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The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1870-08-19

Almost every person who uses q
harness has been moro or less annoy
ed by having them injured by rats.
We Give o few hints as to how this
NAV be. avoided, though every one
knows or affects to know, what is best.
The receipts here given are collected
from different sources:
Take about a teaspoonful of cayenne
peppcr. mix it thoroughly with a
Quart CT oil, and rub the harness with
Inc mixture. This, il is claimed, will
not only keep rats and mice from
gnawing the harness, but it will also
prevent horses and colts from chew
ing the lines or halters.
Take two quarts of green lccks,
pour over them one gallon of oil. and
let it stand few days before using
the longer it stands the better.
A little benzine rubbed oSer the
harness after it has been oiled is said
to be sure preventive, but it is not
recommended by many, on account OF
the idea that it injnrcs the leather.
Once ounce Of alOes TO ono gallon
of oil will prevent rats from Destroy
ing the harness.
1t is also claimed that by mixing a
small quantity, say teaspoonful, OF
pine tar to one quart of oil, harness
will be most effectually protected
from any injury but if too much is
put on the leather will not absorb it.
1t will collect dirt, besides making
the harness unpleasant to handlc.-
Harness and Carriage Journal.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1870-08-19

For some weeks, pfst the mill aFy
authorities at Point Frederick, King
s's sRs Tsssnis
have been busy preparing Inventories
of all the Wunitions Of war which they
contained sfhe sefyiceable' portions,
after being. passed by q board Of sur
ycv. hayeTbccn, or are still being, re-
shipped 10 England. The remainder,
however, especially the ordnance shot
and shefi, amounting To nearly 1000
s Contrib ttssl tEat| s g5s 9 %s 'as
The removal of stores cannot be COM
ipleted before October. The control
officers had instructions to fulfill it
next month. Within the last mont,
or six weeks shipments, 10 Qpetlec
and England have been extraordinary
large, Over five hundred tons OF
yahPdwtlcr liavc beeacarted FROM the
magazine at Fort Henry 10 her Ma
jcsty's dock-yard, and there put on
board vessels in sufficient Quantities
at tine to have caused fearful de-
struction had any of the usual, precfu-
lions been relaxed and the powderby
any accident exploded. 1t is stated
that mounted and spare gum, together
with adequate supplies of amnnifon,
will remain here, to be turned over
shortly with the bal racks and fortifi-
cations to the government Of Canada.
The object of Sir George E. Carriers
recent visit was, officially, as Minister
of Militia, to inspect this property Pc
fore it was turned over,
It is stipulated by the imperial au-
thorities, as a condition for turning
ever the fort and lis supplies, that q
garrison of 200 men shall be at king-
ston.. This shall, have to be drawn
from the militiasof Canada, and we
already sec a partial provision made
for its establishment in the organizing
here of two companies in connecNoil
with The Red River battalhOns.
The Gazette takes the earliest, OPP
portunity to protest against any at
tempt to establish standing army
tor Canada at the cost Of thes Do
minion.-B British 1Hhig.R .iss-ssf
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1870-08-19
Petroleum as Paint.

The New York L'reatng Post says:
"Crude petroleum is not only use
full for painting buildings, but it Is the
best preseryatiye for all manner OF
farm implements, wood or iron. AS
soon as it becomes dry, any tool MY
be handled without the least annoy
ance. For printing when other paint
is to be used, petroleum Is not oniy
the cheapest, but the best maternal 10
be found. We have between three
and four hundred garden sashes IN
use. A portion of these were paint
ed two wears ago with Princes min
eraI paint and linseed oil. This is
now SO nearly gone that 1t mas pcen
necessary to oil The sashes to keep
them from decaying. The others
were oiled with petroleum when new;
and afterwards received one coat OF
Il G same paint, which seems now as
fresh and solid as when it was iirst
put on. The oil costs from twenty
five cents to thirty cents per gallon,
and the oaly precaution necessary IN
its nsc is to have no fire about 1t un-
til it has been spread for few hours,
long enough for the most volatile ana
inlamable parts to have evaporated'
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ecent experiment, carefully con-
How to Get Big Crops.

As rule farmers are much more
ambitious to get big prices, than big
crops. There are few farms whose
average production could not be
doubled in very shoit time by more
capital and labor. 1t is safer to use
capital in farming than in almost any
o,her business. The credit of the pillow
is quite as good as that of the loom
and anvil: and the capital will come,
if it is called for. Use more manure.
and get thirty bushels of wheat where
you now get fifteen, and eighty BUSH
els cf corn where you now get forty.
The quantity of grain per acre is
mainly question of manure and till
lagc. A big compost heap makes a
full grain bin. With high Inanuring
the soil needs deeper stirring and a
gradual bringing up of the subsoil to
the surface. With the present horse
harrows and cultiyatOrs, nearly all
the cultivation can be done by horse
power, at great saving expense and
great increase Of the crops.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1870-08-19

-, Tx LII IL 20 .
following - preventive ,of horses
being leased BY flies g Tale tuo or
three small handsful Of walnut lesYes,
upon which pour two or three quarts
oflcoh Wster !; let It inflse on ni9ht
and pour the whole next incoming into
= kettle, and let it boil for . quarter
Of an hour. When cold II Hiil be fit
for use. d No moro is requilpd than 70
moisten . sponge. and before the horse
goes out of the stable, let those parts
which are most irritable be smeared
over with the liquid, viz: between
and upon the ears, the neck, the flank,
etc. Not only the gentleman or lady
who rides out for pleasure will derive
pleasure from the walnut leaves thus
prepared, but the coachnlan, the wag-
oner and all others who use horses
during the hot months" ami
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HUMORS OF THE DAY.
. 1t is objected. to a morning paper
that il iftO0-cent-ati0nal.

l. IL - ODJcClSQz W ~ luOiulDS pulICl
that II il Unconstitutional. =.
The sweetest of strains-trying to
lift pretty girl on horse.
Advice to surgeons keep your
temper or you'll lose your, patients.
Before a man enters the state of
matrimony he should ring the belle.
A Rondout grocer notifies the pub
lie that he has 'Knew Syder for Sail"
Colorado paper plaintively pleads,
"Gosh dang it, send US more girls"
The principal occupation of the
"girl of the PERIOD is said to be to
sic at the window and watch for the
"coming man."
Railways are aristoratic. They
teach every man to know his own sta
ton, and stop there. th1
A sharp young fellow says, 'if time
is money!" he is willing 10 exchange a
little of his for cash. lg8 a
"Pete," said a mother 10 her son,
care you into them swectmcats again 2"
"No ma'ahi, them swcetmeats is into
me-"
I A.colored boy undertook to wash
windows i'm the third story of hotel
and fell out. Another undertaken fin
ishcd the job.
"A paper is to bc established at Du-
rant, Miss, called the eye Of the South.
We are not informed whether it is to
be black eye.
A Western editor consoled a man
who had complained that justice had
not bcen done him, by the remark that
it was very lucky for him.
clam astonished at your sentiments,
my dear young lady, you make me
start"
"Well, sir, / have been waiting you
to start for the last half an hour"
II is said that, take two letters from
money there will be one left; but a
Southern editor heard of man who
took money from two letters and
there was none left.
At Ottumwa, Iowa, a nice young
man put sheet around him to scare
a Dutchman. Some one asked the
young man afterwards what allied his
black eye, and he said he had received
bad news from Germany.
How heavy you walk I" exclaimed
Mrs. Wackwack, ON hearing her hus-
band tumbling up stairs the other
night. well, my DEAR" was the
gruf response, "if you can get a bar
rel of whisky up stairs with any less
noise. should like to see you do it,
A fellow on the race-course was
staggering about with more LIQUOR
than he could carry. "Hallo, what is
the matter now ?" said chap, whom
the inebriated individual had Just run
against. "Why-hic-why, the fact
is lot of my friends have been betting
liquor on the race to-day and they
have got me to hold the stakes"
A bright little fellow was travelling
in crowded stage coach, and had
been taken on the lap of fellow
passenger. The conversation turned
on pickpockets and their great skin.
All, my fine fellow" said the gentle
man who had the little boy on his knee.
"how easily l could pick your mock
ct" as it lay open near his hand. mo
you couldn't, neither answered the
boy, with a sharp twinkling in his eye,
s'causc I've been looking cut for you
all the way
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The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1870-08-19
Mrs. Winslow's soothing Syrup.

We find the following in the CdlJor-
MIA Medical Gazette, from cOrrespOn-
dent: as'fe
"Some weeks since was called to an
infant of six months old, who was in q
dying condition, apparently from the
effects of a narcotic poison. 1t had
taken no medicine except this syrup,
of which it had taken, within ten
hours, two doses of ABOUT one teaspoon
full each. had the syrup from which
these doses were gwen, analysed by a
skillful chemist. There were ten
draclms of soothing syrup in the vial,
and it yielded of morphia and other
opium alkaloids, 14-1OO grains, very
nearly one grain to the ounce Of syrup.
"This result astonished me. The
printed directions for administering the
medicine are as follows: for child un-
der one month old, six to ten drops;
three months old, half q teaspoonful
three to four times day until free from
pain. In dysentery repeat the above
dose every two hours, until the charac-
ter of the discharge is changed for the
better. Here we have a dose of Nor
phiue equal to ten drops of laudanum,
given to child of three months every
two hours, and double the quantity to
a child of six months old.
"I have always discOuntenaneed the
use of this preparation, as did not
know its composition, and supposed it
was some anodyne; but / had no idea
of its deadly strength. 1t is a familiar
fact that children are very susceptible
to the influence of opium, and four
drops of laudanum have been known
to kill an infant of nine months. /
think it important that this analysis
should be published, that the profess
sion, and through it the public, may
be warned of the fearful effects Of adj
this dangerous popular
nostrum. The quantity used in the
is enormous; doubtless it
has killed hundreds of children, and
would kill thousand, were it not by be
ginning in very small doses and grad
ually increasing, a tolerance of the i'm.
poisonous effects Is induced,
the miserable little victims of
domestic dIugging are reduced to puny
and cachetic creatures, that are carried |
off by the first disease that takes hold !
Of them.
81 have ascertain3d there are about
100, 900 two ounce bottles of it sold an
nualiy in this city, making 200, 900 oun-
ces of Mrs. Wins1ow's soothing syrup,
$50, 600 grains of morphine,
which are given annually to the babies
of this state. No wonder that one
third of them die before they reach the
age of two years"
Joseph Harris, in the American
Agricultural, says il is nonsense to
talk about improved breeds of ami
mails requiring very little food. When
they have gained their growth, they
may require less food than restless
the improved breed general
Iy being gentle and quiet.
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Vast Armies OF the Insects Deyastate
Nevada.

A Virginia City paper says 1.-THE
State has been invaded by crickets
Vast armies of them have entered the
,eastern:portion of the State. A week
ago the advanced guard of the devasta-
ting horde poured down upon Elko,
and as they swept past with their ST.
lent tramp, the people stood appalled,
at their numbers. The ElkO LndepeR-
dent does not trace their course east
ward, but they evidently come from
Utah, the home of the cricket, grass
hopper and polygamous Mormon, and
are endeavOring to cut or eat their way
through to the green valleys of the
Truckee.-They are destructive OIL veg
citation, and their advance should be
stopped by some means. AS the mala-
rious marshes of the Ganges seem to
he the home of the cholera, so does
Utah appear to he the birthplace of the
cricket and grasshopper plaques of the
Great Basin.
For the past eight or ten years, if not
longer, that Territory has been sorely
afflicted with grasshoppers, and It has
sometimes seemed that the saints
would be compelled to yield their fields
and pastures to these innumerable and
remOrseless destroyers. The cricket
pest, however, has been less severe,
and from the habits of this insect, we
do not apprehend that the present in
vasion will prove very destructive.
They sometimes appear in prodigious
numbers, but they travel slowly, and
their advance il easily stopped. In
1850, for distance of twenty or twen-
ty-five miles, in Utah, the whole face
of the country was so densely covered
with crickets--large, fat, clumsey,
wingless fellows-that the wheels of
the emigrant's wagon became Almost
clogged with the crushed carcasses of
these insects. As their course could
easily be traced, it was manifest that
they had not Travelled far, and winter
probably overlook them before they
swep. over q very wide scope of the
country. They advance steadily how
ever, and multiply a hundred and fifty
fold each year.-Hence crickets, now
that they have entered the State, may
be expected for some years to come"
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A Sick Seamstress Interferes with ,
Visit to Saratoga. ~

On Saturday last a wealthy and
fashionable young lady living on
Fifty-third street was completing her
preparations to leave for Saratoga on
the following Monday. With such a
prospect in view, like most other
Young ladies of her kind, she was hard
at work adjusting the twenty-odd
new dresses necessary for such an ex-
cursion, and spent the morning hur-
rying up the tired fingers OF the poor
girls who were engaged in making or
altering them. fsi-'i.l F.fB
Nearly all her. wardrobe was in a
condition to pack by noon, when she
discovered that an elegant silk dress,
with lace trimmings, had not arrived
from the young woman to whom Its
completion had been entrusted. So a
messenger was dispatched to the dull,
gloomy attic in West Tenth street,
where Katc Burns, the seamstrcss, re-
sided. The messenger found Mrs.
Burns, who has. scarcely recovered
from The shock of her husbands sud
den death, in a high fever. Her eight
year old daughter was waiting on her
with marvellous skill and tenderness,
pumping ny the water, which could
not otherwise be eoaXed up to the fifth
floor Oh which they lived, and salts
flying the sick woman'S wants, as she
lay, for GOODNESS, on mattresses in the
fife-cscapc, with tcnderly precOci-
Gus intelligence The messenger re-
turned, only to be sent back to the IN
valid with an announcement that "the
dress must be flushed" The poor,
burning creature, with a separate
ache in each of her bones, climbed out
of her refuge in the fire-escape, and
set to work on the hateful mass Of 6D|
and lace, with the furious
cial energy of fever.
BY the affectiohate he'll
Ting, but anxious
she finished II
and the
= ~
simpf]
~ buil
stress
under
plet,d
,,,o,,, foohIo~ yIUfrfocf n
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1870-08-19

Made of Poor Rum. WhiGkey, Proof Spir-
its, and Refuse Liquors. docsored, speed,
axpystissss, Ressossrs. &C.. that Lad ths
tippler GA todrunkenneesand ruin, but are ntrue
Medicine, made from the Native Roots and
Herbs Of California, ftee ron ~ Alconolio
sti%g1sntS; IT, !ns yr .ss sss 4vIMG fRfH
CIPLU, . perfect 10ovator and 1nyigprator
81 The system, carrying % an poisoncus matter,
and restoring the blood to healthy condition.
No person can take thcss Htte.ss according 70
400 VIII b given for sn incursbls eascs pro-
no;soSs or other means, snd u vital organs
wasted beyond NE point Of rePssE:
For Inaanmssozy - SntSnao 1eS1.
n %:si. S iRS SSo snd s I as
miffenf Tev0rS, Diseese0 Of the Blood,
Liver, Kidneys, and Maddsr, thess Bit.
tefs have been nest s1ssssseni. ugh ~.
1; $500 ::sss.s aiS Ssos.osa y dss.sSs q q
DSSsSSiVS 6T9nn6.
~ inveossss - stomach, snd stinalats
the torpid liver and bowels, which reader them
ali impuFities, md inpsrtisg NV 1ifs and visor;
6vsu00ois O. INDIGESTION, Headache
Pain IN The ehoulders, Cg1ghA Tighfnes Of the
Chest, Dizziness, Sour 6tonaeh, Bad Taste IN
H ne Cscious DissEssSes q trins, fsia IN,
IL rse;ons q de Kidneys, and . handssd esbegi
painful symptoms which ere the oGsprings 81
byspepsia, are cured By these Bitters.
its impurities bunting through the skin In Pim-l
ules, Eruptions, or Sores; cleanse It. when e 10
FOUL and your feelings viii tell you when. Keep
the blood pure and the health II the systsu VIII
pm, TAPE, and other WORMS lurking IN
the system Of % many thousands, are ensctual1y
DESTROYED and removed.
For tan directious, rad eazef1lly ths circniar
around seeh bottles printed tn 1ouR l.nguasss-.
J. WxIKKR, 81 9 y Coamsice eszsss, N. 2
Proprietoc. B: q. HeD9rf41k Coz =
- =. q; i;;; 8; z
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COUGH NO MORE

Warmers Cough Balsam Is healing. sof.en-
ing and expectorating. The extrnoriinarv
pvwer they possess In relieving, and eventn-
coughs, Gods, Sore Throat. BrouchifiS- In
nuenxa, Catarrh, Horseness, Asthma and
Consumption, IS almost fucresiibIe. So
prompt u the relief and certain its efiects I'M
~ tnc ABOVE cases, or any affection OF the
throat and lungs, that thousands Of physi-
clans are daily prescribing Il, and one anal Ali
~ That II Is the most healing and expecio o.
Isun9 medlcine known. One dose AWAY 4
iects cure. Sold by X. L. Moore. Druggist]
10 lArye bottles. Price oaa dollar. is you1
ywn iaun ~ you still cough and suffer. Tha
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1870-08-19

The Vermont Record and Farmer
is decidedly in favor of early shcaring
of Mcrino sheep. 1t thinks sheep
that have been shorn three weeks en-
durc ordinary spring rains as well as
those that wear their fecces, and of
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1870-08-19

Soper cent profit, s0o Per month guaran-
teed. Merchants, Mechanics and Farmers
secers your territory while It may be had
nee Of charge This is something needed In
every family. Dontcry humbug, bat come
and investigate, or send for descriptive circu-
lar and agents price list. Address w. d.
KxovLns. New Albany, 1nd.
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EMMENAGOGUE.

Warmers Emmenagogue n tho only art 4
cio Known 70 cure the W hitcs, Ut wiH cure 4
every case.) Where Is the family In whicl
this important medicine Is not. wanted
Aothers, this Is the gredtest blessing ever "a
fereta 70 you, and you shouId imffsedirteI]
RI0euLe ~. ~ Is also q sure cure for FemaII
lrregularftiesr and may be depended on n
every case Where the monthly How has bee}
00structcd through cold o. disease Sold b}
Z. Z. MOORE, Druggist, Main 81, Gaiiatir2
Tenn. Price one dollar, or sent by mail ID
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Fattcning Hogs.

Since SO many of our readers have
recently engaged in raising improved
breeds of hogs, the following suggcs-
tons from the Hearth and Home may
be interesting:
BEST AGE FOR FATTENING.
Whatever may be said of other Sec
tions of our country, spring pigs are
tie best for New England. They
should be Uttered about the first of
March, taken from the mother the
last week in April, when the early
calves arc sold, and the milk from the
cows Is beginning to be plenty, If
the supply from the dairy is sufficient
they will need little or no meal until
nlamilk begins to shrink i'll August,
Akhen fattening should at once
wee, and be continued till the
November, or the first of De-
lien, if the pigs are thrifty
he farmer has done his best
summer, litter of six or
TO average at least three
ounds. Wintered hogs
4h at the same time from
hundred pounds more, but
,.al weight would be at the
tant care during the win
ain continually fed from
B May, both making the
pork per pound from two
5 higher than if made from
l pigs.
(ecent experiment, carefully con-
Quoted, made the cost of litter OF
four hogs, killed at thirteen months
old, when compared with litter of
pigs killed at nine months, as thirteen
IN fem
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DYSPEPSIA.

werners Dyspepsia Tonic n prepared ex
PLessiy ior Dyspeptics, and those sufferip.,
WIN nabiiuai costiyeness. 1t IL n slight =
:. sstnaialng tonic and a splendid appefizar
~ ssIengthens the stomach and Restores tb,.
nervous and dyspepiic persons shoul,i M.
y s5ners Dyspepsia Tonic. For sale by RI
e. Moore. Price one dollar ~ ~
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1870-08-19

Mems lives should be like the day,
mora beautiful in the evenig; or, Ike
the summer, aglow with promise; ana
like the autumn, rich with the golden
sheaves, where the good works and deeds
have ripened on the field.