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Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1850-1859, 1855-02-16
Drom a)Dila1elptfa.

PniLAD., Feb. 8, 1855.
DEAR CHRONICLE: 1t is 50 long since I
have written your name, tha. it seems
almost new to me, and yet l look for your
familiar face with as much interest each
week as We do for " HARPER" at the end
OF each month. Let me congratulate you
on your improved appearance; you deserve
success. The fact that you can afford a
new dress in the mids. of such hard times.
is evidence that you do succeed; and tha.
junior look you wear, precludes all
'dea OF grey-hair-breediug troubles.
You may thank your stars, who arc 20
happily removed from this boiling po. of
nammon; you sit quietly among your
peaceful bills, like some snug baroue ri.
ding safely upon the broad ocean while
many a noble hull is being battered to
pieces among the breakers that lash the
ueacherous coast. Bur.
While terra frma on her All,
a.. biurrai turns"
hfs will be very likely to present the same
I,ieldescopic !, changes of aspect. The sun
.a "n,ca today Is reflected from faces, bright
with VII conscious prosperity, may ,o,morsow
h.l., ,all upon the reas, of crushed spirits, and
bankrupt hopes Such i. the tide We rid.
upon; such the wave. which epsu!ph
thousands The last new year dawned
W upoa unparalleled prosperity; this, lighted
Csiren waste, and the usual rejoicing
"'.' crowned in the cry Of hard times
nara times !-The man Of business
' repeat the cry, until he believes him
Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1850-1859, 1855-02-16
Winter Butter.

In many parts Of our country the art Of
making good butter in winter is very i'm.
perfectly understood, and by some dairy
women thought to be entirely impossible.
But it can be done in December as we'll as
in May. The plan of doing it is this the
cows should be stabbed and fed on sweet
hay and other provender. Instead Of keep
ing the milk in warm place it should b
put in = cold one, and no matter how soon
it freezes, because freezing it will separate
the cream much more perfectly than il
will rise without the atmospheric tempe
rature, and it can then be taken of with
less trouble. And when the cream il
churned the churn should not be placed
very near fire; the ordinary heat Of
kitchen would be sufficient. Too much
warmth destroys both the complexion and
the favor of butter. In the winter, but.
ter, it is evident, requires more time in
churning than in summer, but when pa
thence assists the laborer, the task is mats
no task at all.
Butter cured with half an ounce Of ssts
quarter ounce Of salpetre, quarter ounce Of
moist sugar pounded, used in the prspor.
ton Of an ounce 70 each pound Of butsses
will bs found y hssp good loreer tine,
and hate & sn1iuI taplicioua AasosthaB VhVD
ssl,cd in .hs ,s}iurr: .s Pr Ery.
Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1850-1859, 1855-02-16
THE WRONG BOX.
BY A X. n"

Larry M'Mulen was clerk in q store
Where dry goods by Wholesale sold;
The most Of his business was sweeping the floor,
And knocking the boxes about at the door;
OF writing and reading he knew nothing more
Than the colt that Is half year old.
Nov rich widow lady from Tirpareen sent
To purchase some merchandise rare,
And to packing 1t up In q box Larry vent,
But. little bit corncd, and wid labor o'erspent,
lie stumbled ard fell in box that meant
For different description Of ware.
All night he lay snug In a beautiful drams,
Till morning crawl.d over the sky;
Then to nail up the boxes the carpenter came,
According to orders he fastened the same,
And the place so dark that nobody could blame
II Larry he did not espy.
Then the fellow who marked oil the boxes drew nigh,
And bad piece of business he made,
For he wrote on the box in which Larry did lie
"FoH MRs. MLAuGHiIx: TAKE CARE AHp kHxP pRI."
Alas for poor Larry. how would he die
Nthat scursy command obeyedl
The box was sent on by the railroad in haste,
In the widows fine dwelling it sat,
And the widow, who had a mechanical taste,
Next SEIZED on n Ratchet and quickly uncAsed
MMullin, who rosred like terrified basts,
"Och! smitherrens, what ore We ati"
The widow was horribly frightened at first
At what seemed Internal machine,
Expecting to fifty hends from it burst'
But when she discovered q MAN the worst,
Her fears were ali ended, her doubts dispersed,
And her rapture WAS plain to be
" Och! Molly look here, thus she cried to her maid,
"Come s-e what the marchints have sentI
wrote for such things q widd-r might made,
And faith but the fellows have strictly obeyed.
Had luck to but I'll them well paid,
For they give me ntire content"
where II" Larry. "Faix, daflnt you're here,
The widow replied with smile.
Cries the lad, So am, sure enough but fear
have sent the wrong box" "Never mind it, my dear
Said Mistress M'Laughlin, and gave him leer
That cut to his heart l.k. aic
ats happy am, then" M'Nullin rejoined,
"If the goods suit your ladyship's taste.
II DIRT goods you wanted youth sartinly find
That I'll sui; you at once, for I'm that very kind"
"very we'll then says she, thats the goods my mind
And now let send for the Praist!"
Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1850-1859, 1855-02-16

A Farmer " we'll to do" in the world,
asked Us the other day what We considered
the best stock in which to invest his sur.
plus funds, whether Railroad, Bank, or
State Stocks? We told him he had better
apply his surplus funds to the manufac.
ture Of good manure heap, and let Rail.
road, Bank, and State Stocks alone. We
consider it the height Of folly for farmer
to meddle with fancy stocks when he has
any waste or unimproved land, or build
ing,, or fences that need repairing, with
which to use his surplus money. Tho
dabbling in stocks or interest money has
always been the result Of short-sightedness
on the part Of the farming community, es.
pecially when the money might Be moro
usefully employed in hiring men to i'm
prove and put their lands in the highest
possible state of cultivation, instead Of
half or quarter tilling them, Is the vast
majority of farmers do at present. Our
agricultural friends need waking up on
this point, and to be thoroughly aroused
to the fact that it don't pay to work after
the manner in which their grandfathers did
before them, for old fogyism" is a. un-
profitable to them as any other class Of
community. Wake up, and see ifit lint
so !-Nsto Brunsrirk Fredonian.
Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1850-1859, 1855-02-16
1ha Beautiful Quadrooa.

The Detroit (Michigan) Christian Her
aid, Of the 2Sth ult., says that twenty
eight chattels arrived in that city during
the previous ten days BY way Of the uu-
der.ground railroad:
"The case which has excited especial in-
terest is that of beautiful quadroon girl
Of nineteen. She escaped from Kentucky,
after having been sold for 8 500 to sprig
Of Ohivalry, who designed to take her to
New Orleans and consign her to fate at
which deccncy and humanity sicken. Soon
after her escape, he offered reward of Eve
hundred dollars for her recovery, and de-
clared be would have her If be had to
" put one foot in hell" Such was her
beauty that she would readily have brought
from $500 to %, 900 in the New Orleans
Market. Zilla has, however, been rescued
from the embrace Of this putrid monster.
She Is safe in Canada-has entered Q
school, and is preparing herself to become
a teacher.
Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1850-1859, 1855-02-16
Frost a. q Manure,

We know Of no treatment % directly
beneficial for almost every class Of soils, -
that of throwing up land in narrow ridges
in the fall or early winter. There are few
soils worth cultivating at all, that do not
contain more or less materials which can
be made available to plants BY the COM
bined action Of air and frost.
Take two plots Of heavy soils, side BY
side, and let one lie unmoved till spring,
while the o.heris deeply plowed in autumn,
and the result will be very visible in the
spring crop. But the manner Of plowing
is important. To secure the greatest I'D.
vantage, single furrow should be thrown
up and another backfurrowed directly upon
it SO as to produce high ridge, then an
other ridge is to be made in the rams man.
ner with deep dead furrow between tho
two. The process Is to be continued thus
through the whole field, so that when
finished it will present surface Of high
ridges and deep dead furrows succeeding
each other, about once in two or two and
half feet. II prepared in this way, the
frost will penetrate far downward, loosen
ing and disintegrating the soil below the
furrows, while the ridges will crumblo
down, and as they will not hold water, the
air will circulate freely through them, de-
composing the mineral portions, and eoo-
veyiug in ammonia, and other gases. This
operation will be equal to ten or more loads
Of good manure upon clay or compact soils.
In the spring it will only be necessary
to run plow once or twice through the
centre of each ridge, and then level the
whole down with heavy harrow.
Another advantage in this process il,
that when land is thus prepared it dries
out and warns several days earlier in tho
spring. Again, there are some soils that
are exhausted upon the surface, but which
contain poisonous substances in the sub.
soil. If this sub-soil is thrown up in con-
tact with the air and frost during tho
winter, these poisonous compounds, usuals
ly protosulpha;e of iron or manganese, will
be destroyed OF changed to harmless form,
during the winter.
The above practice is especially to b
recommended in the garden. One Of the
most successful cultiva.ors of an aero Of
ground in our acquaintance, digs it up in
the fall to the depth of three or four feet,
making deep trenches and high ridges 90
that the whole acre appears to be covered
high winrows of hay placed close together.
We strongly urge every farmer who has
not tried this method, to lay out his plans
now for experiment in this way, on lsrg.
er or smaller scale, during the present ses.
sou.-Americdn Agricuiturist.
Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1850-1859, 1855-02-16
Cure for Scrofala.

Nicholas Lougwor:h the great Catawba
wine man, Of Cincinnati, publishes the
following in the Commercial Of that city.
Put 2 ounces of Aquafortis on . plate,
on which you have two copper cents. Let
it remain from eighteen to twenty-four
hours. Then add 4 ounces Of clear strong
vinegar. Put cents and all In large
mouthed bottle, and keep it corked. Be-
gin by putting four drops in teaspoon
full Of rain water, and apply it to the sore.
Make the application three times day,
with soft hair pencil, or one made Of
rags. If very painful, put more water.
If not too painful, put less. As the sore
heals apply it weaker. l request all edi-
tors, in all parts Of the Union, and abroad,
to copy this and to republish it quar-.
tcrly or yearly, It may save many lives.
N. LoNGwoRTH.
Cincinnati, Nov. 1S. 1854.
Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1850-1859, 1855-02-16
OLpBN TIME TAVERN RArEs.-The
Wheeling Argus publishes the following
nonu nf a record af 0hia eonnfx eourf

At . court held for Ohio county, on
Monday, the 9Th day Of June, 1850.
Present Solomon Hedges, Ed. Robinson,
James Miller, and Zachariah Sprigg, gent.
The court proceeded to settle the rates for
ordinary keepers. Ordered, that the ordi.
nary keepers Of this county, sell At the
fnllovin0 patoas
Washington sentinel. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1853-1855, 1855-01-24
NATIONAL MEDICAL COLLEGE,

" "a,
IN Washngton.-The Thirty second Annual
Course'of Lectures will commence on the fourth
Monday in October, and continue until March.
FACULTY
Thomas Miller, M d., Professor of Anatomy
and Physiology.
VIM. p. Johnson, M D.. Professor of Obs,e,
RIGS and Diseases of Women and Children.
Joshua Riley, M. D., Professor of Materia Med
lea, Therapeutics and Hygiene.
John Fred May, M. D., Professor of the Prin-
cpes and Practice of Surgery.
Grafton Tyler, M. D., Professor of Pathology
and Praciiceof Medicine.
Robert King Stone, M. d.. Professor of Micros.
copal and Pathological Anatomy.
Lewis III. Steiner, M. d., Professor of Chemis
try and Pharmacy.
William H ISaunders, M. d., Prosector and De-
monstrator.
The facilities for the prosecution Of practical
anatomy arc.ample.
Like most similar institutions in Europe, the
desks from which the regular lectures are given,
and the wasds for clinical instructions are under
the same roof
The exteIslvs additions to the buildings since
asst session, for the accommodation of the
X, will treaty. extend the usefulness of the
medical and surgical clinic.
The entire expense for full course Of lee
tures Observation-Disclosures. $50
Practical anatomy by the demonstrator 10
Misunderstanding fee payable only once). ....... 5
Graduating expenses. .................. IS
Admission to the Met al and Surgical Clinic
trough The whole course ilhout charge
ROBERT KING STONE, M. D.,
Dean of the Faculty.
Office and residence corner of and 14th SITS.
Sep 2l-lf
Washington sentinel. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1853-1855, 1855-01-24
ADVERTIsEMENT.
The Wood-Gas Controversy.
RATHER sharp but distant firing


IA carried on by some persons interested i'm
Wood-Gas Patents; and we perceive that the
smoke OF their cannon has somewhat obscured
their vision. DR. G. G. Page, as the attorney for
W L. Mcdonnell, having presented his claims
through our columns, l.. X. Breisach of this city.
has presented those of Petienkofer ~ Ruand, OF
Bavaria-he being their assignee--ihrough the
columns OF the Daily Times of the Sd instant He
states that the first patent for the Bavaran inycn.
ton was issued on February "a, 1851, an authen.
ucated copy OF which has been filed in our Patent
Office also, that the claims OF his assignors were
filed IN the Office, TO protect their rights, more
than year ago As no patent can be obtained
tor making or using Wood-Ias, the disputed
point relates TO the apparatus, which embraces
the relocating of the gas--passing II over a red hot
surface in It's way TO the cooer-after il is gene
rated; this is clearly stated in Dr. Pages letter,
on page 80. Now, as Mcconnell claims 10 have
invented the apparatus for relocating Wood Gas,
as far back as lo4e--two years previous 10 the
granting OF the Bavarian pafent--and rs he OBJ
tanned patent for the same, on the Goth day OF
September last, although contested BY Pettenko
fer d Rutland, we cannot well conceive who l.. r.
Breisach wants 10 Brighten, by declaring, through
the columns of the Times that he will prosecute
the violaors of the Bavarian invention. He gives
this notice to all who take interest in the intro
duction OF this invention, but, in doing So he for
got TO present any fact upon which the public can
rely, 10 show what patent rights he possesses.
When he again writes to inform the public that he
has certain patent rights, and will prosecute those
who infringe them, we hope he will be so good as
70 state what these rights are, that the public
may know what he means.-.Scientjfe Ameracan.
Nov left
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THE LAMPLIGHTER.-A fresh supply

II Just received.
Also, Life and Sayings Of Mrs. Darlington, and
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My Schools and Schoolmasters; or the Story OF
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Womans Influence and Woman's Mission.
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rCREAsURE, PACKAGE & LETTER

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L Potomac Hall, corner of Eleventh street and
Maryland avenue, over Clarke's Drug store, Wash
lngton, ID. C.
Every style of book-binding executed, either in
velvet, Turkey Morocco, Russia, or fancy colors
calf.
Periodicals. and Music neatly half bound
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rental hkenesses He takos this method 10 inform
his friends and those DESTROYS of perpetuating per-
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MisftlIanf0ns.
'AMPLEs or MACHINERY AND

EXAMPLES or MACHINERY AND
IL Misunderstanding plans, sections, and sleva-
ton Of works Ill several departments of Machine
ry, Mill-work, and General Engineering, with de-
crptions otheir constructors action, and practical
application 10 various branches ofindustry.
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ORANGE AND ALEXANDRIA RAILROAD
The cheapest, most comfort .ie, and cxpedl-
tious route to the White sulphur Springs,
passing the Alum, Warm, and Hot Springs.

AAC nCAPCSts MOwl COku1OkW- 0kCs anu oxROQln
tious route to the White sulphur Springs,
passing the Alum, Warm, and Hot Springs.
r.: s. 8 ~ ARRANGEMENTS having
"a ~ = been made with the owners OF the
new and splendid steamer GEORGE PAGE to
run between Alexandra and Washington, a dis
lance of six miles, in connection with the trains
on this road and the Washington railroads. the fol-
lowing schedule will take effect on and after
Thursday, June /, 1854:
A train from Alexandria to Gordonsvlle and
intermediate stations, will leave the depot, corner
of Duke and Henry streets, at o'clock, q. M,
on the arrival Of the Boat from Washington, giving
ample time for Breakfast on board, arriving al
Gordonsville at half past 10 O'Clock, connect
ing at that point with the trains on the Virginia
Central railroad TO Richmond Charlottesville, and
Staunton.
A train from Gordonsville 10 Alexandra, and in!
termedate stations, will leave Gordonsville al
IL o'clock, the arrival of the cars on the vir.
ginia Central road arriving at Alexandra al half
past O'Clock, thus allowing time TO connect with
the trains leaving Washington city for the north,
and for dinner on board the boat.
train from Alexandria to Warrenton and, in
termediate stations will leave Alexandra daily
Sunday excepted) at o'clock, p. m, arriving al
Warrenton 81 o'clock, p. m.
On Sunday will leave at Y O'Clock, a. m.
Train from Warrenton TO Alexandria and inter
mediate stations will leave Warrentsn daily (Sun-
day excepted AT a quarter before 2 o'clock, a. m,
arriving at Alexandra at halfpast 9 O'Clock, a. m
On Sunday will leave at quarter past IL O'Clock,