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suppmd Wis Republicans might be
CTTCbngresgman.
Backalew How—is this immactlate
I Lib**) at D«rif«trat?
The legislators of Indiana conven
wed yeeUrday in special session at In
J1di*i»j^)Ua. Lastglght the Republi
can member* met incauens and by a
mmltnous tote selected the Hon. 6f
iVW*l^'M^rtott,.as
the Republican can
dldAte for U. 8. Senator. -This will
jpr probably etose the mendacious mouth
of the CfrteQTo
Tribune
To Jacob Rich, Fsq., the very able
editor of that excellent paper, the Du
buque Tim*.
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the Ooritsr Mirkot and seo»
Po«t omoe.
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.iWlW wilt the State Register dls
iue its ttnwarranted flings at Sen-
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Uui. We ask pardon tor pre­
suming to advise the editor* of that
sr.^ot bog to- fcourteously suggest
S'r opinion the biter la being bit in
i operation.
In Philadelphia owtheSth ofNovem
ber Grant received flotar hundred and
ty-one rotes leas than Hartranft did
the8thof Oct. On the other hand
)ndt«lew received twenty-fire thous
1 four hundred and thirty-one more
than Greeley ...did. Islfpossi
so many thousand Democrats
»$ipafe#fek on orow, or vu there illegal
voting in that city by Democracy for
upon this sub­
ject. Thlrpfcpefr hat a penchant for
mixing up InBenubllcan
though 1S tttfiSWos fac
to shame.
caucusses, as
face were callous
jPheroaif. W. WoolsOn, whose
death we announced yesterday was
tine of Iowa's best citizens. He was a
native of the State of New York, and
emigrated from thence to Mt. Pleas
ant, Iowa, in 1856, where he has since
Presided. He WM A lawyer by profes
sion, and a0yary successful one—
especially an honest as well as able
He was eight years in the Iowa
enate, Where we knew him well, and
gladlv aftosl to his ability and sterling
frrth.
The Hon. Stewart Goodrell, who
died in lies Moines yesterday, 13th
St., at 2 o'clock p. m., was among the
larliest settlers in this State. He was
first A resident of Washington
eauuty in this State, and was a member
of the flrtt convention to frame a con
stitution lor the State. At the time of
his death be was pension agent at I)es
•Moines, a quite I crative position, to
hich lie was appointed in 1869. lie
as a citizen ol sterling qualities, pos
essing always the esteem of a host of
iends.
gladly accord so far
our information extends, prompt'
ergetic efficient and faithful labor
land zeal, as Chairman of the Republi
can $Uto Central Committee during
the campaign just closed. We believe
he has had at heart above and beyond
all other considerations, the general
good of the Whole party, just. a» every
chairman of the committee ought to
have. Ffrbm our knowledge of hie
services, we believe he is worthy of all
praise.
Mrs. Victoria WoodhulU and Ten
pie ClafSiu are willing, according to
'reports, to acknowledge the falsity of
tb« story agnmst Henry Ward Beechcr
and even to quit forever the City of
New York, If mercy can be shown
them to the extent of relieving them
from a prison life. As a preventive
of futowerimo of a like nature not on
ly from them, but abandoned women
everywhere, we think their punish
ment should be meeted out in due
form of law, and with rigor. It is, in
our opinion, mercy to all people to so
lo, and if ,w,e have correct data to judge
Irom, and we think we have, Theodore
i Tilton ought to share a prison with
them.
The election news from Marion
county, in this Congressional District
cOmes in slow, and even yet we cannot
hill positively whether Loughridge
carried the county or not, but it is
thought he has. The whole Republican
county ticket is elected and Grant car
ries the county by a large majority.
So much for W. M. Stone's influence
in behalf of Democracy. But we will
let a former, very warm friend of
Stone's, to-wit the Pella Blade, tell
about it:
With all his power on the stump, and
political trickery, Stone has discover
ed the fact that he cannotcurry the Re
publicans of "old Marion" with him
Into a coalition they believed and knew
to be opposed to the best interests of
the country. Tiie Greeleyites were ju
bilant over the accession of Stone and
Curtis to their ranks and felt certain
of a complete triumph on the 6th ol
November, but they find themselves
farther Irom the goal of their hopes
than ever, without a shadow of a hope
for the future.
CMt«nal«l laltnmllraal ExhlbHIon.
We publish in to-day's paper an ad
dress from the CeutenniAl Commission
to the |ieople of the United States. It
is proposed to-hold, at Philadelphia
in 1876, au International Exhibition
that will ecKpsc anything the world
has ever witnessed, and for this pur
poss it is necessary to raise by volun
tary contribution the sum of $10,000,
000, or au average of 25 cts. to every
porson in the Union. No couutry in
the world has been so blessed or has
SO prospered as has the United States,
siaoe the Declaration of Independence,
at Independence Hall, Philadelphia, in
1776 And it is right and proper that
should have a grand and glorious
Fourth of July celebration, to com
feemoifcte the centeunial epoch. For
this noble purpose every citizen,
whether native born or adopted,
should feel proud to contribute, and we
trust that it shall not be said of Ottum
wa, nor of Wapello county, ihat either
of them failed to do their whole duty.
At the proper time, a meeting will be
held to form a county society in
furtherance of the object spoken of in
the address, and we feel confident that
our people will make a generous re
spoiiM.
DEMOCRACY MVtS.
"Abraham Lincoln's election to the
Presidency was excuse sufficient for
the hot heads otthe South to lead their
section Into secession. The gist of the
whole matter is, that these slave-ocralic
leaders wanted disunion and still want
it, their desire being rather intensified
than diminished since the close of the
rebellion. These leaders, in their
hearts, scout the idea of aj^overnment
by the people they refuse, except as
a necessity, to abide the result of the
fairly expressed will of universal suf
frage in this country they finally, to
sum it alf up in a few words, no longer
believe in democracy, in republicanism,
in universal freedom, but they do be
lieve in aristocracy, in slavery and de
gradation for a part of the human race
They failed to gain a victory on the
field of battle, and as Horace Greeley
said eighteen months ago, tbey are
seeking in the political field to attain
that which they failed to obtain in the
passage at arms. It was this as it was
preached from the stump all over the
South, which led these same South
ern leaders and their hosts, to vote for
Mr. Greeley in the late contest, and it
was this that fired the zeal of ths old
Republican army and led it on to such
a grand victory. Over more than one
half the territory once in rebellion,
there is yet no freedom of speech, no
freedom of action, no freedom for the
spread of general intelligence through
the common school system, through
the press, nor from the pulpit. As the
very germ of the principle of liberty
rests in such freedom of speech and of
the press, so per contra, liberty dies
in the absence of it, as surely as ani
mal life perishes without the oxygen
of the air. The freedom of which
these Southern leaders complain they
are deprived of, by this administration,
is such freedom as the wolf desired
when he would extend protection to
the lamb such freedom as Jefferson
Davis desired when be led and forced
a deluded people, blinded by the igno
rance eutailed by slavery, into rebel
lion, viz: "To be let alone" in his trea
son such freedom as the fiendish Ku
Klux desired when clandestinely un
der the shades of night, he shed the
blood of the husband and father upon
his own hearthstone, because of words
spoken in behalf of freedom. That
we have good cause to believe the ani
mns of these Southrons to be as wc
have stated, we publish the following
extracts. The Leesburg, (Va.) Tele
gram, after the election says editorially
as follows:
The great Presidential election is
over. Geueral Grant is re-elected, and
vested with tho authority to control
the interests of our country for anoth
er four years. How he exorcised that
authority before is well known to ev
ery one. How he will exercise that
authority for the next four years is al
so easv to conjecture. Wo beg pardon.
The devil himself cannot conjecture
what he will do. As he has resorted
to the most uncivilized policy to ill
sure liis re-election in this instance: as
he ha9 succeeded even better than the
Republicans themselves expected, we
have the best presumptive evidence
that he will not scruple in the lutuie
to introduce into his administration
any innovation, however despotic or
corrupt, necessary toexecute his selfish
and nefarious designs. But the foulest
blot that ever stained the record ot'aiiv
State has fallen to the lot of Virginia.
That State which has ever stood first
in point of honor among the States of
the Union that State which has given
to our country more of her great and
noblemen than any other that State
which can boast of her Washington,
her Jeflerson, her Madison, her Mon
roe. her H. Clay, her Patrick llenry
that State o'er whose temples the ban
ner ot Liberty has ever fioated, bear
ing upon its waving folds the motto,
"Sic Semper Tyrannis," has now in
dorsed by the vote of her people, an
Administration the very name of which
is "Corruption."
The Selma, (Ala.,) Timet says:
Amid all our dangers we have been
together. On the field of battle the
white people of the South have stood
shoulder to shoulder. In reconstruc
tion, with all its infamy and outrages
we have been as one man. As one
man we have been refused the hand of
reconciliation. As one man let us
proudly disdain the contemptible
crowd who madly and exiiltinglv.
North and South, shout for Grant, for
thievery, tor plunder, for ignorance,
for vice and for villainy. We have, as
a people, done all we could to redeem
a good Government from the hands ol
•'thieves and fools," and have failed
let us still show to the world how
grandly great we are in our defeat.
The dav for the change is not yet, but
in our judgment, it is rapidly approach
ing, and we believe, from yesterday's
election, that the American people arc
prepared to submit to it. The next
struggle for the American people if
one iu which the contending factions
will represent Empire on one hand
and the Commune on the other. Grant
and his infamous tribe will represent
one of these factions, and the negro
with his ignorance is a fair type of the
other. Alabaniians—yes, honest men
of all colors and sections—'-the argu
mcnt is exhausted stand by your
arms."
The Times closes with the final
summing up, "The argument is ex
hausted stand by your arms.'' That
is to say, await the first opportunity
that offers a hope of success and then
take up your arms and strike again for
a Southern Confederacy.
The election of Governor Ilawley to
Congress from Connecticut is a source
of much congratulation throughout the
country. He is a man of brilliant rep
utation as a soldier, writer, spoaker
aud politician, and is a representative
of the best American politics. Con
necticut is to be congratulated upon
her admirable choice.
W iV
With bitternesr iu its heart, the Lou
isville Courier-*Journal turus on those
of its own household with this ngly
blow:
"The Democrats in the North have
not done their duty. Well, tliev fool
ed us iu I8t'»l, when they swore tlmt
Lincoln and his hirelings would have
to march over their dead bodies to get
at the South, and they have been tool
ing us ever since with word* protesta
tions that only misled us. if they had
stood u to us Greeley wonld have
been elected. It strikes us that here
after we had best take care of our
lelvos and go it ou our own hook."
At the recent election, Chicago cast
13,823 votes and Si Louis 36,237.
The Congessional delegation oiien
nsssee stands 7 Republicans to 3
Dem
ocrats
Kansas gives a Republican majority
of 33,700, a gain of 13,500 sinee last
year.
Greeley's majority in Maryland, ac
cording to official returns from all but
two counties, is 1,067.
Greeley's majority in Kentuoky will
be about 13,000. The Republicans
gain 22,000 on their vote of last year.
The best accounts agree that the
Boston fire traces its origin to an over
heated furnace in the basement of a
building on the corner of Kingston and
Summer streets.
Many of the best judges in Boston
now estimate the total loss by the fire
evtsn as low as sixty millions
of dollars.
Most of the large wholesale stores were
comparatively empty of goods.
The Cincinnati Enquirer yields all
the States to Grant save seven, viz:
Maryland, Georgia, Louisiana, Texas,
Tennessee, Kentucky and Missouri,
making 74 electoral vote* for Greeley
against 293 for Grant.
The N. Y. World has it that E. B.
Washburn is out for Senator in Illinois
This is doubtless simply a scusational
Democratic finger stuck into a Repub
lican pie, just because it is easy for an
India rubber conscience to say any
thing. Dick Oglesby, if he lives, will
succeed Trumbull in tho U. S. Senate.
"I am said Mr. Greeley, "a decid
ed enemy of the Democratic party,
even in its most respectable aspccts."
And the Democratic party has given
the verdict, that "in its most respecta
ble aspects," it is a decided enemy to
Horace. ...
Grant, as
Gen.
The Missouri Itepublican is exceed*
ngly frank. It says Greeley would
have succeeded if he had not been
dragged down by the dead-weight of
the Baltimore endorsement. It thinks
tho Democracy ought to have
gone for Greeley without nominating
him, and that would have saved him
the damage of a Democratic associa
tion.
The Boston Globe says of 8enator
Sumner:
With the overwhelming rebuke of
his own State and of the nation at
large resting upon him, he can do no
less than retire from his post in the
Senate, and give place to some one
who will faithfully reflect the public
sentiment of Massachusetts. Fairness
and common decency require of Mr.
Sumner to promptly resign."
About a year ago the New York Tri
bune, said: "An independent journal is
nevitably a fraud." Horace Greeley
has now resumed editorial charge of
the Tribune, and announces his pur
pose to make it an independent journal
hereafter. Horace Greeley's follies,
isms, idiosyncracies, and mistakes are
as numerous and varied as a fashion
able lady's head-gear, The Tribune
of a year ago is authority for proving
the Tribune of to-day a fraud.
»«T
seen by oar telegra­
phic dispatches, speaks his mind plain
ly to the delegation from Pennsylva
nia, in reference to his views upon
Civil Service. The occasion for his
remarks arose out of the appointment
of a Postmaster for Philadelphia.
The Troy Press Democratic, draws
these lessous from the campaign: First,
never say anything agaiust a political
opponent, for you don't know how
soon ho may be your candidate for
President. Second, never denounce an
entire party for the sins of a small
fraction of it, for by doing so you may
poil your tidal wave."
NAST, closes out his political earica
tnrcs for the Campaign in Harpers
Weekly, this week, with Democracy
and the Liberals, represented as having
fallen over the precipice and found a
safe lauAing, save H. Greeley and B.
Gratz. Symbolical of B. Gratz's State
having gone democratic, NAST, sus
pends Greeley in a deplorable attitude,
by reason of the old White Coat's ap
pendage, (Grate Brown) being caught
in the fissure of the Chasm as it closed
up. ________
According to the late assessment
returns of the State, made last spring,
tho number of hogs was found to be
1.244,169. The number of hogs return
ed by the assessment of the year before
to-wif: 1871 was 1,008,671. This
shows an increase in the number of
hogs, of the State, this year over last, of
235,498. This is a very large increase
and we think it safe to say that the
quality of the hogs has not certainly
deterioated from last year. The fact
is, w6 think it quite noticablo that our
farmers are uow improving from year
to year, the quality of their hogs, so
that we may well suppose that each
year the hogs are getting better and
better as fhc more of our farmers are
yetting rid of their common stock and
raising only the finer breeds. This
process enhances tho quality of our
pork audits yield per hog Irom year
to year more than is indicated in the
excess in numbers alone.
According to the assessment of 1872.
tho heaviest hog counties are Cliuton
with 39.111 head Cedar 30,272 Dubu
Hie 35,544 Jones 35,773 Linn 34,552
Washington 34,511 Johnson 33,(W2
Jalper 32,755 Mahaska 31,893 Keokuk
31,311 Marion 31,190 Jackson 30,010
Benton 28,53*2 Wapello 28,099 Scott
26,816 Jefferson 24,506 Page 23,544
Polk 23,318 Muscatine 22,610 Louisa
20,348.
The above list shows that Wapello
County, according to her geographical
area, is as prolific of hogs as any other
i portion of the State.
Park Packers OnvHflloa.
from KM Dully G*t« Ctty offlar- 1TO
On Friday last., the Pork Paofcfcrs in
this immediate vicinity, from -Iowa
and Missouri, assembled here in con
vention and organized by the election
of Jas. D. Ladd, Esq., df Ottnmwa,
President, and Oscar Klsir, 6f fhji
city, Secretary.
two session* of the convention were
held, one in tho morning and the other
in the afternoon. After a free «nd
general discussion of all questions per
tain ins to the purchase of hogs, their
cut ana cure, the following business
committee was appointed
Col. Wm. Patterson aud Geo. B.
Smyth of this city, P. Cunningham, of
Alexandria, Missouri, and Benj. Ladd,
of Bddyville, who reported to the con
vention at their afternoon session, the
following resolutions, which were un
animously adopted by the Convention,
when the"Convention adjourned:
1. That the Convention heartily con
cur iu the action of the National Cou
ventiou recently held in the city of
Cincinnati, and wonld recommend the
cat and cure adopted at. the Conven
tl6n.
2. That we rec^lfllnaend the organi
zation of Locfil'Packers' Associations
At the different'ptokihg points in this
vicinity, and the Cultivation of good
feeling upon the part of packers, and
their fiill consultation and co-opera
tion with each other in all things per
taining to the management of tMf
business, the purchase of hogs, and the
sale and shipment of thjpproduct.
3. That our experience is that disas
ter has followed the packing of hogs
for the past, three years by endeavor
ing to cut more hogs than naturally
center at our respective packing points
to accomplish which, the country has
been filled with buyers of hogs on
commission, in many cases bidding
against each other, and running hogs
np to a price beyond a shipping point
to the large packing points, the price
at which hogs are there selling being
the proper basis of value at all other
points. And our experience teaches
us it is no part of a packer's business
to buy hogs at or for delivery at points
other than packing houses.
4. That wc classify hogs in the same
manner they are classified in Chicago,
St. Louis and Cincinnati, rejecting as
unmerchantable all piggy sows, stags
old brood sows, And crippled hogs,
and that we do not regard piggy sows
nnd stags as fit for human food.
5. That we recommend the point of
packing in all cases to be the point for
the receiving aud
weighing
of hogs,
and in all cases where they are jiot re
ceived off the care and weighed «r
driven in, that they stand off feed and
water twelve hours before weighing.
6. That the time to pay for nogs is
when they have been received aud
weighed, as above, aud that the prac
tice of advancing money to parties to
pay for hogs in the country is to be
condemned as calculated to perpetuate
the evils of the commission sygtem.
The general conclusion seems to
have been reached by packers, at all
small points who have assembled in
Convention, that both their interest
aud the interest of the stock raiser, re
quires the discontinuing of sending
men into the country to buy hogs ou
commission, and that they will only
purchase hogs delivered, and weighed
at their respective packing points, at
which ifthits they expect to pay rela
tive prices to those paid at St. Louis,
Chicago and other large business cen
ters.
President Grant carries thirty Btates
whose electoral vofe is as follows
Alabama......... 10 New TTampahlre...
...
Arkauftan ...
Palifornt*.
6
Delaware.
Iowa U OHIO
Kansas 5
Total
Tot*U
Whole elector*! TOO..........
Grant'(majorlt
59??'"
5
GNewYor*
.. 80
roTinccticat 6 Notcb Carolina...... ... 10
Nebraska ........... ..
8
3 New Jerm«y.......... .... tt
Iiulituia.............. 10
Nevada
Illinois. SI Oregon *h ....
9
8
... 22
Pennsylvania.-^. .. SO
Louisiana 8 Rhode IhlanJ...... .. 4
Maine
7 South Carolina
Maasactixuetts...
..... W Vermont
Mississippi
,Z 5
8 Ybirlula .. It
Minnf"«'tft .... 5 WUcon^in ..
Michigan ....... 11 West Virginia
l'»
....
Horace Greeley carries seven States
whose votes are as follows: z:}f
Florid*.— lllflssourl 15
(Joorgia lllMaryUDd.
Kcnnii'ky 18'TeIM
'leaueacee IS
v a ...
Voaitlac
Vomiting snakes was one of the mat
ters discussed at the late meeting of
the Vermont Medical Society, when
H. D. Bradford, of Northfield. made a
detailed statement of a case which he
had thoroughly investigated, having
procured the snakes that Vere said to
liave been vomited, and presonted
them before the society. The man had
no knowledge ol having swallowed
any such thing, nor was Ijie suspicious
at any time that his stomach contained
any such animals but he remembers
that while at work he was in the habit
of drinking from some pools in his
pasture, which he made for that pur
pose by scraping out with his bands,
a depression in which the water might
collect. His peculiar symptoms began
on the8th of May last, were repeated
in June and again on July 30, when he
vomited two snakes six inches long.
They were vomited in his own home
and in the presence of his own family
so there can be no mistake about the
fact of their having been ejected from
the man's stomach. The reptiles are a
species of water suakes, which propo
xate in just such localities as the man
describes, and probably when the pa
reut suake uttered licr warning cry of
approaching danger to her yotiug,
they mistook the open mouth of the
drinking man for that of their mother,
and found their grave in place of their
placc of safety were ejected dead.
The Boston Trateller, of a recent
date, says: Massachusetts' part in-the
graud work of Tuesday can be easily
summed up. Hie gave a Kcimbliuiu
popular majority of 74,000. .she elect
ed a Legislature that, is Republican hi
proportion of about ten to one and
she constituted her Congressional dele
gat ion entirely of Republicans. That
wis euongh for one day. even here—
we have lost the Banner, whieb psnses
to Pennsylvania.
As four or flvo darkies were passing
an agricultural implement store down
South one of them pointing to a culti
vator, said A man can just sit on
dat thing and ride whili* he is plow
ing." "Gollv,'" replied the other, "de
rascals was too shi't-p to think of dat
'foro de nigger was free."
The Chinese on the Pacific slope are
just now having their annual "devil
driving." They keep up an Infernal
religious uproar for eight days, and
the evil one is then supposed to be ef
fectually eliminated, and the vineyard
of the soul safe from his incursions lor
another twelve month.
MCLEAN COUNTY, Illinois, the home
Of Judge Davis, gave 2^500 majority
tor
Grant au increase ofoOO over 1868.
VOLUME 34. OTTUMWA. WAPEIXO 00111^. XC»WA, THURSDAY. NOVEMBER 21.1872. NUMBER 32.
AH AMKMM««"ritteRIRITENSTATES
OERRSJI.VT-.AI, COKMMMIOT.
To tht People of the United Slates:
The Congress of the United Sttrtea
lifts enacted that ihe completion of* the
One Htindrcdth Year of American In
dtfp&tdeiiee shall be celebrated by an
Int^rflgfitfhal^Exhibition of the arts,
Manufactures and products of the soil
and mine, to ho held at Philadelphia
in 18TO and has appointed a Commis
sion, consisting of representatives from
each State and Territory to conduct
the celebratfon.
Origiftaf iitg tinder the auspices of
the .National Legislature, controlled
by ,a National Commission, and de
signed as it is to "Commemorate the
^rst'echtury of dhr existence, by an ex
hibition of "the natural resources of the
country anil their development, and of
our progress iu those arts which bene
fit mankind, HI conipaaisou with thogp
of older Sfaffbns* it is to the people at
large that, the Comnfis'sion'ftek for the
aid which ia necessary to make the
P.euteiinial.. Delegation the grandest
ever known.
ifaA pie o i s e n
tury oronr exiawnc|should bo marked
by $ome impftW&tdwisngtratioti is,
.we JwKeve, ffiflndlic- 'wish of the
people of StefjraHe country. The
Congress Tjuited States has
wisew ^cftfear that the Birth-day of
thie^ore'af Republic can be most fitting
ly celebrated by the universal colloo
tion ataA-display of All the trophies of
Utt'pnegMss. It Is d**l#t*ttl to bring
together, wit 14a ai^nftUMng covering
fifty acres, not,only tip vat'tpd produc
tions of our mines and the soil, but
types of all the intellectual triumphs of
oirr citizens, specimen* of'everything
that America can furnish, whether
from the brains or .hands of her chil
dren, and thus moke evident to the
world the advancement of which a self
governed people is capable.
In this "Celebratiou" all nations
will be .invited to .participate, its char
acter being International. Europe
will dismay her arts
and manufactures,
India her curious fabrics, while newly
Opened China and Japan will lay bare
tho treasures which for centuries-their
ingenious people have been perfecting.
Each land will compete iu generous ri
valry for the palm of superior excel
lence.
To this grand gathering every zone
will contribute its fruits aud cereals.—
No mineral shall be wantiug for
what tho East lacks the West will sup
ply. Under oue roof will the South
display in rich luxuriance her grow
ing cotton, and the North in mania
ture, the ceaseless .machinery of her
mills converting that cotton into cloth.
Each section«f the globe will -end its
best offerings to "thflf wclubilion, and
each State of the Unitflpfcs a nifember
of one united body politic, will show
to her sister States and to the world
how much «he can add to tho greatness
of the natiou of which she is a harmo
nious part.
To make the Centennial Celebration
such a success as the patriotism and the
pride of every American demands,
will require the co-operation of the
people of the whole country. The
United States Centennial Commission
has received no Government aid. such
as England extended to ber World's
Fair, and France to her Universal Ex
position, yet the labor and responsibil
ity imposed upon the Commission is
as great as iu eitherof those undertak
ing. It is estimated that ten millions
of dollars will be required, and this
sum Congress lias provided shall be
raised by stock subscription, anil that
the people shall have tlie opportunity
of subscribing in proportion to the
population ot their respective States
and Territories
The Commission looks to the nnfail
ing patriotism of the people of every
section, to sec that each contributes its
share to the expenses and receives its
share of the buuetits of an enterprise
in which all are so deeply interested,
It Avould further earnestly urge the
formation in each State and Territory
of a centennial organization, which
shall in time, see that Lhe county asso
ciations are formed, so that when the
nations are gathered together iu ISTti,
each commonwealth can view wirh
pride the contributions she has roi»»
tributedto the national glory.
Confidently relying on the patriot
ism and zeal ever displayed by oirr
people iu every national undertaking,
we pledge and prophesy, that the cen
tennial exhibition will woathilv show
how wealth, greatness and intelligence
can be fostered by such institutions as
those which have for one hundred
years blessed the people of the United
States.
JOSEPH It. HAWI.EV, President.
LEWIS WALN SMITU, Tem'y See,y.
ROBERT LOWKY and COKEB F.
CLAUKSON, U. S. Centennial Commis
sioners for Iowa.
"Soy Anif n To Tlut, Bniher."
In the south of New Jersey, sotne
years ago, there traveled over some of
the hardest counties, a good, faithful
hard working brother named James
Moor, as he was fumilhuiy called. A
true loyal Methodist, plain, pointed,
and sharp, iu all his preachiug aud ex
hortations.
He had been laboring a year on one
of his circuits, and before leaving for
his new field, he gave his people, who
dearly loved him, his farewell scr
men. v
At its close he said:
"My dear brethren this is ijay lest
address to you. 1 am going from yotr
and you may never hear tho voice of
James Moor again."'
"Amen,!" came loudly from the seat
before him.
He looked at the man with a little
surprise, but thinking it was a mistake
wont on.
"My days" on earth will POOU be
numbered. 1 am an old wan, aud you
may not only never hear the voice of
James Moor but never see his fkee
ajiain."
Amen,!" was shouted from the
game place more vigorously thuu be
fore.
There was no mistaking the design
now. The preacher looked at the man
—ho knew him he a hard griudiug
man, stingy ai.tl merciless to the
poor.
lie then continued his address:
'•M y the Lord '''ess all of you who
have done your duty, who honored
llim with yonr u',lance, who have
been kind to the poor and—"
l'ausing and looking tho intruder
straight in theev .andpoiuting to him
with his tinger—
rest, on those who
ord, and ground the
avis. Snv snien to
"May his cur^e
have cheated the
poor under his
to that brother."
The shot told,
ropted again.
Information
that the Work
He was not Intar-
•lies irom Minnesota
•a the North Pacific
Railroad has virt'iaily been abandoned
that the contract r- have left, and that
the laborers and earns have retntned
from the end
of i
e track
111
Hose Lake,
Dakota, thus leaving 300 miles of the
road to tho Mls^uirs River unfinished.
Tho Baptist church of Unrrodsburg,
Ky., will toon eelebrato their centen
nial abouflhe-nnts of the same tree
that their first serviced wnc under.
s*v
NHAVIXG A MILLIONAIRE.
Everybody who livo^ in New Jcrsoy
recollects Billy Gibbon&u the million
aire. He was an eccentric man, and
numerous stories are told of his freaks.
Here Is one of them v
It seems that Billy, while in a cdn'n
try village, in which he owned some
property, stepped into a barber shop
to get shaved. The shop was full of
oustomers, and the old gentleman qui
etly waited for his turn.
A customer who was under tho bar
ber's hands when the old gentleman
came in asked the "knight of the razor,"
in an undertone, if he knew who that
was, and, on receiving N negative i*e
ply, ha informed him in a whisper, it
was "Old Billy Gibbons, tho richest
man in the State."
"Gad," AAld the barber, "Pll charge
him for his shsve." -.i.
Accordingly, after the old-man hnri
the operation performed, he w.*va some
what surprised upon asking the price,
to be told, "seventy-five cents." Said
he, quietly, "isn't that rather a high,
i e
"It's mv price." SAU he Ckf the lather
brush, independently, "and as this is
the only barber's shop in tho place,
them as come into it must paV what
The proposition somewhat startled
the unfbrtanatc hair dresser, who final
ly found words to staininer out that
twelve or fifteen dollars a month
would be enough.
"Pshaw!'' said the old man "that
wou't do. Now listen to me—I'll give
you that store, rent free, one year, and
engage your services six mouths all ou
these conditions: You are to shave
and cut hair for everybody that ap
plies to you, and take no "pay, just
chargc it to mo, and for your services
I'll pay you twenty dollars a mouth,
payable in ndvanee—pay to commence
now," continued he, placing two ten
dollar notes ou the table before the as
tonished barber, who, it is almost un
necessary to state, accepted the propo
sition, aud who was still more sur
prised to learn that it was Billv Gib
bons himself that had hired him.*
In a few davs theInhabitants of that
village were astonished by the appear
ance of a splendid new barber shop,
far surpassing the other iu elegance of
appointments, and iu which, with now
mugs, soaps, razors nnd perftimcs,
stood a barber and assistant rendv to
do duty on the heads and beards oi'the
people. Over the door was inscribed
"William llarriugtou, Shaving and
Hair Dressing Saloon."
The people were not long in ascer
taining or slow in availing themselves
of the privileges of this establishment,
and it is not to be wondered that it was
crowded and the other deserted. The
other held out some weeks, suspcctin"
this free shaving—for Bill kept his se"
eret well—was but a dodge to entice
customers away, who would soon be
chavgcd as usual, but when, at the eud
of six weeks he found Billv working
away as usual, charging not a cent for
his l.-.bor, an^ having monev to spend
iu tho bargain, he came to the conclu
sion that he must have drawn a prize
in the lottery, or stumbled upon a gold
mine, and was keeping a barber shop
for fuu, so he closed the shop in de
spair aud left the place.
Meanwhile, "Billy Harrington" kept
on busy as a bee, and oue fine morning
his employer stepped iu. and, without
a word, sat down and was shaved on
rising Irom his seat he asked to see the
score for six months past. The barber
exhi'iitud il, anil alter a careful calcu
lation, the old man said:
"Plenty of customers, eh
"Lots of VM," said the barber
'"never did such a business iu my life."
"Well,"' replied Money Bags, "vou
have kepi the account well. I see I've
paid you one hundred and twenty dol
lars for your services—all right—and
there aro three hundred aud thirty
charged for shaving all that applied
now, this furniture cost mo one huu
dred and cijlit dollars, balance due vou
one hundred and twodoilars. Here it
is. Now you own this furniture, and
aro to have the shop rent free for six
months longer, and alter to-day vou
are to chaige Ihe regular price for work,
for vour pay from me stops to-day."
This of course, the barber gladlv as
sented to.
"But,"#aid the old man, on leaving,
"take care you never cheat a man In
charging ten times the tuual price for
a shave tor it may be another 'old
Billy Gibbous.'"
.it V*' j£".
I
ask."
To the old ipan this WAS evidently a
knock-down argument, for'he drew
three-qnarters of a dollar from his
pocket, paid them over to the barber,
and left the shop.
A short time after this he was in
close conVersamSf with the landlord
of a tavern bard by, and the topic of
the conversation was '-barber shops."
"Why is it," said he, "there's only
onf barber shop in town There
seems to be nearly enough work for
two."
"Well, there used to be two," said
the landlord, "till last winter, when
this new mnu came up from the city
and opened a new shop, and, as every
thing in it was fresh and new, folks
sort of deserted Bill Harrington's
shop,
which had been going on for nigli
fourteen years."
"But didn't this Bill do good work i
Didn't he shave well, and—cheap
"Well, as for that," said the landlord.
"Bill did his work well enough, but
his shop wasn't on the main street like
the new one, and didn't have so many
pictures and handsome curtains, and
ail of the folks got in the way of think
ing the new chap was more scientific
and brought more city fashion with
him, thongh, to tell the truth," said
the landlord, stroking a chin sown
with a heard resembling screen wire,
"I never want a lighter touch nor a
keener razor than Bill Harrington's."'
"City fashions—eh?" growled the
old man. "So the new man's city
fMhious the other's shop
"WeiV, not exactly^" said the land
lord, "though things%vcr did seem to
go well with Bill after tho new shop
opened first, oue of his little children
died of fever then his wife was sick
a long time, and Bill had a big bill to
pay at the doctoi's: then as a lost mis
fortune, his shop was burned dowu
one night, tools, brushes, furuitnre and
all. and no insurance."
"Well," said the old man, pcttjshly,
"why don't he start nuain
"Start again!" said the communica
tive landlord "Why bless your soul,
he hasn't got anything to start with."
"H—in—! Where does this man
live asked the old man.
lie was directed, and ere long was
in conversation with the unfortunate
tonsor, who corroborated the landlord's
story. i
'•Why don't yon take a new shop?"
said the old man: "there's a new one
in the block right opposite -the other
barber's shop.
"What," said the other, "you must
be crazy. Why, that block belongs to
old Billy Gibbons he'd never let one
of those stores for a barber shop they
are a mighty sight too good besides
that I haven't got twenty dollars in the
world to fit it up with."'
"You don't know old Billy Gibbons
as well as I do," said tho other. "Now
listen. If you can have that shop all
fitted up rent tree, what will you work
in it for by the mouth? what is the
least you can live on
Courier.
Iowa Condensed.
BooOs county has a, Mormon settle
ment.'
r"'
Cedar Rapid* is overrun with In
dians.
The postofflce at Casey has been dis
continued.
has a public libranr of lo,-
Keokuk
000 volumes,
Seventy students attend the Keokuk
Medical school.
.jlCeokuk bos reduced the price of
Gas to $3,50 per 1000 l'cet.
Elijtabeth has been established as a
postofflce in Grundy County.
A Burlington bookseller advertises
a "snperior quality of Bibles."
Tho Tama County Liberal, has gone
up.the spoilt along with Greeley.
O'Conor carries two counties in
^jj^aover Greeley—Sac and Greene.
John Bloom dropped dead in a
field near Cedar Falls a few days since.
The State Grange of Patrons of Hus
bandry meets iu lies Moines next Jan
uary.
Buenn Vista County Voted not to
remove her'Wunty seat to Sioux Rap
ids.
John A. King, of Hamburg, has in
vented and patented a washing ma
chine.
A railroad contractor lost his pocket
book in a Dubuque saloon last Mon
day. He paid *200 for that drunk.
After a trial lasting four days a les
Moines jury has convicted Joseph
Hierb for selling liquor contrary to
law.
A State convention of the Young
Men's Christian Association will l»e
held fit Davenport on tlie 19th and 20th
insts.
Two young meu near Belle Plaine
lost each an arm In a threshing ma
chine, lately. Oue died in a few
hours.
W. Pelan, of Dubuque, is to wheel
5U0 shingles on a barrow a distance of
half a inilc. He bet ou Greeley you
kuow.
One Meisher, of Burlington, has
been abound over," for assaulting his
wife—niv favorite amusement when
drunk.
Three townships in Frauklin county,
did not give a single Grceloy vote, and
Reeve township gave Graut 124 and
Greeley 2. tr
Three young Burliugton bMop
ped anothor lad tlie other night and
"went throngh"' his pockets in true
highwayman style.
Bangor Township, in Marshall coun
ty, gave 250 votes for Grant, and none
ftor Greeley or O'Conor. The Town
ship is mostly settled by Quakers.
Miss Harriet Webster, of indianola,
is announced for a lecture at Leon,
and Miss EfRe Webster is posted for a
lecture at Oskaloosa against woman
suffrage.
E. S. Sleight, grain buyer at Man
chester, has failed aud gone into bank
ruptcy. He owes $48,000, with 117.600
assets'. His creditors are farmers, aud
number 150.
At Clinton, Saturday evening, a lad
named Pillsbury was being drawn up
by the rope on a flag pole when the
rope broke aud he fell a distance of
thirty feet breaking both his arms.
Mrs. Egan, of Dubuque, seveuty
years of age, has been fined $5 and
costs tor "shying-" a stone at a neigh
bor, thereby inflicting an ugly wound
on the latter's head. A family feud
was the cause.
Kossuth county has a large number
of homesteaders who live in sod houses,
and burn the rauk river bottom grass
for fuel. Tlicy twist it, when dry, into
ropes, and thus prepared it gives out
an intense heat and has lasting quali
ties.
John Berger, a baggageman at the
Davenport, Depot, while assisting in
making up a train, caught liis foot in
a frog just as a locomotive was ap
proaching. A conductor saw his per
il, but was unable to extricate his'foot.
The leg was mashed so severely that
death soon ensued.
The Humboldt Connty Independent,
sports a rooster because Greeley has a
majority in one of the town/hips in
that county. And it was only r. major
ity, at that. But the editor thinks it
was the only township iu the United
States which gave a Greeley majority,
and so he rejoices.
Next week, in payment of au elec
tion bet, Rev. L. i). Trac\, of Cedar
Falls, is to trundle a wheeiharrow sev
en miles to Waterloo, and in the vehi
cle is to ride Judge Converse, Seuator
from Butler county. The reverend
gentleman will take two dnys to do the
job, camping out over night iu a tent,
and will le accompanied by a crowd
of sympathizers and a brass band.
Some Ics Moines girls sought to
play a joke on a bashful young man by
putting in his bed the representation
of a ladv. and scattering around the
room a profusion of skirls, false hair
etc. He came home, saw how maUei
stood, hid all the things under the
barn, and when the girls had to stay at
home from church next day tor want
of -undry toilet articles ho "smole u
ghastlf smile" and wondered who
caiue out ahead.
At the recent term of the U. S. Cir
cuit Court in De* Moines, tho Grand
Jury found a bill of indictment ngainst
C. Augustus llaviland, editor of the
Soldier's Friend, published at Chicago,
for charging pensioners for whom
was acting as claim agent, extortion
ate fees, and for reiniiiing their monies
in his hand«. He was arrested bv tho
I'. S. Marshall of Illinois on Monday,
and last night Deputy lr. Marshal
Bowers left J)es Moines
J\r
Davenport
where tho prisoner will be delivered
to him this morning, when he will
bring him to this city. Those who are
posted on the .subject say there aro two
sides to it, and that Mr. llaviland has
been falsely accused and wrongly in
dicted. The public should be fair
enough to suspend judgment till lie
real facts are developed.— h'et//*ter.
There lives at Pella, in this 8tatt\ a
miuister who does not eeem to think
that the members oi'the le- i! profes
sion stand in danger of beiier Iran (da
ted in a bodv. In immersing se^rcrol
converts to his way of thinkinr., tha
othi i da\, as wc see by the liejl)li
of Newton, he baptized, am ong fhti
rest, a talented young memb
0
Marion county bar—'Tlior
tha
j:
iS Ryan.
Estp.—and as he i-alsed tlie broiher
from the water, exclaim. -i[t,re is a
Christian lawyer." It 5/evident ho
thought he was diseo'Vf,. ,,., o the on
looking audience „onK.thing which
they never before
flad
it would
J»e intcrcdtwg fcnow what class of
law) ers the
eVlU1jud
gentlomau has
JRe/fist#6 jabit of associating with-
i- r-
News and Other Items.
Distress ia an excellent school-mis
tress.
Gen. Mcftd was born In 1816, In Cad
iz, Spain—ou a visit.
The Brazilians consume American
fine cut (|uite freely.
Faribault, Minn., fans jttot »t*rt«d a
friction match factory.
The American oysters are pronouue
ed the best in the world.
The New York papers ore full of
advertisements of oxen for sale.
The rate of the earth around the "still
is a thousand miles each minute.
Water reddens the rose wliiskev.
the nose and tight boots, the toes.
Half the people of England are suf
fering with catarrh, or horse distemper.
A National goose pickers' conven
tion is to be held iu Chicago next year.
A Texas desperado, not yet of age,
has killed twenty-eight men in five
years.
A San Francisco hen with fbnr legs
draws the public attention there at
present.
Froude the great English historian,
says the Irish are the oldest nation in
Europe.
Oregon will commence a State Cap
itol at Salem, with one hundred thou
sand dollars.
Anua Dickinson threatens New York
wit 11 new lecture entitled Things
Hoped For."
Drinking a gill of cream a day is
what gave a Bondont lady eight
pounds of flesh.
It is doubtful whether Sumner H11
take his seat In the United States Sen
ate at this session.
The last conundrum is—Where's
Brown? For answer, applv to the
Little Brotfti .Tug."'
Theodore 1
ilton is buying up and
suppressing all the copies of his bio
graphy of Mrs. Woodhull which he can
find.
Gen. Banks is likely to add as much
to his fame by his expedition up Salt
liiver, as by thatupHed River.-lioston
Globe.
The latest thing in the explosive lino
comes from Iowa, where a grain bin
has been and gone and burst, killing
three men.
The hens of Kail River, Muss., are
suffering from the horse disease, hav
ing contracted it by feeding on the
immure piles.
The 1'aUeimni (\.,J.) Guar,Hun
say s: 111 no place In VBto stateiadraufc
eness so common as among women ill
Patterson."
A11 exchange, alluding to the pecu
liar chauges wrought by the horse dis
ease, says:—"The milkmen now de
pend eutirclv upon oxen.''
Ilero js the last atrocity of the New
York Worh!: "Our uuregencrate ob
serves that city milk is more like vege
table than animal food, because it's
some pump-kin."
If,"' says Bee'her: "you are walk
ing down the street,and a chambermaid
empties a slop-pail on your head, what
can you do about it but wash vourself
and move 011
Success in life is very apt to make
11s foryet the time when we weren't
much. Jt is just so with a frog on a
jump he can't remember when he was
a tadpole, but other folks cau.
A young gentleman writes to his
wife in Troy: Dear Wife:—Dolly
has got it—I mean the hippezoo. I am
slowly hauling tho btiggv in. Home
to-morrow. CIIABI.IK.
Wlmt is your consolation between
life and,death asked a Sunday-school
teacher of a young lady iu the-Bible
class, who blushed and said: I'd
rather be cxcused from speaking his
name."'
A little boy in Michigan was silting
on a stump playing with an opened
knife, lie lost his balance and in the
convulsive effort to recover his equilli
brium, cut his own throat with the
knife.
A Greeley exchange wants. "Uod to
interpose to save our bankrupt nation
from ruin, by a drunken administra
tion.'' Saving a baukrupt nation from
ruin would be about as profitable as
running for office on a Democratic
ticket.
Mr. Post, the American Consul at
Vienna, has received under his protec
tion thirty-five Jewish females who
fled from persecution in Wallachia.—
subscription has been opened at the
Consulate to enable the exiles to emi
grate to this country.
Providence, R. I., recently had one
ot its cattle hunts. First, the steer
chased the inhabitants all around the
state, and afterward, mustering conr
age, they turned and chased the steer,
and followed up the business by oatiug
him the next day.
Il is not best to be particular about
your hash in Tennessee. A man
named Waggoner-was shot and kille
at Fulton. Teiin., recently, by John
llell, a boardinir house keeper, white
eatiuif breakfast, for making remarks
in regard to the fare.
A Si. Louis .switchman discovered a
drunken man 1\ iug on the track, and
ran to save him from a 11 approaching
traiu. lie tossed hint from the rail,
but lost hi* own balance and WHS kill
ed. The driinkcii parly is now all
right and ready to get drunk agufh.
A prisoner in jnil in s.-o ianieuto,
Cal.. i8 hanged himself to the ceiling
of his cell several times lately but the
jailor has always found him and cut
him down. It is the current '.elief
there that he does not mean suicide but
performs these little tricks to amuse
himself and scare the jailor.
A shocking murder has recently been
committed uear Xenia. Ohio. The de
tection of the murderer, by circum
stantial evidence showed a very com
plete and convincing array of connected
facts. The victim was shot from be
hind a wall. He survived long enough
to say he saw a man in gray flannel
•clothes, and that he thought it was one
'William Uitchison. 1'it'hison was
I found and arrested. He hud 011 the
same clothes as (hose described by
Fowell, and was apparently much dis
concerted by his capture. His boots
were taken from his feet and found
to lit the impressions left on the
ploughed field, throngh which he had
passed to reach home, aud these marks
were traced to within a short distauce
of his house. I11 a haversack, which
he was in the habit of carrying, was
found a spelling book, with a portion
of its contents gone. On examining
the waddiug picked up 011 the ground,
it was found to be identical with the
missing part of the book. A box of
naps was found near the sccne, and the
oana ou tho nipples of Kitchison'* gun
w«r« found to comtpond.
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The AdvniitnicvH IIIMI nMnatan*
Nlielii-r HrllK to Onksrd*.
B,T w. U Ft.AGO.
i o e e
brings the eon.
ditions of a forest, we have pretty con
clusive evidence in the French exper
iments of M. Mathion, translated into
the last (1870) volume of the Illinoli.
State Horticultural Society, that theft
1st, increase rainfall: 2d, prevent th£
rapid evaporation of moisture an*
3d, make the temperature more unl*
form. These, at least, arc the imme
diate and local effects, although it Is
claimed by opponents that the local
benefit Is had ai the expense of sou*
adjoining region, as the rainfall auK.
mean temperature arc constant quail*
tities.
We have the evidence of Mr. Tice, erf
St. Louis, that a dense hedge of Scotch
pine along the west side of the frutico
tnin of the botanical garden of llenry
Shaw, showed a difference of tempera
ture of five degrees between the west
and east sides, close to the hedge, di
minishing to one degree at sixty feet
from tlie east side of the hedge, Thii
shows that the immediate influence of
an evergreen hedge 011 temperature ia
very considerable
Samuel Edwards, of IA Moile, Bu
reau county, noted as a planter of evol*
greens, states that pear trees anion
his evergreens are more productive,
and that Ihe fruit is les- shaken off by
high winds.
O. It. Galnsha, Sc. rotary of the I1IU
nois State Horticultural Society, stated
iu a lecture at the Industrial Universi
ty iu ls(i!t, that in 18*!-, at the timo
when spring wheat and oats in
tht
northern part of the State were just
past bloom, a severe and extended
storm prostrated nearly all the graift
not sheltered by timber or shelter
belts, and diminishing its value nearly
oue-half. In one locality a single Una
of broad and tall willows, closely
planted, proved a sufficient check to
the wind, so that a tield of wheat ad
joining it upon the east stood erect and
was harvested with a machine, while
in exposed situations Ihe shruukca
grain, it' saved at all, was often gath
ered np by the slow and tedious pro
cess of booking it np wilh scythes.
Mr. tialusha, in his ad interim re
port for 1&7G, qualities his views of
protection to orchards by
fhe
Mr. Galuslia continues that "it is of
ten remarked that in orchards whicli
are exposed ou the west sides, the same
varieties in the middle of Ihe orchard
produce more fruit than in the we
row nlso, that the north easter
halves of trees iu the west row usually
produce more fruit than the south
western halve, owing to the greater
prevalence ot southwesterly winds."
Observations in Wisconsin, bv J. C.
Plumb, lead him Jo recommend "pro
tection trom the south-west wind for
the preservation of the fruit from e.o
cCMvire winds." He implies that he
would have protection for no other
reason, and I have seen somewhere a
statement by a Wisconsin horticultur
ist that some of the best results in frait*
grow iug iu that fetate were from apple
trees fully exposed to the north-went
and its winds.
The president of tlie Nebraska State
Horticultural Society, at its last meet
ing. recoinmendicd shelter belts on all
sides of an orchard, aud at least one
member echoed the opinion. It would
probably be found that all, or uearly
all the states wet ofthe Upper Missis
sippi would concur, made up as they
are. in large part, of wiudv plains. The
weight ofthis te-iiinony is in favor of
protection for orchard** and may bo
summed up as follows
The advantages of shelter belts aro,
1st, That they mitigate the extremea
of heat and cold, both of which ar«
brought mainly by western wiiids.
Jd. That they check the rapid cvap*
oraliou ot moisture, and probably ilk
crease the local rain/all.
Md, That they protect trees from thi
mechanical elfects of wiuds that woul4
otherwise bend them over and shake o
Ihe fruit.
The sum of these advantages is a
large amount. It is probable that the
deterioration ot trees and fruits that
many claim to take place axthccouutiy
grows older, N the result, not of til*
a decrease of rainfall or mean temper#*
ture, but of the of heat an4,
aridity ot cold and drought that com®
train a more naked surface, and any
thing that will in uny degree rcstofv
the equilibrium n.u*t he of value.
v )n the other hand, the disadvantage#
of shelter belts are
1st, They rob ihe nearer orvba
frees of their sustenance aud previ
their proper development.
2d, They prevent, to a certain o*«.
tent, proper ventilation of the orchard*
rcsuliiug in an increase of fungoid tlie*
ease and a healthy development of
fruit. Even movement on the steii^
our grape-growers de-lare, is neccs-h»
l-y for the production of the fiucet
grapes. Many of our Southern Illi
nois grape-grower- also thiuk it esseVr
tial to provide for proper ventiiatiqa
iu their vineyards by widening the
space* between the north and souUi
rows and having no protection 011 tho
north to prevent the free passage ofthe
southern winds. The same is no
doubt true lo a certaUt extent of the
orchard fruits.
'I he iii--t of these disadvantages call
be easily guarded against by leaviM
wide spaces between orchard belts ana
the nearer trees. The second is more
ditlicult. It amounts to this tliat
checking the free passage of air dK«
at once good and harm, aud we must,
to the best of our ability, endeavor to
get the good without the mischief. To
do this we would suggest the follow
ing points:
1st, Plant shelter belts in this stile
011 the west sides ot yonr orchards on
ly. They will" thus tend to break the
force of the west and northwest winds.
If the orchard or field is large it may
bc well, tit Mr. lid wards, of Lamoille,
suggests, to plant oue or more north
ami south belts through the orchard, as
has been done in the Industrial Uni
versity experimental orchards.
2d, If
the orchard i» much exposed ou the
uorth it may answer to protect it with
dumps of trees that will uot entirely
check circulation of air. 3d, If there
be hollows to the uorthward thene
should be inch planted with acluinpto
prevent the ascent ofthe cold air that
would at times be driven up them like
the )ceau waters iutoabav. 4th. Leave
the south aud east sides open—the lat
ter to be protected by your next neigh
bor's plantation, if at all. and the for
mer because you wish to admit all
south wiuds aud perhaps some portion,
of those from the southwest.—Vhitmn
Gaie/lc. ..*•
In Georgia, the Democratic major
it y ol Oaobei is reduced 40,001). Clev.
ton, Whitely, aud Slayon probafciy
electsd to Congress.
t.
I:
I
i
following
statement
"The ofi.-repeated view of members
of this society tlctt suitable protection
to orchards by belts and groves of tim
ber is advantageous, seems to be re-af
lilined from year to year. I have,
however, seen a few instances in which
an excess of protection seems to have
been "iven. diinini-hing the produc
tiveness of tlie orchards. These or
orchards were closed in ou all sides but
Ihe south by belts of trees, so dense
and so close to the outer row as to pre
vent circulation of air through them."
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