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Year: 1877

The managers OF The Post take pleasure in an
n0unclnZ the course OF this paper upon entering It's
thirteenth year of existence.


The Post Is known TO the people of the west as
the uncOmpromising opponent of wrong and the
fearless defender of the right 1t has. during the
Presidential excitement and in the stirring events
of this fall in Chicago and over the whole country,
taken "A position which has gain for IL thousands
of friends IN the loyal people of the Northwest.


It has advocated the success of the Republican
party, but at the same time IL has in no manner
tenuated the faults errors of those within that
party guilty of oversight transgression. 10 has
never nrned aside from what IL believed TO be the
path of duty, misled its readers the public.
As in the past. 80 i'm the future The Post will be
found in politics to favor the carrying out to the
the outgrOwth of the war; and OF such legislation
will restore this country to prosperity and nan-
cial SOundneSS without too suddenly arbitrarily
shocking Its industrial pursuits.


II believes the Republican party is capable of do
ing that and will continue TO support 10 while 10
honestly endeavOrs to fulfill its pledges.


In matters affecting the local welfare, The Post
has been i'm advance OF all Chicago contemporaries
in defending the RIGHTS of the PEOPLE, and
speaking out against official wrOng-dOing.


It's in the past is full guarantee to the pub
lie that II will maintain the course in the fu-
ture


In all its departments The Post will be emphat-
ically n NEWSPAPER; and while being daily re-
Hex of events. twill nevertheless maintain char
acer for decencv and good taste that will make it
an acceptable visitor in every well ordered home
Its columns will be purged of every indecency. and
no money can will buy any of its space for the
praise of any illegitimRte or immoral calling.


In order to meet the necessities of the times. the
prices of The Post have been fixed at the following
rates which makes il by far the cheapest newspa-
per in the Northwest;


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Year: 1877

Section. /. Whenever any contro-
versy or cause of action shall exist
between any towns Of this state or
between any town and individual or
corporation. proceedings may be had
and suits brought, either OF law or In
equity, for the purpose of trying and
finally settling such controversies
In all such suits and proceedings. the
d town shall sue and be sued by its cor
porate name except when town officers
shall be authorized by law to sue In
their name of office for the benefit of
the town.


Sec. 2. In all legal proceedings
against the town by name, the first
process and all other suits or proceed
ings required to be served shall be
served OH the supervisor of the town.
And whenever any suit or proceeding
shall be commenced against town,
Il shall be the duty of the supervisor
to attend to the defense thereof, and
lay before the electors of the town, at
the first town meeting, a full state
ment OF such suit or proceeding for
their consideration and direction.


Sec. 8. All judgments recovered
against town, or against town officers
in action as prosecuted by or against
them in their name of Office, shall not
be collected by execution. but shall
be a town charge, and when levied
and collected, shall be paid to the per-
son or persons to whom the same shall
have been adjudged.
Year: 1877

AS A LOCAL PAPER,
publishers aduously
mitng industry prejudice paaliy
particular localities desire welfare
advancement of the prosperity
ADVERTISER willing but anxious do Believing


TOWN AND COUNTRY,
prosperity depends
cane consistently work for the prosperity of all.


paper
reading possible invite attention
comparison as quantity and quality with
matter of daily We
ADVERTISER that the people will
and for the money invested in it,
Year: 1877

Do not rack it with violent purgatives, or
permanently impair its tone with indiges-
tible drugs of any kind; but, if your di-
gestion is impaired, your liver out of order
your frame debilitated, or nervous system
unstrung, use that wholesome and agree
able Alternative and tonic, Hostetter'
Stomach Bitters, which will certainly
afford you the desired relief. None O.
the officinal remedies can compare with i
in restorative efficacy, and as a medicina
stimuant it is by far the most desirable "a
the essential principle of sound rye, is tn,
best possible agent for Fastening tn,
action of the botanic ingredients which i
holds in solution, and those ingredients ar
the most eficacious which chemistry ex
tracts from the vegetable kingdom, ant
medical science applies to the cure of dis
ease.
Year: 1877

WHEELING, ". Va. At LAO this morn
ing fire was discovered in the stables iu
the rear of the Grant House in this city.
BY the time the alarm was given to the
guests the fire had reached the top story Of
the hotel rushing up the elevator like a
furnace. The stairs in the front part of the
house were discovered on fire simultaneous
ly: The guests and employees all escaped
without injury so far as known, although
several were taken from the windows. The
fire spread with fearful rapidity. But lit.
tie furniture was saved. AtS.3O the wall,
tell in, excepting the Main street front
which is badly sprung and will probably
require taking down. The house is totally
DESTROYED. Loss, 100000; Insurance.
$4,000,
Year: 1877

Perfect honesty goes hand in hand with
excellence and success. If you don't be-
lieye it weigh a can of Dooley's Yeast
Powder and try it in your kitchen. You
get full weight, aud find little more than
one half as compared with others suffice
the purpose of making the most delicious
bread, biscuit. cake, pastry, etc.
Year: 1877

This, together with the fact that Berry
made no resistance when arrested at Rapids
City, not even when his friends advised


him to stay, telling him that they
would protect him shows that no ex-
ira help was needed. But he was
not then under the inspiration of
crazy whiskey, and said he knew he had
done wrong and was willing that the law
should have its course; and lie came with
out the slightest resistance or objection. 1t
is evident from this that no Incredible
amount of courage was required, nor was
it displayed 10 the conduct of Williams.
The men who were sent from here were
sent at the request of Williams, and
equipped themselves for state of matters
which he described, expecting to have te
fight 25 or 80 coal miners. Berry's friends
say that Williams hung around them al


day and that finally Berry told him if they
wanted him in Moline he would give him
tselfup; that not until then did Williams
Year: 1877

IT Is stated that there is a large estab-
lishment in Wisconsin where three mills are
kept constantly rinning an building paper,
having capacity for the making Of sixteen
tons per day. The paper employed In this
manufacture is thick hard pasteboard,
wound in rolls Of twenty-five to hundred
pounds each, and usually thirty-two inches
wide. While in process of manufacture, 1t
is subject to a pressureof hundreds Of tons,
which congresses the fibres together into
one solid body, thus making an absolutely
air-tight sheet, of the greatest frmness and
durability; and, as paper is one Of the best
non-conductors known, it resists the action
Of both heat and cold, and SO a building
lined with it is made warm in winter
and cold in summer. It does not shrink
like lumber, and is not affected by frost,
cold, heat, or dampness; and It'll known
that it viii not burn as readily as wood, on
account Of it's hardness and solidity, and
by its use house can be made extremely
tight ...... ..
Year: 1877

In THE production of steel tools, 1t is
found thatfor every variation of heat, which
is great enough to be seen, there results q
variation in grain, and for every such varla-
ton in temperature, there is great liability
for cracks. The effect of too high heat is
to open the grain and make tho steelooarse;
the effect Of an irregular heat is to cause
irregular grain, irregular strains, and
cracks. As soon as the place is properly
heated for hardening, It should be promptly
and thoroughly quenched in plenty OF the
cooling medium-water, brine, or oil, as
the case may be; an abunda lance Of this
cooling bath, to do the work quickly and
uniformly all over, is essential to good and
and safe work. To harden large piece
safely, running stream should be used;
much uneven hardening is caused by the
use of too small baths. The lowest heat is
the best for any steel.
Year: 1877

FLowERs.--Nearly every good lady in
our town this summer Is going to have
her flower bed. We are glad TO see this,
and would mildly suggest to them that
the first point to be considered IN arrang-
ing p ants in beds is to have the tallest Ia
the center with the Others gradually de-
creasing In height, until the margin Is
reached, when the dwarf kinds may be
used to serve as border. The arrange
ment OF colors according to the rules OF
good taste and harmony Is another fea-
ture that should not be overlooked.
Year: 1877

THE farmers Of Chimacum are FEELING
quite jubllant over the dry condition Of
their valley and Its adaptation to tillage
purposes. One ofthe settlers informed us
that the ground was as dry now as 1t was
'ast year In June. That they may have,
among other blessings, abundant crops
and good health is the wish of the ARGUS,
Tor land we can give them no better rec
ommendation) they are scrupulously
punctual IN paying the printer.
Year: 1877

Take two small, cheap mirrors, fasten them back to back, attach a cord to one angle and hang them to pole. When the glass swings the suns rays are refec- ted all over the field, even if it be large one, and even the oldest and bravest of crows will depart precipitately should one of its lightning flashes fall on him. The second plan, although terror to the crow, is especially well adapted to fields subject to the inroads of small birds, and even chickens. It involves the artificial hawk made from large potato and long goose and turkey feathers. The maker can exercise his initiative skill in sticking the feathers into the potato so that they resemble the spread wings and tail of the hawk. It is astonishing what ierocious looking bird of prey can be constructed from the above simple material. It only remains to hang the object from a tall bent pole and the wind will do the rest. The bird will make swoops and dashes in the most threatening manner. Even the most inquisitive of venerable hens have been known to hurry rapidly from its dangerous vicinity, while to small birds it carries unmixed. dismay. -Scientifc American.
Year: 1877

There gre no farmers productions, says the Maryland Farmer, so subject to injuries from many slight causes as milk and butter, and none so sensitive to un- pleasant odors of every kind none that is so much and 80 readily deteriorated in value as these are. Hence, all kinds of uncleanliness should be avoided, and the utmost neatness should be observed in every step of their production and mar keting, from the very feeding, handling and milking of the cows, as well as treat ment and handling of the milk, with the churning, working and putting up of the butter. All of the implements used, the water and the salt used, and the rooms occupied in keeping the milk and mak- ing the butter, should be kept perfectly clean and sweet, in order to produce the best quality to secure high and fancy prices. No article that the farmer pro- duces for the market has such wide range or difference in price as butter, not even cheese or choice fruit. We see by quotations in all the great butter markets that the prices Of eating butter range all the way from one dollar to ten cents per pound, while greasy, cooking butter is even lower than that !; even the packages in which it is put up, whether firkins, pails, tubs, or rolls, affect the prices for which it sells Grains and meats have but small range compared to butter the difference in the prices of butter is much greater than the difference in the cost hence, it is much more profitable to make and sell first class article than Il poor one.
Year: 1877

It will be seen from the above figures that Australia stands next to the United States in quantity supplied, although fresh meat has to cross the equator and encounter voyage three or four times longer than one from New York to Liv- erpool. The prospect is that that far of country will greatly increase its export of fresh meat in 1877 by new improve ments in refrigeration.

 It is an instructive fact that Holland, with dense population of her own to feed at home, where they wall out the sea to obtain thousands of acres of grass land at the bottom of it, exports about onc-tourth as much beef and mutton to Great Britain as the United States, where we have grazing lands by the hun dred million acres, which costs us noth- ing. The relative cost of the meat to producers, sent to England by different nations would be an interesting subject of inquiry. Belgium has the most people to the square mile of any nation in Eu- rope, yet this small kingdom exported last year 25,62l hundred weights to Great Britain. This intensive system of tanning is able to compete with the most extensive system of cattle-grazing and stock husbandry.

 Soiling cows, calves, steers and oxen, windwheels for irrigation as in Holland and Belgium, corn, hay and corn-meal for feeding all growing and fatteying animals, have fairly come to the ip6nt in the battle of advanced agriculture. With the right quantity of rain, natural or artificial, the right quantity of manure and proper culture, how much corn, plant and seed may be grown in Tennes- see on ten acres in twelve months? If we are to compete with all the world in feeding the bipeds and quadrupeds of the British islands, it is time to study closely our resources. Neither Uruguay nor France nor Canada nor Australia will hold back for our benefit. It is cultured intellect against cultured intellect, and we should be sharpening our wits for good work.
Year: 1877

rial guards the limit rose to 300 rou-' bles. At the age of four the young horses, which have previously been handled but not broken in, are drafted into the reserve squadron, where they remain for a year, during which tune they are broken in; and at the age oI five join the regiment and service. A horse is supposed to last seven years rom the date of his joining the regiment, so that the remount officer has to furnish young horses nearly to the amount or one seventh of the total service strength. The reserve squadron in peace time IS about one hundred strong, but m war time it is increased to twice or thrice this strength to meet drafts made upon it to supply vacancies of men and horses in the field squadron. Cavalry recruits who come from all parts of Russia, put are chiefly drawn from little Russia, the people of which are extremely good horse-masters and fond of riding, are sent direct to their respective regiments, and are considered f. to be dismissed from recruit drill in three months. Formerly the period of training was nine months, but now they work harder, it seems, and are sent to duty sooner. l think man is likelier to be good duty-soldier at the end of nine months fair training than at the end of three months forcing but then it appears tuition is seduiously kept up after the dragoon is sent into the ranks, and the accelerated training is oi course a desideratum in war, or when It is desired quickly to increase the strength of the army. The cavalry soldiers term of active service is nominally ten years with five years in the reserve; but in practice he is sent home after having served four or five years, with liability to be called from this long furlough at days notice. Non-commissioned officers may go down or remain with the regi

 ment at their option; if they engage fol second term of service they receive additional pay. Private soldiers are moi allowed to re-engage.
Year: 1877

Dr. Baker, secretary of the Michigan state board of health, says There has come under my notice for several years, but more particularly during the last two years, a kind of rheumatic condition of the walls of the chest. The patient complains of dull, heavy pain in the chest walls. The disease. in A large majority of cases, is confined to the left side. The pain is circumscribed and limited to space of not more than two inches in diameter, just below and little to the left of the left nipple At times the pain is very severe, and always con- stant day and night when the patient is awake. l have investigated the disease to some extent, and find it to be more common among tobacco users, especially those who use the weed lo excess Pa. tients suffering from this complaint in- variably come to their physician with the belief that they have heart trouble.
Year: 1877

The London Cottage Gardener says:

 We have learned to jest at gapes by making free use of camphor. We give to chicken in very bad case pill the size of small garden pea. As soon as we see symptoms of gapes we give the birds water to drink which is strongly impregnated with camphor, thus giving to the chickens that which was favorite medicine with our great-grandmothers, 'camphor julep.' The treatment seems te explain itself. The gapes, or gaping, is caused by the presence of small red worms in the windpipe. No medicine can reach them unless it does so by vapor. An hour after the chicken has swallowed the pill it smells of camphor. Camphor is A very strong vermifuge, and the worms die."
Year: 1877

A capital book might be written on the manufacture of cotton goods in the south for exportation. We will give a few hints to the author of such a work The bureau of statistics at Washington publishes statement showing that there were exported during April 1877, l3, ,404, : 52S yards of cotton goods of the value of $l, ,055, ,967 being an increase of 36 per cent. over April of last year. This growing home industry has elements of great importance to the southern farmer. To put the industrial problem bluntly, that all may see tbe main point why the operatives who card, spin and weave cotton should be near the fields that produce the staple, we remark that man is worth twice as much to produce manure, according to his weight, as any animal kept on the farm. Sooner or later, this manure factor which renders cheap cotton possi- ble, will control the question of cheap goods, cheap clothing, high standard of comfort, and large foreign trade, based on skillful agriculture and manu- factures associated with wise household economy. In Georgia, millions of dol lars are yearly expended for fertilizers before the growth of the cotton plant and then cheap production of manure, are half studied. Take man forty years old as typical of our whole population, and divide his weight in flesh and bones by forty He can have taken only 2 per cent of his weight year from his food. Take an adult swine four years old of the same weight of the man, and he has ex- tracted from this dung heap in flesh and bones, as much in four years as the man has in forty years. Farmers, study this problem of abundant manure.
Year: 1877

A crumply hon is good indication, full eye another. Her head should be small and short. Avoid Roman nose, which indicates thin milk and little of it. See that she is dished in the face sunk between the eyes. Notice that she is what stock men call good handler skin soft and loose, like the skin on a dog. Deep from the loin to the udder, and very slim tail. A COW with these marks never fails to be good milker.
Year: 1877

of wire-pulling A man will be taken who
will promise the same sort Of administration
that hr. 'HuoK has given the Office. In
the case Of the County Clerks Office, the
present incumbent, who is making des-
perate effort to be reelected, has shown
that extravaganza aud o preference Of party
politics over the public welfare can make
the place serious charge upon the public.
Bis usefulness consists mainly in teaching
the necessity for different sort of person
as County Clerk; and, if he succeeds in
manipulating the Democratic party solely
with reference 10 his own denomination, the
Republicans will find m easy victory by the
selection of q candidate who is not turning
heaven and earth to compass his own re-
nomination, but whose character will be a
guarantee of very different management
from that which LHB has given the office.
The term OF County Clerk is four years, he
is intimately associated with the County
Board, and the position is one of great i'm
portance.
Year: 1877

every form of dissipation. Their bal,


character has been almost universally
recognized in other cities. In New
York, not long since, they were
shut up by the police, and Chicago is
the only place, so far as known, where they
are permitted to do business openly. There
is grave responsibility, not yet ascertained,
for the prosecution OF the business here.
There is no State authority for the licensing
of such places. A. bill introduced in the
last session of the Legislature with this Oh
ject in view was thrown ont, and the law in
regard to articles Of general incorporation
does not, Of course, cover associations for
Illegal purposes. The attention of the City
Government should be turned to this matter,
and the action of the police be stimulated by
q reprimand from the proper quarter.
Year: 1877




| men must be nominated OF they will be r1ll
us On independent ticket, Now, no matter
how excellent the selections thus made may
be. the conventions will resist the dictatlon
They may accept some of them or none o.
them. Tho process is rather menace thar
an influence. II the conventions refuse u


accept the five candidates, and these gentle
men he run independently By Citizens


movement, the result may easily be such


division of the respectable vote that some OF
the bummers and schemcrs will slip in be-


tween, and the County Board will continue


to be us corrupt as ever. This is too serious


danger to be risked, and, if the citizens


who held conference the other day nave
any such programme in view, they should
abandon it Mt once.


As we suggested st the time, the proper


way for tlte citizens who are interesting


themselves in this matter to acquire q bene-
ticial influence over the election, is to bring
out not fve but twenty y-five citizens, each OF
whom will make IN efficient aud trustworthy
County Commissioner; they should be about
equally divided between Democrats and Re-
pnblicans, and then submitted to the two par-
ties as proper men from whom to choose the
party candidates II there is any chance for
the two parties agreeing, they arc more likely
to do so in this way than by giving them no
choice: and, even if they do not agree, they
are both likely to confne their selections to
the list thus submitted to them; and, if the
candidates NIL he honest and capable men, of
recognized character and position, it will not
be matter Of much importance which
ticket shall win.


In making this suggestion we have omit
ted all consideration of the Workingmen's
movement for several reasons. In the first
place, the workingmen are not organized
into single and aggressive purty the two
great parties are the Republican and Dem
ocratic organizations, and workingmen, like
professional men and business men, are di~
vided between the two. In the next place,
the Workingmen's meetings seem to be en-
tirely in the hands of demagogues, who are
seeking to use this class Of citizens as n
means for obtaining Office which they could
not secure at the hands Ct either party. In
the third place, if the Workingmen's move
ment be- an honest one, that party will accept
five of the twenty-five names thus sug-
gestcd, to the exclusion of the demagogues
who are SO anxious to get on the County
Board. It may be laid down as safe rule to
60 By, that no man who strives for the NOM
ination for County Commissioner ought to
have it. The place is not one to be coveted
except for corrupt purposes. There are five
honest men wanted That number is essen
t1al to the disruption of the present Ring.
If only three or four were elected by bad
the Ring might still retain its
hold upon the throats of the people. Moth
ing must be done which shall admit the
election Of single suspected or doubtful
and hence any Independent
movement must proceed very cautiously in
order not to get too many tickets in the
field