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The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1873-08-08

A ROW OF Tin pals placed out to dry on
tho south side OF q house in Ferrisburg,
W., recently attracted enough Of the suns
rays TO cot the building on FIRE, and warn
ali the housewives Of the village against
rnnaatinr the experiment.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1873-08-08
SALT LAKE CITY.


SALT LAKE CrTY, August brigham
Youngs counRel filed demurrers 70 the
Jurisdiction Of The court In the divorce
Case this morning. The case was post
noned I'LL to.morrOW.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1873-08-08
Moth Carolina ELECTION.

WILMINGTON, N. O., August 1.-THE
election on the constitutional amendment
and for township officers took place
throughout the State to-day, It 10 gem
orally understood that the amendment is
adopted,
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1873-08-08

DENNIS O'SnAUoHNRssY adVerlises %
follows in the Columbus Republican II
hereby give notice that my wife Bridget
has lett my bed and board, and I will not
pay her debts, Ns we are not married"
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1873-08-08

A FASCINATING young lady, at one Of
the resorts, on being asked recently u she
had ever read Shakespeare, tossed her
pretty head with the answer, "shak-
speafeY OF course have; l read that
when il first came out"
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1873-08-08
Kerosene Accident In a BelIairt
Church.

KeTOBene AcCIuenL IN hVIIHIT1
Church.
lPrOm the independently
At the close Of services on last Sabbath
evening at the n. E. Church, Q large kere'
seue lamp on the church organ, was IN
some way upset, the lamp exploded, and
in an instant the oil was converted into q
sheet Of flamea. Most Of the audience
rushed percipitately toward the door; a
lew OF the cooler persons present smother
ed the fire by covering II up with carpets
hastily torn from the isles. But little
damage was done by the fire, and tor
lunately no one was much injured in the
rush for exit.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1873-08-08

VEN some man slsps me on der should
er und say, u vas glad to hear you vaa
80 we'll" und den sticks pehind my pack
his fingers to his nose, / hall my opinion
Of dot Vellcr"
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1873-08-08
Body Found In the Lake at Glove
land. o. a

CLEVELAND, August IA body was
found In the lake yesterday, supposed 10
ba that Of VIM, F. Smith, Prosecuting
Attorney Of Mercer county, Ohio. Mr.
Smith is known 70 have been In this city
a short time before his disappearance.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1873-08-08

NEW York, August 1.-THE steamship
Emerald, from stetten Vid Havre, with
400 passengers on board, - fifteen days
overdue at this port, '''
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1873-08-08

A GREEN BAY man called a young lady
his "preCIous darling little honeydew Of
blooming rosebud" and then stood a
breach oI promise suit before he would
marry her.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1873-08-08

? NEW YoRK,. August '7.-Thg steamer
HouS6, from Brem6a, has arriTod."
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1873-08-08
Return of President Grant 10 Long
Branch.
HR RRsCURS A LADY FROM A RUNAWAY
TEAM

LoNG BRANCH, August 7.-President
Grant returned from Washington this
afternoon. To night he saved lady
from injury by runaway team on Cedar
aVnn0R
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1873-08-08

RR0RABuITIRA.

: NJ Wan UIFAHIIIUTl
-.tIIIiul OY I'm UHI1I 8IgNAL oHHuIn.
WG6HIHGF0A, D. O. Aug. 1850 2. =.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1873-10-29

VINO Is A GENTLEMAN. gentleman
is person not merely acquainted with
certain forms and etiquette of life, easy
and self-possessed in society, able to speak
and act and move in the world without
awkwardne>s, and habits which are
VI gar and in bad TASTE 4 gentleman is
something beyond this; that which lies at
the root of all his pleasing is the same
spirit which lies at the root of every chris
tan virtue. 1t is the thoughtful desire OF
doing in every instance what others should
do unto him. He is constantly thinking,
not indeed how he may give pleasure to
others for the more sense of pleasing, but
how he may avoid hurting their feelings.
When he is in society he scrupuIously as
certains the position and relations Of
every one with whom he comes 10 contact,
that he may give to each his due honor,
his proper position. He studies how he
may avoid touching in conversation upon
any subject which may needessly hnl t
their feelings - how he may abstain
from any illusions which may call up a
disagreeable or offensive association. A
gentleman never alludes to, never even ap-
pears conscious of any persons defect, bodi-
| ~ deformity, inferiority of talent, OF rank,
of reputation in the person in whose
society he is placed. He never assumes
any superiority to himself-never ridi-
cules, never sneers. never boasts, never
makes display of his own power, or ad
vantages-such as is implied in habits, OF
tricks, or inclnations which may be Of
fensive to others.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1873-10-29

CHEMISTRY OF SOAP MAKlNG.-At first
thought, 1t might seem that such a comm N
operation. in the round of household duties
as soap-Daking, had but little of scentifi;
interest
But on the contrary, it is purely chem
zeal operation, and soap, either hard or soft,
Is as much definite chemical compound as
sulphate of iron. The housewife saves up
lard and tallow wastes, aud by-and-by, usual
Iy at spring and fall, the soap is made. These
kinds of fat are considered fixed oils, because
they do not evaporate at ordinary temp9ra-
lures. they are composed of margarc,
stearic, and o!eic oils, united with glycerIne.
Glycerine, then, is the base or alkall that we
dIsplace by presenting to the above named
acids the stronger base, potassa, for which
also the acids have a stonger affinity than
Tor the glycerine.
The Tyre from the leich holds in solution
carbonate OF p)tassa, aud 10 this saponIhca-
ton process the carbonic acid is set free or
isplaced by the stronger acid Of the ats
TINS Is the chemistry of the operation 10
brief, and if we can make practical appll-
cation of 1t, it will be we'll.
When the soap does not d" come" Their is
usually, contrary to what is supposed, an
excess of alkdli An easy way OF testing Is
to taste of it, If it be alkaline. add grease
and boil till the alkalinity disappears 1t IL
easy to know If it De too greasy by setting a
cuptul away to cool, when the fat will sepa-
rate and be at the top.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1873-10-29

to be sacked and burnt. Two poor people
lived in a low-studded house in the out
skirts of the town. 1t was dark winter
evening; the enemy were expected; and
in their anxiety they took the Book Of
Psalms. and opened it to see if the psalm
which they first met with could render
them any aid or comfort. They opened
the book and turned to the psalm, :" A
mighty fortress is our God" Full of con-
fdence they sang it; and strengthened in
faith, they went to bed and slept we'll
kept by the Lords guardianship. When
they awoke in the morning it was quite
dark in the room. and the daylight could
not penetrate they went to the door, but
could not open it. Then they mounted
the loft, got the trap-door open, and saw
that it was broad daylight; but heavy
drift of snow had in the night fallen upon
the whole house and hidden it from the en-
envy, who in the night time had pillaged
and burnt the town. Then they claspee
their hands in thankfulness, and repeated
the psalm, " A mighty fortress is our God y
The Lord had guarded them, and raised al
intrenchment of snow around them.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1873-10-29

SOME OpossUMs.-The Virginia Opos-
sum is little too cute for anything. But
with that mixture of cunning and stupid
ty that is sometimes seen 10 other animals,
it allows itself to lie taken in the clum
siest of traps. 1t will build nest of long
moss and leaves for itself if necessary, but
it does not hesitate 70 seize upon any small
animals nest that suits it, and commence
housekeeping by dining upon the occu-
pant
When pursued and escape is impossible
it rolls itself up into ball, closes its eyes,
and pretends to be incapable of motion
just as some children pretend to be asleep
when mother calls them in the morning OF
deaf when she wishes them to do some.
thing.
La Brazil there are two kinds of opos-
sum, the Crab-eating and the Yapock, both
Of which live principally upon crabs and
fish. The Yapock has pocket or pouch
in each cheek, in which it puts the fish it
catches when it goes on fishing excur-
sion.
There is another kind, native of Surf
nam, called Merian's Opossum, whose lit
tie ones when very young get upon its
back and live there until able to take care
of themselves. The body of this opossum
is not more than six inches in length, yet
it will carry half dozen of its tiny off.
spring clinging to its fur. their tails wound
around its own, which it has turned up
over its back for the purpose.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1873-10-29

KEEPING APPLEs.-A correspondent OF the
CulnUator ttttes that he KEEP. 300 bushels
OF apples, mostly Baldwns, through the past
winter and spring IN his cellar. lie claims
that by his mode apples may be kept the
year round, without losing their Julc'ness
Of crspness. His theory is that the early
,otting and decay of apples is due, to great
txtent, to a vegetable miasma in the air,
which is communicated to 1t by vegetable
evtporation under certain conditions. The
effect OF this mIasma is first seen In minute
speck sometimes a. many as dozen may
be counted on the same apple. His rent dy
daily airing OF the cellar or place where
apples are stored, arranging SO as to have
brisk circulation, until all the stagnant air
is expelled, and Its place occupied by pure,
healthy air. His success proves that his
views are at least worthy of consideration.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1873-10-29

To BREAK PAIR OF STEERS. = The first
step in my practice was to get the steers IN
a small yard, then into the stall, and teach
them to stand quietly when tied. All harsh
ness was avoided. The next thing was to
establish a confidence between myself and
the steers; which was done by patting, cur
rying, and feeding nubbins of corn. Wild
steers would soon learn that they were not
going to be hurt. They were then trained
to be led slngly after which two were tied
together by their horns, and we're led around
the yard, and along the highway. until they
were as tractable as gentle horse. Then
yoke was put on their necks. and they were
allowed to run loose for few hours every
day in the yard while wearing the yoke. A
sweep was then made by setting post in the
ground. allowing it to extend two or three
feet above the surface and the butt end OF
the pole. twenty or more feet long, was
pltc in a horiz )ntai position on the post,
with an iron bolt or crowbar running though
the pole to the top of the post. The steers
were hitched to the small end Of the pole,
with q hand sled attached; and they we're
trained to draw the driver on the sled. Alter
few lessons on the sweep, they were pre-
pared to draw light sled to the woods,
and bring home small load of wood.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1873-10-29

The FEET OF UoRsEs.-The human hand
has often been taken to illustrate divine W is
dom-and very well. But have you ever
examined Your horse's hoof? 1t is hardly
less curious in Its way. Its parts are some
what more complicated, yet their design is
-,mple and obvious. The hoof is not, as it
appears to the careless eye, a mere lump OF
rnsenslble bone, fastened to the Lee by joint
1t is made up of a series of t in layers, Ut
caves, of horn, about five hundred IN num-
Der, aud nicely fitted to each other, and form
,ng a lining to the foot ITSELF Then there
are as many more layers. belonging to what
IS called the coffin bone,'' and fitted into
this. These are elastic. Take quire OF
paper and insert the leaves one by one into
those of another quire, and you will get some
idea of the arrangement o. the several layers.
Now, the weight of the horse rests on az
many elastic springs as there are layers in
his four feet-about four thousand, and all
this is contrived, not only for the conveyance
Of his own body, but tor whatever burdens
| may be laid on him.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1873-10-29

DEATH OF THE FIRST BoRN-This
beautiful extract. from DR.. Hollands new
book, Arthur BonnicastIe, will be read
with deep and tender interest by many
whose experience it truthfully portrays:
stand in darkened room before
little casket that holds the silent form of
my frst-born. My arm is around the
wife and mother who weeps over the lost
treasure, and cannot, till tears have their
way, be comforted. [ had not thought
that my child could die-that my child
could die. l knew that other children had
died, but [ felt safe. We lay the little
fellow close by his grandfather at last; we
strew his grave with flowers, and then re-
turn to our saddened home with hearts
united in sorrow as they had never been
united in joy, and with sympathies forever
opened toward all who are called to a
kindred grief. wonder where he is to-
day, in what angelhood he stands, how he
will look when | meet him, how he will
make himself known to me, who has been
his teacher He was like me: will his
grand father know him ? | never can
cease thinking of him as cared for and led
by the same hand to which my own youth
full fingers chung, and as hearing from The
fond lips of my own father the story of his
fathers eventful life. feel how wonder
full has been the ministry of my children
how much more | have learned from them
than they have ever learned from me
how by holding my own strong life in sweet
subordination to their helplessness, they
have taught me patience, selt-sacrhce, self
control, truthfulness, faith, simplicity, and
purity.
| All this taking to ones arms little
group Of souls, fresh from the hand of God,
and living with them in loving companion
| ship through all their stainless years, Is, or
ought to be, like living in heaven for OF
such is the heavenly kingdom. To no one
OF these am | more indebted than to the
boy who went away from me before the
world had touched him with a stain. The
key that shut him in the tomb was tt e on
| y key that could unlock my heart, and let
IN among its sympathles the world OF
sorrowng men and women who mourn be-
cause their little ones are not.
The little graves, alas how many they
are The mourners above them, how vast
the multitude. Brothers, sisters, | am
one with you. [ press your hands, | weep
with you, | trust with you, belong to you.
Those waxen, folded hands, that still
breast, so often pressed warm to our own,
those sleep bound eyes which have been SO
full Of love and life, that sweet, uumoving,
aIabaster face-ah. we have all looked
upon them, and they have made us one,
and made US better. There is no fountain
which the angel of healing troubles with
his restless and lfe-givlng wings so con
stantly as the fountain of tears, and only
those too lame and bruised to battle miss
the blessed influence.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1873-10-29

A RsPUrED SPECIFIC FOR THE CURE Oh
MENINGITIS. "A Michl- gan Correspondent OF
the Frteport (lliinos) Bulletin pronounces
what is known as the cerebro-spinal-m enn-
gifts, now prevailing extensively and fatally
10 many parts of the country, as the same
cpl lemlc which ragged in Michigan about
twenty-five years ago to such an extent that
1T actually broke up the Legislature, and
carried to tie grave every one whom it at
tackled, until the - old-fashioned hemock
sweats were adopted alter which every
c,se was saved He SAYS Our people
sent about twenty five miles distant and pro-
cured hemlock boughs, and they sent for it
from all parts of the State. There was a
company called the Hook and Ladder Com
pany, that Tor weeks did nothing, night or
day, but go from house to house giving hem
lock sweats, and it never failed to save every
clse. Thorough sweating might do, but
there is no mistake about hemlock sweats
being specific
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1873-10-29

NICE GRIDDLE CAKEs.-I have lately learn
ed that good shorts-not the coarser kind
is better for grlddle cakes than foe or even
buckw heat -four. l make them as follows .
Six cups rich Observation-Disclosures milk will
do with little cream-three teaspoons even
iull of soda to neurralze the sour milk: a
little salt, two eggs. Stir into this enough
shorts to make thin batter as for other
griddle cakes, and fry as usual. Rubbing
the griddles with dry salt and wiping of
carefully before oiling will prevent trouble
IN turning. Corn griddle cakes and buck
wheat cakes are very nice made in this way
though yeast is usually preferred for the
latter Rural Neu Yorker.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1873-10-29

To CLEAN SILK OR MERINoEs. Crate two
or three large potatoes, add to them pint
of cold water, let them stand a short time,
Ind pour off the liquid clear, or strain 1t
through a sieve, when it will be fit for use
Lay the silk on fat surface, and Apply the
liquid with clean sponge, till the dirt Is
well separated; dip each piece in pail OF
clean water, and hang up to dry without
wringing. Iron whilst damp, on the wrong
side. Should the silk be OF more than one
color, it is desirable to wet small piece
irsr, lest the dress. should be spoiled by mois-
ture causing the rolors to run; but for self
colored silks, the direction is an excellent
ne; and satinettes, even of light colors, il
DOT or, ased or stained, make up again near
Y equal to new.-H0usehoH
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1873-10-29

KEROSENE OIL FOR HEv LICE.-Hen lice
are among the greatest draw backs to the
Pleasure and profit of the poultry yard they
are especially troublesome in small yards
and cops where fowls cannot have free ac-
cess to green food and dry earth. We have
tried various remedies, and have found kero-
-ene oil to be very effectual and safe one.
1t is applied with very little trouble pour
it from the can upon the perches where the
owls roost, and when the hens are ready to
brood, saturate the inside of the box before
the clean hay or straw is put in with the
eggs. 1t is very much less trouble to apply
the Oil than to use a wash of tobacco or 90
through process of whitewashing once a
month.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1873-10-29

How THEY CATCH MUsTANGs.-The editor
of the Pleasdnton Stock journal gives the
modus operandi of capturing Wild horses IN
Texas, W hich will no doubt prove instructive
to many. 1t will be perceived that all the
popular notions in which the lasso and fleet
footed charger play an important part, have
little foundation in reality:
As soon as herd of horses is discovered,
the party of hunters divide, one portion
striking camp while the other sets off IN pur-
suit of the herd. The'frlghtened animals 20
bounding across the prairie through the
pricky pear and dense chapparel, leaving
trail which the hunters steadily pursue at an
easy gait until they come 10 sight OF tue herd
which scampers off as before. These tactics
are kept up by pursuers and pursued tor
days, the mustangs returning to their first
starting polnt-which they are sure to do
when the camping party takes the place OF
the tired pursuers, and thus follow the herd,
until the poor, wearied, and half-starved
creatures. with swollen limbs and bloJdshot
eyes, give up the struggle and submit 10 be
driven anywhere. The object of the hunters
has been merely to keep close enough to the
mustangs to prevent them from grazing.
Starvation soon brings them to terms, aud
the prairie monarch, with dropping crest
and detected look, leaves his native wlds,
hencetorth to become the slaves of man.
THIS is what hunters call :" walking INNS
tangs down"
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1873-10-29

FOREST Tree CULTURs-W. 81. White
contributes the following to the C0untrv
Gentleman
We see many articles in our agricultural
papers on 4" tree planting forest cul-
ture,' etc., but for the treatment of forts
trees alter they have attained six, eight o.
ten more feet. we see very much less. Now
there are scattered over New England man,
fields which have been allowed to come into
scrub pines and other wood, which receive
no particular attention. The scrubs grow
very closely 60 d small stuntt growth, when
they begin to die off, and seldom any OF them
get to be anything but scrubs. Cannot thee e
scrub pines be SO treated that they will be-
come more valuable, as timber or fuel?
think 1t very possible. From some expert
eDce and more observation, l am fully salts
fed that il a little attention were given to
trimming up the scrubs, and thinning as
necessary, they would make a very respecta-
bic growth; not 50 large as the original fol-
est trees on the same ground, but such as
would make building timber, or saw logs to
make coarser quality of timber. The sol
on which much OF this growth is found has
been cropped or pastured without any COM
mensurate return, till it has become so ex-
hausted that to save it from blowing away.
perhaps, 1t has been abandoned to the scrubs
and then $ severely let alone.'' In instances
where these scrub pines have been trimmed
and judiciously thinned, have noticed that
they soon put ON very different look, CON-
mence to grow, and eventually make respec-
table-sized trees. Of course they never make
slim, tail trees, but make a medium growth
in height, while the body attains large size
and alter little they grow quite rapidly !;
and instead OF being a source OF expense or
dead loss to the proprietors, become in a few
pears source OF income, whel cas-, as now
A9naged, many of them are only q dead
tH1ft ton the hands of their owners, an ex-
seaxes and interest on the money
12sXz oP9idering the growing scarcity
1ld1l - would it not be source
q eaeenrrs OF fields of scrub
pine1 = exp = fll siPe and labor 10
trImmlpei 81 sbisatnfI msisad of ALLOWING
them % . 3f kaevs > and die ont
entirely, 4, pre.ty sure that
i most cases SD With Iull re-
turn Of prlns,pal, ~ 5esds at no very
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1873-10-29

SEARCHING AND IRONING. Starch and iron
shirt bJsoms as usual, aud when the articles
are thoroughly dry. place one at time on a
narrow hard and very smooth board, which
has one thickness OF cotton cloth over it,
sewed tightly; have the polishing iron y
heated SO that 1t will not scorch, and rub it
quick and hard over the surface, up and
down the bosom, using only the rounded part
on the front of the iron. A still higher pol
ish may be obtained by passing damp cloth
lightly over the smooth surface. and then
rubbing hard and quickly with the hot iron.
1t neefs good deal OF patient practice to do
this admirably, but it is crowned with sue
cess, and when once learned is as easy as
other ironing. A polishing iron . is small
and highly polished, with a rounded part
which allows all the friction to come on a
small part at one time, which develops the
gloss that may be in both llhen and starch.
These irons may be had Tor about seventy
five cents each one is sufficient for a family
Collars and cuffs look nicely done in this
way. Western Rural.