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Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1852-06-10
RAISING Potatoes.

William Sutton, of Salem, Mass, last
year made an experiment in cultivatlng
potatoes, of which he gives the following
account:
In 1850 the ground was planted with
corn and potatoes. Part of the potatoes
rotted. This year (l851) it was laid out
into squares, fourteen pacls each way
A small coating of barn yard manure
was spread, after plowing, and narrowed
in.
= No. l. The potatoes were covered with
salt hay, about six inches thick, oyer the
whole square. Yielded four bushels.
No. 2. The potatoes were covered with
Stacked lime, then covered with soil, then
spread half a bushel of saft over the
square. Yielded four bushels.
No 3. The potatoes we're covered with
soil, then coating of lime ontop. Yield
ed four and quarter Bushels.
No. 4. The potatoes were placed in the
hills on the lime, and then covered with
soil. Yielded four and quarter bush
els.
No. 5. First put shovel full of tan in
the hill, then the potatoes on tan, and
covered with soil. Yielded four and three
quarter bushels.
No. 6. Put shovel full of barn manure
from the stall where my oxen were kept,
and covered with soil. Yielded four bush
els; the poorest lot in the field.
No. 7. Dropped the potatoes, and threw
shovel full of tan upon them, and then
covered with soil. Yielded four and a
half bushels.
| No. 8. Dropped the potatoes and then
threw a shovel full of meadow mud upon
them, and then covered with soil. Yield
ed four bushels.
No. g. The same as No. s, with the
potatoes dropped on the mud. Yielded
/ four bushels.
The potatoes in Nos. 5 and 7 were up
week before the others.
In most of the parcels, except where the
tan was used, there were found more OF
less defective potatoes. Those that grew
in tan were larger, smoother, and of bet
ter quality than the others. have grown
no better potatoes than these this season,
Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1852-06-10
The Death Penalty i'm Michigan.

Michigan is getting heartily sick ofthe
abolition of capital punishment, which the
philosophers out there-far in advance of
the age-contrived to obtain some years
since. And no wonder, (says the New
York Express,) in view of the following,
one of many statements we often me- ct
with in the journals there. We copy from
a Detroit paper:
"THE PROGRESS OF CRIME.-A late
grand jury which sat in the county of
Wayne had its eyes opened in the course
of its deliberations to the remarkable fact
that the classes of crime involving violence
and showing contempt of human life are
upon an alarming increase in this city
1t is needless to look for the cause it
stands confessed, prominent, undisguised,
in the repeal of the only adequate penalty
which the bloody criminal fears-Death.
The nature of the investigations which
that grand jury were called upon to make
satisfied its members that the city of De-
troit is a dark and bloody gronnd, whose
soil has drunk the blood of many a vic
tim, and whose queit river has choked the
gurgling death-cry of many wretch of
whose end nothing more is known, but
that he was and is not, and the secret of
whose taking Off is between the murder
er and his Maker, The river flows in
close proximity to purlieus of a most dang
erous and disreputable character, and Of
fers ready receptacle for all traces of
proof which are subject to human KEN
Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1852-06-10
Yeast.

The bitterness of yeast, which is often
cause of complaint, may be removed
by straining it through bran, or by dip
ping red hot charcoal in it. But the
most efectual and easily available rene
dy is to put the yeast into large pan,
and cover it with spring or well water,
changing it every three or four hours
The bran seems to impair the strength
and the coal sometimes stains it, but the
water purifes it in color and taste.
This mode of using water for keeping
and purifying yeast has been adopted by
some of the American housekeeperS with
entire success. So says the Gardeners
Chronicle-E1change.
A still better plan would be not to make
the yeast bitter. We can see no good or
sufficient reason why housekeepers should
make bitter yeast unless it be merely for
sake of puzzling themselves and other
people to advise ways and means for
sweetening it again. If there are not
too many hops in yeast it will not be bit
ter, OF if, for sake Of keeping longer, it
be made with strong decoction Of the
hop, put less of it in the bread. Two or
dinary pods of hops are enough to make
east for ten loaves. Then, American
housekeepers would save themselves a
great deal of trouble if, instead of keep
ing Yeast crooks to be watched and ten
ded, they would boil an ounce of hops
in half gallon of water, strain this water,
boiling in two of -four, and stir it intosa
smoothe paste; let it stand until it cools
to blood heat, then add two tablespoon
fuls of good yeast and half tea cupfull
of salt Set it to rise over night, and
next day work as much -four into it as
will make it very stiff dough; roll thin,
and spread it in the shade until thorough
ly dry, Then put it in muslin bag and
hang it up in dry airy place, and there
is a supply of good fresh yeast to last
any ordinary family from four to six
months. The full of pint bowl Of these
yeast-cakes stepped in water before going
to bed, and next morning there is quart
of lively yeast which, if properly set in
what housewives call ga SPONGE" will
make ten large loaves. To our fancy,
this yeast with tablespoonful of salt
for every three loaves, made up with
warm water and nothing else, is the best
bread for family use. All mixtures of
milk, water, saleratus, potatoes, alumni or
any other of the many additions so often
made, detract from the quality.-RHsbl0g
TIstteT.
Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1852-06-10
Second Sight.

A southern correspondent of the New
York Spirit of the Times relates the fol-
lowing good anecdote:
A capital old gentleman of the old style,
that lives not over one thousand miles
from this, has one very funny optical Pc
culiarity, viz an aggravated and multi
piled form of double sightedness, occur
ring at dinner, after the fifth or sixth bot
tie has become smaller and beautifully
less. He is constantly followed by Il
faithful pointer dog, answering to the
name of "Watch." The other day, while
dining with him, and after we had made
sundry and divers appeals to few bot
ties of old Port, we arose to leave the Ia
BILE. The old 'un's eyes, in turning round,
fell on Watch, who had heen reposing at
comfortable distance behind his mas
ters chair, and at his master rising, came
forward to meet him, wagging his tail,
tongue out, &C., as dogs usually behave
when delighted. The old 'un looked at
him for an instant, rubbed his eyes, looked
at the dog again, elevated his cane to
striking NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. his
specs from their case, placed them on
his nose, and took survey of Watch
In an instant, down came the cane on the
dogs back, with-hic--g-e-t-o-u-t,
Watch-hic-you're getting to Id
numerous.
Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1852-06-10
A Clock that is a Clock.

4 great clock in the Cathedral at
Stratsburg, (Europe) has been described,
by one who particularly examined it, as
follows. The letters were written by a
traveller who was in that country during
the political difficulties few years since:
"The priests and military have retired
and l am now sitting in chair facing
the gigantic clock-from the bottom to
the top not less than 100 feet, and many
strangers are waiting to see the working
of this clock, when it strikes the hour of
noon. Every eye is upon the clock. 1t
now wants five minutes to twelve. The
clock has struck, and the people are gone
except a few-whom the sexton, or
head man with a wand and sword, is
conducting around the building. The
clock is struck in this way; the dial is
some twenty feet from the floor, on each
side of which is a cherub, or little boy
with a mallet, and over the dial there is
asmall bell The cherub onthe left strikes
the first quarter, and the right the Sec
ond quarter. Some fifty feet over the
dial, in large niche, is hunge figure
of Time, bell in his left, a scythe in his
right hand. In front stands figure of a
young man with mallet who strikes the
third quarter on the bell in the hand of
Time, and then glides with slow step
round behind Time; out comes an old man,
raises his mallet, and places himself in
front Of him. As the hour of twelve
comes, the old man raises his mallet, and
deliberately strikes twelve times on the
bell, that echoes through the building and
is heard round the region of the church.
Then the old man slowly glides after faith
er Time, and the young man comes round
again. Soon as the old man has struck
twelve and disappeared, another set of
machinery is put in motion, some twenty
feet higher still. 1t is thus; there is a
high cross with an image of Christ on it.
The instant twelve has struck, one of the
apostles walks out from behind, comes
out in front, facing the cross, bows, and
walks round to his place. As he does 50,
another comes out in front, turns, bows,
passes in; so twelve apostles, figures large
as life, walk round, bow, and pass on
As the last appears, an enormous cock,
perched on the pinnacle of the clock,
slowly flaps three times, so loud as to be
heard outside the church to some distance,
and so naturally as to be mistaken for a
real cock. Then all is as silent as death.
No wonder this clock is the admiration
of Europe. 1t was made in 1900, and
has performed these mechanical wonders
ever since, except about fifty years, when
it was out of repairs.-UatchtOacer.
Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1852-06-10
Land Warrants.

The Commissioner of the Pension Of
fee, j. E. Heath, Esq, in answer to many
inquiries states that where party dies
before the issue of his land warrant, un-
der the act of 28th September, 1850, the
right to it dies with him unless there be
a widow, or children who were minors at
the time of the passage of the act. If he
left widow, the application may be re-
newed in her name or, if none, then
in the name of such minor children. If
there be neither widow nor minor children
no right vests in any one. The act of22d
March, 1852, is silent as to the right of
the widow or children to renew the ap-
plication if the party dies before obtain
ing the warrent. If the claimant dies af-
ter the issue of the warrant, the title
thereto vests in the heirs in the same
manner as real estate, and can be assigned
only by those who could convey tract
of land descended from the ancestor.
Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1852-06-10
No 35.
Salt.

We do not know but salt, Chloride of
sodium) will soon become as famous for
cures among our physicians, as it is a.
mong old salt sailors, who apply it to cure
wonderful number of the ills of this life.
The following is what the Charlestown
Medical Journal and Review says about
it as substitute for the sulphate of qui
nine, in intermittent fever =
"Our readers doubtless remember, that
this substance was proposed some time a.
go by DR.. Piorry, of Paris, as remedy
in an intermittent fever, in evidence of the
utility Of which, numerous cases were ad--
duced by him. He administers it in do
ses of two table-spoonsful once or twice
daily, and asserts that it not only prompt
ly arrests the paroxysms, but also exerts
on the spleen as marked an influence as
quinine doses.
Professor Herrick, of the Rush Medi-
cal College, has also reported in the Sep
tember number of the N. w. Medical
and Surgical Journal, the results of sew
eral trials made with it, which 90 to cor
roborate the success obtained by Mr.. Pi-l
orry. Prof. Herrick suggests that it acts
by preventing the destruction of the blood
globules, (Which takes place to consid
cradle extent in this disease) and at the
same time by furnishing the materials for
the manufacture of fresh supply of this
constituent. Chloride Of sodium is known
to possess the property of preserving the
blood globules; it is an alternative and a
tonic, and is also claimed to possess a
specific influence in arresting exacerba-
tions of intermittents.
He prescribes it in the dose of three
to four drachms twice daily in mucilage.
After the fever is checked he gives it in
smaller doses, say ten grains, with the
same quantity of corb, ferri, twice or three
times daily, as a tonic or corrective of the
secretions of the alimentary tube"
Sat as q LardtiCe-Here is what the
"Western Journal of Medicine and Sur
gerry" says about common salt as useful
and mild laxative =
"Without any experience in regard to
the febrifuge powers of the chloride of
sodium, we can speak with great conf
dence of its efficacy, in habitual constipa-
ton. Of all the laxatives we have found
this to act most pleasantly, uniformly, and
naturally. Where the only object is to
dislodge the contents of the bowels, it is
all that physician or patient could desire.
Dyspeptics, sedentary persons, the sub
jects Of hemorrhoids, all, in word, who
are troubled with costiveness, will find
the remedy mild and sure ecphratic,
emptying the bowels freely and without
nausea, irritation or exhaustion. We di-
rect it to be taken before breakfast, from
two to three drachms, dissolved in two or
three tumblers of cold water. The same
dose continues to act from year to year,
without diminution of effect.
Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1852-06-10
4 Case Of Conscience.

In certain Ladies Moral Reform So
ciety,' existing not many miles from the
banks of a certain river, the members
were required to sign a pledge not to set
up as it is termed, or do anything else
that might be supposed to have a tenden-
cy, however remote, to immortality. One
evening, as the President was calling o.
yer the names, to know whether each
member had kept her obligation, beau
tiful and highly respectable young lady
burst into tears, and on being questioned
as to the cause, said she feared she had
broken the pledge.
why, what have you done?' asked the
President.
'Oh!' sobbed the young lady Dr.,
kissed me the other night when he waited
on me home from meeting
'Oh, we'll that is nothing very bad ,
said the President: 'his kissing does not
make it that you have broken the pledge.
ooh, that isn't the worst of it > ex-
claimed the conscientious young lady, 4
kissed him back again.
Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1852-06-10

STRANGE SToRY.-Bayard Taylorsays
in one of his letters from Africa, that he
heard of a "country of dogs" in Arabia
where the women We're in all respects hu-
man, but the men had faces like dogs,
claws on their feet, and tails like mon
keys. They could not speak, but carried
on their conversation by wagging their
tails. This ludicrous account is no doubt
true, for DIR. Verne, German traveller,
tells precisely the same story.
Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1852-06-10
JOE ING.
Outward ROTnd.

The day has past and evening grey
Fades DER the murmuring sea
Our white winged vessel glides away,
From love, and home and thee
Unconscious that our fearful eyes
Still watch the less'ning shore,
Like wild sea bird on she flies,
To climes unseen before.
When murky, troubling thoughts have Pressei
The dropping heart with dread,
I'll watch yon moon, whose beauty bless'd
The trusting hours long fed.
But many moon as bright as this,
Its star-lit path will roam,
Ere ] return-again to kiss
The prayerful lips at home.
Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1852-06-10

In New York artificial hands are made
of wood, steel, and gutta percha. Cover
cred with glove, no one could detect its
falsehood, and with it the wearer can fold
a newspaper, take up cup of coffee, put
on his hat, use knife, or spoon.
Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1852-06-10
How a moI,ammedam Dums.

In civilized countries the collection of
"bad debts" is attended with conSidera-
bic difficulty. The Mahommedans, how
ever, have a method of managing q reluc-
tant creditor which is at once, and simple
efficacious. 1t is thus described by a re-
cent traveller -
"Meeting person in any spot, to whom
you wish to apply the kltaH, you exclaim,
'The Sultan detains you here He instant
lystands still; and, without bond or guard,
remains there until delivered The Hiatt
is prescribed for Slight faults, and for
debt. .FsWhen a creditor has several times
met his debtor and asked for his due, and
the debtor, while recognizing the debt,
puts off payment, the creditor can, at dis
cretion, stop his man, make him sit down,
and then, withNthe point of his lance, he
traces on the ground circular line, say
ing, In the name ofAllah and the Prophet
in the name of the Sultan and the mother
of the Sultan. i'll the name of the tena "a
particular office, supporters of the state,
OuOu 6HalO HOC ISd'C thio OIlCIC uiiGiI GHOu
hast paid thy debt The debtor is obliged
to remain enclosed and sitting in his khatt
until some one intercedes with the creditor,
and he consents to release the prisoner
If the creditor remains infexible and in
exorable, the prisoner remains in his
khatt until he pays his debt Ifbreaking
the bounds he crosses the line, and the
creditor complains to the Sultan, the flu
gitive is pursued, taken wherever he is
found, and severely punished"
Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1852-06-10
Life i'm the West Indies.

n. 2. Willis is writing a series of let
ters from the West Indies, in his peculiar
vein, which appear weekly in the Home
J2arual. We copy from the last the fol-
lowing account of some of the customs at
ST. Thomas -
We have two mornings a day in this
climate-the second one at P. NJ, af-
ter the siesta, just now beginning. re-
sisted these noon indolenccs at first, but
have given in. From A. NJ. to l 2. NJ.
is as long day as even healthy man
can do Justice to, in an atmosphere so
stepped in lassitude. The inhabitants eat
two dinners in the twenty-four hours
Coffee and bread and butter are brought
10 ones bed a little before sunrise, and at
ten in the forenoon there is precisely
such dinner on the hotel table as is
served at 8 in the evening" bottle of
claret to every mans plate, and meats,
fruits and coffee, in regular succession
Al the boarders assemble at this meal
most punctually, and it is quite as long,
conyersationaland hearty as dinner No. ?.
l wish [ could give you an idea of the
out-of-doors-y free and easy character of
this "crack hotel" of the West Indies. 1t
has but two public apartments, vast bill
iard-room and vast dining ROOM
These occupy about twothirds of the
second story, but the otherthird is a
marble-paved verandah, fronting on
the bay, and this last serves the pur-
poses of ladies' drawing-room, gen
tlemen's parlor, smoking-room and bar.
The ladies are receiving company in one
group, while sherry cobblers are being
drank in another; ices being served here,
coffee there, and cigars in all directions.
The choice is between this publicity and a
very small bedroom, and the preference
for the former is unanimous. 1t seems
to be an element of a tropical climate
that nobody can intrude. Privacy seems
as much forgotten and out of its latitude
at st. Thomas as are muffs and tipets.-
While our lady fellow-passengers were at
breakfast this morning, two young gen
tlemen were promenading to and fro in
the dining-room, with their hats on, smo-
king and looking at the strangers, as if
wholly invisible themselves. 1t is i'm
possible not to overhear the conversation
Of the different groups of men on the YER
anda. With no sashes nor glass to the
windows, there is no shutting out sounds,
and the most delicate of invalids must lie
On her pillow, listening to the rattle of
billiard-balls, the shaking of ice in glass
es, the laughter and jokes of the drink
ers, and, loudest of them all, the eternal
and vociferous chatter of the negroes
merry, undeferential, and omnipresent.-
The man who waits on me came into my
room last night, after | had been two or
three hours abed, and woke me to say
that steamer had arrived. The black
laundresses talk French to me as | sit
writing at my window opening on their
courtyard. Every negro in the street
will speak to you if you look at him
Your neighbors at table converse with
you. Nobody is stranger to ANYBODY
The equator seems to be not ouiv an as
Economical but also a moral and social
equalizer.
Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1852-06-10

BHThe New York Tribu'ae, speaking
of money matters in that city, says that
one of the city banks has over two millions
of coin in vault, and another had, few
days since, over million and half
The aggregate amount in Bank and Sub
Treasury, it estimates as probably reach
ing nearly seventeen millions of dollars,
Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1852-06-10
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Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1852-06-10

The Charleston Is. c. News says there
is surprisingly monkey-fed specimen
of sable humanity now in that city. He
is fifteen years old, 33 inches in height,
when erect, but when seated, or rather
squatted lies doubled up in a very singu-
lar manner, with his head upon the floor,
and two fingers in his mouth-always his
position when asleep. In the length Of
the arms and lower extremities, express
sion of physiognomy, as we'll as peculiar
conformation of head, he bears remark
able affinity to the monkey. He is very
fond of playing with marbles, but has
never been heard to utter any sound other
than kind of scream like that of an ape.
He feeds on bread and milk. His mother
was an ordinary negro woman and last,
though not least, his name is esquire. y
He is a native of North Carolina, and
HAS NO TAIL!
Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1852-06-10

"Mister, your sign has fallen down ~
cried temperance man to a grogshop-
keeper, before whose door drunken man
was PROSTATE. We do not know whether
this temperance man was the same into
whose store a customer reeled, exclaiming:
Mr.. - do you-keep-any-thing
good to take here ~
g les, we have excellent cold water
the best thing in the world to take"
"Well, | know it, was the reply
=" there is no -thing-that's done SO
much for-navieation-a5 that,
Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1852-06-10

AWestern paper claims triumphant
election for candidate, because he ney-
er stole any public money.