Democratic Sentinel, Volume 2, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 August 1878 — Page 4

THE FORECLOSURE OF THE MORTGAGE. BY MBS. K. T. OOBBETT. Walk right in the eettln’-room, Deacon ; it’s all in a muddle, yon see, But I hadn’t no heart to right it, so 1 ve jest let everything be. Besides I’m a-goln’ io-morrer—l calk’late to start with the dawn — And the house won’t seem so home-l)ke if it s all upset and forlorn. I sent off the children this mornin’; they both on ’em begged to Btay, But I thought ’twould be easier, mebbe, if 1 was alone to-day. For this was the very day. Deacon, just twenty year That Caleb and me moved in ; so I couldn’t forgit it, yon know. We were so busy and happy!—we’d ben married a month before— And Caleb would clear tho table and brush up the kitchen floor. He said f was tired, and he’d help me ; but, law ! that was always his way— Always handy and helpful, and kind, to’the very last day. ... , . . Don’t you remember, Deacon, that winter I broke my arm ? Why, Caleb skursely left me, not even to ’tend to the farm. , There night and mornin’ I saw him, a-settin so c’ose to my bed, And I knew him in spite of the fever that made me bo wild in my head. He never did nothin’to grieve me, until he left mo behind— Yes, I know, there’s no use in talkin’, but somehow it eases uiy mind. And he sot such store by you, Deacon, X needn’t tell you now, But unless he had your judgment, he tjever would buy a cew. Well, our cows is gone, and tho horse, too—poor Caleb was fond of Jack, And I cried like a fool this mornin’ when I looked at the empty rack. I hope he’il be kindly treated ; ’twould worry po,-r Caleb so If them Joneses should whip the cretur—but I s’pose he ain't like to know. I’ve ben thlnkin’ it over lately, that when Mary sickened and died, Her father’s sperrit was broken, for she was alius his pride. He wasn't never so cheery; he’d smiie, hut the smile wa’n’t bright, And he dtdn t care for the cattle, though once they’d ben his delight. The neighbors all said he was ailin’, and they tried to hint it to me ; They talked of a church-yard cough ; but, oh ! tho blind are those who won't see. I never believed he was goiu’ till I saw him a-layin’ here dead. There, there I don’t be anxious, Dtacon; I haven’t no tears to shed. I’ve tried to keep things together—l’ve ben slavin’ early and late—ut I couldn’t pay tho int’rest, nor git tho farmwork straight. Ho of course I’ve g me behindhand, and, If the farm should sell For euough to pay the mortgage, I s’pose ’twill be doin’ well. I’ve prayed ag’inst all hard feolin’s, and to walk as a Christian ought, But it’s hard to see Caleb's children turned out of the place he bought; And readin’ that text in the Bible 'bout widows and orphans, you know, I can’t think the folks will prosper who are willin’ ter see us go. But there! I’m akeepin’ you, Deacon, and it’s nigh your time for tea. “ Won’t I come over f” No, thank yon ; I feel better alone, you see. Besides, I couldn't eat nothin’; whenever I’ve tried it to-day There’s somethin’ here that chokes mo. I’m narvourt, I s’pose, you’ll say. “I ve worked too hard ? ’ No, I haven’t. Why, it’s work that beeps me strong ; If I sot here thinkin’, I’m sartain my heart would s break before long. Not that t care about livin’. I’d ruthf rbe laid away In the place I’ve marked beside faleh, to rest till tho jedgmenl-day. But there’s the children to think of—that makes my duly clear, And I'll try to fuller it, Deacon, though I'm tired of thlH earthly sperr. Good-by, then. I sha’n’t forgit you, nor all the kindness you’ve showed; ’Twill help to cheer me to-morrer, as 1 go on my lonely road, For— What are you eayin’, Deacon ? I needn’t—l needn’t go? You’ve bought tho mortgage, and I can stay ? Stop I say it over slow— Jest wait now—jest wait a minute—l’ll take it in bime-by— That I can stay. Why, Deacon, I don’t kuow what makes mo cry! I haven’t no words to thauk you. Es Caleb was only here, He’d sech a head for spoakin’, he’d make my feelin’s clear. There’s a picter in our old Bible of au argel from tho skies, And though he hasn’t no great-coat, and no spectacles on his eyes, He looks jest like you, Deacon, ■with your smile so good and trew, Ami whenever 1 see that picter, ’twill make me think of you. The children wlli he so happy! Why, Debby will ’most go wild ; Sho fretted so much at leavin’ her garding behind, poor child ! And, law! I'm as glad as Debby, es only for jest ono thing— Mow I can tend the posies I planted there last spring On Caleb’s grave. He loved the I flowers, and it seems aB es bo’ll know They’re a bloomin’ all around him while he’s Bleepin’ there hi low. liar per'e Magazine for September.

BROUGHT TO TERMS.

“You are surely not iu earnest, father?” . “ I assure you I am. I will not give my consent to your marriage with that girl,” said Mr. Cameron, ungrily but firmly. “You are unjust to her; von admit that you know nothing of her—” “ Except that she is the daughter of a farmer, a poor illiterate farmer who has half a dozen other children.” “Mr. Littlefield is poor, I grant, but neither he nor his children are. illiterate; Sophie has as good an education as any girl I know.” “ Bah !” exclaimed the old man contemptuously. “Of course she is perfection ! Why couldn’t you have had sense enough to fancy Lottie Felton or that pretty little Hilliard girl ? I’d welcome either of them willingly enough, but this girl I will not receive.” “Simoly because she is a farmer’s daughter?” “Simply because I choose not to!” answered Basil Cameron, all the obstinacy inherited from his Scotch grandfather rising up against his son’s cool inflexibility. “1 nay you shall not marry her—and you shall not.” “And I say I will,” replied Maurice, 'angry in return. “I defy any one to hinder me without showing better cause than her poverty.” “Yon seem to forget, young man, that you have not a penny of your own ! Pray how do you propose to support a wife that I' disapprove of ?” “By my own exertions, sir, as thousands es better men than I am are doing; I am neither an invalid nor an imbecile.” “Ha, ha, ha!” roared the father. “Yon work! That is rich! Go and tell your sweetheart that your father will not give you another dollar during his life or after it, and see how quick she’ll repent of saying ‘yeß ’ to you.” “On the contrary, sir, her father’s only objection to me is that I am an idle young man.” “Don’t talk about the matter, Maurice. Come, give me your word to break off this engagement, and ” “ Never, sir 1” “Then the sooner you get out of my sight the better. I wash my hands of you, you thankless boy ! Go to work, and come to me in a year begging bread for your wife. I’d see you starve before I’d give it to you then.” Maurice Cameron was the only son of Basil Cameron, one of the richest and most influential men in the busy town of Nelson. He had received a liberal education, and his father, who accumulated wealth only for him, looked to see him lake his place among the leading men of tiro State. Cautious, persevering, obstinate, he had marked out a certain course lor his handsome, talented boy, and determined that he must carry it out, forgetting that the son usually inherits most if not all of his stronger parent’s characteristics. Mr. Cameron too, was proud; proud of his good Scotch descent, of his abilities and position in society; and the idea of Maurice taking as a wife this daughter of a small, unknown farmer was bitterness indeed. It is true he knew nothing whatever of the girl, but that made no difference; he had made up his mind that Maurice must marry into either the Felton, Hilliard, or Stuy vesant families; therefore this unheard-of Sophie Litchfield was an interloper. Mrs. Cameron worshiped both husband and son, consequently this disagreement—ripening, as it did, into an open rupture between the two—cost her many a tear, but against two such stubborn natures she was powerless. The Litchflelds were, as Mr. Cameron had said, poor, but they were honest, cultivated, sensible people. Sophie was the second daughter, and was as pretty, well-read, graceful a girl as any Cameron ever wooed, snd would do hohpr to any I

position in life. Mr. Litchfield talked ! seriously with Maurice when he heard I of the quarrel between him and his father, and, finding that he was determined to pursue his own course, told him that a little adversity, a little genuine work, would probably make a man of him, and that he would give him Sophie more willingly now than ever. So Basil Cameron was a false prophet. Maurice left home, bag and baggage, the day of the conversation above recorded. His father felt very much curiosity to know what he would do, but would not condescend to make any inquiries or show any interest. A fortnight passed away. Mr. and Mrs. Cameron were dining with the Feltons (a very quiet family dinner) one day, when there was a very fine leg of mutton on the table. “Yes, tliank yon, Felton, I will take another slice,” said Mr. Cameron; “ that is the best mutton I’ve tasted this long time, far better than Brooks gives us—you trade with Brooks—don’t you?” “Y-es, usually,” answered Felton, hesitatingly, while Lottie and her mother exchanged amused glances, and 12-year-old Susie giggled outright. “ I shall go to Brooks to-morrow and tell him to send me just such a leg as this,” continued Mr. Cameron. “ We—we didn’t get this of Brooks.” “No? Who then?” “Of a young man who has reopened Evans’ old place,” said Mr. relton, smilingly. “ Then I’ll patronize him.” “Yon could do no better; he is a very worthy young man,” said Mrs. Felton; her husband was too busy carving to reply. * ‘ What is his name ? Is he a townsman V”

“ I—l didn’t ask him. Is it true that Latimere has failed ?” said Mr. Felton. “These good friends evidently don’t want me to deal with their butcher, but I will,” soliloquized Basil Cameron. Ou his way down town the next morning he took pains to pass the new butcher shop; glancing over the doorway (fancy his horror !) he saw a spick-and-span new sign with “Maurice Basil Cameron, Jr., Butcher, Poulterer and Fishmonger,” plainly painted thereon. Young Cameron had indeed gone to work; this was the first, indeed the only, opening that presented itself, for Nelson was a steady-going town where business rarely failed or started up very vigorously, and chances to establish one’s self did not occur twice in a lifetime. Maurice was standing near the door when his father approached ; with his immaculate apron and snowy shirtsleeves, glossy collar and narrow black necktie, he was a handsome picture in spite of his very unromantic surroundings. ‘ ‘ Good morning, father, ” said he cheerfully. “ You see I have gone to work : took that money I’ve been saving for a trip to Europe, and opened this little place. I’ve got Evans’ son with me, ani he knows all about meats and things; I’ll learn after a while. You'll give me your—” “ Great Heavens! It is—is it you ?” “ Yes, sir, I, Maurice Basil Cameron, Jr.”

I think that “ junior” was the bitterest drop in the whole cup for the old man; I really believe that, for a moment, he repeuied naming liis son after himself. Too angry, too much astonished to know what to say, he turned on his heel and walked away, but he could not escape the memory of that awful signboard; three times that week delicate straw-colored handbills were thrust under his eyes by boys who were distributing them through the town, and all bore the same legend; every time he picked up a newspaper ho saw Maurice’s advertisement; all of his acquaintances were laughing over Maurice’s freak, as they called it, and not a few men applauded the young man and blamed his father. It was genuine agony. Then, too, he loved the boy and missed his bright face from the house that was so quiet without him; he knew his wife mourned deeply over the separation, and strongly suspected that she visited the obnoxious shop every day; lie did not want to hurt her feelings, so he never asked her where she bought their meat and poultry; and as the new butcher was duiug a thriving trade there was no hope of his suing for mercy or for help. Three mouths passed and a day came that for twenty-eight years Mr. and Mrs. Cameron had held a home festival—their wedding anniversary. Tne night before it dawned Basil Cameron knew that his wife had cried nearly all night. How could she keep a festival without her boy ? “ Oh, dear!” he groaned as he left the houso after breakfast. “1 must do it. The boy is as stubborn—as I am; and I can’t see his mother fret. He shall have his country girl—confound her—just as he had the hammer and the lookingglass when he was a baby.” Richard,’the coachman, alio fancied himself crazed when his master told him to drive out on the Barton road to Farmer Litchfield’s instead of down to the bank as usual early in the morning. “ Does Miss Sophie Litchfield live here ?” he asked of a pretty girl who was just coming out the front door of the house pointed out to him as Litchfield’s. “ Yes, sir; please walk in; she’s here in the parlor.” Instead of a slipshod blowsy girl, Mr. Cameron found Sophie to be a very attractive young lady; quite as well-man-nered and pleasant as Lottie Felton. His visit was far longer than he intended, for he ended by going all over the larm with the falher while the daughter was making 1 a few changes in her dress preparatory to . spending the day with her future mother-in-law. Mrs. Cameron had smiles instead of tears that day, for sho not only bad her boy at home again, but discovered that Sopbie was just exactly the sort of a girl she had always pictured as Maurice’s wife. “I could not have cliosm better myself,” was her verdict. Maurice stuck to his determination to go into business instead cf playing the fine gentleman all his life, but readily agreed to his father’s proposition to buyhim au interest in the only wholesale dry-goods house in the town, saying that he certainly preferred that to his former occupation, “but then I was poor, and beggars must not be choosers,you know. ” —Practical Farmer.

Coin in the Mails.

The Secretary of the Treasury has found it very expensive to transmit coin through the mails. Upon an examination of the laws in regard to mailable matter, he has come to the conclusion that he might lawfully send it through the mails as third-class matter, and has communicated his views to the Postmaster General, who is somewhat reluctant to assume the responsibility of this character of service. He sees, however, no way to avoid it, as the law expressly provides that the officers of the Department charged with the duty are bound to receive and mail such matter. The Postoffice Department does not apprehend that this example of the transmission of coin through the mails as thirdclass matter will be followed by business men generally. The Treasury Department lias not required coin mailed from any other point than San Francisco, and the Postoffice department does not apprehend that it will be done. The express companies and the Treasury Department have made a satisfactory arrangement as to the shipment of currency to all points to which the former extend, but they do not go beyond Omaha, and will not undertake to bring from Sap, Franoißcq,- , Washington

AGRICULTURAL AND DOMESTIC.

Around the Farm. Apples and pears will keep and color better and bring a higher price if pickled a few days before they are quite ripe. Manure from a fattening cow is superior to that of a milk cow. There is a deficiency of the phosphates in the milk cows’ droppings. For some sorts of vegetables, as lettuce, cress, radishes and others, the Chinese system of keeping the soil continuously wet is the best that can be adopted. It produces a crispness in the vegetables that is obtained only when there has been no check in the growth. Farmers should be advised not to try to economize by mowing too close. An old farmer of our acquaintance used to say that he thought “it was better to leave the lower joint for the old brindle cow than to save it for herand we wonder that all sensible farmers do not heed this advice. Fruits gathered in the afternoon are less acrid than when gathered in the morning, because fruits are ripened by the conversion of the acid they contain into sugar, and, since this requires the aid of light and heat, the intervening hours between morning and afternoon produce the difference in their ripeness. It is computed that in the year 1875 there were 10,000,000 cows kept for dairy purposes in this country, which, at $45 per head, were worth ?450,000,000. The land needed for their support represents $900,000,000 more, and the capital invested in teams, dairy implements, etc., $100,000,000, making a grand total of $1,450,000,000 invested in this single industry. To render timber fire-proof : Saturate it as far as may be with strong aqueous solutions of sodium tungstate (crude), silicate (water glass) or sulphate ; ammonium sulphate has also been used. Wood thus preserved is not ignited by sparks, or transient contact with flame. Unaltered woody fiber cannot, however, be rendered, by these or other simple means, incombustible. The Philadelphia Farm Journal goes for a man who cuts firewood in harvest time, but advises the good wife to stick to cobs, chips, old broom-liandles, buckets, etc., until the last sheaf of oats is in the bam. Gome “ Wect, young man,” where coal is mined from under a soil whose surface, tickled with a hoe, laughs with golden crops. If not, cut your fuel when the snow flies. To exterminate red ants on the lawn, the best thing is cycnide of potassium, about one ounce to a pint of water. Trace the ants to their nests and then pour the cyanide in. It will not hurt the grass, but rather help it. As it is a most deadly poison, no more should be bought than will be used up at once, or if more is procured it should be kept in a corked bottle and plainly labeled.— Toronto Globe.

The washing of stems and large branches of trees with a solution of carbolic acid soap dissolved in lukewarm water, and a portion of the flour of sulphur mixed with it, is a good method for destroying the insects. The best time to do the washing is after the spring opens. It will then stick to the trees, and when the insects come out the poison kills them in their infant state, and by that the foliage and fruits of tho trees may be saved. Sowing Wheat.—Experiments at different depths favor, in ordinary soils, one or two inches. Samples of pure seed sown one-half inch in depth came up in eleven days, seven-eighths of the seed germinating; that sowed one inch in depth came up in twelve days, and all germinated; two inches deep, seveneighths of it came up in eighteen days; three inches deep, three-quarters of it came up in twenty days; four inches showed a growth of one-half, that came up in twenty-one days; five inches, only one-half grew and c,*me up in twentytwo days, while that planted six inches deep came up in twenty-three days, but pnly one-third germinated. —Practical Farmer. To Kill Wild Oats.—There is probr bly no plant that a thorough summer fallow will not kill in time. By perseverance the ground may be totally freed from vegetation of all kinds. But there are some plan'.s the growth of which is actually encouraged by partial summerfallows, badly conducted. A summerfallow, to be effective, must kill every sprouting root or seed while it is in its early, tender stages by constant plowing. harrowing aud cultivating. Biennial roots must be harrowed out, and those that possess great vitality must be picked off and removed from the land. Such a summer-fallow is costly, and it is almost equally effective to grow a succession of hoed crops, such as tatoeg or roots alternated with crops «& quick and close growth, such as peas£ buckwheat, flax or clover. To grow fall wheat upon fßul laud is only to perpetuate the weeds.— An&riean urist. y About the House. The Western Rural says that ripe tomatoes can be kept fresh* a year by immersing them; with the stems on, in brine composed of a teacupful of salt to a gallon of water.

Enamel cloth cau be kept fresh for years by using proper care. If water fall upon it, it should be quickly Wiped off with a woolen cloth, and grease spots should be removed with soap and water. Oil-cloths can be easily'and quickly spoiled by cleaning them with hot water, and not wiping them properly. They should be washed with lukewarm water, and wiped perfectly dry with a soft flannel. The following wash will renovate gilt frames : Take sufficient flour of sulphur to give a golden tinge to about a pint and a half of water, and in this boil four or five bruised onions, or garlic; strain off the liquid, and with it, when cold, wash with a soft brush any gilding which requires restoring. To make Scotch shortbread, rub together into a stiff, short paste two pounds flour, one pound butter and six ounces loaf sugar; make it into square cakes, about a half inch thick, pinch them all along the edge at the top, over the whole surface of the cakes sprinkle some white comfits, put the cakes on tins so as to touch each other on their edges, and bake in a slow oven. Cream Beer. —Two ounces of tartaric acid, two pounds of white sugar, the juice of half a lemon; boil five minutes, and, when nearly cold, add the whites of three eggj well beaten, one-half cup of flour, one-half cup of wintergreen essence. Take a table-spoonful of this sirup to a tumblerful of water, then add one-half teaspoonful of saleratus and drink at once. Apple Dumplings.— Quarter and core one apple for each dumpling; then put the parts together, with sugar in the middle; surround each apple with piecrust; if you wish to babe them, put them on a pan like biscuits, and set them in the oven. If boiled, tie each in a separate cloth, and boil for half an hour. Serve, both baked and boiled, with liquid sauce. Light Bread. —Two quarts of flour, one teaspoonful of salt, half a tea cup of yeast, one egg, well beaten, one pint of water. Sift the flour and divide it into three parts. Mix one-third in the batter, one-third in the jar to rise in; and pour the other third over the baiter. Let it stand two hours, and then work it well, adding a small piece of lard before baking. Idyl of pastoral life in Jack county, Texas; Nine cattle-drovers, while making up a jierd, include steer of old gentleman, Old gentleman tliid attendant undej'jifike to rescue steer Old gentleman

is killed, aud attendant goes off for reinforcements. Reinforcements come np. Nine little cow-boys, bnt the Jack Regulators killed seven of ’em, then there were two. They were tracked by the blood from their wounds a distance of ten miles, bnt escaped.

First Impressions of the Eclipse Observations.

It is of course too early to expect any strictly scientific or conclusive estimate of the bearing of the eclipse observations on current solar theories, there having been no opportunity for a critical study and comparison of the photographs and other records obtained. Yet the im pressions made upon the observing astronomers by the more striking phenomena are not without interest. Toucliing the effect of the varying constitution of the corona, Dr. Draper said to the Herald correspondent; “It is rather singular while the sun has been in such a quiescent condition for more than two years that we have not seen more changes in the climate of the earth. This would seem to show that the abnormal condition of the sun at the maximum period of sun spots, which occurs every eleven years, counts for but little against the total amount of heat that is sent out from the sun at all times. The present observations go to show that the activity or quiescence of the sun makes no perceptible difference in the earth’s condition. I do not regard this most marked change in the corona as portending any change in the condition of either climate or crops.” Mr. Norman Lockyer interprets the evidence very differently. He says; “ The present eclipse has accomplished, if nothing else, the excellent result of intensifying our knowledge concerning the running down of the solar energy. With the reduction of the number of spots or prominences for the last four years, the terrestrial magnetism has been less energetic than it has been for the preceding forty years. This would evidently account for it, as well as for the great famines in India and China which took place forty-four years ago. The sun is the great prime mover of earth. Every cloud, every tide, every air current depends upon it. When in a state of activity the sun throws out an atmosphere which serves as a shield to the earth, protecting it from abnormal influences of the sun. The absence of the green lines shows a great reduction in the temperature of the sun, and such a marked change in the sun should produce a corresponding change on the eaith. A continuation of this changing of the sun’s condition must inevitably be followed by serious results aud radical climatic variations.” President Morton says that rhe marked changes in the sun’s condition would seem to call for corresponding marked changes in the condition of the earth, and it is a surprise that no such changes have occurred. He is of opinion, however, that the evidence ■ tends to sustain the theory that the sun’s heat has been maintained by the impact of meteoric matter, which is known to vary very largely in constitution, and it is possible that the sun’s fires may be fed at times with purely mineral matter, and again for considerable periods with meteorites highly charged with hydrogen, giving the sun a far-reaching atmosphere of ignited gas. “If such changes go on indefinitely it may not be irrational to inquire whethor they may not in future produce such extraordinary climatic conditions in the earth as geology teaches ns have existed in the ages of the past, or, in other words, the polar regions become tropical, as the fossil remains of animals and plants found! there indicate they have been. —Scientific American.

A Battle in South Carolina.

About 2,000 men assembled in the village of Edgeville, S. C., yesterday, the occasion being the opening of the Democratic campaign by Gov. Hampton, Judge Mackey, Gen. Garry, and other leaders. Several companies of State troops were present for review. The speaking took place in a grove half a mile from the village. Among the audience were James Booth, Thomas Booth, Benjamin Booth and S. Booth, and Brooker Toney and Mark Toney. A bitter family feud has long existed between the Booths and Tonevs. Several years ago several men named Booth went to the house of Abram Jones for the purpose of attacking him. They were .accompanied by Luther Toney. Jones was prepared, and the assault was abandoned, but young Toney was killed by one of the Booths, accidentally, it is claimed by the latter. Toney’s relations regarded it as intentional. On yesterday Brooker Toney, a brother of Luther, with a man who was abusing a Democratic negro. James Booth .walked up, took the part of the man aud drew a pistol. Toney drew his also, but the parties were 'separated. About 2 o’clock Toney left the ground where the speaking was going on and rode to the village. He was followed by the Booths, and a meeting took place in the public square. _ A terrible fight ensued, participated Tn 'by friends of botn parties. Toney killed J ames and Thomas Booth, and was himself shot in the back and killed. Benj. Booth was mortally, Mark Toney and W. L. Coleman seriously, and d. Booth, S. B. Ryan, J. W. Lott, Dr. Sanders and Clarence Seigler slightly wounded. The seriously wounded were spectators, not in the fight. About thirty shots were fired. Gov. Hampton ordered tire company of State troops, under Adjt. Gen. Moise, to quell the disturbance. Moise ordered the crowd to disperse, but they refused, and then instructed the company to procure ammunition and fire upon the crowd if it did not leave, whereupon they dispersed. Brooker Toney killed a colored Deputy United States Marshal about three weeks ago. —Charleston (S. C.) News.

A Nomadic Town.

Garland, Col., is a town on wheels; whenever the Denver and Rio Grande railroad finishes a section of road the town moves to the end of the line. The people of Garland are determined to live at the end of the narrow-gauge, no matter where it takes them. As the line will be extended to Alamosa next week, the testive Garlanders are now preparing to pack up and move it. The houses are being taken down in sections, and in a week or ten days the present site of Garland will be deserted both by friend and foe. Garland was built in a week, and at one time had about 1,000 inhabitants. It is a healthy place; it was located about one year ago, and there have been but seven deaths. There are few that die, but when they do die they die suddenly. The cemetery on the hiil contains seven graves, and we climbed the steep declivity in the early morning to inspect it. One is the grave of a wee babe, whose little lamp of life went out after an existence of two months. The second is that of an aged man “The Judge,” as he was familiarly called—who died a natural death. The remainder met violent deaths; one was hanged by the Vigilance Committee, and four were shot doad in the saloons.— Cor. San Francisco Chronicle.

American Exports to Germany.

Borne interesting facts and suggestions respecting American exportations to Germany are communicated to the Department of State at Washington, in a report by the United States Consul at Mannheim Large quantities of American meat are imported into Germany by one firm at Mannheim—lo,ooo hams in. a single order, and an enormous amount of beef and sausages, sent in thirty days from St. Louis, equal to German sausage. The fear of trichina is the only obstacle to large purchases of American pork, A single ham infected condemns

the whole cargo. Rigid and trustworthy inspection is recommended before shipment Fresh beef twenty-one days from St Louis finds a ready market in Baden. American stoves begin to be seen in Germany, and glass from Pittsburgh meets with approval owing to its strength and clearness. American cotton cloths are bought carefully by the German housewife. Sole-leather from the United States is preferred to the English article. American preserved vegetables, fruits, oysters, lobsters, etc., are sold in large quantities in Germany. Sewing and knitting machines are everywhere accepted with a change of name. There cannot be a doubt that the United States are year by year taking away from us some of our best customers. —Pall Mall ( London ) Gazette.

The Great Wheat Country.

The word valley conveys to the general understanding no idea of what the Red river country valley is. It is not bordered by ranges of mountains, or hills, or bluffs of any considerable dimensions, but only by “rolling prairies ” slightly higher than this enormous level prairie. It is a vast treeless plain, from sixty to 100 miles wide and 400 miles long—an area larger than that of Lake Michigan, with a surface almost as level, in appearance, as that of this “ unsalted sea ” in a calm. It is the bed of an ancient shallow lake, whose outlet was southward through the Minnesota river into the primeval Mississippi. It received the waters of the Assiniboin and other large streams that now reach the ocean by a shorter route through Hudson's bay. At length its waters broke through the range of hills that oonfined them, below the present mouth of the Assiniboin, the lake was emptied into Lake Winnipeg, and gave place to the so-callei Red river valley—the richest wheat-producing land in the Northwest. The soil, from two to four feet in depth, is a very rich loam, resting on a bed of deposited clay and marl from twenty to fifty feet in depth. Neither ledge nor bowlder nor gravel nor sand, in even the smallest quantity, have been anywhere found, either on the surface or in the substance of this formation. The bed of the Red river is simply a tortuous gorge worn by water in the clay, and the water, even at the lowest stage, is still deeply colored by clay held in solution. The Cheyenne and other tributaries of the Red river present the Bame features. The evidences of formation by deposition from the waters of "a great lake are conclusive. The plain is not wholly treeless. Thin belts or ribbons of timber skirt theprin cipal streams; but the quantity of timber is too small to be of any economic value. When within the range of vision it serves to break the oppressive monotony of a landscape otherwise without limits, and it also serves the useful purpose of a wind-break in the immediate vicinity of the streams; but there is too little of it for any other purpose. This is the new and wonderful winterwheat region of the Northwest, where can be seen fields of wheat whose boundaries are only the limit of human vision. Here arc wheat-fields whose dimensions are expressed in figures, as 5,000 acres, 6,000 acres, 7,000 acres, etc., and whose aggregated area might be described as a township of growing wheat. But these are terms of exact definition which the mind comprehends only as subjective limitations. The objective spectacle is indefinite, unlimited. Standing at the center of this “farm,” and looking in any direction, the beholder gazes only upon a level sea of wheat whose boundary is where the earth and sky come together. It is said by disinterested experts that every acre of these wonderful wheatfields will yield not less than twenty-five bushels, and that every bushel will weigh sixty pounds, and grade as No. 1. The harvest is somewhat better this year than it was last. The yield is euexpectedly large. The grain is simply perfect. And this is a part of the country which the scientific Gen. Jlazen pronounced to be a barren, worthless desert, that would not produce anything. The latitude was too high (between 46 and 50 degrees) ; the climate was too frigid ; the seasons were too short; there was no water, no anything to render it habitable. The opening of it by the Northern Pacific railway has proven by actual test and experience that the unfavorable opinion which Gen. Hazen put into such positive statements was not well founded. For wheat culture the experience of two years has shown the Red river country to be the most favored portion of America. While in the southern half of Minnesota the wheat crop is a failure, in the extreme north of Dakota, in latitude 47 degrees, within 150 miles of the British boundary, upon Gen. Kazen’s worthless desert, the best and most bountiful wheat-harvests on the continent are found. On the banks of the Red river this wheat crop will command within 15 cents of the price of the same grade on the Chicago market. It can be placed at tide-water at a cost not exceeding 1 cent a bushel more than the cost of placing the crop of Eastern lowa at the same place. To some these statements may be surprising. But they are facts. In view of such facts, is it wonderful that Gen. He zen’s desert is rapidly acquiring a vigorous and thrifty population?—Chicago Times.

A Novel Fox-Trap.

In West Fryeburg, Me., lives a wellknown farmer named T. J. Haley, whose coops had been visited nightly by a hnngry fox, and one evening the rascal killed eleven half-grown chickens, ten of which he ate or carried off, leaving one dead on the ground near the scene of slaughter. Mr. Haley was considerably provoked, as would naturally be expected, and resolved to set a novel <rap for his foxship. So the next day he drove two stakes into the ground a few rods from the coops, split them partially open, and placed a loaded gun in the crevices, carefully pointed toward the hole under the nearest coop where the fox had crawled in to get his plunder. In this hole he placed the dead chicken, fastened by a cord to one end of a piece of wood arranged to play forward and back, like a whiffletree, and to the other end of this stick he tied a rope, connected with the trigger of the gun held in position by the two stakes, as previously mentioned. He took pains to sight the gun about as high as an ordinary hat above the hole under the coop, also carefully adjusting the rope so that nothing could discharge the gun unless the chicken in the hole was laid hold of. The next morning, on visiting the coop, there lay the misguided fox, dead as a door nail, with his head in the hole, and the fatal chicken in his stiffened paws. The plan worked to a charm, and makes, perhaps, the first case on record where one of the wiliest of the animal kingdom was enticed into becoming the instrument of his own destruction.

An Important Decision.

A very important decision has just been rendered by the Supreme Court of Wisconsin. In the case of Benedict against Westover, fur libel, on appeal from the Waukesha Circuit, the Supreme Court held that communications from the agent of a commercial agency arc not privileged, and that an action will lie for a slander in such a communication if damage is proved, and if the defendant does not prove the truth of the libel, and that it was published from justifiable motives. Commercial agencies may inflict much damage on business men by reports touching their character and standing which have no solid foundation in fact. The Wisconsin decision will go far to correct the evil by rendering commercial agencies more cautions in their statements,

Pierced by a Needle.

Death comes at last, and with a little pin, Bores through his castle-wall—and farewell, King ! What Shakspeare said of the vanity of Kings’ lives describes equally well the frailty of human life everywhere. The following singular story comes from Toronto, Canada: A young man named Henry Hubbard, aged 38 years, fell dead while walking the streets. Of course, the usual inquiry was instituted and examination made. It was at first supposed he was the victim of heart disease, but the most vigorous search failed to detect any signs of disease in that organ. The doctors were puzzled; the man was healthy, and in the full possession of his powers; what could have caused his sudden departure from this world ? It was at last traced: in one section of the heart, while under the microscope, was discovered the minute point of a needle. Death had been brought about by this broken point of a needle. But how did the needle get to the heart ? The doctors renewed their researches, and were at last able to follow the course of the needle’s point, which had first entered the man’s foot, and from there had slowly worked its way through the body to the heart, when death resulted. This is one of the most remarkable cases on record, and shows from what slight accidents death may result. All the time the deceased man had no knowledge of his impending doom; slowly and surely the fatal piece of steel pursued its serpentine route until it came in contact with the vital organ. Prof. Leone Levi, of the University of London, says that the aggregate earnings of English workingmen are $1,500,000,000 annually, out of which they could easily save $75,000,000, while in point of fact they save only $20,000,000, the balance being wasted. The Bible is now sold all over the Turkish empire. At Constantinople the scriptures are publicly exposed for sale in more than twenty languages.

A Healthy Body and a Clear Head.

If indigestion, constipation and biliousness torment the body, the head cannot be clear. These disorders react upon the brain most hurtfully, and produce a cloudiness in the organ of thought not experienced by a healthy man. Happily these brain-oppressi og maladies may be entirelv dispelled by that peerless alterative, Hostetter’s Stemach Bitters, vhich cheers, refreshes and invigorates the brain and nerves, while it regulates the organs of digestion, assimilation and bilious secretion. It expels the morbid humors which poison the system through the bowels and urinary passages, and exerts a powerfully invigorating influence as well. Its cathartic action iB never irritating, violent or painful, but even, natural and progressive. As an appetizer and sleep promoter the Bitters is unrivaled; it mitigates the infirmities of age, relieves the ailments peculiar to the gentler sex, arrests premature decay, and builds up an enfeebled physique. Voluntary assertion should be considered as grand evidence of the merits of a remedy. Below is what one person thinks of Dr. Graves’ HEART REGULATOR as a cure for Heart Disease: Sms: Will you please send me a bottle of Dr. Graves’ HEART REGULATOR by express. I see you have it advertised in the Times , and 1 can say it is tlie best remedy for the heart ever offered to the public. N. Ham, Sutton, Vt. Among the many forms of Heart Disease are Palpitation, Enlargement, Spasms of the Heart, Stoppage of the Action of the Htart, Trembling all over and about the Heart, Ossification or Body Formation of the Heart, Rheumatism, General Debility and Sinking of the Spirits. Send your name to F. E. Ingalls, Concord, N. H., for a pamphlet containing a list of testimonials of cures, etc. Dr. Graves’ HEART REGULATOR is for sale by druggists at 50 cents and $1 per bottle. Wilhoft’s Fever and Ague Tonic. — This medicine is used by construction companies for the benefit of "their employes, when engaged in malarial districts. The highest testimonials have been given by contractors and by the Presidents of some of the leading railroads in the South and West. When men are congregated in large numbers in the neighborhood of swamps and rivers, Wilhoft’s Tonic will prove a valuable addition to the stock of medicines, and will amply reward the company in the saving of time, labor and money. We recommend it to all. Wu flock, Finlay & Co., Proprietors, New Orleans. Fob sale by all Druggists. Malignant and subtle indeed is the poison of Scrofula, and terrible are its ravages in the system. They may, however, bo permanently stayed and the destructive virus expelled from the circulation with Scovill’h Blood and Liver Syrup, a potent vegetable detergent which eradicates all skin diseases, leaving no vestige of them behind. White swelling, salt rheum, letter, abscesses, liver complaint, and eruptions of every description are invariably conquered by it. Druggists sell it. A Friend in Need.—Grace’s Salve is a friend in deed. Who has not found it such in curing Cuts, Burns, Bruisos, Scalds, Felons, Boils, and even the most obstinate old Ulcers, and other Sores? It is a wonderful compound, suited alike to the skin of the child and of the adult. CHEW The Celebrated “ Matchless” Wood Tag Plug Tobacco. The Pioneer Tobacco Company, New York, Boston and Chicago. For upwards of 30 years Mrs. WINSLOW’S SOOTHING SYRUP has been used foi children with never-failing success. It corrects acidity of the stomach, relieves wind colic, regulates the bowels, cures dysentery and diarrhea, whether arising from teething or other causes. An old and well-tried romedy. 25 cts a bottle. What will you read when the evenings grow long and cool ? Did you ever read The Best Family Paper in the United States? If not; send Ten Cents, and get three specimen copies. Address, The Ledger, Chicago, 111. It is a dangerous thing to allow the diarrhoea or dysentery to go unchecked, and there is no need of it. A small bottle of Johnson’s Anodyne Liniment will cure the most stubborn case that can be produced. Fever and ague, malarious fever, bilious and typhoid fevers all originate in one producing cause, and may all be easily prevented by Parsons' Purgative Pills. These pills act directly and powerfully upon the blood.

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NEW YORK. Beeves $7 00 @lO 25 Hogs 4 60 @ 4 70 Cotton... 11 ?.{@ 12% Flour—Superfine 3 30 @ 6 00 Wheat—No. 2 Chicago 1 09 @1 12 Corn—Western Mixed. 47 @ 60 Oats—Mixed 30 @ 3‘3% Rye—Western 02 @ 63 Pork—Mess 10 75 @ll 00 Lard 1% @ 1% CHICAGO. Beeves—Choice Graded Steers.... 5 00 @6 50 Choice Natives 4 40 @ 4 80 Cows and Ileifers 2 40 @ 3 40 Butchers’ Steers 3 00 @ 3 50 Medium to Fair .'. 3 75 @ 4 30 Hogs—Live 3 25 @ 4 70 Flour—Fancy White Winter 5 25 @ 5 50 Good to Choice Spring Ex. 5 00 @ 5 25 Wheat—'-To. 2 Spring—New 98 @ 99 No. 3 Spring 85 @ 88 Corn—No. 2 39 @ 40 Oats —No. 2 22 @ 23 Rye—No. 2 51 @ 62 Barley—No. 2 1 14 @ 1 16 Butter—Choice Creamery 20 @ 22 Eggs—Fresh 10 @ 11 Pork—Mobs 10 40 @lO 50 Bard 7&@ 7 y, MILWAUKEE. Wheat —No. 1 1 09 @ 1 10 No. 2—New 1 07 @ 1 08 Corn—No. 2 39 @ 40 Oats—No. 2 22 @ 23 Rye—No. 1 £2 @ 63 Barley—No. 2 1 17 @ 1 18 ST. LOUIS. Wheat—No. 2 Red Fall 88 @ 81 Corn—Mixed 35 @ 36 Oats—No. 2 21 @ 22 Rye 60 @ 51 Pork—Mess 11 25 @ll 30 Lard 1%& Hogs 4 20 @4 75 Cattle 2 65 @ 5 00 CINCINNATI. Wheat—Red 90 @ 96 Corn 40 @ 42 Oath—New 22 @ 26 Rye 56 @ 67 Pork—Mess 10 90 @ll 0) Lar» TOLEDO. Wheat—No. 1 White 1 07 @ 1 08 No. 2 Red 1 00 @ 1 01 Corn 40 @ 42 % Oats—No. 2 24 @ 25 DETROIT. Flour—Choice White 5 00 @ 5 25 Wheat—No. 1 White 109 @1 10 No. 1 Amber 1 02 @ 1 03 Corn—No. 1 41 @ 42 Oats—Mixed 29 @ 30 Barley (per cental) 2 30 @ 2 60 Pork—Mesß 11 50 @ll 75 EAST LIBERTY, PA. Cattle—Best 5 12 @ 520 Eair 4 60 @ 500 Common 4 00 @ 4 25 g OOB 2 50 « 5 10

Folate and Stomach.

If you w*uld have your biscuits, bread, rolls, corn-bread, cake—in short, all articles prepared from dour, thoroughly enjoyable and digestible, use Dooley’s Yeast Powder, which is not only free from adulteration, but wholesome, and malms food very nutritious. This Baking Powder is used by the most eminent chemists and physicians. Buy it only in cans, never loose or in bulk. The Chicago Ledger is the only reliable Story Paper published in the West, and is sold for half the price of Eastern papers of the same kind. Thrive specimen copies sent to any address for Ten Cents. Address, The Ledger, Chicago, HI. To cleanse and wl liten the teeth, to sweeten the breath, use Brown’s Camphorated Saponaceous Dentifrice. T rentv-five cents a tott!e.

IMPORTANT NOTlCli.—l'nrniers, Families and Others can purchase So remedy equal to Dr. TOBIAS’ VENETIAN IJNINtENT, for the cure of Cholera, Diarrhoea, Dysentery. Croup, Coho and Seasickness. taken internally CR ia perfectly harmless; see oath accompanying each, battle) and externally for Chronic Rueumatism, Hendache, Toothache, Sore Throat, Cuts, Burns, Swellings, Bruises, Mosquito Bites, Old Sores, Pains in Liintiß, Back and Chest. The VENETIAN LINIMENT was introduced in 1847, and no one who has used it but continues to do so, many stating if it was Ten Dollars a Bottle they would not be without it. Thousands of Oertaiicates can be seen at toe Depot, speaking of its wonderful curative proper, ties. Solo by the Druggists at 40 cts. Depot, 4'£ Murray street. New York.

One evening in August,, 1866, a pale, tall man, with cadaverous countenance, called upon Mr. Fellows, of St. John, N. B. After much exertion, between paroxysms of coughing, he asked “whether Mr. F. would recommend his Hypophosphites to him, a consumptive ?" The reply was characteristic: “Were the case my own, I would try one bottle, and. if it proved useless, discontinue it; but if, on thecomtrary.it proved beneficial, I would persevere in its use lndeiinitaly, feeling certain of curing the disease.’’ One bottle was procured and used withgood effect.a dozen was afterwards purchased, used consecutively six months, and Capt. Harris CotnL of Windsor, Nova Scotia, was cured of Tubercular Consumption, and is to-day a healthy, vigorous man. For a detailed account of this caso see page 42, *’ Fellows’ Medical Monthly.” The above is but one of hundreds of cases successfully treated by this remedy. I'reinatiire Declbie, Consumption. Bronchitis, Asthma, Bleeding from the Lungs, Palpitation, Feeble and Interrupted Action of the Heart, Dull or Sluggish Action of the Liver. Dyspepsia, Flatulence, and nil Wasting Diseases, Weakness and Trembling of the Limbs, and want of vitality in any organ, or Disease caused by such want of vitality, are all successfully and rapidly treated by this remedy. FARMS.— Delaware Fruit and Grain Farms at low prices. A. P. GRIFFITH, Smyrna, Df.l.

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