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Year: 1878

MR.. EDITOR.-Our people must un-


derstand by this time that planting cot


ton on a large scale, and depending


upon the merchant for meat and bread


won't do. If they have not reached
| that conclusion, experience can never


teach them anything. Immediately
,fter the war the high price of the staple
| induced many to try to make money in


Its production. It was not long how


ever before it began to tumble over.
down from 80 to z cents pound, and
this Notwithstanding the many vista
lions of caterpillars and storms, sill We
would not give up the idea that there
was money in cotton, and cotton We
would plant. The consequence has been
exactly what any safe man could have
foreseen. We have become poorer and
poorer until the merchant has we'll nigh
ceased to make advances of provisions,
AS in days gone by. This may seem to
some as hard fate. It should be con-
sidered only as good lesson and we
ought to profit by it. In agriculture, as
in all other calliugs, no one can succeed
who will not to a great extent defend
himself. The man who does look around
for assistance, but boldly rolls up his
sleeves and goes to work determined to
achieve success by his own unaided eff
forts seldom fails. My fellow farmers
ought to follow the same rule. Let
each one make sure of raising q full
supply of meat and bread at home. Let
him have his own pork, his chickens,
milk aud butter, corn, rice, potatoes and
good vegetable garden and when he
has made sure of all this, if he has time
and room he may plant little cotton
and take the chances of selling it at
nine cents pound.


The winter season could be used ad-
vantageously in the raising Of crops
that would go great way in feeding
our horses, cattle and hogs, and in
surfing as good a supply of milk and but
ter as we obtain iu summer. Let us
cultivate the rust proof red oats, rye,
rutabaga turnips, &c. just after the
corn crop is gathered in the month of
October, all these things could be sown.
They need no other cultivation than q
thorough preparation of the soil be-
fore dropping the seed. They are ripe
and ready to be gathered by the latter
part of May, in time to plant corn, peas,
sweet notatOes. rice, &c.


There are farmers in this parish, who
have been planting oats for nearly ten
successive years, and who have never
failed to make good crop every year.
They feed nothing else to their horses.
What is there to prevent every farmer
from trying it on q limited scale. Oats
can be sown till the 1st of March and
will ripen by the latter part of May.
The corn crop last year, as everybody
knows, was very short. Many farmers
will have none to feed to their teams by
the 1st of March. They will be COM
pelled to use the new corn rs soon as
it ia hard enough for food. The result
will be that larger supply will be re-
auired to meet the wants Of this and
next year. Plant oats and you will
have them to feed until late in the
winter and thereby save the corn raised
this year for next year. We must get
out of the old ruts. FARMER.
Year: 1878


Once more by mount and meadow side.
The merry bells are ringing,
Once more by vale and river wide
The school-room doors are swinging;
Forgotten books win pensive looks,
And states come forth from cover.
For hand in hand to lessOn-land
Go little lass and lover.
Vacation hours were full of joy,
Vacation skies were CHEEKY;
Yet days which pleasant tasks employ
Are neither dull nor dreary.
The rhythmic beat along the street
OF feet that dance In walking
Give witness true that three times two
Is better fun than talking.
What need of bliss were ours, my friend,
If we, like these, were able
Our cares and discOntents to spend
In vanquishing table
II we could be so light and free
Amid our garnered pleasures
As these who sweet the tale repeat
OF runtc-welghts and measures!
An! children dear, our later days
Have brought us wise amounting;
We see in all your sunny ways
The Fathers kind appointing.
Your morning bell is ours as we'll
We go to school to Duty,
Whose brow severe from year to year
Wears fadeless wreaths OF beauty.
Year: 1878

e5I'IIarvest only comes once year,
and wife can be got, any time, said
an Eagle city (Ta.) farmer as he de-
cIined TO stop work for an hour and at
tend the funeral Of his wife, when the
neighbors had laid out the corpse.
Year: 1878

G5pSome scientific men claim that
the earth il drawing nearer the sun ev-
ery year. We don't know about that,
but we do know that throughout the
season the bottom OF the strawberry and
blackberry boxes come closer and closer
to the top every day. Haackeys. z
Year: 1878

The surest farms appear to be those stu
ated upon the bench lands of the west side
OF the mountain ranges, where they get the
full benefit of the afternoon SUN, andwhere
the Warmest winds, which always come
from the southwest, can play upon their
surface. have observed that the yegcta-
ton Of the east and south slope of the
mountains, which is reached by the early
morning sun, becomes sere and yellow ear
lier in the autumn than it does upon the
west and northwest sides. Upon farms ly-
ing along heavily wooded streams the result
is the same; vegetation Oh the east side is
touched by the frost before that on the west
have noticed, also, that there is consider
able difference in low lands, and account for
it in much the same way. The warm winds
from the west, though often too high to
give warmth to the low land, when they
strike the timber are divided, portion of it
forming an undercurrent nearear the earth,
on the west side, which fans the vegetation,
thus protecting it as in higher attitudes,
while on the east side they sweep over too
high to have the game beneficial effect.


WILL,
Year: 1878

FERTILIZERS FOR GRAPE VINrs Bone
dust, wood ashes and such Ike f .ilizers
are best for grape vines in low ground
Stable manure applied in large quantities
on damp soil will produce diseased vines.--
On dry ground the effect is beneficial. The
best soil for grapes is dry, light, warm and
rich. On such soilapply top.dressings of
wel.rotted manure, alternating every third
year with dressing of Stacked lime
Where grapes are being raised on damp
ground caro- must be taken to keep the roots
near the surface.
Year: 1878

l was told the other day by distin-
guished clergyman that he had had dis
cussion with one of his colored friends,
and had asked him among other things
why he was not Democrat. The old
man said that he had been fought that it
was contrary to the teaching of the Bible.
The clergyman wonderingly asked where
the doctrine could be found, and the old
man replied that as the good book only
spoke of two political parties-the pub
licans and the sinners-he thought he
must choose between them, and be either
publican or sinner, which was but
the Bible name for Democrat. The old
man had evidently never observed how
many Of his party were both 'publicans
and sinners.
Year: 1878

MEET Democrat on the evening Of any
day that an investigation has been held,
and he will tell you with much feeling and
wise assurance that there has been some
damaging evidence to-day" When we
heard this for the first time we held our
breath and felt rather disheartencd, and
nnxiously waited for the report for the
morning papers; but some how or other
the damaging evidence" when seen as a
whole in the full report, has quite another
effect, as the miners might say, il does not
pan out we'll" The next day, when we
hear the stereotyped phrase, we feel sure
that ANDERSON, POTTER, or MCMAHON, or
some of these investigating fellows, have
been saying or doing something that for the
glory of the good Old Democratic party they
ought not TO have said or done. Give us
little more of this damaging evidence"
gentlemen. So far it. is very consoling
Give us more of the same sort.
Year: 1878

TIE Philadelphia Press reminds the
peoplo that in the next Congress we want
not only numerical majority, but ma
jority of the States. In the event of the
election Of the President being cast into the
House-a very possible likelihood vote
will he by States, and to secure Republi-
can demonstration We must have a majority
Of Republican State delegations in the lower
House This fact challenges the attention
of every Union man, and of every law-abid-
ing citizen, and should stimulate all to
honest and earnest work
Year: 1878

If the tobacco tax is oncrous unjust, and
Oppressive, let it be modified but when
delegations come here from different por-
lions of the Union, principally from Vir-
ginia, and seek to intimidate Congressman
into support Of the reduction, the advocates
of modification Of the tax show lack OF
wisdom which docs not make converts to a
belief in the Justice Of their cause.
Year: 1878

THE POTTER revolution begins to work
its effect upon the business interests of the
people. We were yesterday shown letter
from the manager Of prominent manufac-
turing company in Pennsylvania, which
states that, in consequence of the doubt and
uncertainty resulting from the POTTER in
Vestipation, orders that had been given his
company for Si-OOO worth ur machinery
had been revoked, and that $l2,OOU worth
of machinery erected with which to mana
fcture the machinery ordered had been rem
dered useless, and hence comparatively
worthless, as it cannot be used for other
purpos $. This is only solitary instance.
but it is n strong symptom of the effect that
prospective revolution is having upon the
business and industries of the country. II
Is n sad commentary upon the condition of
the Industrial affairs of the people under
the prospect Of Mexicanizltion.
Year: 1878

THE Kiss in the Dark" was played
as farce by amateurs in Mount Sterling,
KY, up to the point where the young
man kisses the pretty girl. Then it was
turned into a tragedy. The girls real
lover, jealous of her stage lover, and dis
cerning that the kissing was genuine and
much re.ished, shot the offender on the
spot The wound was .rifing, but it
brought the performance to close.
Year: 1878

We had the pleasure of very enjoy able call last Tuesday from that old pioneer of Pope county, Mir. W. C.. Webb, now resident of Lee township. Mir. Webb has been resident of our county since 1S29---ncarly half centu- ry. He can tell some very interesting incidents jof frontier life when there were but few white settlers in this part of the state, and when the red man of the forest still roamed at will and hunted deer and other game where towns and villages now dot our fair valley. He pointed out to us spot near Judge Davis law office where a bloody pitched battle occurred few days before he landed here between two hostile parties of Indians, in which one painted warrior used the old hol- low tree which formerly stood back of Judge Davis office as fort and slew three of his foes before they could dis lodge him.

 We are always glad to see these old, honored pioneers, and we hope they will always call when they arc in town. We have to thank Mir. Webb for cou- pie of new subscribers for the DENo- GRAF.
Year: 1878

During the criss which followed the of secession,
and which weighed heavily the State OF Lou sisna
the Administrators of the Diocese Of New Orleans
assumed liabilities which they have determined to


quidate. In the past year better state of affairs
loomed up in the financial situation of the Diocese.
That improvement will increase the rate of interest
claimed by it's creditors is lessened.


The conventional rate in Louisiana is too high for
religious society the Of which, though entirely
secure, nevertheless limited, for such society
cannot look eventual profits in contingent under
taLings in epee uatops altogether inconsistent with
its mission Of benevoleree and charity.


Therefore 1t with view CT creating new debt
that this loan s negotiated, but order to unity and
consolidate liabilities and obtain their gradual
and regular extinction by means Of the ordinary
of the Diocese, and without endangerng the
Church property, although affecting it. Such 10 ths
plan positively approved by His Holiness. Plus TX,
and unanimously adopted by the Board of AdminstTa-
of the Roman Catholic Church of the Diocese of
New Orleans.
Year: 1878




There ca9ss- E question that
the safety ofos.r own train was Who'll.
II due to the fact that the Indians
had their minds on capturing the
largest and most valuable train of
the three, and did not wish to
waste either time or ammunition
upon US. It was necessary, how
ever, that they should watch US
closely in order to prevent us from
communicating with the doomed
party, and it is also probable that
If they had been able to take us
unaWares, without too much risk
or loss to themselves, they would
not have hesitated to serve US as
they had done the other unfortu-
mates.


The day after arriving at the
Dalles [ was sent for by the com
manding officer Of the military
post, that official having been in
formed by comrade Of mine re
siding IN town that I was in charge
Of the train. he questioned me
closely regarding the military
scouting parties, as to their where
abouts and whether they had gone
as far as Salmon Falls. [ learned
afterwards that one party had been
detailed to scout from the Dalles to
Salmon Falls, and another from the
Falls to Portneuf bridge, the latter
party had undoubtedly patroled the
whole of the route assigned to
them, but the former had not gone
farther than Powder river, the
least dangerous part Of sthe entire
road. The officer commanding
this detachment was afterwards
court,martial and punished for
neglect Of duty. He should have
been cashiered, at least, for had be
carried out his orders in full, it is
probable the captured train would
have escaped the awful fate that
befel
Year: 1878




turned stream of semi boiling
water on him, and before the know
ledge-seeker could yell more than
once, changed the stream to one
direct from Greenland's icy mount
aims, thereby freezing the oaths ~as
they fell from our mans lips. After
being rubbed down with a gunny
sack and a horse brush for q few
minutes, he was permitted to don
his habliments and depart, a wiser
and a cleaner man, cleaner, in fact
than he ever was before.
Year: 1878

lob, wherefore, bid me leave thy side,
Dear Polly a? l would ask;
low can all my feelings cloak,
When in thy smiles I basque2
Nay, Polly, nay, l cannot goI


Oh, do not stand aloof,
When of my warm affection


You possess, oh, waterproof.
Why will you thus my feelings gore


By sending me away2
You know it's wrong, of course it is,


Thus to forbid me stay.
lit seems as though some fell disease
Was knawing at my heart,
And hemorrhage would soon ensue,


If we, perchance, should part
Then waist the precious time no more,


But let the parson tie US
Sew firmly that the marriage knot


Shall never be cut bias.
In peaceful quietude we'il float


On ife'g unrufied tide,
Nor let the hustle of the world


"Pull back as we glide.
Year: 1878

We learn from reliable gentle
man of this city, who is just back
from a trip up the river, the partic.
ulars of rather extraordinary case
of experience in the last awful
blizzard. An Indian and his squaw
were caught out in the storm while
journeying from Fort Randall to
the Fort Thompson Agency, and
becoming bewidered took refuge in
small rayine. They wrapped
their blankets about them and sat
down under the bank The snow
soon covered them, but the Indian
kept hole through the rapidly
forming drift with his gun, which
he void poke up occasionally.
They remained there all night, and
the drift became SO high in the
meantime that he was Obliged to
splice the ram rod to the end Of his
rifle in order to reach the top Of it
and keep up the ventilation. Dur
ing their cherries Imprisonment
the squaw was delivered Of a child,
and it was ehristened Snow Drift
This paragraph will no doubt seem
a little fshy to persons unacquaint-
ed with the wild Indian life, but no
persons who have been among the
reds it will not by any means ap-
pear improbable.
Year: 1878

They came near having a domes-
tic tragedy in Council Bluffs few
nights ago. A citizen OF that place,
being called out of town by urgent
business, bid a fearful and tender
farewell to his wife and babes and
started ont. His mission was ac-
complished sooner than he had
anticipated, and taking the even
ing train he arrived home at about
midnight. Going to his house he
quietly let himself in with latch
key and silently went up stairs
The gas was burning low, but there
was light enough for bin to dis
cover two forms in bed, where, &c.
cording to his logic, but one should
be. Though half crazed by the
sight, some remnants q coolness
remained, and he withdrew to Sc
cure a witness to substantiate the
statement he would be compelled
to make. After a weary search he
found a policeman; and returning
to the house, stationed him ut the
foot of the bed. A motion Of his
finger and the gas blazed at full
head; and there, IN the place where
he only Of all men had q right to
be the agonized husband cav bis
mother.in-law.
Year: 1878

The earliest importations of
spring goods have been received,
and the rough-threaded effects
popularity known during the winter
are repeated in materials for spring
and summer dresses.
Year: 1878

A little girl, showing her cousin,
about four years old, a star, said,
That star you see up there is big
ger than this world No, it isn't,
said he. YES it is Then why
dosen't it keep the rain Off
Year: 1878

You have pleasant home and
a bright freside, with happy child
ren sitting around it, haven't you 2
said the Judge. Yes, sir said Mr.
Thompson, who thought he saw a
way out of the difficulty. Well
said the Judge, if the happy child
ren sit around the cheerful dileside
until you return, they will stay
there just forty-three days, as !
shall have to send you up for that
time.
Year: 1878

rock. A few wagon-tracks were
visible, but on following these a
few hundred yards I found that the
vehicles had turned off to the left
into a still narrower def1e. Not
considering it safe to investigate
further, | was about to retrace my
steps, when my eyes lighted upon
a human skeleton a short distance
ahead, and on nearer approach, |
found further unmistakabIe ev-
licences of a captured train and
murdered travellers. Several bones
of animals were stuck in the ground
in conspicuous places, and on these
were written the following words Of
warning: Turn back The Road
to Ruin Sure DEATH AN In
dian trap


returned to the train as quickly
as possible, and as soon as it was
possible to get under way, we were
retracing our steps towards the
main road, which we reached in the
course Of two or three hours.


From this time to the end of our
Journey we met with no further
mishap, except a slight accident
that occurred to one Of the girls,
who was thrown from a horse and
dragged along the ground for some
distance. Before reaching civil
ization, however, we ran short Of
provisions and for nearly a week
lived upon maggoty salmon.


Sometime after we arrived at the
Dalles, met Mr.. Meyers, an
other survivor Of the large train
party, and from him obtained the
following particulars ofwhat occur
red after Murdock and party left
them.


When the Indians got within the
corral, they began plundering the
train and fighting over the spoils.
They butchered all of the party ex-
cept eight, Two of these, a boy
and girl, they took prisoners, but
the other six, consisting Of Meyers
and his whole family, and one
woman, they left unmolested. Why
they allowed these people to live,
after slaughtering the remainder,
it is difficult to say, but Meyers
thought that the Indians believed
they were beyond rescue and would
eventually starve to death. Such in
deed would have been their fate,
had not the soldiers picked up
Snyder and the other two survivors.
From whom the capture Of the train
was learned, and the party pro
ceeded to the scene Of blood, but
did not arrive at the spot until
II


two weeks after the capture. The
condition of the surviving victims
then truly horrible. They had
been fourteen days without food or
shelter, hoping against hope that
Murdock's party would return with
help. Tits impossible to realize
their situation in all its horror, but
some idea may be obtained from
tie fact that one Of the women had
eaten portion Of the flesh Of her
dead husband.


The party however survived
their troubles, and the woman just
mentioned was afterwards married
to q soldier at Walla WalIa. The
capture and destruction Of this
train was the most serious atrocity
ever perpetrated on Lander's Cut
off, or by the Snake Indians in any
other part Of the country. They
had captured other trains, and
committed the most hellIsh acts Of
inhumanity, but they had never be-
fore fought with 50 much despera-
tion Or attacked, hand to hand, 50
largea party of whites.


ILL., The Snake Indians, though pow
erful in numbers, were at that time
poor in everything that constitutes
Indian wealth. They had few horses
Year: 1878

STEAM WAGONS IN ARIzoNA.-A sort OF
steam wagon is soon to be put at work out
in Arizona, which may yet perhaps win
Wisconsin's $4,000. The contract for car
rying daily mail between Yuma and San
Diego has just been let to firm that in
tends to put steam wagon on the route,
which consists of one hundred miles across
the California desert A two-horse power
engine has been purchased as the motive
power The wagon will have two driving
wheels of seven feet diameter and twelve
inches width Of tire. The whole apparatus
will weigh about two thousand pounds
when supplied with fuel and water and
ready for business. 1t is intended to make
an average speed of eight or ten miles per
hour, carrying five or six persons and a
moderate weight of baggage and mails. 1t
will consume about ten gallons of water per
hour. One man will manage the loco
motive, and it is expected it will be runs
ming October 1st. A
Year: 1878

rescuing any more alive, as the workings
are very intricate and extend over three
miles. So far only about seven corpses
have been recovered. The explosion oc-
CURED soon after noon. Those on the bank
knew it by rumbling noise and the ascent
of a dense volume of smoke. All the peo-
pie in the district rushed to the pit mouth
in CONSERVATION.


The scenes of distress are indescribable.
According to latest advices the pit is still
burning, and the managers are discussing
the propriety of flooding it, as it seems
certain that all the men are either burned
to death or suffocated. The flooding will
probably be briefly delayed until the last
hope is abandoned.


LONDON, Sept. 12-1 P. M.-The latest re-
ports from the colliery disaster at Aber-
carne state that two hundred and fifty OF
the miners in the pit are missing, and all
have undoubtedly perished, as all commu-
nication has been cat off and it is impossi-
BILE for any of them to escape. The fire is
extending, and the mine is being flooded.
The excitement in the neighborhood OF the
disaster is intense.


OPPOSED TO CoERCING TURKEY.


LONDON, Sept 12.-It is stated in official
circles that England is indisposed to adopt
the proposals of the German Government
to cOerce Turkey into the execution OF the
stipulations of the Berlin treaty.


GRANT AT GAsTEEN.


BERLIN, Sept, 12.-General Grant arrived
at Gasteen yesterday and at once proceeded
on visit to Prince Bismarck.
Year: 1878

TIE Holly Springs South hopes that
only those will engage in the next
Press Convention who are editors and
publishers, and have sn interest and
right 10 vote. We earnestly trust that
tho hope OF our cotemporary will be
realized. We are opposed TO outsiders
riding our profession for the sake Of
dead.beating the public in many ways
We hope TO see the day come in Missis-
sippi, when every editor and publisher
In the State will feel proud OF the Mis-.
sissippi Press Association, and Of the
National Press Association.