranny and ruinous exac-
tions of the merchants system, that the
more intelligent members felt that they
were getting on solid ground, and that the
Grange could be made the practical re-
formatoly organization demanded by the
wants and interests of the farmers of the
country.


Let the doubling farmers, those whose
faith in the capacity of the Grange to take
care of itself after the politicians, lawyers
and merchants left it, give close attention
to the work now going on and to the
character of the men at the head of the
Order, and they must be convinced that
the Grange is a fixed institution in this
country, and that its power andinfiuence
in business, industrial and political affairs
will steadily increase. There is now no
excuse but ignorance for any farmer to
hold back from the Grange. EaJ s<oE
| 4 81.
Year: 1879

The cotton seed question is exciting
considerable attention from farmers and
Patrons in this and other States. The
folly of selling their cotton seed to the
oil companies at one-ffth of its value is so
apparent, that it is only necessary to pro-
pose cooperative movement to hold
back the seed TO secure general action.
Every Grange in the Cotton States should
give close and continued attention to this
important question. sf.....l
Year: 1879

The glass ball shooting match Of the Long Branch
Gun Club which to come off at Marion, n. j. yes
terday, did not take place. Only member put in
appearance the others being absent either the
delay in crossing the ferries from the intense cold
Several members of the Jersey city Gun Club, by
whom the grounds owned, in attendance
and had made suitable preparations but the grounds
were abandoned at two oclock.
Year: 1879

As l passed the Custom house, 1
had a good opportunity of viewing
it-but not loDg--as the car took
me on. However, | will say it is a
grand structure when finished.


Passed on to the river to look at
the steamers. The John Brans.
ford and other fine boats were at
the wharf, but l did not venture on
deck.


Going up Front street / met a
man who was intoxicated. He said
the "lost was fouad, and the dead
was alive'-that he was the individ-
ual in person. We said we were
glad to hear it, and bade him good
bye. telling him to be careful not to
get lost in the future.


There is some talk of establishing
new daily paper here, but by
whom or its politics, l do not know.


Wishing you success in the publ
cation of your valuable paper, / re-
memain yours respectfully. *x*
Year: 1879

Everybody can do so if they will.
In order to give all chance to take
The YOUNGSTOWN GAZETTE, we an.
nounce that we will take in payment
Wheat and Flour, Corn and Meal


Bacon and Lard, Butter, Eggs and
Chickens, Wood and Lightwood, or
any other kind of country produce.
Those who are taking the paper and
have not paid up can settle in the
same way. Those who will not pay
in any way will please notify US.
Our terms are cash in advance and
we want the money or its equivalent.
Year: 1879

When a boy is born in North Ger
many the father calls him TO his side
and says: my son. dere len dree
professions in dish country, Won Of
vich you moost chose. You moost
be Won cheese maker, you meost have
Won peer shalloon, or you moost
fIddle."
Year: 1879

LONDON, May 23.-The Times in an
editorial article says: 1.-THE adoption
of the California constitution is sur.
prise to the world. 1t is the most
astounding instrument ever framed
for the government Of a community
If all the nations reformers who put
forth their panaceas for regeneration
Of the human race during the Paris
commune were embodied in single
document they would not appear
wilder, more absurd, more menacint
than many of the provisions of the
constitution which now regulates the
existence of dwellers in California
Everybody is to be punished and re-
stricted in some way, Those persons
only are excepted who have nothing
to lose. The constitution, as whole.
Is such an extraordinary instrument
that the people of California might
well be stupi6ed when they learned
that Kearney had carried his point
We do not fancy that his exultation
will last long. The mischief which
has been wrought may produce reac-
tion, and an effort may be made to
revisea constitution which must pro-
duce widespread ruin"
Year: 1879

WASHINGTON, May 23.-SubScrip-
tiOns to the four per cent. refunding
certificates since yesterdays report
amount to 81, 1893, ,72O. 1t has become
apparent that the remainder of the
certificates unsold will not last more
than six days. Applications for Uni
ted States depository designation here
after received will be declined by the
department. H..a


The general tone of the correspond
Snce to the department of agriculture
is hopeful of a revival of industry, and
the surplus of unemployed labor is
growing less. Good labor can general
ly find employment at fair prices
Many are idle because they will not
accept the reduced wages offered.
Year: 1879

The acquittal of Judge Robert l..
Caruthers by the session of the Cum
berland Presbyterian Church at Leb-
anon gives great satisfaction to his
friends throughout the State and
wherever he is known. This was
remarkable trial, growing out of inside
church and village affairs not easily
understood at distance. There
seems to have been much bitterness in
it, SO much 50 that Lebanon seemed
TO be too small place for both the
accuser, Rev. Mr.. Darnell, and
the accused. Public sympathy
was naturally with the latter
Every one knowing Judge Caruthers
as one who had grown old in honors
aud in the esteem Of the bar and the
peoI oIHle Of Tennessee, naturally asked,
what crime can he have committed
that would justify such a prosecution? {?
And who is his accuser? A good
many people have heard of Mr.. Oar.
nell for the first and perhaps the last
time in connection with this unfortu-
nate trial, and it cannot be said
that he has gained anything by
the notoriety. The charges were
not of criminal nature it is true, but
the censure of high church court
would have been a severe blow to one
of Judge Caruthers' standing and past
life. TO him it would have sent a
keener pang than the verdict Of a civil
tribunal. Fair-minded people every
where will rejoice to know that his
character is unassailable, and that he
has come out of this ordeal unscathed.
Mr. Darnell has not been raised in
public estimation abroad by this affair.
We should think that he could find
elsewhere than in Lebanon field OF
usefulness that would suit him and
the people better.