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Monmouth weekly herald. [volume] (Freehold, N.J.) 1854-1860, 1859-08-11
A. Man Melted to Death.

James Doyle, a BLACKSMITH by trade,
died in Chicago last Friday week, under
the following circumstances, as detailed
by the Times of that city
"He was an extremely athletic person
in appearance. and was considered by his
fellow workmen as possessing a remark
able degree of streng and bodily vigOr.
On Thursday he wofSd~in the shop as
usual until six o'clock, when he went to
supper in as good health as usual. After
supper he eomplsiped Of extreme heat,
and continued to complain until -
o'clock when he went to bed. At 8
O'Clock in the morning his room mate
awoke and found him breathing his last.
A bost morten examination revealed no
unusual appearance Of the body, except q
remarkable and unusual quantity of
adipose matter. By overwork and the
heat Of the Gay he was literally melted
down. The coroner's jury found this to
be the cause of his death.
Monmouth weekly herald. [volume] (Freehold, N.J.) 1854-1860, 1859-08-11
Rules for Choosing Psultry.

In the choies of poultry, the age of the
bird is the chief point to be attended to.
A young Turkey has a smooth black
leg in an old one the legs are rough and
|redish.
In Domestic F~e#1a,She combs and the
legs are smooth when the bird is young
and rough when it is old.
The bills and the feet of Geese are
yellow, and have few hairs upon them
when the bird is young but they are red
if it be old. The feet Of a goose are pill
able when the bird is fresh killed and
dry and stiff when it has been some time
killed. Geese are called green till they
are two or three months old.
Ducks should be chosen by the feet,
which should be supple and they should
also, have a plump anahard breast. The
feet of a tame duck are yellowish-those
of a wild one redish.
Pigeons should always be eaten while
they are fresh when1they look fabby
and discolored about she under part, they
haye been kept too long. The feet like
those of most other poultry, show the
age of the bird when they are supple, it
is young ; when stiff it is old. Tame
pigeons are larga14han wild pig
cons.
cartridges have yellow legs, and a
dark-colored bill. They are not in sea-
son till after the first Of September.
Monmouth weekly herald. [volume] (Freehold, N.J.) 1854-1860, 1859-08-11
HUNG.

The negro Stephen fend in human
shape, who 50 b%rutally and without cause.
murdered that sweet, innocent little boy,
Willie Best, some time ago--on yester
day suffered the extreme penalty of the
law, and vas launched INFO eternity
without the least hope of salvation
WoodviHe (ys4iss.) Gazette, 23d.
We ami sd last week the fact that
VIM. G. Bee, the wife murderer, was
to be hanged on the 18th inst, according
to the warrant of his Excellency. Gov.
Wicklife, which was duly executed on
that day at about twelve O'Clock. AS
we before said he was the first white
man ever hanged in this parish.-Rich-
mond (La.) Gazette. 21st.
Another belonging to the Ashly plan.
tation, Coneordial Parish, was tried and
found guilty Of murder and sentenced to
be hanged on Friday, the 23d Instant
He murdered the driver on the same
plantation.
Monmouth weekly herald. [volume] (Freehold, N.J.) 1854-1860, 1859-08-11

The Almighty rested one-scventh of
the time Of creation, commanding man to
observe an equal repose. The neglect of
this injunction will always, sooner or Ia
ter, bring mental, moral, and physical
death.
Rest is an invariable law of animal
life. The busy heart beats, beats ever,
from infancy to age, and yet for q large
part of the time it is in q state of repose.
William Pitt died of apoplexy at the
early age of forty-seven. When the des
TIMES of nations hung in a large measure
on his doings, he felt compelled to give
an unremitting attention to affairs Of
State. Sabbath brought no rest to him
and o o the unwilling brain gave signs
exhaustion. But his presence in Parlia-
ment was conceived to be indispensable
for the explanation and defense of the
public policy. Under such circumstan-
ces, it was his custom to eat heartily of
substantial food, most highly seasoned,
just before going to his place. in order to
afford the body that strength, and to ex-
cite the mind to that activity deemed
necessary to the momentous OCCASION
But under the high tension, both brain
and body persisted prematurely.
Not long ago one of the most active
business men of England found his affairs
so extended that he deliberately deter
mined to devote his Sabbaths to his &C.
counts. He had a mind of q wide grasp.
His views were so comprehensive, SO far
seeing, that wealth eamo in upon him like
o flood. He purchased o country seat at
a cost of four hundred thousand dollars,
determining that he would now have rest
and quiet. But it was too late. As he
stepped on his threshold, after a survey
of his late purchase, be became apoplec-
tic. Although life was not destroyed
he only lives to be the wreck of a man.
1t used to be said that q brick kiln
" must be kept burning over Sabbath
it is now known to be a f%allacy. There
can be no "must" against a divine com
mand. Even now it is a received opinion
that iron blast furnaces will bring ruin
if kept in continual operation. Eighteen
years ago an Englishman determined to
keep the Sabbath holy as to them with
the result, as his books testified that he
made more iron in six days than he did
before in seven that he made more iron
in a given time. in proportion to the hands
and the number and size of his furnaces,
than any establishment in England which
was kept in bperation during the Sabbath.
In our own New York the mind of a
man who made half a million a year went
out in the night of madness and an early
grave, only two years, from the very
strain Put upon it by a variety of enter,
prises, every one of WHICH succeeded.
1T will take about FIVE years to clear
them off" said an observant master of an
Ohio canal boat, abiding to the wearing
out influences on the boatmen, who
worked on Sabbaths as well as or other
days. AS to tbs boatmep and fremen of
the steamers on the Western rivers,
which never lay by on Sabbath, seven
years is the average of life. The obser-
vance, therefore, Of the seventh portion
Of our time for the the purpose of rest is
demnonstrably . physiological necessity,
9 law Of our nature.-HaWs Journal Of
Health. ,
Monmouth weekly herald. [volume] (Freehold, N.J.) 1854-1860, 1859-08-11
Making Butter---A New Method.

A correspondent highly recommends the
following receipe;-After straining the
milk, set it away for about twelve hours,
for the cream to rise (Milk-dishes
ought to have good strong handles to lift
them by.) After standing as above, set
the milk, without disturbing it, on the
stove; let it remain there until you OBJ
serve the coating of the cream on the
surface assume a wrinkled appearance,
but be careful it does not boil, as should
this be the case the cream will. mix with
the milk and cannot again be collected.
Now set it away till quite cold and then
skim off the cream, mixed with as little
milk as possible. When sufficient cream
is collected proceed to make it into but
ter as follows:-Tass~a wooden bowl, or
any suitable vessel, and having first
scalded and then rinsed it with cold
spring water, place the cream in it. Now
let the operator hold his hand in water
as hot as can be berne for a few seconds,
then plunge it in cold water for about a
minute, and at once commence to agitate
the cream by a gentle circular notion
In FIVE minutes or less, the butter will
have come, when of course, it must be
washed and sailed according to taste ;
and our correspondent guarantees that
better butter can be made by the best
churn ever invented. To those who keep
only one cow, this method OF making
Monmouth weekly herald. [volume] (Freehold, N.J.) 1854-1860, 1859-08-11
The Ugly Hoosier.

A Hoosier, an awful ugly nan relating
his travels in Missouri, said that he ar.
rived in Chickenville in the forenoon
and just a few days before there had been
a boat busted, and a heap of people scald,
ed and killed one way and another. So
at last, as | went into a grocery. a SQUAD
of people followed in, and one bowed and
said" 1t is one of the unfortunate sui.
ferers by the Dustin OF the Franklin
Upon that he asked me to drink with him.
and as | pnt the tumbler to my mouth, he
stopped me of a sudden. ~ beg your
pardon, stranger, but"
"But what ?" ses l..
Jist fix your mouth that way agin,"
ses he.
| done it jist as I was gwine to drink.
and I'll be hanged if | didn't think they'd
all gone into fits. They yelled and hoop
ed like a gang Of wolves. Finally one of
the gang says:
Don't max. fun of the poor unfortu.
nate; he's hardly got over bein' blowed
up yet. Less make up a pussip They
all throwed in and made up Eve dollars.
As the spokesman handed me the change
he axed me: . Where did you find YOUR.
self after the splosion 2"
"In a fat boat" ses l..
How fur from the Franklin seq he,
why, seq |, | never seed, but as nigh
as | can guess, about three hundred and
s~eventy-fve miles"
You'd oughter sean that gang scatter,
Monmouth weekly herald. [volume] (Freehold, N.J.) 1854-1860, 1859-08-11

e<Sr Bonner, of the n. Y. Ledger, no
tlclng the journey Of Greeley Overland
to the Pacific, says that Horace is i" a
great, a good and an honest man"-and
states this interesting fact;
When we were an apprentice in the
Hartford Courant Office, from 1889 to
1874, we regarded Horace Greeley, as
we have no doubt many other apprenti,
ces regarded him, as a sort of Beacon
light and it is no more than just to him
TO say, that to his example are we, per.
maps to some extent, indebted for
the measure of success that has at
tended our efortsAin the publishing bust.
let US see what a poor boy could
accomplish.
Monmouth weekly herald. [volume] (Freehold, N.J.) 1854-1860, 1859-08-11

butter will be found really valuable =
while quite as large a quantity Of butter
is obtained as by the common mode, the
skim.milk is much sweeter and ~palatable.
In the summer season it will unusually
be found necessary to bring the cream
out Of the cellar (say a quarter Of an
hour before churDing) to take the exces.
sive chill off in winter place the vessel
containing water to warm it; then o n
tinue to agitate the cream until the chill
has departed. Before washing the but
ter separate all the milk you possibly
can, as the latter will be found excellent
for tea cakes. Butter made in this man
ner will be much firmer, and less oily in
hot weather than when made in the ordi-
nary way.
Monmouth weekly herald. [volume] (Freehold, N.J.) 1854-1860, 1859-08-11
Tornado in

A correspondent of the st. Johnsbury
Caledonian, who writes from Crotch, VT,
July 27, says:
During the violent thunder storm.
after its fury had somewhat subsidized. in
the south west parto of the town two winds
met, driving together cloud and mist,
forming a nucleus, resembling very much
a waterspout at sea. 1t did not move
for a few moments apparently, the place
around being in great perturbation. when
suddenly it started off toward the north
east, seething like q boiling cauldron, and
twisting off solid birches two feet through
and playing with them as the tabled En-
celadus did in ancient days. The roar
of this as it swept through the air and
forests, was louder than that Of the ocean
in its widest fury. 1t passed on to the
village, when it descended and caught up
the new two-story cabinet shop of A. L.
Clarke, and hurled it a complete wreck
into the river. Three men were at work
within, but barely escaped with their
lives. 1t next caught the roof of the
church, and sending it as though it was
gossamer, strewed the fragments far and
near. 1t caught the large door of a barn
near by, and sucked it into the whirling
vortex which has not been discovered
since. 1t was then swept over the hills
to Nelson Whitcher's, where it raised to
the ground one barn, tore the roof from
another, and completely ruined one OF
the finest orchards in town. Great dam
age was done to fences and woodland, but
fortunately no lives were lost. The loss
cannot yet be definitely determined"
Monmouth weekly herald. [volume] (Freehold, N.J.) 1854-1860, 1859-08-11

SHAKERS IN AMERIoA.-It is said that
there are four Shaker Societies in Ohio,
numbering 1885, one iR Connecticut,
numbering 200; two in Maine, numbering
$50; two in Now Hampshire, numbering
800; four in Massachusetts,, numbering
700; two in kentucky, numbering 900;
three in New York, numbering 1850;
making in all eighteen societies, each
constituted of several distinct families, or
communities, regularly differed with ell.
ders, deacons, care-takers, &C., of both
male and female orders, according to their
unique custom, and numbering in all some
1900 membefs. q.
Monmouth weekly herald. [volume] (Freehold, N.J.) 1854-1860, 1859-08-11

A SYphax.

Little Col. Thompson was a candidate
for Congress in Indiana. He was short
of stature; though broad enough to make
up for the loss Of lengthitude. He asked
a neighbor, who had always been on the
other side of politics, to vote for him.
mot o bit of it p said jerks, in a
towering passion. "Do you suppose |
going to vote for a sypAax
"A syphaxl" gasped the Colonel I
pray, Mr.. jerks, what is a Syphax ?'
"syphax, you icknorameops fool"
roared jerks, is a thing too big for a
monkey, and not big enough for a man |"
Monmouth weekly herald. [volume] (Freehold, N.J.) 1854-1860, 1859-08-11
Misquoting the Scripture.

We are more and more satisfied, from
several samples of the Bible reading
which have come under our observation,
that our public characters, especially pol
itieians, ought to be careful how they
NEEDLE with our scripture.
Gov. Wise, Of Virginia, in his recent
letter to Hon. David Hubbard, says:
1.-THE Reubens have tried to sell me
into Egypt for my dreaming
W~hereupon the New York Express
says:
1.-THE Governor has reference, doubt.
less to the story of Joseph being sold
into Eygpt-but, unfortunately, he has
got it ali wrong. Reuben, it S happens,
was the only one of the brothers who did
not want to sell him. The Governor
should join a Bible class right off"
A member of Congress from illinois, o
few years ago, (Mr. Hoge), is reported
as quoting in debate the following as
coming from the Bible
While yet the light holds out to burn,
The vilest sinner may return.
This Scripture quotation of Mr.. Hoge
brings to mind an anecdote related to US
by a clergyman, as occurring within his
knowledge. A good woman (the 1" weak
.er vessel very likely Of the two,) had
lost her husband by death, and receiving
a visit of coincidence from the minister,
she entered pretty fully into a detail of
her feelings Of loneliness and grief, in her
widowed condition. She said she found
herself going back and forth, wandering
about the house all day long, from gar
ret to cellar-now looking into the room
where her poor dear husband died, then
trying to divert her mind by doing chores
about the house, and then, again, going
to the good book for consolation, She
was, she said, a poor lone woman, and
she couldn't help thinking all day long of
that very touching passage Of Scripture
in the book Of Lamentations, she be-
lieved it was-which hit her case exact.
ly " Goosey, Goosey, Gander whore
will you wander?
1t is recorded that two members OF q
certain State Legislature, at the close of
the session, addressed a circular to their
constituents, IN which they said We
hope the course we have pursued, and the
votes we have given, will meet your ap-
probation. We hope you will say to us,
as Nathan said to David, well done
good and faithful servants"
Another member, earnestly opposing a
measure before the House, said /: !" Mr..
Speaker, | would no more vote for that
measure than l would fall down and
worship the golden calf that Abraham
A brother member corrected
him saying /: Mr.. Speaker, it was not
Abraham that made the golden calf, it
Northumberland ansE 1<
That editors should occasionally be at
fault in the Scriptures, is not, perhaps,
very strange. We have room for only
one example. In giving an obituary
notice of a worthy man it was remarked,
We may say Of him, as the Holy Scrip
have SO beautifully expressed it,
An honest man is the noblest work of
God : and at the same time comfort his
with the consoling assurance from
The same blessed source, that God tenn
1ers the wind to the shorn lamb. y
Wing and Courier
Monmouth weekly herald. [volume] (Freehold, N.J.) 1854-1860, 1859-08-11
ma. The New York Tribune IN .,

BsA The New York Tribune, in an.
swer to an inquiry as to how much hay
and grain a horse will eat, states that
the Third Avenue Railroad Company of
that city have some eighty or ninety
omnibus cars on their road, which is eight
miles long extending from the City Hall
to Harlem, and these cars are operated
with 700 horses, which are kept at the
great stables on the corner of Third
Avenue and Sixty.afth street, upon the
following daily rations !; hay Ia or 16
pounds, meal IA to 16 pounds. This at
New York prices, would cost about IS
cents a day, and $50 per week, for each
horse.
Monmouth weekly herald. [volume] (Freehold, N.J.) 1854-1860, 1859-08-11

EXERCISE IN THE MoRNING.-Walking
is said to be most health giving, but an
intelligent writer says that long walks
should not be taken before breakfast, as
by SO doing an unnatural hunger is crea.
ted, and the walker is apt to oyer eat and
injure himself. Early rising, early break
fast and a moderate walk before com
mencing the business of the day, will
prove highly beneficial to all who lead
confined and sedentary lives.
Monmouth weekly herald. [volume] (Freehold, N.J.) 1854-1860, 1859-08-11
The Helmet.

Where the standards waved the thickest
And the tide of battle rolled,
Furiously he charged the foeman,
On his snow-white steed SO bold;
But he wore no guardian helmet,
Only his long hair of gold
"Turn, and fly, thou rash young warrior,
Or this iron helmet wear q
may but I am armed already
In the brightness of ny hair
For my mother kissed It's ~tresses, s
And she guards nj with a prayer !"
Monmouth weekly herald. [volume] (Freehold, N.J.) 1854-1860, 1859-08-11
After the Ban.

They sat and combed their beuu,4~. ~u.i,
Their long bright tresses one by enc,
And they laughed and talked in tbs chsmbel
After the revel was done. There
Idly they talked of waltz and qu&i .
Idly they laughed like other gu
Who over the fire when all is still.
Comb out their braids
Robes of satin and Brussels lace,
Knots of flowers and ribbons too,
Scattered about in every place,
For the revel is through.
And Maud and Madge in robes of white,
The p~rettiest night-gowns under the sun,
stoekingless, slipperless, sit in the night,
For the revel is done
Sit and comb their beautiful hair,
Those wonderful waves of brown and gold,
Till the fire is out in the chamber there,
And the little bare feet are cold.
Then out of the chattering winter chill,
All out of the bitter St. Agnes weather,
While the fire is out and the house is still,
Maud and Madge together
Maud and Madge in robes of white,
The prettiest night-gowns under the sun,
Curtained away from the chilly night,
After the revel is done
Float along in a splendid dream,
TO a golden glittern's tinkling tune,
While a thousand lustres shimmering stream,
In a palaces grand saloon.
Flashing of jewels and futter of laces,
Tropical odors sweeter than musk,
Men and women with beautiful faces,
And eyes of tropical dusk
And one face shining out like q star,
One face haunting the dreams of each,
And one voice, sweeter than others are,
Breaking in silvery speech
Telling, through lips of bearded bloom,
An old, old story over again.
As down the royal hammered room,
To the golden g%littern's strain.
Two and two, they d~reamily walk,
While an unseen spirit walks beside,
And, all unheard in the lovers talk, 2
He claimeth one for a bride.
Oh, Maud and Madge, dream on together.
With never a pang Of jealous fear!
For, ere the bitter st. Agnes weather,
Shall whiten another year,
ROBBED for the bridal aud robed for the tomb,
Braided brown hair and golden tress,
riIUro1 II DO only ono of ynn loft for tho hlosno,
Of the bearded lips to press
Only one for the bridal pearls,
The robe of satin and Brussels lace,
orly one to blush through her curls
At the sight of a lovers face.
Oh, beautiful Madge, in your bridal white,
For you the reyel has just begun;
But for her who sleeps in your arms to night,
The revel of Life is done!
But robed and crowned with your sanity bliss,
Queen of Heaven and bride of the sun,
Oh, beautiful Maud, you never will miss
The kisses another hath won
Monmouth weekly herald. [volume] (Freehold, N.J.) 1854-1860, 1859-08-11
The Battlefield.

BY lila CULLEN BRYANT.
Once this soft turf, this r~ivulet's sands,
Were trampled by a hurrying crowd,
And fiery hearts and armed bands
Encountered in the battle cloud.
All! never shall the land forget
How gushed the life-blood of her brave
Gushed, warm with hope and courage yet,
Upon the soil they sought to save.
Now all is calm, and fresh, and still --
Alone the chirp Of fitting bird,
And talk of children on the hill,
And bell of wandering kline are heard.
No solemn host goes trailing by
The black-mouthed gun and staggering VAIN
Men start not at the battle-cry-
Oh! be it never heard againl
Soon rested those who fought but thou
Who minglest in the harder strife
For truths which mon receive not now,
Thy warfare only ends with life.
A friendless warfare lingering long,
Through weary day and weary year;
A wild and many-weaponed throng G
Hang on thy front, and flank, and rear.
Yet nerve thy spirit to the proof,
And blcnch not at thy chosen lot;
The timid good may stand aloof,
The sage may frown-yet faint thou net.
scr need the shaft too surely cast,
The foul and Kissing bolt of scorn
For with thy side shall dwell, at last,
The victory of endurance born.
Truth, crushed to earth, shall rise again
The eternal years of God are hers
But Error, wounded, writhes in pain,
And dies among his worshippers.
Yea, though thou lie upon the dust,
When they who helped thee flee in fear
Die full of hope and manly trust,
Like those who fell in battle here!
Another hand thy sword shall WELD,
Another hand the standard wave,
Fill from the trumpetis mouth is pealed
The blast of triumph DER thy grave.
Monmouth weekly herald. [volume] (Freehold, N.J.) 1854-1860, 1859-08-11

1F Everything has its use. Were it
not for the flies in the summer time peo.
pie would sleep two hours longer than
they do, and thus lose the best part Of
the day-the portion devoted to Sunrise
and meadow larks.
Monmouth weekly herald. [volume] (Freehold, N.J.) 1854-1860, 1859-08-11

ANECDoTE OF WEBsTER.-A c~orrespon-
dent of the Boston Courier states the fol.
lowing anecdote of Webster:
"The petty and impotent scurrility of
which Mr.. Summers Grafton has been
made the occasion in one newspaper re,
minds me of a LETTER which Mr.. Wehslest
wrote after continued proyooation, to the
editor Of a newspaper, which referred to
his private affairs, and especially to his
not paying his debts. He said substan-
TALLY, 1t is true that [ have not always
paid my debts punctually, and that | owe
money. One cause Of this is, that I hage
not pressed those who owe me for pay.
ment. AS an instance of this, I enclose
your fathers note, to me thirty years
ago, for money lent him to educate his
boys"
Monmouth weekly herald. [volume] (Freehold, N.J.) 1854-1860, 1859-08-11

ssT Sun strokes have caused many deaths
this summer. In Fitchburg, a woman of "a
died OF sun stroke, while returning from ber-
rying. This is nearly as singular a death as
the old Countess of Desmond, who fell from
a cherry tree at the age of lao, and SO got a
fever, that killed her.
Monmouth weekly herald. [volume] (Freehold, N.J.) 1854-1860, 1859-08-11

GREAT RAILROAD DAMAGEs.-The Bos
ton and Worcester Railroad Company
have settled the case Of Mrs. Shaw Of
Needham, who was injured upon their
road some eight years ago, by the pay.
ment to her of $24,738, the total of the
verdict and costs obtained by the plain
tiff in the Supreme Court.
Monmouth weekly herald. [volume] (Freehold, N.J.) 1854-1860, 1859-08-11

aEs- A letter from Pixies Peak says
that gambling and whisky drinking -four.
ish there extensively. Tanglefoot whisky
sells for 90 cents a drink, and cit will
almost make a man shed his toe nails"