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Year: 1879

SIHlNG WORh-ABOUT THAT RIDE
MIR. STUCK TELLS HOW IT Was HIN.
SELF:


[From the Mantoryillc Exprcss1
A few observations made while on
a visit to Mobiles county looking after
farming interests in that part of the
moral vineyard, during the latter part
of last week, may be of interest to some
of our readers. Preparations are being
made in that and adjoining counties,
for sowing all lands that are broken to
wheat or flax, except u small reserve
for corn, and vegetables, including
beans, of which many acres will BE- cul-
tivated. Work preparatory to seeding
had commenced in earn st before the
last cold wave, but little seed had been
sown. More snow fell in that region on
last Friday than has fallen there alto.
gether during the entire winter, there
not having been sleighing for Il slngld(
day before the last snow.


A large quantity of new breaking
was done in Mobiles county last season,
especially was this the case around
RusI,mo:e, the first station west of
WOrthngtOn on the Sioux Falls branch
Of the Sioux City & st. Paul railroad.
Parties from New York have purcIas-
ed Il large quantity of land near that
| station, and are making extensive i'm
provements on it. Many settlers took
up their abode in that county seven
years ago, and the pluck with which
| they have chung to their homes amid the
discouragements and privations of from
tier life, is certainly praise worthy. and
should that region be favored with good
crops in tile future, the patience Of
these hardy pioneers will bear its fruit
i'll the rapid progress of that part of the
State.


One thing we noticed, that some of
the breaking out there is terribly rough,
and this is the way We found it out.
Having little business with two bach
elor brothers, who for a number Of
years have kept house for themselves,
and done little farming and trapping
near a muskrat lake, we were kindly
invited by them to take pleasure ride
in i lumber wagon. Having accepted
and taken a seat on the bottom of the
wagon, using the rear gate for a lean
back, and the bachelor brothers having
stepped into their sllanty after ,eir
coats, the dogs began to come home
barking which frightened the team
causing it to take to piece Of breaking
near by. Our efforts to get to the front
end OF the wagon. and the manner In
which we were thrown up and down
and from side to side during run Of
about forty rods over breaking which,
for the most part was set up on the
edge and frozen. was more fun for the
bachelors than for the occupant of the
wagon, who did. finally, get hold of the
''strin3 Is" and drove back in triumph.


Great numbers are passing through,
that part of the State for homes in
Murray, Rock and Pipestone counties
and Dakota. An average Of more thar,
one hundred stop at the hotels in Wor
thineton daily.
Year: 1879

Mr.. Alley Informs us that lie pur-
chased barrel few days ago which
had been filled with syrup made from
the Amber cane by a resident of Sew
ard township. In the bottom of the
barrel lie found quantity of granulot-
ed sugar. When the question of gran
utation is once settled, the whole ques-
tion of making the Amber cane sue
cess Is settled. That it will in time be-
come one of the important industries
of the State, we have no doubt,
Year: 1879

Man with all his enlowmcnts, Is in many
things most foolish, he will give all that he hath
for his !le but Is reckless and Indifferent to his
health. He will grapple a thief who steals his
purse, yet will daily with a cough and cold and
finally go into consumption, when such SIRE
remedy as Eilerts Extract Of Tar and Wild
Cherry can lie easily obtained. II performs rap
Id cures. g,inS friends at every trial, and is in
valuable in bronchial and lung diseases. It is =
safeguard for all. from the babe to venerable age
and health will he restored hy It's timely use
No family that has used it, will be without il.
Sold by druggists.


Uncle Sans Nerve and Bone Liniment il 3
healing balm for every wound on man or beast.
Sold by all Druggists.
Year: 1879

Flandreau narrowly escaped most
disastrous confagration on last Satur-
day. A spark believed to have come
from burning chimney, ignited the
straw close to Druye's sod stable and
quickly spread to the latter. A strong
wind was blowing at the time, and it
was only by the vigorous and united eff.
forts of the crowd that quickly gather
ca. that the fire was prevented from do
ing further damage.-Flandreau En-
terprise.


The attention of our citizens and our
Fire Warden is called to the above, If
Worthington is not burned, 1t will not
be for lack of straw and hay to ignite.
Year: 1879

TO FURE7GN NU71SCF7BERH


Subscribers to the ADVANCE living
outside Of Mobiles county will please
remember that when we notify them
Of the expiration of their subscription
and they do not respond, we take it for
granted that they do not want the
paper longer, and our rule is to strike
their names off.
Year: 1879

II. W. Sanborn has gone to Fort
Dodge to follow his business of marble
cutting until the financial screw loosens
up little. His family will remain on
the farm. Hope Sanborn will do we'll
and get back in time to see big crop
growing.
Year: 1879

The morning papers contain tele-
grams signed Cabell, the head of the
quarantine cabal at Washington, in
the treasury Of which is cool half
million in cash, and Cabell wishes our
Governor Marks to call meeting of
the State legislature to provide for the
exigency. In the interval he prom
ises to advocate such action as will
suffice for the present crisis. The
governor seems to take it quietly, and
says he will await the return of DR..
Plunkett, now in attendance on the
sanitary council of the Mississippi
valley at Cairo, where John Rouch
has his headquarters. By this it
would seem that Governor Marks does
not regard the exigency as immedi-
ately urgent, and at the same time he
doubtless wishes little explanation
from the dispatch manufacturers. 1t
is evident that in their anxiety to in
huence an opening of the National
quarantine cash receptacle, some beg
ging kilograms have gone over the
wires
Year: 1879

The value Of silver has enhanced
within the last few days, influenced
by the expressed willingness of the
German empire to join with the
United States in efforts to make silver
a legal tender medium in conjunction
with gold in all countries where their
influence may extend. At the same
time stocks of railways passing
through the South have recently ex-
perienced marked decline, owing to
their loss Of trade and poor prospects
to make even running expenses during
the fall months, because of the yellow
fever trouble. Louisville and Nash
vile stock has fallen to SIT, when a
few moths since it stood at 90 and
over, and the securities of several


other roads depending mainly on
freight and passenger business through
the South for their support, exhibit
equal depression. 1t is estimated
that in the provision trade alone, the
yellow fever blockade has caused a
loss of over one and half
millions to the trade Of the
Northwest. The stocks Of roads
not depending on their Southern


connections for profits have been
strong and tending upward for some
time past, while all classes of produc-
tive securities are reported buoyant,
both in Eastern and Western mar
kets. The promise of heavy trade in
the late fall and winter months, pre-
dicated upon the abundant grain har-
vests in the Northwest and the prom
ise of a heavy cotton crop in the
South, has stimulated all classes Of
securities not affected by causes pre-
viously mentioned. The monetary
situation in the leading financial cen
ters Of the country is one of extreme
Year: 1879

Philadelphia LEDGER


No better illustration of the differ
ence between the course of yellow
fever in a Southwestern city and the
same disease in Northern hospital
can be mentioned than that found in
the recent experience at the quaran-
tine hospital at the Lazaretto, nine
miles down the Delaware from
Philadelphia. Here, some two or
three weeks ago, San Domingo brig
arrived with nine men on board,
seven of whom were sick with yellow
fever She had lost several by death
on her voyage. The sick men, one of
whom the temporary captain of the
vessel, was very low indeed, were
placed in the hospital, and now they
are all discharged, cured, There was
not a fatal case.


When it was first publicly an
nounced that we had seven cases of
the fever within a few miles of the
city there were some signs of uneasi-
ness, but see how little cause there
was for any anxiety whatever. Al
though so near populous city, in the
midst Of the torrid heats of the mid
summer, the fever did not spread.
The cases we're perfectly isolated, and
were subjected to skillful, intelligent,
careful medical treatment and nurs-
ing. That is the whole story. We
did not shut our gates in the faces Of
the stricken crew of the vessel, but
took them in, kept them by them
selves, cured them, and sent them
about their business.
Year: 1879

N. Y. Letter to Philadelphia Ledger.l


The Tammany people arc threaten
ing terrible things in the way of a
bolt, in case Governor Robinson is re-
nominated, but the governors friends
say that that is the Tammany way
anterior to the State convention, and
that as soon as Tho nomination is made
they will fall into the traces like
so many little lambs. Mr.. Robinson
has the immense advantage over Tam
many that he controls the State pat
ronage and none of the bad odor Of
the old Tweed ring olinging to bis
skirts. Tammany talks loud and
threatens terribly, it is true, but the
Democrats that are outside of its pale
say that it is no longer the power it
used to be in city and State politics.
One of the weakest spots is its utter
impecuniosity, whereas on the Robin
son-Tilden side thoro would seem to
be no lack of cash for all necessary
purposes,
Year: 1879

1t will be gratifying news to the
hosts of friends of Mr.. Ed Schloss, to
announce that he is in a favorable
condition to-day, the sixth of his
illness, aud that he is in fair way to
recover from a very violent case of
the prevailing yellow scourge. Mr..
Schloss was taken last Saturday even
ing after an active days work among
the sick and distressed Of our
city, a labor to which he
has earnestly devoted his best skill
and energy since the first outbreak
After three days of burning fever, he,
on Tuesday last exhibited great pros
tration; indeed was almost speechless
from the weakening effects of the
malady. On Wednesday the fever
again rose to high altitude, and his
condition was regarded as critical.
Yesterday his temperature went
up to 1912, causing his friends
to feel extremely solicitous re.
garding the result. Last even
ing, however, the fever left him
entirely and to-day his symptoms are
in every sense encouraging. Natur-
ally the strength of the sufferer is
almost exhausted, but with the aid of
stimulants and nourishment which
have been administered since last
night, there is good reason to hope
that he will soon be on his feet
again. Through all of last years great
affliction Mr.. Schloss was an untiring
worker in the relief field. He
braved every danger and night and
day, in sunshine and in storm, he
was to be found constantly on duty
among the distressed, regardless Of
sect or station. He went through it
all unscathed, and received the thanks
Of hundreds for his many good deeds,
and no citizen was more highly ex-
tailed than he. 1t is fondly hoped
that Mr.. Schloss will be spared, and
that speedy recovery will follow the
severe illness with which he now
suffers.
Year: 1879

The subscription price Of the DAILY
PUBLIC LEDGER is IS per annum and
SOC per month fOrlsss than one year. The
WEEKLY LEDGER Is 81 per annum-
postage Free


Persons leaving the city for the summer
can order the DAILY LEDGER at SOC per
month in advance, with the privilege of
changing postofioe.
Year: 1879

parties to just sentence seemed use
less, and thus it drifted along till the
other day, when the trial of the Of
tenders came up. General Harrigan,
of the prosecution, in his speech said
that it would be a very easy matter to
produce evidence enough to convict
the men, but that under the peculiar
circumstances through which the case
had gone, there could not be found a
jury in the county that would send in
a verdict Of guilty. Rather a strange
affair.
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

Speaking of one of the most lmpor- tant public interests of our State, the Little Rock Democrat says:

 It is most encouraging sign Of the times in our State to note the in creased interest in the cause of pub lie schools. The State Superinten- dent is overrun with questions as to the school laws, duties of school officers, inquiries for teachers, etc. In nearly every part of the State the cause of free schools is making a most hopeful progress. The people are wisely coming to the conclusion that public education is public necessity and that the ex, penditure of money to secure it Is the wisest investment that can be made. They are beginning to real ize the fact that it is folly to depend upon the small amount of State aid granted tor school purposes, and are willing to tax themselves to the ut most limit to increase the efficiency of their schools. This is the spirit shown in many portions of the State, and when it becomes universal we shall see new era of progress in Arkansas.-L. R. Democrat.
Year: 1879

Just as we are going to press, in- formation comes by telegram that the yellow fever has broken out in Memphis. Two deaths have occur red, and a general panic existed on the 9th, the board of health advising all who could to remove from the city. Hundreds are leaving by every train. Advices on the llth are not so alarming. Out of five new cases reported on the tenth, three have proved to be other diseases.

 A telegram received this morning (the llth) by the Supreme Dictator from the Grand Dictator of Virginia suggests that an assessment of one dollar each be levied at once upon each member of the Order to assist in removing members and their fam flies from the infected district, and providing for them in their enforced absence. It is not unlikely that some such measure will be adopted if events prove it necessary. Such an assessment now might save two or three for the payment of death losses if the epidemic becomes vio. lent.-Knights of Honor Reporter.
Year: 1879

The railroad interest of the state is: gradually improving. Our pco. pie have long since seen that rail roads are the most direct communi- cations with the world, and to com municatc with the world is the idea of every commercal community.

 We learn that steps are being ta- ken to build narrow guage rail road from Springfield, Mo. to Harri- son, Boone county and thus on dir ectly to Little Rock. We hope this enterprise will be pushed on with vigor and earnestness to an early completion. It will prove an i'm portant road for this city, and no doubt but that it will handsomely repay the parties investing in it.

 The new iron horse enterprises do not stop here. A narrow guage railroad from O'kcan, Randolph county, Q prominent point on the Iron Mountain railroad, is now be- ing built to Gainesville, Greene county, in order to get the magniG- cent timber in that locality. This road will be of great advantage, passing as it will through large strip of fertile country. Arkansas after Q while will be as checked with railroads as Q hickory shirt is with this and that way stripes.-L. R. Gazette,
Year: 1879

The worst thing about the Hayes administration is it's hypocrisy. This is exemplified now even more than it was last year, by the manner in which the political assessment business is carried on. The presi- dent makes semi-official anounce- ment every day or two of his rigid adherence to his civil service reform principles, but the members of the cabinet tip the wink to the republi can congressional campaign com mittee, and then go off on aninspec- tion of something or other for recreation, while the importunate assessors descend upon the poor de partment clerks like the plague of locusts. A correspondent says it IS noticeable that "there is q kind of sub-rosa air about the proceedings of those who have undertaken to collect the voluntary contributions that suggests a consciousness on their part of the questionable ligiti- macy of the work" The collector SimpIy steps up 10 dcsK ana whlS- pers in the confidential ear of the clerk that all the others are subscrib- ing, and hints that he had better do the same if he knows what is good for him. There are few who have the moral courage to refuse, considering it Is an Ohio election that is to be carried. and that the fortunes of the administration can didate for the presidency arc at stake. On the whole the old "stand- and deliver" method of political as sessments is better than this sneak thief process. The Grant peo- pie bulldozed the clerks, but they did not do it in q mean way. The mask worn by the administration had better be thrown off; it does not conceal it's repulsive visage.-Phila- delphia Times.
Year: 1879

It is rather inconsistent for the friends of Secretary Sherman to be asserting in one breath that resump- tion has been triumphantly accom- plished, and in tho next proclaiming that the free coinage of silver will imperil resumption. How can re- sumption be imperled if it is an ac- complished fact? Will not the free coinage of silver supply the treasury with Q still greater amount of coin to redeem the greenbacks when they are presented2 Secretary Sher- man himself admitted last winter that the present silver law, which permits the coinage of two to four million silver dollars a month, had been Q great help to him in resump- tion, because it enabled him to pre- vent a rush on the treasury for gold. It supplies him with a hoard of sil- yer to redeem greenbacks with, and the holders of greenbacks prefer them to silver. But if the coinage of two to four million silver dollars accomplish so much good, would not tree coinage of silver ac- complish a great deal more2

 The talk about peril to resump- ton from silver coinage is nonsense. The great..popularity of the green backs and their greater convenience in handling and transmitting, ma. king them more desirable to the mass of the people than either gold or silver, arc an almost absolute guar anty of the maintainance of resump- tion. As Secretary Sherman remark cd in his speech at Philadelphia last Monday, when people can get coin by demanding it, they do not want itp they are content with greeubacks. Besides we are exporting or selling $260, ,000, 900 more of commodities per annum than we are importing or buying, and while this process con- tinues, it is absurd to talk about resumption being endangered.-St. Louis Republican.
Year: 1879

At Philadelphia, yesterday, Mr. Sherman loaded himself and some friends on board Q revenue cutter, and started to "inspect'' the harbor and Deleware river. After compile ting this "inspection," it is announ- ced, the secretary will sail alone, upon the same vessel, for an sofiiciar' cruise along the eastern coast. That is the way the dis patches state the case; but the fact is that MT. sherman is going to Maine to make political speeches, and chooses to make the journey there at heavy cost to the govern ment, by using revenue cutter for his private convenience, instead of buying a railroad ticket as any other citizen would have to do. The cost of running a government vessel up- on voyage of q week or two on thls business is considerable, and the secretary might just as well-for it would be equally honest--take that much money directly from the treasury and put it In his pocket, as to impose thls needless expense on the the treasury. As the head of the department, Mir. Sherman has authority to order the revenue cut ters to points where they may be needed to assist in the collection of the revenue. They are under his charge for use in the public service and according to law, just as the con- tents of the treasury are intrusted to his guardianship for disburse- ment as the statutes prescribe, and m no other way and for no other purpose. To use 9 revenue cutter as yacht or passenger boat, for the convenience of himself and hls friends, is an act of the same essence as the use of government moneys for his own private purposes. It is time that this misappropriation of public property, which is manifest breach of trust on the part of public officers guilty of it should be stop ped.-Chicago Times.
Year: 1879

Under the inspiring influence of the civil service motto, "Give or get, the ''voluntsry contributions" of the department clerks arc pouring in with spontaniety little short of marvellous.

 There is q dispute as to which of the Grant managers advised and en. duced him to continue in exile until next year It will probably be safe to credit the venerable Borie with this pelce of strategy.

 It is true that tho Foster ticket has more legs than the Ewing and Rice ticket, but in a political race it has often happened that the fewer the legs of the candidates the greater the speed. This may not be ''loyaP thing, but it Is natural and true.
Year: 1879

The Hampstead County Record makes some truthful remarks in the following paragraph-applicablcss to other counties as well as HempsteaG:

 "One of the most palpable draw backs to the people of our section is that they arc not Q reading people. They do not recognize the advanta- ges of keeping themselves posted on the passing events, nor the condition of their county and State affairs. They do not avail themselves of the experience and skill of those who arc trying to elevate and facilitate the farmers work. Every newspaper that is published contains more or less facts which are oi great value to everyone. Yet farmers say we have no time to read. To their children it would be travel and experience. 1t is . spelling book and reader; it is geography and grammar. It teaches school all the year, yet the farmer cannot afford to pay $2.00 tuition. Newspapers arc truly said to be the windows through which we look out at the great and wonderful world which surrounds us and sec the doings and hear the sayings of the teeming millions of whose exist enco we would otherwise know noth- ing. We learn of crimes and casu- alitics, the snarcs and pitfalls which arc daily brought to light by those faithful chroniclcrs, the newspapers. We learn tho value eff our produce, the market price, the safest and best time to dispose of it. Yet out of about fifteen thousand people who live in Hampstead county, but about 500 read the newspapers This is an evidence of short sightcdness in our otherwise intelligent people. We will speak of this hereafter"
Year: 1879

The difference between Republi. cans and Greenbackers is very great, but there is nothing good to the country in the financial policy of either. The one would contract the currency to such m extent as to paralyze all industry; the other would expand to such a degree as to uhsettle all values and destroy all credit. The one would manage the finances in the interest of syndicates and banking institutions the other would make the government great banking institution whose prime object It would be to fill every mans pockets with irredeemable paper currency. The one would starvc the people to death for want of money the other would kill them no less etlectuallysby over doses of money. As a party, the Republicans have a decided tendency toward centralism, while the Greenbackers are next to kin to the communists and anarch- ists. The hope of the country is Tn avoiding the extremes of these par ties; therefore the hope of the coun- try is in the Democratic party l.. K. Democrat,
Year: 1879

The cruel waste of burning up great piles of straw after the wheat is threshed, should be stopped. Nearly every night we see the sky illuminated by the flames from some straw. pile. Good bright wheat straw, put up in good stacks, will keep cattle, sheep and horses in fair condition all winter if properly fed to them. An allowance oi one or two small feeds of corn per day, it is true, will be quite aa aid.