Rensselaer Union, Volume 11, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 March 1879 — Page 3

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> PLOD. Of the wine anil holy Maker, of the good and gt acinus Uod. Men cun ask few higher blessings than the power and grit hi plo t. Showy gjft may be attractive, glibly talk of going to do;" Bat it take* the solid lifting of old Plod to put her through.” He is migntier than all genins, greater than all , boas ed skill, Having tor his inspiration an indomitable will. Genipi is a passing metoor; Plod, a never-setting sun; Where ail else hath failed and fainted. Plod has just gone in and won. Ha ha>h reaied the mighty oities, with a strength Ood-iike, sublime: Made a highway fur the Nations through the ancient bills of time. He hath matte tha lightning serve him. counted stars and measured space; Wealth and ge nias fairly beaten in the middle of life's TTjjae. Hard to ro’ju and slow to notion; but, when Plod . says ”1 will,’ Ho i» jj-jht an sure to do it as Ihe lightning is to „ *>“• •He 'was busy at the building of the pyramids of old, And, though Kings sought deathless mention, 'tis of Plod their tie is told; Never yet hath wood'ring pilgrim 'nei.th their gloomy shadows trod Without fi el mg and believing the omnipotence of Plod! i He hath >et beheld no mountain where his Sag ““ he dared not plant, Just because he didn't whimper and sit down and say ” 1 can't.'.’ In the Reberdays of plodding, thirty, forty years agi>. We hail more of solid progress, less of tinsel and of snow. Our old iLotners taught their daughters how to scruo, sew, chum and hike; How to take a turn in haying, on the load or at the rack: Milk and drive the cows to pasture, catch and harness up old Bui; Craok tne whip And take the produce to Upmarket or the null. Never smarter, wittier lasses traded at the country store; And they more than matched the saucy, smooth- • , tongued peddlers at the door. Handsouit r tin y were and nobler, in the neat and si in pie. dress, Than the modern lady, strutting in a milled wilderness. They would rather go to meeting, sitting, with a h ipov smile, In the old pung, racked and broken, than to go in dent for style. Not a dollar would they squander, not an extra ribbon get, Till the parlor t ad been furnished and the farm w«s lint of debt. They d have roomed the thought of sitting, dressed in frills and boughten curls, While the uou-o was run to ruin by a pack of hired girls; Or, to be accomplished ladies, make an organ squ-al and moan, While their mothers, late and early, worked their fingers to the bonelet, with a 1 tins sober plodding, Natnre had no rich r charms Than she gave the happy maidens an the grand New England farms. But this ege of great inventions, deeper thought and cleaier light Has produced a paient Lady, and Uame Fashion holds the right. Not content with sober ploddiug, tired of loafing and unrest, Jill the bovs aie taking tickets for the prairies of the West; Aid they ne d but small persuasion to poll up their stakes and go To where Nature yields a harvest if she’s Uckled with a hoe. But I've somehow got the notion that a lad, with prospects fair. Failing in New England valleys is a failure anywhere. He may h ive the mildest climate, ho may have the richest sod. But it Justs mourns to nothing if he hasn’t got the plod! It may be the age is giving birth to more enlightened vews, But it doesn’t do to farm it in a pair of patent shoes. And ii simply stands to reason that a man can't till his ground If one half the time he’s loafing and the other—riding round. Bsrai well shingled, thriving cattle, stoneless acres, rich and broad. , Come from no hing else, believe me, but the steady, sober Plod 1 — Rev. A feed J. Rough,, in N. Y. Independent,

A TREACHEROUS "GOBBLER.”

In 1781 no finer hunting-grounds • could have been found than were in the valley of the Ohio River. There were then but few settlements on the riv6t below VV heeling, and those were on the Virginia side along the eastern bank. It was several years later before land was taken up on the Ohio side, for that was the “ Indian country;” yet the settlers on the eastern shore used to cross often to the western side to hunt for deer and wild turkeys, which were there very abundant. From their cabin-doors in the early morning the pioneers would sometimes see flocks of from ten to fifty magniticant turkeys break suddenly forth to the water, or espy them sitting in rows on the projecting branches of the longlimbed oaks."" - Often the vooiferous “ gobbling" of the males resounded across the water, interluded by the plaintive “yeap yeapyeap! yop-yop-yop!” or quickly changed to a Bharp “ quit!” at the sudden appearance of a wolf or fox. It was but a few minutes’ work for the settlers to paddle across in their log canoes, and with a few discharges of shot, secure turkeys enough to last each family a week. Turkey was the dish most easily procured, and the gob-; bling of a flock on the opposite slope across the stream came to be a signal for a turkey-hunt. Jn the fall of 1781 a wily savage of _Jthe Shuwanese tribe, named wit, who had no doubt watched the settlors in some of their bunting expeditions, hit upon a plan to secure a few scalps so that it could be done with little danger to himself. During all these years ther 3 was almost constant war with the Indians, and the British, it is said, had set a price 'on American scalps. The ruse which this cunning savage had hit on will soon be understood. One morning as a settler named Bingman was feeding his hogs just at sunrise, he heard a wild turkey “gobble” across the river, which at that point was not more than two hundred yards in width. The gobbling was repeated. So clear and still was the air that Bingman could even hear the odd "chockl” -in the gobbler's throatas it “ strutted.?’ A moment after, too, the plaintive “ yoap!” of a second turkey came to his ears. Calling to his wife to bring his gun, Bingraan got into his canoe and paddied across the river to shoot the turkeys. Mrs. Kingman saw him land on the opposite shore, and go cautiously in among the bushes. Five minutes later she heard him “ re ’ ;** B h° supposed, and thought ne would soon bo back; but half an hour and an hour passed, and he did not come. Ihe forenoon dragged by. The poor woman thought he must have started a deer, and gone in pursuit of it: but becoming much alarmed before night she went to the clearing of a neighbor named Mclntosh, and in company with him crossed the river in search of her missing husband. A few rods up from the bank, where his oanoe lay, poor Bingman was fpund, lying dead and scalped. Only the next morning a settler « named Woodfin. seven or eight miles above Bingman’s, was shelling corn at his cabin door, and on going into 'the . abed where hls handmill f<7r gmtf'iiig stood, he, too, heard a gobbler across the river, accompanied by the “ yeaping” of'a whole tioclTfef turkeys.

As his family had nothin# but cornmeal from which to make a breakfast, the chance of securing a line turkefy or two was not to be lost. Woodfln took his gun, and atonoe crossed the river. The report of a gun was soon heard, but Woodfln, like Bingman, did not come back. Late that evening a party of his friends found him lying dead, scalped and robbed of his gan and clothing, a little wav back from the river. i'hat same forenoon Freeman Hasted, a youth of seventeen, was fishing on the bank several miles above Wooddn’s, whon he heard turkeys in the bushes on the opposite Bhore. Two girls of fifteen and eighteen, named Ruth Miller and Harriet Beakman, were with him, and were joking him on his ill-success in fishing. On hearing the turkeys, Freeman told them he would have a turkev for each of them in fifteen minutes. They were near the clearing of Mr. Beakman, and his own boat and that of a neighbor named Miller were drawn up close by. Young Husted stepped into one of the canoes and poled across, for the water was then very low. * The girls soon heard him fire his gun, as they thought. Some time passed; he did, not return. They supposed he was searching for a second turkey. At last they began calling to him, and soon after Mrs. Beakman and some of the younger children saw both girls get into the other canoe and paddle over to the west bank. Ruth and Harriet were both somewhat used to the canoes. The children heard them laughing, and the rattling and splashing of the paddles, as they went across. They were never again seen alive. Later in the day Mrs. Beakman, becoming very uneasy about her daughter, Mr. Beakman waded the river at the “rips,” a little farther up, where the water was then not much more than watsr-deep, and, after n brief search, found Che bodies of the two girls close together. They had both been scalped scarcely a minute after they nad laughingly paddled the canoe across. • A little farther up the sloping bank, in front of a thick clump of pawpaw bushes, young Husted lay dead. At their funeral a day or two later there was a most pitiable scene, for these young peoDle had many friends, and Ruth, the oldest, was shortly to have been married. The scene of this triple tragedy was but a few miles below Wheeling Fort The next day, or next but one, at about two o’clock in the afternoon, turkeys were heard across thtnriver at the clearing of a Mr. Guthridge, some twenty miles below the Beakman place* As news traveled slowly from one isolated post and house to another, the Guthiidges had as yet heard nothing of the sad fate of H usted and the girls. Mr. Guthridge had a boy of thirteen named Casper, whom he had taught to lire his ritie-guu and to hunt. Instead of forbidding him the use of the gun, he bad taken great pains to teach him how to shoot, and how to charge the gun properly and safely, as also now to swim.

Casper was a bright, sharp boy, with an eye like a young lynx. It was he that heard the turkeys in the woods across the river. Mr. Guthridge himself had gone out into a back field after dinner to cut up corn, leaving Casper to hew out a pig’s trough from a section of cottonwood log; for beside teaching the lad to bunt and swim, Mr. Guthridge had taught him how to do all kinds of farm jobs, such as making troughs, gates and axehelves. As Casper chopped and hacked at his pig-trough, he heard the gobbling of the turkeys on the other shore, tie ran in and told his mother that he wanted her to taxe down the rifle-gun for him to shoot a turkey. The gun hung overhead, on two wooden hooks in the beams of the loft door. His mother said no; she didn’t want him to take it. “ Why,” cried tLe boy, “don’t yer think lean kill a turkey? Finny would let me hev it quick enough cf he was here!” ~~ f —~ •''■■■■, ' Phineas was his father’s name, and such was the easy intimacy and goodtjllowship between • the two, that they commonly called each other “ Finny” and “Cap.” At this his mother took down the gun for him, and let him have the powder-horn and buliet-poueh. The lad put in a charge, secured his ammunition, and then, getting into their canoe, commenced paddling aoross the river. The turkey kept “gobbling” every few moments till the lad got near the opposite shore, when there came a sudden, sharp “quit!”* At that Casper stopped short, thinking he had frightened the birds; but the “quit!” was followed next moment by the familiar, plaintive “yeap-yeap-yeap, yop-yop-yop!” Now our young pioneer was a close observer, and had watched the habits and notes of all wild game very olosely. Something unnatural about these turkeys’ calls struck his mind. When, in a flock of wild turkeys, one of their number gives the sharp “quit!” for danger, he had never heard another turkey at once set up a long “yeap-yeap-yeap, yop-yop-yop!” The whole flock always stand silent, add look sharply about them. , The boy’s keen ear and instinct told him in a moment that there was something not quite right in what he had heard. Yet he aid not think it was an Indian, or he would probably have gone back far more quickly than he had come across. The bank was npt sloping here, but rose to a height of about four feet, and was covered with thick alders wreathed with woodbine. The boy landed, but instead of climbing tne bank and pressing through tne alders toward where the flock seemed to be, be stole downstream along the bank for near two hundred yards, crouching low, so as to keep hidden from the game. Then, creeping in through the alders, he crawled, gun in hand, along the ground, looking sharply on every side. In this manner he gaindd the top of a wooded slope fifteen rods or more from the water, and got into a little gully over behind it. This done, he began to crawl quietly along the bed of the gully, which was overhung by briers and wild grape-vines, to get in the rear of the turkeys—if, indeed, they were turkovs, of which he had his doubts, though he cou'd still hear them gobbling ana yenping very naturally. When he had got about opnosite to them, and behind them, he crawled out of the gully, and gaining the summit of the little ridge, he glanced warily down the slope toward the river. ..JW-JMctay* in sight,. Watoning a few moments, he was horror struok at seeing an Indian's head rise stealthily up fftftn behind a root, and look down through the branches

toward where he had drawn up his canoe. Casper’s heart beat fast and hard. He was within a hundred feet of the Indian, but in his tear. After a long, sharp look, the savage drew dowri behind the root and began gobbling and yeaping again. Casper had not a drop of ooward blood, and though the thought, pf the danger he had so barely escaped made him feol oold and almost sick, he felt that his own safety lay in bis shooting the Indian before the savage had a chance tp shoot him. '* Stretching himself flat on the ground behind a small log, he rested his riflegun across the log, and kept it pointed at the root. Presently the Indian’s head was again raisod. This was the lad's chance, and taking aim, he fired, and the head went out of sight. But the lad was not sore he had hit the Indian. Crawling back into the gully as quickly as he dared, ne sought the river shore. Not daring to go to the canoe, he hid the rifle-gun amongst some joint-grass, and then, after going down the bank some distanoe, he entered the water, and swam and waded across the river. Running, dripping wet and out of breath, to the cabin, he shouted, “Mother, I’ve killted a redskin!” “No, you hain’t!”. said Mrs. Guthridge. “ Yes, I have! I’jn sure of it!” She would not believe him. The lad then ran out into the field to his father. Even his father could scarcely credit the boy’s statement. But finding that he had left his gun on tbe other side, Mr. Guthridge went for two of his neighbors, aud toward night they made a raft, ana crossed the river to see if the boy’s story was true. Sure enough, on approaching the root, they saw the Indian lying dead. The boy's aim had been .'sure. Strung to the Indian’s belt were five scalps, two of them being scalps of women. These were Identified as the hair of poor Bingman, Woodfln, Husted and the two girls. This savage had truly been a treacherous gobbler. The settlers thought themselves fortunately rid of that tur~ key. And 1 think that every boy and every parent, too, will agree with me that in the case of the pioneer boy, the instructions which Guthridge had given his boy in the use of a gun were neither out of place nor useless. — C. A. Stephens, in Youth's Companion.

INCIDENTS AND ACCIDENTS.

—A Sullivan, Me., woman attacked a wildcat, which was killing her geese, the other day, empty-handed, and strangled it in the snow. —William Lane, of Hamden, Conn., has been tim'd $5 and costs, about sls, for willfully and maliciously disturbing a meeting in church by whispering three times. —William Yates, aged thirty, a weaver of Upton, Mass., was .found frozen to death in the woods the other day. He had taken off his coat and wrapped it around a bottle of rum. —A negro in Houston County, Ga., bit the finger of one of his oolored fellow-citizens some time ago. A bone felon formed in the finger, inflammation set in, and a few days ago the bitten negro died. —A San Francisco man, whose business partner publicly charged hiiowith overdrawing his account, etc., has obtalneu a vent leu lor •3,000 UaMunges against him in a suit Tor slander, after a ten-days’ trial. —Near Ashland, Ore., early one morning recently, a forest of pine trees was seen bending down as though bowed by a terrific gale of wind. At the same time not a breath of air was in motion. During the previous night a furious storm had passed over the forest, accompanied by rain and snow, and the steady force of the wind had bent the trees and held them in that nosition.Until the faliiug snow and the freezing!rain had fastened them in unyielding bonds of ice, and so they regained until the sun had set them free. —A singular incident occurred during a theatrical performance in Toledo, Ohio, the other night. While the audience was convulsed with laughter over the oomedy which was enacting a man sat in tbe parquet deliberately reading a newspaper and not paying the slightest heed to what was going’ on. One of the actors endured it as long as he could, and at last advanced to the footlights and informed thegentleman that be must put up his paper or the play would not be finished. Ho was also informed that if the entertainment did hot amuse him his money would be refunded at the box-office. The gallery applauded aud the pit roared, the offender folded up his paper, and during the rest of the performance no one in the house appeared more interested than he did.

—John Nichols, a farmer of Thompson, Susquehanna County, Pa., while walking in the woods on bis farm thirty years ago ran a twig into bis right ear. A piece of it broke off inlds head. He became deaf, and at times suffered intense pains in his head. Recently this pain became unusually acute and continued without cessation for nearly two weeks. At the end of that time Mr. Nichols felt a pricking sensation in his left ear, and with a pair of tweezers pulled out a round !>iece of wood three-quarters of an inch ong and an eighth of an inch in diameter. Mr. Nichols wae atonce relieved of pain and his hearing was restored. He has no doubt that the piece of wood is the bit of twig that was thrust into his ear thirty years ago. If so, it passed through his head from one ear to the other- The wood is perfectly sound. —The Rome (N. Y.) Sentinel has a curious story about a married couple in Springfield. It says: “When a Massachusetts woman forms a habit it is all a waste of time for her husband to try to break her of It.' Well kpowtng his wife's disposition to make him a present regularly at the anniversary of his birthday, a citizen of the Bay State, who likewise forcibly realized the fact that economy was an absolute necessity in his household, said to his wife, * This year yon must not undertake to make me a present, I insist. It would be absurd to do so at this time, when we need everything we can rake and scrape. I give you fair notice that if you do carry out your former custom this year I will burn up the present as surely as you make it.’ So the wife bethought herself. She could not bear the idea of being deprived of her annual pleasure. Therefore she gathered together her dimes and bought for her dearly beloved, as a birthday present, a ton of coal.” - - , Alcohoi. will clean out the inside of, an inMtah'4‘.' “it will also clean out the inside of a pocketbook a little more thoroughly and quicker than Anything else on record,*— Exchange. / *j

THE XLVL CONGRESS. Th« new (Forty-sixth) Congress is composed. In Senate end House, sa lollowa: SENATE. ARKANSAS. 1888- A. T. Morgan. D. 1888. A. H. Garland, D 1886. 0. 8. Houston. D. 1886- J»s D. Walker, IX CAUfOIUUA. COLORADO. 1881. Newton Booth, R. 1888- H. M. Teller, B. 1886- Jaa. T. Farley, D. 1886. N. P. Hill, R. J CONNECTICUT. DELAWaRE. 18k I.ST e |ggj; ££s&& ' FLORIDA. OEOBOU. 1881. 0. W. Jonca, D. 1888. Benj. H. Hill, D. 1886- WUklus'n OaU.D. 1886- J. B. Gordon, O. UXINOIa. WDIANA. J 1888. David Davta, I. 1881. fX-McDonald, D. 1886- John A. Logau, R. 1886- D.W.Voorheea, D. lOWA. KANSAS. 1888. 8. J. Kirkwood, R. 1883- P- B. Plumb. R. 1886. Wm. Alllaon.lL 1886- Jno. J. Ingalls, B. KENTUCKT. LOUISIANA. 1888. Jaa. B. Bock. D. 1888. W. P. Kellogg, R. 1886. J. 8. Will lama, D. 1886. B. K. Joua.,7). MAINE. MARYLAND. 1881. H. llamlln, R. 1881. Wm. P. Whyte,D. 1888- Jaa. G. Blaine, R. 1886- J- B. Groomo, D. MASSACHUSETTS. MICHIGAN. 1881. U. L. Dawes, R. 1881. Z. Chandler, R. 1888. Goo. F. Hoar, R. 1883- T. W. Ferry, R. r Minnesota. MiaHasim.' 1881- B.J.R.M’Millun,R 1881. B. ILBruce. R. aU 1888. Wm. Wlndom, R. 1888. L. C. Lamar, D. MiaaOUHI. NEBRASKA. 1881. F. M. Cockrell, D. 1881. A. S. Paddock, R. 1886. Geo. G. Vest, D. 1888. A. Saunders, R. NEVADA. NEW HAMPSHIRE, 1888. Wm. Sharon, R. 1888. E. H. Boltina, R. 1886. Jno. P. Jones, R. 1886. (Vacancy.) NEW JERSEY. NEW TORE. 1881. T. F. Randolph, D. 1881. F. Kernan, D. 1888. J.R. McPhereonD. 1885- It. Coukllng, R. NORTH CAROLINA. OUIO. I 1888. M. W. Ranaom, D. 1881. A.G.Thnrman.D. 1886. Zeb B. Vance, D. 1886. G.H.Pcndlcton.l). OREGON. PENNSYLVANIA. 1883- L. Grover, D. 1881. W. A. Wallace, D. 1886- Jae. H. Slaur, D. 1686- J. D. Cameron, R. KUOOB ISLAND. SOUTH CAROLINA. 1881. A. E.Bnrn»lde,B. 1888. M. G. Bailer, D. 1888. U. B. Anthony, K. 1886- WadeHampton,D. TENNESSEE. TEXAS. 1881. Jaa. E. Bailey, D. 1881. S. B. Matey. D. 1888- 1. 0. Harr la, D. 1888- Richard Cuke, D. ran mont. viboinia. 1881. G. F. Edmunds,R. 1881. R- E. WltherfTD. 1886. J. 8. Morrill, K. 1888. J.W. Johnston, D. WEST VIROINIA. WISCONSIN. 1881. F. Hereford, D. 1881- A. Cameron, R. 1888. H. G. Davis.-D. 1886. M.H.Carpenter.B. REC 4 .TTULATION. Democrats 42 Republicans 82 Independent 1 Vacancy 1 HOUSE. . ALABAMA. 1. Thomas Herndon, D. 6. Thomaa Williams, D. 2. Hilary A. Herbert, D. rt. Berwell B. Lewis, D. 8. W. J. Samford, D. 1. William H. Fomey.D. 4. Charles M. Shelley, D. 8. William M. Lowe, N. ARKANSAS. 1. Poindexter Duun, D. |8- Jordan E. Cravens, D. 2- Wm. F. Slemons. D. |4- Thomas M. Gunter, D. CALIFORNIA. Elects fonr Congressmen In 1870. COLORADO, 1. James B. Belford, R. CONNECTICUT. 1> Joseph R. Hawley, R.jß- John T. Walt R. 2. James Phelps, D. |4. Frederick Miles, R. DELAWARE. 1. Edward L. Martin, D. FLORIDA. 1. R. H. M. Davidson,!).|2. Noble A. Hull, D. GEORGIA. 1. John C. Nicholls, D. tl. James H. Blount D. 2. William E. Smith, D. 7- William H. Felton, D. 8. Philip Cook, D. 8. Alex. 11. Stephens, D. 4. Henry Persons, D. VI. Emoty Speer, D. 6. N. J. Hammond, D. 1. William Aldrich, R. 11. J. W. Singleton, D. 2; George R. Davie, K. 12. Wm. M. Springer, D. 8. Hiram Barber, Jr., R. 18. A. E. Stevenson, D. 4. John C. Sherwiu. R. 14. JosephG.Cannon,R. 6. R. M. A. Hawk, R. 16- A. P. Forsythe, N. 5. T. J. Henderson, R. 18. W. A. J. Sparks, D. 7. Philip C. Hayes. R. 17. Wm. R. Morrison, D. 8- Groenbury L. Fort R. 18. John R. Thomas, R. 9. Tbornas A. Boyd, K. 19. K. W.Townshend,D. 10. Benj. F. Marsh, It. INDIANA. 1. William Heilman, K. 8. A. J. nostctler. D. % Thomas R. Cohb, D. 9. Godlovc 8. Orth, R. 8- Geo. A. Bicknell, D. 10. Wm. 11. Calkins, R. 4. Jcptha D. New, D. 11. Calvin Cougfll, R. 5. Thos. M. Browne, R. 12. W. G. Colerick, D. 8. Wm. It. Movers, D. 13. John H. Baker, R. 7. G. DcLaMatyr, N. lOWA. 1. Moses A. McCold, R. 8. J. B. Weaver, N. 2. lliram Price, R. 7- E. H. Gillette. N. 8. Thos. UinlegralT, R. 8. W. F. Sapp, R. 4. N. C. Deering, It 9. C. C. Carpenter, R. 6- Rush Clark, K. KANSAS. 1. John A. Anderson, R. 1- Thomas Ryan, B. 2. D. C. Haskell, It. | KENTUCKY. 1. Oscar turner, D. t*. Mn e. OuHali. D. 2. J. A. McKenzie, D. 7- J.C.S. Blackburn,D. 8. John W. Caldwell, D. 8. P.P.Thompson,Jr.D. 4. J. Proctor Knott D. 9. Thomas Turner, D. 6. Albert S. WillU, D. 10. Elijah C. Phlster, D. LOUISIANA. 1- Randall L. Gibson, D.|4- J- B. Elam, D. 2. E. John Ellis, D. 5. J. Floyd King, D. 8- Joseph H. Acklen, D.|B. E. W.Robertson, D. MAINE. 1. Tbornas B. Reed, R. 14. George W. Ladd, N. 2. William P. Frye, B. 6- Thos. H. Murch, N. 8. 8. D. Lindsey, R. | MABTLAND. 1. Daniel M. Henry, D. |4- Robert M. McLane,D. 2. J. F. C. Talbot, D. 6. Eli J, Henkle, D. 8. William Klmmel, D. It). Milton G. Urner, R. MASSACHUSETTS. 1. William W. Crapo,R. 7. W. A. Russell, R. 2. Benj. W. Hmris, R. 8. William Claflin, R. 3. W. A. Field, R. 9. Wm. W. Rice, R. 4. Leopold Morse, D. 10. Amass Norcross, R. 5. S. /. Bow man, R. 11. Goo. D. Robinson, B. 0. George B. Loring, R. Michigan. 1. John 8. Newberry, R. ft. Mark 8. Brewer, R. 2. Kdwlu WllliU, it 7. Omar D. Conger,TL 3. J. H. McGowan, R. 8. Roswell G. Horr, R. 4. J. C. Burrows, R. 9. Jay A. Hubbell, K. 6. John W. Stone, JL. _ J ... - MINNESOTA. 1. M. H. Dunnell, R. 13. W. D. Washburn, R. 2, Henry Poehler, D. | Mississippi. ' 1. U. L. Muldrow, D. 4. Otho R. Singleton, D 2. Van H. Manning, D. 5. Chss. E. Hooker. D. 3. U. D.Money, D. ts. J. K, Chalmers, D. MISSOURI. 1. Martin L. CUrdy, D. 8. Samnel L. Sawyer, D 2. Krastns Wells, D. 9. Nicholas Ford, N. 3. R. Graham Frost, D. 10. G. F. Rothwell, D. 4. Lowndes H. Davis, D. 11. J. B. Clark. Jr, D. 6. Richard P. Bland, D. 12. W. H. Hatch, D. 8. John K. Wsddlll, D. 13. A. H. Backnsr, l 7. Alfred M. Lay, D. NEBRASKA. 1. Edward EL Valentine, R. 1. Uolltn M. Daggctl , It. ADA * NEW HAMPSHIRK. 1. Joshna G. Hall, R. 18. Evarts W. Farr, B. 2. James F. Briggs, R. I , NEW JERSEY. , . _ 1. Geo. M. Robeson, R. |6. Chss. H. Voorhls, R. 2. Hezeklah B.Smith, D. ft. John L. Blake, R. 3. Miles Roes, D. 17. Lewis A. Brigham, B. 4 Alrab D. Clark, D r HEW YORK. 1. Jas. W. Covert D. 18. J. H. Hammond. R. 2. Daniel O’Krilv, D. 19. AmazlabßJames.R. 8. S. B. Chittenden, B. 20. John H. Starin, K. 4. Arch. M. Bliss. D. 21. David Wilber, It » 6 Nicholas Muller, D. 22. Warner Miller, R. 6. 8. 8. Cox, D. 28. Cyrus D. Prescott, R. 7. Edwin Einstein, R. 24. Joseph Mason K. 8. AnsoU O. McCook, R. uR Frank HI acock R. 9. Fernando Wood, 1). 28. John H. Camp, R. IJ. James O'Brien, I>. 27- El'ge G. Lapbam, R. 11. Levi P. Morton, R. 28. Jere. W. Dwight R. 12. (VscancyJ 29. D. P. Richardson. R. 18. John H. Ketcham.R. 80. John Van Voorhls,R. 14- John H. Ferdon, It 01. Richard Crowley, R. 16. Wm. Lounsb«ry, D. 82. Ray V. Pierce, R. 18. John M. Bailey, R. 88 H .U.VanAeruam.R. 17. Waller A. Wood, R. NORTH CAROLINA.' A- John J. Martin, R. |5. Allred M. Scales, D. 2.' W. H. Kltchin, D. ft. Walter L. Steele, D. 8. Daniel L. Russell, N. 7. Robt. F. Armflcld D. 4. Joseph J. Davia, D. 18. Robt R. B. Vance. D. OHIO. 1. Benj.Bntterworth.R. 11. K L Dickey, D. 2. Thoi. L. Young, R. ji Henry 8 Neal, R 8. 5. A. McMahon, D. 18. A. J. Warner, D. „ 4. J. Warren Kelfer, R. 14. Olbaon Atherton, D. 6. Benj. LsfeTre, D. 16, Geo. W. Geddes, D. 6. W. D. Hill, D. Ift. W. McKlngley,Jr.,R. 7. Frank Hurd, D. 17. James Monroe, R. 8. K. B. Finley, D. 18. J. T. Upderraff. R. 9. Geo. L. Converse. D. 19. James A. Gsrlleld.R. 10. Thomas Ewing, D. 20- Amos Townsend, R. T" oititotw. " “— l — John Whlteeker, D. 1. n. H. Bingham, N R.* T UB! , EdWar<l Overton, It •r Charles o , Notn, R. Ift. John I. Mitchell, B. 8. Samuel J. Randall.D. 17. A. H. Coffroth, D. 4. Wm. D. Kelley. R. 18- H. G. Fisher. D. 6. A. 0. Harmer-R. 19. F.E. Boltzhoover,D. ft. Wm. Ward, It. 20. Seth H. Yocum, N. 1. Wm. Uodehalk, R. 21. Morgan R. Wise, D. 8. Helster.Clymor, D. 22- Russell Errett R. 9. A. Heir Smith, R. ig. Thos. M. Hayne. R. 10. It K. Bachman, D. 24. W. 8. SUtdlenbers 11. Robert KlotE, D. get. B. __ „ 12. 11. B. Wright, D. 26. Ilarey White, K 13. Jobu W. Ryon. D. 26- 8. B. Dick, It 14. John W. Kllllnger.R. 27. J. U. Oemer, R. HOODS ISLAND. 1. Nelson W. Aldrich,R.l2. 4- W. Ballou, R. i ' _ SOUTH CAROLINA. 1. J.,8. Richardson, D. 14. John H. Erins, D. 2. M. P. O Conner, D. 6. U. D. Tillman, D. 3. Wyatt Aiken, D. | _ • TENNESSEE. ' 1 Robert L. Taylor, D. «. John F. House, D. 2. L. C. Houck, R. 7. W. C. Whltlhorne.D. 8. Geo. C. Dlbrell, D. 8. J- D. C. Atkins, D. 4. Benton McMillan, D. 9- £• B. Slmonion, D. 6. John M. Bright D. 10. H. Casey Young, D. '■) TEXAS. _ ■ ■p Johnfl. Reagan, ”14; RogerOMilits, 2. D. B. Culberaon, D. 6- George w. Jones, N. a Cdln Wellborn, D. |il. (Vacancy.) TIBMOHTr. i Charles H. Joyce, R.IB. Uredley Berloyr.B. Junes M- Ty ler, a- I

- VUtGINIA. 1. K. L. T. Boat a, D. «. J. R. Tnckrr, D. 2- Jubn Goode, Jr., D. 7. John T. llarrti, D. U. Jos. K. Jehnelon, D. 8. Kppa' Hiipioo, D. 4- Joseph Jorguiirtin, K. 8. J. B. Richmond, D. 5. OourgeO. Cnboll.l). win yiroinu. i Benjamin Wllaou, D.|B. Jobs X. Henna, D. Benj. r. Martin, D. | Wisconsin. 1. Ohaa. G. Williams, It. fi. B. S. Bragg, D. 2. Lnclen B. Oaawell, It. tl, Gabriel lionek, D. 11. Gao. O. Uazleton, It 7. 11. L. Humphrey, It 4. F. V. Ueualcr, D. 8- Thud. 0. Found, It UOanTULATIOK. Democrats 148 -Republicans 128 Nationals I II Vacauclea U There are six vacancies Ip the Hoaae—four from California; one in Texan, caused by Ibe death of Bcblelchcr; and ouu In New York, caused alao by a death.— WatMnglon Pont.

Treatment of Land.

The question of a right treatment of land is one which should receive more attention frdm farmers than it does. For upon this depends, in a large measure, success in raising good crops. No land that Is ill-treatea ever yet produced well, no more than ill-treated stock will thrive, increase and be protitable. As the object in treating Ipnd well is keeping up its producing capacity, I would mention, tirst, as a means to this end, plowing it in the right stage. Land to be kept lively, should never, in any case, be plowed wet. If plowed in this condition it will become cloddy and divested of much of its lifegiving properties. Especially will this bo the case if dry weather follows. The right stage at which to plow land is when it is sufficiently dry to crumble up nicely when turned over. ' Again, land should not only not be plowed when wet, but should not be 1 disturbed in any way, either by wagoning over it or allowing stock to run upon it when in this condition. Far better had the farmer lay idle from his plowing for a few days, and in the case of his stock, provide himself with sufficient rufifness in the fall so as to be prepared to remove them from the fields when wdt weather prevails. Next, as an essential means of keeping up the producing capacity oi the land, is that of interchange of crops and manuring. No land, however rich and produetive it may be, will remain so, that is successively run in the same crop. To rightly keep up land, crops should be frequently changed, while all the worn-out portions should receive as much fertilizing material as is possible to place upon them. How much might this latter means be enlarged ana applied if farmers would only taxe the time to do so. But the argument of most farmers is, it is impossible to make a general use of manures as the area requiring it far exceeds the supply on hand. True, the supply is often less than what is really needed, but use what is, and observe this rule in its application: Go as far as possible with each year's supply to give a good coating. Next year begin where you left off the previous year, rad apply in the same way. Keep up this plan and you will be surprised to see in three or four years how much land you will have manured, while you will be doubly compensated in the large yield of the land thus treated. There are other methods of keeping up land that might be very profitably applied. But none of these methods would we be willing to substitute for manuring, but would rather couple them with it. If this was more generally practiced by farmers, what a different aspect would the farming interest present in the way of good crops. Many farmers complain that their land is bewming unproductive and refuses to yield even a comfortable living. Why this complaintP Is it not because’ they have neglected to properly care for it? Nature is not so rich in itself but what a constant drain upon it, without some source of renewal, will divest it of its life-giving properties. Just so has it been with many farmers. They have been robbing their land and otherwise imposing upon it, until it refuses to do the work which Nature has allotted it.

There are many reasons why farmers should give more attention to the treatment of their. land. One is that much of our Western lands are, from a long period of cultivation, becoming old ana worn, and require to be renewed, while in”aU the first settled sections of the West population has become very dense, which has brought farming lands into smaller tracts, Another reason is, we have reached a period of great financial embarrassment in onr country’s hisftSrv, in consequence of which farm products of all kinds have become very low, even so low that little more than a comfortable living can be made by the greatest industry. These things and many others should lead farmers to place their lands in that stage of production in which the greatest possible yields can be obtained. This will create larger incomes from the farming interest and assist largely in correcting the evils which the present hard times have brought about. No farnter that treats his land well and is truly diligent and painstaking in all things ever need complain.. A comfortable living he can generally make, and in prosperous times accumulate. His farm once paid for, even though it be small, properly managed and kept up, is a mine in itself from which he can always dig the precious metal. But that this happy condition may always characterize the farmer, every source of care and renewal possible must be bestowed orchis land. This is a matter of the very first importance. The few rewards of good yields and fair proto/hat are made without this attention are invariably ijrade from land in its fresh or original state, and never in any case from land that has been long cultivated. — Cor. Prairie Farmer.

—The late Abraham Bruyn Hasbrouck, of Kingston, N. Y., had a most remarkable voice, the qualities of which a biographer in the Kingston Freeman mentions in these words: “A most eloquent speaker, with a noble presence, and a voice remarkable for its purity, its penetration and its musical tone, ?Mr. Hasbrouok was one of the chosen -speakers to impress upon "an audience the truth of the great convictions and party questions of the day. He has been known to address thou-> sands of people, often in the open air. and yet without an effort make himself; heard distinctly and effectively over the large assembly.” •***’" ••***•. A V krmont man has advertised a card in the paper m hisitown whioh reads: ** Some people have the vulgar calling me Bill; that is not my name, ,nor any part of it. My name’is 1 William Palmer. 1 forgive all past offenses, but if any person ever calls me Bill after the publication of this letter, 1 shall take it as a downright insult, and just as much of an insultas though he bad called me by any other hateful name that is not my own." A BUSSRto to humanity to what Dr Bull’* Gough Syrup can well be termed, ( for It has done more good already than any other aedldnei. '

AGRICULTURAL BREVITIES.

—Farmer Clarkson, of the Jotoa State Register, is responsible for the following: Early-cut wheat makes the whitest flour, but it is white because it lacks in gluten, and will lack in quality. —The horse-shoe magnet isasuooess in extracting wire from wheat, and thus millers and farmers are reconciled. —We shipped more wheat to the foreign markets the past year than the entire product of the United States in 1850. —Farmers, this year, should make a determined eflort to raise the mortgage on their farms, whatever else they may attempt to raise. —One cold rain will produce more disorders, catarrh and coughs in afloat of sheep than a whole winter of after care will cure.— Clarkson. —Lot every one recollect, who has a few sugar trees, that maple sugar is better on buckwheat cakes than New Orleans molasses with rat hairs in it —The generic name of our common wheat is tritican vulgare. The two important parts of wheat are, staroh 60 per cent., and gluten 10 per cent But gluten is more nutritious than starch. —“Talks on Farm Crops” says: “My good crop was on a field that I thoroughly uuderdrained, and which I manured this spring. And the extra yield of potatoes will pay for all the draining, for the manure, for cultivation, and for the land itself.” - —I urge farmers to associate that they may have their inspiration kindled. Farm life develops steadiness of character; but isolation not only dries up human sympathies, but the intellect becomes moldy, unless a spirit of inquiry is awakened at some time of life. — Hon. Jamas Wilson. —For a light dessert there is nothing more generally wholesome than some form of fruit. People with vigorous digestion may eat it in a raw stale, but for those with feeble stomachs it is better cooked, and no fruit is so well adapted to cooking as tho apple, no other can take so many forms, each better than the last.— From Dr. Foote's Health Monthly for March. —The Chicago Stockman of Feb. 28 has encouraging words for cattle feeders: “The market is growing steadily stronger day by day for good export cattle, even while we have prohibition orders from England to contend with. What, then, would it have been had the men who intended to go into the business of exporting cattle this spring not found their plans upset by the order of the Privy Council P Even under the present difficulties there is a strong tendency toward high prices, and reports from all parts of the country tributary to this market—and nearly all the good cattle of the West come here—show that there are very few choice cattle feeding. Under these circumstances feeders may reasonably hope for a season which shall present a marked contrast to the disastrous ones we have seen in the last two or three years.” —Henry Clews, the New York banker, was recently swindled out of $2,500 by a plausible youth, who bought four-per cent, bonds to that amount, giving in payment a check drawn .by the Commercial National Bank, of Chicago, on the Bank of New York, which he had raised from $250 to $2,500. He had it certified before he increased its value, and subsequently when Clews' clerk handed it to the paying teller of the . Bank of New York he pronounced it all right, and the forger got his bonds. “Train wrecker!” she hissed, as he blunderingly stumbled upon the long expanse of dress in the crowded ballroom.

Poverty and Suffering.

•* I was dragged down with debt, poverty and suffering for year*, caused by a sick family and large bills for doctorin/, which did them no good. I was complete ly discouraged, until one year ago, by the advice of my pastor, I procured Hop Bitters and commenc' d their use, and In one month we were all well, and none of us have seen a sick day since, and I want to say to all poor men, you can keep your families well a year with Hop Bitters for les* than one doctor’s visit will cost—l know it, A WOKKINGMAN."

Somebody’s Child.

Somebody’s child Is dying—dying with the flusn of hope on his young face and an indescribable yearning to live and take an honored place in the world beside the companions of his youth. And somebody’s mother is thinking of the time when that dear face will be bidden where no ray of hope can brighten It—when her heart and home will be left desolate—because there was no cure for consumption. Reader, if the child be your neighbor’s, take this comforting word to the mother’s heart before it i» too late. Tell her that consumption is curable, that men are living to-day, aged, robust men, whom the phisiclans pronounced incurable at the age of twenty-five, because one lung had been almost destroyed by the direaoe. Dr. Pierce’s Goiden Medical Discovery is a most efficient alterative for separating the scrofulous matter from the blood and lungs, and imparting strength to the sys'em. It has cured hundreds of consumptives. Chew Jackson’s Best Sweet Navy Tobacco.

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PBOVMUM. •* Soar stomach, bad breath. Indigestion end headache easily eared bf Hop Biuere. “ Study Hop Bitten hooka, nee the medicine, be wise, healthy end happy.” “ When life la a drug, end you have loet all hope, try Bop Bitten." “ Kidney and urinary trouble le aatvereel, and the only oafe acd cure remedy le flop Bitter*—rely on It.” “ Bop Bitten doee not exhaoit end destroy, but restores and makes new.” “ Avne, Biliousness, drowsiness. Jaundice, Bop Bitters removes easily.” “ Bolls, Pimples, Freckles, Roach Skin, eruptions, impure blood, Bop Bittern cure.” - "Inactive Kidneys end Urteary Orctne cause the worst of dt teases, and Hop Bite ten cures them all.” “ More health, sunshine and Joy in Hop Bitter* than in all other remedies.” Hop Cough Ouro and Pain Relief io tho Boot. nr Salt Stall Drugs law Hop Bitten Hff Ca, Becheater, M.

Tvflay I*' Ik cry anNKa! Calahaaf •/ VaacfaMa and Viewer Meed /er I*7ll, Hen in enanvlnca, froaa original photographs, will be sent FREE, to all who apply. Customers of last season need not wHte lor K. I» tor one of the largest collections of vegetable seed evrr sent out by any seed house In America, a large nostMn of which werngTowaon my six send farms. Prune* directume for cultitatum on each package. All seed u-arrantedtobe both/rah and true to name; so far, that, should It prove stherwlii. 1 will refit the order grotto. Ihe original Introducer of tie Hubbard Squab, Fhlaney’s Melon, Marblehead Cabbage*. Mexican Corn, and scores of other vegetables. 1 invite the patronage of all who ore anxious to hare their seed directly from the grower, Jreth, true, and of tho very Soot orate. NEW VEGETABLES A SPECIALTY. JAMES J. H. OREOORY. Marblehead. Mam. riiir stationery HI 1 and Engraving Late Styles for Coe IP- I 111 ■■ rr<.p< ndence, Wedding Invitations, lIL ■ ■■ " yd Washington St-.Clxicagn. nniirc n near nUUUid-wEST. Ad elee from over 1.000,000 aeten lowa t aads, due v< at from Chicago, at bum « to *8 per aa*. to farm l.ta, an lon easy t> nns. Law freights and reidr market. ,wwlldernesa noague-no Indiana. LandlOWA RAILROAD LAWO COMMAWW, Cedar Rapid*, low*, or »* BandcJph Street, Chicago. NEK WAITED 1. wejttsexssSss.i&S!SSblti ranee the sriee again. Lots at present Ikres and do’lars fOcA. 5 acres. Improved, atClear Water. »MMA«IM*MIstLOW _ 1 8 acre* on Tampa Bay iLWO UmJSroras?<srorofe' ttnaO.'.'.'.'.Vtl*feo Sand 10 acre Orange Tract, Polk County. *3O per nor*. non Offlce, 148 laSaile 9L, CMcagn. Agent* wanteA too Sawiris |-| circulars free. Address •Qno. F.QktM. <6 Lake-et., Chlangr*. lU. I WANT ft LIVE AGENT ssvsar isas'jsZiF SSSgBjBSBSSSB AGENTS. RENO THIS. ssomsssamm *4*B=s3^ T9yU. mot on trial—Catalan* fro*. Manna* mStS toiumao Co., II B-lßkßtnMS.il. I. PURE TEIS.sS«SS SCALE Ui! fkfl Tfl TheOLDENTnnd BH»T uiaTU xsnsmssggssr f qrn amobth— Acento Wanted—B9 hart HAlßte^~<?oT‘ i liiSS£ > ;SS: nWlllAloHNHAM.n—W.MaS»osee>.,Ctd*kO>. , ffikaogja^ b BißSß'assraagftg&sggaask Aimr*’ “TffaasrTa.'sar S3OOO miSSSSSRSSSStJSSSS: WTMMM WWfMR WO AJ»rM*«B«RBb plewae my yaw earn Ik* AdSiMWaigWl lalMsyapw. dfvwfkmrs like fe k«**a wkrn aa* «»A*rn tfcair arm mgtKnt Ifrtl, Y 1