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The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1870-02-04
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Jany. II, 1870. New Albany, Ind
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WHAT MAKES A BUsHEL.-It is some
time since the following table, showing
the number of pounds OF various arti-
cles to bnshel has gone the rounds.
Coming across it in an exchange, we
cut it ont thinking some of our readers
might wish to preserve a copy.
Wheat. sixty pounds.
Corn. shelled. fifty-six pounds.
Rye, fifty-siX pounds.
Oats, thirty-twO pounds.
Barley. forty-six pounds.
Buckwheat, fifty-siX pounds.
Irish potatoes, sixty pounds.
Sweet potatoes. sixty pounds.
Onions, fifty-seven pounds.
Beans, sixty pounds.
Bran, twenty pounds.
Clover seed, sixty pounds.
Timothy seed. forty-five pounds.
Hemp seed. torty-tive pounds.
Blue grass seed, fourteen pounds.
Dried peaches, thirty-three pounds.
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Brains In Farming.
SAYS the Americ an Farmer:

Day tHc -fIhcI IC on al Hfef
1t is not muscle that produces the crop
which carries off the top price in mar
ket, but brains. 1t is care. attention,
with brains, that are required-more
head work than hand work.
To which thus eloquently and truth
fully responds the Norfolk Virgirian:
When the sons of the South learn anu
appreciate this elementary truth, then,
and not till then, leaning OH her noun
tains and Having her beautiful feet in
the sea-" will her glance triumphant.
prOuder than ever of yore. sweep over the
heavy mass, flecked with the canning
trophies other recovered sway.
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. In the willamette Valley, Oregon, on
the 10Th of December, TIE flowers were
out, and the bees gathering honey (;
strawberry vines and clover were in
bloom. This, in forty-six degrees of
north latitude. Some of the Oregon
country newspapers say that some of
the pears and figs second CROP had
fully ripened. A few ripe strawberries
were in the market at Los Angeles, in
the southern part of California, on the
18th of November.
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PRICES.-A FAIR OFFER.

Send the retail price, Washer els, Extra
Wringer $40; and we will forward either or
both machines, free Of freight, to places where
no one is selling; and so sure are We they will
be liked, that we agree to refund the money if
any one wishes TO return the mrchines free of
freight, after months trial, according TO d.
rections.
No h~< -snd, father or brother should permi,
the arudgtry OF washing with the hands, fifty
two DAYS in the year. when it can be done bet
ter, more expediciously, with less labor, and no
injury to the garments. by Doty Cisthes Wash
er and Universal Wringer.
Canvassers with exclusive right Of sale make
money fast selling them.
Sold by dealers generally, b whom liberal
discounts are made. ~ ~
re. BRew },ssnt
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To Boil A TURKEY.--If you wish
plain stuffing, pound cracker, or mace
bread-crumbs, very fine, chop raw salt
pork very fine. sift some sage and any
other sweet herbs that are liked. season
with pepper. and mould them together
with the yolk of an egg; put this under
the breast and tie it closely. Set on the
turkey i'm boiling water, enough to cover
it,; boil very slowly, and take OF the
scum as it rises. A large turkey Will
require more than two hours boiling;
small one, an hour and half. Garnish
with fried forcemeat, and serve with
oyster or celery sauce.
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secure your territory while it may be had
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KNOWLES, New Albany, Ind.
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CHEAP E-HoUsEs.-The cheapest ice
house we know of is really 10 house at
all. Many years ago we know of its
happening in Virginia. that there was
very cold spell. and a gentleman wish
ing to save the ice, and having plenty of
straw, made floor ofrails IA feet square.
which he covered with straw two feet
thick; then layer after layer of ice was
piled up. kept in its place by stakes and
boards, perhaps. When the pile was
high enough. straw was stamped down
around it, and wall built probably six
or eight feet thick, the whole was capped
and matched like stack. The ice kept
well through the summer. All the con-
ditions of good ice house were met
drainage, non-conducting walls, and 4
slight degree OF ventilation, or rather a
change of air through diffusion. In
whatever way we meet these conditions
we shall succeed in keeping ice. The
most successful packers put very thick
mass of straw at the bottom.-Anieri-
c0l 4U,.;c,lfuyisf
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SEED POTATOES.

EARLY ROSE, the earliest and most prolific
Irish potatoe grewn. RUSSET, a great favoriie.
Leave orders ut Herald Offer. feb &.
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Paste that will keep a Year.

Dissolve teaspconful o. alum in
quart of warm water. Wien cold,
stir in as much flour as will give it
the consistency of thick cream, being
particular to beat up all Jumps; stir
i'm as much powdered rosin as will lay
OH dime, and throw in half a dozen
cloves to give pleasant odor. Have
OH the fire teacup of boiling water,
pour the flour mixture into it, stirring
well all the time. In very few
minutes, it will be the consistency of
mush. Pour IT into an eartbern or
china vessel; let it cool; lay-a cover
on, and put in cool place. When
needed for use, take out a portion and
soften it with warm water. Paste
thus made will last twelve months.
1t is better than gum, rs it does not
gloss the paper, and can be written on.
FRIED OYSTERs-Take one half
pound of good sweet butter. mot lard)
and let it get quite no. in skillet or fry
ing pan. Have a plate of wheat flour
ready. Now take out the oysters and
drop each one in the flour. turning it
over so as to cover each side with flour,
then drop into the butter. Let them fry
till nicely Drowned. Serve while hot.
Oysters cooked in this way are good
enough for the palate of king. or even
for an American sovereign.
COMFORT IN OLD NEwsPAPERs.-A
thin shawl may be made warm by told
ing newspaper inside it. The paper is
impervious to the wind and cold air
from outside, and prevents the rapid es-
cape of the warm air from beneath it.
If you suffer from cold feet OH a jour
ney, fold a piece OF newspaper over your
stocking; this is better than rubbers.
fyou are cold in bed, newspapers spread
under the upper cover will serve as an
additional blanket
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the brain prejudicial. If man lives
longer than other animals, it is because
he is thinking animal. The useful
employment of.the intellectual pow
crs is one among the golden rules of
health and longevity laid down at the
commencement of this article. Moth
ing has been given to us III vain, o"
otherwise than for our happiness and
welfare. Common sense therefore,
should tell us that the moderate use,
not the abuse, of all our faculties is
conducive to health and longevity.
Above all things, the fear of death
should be valiantly COmbatted. ITO
love life without fearing death" said
Hufeland, is the only means of living
happy and dying at a good old age.
People who dread death seldom at
tain longevity. If death presents it.
self to us under rcpulsive and terri
fying aspect, it is solely owing to our
habits and prejudicss having perverted
our feelings. MOntaigne justly said
that it is the darkening the room, the
faces full of grief and desolation. the
moaning and crying, that make death
terrific. Civilization, by investing
death with the most lugubrious assO-
Citations that it can conjure up, has
also contributed to rendering it hid
cous spectre. 1t is the reverse with
the patient. In nine cases out of ten
death is not only relief, but almost a
sense OF voluptuousness. Sleep daily
teaches us the reality of deati'. "Sleep
and death are twins" said the poets
of antiquity. Why, then, should we
fear death when we daily invoke Ills
brother as a friend and IL consolation ?
Life said Button, ''begins &c fail
long before it is utterly gone Why
then. should we dread the last mo-
ment. when we are prepared for its
advents by so many other moments OF
similar character ? Death is natural
as life. Both come to us in the same
way, without our consciousness, with
The Portland daily press., 1870-05-09
$ IT p Z, E M E N T.

As an illustration and confirmation of this
statement, take the States of Missouri, Ala
bama, and Arkansas, all having within their
borders incxhaustible supplies of iron. coal
and timber near the large navigable rivers.
1t is estimated that Missouri alone can sup
ply oae million tons of iron annually for the
next two hundred years. Within the borders
of that State is double the area of coal that
is embraced within the kingdom of Great
Britain. These States have not only this
abundance OF coal, iron and timber, but
fertile soil, producing cheap food and
the material for cheap clothing. Nothing is
wanted but labor, and that is flowing in with
constant and ever-increasing volume. We
have only to create a demand for this labor to
bring it to us and locate it where it is wanted
1t is easier and cheaper to bring or attract the
labor to our country, where the land, food,
and material are cheap and abundant, than
to employ and feed the same labor to manu-
facture for us in foreign country.
What folly to employ labor in a foreign
country when we can so much more advan-
tageously plant it beside the raw material and
employ it in our own. Coal has become one
of the chief clements of production, and our
cOal-felds exceed those of all the rest of the
world four-fold. No exhibit of the future
power of the nations is more striking than
the following estimates OF their respective
cOal-feds:
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Rates of 1dcertising- three times
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Special Notices. one-third additional.
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PORTLAND PUBLISHING Co.
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Leaving balance o..................$.1O 5S $40
to be applied TO transatlantic steamers yet to
be built and toward the amount required for
the enco engagement of building.
One of the proposed modes of relieving our
shipping to some extent has been to abolish
the tonnage tax altogether; but as we cannot
exempt our own vessels from this tax without
also exempting those of all foreign countries,
our commercial treaties forbidding the impo.
sition of any other or higher tax upon foreign
vessels than is imposed upon our own, the ex.
emption would afford us no relief. It is not
a question of absolute, but of relative cost OF
building, or expense of sailing, in competition
with the ship-buildels and shp-owners of for
elSn nations that we have to consider: and If
matters little what we pay so that all with
whom we compete pay the same. By taxing
all vessels, and paying a small annual subsidy
to our own, we incidentally afford an advan-
tage to American vessels, which compensates
them to a certain extent for the increased
cost Of sailing and manning over that of for
eisn vessels. The committee of ways and
means have, as l understand. agreed to recon-
mend the exemption of coastwise vessels from
tonnage tax, and as this class of vessels have
absolute protection from foreign competition.
they will, Of course, support this proposition
to relieve our foreign shipping, which has no
protection whatever, particularly as it is done
without any draft upon the Treasury.
Let us now glance at the rise and fall OF our
merchant marine, in order that we may fully
appreciate the loss sustained in delaying it's
restoration. In 1880, our total tonnage en-
gagged in the foreign tIade was 576,475 tons +;
in 1910, S99,765 tons; in 1850, 1856, 19S tons !:
in 1860, 2546, 237 tons; in 1861, 2,642,6 2S tons
au increase in three decades of more than
three hundred and forty per cent, and in the
decade from 1850 to 1860 of more than sixty
per cent: The increase in the tonnage of
Great Britain in the same same three decades
was about one hundred and fifty per cent,
and in the decade from 1850 to to 1860 was
about forty per cent. From 1861 to 1868 our
tonnage had decreased from 2,642,62S tons to
1,565,732 tons, decrease of forty-four per
cent. while in the same time that of Great
Britain had increased from 3,OS2,O4 tons 10
4,265, $40 tons, an increase of nearly forty per
cent.
Comparing the amount of freighting to and
from American ports in American and for
eign vessels the result is still more startling.
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Notice.

DAvlD A. coNGER, Of Washington county,
~ Ohio, Charles A. Conger, Lavina Daugh.
erty wife of Joshua Daughterty, Aaron A.
Conger, all Of the State Of Illinois; Elijah A.
Corger, Of the State OF Kansas; Mary Purtle-
baugh wife Of George Purtlebaugh, of the
State of Indiana; Stephen 1. Conger, whose
place of residence is unknown; Julia A. wal
ton wife of Richard K. Walton, James n.
Boughner, John NJ. Boughner, Elias c. Bough-
ner, Margaret Boughner, Mary Boughner,
Julia A. Boughler, Thomas J. Boughner, Mary
Boughner, Lavina Boughner, Michael Bough.
ner, Jr., and Margaret Conser, all Of Monroe
county, Ohio. will take notice that petition
was filed against them Cn the cd day of De-
cembsr A. D. 1869, in the court Of common
pleas Of Monroe county, Ohio, by Michael
BoughneI, and 10 now pending, wherein said
petitioner demands partition Of the following
real estate, situate in said Monroe county, to
wit. The north half Of the northeast quarter
Of section twelve township three, range four,
containing eighty acres more or less; and
that, at the next term Of said court, said
petitioner will ask an order for the partition
of said premises.
MICHAEL BOUGHNER,
BY Hunter l. Aunter, his att'Ys.
dec7w6.
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Master Commissioners Sale.
5 G. w. Wood
vs.. "a
Tho M. & C. R. r. Go.

DY virtue Of an order OF sale to me directed
ID from the court Of common pleas Of Mon
roe county, Ohio, ! viii offer for sale at the
front door of the court house In the town Of
Woodsheld, on
Saturday, the 9Th day Of February, 1870,
between the hours Of 10 o'clock am. and 4
o'clock p.m.. the following descr ibed real es-
tate situate, to wit:
Icing strip Of land from the lower end to
the upper end Of the farm Of said plaintiff, q
distance of about six hundred rods, and be-
ing the same strip, surveyed and laid of by
said Railroad Company for . road bed and
being seventy-6ve feat in width north Of the
lane at plaintiffs house, and ono hundred
feet in width south Of said lane; all Of said
farm being described as follows: Situate in
the lower end of Captina Bottom, beginning
at the lower end Of the fraction where Joseph
Whetzel now lives; thence up the river and
bounding on the same six hundred and thirty
poles TO stake by the bars; thence running
across the bottom by . straight line to large
beech stump standing on the nerth side Of
State road; thence south sixty-six degrees
west forty poles to the said State road;thence
east eighty degrees west to the back line of
the section across Movey's run; thence with
the section line souih to the original corner
at rock oak and hickory on the top Of the
river hill; thence west with the line of the
quarter section eighty poles to the corner;
thence south one hundred and sixty poles to
the corner; thence east eighty poles to the
line of the fractional sectionthence with line
of same south one hundred and sixty poles
to beech, corner, near small run; thence
east to the place Of beginning; containing siz
hundred and eighty acres more or less; con-
veyed BY Archibald Woods to Washington
Woods March -, ls45, and lying partly II
Monroe county and partly in Belmont county
Ohio.
Appraised at $4,000.
dec2sws. ]. P. sPRIGGs. Mas. Com.
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1.-THE New York Mercantile journal enters
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Notice.

ELIJAn A. CONGER, whose place Of resi-
u dence is unknown, but without the State
OF Ohio, will take notice that Eliel Headley.
Of Monroe county. Ohio, did on the 9Th day
Of December, A. d. ! s6s. ile his petition in
the court Of common plsaA Of Monroe coun-
I Ohio, against him and Stephen Panooast.
praying 3 Judgment against him for S97 80.
v th interest on $50 from February 13, 1851,
and on 81 40 from May 8, 1850, being the
amount due said Headley from him on two
promissory notes executed by him; that an
order Of attachment has been obtained in
sad action; that he is required to appear and
answer on the 26th day Of February, A. D.
1870. ELIEL HEADLEY,
dec2lw6. by Hunter & Huntsr, his att'ys