Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 26, Number 19, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 December 1876 — Page 4

TIIE INDIANA STATE SENTINEL, WEDNESDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 27, 187G.

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WEDNESDAY, DKCKMBER 27.

The Springfield (Ma..) republican is not taking .stock in the Hajes conspiracy. It is liiere t that Morton's heart and kidneys have changed places and fum-tin. Tike Hertford (Conn.) Times says that Tilden and Hendricks can not Ix? counted out. Tihlen's popular rcpfonty id what make the rods feel that the cause of the conspirators is weak. The New York World says "good rota 'should awmnae leadership." Ye-?, if they are brave. Ptgota has a civil war alout religion, ltegota we hare the prospect of a war about the devil's doing The New York World tells of somebody ,ftved by a woman's love, bur never mentions black pepper. K. B. (Returning Poard) is not doing a thriving business ia his effort to bribe sonthern statesmen. Den Butler want a new election in May. May heaven deliver us from any more, returning boc.pl rascJitlcs. Perry rays he can't "let the country go to 'the dogs." He 'prefers Hayes and letting the country go to the devil. The clerks of the treasury department have organired a m'litary company. "Bread 'and butter!'' is their battle cry. Why don't Grant bulldoze the supreme court of Florida? His motto is that lie "don't care a damn for supreme courts." Decent republicans are breaking away from their party by hundreds and thousands. They do net believe in the bayonet policy of Crrant. Forney, with $2,00') where it will do the most good, talks about the radical party becoming the victim of fraud. A port of a devil's theology, that. The republican party prates about its "high honors." When it is swung up to a limb it will be time enough to discuvi that phase of the subject. Thn gO"1ciis of liberty rubs ber ej-s and rises to rimarfc that she has not been dead, but sleeping. St. Louis Times. And Grant rises up and says he has not been sleeping, but drunk. Grant is now interested in taking care of the government thieves sent to the penitentiary daring his administration. He wants society after March 4, Playback, an ex-confederate, wants to right for Hayes. So does Morton, but his Is a different kind of a baek it is a sway back a sort of a clear rib, as pork packers say, with the back bone out. Moody has Bob Ingersoll in hand, the purpose being to make him eligible for United States senator. Bob says, if he should meet Jehovah on his way to hell lie would spit in his face and still Bob, they say, can beat Logan. About the time that the guillotine is disappearing from France,' an evidence of higher civilization, a lower civilization is evidenced by the introduction of returning boards in politics. The guillotine means the death of criminals, returning boards mean the life and triumph of criminals. Grant is iL- 1. A - t a. ? 1 t 1 tue great eupporicr oi returning ooarus ana has earned the tppellation of the executioner of liberty, with such creatures as Morton, ('handler, Kellogg trA Wells as aids. But the worst that the country can get from Haye is certain to be better than the best It eonld hope for If it were muiaed by the men who rcpnBnt democntie tatewmanKhlo in New York, and la Missouri, and iu .South Carolin. St. Louis (Jiobe-Deinoerat. Under Grant's administration one very good thing wan done, and. that was to send Billy McKee, proprietor of the Globe-Democrat, to prison for stealing. If the worst that the countryman get from Hayes is to send the old thief baek to his cell and keep him ther, Mwauri democrats and honest republicans a.s well might regard Hayes as fome improvement on Grant. Th voice of the Indiana democracy neenis to be for war. It ws once before tili the .fighting beg am- New York Tribune. This is a straight out lie. The Indiana democracy are not for war. The above extract is from the New York Tribune, And refers to rebellion time. The Indiana democracy at the time were ia favor of exhausting every peaceful measure for the .preservation of the Union first, but after the f gating began the roster will show that as niaoy Indiana democrat went into the field am republicans, if not .more. Icfore the fighting began the democracy were endeavoring t ave the Union, but the w York Tribune was publishing articles advising "to let the wayward 'Bisters depart in peace," an4 advocating teces8ioa In other article. The Indianapolis Journal .took the same position. The Cincin nati Convaieroial took a. holder iaad than any other northern newspar, and now we challenge any one to find a more treasonable utterance than this in any paper north or south. Her is the exact language of the Commercial; "We are not in favor of block' ' 'ading the swithern coast, we are not in 'favor of retaVLng by force the properly of 'U.e United Ftafci now in possession of the 'seceders. We wouJd recognize the exitence of a government formed of all the 'slave-holdin state and attempt to culti'vat amicable rA it ion with it.". tfhow u anything by a democrat or a democratic jpcr as full of secession aa that j quotation. ' l

I TIIF. lrOPI.K WAKI.(i I P.

We are to have tho voice of the people, j In every township and county throughout the entire state the people are waking up. They are beginning to comprehend fully the dangers that environ their liberties. They are watching with intense solicitude the drift of erents. They are now convinced that the radical managers intend, if possible, to carry out to the letter their purpose, and by fraud and the show of military power, reverse the will of the American people as declared at the ballot-box in November. The people are calm, but the evidences are overwhelming that they are in earnest. There can be no mistaking the language of the resolutions the people are placing on record. They .do not talk of war. There are no bloodthirsty expressions. There are no words of bravado. But the language is earnest there is determination in every resolve. In all of this the radical managers will do well to take heed. It is generally conceded that if Hayes is inaugurated it will be because Grant has command of the army ; because Washington will be filled with troops, each with a loaded musket, and that some tol of the drunken despot, like Ituger.f Auger or Sheridan, will obey orders, enter the capital and march off to prison such members us refuse to crawl or put on Grant's dog collar. There is no longer room for doubt in regard to the purpose Qrant has in view. He has already intimated his plans. He Ulks of his recognition of his successor, and who he will "gee" inaugurated. It is this disposition of Gram's to meddle with what is none of his business that is intensifying the alarm throughout the oountry. The people of Indiana and of every other state in the Union are fully advised that Grant's term of office will expire at noon on the 4th of March, 1877. "Af'.ter that hour," as tho Washington Union tersely puts it, "he is a private citizen of the republic, no more and no lews; his official 'responsibility is ended. No matter who may 'then be president, one thirg is certain, it 'will not be Grant. It is hard for him, perhaps, to realize this fact but it is none the 'less true, and the sooner he recognizes it 'the better, both for himself and for the country." Grant his no right and no power to recognize anybody as his successor any more than any other private citizen of the conntry. And in tMi connection the Union adds: "His 'recognitions' heretofore have 'not been fortunate. He has a knack of rec'ognizing the wrong man. In face of the opinion of the ablext men in the republican 'party in both houses of congress he persisted 'in 'recognizing Kellogg as governor of Louisiana, and hence all the present trouble 'and difficulty in that state. Probably in 'January he will eat his own words 'of apology and contrition con'tained in . bis message to congress 'of January 13, 175, and 'recognize' Packard 'instead of Nicholls, the governor de jure 'elect. He is now 'recognizing' Chamberlain in South Carolina, and maintaining that 'usurper in power by the force of bayonets, 'by the means of troops of the United States "loaned for the occasion.' If Grant were 'insane enough to contemplate the possibfl"ity of seating Hayes in the presidency 'by the force of his own 'recognition,' 'as he has seated Kellogg in Louisiana and Chamberlain in South Carolina, we 'do not think the republican party either 'weak enough or wicked enough to embrace 'any such suicidal policy. That plan might 'suit Chandler or Jay Gould; it might rind 'an apologist in Taft, and a willing executive tool in Don Cameron; but we do rot 'believe that the republican senate would 'sanction it, or that a patriot army would 'contribute to its accomplishment." Thii recognition business by conspirators and usurpers will have to stop somewhere and at some time, if the liberties of the people are to continue. The people of Indiana are in no mood to tolerate such design?. They are for honeity, for constitution, for law and for a fair count. They are resolved to maintain their rights against traad, force, usurpations and all the infernal plans cf the perjured scoundrels who are now plotting their overthrow. We like exceedingly their plain talk. We" like the gravity and teriousness of their resolves., We like the sturdy declarations they are placing on record. We like the square, manly, stand-up independence that everywhere distinguishes the democratic party in council. It is possible that the radical managers will comprehend the abyss into which they now seem determined to plunge the country through the agencies of fraud and force and hesitate before the great crime is consummated. There are indications that the fair minded men of the party will refuse to do the biddiug of Grant, Morton, Chandler and the rest of the bulldozing conspirators, that in the interest of peace, honeety and free institutions they will resist the machination of the conspirators. Be this as it may, the people of Indiana will do their duty, and the 8th of January will tell, how firmly they re solved to meet the issues of the hour. ' Xl$I.E RADICAL, UTTERAXCE. Here are a few noble sentiments uttered by' leading radicals just before the late presidential election, and it aids us in estimating at their full value their authors, looking at them in the light of events now passing. Hear old Zch Chaudier, one of Grant's cabinet and clut.irin.in of the n itional republican committee; "I would rather see every 'man, woman and child in the south put to ' the aword tlaui see the democratic party 'restored to power." What a gen tie" and ooompIUhed old cannibal the old fellow wild make! Hear we now the gallant and brav Logan, of f.Minofy? "The sonth jntit 'be crushed and pauperized;" also Con- ! grefv-inan Townsend says "The . demo'crats must nt 1 -nermittd to car.) 'ry th-3 proMdVniiuJ- election.''. . Here U one from th logu radical vice

president elect, Mr. Wheeler, and looking at it in the light of Morton's late attempt to have the democratic party get up a war anyhow, it sounds very apropos: ''We must 'make the country believe that democracy 'and rebellion are synonymous and convert'ible terms." Now compare this sort of talk with the late sentiments uttered frequently by Wade Hampton, and will any sane man have any difficulty in deciding who is the most patriotic? TIIE OCTIAMrU. In very many regards the outlook is more assuring, but chiefly from the fact that the people arc beginning tomoseand to p peak. Thofe w ho have read the Seatinel will remember that its columns bear ample testimony of its faith in the people. If despotism is to be frowned down the people will have to perform the patriotic duty. If returning board frauds and jerjuries are to be made odious, the people will isMie the edict. If constitutional liberty is to be preserved it will be accomplished by the people. They are the sovereigns. Their will is omnipotent. It was the ieople who proclaimed the overthrow of Grantistu end the radical party at the ballot-box in t November by the election of Tilden and Hendricks by a popular majority of more than a quarter of a million oi votes. And it is the people's decree that Grant, with his bayonets, and Zach Chandler, Morton and their co-conspirators shall not reverse It by frauds and perjuries. It may be potible for them to accomplish their hellish purpose, but it is not probable. The people are rising, coming together taking each other by the hand; looking into each other's faces; measuring heart beats; conning the past, analyzing the present, and as best they may. estimating the demands the immediate future will make upon them. If any are in doubt, let them read the resolves which from day to day are published to the world. Take a thousand of these resolutions, put them in the crucible, subject them to the severest tests, and then publish to the world just how much cowardice is foiyjd in theni, just how much fear of Grant, just how mnch reverence for radical ..frauds, perjuries, despotic acts and villainies unnumbered. Such eranloyment is just what the rati ical organs and the bulldozing managers of the party can engage in with profit, for they will discover in these resolves, instead of cowardice, which in times of peril is doubly detestable, that calm, tclfreliance which in all cases betokens firmness and a readiness to meet the issue, whatever it may be, in a manly spirit tl:at is tho crowning glory of courage. This spirit is everywhere manifest. In Pennsylvania the democratic state committee in their address to the people of the state are firm in the announcement of the election of Tilden and Hendricks. That "the election of president and vice president of the United 'States is a high and solemn duty of the 'people of the several states. An attempt to 'evade obedience to the popular will by any 'effort to distort the meaning of the constitution by interpretation of law, to seek to 'set up barriers against the face of this de'clared will, is substituting revolutionary 'expedients for constitutional methods." The constitution is declared the cole and exclusive power to settle all questions which relate to the electoral votes of the teveral states, and that the representatives of the people in congress are required to obey the plain intent and meaningot the constitution and laws, and add As free clthvns of this commonwealth we Küssest that you consider those measures which such contingency mny invite or command. We believe a Krg number of our citizens who are too patriotic to b bouud by the design of the managera of the present administration of the general government, are prepared openly to condemn the disposition they manliest to plunato the country Into a Hea of danger rather than return to the people the trust committed to them for a specified period of a presidential term. The people will, with courage and calmness, and full f tlth in their sovereignty as the source of all political power, make these declarations that their servants may listen and obey. The people of Pennsylvania are likely to keep step to the music of liberty, and with 'courage and calmness and full faith in 'their sovereignty," do their duty. Indiana responds all hail I

One of the most cruel things that the congressional committee has done in New Orleans was to let the light in on Eliza Pinkston's testimony. To think of the energy and perseverance that the radicals used in getting up that testimony, and now, alas! all destroyed. . With what pride all the northern radical prints regarded it. The testimony before the committee yesterday used the story up. Those whom she charged with murdering her husband have proved that they were twenty miles away at the time the murder was committed. What will the Cincinnati Commercial and the Journal do without this testimony? Take away the old stereotyped Hamburg 'story now, and their stock in trade is gone. How will the northern heart ever be "fired"' aain? These southern outrages are distressingly scarce.- What is the matter with Wade Hampton and General Gordon that they are not out gunning for "niggers" and rads? The Sentinel would impress upon the minds of its correspondents that much more matter is received each day than its columns auord space for, and the only chance to get a hairing ia to write briefly and to the point. correjoudenee, reports of meetings and all matter jxibiicution for roust be made short. A ion communication either goes to the wasteftsket or else it is mercilessly cut down to- Ane-Lülf or less its original length. Correspondent who write plainly on bot one side of tike paper, send their true names and keep within reasonable limit, will get a fair count in oar columns. One tiling more. We fan not, in most cases, undertake to return- manuscript (tnt to Ui Uafce a copy before it is seat.

STILL COMING IN.

Additional Reports of ths County Conventions of Last Saturday. YIOXROE COCXTl'. A Couiprehenftlt and Well ConMttlered declaration. The democracy of Monroe couuty met in conventien, in Bloomington, on Saturday last, with Jeremiah Titman in the chair and H. J. Feltus secretary, to consider the political situation and appoint deJegatcs to the 8th of January convention to be held at Indianapolis. There was a good attendance, and while the committee on resolutions was out, the convention was addressed by John IL Eut and the Hon. C. F. McNutt. A ringing set of resolutions were adopted, of which the following is the principal: P.esolved, that the effort of the wicked leaders of the party in power in the national government to foist upon the country their candidates for president and vice proident, 1, by means, ia certain states, of returning boards, the members whereof Cieee same leaders have in the past again and again denounced as corrupt and dishonest, to force results in those states clearly contrary to the votes of such states, whereby they h.ave caused to be proclaimed as electors for thee states iersons who have cast their votes for candidates againt whom the people of these states voted at the recent election; (2) by claiming the riht of the president of the senate without any restraint npon his conduct, and, contrary to all precedent, to open and count, deppite the judgment of the houses of congress, snd uncontrolled by them the votes whereby the president and vice president are to be elected, is a wicked violation of the constitution and usage of the republic; is treasonable and revolutionary, and can be successfully accomplished only by endangering if not destroying the republic itself, and ouht therefore to be prevented by the eoplfc's representatives in congress. And that such treasonable machinations may not be consummated, every legitimate means left to a free people should be appealed to and invoked to resist and circumvent it. That the laws, the constitution and the precedents established by the wisdom of the fathers of the republic must be, maintained at every hazard and every cost. RANDOLPH COrSTY. Resolution and Speeche bj Colonel Gray and Other. In compliance to a call issued by the democratic central committee of Indiana, the democracy of oldliandolph assembled in mass convention in Winchester. Substantial men of all parties were present, among whom' were the Hon. T. M. Browne. Judge Cofgrove, the Hon. J. P. Watt, Judge J. J. Ckeneyand K. K. Reynolds,rcpublicans. The meeting was called to order by Captain Asa Teal, w ho briefly stated the object of the meeting, and urged the necessity of f xercising wisdom in the deliberations, and then moved the appointment of Colonel M. II. Miller as president and S. 0. Irvin secretary. Committees on resolutions and delegates were appointed, and while waiting for them sjeeehes were delivered by Colonel I. P. Gray and others. Afterwards a long list of. resolutions were adopted, among which were the following: That we indorse the action of the democratic members of congress in sending investigating committees 'to South Carolina. Ix)uisiana and" Florida for the purpose of investigating the fairness and legalitv of their returning boards and their othcial action, and we pledge ourselves to stand by and tupport them in their efforts to arrive at the facts and the law by a thorough investigation, and thereby maintain the constitution and the laws. ' That we urge our senators and representatives in congrees to use their utmoi ability in favor of a peaceable and fair adjustment of the complicated questions that may arie from the late election. At the same time surrender nothing that has been honestly and fairly won. That any attempt to inaugurate a president simply upon the proclamation of the president of the senate, without the concurrent absent of both houses of congress, would be an act of usurpation destructive and dangerous to peace, law and order. CARROLL COUXTY. The l'eople Aenibte the Call of the Ntaie In Puriianr to IMiiorrMtie Ontral Committee A large and intelligent mass meeting was held at Delphi on the 23d, in pursuance to the call of the ftate democratic central committee and the call of a large number of the citizens of the county to consider the present political situation. The committee on resolutions reported a long list' of resolutions, among which were the following: Itesolved, that while we will peaceably submit to the will of a majority of the people, or even of a minority when lawfully expressed, we at the same time regard it to be the duty of all good citizens to resist by all lawful means in their power any attempt to revolutionize our government, any unwarranted usurpation of authority by the executive, or any attempt by the party in ower to override the will of the majority of the people as legally expressed at the ballotbox. Resolved, that we regard the plan proposed and advocated by the leaders of the republican party, for the president .of the senate Jo arbitrarily count and declare the electoral vote without recognizing the right of the senate and house of representatives, or either of them to participate therein, as contrary to all precedent, contrary to the constitution, subversive of civil liberty and a direct step towards revolution; and we call upon our senators and representatives in congress to urge such action and legislation by congress as will preserve our system of popular government, as will prevent -the consummation ol acts of fraudulent returning boards and secure to the people the inauguration of the men of their choice. TIPTOX COITNTT. A Vigorous Set of Itesolntlonn and a Full List of Delerftte. The democracy of Tipton coanty.pursuant to call, met in mass convention last Saturday and organized by selecting J. V. Banta chairman and Arch 11 fcmall secretary. Strong and conservative speeches were made by a number of citizens. ' The committee on resolutions made a reort declaring in substance: That we. the democracy and conservative citizens of Tipton county, expect that our representatives in congress, after being fullv satisfied of their electioy, will firmly use all legal and constitutional means to place Samuel J. Tilden and Thomas A. Hendricks la the respective offices to which the people have chosen them, and we will steadfastly stand by them. That we can but express abhorrence of the threats of the party in power, that they will retain that power, though to do so, they have to resort lo force. That we as a free people can but regard tho sending of troops into states in time of peace and when elections are being held for

j the punose of intimidation with the grcatj e.st degree of alarm, and apprehension and if not checked, can but result in the subverj sion and overthrow of our form of govern

ment. That any attempt to inaugurate IL Ii. Hayes president of these United States by unconstitutional means should be firmly contested by the whole people of this country. Kighteen delegates were then appointed to represent Tipton county at the state convention on January 8. WASHINGTON- COrXTY. The Kewolntlon Adapted Breathe the 1'ftnal Determined Nplrit. Pursuant to call of chairman of county central committee, the democracy of Washington county assembled at the court house, !st Saturday, for the purjose of selecting delegates to the state convention at Indianapolis. Jan. 8th, and giving some expression of their views Uon the present political situation. After speeches by several gentlemen 21 delegates to the rtate convention were appointed and several resolutions adopted, amoug which were the following: That we demand of our representatives in congress that they use all their influence and constitutional authority to secure a fair count of the electoral vote for president and vice president, assuring them of the consciousness of our convictions that the democratic candidates are justly and legally entitled to the offices to which they have been elected ; and that we feel that the inauguration of Hayes and Wheeler would He in violation of the spirit of the constitution and the expressed will of the people, and would be regarded as a triumph of fraud and detrimental to the prosperity of the nation and the perpetuity of our government. That any deciion made by the two houses of congress will be cheerfully acquiesced in by the whole people, and that any attempt to inaugurate a president simply upon the proclamation of the president of" the senate will ! an act of usurpation. DELAWARE COÜXTY. DemoeratM, Independent and Repnblifnn rulle In the Meet In jr. Special to the Sentinel. In the meeting at Muncie last Saturday, to appoint delegates to the convention of January 8, there was a strong mixture of independents and republicans, who like the democrat", wanted a fair count and who will not indorse fraud for the sake of sustaining a puck of thieves. It wbh an assembly of the be.-t people of the county: men of wealth and standing. Mr. A. rrgdali, a prominent man of our county and a good farmer, was called to the chair, and J A. Kirkwood. city editor of the Democrat, appointed secretary. Sjiceches were made by Hon. John K. Neff and others, a list of delegates made up and resolutions adopted, of whic h the principal is as follows: Resoled, that! we, the citizens of lelaware county, Indiana, for ourselves, and on behalf of even citizen of the county who believes, that the jjcaceful ballot, and not fraud and the bayonet, should be the arbiter of elections, do denounce this attempt to subvert the. lawfully expressed will of the people as a stab at civil liberty and constitutional government, and an attempt afr revolution that should receive the indignant condemnation of every patriotic citizen of the country, without regard to his political associations. CAK.N COCXTT. Neveral Prominent Repnblleani Take Pari In the Meeting. In pursuance of the call of the democratic state central committee, the democracy of Ca.-vs county assembled in convention at the court hou.se on Saturday, December 23, for the purpose of selecting delegates to attend the proposed state convention to be held at Indianapolis on January 8. The meeting was one of the largest and most enthusiastic that has ever been held in this county. A fromincnt feature of the meeting was the arge number of gentlemen present who have heretofore acted with the republican party, among whom may b mentioned ex-Senator Pratt, Colonel T. II. ßringhurst and several other leaser lights. A. Ii. Crampton, chairman of the county central committee, called the convention to order, when an organization was effected by the selection of liufus Magee, IV)., as chairman and H. P. Stuart and J. J. Shaffrey as secretaries. Upon taking the chair Mr. Magee delivered & vigorous and eloquent address upon the complicated condition of public affairs. Committees were appointed to draft resolutions and select deiejratew, which reported promptly. The resolutions declare Tilden and Hendricks fairly elected and demand their peaceable inauguration on the 4th of March. The delegates are representative democrats of the county. After speeches from several gentlemen present the meeting adjourned.. A Dellrate Operation. Utlea Herald.j rrivate'advices from Saratogo Springs inform us that one of the belles of that place has had a difficult operation performed upon her ears for the purpose of reducing them to the ordinary size of such appendages. The lady is accomplished and pleasing to all who meet her, but up to this time she has suffered great annoyance from the fact that her ears were far beyond the proper dimensions. No art of the hair-dresser or milliner could be employed successfully in lading this deformity, and she resolved to go to New York and have them cut down. She consulted with a skilled surgeon, and refusing to take chloroform, suffered bravely while the operation was being performed. The surgeon believes that the ears will be all right again within a few weeks. The unfortunate members of the editorial fraternity, whose ears hang over into their inkstands, need not gather any encouragement from this item for the reason that the surgeon- aforesaid declares that an operation that was possible in the case of a lady can not be ierformed upon one of the other gender. "'Tis true, 'tis pity, and pity 'tis 'tis trae." Fable. New York World.J LX THE CAT CHAXOED INTO A WOMAX. A rat being enamored of a man, Jupiter, in answer to her prayers, turned her into a handsome woman, whom he caused the man to espouse. A few days afterwards, as they were seated at breakfast in their boarding house, a mouse happened to run across the Xioor, the bri.ie, forgetting that she was no longer a cat, sprang upon the vermin and greedily devoured it. The mistress of the house, observing this, upbraided her guest, but the latter replied: "When I eat mice I know what I am eating, but when I eat hash Idon't." Moral It is better to fly to the ills we had than to bear others that we know not of. ' That tickling in the .nose, stop it, before it becomes Catarrh, by Dr. J. H. McLean's Celebrated Catarrh SnulT, it soothes and allays irritation, it cures sores in the nose or kin t nd removes Pimples off the face. Trial Iloxct 60 cents by mail. Dr. J. II. McLean's 314 Chestnut street, bt. Louis.

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A LABCE ORCHAaPtr. Mr. A. R. Whitrey, of Franklin (.rove, Lee county, Illinois, picked and marketed the present season 2.X0 barrels cf winter apples, wLichbrou-ht him an average of $2 t btrrel. His crop of apples for cider reached 20.000 busfccls, and he purchased from his neighbors some ten or fifteen thousand more; some of theni as low as eight or ten cents per nushel. He has pressed out 2.700 barrels of cider, the greater portion of which will be stored for vinegar. He has, from the pomace, washed out 45 bushels of prime apple seed, which will add quite a little sum to his asurvtrat profits. HYACINTHS IN MOnrt BArKkT. Hyacinths in water, and in soil in ts. are common ornament for winter. IVter Henderson describes in the Agriculturist the mode for placing them in moss basket He recommends the common brown watermoxs used by nurserymen and gardeners, but for the outside and top we would prefer the smooth green tiakes taken from rotten logs in the woods. Vre the moiss moderately firm into the wire basket, the bulbs being one-third above the surface. The whole is then saturated with water and placed in some dark cool place, as a cellar or closet, where the temperature is not above 50 degrees. The basket is then brought into a room aud hung against a window, with a temperature of u or 70 degrees, and the plante will bUm in three or four weeks. Watering theru with )ery weaK guano water once a week greatly increases their size and brilliance; an ounot increases uieir size and brilliance; anouno of guano to a gallon of water is enough. Th bulbs may be prepared successive lv froi November into January. lie rom uary. CAuroKxn hop crop. The California hop crop this year promises to pay better than almost any other department of agriculture. The San Francisco ltulletin says there have been more hop raised this season than any previous year in the history of the state. The counties in which the business ia most extensively followed are ban Joaquin, JSanta Clara, Sacramento and Nana. Hops are also largely raised in Puyalluy valley, Washington territory. One acre of hops after the second year's planting produces in suitable soils about 2,000 pounds to the acre. The present price ranges from 24 to 28 cents per pound, faking the lowest tigure, one acre in hops tids year should realize the farmer f tsd. But this is an unusually good season for price, ami the expense is above that of ordinär' articles of agriculture. K00T-PUrMS0 BLCM TEEES. The Ixndn Agricultural Gazette frive an account of some interesting experiments in root-pruning plum trees, furnished by a correspondent. The soil was evidently very rich and strong, as the trees are reported as often making shoots a yard long, and have continued to do so for several years. With this rank growth they did not bear frtiit. Root-pruning was tried for promoting productiveness. A deep trench was dug around the trees two feet and a half from the stem, making a circle of soil five feet in diameter which held each tree. This work was done late in autumn. Karly spring would do nearly as well, and probably better in cold climates, as cutting the roots tends to make the trees more sensitive to cold for a time. The roots which ere cut off were smoothed at the cut faces with a sharp knife. The trencti was then filled and the earth trodden firmly. The first season after the operation they did not bear any, but fruit spurs were formed all over the trees. The second war a part were lifted or loosened entirely. Taia second year they bore a splendid lot of plums; those not lifted the second year bearing much the better evidently because the root-pruning had already given them a sufficient check. One tree which had not been root-pruned bore nothing. The sorts on which these experiments were made were such as are well known in this country as Jefferson, green gage, Washington, Pond'g i?eedling, etc THK CHEKTNCT TRKK. The Rural World very truly says: One of the mott beautiful sights in nature is a beautiful, symmetrical chestnut tree, loaded with its creamy-white blossoms. We have teen acres and acres of them, and stood and admired them by the hour. Kvery farmer could have these scattered about hLs homestead, and his children and grandchildren would take the greatest delight in gathering the nuts from them. They are a little treacherous in transplanting, hut we transplant tlieru by the hundred, yearly, and always with success. The trees can be grown from the nuts by farmers CHINESE BIO TREKS. China has its big trees as well as California. About 30 miles from Nikko an avenue of pugi or cedar trees begins, and, with an occasional break where there is a village, it reaches the whole distance to the shrines of Lycias the longest avenue of shade in the world. These great trees are from five to seven feet in diameter at the base, and tower without a branch for 50 or 80 feet, and then lift their heads 40 or 50 feet higher. They resemble the giants of the Yoseiniu. The trunks are faultlessly straight and the bark is deeply veined. There are alout 30,000 trees on this avenue, and all of them were planted after the foundation of the shrine, about 250 years ago. DEVEKTED FARMS. The farming interest seems to be gradually diminishing in. some of the New England states,' and judging from the unfavorable reports that come from different sections, such a thing as good protita do not exist. We see it stated that in New Hampshire there are now 2.000 deserted farms. . The attention of the board of agriculture has been called to the matter, and that body is about to make an effort to reclaim them by the appointment of a board of commissioners, who shall fix the price of land, to be paid by the purchaser after two or three years of occupation, without paying rent but paying taxes. BROADCAiT BOWINO. A. Maryland correspondent of the Country Gentleman makes a suggestion which will attract the attention of every farmer who knows what it is to pace back and forth across ther plowed field, carrying a heavy load of seed slung to hin Shoulders. He says: "Numerous as hav been the instructions of late for preserving thd almost 'lost art' of sowing grain by hand, there remains c:ie mode that has escaped mention, and which, when mentioned, will probably te derided by those who have not tried it. I allude to owing on horseback. Bulky rakes, sulky rollers, etc., are regarded as useful contrivances for the saving of human labor; but none of your correspondents seem to have thought of making the horse perforni the labor of walking, carrying seed bag and sower to ' and fro across the field during the operation of sowing the grain. And yet, after a long experience, the writer has found that lie oould distributeseed grain more regularly from the saddle, than on foot, and with far more case and comfort as any good seedsman will find after a short practice. Ciraas weeds, howeTer, being lighter than grain, are best-(town on foot." : r -: .. That nasal twang, it is Catarrh;, cure it at once, before it shows on your hue, by Dr. J. H. McLean's Ca'arra t-nufi". It ooothes irritation, cures sores in the rose, face or skin. Trial boxes 50 cts., by mail.i Dr. J. 11. MoLearX, 314 Chestnut, eu Louis.