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The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1871-02-10
JIM BLUDsO,
toR TEE PRAIRIE BELLE,


Wall, no can't ten whar be lives.
Because he don't live, you see:
Leastways, he's got out Of the habit
OF hy1n' Ike you and me.
Hhar have you been for the last three year
That you haven't heard folks tell
How Jimmy Blndso passed In his checks,
The night of the Prairie Belle?
He ws7e MT no saint-them engineers
Is al pretty much alike
One wife in Natchez-under-the-Hn
And another one hsre, in Pike.
A keerless man in his talk was Jim
And an awkward man in q row.
But he never funked, and ne never lied.
reckon he never knowed how
And this was all the religion be had
To treat his engine well;
Never be passed on the river;
To mind the Pilots bell :
And If ever the Prairie Belle took fire
A thousand times he swore,
He'd hold her nozzle agin the bank
TIL the last soul got ashore.
An boats has their day on the Mississip,
And her day came at last
The Movaster was better boat
But tho Belle she trOuldni be passed.
And SO she come tearin along that night
The oldest craft ON the line,
With niger squat on her safety valve
And her furnace crammed. resin and pine.
The fire bust out as abe clared the bar.
And burnt a hole in the night,
And quick as fash she turned, and made
For that willer-bank on the right.
There was running and cursing but Jim yelled out
Over al the internal roar
:" III hold her nozzle agin the bank
III L &c last galoot's ashore.n
Through the hot, black breath of the burufn, boa;
Jim Bludsos voice was heard,
And they all had trust In his cussedness,
And knowed he would keep his word
And, sure s you re born, they all got OF
Aore the smokestacks fell
And Bludso's ghost went up alone
In the smoke of the Prairie Belle
he were MT no ssint-but at jedguent
I'd run my chance with jim
Iongside Of some pious gentlemen
That wouldn't shook hands with him.
He seen his duty, dead sure thing
And went for ii thar and then:
And Christ aint goin' to be too hard
On man that died for men.
IN. 7. Tribwns.
The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1871-02-10
THE STREET ARAB.
BY GEO. L oATLIS.

BY GEO. L CAT1IN~
Well, YES suppose I'm loafer-
A man, cir,
As somehow is used to get "no - fer
An answer.
And yet. 'twould a. seemed kind O. funny
My good sir,
If you'd a. refused me the money.
II would, sir. -,,-
It's only dime: mighty Httle
You see, s1-
Scarce enough for to buy cold wittel
For me- air.
Yet stil you've a look Of compassion.
Thiscity
Is fuller Of money and fashion
Than pity.
I'm hunted aud cursed at and kicked
No wonder
I'm hard u3 and lazy and wicked,
By thunder
J happened 10 hear Parson Beecher
One Sunday,
A long while ago, and the preacher
Said ono day
III come when there1l be big rechonin,-
say, sir,
Down yonder's my pal he's oeckonin';
Good day, sir.
". Y. CiiizsH and Round Tabtc.
The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1871-02-10

The following description Of the
manner in which the Chinese make
dwarf trees is an intimation of their
painstaking In horticulture "Wehwe
known from childhood how the Chinese
cramp their women's feet, and so man
age to make them keepers at home;'
but how they contrive to grow minia-
ture pines and oaks in hower-pots for
half century has always been much of
q secret. 1t is the product chiefly OF
skillful, long continued root pruning.
They begin at the beginning. Taking
a young plant (say seeding or cut
ting of cedar when only two or three
inches high, they cut off its tap-root as
soon as it has other roOtlets enough to
live upon, and replant in q shallow pot
or pan. The end of the tap-root is gen
orally made to rest upon the bottom OF
the pan, or on a fiat stone within it.
AIluvial clay is then put into the pot,
much of it in bits the size of beans, and
Just enough in kind and quantity to
furnish a scanty nourishment to the
plant. Water enough is given to keep
it In growth, but not enough IS given
to excite vigorous habit. So likewise
in the application of light and heat.
Then, too, the top and roots,
being within easy reach of the
gardener, are shortened by his
pruning-knife, or scared with his hot
iron. So the little tree, finding itself
headed on every side, gives up the ides
of strong growth. asking only for life,
and Just growth enough to live and look
well. Accordingly, each new set Of
leaves becomes more and more stunted,
the buds and rootlets are diminished IL
proportion, and at length balance if
established between every part of the
tree, making it a dwarf in all respects,
In some kinds of trees this end is reach
ed in three or four years; in others ter
or fifteen years are necessary"
The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1871-02-10
RARM, GARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD.

The Essex Banner asserts that small
quantities of sunhower seed, mixed
with the food of horse, will impart a
fine gloss to his hair, while it is also a
cure for founder if given Immediately
after the ailment is discovered. In the
latter case about a pint of the seed
should be mingled with the oats or
chopped feed, when a cure will be eff
fected.
The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1871-02-10

SHoRT-HoRN cattle are valuable for
their remarkable aptitude to fatten,
the perfection of their form and the
smallness of their bony structure Civ
ing them advantages over all others as
beef cattle. No animal of any other
breed can SO rapidly transform the
stock of any section around him as
these of the improved short thorn spe-
cies. One of the characteristics of this
breed is also their remarkable docility,
and theirindisposition to break through
confinement.
The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1871-02-10
The Cause of Rust in wheat.

The Germantown Telegraph says that
it is getting to be pretty general
opinion among farmers that tie sowing
of grass-seed-clover or timothy-with
the wheat In the fall, as has been COM
mon in nearly every wheat growing dis
trict here, as well as north and east of
us, is the cause of the rust on wheat,
by reason of the moisture which the
grass retains affecting the grain stalks
when maturing. These grass seeds,
sown after the wheat crop has been
harvested, will produce, it is claimed,
as good crops the following year as if
sown at the time of the wheat, nine
months previously. We should like to
hear from our farmers on this subject,
as there is apparently two sides to it,
and especially as it is one of decided
Importance.
The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1871-02-10
Summary Of Late News.

II appears from official data, that
$50, 100, T61 have been refunded to
different States for expenses incurred
in raising volunteers, from 1861 to 1871 /;
amount still due, 81, 785, 912.
The steamer Utility was burned and
then scuttled and sunk at her wharf In
Providence, r. l., on the 2Sth. Loss
$25, 900.
The Pittsburg Opera House, Just
completed, at a cost Of S165, 600, seating
twenty-one hundred persons, Will be
opened Monday night by fletcher.
TIM winter wheat in Central Illinois
is represented as being in excellent
condition. The great depth of snow
has served to protect the growth of the
warm fall.
REPoRTs from Saskatchewan say that
the small pox is raging fearfully in that
region.
The British bark Kate Smith, Capt.
VIM. Hamilton, of Yarmouth, N H.,
from Lees, on the passage from Spain
for New York, went ashore Wednesday
night near Little Egg Harbor, n. j.,
seventy miles from New York, and
eight of those on board, including the
captain, FIVE seamen, the steward and
wife, and Joseph Hussey, pilot of boat
No. z, were lost. The mate,
Caleb Mcdonald, and two seamen were
the only survivors of the wreck. Capt.
Hamilton leaves a wife and three child
rem, and Pilot Hussey a wife and four
children in Brooklyn. The Kate Smith
was of 404 tons register, and had a car
go'of 500 tons of lead consigned to a
house In New York.
TIE steamer W. r. Arthur exploded
her boiler fourteen miles above Mem
phis on Saturday morning, and then
teok fire, burned to the waters edge
and sunk Seventy or eighty lives were
lost.
The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1871-02-10

PLACE a bone in the earth near the
root of the grape, and the vine viii send
out leading root to the bone. In its
passage it Will throw out no fibres-but
when it reaches the bone, the root will
entirely cover it with the most delicate
fibres, like lace, each one seeking a
pore of the bone. On this bone the
vine will continue to feed as long as
nutriment remains to be extracted.
The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1871-02-10
ENGLISH papers complain of the de-

ENGLISH papers complain of the de-
cav of the British Bar. The Law
Times remarks: "What was once an
honorable profession for gentlemen,
will become walk in life for the ignor-
ant and the vulgar, who will conde-
scend to stoop to the level of the busi-
ness. This appliesmore particularly to
criminal business. Apart from these
considerations, the economy of the
Treasury must be regarded as utterly
false, and it must impede the proper
and dignifed administration of justice.
The best men will not accept the one
guinea fees, which are now to bs Of
cred"
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The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1871-02-10
Pre,ervation OF Beet Leave. for Fodder

Preservation OF Beet Leaves for Fodder.
1t is well known that in France the
beet is cultivated on a large scale,
mainly for the preparation of beet SUI
gar, and that the leaves are used; very
largely for food for cattle. A difficulty
has hitherto existed in reference to this
latter application, on account Of the
readiness with which the leaves become
decomposed and the impossibility OF
keeping them fresh for any considera-
BILE length of time. We are now in
formed that this has been overcome by
NJ. Mehay, who subjects the leaves to
the action of dilute hydrochloric acid,
by means of which, after undergoing a
special treatment, they can be stacked
away in large quantities and kept in
definitely for future use. The applca-
ton of the acid employed, so far from
injuring these leaves as food, seems to
impart to them special alimentary pc
culiarlties, seen in the production of
an improved quality of butter. Sever
al veterinary surgeons have certified, as
the result Of critical examination OF
the experiments, that the food gave
rise to no disturbance of the digestive
system, and that in every respect the
new preparation was to be considered
a success.
The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1871-02-10
FOREIGN.

BISMARCK denies that ne has ever en-
gagged in any intrigues for the restora-
tion Of the Bonapartes.
The smallpox has become epidemic
in London. The rapid increase of NOR
tality causes alarm The deaths from
the disease, which in the first week in
January were 79, in the third increased
To 13Q
The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1871-02-10

Some fifteen years ago a steamboat
loaded with 500 barrels of whisky and
500 barrels of highwines was sunk in
the Mississippi river, near Parkville,
Mo. The wreck was recently found,
buried some fifteen feet in the sand,
and it is said that there Is but little
doubt that the cargo can be got at.
Parties operating have secured the title
to the property, so that in the event of
success they will realize a handsome
sum.
THERE is reason to believe that some
of the prevailing blonde chignons are
made of,light fantastic tow.
The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1871-02-10
A Big Tree.

A section of the "Origlnal Big Tree
of Calaveras county, California, recent
ly arrived in Boston. The tree from
which this section is taken was cut in
1853; five men worked twenty-five days
in telling it. The stump smoothed of
now easily accommodates thirty-two
dancers. This tree, when standing,
was three hundred and two feet high
(nearly hundred feet higher than Bun
ker Hill monument). From a section
forty feet long a hotel was con-
structed. A saloon and double bowl
ing alley, more than eighty feet long,
are built upon portion of the PROSTATE
trunk. The bark was from fifteen
inches to two feet in thickness, and
section was brought to New York for
the Crystal Palace. Aportion was also
sent to the Crystal Palace, England, at
the time of the worlds exhibition. The
estimated age of the tree was about
twenty-five hundred years. The weight
of this section, at thirty feet from the
ground, is eight thousand pounds, its
diameter nearly sixteen feet, and cir
conference forty-six feet. 1t is the
only section of the solid wood of the
tree ever brought from California.
EXETER CATHEDRAI.-The long-talk-
ed-of restoration of Exeter Cathedral is
at last about to be begun. At a meet
ing of the subscribers to the Restora-
ton Fund, held lately, the dean in the
chair, Mr.. Scott, representing Mr.. Gil
bert Scott, who has not yet recovered
from his late illness, explained theplan
of restoration, and the dean showed
that the sum required for the restora-
ton was e15,000. Towards this one
member of the chapter alone had given
e5, 900, and yet, the dean remarked,
e3, 800 was all that the nobility and
gentry of Devon and Cornwall were
pleased to give them, and of that sum
g, 600 was subscribed by four individ-
uals. 910,6S had been provided by
the chapter. Mr.. Scott stated that
throughout the preparation of the de-
sign the architects (Mr. Gilbert and his
SOM great principle and standing point
had been one and the same, namely,
that no ancient feature should be oblit-
Grated or interfered with, all endeavors
being directed <fovards their careful
preservation SD beter display. y
The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1871-02-10
Condition of the Minnesota Indians.

Major Samuel N. Clark, agent for
several of the Indian reservations of
Minnesota, in q privateletter to General
Eaton, Commissioner of Education,
gives the particulars of his trip to one
of the Chippewa reservations. He
says:
No agent has ever visited them be-
fore, and they were well-nigh discour-
aged. Their treaty was made five years
ago. Eight hundred dollars year has
been appropriated for farming. Not a
foot of land has been cleared, no seed
provided, no tools furnished. A farm
er once went up there, stayed day
or two on the reservation,
came part way back, and
hired to run a sawmilI Another farm
er was employed for one or two years
Who has never been within one hundred
and fifty miles of the reservation. In
relation to the educational facilities en-
joyed by these Indians, he says: GA
school house was erected about three
years ago, and since the treaty $500 a
year has been appropriated to sustain
the school. School was taught there
about ten days last summer. found
tine school house with every window
missing, part of the floor ripped up and
gone, the roof broken by falling tree ;
the benches, if there ever were any,
carrid away. Nothing left but bare
walls. A teacher, appointed last fall, ]
found keeping trading post forty
miles from the reservation. He had no
books, and can scarcely speak English.
CHAPPED HANDS, face, rough skin
pinples, ringworm, salt-rheum, and
other cutaneous affections, cured, and
ghe skin made soft and smooth, by using
the JUNIPER TAR SOAP, made by Cas-
WELL, HAZARD & Co., New York. 1t il
more convenient and easily applied thar
other remedies, avoiding the trouble o.
the greasy compounds now in use.
A HelsE and~lot in E1faula, 4 la.,
Z. which Eas bought feV months agC
J for $500, has jut beer. sod for 80.
The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1871-02-10

A He<sE and~lot in Epfaula, ia,
which Fas bought a feT months ago
for ss,Q0 has iust been sod for ~
The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1871-09-15
LIFE IN A TOMB.

,,,-e...--. II r.-,az 7. Anderson. Of
- = Ts--;-7r Head on Dead
5151-Vvrifirg and Learning 70
Paint with his MouIh'
In Iowa resides James I. Ander-
con sre5 twenty six. Three years
600 be died from his neck down
ySsrd His head, however, is alive,
and more vigorous than before the
bodv which it once governed ceased
to be vital. At the age of two
James iather died, and his mother
married again. At the age of three
he was tossed several times by an
angry COW. Shortly afterward, when
he was eating bread and milk, rat
tlesnake Joined him, and when they
had finished his snakeship made his
bow and retired. At five years a
horse ran away with him and made
for a barn. across the entrance of
which was a bar, and his mother
seized him Just in time to save his
life. He grew up active and strong.
and was fond Of sports. He became
a good gymnast.
James, at the time of the accident
which left him with a dead body and
living head, WAS a fine, handsome
Young man. He weighed two hun
dred pounds,and there was not a sur
plus once of flesh on his body.
One afternoon, when on visit to
an uncle at Glenwood, Iowa, he was
exercising on a pole placed from one
tree to another in the backyard. He
had on a pair Of CATERS tipped with
patent leather. He swung down by
his feet; the leather slipped, and he
fell. He struck his neck just where
it inins the shoulders. He was be-
wildered, but perfectly conscious.
His body felt as though it was mash
ed to q ieIIev. He experienced a
horrible tingling; and when the doc
tor came he told him not 30 touch
him. as his body was broken to
pieces. His neck was broken; infa-
nation set in, and all thought that
his end had come. To the surprise
Of all, in few days he began to
mend. He was shortly afterwards
removed to his stepfathers house,
where he still resides.
Time hung heavily on his hands,
and he resolved to learn to write
with his mouth. He accomplished
this, and in letter to J. K. Noting
he says hs soon wrote a tolerable
good mouth. He is now trying to
paint, and hopes by this means to
earn something for his support. He
has been, and still is, tenderly cared
for by his sister, herself a cripple,
and speaks in the highest terms of
his step-father, who, though poor
man, has shown him every possible
tenderness.
His worst enemies are the hys that
buzz around his face. He holds a
leafy twig in his mouth, however,
and manages to twirl il about in a
wonderful way and drive off his tor
mentors. This case is without a par
allel, except that of John Car ter, Of
England, who was injured in siml-
lar way, and who became a famous
painter.
The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1871-09-15

1t is related of an old citizen oi
Posey county, Indiana, that he will
attend church and listen to the
sermon, and that night lie will re
peat the sermon in his sleep, ,Uerbati8
ct Iiteratunl. He has been known tc
listen to lectures on scientific sub
jects that he knew no more about
that hog, and would repeat the
lecture in his sleep. So with public
speeches. He is an illiterate man.
using the most commonplace Ian.
guage, yet, when under the influence
Of sleep, uses the most chaste Ian
guage.
The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1871-09-15
About Bees.

Bees become weak from several
causes.
1. fit be bad honey season,
colonies dwindle from the fact that
when no honey Is being gathered, the
queen ceases to lay eggs, and the
natural mortality among the bees re
duces their numbers rapidly. Feed
ing will remedy this.
2. A queen become too old to lay
enough eggs to keep up the strength
Of the colony. The remedy IS 10 ~
furnish young queen and oeS'ioS
the old one. -
3. Colonies. from many causes 1e-
come oueenless. Remedy-glVe the
| bees a oueen or the means to rear
one. - e,r4il
;zed and produces nothing bat
5ro1es tLT Substitute fertile queen
8 If honey Is very abundant, and
the bees have no place to store ii
anywhere else, they will fill up the
eggs and brood cells,even destroying
the eggs and brood in them, anC
leave the queen no place to lay. By
fall we have hive full of honey and
not bees enough to guard it. The
remedy here is to use the mel-ex
tractor, or give more room in the up
per place.
6. If bees be permitted to swarm
more than once, or swarming is late
a colony may fail to recover it
former strength. This may be rem
edied by returning the swarm or b
feeding.
Anything that will reduce th
number of bees below a workin
standard, produces disorganizatio
and places them at the mercy of th
moth. In a majority Of instances th
the bees would all die without th
assistance of the moth in hastenin
It'd. Addtr jR So. Farmer.
The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1871-09-15
Ayers Cathartic Pills,
For ali the purposes Of Laxative
Madicine

PerhapsnOon
cine is so universally
required by every
body as a cathaTtic,
nor was ever any be-
fore so universally
adopted into use, in
every country and
among all classes, as
this mild but efficient
purgative PiIE. The
obvious reason is,
that tits amor relia-
bic and far more eff
The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1871-09-15

The tomato vine, it is stated by the
New York Post, is covered with a
colorless dust dye, undistiIguish-
able to the eye, and only to be rec
ognized by immersion in water, to
which it communicates a dark green
color After picking tomatoes, the
hands, though in contact with the
vines, will appear perfectly clean. If
the hands, however, be washed, the
water, it is stated, will exhibit a de-
cidedly green shade.
The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1871-09-15

An aged woman in North Adams,
Massachusetts, relates that many
years ago, while attending a social
dance, young mechanic asked her
hand for one of the dances. She in
dignantly refused, feeling very much
mortified that he should make such
an offer. Years have passed, aud
she has filled an humble but honora-
ble position in life, while the young
man has been Governor of Massa-
chusetts.
The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1871-09-15
A Son of Aarcn Burr.

A son of Aaron Burr, now an old
man, is living in Piqua, Ohio. His
mother was Miss Catharine-.
at that time (1SOO) a well known
Washington belle, who fell beneath
the Establishments of the Vice Presi-
ident. She was noted for her beau
ty, refinement, and wit, and after her
ruin, fed mysterioUsly to Philadel-
phia- Her sudden disappearance
from the gay capital created a great
deal Of talk; and after that event she
was dead to all the world save her
titled destroyer and her son. The
correspondent of the Miami Demo
crat, who reveals the existence of
this son, says:
''Mr.-- saw his father but twice
once after his acquittal before the
Supreme Court Of the United States
at Richmond, when he was tried for
treason, and the second and the last
time in the latter part of 1885, in
New York. Upon the latter occasion
our citizen was recognized by Burr.
He was then eyed and bowed to the
earth with the great weight Of four
score years and a broken heart.
Disease also racked his frame. Thir-
ty years before his daughter sailed
from Charleston, S c., to meet hira,
but the vessel in which she embark
ed was never heard from, and the
blow nearly crushed Burr's life. Sir
said the old man, though the blood
of Aaron Burr flows through my
veins, despise it. He conspired
againstthe best government on Gods
footstool, and / am the offspring of
a traitor. I tried to redeem my birth
by fighting for my country in the
Florida war, but the odium rankles
in my heart, and little does the gov
ernment suspect it pays a pension to
a son Of Aaron Burr When I asked
him If I might publish his existence.
he said: ''Yes, it will do me no
harm; but for heavens sake point
not out my place ofretirement to the
gaping world. Stigmatlze my father
as you please, but speak kindly, I
pray you, Of my gentle and erring
mother, who is in heaven awaiting
her son. I am on the borders Of
three score and ten,' he continued,
with moistening eyes. II want to
cross the river, where the stain of
ancestry viii not corrode ones fair
name" l have not mentioned the
old mans name. Without his con-
sent it never crosses my lips"
The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1871-09-15

Sleeping Coaches are attached to this train al
Cincinnati and Cleveland, running through to Hor-
ing RoomCoaehes are attached at Clifton tSuspen-
sion Bridgel, running through to New York.