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Year: 1875

Very few men are aware Of the amount
Of soil washed away every year in this
section Of the country. If we keep on
with this kind of farming many farmers
will do as they now do in the Eastern
States, and put guano, ashes, plaster, su-
perphosphates or lime in every hill Of
corn. Farmers, you should stop some Of
this waste; don't think Of leaving moth
ing but the yellow clay for future gem
erations.


But there is a remedy for all the waste:
SOW more clover. Keep the ground ell
ed with roots or vegetable matter, then
it can't get away 80 easy. Throw up a
clover sod for corn or wheat and be sure
to have the clover in the rotation Of the
crops.


Sow in February or in March, and
next summer you can NOW a big crop Of
hay from that piece Of ground, and re-
member that IL is getting richer.


Make calculations to seed another part
Of the farm next year, and in a short
time you can have n two-year old clover
sod to plant corn on; then look out for
fine corn, big ears and big yield, grow
with half the labor that You now grow
on those worn-out fields that have been
in constant use for corn and wheat for
twenty-five or thirty years. Ohio is the
best country for clover ever saw. The
farmers east Of this State don't pretend
to get along without sowing clover, and
to make the clover grow they use plaster
and lime. Here there Is 70 use Of this
at present; and in addition TO the rich
yield Of fine clover or hay the clover
seed is profitable to take care of. We
hope to see Western farmers giving this
subject more attention.-[E Elk.
Year: 1875

A young man at the Warm Springs OF
Virginia came down to breakfast on
Monday last, which day was the twenty
first anniversary of his berth. and on
raising his plate found underneath it a
check from his father for $4,000. The
youth was the son of Senator Robertson,
of South Carolina. The father has been
feeding on the people of Carolina for
the past five or six years, and the pres
entation of the sons fortune at the din.
ner-table is regarded Us pleasantly
symbolical of that.-[Chicago Times.
Year: 1875

Farmers troubles IN CaluOrnla'


The San Francisco Alta Of a recent
date says:


ave do not see any serious danger that
the people of California will become
idIers, as many of the Southern Italians
and Southern Spaniards are; but a con-
siderable portion of the people coming
from the East of late seem to think that
they ought to be able to live without
hard work, to get two or three times as
much for their labor as can be got in the
East. The grain farmers, as class,
cannot afford to pay the current prices of
farm labor, and the proportion of farm
ers who have saved So, 900 or $4,000 out
of grain crops, after paying all expenses
and supporting their families, within the
last ten years, is thrice as large in Iowa
and Wisconsin as in California, and for
such sums as $4,000 or $50, 1000 is ten
times as large. In fact it is one of the
greatest rarities to find California far
mer who has made anything out of grain
after succession of crops. A few have
been fortunate enough to do well in one
favorable season, and have invested their
money profitably in land, risking little
or nothing afterward. Nearly all those
farmers who have undertaken to farm
extensively year after gear with hard la
Dor have lost money. The hired men
made all the profit there was in the crops,
and about the last thing that farmer
wants to do here is to cultivate grain ex
tensively with hired men. The land
owners are impoverishinE the soil in the
hope of large crops, with two chances
out of three against them. If the sea
sons here were regular, and if the crops
did not usually vary from the average
more than they do in Illinois, the wages
of farm laborers would soon be brought
to a figure that would leave fair mar
gin of profit, but the irregularity. in the
yield, with the hope Of great profit out
of an exceptionally large crop, induces
the maintenance of the present high
rates of wages"
Year: 1875

Somebody wrote to the editor of a pa
per to inquire how he would break an
OK. The editor replied as follows: "Ii
only one OK, good way would be to
hoist him by means of a long chain at
tached to his tail, to the top Of a pole
forty feet from the ground. Then hoist
him by a rope tied TO his horns to an
other pole. Then descend on to bis
back five-ton pile driver; and II that
fails to break him, let him start coun-
try newspaper and trust people for sub
scriptions. One Of the two will do IL,
sure"
Year: 1875

This grove is situated in basin at the
head waters of the San Lorenzo and
Boulder creeks. One of the trees eclip-
ses all that have been discovered on the
Pacific coast. Its circumference, as
high as man can reach, standing and
passing tape line around, is few inch
es less than $50 feet. This is beyond the
measurement of any tree in the Calaver-
GUS Grove. The hight is estimattd at
16O feet, and part of the top lying on
the ground is over 100 feet in length.
The other trees in the vicinity are not
as large, but all are of immense girth.
Year: 1875

We had come down to within hun
dred feet of the earth, and were travel
ing slowly along on lazy current of
air in the calm stiffness of early night in
the country, when suddenly the woods
broke away beneath US and we noticed a
belt of moonlight on the Miami River,
near Hamilton. This turned the con-
versation upon ballooning over water,
and Donaldson was tempted to say:


"Perhaps you remember my adven-
ture on Lake Michigan two yerrs ago.
made the ascension alone. My bal
loon was full and light, and l had plen-
ty of ballast Everything was in good
shape. l went alone purposelv, so as to
do what ] did. An immense crowd
saw me off The air was favorable and
sent me off over the lake. There was
light sea on. When / got so far mp
and away that my movements couldn't
be detected, pulled, the valve rope and
came down to the water. ] knew the
effect on that crowd. What l was after
was sensational advertisement. There
was pretty good surface current of air.
As the basket touched the water the bag
of course jerked at 1t and pulled it up,
and let out little ballast from a bag.
And in this way skipped along for
some time. 1t was nearly dark, and
clouds were gathering. Through their
glasses they could barely see me, cling
ing to the basket and being dragged
through the water at a fearful rate, as
they imagined. In that way passed
out of their sight, as l learned after, in
to certain death, as they supposed. Then
/ let out ballast enough and arose to a
good height, and kept on. ! got my
sensational adv. of 'Perilous Adventure
Hair Breadth Escape and so on
and didn't get my feet wet"


In this way poor Donaldson foreshad.
owed his awful fate to us, as we travel
ed through the air that calm, pleasant
night, last autumn. Little did he sus'
pect then that what he had once gonC
through in fun, with safety, was to b.
repeated to---his death.-[ Cincinnati
Commercial.
Year: 1875

There is a hearty glow Of patriotism
in this paragraph from the Memphis
Appeal which is extremely pleasant;
democrats we are, and Tennesseeans,
and full Of love for our thrice blessed
South land: bat over all there laps the
claim Of the Union, with its great
achievements and still greater destiny.
God bless the flag, and God bless the
Union, and may He strengthen all
hearts, both North and South, 70 labor
for an everlasting peace between the
States -
Year: 1875

A country youth, who desired 90
know how TO become rich, sent quar-
ter in answer to an advertisement and
received the following valuable recipe;
Increase your receipts and decrease
your expenditures. Work eighteen
hours a day, aud live ON hash and oat
meal Cruel"
Year: 1875

Farmers must not only 30 cultivate
the crops upon which they mainly de-
pend for income, as 10 make them prof
liable, but they must make all the mi
nor crops, which they raise for feeding
stock or for family supplies, pay cost Of
cultivation, otherwise the profit Of the
leading crops will be absorbed by the
losses on minor crops. and the farm ac-
counts will show no balance on the right
side
Year: 1875

of Seven Mile Brook, it was thought
best for Weston ard Smith to leave the
canoe and approach the settlement by
land, under cover Of the trees and bush
es.


A few minutes later, as the scouts on
shore pressed apprehensively forward, a
gun shot was heard at the river, and a
cry from the canoe rang through the
wood. They knew it was the voice of
Wilson. He was warming them, they
supposed, of danger. 1t would be folly
to attempt now the rescue of those in
the canoe, and they could only hope that
it might float away from the shore, and
beyond the reach of the savages.
The Indians, they concluded, must
have seen them land, and were lying in
ambush to shoot them down. 1t was ne
cessary to act quickly Should they go
forward to the cabins of the settlers, now
near by? What if there were only ash
es and calcined bones in place of the
houses in which they hoped for shelter,
and of the friends to be saved or to be
succored?


With murderous Indians haunting the
shore below, it was clear to the two
scouts that the settlers must have al
ready come to harm. The addition of
two men, if their friends were besIeged.
would be but a very insufficient rein
forcement They therefore decided to
return, as quickly as possible, to the
Point, and inform the inhabitants of
their danger, and of the calamity which
had befallen their own party. They lost
no time in starting, taking direct line
through the woods to Norridgewock,
where they speedily made known the oc-
currences of the day. A council of the
neighbors was held at once. and a mes
senger dispatched to Pownalborough,
nearly sixty miles below, beseeching
Gen. Lithgow for aid, assuring him that
the settlers about Norridgewock were in
momentary apprehension of being mas
sacred


The general ordered out his regiment
and a portion was on the march before
the incidents OF the alarm were fully
explained.


In the council held at the point, Mr..
Clark had dissented from the views of
the other members, and advised them to
wait till they knew more about the mat
T. hot ea.,1iror for baln rolnnfaari1o 1or
to go himself to find the missing scouts.
His advice was not kindly received
and he set out on the search alone. A
short distance up the river he met the
canoe, returning, weighed down with the
carcass of a fine, fat bear, and joyfully
learned from the wondering scout that
their friends at Seven Mile Brook had
not been molested.


1t appeared that shortly after the 9TH
er scouts had been set ashore, Wilson
saw a bear in the water, in a fine posi-
tion for shot. The temptation was too
great, and hazarding an alarm to the
redskins, he fired, and killed his game.


This farce was so ridiculous, the men
were heartily ashamed Of their alarm.
Yet Mr.. Smith, half century after,
would hardly own that he was much
frightened.


In spite of some restlessness manifest
ed at first, the Maine Indians remained
at peace with the settlers throughout
this war
Year: 1875

Illness, and these pets fill the aching
void Il little.


Some one to love, 1t is the cry of the
human soul, the note to which every
heart responds: the bond which will
hud lis Ill together in the other world
where mouruers shall be comforted and
Love reign forever.
Year: 1875

You must tell the public of that fact. and when
YOU have once begun. you must keep telling them
"i 1t iour surest, cheapest and quickest way to
tell them is by advertising inthe Newspaper circu-
lating among the people you want to reach
Year: 1875

The idea is coming to be more and
moro favorably received that for much
Of the Northwest increased attention
must be given to the culture of grapes,
strawberries, raspberries, etc to secure
a supply of fruits with certainty, aud
without long waiting This does not
imply encouragement as to ul innate
general success in growing the apple,
and perhaps some varieties Of the pear,
plum and cherry. But the fact that
with proper protection in winter sup
ply Of grapes and berries can almost
certainly be secured each year, places
the culture of these on basis far
more satisfactory than can be claimed
for tree fruits in extensive regions in
the Northwest 1t Is compensation
for the extra cost and labor, and for
the later season in the far North, that
injury from late Spring frosts scarcely
ever occurs, aud that fruit Of most ex-
ceIlent quality is secured with certain
tV.
Year: 1875

Public interest has been renewed in
the robberies of w. NJ. Tweed and
others, in New York, by the pardon of
1ngersoll This act of Clemency was
regarded with considerable distrust at
first, but it was done on condition that
he would make full confession of
those enormous frauds. lie has dene
so, and the information he furnishes
will probably enable the city to recov-
er large amount of money. The N.
Y. Tribune makes the following per-
tincnt reflections


''What picture of justice, human
and divine, does the fate of all these
men present to-day. Tweed, gray aud
broken, wears out his heart behind the
bars of the penitentiary. struggling
vainly for release which will proba-
bly, never come till it comes with death.
Sweeny, solitary exile in the French
capital, shun the face Of those whom
he may never more call his country
men, and awaits in shame and fear the
issue Of the suits by which the plum
dered City of New York attempts to
seize bis ill-gotten property. Connolly,
after squanderiny a large share of his
money. sits every day on the piazza Of
an African hote "shunned by every
body, with trembling hands and vacant
eyes" prince Harry Genet wanders
about Spain occasionally attempting
suicide. Fields is not only fugitive
bat pauper. OF the meaner asso-
ciates of the fallen Directory, many
have sunk into oblivion, and several
are dead We published yesterday an
account of some of the supply men
who used to put up bills for the joint
benefit Of themselves aud the city Off .
GERS. One died in the insane asylum
Another is confined as a lunatic.
Nearly all are gone in one way or an
other. Net dollar of the stolen
money has profted its possessor, and
We doubt whether there is man of
the whole band who would not willing
ly change places to-day with an honest
laborer on the New York parks."
Year: 1875

Last Saturday, VIM. s. King was
admitted to bail in the sum of $4,000
on the Indictment found against him
by a grand Jury in the District of Co.
lumbia, for connection with the Pacific
Mail subsidy.
Year: 1875

-. Atlanta fGa. j Constitution, June go ..


Some months ago young man and his
wife reached Atlanta from their old home
in Maryland, intending to cast their lot
among our people. Not succeeding in find
ing employment, the husband made up his
mind to try his fortune in the Black Hills,
and so told his wife. She objected most
strenuously, with tears and lamentations,
and begged him to desist, but he argued
the case so earnestly to her that she finally
yielded to his plans. After it was settled
that the parting should be had, it was that
the stipulations should be reduced to writ.
ing. An attorney of this city was accord
ingly visited and the singular document
drawn up. It was made as mutual bond
between them to keep before each their re-
spective duties. The terms we synopsis as
follows /:


/. He ID to be absent not more than two
years, whether good or ill-fortune betide
him, unless by unavoidable causes.


2. The wife is to return to their home in
Maryland and maintain herself from the
proceeds of her own service to her family
and the rents of piece of property be-
longing to her husband.


8. The property of the husband is con-
Yeyed to the wife, in a separate deed Of
gift, and in case Of death to revert to the
husband in the event Of his death before
h,s return, to be subject to her disposal.


4. Should their separation exceed the
time of the statutory laws Of the States
where each may be living wherein an APP
plication for divorce ON account of desertion
or failure to support be made, neither is to
take advantage of the fact.


8. He, if successful, is to remit to his
wife all the money over and above his needs
at stated intervals; to keep up as regular
correspondence as the mail will allow, and
return at the earliest possible time upon the
imperative summons Of his wife, she also
to go to him under similar circumstances.


The agreement was signed in triplicate
and duly witnessed. Each Of the parties
took copy, and the original remains in
the hands Of their attorney as its custodian.
On Wednesday, all their matters being ar
ranged, the husband divided their little
stock ofEmoney, giving his wife zone-half.
He also purchased ticket for her to Bal
timose, and she left for her home. The
parting between the couple was Of q very
distressing character. He left on Thursday
for Yankton, hoping from there to reach
the Black Hills. sss-gt 1ge
Year: 1875




Our neighbOrs of Philadelphia, assuredly,
have a genius for charity. Their money not
only flows steadily into the ordinary channels
of almsgiving in great city, and into the
treasures of great asylums and training schools
where people are helped to help themselves,
but they startle us every now and then with
some odd pathetic bit OF kindness, in which
the weakness or wants of poor human nature
are tenderly considered and cared for 1t is
in Philadelphia that the poorer children, en-
n,asse, are taken out for one day in October on
a grand nutting party, the nuts in the sixteen
miles of park woods having been carefully pro-
tected for them. 1t was in Philadelphia that an
invalid woman, just after the war. while the State
was paying tribute to her heroic dead had
thought to spare to the widows of these heroes
and of the children whom the scanty pension
would not educate; and it was owing to her
efforts that the State took these children and
cared for them as their dead fathers would
have DONE Offering as their memorial of the
dead, instead of stone monuments, living men
and women, qualified to be helpful workers
for the country. In short, all sorts of benevO-
lent notions have so taken root and fiOurished
among As good Quakers that however formal
Year: 1875

and cool their welcome may be to healthy
well -to-dO people, one has only need 10 oc
ailing in mind or bOdy-lame, blind, dumb, or
idiotic-to find some especial door open and
table within ready plenished.


Last week the object of the hospitable care
of the city was class which the world and
even their friends have long ago suffered TO slip
ont of sight and out of mind. We mean poor
old men and women, whose years have passed
the limit of threcscOre and ten, and who hnd
life beyond, whatever their comforts, Dut
labor and sorrow. The gray-headed old bodles
whom these good people chose to honor the
other day were those who had no pleasures
and few comforts they were sought out
of the alleys, tenement houses, and miserable
garrets, where they vegetated year In ana
out, forgotten and unmissed. They were
driven in state to the Park, shown the prom
ised wonders of the Centennial, green WOODS,
and sunny slope, and glancing river, feasteu
on every delicacy which their entertainers
could devise, entreated in every way with
tender, liberal hospitality not the least sign
of which was the presence of physicians, TO
whom tbey could descant at length on their
ailments, and of listeners who encouraged
them to tell their old stories, to their hearts
content. =,


We adverted to this holiday for the Old
folks last year, and recur to it with more
hearty qualification as our neighbors appear TO
have made of it a permanent custom. IL may
seem a trifling matter that few old people
should find one day taken out of their dull
lives and made beautiful and joyous as a re-
membrance of their youth, but to them 1t Is no
trihe; and to us all it is significant as an In
dcation of the wider and more wholesome ana
sweeter condition Of society within tho last
few wears. In the last generation almsgiving
was a matter regulated by the individual or
the taxpayer; now society has so thoroughly
recognized the care of its helpless members as
part of its daily work that a kindly whim such
as this scarcely calls for notice.
Year: 1875




There is strange talk in the inner circles of
the Republican party of Massachusetts; strange
reading in the columns of some of the party
organs in the State. Such talk three years
ago would have driven the men who are doing
it from the Republican party and into the
ranks of the wicked Democrats or sore-headed
Liberals, without the foimality of hearing.
such articles would have insured to the news
papers publishing them certain forfeiture of
the organic relation, with the loss of
Government patronage and of the con-
fidence of the Administration. They
are actually discussing with apparent
seriousness the proposition to nominate Charles
Francis Adams for Governor. There seems
a likelihood, indeed, that he will have con-
siderable number of votes in the COnven-
ton at Worcester next week, and some
people 20 so far as to say there is a
reasonable prospect of his receiving the
nomination. Imagine it Charles Francis
Adams, the candidate for Governor OF the
Republicans of Massachusetts Just suppose
that in any Republican State Convention in
Massachusetts during the past three or four
years some soft-spOkcn, unObtrusive del
ogate from an extremely rural DISTRICT who
Year: 1875

Senator Thurman told a correspondent of
OURS the other day that Eastern people made
a great mistake in supposlng that the question
of imitation had anything to do with the Ohio
canvass. The platform did not call for infla
ton; the question was not at issue and the
victory of the Democratic candidates in that
State would not commit the party to an in
fation policy. One could almost believe, after
hearing Mr.. Thurman talk, that we had all
been suffering from a frightful nightmare, and
that the best way to reduce the currency to its
legitimate volume and get back Immediately
to specie payment was to elect Allen and Cary.


But here comes old Mr.. Allen himself, and
what has he to say about it He cOntradicts
Senator Thurman point blank. He told Our
correspondent at Toledo that the platform did
mean grcenbacks and nothing else. " know
"no better currency or measure of value"
was his stylish way of putting it, than the
"dollar based upon the credit and the prop
"erty of this great nation" If he and his
followers controlled the policy of the nation,
he would pay the bonds in gold or in green
backs according to circumstances as they
"found them;" at any rate, payment in
paper would "not be an act Of bad
"faith;n and "the bOndhOlders were their
Gown worst enemies" in forcing such issues
Gas the payment in gold" Nor was this all !;
for Gov. Allen wished it to be distinctly un-
derstood that the campaign in Ohio was to all
intents and purposes a National one, and the
currency issue the chief question involved in
it. If he carried Ohio (on which point he had
no misgivings) the Columbus financial declara-
ton would undoubtedly be the platform of
the whole party in the Presidential campaign,
and the nominee of the National Convention
would be Western man.


Gov. Allen at any rate has the courage of
his opinions, and we should think his frank
ness might make his nephew blush.
Year: 1875

The testimony at the inquest OF the fire.
ladder victims shows that the ladder was taken
out on the fatal occasion not for practice but
at the request of the dismissed Secretary OF
the Commission, in order to exhibit 1t to some
of his friends from distance. The breach OF
discipline was almost as glaring as the GRIM
inal carelessness with which the ladder appears
to have been constructed.
Year: 1875

The proposition to build depressed railway
through Third ave-, to which the consent OF
the property-owners must be first secured,
looks too much like maneuver OF the SURFACE
Railway companies to defeat rapid transit. Inc
Rapid Transit Commissioners should not DO
distracted by these schemes, but go forwar"
and adopt the better plan for one OF the TWO
roads which they have authorized.