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Year: 1870

Oue "hO huO"7, III Teply 10 question
concerning small fish for bait, says:


All that is required for catching small
fish IS a small scap-net, that can be purchas-
ed at any store where fishing tackle is kept
for sale. In going after fish, it is we'll to
take pail and email dipper along, and when
the fish are caught put them Immediately
into the pail with clear, fresh water. When
1t is necessary to carry the fish to any con-
siderable distance, the water should be
changed as often as convenient, but it is not
always practicable to do this, and in such
cases, dip up a portion of the water and
pour it back into the pail, and repeat the
operation dozen or more times. as this will
force air into the water, and supply the fish
with oxygen. A few sprigs of some succu-
lent plant set into the pail will also furnish
a supcly of the same element
Year: 1870

CAULIFLowERs ON LIGHT TSoLs.-Caulifow-
ers succeed best in deep, rich, and cool
soil IF one does not possess such a soil, it
is not necessary to fOrego the luxury of
having an abundance of this fine vegetable,
as we have fully proved by experiences On
light, sandy soil even if made very rich,
large heads, probably can't be raised, ow-
ing to the want of sufficient moisture, or
the excessive high temperature of the soil.


We Lave succeeded admirably in growing
cauIihOwers on light sand by using plenty
of manure and mulching. If the mulch
is composed chiefly of coarse manure from
the barn yard, so much the better; weeds,
straw, or hay will answer, but they should
be applied early and literally. If any of
our readers have heretofore failed in pro-
ducing this vegetable on account of dry
soils, we advise them to try once more, and
not omit the mulching.


The above is taken from the editorial coli
umns of the Hearth and Home, and can be
relied on as an invaluable receipt
Year: 1870

The great want of women is money
money for their personal wants, and money
to carry out their plans. propose that they
shall earn, that they shall consider it as hon
orable to work for money as for hoard, and
demand for them equal pay for equal work
[ demand that the rearing and bearing OF
children, the most exacting of employ yments,
and involving the most terrible risks, shall
be the best paid work in the world, and bus
bands shall treat their wives with at least as
much consideration, and acknowledge them
entitled to as much money as wet nurses.


The meaning of this is, that wives are
about to strike for sreenbacks; so much for
every baby born. No greenbacks, no more
sons and daughters. Ne money, no more
population; no more boys to carry on the
great enterprises of the age


The scale of prices for maternal duties
Year: 1870

Seventy-four thousand FIVE hundred and
fifteen acres of land were sold at the United
States Land Office at Sioux City in the
mouth of June, of which over fifty thousand
were pre-emption sales.
Year: 1870

A Partial Investigation Shows C0nclusiveIy


that Hc Was Not Murdered.


In the investigation OF the supposed murder OF
Cassidy yesterday the deposition of all the witnesses
tended directly to excupate Ann Cassidy, the wife,
from any suspicion or having murdered her hus
band.


Bernard Cassidy, son Of the deceased man and sus.
pected woman, testified directly to the absence
Of his mother from the room, she having
gone down stairs to recall an officer
who had been in the room moment before to still
disturbance between her husband and herself, both
under the influence OF liquor. When the mother
went out the father attempted to cut slice from
ham, but finding the knife dull went to the window
TO sharpen 1t on the stone. Leaning over q
chair, he fell out OF the window, ana
the witness sprang towards him and caught
him by the leg Deceased gave kick, as
his son supposed, Tor fear he the sony would be
dragged out. The son ls under fourteen years Of
age. and has been tine principal support Of his
father and mother, both in the habit OF drinking.
Mary McGrau, intelligent girl Of thirteen c0rro-
borated the testimony above, and stated that she
was talking to Mrs. CASSIDY oD the landing below
when deceased fell out of the window. The InQuisi-
tion VIII be concluded on Saturday.
Year: 1870

There lay, upon her bed, the dead body
of the woman, drawn up and contorted,
just as expiring nature had yielded to the
dreadful spasms which invariably attend
ed the last stage of that disease. The
foam around her mouth, dry, but still ad-
herring, told of the terrible death struggle
through which the lonely sufferer had
passed, in her last moments Her arms
and knees, drawn up to her chin, by the
spasms, were rigid, and could not be
straightencd Beside the bed, in a era
die, its head nearly covered over with
spread, lay the infant. And oh! horror
Of horrors Its wan and wasted face, its
hollow, sunken eyes, its eager, famished
stare, as the spread was turned down from
off its face, was sight never to be for
gotten. AS the negro woman lifted it up
tenderly in her arms from the cradle, she
burst into tears and sobbed bitterly for
some moments before she could compose
herself sufficiently to render the starved
child any assistance or give it nourish-
ment. She had brought with her some
coffee and milk, mingled and sweetened,
and with a spoon moistened the lips of the
famished child which had adhered to its
teeth. BY degrees she got its mouth
open, and gave it little at a time, at
first, until it began to swallow more freely,
the child evincing its gratiied taste by
smacking its lips as each grateful sip of
the fluid was swallowed. The writer nev-
er before had such vivid conception of
starvation as the countenance of that child
conjured up, that day. The woman took
the little motherless thing home with her;
it survived and grew, and for aught that
the writer knows to the contrary, it may
be living yet.


As to the mother, the coffin was of no
use in her interment. Her rigid limbs
could not be composed or Strengthened so
as to put her in the coffin. And after her
grave was dug by the colored man, we
lifted her from the bed in the bed clothes,
as she lay upon them, and lowered her
down into her last resting place, and the
negro man sorrowingly laid the turf upon
her remains, marking her grave with an
upright piece of board which he prepared
for the purpose.


Just before the interment, three negro
men passed the house, within hailing dis
tance, and although we called to them for
their assistance, they could not be induced
to come near, such was their terror of the
cholera. We managed, however, to do
without their assistance, and thus was in
tered the unburied corpse, on that calm
September Sabbath morning.
Year: 1870

ADVANTAGES OF BEING WoMAN.-A
woman says what she chooses without
being abused for it. She can take a
snoose after dinner while her husband goes
to work. She can go out in the street
without being asked to stand treat at every
saloon. She can stay at home in time of
war, and get married again if her husband
gets killed. She can wear corsets if too
thick, and other fixings if too thin. She
can get divorced from her husband, if she
sees one she likes better. She can get
her husband in debt, all over, until he
warns the public not to trust her on his
account. But all these advantages are
balanced by the great facts that she can
not sing bass, wear beard, go sparkling
or climbe tree, with any propriety.
Year: 1870

A Socialist remarked, that the dearest
ship in the whole world was Friendship.
Whereupon young man rose from the
congregation, and stated that he knew an
other, dearer ship still, and that was
Courtship! He had once been defendant
in claim for breach of promise of mar
riage.
Year: 1870

Every farmer in Hardeman county ought
to read the following and thank the editor of
the Athens Watchnsan, for writing and pub
fishing it to the world "a word to farmers
before the crops are SO pitched as to crowd
out corn. Not one man in ten makes
enough corn, and not one in hundred has
a suficiency of small grain, and none raise
enough grass. Until small grain and the
grasses are more literally cultivated, the
wants of the country dem4nd a great deal
more corn. 1t is mistaken idea that cot
ton planting, to the exclusion of grain crops,
is the most profitable system of farming.
The men in this section who have made
most money by farming are those who have
raised corn and bacon They not only
furnished cotton planters with these indis-
pensable articles, but frequently held mort
cages on their lands for money loaned
them. One fact of this sort is worth peck
of theories. If you would prosper, plant
corn, SOW small grain and cultivate the
grasses. After these things are done, devote
the remainder of your time and labor to the
production of cotton, and whatever It brings
can be invested in railroad or factory stock,
or loaned to cotton Ilanters at high. rates.
What dOes it profit man to make a thou
sand bales of cotton, if it takes all the sur
plus after paying for labor and fertilizers,
to purchase corn, bacon and other supplies
which ought to have been made at home ?"
Year: 1870

GRANT MUzzLEs THE SUPREME CoURT.--
President Grant, who, before assuming the
chair which he now disgrsces, took solemn
oath that he would do all in his power to
preserve the Constitution. What's the use
OF talking about his oath-he's radical,
and that's sufficient The Chattanooga
Daily Times says:


Some Senators have openly stated, and it IS
announced that the President has declared,
that whoever is confirmed to ill the two
vacant places in the Supreme Bench, they
must be pledged In advance TO unite with the
dissenting Judges TO reverse the decision Of
the majority Of the court lately rendered ia
regard to legal-tender notes. It is Known
that both Strong and Bradley believe in the
conssitutionality of the legal-tender act. and
If they are confirmed, it is said another ease
involving that direct issue will be brought
IN
Year: 1870

The quantity of wheat and other small
grain sown In our county this season is very
small Our Planters contrary to the advice
of every writer on political economy, are
still disposed to stake their all on cotton
SomerUilIe Falcon.


Ditto for Hardemani and that, too, in the
face of the astounding fact that the money
paid out by our citizens for NORTHERN meat,
-four and whisky, during the last twelve
months, amounts to more than the entire
cotton crop of the county, to say nothing of
imported goods, wares and implements Of all
kinds Il When will our people learn to
support themselves, and produce cotton
only as a surplus When they do, all viii
be sunshine and prosperity, and "hard
times win come again 40 more"
Year: 1870

Many, doubtless, like ourselves, have
been not little perplexed as TO the mean
ing Of these strangely sounding words, the
theme Of the New Poem with which the
Laureate of England is now delighting his
countrymen, as he soon will ours. We find
in one Of our English exchanges this solu-
ton;


The Holy Grail was cup made Of sin
gle precious stone, from which the Saviour
Of Mankind was said to have drunk at the
Last Supper, which was afterwards filed
with blood flowing from His wounds on the
cross, and which was said to have teen
brought into this country by Joseph Of Ar
imathea. According to the old legend, this
mystical vessel miraculously disappeared
one day from the custody of its keeper; and
thenceforth it was the highest ambition Of
all worthy knights to 60 in search Of it, ard
if possible, to effect its recovery. The
Year: 1870


Why don't he come he promised me
He surely should be here,
And Pa and lda are out to tea


For once the coast is clear.
] wonder what he wants to say?


When last his leave he took
He asked me twice at home to stay
wonder how [ look
Oh my I'm almost out Of breath
Suppose he asks what theu9
Ili certainly be scared to death,
I'm SO afraid of men.
think I'll have him though, at last
But frst I'll answer no.
For many girl by hurrying fast,
outstrips her tardy beau.
Oh, here he comes-his step hear,
And now he'll soon begint
would net for the world appear
In haste to let him in
Year: 1870

Forbes Parker, Paymaster OF the
Navy, will soon be brought to trial be-
fore court-martial in session at Wash
ington, on the charge of emhezzling Gov
ernment funds to the amount Of S4I 900.
For several years Paymaster Parker
has carried upon his returns TO the
Department about $4,000 as cash in
hand and during that time making
reouisitions for additional funds, so that
a less sum never appeared on his bal
ance sheet. He was repeatedly'written
to by the accounting officers on the
subject, but refrained from making any
explanation. At last the Department,
while he was on duty at a foreign sta
ton, directed him to turn over to the
Fleet Paymaster the funds in his hands
and return home. He, with some de-
Law obeved, but, as no directions to
disregard his future requisltlons had
been given to the Fleet Paymaster,
Parker at once made a requisition for
the same amount, which was paid, and
he returned home, occupying about
seven months in the trip. Failing to
return the money after his arrival IN
this country, he was arrested. Charges
and specifications have been prepared
and his trial will soon begin.
Year: 1870

That the Funding bill is not dead and buried
5n the House Committee on Ways and Means
is evident from the encouraging intelligence
shat the National Bank clause will be favora-
bly reported, and the less agreeable rumor that
dle proposition of funding greenbacks in a
four per cent bond is now the obstacle to the
adoption of the bill. Western members of
House and Committee regard the clause in
question as simply measure OF currency con-
traction, not reduction of the debt. And
since the Senate has refused to admit Of any
positive expansion the House is now resolved


that there Fhal DO no indirect contraction.
Year: 1870

1t has rarely happened that the same men
and women who began 30 great work as that
of the American Ant-Sfavery Society lived to
rejoice over its accomplishment. None per-
maps Of the enthusiastic apostles of liberty
who organized this association tlirty-seven
years ago believed that in single generation
every slave in the United States would be
freed, and every political disability he removed
from the long oppressed race. In the ordinary
course of events, this would have been the
work of a century But Providence took it
out af the hands Of feeble association, and
suddenly, IN the whirlwind of battle and the
shock of armies, the task of regeneration was
achieved. If the cOnsummatiOn was effected
by q mightier power than these benevo-
lent associates ever thought of inyok-
ing, theirs at any rate il the credit
of long and faithful toll. and of good
service in preparing the change Of public sem
tinent which found expression in the growth
of the Republican party, and has its final EN-
pIasis in the Constitutional Amendment which
has Just been proclaimed. In the meet
ing therefore ON Saturday, at which the
American Anti-Slavery Society was formally
disbanded, the surviving members could
lsok back with satisfaction upon the part
they had played in onr second revolution,
as well as survey with thankfulness the com
.pletion of their purpose. Their aim is reached.
They may now rest from their labor5, secure
of the grateful remembrance of posterity,
which will appreciate their designs, if it can
not always nraise their Judgment.
Year: 1870

The Democracy of California do not take
kindly the XVth Amendment A number OF
County Clerks of that party have refused to
register cOlOred men as voters, and more than


fifty members of the Legislature approve the
action of the clerks, and propose to back them
up with moral, and, if needed, all the physi-
zeal force God has given them" We are
not apprised of the extent of physical force
granted to these gentlemen, but with all due
respect we submit that "fOrce" is an argu-
ment that is not likely to win. Mrs. Parting
ton was q remarkably energetic old lady, and
welded her mop with amazing energy, but
the Atlantic Ocean did not seem to be
seriously retarded by her efforts. The
Californians, however, have loop-hOle for
retreat; if their Attorney General should mag
unanimously declare that he has no objection
to the carrying out of the amendment, the
boys will give in. The civilized world is
awaiting in breathless anxiety the official
opinion and final decision of this Attorney
General. In Circleville, Ohio, where about
two thirds of the white voters are Democrats,
1877 colored men were denied the right to vote.
The regular election officers refused, to serve
because of the presence of colOred men, and
the polls were manned by irresponsible per-
SONS. The cOlored men appeal to Congress for
redress, and We are confident they will not
apppsl in v,lin.
Year: 1870

Soon after the Nathan murder, and
before any examination had been made
TO ascertain who the guilty party was. u
very intelligent and every way excel
lent lady of eekshill, \. Y, had re-
markable dream, which made an i'm
preston so vivid upon her mind, and
seemed withal so real, that she cannot
divest herselfof the belief hat she cOutd,
if brought face to face with the murder
er, be able to indentify him from the
daguerreotype of his features forever
engraven upon her memory by the
startling earnestness of what she regards
as dream-reality.


As above stated, within few days of
the murder this lady was to all appear
an present where the murder was
committed, and the room, with its con-
tents, to the minutest particulars, were
daguerreotyped upon her mind. There
lay the dead body of Mr.. Nathan, as he
was stricken down by the hand of the
assassin, and within few feet stood the
guilty man who had struck the fatal
blow, his hands raised in horror at what
he had done, and look of wild terror
plainly depicted upon his cQuntenance.
The homicide's face was turned in the
right direction, so the lady got an ac-
curate impression of its features and ex-
preston; and so perfect was it that she
il positive she could recognize the man
she saw anywhere at anytime. 1t would
be singular if the murderer should yet
be discovered by some such agency as
the ahove.-T Monticello IN. j. Repub-
lican, Dec. 9th.
Year: 1870

an earnest and careful Investigation, in
which the government should be repre-
sented, will show to belong to it. TIE
President has only been holding the
title to the land in allegiance until the
Committee of the House of Representa-
tives got through with the investiga-
ton, and determine what the rights of
the United States are in the premises.
For this think he ought to have the
thanks OF all honest and judicious men.


Ian yours very truly


BENZ. +. BUTLER.
Year: 1870

l. pleases us 10 know that Texan emigrants and drcses are turning their attention to the 18th parallel route, and that many people with their herds, will pass over it next sum mer IL is as short if not shorter than the old southern route; the climate is milder; water, grass aud timber are plenty upon it, and there is lsss danger of attacks from ln- dians than on the other road therefore, with all these advantages in its favor, i. would be strange, indeed, if droyers and emigrants should not give it the preference. We know how hard it is to turn people from an old, Hell-knogn course, over which thousands have traveled before them, but, when it be- comes generally known, as it now is, that the soathern route is poorly provided with grass, water and fuel that the heat, in summer the season in which emigrants generally pass over that portion Of it between the Rio Grande snd the Gila-is intense; that Indi- ans are constantly watching ii, they will un- doubtedly abandon 1t and take the route of the 35th Parallel, through this Territory.

 Since writing the above, we have learned  that herds of cattle are now on the way here from. Southern Arizona, the object of their owners being to drive them to California, ria the Hardyyille road. Their reasons for this strange proceeding are good; There is but very little grass south and, AS the cattle are poor, their owners doubt very much whether they would stand 1t to be driyen across the deserts. By driving them up here and on to California, they will be in good condition by the time market Is reached.

 Knowing that we have made enemies by the advocacy of the 35th parallel route, and i having an idea that more will soon be added to the list, our only excuse or plea for so do- ing is that the opening of the route will be | of great benefit to the entire Territory Then, those who may travel it will see a country worth something, and not series Of deserts. They may take fancy toyt, settle ia it, and keep on doing 30 until ;he Central portion of the Territory is filed up with

 farmers, miners and stock raisers. For thC

 past ten or twelve years, thousands of peo pie have passed over the southern route, yet not over 5O0 of them have been induced tC

 settle in the Territory. Such will not be th'

 case should the travel be turned our way.
Year: 1870

WHEAT AND BARLEY.-We are assured by farmers from every section of the county that the growing crops of wheat and barley are looking and doing splendidly. Through ca: ;he southern section ei ;ss eesE;y, these cereals will be ready for harvesting early next May. Here, the winter wheat and bar ley will not be ready for harvesting until about the first of July. Jus, now, it looks as though our Touring mills, of which there are some six or seven in the Territory, will have enough 10 do, the coming summer and fall, and VIC may reasonably expect that al most enough wheat will, this year be raised, to make sufficient breadstuf for home con sumption, and that the price of the article will decline to twelve or thirteen dollars per hundred. There IS no good reasou-eIeept the presence of the eonfounded Apaches-- why our rich Territory should not, in short time, become selfsustaining. But for the raEages of ths sayages she would have occu- pied that independent position long ago.
Year: 1870

Reduce all these values of 1869 to a
gold basis, and you still have, with
one or two exceptions, n price very
much i'm advance, and in some cases
more than double that Of 1889.


In the matter Of help, wages ten
years ago gOaveraged about fifteen dollars
month for good man. Last year
more men were hired under twenty
five dollars a month than over. And
when we consider that the adaptation
of machinery to farm uses has made
it possible to do the work on farm
with about half the help that was re-
quiFed ten years ago, We can see how
much larger the opportunity for farm
ers to make money in 1869 than it was
in 1859.


And they have done it. Leaving
out the exclusively wheat growing
sections, the farmers are rich, as the
world talks. They have paid their
way-paid up, many of them, old
debts, and those that were fOrehanded
at the years beginning, are more 50
at its close and what is best of AL ],
the promise of tomorrow is better to
human eye than the realization of
Yesterday.
Year: 1870

The San Francisco papers complain
of the extravaganza Of the churches of
that city. Normally, religion j. sup
posed To be the consolation of the poor,
but i'm the Queen of the Pacific slope
IL is luxury in which ever the mol
erately rich can not indulge. Think
of one thousand dollar pews! OF
course n the San Francisco ClI points
out, respectable families viii not care
To go to church if they cannot go on
the same terms as their more wealthy
associates. But when the single item
Of music in these churches costs about
there are not many, even in
the Golden City, who will find it easy
to support the enormous assessments
religious services forces on
them.
Year: 1870

Here isa queer obituary my hus-
band is no more. He did not wish To
live longer, and if he had, it would
have made no difference, for gOut ell
tered his stomach, and was soon fol-
lowed by death. shall marry the
doctor who so kindly attended my
late husband; learned then to trust
him. Soft rest the ashes of the de-
parted one, whose wholesale liquor
business ! shall continue at the old
stand" t