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Lewistown gazette. [volume] (Lewistown, Pa.) 1843-1944, 1864-09-28
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LEWfsToWN. Sept q. lS64
Butter, is quoted at 81 cts: Eggs.
20; Lard 20; Wool, washed, 90; prime
Red Wheat, , 90, Corn, 81; Rye, -;
Potatoes, 50; Extra Flour, per 100,
30; Fine 4.5O Superfne, LOO; Family,
300; Salt per bol, 500; Sack, 45O; Oats,
50.
Lewistown gazette. [volume] (Lewistown, Pa.) 1843-1944, 1864-09-28

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The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1864-04-09
About Fruit Trees.

AS the late cold weather has been very
fatal to fruit and fruit trees, too much care
cannot be taken of them in reference to
pruning and cultivation, to help them re-
cover from the shock they have received.
We have lately published the Instructions
of the experienced, on pruning. It will be
necessary to replsnt, in many localities; some
kinds of fruit trees though great care will
be essential to get young trees that are not
damaged, in order to plant them with any
profit. sr
On this subject we quote from the late
proceedings of the st. Louis Horticultural
Society:
"a discussion took place upon the ques.
ton: What ought to be done with the peach
trees -
''Mr. Quinette said he was digging his
trees up, being satisfied they are injured
beyond recovery; but would not advise
cutting them down untilt they give evidence
of being dead. The tops now have more
vitality than the trunks. The vitality at the
top may force the sap to ascend and develop
leaves if so, he trees will recover.
The President read letter from New
York, stating that trees there have often
been recovered when they are supposed TO
have been entirely killed by the frosts, and
advising the sparing of the trees until they
gave unmistakable evidence of being dead.
''The President also alluded to the very
singular fact. an illustration of which he
exhibited several years ago, of an apple tree
perfecting its fruit for several years on a
branch gjrded about three inches wide, and
the intermediate wood dead, dry and crack
ed opeR-evidenly showing that the branch
had drawn its supply of sap through this
dead wood.
'Mr. Clagett said that was fact which
he had often observed, and supposed it to
be the effect of vital causes at work in the
top. Had often seen trees to mature fruit
equally as well, and sometimes better, on
such limbs than on limbs not girdled.
''Mr. Morse, of Jefferson county, had
trees badly injured, which recovered and
made very vigorous growth afterward.
"Mr. Mudd said that his observations
were that the old wood Of the peach trees
was moro injured than the young, and that
he did not believe that the vital energies of
the top could overcome the injuries sus-
tanned by the old trees. Young trees in
many instances might recover. He asked
that the committee and members make par
ticular examination Of the bark, and insti-
tute comparison between that on old and
young trees.
"There was 8 general concurrence in the
opinion that there should be no hasty action
in cutting down the trees, but wait for fur
Their developments to their condition"
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1864-04-09
The Resources of the United states.

The report of Mr.. Samuel B. Ruggles,
the American Delegate to the International
Statistical Congress held at Berlin in Sep
TENDER last, has just been published at
Washington as a Congressional document
The paper on 1.-THE Resources of the Uni
ted States" covers a vast field of research,
summing up the statistics of the material
wealth and growth of this country in terse
a forcible style. The SUBJECTS treated un-
der four heads-territoria area, increase of
population, advance in the values of real and
personal property, and the yield of the gold
fields. 1t is accompanied by statistical ia
bies, showing the authenticity of the au-
th5z's conclusions We make a few ex
tracts:
During the last sixty years, while the
population of France has increased but 81
per cent, and that of England 121 per cent,
Prussia increasing 70 per cent. in forty
five years. the increase in the United States
has been 500 per cent"
Concerning the food producing Western
States, embracing an area of 289, 1874. 688
acres, the report says:
They are an immense natural garden 10
salubrious and desirable portion of the
temperate zone into which the swelling
stream of population, from the older Allan
tic States and from Europe has steadily
flowed during the last decade, increasing its
previous population from 5.4O8, 595 to g.,
957. 800, an accession of 8, 554 .C95 inhab-
itants gained by the peaceful conquest Of
nature, fully equal to the population CT ST.
lesia, which cost Frederick the Great the
seven years war. and exec ding that of
Scotland, the subject of struggle for centu-
ries.
The rapid influx of population into this
group of States increased the quality of the
improved land, thereby meaning farms
more or less cultivated, within their limits,
from 26,68O, SCI acres in 1850, to 81 1926,
395 in 1860, but leaving a residue yet to
be improved of $50, 800. 293 acres The
area of 25,146,O5 acres thus taken in ten
years from the prairie and the forest is equal
to seveneighths of the arabic area of Eng
land. stated by its political economists to
be 28,OOO,OOO of acres.
The area embraced in the residue will per-
NIT similar operation to be repeated eight
times successfully, plainly demonstrating
the capacity of this group of States to ex
pand their present population of 1857 $50
to at least 5000, 600, if not 40, 100000 Of
inhabitants, without inconvenience.
The effects of this influx of population
in increasing the pecuniary wealth, as we'll
as the agricultural products of the States
in question, are signally manifest in the cen
sus."
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1864-04-09
Stock Operations.

Wall street, at present, continues to be
the only center of excitement and attraction
in New York. The great menagerie ofbulls
and bears is the daily gazing stock of 'cap
italists." All other business is now tame
compared with fortune hunting in fancy
stocks. The crowd of ''dabbers," old
and young, is immense. Brokers who do
not make a thousand dollars per day, in
commissions, are classed as old fogies.
Spectators who do not secure a snug little
fortune in q month are ranked as ''feeble."
Money is easy, now, with banks, bankers,
therefore, multiplying rapidly. TO be an
Operator now IS only to be lin fashion. :"
Why rot, grandfather, says the young fop,
with his cane and cigar, make a ''bold OPP
Grafton" "go in deep" and secure a for
tune in a year, rather than be whole age
about 1t, as you have been? These boys
are as thick in Wall street, now, as NOS
quitoes are in Communipaw Bay, and a
great deal bolder. Many ancient gentle
men are also among them, spectacled and
gray haired.
What the end is to be of this fortune
bunting we will not now stop TO discuss.
Ore thing. however, is plain: "crazy peo-
ple'' and 'fanatics" are found in other pla-
ces beside pulpits aud praying circles. The
widest excitements ever witnessed by Whit
field, Neuleton, or Finney were dead calm
compared with the daily brain-snapping,
splitting, soul-absorbing zeal of Wall
street One visit to the Stock Exchange
will satisfy any body, Invested oil grave
clothes, that the devotees of Mammon OF
Shylock are more crazy and fanatical shan
any other two-legged animals in the uni
verse. Now is the time to contract for H.
matte asylums, homes for inebriates, hospi-
tails, and poor houses. Send in your plans
and specifications "Ofice hours from &c
to 3.,-N Y Independent.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1864-04-09
Hints TO Farmers.

Tomatoes make excellent preserves.
Toads are the very best protection of cab
bage against lice.
Plants, when dropping, are revived by q
few grains of camphor
Pears are generally improved by grating
on the mountain ash.
Sulphur is valuable in preserving grapes
from insects.
Lard never spoils in hot weather, if it is
cooked 10 frying it out.
Tn feeding with corn, sixty pounds ground
goes as far as one hundred pounds in the
kernel.
Corn meal should never be ground very
fine. It Injuries the richness of it.
Turn,ps Of small size have double the
nutritious matter that large ones have.
Ruta Baga is tie only root that increases
in nutritious qualities as increases in size.
Sweet olive oil is a certain cure for the
bite of rattle snake. Apply it internally
and externally.
Rats and other vermin are kept away from
grain by sprinkling of garlic when pack
ing the sheaves.
Money skillfuIly expended in drying land
by draining and otherwise, will be returned
with ample interest.
To cure scratches on a horse, wash the
legs with eoapsuds, and then with beef brine.
Two applications will cure in the worst
cases.
Timber cut in the spring and exposed to
the weather with the bark on, decays much
sooner than if cut in the fall
Experiments show apples to be equal to
potatoes to improve COWS, and decidedly
preferable for feeding cattle.
A bare pasture enriches not the soil nor
fattens the animals. nor increases the wealth
Of the owner.
One animal well fed is OF more value than
two poorly kept.
Ground once well ploughed is better than
thrice poorly.
Bountiiul crops are more profitable than
poor ones. Make the soifh rich pulverize
it well, and keep it clean, and it generally
will be productive.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1864-04-09

THE New YORK HERALD ON PooR PIERCE
The New Y ork Herald says: Poor Pierce
and the spurious Peace Democracy have
been fairly skinned in the New Hampshire
elections. AS we have it, poor Pierce was
the recognized leader and expounder of this
miserable faction in the late contest, and
with the understanding that. in securing
Democratic Legislature, his reward would
be seat in the United States Senate. Poor
Pierce, as a Democratic ex- President, was
regarded by his stupid followers as a very
great man but the people of his State have
pronounced him an impostel. He retiTes
from their freezing rebuke under cloud of
disgrace. He has completed the work Of
demolisbing the Northern rump of the old,
worn out, and obsolete Democratic party.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1864-04-09

Why Hoes EAT ASHES, &C.-MI. Mech.
of Tip Tree Hall, England, has discovered
that pigs, when shut up 10 fstten, are very
fond of cinders, and improve in condition
by eating certain portion of them every
day. Some persons ara unable to account
for this singular propensity of swine. Poul-
try are very fond of egg shells, lime, sand,
&c, and it is we'll known these substances
are necessary in order to form the shells Of
eggs, and to furnish materials for the bones
of fowls.
Now, it is reasonable to suppose that
swine eat ashes and ciuders for the purpose
of supplying the material for their bones,
and this singular instinct in animals so low
in the scale ofintelligenee is truly wonder
full for ashes contain the ingredients which
are necessary to form bones, viz: carbonate
and suIphate of lime. and magnesia, clay,
SILICA, gelatinized and made soluble by the
fire.
When hogs are at large they take in clay
and SILICA with their food, and eat bones
and roots which contain the necessary in
gradients but when they are pent up they
endeavor to supply the material necessary
for keeping up their frames by deYouring
ashes and cinders Let them have plenty
of them.-New England Farmer.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1864-04-09

At complimentary dinner given in Bos-
ton, recently. to the Congressional Naval
Committee, Hon. Edward Everett alluded
ironically TO the British taunt against the
navy because it had not caught the Alabama
Napoleon Bonapart, sailed from Toulon with
400 ships of war and transports, yet Lord
Nelson, with the fleet with which he gained
the battle of the Nile could not catch bin,
although he chased him all around the Med
iterranean. He dind't catch him the next
year. although Napoleon stopped to take
Malta and visit his relations. In 1915 Mel
son didn't catch Napoleon as he sailed from
Elba. The Mediterranean, compared with
the Atlantic and Indian Seas, where the
Alabama roams at large, is but mill pond
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1864-04-09

HoMEoPATHIo BRoTH.-We clip the fol-
lowing from the American Druggists Cir
cular and Chemical Gazette
On sunny day take two pigeons, which
were starved to death, and hang them IN
window in such a manner that their shad-
ows will fall into dish which contains four
gallons of water. Boil down to one-half
strain. and give ten drops of the liquid in =
plate of warm water three times day.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1864-04-09

A TRIBUTE TO LOYAL WoMEE.-At the
close of the Patent Office Fair in Washing
ton, recently, Mr.. Lincoln, in answer to
loud and continuous calls, made the follow
ing remarks
Ladies and Gentlemen appear to say
but a word This extraordinary war in
which we are engaged falls heavily upon all
classes of people, but the most heavily up
on the soldier. For it has been said, all
that man hath will he give for his life /;
an1 while all contribute of their substance,
the soldier puts his life at stake, and often
yields it up in bis country's cause. The
highest merit, then, is due to the soldier
[Cheers.
In this extraordinary war extraordinary
developments have manifested Themselves
such as have not been in former wars, and
among these manifestations nothing has
been more remarkable than these fairs for
the relief of suffering soldiers and their
families. And the chief agen.s in these
fairs are the women of America Cheers |
l am not accustomed to the language of
eulogy; I have never studied the art Of
paying compliments to women, but l must
say that all that has beer said by orators
and poets since the creation of the world in
praise Of women of America would not do
them justice during this war. 1 will close
by saying. God bless the women of Ameri-
ca y Great applause.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1864-04-09
Work and wages Coz Wo1nen.

The subject of women's work and wages
is again attracting public attention. It
seems there are thousands of women in our
large cities who are still in the category of
starving needle women" The times are
favorable for the wider extension of wo-
mans sphere of employment. In almost
every department of industrial art there is
perplexing scarcity of labor. Why should
not woman meet the demand There are
very many branches of handi-work requir-
ing quickness and skill rather than strength,
which women ought 70 fill almost exclusive
ly, and in which they might command am
pie remuneration. Take the printing bust
ness, for instance. There is no reason why
in book offices and on weekly newspapers,
female compositors could not be extensive
ly employed. The setting of type is me-
chauical work, demanding merely quickness
and skill. Ii women would learn how to
do it and do il well, they would always fad
employ So in many branches of book,
making and binding, women's labor can be
proftably employed. Photography opens
a wide field for woman's labor The man
ual labor is not heavy, and there is ample
opportunity for the display of taste and
artistic skill. We have no doubt many wo-
men would succeed in this business better
than men.-Hansas City Journal.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1864-04-09

When a beau was asked why he wore his
resplendent Hessian boots in the finest
weather, and appeared in his shoes and silk
sto ekiBgs only when it was wet and mud
dy. he answered, my wife washes my
stockings, but have to clean my boots my
SELF
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1864-04-09
BLACKSMITHING.

NIADDOCK &; THOMAS
"ANE opened a new Blacksmith Shop OF
IL SIXTH AVENUE. in the west part Of town
aud are prepared to carry on the business in all
its various branches.
Emporia. November % 1861. DIS
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1864-04-09

Coal OIL CURE FOR RHEUMATISM
Among the various. uses to which coal oil
may be put, it is found to be very efficient
remedial agent in cases of that most dis
tressing complaint, rheumatism, being ap-
piled externally to the part affected, and
heated in. A case has just come under our
own observation in this city, in which Dr..
Lykins used this remedy with the haPpiest
results in severe case of rheumatism,
where other applications bad entirely failed.
We make an item of the fact that others
may try this simple, cheap and effective
remedy.-Ransas Gin Journal.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1864-04-09

The results of the Sanitary Fairs already
held are as follaWs Chicago. $4,000;
Boston, $4,000 Cincinnati, S240. 600 I;
Albany, 1872 600 Brooklyn, 100000 /;
Cleveland. 100000; Buffalo, $4,000.
Total, 1897 900.
In addition TO the above the New York
Fair is expected to yield 81 900. 900; Phil
adelphia will endeavor to, rival New York,
and the people of the Mississippi Valley
hope to realize $500, GOO at the ST. Louis
Fair.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1864-04-09

A young lady, walking with gentleman
stumbled, and when her companion, to pre-
vent her fall, grasped her hand somewhat
tightly, she simPered: "Oh, sir, if it comes
to that, you ask my papa"
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1864-04-09

The story is told of the soldiers of the
army of the Gulf. that after using their cof-
fee, they spread the grounds on rubber blan-
kets to dry. and then sell it to secesh citis
gems. at 81 per pound.
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1864-02-13
ASHTABULA O., SATURDAY MORNING. FEBRUARY l3, 1864

ample, and the requisite amount can only
be procured by united effort. Should
he road even be built and the owners re
tain control of their minerals, it would be
valueless 10 them for years, as the company
will niue as much freight as the road,
! when taxed To its utmost capacity, can
carry.
1t may be asked whether the prices offered
per ton for the privilege of mining, will be
profitable TO the owners of the mineralsi This
question Is easily answered. In the first place
1t is conceded that the minerals, without the
road, are worth nothing The smallest amount
of freight required to be moved to make the
road pay is three hundred thousand tous per
year, aud this amount the Ashtsbuls and New
Lisbon Railroad Company guarantees to the
Atlantic aud Great Western Railroad Uompa-
ny. The amount estimated TO be carried is
more than double, but even that, at ten cents
per ton bauk leave, will net the owners of the
leased lands thirty thousand dollars, earned
without risk and without LABOR; an amount Of
money we venture TO say, greater than hey
Hoto deriUe from Turning lands 10 illustrate
tue proposition sull turther--supposlug the
COMPANY opeu and work any one VEN OF coal
with twenty hauds ouly, which would be very
small number, and each miued three tons per
day on the average, at ten cents per ton, the
prlce offered for license, the own would re-
ceve Tor rent OF b 5 bank, six dollars per. day,
or about eighteen hundred dollars per year.
The owners may ask, what guarantees have
we that our coal veins will be worked, so as to
yield US a profit, il we. do lease2 TO this
mi ht be answered. in that case you stand with
your lands leased, III precisely The same situa-
tion as you staud now without leases You
A.,,,. A.
or The granting Of the lease have done you no
injury, while the State and your DeighDor has
been benefited. But very little reflection
will convince thinking mind that these leased
veins will soou be worked, for the demand for
coal is increasing every day, rendering the bu
siness of mining and carrying it profitable.
We say then TO the owners OF coal lands, you
can bulld the road If you choose, aud make it
profitable to yourselves by so doing; to do it,
ever, you must act promptly IN granting the
required lease.
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1864-02-13

Left for deadi I--Charlie Coleman,
On the field we won--and lost,
Like dog; the ditch my death-bed,
My pillow but a log across. ..4f
Helpless hangs my arm beside me;
Dropping lies my aching head,
How strange Il sounded when that soldier,
Passing, spoke of me as ''dead"
Dead and here--where yonder banner
tlaunts its scanty group of stars,
And that rebel emblem binds me t.II
Close within those bloody bars.
DeadP without stone to tell 1t,
Nor flower above my breast !
Dead where none will whisper softly,
"Here brave man lies at rest !"
Help me, Thou, my mothers Helper,
Jesus, thou who biding here,
Loved like me an earthly mother, ..f
Be thou still to aid me near.
Give me strength to totter yonder,
Help me up till o'er me shines
The flag of Union-there she promised
To meet me, just beyond the lines.
We'll know how she will wander
Where woman's foot may stray,
Looking with those eyes so tender
Where the poor boys wounded lay.
How her hand will bring them water,
For her own boy Charles sake,
And when dying bid them whisper,
81 pray the Lord my soul to take"
All l stand on foot but feebly,
And the blood runs very fast
Yet by fence and bush Ill stagger
Till the rebl lines be passed.
Courage, Charlie! twist it tighter,
The Tourniquet about your arm;
BE man-dont faint and shiver
When the life-tide trickles warm"
Faint and weak, still coming mother,
Walking some, but creeping more,
Fearing lest the watchful sentry
Stops the heart-beat-slow before.
Stay-with fingers ruddy dabbled
Loose the belt your waist confined
Write upon it, "Charlie Coleman
Carry him across the lines"
Trembling letters-but some stranger
Chance may read them when am gone,
And for the sake of love and pity
Bear my lifeless body on.
Coming Ah-what means this darkness,
Night too soon is coming on.
Mother, are you waiting Jesus,
Tell her that with you I've gone.
Then the head her heart had plllowed,
Dropping laid it down to rest,
AS calm as when in baby slumber
Its locks were Graded on her breast.
Glowed the sunset DER the meadow,
Lightning up the gloomy pines,
Where body only fingered
Charles soul had crossed the lines.
A passing soldier--foe, yet human
STOPPED to read the words of blood
So pitiful, so sadly earnest;
And bore him onward through the wood,
Beneath the white flag bore him safely.
Now, while the Indian summer shines,
A mothers tears dew springing myrtle
Der Charles grave across the lines.
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1864-02-13
How Near IL Heaven.

Christmas sometimes look far away to
Heaven; but that rest is not far of. The
clouds that hide the shinning worlds are
thine they are transient, and soon will OBJ
scure no more. The journey may end this
hour; one short step may place the Chris.
tian 10 the world Of light; one dark hour
may hang upon him; but the morning
comes, aud 10 shade behind IL. Day,
bright peaceful and eternal, succeeds IT,
A pang may be felt for moment, aud
then flies away forever. A conflict sharp
and painful. may coHtinue for night, bet