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Year: 1878

Earl Beaconsfeld is certainly great
diplomat and statesman. He can en-
swer questions of vast importance, and
suggest weighty measures with the ut


most GOODNESS, but we don't know how
he acts when he has collar which
flies off its rear mooring, say about
seven times an hour Flying Leaves.
Year: 1878

strangers to enter the pass-alludng TO tho Khy-
beer,s bargain with the Englishmen." Upon which
the Viceroy's officer thought it time to end the
interview. Hardly less remarkable are the ad-
missions in an article on the same page that the
present complications have undoubtedly been
brought about by a radically faulty Afghan
pOcy-a policy which was departure from
that adhered to by Lord Lyttons six i'm
mediate predecessors-and that so far from
there being any need of haste in sending
mission just now. it is known that for three years
and more Russian officers have been bonored guests
in Cabul" Every scrap of fresh evidence, ] repeat


adds strength the belief that the Crisis has been
wilfuy precipitated TO serve some purpose OF LORD
Beaconsfeld, and promote the development OF what
he delights to call an Imperial policy. G. W.. s.
Year: 1878

<. F. Bul etin.

 One of the most prolific and F; ofitable crops that can be raised i lhc squash. A good yield will we from l5 to 25 tons to the acre, md the seed may be planted from the 18th to the last of June. In deed, on deep loamy soils planting after the middle of June is better than before. If planted earlier, the blooming is likely to take place dur ing the hot spell in August, and the bloom is then quite likely to blast and produce no setting of fruit. The late planting blooms after the hottest weather is over and then the sets of fruit are abundant, and there is plenty of time for the fruit to ri- pen before frost appears. We have seen the best of crops of squash gown on the same land af;er a croI of early potatoes had been harvested Squash are excellent food for dairy cows, making d good flow of rich highly colored milk and makes the best of butter. Fed in connection with alfalfl hay during the winter, a dairy of fresh COWS will make about as much butter as in the spring with the best of grass. Squash are also excellent feed for hogs during the winter season, keeping them i'll good order and in the best of health much better tha4 dry barley. Those who have stock will do well to plant squash.
Year: 1878

It has been ascertained that a book agent can be won by kindness. One day last week a West Hill man tried it on one of them. He beat him with bludgeon and broke his arm, poured kerosene over his clothes, and set fire. to 1t, shot him through the lungs and finally locked him up in room with a mad dog, and the agent deeply affected, whispered through the key hole that as soon as the dog got through with him, he'd let him have a copy of MOody's Anec- dotes" for sixty-fve cents, which was thirty per cent. off.
Year: 1878

Since Edison invented tine tele- phone and phonograph he has more orders for new inventions than he can attend to. One party wants him to invent boneless shad; another asks him to turn his atten- ton to a gas-metre that won't al- ways lie in favor of the company !; a third desires that he will invent q purse winch will always contain a dollar or two and while he is about it, he might as well infuse some of his inventive genius into a flight of stairs that won't creak like all pos sessed when man sncaks into his house at night.
Year: 1878

Yesterday afternoon says the Stockton Independent of Junc 2Sth, fire caught in a fine body of grain

 lying in the sink of Corral Hollow

 creek, three miles from Bantas, and

 before it could be checked 1000 acres of the finest wheat of that section were totally consumed. We could not learn the names of the parties who suffered this dis tressing loss, but understand that the fire caught from sparks from the stovepipes of Chinese cook house, There was a stiff wind

 blowing at the time, and but for the fortunate intervention of q field of green wheat, the fire might have destroyed the whole valley. About 300 of the farmers and cit izens of Bantas gathered at the fire and fought it vigorously with wet sacks. The wheat was expect ed to yield about 25 to 30 bushels per acre. There was no insurance on the grain although farmers on the west are insured largely this year. The grain was just ready to cut. The loss is estimated at $2O,OOO.
Year: 1878

Boil and mash half a pumpkins; strain off the water until quite dry; then add a pint and a half of milk, five eggs beaten light, half a pound of sugar, quarter of a pound melted butter, half a pint of brandy and a large tablespoonful of ground cinnamon; put in pastry crust, and bake as pie.

 When done bring one around to our office and we will sample it.
Year: 1878

GENTLEMEN who have conversed
with President Hayes recently were
impressed with the seriousness which
his countenance evinced hen allusion
was made to the failure Of the South
ern leaders to keep faith as to letting
bygones be bygones. The President
is certainly disappointed, and many of
the prominent gentlemen who have
counseled acquiescence in the pacfca-
ton policy toward the South, give evi-
dence BY very positive utterances of
their encouragement, saying that, IN
the light Of the ten months experiment
made with the Southern policy Of the
administration, there is nothing from
which real encouragement can be
drawn.-- Cincinnati Commercial.
Year: 1878


The action of two policemen who whip
ped out their little pop-guns and fired at
random-one at a prisoner who did not
wish to follow the officer to Jail, the other
at suspicious" person who refused to
stand still long enough to be arrested, has
provoked some sharp, bat just criticism
from the Democrat.


Policemen have no right under the op-
erations Of home rule laws, to fire at sus-
pected parties. They must first make
themselves absolutely sure that their pro-
posed target is cOlored Republican on
the very eve Of running for some office.
Then they may logically presume he is
about to organize a ''bloody riot" and
blaze away at once. The citizen bystand-
ers, who somehow always happen to be
armed with twenty dollar pistol, though
bread is hard to find, may also blaze away
in the same direction as the peeler, where
the ''proof is abundant or the presump-
ton great" that the victim is a riot-inci-
ting colored Republican. In no other
case, except when his own life is in immi-
nent peril, and not always then is po-
licemen allowed to shoot at people whose
looks do not happen to be satisfactory to
the official scrutiny.


We know it may be pleaded on the part
of the Metropolitsns that it is little hard



on them 70 be made an exception to the
general rule that prevails of shooting OF
stabbing on sight any poor, uninAuen-
tial fellow who, unconsciously or other
wise gives ofFense. But they should
remember they are employed as the exem-
plsrs of public morals, and their very
liberal pay under Democratic "home rule
is expected to reconcile them to many in.
conveniences. Some of them, we are told
receive as much as twelve or fifteen dol.
lars a month from the brokers for theil
time. No body knows what the broker
does with it. Why, this is nearly an muct
as city administrator receives in day
for keeping the city clean, repairing th'
wharves, collecting the city revenues anC
three or four other things which have no
been very well done of late. -.


However, the policeman who can no
use his pistol with proper discrimination
ought to have it taken from him, be dis
missed the force and announce him as al
independent candidate for a position
where fire arms are not part of the on
cial supplies.
Year: 1878

expect to soon see these figures
changed, and a healthy revival Of
business. There have been great
crops of cotton, sugar, molasses and
rice raised during the past season
which are awaiting movement to
market. Some of the business
which naturally belongs here on
account of nearness to the market
may have been diverted by the
three months' seige of the epidemic,
but enough will remain to impart
little temporary, life into this now
thoroughly stagnant city.
Year: 1878

taking every precaution to discourage en-
croachments by which the treaties of 1856
and 1871 are threatened. In the course
of the debate which followed. Lord Derby
spoke in decided terms concerning Russia 6
demand that an Egyptian tribute shall be
pledged for the payment of indemnity
bonds. He said it might turn out that
British interests would be very much in
yolved in any claim for payment of part of
the indemnity from that tribute. He
pointed out that the occupation of Armen-
ia would bring the Russians no nearer to
India. Her Majestys government, when
they adopted the policy Of neutrality, we're
aware that Russia must eventually triumph
and very great changes must ensue. 1t
was unfair to blame the government now
because state of things had arisen which
was necessary result of the attitude of neu-
trality, which the nation at the commence
ment of the war supposed them to be in.
Lord Derby concluded by giving the pre-
vious question, which was ultimately
agreed to without division.
Year: 1878

Before you begin your heavy spring
work, after winter Of relaxation. your sys-
TEN needs cleansing and strengthening to
prevent an attack of A que, Bilious or Spring
Fever, or some other Spring sickness that
will unfit you for seasons work You
will save time, much sickness aud great
expense if you will use one bottle of Hop
Bitters in your family this month. Don't
wait See other column.
Year: 1878

The Lawrenceburg Press, the
only outspoken greenback paper IN
Middle Tennessee that we know of,
declines to support Col. Tillman.
We copy its reasons Tor So doing


The late convention which met at
Nashville acted very imprudently in
putting before the people of Ten
nessee, the man whom they did.
While we endorse the movement of
the National Greenback party, be-
lieving as we do, by judging the fu-
ture from the past, that relief to the
oppressed people of the United
States, will be reached only by this
party, we do not PROPOSE to lend
our assistance to the helping into
office of broken down politicians, or
of trying to re-establish men who
have been forsaken ty their own
party. Though Judge Tillman now
stands on the Greenbsck platform.
his record shows that he has
been one of the most extreme men
for hard money. Eight years ago
when in the Congress of the United
States his record shows that Judge
Tillman invariably cast his vote
with the hard money party.


Therefore we shall not advocate
the election of Judge Tillman. How
ever, we are only one of the people
of Tennessee, and speak only the
sentiments of a single individual.
We have the utmost confidence in
the capacity of the people to select
those who will serve them best, and
shall not endeavor to make any
contrasts or comparisons between
the aspiranLs. Neither shall we ad
duce any reasons why a voter
should support either aspirant.
We shall advocate the organization
of an Independent Greenback Par
ty, endorsing such nominees as we
like and rejecting those whom we
dislike. We do not propose to play
into the hands of the Republican
party, nor to be dictated to by Dem
Ocrats.
Year: 1878

Silver Springs, Florida, is one of
the greatest curiosities of the
South. II bubbles up in a basin
nearly 100 feet deep and about an
acre in extent, sendi-g from it a
deep stream 60 to 100 feet wide,
and extending six or eight miles to
the Ochlwha river. In the spring
itself sixty boats may lie at anchor,
quite fleet. The spring thus
forms a natural inward port, to
which three steamers run regularly
from the st. Johns, making close
connection with the ocean steamers
at Pilatka. The clearness of the
water is truly wonderful. 1t seems
even more transparent than air.
You see the bottom so feet below
the bottom of your boat, the exact
form of the smallest pebble, the
outline and color of the leaf that is
sunk, and all the prismatic colors
OF the rainbow are reflected. Large
fish swim in it, every scale visible
and every movement distinctly
seen. If you go over the spring In
a boat, you will see the tissues in
the rock from which the river rush
es upward like an inverted cataract.
Year: 1878

Cincinnati Enquirer: 1t is pre-
dicted that the Republican party
will change its name to that of
National, for this reason: The par
ty so long as it retains it's present
name cannot hope to have an effec-
tive organization in the Southern
States. The name is associated
with almost everything repulsive to
the Southern mind. Its associa-
tion would not attach to the Nation
tional party without incurring the
odium that now attaches to these
belonging to the Republican party.
White and black Republicans would
gladly seek the shelter of the new
name. And what is more, the
name National is more appropriate,
and suits the principles of the lead
ers of the party, than the ZANE Re
publican. And it is about time for
the party to take a new name. We
should not be surprised to witness
the change.
Year: 1878

AS we supposed, the Greenback-
ers in Tennessee are disposed
to take but very little stock in Hon.
Lewis Tillman as a Gubernatorial
candidate The following para
graph, which we clip from the Jack
son Tribune and Sun, shows how
the wind blows;


The Greenhack club of this city
had lively and rattling time on
Saturday last. The object of the
meeting seemed to be to take in the
situation generally. and especially
to raise an indignant howl at the
nomination of Tillman for Cover
nor. W. H. Bruton, vino had on
his war paint, arose and moved
that the club do repudiate the nom
ination of Tillman, which was car
ried amid applause and without a
dissenting voice. Mr.. Jesse Harp
er moved that the Executive Com
mittee of the State notify Mr.. TIT
man of the action of the club, and
that he be requested to tender his
resignation as the National candi-
date for Governor. The motion of
Mr.. Harper was also CARRIED unan-
imously and amid loud and ringing
cheers.


Commenting on the above, the
Tribune and Sun is prompted to re-
mark:


The nomination of Tillman has
sounded the disintegration OF the
Greenback party in Tennessee. He
is totally unfit for its leadership.
and his candidacy will hardly ere
ate visible stirring of the political
waters throughout the State. Let
our Greenback Friends quit their
folly and vote for the gallant Marks.
Year: 1878

The CITIZEN printers are as accu-


rate and painstaking as any similar
corps in any office in any State in
any country, but 1t is simply impos-
sible to maintain perfect accuracy
at all times, especially in following
the manuscript of careless writer's.
Correspondents must not complain
when they themselves are some
times to blame. For instance, on
one page of a recent contribution
by one of our most careful, most
accurate and most gifted correspon-
dents we found no less than ten er-
rors. We were led to this discovery
by complaint from this correspon
dent to a third party that our
printers were terrible butchers
When it is known that the average
page of manuscript which falls into
the printers hands contains 10 to
40 errors in punctuation, orthogra-
ply, grammar, ETC., and the chirogra-
ply of which could not be decipher-
ed by one man in ten who thinks he
could read ANYTHING short of a page
of Chinese writing which had been
struck by lightning. and that print
ers are fallible like other people,
and are always under a pressure,
and always provoked at the bad chi
Biography of correspondents, it is
astonishing that there are not ten er-
rors where there is now one. Never
grumble at a printer again if you
want to get to Heaven.
Year: 1878

The pencil marks you sec 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, ana
we are forced to adhere 20 4 strict cash
rule. We hope you VIII comprehend
and appreciate the necessity OF such q
course, and renew your su scriprion
without delay. We solicit your favor.


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

Captain Gunner yesterday addressed letter to
Police Commissioners Nichols, chairman OF the Street
Cleaning mmitec stating that for the past SIX days
tho tugs belonging TO the department have hot
ablo TO 90 to sea account OF the wind being east
by northeast and that all tho ssows belonging to the


bureau and tnoso that are hired are laden, aud should
tho W, nd contnu ue In direction tor the
twenty-our he Will not bo able TO collect tho
in tho city unless Is allowed to deposit tho
same on the different dumping grounda
Year: 1878

and walked slowly across the hall,
her soft white draperies trailing
over the carpet and her soft loose
hair looking like a nimbus of gold
round the head of a saint. She
had just reached the door, when it
opened and she came face to face
with Maxwell Stuart. She did not
scream or faint, but by the sudden
stream OF brightness that seemed
to shine over all her life, she knew
what her wOman's heart had been
waiting for. Their greetings were
quiet, and soon they were talking
in calm, natural manner.


Eleven years had wrought a
great change in Maxwell, now Col.
Stuart. He was thinner and dark.
er; the old hard recklessness was
gone, and silver threads CLEANED
among the dark waving hair.


That was not Colonel Stuart's
last visit to the old rectOry. He
came again, and again, aud one
evening down in the beautiful old
garden he showed Bethel the rose
lying withered and dead in u tiny
sandal case. Iu grave, earnest
voice lie said:


at has gone with me through
all the long years, the sweetest
memory of my life clinging around
it. Bethel, my dazzling, | have
kept my promise, and will you trust
me nowf Dearest | love you, |
have loved you ever since that
evening eleven years ago, when
You, with your sweet face full of
tender compassion, allowed me to
call you sister. Give me IA dearcr
right Bethel be my WIFE"


And Bethel, wishing for no high
er earthly gift than the love of
Maxwell Stuart, turned and for
once dropped her crutch, and laid
her hands in his.


IL think l have always loved
you MAXWELL" she said simply.


He drew her to his heart, kissing
the wide white brow and sweet
quivering lips softly and tenderly.


Through all the peaceful after
years, Bethel learned each day how
truly the promise had been kept.
Year: 1878

Gather them close to your loving heart
Cradle them on your breast,
They will soon enough leave your brood


ing care,
Soon enough mount youths topmost stair
Little ones in the nest.
Fret not that the children's hearts are gay,
That their restless feet will run;
There may come a time, in the by-and-by,
When you'll sit in your lonely room and


sigh


For sound of childish fun;
When you'll long for repetition sweet,
That sounded through each room,
Of "Mother," Mother" the dear love


calls
That will echo long in the silent halls
And add to their stately gloom.
There may come a time when youll long


to hear


The eager boyish tread,
The tuneless whistle, the clear, shrill


shout,
The busy hustle in and out,
And pattcring overhead
When the boys and girls are all grown mp,
And scattered far and wide,
Or gone to the undiscovered shore,
Where youth and age come ncvermore,
You will MISS them from your side.
Then gather them close to your loving


heart,


Cradle them on your breast,
They will soon enough leave your brood


ing care,
Soon enough mount youths topmost


stair


Little ones in the nest.
Year: 1878

Every intelligent person should know how to ascertain the state of the pulse in health then by comparing it with what it was when he IS ailing he may have some idea of the case. Parents should know the healthy pulse of each child, as now and then @ person is born with @ remarkably slow or fast pulse, and the very case in hand may be of that peculiarity. An infants pulse is 140; a child of seven years, about 80, and from twenty to sixty years, it is 70 beats a minute, declining to 60 at four score. A healthful grown persons pulse beats 70 times minute. There may be good health down to 60; but if the pulse always exceeds 70 there is disease. The machine is working itself out there is fever and inflammation somewhere, and the body is feeding on itself-as in consumption, when the pulse is quick, that is, over 60, gradually increasing with decreased chances of cure, until it reaches no or '120, when death comes before many days. When the pulse is over 70 for months, and there is a slight cough, the lungs are affected.
Year: 1878

There was once mother whose daughters

 three

 Were fair as the fairest maids could be; But, alas when the little youngest came It was but it's mothers grief and shame, And to look on it almosther heart was broken It was lame from it's birth, it had never spoken It had scarcely moved. When there came day That the mother was called from this world

 away,

 Then charged she the sisters by One above To watch OCT that helpless child in love; And blessing her God for His kind release, The mother gave up her soul in peace. And still to their word were the sisters true; They made of the little one much ado. She was nourished and cherished, tended and

 loved;

 Yet never spoke she, and never moved, Till there dawned on the sisters day of pride, When the eldest went forth ls a happy bride For once was forgotten the little sister, In the joyous hustle had no one missed her! When late to her room the sisters sped, She was sitting upright in her little bed

 She beckoned unto them, and spoke out

 clear:

 Mothers been with me- and I've been fed Mothers been with me, our mother dearl She has left for you sisters her blessing true, And her love she has bid me give to you.' Then the child fell back, as if wearied sore, And lifted her eyelids never more
Year: 1878

The farmer groahs over the mischief to his wheat caused by the various fungi which attack the straw, the leaves and chaff, the flower, the grain. His dismay increases when Q microscopic botanist, Bauer, informs him that so minute are the spores of Uredo segetune that the one hundred and sixty thousandth part of 0 square inch contained forty-nine of them, and that one grain of wheat is capable of containing 4,000, 900 of spores. And when the most scientific botanists ascribe the potato disease to the pres ence of fungus, the gardener joins the farmer in bewailing their impotency to resist such pest. Many fungi prey on the tissue of living leaves; and from this cause the cultivation of the vine is everywhere precarious, and in Madeira had few years ago been almost aban- done1, though happily the mischief is now arrested. The careful housewife is sorely tried to find her preserves, cheese, bread, moldy; her beer mothery," /" her catsup ropy and offensive and all from the presence of fungi. If, in her dismay, she exclaims But how hap pens it that cheese is mouldy at its very centre?" the botanist may reply "The fungus germs floating in the air had valious opportunities of finding ad- mission. They were perhaps deposited on the grass, the grass was eaten by the COW, and so the germs were lodged in the milk; or germs fell upon the curd, and lay there dormant till the dampness of the cheese brought into action their vegetative powers" The wine mer- chant, in like manner, experiences heavy losses when his casks are wrapped in fungus which has drained them of their precious contents. In the vaults of the London Docks, vinous fungus hangs from the roof like dark, woolly clouds, completely shrouding the brick arches. A remarkable instance of this kind is noticed by Sir Joseph Banks. He placed in his cellar cask of wine in order that it might ripen. At the end of three years he wished to ascertain it's condi- tion, but found access to the cellar i'm possible, owing to something obstruct- ing the opening of the door. The door having been cut down, the cellar was found to be completely filled with fun gus growth of so firm texture that it required an axe for its removal.