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Year: 1878

to a greater or less extent. The


example set before the youth of the


country by those whom they have


been taught to revere, is ominous


in itself. How many of those who


have been recalled from degrada-


tion to prosperito, by the temper


ance ple0ge, have again fallen?-


How has the labor of the country


been effected? Let those answer


who know best. Has fraud and


crime been connlved at by those


whose duty it is to prosecute it or
not? Have not the statutes, made
for the protection of the life and
property of our citizens, been OPP
enly violated? The answer to these
pertinent questions can best be an


swered by the public, and we warn
them now, that if the free use of
whisky and money in elections is
permitted, that il will not be long
before elections will be. voted a
curse upon any country. The re-
cent elections, both National, State,
County and Municipal, have devel-
oped throughout the whole country
almost an utter disregard for the
ballotboX, and it would be we'll for
US to stop and consider what we
are coming to. 1t is no wild. and
extravagant statement to predict
that this republic is, to-day, more
in danger OF being wrecked and
broken to pieces by the ballotbOX,
than by civil war, for the destruc-
ton of the purity of the ballot fas-
tens upon US forever anarchy and
ruin; in its preservation we can
only hope for permanency; it is in
deed the safety-valve of the great
machine now, but should that valve
become rotten, by i'll use, the ma
chine itself will be blown to atoms.
These are facts over which we hope
the public, and more especially the
office seekers, will ponder. Let the
cancer be removed, and the wound
ere the sad and lament
able words shall be heard through
out this whole land, ''too late! too
late p Columbia journal.
Year: 1878

Little Rock Democrat: For sew
eral months past, among the many
teamsters and wood choppers work
ing for the railroad company and in
the vicinity of Popular Bluff, there
has been one, trim, very smooth
faced fellow, especially noticeable.
He was popular with all his associ-
ates, owing perhaps to his boyish
ways and straightforward bearing.
He did not indulge in the use of
Intoxicating liquors. and night after
night as the men assembled around
the camp fire, his CHEEKY voice, as
he sang the rude ballads of his COM
panions, made the forest ring.
About ten days ago he fell the
victim TO the chills and fever, and
while delirious, his attendant made
the startling discovery that their
favorite was not what he claimed,
but a woman ir disguise. At night,
on the return of the choppers to the
camp, the information was impart
ed, and the next day the girl was
carried to Popular Bluff, where, un-
der the care of physician. she soon
recovered. Her occupation gone,
she found herself an object of sus.
picion and curiosity. Unable TO
obtain work suitable for her sex, a
few nights since she donned her
''old Clothes" and, as we learned
from Conductor Welch, came to
where she is again at her
old occupation-driving team.
The girl, when questioned as to her
reasons for leading the life she does,
answered frankly that she cannot
obtain employment suitable for a
woman, and that as a man she re-
ceives much larger pay than she
would as a common domestic.
Year: 1878

The next Legislature, which is
to meet soon, will have delicate
task to perform. Reform and econ
omy in the administration of
State affairs must be their bea-
con light if they wish to have
the endorsement of their con
stituents. The session of the Leg
islature should be a short one, and
the people should not be taxed for
useless and expensive legislation.
Looking to this end, it should be
the first duty of both bodies to Sc
cure live and active speakers to pre-
side over their deliberations. There
is nothing which tends so much to
keep down unnecessary wranglings
and dissensions as a prompt and
posted presiding officer. Without
rejecting upon the qualifications of
any of the candidates for the office
of President of the Senate, we would
suggest the Hon. Il. w. Ewing, of
Giles county, as a suitable person
for the place. We formed our opin-
ion of the ability OF Mr.. Ewing
from personal observation, having
been present in Pulaski when he
presided over the late convention
assembled in that place. Mr.. Ew-
ing's decisions and rulings on that
occasion, even under all the trying
circumstances surrounding him, were
fair and impartial in the main. His
promptness and quickness of per
ception were remarked by every
one, and for nearly three days he
presided with dignity, and dis
patched business so rapidly as to
win for himself the commendation
of all. Mr.. Ewing proved on that
occasion that he was by nature a
presiding officer, and should the
members of the next Senate call on
him to preside over them, we feel
confident that they will never have
cause to regret their SELECTION
columbia Sentinel.
Year: 1878

The pencil marks you see around this
paragraph (thus) mean that your sub
scription is out or unpaid, and that you
are requested to pay up at once. Wo
would take great pleasure in extending
credit to our friends and patrons, but
cash alone will yay our expenses, and
we are forced to adhere to a strict cash
rule. We hope you will comprehend
and appreciate the necessity Of such a
course, and renew your su scription
without delay. We solicit your favor.


EB- We enter no new names on our
books without the money in advance.
Year: 1878

The other day Philadelphia
grocer's son struck a match mud
held it over the bunghole OF coal
oil barrel % see how much oil was
in it. He says IL was 1900 pounds
Of condensed lightning and nil
lion pounds old dynamite, and both
Of them were 50 glad % see him
that they bursted the barrel and
nearly broke his head in their anx
iety 90 get at him.
Year: 1878

A Chico. Cal, man, while putting
on his clothes last Sunday, stepped
into the kitchen and asked the hired
girl for n pin. Her hands were
covered viii dough, so she just
swelled out her bosom, and told
him TO take one; and the awkward
fellow would have been iumbling
around for that pin vet, if his vile
hadn't happened TO step in and
bounce the rolling pin on his head.
Year: 1878

You deserve to suffer, and if you lead q
miserable, unsatisfactory life in this beau
tiful world, It is entirely your own fault
and there is only one excuse for you--youi
unreasonable prejudice and skepticism
which has killed thousands. Personal
knowledge and common sense reasoning
will soon show you that Green's August
Flower will cure YOU of Liver Complaint
or Dyspepsia, with all its miserable effects
such as sick headache, palpitation of ths
heart, sour stomach, habitual costiveness
dizziness of the head, nervous prostratior
low epirits,&c. Its sales now reach every
town on the Western Continent, and not 1
druggist but will tell You Of its wonderful
cures. You can buy a sample bottle fol
ten cents. Three doses will relieve you.


jy6eod&w
Year: 1878

The present influx of tramps, consequent
upon the approaching cold weather,is not be
entirely dlsrrgarded, and those who wish to
letain what they have should be careful to
lock up everything, aud lock it up securely.
The tramp thinks the world owe. him a
living, and gets that living the easiest way
he can, regardless OF the Moral or civil
law. There are at the present time quite a
LARGE numter Of these nomadic sors OF
poverty in town, and people Should there
lore be on the lookout.
Year: 1878

A special meeting of the City Council
Was called for Monday evening to consider
the complaints arising from the location OF
the polling place in the Third Ward, it be-
ing unsatisf actory to many of the residents
of that ward. There not being quorum
of the Council present it vas decided to
leave the adjustment Of the matter to the
member Of the Council from that ward.
Year: 1878

FOUND AT LAST


that the
NEW DRY GOODS AND CLOTHING


)-sToRE or
M. ETTENSON 4 son,


Are Offering Their
ENTIRE NEW STOCK AT LOWER PRICES
than any other house In the city.
To convince yourself call at their store at
100 FIFTH STREET, 100
Opposite the Mansion House,,


AND YoU CAN BUY
Year: 1878

A correspondent writing from Paris says that the hotel proprietors and keep CTS of apartment houses have an eye open to business now. Everywhere one hears the same cry, "We made no money last year, and we shall make no money next year, so we must get all that we can this season." In many instances the proprie- tors refuse positively to grant lease of their rooms for more than month ahead, nor will they even state price that they will be willing to take. " Were we to name rent we might be able to get great deal more, " is their invariable re- ply, and the same system has extended to the hotels. Therefore, let the Amer ican traveller who visits Paris this sea- son come expecting to be feeced, and assuredly he will not be disappointed.
Year: 1878

The saque wrapper is one of the most comfortable and at the same time grace full models for the fitting robes worn early in the morning or during illness. The fronts are not closely fitted, but are merely adjusted to the figure by single short dart for the bust and long dart under each arm. This long dart under the arm does away with the necessity of cross basque seam, and also widens the fronts, throwing the first long seam in the back edge of the side body, in stead of cutting up the wrapper in many long breadths. The sides hang smoothly and the skirt is sufficiently narrow to give a slender appearance. The only additional fullness is in the three middle back seams several inches below the waist. The bordered calicoes and per cales with bourette-designs or polka dots and striped borders make up prettily by this pattern. A white cord and tassel of linen is sometimes worn about the waist, and Smyrna lace is added for trimming. A silk belt ribbon is used with woolen or silk wrappers when it is desired to make them more snug-ftting. White pique wrappers are bordered with open worked embroidery, and ornamented with long-looped bows of colored ribbon. For plaid or striped hannels the favorite trimming is border of quilted silk. Cashmere wrappers have wide passem- enterie borders, and when very handsome are trimmed with rows of knife -pleated lace.
Year: 1878

The Spring Valley (Pa.) Times gives this innocent marriage notice: T-

 stands among the first and enterprising men of this town, and he has stood it long and we'll ere embarking upon the matrimonial sea. He is young man of temperate and gentle habits, and de- serves a kind and loving wife, which be- yond all doubt he has captured. He loved C. as he could love no other, and oft upon stilly night, when all the rest of the inhabitants of that quiet town would be drowned in the arms of Mor- pheus, he could be seen making his exit gently via the garden gate. But now it is all over and the victory is won.
Year: 1878

Have you heard of the story of Eva ? She has been the object of great out pouring of popular sympathy in Paris. Eva Kleacht is Russian girl who was lion tanner in circus which has lately been making the tour of the world. On the voyage from Bahia to Maufitus, the steamer was wrecked md most of the company was lost, but Eva and few others were picked up by an American sailing vessel and taken to New York. In that city the Russian Consul furnished her transportation to Paris where she expected to find employment. But she sought work in vain, and preferred, rather than live dishonorably, to give herself into the charge of the police as person without visible means of support. Now, vagrancy is punished severely in France; Eva was taken at her word and was sent to the 'Depot," where, after time she was transferred to St. Lazare, the prison tor women. A journalist who was pass ing through the court yard as she was about entering the prison van was struck with EvR's proud and noble air, and in- qulred her history. It was told him. He interested himself with other people in her behalf, and the result was that Fran conf, the director of the great circus bearing his name, went to the prison, offered her employment and proper po- sltlon and she was speedily released. She now appears nightly at the circus as 8 horse tanner, for it appears that her &C., complishments are varied. She says that she does not regret her course in any manner, and that she would have suffer- ed long Imprisonment rather than have anything but proper recognition from society. Her sturdy independence had made her quite heroine. What Q TO- nance might be written concerning her life, and how true it is that truth is stranger than fiction.
Year: 1878

Tho attention of the travelling public is respect nully invited to some of tho merits of this great highway, in the confident assertion and belief that no other line can offer equal Inducements as a .oute of through travel. In
Year: 1878

Editor Florida Agricult,uist


We do not pretend to be the most
enterprising people in the world, nor
even in the State or County, and
should never think of competing
with our wide awake neighbors of
DeLand in way of improvements or
setting of trees or any other OF the
numerous distinguishing characters
tics upon which the thriving and
bustling communities in the western
portion of the County pride them
selves, for though we are not alto
gether stagnant or entirely mossed
over with age or laziness, or pleth


ora of wealth or luxuries, yet we are
a conservative and slow moving peo-
ple-adopting new fashions and new
ideas deliberately and after due con-
sideration, first being sure we are
right and then going ahead-it it
does not require too much eXertion.
No, we are free to say that we are
not like the grasshopper, who jumps
first and afterwards looks to see
where he is going to light. We are
not of those who marry in haste to
repent at leisure Therefore when l
tell you that we have just sent off
orders for considerably over two
hundred fruit trees and vines of va
rieties not heretofore introduced here
to any extent, you may be sure it has
been done after thorough canvass


OF ali the pros and cons-an accurate
balancing of the probabilities care
full review OF the reports Of efforts
: in other parts of the State. and viii
perfectly clear idea Of the expert
mental, and, if you please, hazardous
character of the investment. The
principal trees ordered are the Apple.
Pear, Peach and Plum, with Null
berry and Ounce, and few varieties
of choice Grapes. The success in
the cultivation of variety OF the
best pears in eastern Texas gives us
reason to feel pretty secure on pears


in spite of the prevailing impression
that we are too near the coast, for


our coast, tempestuous as it often is,


is sweet vale OF Avoca com


pared with that OF Texas, and, con-


trasted with hers, our northers are
balmy zephyrs. Apples have been


successfully grown in most counties
of the State and we propose to ascer-
tain if Volusia is to be an exception.
The Chickasaw Plums we have


ordered are upon their native heath,
being improved varieties Of the wild
ehickasaw, and as for peaches, some
have been grown here this year that
were said to be excellent, 10y resi-
) dents who claim to have eaten


peaches in New Jersey and Ohio
and therefore. ought to know what
GOOD ones are. We have not yet
accepted the ioSe dirit of those who
insist that good peaches can be
grown only upon Florida seedlings,


but on the contrary we have no fear


Of Georgia seedlings budded with
the best northern varieties already


acclimated. do not know whether
those who put their faith exclusively
in Florida seedlings run entirely to
natural fruit, or whether they bud in
from northern varieties. But my eX-
perience with natural fruit does not
encourage me in spending much
time upon it, and l prefer budding
as the only means of getting the va
rieties that have an established repu'


tation. The chances of getting from
seedlings better fruit than Is now


Continued on page %
Year: 1878

OuS lSdfSo VI UuO GLSSS Oh viz hiSh
lands, especially the pine lands, are
liable to curl from drought, trees on
the low lands are not affected; nor
are the latter more easily injured by
excessive rainfall when thoroughly
drained. AS a general rule the fruit
is large, clean, and juicy, and does
not suffer either in appearance or
quality from long continued drought
as it does on the high lands. The
fruit is seldom covered with the rust
that so often effects the fruit on the
high lands. 1t mas been affirmed that
trees on these lands are comparatively
short lived. Some of the groves are
still in good condition on this soil
which were in bearing when killed to
the ground by thesgreat frost of 1885.
Owing to the expense of clearing the
low lands settlers are often urged to
locate on the high pine lands, where
start can be made more easily and
with less outlay. The expense need
not be as great as is represented if
properly managed. Eight or ten
years must elapse on the pine land
before the trees begin to bear. On
the low lands trees grow faster and
come into bearing in much shorter
time. One advantage of the latter
over the former is that other crops
can be profitably raised to defer cur
rent expenses while the orange is
coming on.


There is considerable anxiety
among orange growers as to what
will be the effect Of the recent higl
! ! wafer rpon. those low land grove
which have been submerged. Il
1871 the water rose from similar
causes to about the same height as il
has risen this year. Many groves
were overfowed, but, although the
water rose a month earlier than this
year while the sun still shone with
Summer heat, and remained upon the
ground six weeks, the trees sustained
but little permanent injury. Some
trees turned yellow, and others drop
ped their fruit, and in certain locali-
ties the crop for the ensuing season
was somewhat injured; so tar as the
writer has been able to ascertain, few
of the bearing trees were killed, and
in most instances they speedily re
covered from the effects Of the water.
In Louisiana when crevasse occurs
in the Spring which event is by nc
means rare, the orange groves on the
Low lands are often inundated fol
several weeks. yet the trees do not
seem to suffer materially, 1t would be
hardly advisable to plant q. new grove
upon land liable to overflow. Those
who have groves upon these LANDS
however, should not be too easily
discouraged !; it will pay better in the
! end to persevere, even under idisad
yantages, than to give up what has
already been done and start anew
The effects of the recent high water
will only be temporary, and 1T may
not occur again for a life time, Some
seasons the entire peach and apple
crop of,the northern states is destroy
ed by an unforeseen cause, yet the
peach and apple growers neither
leave in disgust nor quit the business.
Even orange culture is not exempt
from drawbacks they are incident to
all pursuits in life, and should be met
with patience and perseverance, in
the hope of better success In the tu-
ture. gmi sa


Arthur II. MANvILLE., F.
Lake George Fla, Oct 30th. 1878.


AGRrCTLTCRIS ST 50 per annum.
Year: 1878

"AiO"AhS uAO oAt W nave dCCeSS 10 UD6
roots, which is essential to the health
OF the tree. 1t facilitates the circu-
lation OF gasses escaping from de-
composing organic matter in the soil;
these acting chemically upon insolu-
BILE substances render them fit for
plant food. The rains penetrate the
soil easily and supply those indispen-
sable elements of vegetable life, and
ammonia and carbonic acid, (which
are important constituents OF rain
water. Fertilizers deposited on the
surface are carried down by the de-
scending rains, and returned by the
ascending capillary water from be-
low bringing them into constant con-
tact with the feeding surfaces of the
roots. A greater depth is thus OBJ
tanned for the roots, and the trees are
less liable to injury from excessive
rain or drought. Where there is not
sufficient fall for underdrainage, sur
face drains or bitches answer the pur-
pose admirably. Owing to the sandy
nature Of our soil deep bitches cave
badly. Shallow bitches answer the
purpose much better if the distance
between them is not too great.
From twenty-five to fifty feet is not
too near upon majority of our low
lands. Trees whose roots are imbed-
ded in soil soaked with sour, stag
nant water cannot be healthy. 1t is
wonderful that the orange tree stands
as much abuse in this direction as it
does. Whatever may be the specific
nature of die-back,'' whether fun
gold or otherwise, there cannot be 8
doubt that one of the most prolific
causes of the disease in the State is the
lack of proper drainage.


The expense of clearing the low
lands, either in developing wild
groves or in preparing to set out new
need not be SO great as is represented.
This class of land seldom contains
scrub palmetto, myrtle, ETC., which
render the work of grubbing so
heavy on some lands. In the wild
groves where cultivation must be
done with the hoe, the land need not
be grubbed. Even in soil which is
being prepared for setting out trees,
and which is to be plowed, the usual
thorough and expensive mode can be
dispensed with A few roots which
are most in the way Of cultivation
can be removed. The remainder will
rot by the time the soil is in suitable
condition tor trees, and will add
greatly to the richness OF the land.
One Of the most hourishing young
groves on the St. Johns River, was
cleared without the destruction of a
single tree or the removal of root.
The former were cut, piled and al
lowed to decay, the l&tter rotted in
the ground In three years the tim
ber was almost gone, and the roots
had entirely disappeared thus an in.
valuable fertilizer was saved, and the
work of clearing materially lessened
Care should be taken that the rotten
wood does not come in contact with
the trees, as it breeds wood lice
which are liable to girdie the trees
A greater portion Of the wild
groves in the State, are upon the low
lands !; this led, no doubt, to their
first being utilized for orange grow
ing. Grating on the wild trees at
fords the quickest mode Of securing
fruit, and many Of the old groves arc
of this character. The fact that the
wild trees are indigenous to this soil
should demonstrate its adaptability tc
orange culture, While these wild
Year: 1878

1t is the opinion of the New Era that the revival
of the Beecher scandal is device of the money
power to divert attention from its misdeeds Port
land Press


Wen, that isn't one Of the golden
opinions" alluded to by Shakespeare. 1t
is only a Greenback suspicion, and there
fore not entitled to much weight.
Year: 1878

The times are too hard to start new newspapers.
Ex-Congressman Lynch has been unable to make
his new paper the Washington National Union a
success, and he has sold it to the Washington Dali
ly Post, an able Democratic paper Belfast Age


But the Post IS newer newspaper
than the Union, having been started only
few months ago; so that a more reason
able explanation is that the public prefer
even a Democratic paper with brains to
a pretended Republican sheet without.
Bangor Wing.