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Volume XXVII LOUISVILLE, THURSDAY, MARCH 27, 1879 Number 13
price received for the (ieorgetown. Cattle in demand and KENTUCKY TIMBER LANDS. and they all abound, in the Black $8. Then the one, and if that is selling at 4c to 4^c for good, and 2^c mountain especially. Owing to the crop was a very low Geological Extract from the Survey— Re- it is evident KENTUCKY FARM NOTES. to 3c for common common mules, abundance of water power, the access- the best his locality can do ; port on the Timbers in Bell and grow something more in to per head. Harlan Counties. ibility, in large quantities, of these tim- that he must BOONE COUNTY. $45 $75 WOODFORD. bers, and their great demand in car- demand. By feeding to live stock the A buzzard roost on the farm of Mr. perhaps have been turned A hand on the farm of John Stoutj The walnut timber is as ruthlessly de- riage making, I see no reason why the crop could Bryant, at Bryant’s Ford, is getting to be the expense of near Midway, lately broke 546 ll)s~bf stroyed in Eastern as in Western near future should not see many spoke to better account, and a public nuisance. .A. writer in the for hauling trimmed off, besides a hemp in one day. Who can beat it ? Kentucky. I saw a magnificent walnut factories, ax-handle and hammer-handle J13 Boone County Recorder claims for the I manure. he asks. Well, George Harris puts in tree, forty inches in diameter, with a factories, and carriage factories, in this something gained lor value of Bellevue section the champion female the following record in Major Emack’s trunk of more than fifty feet in length, part of Kentucky. Already the eyes —Ed. F. H. j.] farmer of the day in the person of Miss ' crop : In five days he broke 2,018 lbs, cut for rails — a tree worth hundreds of of some large carriage factories are T. S. Dinsinore. who owns and cultivates an average of over 400 lbs. The last dollars sacrificed for a. few panels of turning toward these timbers, and they LEXINGTON APRIL COURT, un3erher own supervision 400 acres I day of the five he broke 603 lbs. Who fence. No care whatever is taken only need to be better known in order land. Her fields, fences, orchards, etc., can beat this? The says many either to preserve the old forest walnut to become a good source of revenue Shorthorn Show— Kidd's Two-day Horse are models of perfection. The small Sale. farmers who own hemp land will plant now standing or to encourage the young to the people. The red maple, which grain crops in the Winter bottoms are potatoes instead of hemp this year. R. growth. Besides this, except in certain is growing more and more into favor in very thrifty and promise a large yield. Editor Farmers' HomeJournal Starks will plant 60 acres, Elij^ localities, there is a practice of yearly cabinet work, also abounds in Bell and 21. I i Lexington, Ky., March — drop •MONTOOMERY. D^is acres, and others will put in “ burning off the woods,” which is do- Harlan counties. The linden {Silia 30 you a line to invite you to try and be at The barn of N. B. Thomas, near ’almost irreparable injury to the Americana) is al.so found in large quan- Targe crops of the esculent. ing our Lexington county court day, April mills, j Howard’s with 100 bbls of corn, HENRY. forests in those parts of Black and tities through these mountains, and is 14, as we expect to have a Shorthorn hay, etc., was burned last week. The wool sellers around Eminence Brush mountains where the timbers are very valuable in cabinet work, paneling, i bull and heifer show on that day; also /Wm. Gay’s 17 ewes have given him this held a meeting, of which W. Craw- finest. Especially in the Black moun- etc. The pines, especially the pitch J. a horse show and Captain Kidd's ho^ ; ,^ear lambs. B. F. I 42 Cassity has ford was chairman, and it was resolved tains there is a very heavy growth of pine {Pinus rigida) and the yellow pine I wish '1'. sale the two days following. you rented W. Dowdall’s farm of 126 that they would hold their wool and weeds that yearly die down, and, with {Pinus mitis), are very abundant in to call attention to the bull show in the for acres $300. County court day at sell together, in order to make a more the fallen leaves, make a perfect mass parts of the mountains, particularly Farmers’ Home Journal, and invite Mt. Sterling last week. Best common satisfactory sale. Sixteen hundred of highly combustible material. Late Pine mountain. They are too well and urge the presence of lovers and cattle sold for 3^©3^c; mules in fair fleeces were represented, others in the fall, when these are driest, they known to need especial mention, except and breeders of Shorthorns from every demand at $60 to $70, tancy broke stock were invited to co-operate. are set on fire, and the heat is great to say that not a pine is to be found in quarter. We wish to make an annua) bringing as high as $120, SHELBY. enough to kill every bush that has ap- those counties of Western Kentucky recurrence of vital interest to all breed- CLARK. The Sentinel says: “Mr. Thomas peared during the year. .As this is on which my former report was made, Shall pleased to bring you out of ers. be Wm.M ade has bought B. P. Ca.ssity/ Plansbrough, of this county, has a ewe done year alter year, there is no chance so far as I could discover. I know of to visit Cloverland while you are up, 39 good mountain ewes with lambs that has produced five living lambs and whatever for a young forest growch to no especial reason for their total ab- make it pleasant for you. in for per head; and thrown $3.25 Wm. is only two years old.” How the last start. The consequence is that in sence 'from that [lart of Kentucky. Our small grain erally l«xiks we ll sold to gen Wade Mrs. Joice recently 60 acres six words do kill an otherwise good item. those parts of Black* where Ortninly the want of moaiitains in an'd promises an aDundaiu yield. 1 . l Donaldson creek for $3,125. NELSON. the present forests are most dense and Western Kentucky is not a sufficient never had my stock, especially cattle, The old Doyle farm, on Four Mile Record: P’riday last R. Nichols valuable, there is not a single young explanation for pine woods are often J. ; look better in life, and have used creek, was sold to my George W. Doyle, sold to C. H. Warren 8 steers averag- tree or bush to be found. In many low and flat, though I do not know of less feed, because 1 put up cheap plank 200 acres, at $18 per acre. The ing 1,131 lbs at $4.50. John and places this practice has been going on any in Kentucky that are so. Other ' shelter for them last fall, and during all Democrat says sales ciT early lambs are Lilly of so long that the old forest is rapidly timbers found in Eastern Kentucky, bought Elder ' Thomas John 9 the winter gave each one a separate at nearly being made $7 per cwt. The cattle averaging 1,100 lbs at 50. dying out with age, and there is noth- that do not grow in such parts of West- $3. stall halter, with plenty of good usually and lambs weigh 60 to 70 lbs. MARION. ing coming on to take its place. If the ern Kentucky, as I have studied, are straw bedding (which makes me a large O. W. Price has sold his farm of 195 The Loretto correspondent of the practice of burning off the mountains the magnolias, hemlock. Rhododendron I amount of manure) and good mows and acres at $53.85 and $55.50 per acre. Standard says: T. Ballard had is not stopped immediately, at any rate and .American laurel. “J. troughs, so that no feed is wasted. I H- G. Tyle r, of Fort Df>dge, Iowa, planted 20 acres of corn March 18. long enough for a new forest to get^a have used bright, nice clover hay, cut says the Democrat, is in Clark buying W. T. Cook bought near Raywick permanent hold, so that fire can not 35 A CROP THAT DIDN’T PAY. in cutting box, and mixed with wheat high grade heifers and bulls. Shorthorn bus of Irish potatoes which he at once destroy it, before many years a moun- in lieu oats, like it correspondent in a late issue of bran, of and much Sales were made last week of the sold to Loretto .Academy for $i per tain as rich in valuable timbers as any A better for stock; besides, it is cheaper. .Martin lands: acres at the the Journal oj Agriculture and Farmer 515 mouth bus profit of per cent. and some I know of in this country will he al- —a 90 — With wishes for your success with the of river gives an account of a"crop of oats on Red brought $17. 10; 200 acres who sold complain that he should have most, if not entirely, stripped of its Far.mers’ Home Journal, I am truly of Indian Old Field^ tract brought $29.01 paid more.” Let them take the papers precious products. Some extra care which he held the watch, and which yours, W. Hf.arne. per acre acres of Howard’s seems to have brought him out in debt. T ; 184 Creek and keep better posted. L. .A. should certainly be taken to preserve brought per acre. He gives the figures and wants to know farm $20 .\Ir.Wm. Spau lding sold to Jos. Spaulding 191I4 and perpetuate so rich a forest of such Hallowell. for in what manner he could have made i SHELBY COUNTY CROPS, ETC. agent Mr. .\lbert Crane, acres of land on St. .Mary’s pike, timbers as black walnut, black, white, the crojj profitable. are the en- Durham Park, Kansas, bought several mile at per acre. and blue ash, white hickory, tulip tree, Here one from Lebanon, $40 ‘ Editor Farmers' Home Journal: Shorthorn bull calves in Clark, paying birch, tries as made upon his book : BARREN. black etc. So valuable are the farmers in this portion of Land Dr. i The Shelby $50 to $60 per head. white Oat — Lightning struck the tobacco barn of .Ashes and the hickory now be- are very elated over the fine pros- Rent i6‘^ acres at $2 per acre $32.50 ; much JESSA.MINE. W. T. .Adams, in Ralston’s Mill neigh- coming, that a Paris carriage manufac- Plowing same at $1.50 per acre 24.37 ' pects for a good wheat crop. Of this Dr.JIrown Yoiing was the purchaser turing firm IS thinking seriously of borhood, the Times says es- ' and Glasgow Seed oats 32 bushels at 20c per bu.... 6.50 cereal there was more sown last fall, of'T^.ose GlaSe, sold at commissioner's destroyed 1,000 lbs of tobacco, besides tablishing a spoke factory in some part Sowing i 6',2 acres at loc per acre 1. 60 and it was better put in than for many sale on Monday, 178 acres, at per I lai rowing in oats 2 days, man and team. 5.00 $150 damaging the barn. of Kentucky, where these timbers can years. drilled Harvesting at $i per acre The wheat looks much acre, .\mong the purchasers of the other HENDERSO.N. be most easily obtained. .Already there 50 24-37 Hauling and stacking 75c per acre 11.36 better than that which was sown broad- nine tracts of J. .\I. Patterson’s estate Reporter Baskett. Sr., Spotts- is a very large trade going on in Lirio- ' Thirteen men i day threshing at 75c cast. Many of the farmers have sent to were Messrs. Walter Handy, R. J. ville, is tile draining TTfsland. He has dendron or tulip tree (called yellow [lop- pvrday 9.75 i Louisville for pork-house salt to sow on Wilmore, John Crutcher. Thompson Board 16 men 2 meals each at loc per put down seven hundred rods already, lar) timber, logs of which are cut from their wheat, which must be done when Fisher, G. W. Thompson, and .\rchie meal 3-20 and says it works like a charm. .All the the mountains and floated down the Threshing bushelsat the ground is thoroughly dry. . 650 2'^c 14.62 Woods Jessamine Joutnal. "}amH wet land in the county could be re- Cumberland in immense numbers every Feed 10 horses 2 meals each 1.50 Very little rye was sown last fall for Headley has rented 200 acres of wood- claimed by this process. Wheat winter. However, I see no reason to Hauling bushels to depot 6 miles at 650 i seed. Of oats there will be a decrease land from Joe Bryant, near South Elk- never better, apprehend any near exhaustion looked and farmers are of this 2 cents 13-00 in acreage from last year. Most of the horn, to go in hemp price per > ; $8 acre. Total expenses and rent of land making preparations for large crops of timber, if more care is taken to prevent 47-77 hemp jiroducers inform that they Cr. me BOURBON. tobacco. the killing of the young growths by will in Sold 650 bushelsof oats at 171'.$! 10.50 sow but few acres hemp this B. !•'. Wilson has rented fire, which certainly some grass should be done. spring, as prices are not justifiable fora Sowing Grain in California.—The Straw at 25c per acre 4.06-$! 14.56 land at P'lat Rock, for a term of five .At least a dozen species of the most 1-oss on crop farmers around Woodbridge have given 33-21 large crop as heretofore. years, at per acre. ('linton- valuable timbers in the markets $2.35 of the l"nd which the crop .A producer in this county up drilling their grain. Some sow The on above hemp ville tanners are asking per cwt for world now grow in large quantities $4 on was raised is ordinary prairie sold his crop to an agent of a certain broadcast in the time honored way. upland, .\[)ril I ridges. hogs delivered 15. PM ward the Black mountain Their ex- faetpry in this for Others, and among them not a few of plowed and harrowed in the usual man- State $3.75 per cwt, and Cale Brown, North Middletown, , tinction would be even more than a ner; been in crop since 1873. .No fer- but when the hemp was placed within . the most progressive farmers, rig a seed have 68 lambs from Cotswold ewes, State calamity. In fact, Kentucky alone 43 tilizer is used. The naturally the doors of that factory the sower behind their plows in query “boss” , such a way and lambs from 8 Southdown ewes. might, at the expense of a few 14 hundred arises, in what manner cotild the above only gave the poor tender hearted V that although they plow from eight to dollars, have exhibited at F.^YETTE. Philadelphia, to [lay a fair farmer per cwt for his crop. ten inches deep, yet the grains of wheat crop have been made profit $3.50 Mr. John Hughes has sold to a New in 1876, a collection of timbers which labor over There have been a few land sales the Tall just in time to caught about on the expended and above be by would have rivaled the timber York party a pair of Vindex carriage exhibit rent of the land. By two methods past week or ten days. S. H. Bryant two inches in depth of the lap of the the of any foreign country in the cjuality, horses, 16 hands high, for $1,600. first, obtaining a few cents jier sold twenty-eight acre of his place, furrow. The writer s;iw some large only— by variety and value of its woods. John G. Wood, Russell’s Cave, has just it sold near here, to Harvey for ' bushel more than was for sec- Bohannon fields near Woodbridge which had been ; finished 4= 4: breaking and delivering his * ^ :f: ond, by increasing the fertility of the $71 per acre. Harvey Bohannon sold ' treated in this way, and it was the pret- crop of too acres of hemp, which he There are not many valuable timbers soil by manure or other fertilizing ma- his well improved farm, two miles north tiest sight imaginable. The long rows sold at $3.75. J olin Young, near in liastern Kentucky which I have terial. cost of production averages of this point, containing eighty acres, extended in straight lines across the not The Lexington, raised a crop' of corn last already noticed in a former report about 22j/^c per bushel, not taking to .Mr. Redman, of Harrison county, field, evenly and in a fine state of growth. on year which averaged 66 bushels ])er Western Kentucky timbers. Of course into consideration the value of the for $50 per acre, one-half cash, bal- In ordinary seasons it is not consi^lered acre. It was sold for seed. the black walnut, already noticed, straw. ance in one and two years, without in- necessary to harrow after sowing in this and SCOT! the black birch, of which there is a con- This may be a dry article to many, terest. W. R. B. way, if it is on summer fallowed land. L. Smith has .sold J. toB. Crossen, of I- siderable quantity scattered I dry facts about farming Bagdad, Kv., March 24. Branaseo BuUettn.« ,/ through but find many Phikadelphia, an American Clay mare, the Black and Brush mountains, are the when they are recorded in a book, and five years old, for ‘ $600 The ^.A Kentucky sharper, living back of most valuable timbers. But, as in West- still very interesting because they are Chufa Seed. —\Ve can fill orders for Georgetown 'Times says W. Z. Thomp- Petersburg, who has for years been ern Kentucky, the people seem to at- fixed and recorded facts, whereby the Chufa seed from a fresh arrival of son bought of Jacoby & Bros., Bour “finding” Indian relics, which he sold tach very little importance to either. one who makes and keeps them can re- South Carolina grown, received by a bon, eight yearling mules at $80 per for a handsome price, has been shown The Liriodendron is largely floated out fer to, and gather lessons for future seed store in this city. Price, per gal- head. The mules must be something up as a wholesale manufacturer of the every winter, as I mentioned before, farm operations. lon, express, $i per quart, mail, by ; by extra or there is mistake in a reporting pre-historic articles. Laivrencebiirg {In- for lumber. The white hickory [It seems that his expense for plowing cents, postage paid and 40 ; per pint, by price. Court day last week in diana) Press. blac k and blue ash rank next in the was too great at least mail, value ; ground by 25 cents. — ; : — — — : ' , —
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pippin is a seedling of the A LETTER I Brewington FROM HART COUNTY— ^OBTIGUiTUTiyii. show that the Lady grape is not, in all Allen (\ew \ Ork pippin Beil THE FRUIT AND CROPS. places, ;” Conducted by J. DECKI'.R, Secretary of the State ! “miserable and if it were al- fforticuiturai Society. i apple, and jirodiiced its first Davis) Editor Farmers' Home /ournal : most any one else than so famous a the fruit about the year 1871. 1 grew I see in the Farmers’ Home Journal grape grower as friend Husmann, I The Country Gentleman, in a compli- tree, it is to be found in my . r 1 1- r and now reports from many of the counties in would. venture to suggest that “miser- rnentaryei notice of the proceedings of regard to horticulture, etc., but noth- able” soil or “miserable” treatment the K'entuckyR'entiirkv HorticulturalHnrMriiltnrnl Society,.Snrielv ,r i i r i , *u Hardinsburg, where I reside at this ing from this county. I think you might have something to do in the case. says: “ It is replete with valuable in- time. It blooms one week later than ought to have a correspondent here also, .George W. Campbell. formation, and indicates the rapid pro- Ben Davis, and ripens from February as we have many good horticulturists Delaware, Ohio. gress made in horticulture in that State.” to .\pril if kept in a warm place during ; and farmers in this section. I do not Lengthy notices are made of the prin- WESTWARD PROGRESS OF THE early winter will be in good eating con- feel as I am competent to fill the posi- cipal essays. IMPORTED CABBAGE WORM. tree is _ dition by first of January. The tion, as I do not consider myself well Horticulture.— Dr. Choules, who of vigorous growth, upright, and spread- enough posted, being only a beginner In 1869, in my second report, in suffered ifeed to preach at Jamaica Plain, Mass., >ng as it grows older. Fruit in fruit growing. Besides I prefer treating of this insect, I remarked “ said once from the pulpit; “I wish that some this .season from bitter rot; about reading what others have to say to There is every reason to fear that it we could create a general passion for fifty apples in all for first time. I believe writing myself. may some day get a foothold in our gardening and horticulture. We want tho late frost caused the rot by a freeze, -Around this place the conditions are midst.” It was then confined to cer- more beauty about our houses —more to tind then the disease developed itself as favorable to fruit growing—their l>eing tain restricted parts of Canada and New attach us to our homes. The scenes the fruit matured. Have had grafts to a diversity of soil, from the rich level England, and had not spread west of of our childhood are the memories of grow eight feet in length in one season to the high knobs. Several nurseries New York. It has been making further our future years. Let our dwellings be, (first year's growth of grafts set by and fruit farms are in operation. There progress westward every season since. in the language of a late cultivator, .Aaron Norton, who is one of my neigh- are twenty-two acres in strawberries, The past year it has done considerable ‘the playthings of childhood and the bors), and bore fruit the second year all looking well; about one thousand damage as far west as Chicago, and I after the grafts were set. wild two have also received good testimony that ornaments ol the grave ; they raise goose plum trees; vineyards; “ PREMIUM smiling looks to man and grateful ones ‘You will notice that the bark of three large peach orchards, and other it was observed around St. Louis. I WATCH. ” The above cut represents in size anti style to God.’ these scions, are redder than the Ben fruits in jiroportion. The grapes and have given my reason in the report re- the Gentleman's Silver IVate/i, offered in our Davis scions, and this apple is a darker are to ferred to for believing that it will prove peaches thought be winter killed. Premium List to the one who gets up a etui ot Manure the Fruit Trees. In all red, more like the bark on the scions of Near half the bees in this country much more disastrous to the cabbage hventy subscribers at $1.50 each. This watch the older States manure is as essential the Ben Davis, while the bark of the died last winter from cold and damp. fields around St. Louis than the South- is a hunting case, and fully warranted by for the best results in fruit growing as is Otis W. Snyder, jeweler, Louisville, Ky. Brewington pippin scions colored I hear no complaint from farmers of ern cabbage worm {pieiris protodice), it is for grain and grass. .As a rule, the more like the Ben Davis apple. I think. disease among the stock or injury to which has always been with us, and has orchard is neglected; it is taken for VERY IMPORTANT on the whole, the Brewington pippin a wheat all cry, done at times considerable damage. I TESTIMONY ON the crop, but they “hard PAINT. granted that the apple trees, after they finer, showy tree and leaf than the times.” refer those who wish to be prepared “hard times.” New Egypt, N. Feb. are once planted, will take care of them- J., 12, 1879. jjen Davis tree, and the apple has more I ! with a full knowledge of think John S. Saunders or B. the habits of 0 . R. Ingersoll, J. Manager Patrons' Paint Co . selves. Some men think the orchard , flavor and is a better keeper. I have this Mustain, either, would make a good species to that same report. Dear Sir and Brother : My house, paint- J can bear a crop of apples and hay an- ed last 1 about thirty young trees of this latter correspondent of your paper. As a remedy, few liquids will prove year with your Ready Mixed Paint,
nually, matter :f the orchard has I looms up before the eye grandly, and is the no variety set out for a new orchard as G. T. M. more effectual than hot water, judicious- cynosure all seen no manure for twelve or fifteen i >} of sightseers. You recollect I late keepers, J A.MEs Brewington Caverna, Ky., March 19. ly applied, though one pound of whale tried .to have Dr. and Mr. S., of this years. .As a general manure, within oil soap dissolved in about six gallons of place, to adopt your paints, but could not in- reach of all farmers, there is nothing THE LADY GRAPE. Written for the Farmers' Home Journal. water, or even tar water, may be used duce them. Now mark the contrast at the better stable than or yard manure. ,A FLOWERS. Editor Farmers' Home Journal to advantage. The application should present time. The doctoi'r, is in streaks and dressing of horse loads looks dirty and old, as if painted many years. ten two of ma- In friend Husmann’s recent article be made several times during the year, “’Neath cloistered bough* each floral bell Mr. S.’s house has faded very much, while nure per acre every other year will , that j on grapes, he speaks of the Lady grape as it will be more effectual when the swingeth mine looks more brilliant than ever. When promote growth of wood and the forma- I as a “miserable grower” in his hands, are And tolls its perfume on the passing air, worms young. the full moon shines upon the house it looks tion of fruit buds. Unleached ashes I Makes Sabbath in the flelds, and ever ringeth and gives the impression that it is of lit- .As a preventive measure, the worms like a block of silver at broad daylight. The I
are the best and cheapest ' among ma- A call to prayer,” tle value. Mr. Husmann has not yet may be induced to transform under flat veranda ceiling reflects the arched brackets nures for the orchard. A hundred of the columns like a huge mirror. Every one The love of flowers is universal. We had much experience with the Lady pieces oT boards laid upon any object notes the contrast of the mixed paints over bushels to the acre every five or si.x grape and I believe the time will pome that will raise , ; them see them peeping out of the windows of about an inch from the old way, and admires the glossy appearance • years will pay abundantly. will greater in ! the poor, and trellised around the man- when there be a change the surface of the ground. These boards of the building. You can fully refer any one
j i sions of the rich. They are sent to our his opinion, with regard to this grape, should be examined every week and the to this house, for it is the largest and most Pears. —As the peach crop has be- I conspicuous on the line of the mothers at our birth. No bridal cere- than has already occurred toward the transforming larvae or the chrysalides de- Camden & .Am- come so unreliable of late years, and, boy railroad, via Pemberton. mony is considered complete without Concord. But my object is not to en- stroyed. The butterflies may also be ; as desire a fruit better than the 1 John S. Mallory. we apple ter into any controversy with friend . itsilO floralI1W1U.1 display, andcillVA Lllvr are ca])tured by hand nets, and thus be pre- , 1 they consid- Note. —Patrons’ Paint Company Book for summer use and one more lar ] y Husmann, and I certainly have no most appropriate vented from laying their eggs. C, V. . Every His offering at I One Own Painter— mailed free. peach, ^ than the more attention should ' obsequies. wish that the Lady grape should be pre- Riley, in Rural World. .Address South and Dover streets. New York. I be given to ,)ear growing. 1 here is sented to your readers in any other but Cheapest and best paint in the world. an o d saying tha “he who plants pears its true character. I have already stat- NOTES ON THE APPLE WORM. ^ .* ^ A CARD. plants for heirs, which is not at all i P * : i ed my own experience, which extends * ,• e- are enjoying create a de- .111 .dayswe now I I , ^ ^ To who are suffering from the errors and ap])licable to these times, for pears wi 1 Mr. Savage, of Lawrence, Kansas, ^ u ^ c n . i . over a period of over ten years, and, J. indiscretions • hearts of all plant of youth, nervous weakness, I J r /• ^iSireinthe to some- if fear in a recent number of Colman’s Rural bear as soon as apples, and of early decay, loss I thing, and what^ will^ give„ more pleasure with your permission, I will ofl'er ex- of manhood, etc., will send blight is urged, we would say that he IFotld, remarks upon the freedom of a recipe that will cure you, free of charge. than flowers ? Those who have a yard tracts from letters recently received who wants anything now that has not Michigan apples irom the work of the I This great remedy was discovered by a mis- with smooth grass plat from jjarties who are entire strangers to a broad, —and sionary in South America. .Send a self- its especial is likely to want. apple worm (Carpoeapsa pomonella). enemy of I have no knowledge what farmer in this.State can not have me, and \^|^m addressed envelope to the Rev. Joseph T. We know of but few orchards Jhat have This same freedom has been quite gen- that?—should now take a spade and lay except in a busmess way through cor- Inman, Station D, Bible House, New York not well paid for themselves before the erally noticed the present year not on- off beds in the turf of any shape his respondence. cily* iani6-iy blight caught them, ly in -Michigan, but in many parts of and many which Mr. Thomas B. Rayner, of Chestnut wife or daughters may prefer, as this is “I DON’T WANT THAT have never it all. New York,; and it doubtless obtained STUFF” been troubled with at Hill, Philadelphia, Pa., writes me, un- woman’s kingdom. F'or once let her is what a lady of Boston said to her husband Whatever blight is. there appears to elsewhere. of : “ I have have her own way about it, and don’t, der date March 17, 1879 when he brought liome some medicine to cure be one thing demonstrated fully, and It will be well for us to endeavor to as is usual with man, try to dictate what fruited the Lady grape that you sent her of sick headache and neuralgia, which that i^, it is worse on highly enriched arrive at the reasons. To my mind, had her pleasures shall be. me. I allowed it to bear four bunches made her miserable for fourteen years. ground than that of the following may very properly be .At the first attack thereafter it on medium fer- last season, and the fruit was excellent was adminis- The size and shape of the bed being tered with tility. The idea has always been that urged : The very general failure of the to her such good results that she fully up to all you claim for it. I read determined on, don’t begin turning continued its use until cured, and made pears require a very rich soil and high by apple crop in 1877, its exemplified in | in some agricultural paper some time so enthusiastic in its praise that she induced- the sod under, for if you do you will the report for that year, which we find culture, and then because they made ! ago that the Lady was a very delicate twenty-two of the best families in her circle give all an excessive wood growth the trees the girls trouble the summer both in the proceedings of the .Michi- | vine, but that is not my experience with to adopt it as their regular family medicine. through, but with a sharp spade take off were weakened heavy • gan Pomological Society and in those That “stuff” is Hop Bitters. by pruning, and - . , , , it. I have it planted in a very exposed least three inches thick, j)ut of the -American Bornological Society. consequently most pears were petted to place with many other vines that are ^ wheelbarrow and move it at ROPP’S EASY CALCULATOR death. If they were planted on land | This failure was in many localities so considered very hardy, and the Lady Is used by thousands of farmers, mechanics' ®*tce to some bare place in the yard and total that scarcely that would bring forty bushels of corn i nearly any apples vine is as vigorous as any vine that I and business men, who speak in the highets ' over, thereby killing two birds were grown, and it follows, as a conse- and enough cultivation given to induce have.” terms of its practical utility and convenience. stone; then spade up the fair growth and pruned only where act- bed quence, that very few codling moths Its wonderful simplicity enables even the most 1 Samuel S. Coffinberry, Esq., of Con- ually as deep as you can without bringing the were produced to perpetuate the species illiterate to cah.ulate with absolute accuracy necessary, we are confident there stantine, Mich., writes me, March 20, cl.ay to '.he surface make the soil as and speed, while its original and rapid methods would be far less blight, and pear grow- ; the following year. ; “The Lady grape I planted in fine possible, throw the dirt 1879 delight and benefit the most scholarly. Its en- ing become more popular. That at as to the A second reason, so far as Michigan the spring of 1876; in 1877 it produced tirely new system of tables shows, at a glance, middle so as to make that part next to least is our experience. is concerned, may be found in the fact a few clusters, which I reduced to four the correct value of all kinds ol grain, stock, the at least six grass inches lower than that in no State in the Union have hay, coal, lumber and merchandise, of any to mature and ripen. We are apt to THE APPLE. the center; now cover the top about two more intelligent and persevering efforts quantity and at any price; the interest on any BREWINGTON allowance for the high commenda- make time, at any rate inches deep with some fine earth from been made to prevent its ravages sum, for any per cent.: meas- few years ago an apple was exhib- tions which usher into public notice all urement of lumber, logs, cisterns, granaries, A the woodpile, well rotted and free from Through the columns of the agricultur- fruit.s, especially grapes; so I wagon beds, corn cribs wages for hours, days, ited in the Kentucky Horticultural new and ; chips, and the man’s work is done. The al and horticultural journals, as well as thought that if your Lady grape fell far weeks and months, etc. It is well and neatly Society of very fine appearance, and ladies the household, with of a few in the pages of their “Bornological gotten up, in pocket-book shape; is .acconx- called the Ben Davis seedling. Seeing short of your commendations it would nickel's worth of ]>roperly selected Transactions, ’ the simple methods of panied by a silicate slate, diary, and pocket still be a desirable acquisition. I was a notice of the Brewington pippin, we annual seeds, can have a bountiful for papers. It is unquestionably the most ^ fighting this pest—which have been re- disappointed most agreeably in finding complete and practical Calculator ever pub- wrote to Mr. Brewington and received i supply of beautiful flowers the whole ported and recommended in the Mis- I that it filled the measures of your lished. Cloth, $I ; Morocco, 50; Russia, following reply : $ the i summer through with very little work. souri Reports—have been persistently gilded, $2. Will be mailed upon receipt of “Prince of Wales, Ky., March 15. recommendation in every respect, and Now the flowers to plant : The Phlox kept before the people. Brof. Beal, of price by Farmers’ Home Journal. “Dear Sir ; The Brewington seedling in some particulars exceeded greatly the Drummondi stands first, as they are un- the agricultural college, has perhaps No. 2 and the Brewington pippin are one highest commendations it had received. ADVERTISING CHEATS. rivaled for richness and variety of done more good than any one else by and the same apple that 1 grew from I have between forty and fifty varieties It has become so common to write the be- color, profusion and duration of blos- showing that it cost him no more than seed of the Joe .Allen or New York of grapes, embracing fewer of the old ginning of an elegant, interesting article and som they are of every color known to four cents per tree to keep the bands then run it into some advertisement that we pippin, or Ben Davis. I was in the ; standard than of the new fancy varie- flowers. There is but one trouble at- around the trunks, changing them avoid all such cheats and simply call attention habit of calling the Ben Davis “New ties. I consider the Lady the finest tending their culture—they are preyed every nine days in the warm months, to the merits of Hop Bitters in as plain, hon- York pippin,” so I called the seedling dessert,grape in my garden—in fact, the est terms as possible, to induce people to give upon by a long slender black beetle from the first appearance of the worms Brewington pippin. I gave Mr. Dan finest I ever tasted—as containing more them one trial, as no one who knows their with two white stripes down his back, until the end of .August, in an orchard Smith a sample to take to the State of the excellent qualities than any other value will ever use anything else. that eats the petals of the flowers of 250 trees. I agree with him when Grange a few years ago. It was sug- grape for domestic use. My vine bore watch for, kill them, and if you begin as he asserts that “if a man will not take CONSUMPTION CURED. gested to me by Mr. Charles Downing, again in 1878, s:ill maintaining all its soon as you see the first flower notched the trouble to keep his fruit from the •An old physician, retired from practice, of Newburg, N. Y., that I leave out the excellent qualities What I regard as you will soon destroy them all. Then worm, he deserves to e.at wormy ap- having had placed in his hands by an East word pippin, and’ call it Brewington, the valuable qualities of the Lady grape ples.” India missionary the formula of a simple veg- verbenas make the greatest show ; they iich I1 1 ^ are the health, hardiness, and strong which have ado|>ted. It • name adopted. provesproves! iTi t r etable remedy, for the speedy and permanont anything fur- Missouri apple growers should take to be a long keeper, and originated with ' growth of the vine its coming into cure of consumption, bronchitis, catarrh, asth- ; courage from these facts. Since my con- me on my farm four miles east of Har- bearing so soon after propagation; its ma and all throat and lung affections, also a . 1 r ^ound the edge of nection with the department of agricul- positive and radical cure for nervous dinsburg, Ky. James Brewington.” productiveness and early ripening; its debility , the beds street alyssum seed it is pure ture there have been sent to me four and all nervous complaints, after having tested The following is from the Gardener's ; tender skin; its 'color and delicate; white and as iragraiit as mignonette, different kinds of patent bandages to be its wonderful curative powers in thousands of Adonthh- bloom its most e.xcellent, sweet and ; cases, has felt it his duty to make it known to ^ °"'y inches high China as- used as traps for this apple worm, but I “Mr. Charles Downing kindly sends ; sparkling flavor its small seeds, tender his suffering fellows. Actuated by this motive, colors petunias lychnis, ; can find no advantages in any of them us a specimen of the Brewington pip- ; ; pulp and flowing spirited juice. In my and a desire to relieve human suffering, I will bandages, first ^ ^ over the simple paper send, free of charge, to all who desire it, this pin apple. Mr. 1). says ; ‘The a|Vle soil, and with my culture, the berries , since ' ly^hn's perennia you can get the ” recommended by me in 1872, and recipe, with full directions for preparing and IS of good size, showy, and the qualitv are almost transparent ''OOtS. PortulaCCa, all COlorS the dodouble very generally employed. C. V. Riley, using, in German, French, or English. Sent n linll vvnnlin,. in ; good, although a little wanting in juice. To show that the Lady grape suc- by mail by addressing with stamp, naming is particularly showy. .Antirrhinum in Rural World. It will no doubt be valuable for the lo- ceeds also at the extreme South, I ap- this paper, W. W. Sherar, 149 Powers’ Block, (snap-dragon), mixed colors, and migno- A’. zyjune eow26t. cality where it originated as a late keep- ]iend an extract from a letter from Mr. Hard words are like hailstones in Rochester, N. nette. These seeds, planted each in its er and for market.’ We agree with Mr. John Craig, of Tallahassee, Florida, summer—beating down and destroying separate bed or all mixed, will make a We h.'xvc received from A. M. Purdy, of Downing. It is an improvement on .March 17, 1879. He says: “The Lady what, if melted into drops, they would page beautiful show when in bloom, repaying Palmyra, N. Y., a very instructive 20 Ben Davis, and that in itself is a great grape, which I got from you several nourish. pamphlet, telling how to grow small fruits more than one hundred fold the money gain. Mr. Brewington, of Prince of years ago, does finely here.” successfully, describing sorts, etc. He expended. and labor Physicians recommend Dr. Bull’s Cough sends it to all applicants, as also a speci- Wales, Breckinridge county, Ky., the .-Vll these communications, and I have free all medicines fail “The grass is wet with shiny dew. Syrup when other as a sure men copy of his monthly paper and fruits and raiser, gives the following account of many more of similar character, were Their silver bells hang on each tree. cure for bronchitis, sore throat and coughs or flowers.
: voluntary part of the writers, its origin While opening flowers and bursting buds on the colds of long standing. For sale by all drug- “ Best Sweet Navy Tobacco. ‘Now, this is to certify that the Breathe incense forth unceasingly.” ind were unsolicited. I think they gists. Chew Jackson’s — a : —: — — ; 1 —
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woke to find the old man in his chair from the moor and a more hearty time VHt +r0USJ:-H0i-l3. ; G. B. DUVALL, 1 imagined, I enjoyed after fairly succeeding looking, haggard and dis- never Breed«r and Shipper of Detroit Free Press. tressed. gazing intently at me through in unlocking the gateway ol my surly THE HIGHLAND BOTHY. the darkness. .My dread of him became old host’s heart. “Tonald” showed me FOWLS AND EGGS. fainter as the night advanced and my where the Prince had only a few months [Concluded.] eyes grew more heavy. Yet I wonder- before hidden in the glen a hiding Rri^e Lhl 'f Halrhiaj Eg?!' perU. “What for then did ye mak’ sic a — ^ ^ / Brahm:»s, Light and Datk, ed why he did not go to bed instead of place which the old father had been noise if ye cam’ wi' an honest purpose? V T Jr $2.50: Cochins, Part, and moving aimlessly to fro. I offered and refused the reward of forty Buff, $2.50: Plymouth Rocks, Are true ? in the En- and Then ye Ye’ll no pe $2.50; B.B Red (tames, $2.50: fell fast asleep. thousand pounds to reveal—a spot to glish service —one o’ Gen. Blackney’s Leghorns, Brown and White, $1.50; Bronze Turkeys, had to S3. 50; Pekin Ducks. $2.50. One chromo of fanev fowls playing loyal It must have been about daybreak which “Tonald,” too, retire when crew— when ye can pe given with every sitting of eggs ordered. No fowl or My Annual looking stranger ap- Catalogue of Vegetable tunes on your pipe like that?” that I was suddenly awakened by an e.x- any suspicious eggs sent C. (). D. Incolse stamp for circular. Ad- .\vc., Louisville, Ky. and Flower clamation issuing from the next room. peared the stalwart Highlander being dress (L B. DUVALL, 191 Third Seed for 1879, in King ; I assured him I was not mar6-2m Rich in engravings, from original photographs, will be for the part he had taken George’s service, and that my flute 1 started to my feet, hardly remember- a marked man sent FREE to all who apply. Customers of last season need not write for it. 1 offer one of the largest collec- ing where I was, and imagining that I in the cause of the young chevalier. “OLD CHICKA3I.VI tiA” had many loyal Jacobite tunes in it that tions of Vegetable Seed ever sent out by any Seed last, in the beginning of the House in America, a large portion which were would gladden his old heart, if he must have dreamt. Then the door of When at of grown on my six seed farms. PrinUd directions /cr the opened suddenly, the old following week, I bound my wallet on would only let me creep near his fire. room and POULTRY YARDS cultivation on each package. All Seed warranted to be both fresh and true to name; so far, that should it man tottered rather than walked to the my shoulder and moved homeward to- J. T. SCOTT & BHO., Proprietors. Very reluctantly and suspiciously he prove otherwise, / will refill the order p-atis. The sat in Craigend, it was with Highland original allowed to pass in, holding the nape kitchen. He down his chair, wards introducer of the Hubbard Souasli, Phinney’s me CRAWFISH SPRINGS, WALKER. CO., GA. Melon, evidently unconscious of my presence, blessings from faithful and steadfast Marblehead Cabbages, .Mexican Corn, and of his collie’s neck tightly as I pas.sed. Breeders and shippers of scores of other vegetables,! invite the patronage of all who are anxious The brute’s temper seemed of the same put his face in his hands, and burst into hearts showered plentifully on my head. to have their seed directly from Ihe power, fresh, true, and oj the x>ery best strain. a flood of tears, moaning to himself High. Class Poultry, metal as his master’s. NEW VEGETABLES A SPECIALTY. !” Dark Brahmas, Partridge Cochins, Hnudans ano ; dark. “Oh ! She iss dead—she iss dead A Buu.y Boy with a Glass Eye. J AMFS J. H. Marblehead. Mass. The kitchen was very There ORRGOR Y , Brown l.eghorns, Bronze Turkeys, Fancy Pigeons dccx cow is dead ?” I asked, Pacific 7 3-W9-p3 was only one chair, an old fashioned “Who touching .A woman in a Kansas railroad Italian Bees and Queens. Eggs for hatching securely | packed, and safe arrival guaranteed, at livc-and-let- his arm. car sat facing a man who, with one eye | high backed arm chair, in which the live prices. .
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by means of his oar. He carries a fo" THE SHORTHORN INTEREST. idle workmen are roaming over the OUR WASHINGTON LETTER. horn, which he blows when he meets country as tramps; and we have misery, Breeders are sending in more pedi- Faries' Hoi Jodenal steamers, and if they do not get out of suffering, and starvation—all brought From the Dome of our National Capitol grees of Shorthorn cattle to be record- Congressional his way he yields the channel himself about by a tyranical monetary policy, Notes —The Speaker- A Record of Agriculture. Live Stock, Horticulture, Botany, than usual. This is the direct result ship — Political Gossip Ben and passes on. Capt. Boyton stayed ed adopted by the United States adminis- — and the Kindred Arts and Sciences. for this class Butler’s Engagement. of the increased demand tration. U Pcsliuhic Bvimy Thcimday^ at two or three days in Louisville, and Alas, poor America 1 of stock and a decided improvement in LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY. gave an exhibition at Floral park, in a /^rvm Our Regular Correspondent prices. Western stock raisers have NO, 15, C01'RIER-J01;KN.\L, UlIlLUiNG. lake prepared for him. THE CHEAPEST IN THE END. For once a new Congress has been raking the Bluegrass country over con- vened just when it should, and made LEXINGTON’S CENTENNIAL. for young bulls, and while this demand The Equitable Life Assurance Society I. B. Editor and Manager. NALIj. auspicious advent hand in hand with has not been generally for the fancy or ' of New York, issues Tontine policies, On the 2nd day of April, 1779, the flowery Spring bedecked in her brand TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. high priced stock, the sale of the jdainer which experience proves to be the cheap- first settlement was located at the spring new garb of hunters’ green, attended One copy one year $2 00 animals has had a salutary effect on all. est in the end. Policy holders who oopiea one year 3 60 in the vicinity of Mill and Main streets Two have paid eight or nine years, by birds and bees, young iamb, spring Five copies (new subscriber.-* ur renewal.*).. 7 50 It is to be wondered that more of these and find in the now thriving city of Lexington. chicken and asparagus. During Any one in renewing, who sends a new bulls are not taken in this State. A gen- their dividends nearly extinguishing the the stockade was made and the hardy present week its organization has name, can do so ai $3.50 lor the two sub- tleman writing to us the other day on premium, and annually increasing, feel been acriptions one year. settlers began under its protection the ' effected, committees selected, jtarapher- this point, expresses a desire to see more very happy that they have not been Where currency is not at hand, persons in cultivation of the rich soil in the vicini- nalia prejiared, and all the improved bulls used in Kentucky. He drawn by clap trap arguments into in- complex remit ing can send postage stamps in small ty of their fort. The settlement grew vesting their machinery of legislation —even to the i money in policies with amounts. says ; ‘’By the use of pure Shorthorn so rapidly into a village, and then to be the wheels within wheels set in smoothly We prepay postage on all papers sent to sires the value of every calf dropped called “rebates” at the start. — beautiful city which Bluegrassdom and subs.nbers. maturing of running order. Before the ist of May . will be increased in value to the amount The Tontine policies the RATES. is ADVERTISING all Kentucky so proud of to-day. An : Equitable are an unanswerable argument a considerable quantity of business can Advertisements will be inserted in the eight has pushed one of the sevens * i^iV , , • ii u ^ be easily disjjosed ot that is, if those regular adver.ising columns of the FARM- m a neighborhood in favor of a prudent and skillful man- ; fromfrL therb. dateH-,1^ ofnf this first settlementand.nnH I who are jjaid per ERS’ HOME JOURNAL at the following would buy together, and with ten cows agement. It will pay to examine the $5,000 annum to do it
admonishes the good citizens that one : not to mention good rates would get double his results of the Tontine plan before in- — round sums to 1 apiece each one One inch, one time $ 180 years have been scored for hundred suring. icome and go (oblivious of railroad One inch, four times 5 00 money back in return by the increased ! their city. Hence they jiropose to cen- passes in their jmekets), One inch, three mouths 10 00 ! value the first year.” immense station- One inch, six months 16 00 of the calves tennialize, so to speak, on the night of Catalogues, etc Received. — W. ary bills and other perquisites too One inch, twelve months 25 00 It is not necessary that purchasers , -April 2. The arfair will not be un- numerons al- : to enumerate Authorized advertising a^onts will be should go into the fancy families where B. Jones, Birdsville Ga. field and —are inclined to lowed a commission of 26 per cent, on all dertaken on a grand scale, however, garden seeds. perform their duty. Like all good house- an animal is only wanted to grade orders coming through their hands. the proposition being to illuminate the Hovey Co., Boston, Mass. : illus- wives who begin the spring by a regular u]) common stock, but it is beyond & Advertisements will not be given special city, give way to music, bonfires, fire- ' trated guide and seed catalogue. jjrocess of house cleaning, overhauling position in this paper. controversy that to obtain the best re- works, and all manner of impromptu Harris, boxes and cupboards corners, ' suits a pure one must be used. Some Joseph Moreton Farm, Roch and Jiring- enjoyment. procession, headed by ester, N. Y.: catalogue of field, garden ing to light the things that are hid, and THUKSIIAY, M.YUCII 27, 1S71). one may ask. What is a ])ure Shorthorn? the mayor and city council, is also pro and flower seeds*. completing all unfinished or neglected , f he committee reported at the first I -I ij 1 I lu' iiosed. I he site of the old blockhouse • - I ‘ r -u ou -u u j W. AA’atson, Normal, 111 . : fruit jobs which have collected during the • • meeting of the Shorthorn Breeders -I, u 1 j 1 r 1 will visited, iilaces of his- • be and other , IMPORTANT NOTICE. , 1 .a . 1 and plants; price list. winter. Congress should immediately * j I .-Association a rule that no animal was
torical interest. ' E. Peak & Son, South Bend, Ind. : inaugurate a general “clarin’ up time” B@“ The subscription price of the pure that did not trace to imported dam small fruits; price list. of its jjigeon holes and accumulations. sire. .-As the Shorthorn is a foreign Farmers’ Home Journal is reduced THE GREENBACK CONVENTION. 1 and E. B. Underhill, Poughkeepsie, N.A'.: .Among the first things deserving its to $1.50 per year until the ist day conception, of course this rule was not a call issued Guffy, j small fruits price list. vigorous attention —even before the ap- Upon by Judge ; of April, 1879. Subscribers in a stretch of the blanket. It is impos- of Butler county, who is on the com W. S. Little, Rochester, N. Y. : propriations—are the hundreds of pri- arrears can at the same sible for the English Shorthorn to be RENEW I mittee the National nursery stock price list. vate bills, just in their nature and of rate. of (ireenback produced from native American stock. ; importance individuals, Teubner, Sedalia, Mo. : paramount to (Toledo) party, about forty delegates phere may be cases of individual ani- Husmann & met at Frankfort last week. majori- nursery stock juice list. which passed the House but failed in A SUBSCRIBER at Beaver Dam, Ohio A ^als or even superior ; j being equal to ty of these were G. W. Campbell, Delaware, O. : small the Senate, or vice versa, and are now county, Ky., writes March 20 . “The from Shelby and ! ,0 other, a'nd yet not be so well bred ;
counties, this fruits, plants, seeds, etc. catalogue. i jnning for ventilation. Surely the peojile people are making preparations for a Henry and majority took jhig proves nothing, for in a Short- ; large jiossession of the convention, ' of the country are entitled to a little con- tobacco crop in this section the refusing horn it is more the certainty of the is the of a sideration as well as those whom they ensuing year.” the right to vote by counties on ques- good qualities being transmitted than Rhv.mesof Science name little published the Industrial have exalted to its offices. tions of imjiortance. The committee individual condition that we seek. work by j Mr. Jord.-vn, of Midway, Ala., writ- Publishing Company, New York. It For days past the war between the on resolutions rejiorted what the mi- We want iirejiotency, and this is only 'I ing to Mr. Shelby Wilson upon receipt nority jilatform, seems to be a collection of rhymes, of ! rival candidates for Sjieaker has been termed a rejmdiation ’ i>ossessed in the highest degree by ani- with great fury little of a shipment of fowls from his yards, which the following is a fair specimen ; waged and not a and carried it by their force of num- mals of pure blood. AV'hen it is of so
“ 1 bitterness. At the Randall headquar- -says : The birds came fully up to ex- hers. The delegates from other coun- mucii imjiortance that the pedigree THE BEGINNING. Now Adam he stood in his garden alone. ters there was great confidence and, how pectation. The Pekin ducks are remark- ties, headed by Judge (Uiffy himself, should be easily traced to dam and sire Ere out of his body had come a rii bone ably fine.’’ We like to see approval took no further part in the proceedings, their favorite could be beaten his of imjiorted blood (it matters not as to from a rib you’re aware. I For woman was made expressed by j)urchasers of fine stock. and declare that they will not abide by friends could not see. There was just the time of the imjiortation), why So rib bone's their idol, and ribbon they’ll wear). It as much confidence at the Blackburn shows that the breeders are doing the the acMon or vote for the nominees of first his race, a monarch sublime. j is it that so many breeders are care- The of fair thing. is headquarters. .At midnight of Sunday the convention. registering their stock ? He gazed all around and said, “all mine [ less about liui still there’s a want, a something I miss, Randall claimed 14 majority. Blackburn Judge James Stuart, of Owensboro, -A careful and honest record is neces- During a run of the Carlow and .And I feel that I long for something to kiss." at the same hour was sure of his elec- was nominated for Governor; Dr. D. sary the interest in the fu- to breeding Soon after poor .Adam fell down in a sleep. Island hounds, at Wicklow, on Satur- B. Lewis, of Hardin, for Lieutenant tion, with 13 votes tosjiare. .A id so the ture. Let it be said right here that the Not restle.ss and tossing, but solemn and deep. candidates the cap.io! day week, the master’s horse fell while Governor Isaac Trabue lor .At- was two went to on ; H breeder who sh,j^ws a clear record ot his Then rose he, but knew not that woman leaping a dangerous fence broke Monday night to await the result. 'Phe and ' torney General; Capt. J. Walcott, of stock will have no question of his jiedi- maid, his neck; thewhipper's horse, jumping He walked in the garden and was not afraid. I caucus was held and Randall obtained Franklin, for Treasurer, and Henry grees or the (juality .of his stock in the 75 Hut hold ! what is this ? a maiden so fair 1 after, met a similar fate, and the hunts- Potter, of Warren, for Auditor. votes and Blackburn 57 on first ballot. future, while animals from the herd of a Walks boldly up to him without thought or man’s horse fell dead before jumping. in Blackburn, defeated, but not cast down, The Greenback jiarty Lexington careless, haphazard one will always be care. 'The three riders were injured, but not ' made a speech and moved to make his held a meeting last Monday, and after looked ujion with suspicion, if they are A'oii’re anxious to know how they first broke seriously. antagonist’s nomination unanimous, and hearing the report of the withdrawal of not directly rejected. the ice? i Well, below find the words—’twas done very ' so the hatchet was buried. There had their delegates, adojited the following : In the last issue of the Hartford nice been a deal of tall story telling on both Resolred, That the representatives of the FRANCE. — I’m i(Ohio it is PROSPEROUS He “M adam, Adam.” county) Herald ^ . announced National Greenback party of Lexington in- sides. Men were claimed by Randall She— “ .-Adam, I’m Madam.” that Mr. A. H Cummings will soon be- dorse the action of our delegation as taken in and Blackburn, and, as a consequence, I “ The French Minister of Finance , . J the foregoing report and furthermore be it | gin the jiublication at Hartford of a ; such men are denounced as having Resolved, That we most emphatically declare yesterday paid the Bank of France Fighting.— .An account of cock Republican pajier. AVe have no objec- Cock gone back on their word. However, the last installment of the ourselves opposed to anything emanating from $13,000,000, | fighting and its attendant incidents, as tion to Hartford having a dozen papers the matter is settled now, for when Con- .M. -M. Pomeroy, whom we regard as the grandest $310,000,000 borrowed from that insti- given by a 'Pexas jiajier some years ago, if she wants them, but the people of gress convened on 'Puesday, Randall p 'litical humbug of our age—a man that would tution to helj) meet the expenses of the ; blends most queerly the amusement and that county owe a liberal supjiort to the sink any party that he may be connected with; had 143 votes and was elected. In the war and the war indemnity jiaid to j the religion of the Mexicans. It says : Herald first, last and all the time. Col. and be it further Senate there was not a little curiosity to Resolved, That the action of the conven- Prussia. The total cost of the Prussian “Every Sunday, just after mass at the John P. Barrett has made them a good, in foreign Democrats, now control, tion will not interfere nor intiuence the inter- war and occupation was $1,857,- old Mission church, there is a coc newsy paper, and is entitled to a con- themselves. 'Phere ests of the party regarding this city or county. conduct was 576,400, including the $1,000,000 jiaid fight, generally numerously attended. tinuance ot patronage. however, very little of interest, andjhe It is to Germany, and the extraordinary ex- Strange that the advocacy of re- 'Phe jiit is located in the rear of the first day of the extra session passed lief measures can not be jnit in the jienditures were jiromptly met by means church, about one square distant. On Mr. A. W Norman, oI Union with hardly a ripple. jiojnilar hands ot men who will not fly from one of loans and taxation. It was last Sabbath, going jiast the church door county, to whom the Plymouth Rock AA’hile Speaker Randall was re-elected extreme to the other. Prick Pomeroy’s supposed in Germany that France would fowls were sent b)* W. Shelby Wilson about the time of service, I observed a on his own merits, it is undoubtedly the doctrines put into operation be hopelessly wrecked by this fearful for a of subscribers to this pajier, would couple of Mexicans kneeling near the club fact that his success is looked upon by “1 carry us from the ills we now bear to drain on her resources, but she collects door, in a jiious attitude, which would writes, March 18 : have received jioliticians as a very decided indication those we know not of, but readily to-day a larger revenue than Germany doubtless have appeared very sober and I the jiair of Plymouth Rock fowls from the of in getting the i of success Tilden imagine would be tenfold worse than or this country, and is rapidly jiaying Christian like had not each one held a Mr. A\’. Shelby Wilson in good order, Democratic nomination for the presi- the bills the those from which we flee. Our Ken- off contracted through un- 3 nart game cock beneath his arm. They and I am well pleased with them. dency. In fact, the old political stagers tucky Greenback advocates are, as fortunate war with her neighbor.” 'I'hey are fine birds, a had evidently jiaused a moment on their and they had many in Washington already put it down as rule, honest seekers alter relief from the Cout ter-/ottrnaj. way to the cockpit, in order to brush admirers while I was taking them home. an assumed fact that 'Pilden and Grant burdens of partial financial legislation, 'I'he juosjierity of France is in strong over their little shortcomings of the past 1 am well jiaid for my trouble in getting will be the jiarty candidates pitted and when they once get to know that contrast with the stringency that has week.” the club. I will try for another one at against each other in 1880. 'Phe figur- the advocacy of extreme views only jirevailed in this country. In France once.” ing for 'Pilden is on this basis: The drives their more cautious friends into the government issued gold, silver, and Phe Carriage 'Prick. — A certain Democratic jiarty can count upon car- We return thanks to Mr. W. T. the ranks of- the enemy, or render them jiajier currency, so as to keep in circu- builder of carriages made a practice of rying every Southern State, and it will Hearne for the invitation to attend the powerless for good, they will turn in lation upward of $40 in money jier keeping a carriage on hand to jialm off only need to secure New York and In- great stock show and sale at Lexington, like good fellows, destroy the idols that head of jiojiulation, and when it resum- on the executors of deceased noblemen. diana and some small State in addition on April court day. Pomeroy in his crazy sjiells bids them ed sjiecie jiayments last year, the same It was a costly vehicle, handsomely fitted to get the requisite number of electoral It is the intention of the editor of bow down to, and become a jjower for amount of money was kept afloat uj). .As soon as the death of a noble- votes. It is doubted if there is any other this jiaper to be in Lexington on the good in the cause of relief. among the jieople. 'Phere was no pres- man occurred, the carriage was decorat man who would be as sure of carrying occasion mentioned, and he will take When the Greenback advocates sure in money matters, no failures, no ed with the arms of deceased in the best New York as Tilden, and of course pleasure in visiting Cloverland also. come to recognize that their real in- fall in jirices of real estate, no distress, style of herald painting. W’ith this Hendricks would be a winning card in Certainly the lovers of fine stock terest is to advocate the course of fi no suffering, no idleness, no tramps—all preparation, a letter is dispatched to the Indiana. 'Phen, it is believed that 'Pil- foist respectfully inquiring when it everywhere within reach of Lexington nancial relief rather than to un- was bright and prosjierous ; and to-day executors den would stand a good chance of car- to car- will feel it to their interest to attend on worthy office seekers into jilaces they the last installment of the war debt has would be convenient remove the rying New Jersey, and yet a better one so important an occasion. -A very large are not fit for, or to build up newsjia- been jiaid off. riage, which had been built according of California, if that State was not neg- crowd will be on hand, and in every jiers that have failed to be apjireciated Hajijjy France! In this country just to the orders of his lordship. It had lected, as the California Democrats say of merit, they will be- been some time ready to be taken away, way it will be a very interesting week tor want then the reverse policy has been jnirsued, i ’’ it was in 1876 under Hewitt’s manage- in the “ Bluegrass cajiital. come useful, and joined to the great with jirecisely the opjiosite results. Our ' and the price was ^^190, or some such ment of the national camjiaign. Thus, mass of the jieople, who agree with government has contracted the amount sum. 'Phis unpleasant announcement with 'Pilden and Hendricks in the field, the Water Cajitain Paul them in the main, they can be of some of money in circulation to about one- usually led to a compromise. 'Phe car Man on — and with a bold and energetic chairman the ,-j Boyton, the water king, dropped down service to the cause. fourth the amount per head that is in i riage not being wanted, sum 01 of the national committee, an easy vic- ' upon this city one day last week, hail- circulation in France, and, in conse- money was jiaid by the executors to tory is figured out by these calculators. ing from the fountain sjiring of La Belle -A Goon Hotel.—-'I'he register of the (juence, our debts have accumulated take it off their hands. 'Phis was pre j behalf of Grant, of course, the fig- street, be- largely increased by comjiound in- cisely what was anticipated, The car- Riverie. 'fhe captain in his suit of rubber -Alexander hotel, on .Market and j uring is reversed, and a nearly solid took water somewhere near Oil City, tween Seventh and Eighth, in this city, terest, until they are overwhelmingly riage was now ready for a fresh start in North is claimed for him, with some Pennslyvania, and is on his way to the shows more arrivals than any other burdensome. 'Paxes have not dimin- ' plundering. The armorial bearings inroads upon the South. AA’hatever may obliterated and the panels were mouth of the Mississippi. His craft is house in the city. This is due to ished, money is scarce, and interest were ; be the result of the nomination, it looks simply a rubber air tight suit, which fits the fact of popular prices and that continu.s high for every borrower but ' prejiared to receive the heraldic blazon- to-day as if Tilden and Grant will be closely over his head and body, leaving Capt. B. .-Alexander, the genial jiro- the government thousands of millions ry of the next nobleman 011 whose ex- J. ; the nominees. August. but his face exposed. This he inflates priet'.ir, by a kind attention to his of dollars have been lost by failures and ecutors the same trick could be played Washington, March 20. with air until it will float him in the guests, makes them feel at home and in bankruptcy. States and city corporations off. Very clever this; but, like all! • • most turbulent water. He carries an every way and at all times caters to are deliberately repudiating their bond- rogueries, it was at length found out, planter, best oar and juovisions for a day or two. their comfort. The house has been ed debts or compromising them at fifty and a loss of reputation ensued. What 'Phe “Little Giant” corn cheapest planter, for sale by He goes night and day drifting with lately repaired and put in trim for the cents on the dollar, prices are lower than became of the carriage that had under- and hand Louisville, at $1.50 the current, but regulating his move- spring rush. The .Alexander is very ever before, property has depreciated in gone so many transformations we know C. Mercke & Co., ments as to obstructions and larger craft jmpular with the farmers. value, business has been prostrated, not. Chambers’ Journal. leach. A : — — ' — ' : H
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uyt STOCK. farm. New York, was used and contrib- SANDY SOILS. uted greatly to the value of the herd. Gemiiiie Heeler Of all soils to be cultivated or to be A & fisoii Seiii Macliiie _a$3!l Sami English has Marius 760 succeeded him, and he in Prolific Cow. — n cow restored, none are preferable to the lately given birth to four calves at one turn gave place to One Ton 2000, bred light, sandy soils. By their porousness ThU 1* the moftt unprecedented hnrenin that It hn« by Col. Waring, Newport, R. L, and of ever hccii the ability of* any ttrm to offer. hare securft) time—two bulls and two heifers. The rzctplional favorable Jum free access is given to the powerful on lenna. g
Uallock patent, per ; qi. crates, per too. i 16 $6 tee consists of Thomas Berry, of Pen- which are much more costly must be T WANT A GOOD JACk. Will either buy or $3 M known on the turf or in the stud, will Send for illustrated price lists and reduced rates for 1 farm one prefer to buy. Must be not less than dleton supplied. The constituents in clover ; 15 ; John Bruce, New Castle; B. large amounts. C. COLBY CO., come under the hammer. The sale hands high, dark color, and one known to be a good mar2o-4t Benton Ha.'^bor, Michigan. F. Drane, Smithfield; Wm. McElwain, roots above amount in value, at prices breeder pedigreed stock. Address will no doubt be a great success. and of Sulphur; R. L. Ricketts, Campbells- commercial fertilizers are calculated at. C. HAMILTON. ] J. burg to for the nitrogen, phosphoric! mara; at Sparta. Kentucky. BEECH GROVE JERSEYS. ; James Smee, Eminence, and Z. $35.17
Head, A. G. Drane, I. N. Guthrie and acid and potash alone, saying nothing I We are in receipt this week of the I I N. Rees, of Shelby county. of the other constituents, which are [nwrporation fourth annual catalogue of Jersey cat- Articles of All persons who have wool to sell, equally as important to the growth of tle, Berkshire swine fancy poultry, RTICI.es of incorporation filed Friday, and wish to into this crops. is also a good crop to grow. and who go arrange- Rye Starch at, of Moiwoe's Rotary Pump Com- issued by Messrs. Churchman Jack- A 1879, F.Vaist DOFtEN’S & ment, are requested to see the above There is left in an acre of its roots and panv, Louisville. K.y. Capital stock $100,000. Man- son, Beech Grove Farm, Indianapolis, aged by a board of five directors. Private property IMPROVED LITTLE GIANT named committee. stubble 3,400 lbs, coiltaining 30 lbs e.xempt. No indebtedness over $5,000. Ind. Dr. L. E. Brown and James Smee potash, 40 lbs soda, 14 lbs magnesia, P. O. HAHSaBAKGER, From the introductory we learn that JOHN MONROE. were appointed to find out if a suitable 69 lbs lime, 24 lbs phosphosic acid, 12 HENKY bABNGO, COEN PLANTEE their herd of Jerseys “wa.s begun in GEORGE E. H. GRAY, room can be had in which to store and lbs sulphuric acid and 62 lbs nitrogen. WM. JOHNS'PON. Price, $15 Per Dozen. 1869 by the purchase of six choice handle the wool, and a competent man Andrew H. I Card. mar37-4t COLEMn.N ROGERS. Address F. VAN DOREN, Patentee, P. O. Box heifers selected from an exquisite little 3J4, ADRIAN, MICH. feb6i3t found to grade the same. herd at South Orange, N. the prop- To Boil Rice Savannah Fashion. J., A meeting for March 29, at 2 o’clock, GOOD CURE FOR HARD TIMES. erty of the late William Take one pound of rice and ])ick it Redmond, appointed, at which time both com- 6000 NAMES was A Plantation of EARLY PROLIFIC forjct. -V-ldrt*s.s Nrws« . .Murfn’.’slKtro.Tenu. Esq. The all important object of main- thoroughly to get out black seeds or red mittees are expected to report. All and RELIANCE Raspberries. marzo X3t taining the rich milking qualities and rice. Put on ihe fire, in a porcelain or sai©; 200,000 i in the objects of the inn non tints, name, loc 50 for 15c who are interested lUUyUoU dcrella and Coniine ntal Strawberry Plants. f)C Fancy Cards, 15 with ; transmitting fair deal them from one generation tin lined pot, three quarts of water, with or gold. Good cards good work ; meeting are invited to attend. Consti- Millions of other Plants, Trees, etc. Every thing ZO Plain ; ing. Try us, W. E. HULL & CO., Hudson, N. Y to another has been rigidly adhered to two even tablespoonfuls of salt. Let new. novel and rare. Urice low. Send for descrip- tutionalist. tive circular to GIBSON & BENNETT, Nur- aprxi-eowiyr in the breeding of these cattle, the water to a boil. at th'e come Now wash serymen and Fruit Growers, Woodbury, N. J. entire disregard of fancy points and Seed. can the rice in three waters. The reason Early Amber Cane —We earing restored — Great invention markings.” supply seed of this cane direct from for this is to get rid of the pulverized H by exoe who was deaf for twenty years. Send stamp for particulars. JONH GARMORE, Lock The bull Marmion 359 was purchased one of the leading seedsman at $t per rice flour which adheres to the grain. Hox Covington, Ky. 905, AGENTS. from Mr. H. M. Wellington, near Bos- gallon, or 50c per half gallon. Orders This is a necessity; otherwise the rice DYIRJISING For the Best and Fastest ton, and was used in the herd for should be accompanied by cash, and never will be dry. Throw the rice in A^CMTO \A/AIITCn A 1 0 flA’tICU Selling Pictorial Books and ,-.^6 v^fourth several years. Afterward Ramchunder shipping directions should be given. the water when it is at the full boil. Let Bibies. Prices reduced 33 per cent. NATIONAL PUBLISHING CO., 718, a son of Rajah, bred at Ogden Small packages by mail 25c. the rice boil rapidly for twenty minutes. jana33m Chicago or St. Louis. — :
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13}c; old is being disposed of at private sales^ T 0.BA000 ll^fOBTVry^TJOM. almost exclosively. and thd sto<-k is very light, j The demand for colory and bright lugs is ’s C£CI]l,lh:o flow. Iteview of the t-ouisvllle Market. still very a(divc at full prices.
' From the Tobacco News. The total offerings at auction for the week houisvillo, March 22. — For. the week and expired portion of the current month and 250,000 PLOWS ending to-day; ' = year, with comparisons, were us follows : NOW IN USE, ifeceipiK this t<^ 375 hhds, week amounted Total offered against 775 lust week, and 1,293 this week in year — hhds. bxs. hhds. bxs. hhds. bxs. Giving Perfect Satisfaction last year. 1879 .... 44V 143 2.082 352 4,630 743 1878 ....1.218 227 999 10,678 2,;r29 Sales during the week wore 823 hhd.s, s;)3(j .... 7,42«i 2,:«8 , O 1877 2-82 5 O O O O 779 2.305 676 S against 1,298 last week, and 1,458 hhds this 1876 .... 422 266 1.134 723 3,»>56 2,294 INVESTED IN week last year. 1875 .... 411 188 l.iul 529 4.661 L6'Zb Their 31 aniifacture. Tobaccos. .Sales of new crop this week were 342 hhds, Cincinnati ttnoiatlona—Cuttini; NEW. OLD. against 647 last week, and 1,275 this week lust NEW JOINTER AND COULTER. Lugs common.. 2 ® 214 Lugs common... 4 514 year. Lugs good 6 @ 7 Lugs good 7 ® 9 They are the only Perfect Plow I,oaf Sales of new this year from .Jan. 1, 3,813 Leaf common.. 8 ® 9 common... 9 ®10 made. Every farmer should try them* ],ouf medium .11 ®12 Loaf medium ..10 ®14 hhds, against 13,448 same time last year. Do not waste money on poor tools. Get Leaf good 13 ®14 Leaf good 16 ®I7 the genuine OLIVER. Look for the sales the The following figures show the for Leaf line 15 @17 Leaf fine IS ®20 Name on the Beam. week, month and year so far, from January’ 1, with original and review inspections of old A PLEA FOR HIGHER PRICES IN BEWARE OF
and new : .M ANP7FACTURED TOBACCOS. INFRINGING IMITATIONS 1879. Week. Month. Year. Original 1878 crop 318 3,813 -\11 who arc conversant with the course of
Original former crop. ... .368 3,577 the manufacturing leaf market of laic do not Review 1878 crop 24 203 LEWIS, Sole require to be told that manufacturers generally GAGE & CO., Agents, Review former crop 113 1,740 will be C'impellcd, in consequence of such LOUISVILLE. . KY. advance, to either advance prices or lower the Total 823 3,166 9,333 are also agents for the “ ” eSrWe Celebrated Studebaker Wagon, and deal largely i n Agricultural Implements, Field and Garden Seeds. Year 1878 4.983 16,035 quality of what they make. How much that Year 1877 1,576 3,831 10,793 advance shall he is a question for every manu- Year 1876 783 3,374 11,947 facturer to decide for himself. That the ad- A Sure Cure for Piles. this date in 1877 the aggregate sales of vance will Ijc general admits of little or no ADAMS At CHZDLED PLOW! dispute. To announce to the jobbing and re- A sure cure for the blind, bleeding, itching new crop was 8,276 hhds, in 1878 16,032 hhds, I'Vbruary 22 1870 . trade of the the necessity , and to-day 9,879 hhds since November 1. tail country which and ulcerated piles has been discovered by The continuance of unseasonable weather requires advanced prices, or lower quality at Dr. 'William (an Indian remedy), called MOST marketing of new Tobaccos old prices, was one of the cardinal points in has curtailed the Dr. William’s Indian Ointment. during the past week, consequently our re- part of the discussions at the convention of A single box has cured the worst old chronic Durable, ceipts are less, as stated above. manufacturers at Cincinnati last week. <-'ases of twenty-five and thirty years’ standing. Tbe oflerings have been largely of old To- As some of the daily press of the country “ No one need suffer five minutes after applying baccos, with some very choice crops of redried have stigimiti/.ed the convention as a manu- Lightest, wonderful soothing medicine. Lotions, instru- Green River fillers, which sold up to $10.50— facturers' ring” and the reduction of the tax “ ments, and electuaries do more harm than being fully up to any previous week lately. as a huge manufacturers' steal,” it would Cheapest good. William’s the tumors, Considerable old trash and common lugs and have been belter if such misnomers hud re- Ointment absorbs allays the intense itching (particularly at night medium leaf was disposed of, all grades mov- ceived their quietus in advance by the con- after getting warm in bed), acts as a poultice, PLOW ing up to our advanced quotations of last vention recognizing proinply at the outset of its deliberations tbe vital iiii|>ortance gives instant and painless relief, and is pre- week. e of Mr. in the In new Tobaccos the light receipts afforded Weissinger’s resolution announcing to the pared only for piles, itching of the private parts, and else. opportunity for special comment further trade the fact that the large advance in leaf nothing no MARKET. than that both light and heavy Tobaccos of all of late was the sole reason which would ne- consulted physicians in Philadel- grades and styles were in good demand and cessitate an advance in the manufactured ar- phia, Louisville, Cincinnati, Indianapolis and RECEIVED FIRST PREMIUMS AT THE ticle, and not from desire firm at quotations, which we advance as fol- a on the part of the this city, and spent hundreds of dollars, and X»>rthcrn liulitiiia Fair, Whitley Coiiiitv Fair, aiul Koseiiisko County manufacturers to make money out of the ad- relief until I a lows : found no obtained box of Dr. Fiiir. leaf, vantageous circumstance of the reduction of William’s Indian Ointment some four months yondescript lugs, 25c; 50c. EVERY PLOW WARRANTED TO GIVE SATISFACTION. dark lugs, 25c common to the tax, as might appear to be the case to those ago, and it has cured me completely.” Oood bodied ; We are also manufacturers’ agents for ** Drag Saw Machines” for farmers' use, and dealers in Portable and good leaf, 50o. ignorant of all the facts. Joseph M. Ryder, Cleveland, Ohio. Stationarv Steam Engines, Saw Mills, Corn Mills and all kinds of machinery. Send for circulars. Catiinif good lugs and common ieaf, 50c. The obtusenc.ss of the convention in not “Has done_me more good than all the efc? If the market failed to show tbe same buoy- seeing the importance of passing .Mr. Weis- medicine I ever tried, and I have spent more B£vx“lo£^r*c:>Txx: Oo., 31 Third Street, between Main and River, IiOUISVILIiE, KY. ancy as last week, it was more for want of the singer’s resolution when first introduced rather than $ioo with doctors, besides medicines surprised us and nothing but the quantity of tbe .same desirable styles of Tobacco, ; tenacity I am sure cost me more than $40.” which were more abundant tlmd they have and force with wliich ho urged its rcooiisidera- David Spari.ing, Ingraham, 111. been since. Whenever a good siaed break of tion saved the convention from committing ‘ Have suffered twenty years with itching popular types appear, they command quick a very grave blunder, as the second thoughts and ulcerated piles, having used every remedy memhers appeared to sec; for attention, and arc active at full prices. of the when the that came to my notice without benefit, until BRINLY PLOWS rising The sales of old ttllery styles from first vote was called for, by an almo.st unan- I used Indian Ointment and received imme- hands are few, for want of stocks of sweet imous vote it was adopted. diate relief.” It is possible that stocks of useful sorts. We hear of a sale by' a well some manufac- James Carrol (an old miner), Tecoma,Nev. known rehandler this week of abqqt 150 hhds tured plug work which have accumulated, gte^No pile remedy ever gained such rapid » a> of fine colory fillers on private terms, made out of leaf bought previous to its late favor and extensive sale. enhanced value, may be sold near to old prices; although understood to be at full market O Sold by all Wholesale and Retail Druggists. value, to a prominent New Ibrk manufac- but even in such cases we judge manufactur- mari3'eow26t turer who was on our breaks this week. ers will be able to di.scovnr their true interest, CJ and how soon they will be likely to replace c Stemming sorts are still scare and selling THE GREAT ENGLISH REMEDY! well; 2 hhds of heavy new Mlssouris, al- new made work at the cost of old, and thus (O though green and mixed common leaf, sold at will the great factors in the ca.so appear and Gray’s Specific Medicine eo Qi and 45 considered well sold. place all manufacturers after a short time on $3.95 $4 — TRADE MARK.^* especially recom- TRADE NJARJC, 09 the same footing as to the cost of the raw ‘ The best crop of new Cutting offered this mended unfail* CQ - week brought $15.25. material, and cause a more general and de,- ing cure for Seminal VC Weaknesses, Sperm* on for the com- cided advance than may prevail in all cases Preparations are going atorrhea, Impotency Oa.e of tb.e Most Popular is Sliowzi Above. for delivery 1. ing season’s crop, and plant beds are be- May The pica for higher and all diseases that Si^Send for Full Illustrated Price List. ing got ready wherever the weather has prices of the manufactured article is a good follow as a sequence on self abuse, as loss district one, and will compel acquicsence Iroin buyers been favorable. In the Cutting of memofy, univer*.^ we be*r of preparations being made for set- of it .— Tobacco News. sal lastitude, pain in BRINLY, MILES SOSDKSCRIPT. I To obtain drawback a consul’s certificate of dice, Com. lugs $1 75(92 25 Com. leaf $2 50(93 50 Hop Bitters removes easily.” Good lugs 2 25(92 50 Good leaf.- — .3 50i94 50 landing is not required. “ Boils, pimples, freckles, rough skiE, EPHO OLD CHOP. N ES. eruptions, impure blood. Hop Bitters cure. aODERATRLT HRAVY BODIED. CARKI.K.SS LbOISLATIO.S ON ToBAtXO. OUKlVK\% Kl> UOl. KI.K, —A j “ Inactive opeci&i USOr. COILKO Tt^XXI*HOXA:{ Trash »1 50(9 2 00 Leaf med $4 00® 4 56 Washington correspondent of the Cincinnati kidneys and urinary organs |l* till* ttne»t In th«9 world, and the unlv completely (•nti-fu.-tc’-v '.v'* .... Lugs com 2 .50® 3 00 Leaf good 4 50® 6 Of cause the worst of diseases, and Hop Bit- ( >! inr^trumcnt: withtiprlng^^allAttachaaentfinadc b> prurtlcul Oazeiie says ; ‘-The Treasury Department has Lugs good .... 3 00® 3 50 Leaf tine 6 00® 7 00 ters cures mifit'hlnlMtMun BCientittcprinciplrB: wurrunted to work one milt* . uruit> cu- Lugs good...- 3 50® 5 00 Leaf fine nominal I ly, simply to introdure our in»irument»: they will f-oon be sufficiently well all Tobacco ex- full amount of tax paid upon I mamtairi Leaf com 5 OO® 6 00 Selections -. nominal HOP COUGH CURE and PAIN RELIEF IS THE BEST lown to sell through the trade, and we shall then be oblitnKl to ttricily j . j price. Alls person ofordinary intelh^rnoe direetionH Rent with each pair, weliave Leaf med'^ - — a. nominal ported, and directs the secretary to pav it to can put them u| bv following | For sale by all druggists. M)ld during thelat-t three months nearly lOOO ol the^eieRtruments, and have liundrrda o( leallmonlnla from ail UANOFACTUBINO— riLI.EEB. claimants at once. The largo stock ot man- ports otthe country- Wc ipuiaruntee all instruments wild. For any Telephone that fjils to work, we will retuiiil Dark Heavy. Nondescript. money and pay o]| chargeR. Ask anv Commercial .Al'cik-v. and*vmi will find we arc good for nil we agree to il^ I o»t- ufactured Tobacco now on hand has paid a age 3hc. Name tbit poper when you write. Iw C'o„ it& CoatcrcaaHt.* Boaion, JHaaar Com. lugs 42 75® 3 25 Trash .$1 50® 2 00 uodman^ Revised Stat- Good lugs 3 25(9 4 00 Cora, lugs 2 25® 2 50 tax of 24 cents. Seetioii 2,500, THE TRIUMPH. mari3 4t Com. leaf....- 4 ,50® 5 50 Good luES 2 50® 2 75 utes, provides ihiit, upon reimportation of ex- A Sewing Machine ... 5 50® 6 00 Com. leaf 2 3 50 Med. leaP 75® ported articles, on which drawback for taxes lr'*or ofilly ©O* Four Months Storage Free. Daily Auction Sales, with the Good leaf*... 6 (XI® 7 00 Good leaf 3 50® 4 50 t 'hrapnefio. Portabi I lty& of Rejection. as Lowest Rate of Insurace. SHIP TO THE Privilege Green River—Heavy has been paid, such tax slnill he imposed I'erleclloD ctniblned. Com. lugs 83 75® 4 WO Good leaf 7 00® 9 00 the revenue laws provide. This tax after the PsUDUd Uay 3d. IbTT. lugs .... 4 6 50 Fine leaf. 9 00®I1 00 No Lady would do wlth- Good 50® 1st of May next will 1>« but sixteen cents. It Com. leaf 5 25® 6 50 Selections 11 00®12 50 outtbUMarbiue for five ^ will, therefore, legal for holders of large Grades marked are nominal and scarce. be t iDiia iff* or st. Entirely stocks to export the whole and make eight new. Rlnglc Ma<'bln«8 WAREHOUSE 21.—Our PIKE TOBACCO Clarksville, Teiiii., March by Express ffi. AgeoU continue extremely ‘mall, being for the cents a pound, less expenses, by the operation. sales wanted In all parte of the Proprietors. week 130 hhds. The market was not material- Secretary Sherman thinks the authority thus US. Large comDilaelon. SEMONIN, MASON & LAUGHLIN, the govern- trial ly changed, old crop being rather higher and given for this operation may cost giro It a and be convlucedi circulars free. and .$3,000,000, l>ut new crop a shade easier. Our board of buyers ment between $2,000,000 E. A. HUTCHINSON, 307 Main Street, Between Eighth and Ninth. at present he sees no method of preventing it. is very large this season. But little is doing jani6>i2t lU Naiigau Street Xcw York. P. F, Semoms. Lquisyill*,. Ky. thinks that the stock that 1 ). in the loose market, planters being very stiff Secretary Sheriiian K. Mason, Paducah, Ky. LOUISVILLE, KY. R. Lavghlin, Hopkins Co., Ky will immediately I J. in their views. [Correspondent. has been sent abroad be | — A I finest IN QUALITY, LOWEST Q.uotatlo,iH. returned.’’ L fl price. Best opportunity for club Clarksville I ^ I TVAREHOXJSE.” ' Ma.rk year Hhds "MKE 3 25 r U agents and large buyers. All ex- Lugs common $ 2 00® in llawkeye advertises I SoMEiioDY the | I la Wr I press charges paid. New terms free. do good - 3 50(9 4 .50 Ln does not 1 t Leaf common 4_00® 5 50 ‘•slippeis bottomed.” Spicer says he THE ANTO\ TEA C03IPAXY, Only Single Ring Ever Invented that Closes on the Outside of the Nose 148 Chambers st., York. P. box do medium £00® 7 50 know how slippers arc bottomed, but when he New O 873. febi3COW4t do good 8 00® 9 50 RING and Triple Groote Hog and Pig Ringer. was a little boy he knew— well, never mind. BROWN’S!ELLIPTICAL do nno 10 00®11 GO the joint It overcomes a senous defect in all triangular and other rmgs which close with Selections — Boston Bulletin. CIQa day at home. Agents wanted. Out^l @ 'together in the flesh, causing it to decay and to keep the hog’s nose sore. fjlfc and terms free, Cincinnati, March 21.— (From Inspector The difference between a duck and a girl is Only Double Ring Invented. Augusta, Maine. E. R. W. Thomas: The offerings at auction is and tbe other is apra-iy TRUE A CO.. ) that one killed to dress CHAMPION HOG RINGER. RING AND HOLDER. this week were 449 hhds and 6 boxes. Of dressed to kill. — Boston Courier. irritation and soreness, as in case of rings tha close these 405 hhds and 6 boxes were new. RL?,E£:b.CARIJ;,E4.IX|R No sharp points in the flesh to cause j soreness of the nose. babyhood attack Bm .4 I with the joints in the flesh, and produce Cold weather has again reduced receipts When the disorders of mss tt^m sIim, ,MMlt, «a,k speaks for itself in the above cuts. n. ItVMWhk* N« • HOLDER for this week, and sales were light but prices your baby, use at once Dr. Bull’s Baby Syrup THE CHAMPION HOG ; L. 1 BERING QUINLAN were stiffer in all grades of characlfer, new and notice ita rapid and beneficial etiect. AUmWkm CHAMBERS, & 33jao3in Exclusive Manufacturers, DECATUR, ^LL. red fillers reaching the high point of 12Jc to Price 25 cents. iBari3 eow 131 ! , 1 -HOMS MISC£UytTj£OUS. I R. W. Meredith. W. N. Haldeman THE PEOPLE’S FAVORITE! . LOUISVILLE & CINCINNATI j 8 V 0 ISV© GRAIN IMAIIKET. New York, March 19. — Kxport grain de- Goirier-Jgoal Joi Eiosis mand wntinucs fair for winter wheat. SHORT-LINE Spring wheat has been little inquired for. R. \V. & CO., Prop’rs. | MEREDITH RAILROAD. The market generally ha.s been quiet.—[Cor. Farmers’ Home Journal New York C^uotAtiouM. WHITK. Wheal. RRD. THE QUICKEST, BEST AND ONLY ROUTE Extra $ 115 @l 15^ Win.No l...- 1 16 m With which passengers from the South make State 1 12 @l 14 \Vin.N'o.2 1 15X@ direct connection at Louisville with No.l lU 1 Win.No.3 1 lOJ?^ PRINTERS! FOR THE NEW YEAR. f‘3 No. 2 1 \()%0h S|>r. No. 2.. .. 1 05 j No. 3 1(W Spr. No.3 06 <«« Pullman Palace Sleeping Cars Amb.No.1116 ^ Auib.No-2.... 1 13 I Bin(iers, Corn. To Pittsburgh, Harrisburg, Philadelphia, 45 44 |I No. 2, mixod Unsrrp.ded •••II Str, mix’d, new. Yellow. 45 ^52 No. 3 43i4(t| AVhite 45 (360 Blank Book Manufacturers.! Barley. N YORK PREMIUMS FOR CLUBS 15 State EW Canada, in b’d.. 85@1 65 ^S5 i Cor. Fourth Avr. and Green Sts., Louisville, Ky. OatH. | •\nd other Eastern Cities, Extra white 36 @ No. 1 mixed 35 (3 No. 2 white 32 ^ Rejected .30 & The great success ol our premium offers last winter warrants Rye. WITHOUT CHANGE Western 60 @ Canada 62 (3‘>3 stock Catalog^ues, State 60 (*462 Jersey and Pa-55 (356 the publisher in presenting the following List of Premiums for March 20. — Tlie past week has Auction Catalogues, This is the only line running Pullmdn South 1879: seen lower prices lor all kinds of grain. ern Sleeping Cars from New Orleans, Mobile, Wheat closes Ic to l}c lower than on the date To any person getting up the number of names for a specified Sale Bills, Jackson, Miss., Montgomery, Grenada, Deca- of my last report, corn l^c lower, oats 2jc tur, Jackson, Tenn., and Nashville to Cincin- premium we will forward, according to his direction, the article call- lower, and barley 3c lower. The wheat mar- And all kinds of Printing required by Stock nati without change, connecting at that point ket has been virtually under control of the Breeders and Dealers executed for. Subscriptions must be for one year. can with all lines running Pullman and M’agner ed Renewals ‘‘bears,” and the decline in other grains was in the best style and at reasonable rates. Palace Sleepers to Toledo, Detroit, Grand in sympathy with the weakness in wheat. Be- be included. All subscriptions for these premiums, unless other- Rapids, Baltimore, Washington, Sandusky, low are the latest quotations.—[Corresp. Sl^Estimates Furnished upon Application. W'lirai, Cleveland, Buffalo, Albany, Salamanca, and wise stated, may be at $1.50 each per year. Names may be sent Winter No.2...fl 00@1 61 Spr. No. 2 New York without change. Spr. No.l...... ~...noiuinal Spr. No. 3 80K'"* 81 This is the only Line running its entire one, two or more as taken, and notice given of intention to try for Rejected 66 66)4 trains between Louisville and Cincinnati, and Corn. premiums so that a record of them may be kept. No. 2 3ni is I No. 2 16 Rejected.. 45 ^ | NEW AND where an elegant Dining Hall located, under Barley. STANDARD DOCKS the management of the railroad companies. CLTJB @7.5 3 - .35 ^ No. 2 74 No. ON @ Sleepers Atlanta, 3 3«» («3S Feed 24 Through from Chatta- Extra No. @25 j nooga, Little Rock, Memphis, and Vicksburg !’ subscribers at each will secure for the one who gets it up Cincinnati, -March 20.—Wheat market > ARCHITECTURE, EIGHTY $1.50 direct connection at Short Line make Junction I steady; light receipts; white $1.04@l. 07, red AND steady; mixed shelled with through Sleepers to New York, Phila- A Shorthorn Bull Calf. [email protected]. Corn, market j 36037c, mixed ear 35037c. Oats, market A (3- R I C U L T E delphia and other cities via this Line. U R ' subscribers will secure ] SEVENTY firm white scarce; white 280.30c, mixed Sent post miil 25 ; on receipt of price. ; 2 ASK FOR TICKETS VIA 027c. Kye, receipts light; market llrm; ; A Jersey Bull Calf. ' Woodward’s No. 2 54056c, sample lots 50053c. Harley Artistic Drawing Studies $ 5 04 Woodward's Ornamental and Fancy Alphabets ^ 04 dull; no demand; No. 2 fall 98i0$l.O3, No. Wf.oawar'i s Country Homes 1 04 | taiSfOle ai Ciltiiatl Stort Ik \\<>odwaril’.s Counges ; and Farm llou.^es 1 00 Pair of Fine CotswoW Ewes. 3 fall 75085c, rejected 40050c. [Corn;••sp. \>oooC«]'7ards National Architect, Two,.,, A Fine Cotswold Ram. March 19. market for Tol. 7 50 Xesv York, —The Wheeler’s HoiUfs f r tho People C 00 Wheeler's S. S. PARKER, FIFTY subscribers will secure sugars continues without change of moment. Rural Ihimes | 5o Copley’s 8 lundurj Alphabets Muscnvftdo firmly held Htthe reduction. Cen- 3 00 Gen’l Passenger and Ticket Agent. Jncfiues’ Manual of the House 1 00 A Ladies’ Gold Double Case Watch. trifugals of higli text difficult to buy except M:>uckton’8 National 8tair Builder 5 00 JOHN M.\C LEOD, Muuokton'sNational Carju-mer and Joiner..,, 5 00 Gen’l Supt, Louisville, Kentucky. FORTY subscribers will secure at very full quotations. Rural Church Architecture 00 4 jani-iyr llus.sey’s National t ottsge Architecture 4 uO Refilled sugars are in good demand; some , A Pure Southdown Ram. Cupucr’s Stair liullder 8 >0 whites are rather easier, but C and yellow KveIeth's2^chool House Arcliitectnre 4 'JO I FORTY subscribers will secure Hitrney's Barns. Buildings i Out . grades are firm. Stock well sold up. [Cor. sud renees. , . 4 0 — Jacques’ Garden. Farm aiul Barn Yaid 1 50 | of Poland-China Pigs (Boar and Sow) Nfw York 44uotatloii». Todd's Young Farmer's Manual. 3 Vois 4 50 A Pair | Vol. I, loaf -V. soft grain Farm and Wt rkshop 1 50 Cut ** secure • will 9. Profitable Farming 1 50 FORTY subscribers Crushed Extra C. whito~...7 i (S^^i “ ' @7% 3. Wheat Culture l 50 Powdered Extra (3, yellow. Rllntt s Lawn and Shade Treo.s 106 A Pair of Berkshire Pigs (Boar and Sow) (iranulaud— C grades Fuller’s Forest ! Tree Culturlst ICC I ^ A, coarse grain. ..7Y-(33 V2 YellowsVellow.s . 6 (<*6*4 ' Kandalt's Practical Shepherd 2 00 I FORTY subscribers will secure Willard’s Fractira 1 Cargo aitil lit%olec C^uotatloikM of lia^v Dairy Husbandry 3 00 Willard's Practical Butter lk>ok 1 <>0 CentrirngaB, bags, boxes and hhd Lewis' Practical A Good Sewing Machine Poultry Book 1 50 i Clayed boxes, D. S. Nos. T-to 11.. Tea Acres Enough l 00 subscribers will secure t«' FORTY Prune refining Cuba and Porto Rico, nom How Get a Farm, Ac 1 OO Fair to good Cuba and Porto Rico 6%' $ Our Ffinn of Four Acres...., 00 New Orlenn? refining grades 5% Flax Culture jo A Pair of Jersey Red Pigs (Boar and Sow). llusmann a Gmpt-s and Wine l oO ; and lower grades Cuba and P. R.. I’hiu's Grape Culture ; 00 subscribers will secure P<*r jaajs 5-*4@6% Manila Jk Iloilo. ..6%'^% | THIRTY Thomt-ry . j System of Grape Culture 30 liabia 5%(^ Java ...... 6%@7 • Kraal; Forester's FUdd 2 Vola, sports. 4 0 ) Fine Saddle Worth $12. ‘8 A Cllicilj^o, March 20. —Sugiirs have ruled Frank l>orenter Fish and Fishing J JT * Frank Forester’s Young Sportsnmu's ivJ j Manual. 2 Frauk Forester's THIRTY subscribers will secure steady under a good demand, prices being the American Game l 5 < ^ Practical Trout Culture 105 , eame us a week ago. i 13ie BreechloAfler • : A Complete Set of Buggy Harness. Molasses continue dull and eiisy.—[Cor. ! The Dead Shot. The Gun ! The Crick ifhot. The Rifle 1:5 , TWENTY subscribers will secure CUlcago (^i&otutlou*. Fi'8 ti 4 Forester's Horse of America, 3 Vola.,.. 5 Oo I KeAiirtl. Il-rsi- Portraiture.—T raining Trotters.. 2 CO 'Ph.* A Fine Berkshire Pig (either sex). I) g— Hreeding, Break)- g. 00 Cut loaf. 9^(® •'^8 Powdered 9% 1 Ac 3 •• Walliioe’s American Trot’ing 1 I Crushed H^^^lJranuluted 9 Register 00 will secure | 'T:i|i;irf'B subscribers American Stud Bunk 10 00 I TWENTY Ouu. Bodaud Standard A gro.8%(3d% Yellow C Saddle I 00 A Fine Poland-China Pig (either sex). Small A. Other yellows ... Adi>hr8& i Extra C 8 Molasses sugar FARMERS’ HOME JOURNAL, TWENTY subscribers will secure New OrlraMJi Sugars. No, 39 Courier-Journal Building, Louisville, Ky Fair •6%(SM5'% Prime 6^-., | A Fine Jersey Red Pig (either sex). 7‘ 44 t subscribers will secure SVRIP. Killerby, Studley, and Warlaby Louisville and Cecilia except Sunday. TWELVE Fancy white .35('4‘^ Extrachoice .31(^33 Choice 28^3U t^uear house Ibl^^J A. ANDERSON, Gen’l Manager. A Pair of Buff Cochin Fowls. NKW ORI.KANS. subscribers will secure Fancy ll(<|42 Choice 40@41 HERDS of SHORTHORNS Elizabethtown, Ky. TWELVE Prime - 38@39 Good-...— 35(ti37 j By WM. CARR. A Pair of Plymouth Rock Fowls. Fair * .30(932 1 Reprinted from the London Edition of 1867. Miller’s Tick. Destroyer ! TEN subscribers will secure A WORLD-WIDE REPUTATION. Mailed on receipt of price—75 cents. EFFECTL’zUXY DESTROYS Box. Dr. R. V. Pierce, having acquired a reputa- A Forty-knife Cutting I tion in the treatment of chronic diseases re- Address FAR.MERS’ HO.ME JOURNAL, subscribers will secure I TEN Louisville, Ky. TICKS AND OTHER VERMIN sulting in a professional business far exceed- A Set of Solid Silver Teaspoons. ing his individual ability to conduct, some OTT SHIIEjET^ subscribers will secure year; ago induced several medical gentlemen TEN Enabling the animal to thrive and increasing to associate themselves with him, as the fac- THE FARMER’S’^ worth of Strawberry or Raspberry Plants. I the growth and luster of the wool. $5 ulty of the World’s consulting Dispensary, the From the Nursery of J. Decker. department of which has since been merged One Box Sufficient for Twenty Sheep. subscribers will secure an order for ‘‘'' with the Invalid’s Hotel. The organization TEN THE DESTROYER is a has now been completed incorporated SURE CURE OF of Nursery Stock and Account Book SCAB. $5 worth under statute enacted by the Legislature of i From S. L. Gaar’s Nursery, Anchorage. the State of New York, under the name and A Price by RxpresH, ikot prepaid, 35 cents per oox. Address FIVE subscribers will secure style of the “ World’s Dispensary Medical Association.” ' COMPLETE SYSTEM OF BOOK-KEEPING F.ARMEUS’ HOME .JOURNAL, One of E. Brown’s Celebrated Pruning Knives. FOR will Tukke is a joke among officers of the Eng- Louisville, Ky. FIVE subscribers secure , lish navy to the effect that a midshipman who A Copy of Thomas’ American Fruit Culturist. reported for duty on hoard a ship was told FarmeiSi Planters and Gaidenefs, $500 PRIZE BUTTER by the captain; “ Well, I suppose that, as of at the Krt-at Dairy Fair. I .•*1’) OtTt FIVE subscribers will secure Bt A. L. Camppi»ld. old, they have sent us the biggest fool of the $2 worth of Flower or Garden Seed. all 1 family.” “ No,” replied middy, “ the fashion Every one sbould keep a strict account of business trausactioDS, and thereby save themselves subscribers will secure has change since your day.” that THREE and iheir children after them, much trouble systein comes of neglect. This Is a plain, practical ” One Copy of Ropp’s Easy Calculator. WuATdoes transatlantic mean, mamma?” of book-keeping, easily understood,,andand especially “ Across the zVtlantic, child. Hold your adapt'*d to the wants of the Farmer. Kulrii>8triic-Hi> TWO subscribers, at $3.00 for the two, will secure ordinary U is, what It coettL when) to get it. write to WELlzJsi *• •ions in each book. Can be carried In an tongue and ask no more questions.” 'Then JUCIIAADH^N dk CO*f Proprs., BxirUmrtoii. N L pocket; 160 pages, bound In sheepskin. A Solid Silver Thimble (any size.) transparent a cross t does mean mamma?” Price 75 cents. Send all orders to this paper. febi 3 6 ————RR$— $ E . — ' t 8 -home _lvr/iTlK£T BE? 01?TS. CTOT^ CLOVERLAND HERD, GREAT HORSE SALE Lexington, Ky.. Officf. Farmf.rs’ Home Journal, THIS DIRECTORY j T. HE.ARNE, Breeder of Pure Short- l.ouisviLLE, Ky., March 27, 1879. j Cont.ains the names, address and business of some of Kidd’s First Great Semi-Annual Com- V V . horns, chiefly 'Bates Blood. the most rcli^le breeders of blooded cattle, horses, Also LOUISVILLE MARKETS. Grower of Choice bination Sale of sheep, hogs, poultry and bees that arc to be found in the I Seed Wheat. Buttf.r Common to choice, from 10(^1 8c; — United States They deal fairly with their customers, Westirn creamery, 27(^280; Reserre, iSc. Seiatvicky ZZorses, and invite, at all times, a close inspection of their stock. Persons at a distance write, describing what is LIVE STOCK AUCTIONEERS. Cotton — Middling, 9J^@,ioc ; low mid- can To be held at Fair Grounds, Lexington, Ky., wanted, and a reply will be promptly forwarded with tiling, 9 9 ^c‘, goot ordinary, 9j^c. 'A(^ on Tuesday and Wednesday, April description of animals and prices. APT. PHIL. KIDD, Lexington, Ky., Coffee Rio i J^c for common, I4@ 15 and 16, 1879. Live Stock Auctioneer. Particular atten- Ijcforgood, I5f?l6jic for prime, l6l^@I7c Sale to comnicDce at 10:30 o’clock sharp, :«t which time HOGS, &c. tion given to public sales of Shorthorn old Govern- Cattle, for choice, and 19(0)200 for fancy ; one hundred head will be sold, embracing one of the ' Thoroughbred and Trotting Horses. ment Jara 20";^26c. most choice collections ever offered in the State, con- AWNSDAI.E BERKSHIRE.S. — I have per dozen on arrival. sisting of 10 aged stallions, trotters and thoroughbreds; Egos io;4 (? iic now, and am breeding from the following e. EDMONSON, Winchester, P' mixed many other animals, the get of such distinguished sires L Clark Feathers — ime goose, 36(^380; as Almont, Mambrino Paichcn, Harold, (Jeorge Wilkes, popular Seventeen, county, Ky., attends families : Sallie, Sweet R . the courts in the lots, turkey tail feathers, 20c per lb Administrator, ricimont, Norm.an, American Clay, 2S(S\30c ; Hambrook, Oxford, Gipsy, Matchless and Blucgrass counties. Sales of blooded stock boxed. L lark Chief, and other noted ones. I and personal Those in want of stallions, trotters, roadsters, buMy Sniper. Pigs for sale by “Elmhurst Prince,” property solicited. Satisfaction Choice fancy, $5.23(S'5.50 plain ' Flour — ; horses, saddle horses, brood mares of the finest quality "Lord” and “Hugh” Rogers. Prices to suit guaranteed. fancy \o. I, and best breeding that Kentucky can afford, will do SHORTHORNS, HORSES, SHEEP, &C. [email protected]; $4.5004.75; the times. I am breeding and can furnish well to attend this sale. Stock will be on grounds for ' - extra. extra family, $3 5O ' 3-75 '> $3 eggs from varieties of fowls; 0 © e.xainination day before sale. the following H. WH.SON, of Abdallah Part, Cyn- 3 - 2 S- Wolf Trosl’s b.and will furnish music. Light White I.eghorn.s, & and Dark Brahmas, thiana, Ky., breeder of Trotting Tilden Ladies’ , Stock 1 Seminary, Field Seeds For catalogues address PHIL C. per Buff and P. Cochins, P. Rocks W $1.50 13; mari3td Lexington, Ky. from the following stallions; Sterling, Gold- sapling, , j Clover— ed, $4 per bush; $4.50 P. Re- AT WEST LEBAXOy, N. II., and Ducks, Biue Turkeys, $6. ' $2; smith’s Abdallah, John Bright, Paymaster; all per bush. duced rates by express. Send for catalogue Has a very high reputation, not only through- sired by Volunteer. .\lso from Pacing Abdal- per bush. TRUSTEE'S SALE \ Timothy— 1.50 and pricelist. W. SHELBY WILSON, out New England, but in half the States of per bush. —OF lah, sired by .Alexander’s .Abdallah. janiy-iyr Red Top—©c janio-iy Shelbyville, Ky. the Union. It is under the charge of Hiram i bush. Orchard Grass— per Orcutt, A. M., whose fame as a practical — per bush. ' OR SALE—Thoroughbred and Trotting Blue Grass 6o075 c teacher is only equaled by his popularity as an German, CLARK PETTIT, F Horses, Shorthorn and Jersey Cattle and Millet—Common, $1.25 ; $1.75; educational writer . Boston Journal. Southdown Sheep, at Woodbttrn Farm, Spring — Homt Hungarian, $1.25. Centreton Stock Farm, J^ig’^Send for a Catalogue to the Station, Woodford county, Principal. 2(a} dried Kv. Fruits — Dried apples. 3c ; near Salem, scp3-iyr A. L ALEXANDER. peaches, halves, at IO0 IIC for pared and 3)^0 BOYLE AND MERCER COUNTIES. new jersey, for unpared. Green apples, $2.02.50. Breeder and celebrated Jersey & V. L. POLK,* Ashwood, Maury goc amber and shipper of the Grain — Wheat, Red ; OK AUTHORITY in a Deed TN PURSUANCE Red Swine. Circular containing full and au- , county, Tenn., Breeders of Trotting for good to prime in bulk Trust from B. and Harry C. Tilford to me, W 1 of John white 92)^c0$I Horses, Cattle, Shropshire tract of land, lying in Boyle thentic history of the breed, with illustrations Jersey and South- on arrival. Corn, 35036c for ear; 35Ji©36cfor 1 offer for sale a vali able and .Mercer counties Ky., containing of animals from life, and price lists sent free down Sheep. juneh-iy shelled mixed and white on track. Oats, to any address upon application as above. No. 2 mixed 28030c per bushel, as to grade, ^pHOMAS GIBSON, Woodlawn .Mills, mar7 -iyr in bulk, on track or levee. Barley, 90c. ABOUT 600 ACRES! 1 Maury county, Tenn., Breeder of Trot- Rye, 53© 54c- L. SCOTT, Scott’s Station, Shelby ting Horses, Shorthorn Cattle, Southdown and good to Hay— Common to medium, $ 708 ; . county, Ky. Breeder and importer .Merino Sheep. Said ands are conveniently .susceptible of division, W — june6-iy choice, $9010. having upon them of Cotswold and .Southdown sheep. Orders Hides and Skins— Prime flint, 13c; dry promptly attended to. junei.-iyr A.MPBELL BROWN, Spring Hill, Maury flint, damaged, lo'/i@llc; prime dry C county, Tenn., breeder of Trotting and salted, 9c; This out represents the “Cort- salted, 10)^01 ic; dry damaged, TWO DWELLING HOUSES Z. CARPENTER, Shelby county, Ky.— Harness Horses, Jersey (H. R.) Cattle, Short- prime green-salted, 6j^c; green-salted, dam- horns and Southdown Sheep. land” Platform Spring: Wagroii, a Z . Importer and Breeder of pure Cotswold may3o lyi. and the usual improvements to each. They lie near very stylisli, strong: and eoiiifort- aged, 5)^c; green, 5*4c; sheepskins, 45@75c- Sheep and Berkshire Hogs. Stock delivered the turnpike road leading from Danville to Harrods- ahle wag-on for farmers* use. -Molasses and Syrups—New Orleans mo- at Louisville Offices free TREACY, dealer in Trotting and Ca- burg ; also near to a Depot on the Cincinnati Southern Express or Freight J. lasses at 30((iVtoc in bbls, syrups at 40055c, Railway, and within five miles of both Danville and Fine Harness Horses, pacity for one to six persons. Just of charge. Post-office address, Fisherville, Ky. B , No. 116 East well and comfortably im- sorghum. 25030c per gal. Harrodsburg. l*hey are junei.-ivr Short street, Lexington, Ky. Keeps on hand the thing for comfort at small ex- iroved, the fencing in a good state of repair, and the Oils— I. inseed oil, 65070c; coal oil, 110° and for sale single horses and pairs. pense. fands in a very high state of cultivation, are in a good SEND FOR CATALOGUE. test iij^c, 130° test I3J4 c. neighborhooa. convenient to church and otAer facil- 1 rotting and Gentlemen’s Roadsters a tics, and will oe highly appreciated by any one exam- Onions Sets —Top, 75 c $l.l 5 per bush; specialty. Stallions and Brood mares of the 0 ining them. About one-third of them in cultivation, 80 bottom, 2.75 per bush. $2-500 acres of which are in wheat, and the balance, consisting best families of running and trotting blood, per dozen chickens Poultry Hens $3.00 ; of open fields and timbered lands, is well set in blue- always on hand and for sale. Horses trained grass. The farm is well watered and well adapted to $2.2502.50. at reasonable rates. dec3-iy stock-raising. In fine, it is oae of the best farms in the Potatoes Irish potatoes, russets, $i — -750 blucgrass region of Kentucky. store early rose, 1.90 per barrel, from ; $2,205 The lands will be shown to parties desiring to pur- D. GUTHRIE, Shelbyville, Kentucky, per bbl peachblow, $2.25. Sweet chase by Che undersigned, or by the Nlessrs. 1 itford, L $2.02.25 ; , breeder and importer of Cotswold Sheep. residing on the premises. Reference is made to .A. B. J potatoes, $202.50 per bbl. Native and imported Bucks and ewes for sale. Bonta, Harrodsburg, Ky.; J. G. Cecil, P. T. Gentry, Peanuts— ed, 4'^J^c; white, 505 'i'c. Danville, Ky. mar29-iyr OHN WELCH, Box 26, I-ouisville, Ken- Rice—Carolina 6)^07 c: Louisiana 6j^07c. A. W. E.\STLANI). tucky, (breeding farm miles south of city, Sugars — Refined, granulated, at 9 novaS 'Irustcc. 3 egistered jerseys.—some import- HEWETT, FIELD & CO. %@ J Breeder 9}^c; crushed and powdered at loj^c cut on Third-street road). and shipper ed Cows, Heifers, and Bull Calves, solid ; R SOLE AGENTS. coffee, of Poland-China hogs. They are docile, and colors, black points, at reasonable prices. loaf, loj^iij^c; 9 ; Bcoffee fatten readily any jan3-iyr sugar, 9^c; extra C, 8j;(c; C yellow, 80 Strawberry and Raspberry at age. Stock can be seen my at farm, six miles out LOXJIS'VXr.IjE, TCY standard brands; New Orleans, on Bardstown pike. W. B. CRAWFORD, &%c, 5 j^0 6j^c for common to prime. essrs, birrell & johnston, of mayj-iyr Louisville, Ky. Above ent sliows the Axle of the Greenwood, P, O. Ontario, Canada, Im- Farm Wagtni, with Salt—$1.63 for 7 bushel bbls; 280 lb bbls M “JACKSON” The following varieties having proven of value in $1.30. porters and Breeders of Cotswold Sheep, pure ev. .M. P. bailey, Elkton, Todd the Truss or strengtlieniiig-rod nt- this climate, are offered: bred Clydesdale Horses, and Berkshire Pigs. taelimciit. With this rod each zVxle Starch 2 S^ 03c per Ib. Strawberries. R county, Kentucky, breeder of pure H. Tallow 6a^c. large number of 2-year old and yearling B. Shorthorn Cattle, Cotswold Sheep, Angora is more than dtnihled in strength. Per Dozen. Per too. Per 1 000 . , Imported Rams and Ewes for sale. a yon will Black Doflaneo $1 50 $10 00 apna-iyr Goats, Poland-China and Berkshire Hogs. Get Jackson wagon and l.ouisviLLE Live Stock Market. Charles Downing. 50 75 3 00 Prices to correspond with the general decline never be troubled with breakages. 50 1 50 10 00 Cattle Extra shippers extra Captain Jack in stock. Correspondence solicited, ijjulviy — $4.5005; Cumbt rland Triumph 50 1 50 10 00 Prices, inelndiiig spring seat and putcher, fair to good, $4.2504.50; $3-500 Crescent Seedling. 50 1 60 10 00 patent brake : 4; common, $3(0.3.25; rough, $202-50. Duchesse 60 1 50 10 00 .\. McELROY, Elmwood, Springfield, 2 3-4 inch $72 OO Great Amerioan ... 60 1 60 10 00 Ky., breeder of Shorthorn and Hogs—$4.40(04.50, best grade; common R , Jersey 3 liieh 75 OO Kentucky 50 1 00 5 00 Cattle, Black and Berkshire, to fair, $3 9004-20 per 100 lbs gross; light, Monarch 50 1 00 5 00 Red Jersey Red 3 1-4 inch 7S OO - 60 1 50 10 00 and Poland-China Swine. $3 65 3 - 75 - Prouty mavio-ivr 3 1-2 inch 85 OO ® 1 00 6 00 Sheep and La.mbs xtra sheep, Boydan 60 — $4,250,5; 2 50 10 00 stpek sheep, OTSWOLD Sheep and Shorthorn Cattle $3.50. Lambs, 607 - Wilson 60 75 3 00 HEWETT, FIELD CO., Red Raspberries. C for Sale. —Ten yearling bucks, ready for & Live Stock Markets. next season. Prices to suit the times. C. T. SOLE AGENTS. Cincinnati Per Dozen. Per loo. Per 1 . ,000 PRI.NGDALE herd OF POLAND- $2 50 $15 FREEM.AN, Spring Station, Woodford coun- Cattle—Common, 1)^02 J^c; fair to medi- Bristol 00 CHINA HOGS.— stock in 1878 took Brandywine 75 2 50 15 00 S My LOUISVILLF, KY. good to choice butcher grades ty, Kentucky. April as-iyr. um, 2)j03)(; Turner 76 3 00 15 00 nine first premiums, three sweepstakes, and one fair to good shippers, 4,^0jc; fair 3)^04 >^c; Black Raspberries. herd premium at three fairs, over hogs of all and Cherokees, 2 J^ ;^c; fair D. REED, O’Bannon’s, Jefferson to good Texas 03 Per Dozen. Per xco. Per x.ooo. breeds in three bluegrass counties, viz., at county, Ky., offers for sale a fine lot to good heavy oxen, fair to good Doolittle $0 75 $1 50 $10 CO Cynthiana, Lexington, and Paris fairs. Stock W , 75 1 50 10 00 of unregistered Jersey cows, heifers and bull light feeders, 2)^03)fc Duncan of all ages for sale. Prices to suit the times. - 75 1 50 10 00 Hoc.s-^Common, fair to good calves; also Jersey Red swine of all ages, $3-0003-70; 1 10 Satisfaction guaranteed. Young Buckeye and Mammoth Cluster 75 50 00 from celebrated stock. light, $3-7504. 10; fair to good packing grades, GrejCK 1 00 3 00 20 00 the premium hog Nero (first prize and sweep- I 3jun-tyr $4 0004.25; selected butchers’, $4-2504 40. Plants sent by mail at the dozen prices. Parties desir- stake hog at Hamilton County Fair) imported lars:c quantities wii. be given special rates. Send for Sheep — Commi/n to fair, 2 )203 c, and this (all. Address WILL A. GAINES, W. SAMUELS & SONS, Beech Grove circular. good to choice, 50 lyKVl^Klt, novi4-iyr Farm, Dcat.sville, Nelson $3,500.4 creek. Ky. Centreville, Bourbon Co., Ky. T , county, Ken- Sprung Lamus—2 >i03 c. tucky, importers and breeders of Pure Cots- ebfainedfor InverUorn, in the United State$, Cancida, I rcditred reUes. With our pri^^ipal M. B.4 KER, breeder and shipper of I wold Sheep and Improved English Berkshire and JSurope, at OJiee located in WaehingUm, directly oppoeits the New York Cattle Market. Poland-China Hogs. 1 make a sptc- * Hogs. Have for sale imported stock, and stock W L>. ited ^ates Patent Ojjice^ tx*c are able to attend to all New York, March 24. mf/y of the following breeds of fowls: Light bred from imported prize animals. Corre- Piitent Business with greater promptness and despatch Receipts 4,4CXJ head market and less cost, than other patent attorneys, who arc. at a Cattle — ; and Dark Brahma.s, Partridge and Buff Co- spondence and orders solicited, and satisfac- RAPE V! distance from Washingten, and who hai'e. therefore, weak. P'ancy, io0iic; extra lots, man-iyr 8)^0 chins. Young stock for sale. .My hogs are tion guaranteed. tocmj}loy associate aJlorneys.” We make pri-Uui' loj^c; fair, 7,'^09c- large and fine, fatten readily at any age, and inary cxamincUions and furnish opinions toped' Receipts 8,200 head common to entaoUity, free of charge, and all who are intaested Sheep — ; for purity of blood are unsurpassed. .Several HURCHMAN & JACKSON, Indianap- in new invaUions and Palenlsare invied to saidfJ. choice, ‘J'c. herd are of the famous Black Bess olis, Indiana, breeders and importers of 4)^06 of my C a copy of our “ Guide for obtaintng J'xuenU," which best extra early The Lady Grape a specialty. The strains. My stock may be inspected any day the highest class of Jersey Cattle and Berk- is sent free to any address^ ami couc'aim< complete in* new white grape yet introduced. A pure native seed- structions fww to obtain J^cius, andofher va/MoWe except Sunday. Residence five miles north of , shire swine. 4july-iy. SNAKES AS LIFE DESTROYERS. ling, hardy, healthy, and reliable in alt sections. Two matter. We r^fer to the German-American yational for $i; one dozes for pos 1 . strong, well rooted plants $ 5 ; -Madison, on J. M. & R. R., at Baker’s Bank, Washingtori. J>. U.i the Jioyal tSwedisk, Sor- Delawares, Brightons, The loss of life in India due to the p.aid by mail. Also Concords, Station. .-Yddrc.ss me at North Madison, In- A.MUEL RUSSELL, jR., Ctiaplin, Nelson wcgUin, and Danish l.^gaiions, at WashiniHon: lion. Elviras, Allen’s and Roger’s Hybrids, and all other Joseph Oiscy. late Chuj Justice V. Courlof Claims: . Kentucky, breeder of pure is varieties at low rates. .Also diana. 1r.ay 1 yr County, Jer- ravages of venomous snakes almost valuable grapes; over 60 3 S to the O^ckds of th' .S. Palent Office, and to .v«a- Strawberries, Swine, fine pigs on for Raspberries, Currants, Gooseberries, sey Red Very hand ; tors ana Manbers Congress from every tSiatc. incredible. Yet the disease which is as of variety. Catalogues free. ‘ Flowering Plants, etc., in A -G. HERR, St. .Mathews, Jefferson coun- sale at all times; none but first-class pigs will Address: B.4GGEK *<*o.,iWicdOT« Address wily and deadly as the deadliest India class shipped; correspondence solicited. Budding^ ! r\_, ty, Ky., has for sale the finest of be junxT-iy Patents and Attorneys at Law, Le DroU CEO. W. CAMPBELL, (ff reptile is winding its coil around thous- registered Jerseys, pedigreed Berkshires, and Wattliiiiicloii. 1>. C. Delilwaro, Ohio. I ands of people while the victims are un- Yorkshire swine. iunjo-iyr .M. HACKWORTH, Shelbyville, Shelby I conscious of its presence. It has long , county. Ky., breeder of Shorthorn Cattle, JCotswold Sheep, and Chester White Hogs. been a hobby with incompetent physi- ORESCENT i SHEEP. SEKni.I-NO ' Orders solicited and satisfaction guaranteed. cians to assume that consumption is in- PLANTS axd other choice varieties. Raspberriti, L. SHOUSE, F'isherville, Kentucky. oct25-iyr Goostberrirs, Fruit Trtes, etc. I curable after the formation of tubercles nliickberries. Currants, • Tj, Breeder of fine Cotswold Sheep. Stock Catalogue describing plants and trees sent free to all. homas. S. GRUNDV, Spnngfield. Ky., in fail ! delivered at depots. Orders solicited. has begun ; and every case they Burlington County, N. J. breeder of improved Red Hogs, SAMUEL C. DeCOU, Mooreslown, T Jersey - to efl'ect a cure—of course tubercles had mar6 4 t I Shorthorn Cattle—of the Young Mary and PlNQSa-BINO. T. & QUINCY BURGESS, Hutchinson GEORGE IIUSMAN'*. C. TEUBSER. Phyllis families—with Duke cro.sse.«, Thorough- For «l80, measure finger with stitt’ piece of paper. begun to form and they were incurable. Station, Bourbon County, Ky., importers , Throe letton fzoe. Illustratod price-list J I bred Horses and Cotswold Sheep. I am breed- engniTed The records of medical science disprove and breeders of Cotswold Sheep. apn-iyr 9l jewel^ sent tree. OTIS W. SNYnKR, ing to sell, and would be glad to have my stock HUSMANN &TEUBNER, j LoulsTllle. Kjr. any such theory. On the contrary, in I Jeweler. . inspected at all times. mayss-ivr SKI) VI 4 I V, MISSOTKI, h. BYARS, Simpsonville, Shelby county, cases of lung disease which had been " in 'Jurscry dealer in pure ROWKRS, Propagators and Dealers F , Ky. Breeder of and cured and the patients lived forty and CT Stock of all kinds. Grapes, Peaches, and small Southdown Sheep, from best imported strains. ILDAVINPORT, Lexington, Kentucky, fruits a specialty. Our stock of grapevines is unsur- breeder of Shorthorns, A. C. C. R. fifty years in robust health, post mortem Correspondence and orders solicited. A , J. passed in quality, guaranteed true to name, while our juneu-t yr Jerseys, Southdown Sheep, Berkshires from examinations showed large cicatrices prices arc as low as those of any reliable establishment. stock new famous Peaches, premium imported stock, and White-faced also have fine of the j pri-.e »t for We a Southville, Shelby county, Aw.irticd CenienDisl Fxposilkiii (scars), where the tubercles had been fa- A S.A COOMBS, Steadley, October Beauty and Cottage, and the Black Spanish and Seabright Bantam Chickens. Sne ek^ng qitnt it ai»'l txffUfncc and tatting ckar- which yield- Ky.,importei breeder of pure Cots- oi-frr awttimi-xg omt ftnrorinp. Thv bvst tohftCOO removed. mous new Strawberry, Windsor Chief, and apn-iy of formed and as I Correspondence promptly answered. t'ver miide. Atoiir Hiir ttinp lrAd«-inark is closely ed .at the rate of 2 ,