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Year: 1879




Sheep should have better care in early
winter than farmers are in the habit of be
slowing. Wintering sheep to make them
live only, is not attended with profit, LET
! prices rule high or low Sheep are com
monty neglected more in early winter than
any other farm stock. for they are often the
very last taken from the pastures.


If sheep so into winter quarters in 4
declining state, the result is demand hDl
extra feed and care during the winter, and
light clip of wool in the spring. When a
sheep is thriving, wool grows rapidly
when sheep is declining, the growth is
checked. If kept fat, large fleece ; if
poor, light one Sheep should have a
little grain every day, from the time grass
| begins to fail in the fall until it has a
good start in the spring. | would rather
my sheep would have a gill of corn or
oats per day from the middle of Novem-
Der till April, than a pint day from
January till June. There should be one
object constantly before the mind of the
fiockmaster. and that is, to keep sheep i'll
thriving condition.


Shelter is one of the first objects in
wintering sheep successfully. Farmers
often condemn barns and sheds as I'M
healthy places for sheep, when tits want
of ventilation that does the injury. Ii is
no argument against housing. because
some people keep them SO poorly ventila-
ted as 10 iniure their health Norris it an
argument against shelter for stock, be
cause it is improperly used ] am no be
lever i'll having sheep shut up too close
ly like warm comfortable quarters for
them at night, but they should no: re-
main there all day They should go out,
get some exercise, land have some sun
shine after storm. We ought to know
and appreciate its beneficial effects on
animals


Too large number Of sheep should
not be wintered together [ believe sew
enty-tive is enough for one lot by no
means let there be more than one hun
dred. There is much more danger of
disease in large fiocks than in small ones
The proportion of sheep that do not
thrive is always greater i'll large fiocks
than in small ones. The division should
be made so as to put sheep of about the
same length together. Lambs Should be
by themselves, with a few old tame sheep
10 keep them tame All large and strong
wethors should be by themselves, also all
breeding ewes. By this system of divis-
ion all have an equal chance, which is
where large numbers Of all
nges and conditions run together -Rsrd
World.
Year: 1879

The President AND THE GIEENBACK
QUESTION. report to the effect that
President Hayes has changed his mind res
pectIng the importance of retiring the green
backs, is pretty eifectually disposed of by the
following private letter just published;


You want money to be plenty, the rate of
interest to he low, and at the same time you
want the money TO be good. You can only
have this state of things when there is conf
dence in the stability of the currency. Capt.
tai will not go where it is uncertain in what
currency debts will be paid next month and
next year. If the legal tender for debts de
pends on the uncertain action Of Congress,
there will be want of confidence. The only
constitutional legal tender is gold and silver.
Depart from that and confidence is gone.
All the world now believes that investments
in America are likely to he profitable. \
sound financial policy will bring us money
from all the commercial nations of the earth.
In good times prepare for hard times. In
good times pay debts. The legal tender
notes are debts. Let them be paid by the
coin in the Treasury and the coin that is
coming in from abroad, and it will not con-
tract the circulation. Let our ship be headed
in the right direction. 1t is sound policy
which has brought good times. The same
policy will continue good times.


Sincerely r. b. HAYES
Year: 1879

THERE comes from the South, in re-
ply to the Northern protests against the
practical disfranchisement of the col
ored voters, the same answer which
Boss Tweed made to the plundered and
indignant taxpayers of New York
What are you going to doabout itP"
This is the purport of all the apologies,
explanations or justitications made by
the Democratic politicians and newspa-
pers. Whether it be bold and shame
less confession of the truth of the


charges, or an attempt to belittle
and pettifog, or pleathat the superior
intelligence and more important prop
erty interests of the whites are bound
to prevail over the greater number OF
the blacks wherever the latter are in a
maiority-there is, in all cases, re-
lance upon the presumption that the
Year: 1879

New York in her humane laws is far
ahead Of barberous Delaware. Such a
thing is not thought of as tying ten.
der little calf by the legs for long hours
before the time, and then tossing it
pell NELL on the hard floor of car,
helpl-ssly bound with II or Is others
all piled up in on. struggling mass Of
agony. They have cattls carts, in which
are large hoxes with Stats on the top
and sides, and calves are taken to the
depot deccntly and without such scenes
Of shocking cruelty as are witnessed at
Edgemoor almost every day in the week.
Farmers in the vicinity of that heart
less place and elsewhere will please
take netice that such barbarous doipgs
will be tolerated any longer, ard any
case brought to us stamped with the
present way of working matters will be
prosecuted with the utmost vigor of the
law. 4. w.
Year: 1879

The MrLroBp "News," refers to the
late election and argues from them that
the only hope the Democrats can
have of success in the next Presidential
contest rests on coalition with the
Nationals. By such combination,
the News" thinks with thorough
presentation to the people Of the ques
tions involved, the success of the Demo.
oracy is reasonably certain. Our down
State contemporary need not feel the
least alarmed or rejoiced either about
the success of the Democracy in 1880.
With or without a combination Of the
Democrats and Green hackers, the Re
publicans will elect their candidat-
with solid North and ifGeneral Grant


is the candidate he will carry two or
three Southern States in addition to
the solid North. This will be done to
save the nation from being plunged
into another civil war, and if :he
"News" is wise it will speedily leave
the unholy combination it has been fav'
oring and do good work once more in
defence of a united nation.
Year: 1879

For THE TWO first years Of the exs-
tence Of the every Evening" as two
cent paper,it was urged for the support
Of the public upon the ground that it
was worth that amount, and at no time
could it be compared with the Zone
cent cheap, nasty papers, published in
the city. The same paper is now issued,
the same size, for a penny, and the
public are told that it has as much
news as ever for half the price. Under
these circumstances it is very plain
that the publishers for two years have
gouged the public out Of penny for
every paper sold more than it was
worth, or they are now gougiug the
stockholders out Of penny for every
paper sold. However this is none OF
our business. Ifthe "Bvery Evening
can stand it we can, but we cannot but
81 press q pity for it il it ever reaches a
circulation of 5000, as the REPUBLICAN
now has. The bigger the circulation
the greater must be the loss.
Year: 1879

Those WHO still hold Northern Pacific
first mortgage bonds have but short
time in which to exchange them for pre-
ferred stock in accordance with the
offer of the committee to so exchange.
Tho committee appointed some time
ago by majority of the bondho'ders
to effect such an arrangement has fixed
June 30, 1879, as a limit for tho ex.
change, after which date the bonds out
standing will legally have no money
value whatever. The preferred stock
issued will include all unpaid interest
from July l, 1873. This stock is now
worth $2S per share. The new compa
ny is said to be free from debt, has no
interest burden to meet, and is earning
a net revenue Of over a half millisn
dollars a year. The Office of the com
pany is No. %, Fifth Avenue, New
York. There are a great many persons
in Wilmington, New Castle and otLer
places hrouphout the State TO whom this
nsws must be of interest, and we hope
those who hold first mortgage bonds Of
the Pacific railroad will not let this
only chance slip by,witLont making an
effort to get what they can by exchang.
ing their bones for preferrei stock.
We hope all the holders Of such bonds
tice.
Year: 1879

In the pententiary, at Columbus,
Ohio, few days ago, convict named
R. D. Huntington, cut off three fingers
of his left hand to escape work. He
thought that the work was to difficult
for him. He laid his left hand on a
block, and with hatchet in his right
hand began chopping. The first blow
took off about half an inch from the last
three fingers. Again he struck, hewing
of some more of the fingers. Still
thinking that he had not taken off
enough, he slashed away again. At
this juncture the guard saw him.
Year: 1879

FoR rHR sAKE of all that is good, We
beg the Brooklyn clergymen to bring
the Talmsys trial to speedy close. 1t
is worse than the Potter committee in
politics. 1t is pity that good men
cannot find something better to do than
to tear each others character to pieces
and bring forth q harvest Of nettles Of
discomfort, and the briars and thorns
OF ill will and distrust.
Year: 1879

Calvary's Tragedy.


Yesterday the thoughts Of all chris
tian men turned toward the Hill Of
Calvary. Whether the churches dc or
do not recall BY their services the scene
that vas enacted there nearly nineteen
hundred years ago, it is inevitable that
individuals who realize wh"t influence
that death upon the cross has had upon
the human race and its destinies, even
in material sense, should have an
impulse to revert, if only for moment,
to the incidents that marked 1t. Al.
though some should regard Christ as
having no higher nature than mere
human nature, 1t must be confessed
that he stands the central figure of the
most piteous tragedy that is recorded
in history. At the lowest estimate he
was the foremost man that has yet been
born into the world and his life was
the purest, the most benevolent, the
most exemplary, that any of the race
has ever lived. That such a man should
have been slain by order of one who
was the representative of justice was
monstrous crime, but that he should

have had to suffer death amid ignsminy
and unspeakable torture is a fact that
will excite for him the compassion Of
the just and tho good for all time to
come. 1t is his recompsnse, if he was
hut man, that the bitterness of his
sutferings and shame have given I'M
paralleled intensity to this affection
with which he is regarded by those who
accept him az their teacher. The most
potent spiritual force in the world to-
day is supplied from the spirit Of the
man who was crucifed. Yesterday,
eighteen hundred and seventy nine
years ago, was spent by the friends of
the cruciied Saviour in sorrow and
gloom. The day before, darkness had
covered the face OF the earth the rum
bling earthquake was heard the veil
OF the temple was rent in twain; the
graves opened and those that had been
dead walked through the streets Of Je-
rusaleln. Surely greater being than
man had been crucifed. There, in that
stone cave upon the hillside, was con-
tanned what to the loving Mary and
the disciples, wsre..b but the dead remains
OF him whom they hoped was to set up
kingdom at Jerusalem.


This was to them the day of sorrow
and dependency. Bat the three days
spoken of by Christ in which tho tenn
pie was to be built up again, had not
yet expired. Yesterday was the
most joyful anniversary Of all that had
been kept, for on that morning the wo.
men who were the last to linger at the
cross were the first to announce risen
Christ, and meeting with the object Of
their alteration, he tells them to 20
sd tell the disciples and Peter. 1t was
right and proper that Easter Sunday
should have a Joyous season to the chris
tiaa word, aid that the lovers Of Je-
sus should not only bring tho earliest
and brightest flowers Of spring to deck
the Savior's brow, but loving and obs.
dent hearts to be lail upon tls altal
of Sacrifice.
Year: 1879

TO the President and Directors Of the New Or


le3.ns Cotton Exchange.


Geutleraess-In RESPONSE to your call for an
ann ual report from the Committee on Super
vision. we beg to submit the following:
levee inspection y. ar ts made concurrent with
the regular crop season. ending the thirty -hrst
OF August because the receipts and largely the
expenditures OF both departments depend upoy
: the extent of the crop handled tn our ToaEEe
Year: 1879

HoS. JOSEPH II. Rainy, colored
Congressman from South Carolina, in
the Forty Fifth Congress, expresses
himself with huency and h.at in
speaking Of the wrengs Of the colored
people. He did not care whether the
Sonth had any labor or not. |! did not
deserve the help of race it had trod-
den under foot. He said they had fre
quently gone to work without food, and
it is a common thing for them to live for
months OIL one meal day, which they
took at II noon. From January to the
end Of March they had actually suffer
I'd for food. They barely got along
during thrsummer and autumn months,
and could lay up nothing. Hs intends
to stimulate universal feeling in favor
of emigration, which shall start in his
own State Of South Carolina and spread
all over the South.
Year: 1879

THOSE YoUSa men an' boys who be.
haved 30 disgracefully at the circus
las: night il known to the police should
be promptly arrested and punished
These circus managers pay license ex
acted by the city and are entitled to al
the projection the city can afford them
II the present polics force was too small
to keep order, deputies shoald have
been sworn in, and these rowdips taught
how to behave themselves at all haz
yards. 1t is no credit to Wilmington
to have such q name abroad for rowdy.
ism and disorder that circus cannot
come into it and exhibit peacefully.
Year: 1879

Look on the bright side. 1t is the right side
1t is sunshine and not the cloud that gives
beauty TO the flower; the sky is blue ten times
where ii is black once You have troubles, 1t
may be, 80 have others. None are free from
them-and perhaps it is rs well that none
should be. They give snew and tone to life
fortitude and courage to man. And let us not
be over fastidious as to nature of employment
We are not placed in this world to enjoy an
endless paradise, but to prepare ourselves, by
honest lives for endless bliss. II we feel dis
satisfied with our lot, which in fact We some
times do-the king as well as the beggar-let
us nobly and manfully endure 1T and console
ourselves with the pleasurable reflection thai
soon, very soon, all cur trials and troubles an6
privatons will have an end. So let us extract
all the happiness and enjoyment we can from
within and without and above all look on the
bright side.


For blessed the hope that's given us,
The peace that has filled our breast


And blessed the thought of heaven,
The home where the weary shall rest.
ADA w. QUA.
Year: 1879

Az alone IN NV room at last


| wonder how far they have Travelled no W
They'll be very far when the night is past.
And so would I-f knew but how.
How calm she was with her saint-llke face,
Her eyes are violet, mine are blue.
How careless am with my mothers lace
her hands are winter and softer, too.
They have gone to the city beyond the hills;
They must never come back to this place


again.


I'm almost afraid TO SIT here so still,


Wish it would thunder and tighten, and rain.
o, no for some one may not be at rest,
Some one, perhaps, is travelling tonight.
hope that the moon may shine instead,
And heaven be starry and earth all bright.
1t is only one summer that she's been here
1t has been my home for seventeen years,
And seventeen summers Of happy bloom
Fall dead tonight IN a rain OF tears.
1t is dark, all dark in the midnight shades,
Father IN Heaven. may have rest
One hour Of rest for this aching head?


For this throbbing heart in my weary breast ?
loved him more than she understands,


For him prayed for my soul in truth.
For hum am kneeling with lifted hands,
To lay at his feet my shattered youth.
loved, and love, love him still;


More than father, mother, or life.
My hope of hopes was to bear his name,
My heaven of heavens TO be his wife
His wife the name that angels breathe,
The words shall not crimson my cheek with


shame,


Twould have been my glory the name to wreathe
In the priceless heart from which it came.
And the kiss gave to the BRIDE tonight
His bride till HE and light grow dim
God only knows how pressed her lips,


That the kiss to her might be gwen to him.
Year: 1879

Fun AT PIcNIcs.-There ls lots OF fun to be
had at little private picnics, when the party
goes up stream in large boat tc pleasant
woodland. All you have to do is to lug three
baskets Of provisions and box OF croluet to
the boat, and then help row it and get four
bisters on each hand, and then climb tree
covered with briars to adjust swing and work
yourself almost to death swinging the girl who
never seems to get enough of 1t, and then re-
verse the order Of things until you get home.
There is loads of fun in it. Fun? Why it is
Just reekIng with it. New York Sunday Star.
Year: 1879

Few OF THE FATAL JEwELs-In all ages
jewels of price ave been a ready incentive to
crime, but not few cases are Oh record iD
which thew have been the agent Of the CRIME,
instead OF its cause. Cesar Borgia possessed
ring with sharp-edged setting, which would
occasionally scratch the hand OF some guest
whom he was greetin with special cordiahty :;
and no one who received this compliment was
ever known to survive it more than day or
two. A similar fatality attended celebrated
decoration much used by two or three of the
Russian Cars. When clasped around the re-
cipient's neck, it's point was apt to puncture the
the skin If awkwardy handled, and death speed


lily followed. One Of the native Princes of
India, when about to fall into the hands Of his
enemies, swallowed a sharp-pointed diamond,
which caused instant death by cutting vein IN
his throat. A diamond in the possession OF a
noble French famlly, which was said to have
caused the death of all its owners in turn, put
the climax to its mahgn influence by ultimat ely
forming part of the famous necklace which
play so fatal part the history o: Marie
Antoinette.
Year: 1879

To those who imagine that the cause of wo-
man enfranchisement is not gaining ground,
we commend the perusal or the following, from
the Woman's Journal: "The bill in the Mis-
sour Legislature providing for the submission
of the question of Woman Suffrage to the pop
ular vote in 1880, come to a vote on the 23d OF
April, and was indefinitely postponed by a vote
of GA to 81. This is regarded as an encourag-
ing vote. When delegation from the Missouri
Suffrage Association visited Jefferson City last
Winter, they knew Of but one member (Mr
Henry T. Mudd) who would be likely to vote
for such measure. They at least have the
qualification OF finding their friends multiplied
by ffty."
Year: 1879

Even the Indians are awakening to the I'M
protance Of the woman question. During the
recent pow WOW at the Umatilla Agency where
in the Umatillas, Walla Wallas and Cayuses
were represented by their chiefs and leading
men, Chief Homily is said to have spoken very
senslbly, and in q manner which many pale
faced sachem would do we'll 10 initiate. He
said that every man must think and act for
himself. and the women also had voice in
their affairs. Under the treaty which they had
convened to consider, every person over eight
teen years OF age was entitled to 160 acres of
land and all children to forty acres, in the
possession and cultivation Of which they would
be protected, free from taxation, for the next
twenty five years.


Now, il the United States will do as we'll by
the taxpaying women Of Oregon who are over
eighteen years of age, they will not only get
themselves homesteads. but will willingly pay
their proper quota of the public taxes. II
Brother Jonathan would only deal half as just
ly by his pale-faced sisters IN property matters
as Chief Homily expresses himself ready and
willing to do, by the proffered aid Of Jonathan
for the dusky matrons upon the Umatia Res
ervation, we know of several hundred women
who stand ready to relieve Portland and other
portions OF the State OF hordes of surplus
Cinnamon, whom they (the women) will set at
work in earnest to improve their homesteads
and raise wheat and other produce for export
There is scarcely white woman west OF the
Rocky Mountains who would not homestead
and cultivate hundred and sixty acres in her
own right, IL she could only have as good
chance as is now offered to untaxed Indian
women upon the reservation without the
asking.-Por.land (Ore.) New Northwest.
Year: 1879

A novel feature Of the coming young settlers
meeting in Berrien county Will be the marriage
OF several couples Oh the picnic grounds. A
good assortment OF clergymen will be present,
and il won't cost the boys and girls cent l
Year: 1879

II it were not for the lawyers how could we
ever get along? Up in Cadillac they have al


ready got suit about two quarts of strawber-
ries as far as the circuit court, and would
doubtless carry it to the court OF heaven if they
could get hearing there.-Detro,t News.
Year: 1879

Hello. there, friend. Whittier bound in
such haste >"


ITO that store, of course. Everybody is
flocking there, and if l don't get there soon
shall lose my chance. Delays are dangerous,
and if am not on hand soon the bargains will
be gone, the cheapest stock in the city ex-
hausted, and shall make dead loss Of it If
am compelled to go elsewhere for my Clothing"


That's fact and as 1 am rather out at the
elbows I'll go along too, as the old proved says
"A sixpence saved is worth nine pence you
haven't got" So L will make the most of my
money, and buy at SMITHS"


And sure enough they did, and SAVED
TWENTY-FIVE PER CENT. by having their eye
teeth cut and knowing thing or two.
Year: 1879

What significance this brings to the heart of man. An, yes! the thoughts that cluster around the idea of "yellow leaf," are full of pathos and meaning

 They speak in tones not easily mis- understood, that although they in spring and summer time, fluttered to the breeze when fresh and green, that now during the fall season, they are assuming their winter garb of death, and will soon fall to the earth and be forgotten.

 An, what sad thought! Thousands of females are this day passing through the yellow leaf stage prematurely They are rapidly closing their lives of usefulness by refusing to rescue them selves when so potent and reliable reuI- ely is at hand as the English Female Bitters, the great female regulator of the day.
Year: 1879

If there is person in this county who does not know of Johnsn's Ano- dyne Eminent we hope this paragraph will reach that persons eye and that he will write us for particulars of it.. It is more valuable than gold, silver or precious stones.
Year: 1879

The manufacturers of Sheriden's Cavalry Condition Powders inform us that they will effectually prevent hog cholera and all other diseases in hogs, and that they will increase the size and weight one-quarter