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The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1857-07-16
New York Horse Power.

All Of IRON the best in the market and the first ever
made in the west. tts-r
Those in want Of Machines will do well to send In
their orders at AN early day, not to be disap
pointed, "A
They also have patterns Of all the machines In use
and viii repair any of them. 8i
We also make an excellent Hand Corn Shelter.
Orders solicited. X. SPENCER co. 4
Burlington, Iowa May, ls57.--l4-.m.
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THREsHsNG MACHINES.

R, sfEScKn's & co.'s sKw AND IMPROVED
TIIRFiSH ER AND CIEiA ~ Err
- SPENCER & GO. glad TO announce that
10 they have now ready, new and improved
TliRESHER AND CLEANER, which they are confident
will meet with general favor among grain growers
Wherever il has beea tried 1t has been pronounced
the iigtest and simplest machine in use; while In
pacty and quality of work. il has superior. They
manufactured la this city, They also manufacturc
10,
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II. Il. r..

e THE MEDIpAL TRINITY. Esiasea 81
Each Of RAILWAYS Three Remedies possesses special
curative powers certain Diseases and when either
the READY EkhIEs KFSovArse REsoLvEkr, the REot-
Aros used for the certain class of disease they
specially designed for the system underYoes rap
id transformation from its diseased condition heal
thy and happy state of existence.
R.pways READY RELIEF.
This remedy Is to be used externally, taken inter-
nally for all Pains, Aches and Intrinties. In few
minutes II stops the most torturng pains snbducs al
inlamatioDs aud the worst Of khe,nnaisD
i.un,ago, Govt Paralysis, Neuralgia, Toothache
Jonted, Intrm and Crippled to Soundness and vigor
II is likewise Certain Cure and Preventive for Fever
and Ague, Scarlet Fever smallpox Group, loarscnes
Colds and Influenza. Whenever you feel any unpleas
ant or painfal symptoms take a dose Of kAbwAyH
READY RErEr, apply 1t to the parts where the pain
is located in short time you will enjoy ease and com
fort. -
Bear in mind, there Is no pain severe but that
RApwAy's READY RELIEF will stop, aud system
crippled with lnGrmities but that the r. r. Il. Renee
dies viii restore to sound and vigorous health ste
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a. IIUEVEL, M. d.,
VuNAKES pleasure in announcing to the citizens o.
u Ottumwa and vicinity, that he has moved his Of
EICE up stairs above Streets Store, where ne will
ever be found ready TO attend to any call in his line
except when absent on professional business. lie re
specially socits share OF the public patronage.
April 8, iSJ6-n7
The Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, Ohio) 1853-1861, 1857-01-01

in Lancashire, which was entirely uncult-
waited thirty years ago, has. by the practice OF
this system, become covered with profabl
FERNS. Another fact well known TO most
prac ical farmers, but which has often been
doubted by mere theorists,is that ton ofany
kind of fodder or Of grain can be fed out, and
the returns in the excrements Of the, animal
will be found to make more and far better
manure than the produce before il has passed
through the animal. This is well explained
in one of the Lectures of Prof. J. F. W.
Johnston, which were delivered before tie
New York State Agricultural Society in l849:
"Suppose an animal is fed on wheat, which
contains great quantity of starch, gluten,
and mineral matter when the animal un.
does what the plant has done, that is, con
verts the starch into carbonic acid and water,
by the action of the lungs, it separates the
starch, which in wheat forms more than half
of its weight and in all the other matter-the
mineral matter and the gluten become chang
ed into another form of matter, and what the
animal rejects is richer in saline matter and in
the material that contains nitrogen. than the
food in its original state. 1t contains double
the quantity of nitrogen. This is q very beau
tiful and interesting fact, showing that by the
digesINe organs of the animal you can OBJ
tain manure richer than the vegetable and
green food, if applied directly to the surface.
Another point: the animal grinds down the
food in minute state with its teeth, and it is
thus converted into substance more avail
able to fertilize the soil, than the dry straw
or hay which it eats, if applied directly to the
soil without masdcator."
We have preferred 10 give the above in the
remarks of Pref j. to rendering the same
opinion in our own words; for we look upon
him as about the best authority q. hand. 1t
happens to strike us that many Of our read
ers may say that in this brief treatise, so far
we have told them the plainest and mos
practical truths, many of which they have
long known: for this we make no apology
we are endeavoring to supply something ths
is wanted by that large class of farmers whc
are constantly complaining with truth) tha
agricultural papers have nothing practical il
that can be made use of on the farm Com
try Gent
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Having finished the first layer, sweep off
clean, and put in the next, which cement to-
gether with the pounded ice like the first
Continue this process until the last layer,
which cover with saw dust, or straw, or sen
weed if more convenient, eighteen inches in
thickness. If the ice house is properly made,
and good ice put in it in this manner, you will
find it very little diminished next May, when
you open il to ,et the first block for the re-
friger ator. ..-
A subscriber atks If en- ice house cannot
be filed by pouring in water from time to
time and let it freeze. This might, perhaps,
be done on a small scale, should there be a
long continued succession Of freezing days.
But the operation would be very tedious, and
in the end, even if successful, more expen-
sve than cutting ready formed ice.-Am
Agriculta.ist.
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Cows that hold up their Milk.

Some time ago it was atcd that putting a
strap or cord across the back of cow with
this ugly tiick loaded with heavy weights at
each end, would prevent her from holding up
her milk To be effectual the weights en-
ployed must be quite heavy, as the efficacy
Of the plan must depend upon lis preventing
the COW from contracting those muscles by
which the boldiug up of the milk is brought
about. The edit of the Portland Pleasure
Boat has lately given to the public the results
OF sonlewhat similar plan, which he was led
to adopt from observing that his COW when
she held up her milk always contracted her
muscles so as to round up her back. After
observing this fact, and after having tried
coaxing and all gentle means in VAN. the
thought occurred to him that il he C, uld keep
his cows back straight she might no longer
be able to retain her milk. BY way of expa
riment he held the sharp corner Of small
stick of wood on her back with one hand,
while milking with the other, and was graft
fed TO find that the COW had not the power to
hold up her milk as usual. Thus assured of
the efficacy of the plan, he sawed piece OF
board just long enough to reach from the
floor over head to the cows back as she stood
in her natural position, and after sharpening
the lower end like wedge, he attached the
upper end to the flooring above by leather
hinge, so as to rest the board upon the back
of the COW. When he commenced milking,
after applying this apparatus, the COW wou d
be observed to be attempting to raise her back
but found the sharp, wedge-like end Of the
board more than match for Ter. The writ.
er of this report of the success of par
which his observation of the cows movement:
had anggesteu TO him. says, in conclusion
that finding herself unable to do as she haC
been accustomed to do, she was entirely curet
of her evil in few days.
Perhaps every COW with this trick may nc
be entirely cured in few days by this plan
but by the adoption of that or soma othc
plan founded on .he same principle. we shoult
expect more success than by any other 0
which we have at present any recollection. -
Any person of ingenuity could devise o;he
modes of applying the same principle. if tn
place or circumstances in which COW Of thi
kind was TO be MIXED were different fron
: those above mentioned.
A plan which we have known TO be sue
eessful consisted in giving the cow me.
during the process of milking. AS she woul
hold up again just as soon as the mess wa
finished, dry bran was found to last longe
than when vet, an ! was the one which wa
/ generally used.-Country Gent
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DHILADIlIPElIA MEDICAL ItOUsiI. rs
L tnblished twenty-five years ago by DIR. KINKEL-
IN corner of bird and Union streets, Philadelphia Pa.
TWENTY-FIVE YAERs
Experience has rendered Dr. X. most successfu
practitioner in the of all diseases of private ma
ture; manhood's debility an impediment to mar
riage and sexual nirmites, diseases of the
skin and those arising from abuse Of mercury.
TAKE PARTICULAR NOTICE.
There is evil habit sometimes induged in by boys,
in solitude, often growing up with them TO manhood
and which, if not reformed in due time, not only be-
gets serious obstacles to matrimonial happiness but
gives rise to series OF prOtractGd insldons, and de-
vastating affections.
Few Of those who give way to this pernicous prac-
tice are of the consequences until they find the
nervous system shattered feel strange and unaccount-
able sensations, and vague fears in the mind. (See pa
ges ~ 2S 20. of DIR. is book on Self Preservation
The unfortunate thus affected becomes feeble is
able to labor with accustomed yigoT to apply his
mind TO study his step is tardy and weak he dull
rresolute and engages even in his sports with less en-
ergy than usual.
ii he emancipate himself before the practice has
done its worst and enter matrimony, his marriage Is
unfruitfu and his tells him that this is caused bN
Ills early ollies. These considerations which shond
atraksn the attention Of al Th3 are similarly situated
REMEMBER,
He who places himself under DR.. Kinkelin's treat
ment may religiousy confde in his honor as gentle
man. and rely upon the assurance that the secrets OF
Dr. ks pati, nts will never be disclosed.
Young mRn-let no false mOdesty deter you from ma
king yoir case known to one who from education and
responsibility, can certainly befriend you.
DR. Kkelin's residence has been for the last twenty
wears at the N W. corner of Third and Union streets
Philadelphia, Pa,
PATIENTS AT A DISTANCE,
Can have (by stating their explicitly together
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July "a. lS56.ll--ly
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management Of CattIe Manures.

Cattle manure is less inclined 10 a speedy
fermentation, a. ii is while fresh of moist
character, and generally when left, dries hard,
which makes it unsuitable for use without it
is fir, quently turned or composted with horse
dung, which latter course is Uften pursued
with advantage. A good practical farmer of
twenty years experience, informs us that he
always composts all the excremens of his
horses, cattle, and swine together which he
thinks by far the most convenient as well as
the best method, as the cattle and hog dung
are rendered more soluble, ami the horse ma
nure is less liable to waste.
The use of COW dung is considertd partic-
ularly advantageous ou light soils,on account
OF lis close and clammy nature, but on clay
farm BIZ is considered much less valuable with
out it is used in conn, cIi with O her feltz-
ers; hence the great difference of opinion in
regard TO this manure; some deemifg it very
much superior to that of the horse, and 9th
trs the contrary it is, perhaps, more lasting
in its eft cts than any of the ohtr animal cx
crements, excepting that of swine, which is
about on par with it in this respect, but the
durability must Of course be somewhat gov
erned by the food that the animal consumes
The dung obtained from mich cows which
are yielding large quani,y of milk, is founc
TO be inferior to that from oxen, steers, anc
dry cows from which no milk is obtained
which proves that considerable amouut o
the valuable portions of the manure is car
ried off in the supply of milk; it is also wei
known that the excr.ments from young grow
ing animals are of much poorer qualify tha
from those Of matured growth, as a larg
amount Of the valuable portions are used /
the increasing formation of bone, fysh an
muscle. We are informed on authority, tn.
in some parts of England where the soil
naturally very poor, it has been found goo
economy to feed cattle on rich substance
such as oil cake, merely to increase the qua
ity and quantity of the manure. This, v
are told, is done even when the sale of Il
animal will not pay for the amount Of ,
cake consumed, leaving this DC fciency To
made up by the increase of manure. which
amply does, SO much so that large mo
The Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, Ohio) 1853-1861, 1857-01-01
Filling Ice Houses.

1t sometimes happens that the best ice in
the whole season is made in the month of De-
cember. It's always well to secure the first
good ice that makes, say one foot in thickness.
This,if it be perfectly clear and free from fro
zen snow. is thick enough, and the sooner toe
crop is secured the better. Those who have
largehouses, and hal vest ice for the markets,
have their own methods, and need 30 hints
from us. But there are many among our
readers who followed om suggestions on
building an ice house, and who will be ready
this month to lay in their summer stores
For this we would offer few plain dirac.
lions.
The first business is to cut the ice into suit
able blocks fo- packing, When there is nc
machinery to be employed in handling The
blocks two feet by three will be found a con.
venient size for q house twelve feet square
as they will make a perfect fit in the packing
The ice should be first marked eff with somt
sharp tool and a crevice be made to be fol
lowed with a coarse saw-a cross-cut saw
with one handle off. or an oldaw-mill pla.e
| with one handle added, will answer. Tn,
saw should fJllow the marker as closely as pos
sible. to make straight edge blocks. 1t will
taho t"Sh'g -iOuI VI thSee olOCkS lot lne urs
aver Of ice. and if one foot thick, 288 block
will fill the house.
In selecting ice for cutting take that which
is perfectly clear and sold. Air or dirt frozel
n will not keep so well. Care should be l.,
ken also to keep the blocks cl an while Ia
rngt N in. After the first laeer If blocks
put do n, and the sawdust yor seaweed
acked in solid the sides, the small crpv ce
arcuni each block should be filed up wi,
pounded ice, or dry snow If the weather
Intensely cold, a very little water may b
used at the cracks to mrke the union perfec
The mere completely YOU can excfud a
from the body Of the ice, the bytter i. W,
r keep.
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ITO Gun Makers.-We have a full stock of gun
4 materials among which will be found
Four doZ. Hitchcock d 5IuzIys and Pennington
Rifle barrels, single ond in pails.
Gun Locks, all sorts and full stock
MOuntngs Springs, BritCh Plugs Patent Britches,
Rod Trimmings, and all the fixtures.
Six gross Gun Cones all qualities
Please give a call before purchasing.
Grisicoid &. Chamberlain.
War in Kansas not yet Settled.--We cen suppy
w you with Rifles of all sorts: full stock hand
and made to order. Good double Shot Guns Tor So
Patent britch plain twist from SIS to $50. Fine
Twist and Laminaled steel on hand and made to or
der Single Shot Guns from $3.50 to $500 A full
stock Sporting Apparatus Shot Bags Belts Pouches,
Flasks from to l6 OF, Ely Walkers and c. D. Caps,
Powder Shot, Lead, &c. Guns made to order and re-
pairing done at the shortest notice, and warranted to
give satisfaction. GrisoOid &. CiamJsriahi.
pistols.-A full stock consisting of Colts and War.
L ners Rryolyers; Double Barrel Rifle, also double
and single German, full stock cheap.
GRIswoLD CHAMBERLAIH.
TENo Members of CongIeSs.-We would respectful.
L ly say, we can supply you with Canes and RcvOl-
vers Of all sorts and descriptions cheap.
GrsioOid d. Chamberlain.
UEYS.-Sx gross all sorts and sizes, from till to
IN largest door locks fitted to order
GRIswOLD & CHAIBERLAIH.
7 ITardware,-A general assortment; Locks full
1 i stock; Butts Screws, Table and Pocket Cutlery
',' Grislsoia E. Chamberlain
VNTbips,-A full stock, and all prices.
w Grispoa tI' Chamberlain
rENo smo!.ers.-You will find the largest and best
Il stock Of Scgars Segar Cases and Fancy Pipes in
town. -
W. II. CHAMBERLAIN
Oct Iltb 1S56
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The New York Evening Post says there are
at least two thousand gambling houses in that
The Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, Ohio) 1853-1861, 1857-01-01
III, DUl2RETT
Oct. llth, 1856.

Ahs ~ " rs EN a. d a
TJAS removed his Drug Store to the building formerly
occupied by o. ID. Ranney, Wayne street, (near
the Book store) where he has opened the larges;
stock of
Drugs, Medicines, and Chemicals,
ever before offered in Maumee City lie returns his
thanks the liberal patronage previously bestowed
upon him. and hopes By diligence and punctuality in
business and liberal policy to his patrons, to merit
continuance of past fivors assuring them, together
with all others who may favor him with call that it
will be his pleasure, all times, to furnish them pure
medicines Of almost every kind and medical advice il
necessary. variety Of
Chemicals Pure VINES and Liquors for Med'cdi or Ne
c.ao,isai purposes, (but none of an inferior and
deleterious composition) FlarOrmg
Extracts for Cooking, Per-
Clmery, Tooth PaSteS
and POUdeTS,
Skin Powders, Hair Restoratves and Hair Tonics Lip
Balm and POmades, Shaving Creams and Soaps,
Toilet Soaps Cloth, Hair, Hat, Tooth, Nail,
Scrub. Paint and Whitewash Brushes;
Fancy articles, Spts Turpentine Lin
seed, Lard, Whale, Tanners, Fish
and Neats-Foot OILS;
PAIN
White and Red Lead Zinc, Chocolate or Fire
Proof Paint ground in oil, neW article,
aud finer Paints of all colOrs Dye
Woods and Dye StH6S, IHadOw
Glass and Glass Ware Gro
ceries, such as Teas, Su-
garS, Rice, Pepper,
| Spices, DC,
and many other articles well as a large variety o
Proprietary Medicines adapted to all diseases. He has
also set up a new FOUNTAIN from which issues q
jet of cold mineral water the pleasure of the OPP
orator, for the special benefit of his customers.
August 2, 1856.
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MANOR & LANE

AFRO TNEYS At LAVE
.c,t-Ohlce in Ducll Block, Toledo Ohio,
JOHN J. MANOR. THOMAS A, LANE
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city, and probably hundred Faro banks.
The Indianapolis Journal says there were
60O0 applicants for the post of messenger to
carry the electoral vote to Washington.
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Helmdold's Genuine Preparation,
highly Concentrated Compound Fluid
EXTRACT BUCHU,
For all the diseases of the Bladder Kidneys, Urinary
and Sexual Organs
JOY TO THE AFFLICTED !
1t cures diseases of the BLADDER
KIDNEYS,
GRAVEL,
DISTINCTIONS
FEMALE COMPLAINTS,
.a-=-aa CHRONIC CGONORRHGA,
.-.t.-. STRUCTURES, -.
GLEETS,
And all diseases arising from excesses and impruden-
cies in life,
NERVOUS AND DEBILITArED SUFFERERS,
and removes allmproper discharges from the Bladder
Kidneys, OF Sexual organs whether existing in
MALE or FEM
from whatever hey may have originated and no
matter of how long standing, and giving health and
vigor to the Frame and ... .......
BLOOM TO THE FADED CHEEK.
DEBILITY, brought by abuse n most terrible
disease which has brought thousands of the human
hopes of parents and bghng in the bud the glorious
ambition of many noble YOUTH can be cured by the
use of this
INFALLA3LE REMEDY,
and medicine which must benefit everybody, from
the simply delicate to the confined and dcspairingly
invalid equal is to be found. If you have contract
ed the terrible disease which when seated in the
system undermnes the constitution sapping the very
vital fluids of life, aH .....t-.
PROCURE THE REMEDY AT oEcT.
The Leprous distilment whose effect
Hold such an enmity with blood of man.
That swift as quicksilver it courses through
The natural gates and alleys OF the body
CurdEng like eager droppings into milk,
The thin and wholesome blood
BEWARE OF QUACK NOSTRUMS AND
QUACK DOCTORS.
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AMERICAN HOUSE,
JOSEPH LANGENDERFER, Proprietor,
Corner of Dudley Conant sts., Maumee City, U.

TIE ECLECTIC SCHOOL BOOKS:
INCLUDING .....
McGuffey's Series of Readers and Spoilers;
Rays Arithmetic, Algebra and Keys, and
Pinneo's Grammars
at wholesale or retail or for exchange where they
are not already used. T.. O. HOLT,
Maumee City, March 22. Agent
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BUSINESS CARDS.

.. R. A. CROSS
Dealer III
WATCHES, CLOCKS JEwELRY, SILVER, pLATEB A1D
BRITANIA WARE, POCKET CUTLERY AND
FANCY GOODS,
Wayne street, MeVmee City, Ohaes
S WATCHES, Clocks, &c, repafrsd or
ETXiE short notice. Mr.. @. is an experienced
Il 1& and practical workman, and those favo.
NH = ing him with their patronage may de.
pend upon having their work faithfully
done Nov. l, ls56.-lly.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1857-11-28
AUCTION SALES
PCTURE DIG.

. A. : !
,oMsl1s TONERS SALE OF land
oys RsA I, IN, a 4c IN TIE COUNTY OF nav
Tue OF two d-crees OF toe cosnty Court az Hsn.ysr
ms9nonpssd on the 9TH day vi uctaneY iss- m ths
SUITS OF White. hc vs. Whites adlnist.st.rs' .us
mem ips ne; Is guile auction on The
eth day OF December e. fair tnos the nsrt Cur 4.
thefsAtsr two Tracts of Land sstiir atei nj tbrea
cas ~ ~ ionr acres lsDi acre= ere " whsh l.
.hssl me MANSION Tract. and being the sanls on
Shien john ute died; having thereon eemtarts
pie Dwelifng House, with rooms Kitchen And ,te
ottnouses, we'll watered and adaptes1 10 tn .~u.l
cf9ps 81 gram, vssetabr. DC I'm h~althy a "a a. a.
W"ods 8 =, aoJcns The lands Of David
and half mile North OF Old ffoal Hars1r -oou' ''e
Also one other Tract called Coopers fone HIM
anu snsts,two aeiss. Sl32 acres having thereon n
-, M ape Dwetllas HOUSE. With Two rooms ki,ch.
~ ana ether oufheu -ts, necessary for he farm
ant; Tery healthy; aijoins the ian,Issf I,Ic,
batklne. Henry Woods estate and Others and -
ao.ut ono and half miles East of old Coal M rt,or
rnhs 60. SANE time ami place will "r Cor sale, a,
or, es TO Wit: Charlotte. Harriet, Edward Sbhy su
san NARY. silIna sarah Ellen and Warrington
TsRMs Cash viii be required for the slaves ana a.
credit of IL mouths and tho residu~ on eredj' -
L~o tue credt in -ta.nts bear ntarast fran
the say OF Saie and the purchaser 70 execute fons
VIII Coca personal security. for the deferred paw
IRON the court D. EAID, special Comir.
And after the sale Of the above named land and
slaves shall sell 10 the highest bidder pnhIicy or
the premises the Hsuseh1i and Kitchen Furniture
ments, crop OF Corr. Fodder and shuck
TERh5--Ah sums of i've dollars and under cssb.
over thst amount. credit OF MONTH. the purcha
ser to execute BOMBS with good personal be-
Is. D. WAID. Administrator
no z}-zth0tGB OF Margai ct Wbite darih