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The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1869-12-04
COlOring Butter in Winter.

After severe frosts, when cattle have to
be fed on cured fodder, even though roots
form a largo part of their food, the butter
loses the rich color tho grass has given it,
and is but little more attractive in appear
ancc than SO much tallow. There are
various artificial means for coloring it. A
carrot grated into tho churn, will commu-
nicate a light golden hue, and extract of
annatto mixed with hot water, and left
twelve hours to steep will make a still rich
er tint. Annatto applied directly to the
butter itself, is much more effective, and is
chiefly used as a coloring agent of both
butter and cheese. A slight admixture of
Tnrmeric, heightens the color very much,
but it must BIO used most sparingly, as too
much of it produces a birthstone color that
is anything but attractive. We have found
the following plan very satisfactory: Take
qurter of a pound Of annatto, and half
ounce of turmeric and steep them together
in a pound of melted butter, keeping them
over slow fire for some hours. Then
strain through a fine cloth into jar, add a
little salt, and keep in cool place. When
the butter is half worked, take a small
quantity of this mixture experience will
teach the proportion,) melt it, and pour it
in a depression in the lump of butter, work
ing it in as it cools with the butter that
surrounds it. This will assume a deep
reddish color as the added matter combines
with it. Then work this thoroughly
through the mass until it is all of the same
shade. The color, after little practice,
may be made equal to the richest gold of
the June dairy, and the flavor will be slight
ly heightened. The butter will, in fact, be
much moro saleable, and really somewhat
better. The most celebrated butter makers
about Philadelphia, except those who have
Jersey COWS, color their butter with pure
annatto, which gives it a deep orange color.
In order that their city customers may not
know any difference, they use annatto in
summer as we'll as in winter, and tho rich
color of the crack Philadelphia butter,
which is fondly ascribed to some peculiar
quality of Brandywine grass, is really the
effect of tho use of foreign matter. Moth
ing can exceed the color of the June make,
and by the careful use of turmeric as an
addition to the annatto, this color may DO
kept up the year neutrality-suspicious.
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4 CECIL


DEPOSIT, all kinds of FURNITURE, such as
French and Cottage Bedsteads,
all styles Of Leaf, Extension and OTHER Tables,
Windsor, Cane Seal, Hair Cloth, Parlor,
Reception, and all OTHER kinds of Chairs,
knosn II. the trade, and finished in
all styles, Lounges, Sofas, Tste-a- Tstes,
Bookcases, Hat Racks Ward-R Robes,
Washstands,
Enamelel, Grained and Walnut Chamber SuiA
very carefully selected assortment Of LOOKING
GLASSES.
STRAW MATTRESSES, (Cotson-tOp9
HUSK do.
PALM LEAF do.
LIST quality CURLED HAIR do.
CnIDRxN's CARRIAGES, and WILLOW CHAIRS
AY-Tucker's Patent Spring Bed Bottoms about
onethird the price Of durable and less liable to
got out of order than, any Spring Mattress in
will sell all tho above articles at prices that cannot
fail induce purchasers to buy Mt Port Deposit rather
than in either Baltimore Philadelphia.
sV-ware- Rooms two doors below Public School
building.
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What is Lost by Keeping Corn.

A correspondent of the Davenport, ILL.,,
Gazette, put two hundred measured bushels
of corn in a crib in November, 1868, which
were recently marketed. The corn was
kept in well-protected crib, and was in
excellent condition when sold. 1t was
found to have shrunk forty-eight bushels,
equal to twenty-four per cent. discount
from the original amount. There was no
unusual exposure to rats, bad weather, sc.
the corn was first quality, and he thinks
the experiment was in all respects fair
test of the profit and loss of holding over.
Sell grain-cspecially corn-as soon as
practicable after it is harvested. You get
in the main as good prices, and save the
inevitable waste which we learn by the
above statement is twenty -four per cent
This alone deducted from the highest price
possible to be realized throughout the sea-
son, will seldom bring it up to the sum the
crop would bring the farmer if disposed Of
at the earliest opportunity of getting it to
market. Corn is frequently too damp and
tough to shell in the fall after husking.-
This can be remedied by building narrow
crib well exposed to the air, and entirely
separate from other buildings.
sS-To prevent worms from infesting the
bowels of children, give them well-eooked
food with plenty of salt. Salt is destructive
to worms.
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UNDERTAKING.

am prepared to make all kinds of C0PFINS. and
attend Funerals short notice. reasonable prices
Jan A. lS6S-n HENRY H. MAKINSON.
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eX- We call attention to advertisement
Of The Churcnman in another column. 1t
is finely printed, ably conducted paper,
and is one of the very best religious news
papers Of the country.
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FARM and OUSEHOLD.

ES-To any who will contribute an coca
sional article to this column-once month
or oftener if so inclined-we will send copy
of The Whig free.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1869-12-04
NOTICE TO FARMERS.

TIyIIR Subscribers have constantly hand and for
i sale, the following valuable Fertilizers, viz:
Moro Phillips Super Phosphate.
Baugh Sons do
Henon & Co.'S do
Fine Ground Bones (best quality)
"A A" Mexican Guano.
Lodi Co.'S Poudrette.
ALSO
Salt by tho Sack, Fine and Coarse, together with
large stock Of
Prime Herrings, Nos. and 8 Mackerel,
at very low prices.
Grass Seeds of all kinds in season.
SEED BUCKWHEAT.
Orders for Farming Implements filled at
Manufacturer prices.
D. SCOTT BRO
Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1869-12-14

RYEGATE.-Several real estate changes
have taken place in tins town of late.
John Mcclure has sold his farm to his son
James, price $4,000. John Kenney has
bought VIM. Gibson's Home" farm for
$4,000 Robert Esden has sold out to VIM.
Buck & Sons of Waterford for $4,000, Just
81 900 more than he paid for the same
farm two years ago. He also sold his per-
sonal property the past week at public auc-
tion.-Ten cows brought the extravagant
price of $780, Ryegate farmers get large
prices for both cows and butter. Some of
our best diaries brought As cents per ID. in
market during the fall.-The selectmen
are going to call a meeting of the town to
raise money to pay for repairing damages
done to the roads by the late flood, which
will require about S4,000.-The Passump-
sic r. R. Co. are rebuilding the breaks on
their road in this town, three of which are
within mile South of Ryegate station
The youngest daughter of GAVIN Dunlap
was severely scalded on Monday last, by
going backwards and falling into pail o.
hot water Cdiedonian.
Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1869-12-14

Hes. Mr.. Brastow having returned from
his foreign tour, occupied his pulpit at tne
South church last Sabbath. In the AFTER
noon he gave free account of his journey
ings, and stated in succinct manner MS
impressions of many things, places anu
pe0ples-showing clearly enough to those
who heard him that his observation and
study abroad had been keen and vigorous
that his pursuit and his object had been
ardent and successful, and had brought re-
suits so rich in intelligence and imagery
that years of home toll will not exhaust.
This tour was mainly as follows: Land
ing at Brest be went to Paris, Marsaiiles,
and passing into Italy to Florence he io!-
lowed down the western side, taking IN his
way Rome and Naples thence a SIX days
voyage across the Mediterranean to Egypt,
visiting Alexandria, Cairo and the l,yra-
mid world thence to and through the Sn ez
Canal to Port Said thence to Syria, giving
a full month to Judea, Galilee and border
ing localities of Biblical interest, to Beirut,
and thence to Constantinople and across
to Greece and up to Northern Italy and
Germany, down the Rhine and into Swift
zerland After the Alps and Geneva and
Paris, he passed into England and Scot
land, and thence across Ireland to Queens
town, where he took the steamer for home.
-CdLedOHidn
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ces, 6 merchant tailors, 5jewelers, wagoti
and carriage shop.
But must close, as am fully cognizant
of the fact that long COMMUNICATIONS are
not always best. In my next will endea-
vor to give you an idea as to the prices of
land, quality of soil, productions, &C. As
for climate and health We have this to say,
that we believe it is second to none. Our
winters are mild and generally pleasant,
very seldom forming ice over an inch in
thickness. The summers are generally
warm and dry, but not oppressive; the
nights during the warmest weather of the
season are cool and refreshing; the days
are rendered delightful by salubrious
mountain air; hespring and fall are long,
mild and pleasant, with occasional show
ers of rain sufficient to give life and vigor
to the vegetation and render productive
the fertile soil. More anon.
MULTNOMAH.
Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1869-12-14

missioner of the Land Office will equal any
of its predecessors in careful, elaborate and
compass of topical interest. The text en-
braces over thirty separate heads with the
usual appendix of statistical tables. In
brief, it shows the entire area of public do
main to be 1874 1896, 400 acres. The en-
tire area surveyed, sos ,569,752 acres, leav-
ing unsurveyed, 1926, 43O,64S. The dis
posal of lands in the seventy three local
land offices embrace over seven million
of acres, and the cash receipts for that por-
ton sold for cash amounts to over four
and half millions ef dollars, an increase
of nearly three millions over last year.
The principles of the public land system
are treated in several elaborate papers,
The discussion brings to view the origin of
the rights of property and the progress of
local organization from community of
interests to separate private ownership
with citations from the great European
publicits. The commissioner treats the
homestead law as the worthy supplement
of the preemption, and that we owe to the
liberality of our naturalization laws for ten
million of our population. He alludes to
the grants of land to the officers and SOL
diers of the different vars as testimony
of our nations gratitude to our country's
defenders The enormous expansions of
railways was one of our national necessi-
ties, but the commissioner thinks the time
has passed requiring extraordinary assist
ance to railroad companies. and recon-
mend for the nation good to stop short
of giving to railroad companies to any
great amount tina which was intended
for the worlds poor our public domain.
The report corcludes with review of
the commercial interests of the United
States as compared with those of other
countries, and mikes out, what every one
of us feels, that this country of ours, taking
everything into account, if properly ad-
ministered, is the very best in the world.
LIFE.
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The BEST AND CHEAPEST ORGANS
An illustration of the advantages ola large
production of any article, enabling the
manufacturer to avail himself of the aid of
machinery and most complete division of
labor, and so to produce the best work at
the lowest cost, is afforded by what the Ma.
son q Hamlin Organ Co. are now doing.
1t is well known that the cabinet organs of
their manufacture have for some time en-
Joyed the reputation of being the best in
the world ; and the demand for them from
all countries has so increased that the COM
pany have now occasion to produce one
hundred and fifty organs a week.
This has enabled them to introduce a va
riety of ingenious machinery for the pro-
duction of the various parts of the instru-
ments, by which they get increased per-
lection in their work, and make consid-
cradle saving in the cost. 1t is part OF
their system to sell always at least remu-
neratiye profit, depending on increased
amount of business for satisfactory result
to themselves. Accordingly, they hav,
recently reduced prices, and it is said, ar,
now selling their famous organs at ever
less than it costs small maker to produce
inferior instruments. The public are thu
the gamers by getting the best article a
less than, without such advantages, the,
would have to pay for inferior work. Thi
Company will not make the so Gale
rcheap" organs at any price. All thei
work is Of the very best.
Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1869-12-14

not have been done by the detention of that
portion of the 1907 letters estopped be.
cause not fully prepaid? A merchant has
a payment to make in San Francisco or
Boston. He writes the letter and gives 1t
to a clerk with the draft to enclose. The
latter may make the package heavy enough
for double postage, but only one stamp is
put on. An hour after the mail has gone,
back comes the letter by a messenger to
have another stamp added, thus making it
too late to meet the payment due.
This is an outrage that would not be
patiently borne under despotism. 1t is
an open violation of the law which not even
the instruction of Postmaster General can
Justify, and the next sufferer ought to bring
the question before the authorities by in
shutting criminal prosecution against the
local postmaster for OBTAINING his letter.
VERMONT.
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The above offers are open to January
next. The terms are cash in advance in
all cases. We have offered no poor publ
cations. We have offered them all cheap.
We make no money on any of them, but
DO lose on two. If fanny one thinks himself
unable TO pay so much for the highest
priced ones we offer, get your neighbor to
20 halves with you on them, but do not
stop the Standard. We are trying to print
good paper, and have the vanity to be-
leve that we offer the best reading and the
most Of it for the money of any paper in
the state, with the exception of the Mont
peiier journal and the Burlington Free
Press. We have as all can see, and as all
acknowledge, made great Improvements in
the paper the last year, for which we have
made no extra charge, although these i'm
provements have cost us heavily and have
added no less than S12 to our weekly bills.
Yet in the face and eyes of these facts we
promis" our readers that if they will only
help us 10 more advance paying subscribers,
and will also pay for their own in advance,
we will before another year rolls around
make greater improvements than any yet
made. We have faith to believe that Or
leans County can and will support big
ger and better paper than she now has, and
At the same price. AT any rate we are the
MIN 30 risk it if people will pay us in adj
vance and not Pot us to the cruel expense
of paying an agent three dollars a day to
collect what is our due and not get fourth
of it then. Come friends, send us MONEY
as fast as your subscriptions expire, speak
a good word for us and thus help your.
selves. Ifyou can get better paper thar
ours for the same money we ask we shall
not blame you for changing, but do MOI
change merely for the sake of changing
If we are doing well stand by us that en-
courages US TO do still better; but do no
stop your paper, that's depressing and free
res every earnest attempt at well doing.
Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1869-12-14

POISONED BY HAIR Reconnaissance
ly after the death of Dr. White, which &C.
CURED at Davenport, Iowa, on the 10Th of
June last, the Scott County Medical Socie-
ty appointed a committee 20 investigate
the causes which led to his death. The
committee through DR.. Baker reported that
the cause OF the doctors death was lead
poison produced by the use of Hair Re
newer. Had he used DeGraff & Cos,
Crystal Hair Remover, no such event would
have occurred. 1t is as pure as water
does not contain the least trace of lead,
sulphur or silver. For sale by all drug
gists. VIM. JOslyn & Sons, general agents
for Vermont. De Graff & CO., proprietors
Milford. \. II.
Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1869-12-14

HARDwIcK.-Constable P. 5. Paine of
Hardwick, brought to this place and lodged
in jail, last Wednesday, a lad about IL
years old, named Hiram Keezer, on a
charge of stealing clothing, money, &c,
from the store Of c. F. Conant, to the val
ue of 800. On being accused of the theft,
he gave up part of the stolen property,
and left for parts unknown; but last Mon
day Mr.. Paine found him at West Albany,
and took him before Justice Underwood OF
Hardwick, when he was Fut under $500
bonds, and for want of suretv was Jailed
Cdled0nidn.
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STANDARD and HOMESTEAD.

For SO, so we will send the Standard and
the New England Homestead to January
!, 1871. The Homestead is large eight
page paper, printed at Springfield, Mass,
price $3.50 year it is a splendid paper
in every particular, is printed weekly. We
make this offer to those who do not now
take it. Send is $3.50 and secure the
Homestead and Standard to January /,
1871
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STANDARD and STOCK JOURNAL.

For e., 25 we will send the Standard and
the American Stock Journal to January l,
1871. The Stock Journal is a 80 page
monthly, printed at harrisburg, Penn, at
one dollar year. 1t is devoted entirely
to the interests of stock raisers and is the
best thing of its kind published. The OBJ
jeot of the publisher in offering it to us so
cheap is to introduce 1t, even at loss, in
hope of keeping the subscriber thus OBJ
tanned second year. 1t should be in the
hands of every one who owns one animal
or one fowl. Old subscribers as well as new
can have the benefit of this offer.
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Cheap Reading! Good Reading
FARMERS SAVE YOUR MONEY!

We have never heretofore offered any in.
ducements to new subscribers to the Stan
dard in the way of clubbing with other pa
pers, but as it is getting to be quite fash
ionable with those editors who cannot sue
cessfully compete with their neighbors
without the aid of such props, we have in
this regard concluded to follow in the wake
Of others, and therefore make the follow
ing propositions, which are not excelled by
any publisher in Vermont, and in one or
two respects are far ahead of any.
Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1869-12-14

NEW BooKs.-By the kindness of the
American Publishing Co., Hartford, Conn.,,
we are in receipt of Beyond the Missis-
sippi" and "The Innocents Abroad" the
first by Albert d. Richardson, and the last
by Mark Twain, both being books of rare
interest and written by men who stand
high before the reading public as authors
of decided merit. They are both books of
travel, though treating of different routes
OF travel and are as unlike in style and
subject matter as the localities are wide
apart which they describe. The author of
Beyond the Mississippi Qately murder
ed by McFarland) has spent his life as a
travelling correspondent and the book be-
fore us is in his clearest, raciest style, map
ping the whole west lying between the
Mississippi river and the Pacific Ocean,
and from British America to the Califor-
MAN Gulf, going back in point of time to
the early days of Kansas, when she was I'M
der the sway of the border ruffians and
gives many incidents both ludicrous aud
thrilling which came under his observation.
He also made a trip across the continent
in 1867 in company with Gov. Bross, Sam
uel Bowles and Schuyler Colfax, visiting
California, Oregon and Washington terri
tory, with the territories adjoining.
Mark Twain's "Innocents Abroad" is a
book that no man can read without endan-
gering his buttons, so ludicrous, comic and
droll is he when he takes it upon himself
to be droll and funny, which is quite often.
Let no one, however, suppose for a moment
that Innocents Abroad" is a nonsensical
work, or that fun and frolic is the staple
of it; it is far different it takes many
flight to the sublime, is deeply meditative,
grave and candid. The author has pur-
pose in his style of describing sights and
scenes, as is evident, and he tells us so.-
He has seen with his own eyes and judged
with his own judgment, whether that judg-
ment be righteous or otherwise. We have
neglected to state that the book treats of
journey through Europe and the Holy
Land. We shall give extracts next week.
The New World Compared with the
Old, is a splendid work of some $50 pages,
by Geo. Alfred Townsend, and for which
Rev. E. d. Hopkins is sole agent for Or
leans, Caledonia and Essex counties. We
shall give it a more extended notice next
week.
Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1869-12-14
STANDARD and RURAL AMERICAN.

For g, 80 we will send the Standard and
the Rural American to January l, 1871,
The Rural American is large 80 page ag-
ricultural monthly, printed in New York
City, at 81 so year; it is purely an agri-
cultural Journal and we regard it as unex-
celled by any similar monthly in the coun-
try. Send US $3.50. Old subscribers as
well as new can have the benefit Of this
offer.
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GOOD RIDANCE.-We have decided in
the course of a week or so to part company
with about forty dirty whelps located in
North Troy, South Troy, Newport Centre,
Derby, Derby Line, Island Pond, East
Charleston, and dozen or so elsewhere,
who have taken the Standard till each of
their bills amount to from s. to IS, and in
the aggregate to $3.50. We do not intend
to lose any more by these men. Stealing
is more honorable than the way they have
treated US. We shall send each man the
amount of his Indebtedness and then if it
is not paid about as soon as received, we
shall sue when we can find property en-
ough to secure our claim, and where we
cannot we shall produce another platoon
Of skunks, publishing them as a warning
TO others.
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NOTICE-Will those subscribers who
take their papers out of the state, as well
as those who take their papers in distant
parts of the state, and whose term of pay
ment expires Jan. l, please send us the
pay for another year before that date? We
send no paper out Of the state without it is
prepaid
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STANDARD and WESTERN HOME.

For g, we will send the Standard and
Western Home to January l, 1871. The
Western Home is literary monthly of l6
pages, and has four columns to the page,
is printed at Chicago, ILL.,, at 81, 90 year,
but we will let you have it for 25 cts. pro-
vided you pay one year in advance for the
Standard.
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TWENTY FIVE YEARS PRACTICE

males, has placed DR.. DOW at the head ola
physicians making such practice speciality
and enables him to guarantee speedy and per-
manent cure, in the worst cases of Suppression
and all other Menstrual Derangememts, from
sehaterer cause. All letters for advice must con-
tain 81. Office, No9 ENDIcoTTSTREET,B Boston,
N. B.-Board furnishedto those desiring tore
main undertreatment.
Boston, July, 1869 29yl
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CoRREsPoNDENCE.-Our paper has been
blessed of late with liberal amount of
correspondence from various quarters, all
of which we think has been found interest
ing to orr readers. 1t has this week crowd
ed out our usual supply of state and miscel-
laneous news.