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Year: 1876

In prepa ing the present edition for the press has accordingly been the aim of the editors bring down the information of the latest possible dates, and to furnish accurate account of the most recent digcov cries in science, of every fresh production in ter- ture and of the newest inventions in the practical arts well to give succinct and original record of the proge eess of t%aI ST 4 G
Year: 1876

In this Department will be found not only the rich garments which we have heretofore made specially, but also excellent house and street dresses from $40 upwards made in equally good style.
Year: 1876

n A young merchant called on a lady a few evenings since, and was shown into the parlor. The lamps were unit, and just before the lady's appearance he removed . large quid of tobacco from his mouth and 1HssT .y 0s as win Rd0 b. m aas ss most prominent object in the room was a very embarrassed young man gazing at a big chunk of tobacco pinning the lace g curtain to the unopen window. n Ee.
Year: 1876

/ i Time lost can never be regained. -
After allowing yourself5proper time for
rest, don'tglive single hour OF yopr
life without doing exactly what is to be
done in it, and going straight through
it from beginning to end. Work, play,
study, whatever it is, take hold at once
and finish it up squarely and clearly
then to the next thing, without letting
any moments drop out between. II is
wonderful TO see how many hours these
prompt people contrive to make out OF
day; it is as if they picked up the mo-
ments that the dawdlers lost. And il
ever you find yourself where you have
so many things pressed upon you that
you hardly know where to begin, let us
tell you a secret Take hold Of the
very first one that comes to hand, and
you will find the rest all fall into line
and follow after, like company Of well
drilled soldiers; and though work may
be hard to meet when it charges in 9
squad, it is easily vanquished if you cal
bring it into line.
Year: 1876

Gratitude is like the good faith OF ira
ders-it maintains commerce; and we
often pay, not because it is just to dis
charge our debts, but that we may moie
readily find people to trust us.
Year: 1876

The past season has been aremarkable one
to test the different varieties Of wheat raised
in the State. With the grasshoppers in the
western part of the State and the drouth in
eastern, the wheat that gave anything like
fair yield this year will certainly to cult
vate.


A year ago last spring J. II. Wood and
Martin Logue each brought in new variety
Of wheat called Lost Nation, and raised
good crops of it last year, the wheat yield
ing from eight to ten bushels more per acre
than any other variety. This year several
other parties secured some Of this wheat for
seed and all are more than satisfied with it.
While all the old varieties of wheat were al
most wholly destroyed by the grasshoppers,
the Lost Nation proved too much for The
pests, and in spite of the fact that all the
leaves were gnawed off and the fields were
swarrning for several weeks, every farmer
who had this wheat obtaineda fair crop
eight bushels per acre being the smallest
Weld that has yet been reported, while some
have threshed sixteen and twenty. franks
as No. fine, in market, being hard and
making the very best flour.


Many here have such faith in the Lost Ma
ton being hopper-procf that much of it will
be sown next season. There will be several
hundred bushels for sale i'll this vicinity, and
any wishing to obtain the seed can do so by
calling OH those who have 1t, or by applying
at this Office will be directed to those who
have it for sale.-Jackson (lfia,e.) Republic.
Year: 1876

The better animals can be fed, and the
more comfortable they can be kept, the
more serviceable they are-and all farmers
work for profit.
/ Ground once well plowed is better than
thrice poorly.


Bountiful crops are more profitable than
poor ones. Make the soil rich, pulverize it
well and keep it clean, and it will generally
be productive.


Weeds that are allowed to grow unmolest-
cd around fences. stumps and stones, scatter
their seeds over the farm, and are very like
" to grow.


Cows well fed in winter give more milk in
summer.
An OK that is in good condition in the
spring will perform more labor and stand
the heat of Summer much better than i poor
one.


When you see the fence down put it up :;
if it rem aims until tomorrow the cattle NAV
get over.


What ought to be done to-day, do it; for
tomorrow ycu may have something else
to do.
4 "A strong horse will work all day without
food, but keep him at it, and he will not last
long.


A rich soil will produce good crops with
out manure, but will soon tire.


Farmers sons had better learn to hold the
ploW, and feed the pigs, than measure tape
and count buttons.


Young ladies who have the good fortune
to become farmers wives, will find it much
more profitable to know how to make john
ny cake, butter and cheese, than to play on
the piano.
All who wish to be rich must spend less
than they earn.
Year: 1876

IF farmers would become influential they
must become intelligent; they must acquire
knowledge as other men do. They must
read good books and good papers-not
merely the one-sided political trash with
which the country is flooded, but papers
that deal in food for thought and contain
valuable information. They are advised to
have friendly discussions with their neigh
bors, to attend debating societies and other
public gatherings, and take part in the pro-
ceediLgs.


Above all they must provide their families
Year: 1876

with healthy intellectual food. There are a
great many farmers to-day living up to these
requirements, more than there ever were
before in the worlds history Such are
ornaments to their profession, and they
have influence. But all are not so. Let
each one labor to make the number of such
greater; there is no need that single other
Ignorant farmer should grow up in this
country. Who can imagine the condition
of the country if the farmers We're all as in
telligent as those of certain other callings :
And they ought to be. They must be-
Ercha7sqe.
Year: 1876

There is no word more misunderstood Or,
perhaps, distorted among farmers, than the
word science as applied to agriculture. 1t
is deemed an empirical, arbitrary, Nightly
inc Something, created by clique of men
filled with vagaries and destitute of COM
nonsense, to be shunned-to be fought off
like encroaching flames.


How can the farmer be made to know that
in just so far as his own operations are con-
Quoted skillfully, he is himself scientific
farmer whether he would or no! We once
heard well-to-do farmer say: elf l fol-
lowed the instructions of your agricultural
Journals and books [ should fail in two
years" From his view he was right. He
was set in the belief that such journals are
written up by men who have gained their
idea of farming from books alone and who
are stuffed with all sorts of impractical theo-
ries to the exclusion of all that it is the out
growth of labor and observation in the field.
Trustworthy agricultural periodicals i'm
part, or aim to impart, only the most effic-
lent methods. They aim to spread over. the
land every new theory that promises to in
crease the farm yield with the same OF less
labor and expense. They do not ask or ex-
pect the farmer to accept their statements
(detractory or laudatory) upon faith, but to
excite inquiry and experiment to the end
that the good may be accepted, the bad re-
jected. Is there shorter or easier road to
progress?


Can any farmer suppose that whereas
every other science is progressing with
palpable strides from generation to gen
eration--we might almost say from year
to year-that the science of farming not
only remains but ever must remain IN statu
quo?


1t is all wrong to suppose that the editors
of and contributors to agricultural journals,
as we'll as the authors of agricultural works,
are office-men and know little or nothing of
farm practice. Many OF them have made
practical farming the study of their lives.
They obtain by work the fabric out of which
to shape new material. The hands are made
the instruments of furnishing the mind with
food which, added to the recorded ,eachings
OF those IN years past, form the elements OUT
of which original ideas are elaborated and
scientific progress insured.


The type farmer, as we may designate
him, differs from the scientific farmer in but
one respect, viz: the former looks to results
mainly, the latter to causes as well For
instance, the unscientific farmer applies lime
to two fields. Upon the one the crop Is un-
questionably benetited-upon the other un-
questionably injured. He concludes that
the one field needs lime, the other does not
and this conviction is sure to be fixed fol
life.


The scientific farmer finds in these oppo
site effects important data upon which Il
establish principles universally applicable
Ills firstinquiry is as to the cause of the dif
ference. Was one field deficient in lime, th'
Year: 1876

Mr.. Tiden's letter on the South
ern claims, addressed TO his faithful
Achates, is confession of weakness, con-
fession that the platform upon which he is
nominated and his letter of acceptance do
not cover the points at issue in the cam
paign, a confession too that the purposes of
the Democratic party are mistrusted by the
people and that it is absolutely necessary to
Democratic success that this distrust should
be removed. The letter is evidently put out
at this late date in order to influence the re-
suit in New York, New Jersey and Connec-
ticut, and in hopes that sufficient time will
not be afforded for it to circulate to any ex-
tent in the South. For The first time too in
this campaign Democrat comedies that
these claims may pass. Hitherto that as
sumption has been secuted by Democratic
speakers and journals. Taking Mr.. Tiden
at his word, it must be remembered that his
veto will be of bills passed by his party con-
trolled by the Southern element, eager for
the payment of claims, and that he must rely
upon Republicans to see that his veto is sus.
tained. His act will be in direct antagonism
to his party, and we all know how hard it is
to resist party pressure. Mr.. Tilden has not
always succeeded in the past. His position
is in striking contrast to that of Gov. Hayes,
upon whom no man thinks of calling to state
his position or that of his party in regard to
this matter. The people will prefer to vote
for candidate who is not compelled to deny
that he intends to reimburse rebels for losses
incurred in rebellion, and for a Congress
which will render veto unnecessary.
Year: 1876

The Washington correspondent of the Bes
ton Adrertiser says that reliable information
received from New York represents the Dem
ocratic leaders as greatly distressed over the
announcement that the funding operation will
be brought to close if Tilden is elected,
The publication of the statement has pro-
duced much CONSERVATION in Democratic
quarters, and the haste displayed by August
Belmont in rushing into print to affirm that
the credit OF the nation would not suffer by
the election of Tilden is deeply regretted,
now that the fact has become known that
other members of the syndicate affirm the
original statement to be true. Letters have
been received from members of the syndi.
cate since Belmont's card appeared, repud-
ating the sentiments therein expressed, and
saying with much earnestness that, with the
possible exception of Belmont all the other
houses which form the syndicate concur in
the view that Democratic success in No
vember means stab at the public credit and
total suspension of funding operations. Sec
retary Morrill, takes this view, and does not
hesitate to declare his conviction that DEM
ocratic success will compel the government
to pay many million dollars more of interest
than would be the case if Governor Hayes is
elected.
Year: 1876

In 1868 the electoral votes Of the State of
New York was secured for the Democratic
candidate by the grossest frauds, carried
through by that veteran politician, Samuel j.
Tilden. This year the same frauds are at
tempted by the same man, now Democrat
ic candidate for President. The registration
in New York City for President reaches near
ly 100000. ten thousand larger than the ho-
toriously fraudulent registration of 1868. and
fifty thousand larger than any honest vote
ever cast in that city. Now as then Tilden
is attempting to steal the vote of the State
through the instrumentality of those masters
in theft, the Tammany local politicians. Then
Horace Greeley wrote to Samuel j. Tilden,
saying:


Mr.. Tilden, I have been voting here for 81 years,
and an active politician for more than 80 of them,
and appeal to God for my sincerity and to my pub.
lie record for witness that in all these years have
earnestly sought and labored TO have our elections
decided by legal votes and none other. have
not confined myself to barren professions, but have
shown my faith by my works.


How is it with you? You hold most responsible
and influential position in the councils of a great
party. You could make that party content itself
with polling legal votes If you only would. In
late Constitutional Convention, tried to erect some
fresh barriers against election frauds; did you? The
very little that was enabled to effect in this drec-
ton shall try to have ratified by the People at our
ensuing election; will yor?


Mr.. Tiden. you cannot escape responsible ity by
saying with the guilty Macbeth,


Thou canst not say did it; never shake


Thy CORY locks at me!


for you were at least passive accomplice in the
frauds OF last November. Your name was used,
without public protest on your ,part in cir
culars sowed broadcast over the State, whereof the
manifest intent was "tO make assurance dOubly
sure that the frauds here perpetraed should not be
overborne by the honest vote Of the rural districts
And you, not merely by silence, but by positive as
sumption, have covered those frauds with the mantle
of your responsibility. On the principle that "he
ceiver is as bad the thief" you as deeply i'm
plicated as though your name were Tweed. O'BIien


Now, Mr.. TiIden, call on you to put q stop to
this business. You have but to walk into the Sher-
ifs, the Mayors and the Supervisors Offices in the
City Hall Park. and say there must be more of it
say it 80 that there shall be no doubt that you
mean it-and we shall have toleraby fair election
once more. Probably good part of the Fifty Thous
Certificates will offer to register and to Vote-some of
them pretending not to know that they no more
citizens Of the United States than the King of Da-
honey is-but very few will vote repeatedly unless
paid for it, and we shall not be cheated more than
Ten Thousand If you simply tell the boss-workmen
that there must be no more Illegal Voting nstigated
and paid for.


The indictment holds good now. Mr., Til
den has it in his power to prevent these
frauds, and to ensure an honest vote in the
city OF New York. Will he do it?
Year: 1876

A LETTER has been received in Washing
ton from former Confederate officer, a man
of Southern birth, educated at the South,
and an extensive landowner in his native
state, Mississippi, who since the war with
out being an active Republican has voted the
Republican ticket. He details system Of
outrage and intimidation in that Estate which
seems incredible, and says the fact is well
understood among his Democratic neighbors
that Louisiana and South Carolina are to be
carried by the Democracy by fraud and what


ever force may be necessary either to keep
Year: 1876

negroes away from the polls or so to threaten
and overawe them that they will not dare to
vote the Republican ticket. The writer says
that, though Southern man whose lifelong
associations have been among Southern men,
he will be forced to abandon his property and
move North in case Gov. Tilden is elected.
Year: 1876

We DO not read anonymous letters and commune
Cations The name and address of the writer are in
all cases Indispensable not necessarily for publication
but as guaranty Of good faith.


We cannot undertake to return or reserve commu-
uicatons that are not used.
Year: 1876

sometimes very beautful-were takcn up by the echoes
and filtered through dozen reverberations, until no
wonder they fell like the cadenoes OF heavenly har
mony upon the astonshed IL will never do there
fore TO go 10 heaven for the OF things when
they can be easily discovered two miles of


Pho Mono Is certainly a brave man. and deserves
well tho high opinion in which he is held by church.
men. II is said that in 1s46 when he Cardinal OF
Inola be was day praying alone in the Cathedral
loud noise reused him and he suddenly found him
self standing over man frghtfully wounded and
the presence of three infuriated asssssns who
determined TO finish their work front of the
altar The Cardinal scorned their daggers and stood
between them and their victim with uplfted cruci-
nx, until at last they quaed before his glance and
retired. physician called, but the poor fellow
made his confession and then breathed his last the
bosom OF John Mastal Ferrett, alterward Pho Mono.
The Holy Father has lived longer than he was
peced to- but he has been kindly in his control OF the
Church. and when nothing is left but his memory IL
will be hard TO nl his place
Year: 1876

Tho festival OF Purm, the lasa holiday Of the Jewish
ecclesiastical year. celebrated last night in joy
manner There was noticeable falling of in tho
quantity oil public gatherings, whether masked
balls other kinds Of entertainments, yet the
falling Off in this regard more than compensated
for by the number OF social and family parties that
were gwen IN honor OF the day Masquerades were IN
every district in the city and on all tho leading
thoroughlarcs both the east and west sides parties
Of masquerers either going to returning from visits
to their friends met with every hand until
long after midnight There we're masked balls given
by the New York Union Musical Beneficial
Association at sPythagoras Hail, the Nizam Assoca-
at Turn Hail. the Progress Society, the Manhattan


Lodge at Terrace Garden and the music corps of tho
Gardes Lafayette at Irving Hall. These affairs
well attended and the costumes exhibited were numer
and varied Tho celebration of the festival Of
Purim will continue throughout to-day, Monday and
Tuesday. On the latter day there will be a grand
ception at Dcnoncos.
Year: 1876

composers sickness he spent a day with him and the
next day sent his tho house with well filed
purse, saying that such time there might be need
OF friendly help, and he would be glad II the family
would avail themselves Of his irhterna Offering Here
Is an example OF practical beraty which we com
mend TO our Baptist friends who considering the
adyiSabihty OF sending out eyangeists 10 the Jews
Year: 1876

By some means not fully known the Pullman parlor
coach of a rain tho Pennsylvania Railroad caught
FIRE Friday soon after leaving Trenton route for
New York Fortunately the conductor the fire in
its beginning and sausng the tram to be stopped no
had tho flames uuenchcd.
Year: 1876

Jim kavnnaFh. formerly member of
Congress from Montana, was tciiinG the
other laN that un ono occasion there
were seven mon standing on empty
boxes aud with ropes round their nccks,
under tho limbs of II tree, Just ready TO
be hanged One of them. German
began To cry bitterly as ho thought that
he was about TO die. The man next to
him was an Irishman, who WIS much
bothered by the German s weeping. So
hitching his foot to one side, no gave
the German \ box n push, leaving him
swinging in the mir, and said, stop,
you big sucker, won't you?' But the
same act toppled over his own box he
could not regain his footing, and, with
laugh at the trick he was playing on
the German, he, too, swung into
eternity.
Year: 1876

A large man, who sat on the wharf,
fishing, recently gave his opinion with
regard to the hard times. He said the
trouble was that capital was opposed to
labor, and no matter how an1ous man
was to work, capital would make no
concessions. He wanted work himself,
he said, and once he thought or giving
up, but now his wife was able TO take In
washing. and he would never yield He
intended TO say more, but he was obliged
to 90 off to attend ball match.-t Nor
Wich Bullctin
Year: 1876

A good story is told of o man who was
appointed custodian of the flag" of the
House of Representatives at Washington.
The duties of the office are to hoist the flag
over the hall of Representatives at the hour
of meeting and to lever it promptly after
the adjournment. The first day after his
appointment, promptly on time, he grasped
the Stars and St ripes and started for the
roof Of the Capitol to hoist it. Unfortunate
ly, however, on reaching the garret he
found that he could not squeeze himself
through the small scuttle hole, consequent
ly he had to throw up his appointment, and
little man was appointed in his place. II
the first appointment has any influence
among the members an appropriation will
soon be made for enlarging that seuttle
hole.
Year: 1876

EDITOR REPUBLICAN,:


Every indication unmistakably points tc
the conclusion that for the sake of powe,


the Northern Democracy have again de-
luded the people of the Southern States into
the belief that by q united South they
would be able to wrest the government
from the hands of the loyal people, and
after the fact should have been accom-


plished they would again be in position
to dictate to the North.


1t Is strange how little these people have


learned from past experience, and how


easy they are made to believe the most in.


credulous impossibilities. 1t seems that,


like children, any shining, glittering bauble


is sufficient to exotic their desire to possess


it, without caring to know what value it


has, or, after Obtaining it, of what use it


would be to them. The vile and crafty


politicians of the North count with almost
certainty on being able to gull their South
ern dupes, to persuade them into commit
ting any excesses for the sake of obtaining
power, and promise them any immunity for
deeds for which the world cries shame and
the fair South is made to suffer


1t was the same in the year 1860, and
again in every succeeding national election.
Undoubtedly there are many good men, as
before The war, who deplore this circum-
stan6Ss but who are powerless to resist the
storm that is now sweeping through the
Southern States. Deep rooted prejudices,
imaginary wrongs and peevishness have in
famed their minds to such an extent that
they are ready as before to resist the ma.
tional government regardless of conse.
quences.


The true friends of the South have no
other alternative but to defeat the macAina-
tions of these self-destroyers, and to this
they must bend all their energies. and
every true lover of the South must con.
tribute his part. They must be made to
understand that they have no right to COM
init suicide and engulf others with them
into destruction.


Thank God, already the signs look cheer
ing, and there is hardly any doubt but the
cause of nationality, Justice and liberty is
overwhelming its enemies.


1t was no idle. threat of Mr.. Seward that
the rebellion could % overcome in sixty
days, for the sound of that reasonable gun
that fired at the flag of Sumpter had not
ceased to reverberste, nor had the echo of
that rebel yell died away, ere million of
loyal men offered their services to their gov
ernment to wipe out the insult; and who
doubts that the infant Contederacy could
have been strangled at Montgomery and
treason stamped into pulp by the sheer
force of marching of such an army. The
country was ystsn open one, aad no Vioks-
burg, no Manassas Gap and no N(gt DON
aldson were yet in existence to obstfuct tho
march ahd food the South from all direo.