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The Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1863-1886, 1867-10-17

II would not marry a Western
man if l had to live an old maid all
the days of my life," exclaimed a
buxom country lass. "Why not ?"
demanded her astonished compan-
ions, Because every paper you
pick up contains an account OF the
failure Of the Western mails"
The Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1863-1886, 1867-10-17

Mrs. Ann Rumsey, daughter Of
the celebrated circumnavigator,
Captain Cook, has just died in Eng.
land, aged 104.
The Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1863-1886, 1867-10-17

A recent visitor in the oil regions
of Pennsylvania describes the des-
olation which reigns in a once fam
GUS locality. Between Oil City
ard Meadville, not ono we'll is in
operation. 1t is only long line of
rotting derricks and rusted boilers
and engines, At Franklin, whero
tho French Creek enpties into the
Allegheny, they show with pride
the great court. house that they are
building, the tail marble monument
to tho rnartyrs of the war, and the
tlrbliug-d5~n farm. house Of the
Evans family. Three years ago,
100000 was offered to tsis family
tor their house and ground. The
offer was refused as too moderate.
Now, thecslate, house, farm and all,
will not bring $1,000.
The Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1863-1886, 1867-10-17

Official election returns baye
been received from about one.third
of the counties in Louisiana. The
registration in these was 54,l35,
and the aggregate vote polled is
2S,66l, M The parishes heard
from, except Orleans, polled more
than half their registration, while
that voted 2,260 less than half
The Convention was carried by an
excess of from 5,0o0 to 8,000.-
Nine.tenths Of the votes cast were
for the Conention.
The Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1863-1886, 1867-10-17

A man named Tease has married
q Miss Cross, in st. Louis. He
Teased her till she agreed she
wouldn't be Cross any more.
The Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1863-1886, 1867-10-17

In his will, Macmillan bequeath.
cd every little present he received
during childhood to him orher who
the was giycr. {
The Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1863-1886, 1867-10-17

Hayti has been trying the Pen
dIeton policy, and does not like it.
The paper dollar Of that country is
worth three cents in silver.
The Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1863-1886, 1867-10-17

1t q meeting Of army officers in
Washington, last winter, General
Sheridan was rallied concerning
the rumors ofhis speedy marriage
to q we'll known Southern lady,
Sheridan received the badinage
good n4turOdly cnough, but finally
said: "Gentlemen, no woman can
bo my wiEo who didn't sympathize
with me whom I was fghting."
The Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1863-1886, 1867-10-17

McClesnand and Blair are still
ahead Of all competitors in the
opinion OF Washington correspond
ents, for the succession 10 the War
Department. M
The Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1863-1886, 1867-10-17

In the United States court at
Louisville, on tho 11th, Thomas
Yickoy, John Stuart and John
Rhodes, were sentenced to ten
years imprisonment in the peni-
tentiary for maltreating and rob-
bins negroes in Nelson County,
.&cntacl;y. This is the first case.
in that State, under tho Civil
RIGHTS law.
The Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1863-1886, 1867-10-17

The steamship Pereire mado her
last trip from Brest to New York in
eight days and twenty-five hours,
the quickest time oa . westward
trip yet recorded.
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1867-04-25
Our Acquisitions.

At the rate we are going on, the old
figure of speech, that the whole bound
less continent is our" will soon be words
Of plain and sober fact Since the Constr
tuition was adopted, we have made the fol-
lowing acquisitions of territory:
1. The purchase of Louisiana and the
Mississippi Va Valley, in 1903, from France,
g. The purchase of Florida, in 1919, from
Spain, for $3OO0,O0O. 'l'.'-'l. q
8. The annexation of Texas, in 1886
! 4. The purchase of California, New
Mexico and Utah, from Mexico, for $15,-
100000, in 1848. 't''' ''1''E - 2';s'''' %
5. The purchase of Arizona from Mexico
for SIC, 100000, in 1854. iron 81 r,sJ sed
6. The purchase of the immense Russian
possessions, running down on the Pacific
coast from the North Pole to fifty-four forty
north latitude, at which line it strikes the
British possessions. ...t...
These extensive flights Of the American
eagle, from the frigid North down almost
to the equator, in the snnny South, are of a
character to convince the world that moth
ing short of the whole Western Continent
will content "the universal Yankee Ma.
ton assy 9ft 1.9 ~ & .at4 Ss.e ,..t 4,
The new region just acquired by the
Russian treaty extends our western line
from Cape Flattery, the extreme western
point of Washington Territory, just under
the outer coast OF Vancouver's Island, in
longitude 12424 degrees west, to 1913 degrees
west Tor rather to 1877 degrees eastf longi-
tude. This extension is equal in time from
Cape Flattery to four hours and thirty
three minutes 80 that the full measure of
time from the New Brunswick to the At
lantic line of our territory will be. over
eight hours and a halt, or one hundred and
sixty degrees of longitude. When the sun
marks noon at Eastport, it will not be quite
$50 in the morning at Alton Island; or,
| being noon at the said Island, it will be a
| little more than $50 in the evening at the
Maine boundary. 7i. 5e $50 u i'e7a 9ai
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1867-04-25
Opinions of a Farmer.

am near fifty years old, was always a
farmer, as were my ancestors as far back
as / can trace them. My opinions are
formed on experience and experiments that
satisfy me, whether they do others or not.
OPINION HAY should be cut when in
full bloom, as all plants contain most sac
charine matter then and consequently, are
more nutritious, if used for food. If hay is
( left later, the sugar turns toS woody fibre.
Wood and sugar are chemically the same.
-H-All heavy or clayey soils should be
plowed in autumn, so that the ,frosts OF
winter. may Epulyerize them and kill the
germs of insects deposited in the soil for
the next season. ss'- s.,....'-
III-The best way to- raise calves is to
take them from the cow as soon as dropped ;
if possible, never let them suck, as they
learn to eat or drink sooner, and therenis
no sore teatsi from biting and the task of
weaving the, cow from the calf soon over.
Iput them in place where they will be
sheltered from the sun and rain, give a good
bed of straw, and feed three or four quarts
Of new milk per day. until three weeks old,
then feed skim milk warmed. Let them
have access to hay or grass. BY this method
|, / have raised calves every veal. since can
remember, and never lost one in my life. i
+ IV.-Nine-tenths of our farmers do not
sow enough hay Seed to the acre, ! have
kept increasing the amount, and have not
found stopping place. The more seed the
more and better hay if timothy and clover,
up to half bushel each per acre, If the
surface ofthe ground is completely covered,
the hay will be fine, and noweeds can grow
/ have choked out Canada thistles with
timothy andsclover, seed sown as thick as
chair on dog" SO as to form good, firm
sod the first summer Sow early inspiring,
or in February. - -
i .V.--Oats Should be sowed very early, as
early as possible 7Tsaw a good crop raised
that was sown, in February, and was, not
narrowed but showed and rained in. 80
b HNL-ACooking food for hogs is better
thanfdoubling the same amount flied raw,
if you wish to fatten. For breeding or feed fee
lightly. a r.! ia - --''''
kinds ofstock, than most farmers think they
are. If you can have them frozen and then
cooked before they thaw, the starch is
changed to sugar, and know of no food
that will fatten faster, or give better flow
Of milk.
within fattening beef cattle with corn
meal, never fee so high that you can see or
smell the effect of it in the excrements, or
| If you do you may be sure you are losing
| your feed, as the cattle do not assimilate all
| the nutriment there is in the grain. ,..;s !,
III believe corncobs, ground with the
corn, useful as residual matter, and they
| also contain sugar enough to pay for feed
ing, if cooked or scalded. In Chicago, ILL.,,
| they make good vinegar from sweet ex-
| tracted from corncobs q" "'o'' 49, -
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1867-04-25

r., .DRAMAeE.-The Metropolitan Sanitary
Commission of London compute that for
every inch depth of water drained off, and
which would otherwise pass into the air
as vapOr, as much heat is saved per acre
as would raise eleven thousand, cubic feet
Of air one degree in temperature. A far
mer was asked the effect of some new
draining, when, he replied, "All that I
know is that before it was done could
never get out at night without an overcoat,
butt now never put one on" A ply
stefan took one of the Sanitary Commits
sioners to hill overlooking his district
There" said he, wherever you see those
patches of white mist have frequent i'll
ness, and if there is cess pool, or other
nuisa nee as well, | can reckon ON typhus
every now and then. Outside these mists
L am rarely wanted.' - a3ss asE9 sd
z WESTERN HOP CULTURE.-H. Fl. Starks,
Iowa county, Iowa, writes j. Kayner,
Wisconsin, II am engaged in the hop,
growing business / am raising them on
poles and strings, and like it first rate.
had four acres last year, and had from
| them about three tons, and sold them for
81 nc per pound, making some $4,000.
am selling roots for $50 peracre, and have
contracted IS acres" bas s....,s'f.z
S. T. Newman, Sank county, Wisconsin,
had five acres of hops, which, produced the
year he set them (1865) 1885, and in 1866
the products, including hops and sets, ex.
ceeded $4,000. -'----
Charles s. Andrus, Sauk county, Wiscon-
sin, says his two acres of strihged stakes
produced more than A, 200 pounds of fancy
hops, sold at packing for SIC PEI. pound,
81 $50 per acre.
Basil Case, of the same county, picked
from six acres in 1866, $4,000 worth of
hods, and after picking, rented his yard for
five years for $4,000.
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1867-04-25
,rhe. so,u.fh.

y At Memphis, On the Goth, a negress
named Ella Garvin was arrested for poison
ing three negroes, by mixing arsenic with
flour.
The South Carolina newspaper, pub
lished at Columbia, has been purchased by
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1867-04-25

MI. Nash and other colored men, and vi
be conducted as Conservative eoiored
organ. lM @
The Savannah (Ga) Republican, says
g Accounts represent the condition of
things in Camden and Byron counties as
truly alarming. The widest days of San
Domingo seem to have been reproduced
in Southern Georgia In one county two
negroes were sentenced to- death for, muir ".
der, and three others to the Penitentiaryy-,
A mob of colored people surrounded the
Jail, broke open the doors and allowed the
prisoners to escape. In another county,
men were found hanging to the trees a
short distance of. the public roads, who had
been hanging there for several day s."
Two horse thieves, William Neff, ,o,t
Lexington, KY, and James Crosby, of Cape,
Girardeau, Mo-, were captured for stealing
horses in Fremont county, Iowa, few
days since, and taken, to McKissack's
Grove, where public meeting was called
and, after deiiberation, they were ordered
to choose between death by hanging or
shooting. They chose the latter, and
according they were shot by twelve
men with revolvers. Over two hundred
horses belonging to farmers have, been
stolen from that county; hence the sure
and sudden vengeance on thieves when
caught '9 Fe"% a}+@ IL COL
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1867-04-25

Is he gone to land Of no laughter, srsfr.
This man that made mirth forus all
Proves death but a silence hereafter
From the sounds that delight or appals,---
Once closed, have the lips no more duty,
No more pleasure the exquisite ears /?
Has the heart done o'erfioWiHg with beauty,
As the eyes have with tears!
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1867-04-25
THE Babe.

Nae shoon to hide her tiny taos, y - 81
1a Nae stockings on her feet; 5qro-rrvs
Her supple ankles white as shaw
"a Of early blossoms sweet. --'---
Her simple dress of sprinkled pink, :,
Her double, dimpled chin,
Her puckefed lip and bauny mout, ~ q 8
With ma ane tooth between.
ia Her cen, sac like her mither's cen,
r,s Twa gentle liquid thiDgss 81 sTG w9G
"a Her face is like an angels face
We're glad she has nae Wings rs D;
She is the budding o. onrlove, ~ > 2
A giftie God gie'd us;
We munna lave the gift over weel.
'Fwad be nae blessing thus.
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1867-04-25

"A German chemist prescribes six parts
of Portland cement, one part nicely pow
dered lime, burnt but net Stacked, two
partsOf saEa, ana one part OF Stacked Ilmes " 0
mixed with the necessary quantity OFFS ~
water, used as filing Between stone and
iron, both being previously damped. After
forty eight hours, the cement will be near
ly as hard and durable as stone.
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1867-04-25
The East.

uC 4NtW oaJooihSN
sine die on the goth. PEE os.a o5d 55I
1.-The large paper mill of Randolph &c
Dupois, near Manyunk, Pa, was partially
burned ON the Goth. Loss about $4,000.
Henry Ward Beecher has been nomi
mated to'the New York Constitutional Con-
vention by the Republicans of the Second
Brooklyn District. els - ftrsmessia,ha :
The New York Riot Relief Committee
have sent to the Police Board $4,000,
tolbe divided among the officers wound
ed in suppressing the riot on st. Patrick's
Daya5n5 -s' - s7ii.a a,i2 - ElA 90 lls17.
The New York LIE glslature has refused
to pass over Governor Fenton's vetoes,
the bills for increasing the fare on the
New York Central railroad, and for a
Broadway surface railroad" = ~ q . @
!, Governor Ward, Of NewJ ersey, has ve)
toed q bill for stationary to members of the
Legislature, amounting to about $4,000,
having been informed that the money was
never expended for the purposes Indicated,
but paid direct to individual members.
The Eight-hour Labor bill passed both
Houses of the New York Legislature.
There was strong pressure by manufac-
turers and capitalists on the Governor, to
induce him to veto it, but he pledged him
self in it's favor during the last political
canvass, and will undoubtedly sign it.. =
A grand horticultural fair, lasting two
weeks, is to be held at Philadelphia, COM
mencing May Goth, VIII ich they expect will
be the most superb ever held in this coun-
try The proceeds will be devoted to dec
Grating and furnishing the new hall. A
paper, called the Floacer Basket, will be
published during the fair. n /.
The strike in the Lehigh coal region,
which has so long existed, has terminated,
the men acceding to the reduction of
wages, and active operations will at once
be commenced in the Schuylkill region.
New strikes occurred at some of the col
lieries during the week, while at others
operations have recommended.
At2p M, on the Goth, the New York
& Erie elevator, at Buffalo, owned by
George Tiff, was totally destroyed by fire.
The building was valued at $4,000 and
insured for $4,000 1t contained i43, 900
bushels of oats, corn and rye, valued at
over $135,0O0. The fire, it is supposed
originated from the friction of the ma
chinery. The total loss is $250,00O. Three
men were killed at the fire by the falling
of wall. .A4a 9 " eslLl g F3Ja "
The express car of an express train, on
the 18th, on the the Erie road, took fire
near Chemung station from sparks from
the engine, and was totally destroyed with
its contents consigned to parties in the
West, in care of the United States and
Merchants Union Expresses. Loss $4,000
The safes containing money packages
were saved. The express messengers had
a narrow escape. f y
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1867-04-25

Why do honest ducks dip their heads
under water! To liquidate their little bills.
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1867-04-25

Nay, if aught be sure. what can be surer g
Than that earth, good decays not with earth7
Than the spring of the fountains of mirth.
He that sounds them has pierced the hearts
holloWs. ~ tfsesT. ~ f .fg
The places, where tears are and sleep; a., ,
For the foam.faxes that dance in life's shadows
Are wrung from LIES deep. Z
,u - ,II.ZG3
a,itgf IL: 10 sUcI
Won our laughter, but not with mere madness
Spake and joked with us not in mere jest;
For the man in our heart fingered after,
When the merriment died from our ears,
And those that were loadest in laughter
Are silent in tears.
w. - = g London Spectator
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1867-04-25
Selected Atiseeltang
ARTEMUS WARD.

No NOTICE taken of anonymous communicarons
manuscripts should be written on one side only =
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1867-04-25

r On Monday, the 10th, at the Fort Pitt
cannon foundry, Pittsburg, another monster
gun was cast, which weighs, in the unfin-
ished state 10000 pounds. When finished,
it will not fat short Of 100000 pounds.
This piece OF ordnance mar .h was cast IN twenty
every respect, most successful 1t will
take, with constant stream OF cold water
pouring into it, nearly two weeks to cool
sufficiently to be handled.
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1867-04-25
sUsISIARX OF eTHE WEEK.
General News.

|tE M General News. IL
During the present winter the demand
for political pardons was less than ID any.
other period since the publication Of the
proclamation of amnesty. Il
Negotiations are pending for the pur.
chase of British America by the United
States, Mr.. Seward proposing to give the
Alabama claims in part payment.
GeneralL. H. Rousseau has been ordered
to Portland, Oregon, where he willassume
command of anewd department to be created
out of Oregon, Washington, and Yankee
Russia. '--.-ss,.s..-s.
F. A Washington dispatch TO q New York
paper asserts that negotiations are pending
for the annexation of Mexico ITO } the
United States, The story is probably sen;
!sationaLoz - :. .,.z-lE.'ioM Z
1.-The Japanese who called on the Presi-
|, dent, and who have been dignifed by tele-
graph into Ambassadors and Commission
ers, prove to be simply company of per-
forming jugglers. -.
9d The Senate spent nearly three hours on
the, nth upon the Cherokee Indian treaty,
and then defeated it by large majority.
1t provided for the sale Of 100000 acres of
valuable lands in southeastern Kansas to
Fremont's railroad company, for a million
of dollars
The executive session of Congress closed
on the Goth. !, Its acts were chiefly confined
to combinations Of appointments and
treaties, of which the Russian was the only
one of Importance, and to resolutions re-
garding mediation between the belligerent
or threatening powers of both hemispheres
Mr. Dudley, American Consul at liver
pool, writes to Governor Brownlow that
} the solicitors employed by the State of
Tennessee to bring suits for the, recovery
of $4,000 in State bonds, stolen by Bur-
ton, Secretary Of State under Andrew
johnson, while Military Governor, have
gained the suit, and the bonds have been
recovered by the State. 5aam12anfni boe
1t has been conclusively ascertained that
the, gold captured by General Grant at
Richmond, when that place fell into his
hands, was the property Of the rebel Gov
eminent instead of belonging to Richmond
and New Orleans banks, as has been
claimed This, being the case, of course
the gold in question, which amounts to a
considerable sum now becomes the prop
erty of our Government. 5000 b1e a ~
/, President Johnson has accepted an inyi-
tation from the citizens of Raleigh, N. c.,
to be present at that place about the mid
die of May at the laying of the corner
stone, Of monument to his father, whose
place of burial has only recently been dis
covered. He will be accompanied by Mr.,
Seward and one or two others of his Cabi-
net. He will go via Richmond, and may
extend his trip further South.
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1867-04-25

~ THE SPIRoMETER-measu the actual
bulk of respired air in any individual pair
of lungs-has shown that this measure, as
might be supposed, is a very good general
index of the state of health and vigor in
very perceptible in other ways. A medi-
cal reviewer In alate publication testifes
that lin examining for insurance persons
apparently robust, we have found that
none of those who habitually drink spirits
between meals, even in such moderation
as to be considered strictly temperate, can
blow up the spirometer to their due figure.
And in several instances af really intemper-
ate persons, this mode of operation has
led to the detection of their secret.
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1867-04-25
The West.

The graves at Cairo from which the
Federal dead have been taken are being
filled. ,.-,-...
The iron monlders in Cincinnati are on
strike. Four hundred of them are outof
employment. +.tg ge,.. ..,.'-.
The wife of Prof Stone, of Kalamazoo
(Mich) University, will start for an ex-
tended tour of Europe, May 18th, with a
class Of fifteen young ladies. 4A
The rivers and streams of Iowa and
Nebraska have been swollen to an unu-
sual extent, flooding the country and sus-
pending travel on various railroads.
The citizens Of Fremont county, in ex-
IRENE Southwestern Iowa, having lately
hung two horse thieves, have now organ
lied Vigilance Committee to capture such
thieves, who are "to be dealt with accord
ing to circumstances. s'e
The Crow Indians manifest a reluctance
to join the tribes arrayed against the Gov
eminent, and will probably not unite with
them, The Grow tribe is one of the lar
gest tribes of Dakota Territory, and can
muster about afhousand warriors I