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HHKHRJUID EXTRA. rn ii in tt in n a T i i H Vj II Vj a A Li If TIIUItSDAY. APIIIL. 1C, 1874. LETTER FROM AVOCA. Avoca, Neb., March 27 th, 1874. Mil. Editor: In these times of t emperance awakening, perhaps a few lines in regard to what we are doing in this locality, may not prove uninterest ing. ' - A meeting was held in the stone school house of district No. 77, of this precinct, on Tuesday evening, 24th ult., in 'pursuance of a call issued hy Mrs. H. K. TefTU for the purpose of organ izing a temperance society. Quite an assembly congregated, and, after listening to several speeches, de lineating, with remarkable power, the necessity of organization, in opposition to the great evil of the day, intemper ance, the meeting proceeded to organ ize a home temperance society, to be known as the Avoca Temperance So ciety. The following persons were elected oilieers for the first quarter: President I.. C. Peters. Vice-President Isaac Moore. Cor. and Recording Sec. U.K. TeiTt. Financial Sec. Mrs. S. A. Moore. Treasurer Mrs. E. E. Shoopnian. Chaplain Orlando Tefft. The meetings are to btf-open to all. If some temperance organization was in existence in every school district in our county what an influence it would exert. "Will not some person or per .sons in everv schuol district move in f . . i this matter ? W no win ie me next in report. O. T. (RANGE RESOLUTIONS. Glesdalk, Cass Co. Xkb., ) March 28th, 1874. Er. Herald: The fo'lowing reso lutions were adopted this day by Glen dale Grange Xo. 32, assembled. Please give this a place in your excellent pa per. lltt'dced, that we will not purchase any farming implements of tliose manufacturing companies or their agents, who have refused to sell to Grangers direct. Iltsolced, that the secretary of this Grange be instructed to request the editor of the Herald to publish these resolutions in his valuable paper. s Names of manufacturers referred to in the above resolutions: Molina Plow Company,; Deere & Co.; F. 1). Brewster & Co.; Parlin & Orendorf ; F. & II. Smith, & Co.; Furst & Brad ley; St. Joseph Manufacturing Com pany, Mishawaka,Ind.; Morenoffer, Dent & Co. ; Briggs & Enoch, and many others we will not take time to give, as they will find out in due time who we mean. " The 18th ballot for the Massachu setts Senatorship was taken on the lth and stood; " On the eighteenth ballot the whole number of votes was 273 necessary to choice, 137. Dawes. 91; Hoar, 72; Curtis, 74; Adams, 15; Sanford, 9; Banks, 7 ; Washburn, 4 ; Whittier, 1. CORN IN CASS COUNTY. Large Yield of Corn. The Nebraska State Board of Agri culture last year .offered a premium of fifty dollars for the best yield of corn in that State in 1873, which was award ed to Mr.M. M. Xelson. of Cass County, upon the following showings: The crop was raised on thirty-five acres of ground, first prairie broken in 1871, and the cost of cultivation was as follows: Plowing, $1.23. per acre - - 43.75 Planting per acre. 45c - 15.75 Cultivating per acre, 81.80 - - 63.00 Harvesting, 81.25 per acre - - - 4 3.7 5 Total cost, S4.75 per acre - S1G3.25. These thirty-five acres yielded three thousand two hundred and two one half bushel f being ninety-one and one-half bushels per acre. The Variety was the "mahogany," and its weight averaged sixty-three pounds to the bushel. Chi'Xiyu 1'o.st ami M7. We have published Mr. Nelson's big yield. aud the fact of his drawing th prize, before; but we call attention to this synopsis of sthe fact from a Chica go paper, to show the benefit it has been to us in the way of an advertise ment, and also to impress on the minds of our farmers once more the import ance of cultivating smaller quantities of land in a more thorough and workman-like manner. Thirty-live acres here .yielded as much as seventy acres do under the ordinary half-cultivation ; and just think of the horse tlesh saved and toil avoided by tending thirty-live acres instead of seventy. Men need theii strength and lime too, and it c m be put in elsewhere to better advantage than in half tending a huge cornfield to obtain quarter results. To Nebraska tyiilMJrjver. Maj r Caffery long and favorably known as the accomplished editor of the Brownvillw Advertiser, proposes to issue on or about the 20th day of April, the Lincoln Daily Made, and is anxious to number among his exchan ges every paper published in the .state of Nebraska. We hope the brethren will "take due notice and govern them selves accordingly." We can assure our friends that aside from the Jour nal, the Blade will be the liveliest sheet in the- State. Liu'ln Jonrn d. ON ADVERTISING. Wkki'Ino Water, Neb., ( . June 28th, 1873. Ed. Herald; The man who de pends on advertising alone will fail. This was beautifully illustrated in your place a few years since. A man to succeed in business, must advertise, but at the same time he must live up to his advertisements. " lie must lmy goods cheap; he must sell goods cheap: he must sell yood goods; he must sell the bext for the best, not sneond or third rate for the best; he must make itatudyto know how eheap lie can sell goods, not how tiwrh he can get for them. Then advertising will pay. Advertising helps only to bring in new customers. After they have come in, they forget the advertisement, and the merchant must hold them by fair, hon est dealing. Of course a man cannot keep every customer. We have lost, a few; some never have any regular plce to trade: some have left 'us be cause we were temperance men; some because we would not sell them goods on the Sabluth. and some for other similar reasons; some Grange nun left us because we would not sell to them cheaper than to other fanners: but most of all these classes .have come back, acknowle Igiug that they could find no other place -where they could do as well as with us. Judicious, conim n sense a hertisiug docs pay: and we know of no better medium lhu the Hkhald. -- , Very Ih speet fully. , Heed lb:-.. A Kansas gent'eman has thought fully put his front gate" in the parlor, so that his daughter and her young man can swing on it without taking cold during the cold weather. This is a humane suggestion to all fathers. A front gate in the parlor may save a good many dollars that would otherwise be paid out for cough sirup. Oil, how we wish th'it father would move to Plattsmouth, and put a gate up in his parlor here. BUSINESS NOT AFFECT Ml. (J RANT PARDONS THE FDXES. President Grant has issued the Ex ecutive pardon in favor of Leander Fox and Bvron Fox, father and son. of the firm of 1$. Fox & Co.. 391 Canal street, New York, who, at the instance of Anthony Comstock, were prosecut ed and convicted last year of sending obscene books through the mails. They claimed at the time that they had bought the books as purely scien tific medical works, and were not aware of their containing anything that could be construed into mere obsceni ty. They were, nevertheless, found guilty and sentenced to one year's im prisonment and a fine of 8500 each. The President now remits the term of imprisonment and orders their dis charge, on condition of their paying the fine and costs. Ar. Y.Sunday tfews. Would be pleased to have everybody call and examine my stock of 1 loots. Shoes, and Gaiters, before purchasing elsewhere, -for I sell cheaper than ever. No charge for showing them. 52tf Peter Merges. A Naii nul Sellout of Cookery. The recently instituted National School of Cookery, in England, has had its objects explained very clearly bv Jjady Barker in a little " volutin:. She writes: "The great point which I have reason to believe the Committee of the National School of Cookery will insist upon is thoroughness. No imp will be allowed to run or try to run before, she can walk. The elementary knowledge of how to light and manage. a kitchen fire, of scrupulous cleanliness in pots ami pans, of attention to a thousand small but aE-important details. lr taught ami insisted upon before the learner is allowed to do anything worthy of the name of cooking. She will then, probably, br surprised tw find how comparatively easy -it will lie to acquire the art. and she may be very sure she will not be allowed to try a. second thing until she can do the first, if it be only boiling a kettle or toasting a piece of bread to perfection. Such is the plan for complete beginners, who, by the way, generally prove the most successful pupils; but for serv ants or artisans wives who wish to 'better' themselves in their kitchens there will be a different mode of in struction, into which I need not enter here. Ladies will also have an oppor tunity either of sitting in a chair and listening to a lecture or series of lectu ers on cooking, begining with a mutton chop and ending with fsouff'le, or they may turn back their sleeves, take off their rings and bracelets, and try for themselves. It will lie hard if any eager inquirer . does .not find some course or class to meet her needs, and it is hoped that, whatever excuse may hereafter be urged for our national bad cookery, the reproach of the want of a place and opportunity of instruc tion will be done awar with forever." The recent depression in business has not affected the passenger traffic of the St. Louis. Kansas City & Northern Short Line, jus they continue to run six fast express trains, two more than an; other line between the Missouri and Mississippi Rivers. This road enjoys great immunity from accidents, bv reason of immense expenditures, in the List two years, of oyer two million dol lars, besides earnings in wonderful im provements, in relaying their line with new steel and iron rails, on broad, new ties, in new rolling stock supplied with all modern appliances for comfort and safety, and as another safeguard, em ploy night and day watchmen to in spect the road before and after the passagf of each train, to see that every thing is in order. Conspicuous among new improvement is the substitution for ordinary cars, of new reclininir chair coaches, elegantly carpeted and fitted with dressing rooms for ladies, gentlemen and families, without an;,4 fj-tru rh'iriy. The St. Louis, Kansas City & Northern and the Kansas City. St. Joseph Council Bluffs Railroad, form the only line running through Pullman Palace Sleepers letween Omaha and St. Louis. The shortest line between the W'vst and the East is over the St. Louis, Kansas City & Northern Short Lin, either through St. Louis, the great metropolis of over 450,00 a inhabitants, or through Chica go, via the Chicago & Alton Short Line, over the Louisiana llridge i.o.v op"ii for passage of . thnjygh trains. Ticket Agents of connecting loads sel ling through tickets to the East. North or South, will furnish tickets by this excellent line. For map. circulars, time cards and information relative torates, apply to or address Io nian McCai tv. Kansas Citv, Mo or ! B. Groat, St. Louis. Mo. 44tf CALL AT Ui ; Xfr;i fit's Livery, Feed & Sale Stables, ('liiiicr '.ft .i.i.l l'eiiil mi.. n.VTTSMOl'TII. NKIi. Horses Boarded by the Diy Week or Month. irons eh noun nr. sold, on rn.t 1EI), FOII A FAIIl COM MISSI OX. LI VEIl V A T A L L TIMES. Particular Attention Paid 16 " Driving and Training yt Trotting Stock.