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Year: 1873

A SUGGESTION FOR FAIRs-The design of Ag-
ricultural Fairs is to encourage the production
of the best specimens of stock and domestic man.
ufactures. 1t is too late for this senson, but We
have suggestion to offer for next year. It is,
that the managers Of the Fair set apart about
81 900 for premiums on butter-the best lump of
certain weight to be awarded 500, and the resi-
due divided up into $40 premiums to be given to
those who bring good butter, but fail to take the
first premium. There is nothing so much needed
in this country knowledge how to make good
butter. 1t is an article almost impossible to get.
Not one in ten can make butter fit to eat. 1t is
miserable stuff, not fit for griddle grease, and
would make very poor article of secondhand
dog-puke. A look at it is enough to turn a stom-
ach less strong that of a buzzard. Why people
do not try to make decent butter, is more than
We can imagine. Perhaps they have become SO
used to miserable "truck," that if they were to
get hold of decent butter, they would think
there was something wrong it-as the man who
once bathed himself, but it made him feel so
queer he thought he was sick, and took a dose
of Incidence Selfinterest ought to induce farm
ers' wives to make first-class butter. Those wo-
men who have the reputation of making good
butter, are not troubled much to find mar
ket, rs they to put off customers whom they
cannot supply. Their butter is always engaged
ahead; they get cash for it, and always little
more than the market price. The manufacturers
of "stuff" dcker il off at stores, in exchange for
goods; and then it usually becomes so strong be-
fore the barter is concluded, that the merchant
has to hold his nose, while weighing it ont, as if
he had discovered the remains of the Grand Mas
ter Hiram Abff. Give an improvement.
Year: 1873

TThe last White Cloud Leader publishes the
amount of its receipts and expenditures during
the first three months of its existence, just COM
pleted. The receipts were s3l4,75, aud the ex-
penses were 5000. The first three months in the
life of country newspaper is generally the time
when its friends and the public are most jealous
in its behalf, and send in the most money. By
the time freezing weather comes along, the Lead
er will be in better condition to tell about our
leaving place where the folks just naturally
forced their poeket-books upon us, and told MS to
take ont what we wanted, than; it was at the
commencement of its hopeful career
Year: 1873

At the last meeting of the Central Grange Troy the
following resolution passed. and the Secretary
rected to furnish yOu with copy and request pub
lish:


Resolved That is the of this Grange that the
delegates to the County should be elected by
the Farmers Clubs Of the different School Districts and
that the members Of this Grange directed partic
pate with their respective Clubs in the election said del
egates s W. HIxcKLEr


Secy Cen. Grange.
Year: 1873

i was in Congress when the salary was but
S30OO and always found it more than sufficient
to meet my necessary personal expenses. When
it was raised to 5000 / Thought it too much,
and think still, but raising it to 81 500 is moth
ing more nor less than straight stealing. Every
year that was in Congress laid by portion
of my salary, and none of my constituents ever
complained that didn't live decently. The peo-
pie don't send their representatives to Washing
ton to live like Princes, buck the tiger, and
keep half dozen mistresses.


ELIHU b. WAsHBCRNE.
Year: 1873

~ Two centuries and half Roger Capp set
tied Nantasket Bay Mass The present ever
four hundred Capps descendants Of the original Roger
held picnic on Nantasket beach.-Er.


No wonder the family has grown rapidly,
when its founder possessed both cause and effect
in his own name. His first name was the inev-
liable propagatOr of his last.
Year: 1873

pay measure has been received leaves little to
add by way of comment. 1t is proper, however,
to once more call attention to the fact that the
pretense of returning the money 10 the treasury
by leaving it in the hands of the disbursing Off
Ger will no longer deceive any body. This money
will stand to the credit of the senators until they
get ready to draw it, for the purpose of return
ing it or for their own use. How long do the
eleven senators who have not drawn the money
expect TO maintain their credit by this pretense
of not taking itf
Year: 1873

1t is said that a correspondent of the Cincin-
natl Enquirer who went up to Fruit Farm to
write mp Major" Allen, was delighted with the
magnificent hemp crop the "Major" was raising
between rows of corn. Old farmers mp that way,
however, insist that this crop is rag reed that is
thicker than the corn and fully as high-Dayton
Journal
Year: 1873

FRIGHTENING PRosPEcTs.-The business atfairs
Of the country never looked well as they do AT
the present opening of the fall season Of Is73-
There will be, of course, the usual monetary
stringeBcy which seems to be the inevitable re,
suit OF our incomplete and vicious banking sys-
tenn; but that has been overcome before and as
the country grows stronger, financially. IL must
grow wiser, and be able, ere long, to devise n
banking system better able to meet the wants of
trade and commerce.
Year: 1873

The reader who heard a very low and distant
rumble in the West about O'Clock last night.
producing an effect not nulike the beating of an
immesnse gong, will find the explanation of the
phenomenon in our Columbus dispatch. The
Democratic candidate for Governor made n speech
there last evening.-Uheeling InteiligencT.
Year: 1873

voted eight times tor the salary grab. and made
it pont not to be absent from the House when
the subject was brought mp. Mr.. Storm i an
honorable Democratic member, and he il build-
ing himself fine house,
Year: 1873

The Chicago Post thinks that the the first duty
of the grangrrS is to eXtingush every orator who
begins with, 81 have not the good fortune to he d
farmer, but have always felt the most profound
interest in the truly noble and Predominant pnr-
suit of agriculture, and never was that interest
greater than nnw-
Year: 1873

ErS. y" sSoofhtmZ syrup the
-eriPfion Of Of TIE best Female Physicians and
in the United States and has been used for thirty years
with railn- safety and success by millions of moth
and children from the feeble infant week old
the adult 1t acidty Of the stomach relieves
cnc regulates the bowels and gives rest health and
fort to mother and child We believe it tn he the
SureSt Remedy in the World in all of DYSENTERY
and DIARRHEA IN CHILDREN whether it arises from
Teethng from any other Full directions for using
will accompany each bottle None Genuine unless the fac
simle of CURTIS PERKINS on the outside wrapper
Sold by all Medicine Dealers. julyIOyl
Year: 1873

1t is argued that there will not be the same
monetary stringency this fall that was felt last
year and one or two years before, because the
balance OF trade against MS IS much smaller this
year, our imports having declined and our ex-
ports largely increased.
Year: 1873

~ Col. John A. Martin, of Atchison, selected
the name for the Champion, and the Office burned
down. 1t is said that he selected the name for
the Massasoit House, and now that has burned
down. We trust that he was not permitted to
select ais own name, for we should fear that he
would burn, one of these DAYS
Year: 1873

bnt the only profit we ever derived
from it was in passing toll-ga.es free
There may be more should you have
to pass through more than one toll
gate, but our gate was already reached
before the second one was in sight.
They are a comfort, and there are
double seated ones for twins, but we
have not gone that far along in life
yet. But there is no telling what peo-
pie will have to put up with in these
days of high taxes.


Owing to having exhausted our sup
ply of cuss words, we find ourselves
unable to finish the other headings,
but we will endeavOr in the next issue
of the New York Ledger to reach the
exemption list, and if the members of
the Legislature are not specially ex-
empted from being lively cussed and
righteously damned" for passing such
a law, we shall pray for our enemies,
and carry out Bible commandment.
Year: 1873

It is stated number of husbands on
the Atlantic, refused to leave their
wives and children-but preferred to
share death with them than seek safety
in attempts to escape. On this subject
the Daily Graphic has the following !:


Never was higher tribute paid to
the marriage state than was given by
the married men who were passengers
on the wrecked Atlantic. With few
exceptions they all persisted, refusing
to desert their wives and little ones.
Wives begged their husbands to seek
flight from the sinking quarterback,
but they never stirred. Hand clasped
in hand, husband, wife and child went
down together. In the supreme mo-
ment of life wife and husband forgot
all past pickering, and lost fear of
death in the companionship of each
other. They recked not of the opin-
ion of the world, while the waves
swept over them and the horror of
sudden destruction was imminent, but
weresimply true to their instincts. One
such fact will outweightvolumes ofar-
gument in favor of free love and easy
divorce"
Year: 1873

THE Memphis Appeal has found
out by hard, practical experience that
it takes considerable money to run a
newspaper, and that journal, to live
and be successful, cannot afford to
advertise and give prominence to all
sorts of interest, private and other
wise. 1t says, and its remarks carry
no little force: Publishing a paper
for glory is played out We have al
ready notified the politicians that they
must hereafter pay for whatever they
want in the Appeal, land we now notify
watering places. private schools,
churches. and others having private
interest to subserve, that the Appeal
is open to them only at regular rates.
Our expenses are heavy, and we are
compelled to pay cash for all that we
employ of labor or material, and must
therefore utilize our space to the best
advantage We must be paid for our
space, and promptly"
Year: 1873




EDITORS CHRONICLE Rain, rain for
the last month or six weeks, seems to
have been the order of the day. So
much has it been the case that the
farmers in our vicinityare thrown con-
siderably behind with their crops
Some are not done planting corn very
few done planting tobacco, and nearly
all in the weeds and grass. Perhaps
there will be greater breadth of to-
bacco planted this year than has ever
been set before in this county. We
hear but little complaint of scarcity
of plants and the great drawback has
hitherto been the unfavorable weather,
there having been so much rain as to
render it impossible to prepare the land
in some localities. The wheat crop is
larger than ever before in this county,
that is it covers greater area, and con-
sidering the very unfavorable winter,
the prospects are fiattering for a fair
average yield, unless some disaster
should overtake it.


Since last February court, our jailer
has not had boarder until within the
past ten days, since which time hehas
received four at the public charge.


Thos. Newland, charged with the
killing of Robert Rivers, last January,
voluntarily surrendered himself to the
sheriff, and owing to the charge (mur-
der in the first degree), the sheriff
could not take bail, and of course the
party was committed. As we are in
formed, Newland would have long since
surrendered himself but for the fact
that he has been and is now in very
bad health, and knowing the offence
was not bailable, and that he could not
bear confinement, was suffered to re-
main at home most of the time in bed,
every enc feeling assured that he
would De on hand when wanted, as the
sequel shows.


A 'gemmen OBJ color" accused of
appropriating some of the goods and
chattels of another man and brother,
was arrested at Nashville and brought
down and lodged in Jail to await trial
at the next court, which meets next
Monday.


One Mr.. Grant has more recently
been confined to the narrow limits of
Judge Clark ten of diamonds" hotel
on quite a heinous charge, whether
true or false remains to be seen. We
are not advised as to whether he is any
of the smoker who lives at the
end of Pennsylvania Avenue, but sup
pose he is not, as he has not hereto
fore been supplied with a soft place in
or around the government crib, and as
his offense is not of that character that
seems to afflict public officials, we hope
for no assistance for him from that
quarter. IF his crime was larceny, he
might have some hopes; but alas
poor Yorick."


Thomas Gardner, colored, was pro-
vided with lodgings at the aforesaid
botol to-doy Thomas stands CHARGED
with going armed to the terror of the
good people of Cheatham county
Judging from Toms smiling face, he
never purposed harm against any one,
and was doubtless carrying some old
pistol to the shop to be repaired, at the
request of friend, when the clutches
Of the law shut down on Tommie.


ANON.


June 8, 1873.
Year: 1873

THE Missouri editors at their late
convention formally resolved that a
man has the same right to walk into a
grocery store and order barrel of su-
gar or a sack of coffee, or into law
Office and demand a legal opinion from
its occupation, or into an undertaken S
and request coffin, without expecting
to pay for their respective wares orser-
vices. as into newspaper office and
demand the use of its brains and mus
Gle and type, without thought cf re-
compense.
Year: 1873

To OUR FRIENDs.-Having gone to
great expense to give our readers a lar
ger and better paper, We would ur-
gently request all indebted to us, by
note or acco-at, to come up, without
delay, and make payment. We need
the money, and hope this modest APP
peal will not pass unheeded.


NEBLETT < GRANT.
Year: 1873

A MOST extraordinary woman was
passenger on horse car in Cleveland,
March 4, 1873. She had with hera pet
poodle, and she had something else
with her, as we shall see presently.
The gentlemanly conductor stated 10
her in the mildest language that dogs
were not permitted to ride in that car.
The damsel straightway arose. drew
revolver from her pocket. and said,
"Cnless you drive on without molest-
lug my dog, III make you eat this
straw" There was scene. Ladies
left the car. But the woman with the
pistol didn't. And the dog didn't.
Year: 1873

BUFFALO, y. Y. doctors say they
cannot pan out poison from man 8
stomach for less than Sl5O after he Is
dead. If he Is alive. and Is sure there
Ia n strychnine or arsenic deposit with
in him, they will pump him for Il five
dollar bill.
Year: 1873

The First Branch Of Council last even
Ing concurrd in resolution passed by
the Second aE a previous meeting, raising
. gpccIal committee to consider the ex-
pedicncy Of asking for legislative authority
to provide for paving the city by the fol-
lowing method: Whenever two'thirds
of the owners Of lots fronting on an IN
paved street petition Council, tho street Is
to be paved by the city, oue.half the cost
TO be borne by the lot owners in the pro-
portion Of their street frontage, to be paid
BY them 10 four equal annual installments;
the other half 10 be borne by the city,
The present value Of all existing pave
ments to bO estimated, and one'half TO be
charged to property owners according to
frontage thereon, to be paid, as in the
other case, in four equal annual Install
mentsi themoney derived from such in
stallments 10 be devoted to payment on
tue city's share OF the cost Of paving the
streets yet unpaved.


Tho pavement question for this city is
one Of no little magnitude, and the fore
going plan, while about fair as between
property owners, seems TO promise more
adequate results than any yet suggested.
1t would furnish assurance that whenever
the work o! paving any particular street
was undertaken 1t would be completed,
and we believe that with certainty ot
this before him, tho property owner
would pay the levy much more cheertully
and with better assurance Of speedy re.
turn In the enhanced value Of his prop.
eEty than he would pay taxes for gen.
eral fund to be expended in patchwork
or at the whim ot council or their com.
m,tee In such localities as they might
choose. We trust the special committee
on this subject will give the plan pro.
posed their early and favorable consider.
alton. Ifany legislation is to be obtained
this winter there is but little time to spare.
Year: 1873

every ono Indoors till evening. when q thunderstorm
camo up and nteriered with the fireworks. All the
public buildings closed; few passengers arrived
from quarter and altogether it has been one OF the
dullest days OF the recess.


Friends OF Vice President Wilson continue 10 hear un
pleasant news in regard 10 his health They are in
formed that he Ia much prOstraed aud their hopes for
All Immediate recovery Of his strength not strong


Several members OF the Cabinet intend to visit the
PresIdent at long Branch within n few haYs.
Year: 1873

During the forenoon, and up TO about 2:SO p. M,
money was easy call at and per cent among
the street brokers on pledge of mixed collateral.
After that hour better demand set in from borrow
ers tardy in making up their accounts, and transac
tions were made at Z gold, the closing quotations
being TAI gold. A brisk inquiry for commercial
paper has been reported at a to 9 per cent.


The Government bond market was slightly lower
at the opening but steady in tone, and at the noon
call the decline was recovered Skies of 1881 moved
ND to 117.. The market closed firm with few bonds
Offering Fisk q Hatch report rs follows:
Year: 1873

THE NEW OCEAN CABLE--The latest news
from the Great Eastern. up to Jue 2Sth, re.
ports the successful laying Of the new ocean
cable to within eighty miles OF Hearts Con-
tent, when it was cut and buoyed, owing to q
heavy southwest gale prevailing, rendering
it unsafe to attempt splicing with the shore end.
Year: 1873

lit Is stated that the effect Of the de-
cision OF the Senate Finance Committee,
adverse TO the power Of the Secretary OF
the Treasury to increase the currency,
will be to cause the withdrawal Of the
two and half millions currency issued
last fall.
Year: 1873

To THE exclusion of other interest
ing matter we would like to publish,
we insert in our leading column to-
day, carefully compiled statement of
the life and difficulties Of that wonder
full gentleman, Colonel Alexander Is.
McClung, who was in his day the most
heartily dreaded man in the bloody
combat, in which high-spirited men
formerly engaged upon the slightest
Misunderstanding, who ever existed
in the South. The writer well remem-
bers Colonel McClung, and the impress
sion bis martial bearing invariably
produced upon those with whom he
was thrown in contact. The article
we take from the New Orleans Herald
of the 18th instant. BY reputation, no
man who ever lived in the South was
better known than the fearless Nc
Clung, and in the interest Of history
we give place to this article, in which,
however, we think there are some
inaccuracies:


In the spring of 1866 very remark
able man closed his existence in very
melancholy and impressive manner.
Colonel Alexander McClung, nephew
of the venerable and illustrious Chief
Justice Marshal, and o gentleman of
the highest order of intelligence, of
brilliant genius, splendid accomplish
ments, and of the most dashing cour-
age, and heroism of character, COM
mitted suicide in the town of Jackson,
under the following circumstances:
For some weeks before Colonel Nc
Clung was observed to be more than
ordinarily moody and melancholy.
The immediate cause of his despond-
ency was generally understood NJ
Clung had always been ambitious of
post in the army, and through some
friends applied for a position as field
officer in one of the new regiments
created by the Congress at its last ses-
sion. So far as gallantry and intelli-
gence constituted claims to this posi-
ton, no one could present stronger
pretensions than the heroic Lieutenant
Colonel of the celebrate3 First Missis-
sippi Rifles, who scaled the terrible
Black Fort at Monterey, the first man,
and fell within the walls, severely
wounded in several places. Whether
he possessed the other qualifications for
military command need not be dis
cussed.


But this was the last throw Of Nc.
Clung's die. He had been appointed
TO one of the South American charge
ships by General Taylor, but remained
only q few months at his post, when
he resigned and went to Mississippi,
which, with all its terrible associations,
possessed a strange fascination for
him. He tlicn became candidate for
Congress against Colonel Singleton,
but was beaten. Always morose and
melancholy, McClung, after these dis
appointments. became more dissipated
and reckless, until the formation of
the new regiments produced a moment.
ary flicker of hope in his bosom, and
induced him to ''hold np'' for brief
period. His claims were strongly
backed by many eminent men, includ-
ing some of his political opponents in
Mississippi. His superior, the colonel
of the First Mississippi Rifles, was Sec
retary of War. He and McClung had
been hostile. Two such antagonistic
spirits could not move harmOniOusly in
the same sphere.


Davis was not merely hero, a sol
Year: 1873

The minimum waists of female
adults should be twenty-eight inches.
Yet how many there arewhich are not
over two-thirds of that measure, while
some are still less. BY a false and
cruel fashion, the chest il so COM
pressed that a life of illness is the con-
sequence. An exchange very properly
says;


Is it any wonder that there are
thousands of delicate mothers, and
tens of thousands of feeble children in
our land, when fashion insists upon a
barbarity compared with which the
fashion of comprcssing the feet of
female Chinese is a harmless amuse-
ment.


We have seen the back of q young
lady's dress waist which was almost
an equilateral triangle, being very
loose at the shoulders and compressed
as tightly as possible at the belt. Yet
such girls are to be the mothers of
those who may be our rulers, and of
such stuff we are TO build our Republic.
Friends, the reform in this mater has
to begin i'm every household. A sound
mind in u sound body; let this be our
motto, and let each of us do our part in
rearing our young women so that they
may become the mothers CT glorious
sons and daughters
Year: 1873

New YORK has a precocious youth,
who will yet reach Congress, or some
worse place, if he only perseveres in the
path upon which he has started. This
youthful member of the rising genera
tion is credited with the conception and
execution of the worst practical joke of
April-fools' day. According to the
Uorid, he woke up the inmates of the
house in which he and his mother, with
other persons, reside, by personating
both burglar and defender of his
house against burglars. He had smeared
the wall with a reddish fluid to appear
like blood had forced the scuttle cover
open, and then, when all was in readi-
ness, fired, like valiant man-at-arms,
three times at vacancy. His mother was
frightened. The boy with admirable
forethought reloaded his pistol, handed
it to his mother, and only then walked
off to the police station to inform the
captain of what had occurred. The police
searched the house and the neighbor
hood, bat without result. An examlna-
ton in daylight showed the whole thing
was scandalous hoax. The stuff on
the table and walls was the worst imita-
tion of blood imaginable. 1t was sort
of greasy, transparent paint, and be-
trayed home manufacture at glance
The sclttle was forced from the inside,
the impression of stove-shaker near the
latch being very apparent, and the latch
staple had been hammered over the out
side where it was easy to draw. The
bullet at the head of the bed and the
bullet picked up under the window in the
yard corresponded with each other and
with those in box of Smith & Wesson's
cartridges, avowedly the property of the
hopeful youth. Altogether the joke was
cunningly planned, but was defective as
a scheme to hoax a policeman with half
gram of persplcuity.