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Ten Rules for Making Butter.

In making good butter there are sew
eral nice operations to be gone through
with which require an eye to cleanliness,
forethought and some little experience.
/. On milking clean, fast, yet gently,
regularly twice a day, depends the sue
cess of I b dairyman. B d mixers
should not be tolerated in herd, better
pay double price for good ones.
2. Straining is quite simple, b ut it
should be borne in mind that two pans
about half full each will produce great>
er amount of cream than the same milk
in but one pan the reason OF this Is the
greater surface.
8. ScaldiDg is gu tie an important
feature in the way of making butter in
cool weather; the cream r s e much
quicker, the milk keeps much longer, the
butter is of better color, and ehurns in
one-half the time.
A. Skimming should always be done
before the milk becomes loppered; other
wise much of the cream turns into whey
and is lost.
b. Churning, whether by hand or
otherwise, should occupy forty or fifty
minutes. a
6. Washing in cold soft water is one
of its preserving qualities, and should be
continued until it shows no color of the
milk by the use of the ladle. Very hard
water is highly charged with lime, and
must in measure impart to its alkaline
properties.
z. Sailing is necessarily done with the
best kind of ground salt ; the quantities
vary according to b state il is taken
from the churn--if soft, more; If hard,
less; always taking the taste for the sur.
est guide.
s. First working, after about twenty.
four hours, is for the purpose of giving
1t greater compactness.
8. Second working takes place at time
of packing, and when the butter has dis
solved the salt, that h e brine may be
worked out.
10. Packing is done with the hands,
or with butter null and when butter
is put into wooden vessels they should be
soaked two or threeJays in strong brine
before using. After each packing cover
the butter with wet cloth, d put
layer of salt upon it. In this way the
salt can easily be removed at any time
by simply taking hold of the edges Of the
cloth.
Butter made in this way will keep any
length of i'm required.-Maryland
Farmer.
Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1864-07-22

A CANTON THIEF.-The editor Of the
Daily Press thus gives his testimony in
regard to Canton thieves:
Few among our readers know what
Canton thief really is. Let US give a
few illustrations which we have partly
seen ourselves, and for the rest of which
we can vouch. We once caught pick
pocket at Canton in the very act Of
practicing his precarious vocation on our
personal property. He had our band
kerchief and we had him. He was a
miserable, attenuated and diminutive
wretch, but he clung to the handkerchief
with such tenacity that we could not
take it from him. We had an umbrella
which we smashed to shreds and tatters
over him; we knocked him down three
or four times and swung him against the
wall. but IL was clear that nothing except
such severe measures as we were disin-
clined 20 take would lead to the recovery
of the property, and we relinquished it,
having lost our bat as well as umbrella
in the scrimmage." II
Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1864-07-22

CURE For ScAB In SHEEP.-For
the benefit of Wool-growers, send you
recipe for the cure of scab--which has
been used with great success in this coun-
try. 1t has the advantages of b eing
cheap and not injuring the constitution of
the sheep, or persons applying it, besides
being sure cure.
The recipe was procured by shep-
herd of this country, from bis father in
ireland, who has charge o { about GOO
sheep there. -c .lrgax
Recipe. To n gallon of Tobacco
water or Salt brine, d one ounce Of
Corrosive Sublimate one ounce of Sal
Ammoniac ounce Arsenic: one
fourth ounce Blue Stone; one-half gill
Oil of Vitriol; one gill spirits of Tur-
pentine. Tue compounds to be dissolved
in boiling water the Oil Of Vitriol to be
added when the liquid is cold, and the
Turpeniine just before using. Ifa per-
son has many sheep to doctor, he should
have yoke to hold them. A very sim
pie one is forked post, the fork about
two feet above b ground, with pin
through.
Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1864-07-22

saw a soldier the other day who wa
among those brought from Fredericks-
burg by Hon. Portus Baxter, M. c.
1t did my heart good to see his honest
enthusiasm for this noble Congressman.
He said Mr.. Baxter found US laying
on the floor OF house, about 100 men,
badly wounded, from almost all states.-
He asked for Vermont boys, and when
the others saw we W being carried
away and provided with every thing, one
poor fellow looked up into Mr.. Baxter's
face and said Can't you take any but
Vermont boys" 1t brought the tears
into his eyes, and he told them be had
then only provided means to take off The
Vermont men, but that the next day be
would look after others, and be did, get
ting off over flee hundred of them. He
told me he often heard men say, Why
don't our members of Congress come out
and look after us 2"
Mr.. Baxter and bis lady are doing a
great deal Of good TO the sick aud wound
ed soldiers. A grateful people will not
forget their deeds.-TRAxUs.
Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1864-07-22

A PATRIoT.-A Fairhaven cores
pondent sends the following to the Rut-
land Herald which is most worthy Of re-
cord
"A patriotic young man of the town,
a friend and correspondent Of the noble
and lamented Charles Mead of Rutland,
upon hearing The sad intelligence of the
death Of bis friend, said empbatically 81
will go and take his place.
The following morning he presented
himself before the recruiting officer, and
enrolled his name among those Of our
brothers who are now in The field fight
ing for the Union.
Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1864-07-22

LYING IN THE PULPIT.--Capt. Quint
who has sharp way of his own, write,
thus about Methodist minister he heard
at Winchester, Va;
"One thing spoiled the sermon for me
he told four falsehoods. They were az
follows With a plan which could moi
be decently developed in an hour and q
half, he said he was going to address US
"a few brief remarks. He knew better
he knew he lied. Further on he said
But l promised brevity, and will come
to an end He was only about one-third
through Still further on be begged our
attention to this remark, with which be
would conclude : but after this remarl,
was attended to, be began on a new set
of exhortations. By-snd by, 'One word
more, which is all have to say One
word be talked on to at least five pages
of sermon paper and had an application
after that l presume that this minister
is an estimable citizen, but il is truly to
be regretted that he, or any other preach,
er, should utter falsehoods while present.
ing The most solemn truths. One word
more what mean lie.''
Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1864-07-22

AUSTRALIAN CLDrArE.-Nigh t in
Australia ] How impossible TO describe
its beautyl Heaven seems, in that new
world, SO much nearer to earth Every
star stands out so bright and particular,
as if fresh from the time when the Max
er willed it. And the moon, like large
siivery sun-the least objection to which
is, it shines SO distinct and so STILL
81 have frequently" says Mr. Wilkinson,
in his work on South Australia, "been on
a journey in such a night, and while al
lowing my horse bis own time to walk
along the road, have solaced myself by
reading in the still, soft moonlight" Now
and then sound breaks the silence, but
a sound so much in harmony with the
solitude that it only deepens its charms.
Hark the low cry of the night-bird
from yonder glen, amid the small, gray,
gleamy locks. Hark as the night deep
ems. the bark Of the distant watchdog, or
the low, strange howl Of his more savage
species from which he defends the fold.
Hark the echo catches the sound and
Gings it sportingly from bin to hill-far-
ther and farther down, t IL again it is
hushed, and the flowers hang noiselessly
over your head, as you ride through a
grove of giant gum trees. Now the air
is literally painful in its pleasure. You
quicken your pace and again escape into
the open plains and the full moonlight,
enjoy the exquisite fneness of the atmos-
phere, and through the slender tea trees
catch CLEAN of the river and hear the
soothing sounds of its gentle murmur.
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The Snow.

Surely Of all things that are, snow is
the most beautiful and most feeble
Born OF air-drops less than the fallen
dew, disOrganised by puff Of warmth,
driven everywhere by the least motion
of the winds, each particle light and
soft and falling to the earth with such
noiseless gentleness that the wings Of
ton million times ten millions make no
sound in the air, and the football of thrice
as many makes no DGise uponthe ground.
What can be ulore helpless, powerless,
harmless?
Ejut not the thunder itself speaks
Gods power more than this very snow.
1t bears bis omnipotence, soft and beauti-
full as it seems. While it is 10 the air it
is lord of the ocean and the praiTes.--
Ships are blinded by it. All harbors
are silent under this pIushy embargo
The traveller hides. The prairies are
given up to its behests and wo to him
that dares TO venture against the omnip-
o!ence of sott>faliing snow upon those
trackless wastes In one night it hides
the engineering Of hundred years. 1t
covers roads, hides bridges, fills valleys.
Il torbids the flock to return to the fields.
The plow cannot find its fuErows.-
Towns and villages yield up the earth
and obey this white, diffasive despot
Then, when it has given a new sur
face, and changed all vehicles, it sub
mits itself again to the uses of man, and
becomes his servant, in its age, whom it
ruled and defed in the hour Of its birth.
But whoa fake is joined to flake, and
the frosts within the soil join their forces
to the frosts descended from the clouds,
who shall unlock their clasped hands P
Who shall annul their agreement,
who shall dispossess them Of their place?
Gathered in the mountains, banked and
piled until they touch the very clouds
again in which they were once born and
rocked-how terrible is their cold, and
more terrible their stroke, when, slip
ping, some avalanche comes down the
roar aud the snow-stroke Toud as thun- !
der and as terrible as lightning! God
gives to the silent snow a voice and
clothes its innocence and weakness with |
a power like his own.
But, behold again That august might
that buried the fields, that shut up hus-
bandry, aud drove back from the field its
herds, that wound the very wilderness
with burial sheet, and sat watchful
over its work from the tops of the moun
tains, defying men, and storms even,
which, when once enthroned, could not
move or change its mighty power-that
very night, when God pleases, shall go
as quick and as silent as it came. When
God remembers the earth from the
south, and his breath returns again,
warm and liFe-giving, in an instant the
snow goes back to its former state. Its
fakes die to drops of dew, and the field
drinks up the depths and banks that hid
its face and the ice and snow that sat
silent on the hills now sing down the
brooks and rills, prophets of the coming
flowers. w. BEECHER.
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REFORMING THE PIECES OUT or LIFE.

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The world will soon not be worth liy-
ing in. Philanthropists, reformers, leg
islators, and social 'regenerators, are al
work, day and night, roofing up, putting
down, and sweeping away all the joys
which make existence in this sublunary
planet tolerable., At one time, if your
donkey wouldn't go, yon were at liberty
to wallop him to the bare bone. You
mustn't now. If you do, there is a scci.
ETY. down upon you. It's my belief that
the present race of donkeys are aware Of
this, and that's what makes them SO OBJ
stinate. The very cats are grown contu-
macious, and don't care how much row
they kick up on the tiles for they know
that you mustn't take them out and fay
them alive in the back yard. They be-
long to the society too; SO do your wife
and your dog. You mustn't beat either,
though it may be pleasure to both par
ties. What is man to beat? Upon
my word, don't know anything that is
not in the act of parliament except the
bounds of the parish, and they are treat
fit only for the workhouse.
You mustn't fight either. No; the
practice of the noble art of self>defence
without the gloves, is breach of the
peace. The FreLch polishers of society
forget the grand maxim; "If you wish
for peace, prepare for war" How can
you prepare for war if you are not al
lowed to practice the noble art of self
defence? You mustn't let your dog
fight; though DR.. Watts, an eminent d.
vine, who was good and wrote hymns,
says, at is his nature TO-" / tell you
your laws are unnatural. There's moth.
ing that game cocks like better than fight
ing with steels spurs on their heels. You
say it is cruel. l tell you the cocks like
it, revel in it. like it. Irevel in it.
Why should you deprive me and my
game cocks of our pleasure? Because
you are determined TO root all pleasure
out Of the earth, and make the world a
bowling wilderness. l would 90 out Of
the dull slow pace altogether, but you
won't even let me do that. If l throw
myself over the bridge, and seek relief
from the boredom of an intolerable exis-
tence in watery grave, there is another
society at hand to run an iron hook into
me, and bring me back to life and mise
ry. It's these societies that do all the
The secretaries and officers
must do something to earn their salaries.
It's salaries that they've started for.
houldn't be surprised if we were to hear
lext Of society for doing away with
he sun. l dare say the gas companies
would consider that the sun is a very i'm
proper thing, and ought to be put down.
Il is surely and certainly coming to this
when parliament is actually talking of
'utting down the barrel.organs. Yes
he savage breast of this gloomy age is
even to the charms of music.
What does Mr.. Pope, who was poet,
ay?
Descend, ye Nine descend and sing,
The breathing instruments inspire
Wake into voice each silent string,
And sweep the sounding Tyre.
3ut what does Mr.. Bass, who is a brew
r, say? Why, be says, "Take the Nine
p, aud lock them in the station-h house."
Ibis is the difference between an age of
oetry and barrel organs, and an age of
litter ale and beer barrels.-AHMe Year
aound. /
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CoPPERHEAD RsIoN OF TEE
RAID.-This is whatthe eopperhead Bal
timore correspondent f h N. Y.
World says of the rebel raid, in which
apparently the wish is father to b c
thought" -
"The plan of Lee is simply this, to
move to Harper's Ferry, with the main
body of his army, through the Sbenan-
doah valley, while Gen. Beauregard de-
tends Richmond with bis corps of 10000
troops and the local militia. Gen. Beau
regard will evacuate Petersburg and re-
tire with his corps to the souther defen-
ses of Richmond, whenever Gen. Lee
follows, with the remainder Of his army
that portion which has already moved
up the Shenandoah valley. That por-
tion is the whole of Gen. Ewells corps
$4,000 strong the cavalry under Mai
Gen. Ransom, which, including Imboden
and Mosby, exceeds $4,000 men and
Gen. Breckinridge's d division, $4,000
strong, Th i S makes force of 81, 900
men. 1t has not all reached the Poto-
mac yet. The object of the plan can be
seen at once. 1t is to save Richmond.
1t is to compel Gen. Grant to abandon
the siege of their capital. They believe
that Washington is now comparatively
defenseless, and that :he most effectual
way to defend their capital is to threaten
ours. If the movement is carried out,
therefore, according to the original plan,
it will be upon Frederick first, ard then
upon Baltimore, in order to isolate Wash
ington from the North, the East, and the
West"
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Cutaneous Tenants in Ceylon.

u
Our way lies through the late-reaped
ricesfelds. The cattle are now pastor
ing amongst the stubble, closely attended
by the white storks, which relieve them
i of the ticks and other insects. There is
good deal of mutual accommodation oI
this kind in Ceylon. 1t may be seen con
stantly at MONDAY in the native hut,
where stretched at full length, with dish
evelled locks, he reposes his head upon
the lap Of his tender spouse, while she,
kind soul, does the office of the white
stork for him. The same benevolent act
is sometimes performed by mother on
her infants. 1t is one of endearment,
corresponding with our stroking child's
bead. The Buddhist priest-forbidden
to take life of any kind, howsoever min
ute-who strains the very water he
drinks lest there should be any living
creature in il, t,ignorant of the existence
of anmalcule invisible to the eye-how
is be to do? He gets over the difficulty
by shaving his head, face and eyebrows,
and SO steals a march on his enemies
The crows are of great assistance to COWS
and sheep, and | saw one very earnestly
recommending himself TO pig, on whose
back he was making strenuous efforts to
maintain his seat, but piggy would not
be thus assisted on any terms whatever.
He started off at full gallop, protesting
By loud and angry squeaks, against being
ridden. The crow kept his seat calamity
for some time, but found the PAGES of
pig rather uncomfortable, so he got off,
quoting the following lihes from Spencer:
The dunghill kind
Delights In filth and fowle inc0ntinence;
Let Gryll be Gryll, and have his hoggish minde;
But let MS hence depart whilst weather serves
and winde.
And SO saying, he tried what could be
done with dog that was looking on
hard by.
There is one animal in Ceylon that
has no feathered friends, and it is not to
be wondered at. / mean the jackal -
and the manner in which he is said to rid
himself Of his tormentors was recently
related in an interesting paper in one of
the local publications. A jackal was, it
is said, observed by an old hunter to
take up ON e cocoa-nut fibre in his
mouth aud proceed to the water, where,
wading in a short distance, be gradually
lowered himself, until at last nothing but
the tip of his snout remained above the
water. After retaining this position for
some time, he suddenly ducked under,
leaving the cocoa-nut fibre in the water,
md made for the shore. The old hunter
lad been watching bis actions with much
for some time, unable to make
out what his customer was after, but
luite prepared to find it was something
very deep. When he had left, the man
examined the piece of cocoa-nut fibre,
when the object of the jackall was at
'nce apparent. His disagreeable tenants
lad, as he sunk in the water, gradually
Vended their way towards bis snout.-
Thence they had, poor deluded victims
# misplaced confidence, taken refuge in
he cocoa-nut fibre, and soon they were
eft to the mercy of the tickle elements,
While master jackal sloped off with a
lean bill of health Once Week.
CoPPERHEAD RsIoN OF TEE
D |
Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1864-07-22

The rebel prisoners say that il Gen.
Grant ever gets TO heaven, it will be by
a haok movement.
Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1864-07-22

Revenge is more punctual paymas
ter than gratitude.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1864-12-20
Anna STAPLES, Estate,

wnlamstown, Nov. n A. u 1854. rigw3
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1864-12-20
Petition for Divorce.

TO the Non Suptsme Court to be bcld at Chelsea
within aud Tor tbs County Of Orange, the sh Tues
day next after the Ih Tuesday Of January, A. d. 1865
Your p,titoner, George Richards Of Randolph, In
Orange County ans state OF Vermont represents aud
acts forth that his residences has been In Randolph afore
said fr thAn i've years last past That the 9lst
day ~ Aurl A. IL. 1851 At onk0eli ia said oaug.
county, D. Nss d4y js.nrd 20 mariag, 80 hntHetlt
smith, by TIL Rev Jelis ,iatn, minister Of tn koi
rel. That ana alter that tins Aa lived With the said
Antinrtte NTH IN he due ana faithful performance aud
observance 81 all the duties AID obligations VI the
rage relation and covenant, until about The nts Gay oil
september, %. 1863, when the said Antuste len fr
paris unknown. That after her SAID marriage and Prev
to her leaving the state Of Vermont several occ
sons aud With dn rem persons ihe committed he crime
OF adultery lie therefore prASs that by decree " TINS
honors able court the bonds Of matumony between him
and tae aid Ant,nudc may be- Dissolved aud divorce
granted him.
ua,ed a. Ra udolph, october, 1864
GEORGE hICHARDs
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1864-12-20

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remedy in this country, i scarcely known IN that.
OF all the other medicines before them, the
imperial commission BAY, no oae OF them merits
any favor whatever, Or protection from this
Government az they contain nsihitg new nor
any specific virtues not fully known and used
by out own p sciaos Tic lmpsiial Govern
ment has accordingly prohibited INN all from
admission through the custom house, except the
remedies Of our distinguished c0unIymen above
men.loued-a discrimination by their learned
men, very like that to which experience has led
the American people Boston Heau.
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STATE OF VERMONT, In Probate Court, holden
WISnsoroE DnrRIcr, IS. at Montpelier, ON the 9th
day OF December, A. d. lsH
u DEFDRREST and GEORGE r. C0WELS, Admin
ID. sfators OF the esatco ssel C. Ahernethy late OF
I0fugton III tie State OF Connecticut deceased, make
application said Cou for license sell all Of the real
estate OF said deceased situated In RoIbury and nin-
tree in VI State Of Vermont being undivided third
parts Of two os OF land, conuinng 2OJ acres, The
other 10 acres and undivided hal OF one lot OF land
containing % acres In said Rotbnfy also two undivided
third parts Of lot u land continuing 2J acres IN aid
Hfainfee the title TO which land having rued by
virtue Of two mOftgage deeds executed by George d.
Wadhimst said dece astd the 10th day Of Jaly D.
ls6l gnd foreclosure thereof by said administrators
representing that heirs Of said deceased reside In this
se aud that such sale would be beneficial TO The heirs
Of said deceased and those int rested In his estate.
Whereupon, 1t Is ordered by said Coun that said app
cation he referred to the I'd day OF Jan-aIy, A. ID. 1864,
at the fn bate Office in Montpelier Tor hearing and de-
cson thereon aud, is further rdered that all persons
Interested, be notified hereof by publication Of notice OF
this app auun and order thereon three weeks success
yey Ia the Green Mountain freeman, printed at hon
peer before said time Of hearing, that they may appear,
at ,aid time aud place and IT they sec cause, object
thereto. Blythe Court.
r5lw3 Attest, N. A. CHASE, Register.
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