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Year: 1876

FAT SHEEP FOB HEAVY FLEECE.-A
writer in the Country Gentleman
says: "There Is much said about
ewes being too fat to breed well. In
my experience of twenty years have
never seen anything that led me to
think so, providing the flesh was put
on with good pasture during the Sum-
mer, and few roots with good hay
in the Winter. The fatter sheep be-
come under such circumstances, the
more valuable consider them. There
is no time in the year when it pays
better to feed a small allowance of
grain daily than in the Fall after the
feed gets frozen, and it is not neces
sary TO bring the flock 10 the barn.
"It is an old saying that "sheep well
Novembered are halt WinteFed.' Keep
the ewes fat, and the lambs will be fat
and the fleeees heavy, do not say
that it is is better to have the lambs
come early or late, but | do say that
it is best to have them fa,; but whether
early or late, they are saleable. All
ewes, that with good care, will not
raise lamb and shear four pounds of
washed wool, should be sold. | have
them in my flock that will shear nine
pounds, and raise pair of twins, and
it costs no more to keep one, than
sheep that shears but three pounds. |
think that no one will hear the man
who keeps bis focks in this way, CON-
planning because his sheep are all "run
ou;," and do not pay him, and the
like. Ticks must be kept out of the
flock; they are the worst enemies OF
the sheep. If they are not killed they
Will destroy the sheep For killing
them | have tried nothing better than
tobacco Juice.
Year: 1876

ALL sorts of glass vessels and other
utensils may be purified from long re.
tanned smells of every kind in the
easiest and most perfect manner by
rensing them out we'll with charcoal
powder, after the grosser impurities
have been secured of with sand and
potash. Rubbing the teeth with fine
charcoal powder and then washing
out the mouth will render the teeth
beautifully white and the breath per.
fectly sweet, where an offensive breath
has been owing 10 q scor5uuc disposi-
zion of the gums. Pu;rii water is
Immediately deprived of its bad smell
by charcoal. When meat, fish, etc
from intense heat of long keeping are
likely to pass into a state of corrution.
8 simple and easy mode of keepipg
them sound and healthful is to pnt >
few pieces OF charcoal, about the size
of an egg, into the poi or saucepan
wherein the flesh or fish is TO be boiled
Year: 1876

PRINCE BIsMARCk's HEALTH is now
reported as in very satisfactory state,
and it is possible that the blood and
iron policy will be relaxed, at least un-
til he gets worse. Ill health is often
full of evil to nations as well as to men.
Year: 1876

SEVEN YEARS ago the President
took the oath Of his great office. How
has he kept it ? If seven years of his
administration have caused American
republiCanism to bow its head in
shame, what degradation might we
not expect from twelve?
Year: 1876

CONCLUSION.


J. It shall be an abiding principle with 10 re-
eve any Of our oppressed and suffering brotherhood
By any means at ouT command


Last, but not least, proclaim it among our pur-
poses TO inculcate proper appreciation OF the abi
ties and spheres of woman Is indicated by admit
ing her TO membership and position III our order
implorlng the continued assistance of our Divine
Master to guide Us IN our work, we here pledge
selves 10 faithful and harmonious labor for all future
time 10 return by our united efforts to the wisdom,
Justice, fraternity and political purity Of our fore
fathers
Year: 1876

We acknowledge the broad principle that differ
ence OF opinion is no crime and hold that progress
toward truth Is male by differences OF opinion -
while the fault lies IN bitterness of cont OyerSey"


We desire proper equality, equity and ftrne ;
protection for the weak restraint upon the strong
IN short, justly distributed burdens and Justly dis
tributei power. These American IDEAS, the very
essence OF Amercan Independence, and to advocate
the contrary Il unworthy OF the and daughters
OF an American republic.


We cherish the belief that sectionalism IS and of
right should be, dead and buried with the past. Our
work Is for the present and the future In our aa-
ricutural brotherhood and its purposes shall
ognlze no North, no South, no East no West.


1t is reserv d TO every patron aS The right of a
freeman, 70 affiliate with any party that will best
carry out his principles.
Year: 1876

ate bill No. BOB was read third time, was
put to vote and received only the vote
of the Senator making the motion.
Senator Piner then moved to reconsider the
vote passing Senate bill No. BOB, and also
moved the previous question on the
motion to reconsider. The point of
order was distinctly made by Senator Storey
that the Senate had under consideration
House bill No. 377, relating TO the Uni
versity lands, and that there had been no
motion or vote to postpone that bill, but
that the Senator from Denton (PineT) had
been permitted to interrupt the business
under consideration for the purpose of pre-
senting a privileged question, viz, the cor
rection of the journals; that the Senate
had refused to order any correction Of the
journals, and that it was out of order to-
take up other business without making
some disposition, by postponement o.
otherwise, of the business in hand.
The point of order was overruled by the
President, and the upshot of the matter
was the reconsideration of the vote passing
the railroad bill, the reading of the bill a
third time. and its passage by majority
vote. This being done, the Senate ad-
journed without returning to the House
bill relating to the University lands.
Year: 1876

During the protracted heated term there
has been good cause for extreme solicitude
az to how the President would stand the
effects of the weather. The public, already
familiar with his rash acts, will learn with
sorrow that an impression, shared by all
without regard to party affiliations, prevails
that Grants mind has become unsettled, aud
that uuless great care is exercise !, he will
have to be relegated IN retirement for re-
cuperation. He has never remained in this
city but once so late as he has this season,
and then the weather was tolerable. But
for the past four weeks the climate has been
almost fatal to men who are not Of the most
temperate and simple habits. When pros
trated by excessive heat, a system already
relaxed by use of s,imulants becomes prey
TO all sorts of horrible arrangements. or
the many sudden deaths that have occurred
here during the last three weeks of protract-
ed furnace heat there has not been single
case where person so dropping out Of lite
was not of full habit and sddicted to che
use OF strong stimulants. Grant is at present
very stout, of a type inclined to apopiexy.
For years he has never been subjected TO
the debihtating effects of the terrible heat
here. It has been his custom TO leave
Washington upon the first day of June, and
not return until the first of the following
October. He has spent most of his time in
the bracing atmosphere of the seashore, and
this compensated him for many drafts that
he has made upon his physical health by
constant use of stimulants. This summer
he has had no relief. Before him has
stretched vista Of dismal and contempti-
BILE obscurity, dating from the fourth of next
March, while round about him was an at
mosphere of fierce, torrid d. preston that
required the purest of habits aud highest of
health to sustain. All of these circumstaa-
ces explain how he has taken the oIt in his
teeth, aud thrown ferociously aside all adj
vice of his most trusty counsellors. There
has been developed of late the undercrust
of Grants stolidity, a substratum of des-
perate savagery. This is only explained by
his most intimate friends upon tue ounds
that his mind is fast becoming il not
already thoroughly impaired. Yesterday he
was visited by Que of his Oldest and most
tried friends Grant treated him so savage
ly and morosely that the friend was only
too glad to escape from his presence as from
the cage of a wild beast. The matter has
been brought to the attention of Grants
family physician, and he has peremptorly
ordered change of air. The President,
therefore, left this afternoon to see il
mountain air cannot restore him. Bdltimord
Gdzette.
Year: 1876

1t was intended in our article Wednesday
morning in relation to the proceedings in
the Senate for the relief of the Texas and
Pacific Railway Company to state that the
vote by which the President of the Senate
declared that the bill had passed was taken
without the bill having been read even by
caption. Such was the fact; and when the
President announced that the bill had
passed, Senator S:orey very distinctly made
the point of order that the bill had not
been read third time, aud that the constr
tutional rule requiring balls TO be read on
three several days in each house had not
been suspended. The President took
no further notice of the point of
order than to say that 1t was too late to go
behind the vote. This readiness of the
presiding officer of the Senate to sustain a
proceeding in violation OF plain require
ment of the Constitution was a little too
much, even for the tiery zeal of the Senators
who had pushed matters to such an extrem-
ity. 1t was felt to be absolutely necessary


to have the journal show that the bill had

been read third time. The attempt to
do this gave nse TO proceedings as ex


traordinaTy as any that preceded them.
The Senate had proceeded to the
consideration of House bill No. 317, re-
lAting TO the sale of University lands.


An amendment TO this bill, offered by SEN


ator McLeary, had been adopted, and an
other amendment offered by senator Ter
rell, was pending when Senator Piner arose
TO what he called question of privilege,
and moved 70 amend the j,urnal so rs to
make il show that Senate bin No. sos (the
railroad bilD was read After objection,
which was 1verruled by the Presideat, the
motion Of Senator Piner 20 correct the
journal OF Tuesday so as to show that SEN
Year: 1876

To RESENT difference of opinion, where
honesty is equally conceded in both direc-
tions, by attempting to injure ones bust
ness, is hardly proper and hardly becoming
cultured taste or Intelligence. Ignorant or
grossly prejudiced people sometimes stop a
newspaper to resent an offcnse given their
convictions of right, but since no newspa
per can run 'concurrently with the opinions
or purposes OF any single reader, such con.
duct on the part of one must be deemed
amazingly absurd by calm, dispassiOnate
observers of the course of public events.
But, then, he who would lessen q newspa-
per's income, because it differs from him
some ephemeral question, attempts, it
seems To US to bribe such newspaper and
becomes criminal in order to make the press
bend tn his wishes. We are not, therefore,
grievously at fault in declaring that cor
respondent who threatens to stop the
STATESMAN because it is hostile to Scott's
demands, seeks to bribe the STATEsNAS.
Thus far there is only one criminaIly gsilty
party to this correspondence, and we make
no other reply than this to the letter of :.
T NJ
Year: 1876

After the disastrous victory which the
supporters of the bill for an extension OF
time to the Texas and Pacific Railway Com
pany gained in the Senate. the bill was
taken to the House of Representatives on
the afternoon of Tuesday. On Wednesday


morning, Mr.. Daruell moved to postpone
the order OF the day until Senate bill No.
sos (Which is the railroad extension bilD


was disposed Of. The special order of the
day in the House was the bill relating to
the resumption of the control of the Peni-
Year: 1876

Gov. CHAMBERLAIN, of South Carolina,
will exhaust his own power to arrest mur-
derers before he calls on Grant to help him


We hope the last bloody handed knave.
white and black, will pull hemp. The
decent people of South CarolinI will stand
by the Governor aud see that the laws are
Year: 1876

The Democratic orators have been
making great ado over what they saved
at the last session Of Congress- by cutting
down appropriations. Gen. Sickies, in
his speech in this city some weeks ago,
exposed the huubuggery OF their claims
to economy. He has been member OF
Congress and understands how that sort
of thing is done. The way is, he said, 10
cut down the necessary appropriations at
one session Of Congress and then
supply them at the next session
by Deficiency Bills. Mr.. Wiley also
gave a good sample Of the sort Of econ
omy practiCed by the RetOrmers at
the las, session Of Congress. For instance
they neglected to make MI appropriation
OF $1,000 necessary to complete the slack
waterIimprovement in the Monongahela,
near Morgantown. The estimate OF the
engineer now Is that the neglect to make
said appropriation will prove costly
piece OF economy to the government by
the time winter is over, by damage from
ice.


And No, AS has been shown by others,
there are any number Of instances oi this
penny wise and pound foolish economy.
Our ships have been left prot for lack OF
the appropriations necessary to keep
them in good condition.


The hypocrisy OF all this cry for econ
omy is shown by the fact that Col. vii.
son did all in his power to get money
appropriated for war claims, rs did his
colleagues Of the West Virginia delega'
tion. There was no end to the money
they wanted for all sorts of schemes.
Besides appropriations TO the Big
Kunawha, the Little Kanawha, the Elk
and the Monongahelariyers, they wanted
Congress to give them SSOS,oS7 10 for
war claims. They wanted, like dema-
gogues, all the money they could get for
their own districts, regardless Of the
country at large, and yet were willing to
cut of appropriations from other inter-
ests in order that they might be
able to make capital for the party,
particularly for themselves. Henry
G. Davis is sample Of these Relormers
He put the SALARY grab" in his pocket
and now comes before the people ol
Wheeling and OF the whole State to pirate
about retrenchment. He also, like Viii
son, Faulkner AMI Hereford, made his
demand on Congress for war claims
There is no amount OF public money that
he and his colleagues would not sqnnnder
| in this way. And yet while they are do
ing il they try to cut off enough from the
Public Works OF the country to enable
them to howl about economy in the can
vass. The whole thing is thinly dis
guised trick to deceive the people,
Year: 1876

THE GREAT DANGER.
An Address from the Republican


Committee,
Which Every Voter Should Read.
A Clear Explanation Of TiIden's


Rebel Claims Letter.
Hendricks and the South Do Not


Support Him.
Year: 1876

alton of county Offices and the sal.


arying Of officials, through the let


ters Of Commissioner Fergus and


K Amin. In this matter it would


appear that the interests Of this


county would he bestserved through


separate legislation. We believe
a rule that would be beneficial to
large counties would to an extent
injure Choteau. Itshould, of course,
be our endeaVor to have the busi-
ness of the county performed 1T as
little expense as possible, but We
must not forget that it is also neces-
sary that the same should be per-
formed in q satisfactory manner
and to the best interest Of the tax
payer, We doubt whether the af-
fairs Of this county could be per
formed better under any rule diff
Fering from the one by which We
are governed.
Year: 1876

We are in receipt of d letter from


our correspondent "T, : in reply to


the Bismarck Tribune" He says


The season having closed in
such creditable manner, as far as


the Benton route is concerned, and
the supremacy Of this route having
been 50 fully recognized by mer-
chants and freighters, that were the
cross-fre INDUCED in during the
season re-opened it would mar to
an extent our pleasure of success.


Otherwise it could be shown that
more than once had we occasion to
complain of the unfairness Of the
"Trlbune's shipping items. How
ever, il is gratifying to know that
this misrepresentation was not in.
territorial. The Tribune" says that
it is net prejudiced, either for the
Carroll route or against the Ben
ton route, and if it pays more atten


tion to one than to the other, it is
because one is peculiarly linked
with Bismarck and the other is not Il
but The Tribune will not knowing
ly misrepresent any interest. II


That Is all right. All that the
Benton route has asked for, Or seeks,
is fair dealing and a. impartial
verdict at the same time conced-
ing to every locality che rightand
duty to promote any enterprise
through which their interests are
also promoted. In spite Of the most
persistent opposition last season.
the Benton route developed i feat
ure il Montana transportation
hitherto unknown, something wish
ed for-cheap rates and rapid tran |
sit. How striking would tie ad. !
Of this route have been
felt had prejudice aud discrinina
lion been removed from the issue.
Year: 1876

ACCIDENT ON THE DANvILLE RoAD.-On
Saturday morning q collision occurred on
the Danville railroad four miles south of this
city between coal train and freight train.
The fireman Of one of the trains jumped
from his engine and broke his leg. He was
also slightly injured short time ago by the
accident at Mattoax. The two engines were
considerably injured, and the mail train de-
layed by the accident about two hours.
Year: 1876

We publish list of republican meetings
to be held in this State commencing on
the 10Th and extending to the eve of the
election in September. The speakers an
nounced are distinguished and eloquent
men, whom it will CRAFTY and instruct
our people to hear.


Now as ever the republican party goes
before the country appealing to the intelli-
gence and moral sentiment Of the people
for support. That reliance has never
failed nor will it this year. As there is a
God who rules in the affairs of men so
certain is it that the republicans will rule
this country until the issues growing out
of the Rebellion are completely settled
Let the republicans of Maine attend in full
force the republican meetings that are to
be held. and gain from them the spirit and
enthusiasm that are needful to the result
desired in the election. 1t is worthy of
Year: 1876

mention that while the republicans are de-
pending upon arguments addressed to the
reason and conscience of voters for sue
cess. the chairman of the democratic State
committee is mousing around the State
and relying for whatever democratic sue
cess he may hope for upon secret can
yass and Tilden's' barrel of money"
Year: 1876

ohe hiSnt curing the recent troubles
in the Pennsylvania coal regions, Judge
Potts brother, Thomas Potts, was round
at meeting of mine owners, and after
the adjournment he stepped into tav-
ern. While there he met some friends
and in the course of an hour or two be
got very intoxicated. On his way home
he lost his hat, and miner who knew
him, feeling compassion for him clapped
on his head a miners hat and in order
to make the dark street look brighter he
lighted the lamp in front of the hat.
When Potts reached the house his wife
had gone to bed, and the lights were out,
but Potts felt certain the lamp was burn
ing in the hall, but he couldn't for the
life of him tell where it was.


He looked at the regular lamp aud it
seemed to be out; then hunted in every
direction for height, but he was unable
to find it, although it seemed to shine
brightly wherever he went. Presently
he happened to stop in front of the mir
ror in the hat rack, and then he saw pre-
cisely where the light was. After a
brief objurgation upon Mrs. Potts for
leaving light in such place, he went
up to the mirror and tried to blow it out
He blew and blew, but somehow the
fame burned as steadily as before.


That" said Potts, is the most ex-
traor'nary lamps ever been my misfor-
tune t'encounter." Then he took off his
coat, and holding it in front of him
crept cautiously up to the mirror, and
tried to crush the coat over the lamp
which still burned brightly. He said:


" That's cer'inly very extro nary moz
'stonishn' circumstanz ever come un'er
my observation. Domino how t'count
for it +"


1t occurred 70 him that perhaps he
might smash the lamp with an umbrella
Selling the weapon he went up 10 the
hat, and aiming terrible blow at the
light, he brought the umbrella down.
lie missed, and smashed his Sunday hat
into chaos. He took aim again. and
caught the umbrella in the lamp over
head, bringing it down with a crash.
Then he tried third time, and plunged
the ferule of the umbrella through the
mirror, smashing it to atoms he felt ex-
ultant for moment as the light disap-
peared from his vision, but he was per-
picked to find there was another light
somewhere, he did not know exactly
where. So he sat down on the stairs and
remarked:


MOI 'stonishin' circumstanz ever
come un'er my observation. Whaten
thunder doz it mean an'how? Lights
gone, an yet it's shinin'l Perfectly in
comprehensive Wish t'gracious Mrs
Potts d wake up an splain it. Durn'i
| know what / had better do


| Then Potts took off his hat to scratch
his head in the hope that he might scare
up an idea, and the truth flashed upon
him. Gazing at the lamp for moment,
until he drank in full conception Of
the trouble it had caused him, he sud.
denly smashed it down on the floor in a
rage, and extinguished it after covering
two yards of carpet with grease. Their
he went to bed, and in the morning Mrs
Potts informed him that some of those
awful miners had broken into the house
the night before and left one of theii
hats with lamp. Potts turned over in
bed so that she could not see his face
and said if the stern hand of the law
wasn't laid upon those ruffians soon, no
body's life would be safe.