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Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1872-10-11
Restoring Worn.out Land.

Said an old settler, six years ago, "You
have missed it in buying one Of theoldest
worn,out farms in the country; if it is a
dry season, you will not raise your seed
from the land" Says another this sum
mer, "It beats all what crops you raise
off that farm, that others nearly starved
on. How do you do it?"
Brother farmers, will tell you:
1st. In the fall, plow all the land that
you can to a depth of eight or nine inches.
In the spring wait till the ground gets dry
enough TO pulVerize we'll, for it is essen
tial in putting in the crop on fall plowing,
that the ground is in good condition 10
work-then first harrow to break the
crust, and cultivate with a broadcast cul
tivator; then sow. and cultivate again,
then harrow, and, lastly, roll before OF
soon after the corn is up. III you use Q
drill, drill it both ways, using half the
seed each way. BY these means you will
get good seed bed OF three or foul
Inches deep, aud it viii repay the labor
Cd. Save all the manure that you pos
| sibly can, and put it on the land eacl
year, spreading the fine on the top o
| your plowed land, and the coarse, straw
manure plow under.
3D.. Seed down frequently--using Glove
and timothy, equal parts, and not les
than one peck OF seed per acre, Do no
| take but two or at most three crops o
/ grass before you plow il under again. b
these means, in six years, Ihaye brough
up farm entirely run down, so that
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1872-10-11
Natural Decav--protect the System.


The human body "a q machine, and therefore cannot
endure forever, but, like watch or sewing ma
chine It will last much longer II properly regulated
and duly repaired, than II no pains were taken to
keep It In order. The great object Of every one who
desires long and healthy life should be 70 put his
body In condition to resist the lifethreatenng lnnu
ences by which we are all more or less surrounded
and nvigorant or corrective ct present known so
effectively answers this purpose the vtalzing elixir
which, under the unpretendlng name Of Hostetters
Stomach Btters has been for than twenty years
the standard tonic OF America. In crowded cities,
where the atmosphere is contaminated with the elu.
via inseparable from large populations in marshy
regions, where the soRRy soil reeks with miasma on
the praries and In the forests where every fall the
air IL tainted with exhalatons from rettng weeds and
grasses, decomposipg eavesin short In every To-
caty where malaria exists, this powerful vegetable
antldote is urgently needed. Fever and ague, bilious
fevers dysentery, congestion Of the liver jaundice
rheumatism, and all diseases which are generated by
infected air. impure water sudden changes OF tenn
perature, may be averted by strengthening and regu
lating the system in advance with Hoseters Bitters
Autumn always of peril, especially to weak
susceptible organizations. Even the more vigorous
are apt to be in some depressed by the humid
atmosphere, loaded with deleterious gases produced
by vegetable decay. The fall Is period Of the yea
when the renovation and regulation Of the living ma
chine is peculiarly important, and the Bitters shoult
therefore be taken daily at this critical season.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1872-10-11
Who are Esquires!

The present use of the distinction,
Esquire" conveys not the remotest
idea of its origin, or appropriation, in
past ages. The esquire originated in
chivalric times, when the sons of gentle
men, from the age of seven years, were
brought up in the castles OF superior lords
which was an inestimable advantage to
the poorer nobility, who could hardly
otherwise have given their children the ac-
complishments of their station. From
seven to fourteen, these boys were called
pages or Wallets at fourteen, they bore
the name of esquire. They were in
structed in the management of arms, in
the art of horsemanship, in exercises Of
strength and activity, so as TO tlt them for
the tournament and battle, and the milder
glories of chivalrous gallantry. Long
after the decline OF chivalry, The word
esquire was only used in limited sense,
for the sons of peers and knights, or
such as obtained the title by creation, OF
some other legal means. Blackstone de-
fines esquires TO be all who bear office OF
trust under tie crown, and who are styled
esquires by the king in their commissions
and appointments and being once hon
ored by the king with thetitle OF esquire,
they have q right 10 lhat distinction fol
life
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1872-10-11
Preparing Poultry for Market.


Preparing poultry for market Is often
improperly performed, and hence the
great difference in their market value.
This is also one of the reasons why live
fowls are so often sought after. In the
first place the birds must be properly fat
tened, and this being done, II they are
carefully dressed, remunerative prices are
always the result. How to properly dress
and prepare fowls, well-known authority
on this subject says
Before being killed, all fowls should be
tasted for at least fourteen hours. Among
the methods of killing usually had re-
course to, M. Soyer recommends breaking
the neck which is done by taking the
head in the right hand, with the thumb
against the back of IL, selling the neck
with the left, the same arm supporting
the fowl then quick jerk with the right
hand, turning the thumb downward at
the same time, separates the vertebr1--
bui 1t takes rather strong arm to do IL.
Colntrymen and many others attain the
sare object by taking the head in the
right hand, and swinging the fowl round
by I. One swing, properly done, will
dislocate the spine. Another method is
to strike sharp blow on the back of the
neck with stick, But any of these
fering in unskillful hands. It is true
there is no instantaneous" method Of
killing fowl, the tenacity Of life being
very great but the actual operation
should be only momentary and we
strongly advise all inexperienced amateurs
to make sure of the matter by laying the
neck on block and chopping of
the head at ablow. What we have said
as to the tenacity Of life may be illustrat-
ed by saying that even after this capital
operation, the bird, il left to itself, will
struggle violently all over the yard; but
this can, perhaps, hardly be called life in
the true sense, and we may hope there is
little or no conscious pain. The fowl
should OF course be first bandaged, to pre-
vent struggling; and, indeed, this ought
to be done in all cases where the knife is
employed, afterward hanging up by the
feet to bleed freely. When the head is
cut of, the skin should afterward be
drawn neatly over the stump and tied.
Poultry should be piucked or picked
whilst still warm, when the feathers will
be removed with much less difficulty.
Fowls are generally picked quite clean, but
it looks better in the case of young
chickens to leave few feathers about the
tail. They will eat best if nothing further
is done to them; but it improves the ap
pearance greatly for market to plunge
the carcass, Immediately after plucking
into vessel Of boiling water for few
moments, which will "plump" it great
deal and make the skin look bright and
clean. After scalding, turkeys and fowls
should be hung by the legs, and water
fowl by the neck For sending to mar
ket wholesale, they should not be drawn
as they will keep much better without
and this is the proper business of the re
taller; but in selling for consumption, the
birds should be properly prepared fol
table. 1t may not be out of place to re
mark, that if after drawing, the cavity b,
filed with charcoal broken in small
pieces, the fowl may be kept sweet con
siderable time.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1872-10-11

Cabinet hc went down among the people,
apd selected his constitutional advisers
from among them, and that offended
Schurz, and Sumner, and Trrmbull,
and Fenton. They took 10 sadly TO
heart that that little unostentatlous
man from Galena did not come to them
and say: "Please Instruct me what ought
to do" cr2nt let them know that he was a
kind Of Jackson man, and that when he
wanted advice he would let them know II,
and until he did they need not giveit. Then
they conspired against the Republican party
because they foresaw that he would certainly
be again its nominee, and the whole cam
paign so far has been conducted on their
part by means of slander OF the vllest and
most malignant character against the Re-
| publican party and Grant, It's head.
What has come Of their charges? They
have investigated the Administration of
General Grant more thoroughly than any
other Administration was ever Investigated
| from the foundation of the Government
until the present hour, and yet without dis.
| closing anything TO cast the slightest sus-
picion Of corruption upon Grant or any
member OF his Cabinet, and so utterly
| groundless did the accusation prove to be
that Sumner voted against his own resolution
when 1t came up in the Senate. Applause. ]
| The speaker commented with great logi.
| cal force upon the course OF Sumner and
Schurz in their onslaught upon the Admin
lstration, and then turned his attention ia
Fl. g., following that traveller in his late
Presidential peregrinations, and analyzlne
the shallow trickery of his celebrated utter
ances at Pittsburgh, Louisville and Indian
apolls. The proposition contained in th'
Chamber Of Commerce speech, that the
Indianians should ship their block coal 10 LAX
Superior 10 make iron, was irresistlbly ludi
crous in General Logan's hands. 1t woulC
be difficult to say whether the philosopher
egotism or the wildness Of his economic
views were most admirably portrayed.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1872-10-11
The Actual Truth About Political Dis.
abilities in the South.

THE supporters of Mr.. Greeley have
much to say about the political disabil-
tiles of the South Next to the calumnies
upon the President, this constitutes the
chief staple OF their talk. They seek to
create the impression that the South suffers
under harsh and proscriptive policy,
and that large body of the people are
DISTINGUISHED. Mr.. Greeley himself de-
votes the burden of his speeches to this
subject, as though the South were ground
under the heels of the Government.
Now, what are the facts? Not a single
man is disfrdnchised, and only about tlrO
hundred, all told, embracing simply jeff
Ddris and the gutltiest leaders Of the rebellion,
are pregeHted from holding office. This is
the truth, and the whole truth. EUery
man who participated in the rebellion can
vote Just as freely as the stauncaJest loyal.
ist. JEFF. Davis himself has precisely the
same rights and privileges in this respect
rs General Grant or any other defender of
the Union. All the disability of which so
much is said consists simply in the fact
that Davis, Toombs, Breckenridge, and
about two hundred of the prominent
chiefs of the rebellion, are disqualified
from holding Office.
Suppose the Greeley papers and orators,
While declalmlng against the disabilities
resting upon the South, were to state
these facts as candor requires them to do,
how weak and pitiful would their argu'
ment seem ! The whole force of the
point would be lost. The people do not
believe that the disqualification of the
few rebel chiefs from holding Office is any
wrong or hardship. They have no special
desire that the way should be opened foI
the return of jeff. Davis to the United
States Senate. If the Greeleyites would
only state the truth on this point, and
think they could make any capital out OF
it, they are welcome to it. Every rebel
no matter how prominent, who has asked
to have his disabilities removed, has
had his request granted. The men now
excepted have refused to ask. They in
sist that the Government shall apologize
to them rather than they should apollo
gize to the Government. What say the
people ?-ABaay Erening Journal.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1872-10-11
have cut the heaviest crop Of grass that I

have cut the heaviest crop Of grass that
ever saw harvested. l-FItf
Mr.. Geddes, the great farmer of New
York says thats"Mr. Swaby, of Seneca
Falls, has taken forty loads Of clover
from twelve-acre lot, and from o field of
his own, of nineteen acres, of mixed tim
othy and clover, the yield was eighty
loads of hay; and that An average-sized
load weighed a little more than 800
pounds" The field yielded three tons
per acre. Mr. Geddes says this result he
would not have believed possible twenty
years ago. From ten and one half meas.
ured acres l cut forty large loads of hay,
thus equaling the large crop Of the best
farmers of Central New York. My corn
for the past two years has averaged fifty
bushels to the acre.. a. Curtis, N
Western Rl7'nL
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1872-10-11

CAMPHoR FOR TEE CARES The Cana.
dian Poultry Chronicle says that pill OF
camphor the size of a garden pea, given
to chicken, will cure the gapes, the odor
Of the oanphor being fatal to the worms
In the windpipe. The drinking water
should also be strongly impregnated with
camphor. AS no medicine can directly
reach the worms, this remedy operating
through the powerful odor Of camphor
may be success. nO
AMONG the many artistic objects that
will figure at the forthcoming Interna.
uonal Exhibition at Vienna, one of the
most interesting will be q model Of Solo
mons temple, carved in lime-tree wood,
from the description of Flavius Josephus.
Some idea may be formed of the size of
the model when 1t Is stated that 1t occu-
pies a space two hundred and twenty-five
feet square, and that twenty.three cases
win be required to transport 1t TO its des-
tination.
CALIFORNIA wives who have worthless
men for husbands have just found out
that the homestead law of that State Is q
nice thing. According to that law wife
alone can make u homestead of the prop
erty which she and her husband own, and
on which they reside. The husbands
consent is not requisite, the law stating
that "the homestead land and house, moi
| exceeding in value 5000, can be selected
by the husband and wife, or either Of
them"
A SEALS paradise has been discovered
and will soon be invaded by hundreds o.
enterprising fishermen. Around a grouI
of small, uninhabited islands near South
Shetland, south and east of Cape Horn
for twenty years and over, the softeyeC
| seals have summed them selves and gam
boiled in perfect security. But now {
change is to come o'er the spirit of thei
dreams, and it will, from this out, becom,
the struggle of their lives to see whether
they or some elegant young lady will weal
their skins.
THE Amherst, Vs., Enterprise tells thii
story: "On the land Of Thomas Hughes
is bold spring of cold water, which con
tinually throws out peach-stones in per
feet state of preservation. Bushes O
stones have been cleared away, and still
they come. We haven no doubt that man,
years ago, before the memory Of ou'
people, there was a distillery at thi
spring, and that it now bursts through
the mass of stones below the surface AM
throws them out. We know first.rat
large peach orchard in this county whicl
grew in the following singular manner
Mr.. Stennett cleared the land, put il
tobacco, and the third year wheat, an,
an orchard of peaches came up on tn
land, and are now growing and bearing
1t was ascertained that some forty o
more years ago the land was cultivated
and an orchard on the place, and it ha
grown up, and when cleared by MI
Stennett, the land was in second. .growt
timber"
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1872-10-11

A NEW Epoch IN MEDICAL HISTORY.
"Reason and chance" says Pliny, "led
to the discovery of the virtues of medi-
cinal herbs" In these modern days,
research and experiment have perfected
the work that reason and accident began.
DIR. WALKERS VINEGAR BITTERs are the
latest result of botanical investigation and
pharmaceutical science. This eXtraord-
mary medicine, composed entirely OF
vegetable ingredients culled from the soil
of our Pacific territory, is pronounced a
remedy for every disease-not organic
of the stomach, the liver, the bowels, the
respiratory system, the kidneys, the mus
cles, and the other organs which make up
the machinery of life. All who have
witnessed its effects are in favor of its
universal adoption as the safest and most
reliable tonic known. Free from the
taint of alcohol, it is nevertheless stimu-
liant, though not dangerous excitant.
One thing is certain-no curative hereto
| fore introduced to the public through the
press, has ever obtained, in so short a
time, the celebrity of DIR, WALKERS
| CALIFoRNIA VINEGAR BITTERs, or been
supported by such unimpeachable testi-
mony. From that testimony it is evident
that this preparation is specific for Dys-
pepsia, Nervous Debility, Intermittent
and Bilious Remittent Fevers, Diarrhea,
Dysentery, Rheumatism, Gout, and all
disturbances of the secretive and excre-
! tive functions.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1872-10-11

No Person can take these Bitters accord.
ing to directions, and remain long unweh' provided
their bones are DESTROYED BY mineral poison or oth
MEANS and the vital organs wasted beyond the po'nS
Of repair.
Dyspepsia or IndIgestion. Headache, Pain
in the Shoulders, Coughs, Tighness OF the Chest, Dz
illness, Sour Eructations Of the Stomach Bad Taste
in the Mouth, Bilious Attacks, Papitation of the
Heart inflammation Of the Lungs Pain in the regions
Of the Kidneys and hundred other painful symptoms,
are the offsprugs of Dyspepsia In these complaints
il has no equal aud bottle will prove Letter guar
| antee Of it's merits thanta lengthy advertisements
| For Female Complaints, in young or old
married or single, at the dawn Of womanhood or the
turn of iie these Tonic Bitters display so decided an
| influence that a marked Improvement IS soon percep'
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For InflammatOry and Chronic Rheu-
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| and Bladder, these Biers have no equal. Such DIS
eases are caused by Vitiated Blood which IS generally
produced by arrangement of the Digestive Organs
| They are n Gentle Pur9ative ms wen ns
Tonic, possessing also the peculiar merit Of acting
as powerful agent in relieving Congestion or lntam'
nation Of the Liver and Visceral Organs, and in Bilious
Diseases = =,
For Skin Diseases, Eruptons, letter, salt
Rheum, Botches, Spots Pmp.es Pustules Boils, Car
buncles Ring-worns, Scald- Head Sore Eyes, Fry
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Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1872-10-11
Look on This, and Then on That.

In letter written on his Southern tour,
and dated at Memphis, June 8, 1871, Hor-
ace Greeley said
"That those who struggled and fought for seces-
sion generally believed that they were right in so
doing cannot doubt. *They propose TO re-
new the fight, but not with guns aud saber. They
expect to regain, as Democrats, through elections,
the power they lost as rebels through war"
In his speech at Pittsburgh, September
10, 1872, Horace Greeley said
sand now, to-day, II the nation was to be i'm
periled, and there were just two modes of saving
tito trust TO the chances Of civil war, to the
chances of free vote Of the Southern people,
would very greatly prefer 10 take the latter chance
rather than the former"
Comment is unnecessary. Mr.. Greeley
makes his own comment. -OhicdgO Journal
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1872-10-11

= Joshua Fiero, Ulster County, N. Y,
speaks against bonires, and says it is
better to bury filth than to burn it, for
the reason that smoke spreads disease.
He adds: Let all who have a spot of
ground large enough Olga hole from two
to four feet deep, according to the amount
of dirt and filth that may be collected,
and fill up the hole with old boots and
shoes, bones, old bottles, and filthy rags,
dead cats, (and live cats if you have more
of them than you need, plant them in the
hole, place a sharp spade upon their necks
and see how far you can settle them); then
fill up the hole with earth, and set a tree
or vine Do this each and every year,
and you will soon have better health
and more fruit or shade trees.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1872-10-11
Homes in the West.

At no former time in the history of the
country has there been so deep, so wide
spread, and so intelligent an interest felt
in the matter of migration and Western
settlement as now. The rapid construction
of railroads which penetrate the fertile
but hitherto unoccupied areas of our new
Northwestern States and Territories, thus
rendering accessible and valuable millions
of acres of land which would otherwise
have lain waste for scores of years, has
given a wonderful impetus to the West
ward tide of population.
A large portion of both foreign and
American migration willhenceforth natu-
rally and inevitably flow into that new
Northwest, now for the first time made
accessible by the building of the Northern
ern Pacific Railroad. The belt of country
traversed by the route of this thoroughfare
wisconsin, Minnesota, Dakota, Montana,
Idaho, Washington and Oregon) has such
characteristics Of soil and climate as to
render its speedy settlement and prosper
GUS cultivation certain.
The Northern Pacific Company is now
selling its lands in Minnesota, and the
| facilities and helps which it furnishes to
settlers and colonies greatly reduce where
they do not wholly remove the "hard-
ships" of pioneer life. For example,
! transportation at reduced rates is furnish
ed from nearly all parts of the country to
the line of the N. P. Road, and if set
| tier buys forty acres or more of railroad
! land he and his whole family are carried
| free over the N. P. Road where going to
settle. Then at three different points on
the road, large and elegant reception
| houses have been built and fitted up with
conveniences for single persons, families
and colonies. Settlers, no matter whether
they locate on free Government home
steads or purchase railroads lands, enter
these reception houses on leaving the cars
and use them free of charge, as q tenn
porary home while engaged in selecting
land and building dwellings of their own.
The company has fixed low prices on
its lands, gives seven years credit to pur
chasers, and receives in payment at ten
per cent. premium its own first mortgage
bonds which are now selling at par, and
which are a favorite investment through
out the country.
There are now few localities in the
West where good Government lands fol
free homestead entry can be found neal
to railroads and markets The Northern
Pacific Road has been so recently bull
through Minnesota, that there are, clos'
to Its line, plenty of public lands of the
finest quality awaiting homestead settle
ment and they are being rapidly taken
Large numbers of soldiers who, unde
the new laws of Congress, obtain FREE
homesteads of 160 acres, near railroads
by one and two years residence, ar
locating on the line of the Northern
Pacific Soldiers and all others wh'
think of seeking homes in the West cal
obtain full information mans, COPY o
homestead laws, etc., by addressing LAM
Department Northern Pacific r. r. Co,
st. Paul, MINI.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1872-10-11

Fresh eggs according to the Prairie
FdInger, afford great nourishment to weak
animals. 1t tells of colt which to all
appearances was nearly dead, the breath
of life being barely perceptible, which al
most instantly revived by giving it one OF
two fresh eggs. The same results have
attended the administering of eggs to
weak cattle, and to feeble, chilled lambs.
The remedy is a simple one, and farmers
would do well to bear it in mind.