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The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1873-10-16

Ifany hoOcst larmer,or industrious me.
cb1Dic fsmlll means, or invalid widow
Gods JimseIf or herself in possession Of
worthless Pacific Rail Road Bonds, al.
though secured by large land sraut voted
by Radical Congrcss-if any such per,
sons fud themselves ruined or driven to
wan. BY having been persuaded in.o buy
ing such property, let idcm remember that
the ruling party is The author and fnisber
Of all their woes Lctthcm 40 longer put
their confidence in a political party which
has so cruelty. betrayed them.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1873-10-16
LAND SALE,
George Proctor

George Proctor
VS.. In ChaDcs,v
]. NJ. Jordan and Chas. Latlin,l
IN pursuance Of decree Of the Circuit Court
| OF Putnam County, rendered On the IAN
d7y of September, io7l, IN The above rnlnlJ
cause. | Shall as the SPECIAL ComrissioEt,
herein named sell at puOlc auction, al d.
Front Door of the Court House Of Putnsa
county
on Monday, The 20M day of Octo-
Der. 1913,
the tract of land in the Bill and Exhibits men.
toned and described. said to
CONTlTN III 1CRES.
TERMS:-One half cash, balance in siI
months, with interest from lay Of sac, bond
with security and tile reserved.
Th0S. II. HARVEY,
sept ls-lw. Special Commits Toner,
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1873-10-16

ACCIDENT I'VE are informed mat q
most painrpl accilen. occurred to Mr..
Sclcs,ine Whitmoro. in the Upper Cove.
HARDY County on the 18th ult It appcaTsl
he was standing on the porch Of his fathers
residence, aud had his rifle resting agains, !
a most by his side. BE- some means the
riA, fell to the ao,r, striking the hammer
aud causing it to 90 off. The bail struck
him in the left arm near the shoulder
The bullet was broken IN two and both
pieces lodged in II? bone, which was badly
shattered. Dr.. Triplct, Of Mount Jackson
Va, was sent for, who set the arm, The
wound is serious one, but hopes are en-
tertaincd that amPn'alion will not be nee
essaFy Aoorcfe@ Courier,
F,ru Acc,npyr -Abopt G oclocl
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1873-10-16

Mr.. ChlmIcrs Byers, near this place, in.
forms Us that he sustained a loss by death
Of two valuable COWS by disease known
as mad itch, few days ago He attyjb.
utcs the disease to the turning o(his cattle
with bis hogs in a corn field, and the cat
tie eating the food let by the hogs after
chewing the substance from it.-Shp.
heHisiora Register.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1873-04-02

SEE TO THE CLovER.-Mr. Curtis, before
the Farmers Club, says: 60 Hogs can be
wlntered on clover hay cut green, if it is
steamed to pulp, without any meal or bran
benz added"
Cattle reducing this to pulp by mastica-
tiop, get similar effect. We know leading
farmers who keep their dairys during the
winter on clover hay alone, or clover and
crnstalks This till the cows are turned to
= ass, and they 60 into pasture strong and 10
good fl, sh, giving large yield of milk at the
same TINE. This being TACT, as it is de-
monscrated yearly, why are We feeding grain
Simply because we neglect or disreg rd
early cutting, fearing We cannot cure our
hay in this early or green stage. 1t is more
an excuse than any thing else. Others do it,
cut irly and cure fair to we'll Have the
| hay cap, ard there is no hanger of spelling
Use the tedder freely, which will expediate
The drying. By cutting the first crop (clo-
ver) early, when just in blossom, the second
crop may be cut. IN good time, leaving time
enough for an after-growth for protection.
Here are two crops and as clever can be
made to yield well with comparatively little
expense, we need not call attention to the
benefit deprived in this way. Plaster now,
bushe to the acre, and determine before
hand that you will make the test and make
it. If not ON large scale, at least on q
small. Have the caps ready; there is time
for that now. What we need is testing, and
testing fairly. Ii the best farmers are reap.
ing an advantage here, why may not all have
It? Clover is the farmers plant of profit
Those engaging earliest in it, fully, Will gel
tue most OF the beneit.-Cor. Utica He, a Id
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1873-04-02

Best.

Mother see you with your nursery light,
Leading your babies, all in white
To their sweet rest;
Christ the Good shepherd carries mine Tonight
And tina is besti
cannot help tears when I see them Irvine
Their fingers IN yours and their bright curls shine
On your warm breast;
But the Saviour's is puIer tn yours or mine;
lie can loye.he
You tremble each hour because your arms
Are weak; Your heart is wrung with alarms,
And sore oppressed;
My darlings safe and out the reach of harms
And that is best.
You know over yours may hang even now
Pam and disease, whose fulfilling slow
NaugLt arrest;
Mine IN Gods garden run TO and fro
And that is best.
You know tiat of yours the feeblest one
And dearest may lie long years alone,
Unloved unbIeet;
Mine are cherished of saints around Gods throne
And that is best.
You must dread for yours the crime that sears,
Dark guilt unwashed by repentant tears,
And unconiessed;
Mine entered spOiless on eternal years
Oh how much bestI
But grief is selfish, and cannot see
Always why should so stricken be
More than the rest;
But know that well for IhCm for me-
God did Ihz bestl
Mrs. Helen Hunt
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1873-04-02

was when the average at Thanksgiving did
not EXCEED eight pounds, and brought only
as many cents pound; whereas the weight
has been increased fifty per cent. and the
price two hundred per cent From StoniDg-
ton, the town Immediately south, still larger
quantity was sent, and the quality was a
grade heavier Said an old farmer who
bought large bronze gobbler of premium
stock last season, must have some more
of that stock, for have the heaviest turkeys
in the neighborhood. Good feed, especially
during the first fall and winter. is almost as
important as good stock. A farmer feeds
bushel of corn to hundred turkeys in No
vember in dav, at the cost of one dollar,
and it looks a little extravagant. But it lie
less than the third OF quart, and the cost
of a cent day for eich bird. We once tried
the experiment of feeding some second-litter
turkeys tbr ,ugh the winter, and found the
hens gained about two pounds month and
the COOLERS three. The iced was principally
boiled potatoes, and meal and corn. At th is
rate. the gain in flesh, at twenty five cents
pound would be worth alb out seventy five cents
a month for each gJbbler, ana fifty cents Tor
each hen. If thirty cents worth of feed will
make this gain, it cannot be very bad busl-
ness to feed turkeys literally through the
winter By all me rs have large, well-ted
stock to breed from 10 the spring, and the
time to make them is now"
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1873-04-02
MISCELLANEOUS.
Vermont Central r. Rim e
WINTER FNTs.
Commencing Monday, Dec. 8, 1872.
TRAINS GOING SOUTH AND EAST

TRAINS GOING SOUTH AND EAST.
Leave Montpelier s.55 am. 2.1S and 9 IS pm
Mail Train leaves Ogdensburg at 600 pm; ST Al
bans $50 NJ. connecting at White River Junction
and Bellows Fa lis with trains tor Boston, Worcester
&C., and at White River Junction with trains on DIS
sumpsc Railroad al South Vernon for Springfield nd
New York at New London with Steamer LOT new
York.
Day Express leaves Montreal at sic am: ST. Johns
At 10 90 am Ogdensburs al $50 AM Pattsbursh al
100 am, ST. Abans al 1900 M, arriving In 6os'oi
via Lowell at 10 90 pm. ,,.-
Night Express leaves Ogde nsbnrg at 1900 M, Pisis
burg 30 pm, Montreal at 80 pm, ST. J0hns az 4.W
pm. ST. Albans - pm. connectins at ~hte fVei
Junction and Bellows Falls with trains for Session anG
Worcester, &C, arriving lnGosion at o5o am, ID Sou
Vernon with trains for Springfield and New f"ik
arriving in New York at 1880 pm, and III Ne" Lon
| don at Ii. Is am.
TRAINS GOING NORTH AND WEST.
Leave Montpelier $50 and 7.i5 am, and 4 70 an'
I 6l5p.m.
| Day Express : leaves Boston via Lowell 500 am
tor Burlington, ST. Adams, Montreal, &c arriving II
Montreal at 945 PM, and Ogdensburg al 10 am
making connection for the West
| Mail Train for Burlington and ST. Albansieave Bcs
| ton via Lowell az 700 am. via Lawrence and Fitch
5urgh at 100 am. Springfield at . % am E en
| lows Falls ~ 90 M, White River Junction 2% III
| arriving in ST. Adams at 9.25 pm.
| Trains leaving Boston via FitchOursh at 7.3O am
| and Springfield at 800 AM, connec at "hlte rive
Junction with Day Express train.
Accommodation Train leaves Mortified at '-So an
Rutland at S 90 am, Burlington at g. 90 m, 81 A
,ans at 1900 ST. John at $50 pm, arriving ii
| Ogdensbnrg, al $40 pm
| Night Express leaves New LONDON d. 2-fi pm
South Vernon 9.j5 p m receiving passengers iron
| Connecticut River Railroad, leaving New YORK
300 M, Springfield $40 pm, Bellows falis li.2
| D-m, connecting with trains Cheshire Railroad
leaving Boston $50 p NJ Getting at White Rive
junction with train leaving Boston at 500 pm, 10
Burlington, 1t. Adams. Montreal, &c arriving in Mon
trea 9.45 am. Pl.ttshure oh l2.00 am, and u
| Ogdensburgh, al I2.45 D.m., connecting with GraI
| Trunk Railway for the West.
Sleeping Cars are attached the night Express Trail
| running between Montreal and Boston, aud M"nt-ei
| md SprIn ghed, and ST. Adams and Troy.
| Drawing Room Cars day Express Trains betwee
| Montreal and Boston.
Through tickets for Chicago and the West Tor sale
| the principal stations.
c. MERRILL. Ge,I superintendent
| st. Adams. Dec 9. 1872.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1873-04-02

Culture OF THz PorATo.-Mr. WI.
White, in the Country Gentleman, very tru
ly says:
Almost every SECTION, If not every farmer.
has . peculiar mode of culture for the pota-
to, which is supposed, by the cultivator, to
be the best mode; SO that in detailing the
particular practice Of any one. We are liable
TO be taken up. or criticised by those of an
other coil or section circumstances and soil
must govern the culture. etc., in all cases. as
We have found. Having lived in the valley
OF che Connecticut river, and worked a soil
of varying capacity and composition, from
light sandy to a stony one, and observed the
practices of Others in varying sections OF Con-
necticut, my native State can give the re-
suit oil my personal expei nee, tnge her with
the r. suit OF observation, on tile culture oi
this important crop, in the line o. domestic
economy Until he appearance of the pota-
TO disease. nearly thirty years since. no spe
cial care was used in the selection of soil or
culture Of the crop, any soil that WIS not a.
fec'ed by standing water or swampy, being
considered bit Tor growing potatoes, if given
. little straw which had been wet in the barr
yard, in the bill, and soil or sod enough
scrsped together to cover the same and raise
bill about the growing plants. But from
and since about 1915. experience and obser-
vation have taught US, as all other farmers,
Enst succe IS IN potato growing is more pre-
carlous and particular business more care
must be exercised in selection of soil, prep
aratIon culture. etc. A weil-drained, drv
SOIL, approaching shnd or gravel. has been
found 10 grow tue best quality of eating DO
fatoes, IL the quantity a little LEES than
from stronger, heavier soil. Such land need
ed fertillzing for other crops in seasons pre-
vious TO growing potatoes, to put it in lair
heart. end then for the potatoes use mineral
fertilizers ashes. plaster, lime and salt
rixed, are + und as good as any in the bill,
With plaster and ashes applied to the surface
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1873-04-02

TURKEYS. The following facts about tur-
key breeding we clip from the Agricultarist !:
There is nothing like Iacts to confirm a
theory. IL it were really believed ha. good
selection and good feed would increase The
average size of turkeys third, it would not
be d fhcult to get intelligent farmers to pay
attention to these points. We find very
important item in local journal from North
Stonington, Ct, which confirms this view
This town is on the borders of Rhode Island
and represents the district where the Mar
ragansett turkeys principally are raised,
known in the market as Rhode Island tur-
keys. The writer says Probably more
than fifty thousand pounds of poultry have
been sent from this vicinity this week for the
Thanks. giving market in Boston, at twenty
three cents pound. The quality cent this
year is better than that oil last y, ar, some
lots of turkeys averaging nearly twelve
POUNDS, and one monstrous old fellow bore
down thirty-six and a quarter. The size of
turkeys raised here abouts has increased
steadily for twenty-five OF thirty years, ow-
ing to attention to propagation. The time
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1873-04-02

squirrel bit him in the ear, so that he
sprang up, and thought that it was the
shoemaker, who had stuck his awl in him
because he had said that the shoemaker
used to cut too wide straps from other peo-
pies leather.
Crestfallen, he tried to steal to the door !;
but when he reached the threshold, the
dog caught him in the small of the leg, so
that he thought that it was the officer OF
justice. who had clutched him on account
Of his many impostures.
He rushed headlong into the entry. But
there the horse kicked him SO violently
that he thought it was his worthy old
father, who struck him on the back with
club because the son did not want to
live honestly and eat plain food, rather
than live daintily by witchcraft.
Now the hen also awoke, and the cock
tapped his wings and crowed. But in
his agony the wizard fancied, when he
sprang down the steps, that it was the exc
cutioner who cried after him:
Put him on the block Cut off his
head. y
And with his heart IN his throat, he ran
as fast as he could to the village, and re-
lated what had happened. But the people
only laughed at him, and said that it served
him just right.
He never dared to 60 to the hut again
and it was all over with his conjuring.
But the horse, and the dog. and the cat
and the geese, and the cock and hen, and
the squirrel, were so contented with then
lodgings that they resolved to repair the
hut and make it their headquarters. Aud
they live there as good friends yet, to this
day. Any one who does not believe it can
20 and see them. 1t is easy to fud the
way. First 60 to the right, then to the
eft, and then straight ahead. Y GU will
know the cottage as soon as you see it. 1t
is gray, with white window castings and a
red door. Close by it grows pine. Ii
the window sits the cat on the side OF
the hill browses the horse the geese keep
by the edge of the ditch (; the squirreI
climbs about the top of the tree, and the
cock and heu scratch in the dung hill.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1873-04-02

TIE CHILIfNGuAM CATTLE.-ln the north
eastern part OF England, IN to county OF
ut Nurthum berland, is a small nnant Of "a
large old forest which at e time stretched
Tar north into Scotland Tins forest is called
i hllIIngham Park In it is ChIllingham
Castle, one OF the seats OF an ancieUt noble
family OF England, the Earls OF TanServllle.
The o .rk has b en- IN existence as park for
elsht or ten centuries and within It's bound
aries have been preserved during all that
lapse OF time remnant OF the ancient race
oi cattle which inhabited Europe even IN that
prehistoric time when the cIues now sub
merged beneath the waters OF the SwIss lakes
were peopled Tue scientific name gwen To
these cattle, Bos pri0ngeaiOus, suficientIy
explains their greaC auuqui'y. u them
nune Low remain but THIS ueid at Chilling
nam and ieN other less mpOrtanC speci-
men nerds in some other similar parks aud
enclosures. lhey are thus the Oldest race oi
cattle now existing, They a'e not domestl-
Gated, and are purpose y kept as wild as pos
slole, SO that they may .uCnloh sport to their
owner and his friends IN bunting them. Mt
wIths landing, they are readily domesticdted
| Hnen kept apart from their seml-wlld Com
D,nious. Tn Sc clttie are white in color,
| With the inside OF the ears reddlsh-brOwn
ewes surrounded with black ring, muBZle
| Drown, hools black, and the horns white,
| Jpped with black Ene bulls have no dew
lap, and no name but sa0rt upright one.
As might be expected, these cattle are not
good mixers, but their beef l. said TO be oil
very excellent quality. A curious TACT III
| relation To them That although the race ls
50 ancient, and has been kept perfectly pure,
| vet occasionally Il calf is bora VITA red Ul
Drown ear, or mixed with brown or red OF
the body, or even entirely red OF black. SucL
calves are destroyed, 50 thaG the herd may bl
Kept 10 uniform color-Americ IN AgrtcIl-
turaa.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1873-04-02

Frost AND IRON RAILs.-The reason why
iron rails and rolling sto k more frequently
break in cold than 10 warm weather Is, that
the ground beneath the sleepers, when fro
zen, is much less elastic than usual, and
hence the iron work receives severe strain
on the passage of a train; that where
a screw or spike or rivet is driven tightly
through iron, somewhat weakening it at
this point, the weakness may be much H.
creased by the contraction of the iron dur
ing irost; lastly-it the iron tested CONTAINS
phos phorus to the extent Of the average rail
road iron of Wales, France and Belgium, it.
strength to resist sudden blows at 10I
Fahrenheit is but from third to fourth OF
what it is at $40 Fahrenheit. There are
many other interesting opinions cItet on
this subject 10 the Massachusetts, Railroad
cover the ground. Let US see what they
teach.
First, evidently, that the danger Of acct
dent is greatest in cold wather, and hence
that then in particular there should be IN
usual caution in running railway trains at
| high speed Second, that iron strong
enough for ordinary service may become I
source of special weakness if bored and tight
| " fitted by separate piece OF metal. 1h'
same report elsewhere describes an accident
on the Hartford and New Haven railroad, IL
which the original breakage occurred IN {
rail where it had been weakened by slo
cut on one side Tor a spike-seat, to proven
creeping" Third, and most important
that bad rails> ay iron, or that which is no
absolutely of the best, is frightfully weak
ened by cold weather. Gentlemen Director
of railroad companies it is your interest, a
well as that of the public, that your rails b.
of the best iron, or better still, OF steel ant
that they be laid with skill and care. Tn
report from which we have quoted speaks o
the recurrence Of accidents ct trains at grea
speed as unavoidable, though capable OF be
ing reduced to a minimum but states ais
that it is possible to provide against dlsaste
.'an equipment capable of meeting and re
sisting it when it becomes inevitable
This form of precaution-consisting chief
IN brakes that can be actuated by the engl
! neer, and cars of strong construction Pre-
viJed with substantial coupling and buffer
is perfectly attainable by railroad man
ayers.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1873-04-02

Oh tne vines, once or more during the season
OF growth previous to bloseomIpg. Early
planting, the earlier the better-after the
soil could be well worked in spring-is found
| to give best results. Plough the ground well
as deep as the ground will admit of with
out turning up dead soil harrow and mark
out rows with small one-borse pl ugh, a
fair step apart, about IL ieet from centres
put the hills 30 to 80 inches apart, in the
rows; little care with pretty correct eye,
will stand instead of marking for the bills.
In the matter of seed. We have found that
good, fair, medium sized, whole potatoes.
gave the most satisfactory results. Whether
the fertilizer 10 dropped first, or the potatoes,
IS lmmatersl, but they should not come in
contact. Tie covering is done in various
ways with the hoe, harrow turned bottom
up, plough, or tobacco ridger, observing only
~ cover 10 an uniform depth. We have al
ways found best results in growing potatoes
IN hllie, and at about the above distances,
not planting SO very deep, only three or four
II chee, and raising the hills somewhat wht n
hoeIng. Sufficient after culture is given to
encourage steady, healthy growth, and
keep down weeds no working is allowed
alter the potatoes get in bloom, except to
pull or cut any weeds. In harvesting, we
have Lever triod or seen tried. any more eco
Domical way than digging with the hook, and
picking by hand, A man reasonably active
will harvest and put into the cellar Is to 80
bushels in day of less than ten hours, and
not work haid at that. In the matter OF
growing potatoes in drills, we have expert
mented and seen the trial made. on q small
scale, but with no decided gain, in product,
over hills, and certainly with more work at
tending, while the potatoes were inferior for
tatle use and have settled down ON the Con-
clusion that. Tor our soil and climate, the
distances given 10 the foregoing were the
best, the culture the most economical. |
should, PERHAPS, have SAID above, that Tor the
first working d good broadcast narrowing fits
as well as any.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1873-04-02
One of the sweetest stories we have ey

One of the sweetest stories we have ever
read is told by Los Angeles correspond
ent in the San Francisco Herald. On the
eastern slope of the San Francisco range
of mountains, is a rift in the solid wall
about one hundred and sixty feet deep,
thirty feet long, and seventeen feet wide.
For years it has been selected as the
- home of the BEES" and from the opening
they issue forth in solid column one foot
in diameter. Here the busy fellows have
improved the shining hours until they have
stored away, it is estimated, nearly ten
tons of honey. They guard their treasure
jealousy, and fight for it if any attempt is
made by the vandal man to help himself
thercfrom During the last four years
they have, by actual measurement, added
fifteen feet to their store. AS the climate
is so mild that almost any season flowers
may be found blooming, they are not CON-
PEELED to feed upon their store, but are
constantly adding to it.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1873-04-02

HoR ;E-CLIPPING AN lNDICTABLE OFTENSE.
There has been considerable controversy
even among horsemen, concerning horse
clipping those VINO contend that it is cruel
to 0eprive the animal of the covering given
him by nature being met by those who insist
that the animals show much better feeling
after they are clipped, and that after driving
they can be more easily and thoroughly cared
for. 1t was left, however, for Judge Balcolm
Of the Supreme Court Of New York to declare
horse-clipping an indictabe offence This
he did in his recent charge to the Grand Ju-
~, and added that persons who were in
doubt as to it's cruelty could determine it by
dressing themselves in linen clothes and straw
hats and going out to ride on cold winter
days.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1873-04-02
3ustry.
Fairy-FOlkS.

The fairy-books have told you
OF the fairy-folks so nice,
That make them leathern aprons
Of the ears of little mice;
And wear the leaves of roses,
Like cap upon their heads,
And sleep at night on thistle-down,
Instead offeather bedsl
These stories, too, have told you,
No doubt to your surprise,
That the fairie4 ride in CO aches
That are drawn by butterflies;
And come int your chambers,
When you are locked in dreams,
And right across your counterpanes
Make bold to drive their teams;
And that they heap your pillows
With their gifts of ri gs and pearls;
But do not heed such idle tales,
My little boys and girls.
There are no fairy folks that ride
About the world at night,
Who give you rings and other things,
To pay for doing right.
But if you do to others what
You'd have them do to you,
You'll he as blest as if the best
Of story books were true.
Alice Cary