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The Weekly Enterprise
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PORTLAND, OREGON. J
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OREGON CITY.
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Telegraphic Clippings.
From our Extra, Jan. 30
Important European War News.
Surrender of Paris
Terms of the Surrender.
A 'tilc-ndy R 't. t in' Pa ris.
New Y'oek. Jan. 27. The Wo Id's cable.
London, Jan. 25th, says that the Secretary
of the Empress to-day denied that lie
signed the agreement which Bismarck
claims.
The Empress is depressed and distressed
at to-dayrs news from Palis.
At Favre's request M. Picard and Dorian
have received passes to go to Versailles
ami join in negoiiations. The Conference
yesterday had a discordant session of four
hours.
Garibaldi writes Fraholi : " Forget the
past, and think only ot the future. Or
ganize as many Italian volunteers as you
can and send them to me."'
Vienna, Jan. 25 Intelligence of the
intended capitulation ot Paris was re
ceived to-day. Although the news was
anticipated, there was much feeling. Peo
ple rejoice at the close of the war, but ex
press a feeling of sympathy with the
French.
On Saturday last there was a riot by
Flonrens and the worst Radicals at Paris,
'bached by the National Guards. Fight
ing ucmu red, but the result was against
the rioters.
Vinoy succeeds Trochu as commander
of Paris.
Lonpov, Jan. 27. "Gambol! a declares
that the capitulation of Paris will not stop
the war. but that it will be carried on in
the Provinces, lie boasts of having over
two million more soldiers fit for war.
IIkiji.ix, Jan. 25. The army of General
ManteufTel is crossing Du L)is in the rear
of Roiirbaki. who is being driven into a
dangerous position, and is certain either
to have to capitulate or escape into Swit
zerland. London. Jan. 20. Other papers as yet
have no confirmation of the telegram to
the Times, relating to the proposed capit
ulation. Vkusum.ks, Jan. 25. Fa'vre returned
to Paris yesterday. j
Aim .ox. Jan. 2(. The French garrison
of Longwy has been sent to Thionville ;
and Metz. By the terms of the capitula- '
lion the National Guard are not prisoners.'
Ni:w Yoijk, Jan. 2S. A Pans corres
pondent gives further details of the bloody
outbreak of the Republican mob suid
Reds, made on the Hotel deVille. Ab oit
noon on the 2'Jd. about 200 villainous
looking Reds, including a large number
of soldiers, inarched in a body to a place
in front of the Hotel do Ville, uttering
revolutionary cries, and calling upon the
citizens to arm. Never since the present
troubles has a crowd been seen, bringing
so vividlv ti mind the h -rrois of the old
French Revolution. They occupied the j
place over an hour without anv onnosi- !
tion, shouting and yelliny. In the mean
time I lie Guarde Mobiles and Britons
drawn up in front of the Hotel de Ville,
who stood their ground, avoiding any Col
lision with the mob by all means in their
power. After 1 o'clock an Adjutant in
command advanced in front of the men
on account of a threatening demonstra
tion by the crowd, ami was fired upon
and fell pcVe'rely won ink d. Immediately
the Mobiles fired on the crowd, creating
terrible havoc. A number of person:.,
lookers on. encouraged by the length of
time which had elapsed without violence,
were drawn in front f the Hotel rte Ville
and received shots from the Mobiles. The
crowd fh-d. and fifty of their number were
left on the ground. It was afterwards
ascertained that 5 were killed. 18 wounded.
At the same time the M- biles fired, a
number of muskets were, discharged f rom
the windows of hou.-es on each side of
the street occupied by the ii ters. Three
or four Mobiles fell from the fbe which
was badly directed. The old casemates
above the statue of Henry Quartre were
completely riddled with bullets. After
several rounds were fired the Mobiles
withdrew from the building, and a larire
force of the Nationale Guardcs came, with
Gen. Vinoy at tl.eir iiead. As they ap
proached the rioters left the houses and
lied. tho"puardts allowing iheni to escape
without shooting or arresting them. It is
said Floorens was prominent among the
rioters before the fighting began, but was
not seen afterward.
The seige of Laitmichcsbeck is raised.
The Prussians are concentrating at St..
Quentin. and have reappeared before
Cambria, and occupied Maiqiue.
Sharpshooters surprised a party of Uh
lans, and captured a godson of the Em
press Augusta. They refused ro exchange
him for French prisoners, and have placed
him in the hospital of Cambria exposed
to bombardment.
New Yock. Jan. 2S. Paris capitulated
on the 2( th.
garrison and
Terms, the surrender of the
summoning of a National
Assembly.
Lonikix. Jan. 28. Favre was in confer
ence with Bismarck at midnight. Bis
marck carried Ui.i point. The capitula
tion involves peace, the cession of Alsace
and German Lorraine, and part of the
fleet; a money indemnity to be granted
by the municipalities ; a portion of the
German army to return home, and the
war to clot-e. Ir. is necessary that some
territory be retained to secure the fulfill
ment of the compact. The Mobiles are to
oe sent nome. nn.l the German army to
enter Paris. Tbe Emperor will return
immediately to Berlin.
There has been no firing on either side
since last Thursday.
The following particulars have been
received of the first visit of Favre to the
German headquarters at Versailles : It
appears that Favre arrived at Versailles
on the 23d in Binarck-s carriage, which
had been sent to ttu- Prussian outposts to
receive him. lie wa mimh r.,.; i ...,
drove
After
- iiu, oil I
at once to the Chancellor s office,
a lonar interview h t.- ,i;
w.th L.smarck. The later held a con
ference with the Emperor Kaiser at 11
o dock the same night.
Odo Resell, tin- representative of the
bntish l oreign Office, had been apprised
beforehand of the approaching visit of
lav re.
We overheard two negroes the
other day, arguing about the crea
tion of the world, when one said:
"De world rested on a turtle's
back de .Bible sez so." "Is dat
so ? What does it say dat de tur
tle rested on ?" "Hush yer motif,
big niggah, you jis gone and broke
up de argument."
"Eastern Oregdii-'
That portion of country former
ly denominated "Eastern Oregon"
lying in the great basin ot the
Columbia bounded on the west by
the Cascade, and the east by the
Hitter Root and spurs of the Kocky
Mountains or more particnlarly
between the meridians ot 113 ami
120 degrees west of Washington,
and the parallels of 42 degrees and
49 degrees north, is divided be
tween a limited amount of rich val-
I ley land, and high rolling praries
covered with luxuriant bunch grass,
i peculiar to this country alone. The
I valleys are well adapted to all the
j cereals, vegetables and fruits usu
j ally raised in any of the Western
States bordering on the Mississip
pi and its tributaries, and of an
area capable of supporting all the
stock which the praries mentioned
will feed in summer. Agreatpoi
tion of this bunch grass eountrv
will raise excellent small grain, and
wherever the experiment has been
tried, apples, peaches and pears do
well. Of all countries this great ba
sin Milords the finest ranges for cat
tle, horses and sheep. It is only
one winter in live or six that any
stock feed is needed, and then for
never more than two months. In
fact, there has been no winter since
18(32 that it has been necessary to
feed at all. As to healthfulness of
this country, for man and beast, it
certainly has no equal in the world.
The elasticity of the atmosphere is
remarkable. Pulmonary com
plaints are unknown as originating
here and many persons who have
been alllicted with lung diseases in
other portions of the country have
been permanently cured by a short
residence in Eastern Oregon.
Hemes can be built up here on
good titles to land, which can be
purchased at from 1 25 to 5 00
per acre, in quantities of from 040
acres to the smallest subdivision.
Under the Ilomtstead Law every
person, :i head of a iamilly, can be
the owner of a farm "it an expense
not to exceed ten dollars. Xow is
the time for persons to possess
themselves of a home in this most
desirable country. In four or live
years the Great Xorlhern Pacific,
Pailroad will be completed, when
this whole country will rapidly lill
up and land will increase ten fold
in value.
A portion of this vast country is
peculiarly adapted to dairy purpos
es, especially in what is known as
the Mountain Meadows, where the
grass remains green during the en
tire summer and fall say from
April to X'ovember. Xintey-nine
hundredths of this great basin is
yet unappropriated, and it contains j
pasturage enough lor millions or
head of stock. The mountains
ranges and spurs which bounds its
fields and pastures are rich in the
precious metals, and are covered
with abundance of wood, sufficient
to work these coarser ores and to
supply lumber ami fuel for all the
population which the hind can sup
port. It is surprising that the great
stock-raisers and fanners of other
portions of our country have not
more generally turned their attcn
tion in this direction, where the
verdant meadows ami grass car
peted lulls of our country invite
settlement and improvement.
The Dalles Military Poad Com
pany have over six hundred thous
and acres of land, the great portion
of it is of excellent quality for ag
ricultural and stock raising purpos
es which they design oiferin- lor
sale next spring on very liberal
t en n s. JIouh to ijicei'.
P etikixg J i; stick. For reasons
that happen in most all well regu
lated, thrifty families, a Wyoming
female Justice of the Peace had to
retire from the bench for a short
time. The liurlington Gazette tells
the rest of the interesting story:
"Mrs. Esther Morris, that female
justice of the peace, that there was
so much blow about in the papers
not long since, has been obliged to
retire from the bench for a season.
It was a boy, weighing twelve
pounds. She is believed to be the
first justice of the peace that ever
had such a thing occur since the
world began.
George Baixstow is named as the
radical candidate for Governor of
California. This is the same man
who a year or two since was indict
ed on the charge of perjury, grow
out of a disputed land case, and
narrowly escaped conviction.
Little irregularit ies of the kind nev
er affect a" man's standing in the
party of "high moral ideas." and so
Bars'tow is deemed worthy to re
ceive the Iiedical nomination.
A little girl of eight or ten sum
mers being asked what dust was,
replied "It was mud with the juice
squeezed out."
A lady in Jasper county, Indi
ana, aged 75, wants a divorce from
her husband aged 78, because he
spends half his time running with
the girls;
Workings of tha Tariff System.
The following statement or ii
j ------
lustration of the workings of tho
tarilf, gotten up in the interests of
the jew limgiana ami eastern mo
nopolists, shows how inireniouslv
it is contrived to take the tax off
articles used by the wealthy to
put it upon those of prime neces-
sity that have to De consumed, by
the poor :
TI1K IilCII MAX'S TARIFF.
per cent.
On gold and silver chains. , ... .25
Diamonds 25
Mahogany Wood 00
Jewelry. 15
Laces 35
Pearls 00
Pubies 10
Corals
00
Gold Pings. . . .
Cameos
Oil Paintings. .
Marble Statuary
25
10
10
10
THE rOOII MAN S TAlilFF.
On Salt
Cutlery
Shoes
Iron Xaila
Coal
Spades and Shovels..
Plaukets
Sole Leather
Glassware
Clothing
Flannels
.... 1 5 5
50
3 o
50
30
45
.50(775
35
40
.G0G5
55(77 05
This is not all. In section twenty
one of the law it is enacted that
the duties shall be as follows :
On teas of all kinds To cents a
pound.
On coffee of all kinds 3 cents a
pound.
On all molasses 5 cents a gallon.
On -chocolate 7 cents a pound.
It will be seen that cheap tea,
cheap coffee, cheap molasses, and
cheap chocolate are taxed as much
as thy dearer and higher priced
article. Thus a pound of tea cost
ing two dollars is taxed only half
as much as two dollars worth of
the inferior article selling at half
the price. The tariff is based
mainly on the specific system, that
of wholly discarding value as an
element of taxation, and putting
it upon quantity and bulk instead.
In that way the rich are favored
and the poor are injured. Council
Ckxsus Pinrnxs. The total
population of the United States
and Territories, as shown by the
returns ot" the late census, is 38,
307,300, showing an increase in
ten years of 0,801,078, the same
being a little less than 22 per cent.
This is 12 per cent, less than the
increase for the ten years ending
iti 1.8G0.. War's desolation here
shows iis footprints.
The total population of the Ter
ritories is 319,059, showing an in
crease of 108,830. and there has
been an increase of 5G,02G, in the
District of Columbia. Four states
Xew York, Pennsylvania, Ohio
and Illinois contain over a third of
the whole population of the coun
try, and these four with the four
next highest, namely, Missouri,
Indiana, Massachusetts and Ken
tucky, contain over half the entire
population.
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The " pranks" of the " colored
cadet" at West Point are, with all
their seeming impunity, commen
ted on in any hut favorable terms
among army ofiicers of high stand
ing, and the fact is by no means
disputed that there is much more
toleration on the part of the Gov
ernment in the difficulties wherein
this embryo army officer is con
cerned than would be endiired were
the offender a white boy instead of
a negro. As it is, he has given the
War Department as much trouble
as any six white boys atlhc Acad
emy ; but it appears that unseen
influences are hard at work to pre
vent the proper move by military
authorities in asserting their own
dignity
CM A. ill eLL .ur,, aiiu u.u.ia
. - . . . . . V ' T I I L . I .1,-1. 1,
Clara Arfics last week entered up
on its sixth volume. It is one of
the best of ourjinterior exchanges,
presents a most healthy apperrance,
and so long as it remains under the
control and management of Wm. A.
January, its gentlemanly editor,
will not fail to be considered an
eloquent exponent of sound Demo
cratic principles. Continued suc
cess to it.
Some one relates the story of a
man who was too lazy to say his
prayers. He wrote out his devo
tions on foolscap, however, and
tied them on the foot of his couch
Before retiring he would hold them
up to Heaven, and exclaim,
"Them's my sentiments!" and
jump into bed.
It is significant of coming events,
that the Kepublican party has lost
the control, since the elections in
October, of two State Senates, in
which they supposed they had the
majority. We allude to Pennsyl
vania and Indiana.
COURTESY OF BANCROFT LIBRARY,
Ilatures la test Frek.
The latest freak of nature in
California, of which we have heard
is a calf and judging from the des
cription we have received of it, it
is truly a nontrosity. which, when
at a mature age, should it live,
will not be among the least of the
natural curiosities to which Cali
fornia has given birth. This calf,
as it is called, for it appears to
have no other claim to that name
than it was born of a cow, belongs
to Win. Archer, who resides near
San Pablo, on that portion of the
San Domingo Pancho known
as Bay Greek. It was born last
week and as the owner states, "is
a smart, lively calf," of the ordi
nary sijSe. The face is flat like
that of a bull dog' and is orna
mented with three nostrils. It has
two lower jaws, distinct and sep-
eratc in every particular, each of
which is provided with a long,
slim, pointed tongue, which the
owner says it usually coils around
his hand while feeding it. Under
the tongue of each jaw is a tuft of
hair, which appears to grow with
the growth of the animal. The
jaws are connected with the stom
ach by two throats which, like the
jaws, are entirely distinct. One
jaw projects prominently to one
side, and m this a bold array of
grinders are always visible. The
owner says the animal cannot eat
or partake of food Avithout assis
tance. He has fed it with milk so
far, and it seems to thrive admira
bly. This desciption is given from
the statement made by the owner;
but as he intends to have it re
moved to this city, and placed on
exhibition, an opportunity will be
offered of giving fuller and more
interesting details, of what must
prove to be, should it live until
full growth is attained, a formida
ble monster. Alto.
Mrs. Partington Speaks-. "As
for coolers coming here," said Mrs.
Partington, as she wiped her brow
with the old bananna handkerchief,
bearing the pictorial representation
of the battle of Lake Erie, "I
should say let'em come : for good
ness it is hot enough, with every
raix of one's clothes so satiated
with moisture, that one almost
wishes to be a white bear, and sit
on the Xorh Pole, if it would be
proper and ice so dear! The more
of them the better, I should say,
with the mockery at ninety, ami
going up at that, goodness help us !
Oh, if heaven would only freeze
the ponds over in Summer, what a
luxury it would be, with the ice
for pic-nics, and no thanks to the
monoblarizers, and are pinching
'em to make 'em and, so that a ten
cent ice-cream isn't enough to fill
a holler tooth with, if any body
hould want to, and ice lemonade
is not to 1)0 thought of without
paving for it, and the Lord knows
where it will end unless the coolers
.! . i t a. . i : .
come. Mic stopped, exnausieu m
idea and breath, wiping her face j
with her handkerchief, while Ika j
at behind the milk pan witu a
boat in it, the sails of which he
was fanning with Mrs. P.'s great
black Sunday fan with red flowers
on it, that she had just laid away
in the drawer up stairs.
Tied to a Dead Body. Henry
Lee, F. L. S., writes to the editor
of the London Lancet in regard to
the paralytic seizures from which
Chang, one of the Siamese Twins,
has recently suffered. He has re
ceived letters from the twins and
their families, which induce him
to believe in the possibility of their
seperations in case of the pre-de-cease
of one of them. A letter
from one of Chang's daughters says
that her father is low-spirited, can
scarcely move without assistance,
and that his whole right side is
perfectly useless. " Uncle tries to
cheer him up but he has nothing
to say." From the sentence men
tioning Eng's endeavors to cheer
and comfort his brother, Dr. Lee
finds in each a distinct and seper
ate volition and vitality, and hence
that Eng could be successfully cut
from tlie dead body of Chang
should he die first.
"I am fighting fraud and want
your support," said Secretary Cox
to Gen Grant. "1 shall continue to
fight fraud with what force I may,
but I am powerless without your
support." And what was Grant's
reply to this? Obedient to the
plunderers whom Cox was fighting,
Grant removed him from the Cab
inet, and put in his place a tool of
the plunderers! This fact alone is
enough to open the eyes of all hon
est men to t he true character of the
administration and its Chief.
General Grant it is understood,
will shortly send such information
to Congress touching the late
Southern elections as will change
the Amnestj- bill pending into an
other reconstruction bill. The re
construction, however, most need
ed is, a reconstruction among the
republican managers down South.
Raiirea6s and State Bights-
The radicals, says the S. Fl Ex
aminer, are firm believers in the
doctrine of State rights in States
of which they have control. Like
the Pilgrims of Plymouth rock,
who claimed freedom of conscience
for themselves but refused to grant
v1
the same privilege to dissenters
from their creed, many of the lead
ing radicals advocate radical State
tights when they have political
control, while supporting the pol
icy of an almost total abrogation
of State sovereignty when the
Democratic party are in power.
The radical Gpvern.or of Illinois,
in his message submitted, to the
Legislature, announces the doctrine
that the rederal Government has
no right to authorize the construc
tion of railroads in a State or to
create corporations for that pur
pose, or to exercise any sort of su
pervision and control over railroads
within a State; and he recom
mends that the General Assembly
should protest against the assump
tion of such power by Congrtss.
This dictum is generally important
as indicating that the radicals
themselves are becoming sensible
of the tyranny and corruption of
a consolidated government. We
have olten told them that the
chicken of a central despotism,
which had crowed so loud and lusti
ly over the prostration of State lib
erty in the South, Avould at hist
come home to roost. Our radical
Governor protests against even a
mud Congressional usurpation ot
jurisdiction over the State of Illi
nois. He dislikes even the smell of
the physic of which he was prompt
to recommend the administration
in allobathic doses to the demo
cratic States. This new avowal
of an old democratic doctrine is of
great importance to railroad com
panies that have Federal charters.
Jt gives to the States, through
which a road runs- the right to
regulate the passenger and freight
tariff of so much of the road as
lies within their respective State
jurisdictions. The question as to
the right of a State to regulate the
tolls of a road within its bounda
ries, but chartered by the Federal
Government, has been discussed in
California. If the doctrine is rec
ognized by law, it will be a heavy
blow against large railway monop
olies, because it is much easier for
these monopolies to manage a sin
gle Congress than half a dozen
State Legislatures.
An Awful Frog Story. A
man named South worth, living iii
Warren, Pennsylvania, has just
ejected from his stomach a frog
that had been living there for fif
teen years ! Mr. Southworth has
had a great deal of trouble with
that frog. It used to begin to
croak at the most unreasonable
hours. When Southworth would
go to church for instance, the frog
would remain quiet until the con
gregation engaged in silent prayer,
and then it would set up such a
terific howl that the sexton would
rush in and collar Southworth, and
drag him out to quiet down in the
graveyard. Sometimes the frog
would give a nocturnal serenade af
ter Southworth was fast asleep in
bed, and then Southworth would
rise, as mad as any thing, and
seize a stomach pump and try to
draw the frog up. But the subtle
reptile had had that trick played
on it too often during those fifteen
years, and it always shinned up the
tube apiece, out of the draught, and
waited until Southworth exhausted
himself. Southworth never fooled
that frog a great deal. And when
frogs were in season j Southworth
used to fish for this one with a fly;
but it always refused to rise, and
the fly buzzed around so in South
worth's alimentary canal that it
nearly tickled Southworth to death;
So Southworth had to wait until
the other day, when the frog
thought it would come up and go
and see a friend ; and when it did
come, Southworth killed it with a
fork. He says the frog used to eat
twice as much as he did ; but we
have been thinking it over, and it
seems to us the statement must be
exaggerated somehow.
What the poor creatures did that
were born and grown before the
clock of the Christian era struck
"one," nobody can tell. We all
need these starry days: the young,
that they may never grow old ; the
old, that they may always be young.
I think it might be written among
the beautitudes, Blessed are they
whose sons are all boys and whose
daughters are till girls. Taylor.
It is reported of Yon 3Ioltke
that when he was officially inform
ed of the declaration of war by
France against Prussia, he pointed
to his cabinet and said to his sec-
retary ,
right'!"
"Third drawer to me
Tlie secretary opened it
forth a mass of manu-
and drew
rint. which proved to be Yon
Moltke's plan for the invasion of
France, drawn up three years ago.
Cassim M. Clay.
A correspondent of the Cinci
tati Enquirer, writing from Rich
mond, Ky., under date of January
2d., thus speaks of Casaius M. Clay:
Within six miles of this place is
the home of Cassius M. Clay. lie
has devoted his whole life, to the
extinction of slavery, Wid has la
bored to thut end with a fidelity
and single heartedness, that has
won the respect of even his bitter
est opponents. , He has sacrificed
the grandest estate in America to
that end. A single item of that
estate embraced fifty thousand
acres of land on the CtVmberJand
River, now worth at east a hun
dred dollars an acre. Another
item consisted of nearly half the
county of Madison, which ranks
fifth in wealth ip Kentucky. He
now lives on a Farm of thirty-three
hundred acres, which belongs tojiis
wife and children ; and hasn'tj'h
acre of his own. But he is no long
er a Republican. Yesterday he
dined (on Russian plate and cham
pagne) all the Democratic leaders
ot this county, and he untold his
views to them. He says tha his
party has left him, and hasbecme
the party of degradation. That he
once thought Grant M as only a fool,
but has been convinced that he is.
a knave, and that another term of
such misrule is national ruin. Slav
ery is dead, ami there is no longer
a dividing line between him arjd
the Democracy. But while for
himself he buries the tornhawk un
conditionally, he suggests the pol
icy of nominating for President ih
1872 some such man as Chase, r
Gratz Brown, or. Charles Francis
Adams. The effect of Cassius M.
Clay's example upon the negro
vote in this State will be incalcul
able. The Corner Loafer. We clip
the following from the- Mayfield
Enterprise: "The young squirt oil
the corner, with his baton little og
one side, the stub of a cheap igar
in his mouth and a stare for every
lady that passes is a loafer. Do
you know whore he gets money?0
His mother earns it for him by- tak
ing in washing. Poor soul ! she
thinks her boy will get work soon.
He could find work enough to leep
him busy from earlr morn untill
evening if hcwants it, but he isGa
lasy loafer and don't want work. If
lie gets a place he neglects his work,
or does his work so poorly- that he
is soon discharged. lie never
works for the same mar twice ; or,
perhaps, he is particular what kind
of work he does. He is willing
that his mother or sistegshould sew
or wash to earn money- for him to
spend, but he is a little particular
as to what work he does- He looks
down on that sweaty carpenter who
hurries bv hinr.nods condescending
ly to his friend, the shoemaker, and
sends a Whiff of smoke into the e(5cs
of bedaubed painters, with both
hands full of paint pbtsand brushes,
lie couldn't borrow ten cents of any
of them. They7 know he would
never pay it. They earn their
money7". lie begs of his mother a
part of her hard earnings, at an age,
too, when he is capablof putting
his shoulder to the wheel and ad
ding a little toward the support of
himself and little brothers and sis.
tersr
With regard to the Democratic
nomination for the Presid?nt in
1872, the Washington correspond
ent of a leading paper, says:
" Hoffman is pointed ottt as a
strong man, but the majority of
the thinking, sound, substantial
men of the partT have opinions
that his time can be delayed with
no detriment to the party, but with
advantage. Hendricks of Indiana',
is the man. Thurman, equally- a
statesman, and equally fortunatb
in the esteem of his countrymen,
stands high on the list with others,
but Hendricks, the representative
of the banner State of the West,
at this time, appears to be first0iii
Deep Ploughing. An agricul
o
tural cotemporary- thinks the time
favorable to instruct farmers that
they ought to plough deep. It is
said that a man will, taking one
year with another, make more clear
niouev by ploughing twenty acres
deep and" putting the grain in well
and early than skimming over one
hundred acres and taking no pains
to put it in. Ti e same authority
asserts that last year the difference.
in appearance of" the grain fields
told very plainly here deep
ploughing had been done. The
crop in every instance, was much
superior to that on soil where the
ploughingjiad been merely- super
ficial". Fanners should make a
note of this.
A blushing Cincinnati damsel
recently applied to Judge of Pro
bate for a marriage certificate, ex
cusing herself by stating that her
affiance ran on the river he had no
time to attend to the business him
self. G
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