Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1858-02-19

servient to mans uses in the Bible local
tiles of Asia, and followed the march of
civilization and empire TO the westward,
until in England and America we find
the most perfect types Of the race. The
researches of science, however, show
that the horse was a contemporary in this
country with the mastodon and other
large animals before The world was peo-
pied. The following article we copy |
from the Charleston Courier:
1t is we'll known to our readers that
Professor Holmes of the College of
Charleston, has been for many years en-
gagged in exploring the fossil-beds of Ash
ley river. A large number of interest
! inc relics have been collected, and the
savans of Europe and America have ex-
pressed their great satisfaction at the re-
suits of these explorations.
Professor Agassiz, in lecture some
time since, just after visit to the Ash
ley with Prof. H. said it was the greatest
depository of fossil remains he had ever
seem Professor Toomey called it the
shark-sepulchre of America and now
Professor Leidy, the distinguished Amer
lean anatomist, has prepared valuable
paper on the remains of the horse, and
other animals found fossil on the Ashley,
which had been placed in his hands for
examination by Prof Holmes and it
will appear from the short extract we
make, that the investigations now being
made in this department of natural sci
ence are developing some curious things.
Professor Loidy writes: In regard
to the remains of the horse, from the
facts stated in the account given of them
in the succeeding pages, 1 think it will
be conceded that this animal inhabited
the United States during the post pleio-
t Gene period, cotemporarily with the Mas
: todon, Megalonyx, and the great broad
t fronted Bison
1 HORSES FOR CUBA. Five horses
, formed a portion of the freight of a YES
2 sci which recently sailed from Portland
= for Matanzas.
: FINE CoLTs. L. Ames, of Mailing
d ford VT, gives the following account o
:, a pair of fine colts owned by him:
5 j. have a pair of coils that were drop
r ped one on the 10th of May, and thu
d other on the 10th of June, which have
n not been kept any way extra, but are doing
" well on moderate feed. They stand foul
e feet four inches high, or over thirteer
: hands, and are well trained to the halter
n bit and harness. l drove them this da,
7, one fourth Off mile, each way from home
/ harnessed and hitched to sleigh; the.
y are perfectly kind and work nicely; ar
9 of bay color, and are Of the high blooc
l. of Rather and Black Hawk. l rod
p after these colts when the oldest was bu
al seven months and seventeen days DID,"
le SAw-DUsT FOR LETTERING STABLES
IN This is quite valuable to absorb the liz
ID uidS and to prevent the foul odOrs arts
ing from stables. If ammonia is one c
the most powerful fertilizers, why shout
not the greatest pains be taken to save it
For this purpase, saw-dust is just til
l. thing. 1t is useful, also, on the score
-, the horses health and comfort. 1t is ii
furious to an animals feet to stand in Ii
L liquids of his stall it is hurtful to h
- eyes and his stomach, and his lungs, to r
oo main long in an atmosphere charged wit
If the powerful vapors arising from tho
iii liquids. We wonder that the poor ere
,as tires stand it so well as they do. D.
e muck answers very well to scatter dai
+ in the stables, though saw-dust is nu
neater. 1t is quite important, howeve
r.. in clearing out the stalls daily, to mix
little muck or plaster with the saw-du
I and manure to prevent the whole from
= olent entation.-American Aqricl
turist.