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Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1869-04-09
Adjusting Expenses.

AN English paper in this pleasant and
torclble way begs people to draw the
important distinction between regulat-
ing their expenditures by other peoples
instead of by their own wants and
| purses:
If you want to live in vain show, reg
ulate your expenditure by the expendi-
ture of your neighbors; if you want to
live wisely and manfully, regulate
your expenditure by your actual
wants, including, Of course, the wants
of your mind as well as those
of your body, and the wants of your fam
lily as well as your own. Comely dress is
good thing and proper application of
your money; but a dress of particular
cut and. color, not wanted for any other
reason except that Mrs. Goldsmith or Miss
Filagree over the way has got one, is not
legitimate or thrifty expenditure of
money. If you really want better house
than that you now inhablt, more airy,
more free from damp, more fitted to the
size of growing family, the likelihood is
that you could not make a more, likely
use of your money; but if neighbor Gil
pin has recently had windfall, and on
the strength of it has taken a handsome
villa and seems to hold his nose in rather
higher stratum of the atmosphere than
he used to, don't you take the
villa opposite merely to be on an equality
with him. A phaeton is nice
thing to have, and drive in clear sum-
mer day brings bloom to the cheeks of
the wife and children. All right have
you phaeton-provided always that the
reason of your buying it is not that your
wife cannot bear to see Mrs. Tompkins
dOdging from phaeton while she walks
afoot, and provided also that the money
thus laid out is not required for more sub
stantial wants. such as a good schooling for
boys and fair provision against rainy
day. A trip to the seaside may be of such
benefit to the family as to pay itself in the
way of shortening doctors bills; but the
seaside breezes and the bracing waves
have never entered the service of fashion,
and they will do you and yours as much
good at cheap watering place as a dear
one. 1t is needless for us to extend our
illustrations. Every reader who keeps his
eyes open and can observe what is going
on in society around him, will be able to
add to the list. There is practically no
great difficulty in distinguishing between
the expenditure which is incurred for
show and that which is incurred for
sound and substantial reasons
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1869-04-09
The Presidents Friends.

One or two of the journals raise great
clamor about the President appointing
personal friends to Office, as though that
was an unheard of thing in American
politics. If President finds, among the
men personally and familiarity known to
him, some who are capable of filling with
ability public posts, he is fortunate man,
and does well to appoint them He is re.
sponsible for the conduct of his subordi.
mates, and if he can get men whom he
knows to be capable and honest to accept
subordinate places, he will be only the
more certain that the country will be
well served.
1t is odd that nobody has complained
yet that the persons appointed by Gen.
Grant are incapable or of improper char
acter, but only that they are Grants
friends. Is it crime, then, TO have
known the President?
The fact is that Gen. Grant has ap.
pointed fewer of his personal friends to
office than any of his recent predecessors
but he has done what was done openly
he has concealed nothing. He might
very easily have slipped in the name of a
relative or friend among "batch" of
appointments, and thus avoided notice.
Bui he has not chosen to hide anything,
-Nelo York EosHi7tq Post
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1869-04-09

then heated again to low rcd heat, and
cooled. The steel viii then be very hard
again. The amount Of nitro may be
doubled, and that Of the resin taken ten
times larger; this Is said to produce q
greater hardness.
A SIMPLE apparatus, much used in Paris,
for removing grease aud-dirt from wooden
clothes, or securing them, consists in q
cubioSl wooden box, rotating on an axis
passed diagonally through the opposite
corners The box is perfectly tight, and
has an aperture at one side, through which
the clothes are introduced, and having a
valve door, which can be closed alright.
The clothing is placed in the box with a
quantity of benzlne, petroleum, ether OF
other substances, and after closing the
mouth of the box Is rotated rapidly, about
twenty or thirty times in minute. Aftcr
q sufficient time, the clothing is removed,
the operator squeezing out the LIQUID as
the pieces are Brought out After the re.
naming benzine or other substance has
cvaporated the articles are well brushed.
A box two and half feet deep will take
In twelve overcoets, or twenty-five pairs
of pantaloons. The same apparatus may
be used "a washing machine. Another
method, though q dangerous one, consists
in passing the Vapor Of Distilled ben
| zine and other substances against the
cloth, brushing this thoroughly during the
ODoratiOR
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1869-04-09
USEFUL RECIPES, ETC.

WARTS on cows teats may, says an ex-
change, be easily removed by applying
the following simple remedy In quart
of soft water dissolve one-quarter pound
of alum; and in this solution wash the
teats and udder carefully, morning, noon
and night. Perseverance in this course
will, in few days, remove every vestige
of the disease, leaving the parts formerly
affected smooth and healthy.
GRASS and clover may be sown on any
land which is suitably prepared for them,
Lpsn winter or spring grain, on old sod
narrowed well, or by themselves 1t is
better to brush or bush in grass and clo-
yer seed than to roll the land. The plan
of sowing little white clover with grass.
seed is advisable wherever an application
of plaster will not bring it in abundantly,
as il generally will on old land.-Agrieul-
tKria.
IT is said that after the horse is nine
years old = wrinkle comes on the eye.lid,
and every year thereafter he has a we'll
defined wrinkle for each year over nine.
If, for instance, q horse has three wrinkles
he is twelve, if four he is thirteen. Add
the number of wrinkles to nine and you
will always get It, AS good many peo-
pie have horses over nine, 1t is easily
tried. If true, the horse dentist must
give up his trade.-OhiO Farmer.
WE have little faith in top-dressings of
barn-yard manure applied in the spring.
Manure ought to be got under ground, or
well narrowed in at this season. The
temptation is strong to scatter the manure
too much. Concentrate is the rule. We
manure too much ground, we work over
too much, and thoroughness is out of the
question in too many cases. The hauling
out of manure is attended with a great
deal of labor, especially If the roads are
poor and the ground soft. Field compost
heaps made in the fall, and manure piles
laid up in the fields when needed during
the winter, are great saving. .-A9rielA-
turiSt.
A GENTLEMAN in this city who is said TO
know more about horse than any other
man." informs US that for a cut in the
hoof with a cork Of the shoe, nothing is
better than to pour in melted lard and
resin, equal parts, leaving II quite hot
when put in. For sprain, the best
remedy is to use alcohol and beef's gall,
putting one gall into pint of alcohol,
and keeping It for the purpose. Tincture
of arnica, universally used for sprains, &c,
is believed by him TO be weakening TO the
system (being very penetrating in its
nature) and Is wholly discarded.-AaiRe
Farmer.
THE Manufacturer and Builder says
Steel punches, or other small implements,
engraved dies, when, by acci-
dent exposed to too great heat, they have
become spoiled, or, as blacksmith calls
it, burned, may be restored by the follow.
ing mixture; Two ounces o. bichromate
Of potassa, one ounce OF pure nitre, one
ounce Of gum aloes, one ounce OF gum
whole having been well powdered and |
mixed, the piece OF steel is heated 70 a low |
red heat and the powder put on. II is
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1869-04-09
The Late Political FIascO.

THERE is one very significant fact which
II will hardly do to let pass without no.
ticing, and that is the entire lack of en-
thusissm all over the State at the recent
special election. The Democratic mem
bers at Indianapolis confidently counted
on the supposed hostility TO the niger
to arouse an intense feeling against the
Fifteenth Amendment and their clsim
In resigning was, that Representatives
might be selt to the Legislature from the
people on that issue. They drew up a
long, windy, ungrammatical, but some
what plausible address, proclaimipg the
great enormity which Republican legisla-
tors were about to infict upon their help.
less constituents. What advantage re-
suited to the Republican legislators in
question for thus acting does not appear.
One would suppose that a member in mis-.
representing his constituents would have
some personal gain in view. This is,
however, not claimed and we are only
LETT with the hypothesis that the Repub-
llcan members of the Legislature (some OF
whom, doubtless, have political aspira-
tlons) were about to go to work and, politi-
cally speaking, cut their own heads off.
Whatever the motives might be, the
Democrats, with customary benevolence,
gave themselves the benefit of the doubt,
and virtually charged their opponents
with the indefinite crime of total de-
pravity
Building upon this foundation, with
the vain hope of knocking the Republican
party of the State out of existence by a
total massacre, if nothing else would
serve; they issue vain-glorious blast of
bombast and call for special election.
The blast came forth still. born and awoke
not a single echo. Tho tremendous hos.
tility in Indiana to the "nigger" is found
to have lost its substance. The
whole State refuses to burst into general
cont1agration at the mere mention of the
cabalistic word "nigger"
The old time enthusiasm is no more
How are the mighty fallen" The lead.
ers are rebuked by their own followers
They have now time to understand the
public sentiment of their own party. In.
stead of coming into the polls with ban.
ners flying, animated by the pleasurable
excitement of citizenship and honest
opinions, the voters struggled in one by
one and went away with feathers down
like lame ducks on prairie. A very,
very faint flutter was all there was of the
anticipated blaze of righteous indigna.
tion. II is true no Republicans were sent
back, because only in those districts where
Democratic majorities were very large
We're there any designations made. But had
Republicans in those districts even known
of the weakness which the election has re.
vealed, they would have made strenuous
efforts and elected different candidates.
Fort Wayne (IRd) Gazette.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1869-04-09
The Trying Season.

The searching winds, the cold, drlEzling rains,
the heavy fogs, and occasional warm and moist
days of March, render 1t, upon the whole, the most
unhealthy month OF the year. Its depressing IN
fuences are especially uniavorable 20 invalids,
and Thousands Of persons with feeble constitu-
tions, who have borne the winter bravely, break
down in the fret month of Spring, The variations
OF temperature and cold east winds are a serious
trial to the dspeptic and bilious, whose symptoms
they invariably aggravate. intermittent fever Is
also rife wherever there is evolvabe poison In the
water or the soil. To enable the system to combat
these evils, there is nothing like good vegetable
tonic, and among this class OF medicines HOS
TETTBR'S STOMACH BITTERS stand supreme
Medical men prescribe II In preference TO any Of
the tonic preparations OF the pharmacoppiA. They
are aware that the ordinary inctures and extracts
are all based upon cheap alcohol, which Is sur
charged with an acrd essential oil, and absolutely
tho rectned essence Of the finest rye grown In this
country is the sole spirituous ingredient OF HOS
TETTER'S BITTERS, and that the vegetable me-
dicinal elements of which IL is composed are of
rare efficacy. Hence II has the confidence of phy-
sicians, and finds Its way into hospitals whore no
other proprietary medice is sanctioned.
A course OF the BITTERS is especially recon-
mended to persons OF delicate habit of both sexes
at this season. In the fever and ague districts o
the West and South, quinino has been almost uni
versally discarded as a cbologogue. and this In.
valuable antidote to malarious disorders adopted
in Its stead. double gain Is realized by the
change, for the Bitters unlike that dangerous al.
kaloid nre agreeable to the palate, and their Gu
ratiYe elect Is much more permanent,
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1869-04-09
Serious Accusation Against Andrew
johnson.


The Washington correspondent of the
Cincinnati Times makes the following ac.
cusation against Andrew johnson:
The late President always boasted of
his integrity and his honesty, and his fare
well address pompOusly proclaimed that
no one could charge him with corruption
or having received cent which did not
rightfully belong 10 him. Il has been dis
covered since he left the White House
that he carried away with him all the
books of record belonging 10 the Govern.
ment, amounting in value to upward of
three thousand dollars. These books
were mostly heavily bound, costing from
thirty to ninety dollars each, and were
paid for with the public money, and he
had no more right to take them than no
would have to carry off the furniture,
paintings and statuary from the White
House. These books comprise all the
records of civil, military and diplomatic
business which transpired during his term
and that Of Mr. Lincoln.
Before Lincoln came into office, no
such records were kept at the White House
by former Presidents. Lincoln com
menced the practice, and at his death all
the records remained at the White House,
and came into possession of his successor.
ihS SISAho VIM hept JuSh6 upOhS were AZ
tached to the Treasury Department, de-
tailed for duty at the White House. 1t is
probable that Congress will order an in
vestigation, and, if it can be done, compel
the retiring President to disgorge A per.
son connected with the White House,
knowing that the books were being boxed
up to be removed, endesvored to have
them stopped, and applied to a magistrate
for q warrant but so he had No tifia in
the property, and it was scarcely believed
that johnson intended to carry eff the
public property, nothing was done to pre-
won't II ~
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1869-04-09
CuInvatlng orchards.

SHOULD orchards be cultivated ? Is q
question frequently discussed among po-
Inologists.
There are, however, very few who will
advocate dispensing with so important an
operation, particularly while the trees are
young. Cultivation hastens maturity, in
asmuch as it assists growth, and those who
neglect 1t will usually discover their mis-
take when too late for introducing q
remedy. By keeping the surface of the
soil open and loose, we insure the rapid
descent of rain to the roots, and the alb
sorption Of moisture from the air, both
very important considerations in dry
climate or season.
That a loose, sponge-ike soil not only
admits moisture more readily than q
heavy, compact one, but viii retain 4
larger quantity and for longer time, Is
Wen known 10 every one who has ex-
amiaed cultivated and unculdyated
field.
AS moisture Is not only an important
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1869-04-09
Allow for Rainy DAYS.

1t is the fault of many young farmers,
and not few older ones, that they plan
early in the spring to put too many acres
into crop. They go through careful cal
culation of how many days work it will
require to plow, harrow, plant and sow a
given number of acres, and find that there
are just days enough before the end of
seed time to accomplish 1t. Now, this
making calculations before hand is all
very well but the fault is in not making
allowance for rainy days. We should
always hope for long, bright days of sun
shine in farming, as in other pursuits, but
1t is also the part of prudence to remem-
ber that large proportion Of the season
of seed time is taken up by rainy days.
Not only are there many days when there
is rain falling from the clouds, but when
it is covering the soil we wish to cult
vate.
1t would, perhaps, be a safe rule, after a
farmer has made his estimate that he can
plow and put in crop, say eighty acres
no calculations being made for rainy days
and days when the ground is too wet to
work-to reduce his estimates one.half
If water in the air and water in the ground
will not make this difference in the amount
of work done, 1t is pretty certain that ac-
cidents to farm utensils, laming of the
team, or sickness of the farmer himself,
will make up the difference.
Nor is it in the spring, alone, that allow
auce must be made for rainy days. We
can pillow much less corn, secure much less
hay, and harvest much less grain thar ii
the ground had always its requisite degree
of moisture from some other source than
from the clouds. 1t is wise, then, while
laying out for good summers work, to
take into consideration how we shall be
delayed by the causes we have spoken of.
1t is much better every way not to dis
turb good hay field, than to plow 1t up,
and have it covered with weeds, because
there is no time to kill them; for weeds
and goslings will grow at times when the
rain keeps the farmer within doors.-Frai-
1,ie Farlner
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1869-04-09
The Crows Value 70 the Farmer.

WHATEVER wrong the crow commits
against the cultiyators of the soil may, by
a little painstaking, be materially lessened
or wholly prevented. The benefits he
confers are both numerous and important.
During the time he remains with us he
destroys, 50 says no less authority than
Wilson, "myriads of worms, mhles, mice,
caterpillars, grubs, and beetles.h Audi.
bon also affrms that the crow deyours
myriads of grubs every day of the year
grubs which would lay waste the farmers
tields-and destroys quadrupeds innumer-
able, every one of which is an enemy to
his poultry and his. flocks. DR.. Harris
also, one of the most faithful and accurate
observers, in speaking of the fearful rava-
ges sometimes wrought in our grass-lands
and gardens by the grub Of the May bee
ties, adds his testimony to the great ser
vices rendered by the crow in keeping these
pests in check, Yet here in Massachu.
sets, regardless of such testimony in
their favor, we have nearly eXterminated
these birds, and the destructive grubs,
having no longer this active enemy to re.
strict their growth, are year by year In
creasing with fearful persistence. We
have seen large farms, within an hours
ride of Boston, iu which, over entire
acres, the grass was so completely under.
mined and the roots eaten away, that the
loosened turf could be rolled up as easily
as if it had been cut by the turfing spade.
In the same neighborhood whole fields of
corn, potatoes, and almost every kind OF
garden vegetable, had been eaten at the
root and destroyed Our more intelligent
farmers, who have carefully studied out
the cause of this unusual insect growth,
have satisfied themselves that it is the le.
gitimate result, the natural and inevitable
consequence Of our own acts. Our short.
sighted and murderous warfare upon the
crow has interrupted the harmonies OF
nature, disturbed her well adjusted bal.
aHce, and let loose upon agriculture Its
enemies with no adequate means of arrest
ing their general increase Thomas M
Bre'oSter, in Atlantic Monthly for Apra.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1869-04-09
Sorghum.

A WRITER in the Wisconsin State Jour.
nal thinks that the sugar beet cannot be
cultivated at the North more proftably
than sorghum. "The beet can only be
worked up by large establishments, and
with much skill and capital When so
managed the best of sugar can be made
from it, and we think we may yet see
large sugar beet establishments in each
State to supply us with our fine sugars,
but the great universal want of the people
can only be supplied by sorghum. With
this every man can raise his own--and
every neighborhood can have its mill.
The expense of starting sorghum camp
is comparatively small, and the skill re-
quired in working it is hardly equal to
that of making good loaf of bread"
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1869-04-09
Tho Age OF Miracles Revived.

The Messenger Of Health gives the particulars Of
ono OF the most miraculous cures on record
Isaac Saltzer, of Myerstown, Lebanon county,
Pa, ayouth, seventeen years old, was afflicted for
over two years with the worst form OF ScrOfula (;
his entire body, face, neck and limbs were liter
ally covered with large running sores, which dis
charged purulent matter go copiously as TO gather
half an inch deep in bed during tho night; he was
constantly cold, and required a hot FIRE In his
room both summer and winter; the smell was so
offensive that no person could endure II longer
than minute or two; Drs. Bridenbach, Bucher,
Ileckart and Lebvengood, we'll known and skill
ful physicians, attended him successively, with
out being able to afford tho sufferer any relief.
brated MISuLER's HERB BlTTERS, and is n ow
perfectly restored to health. The editor OF the
Messenger Of Health has In his possession two large
glass jars containing noe pounds Of scdbs taken from
hs body Of young SRtser.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1869-04-09

NALuABLE MEntotNE.-We presume no medical
preparation ever offered to the public has been
moro thoroughly tested than PERRY DAVIS
PAIN KILLER. Thousands OF persons, were
they called on to do go. would choerfully testify
that thoy have used II for various ills, with tho
most satisfactory success IL ia within our own
knowlodge, that an immenee amount OF suffering
has been relieved by IL. Its proprietors, Meesrs.
Perry Davis ~ Son, save no pains or expense Ia
order to satisfy the public, Being strictly honor
the manufacture of their celebrated Pain Killer.
Tho materials OF which II Is composed arc care.
fully eelccted-none but the best quality being
tho Pain Killer has long since acquired Is at all
times triumphantly sustained. In view of these
nets, we are by no means surprised to learn that
Meesrs Davis y Sons sales are constantly and
rapidly increasing. While wo congratulate eur
friends generally that so valuable preparation as
tho Pain Killer Ia placed within their reach, we
must he permitted to rejoice at the well merltcd
snccess Orits liberal and enterprsing proprletors
pFOptRencf General HIpfrkiSer