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The native Virginian. [volume] (Orange Court House, Va.) 1867-187?, 1867-12-20
0he 3arlii aud Gavtlcn,
CROSSING WITH THoRoUaHBREDs.

The following five points are reached
in a recent article by Mr.. W. @. Spoon
er, in the journal of the Royal Agri-
cultural Society as the conclusion
proved by his observation and expe-
rience : :8af lua GH en-
/. That the use of the thoroughbred
horse or mare has greatly improved the
coarser breed in speed and bottom
That the blood has amalgamated ex-
ceedingly we'll with other breeds, and
that the good results of even enc cross
only has been seen in various degrees
and in several generations.
2. That the effect of crossing with tue
thorough-bred is to increase the supre-
macy of the nervous and muscular sys-
ten; and is more particularly shown III
the fuller Development of the thighs and
ltind-quarters and the elongation of the
muscles generally. But that with these
advantages the bones, joints, ligatures
and sinews are smaller and less power
full sand the action; altlioitgh Guickened,
lie rendered lower and less safe. The
ability for jumping, and for carrying
heavy weights without injury TO tho
Joints and snews,is greatly diminished,
and the skin is also rendered thinner
and more liable to abrasion, the carcass
smaller, and there is q diminished ca
pability for putting on flesh. -..s
:, g.. That so long as suitable mares With
isufiicient substance can be procured,
the breeder of hunters SHOULD, on the
rare occasions when they are offered,
avail himself of the services of first
class Thoroughbred stations or eyeu
one of the second-class, provided lie
has hunting qualiiications-good sub
stance, or good, high action in, the trot
or walk. ...tr. ,.r lz- ssh -
A.. If, going step further in the same
direction, the breeder seeks to put the
female progeny to the blood horse, he
will most frequently fail, the offspring
becoming too light; while if he had
availed himself of the half-breed or
three parts bred stallion, (the grandson
of great race.horse,) } his stock, having
) the same amount cf breeding as the
, dam, would have afforded him d fair
) chance of realizing a high price, and
falling in this, a comparative certainty
| of fair sale for the cavalry, or for the
{ general market. ..#.r ..-..s
, 8. Having duly recognized the claims
of Thoroughbred horses of the first and
+, second class, we, can only advise, with
S regard to the third and Inferior classes,
: that their service be altogether dis
/ pensed with, their place being taken
T, by three-fourths or half-bred stations
G possessing bone, substance and good
7 hunting qualifications. e -.r..fz=.4
The native Virginian. [volume] (Orange Court House, Va.) 1867-187?, 1867-12-20
JOHN PAUL ON ART.

John Paul deyotes his last letter, in
the New York Citizen, to the exhibi-
ton of the Academy of Art. He says
the idea that persons go to the Acade-
my on opening evenings to see the pic
lures is altogether q talacy. They go
to see each other; to promenade the
spacious rooms, and find excuses for
conversation. All! there are better
representations of Romeo and juliet in
these galleries than any that are cata-
logued many pleasing pictures are
painted under the soft gasIight which
never find their way into public noto-
riety.H d I1ofl TO- $50 fs.lHg.l3d 4tua 4.
Among the pictures that attracted
my attention last evening, | may here
mention .,.,f....s --=ly.. .,.,5, I
ga Study from Still Life THE
seizure of a whiskey manufaetory.
1.-THE Happy Planter "-A man bu-
rying his moth-in-law. -. .s.5.,,.#t
" Resignation "---Brigadier-generals
handing in their commissions. i..'lii.
6 How happy 1 could be with Ether y
,-Scene ina dentists rooms. ri.
o. 6 prlIe to the Core "--Eve eating the
apple. loI a'5 sii a3I .17.ia.
"Enjoying the First Weed "a wi
dow in her new black. !-9h lua.
8 'sAimlng at the End "A parent
chastising a child. iliHlatI .Haua7.
"Patients on Monument ''--Billous
looking persons sitting on the High
Rock Spring at Saratoga, instead Of
buying the water at 544 Broadway
where an enterprising member of the
Paul family has established an agency
But | have not. time to mention al
the meritorious pictures, and [ certain
ly have neither time nor space to, at
tempt the daubs. d t Ha 4
The native Virginian. [volume] (Orange Court House, Va.) 1867-187?, 1867-12-20
BoNED TURKEY.

This noble bird, the pride of Ameri
can tables cannot easily be recognized
after undergoing the culinary process,
termed "boning," but for cold relish
nothing more acceptable need be sought.
1t is favorite dish at evening parties.
1t may be thus prepared: Boil tur-
key in asl little water as may be, until
the bones can be easily separated from
the meat. Remove all the skin; cut the
ineat in thin slices, mixing together the
light and dark parts. Season with salt
and pepper. Take the liquid in which
the turkey was boiled, having Kept it
warm, pour it on the meat, and mix
well. Shape it like a loaf Of bread,
wrap it in cloth and press with heavy
weight for a few hours. When served
up it is cut in thin slices.
The native Virginian. [volume] (Orange Court House, Va.) 1867-187?, 1867-12-20
A NEW HORROR.

The last horror comes from France.
A shoemaker living at La Lilette, near
Paris, has contrived, with the perverted
ingenuity of whole bestial, but, per-
haps, half-crazed mind, to illtlictan en-
tirely new species of anguish upon the
woman who was miserable enough to be
his wife. For a heightened period he
had been in the habit OF beating and
otherwise brutally maltreating the un-
fortunate wretch. The man was a
drtinkard. His principal reproacll
against the partner of his home was
that she refused him the means to pro-
cure drink; and in his endeavor to
wring his booty from her by torture, he
flung her to the ground, put his knee
on her chest, essayed to strangle her,
and then gouged one of her eyes OUT
lie told her deliberately that he intend-
ed there and then to kill himself, and
that she should be spectatress of his
death and g shudder at his grimaces. y
He tied her hand and foot, gagged her,
anG opening knife, swore that if she
dared to stir he would at once cut her
Throat. Next he slowly and coolly pro-
ceeded to hang himself to huge nail
which he had driven into the wall,
drinking while he was making his
preparations no less than fifteen glasses
of rum. Then, standing face to face
before the pinioned sufferer, he kicked
away the stool beneath him, and was
duly strangled, his victim being com.
PEELED, as in a hideous nightmare, help.
lessly to witness the eonvulsions of hi
limbs and the distortion of his features
At last the woman contrived to liberatt
herself from her bonds, and her shrieKi
brought up the neighbors and the police
The man was dead. rf...-
The native Virginian. [volume] (Orange Court House, Va.) 1867-187?, 1867-12-20
WHAT BREAKS DOWN YOUNG MEN.

1t is a commonly received notion that
had study is the unhealthy element of
college life. But from the tables of the
mortality of Harvard University. col
lected by Professor Pierce from the
last triennial catalogue, it is clearly
demonstrated that the excess of deaths
for the last ten years after graduation
is found ia that potion of each class
inferior in scholarship. Every one who
has been through the curriculum knows
that where Eschylus and political
economy injure one, late hours and
rum punches use up dozen; and that
the two little fingers of Morpheus are
heavier than the loins of Euclid. Dis
sipation is a swift and sure destroyer,
and every young man who follows it is
as the early flower exposed to untime-
ly frost Those who have been inveigled
in the path of vice are named "LegiOn," +"
for they are niany-enough to convince
every novitiate that he has no security
that he shall escape a similar fate. a
few hours of sleep each night, high
living and plenty of " smashes > make
war upon every function in the hnman
body. The brains, the heart, the lungs
the liver, the spine, the limbs, the bones
the tlesh--every part and faculty y-are
over taxed, worn and weakened by the
terrific energy OF passion and appetite
! loosed from restraint, until, like dilap-
idated mansion, the " earthly house O.
| this tabernacle falls into ruinous de.
cay. Fast young men, right about!
The native Virginian. [volume] (Orange Court House, Va.) 1867-187?, 1867-12-20

By AN ELDERLY BAeHELeR.--A wife
should be amiable, ,affectionate, artless,
atlable, accomplished, beautiful, benign,
benevolent, chaste, charming, candid,
cheerful, complaisaht, charitable, civil,
constant, dutiful, dignitied, elegant,
easy, engaging, entertaining, faithful,
fond, faultless,a free, good, gracious,
governable, good-humored, handsome,
harmless, healthy, heavenly-ninded,
intelligent, interesting, industrious
just, kind, lively, liberal, lovely, modest
merciful, mannerly, neat, notable, obe-
dent, obliging, pretty, pleasing, peace
able, pure, quiet, righteous, sociable,
submissive, sensible, temperate, true,
upright, virtuelis, well-formed, young
and jealous. When llmeet with a Wo-
man possessed of all these requisites, l
will marry. f4J "a tf ra. .r#
The native Virginian. [volume] (Orange Court House, Va.) 1867-187?, 1867-12-20
NEWSPAPERS.

In a lecture upon ewspapers. de-
liyered in Philadelphia, by Rev. De-
witt 'Talmage, he said : -s..rraa.a
81 now declare that | consider the
newspaper TO be the grand agency by
which the Gospel is preached, ignorance
cast out, oppression dethroned, crime
exterminateG, the world raised, Hea-
ven rejoiced, and God glorified. In the
clsnking of the printing press,as sheets
fly ont, l hear the Lord Almighty pro-
claiming to all The dead nations of the
earth, ''Lazarus, come forth,n and to
the retreatipg surges of darkness, ''let
there be light!''
The native Virginian. [volume] (Orange Court House, Va.) 1867-187?, 1867-12-20
HOW TIE PARsoN GOT ExCITEp.

A few years since, near the city of
N, in Connecticut, lived and preached
old parson p, who was excitable and
near sighted. One day he had been in
the city with his horse, and among his
purchases was q barrel of flour, the
head Of which was partially out.
On the way home, the old man was
overtaken and passed byla fast young
man, driving. a fast horse, and putting
on much airs. Now, the parson S horse
was usually a quiet steady going animal
enough, but he couldn't t stand that sort
of thing; so he started after him of the
fast order, in good earnest. .s=
The joining of the wagon at length
Jared the head completely off the bar
rel, and the strong wind that was blow
ing directly after the parson, blew the
flour all over him and the horse. At
last the fast young man was left, and
the village reached; but tile speed of
his horse. was not checked. 4.r5
In driving through a stfeet'to reach
his home, he came in contact with one
of his deaecns, who was naturally sur
prised to see his minister driving at such
pace, and signalled him to stop.
.s'wly, Parson p" said he, "whdt
on earth is the matter? You seem
greatly excited" 4f1 "a 1ta9tf 5fj /.
HEXcited - yelled the old man, tsex-
cited who in the hi wouldn't be ex-
excited ? snow storm in July. Get up,
Dobbin." ala Lu. s3li7e b71ur bt
The Deacon smiled but wassilent.
The native Virginian. [volume] (Orange Court House, Va.) 1867-187?, 1867-12-20

iES A child needs smiles us much as
flowers need sunbeams. Children look
little beyond the present moment. If
a thing please they are apt to seek it; If
it displease, they are prone to avoid it.
=. If home is the place in which faces are
sour and words harsh and fault-hnding
is eyer in the ascendant be ye sure they
will spend as many hours as possible
elsewhere. SoTomon's nod is great
Institution; but there are cases--not a
few-where smile or pleasanc word
will serve better purpose and be more
agreeable to both parties. .-... --,,.
The native Virginian. [volume] (Orange Court House, Va.) 1867-187?, 1867-12-20
gostital'
ON THE FERRY.

On the ferry, sailing over,
TO the city, lying dim
In the yellow mist of evening
BY the rivers further rim;
On the ferry, gazing outward
To the ocean calm and cold,
Where the blue bay dips its waters
In the sunsets deeting gold.
On the ferry, gazing outward,
o, thou ocean, deep and wide,
Every pulse is beating measure
With the rymth of the tide! Ed.
Loving waves kiss warm and eager,
Motionless the great ships stand,
While above each pendulous pennon
Lures me with beckoning hand.
Calm on the uneasy waters
Lean the sunset bars of flame,
Like the legendary ladder,
On which angels went and came.
In another summer evening,
On little way before,
shall reach another ferry,
Seeking swift DINNER shore,
1 shall cross wider ferry,
Crossing to return no more,
Sailing for fairer city,
Waiting on a lovlier shore.
Life may touch the soul SO gently.
. We can hardly call it rough;
Yet we'll all say in its closing
Our brief days been long enough!
Thus l stand with gathered garments,
Ere the deeper shadows fall;
o, my heart, drop thy last idol,
Listening for the boatman's call.
Come, and by my spirit sinking,
BY my shrinking fears untold;
Bear me gently DER these waters,
Charon, boatman calm and cold.
The native Virginian. [volume] (Orange Court House, Va.) 1867-187?, 1867-12-20

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pe ioheiy ior op ~ = o9eo'Yg ,no Nh
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ana @ ~ 10 INT II lZH0I
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on', diS ~ ro,, m oan,f behave better than that
80 - hatto,. ,aa,,n 1f ,-o,,t t,ro,,.t Isl
chucls Won out. or I'm a aDutchman.'
| sMr, Merriweather, sir said PEBBLES,
frantic with despair, it may not be un-
known 70 Won that nv earthly possess
sions are enoaoed to enter wedlock five
years with a sufficiently lonely man,
who is not good for commercial main
tenance- > 79hl . 'i
.The bloody deuce he isn't. Now you
Just git up and git, old hoss, or I'll
knock what little brains out OF you
you've got left.' 95A'yf i io sin.
| With that old Merriweather took
PEBBLES by the shirt.collar and the part
of his pants that wears out first if he sit
down much and shot him into the streets
as if he had lust run against locomo-
tive going at forty miles an hour. Be-
fore old Merriwerther had chance to
| shut the front door, PEBBLES collected
| his legs and one thing and another that
were living around on the pavement,
and arranged himself in a vertical posi-
tion and yelled out
.u. Mour;woothor Sir, Il NAV NOT
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W III .hat hs
Wy - - s,.a 800 h,,II ,tsr,;ay ou poo.
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.,'a.. ".s - oat ~ tho f.nco and even tber
my 20 W ~ A. = s,,.;od Nj, .torr;o,
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/ ,d M ,o+;l no rot hi;
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Laoio Llep ,,als : oonna1 1,abtaar while Nerri
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l ,1t1 "e"- a.a,.5 hi tho dor,s tootb ~ 90
.,'r NY 80 ~ ~ oftis n,onfh ..for l., 6a,
Sn0 '',,,,, ,aps bold @ Cor s,ch . small animal
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The native Virginian. [volume] (Orange Court House, Va.) 1867-187?, 1867-12-20
HOW TO TREAT sA1KY HORSES.


If you have balky horses, it is your
own fault, and not the horses; for if
they do not pull true, there is some
cause for it; if you willremoye the cause
the effect will cease. When your horse
balks, he is excited, and does not know
what you want him to do. When he
gets a little excited, stop him five or
ten minutes let him become calm go
to him, pat him, and speak gently to
linn and as soon as he is overhis eN-
citement, he will, in nine cases out lOf
ten. pull at the word. Whipping aud
slashing and swearing only makes the
matter worse. After you have gentled
him awhile, and his excitement has
cooled down. take him by the bits; turn
him each way few minutes as far'Gs
you can;, pull ont the tongue; gentle
him a little; unrein him 4; then step be-
tore the balky horse, and let the other
start first then you can take them
anywhere you wish. A balky horseiis
always high spirited, and starts quick;
half the pull is out before the other
starts by standing before him the
other starts first, BY close applica-
ton to this rule, you can make any
balky horse pull. II ia horse has been
badly spoiled, you should hitch him to
the empty wagon, and pull it around
awhile on level ground then Pnt ON a
little load, and, increase it gradually,
caressing as before, and. in a short time
you can have agood work horses--t4,ng-
icdlt Edr7Rer. rffr9 5dt lc, --syy ans M
| WORTH REMEMBERING.
b. A deeoction of the leaves of champ-
mile will destroy species of insect,
and nothing contributes sonluch to the
health of the garden as number of
chamomile plants dispersed through it.
No greenhouse or hot house should
ever be without it, in green or dried
state /; either tile stalks or flowers will
answer. 1t is singular fact that if a
plant is dropping and apparently dying,
in nme cases ont of ten it will recover
if a ehamomAe plant be placed near it.
The native Virginian. [volume] (Orange Court House, Va.) 1867-187?, 1867-12-20

g There is a man in Boston, the
father of two rompish Daughters, who
attributes their "wild.ness'' to feeding
on caper sauce, Of which they are ex-
eesslyely fond. He is second cousin to
the man. W hoGo prevent his girls from
running off with young mel, fed them
Y clones.
The native Virginian. [volume] (Orange Court House, Va.) 1867-187?, 1867-12-20
W,ilJ0jArH ,ilJj HEMEKBEAIHa,
CHEAP VINxGAR.

IA first rate vinegar may be made by
the following eheapand simple process:
Boil pint of corn till about half dome
for three gollons. Put into jars or Jugs
and fill them up with hot water; sweet
ened with q pint of syrup-perhaps less
would do. Set them in the sun, audin
one or two weeks it will be first. rate
yinegar No one need to buy a poor
article when good one can be made
with so little trouble, s43i liut 5s4ldR
The native Virginian. [volume] (Orange Court House, Va.) 1867-187?, 1867-12-20

y sEP eShrouds have no pockets" re-
marked aclergyman in a sermon on the
vanity ofearthly, riches.
The native Virginian. [volume] (Orange Court House, Va.) 1867-187?, 1867-12-20

sBP What is the difference between a
matchmaker and seminal ? The one
keeps the hours by the watch, and the
watch by the hours. lot
The native Virginian. [volume] (Orange Court House, Va.) 1867-187?, 1867-12-20

EIe To defend a political editor a.
galnst abuse, is like holding an umbrel.
Ia over duck in shower. .. ).
The native Virginian. [volume] (Orange Court House, Va.) 1867-187?, 1867-12-20
6bs Yntit{ ptrginiau.
nY hAtiHY & sToFER.

Afj- AdVelIIhF .npntA Tor q ItsS TIIHV IIItIH
Ahree months will be charged for at the usu-
al rates-one dollar per squarefor the nlst IN
InserSaons
3, HN- The number ofinsertions mustbe mark
ed "a th' d, manuscript, OF the advertisement
swjE be continued until forbid ana charged
for acc ordingly.
The native Virginian. [volume] (Orange Court House, Va.) 1867-187?, 1867-12-20

IP A fiirt is the dipper ofthe public
pump, which all may drink at, but
none carry away. f..,,fsr
The native Virginian. [volume] (Orange Court House, Va.) 1867-187?, 1867-12-20

sF Adutch woman desiredto adver-
tise her pony which had lost himself,
NIT a tail frishy yer much, and srtike yer
bard NIT his hind fists.
The native Virginian. [volume] (Orange Court House, Va.) 1867-187?, 1867-12-20

sEFs Love, the toothache, smoke, a
cough, and tight boot are things which
cannot possibly be kept a secret -,7-r
long. rC.#. 81 #s.- h.
The native Virginian. [volume] (Orange Court House, Va.) 1867-187?, 1867-12-20
STATISTICS OF 1NTox1CAr1oN.


DIR. Caflee devotes, in the Journal
des Connoisances Medicales, an inter-
esting article to this curious subject.
EverY nation appears to have its pecu-
liar Intoxicating drug. Siberia has its
fungus Turkey, India and China have
their opium: Persia, India, Turkey and
A frica from Morocco down to the Cape
of Good Hope, and even the Indians OF
Brazil, have their hemp and hachish;
India, China, and the Eastern Archi-
pelego have their betel and betel-pep-
per the islands of the Pacific have
their daily hava; Peru and Bolivia
their eternal coca; New Granada and
the chains of the Himalaya their red
thorny apple ASIA America, and the
whole world perhaps, patronize tobac-
co !, tile English and Germans have
hops and the French have lettuce. OF
all these drugs, tobacco is that which
claims sovereignty over the largest
portion of the human race, for its yota-
ries are stated at 900,000,000; opium,
fortunately, docs not boast more than
4O0,000,0O0; but hachish, a drug quite
as Intoxicating as opium, is COMMONLY
INDUCED in by 300,000,000 of people,
Betel, which in point of fact, is hardly
more than a gentle stimulant, extends
It's sway over about lOo,ooO,ooo. Coca;
the virtues OF winch nave scarcely been
suihclehtiy STUDIED, except by froies-
''cEf,, sof ,MianHtegazza, OF Mllan, can barely
muster lo'ooo,ooo Oh people and all the
other drugs taken together, including
the o'ter oon''for7o oil Fiorida, are used
oy apoat zo'ooo,ooo OF the human race:
% THE GREY UNIFORM, aH
- p. ',l.sl zen =
| les, put tl'em away--the ola grey
| UNIFORM ana the Torn ana tattered pan
ner OF the stars and bars. SMUT theil
CONN hd, prepare the grave, enshrono
the one III the other-that UNIFORM ant
| nag let US bury them out OF sight a.
we DO the dead. The soldier forms thai
MI the one, the manly arms that por'
the other, are III Their graves, the DIV
II Il Dat il.
The native Virginian. [volume] (Orange Court House, Va.) 1867-187?, 1867-12-20

3 SWEET PorAro C1srARD. D.-one pound
potstoes mashed and stfted fine, half
pound sugar, small cup Of cream aud
one-fourth pound OF butter, four eggs,
nutmeg and lemon to suit the taste
If you have no cream. put half pound
butter. This makes two large custards.
The native Virginian. [volume] (Orange Court House, Va.) 1867-187?, 1867-12-20

.iDs Wanted a wick from the lamp Q
lie.
The native Virginian. [volume] (Orange Court House, Va.) 1867-187?, 1867-12-20

stP What herbs are most desirabl'
in hot weatherY Suburbs.
The native Virginian. [volume] (Orange Court House, Va.) 1867-187?, 1867-12-20
ALPHABET OF Rrcu1srrrs FOR A WIFE.

The Deacon smiled but was silent.
The native Virginian. [volume] (Orange Court House, Va.) 1867-187?, 1867-12-20

"Be,cGre Of men that come to you IN Sleeps
clQthi,eg,I dast aOithin they are rdvening
+. qDolees, - .5ff fHl .I5fft HFf sIs