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Litchfield enquirer., 1855-04-12
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A late number of the American Medical Monthly contains an account of visit made by the Committee of medical gentlemen ap- pointed by the New York Academy of Med- icine, to the establishment of MT. Batchford, at Amenia, some 30 miles east of Poagh- keepsie, where solidifed milk is prepared. The editor describes the process as follows:
 To Il2 pounds of milk, 2S pounds of Stu. arts white sugar, is added trivial propors ton of bi-carbonate of soda, a teaspoonful, merely enough to insure neutralizing of any acidity which in .the summer season is ex- hibited even few minutes after milking, although inappreciable. to the organs of taste. The sweet milk was poured into evaporating pans of enameled iron embed- ded in warm water heated by steam. A thermometer was immersed in each of these water baths, that by frequent inspection. the temperature might not rise above the point which years of experience have shown advisable. .ss.
 To facilitate tho evaporization by means of blowers and other ingenious apparatus, current of air Is established between the CO., vers of the pans and the solidifying milk. Connected with the steam engine is ah ar- engagement for stirrers for agitating the milk slightly while evaporating, and so geatly as not to churn 1t. In about three hours the milk and sugar assumed pastry con sistency. and delighted the palates of all present. By constant manipulating and warming, it was reduced to rich, creamy looking powder, then exposed to the air to cool, weighed into parcels of a pound each. and by press, with the force of ton or two, made to assume the compact form of . tablet, the size of small brick, in which shape, covered with tin foil, it Is presented to the public.
 Some of the solidifed milk which was grated and dissolved in water the evening previous, was found covered with rich cream. This skinned off, was converted into wine whey, by treatment precisely similar to that employed in using ordinary milk. It fully eqnaled the expectations of all, so that solidifed milk will hereafter rank among the necessary appendages of the sick room. In fine, this article makes paps, custards and cakes, equal to the best milk and obtained from we'll pastured cat. tie, and not the produce of distillery slops; neither can 1t be watpred.
 For steamships, packets, or for those tra- yelling by land or sea, for hotel purposes, or use in private families, for young or old, we recommend it cordially as a substitute for fresh milk.
 We look with interest for the scientific report of the committee of the Academy of Medicine, in which we hope for an exposi. ton of the culinary, and hygenic properties, ofsoidifed milk
Litchfield enquirer., 1855-04-12

Coon Apv;cE.-It were impossible for us to say what occupation would be the, most lucrative for young man. particularly as we know nothing of his talents or ac-v quirements. We would, however, say as general rule to all, Do not make haste to be rich." Adopt some safe and regular business, in which you may realize com- fortable living, and be content. lfa person is prud mt or economical, there is generally no danger hut he will succeed. The idea of" getting rich"is is vain and foolish one, and men generally spend half their lives in finding out that to accomplish this object is useless undertaking. There are thousands of persons at this present time suffering the bangs of poverty, who, if they had been con. tent with sufficiency, would now have been comfortable and happy. The educa- ton that we get in the world Is more dearly bought than our youthful instruction. and 1t would be we'll if young men would more generally profit by the examples which every day life affords them. e s- islsese
Litchfield enquirer., 1855-04-12
THE MISSION OF THE NEWSPAPERS

The world is too apt to slight and forget it's obligation to the Newspaper. 'Tis the Newspaper that keeps men posted up on all matters and on all subjects that do not pass l under their own immediate observation.
 | The eye of the newspaper is universal 1t falls on all parts of the world, and search es out it's incidents, as well as the motives and passions that control it's movements Nothing is too great, nothing too trivial to escape its keen, penetrating glance it is everywhere-on everybody above, below. around it--:he four quarters of the earth are its parade ground and it passes over them every moment of each day. It is ceaseIess in it's undergraduates nits watchfulness; and, although gossipy in its character, it is vigiiant as time, penetrative as light, and sleepless as the stars.
 Each succeeding dawn comes not with more regularity than the morning journal with the fresh batch of news despatches from all parts of the world. The thoughts, positions, incidents, and movements of in- diyiduals and of nations, are presented in it's columns, as in a mirror-the reflex of the thoughts and progress of man and the world. He who reads carefully well-conducted newspaper, is never in any danger of fall- ing behind the age. His journaIkeeps him posted up in everything running on with the great march of time; it gradually prepares his mind to receive all the new discoveries of the human brain in its rapid strides to clear and unclouded intelligence; it weans him from old fashions, old customs, and old fogy thoughts it separates him from early prejudice. and gradually imbues him with sound practical notions, and enables him to fathom the heaviest and most abstruse sub. jects with the plummet of common sense 1; it keeps him alive to all the new progress. i've steps in Trade, Commerce, Literature, and Art; it makes him familiar with the details of all the events transpiring in no matter what part of the world, or the day !; it enables him to keep pace with the intel- ligence and progress of the times it car ries him on, imperceptibly to himself, with each progressive step of the era in which he lives and it enables him, if he be man of business, to open new channels of corres- pondence. and thus secure for himself new openings for trade, and new sources of profit.
Litchfield enquirer., 1855-04-12

A PROFOUND THouGHT.-I do not know that ever suggested to you fancy which has sometimes come into my head. have thought that by analyzing pain, have been able to find an element of pleasure in it. l have thought, too, that by looking a pain fully in the face, and comprehending it, have diminished it's intensity. Distinct perception. instead of aggravating. decreas- es evil. This have found when reading accounts of terrible accidents, which at first made me shndder. By taking them to pieces and conceiving each part distinctly, have been able to think of them calmly, and feel that too, could pass through them. Sym pathy increases by the process, but not fear. The sympathy weakens the personal fear ; but this is not the whole explanation. The soul, by resisting the first shudder, and by placing itself near the terrible, by an act of the will, puts forth energies which reveal it to itself, and make it conscious of some- thing within, mightier than suffering. The power of distinct knowledge, in giving courage, have. never insisted on, and yet 1t is apart of my experience. The unknown, the vague. the dark, what imagination in- vests with in6nity-this terrifes and the remark applies not to physical evil alone, but to all others.-C Channing.
Litchfield enquirer., 1855-04-12

LameniaLle Death of Snaie On Sun day (says an Albany paper) Jailor Huyck got up an unusual roast. He replenished the 6replacei in the office of the jail, with a hickory stick, and after the said stick be- came pretty well igniied it gave forth sirange noises, slssing and snapping as though an extraordinary fry was going on. The peculiar noise attracted attention from all present, and taking the stick off it was found to be hollow. the baked remains of a black snake. apparently some three feet in .lenctl. iyinr inside. His snakcship had prohshly Iai.l there all.w inter awaiting lI,e V arm,h af spring. bot unfcrtuna,ely his -csurrecticn vas thus anticipated.
Litchfield enquirer., 1855-04-12
DESTROYING BURDocks.

The Burdock is sturdy nuisance on the farm. It strikes its roots strong and deep, its leaves shade strong area, and its burrs, when ripe, stick closer than brother, to whatever they become attached, and are thus scattered abroad, frequently to great distance from the place where they grow.- The best way to kill them is to take sharp spade and cut them off below the surface of the soil. They may start up again, but few more cuttings will destroy them.- Moving them down two or three times du- ring the season will destroy them. If any have escaped till fall, and have ripened their seed, the stalks should be cut and burnt, and the seed thus prevented from spreading.
 As might be expected, plant that has such an expansion of leaf requires a good soil and large root to support i, in full vigor. If you dig up the roots while green and succuent and throw them oyer to the hogs, they will often eat them greedily. In olden time, the roots were thought to have some medical properties and were sometimes used as tonic, and the seeds, being somewhat spicy, were used as stimulants, in the form of a tincture, in rheumatic affections but we are inclined to think the leaves the most useful part of them. Being large and soft, the leaves are excellent for external app.- cations to the feet and other parts of the body to get up action and promote perspira. ton, and so our friends must allow bencro- ient patch of burdocks to flourish somewhere on his premises.
 Indeed, if weed be only plant out of place, give i; a proper place, and it will no longer be weed.
Litchfield enquirer., 1855-04-12
Uncle Bill Todd was a drover from Wor-

Uncle Bill Todd was drorer from Wor- cester county. Being exposed to all wealth. CT. his complexion suffered some but at the best. he was none of Inc whiiest. Stopping at public house near Brighton, a man, rich in this worlds goods, hut of notoriously bad character, thought as Uncle Bill came in he would make him the butt of joke. As the black face of the weather beaten man ap- peared in the doorway. he exclaimed:
 Mercy on us. how dark 1t grows.''
 Uncle Bill surveying him from head to faot coolly repliri-
 | Yes. sir; your character and my cnm. .Plexion are enough to dsrkcn any rcom."
Litchfield enquirer., 1855-04-12

X TOTAL WREcK.-On the first of 1anu- ary, 1854, a gentleman doing business in
 New York, says the Courier and Enquirer.
 was worth with what he had invested in business S110,000. At the same time he
 was blessed with lovely aud intelligent
 wife, beautiful and promising children. He was surrounded by friends who esteemed and respected him. His business was lu- crative, and promised to continue so. ln- deed, his position as we'll as his prospects were, seemingly, all that he cou desire to render his happiness perfect. How com plete the wreck which the year closed upon l! The first misfortune was the transfer of mer- chandise to ,he amount of SIS, 900 to Cal ifornia dealer, for which not one cent was ever received. The next were two success sive robberies, by means of which S25,000 were lost. Soon after this, the unfortunate large amount. The next and crowning mis- fortune was trip with his family to Eu- rope. They embarked, on their return, with $3s, ,000 in goods, on board the steamship Arctic, and all shared her luckless fate In settling up his affairs, luis real estate was sold under the hammer at sacrifice of si0, 900, making the aggregate loss to his property during the year SIS ,0o0,-SS, ,090 mors than his assets. His friends were obliged to make good the deficiency! Was ever destruction more complete Father, mother, children and fortune all gone swep, from the face of the earth---nothing Jeff to show that they ever existed! We doubt whether. among the many wrecks which the past year has witnessed, there has been among them one more melancholy than this.
Litchfield enquirer., 1855-04-12
Paddy MeShaue was aunoyed exceedinp.

Paddy MeShane was annoyed exceeding ly by a strange dog. On cold winter night, the wind cutting like knife, after the dog had been turned out of doors no less than three times. Pat was awakened by the noise of rather an extensive fracture of glass.- The dog was in the house again. Paddy waited upon him out, and both were absent some fifteen minutes, so that his old woman. becoming alarmed at such prolonged ab. sence. rose and went to the window.
 .What are yees doing out there, Paddy, acnshia !" said she.
 There was such a chattering of teeth that the answer for sometime was somewhat uninseiligible. at lastit came:
 ]" l an thrying to frsze the devilish basse 10 death
Litchfield enquirer., 1855-04-12

RETIREMENT. q" There are minds,' says ? Jefferson, "which can be pleased by honors and preferments but sec nothing in them bat envy and enmi.y. It is only necessary to possess them, to know how little they contribute to happiness. I had rather be shut np in very modest cottage, with my books, my family, and a few old friends. dining on simple bacon. and letting thss world roll as it likes, than to occupy the most splendid post which human power can giye.' s
Litchfield enquirer., 1855-04-12

SILENT fSruLEycr.-1t is the bubbling spring that flows gently. the little nvulet that glides through the meadows and which runs along day and night, by the farm house, that is useful. rather than the swol- len flood, or the yarring cataract. Nigga ga exciies our wonder, and we stand anna zsd at the power and greatness of God. as he pours it from his hollow hand.' But one Niagara is enough for the continent, or world, while the same world requires thou- sands and tens of thousands of silver foun- tains and ga,tly flowing rivuleis, that water every farm and meadow, and every garden 1; and that shall flow on every day and night with their gentle. quiet beauty. So with the acts of our lives. It is-not by great deeds, like those of the martyrs. that good is to be done; it is by the daily quiet vir- tues of life--.he Christian temper. the meek forbearance. the spirit of Forgiveness, in the husband, the wife. the father, the brother, the sister.tl,e friend, the neighbor, that good is to be dcns.
Litchfield enquirer., 1855-04-12

What . melancholy spectacle it is when n young man is seen wandering through tho streets of strange city. alone in the crowds. solitary in the multisudes. meeting no rx- tended hand, no smile of welcome, destitute of nonoy and friends, and-wiih corns and tight hoots on his feet.
Litchfield enquirer., 1855-04-12
What Hay. the Americans Done

In one of the Latter Day Pamphlet" Mir. Carlyle asks tauntingly, what have the Americans done! Wehave abolished Mon- archy; we have abolished Aristocracy; we have sundered Church and State; we have so wrought with our English inheritance, that most Englishmen better their condition by quitting their old home and coming to the new. We have consolidated state, under whose disinterested guardianship the cabined and straitened of the old world find enlargement and prosperity. We have suppressed standing armies; we have de- centralized government to an extent that be. fore our experiment was deemed hopeless; 1; We have grown with such dream-like rapidity, as to stand, after little more than half century of nationa! existence, promi- nens on the earth among the nations; and this, through the wisdom of political or ganization, whereby such scope is given to industry and invention, that not only are our native means properly developed, but the great influx of Europeans is healthfully absorbed. We have in fifty years put be- tween the Atlantic and the Pacific an empire of twenty-five millions, who work more than any twenty-five millions on earth, and read more than any fifty millions. We have built state at once so solid and Aexi- ble, that it protects all without expressing any. Our land is hope and refuge to the king-crushed laborers of Europe, and from the eminence above all other lands to which ithas ascended, by our forecast. vigor and freedom, it is to the thinker demon stration of the upward movement of Christi endom, and justification of hopes that look to still higher elevations.
 Mir. Carlyle's snecrs at our lack of hero ism would be very unw orthy of him, from the very stiffness, were they not more so from their sour injustice. Let any people recife its heroic deeds, on flood or field, since we were nation,and we will match every one of them. And in the private sphere, where self-sacrifce, devotion, cour. age, find such scope for heroic virtues, our social life is warm with them. But this is no theme for words. For his unworthy ones, we deem we'll enough of Mir. Carlyle to be- lieve, that, when disengaged from the nor bidly subjective, and therefore blinding and demoralizing moods to which he is liable, he is ashamed of having printed them. It seems somewhat as though this passage had been written just to give us an oppor- tunity of victorious retort, or to tempt us into an exhibition of our natural propensity to brag-a propensity, be it said, which is national in every nation we know anything of, whether English, French, German, or Italian. We only beat them in bragging. just as we beat them in blows and statues, in clippers and steamboats, in whalemen and electric telegraphs, in cheap newspapers and cheap government, They all do their best in bragging, and so do we-and We beat them.
Litchfield enquirer., 1855-04-12

WHITr MAPLE SrcaR.-A Vermont farm- CT says the following is method of clarify- ing sugar: Filter all yonr sap before boiling, through hopper box of sand, which, he is satisfied, will take out. not only all the stains derived from leaves, tubs, crumbs of bark. but all other coloring matter that can prevent the sugar from being white.
Litchfield enquirer., 1855-04-12
! FOR G.aEE.

Y SMALL FARM 0f thirty acrcs of land sitae ksd in the village 0f Lilrhfeld. hslf . ...lIs sos,h . tlss Gcsl,r hcuss: Hosss aud sll Peosessi0n eiven 0n fhe 2d day ni April.
 WM. II, THOMPSON. LssshssH, Naseh z7sh. less.
Litchfield enquirer., 1855-04-12

DIyipED BY WAR.-A gentleman much respected in Bristol, and partner in one of the principal banks in that city has two nephews in Sevastopol, serving in the Rus sian army, and two nephews outside Sevas. topol, serving in the French army. They are sons of two sisters married, one to . Russian and the other to French gentleA man. Both Russians and French have also cousins in the English army.
Litchfield enquirer., 1855-04-12

The best thing to give your enemy is forgivcness--to your opponent, tolerapce--a 10 father, dcfsrencc--to your mother, con. duct that will make her proud of heF son n sourseIf. respect--to all men chaiityts God obedience. \
Litchfield enquirer., 1855-04-12

T When Tom Corwin was member of the General Assembly of Ohio, he brought in bill for the abolition of public punishs meni at the whipping-post He made . speech thereon, to whicli-an elderly gentles man replied somewhat as follows
 i" MT. Speaker, the gentleman 1s not as oid as am, and has never seen so much of the practical operation of the system of punishment which he desires to abolish.-<A When I lived in Connecticut, if a fellow stole horse or cut up any other rnstics, ws used to tie him rightup and give him real good thrashin' and he always cleared right out. and NC never saw any more of him. It's the best way of getting rid ofrogues that ever was tried, and without expense to the State.'' -. -
 Corwin rose in reply MT. Speaker, i have been before pu, zled 10 account for the vast emigration to the west; but the gentle man last mp has explained it to my entire satisfaction"
 The bill passed without further discus. sion. se
Litchfield enquirer., 1855-04-12
TAKE NOTICE!

ll1 wheelbarrow Loads 5-i I3lssch' Il Cotton l75 3-4 do do 3-4 tlo do las 7-s do do c-l do do And iasi. but not leest:
 Il Sled -Loads Calico Remnonfs. All cf which is respectfully submistod in Friend ship LOys and Truth. -. sCoxxsR S7oRs,
 Woicossilis. March Ie,h. 1885.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1855-12-10

LIVING IN IowA-A Virginian who emigrated
from, Greenbrier county to Iowa, writes to the
Gre'mbrier Era from Iowa City as follows:
Il have contracted for farm. IL miles West OF
the rity, containing 200 acres-50 of which is good
tinber-40 acrces in cultivation with good
spring. small creek--a hewed log-house, and
some out buildings on it, for $40 per acre-said to
be great bargain The farm is beautifully situa
ted, and as rich (to uss an Iowa phrase) "any
land out doors can be-" 1t produced about 1000
bushels of corn this year, with scarcely any cult
vation, besides wheat, oats, buckwheat, potatoes
&c. There is . vast extent of open prairie ada
cent to it, which can be bought for S. per acre.
There are good openings here for mechanics-es-
peealy builders-wage' HIGH and living, except
rents, about the same ss in Virginia
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1855-12-10

REV DIR. BULLALD.-The sudden death of DIR.
Ballard, on the Pacific Railroad at the Gasconade
Bridge, was the subject of discourse by Rev. DIR
Beman, at his church in Troy, N. Y. It will be
recollectcd he was present at the dedication of DR.
Billiards. church. in St. Louis, on Sunday before
the accident occurred. He remained several DAYS
afterwards and received, as did many other distin.
guished strangers, an invitation to participate in
the excursion. Both DIR. Beman and DR.. Bullard
accepted, but correspondent, writing to the Bos-
ton Journal, says
''Ihe daughter of Mr. Bemau refused to 20; she
was anxious TO return home and to her earnest 30
lcitations her father yielded, and on the morning
OF the fatal excursion he and his daughter took
the conveyance for the East. AT the cars he
took leave of DR.. Bullard, who said to DIR. Be-
man, Farewell we shall never meet again In this
world"
'Oh yes, wo shall" said Beman, 81 may visit the
West again. or you may visit the East"
With great soemnity DR.. Bullard replied Il have
strong presentiment brother Beman, that we shall
never meet again-fareweI"
And so they separated-the one to his home and
parish, the other to the awful death awaiting him
only few hours ahead. Death swung his red
lantern on the track, and obstruction wasted at
MONDAY"
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1855-12-10

EMEIINE STUART WoRTLEY.-This lady whose
death is announced in the English papers, was the
second daughter of tho Duke of Rutland, and
widow of tae late Hon. Charles Stuart Wortley-
Lady Wortley was very well known and very
popular in this country. She visited the United
States twice, and in 1851 published volume of
travels Lady Wortley travelled through North
America, and afterward went to Havana the
British West Indies and extended her trip to Pa
mama She afterwards made an extended tour in
Asia and throughout Southern Europe
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1855-12-10

MIssoUM.--The Wing members of the Missouri
legislature held meeting at Jefferson city Oh the
30th nlt, and resolved that the National Whig Par
ty still livcs-and in the coming Presidential con-
test ito show themselves worthy of the best days
Of the republic The holding State convention
at ST. Louis, on the second Monday of April 1885,
for the purpose of appointing delegates to the Ma
tional Whig Convention to nominate candidates for
President and Vice President of the United States
wa /, recommended.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1855-12-10

A DHFEREScE.--A correspondent Of the Nation
al IntelIigencer noticing the fact that tho Peabody
Institnte In Danyers with a library OF only 1000
Volumes has over / 400 regular subscribers, says:
"The Washington Library has been In existence
probably thirty years, and contains over 10000
volumes, many Of them standard historical and
scientific works. with all the publications made by
the government and the Smithsonian institution
presented to the library, yet with population OF
near $1,000 inhabitants, this valuable library has
near Gfty sndsTibesn a "a n 80 F6SHfEfkf