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Year: 1879

from the st. Paul (Minn.) Globel


There few doubling Thomases among the
democrats of this vicinity who seem to regard the
loss OF Ohio by the democracy on Tuesday as fatal
to the prospects of that party in the Presidential
contest of next year. Such men have evidently paid
but little attention to the aspect of affairs pre-
sened by the latest elections held the North and
West careful survey of the field shows that the
democrats not liable to defeat would appear
at first glance. but stand more than chance Of
success. In the North the democracy can safely lay
claim to the States of Connecticut. Indiana New
Jersey and New York There may be some who will
dispute the possibility of carrying New York. The
present split i'll the democratic ranks may lose the
State for the democrats at the election next month.
But year hence this dissension will be healed. and
the democracy will present u solid front. With n
united democracy the State certain to cast its eject
oral vote the candidate of the party whoever he
may be.


A look at the complexion of the next electoral
college presents the following as the probable and
almost positive status Of that body after the elocton
of November, 1SSO-
Year: 1879

1Otdl 10


In the above computation we give the republicans
fairly be considered doubtful and granting them
bot Oregon and Wisconsin, it will be that they
cannot, by any method of figuring. command more
than 166 electoral which is nineteen less than
a majority. With a candidate for Vice President
from Illinos-such a man General j. NJ. Palmer.
for instance-that State could easily be carried by
the democrats, and in that event the party could
afford the loss of New York. But as We have said
the existing breach in the party in that State will
doubt be healed long before the Presidential
election and with united democracy tho Empire
State will be democratic to the core.


We afford to allow the republican party to TAX
Ohio and yet win the battle in 1880. There margin
enough to work upon, provided no grave blunders
committed. In fact, the result in Ohio settles all
dissensions on the financial question. and cleaves
the way for rousing democratic victory in 1880.
Year: 1879


The Library % - moved % the


second story.


The stockholders Of the Institute are
again considering the advisability Of
removing the library and reading room
from the lower floor and placing II in
the second story, converting the large
hall iuto room suitable for that pur-
pose. The idea Is to make an entrance
on Eighth street, cutting . large door
way through the wall and extending
the stsps through that portion now
occupied a. the directors room.


This would leave the market street
hallway at the disposition of the di-
rectors who intend to convert It into .
large store room, for which purpose II
Is admirably adapted. When the
reading room Is thus changed, the Va
cant room will be converted into a lee
ture room, which will be something
sadly needed and which want has been
partly satisfied by the Masonic Hall
company. The advantage Of as lecture
room in the Institute would bemany , the
chief one being its position on the ground
which makes 1t easy Of access.


From the new store rent Of about
$500 year is expected, which will be
quite an increase to the rental of the
Association and help swell its ex-
chequer, which is fast becoming de-.
pleted.


When the improvement is to be made
has not been settled upon, but from
the manner in which the plans are be.
ing canvassed and the obvious neces.
sity Of their early execution It may bs
p esumed that the time will not be
long distant.
Year: 1879

Messrs. Lamar and Singleton and
Chalmers and other Mississippi stat tes-
men used to talk very loudly IN Con-
gre,s, last winter, about the urgent
necessity tor a free ballot; but SOMEHOW
or other they have nat found occasion
to say anything about the proceeding in
Yazoo by which the Democratic party
gives notice that Mississippians must
either vote the regular ticket or run
the risk Of being hunted with shot
runs.
Year: 1879

There is one little hitch In the pro.
gramms arranged by the Mississippi
planters who sent batch Of negro lea.
ders out to Kansas. The purpose Of the
enterprise was to have the excursion
lists come back so filled with disgust
that they would advise their brethren
to stick to Mississippi. But, happily,
some Of the negroes were 90 pleased
with Kansas that they refused to ac-
company the excursion home. They
settled down and wrote for their fami.
lies to come on by the drst train. And
most Of those who went back are now
engaged in packing up their effects
with an intent TO move at the earliest
possible moment. The African nature
is astonishingly perverse.
Year: 1879

Daniel Simmer, German carpenter. deserted his
wife Caroline and his three little girls. named Lizzie.
Emma and Mary Frances aged respectively thirteen.
and nine years. about two months ago and
went to live with another woman, whom he has
since supported. Mrs. Simmer tried to enough
to support herself and children by taking wash
ing but work not being plentiful she fell in
arrears for the rent of her rooms at No. LAS First
avenue. On Tuesday the landlord of the house
be dispossessed, and their few household goods
were thrown i'll the street. As the poor woman had
no money she unable to procure q place
of shelter, and she and her children were
compelled to spend three nights on the street with
the chattels of their household. The facts of the
case to the of Captain Yule of the Twenty
eighth precinct, who notified Officer Chiardi, of the
Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children.
Mr.. Chiardi proceeded last night to the place
where Mrs. Simmer had resided and found
her the sidewalk with her effects, and her children
weeping around her. The thunder shower had just
begun, and the officer asked the landlord of the
promises which rooms Mrs. Simmer had occupied.
that he might take her bedding into them. The man
replied that he had enough of her in his house. and
didn't propose to be swindled out of any more
rent" Some people in the neigh hborhood, however,
took the beds into their residences Soon afterward
q bountiful meal set before the nearly faInished
family by Captain Yule. and Mrs. Simmer aud her
children given sleeping quarters in the station
house.
Year: 1879




We often find in agricultural papers
directions for biting" colts, and tell.
ing how to manage them when old
enough to break.


recol'ect my experience as boy in
breaking thIee-year old colts that had
never been haltered, how they pitched
me over their heads, and reared and
plunged when 6rst harnessed, and oc.
casionly one Of them would turn out so
vicious as to bc worthless. Since l
have been raising colts, | have adopted
a different plan and have no trouble
with them. As soon as a colt is ten
days old put halter on him for an
hour or two. have the tic rein of the
halter fastened to tho head stall with a
snap, and when turn the colt loose |
leave the head stall on. by the time
the colt has worn the halter two or
three. days and been tied few times,
he is ready to learn to lead. So when
| am going to drive the mother, tia
colt to the humc ring and start of. A
little care will be necessary tie first
time or two the mare is driven. and
then you will have no more trouble.
always treat my colt kindly, feed and
pet it little, aud never have any
trouble to catch it. ! have filly nov
two years old. whose mother could no
be caught in pasture without grea
trouble. but she is very kind, can b,
caught in pasture anywhere, and 20,
can tie her to the wagon and lead he
anywhere you choose. We accuston
our colts to the saddle and harnes
when young, and when old enough t
work we have only to hitch them Vi
and 60 al it, as there is no breaking t


be done. / would never allow col
to be month old until it was taught I


lead Waldo in Ohio Farmer.
Year: 1879

A correspondent Of the Watchmdn
gives his view of our social system in
the following language worthy of con-
sideration:


Ed. MISUNDERSTANDING an ar
t;cle in the last issue of your valuable
paper, headed "Social Difference, with
YOUR permission, will occupy a little
of your space with little different
view on the subject. with you agree
that there are social differences, always
has been and always will be to the end
of time; and that intelligence and 'g
uorance will not float together, hui
where shall VIC draw the lioe! Have
VIC not intelligence all about US, aue
Year: 1879

PoLITIoAL.-Tbe Bob Ingersoll po-
litical party have plank in their plat
form which would have all church
property assessed and taxed and all
homcseads Of the value Of 81 900 and
under exempt from taxation.
Year: 1879

Last Thursday evening, about dark, Mr..
and Mrs. George Campbell and Dick Man
non were sitting on the porch of the Soda
Springs Hotel, at Soda Springs on the
Sacramento river, while Mr.. Campbelrs
little boy, aged about 8 years, WAS across
the road, about fifty or sixty feet distant,
amusing himself by cutting bushes with
a little hatchet. Those on the porch were
startled and horrified by observing pan
ther spring upon the child, and at the
time supposed he was dangerously injured
which would have been the case, no doubt
had not the child screamed and those on
the porch shouted excitedly, which pre-
vented the panther from making deadly
spring. as he was evidently watching and
fearing the parties on the porch. As it
was the panther seized the child by the
chin, one of the tusks of the upper jaw
cutting his lip, and one in the lower jaw
cutting his neck, while the paw of the
beast struck and scratched him in the
breast the shouting and rushing toward
the child by those on the porch caused
the panther to make tracks up the noun
tain speedily, and, after picking up the
child and examining the wounds indicted
Mannon returned to the house for his gun,
and, following it up the mountain. soon
dispatched the panther, a hungry, lean
looking customer measuring five feet from
tip to tip Yreka (Cal} Journal.
Year: 1879

Many stories are related of Jim Hen
bricks when he was a resident of st. Paul,
MINI. On one occasion he leased the bar
room in u certain hotel, in anticipation of
a great run of business through the instru-
mentality of state fair that was held in
that city. The influx of visitors was be-
yond all expectation. The hotel was filed
to overfiowing. The face of Hendricks
glowed with pleasure as he thought of the
wealth in store for him and how the gelt
of the susceptible and thirsty countrymen
would flow into his Golfers. He made ex-
ira efforts in their behalf. The bar fix
lures and glassware received a cleaning
and polishing to which they had for a
lengthy period been strangers. Every.
thing sparkled, even the paste pin on Hen.
drick's Immaculate linen caught the con-
tagion and threw out the effulgent rays
of headlight on locomotive Both him
self and assistant engineer were arrayed in
gorgeous apparel, said to have been sc.
lected from the wardrobes of Frank Park.
er and Frank Hodges room. Extra salt
was added to the free lunch in order not to
impair the thirst of the hoosiers, and
nothing was left undone that is usually
done by public house proprietors on state
occasions.


On the first day of the fair the hotel was
crowded from morn till night, and they
kept Hendricks busy, but not after his
liking.


The multitude only wanted free lunch
and water The salt had not lost its fiavo1
but it had the opposite effect from wha
had been anticipated. The frontiersmen
instead of asking for 'oil of joY," anG
mirth-provoking elixirs, clsmmored fo
Year: 1879

Forcing cucumbers in hotbeds Is done
in very large quantities in April and May,
after the glass is no longer needed for
early lettuce, field plants, etc. A few very
skillful gardeners start cucumbers in Feb.
ruary and March in hotbeds, but il Is a
hard thing to do.


The hotbed for cucumbers in April is
made very differently from the common
hot-bed. A trench only fifteen inches
way between the planks, and partly filled
with eight or ten inches of hot manure
An inch or so of loan is drawn over the
manure, and the cucumber plants set
directly over the "heat," one hill to each
sash. The glass is kept on until June 10
when it is taken off, and the plant pulled
up, giving the cucumbers entire possession
of the land.


1t is usual TO water hot-bed cucumberz
by a trench outside the bed, which is filled
with water every evening in dry weather.
The soakage of water through the soil
will give the roots abundant water without
the trouble of lifting the sashes. They
need a great deal of water to do well in
dry weather.


1t is perhaps hardly necessary to add
that cucumbers are moRgctOus plants, by
which is meant that there are two sorts of
flowers, one bearing poll,il only. and un-
less friendly breeze, or bee, some
other agency carries the pollen from one
flower to the other, they both perish fruit
lessly For this reason cucumber growers
always provide themselves with few
swarms of bees, and are paid for their
trouble by a bountiful growth of cucum-
bers; to say nothing of delicious plate
of honey once in a while.


Cucumbers we'll tended are wonderfully
productive; it is not uncommon for them
to yield forty or fifty to the hill, and even
greater number, There is no more prof
liable way in which glass halls can be
used late in spring than by the cultiva-
tion of cucumbers.-[Ame Guilt
Year: 1879

An indignant parent lately complained
of the severe tasks which school children
are compelled to accomplish. The COM
plant is well-founded. Whether educa-
ton or mere discipline is the object Of at
tendance at school, neither justifies the
physical constralnt and mental exertion to
which hundreds of thousands of children
are subjected every day. Few soldiers are
as severely taxed en- the drill ground as
many children are in our show schools
and others which aspire to high reputa-
tons for order; but, as if this cruel train
ing were not destructive enough of health
and spirit. the custom grows more and
more. popular with teachers to make school
hours ;merely the time for reciting the
lessons to be studied at home. After six
hours spent in the schoOl-room and from
four to six in study at home, how much
time and inclination has a child for recita-
tions Parents should remember that they
have rightfulIy voice upon the course Of
studies to be followed by their children,
and should refuse to allow home to be
turned into a schooi-room unless they are
themselves going to Officiate as teachers
and save their children from double re-
straint and double duty.-[New York
Herald
Year: 1879

How to Take Care OF Little Chicks


April and May, months in which the
greatest number of hens are set, are upon
us. As hens come off with their broods, 6
scitable coop ought to be provided. The
time to make those coOps is now, before
the hurry of the Matching season, and when
they will serve double purpose. The
mode of setting hen will go far towards
the result. Build your coop 30x30, with
posts fifteen inches high, and a double
roof. Finish one end with Stats, one inch
wide, and three inches apart; the Other
finish with a slide door large enough to
admit a hen. Now. with a barrel, you are
ready for work. Place the barrel on its
side, and sink it four inches in the ground
filling the same with earth level with the
ground outside-on which form the nest
with chaff and short hay-on which place
eggs, II to 13, in April: Is in May or June
Place the coop as above, with the slide
door in front of the barrel. In the coop
she has dusting and feeding-yard, from
which she cannot escape, and in which
she is not molested in any way; is pre-
vented from deserting her nest, and the
moment she matches the rear door can be
closed, and coop and brood removed to
their rearing grounds. This mode of set
ting secures most heat and being literally
nested on the ground, the results are uni
formly good. BY placing one of Living.
stones carbolic nest eggs with each sitting
the brood comes off absolutely free from
lice.


If your chicks are too early to secure
grass before they are six weeks old, green
oats or winter rye should be grown in
frames, to be cut when two inches high,
for them daily to carry them along till the
fresh grass comes. There are many cold,
raw days in these two months. and while
it is necessary to give the chicks and hen
an occasional run, be sure they are not ex-
posed on these cold clustering days; and
if they have been liberated in a warm
morning, and change in the weather
has taken place, remember many an exhi.
bition has been won by just the proper
care for just that one day, when you have
taken pains to keep the coop with its back
to the wind, and the brood are kept warm
by the foresight.


With the above care, and colonizing the
chicks of equal age together, and not
one field, secures more uniform dock-the
highest degree of excellence. Get your
BTahmas and Cochins out in March and
April, Plymouth Rocks in April and May,
and your Leghorns in May and June for
breeding stock. But for breeding stock
you can extend the time six weeks longer
May and June being the best two months
or the two in which we secure the greatest
perfection of physical developments. Dur
ing the time from when the frost leaves
the ground till frost comes and destroys
insect life, little or no meat need be fed
but from October till May meat food in
some form is necessary.-[1. X. Felch, in
Farmers Journal for April.
Year: 1879

II got on horseback within ten minutes
after / got your letter. When got TO Can
terbury l got a chaise for town, but got
wet through before l got to Canterbury,
and have got such cold as l shall not
be able to get rid of in hurry. l got to
the Treasury about noon, but first of all
got shaved and dressed. 1 soon got into
the secret of getting memorial before the
board, but could not get an answer then.
However, got intelligence from the mes
senger that l could most likely get an
answer the next morning. As soon as
got back to my inn got my supper and
got to bed. When got up in the morn.
ing l got my breakfast, and then got my
self dressed that might get out in time to
get an answer to my memorial. As soon
as got it l got into the chaise, and got to
Canterbury by three, and about tea time
got home. Ihave got nothing more to say
and so adieu."


The above Professor Hart, in his "Com
position and Rhetoric" quotes from IN
English publication.-[Giaphic.
Year: 1879

81 was dragged down with debt, poverty
and suffering for years, caused by sick
family and large bills for doctoring, which
did them no good. was completely dis
couraged, until one year ago, by the advice
of my pastor, procured Hop Bitters and
commenced their use, and in enc month
we were all we'll, and none of us have seen
a sick day since, and want to say to all
poor men. you can keep your families well
year with Hop Bitters for less than one
doctors visit will cost, know It, A
Workingman."
Year: 1879

IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE SEC


OND Judicial District of the State Of Nevada, in and
for the County of Ormsby.James Gettys, plaintiff,
Mary Jane Getys defendant Action bro ught in the Dis
tct Court of the Second Judicial District Of the State Of
Nevada in and for the County of Ormsby and the
plant filed in said County "f 0rmsby in the office of the
Clerk OF said District COUrtThe State of Nevada sends
greeting Mary Jane Getys defendant You hereby
required to appear action brought against you by the
alb named plaintiff in the District Court of the Second
Judicial District of the State Of Nevada and for the
County of OrmSby. and to answer the complaint filed
therein "a copy of which accompanies this summons)
within ten days exclusive of the day of service)
served within this county; if served OF
this county but in this District, within twenty days
otherwise within forty daysor judgment by default will
be taken against you The said action brought obtain


decree of divorce dissOlvng the bonds Of marmony
sting between plaintiff and yourself the grounds OF
your having comm ted adultery in the latter part of the
year A D. 1874 and in the early part of the year A D.
1875, in the Territory (now State) of Colorado with
two certain persons, named in complaint, at various
and diverse times and places and and diverse


times and places down to this date with various other
persons; that to the times and places of said
various acts of adultery that plaintiff is uunfomed he
being at said time in the State Of Nevada and upon fur
ther grounds that you had at the time of your marriage
with plaintiff former husband living i'll Colorado by
of Robert Harris all of which is fully forth in
plaintiffs complaint And you hereby notified that
fail appear and the said complaint above
required the said plaintiff will apply to the Court for the
relief demanded in his complaint


Given under my hand the Seal of the District Court
of the Second Judicial District of the Sta of Nevada in
the year of Lord, thousand eight hundred and
seventy nine


[sEALl J. Fl. MARSHALL, Clerk.


r. COFFIN Attorney for Plaintiff je6
Year: 1879

Learn to be your own doctor and
practice under the diploma of "the
faculty Of common sense" If troubled
with indisposition and dyspepsia you
cannot digest any medicine intsrna lily
any more than you can food. The only
remedy is an external one and is con-
tanned in Flagg's Liver and Stomach
Pads, Office No. 7 E. 5th St.
Year: 1879




Forty.eight negroes start south to
their old homes on the James Howard
this afternoon. They are looking
wretched and miserable, and declare
with one voice that there never was a
greater mistake than their journey
northward. They say that it is impos.
sible for the negro to do otherwise than
starve in Kansas, and that at the south,
at any rate, they have at all times plenty
to eat aid plenty to wear. One signif-
can't TACT in their return is, that although
Messrs. Sells & Company have offered
them transportation to any part of the
valley they may wish to reach, they in
sist On going to their old homes or no.
where. Bulldozing will, they think, be
a delightful change from the open
hearted reception they enjoyed In Kan
sas. Their statements about the amount
of disease and death among them are
hardly credible, but the fact remains
that they are coming back in no such
condition as they went north. The way
they travel into cheese, crackers and
dried beef with which they have been
is serious oh staele to CONVEX
sation. They are too busy.
Year: 1879

When a swarm leaves for the woods


they are off before you fairly know it.


They drift away from the hive il q


widespread and apparently aimless con-


course, they suddenly gather up their
skirts, draw together their forces, and
away they go, a humming, flying vor-


tex of bees, the queen apparently in the


center and the mass revolving about her


as pivot, over orchards and meadows,
across creeks and swamps, or woods and
deep valleys, straight for the appointed


tree, slow at first so that you can keep
up with them, but presently with a
speed that wsuld tire fox-hound. In
this flight the individual bees do not
move in their right lines. or straight
forward like flock of birds, but round
and round like chaff in a whirlwind;
unitedly they form whirling, revolving,
nebulous mass fifteen or twenty feet
across, that gees as straight as projec-
tile to its mark. They are not partial
as to the kind Of tree-pine, hemlock,
elm, birch, maple, hickory any tree
with q good cavity high up or low
down. A swarm of mine ran away from
the new patent hive l gave them and
took up their quarters in the hollow
trunk of an old apple tree across an ad-
Joining field. The entrance was mouse
hole near the ground. Another swarm
in the neighborhood deserted their
keeper and went into the cornice of an
clubhouse that stood amid evergreens in
the rear of large mansion. But there
Is no accounting fort,le taste of bees, as
Samson found when he discovered the
swarm in the carcass (or more probably
the skeleton) of the lion he had slain.