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Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1863-06-12
THE POWER OF IDEAS.

The following touching and felicitous illus
trstion of the power of ideas, was given by
Wendell Phillips in a public speech in New
York:
was told to-day, story so touching in
reference to this, that you must let me tell it,
II is temperance case, but it will illustrate
this Just as well. A mother on the green hills
of Vermont, was holding by the right hand a
son 16 years old, mad with the love of the sea-
And as she stood by the garden gate one
morning she said: Edward, they tell me
for l never saw the oceau-that the great tenn
tation of a seaman's life is drink Promise
me before you quit your mothers hand that
you will not driuk" Aud, said he, flor he
told me the stOry,l 81 gave her the promise,
and went the globe over Calcutta and the
Mediterranean, San Francisco aud Good Hope,
the north pole and the south. saw them all
in forty years, and l-neyer saw a glass filed
with sparkling liquor that my mothers form
by the garden gate on the green hill side of
Vermont, did not rise before me; and to-day
at the age of sixty, my lips are innocent of the
taste of liquor" Was not this sweet evidence
Of the power of single word? Yet that was
not half. For said be, Yesterday there
came into my counting room a man of forty
years and asked me, DO You know me? No
'Well,' said he, 1 was once brought into your
presence on shipboard; you were passenger;
the captain had kicked me aside; you took me
to your berth and kept me there until ! had
slept off my intoxicalion- You then asked
me if / had mother. l said l had never
known word from her lips. You told me of
yours at the garden gate, and to-day 1 am
master of one of the finest packets in New
York, and l came to ask you to come and see
me- How far that candle throws its beams.
That mothers word on the green hillside of
Vermont! o. Mani be thankfui for the
mighty power Of single wordr'
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1863-06-12
The Coming Wheat Crop.


In Ohio, every body seems TO be happily
disappointed at the favorable appearance of the
wheat fields. TIE dry fall gave but little
promise and with the early opening Spring
the fields were looking discoaragingly bare
but Providence has vouchsafed exactly the
Rheather in April and May to remedy the de
feet of the dry fall. Wherever seed germi-
nated it has followed the injunction to in
crease and multiply !" and at this date the
stools are fine and large, hiding the bare ground
and giving promise of fair yield. These re-
marks apply generally to the whole State oil
OhiO-yet there are isolated fields. and occa-
sionally considerable range of country, where
the crop will prove almost a failure. We
have noted very carefully the reports of our
Ohio exchanges, to which may be added the
testimony of our numerous Ohio Farmer cor
respondents, and they all sustain US in the O.
pinion that the crop will far exceede the first
expectations OF the season, and will prove
nearly if not quite an average one. In the north
western and western counties the crop is gen
orally good-in the range of counties through
the eastern middle of the State, including
Stark, Wayne, &c, it is hearty any fne-in
the Southern counties it is also reported as pre-
senting handsome appearance. Reports
from the Miami valley vary-but the weight
of evidence is in favor of an average crop
OF the Scioto valley and some of the counties
lying on its northern outskirt, report is not so
favorable on the tenacious clay lands and in
the rich loose loan of the valleys a good
deal was winter killed, but what is Jeff gives
hope of fruitful yield AS we before remarked,
the weather during the close of April and in
the opening weeks OF May dissipated the
fears with which the farmers entered upon the
year. and gave them additional reason for the
fullest faith in the promise of an appropriate
seed time" as well as a cheerful " harvest"
The breadth of land cultivated falls below
that of the crop Of 1862. The excessively
dry fall made a sad hole in the number of acres
that almost every farmer had intended to SOW
and probably in this way at least one-sixth
of the land intended for wheat was left uncul-
tivated. This deficiency will be met, probably
by an increased breadth of spring crops, and
thus the years yield will exhibit no decrease in
the total amount of food crops Ohio Far
mer.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1863-06-12
Wine Farming.

Mr.. R. Buchanan, a well-known
successful wine producer Of Ohio
gives in the OHIO Valley Farmer
the following statement of the rails
ing and fermentation of wine:
Wine farming will, in few years
become simplifed, and almost as
easily understood as corn planting
There is no mystery in it. Expe.
rience alone must teach the proper
position, as well as the soil; the
right distance apart for the vines
the most judicious method for spring
and summer pruning; and as for cul-
tivation keep the ground clean with
the plow or cuItivator, like corn.
Making the wine is as simple as
making cider. The grape punches
are cut from the vines, and all un
sound or unripe berries picked off
the bunch and thrown into a basket
to make-with the addition of SUI
gar-vinegar or an inferior wine
The perfect grapes of each days
cutting are taken to the wine house,
and in the evening, after being
mashed in barrel with a beetle
stem and berries-or passed thro'
wooden rollers on a small mill, are
put on the press and the juice ex-
tracted. About one-third runs off
without any pressure. The outside
edges of the pommace is cut off for
eight or ten inches, after the first
pressing, separated with the hands,
and thrown on top, when the power
of the screw is applied and another
pressure is made. This is repeated
two or three times. The juice from
the last pressing, being very dark is
put with the inferior wine. The
other is put in large casks, filled a
bout fve-sixths full, to ferment and
make good wine. No sugar or brandy
should be added to the best Cataw-
ba juice-or must-as it makes a
better wine without, and is strong
enough to keep well. One end of
a siphon is placed in the bunghole
of the cask-the other being croock-
ed over, rests in bucket of water.
The fermentation commences in a
day or two, and the carbOnic acid es-
capes through the water. In ten or
fifteen days. the siphon may be re-
moved, the casks filled up, and the
bung driven lightly-in a month
tightly. In mid winter the Wine is
drawn off into another cask, and the
lees of the wine, with the pumace of
the grapes, is used to make brandy.
The wine will be clear and pleas
ant to drink in a month or two after
the fermentation ceases. The sec
ond fermentation occurs in the spring
about the time of the blossoming
of the grapes--thisis is but slight, and
it will be merely necessary to loosen
the bungs when it is over, the wine
will be clear in two or three months,
and safe to bottle, but the operation
had better be deferred until Novem-
Der. And this is the whole process
of making still wine-the wine for
general use and being a natural
product of the pure juice of the
grape it is more wholesome than any
mixed or artificial wine, however
snowy and high priced it may be.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1863-06-12
Afraid of Snakes.


There il the greatest coward about snakes
up in Westfeld that lives in America. He
came from the East last spring and bought a
farm, and for the first six months in the coun-
try he hardly slept two hours a night. He
had fine patch of oats on his farm, but was
Arid to cradle it, One day he concluded he
would take lock to see if there were many
snakes in the patch, so he got his old horse
and after leading him through the gap, and
laying up the fence to keep the hogs out, he
took an old scythe snathe in bis hand to fight
with in case Of an attack, mounted the horse
and struck out into the oats. holding up both
legs as high as possible. He hadn't gone far
when he saw whaling big snake slipping a.
long the oats after him. Away he went,
round and round the patch, and away went
the snake, right along with him; sometimes
on one side and sometimes on the other; some
times behind and sometimes before. He
couldn't get out OF The lot because tine fence
up, and the snake kept consl anlly with
him, there was no chace but to urge the old
horse, and try to keep out of its way. He
went it that way till every stalk OF his oats
we're tramped down, and until the horse was
just about dead when he discovered that he'd
been running from the shadow of the sythe
Snatbe
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1863-06-12

MORAL SUAsIoN." Rev Mr.. Parsons,
Chaplain of the 66th, in a letter to the Ohio
State Journal states the following:
A scene occurred al the hospital in front of
Fredericksburg which is deserving Of notice.
Two secesh ladies in silks came into the hos
pital on Tuesday morning and were talking in
great glee with "Reb" officer who was
wounded, They spoke in severe terms of the
Union cause and army, when an old Uuior
woman, who was waiting upon the suffering
caught mp barrel siave and fell upon them
and smote them until we were obliged TO take
her away. The old lady apoogised by saying
- that she was sorry to do anything 10 annoy
the wounded; but hat such things needed a
littel moral suasion." The boys gave her three
cheers while the gentle sisters took their de-
parture.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1863-06-12
Loeusts Predicted.

A writer who has given the subject greaI
deal of attention, predicts that the loeust'
which visited the country in 1886 will appear
again this year. He says they will show
| themselves en- the Southern shore of Lake
| Erie, from the east boundary of Lake county
to the western boundary of Cuyhoga; thence
south to Hebron, Licking county; thence to
the Muskingum and Marietta; thence to
Western Virginia, and embracing Washing
ton and Fayette counties, Pennsylvania; thence
to the northern line of Jefferson county, in
Ohio; thence near the western boundary OF
Columbiana, Trumbull and Ashtabula count
les to the lake /; embracing within its limits a
large portion of Ohio, and also large portion
of Western Virginia and Pennsylvania
Contrary to popular belief it is asserted that
the locusts do not require to take any susten-
ance during their stay, which is about forty
days If they did, there would not be green
leaf after their visit The locust year has
been known as a good fruit bearing year
Columbus Fact.
The temperance of lOcusts is already an
nounced at several points in the central por-
ton of the State The GAINESVILLE Courier of
Thursday says:
After burial of seventeen years, the locusts
have again paid us a visit. They made their
appearance on Tuesday night, and on YVednez-
day morning the trees and bushes we're liter
ally black with them 1t is not known upon
what they subsist during their brief career of
six weeks the term usually allotted to them.
They are entirely harmless, except to young
trees which they are apt to sting and iajure.
Locusts are swarming in myriads in the vi
cinity of Wheeling. Va. They are in all stag
es of locust existence-some old enough to
sing, some n-thcir swadling clothes, and some
just out Of the ground, in perfect state of
nudity The Inteligencer says hogs and
fowls are growing fat upon them
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1863-06-12

Let the grapes be well ripened !;
the press, casks and all vessels per-
fectly clean, and then keep the air
from the new wine, by having the
casks constantly bung full, and there
is no danger of its spelling. This is
the whole secret.
1t is presumed that no one will
go into wine farming largely at first,
but take the precaution to test, by
the cultivation of few acres, the
capabilities of the soil, position and
climate, and the kind of grape best
suited to il.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1863-06-12
NO. IL.

merely. To this country, of all others, it has
been reserved, in its efforts to restrain the rage
Of sedition and violence, which are the begin
niDgs of anarchy, to furnish an example of
power tempered with clemency, without par
allel in the annals of civil war;
w. II. WEST,
p. ODLIN,
THADDEUs A. REAMY,
JOHN BARFRAM.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1863-06-12

Never ask Qustions in a Hurry.
Tom, a word with you" " Be quick, then
I'm in a hurry" What did you give your
sick horse the other day" "A pint of tur-
pentine." John hurries home, and admins
teres the same dose to his favorte charger,
who, strange to say, dropped off defunct in
half an hour His opinion of his friend
Toms veterinary ability is somewhat stag
gered. He meets him next day. "Well, Tom?
well. john, what is it?" Il gave my horse
pint of turpentine and it killed him dead as
Julius Ces ar" $50 ii did mine"
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1863-06-12
sANeU1NE MEN THE LEAST SUCCESSFUL.

sANGUINE MEN THE LEAST SUCCESSFUL.
In ny recoliections of school and college, I
remember that. as between two youths of
equal ability and ambition, the odds of success
in rivalry were always in favor Of the one
least sanguinely confident of succeeding: aud
obviously for this reason: He who disIrusls
the security of chance takes more pains to ef-
fest the safety which results from labor. To
find what you seek in the road of life, the best
proverb of all is that which says Leave no
stone untnrned." As all men, however, have
in their natures certain degree Of hope, so
he is -ihe wisest who husbands il with
The greatest care. When you are engaged in
any undertaking in which success depends
partly on skill partly on luck, always presup-
pose that the luck may go against you; for
that presupposition redoubIes all your efforts
to secure the advantages which belong to
skill. Hope nothing from luck, and the pro-
baoility is that you will be so prepared, fore
warned and forearmed that all shallow OBJ
servers will call you lucky.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1863-06-12
DELAWARE, OHIO, JUNE 12, 1868.

Western home once more. family group
dwelt beneath its roof a gentle Loving wife
aud mother was the guiding star of that
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1863-06-12

A large number Of Canadians have reach
ed Akron TO work on the Atlantic and Great
Western railroad. The cars now run from
New York to Akron.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1863-06-12

She isn't all that my fancy painted herP
bitterly exclaimed rejected lover; and worse
Than that, she isn't all that she paints herself.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1863-06-12
What was Wanted.

Y hat was W anted.
She tied the new cravat
Which she so kindly made me.
Then s1noothed with care my hat
And with her sims delayed me;
She brushed my GLOSSY hair, -
And said 'sit was SO curly -
While going down the stair
She cried. Come home, dear, early p
How happy then was I,
With ALL 'er desired;
fortune could defy,
While thus l was admired
We parted at the door
Her smile deserved q sonnet
ssDear i0ve-but one thing more,
/ want-d spring bonnet ~
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1863-06-12

MISPLACED CoNFIDENC Asking fnll
hooped lady to take seat in an armed chair.
1t can't be did.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1863-06-12
THE YELLED PICTURE.
BY J. R. FINLEY

No searching eye can pierce the veil
That DER my secret life is thrown;
No outward signs reveal its tale,
But to my bosom known
Thus, like the spark whose vivid light
In the dark flint is hid from sight
80 Ia dWslis alone -ATs- HsHGsis
Litchfield enquirer., 1863-09-10

WHO has not suffered from Corns. Bunions, Frosted and Blistered Feet. Chilblains. Sc. ? Who has not been willing to make almost any sacrifice and incur any expense to effect their cure !? but as years rolled on and no relief came, the sufferer has concluded that they were inevitable evils, and has suffered and continued to suffer martyrdom from these ap- parently simple causes.
 Every body should be glad to know that all the torments to which the feet of man are sub ject will soon be numbered among the things of the past, owing to the victorious success of BRIGGS ALLEVIATOR, the eonqueror and demolisher of the great foes to mankind's toes.
 Years of experimenting and study have re- suited in the production of this valuable Prep aration, which effects euro without pain or in- convenience.
 Dr. Briggs Alleviator is metallic plaster, easily applied and will adhere for weeks re. gardless of bathing. It is the most gentle and efficacions remedy ever known for allevia- ting the pain of Corn, Bunions, Tender Feet, Sc. Sold by Druggists, and sent by mail at 25 and 50 cents, and S1 per box.
 For inlamed Bunions, festered Corns, in growing Nails, &c., use DR. BRIGGs' MODERN CURATIVE Sold by Druggists, and sent by mail at 50 cents and $ per box.
 DIR. J.. BRIGGS, Proprietor
 and Practical Chiropodist,
 1yl9 PIP Broadway, N. Y.
Litchfield enquirer., 1863-09-10
HARRIS SCYTHE COMPANY ARTICLEs OF ASSOCIATION.

WV E the undersigned Subscribers, hereby w severally and mutually agree with each other, to associate, and hereby do associate ourselves together, as Joint Stock Corpola- tiop, and body Polite and Corporate, under and by virtue of 8 public Statute Law of the State of Competitors contained in the Statute Compilation of A. D. 1854, granted in Chap ter IA, Title 3, of the Act entitled, "An Act concerning Communities and Corporations. !" and also of the Act entitled "An Act in addi tion to ans Act concerning Communities and Corporations, approved July list. A. D. 1853, and all other Statutory Acts of said State, in addition thereto and amendatery thereof.
 The name of such Corporation shall be "Harris Scythe Company.
 The object and purpose of the Corporation is to engage in and carry on the business of nan ufacturing Grass and Cradle Scythes and all other kinds and descriptions of Goods and Merchandise commonly called Hardware. and to make and manufacture Iron and Steel, in all its various departments and branches.
 The Capital Stock of the Corporation shall be Twelve Thousand Dollars, which shall be divided into Four Hundred and Eighty Shares, (48O,) of Twenty Five Dollars each.
 Said Corporation is to be established and lo- cated in the Town of Salisbury, County of Ntchfsld, and State of Connecticut.
 And we the Subscrib bers, hereby further agree to take the number of Shares of said Capital Stock respectively, annexed to our several names, and to pay for the same to the Treas urer of said Corporation, by installments, as the Directors may hereafter direct.
 Dated at said Salisbury, this 10th day ot
 June, A. D. 1863.
 Per order of President and Directors,
 3.1S R. H. BALL, Sec'y.
Litchfield enquirer., 1863-09-10

Copy of Photograph from {. 4. Brown, showing the effect ..cf STERLING'S AMBRO OSIA in eighteen months.
 CERTIFICATE.
 This is to certify that, about eighteen months ago, commenced using STERLING s AMBRosIA. My hair was short, thin, and rap idly falling out. had tried many Hair Tonics, Invigorators. &c.,, without receiving any benefit. Soon after using the Ambrosia my hair ceased falling out, and commenced growing so rapidly as to astonish me. Now my hair is thick, soft and glossy, and is five feet and four incaes in length-when let down reaching to the floor. This wonderful result attribute solely to the use of SrERLING's AMBRosIA, as since commenced using it have applied nothing else to my hair.
 Mrs. L. A. BROWN,
 No. 4a9 Broadway, New York. We advise young persons, whose hair IS be- ginning to fall out, to take warning in time, and sa ve their hair, by using the Ambrosia. To these who have already lost their hair. the free use of the Ambrosia will surely restore it, as it has done for thousands.
 Dr. Sterling's Ambrosia is stimulating oily extract of Roots, Barks and Herbs. It will cure all diseases of the scalp, and itching of the head; entirely eradicates dandruf,pre vents the hair from>falling out, or from turn ing prematurely gray, causing it to grow thick and long. It is entirely different from all other preparations, and can be relied on. It is a well known fact to thousands in the city of New York that this is the only article yet discovered that will cure the Disease of the Scalp and cause the Hair to grow.
 Price $l per box, containing two bottles.
 DR. H. H. STERLING, Sole Proprietor,
 No. 493 Broadway, New iork; For sale by all Druggists. !y4ee
 WIG BUELL.; Agent for Litehheia
Litchfield enquirer., 1863-09-10
AYERS CHERRY PICTORIAL

FOR THE RAPID CURE OF COUGHS, COLDS, HOARsENEss, INFLU. ,ENZA. BRONCHITIS, WHOOPING
 COUGH, GROUP, ASTHMA, IN-
 CIPIENT CONsUMPTION, and for the relief of consumpye patients in advanced stages of the disease.
 We need not speak to the public of its virtues. Throughout every own and almost every hamlet of the American States its wonderful cures of pulmonary con- naints have made it already known Nay, few are the milies in any civilized country this continent with ont some personal experience of it's and feweryes fine communities any where which have not among them come living trophy of its victory the subtle and dam diseases of the throat and lungs While 1t IS te most powerful antdoe yet known to man for the formi dabe and dangerous diseases of the pulmonary organs ia also the peasanest and safest remedy that can pc ployed for infants and young persons Parents shouo have it in store against the insldous enemy that ea upon them unprepared. We have abundant grounds 70 believe the Cherry Iseral saves more lives y tne con sumptons 1t prevents than those IL cures. heep " n you and cure your colds while they curabe nor neg feet them until no human skill master the nexoIaOIs canker that fastened the vals eats your he away All know the dreadful fatality of lung disorders. ana they know too the of this remedy we need ot oo more them it is still made the pest can be- We spare cost, DO toll to produce the most nerct possble and thus afford those who rely On 1t the best agent which skill can urnish TOT he euo
 PREPARED BY DR. J. C. AYER, Practical and Analytical Chemist, Lowell, Mass
 AND SOLD BY
 Wm. C. Buel, Litchfield.
Litchfield enquirer., 1863-09-10
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