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Year: 1876


ter to have plenty of pasture
and raise a few hundred head
of sheep than to trust to our
main cuop and perhaps lose
that by wet weather? You
will have the wool to sell,
which always commands mo-
ney. You will double your
flock nearly every year, and
can thus sell IA large mum Der
of sheep yearly, which al
ways commands money. You
will have nice fresh meat for
the famlly-and mutton is
healthier and better diet than
pork. You can have your
farm kept clean of weeds and
brush, and no other animal
can fill their place in this
particular.


1t is true, you may Say the
dogs will kilt them. Well,
You must kill the dogs or
keep your sheep in an enclo-
sure at night that dogs can
not enter. This is chcaply
made of pickets. The sheep
will become wonted to this
enclosure, and a boy can east
ly attend to enclosing them
at night.


But the pasture land that
we have spoken Of will ans
wcr also for cattle and mules
and horses and hogs, and all
these or any of them can be
raised, and generally there
will be found more money in
them than in putting every
thing to wheat, or cora, or
oais. Indeed, mixed farming,
where the farmer has help in
his own family, is the most
profitable farming-not run
ming deeply into anything,
but raising a little of every
thing to which the farm is
adapted-so that if there is a
failure i'll one thing there may
be success in ether things
" here markets are available,
good orchard is a valuable
acquisition to Il farm, fire.
quently bringing in moro
ready money from a few
acres than al the rest of the
farm will make.


intelligence and enterprise
must go hand in hand, and
everything must be done to
increase the revenues of the
farm.
Year: 1876

To the Democratic and Cen


servatiye Voters OF CcDiah


County.


In consideration of the great
interests involved in the ap-
preaching elecI;on,youc COM
nittee earnestly urge the ne
cessi'y of immediate and tho
rough organization; by united
action weootained the control
Of our State and county, by
such action we may retain it
and cast the vote of MISSISSIPPI
pi for a constitutional Presi
dent of the United States; by
inaction all the rich fruits of
car success III ay be lost, when
we would surely again expe-
rience the blight of a govern
ment administered by alien
adyentnrers whorecognize no
responsibility to the ignorant
voters who sustain them. The
bankrupt States of the South
demonstrate the inevitable re-
suit of such rule. By our
experience we may judge of
the character of the govern
ments which would follow our
defeat, for imagination, with
out the experience we have
suffered, would fail to fore
shadow the result of theh horde
of adventures in the south,
famished by exclusion from
office, are again returned to
power, $ their disposition to
plunder and their wonderful
capacity SO to dc are incon-
ceivable.


The platform of the Repub-
lican party, adopted before
the nomination of their can
didate, when Blaine, Morton
and Conkling were the lead
ing aspirants, demand the
Specification of the South, y
what this phrase of their plat
form means can best bejudged
by the character Of the men
who were then struggling for
the nomination. Pacification
of the South, means the over
throw of the Democratic and
Conservative party, Of free
suffrage and constitutional
government in the South by
the bayonet--it means the
establishnlentofgo governments
to be controlled by men too
selfish to be loyal to any hon
est party and too mach parti-
zans to be loyal to any honest
government; it means that
Year: 1876

The Liberty Herald says:
There is q clause in tho
Grange constitution that one
member OF the Order shall
not go to law with another
member until the question
shall be submitted to the
Grange court. 1t is stated
that this clause duriNg the
year 1876 saved the Patrons
Of Kentucky$l00, 600 by pre-
venting litigation.
Year: 1876




by reas III of her waking, the
culprit, who was no other,
than George Granger, Mrs.
Rerkcley's profligate brother,
lad disclosed to her that his
purpose was to regain his
lost Inheritance BY putting
out of the way those who
stood between him and it,
promising the witness to pro-
vide for her handsomely if
she kept his secret; but, when
put to the test, she had found
herself unable to violate her
solemn oath. ...


George Granger alias DR..
Baldwin, would have left the
court vooin, but All officer
was ordered to detain him;
and when his Disguise was re-
moved, though he had been
absent many years, there were
many present who could tes-
tity to his ide ltity.


My client was acquitted on
the spot; and his cell was
that night occupied by his
false accuseI.


PEA VINES.


An exchange sayssaving pea
vines for forage should be
done before too many pods
have become ripc,so as to pre-
vent lossin handling. So soon
as about half the pods have
ripened on the vine, the vines
should be cut from the roots,
and Immediately hauled to
the barnyard and scattered,so
that theair can circulate thro'
the various bundles. If the
corn rows are wide enough.
say seven feet apart, the row
of peas being in the middle,
the vines of three rows NAV
be put into one row,as fodder,
the wagon or cart taking an
empty middle row and being
carefully driven, but a little
corn will be touched by the
wheels. The vines being cut.
they may be made into buhd-
les by using hoe or rake, or
iron fork, and the bundles of
each of the three rows, being
put together in the center
row, will form a bundle of
sufficient sizcfor raising from
the ground to the wagon
also to lie upon the barnyard
in depth, so as to dry easily
and thoroughly in two days
Of dry weather. The wagon,
loading in the field with greon
vines, should be Startedat oEe
end Of n row ANA go forward
to the other end, unless a road
or travelled path should in
tersect, SO that as little corn
as possible shall be thrown
upon the ground. AS many
as four heap rows may be car
ried xlong together to load
the wagon, and the bundles Of
vines may be nicely managed
with iron forks; thus, nearly
all the wastage Of leaves and
broken off peas viii! be left in
the barnyard, where pigsmay
hold ii feast as long as the
cleaning lasts. In this way
more aud much better forage
can be saved i'll one day than
the same hands could save in
fodder in five or six days. ~
slight sprink sling of salt thro'n
upon the various turns or bun
dies as they are. being packed
away into the barn will add
greatly to their value. Ifrain
should fall upon the vines in
the barnyard before they have
dried, the bundles should be
turned over, or IL rack made
by polls resting upon forks
set into the ground, and the
vines thrown across, and there
remain until they are in con
dition for packing away into
tho barn. When being used
as forage, these bundles sho'lG
be cut to pieces--say by a
common chop-axe across a
beam in the barn-and may
then be easily cut finer thro'
a straw-cutter. The crop of
fodder is so small this season
that farmers would do we'll to
look to their pea vines.
The Bible. - The Port
Gibson Reveille of July 29th
Year: 1876

NEW YORK. sept 10. lsId
To Tux EDITOR oP THE HERALD:-


Being regular reader OF your very valuable paper
hope you will allow SPACE to say few words in re-
gard the raid The Polish church last Thursday
evening Captain Ciinchy, oi the Thircenth precinct,
being informed that the place disorderly house
and without investigating the matter, made raid
1t when the place full OF respectable young men
aud young women, who had gone there TO enjoy
pleasant evening. thinking they dong any,
thing wrong and arrested all the Oldest regardless OF
respcctabliity or anything else. Now, Mr.. Editor,
supposl ug that few OF tho rougher element were
there at the time, there nothing in their conduct
that ary could take offence at Upward Of ny re-
spectacle young men and twenty-five young ladies'
marched through the streets TO the house.
Notwithstanding the proIcs,s OF the young men
ladies' aud locked up all night In the
morning they were taken 30 Essex Market Court,
amid the boots and yells OF motley crowd that had
assembled Now, Mr. Editor, was this rightly These
parties had pad admission fec. the same though
they had gone to theatre. Why did not Captain
clncby station some OF ms officers and tho par
tcs going there II he thought thcro anything
wrongY Many an anxious mother walled up all night
for her daughter to come home, and what
must have been her feelings when informed thai he OF
she had been locked up IN iclon's cell all night
Hoping that you will show this matter up IN It's true
light and that you will excuse me Tor trcspassng on
ysur time and space, remain, respectfully yours,


INJURED
Year: 1876

The Municipal Commission. Of which William NJ.
Evarts is chairman, which was appointed by Gov
ernor Tlden the LIST OF last November, and whose
duty is to digest and report plans to the Legislature
for the better organization and government of the mu
inequalities Of this State approaching the completion
of important work conlded 10 its charge. Several
Of It's committees among which the main work OF tho
commission divided have already reported to IT,
and tho others are expected to report when the
mission rcassembes, which will be on the first Satur-
day OF October II is thought that the report OF tho
comm 'ssion will be presented IN the early part Of the
coming session OF the Legislature.
Year: 1876

BRET HARTE went to visit ID relative
in a suburb of Troy, N. York, while the
family was absent. He was muddy,
and servant. mistaking him for a
tramp, reluctantly admitted him to the
kitchen, and set a coachman to watch
HIM until the mistress came.
Year: 1876

NEW KIND OF CARRIAGE WHEELS
A new principle in the construction of
carriage wheels has been brought to
notice by an English inventor every
part of the same consisting of wrought
iron. with the exception of the tire,
which is formed of the best cast steel.
The method of fastening the spokes-
which are hollow-both in the rim and
in the boss, is such, it is Claimed, as to
insure safety, by the simplest means.
The tire is so constructed as to protect
the other parts of the wheel when it
runs against the curbstone, or comes in
contact with another vehicle. Neither
in putting on the tire, nor inoeed any
portion of the work, is a single bolt or
nail employed. the spokes being slipped
into their places in the rim and boss,
and afte,ward locked up by nut.
while the tire is firmly inserted into a
groove in the rim. The strength of the
axle tree is increased at the points
where it is most liable to give way. and
the boss is made to accommodate about
four times the usual quantity of oil for
lubricating purposes. Although made
of iron and steel, the wheel is not more
than two or three pounds heavier than
the ordinary kind
Year: 1876

The Boston Globe, one of the
ablest and most Influential of the Re-
publican newspapers of New Eng
land, is disgusted with the cry Of the
bloody Shirt" and enters its pro.
test as follows:


"We do, not believe in making
TINS cry of new rebellion the one
issue of this campaign. We insist
that the Republican leaders are max
ing serious mistake; that they are
dong tho whole country real harm.
they are endeavoring to open up
Old wounds, renew the strife between
the North and the South and not from
patriotic motives, but as a polite
move, simply and only to get votes
Is this honest? Indeed, is it polite?
We think not"
Year: 1876

H. = late number of Fors Clavigera Mr.


R---'N advises his girl readers as follows
''Dress AS plainly as your parents will allow
you, but in bright colors (f they become
you) and in the best matsrials-that is to
say, in those which wear longest. When
you are really in want of new dress, buy it
Cor make it) In the fashion but never quit
an old one merely because it has become
questionable. And if the fashion be costly
you must not follow it. You may wear
broad stripes or narrow, bright cOlors or
dark, short petticoats or long Gin modera-
tion) as the public wish you but you must
not buy yards of useless stuff to make a
knot or a tiounce Of, nor drag them behind
you over the gronnd. And yonr walking
dress must never touch the gronnd at all.
] have lost much of the faith | once had in
the common sense, and even in the personal
delicacy of the present race Of average
English women by seeing how they will allow
their dresses to sweep the streets, as if it is
the fashion to be scavengers. If you can
afford it, get your dresses made by a good
dressmaker, with the utmost attainable pre-
cision and perfection; but let this be poor
person, living in the country; not a rich
person living in large house in London
Learn dressmaking yourself, with pains and
time, and use part of every day in needle
work, making is pretty dresses as you can
for poor people who have not taste to make
them nicely for themselves. You are to
show them in your own wearing what is
most right and graceful, and to help them
to choose what will be prettiest and most
becoming in, their own station. If they see
you never try to dress above yours, they will
not try to dress above theirs"
Year: 1876

SOAKED BiscUtT. Al Elktop1 lady,
the other day, in = Centennial restau>
rant, made four calls for bread, and
was served al each cali with some
poor trash which she would not eat,
one waiter bringing her plate of bis.
cult as hard as rocks. Finally they
brought her some bread which she
pronounced good, after finishing her
lunch and paying her bill, she took
the plate OF rolls in her hand, and
said to the attendant: "Waiter, live
down ln Maryland. | will visit the
Centennial again in about two weeks
and will most assurediy dine with
you. If you will just put these rolls
in soak, l think they will be fit to eat
by that time.n Then she smilingly
bid him good day and walked out.
Year: 1876

vhfoo he00OnS why 1n0epeDOemt0 I00


Not Support Tildes.


l. Because his election would mean the
triumph of soft money. For months before
the nomination Governor Tilden had be-
gun to weaken on this point, to urge that
the currency question ought to be Kept in
the background, to insist that it was better
to get control of the government before
trying to settle the finances. By the time
he came to write his letter he had resolved
to go far enough to satisfy the inf1atiOnlsts.
He did satisfy them. General Thomas
Ewing, Jr., the Cincinnati Enquirer, and
the whole crazy crowd who shouted them
selves hoarse in denOuncing him before the
convention, and sulked in their tents after
ever since his letter was published. 1t he
surrenders to them now in advance, what
would he do az President, when they had .
clear majority in Congress?


9. The election of Tilden would mean the
utter defeat of civil service reform. He
and his party do not propose to turn out
the incOmpetente: they propose to turn out
everybody. Last winter they began
by turning out men who, under all ad-
ministrations and all parties, had been held
indispensable because of their lifelong
training for their work. They filed the
most delicate and responsible places with
incompetents, and the whole capital was
overrun with horde of ignorant Office
hunters, scrambling for the vacancies that
had been created by Wholesale. I'VE eau
NOT help it," said one of the most in
telligent and conscientious of the Demo-
cratic Congressman. these men, and
especially those from the South, are too
hungry. No party could resist them"
If such was the invasion provoked BY the
paltry patronage of the House of Repre-
sentstives, what would happen with the
whole patronage of the executive in their
hands2 Hayes would turn out the incom-
petents and the dishonest. Tilden would
turn out everybody, good and bad, would
make absolutely every Office in the United
States prize for present party service, and
would thus set back civil service reform q
quarter of century.


3 Tilden's triumph would mean the sec-
tional array of the solid South once more
against the controlling and better element
at the North. The country is not quite
prepared for that result Of the war. II
would be most injurious to the South itself,
and to the country at large it would Ger
tainly be perilous.-Ne,o York Tribune.
Year: 1876

John Kelly's marriage and his probable ap-
pontncnt as Controller to succeed Mr. Green were the
chief topics of conversation yesterday In the Ciiy Han
No one doubted that the appointment would DE made
but there was much anxiety TO learn whether Mayor
Nickham would nominate iiu on Thursday OF postpone
action untl Monday The Mayor received crowd Of
visitors during the day but nothing said about the
np,y nppoiutmCnt.
Year: 1876

four young ladies. The accomplish
ment of these young ladies cost the
taxpayers of Los Angeles a considera-
BILE sum of money-the expense of the
year being about eight hundred dol
lars for each young lady. This sum
would maintain a common school at
which fifty children are taught many
months. If we were in a financial
condition to do SO, we should be only
too happy to see high school MAIN
tanned year in and year out; but until
we have more money let us expend
what We have in the schools that will
secure the greatest good to the greatest
number. We offer the following sug-
gestions to the Board of Education.
Temporarily discontinue the higher
branches now being taught; fill the
High school building with lower grade
schools and you will not require so
many new school houses; employ a
good and competent man to superin-
tend the city schools at a salary of one
hundred or one hundred and twenty
five dollars per month; discharge your
ornamental teachers and secure a lit.
tie more work In the school room and
little less street exhibition; pay out
no money unless for value received.
Pursue this policy and no school need
be closed.
Year: 1876

1t may be known to many that in
the State of New York there has been
a large body of Conservative Republi-
cans, many of whom were originally
DOUGLAS Democrats, who have long
been waiting for an opportunity to
withdraw from their association with
the radical element with which they
have for years been affiliated. The
Independent movement did not at all
suit their fancy, nor did they four
years ago feel reconciled to going bod
lily over to the Democracy. In allud-
ing to this matter Harper's Weekly,
edited by GEORGE WILLIAM CURTIS,
one of the strictest of the Radical
school, thus compliments the coming
man of the Democracy. CURTIS re-
marks that "Eov. TILDEN is one of
the most accomplished politicians in
the country" is "the one conspicuous
Democrat in the country who is
known as a reformer, has at present
complete ascendencyin his party in
this State, ,and his chance for the Pres
idential nomination of his own party
is to-day very much Better than that
of any other Democrat; and there is
no other man in that party for whom
dissatisfied New York Republicans
could so easily vote.n In the same
article the admission is made that
such an element exists, and most
Year: 1876

Now that the special election on a
tax for school purposes has passed we
may venture to present few remarks
on our schools and their management
without endangering ourselves to the
charge Of being opposed to education.
We may say without prejudice to
those to whom has been entrusted the
conducting of our public schools that
there is general and in the main
well grounded feeling of dissatisfac-
tion at the management prevailing
among the people. So long as this
sentiment obtains our schools will not
flourish, and the cause of education
must necessarily suffer. We do not
propose to charge the City Superin-
Iendent or the Board of Education
with willful neglect of duty or inten-
tional mismanagement, but it is our
opinion, and it is an opinion shared
by many Taxpayers, that there has
not been that system and dispatch
and economy of expenditure apparent
in the conduct of our schools which is
SO essential to the establishment of
confidence In the ability and judg-
ment of those on whom the duty de-
wolves. We see 1t stated by the Er-
press that the defeat of the tax will
probably result in the closing of the
schools for several months during the
year. There is not shadow of excuse
for all this. The city ought to have
sufficient funds to defray the expenses
of her schools for the school year. An
apportionmente OF, es13, 900 was paid
only few weeks ago. 1t may be
necessary to close the High school, and
we are inclined to the opinion that the
cause of education will not materially
suffer from temporary or permanent
suspension of this department of our
schools. 1t has been an appendage
far more ornamental than useful; more
expensive than profitable. This de-
partment costs the people many thou
sand dollars per annum, and the child
rem of not one taxpayer In hundred
ever reach the high school. For the
school year just closed we graduated
Year: 1876

TO-DAY the opening ceremonies of
the Centennial occur. Metaphorically
speaking, all creation will in some
shape or another be represented. The
bird Of liberty will spread his wings in
ecstacy. Music, eloquence, and all of
the materialities Of the present age
will be spread before the. gaze of all
nations. Let us rejoice, that we have
lived to see this day, and at the same
time smother onr regrets that we are
not there to see. We congratulate our
friends who are on the spot. All hail
the Centennial! gHua
Year: 1876

The New York Herald in late Is
sue reviews the prospects of the DEM
ocratic party, and particularly the op-
portunities both of TILDEN receiving
the nomination and the chance of the
party winning with him at the head.
1t is undeniable that both the State
and city Of New York are, and always
will be, from the character of the pop
ulation, divided into factions: and this
rule applies to all parties. Yet there
is often an existing application be-
tween the extremes to accomplish an
end that is in itself political anoma-
ly. Such an interchange of effort and
cooperation has existed for many a
year, particularly in the State of New
York, and hence the amount of cor
ruption that has of late been un-
earthed in the great metropolis.
Whatever opposition may come
against Governor TILDEN will arise
from the fact that he, as an honest
citizen, has always denounced these
combinations and every ring infiu-
ence in the management of State and
city affairs. The Herald upon this
point remarks that: eff it should be
said in other States, or said at ST.
Louis, that the Democracy of New
Vorly io not t,poo; p,ouo for Trr Dp>r ~
will be replied that this fact ought to
strengthen him with honest men, be-
cause it proves that he has shown no
mercy to the thieves of his own par
ty." Such compliment comes from
the leading journal of the country;b but
in addition to this we will assert, that
Governor TILDEN has been the enemy
of all thieves and thieving schemes,
come from whatever party they may.
Because of the political, or in other
words, the ring combinations that ex.
ist throughout the length and breadth
of the State of New York, whose re-
cord is traditional as we'll as matter
of history, and confined to no party
especially who oppose an honest
executive, it is argued that
through their influence aeTILDEN
will be beaten. Now we know better.
The days of BARNARD as a Democratic
Supreme Judge, and RUFE ANDREWS,
the Republican-Democratic affiliator
and connubiator, ARE ended. The sober
Democracy of New York have had
ample time for review of these
cliques of rotten composition, and in
the election of Gov. TILDEN took the
initiatory step toward clearing official
position from the faint of corruption.
Not only this, the material interests
of New York city have been subserved
by his conduct during his term of Of
flee, and hence through the ramifica-
tions of the interests of that city with
every portion of the country the con-
duct of Gov. TILDEN is criticised in
ofSiy paie vi tue Natioui anu yee ~
this hour there is not a finger raised
to point to blemish upon his per-
sonal character or his political actions.
Few there are in either party that can
produce such record after passing
through such an ordeal as has Mr..
TILDEN. The people from one end of
the country to the other look anx-
iously to the Democratic party in the
faith and hope that it will honor one
of its most faithful servants and insure
benefaction to much-grieved coun-
try.