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The Republican journal., 1873-04-03
Farm, Garden, and Household
How to Raise Celery and Cabbage Plants.

| find that most OF the Information that
am able to give to your readers is suggest
ed by inquiries of correspondents who
write to me to help them out of their diff
Culties. One of these, from New Hamp-
shire, says that ne finds great trouble with
his crops of both cabbage and celery on
account of the difficulty of raising the
plants. His hot-bed- raised cabbage are
often severely hurt by frosts after planting
out. and his celery seed which he cannot
in his section sow sooner in the open
ground than the first week in May, does
not give him strong enough plants to set out
in July. These difficulties suggest rem
edy which must be different from our usual
practice in the latitude of New York, where
in ordinary seasons our ground operations
are in full blast the first week in April.
This remedy is the use of sashes not a.
AOt-bedS, but only as cold beds. or, as thev
are called, cold-frameS. These are con-
structed simply of boards placed parallel
with each other, six feet apart, or of the
length of the sash used, whatever it may be
These beds should be placed in spot as
warm and sheltered As possible. Where the
frost is yet in the ground, by placing the
sashes on, the spaces under them will soon
be thawed out by the sun particularly if the
sashes can be covered up at night.
As soon As the soil is dry enough, it
should be thoroughly pulveTized, and in
cOrporated with at least three inches of
wellr rOtted stable manure; in the absence
of that bone dust NAV he used, and well
mixed through the soil in quantities of
about two pounds to each , by G foot sash.
But great care must be taken 10 have it
thoroughly mixed with the soil to depth
of al least four inches An ounce Of cab
bage seed would he about sufficient for each
The Republican journal., 1873-04-03
An Easy Way TO Early Cucumbers.

Cncumhers for early use may be forced
IN hot-bedS. For this purpose the beds
need not be started until the middle Of
March, for when the young vines are above
ground they will require an abundance of
air daily, which cannot ALWAYS be given if
started earlier in the season, on account ot
cold weather. There have been many
attempts made among commercial garden
erS around New York, who have vegetable
forcing houses, to start cucumberS as early
AS January IN these houses hnt every such
attempt has, so far, proved unsuccessful.
But when the forcing beds are started Az
late the middle Of March, it i quite As
easy 10 raise crop OF cucumhers aS il is 4
lot OF e&4 or tomato plants. TO save
trouble in waterins: the beds, more soil may
be used than is needed for raising plants
When the bed is Ready for planting, tw0
'hllls' may be planted under each sash,
putting six seeds in each hill Of the ''W lite
Spine" one Of the best varieties either Tor
iurcint "t garden culture. When tltt-
young plants are an inch or two above
ground they should he TANNED out leaving
only three vines in one and two in the
other, or two in each, in case the plants
are strong. Al this stage of growth the
important point is to give air freely every
day, without checking the growth, unit the
second week IN April. Straw mats should
be put over the sashe> at night to protect
against frost, When the vines begin to
''run," pinchine off the end of each at the
third ioiut will encourage more stpcky
growth, and if pinched second time at the
fifth Joint the vine will not only be strong
est but the cucumber will be borne nearer
the hill. Whenever the surface soil in the
beds becomes dry, then tepid water should
be given III quantity enough to moisten the
soil, but not enough to saturate the bed.
These few general directions, if followed
will put one on the right path to raise
cucumbers under glass. Those who enjoy
cucumberS and cannot afford the time or
expense of forcing them, can by a little
trouble have cucumbers fit for table use
at least month earlier in the garden than
when grown in the ordinary way. For
this purpose single sash and frame, with
or without bottom heat, in which to sow
the seed will be all.snficient Shallow
drills one inch deep should be made, and
the seed of Early Spine, sowed thinly and
then covered, pressing the soil down firmly
over the seed. This may be done the last
week in March, aud by the time the weather
Is settled and the ground warm enough in
the open ground to plant cucnmbers, the
plants in the frame win be two or three
inches high, with the first rough leaf Well
developed. These young plants may then
be lifted without disturbing the roots and
transplanted into the open ground without
checking their growth in the least. BY
following this simple plan there is no dan-
ger to be apprehended from the striped bug,
for the plants are already far enough
advanced to be proof against such attacks.
In the space of a single sash, 3x6, enough
of plants can be started in this way to plant
10 hills-twce the number usually planted
for family use at any one time
The Republican journal., 1873-04-03
Perfect Butter.

There have been in the Providence market
this winter q few hundred pals of butter
which have a history. They came from a
single dairy in Illinois, and are uniform in
quality, hardly distuguishable, indeed, onG
from another, although made in summer
autumn and winter. They are Sweeter and
have a fresher and more delicate aroma
than any ball butter we We're able to find
last summer in Rhode Island. They con-
tain little salt and no buttermilk. This
perfect butter is churned daily from fresh
milk. Here lies the secret. Milk one hour,
butter the next. No setting of milk pans
and storing up of cream. No subiection of
milk and cream to atmospheric, electric and
thermal changes. No expensive cellars
with running water 10 secure fresh air and
equal temperature, or, in default perpet-
ually fiuctuating product OF butter IN
place of the hand churn, the power churn
In place of the inefficient hand working of
the butter jaws worked by power, sqneez
ing cut the buttermflk, lust aS the melted
Stag is squeezed out of the sottened iron in
pudding.
The dairy farm at which this butter is
made has we believe, hundred or more
cows, in addition TO which milk is purchas-
ed from the neishboring farms. II is, in
other words, a factory, producing butter Oh
large scale of unitorm, excellent quality.
Our theory of butter making has always
been to carry the milk from the cows direct
ly to the churn, and only to delay churnng
long enough for the milk to cool to the
proper temperature. There would then be
two churnings each day. and the quantity
should be sufficient to make one or more
complete packages for the market at each
churning. Theoretically, also the caseine
should be Immediately separated from the
residual milk and buttermilk, and the ulti-
mate products, butter and cheese, be the
ouly substances remaining to be cared for,
from day to day. In such factory, power
and good machinery would substitute hand
labor, and uniformly good product of
butter should result. The cheese would be
of secondary, though considerable impor-
tance.
A the present time large quantities of
French butter of uniform quality are sold
in the English market at a good price.
Meanwhile American butter in England
brings much less than its value from the
TACT that no two packages are alike, even
from the same dairy. This holds good of
Rhode Island butter in our~own market.
The butter from the same dairy in success
sye weeks in summer has hardly recOg-
nizable resemblance. A principal cause of
this diversity and inferiority of product is
The difficulty or impossibility of keeping
milk in our variable climate, and in any
but the best appointed diary rooms or
cellars. The remedy for this is in churning
fresh milk instead OF stale cream. Provi-
dence journal.
The Republican journal., 1873-04-03
THE BANK OF ENGLAND FORGERIEs.
Details of the Plot and how it was Dis
covered.

The London Times, in q long editorial,
after alluding to the recent torgercs on
the Bank of England, gives the following
account of the conspiracy and the manner
in which it was discovered:
The person who is now being sought
by the police commenced by opening Il
deposit account Of the ordinary character
with the western branch of the bank. For
this purpose he would need only an intro
duction by some customer, and the only
evidence of solvency the bank would re-
qure of him woul! be the deposit of a
sufficient cash balance. This was, OF
course, forthcoming, and constituted part
of the capital with which the scheme was
carried on. Of course, all the money
thus invested, would, it was expected,
ultimately be recovered; but the gang
must have been we'll supplied with funds
in order to afford to keep large sum of
money invested, as it were, in the specu-
lation. The manager of the plot was in
no hurry, and took care to gain a good
footing before he ventured on his ultimate
enterprise. He behaved for some time
Just like an ordinary customer Of good re-
sources. He drew upon his balance and
renewed it, but kept it always at a good
figure. After while he deposited some
bills. They were good and genuine bills
Still he was careful not to be hasty, and
he continued his transactions with the
bank until he had acquired the reputation
of a person engaged in legitimate com
merce and thoroughly trustworthy. At
length the moment came for the presenta
ton of the forged bills. They We're dis
counted without hesitation, and the au-
thors of the fraud had, to all appearance,
succeeded in safely pocketing about a
hundred thousand pounds. Some Of the
money, it appears, was invested in United
States bonds. so that to the last they
might avoid the appearance of doing any
thing unusual. They are said to be Ameri-
cans, and what more natural than that
they should desire bonds OF their own
country? All these arrangements were
masterpieces of ingenuity and patience
But it is rarely that these conspiracies
are not marred by some utterly gratutious
oversight, and the execution of this scheme
was marred by the inevitable flaw. The
men who had exerted skill, foresight
and perseverance sufficient to ensure the
unhesitating acceptance of forged bills,
could not escape one trivial blunder,
which revealed the whole plot. They
presented two bills in which the date Of
acceptance had been omitted. The whole
calendar was at their disposal, they knew
perfectly well that single slip in the
usual formalties would be fatal, and vet
they fell into the folly Of marring their
whole scheme for lack OF date Enquiry
was of course made of the firm whose
acceptance was thus undated 1t was dis
covered that the bill was not genuine, and
the whole series were then found to be
forgeries. How much further the plot
might have been carried it is impossible
to say"
The Republican journal., 1873-04-03
Care of Sheep.

IA few winters ago | weighed the hay
for ten fine wo0led sheep and for an ordi-
nary sized COW that was giving milk, and
the COW consumed rather more than the
sheep. A few roots daily in winter, fed
with fair hay, will keep sheep in good
condition to care for her lambs in the
spring. The lambs need looking to the
first few hours after birth; most of them,
however, will not need it, but occasionally
one will be found that will not be strong
enough, or from some other cause will fail
to obtain It's natural supply of milk, and
will require assistance Here is what
three sheep did last season: They lambed
in March, one had three, the others two
each, seven in all sold five Of them in June
Tor twenty five dollars; the two kept if sole
at the same time with the others, would
have brought eleven dollars, making thirty
six dollars; sold twelve pounds of wool for
six dollars; total, lambs and wool, forty
two dollars, which will be called goo6
return by most of your readers, | think
But perhaps some of them have sheep that
have done better. These lambs were not
sold for any fancy price, but at regular
rates to the butcher" Peterboro', N. H 8.
Transcript.
The Republican journal., 1873-04-03
LiNe-L earn-L Labor-Love

Live in the light Of the Truth that hath founi
thee,
Live as the Ocean lives, sparkling and broad
Live tor the thousands who perish around thee
Live for thy country, Eternity, God;
Live in the Past with its eloquent history;
Live in the present-it soon will have fled;
Live for the Future, enshrouded in mystery;
Live while you live, ere you sleep with the
dead.
Learn to look up when temptations assail thee
Learn to do right, whosoever may laugh;
Learn to distrust the delights that regaIe thee
Learn from Quilts chalice, oh, never to quaff
Learn to rebuke each unhalowed emotion.
Learn to thyseh to be loyal and Just;
Learn TO make Duty thy shrine of devotion,
Learn not in man, but thy Saviour to trust.
Labor for all that is highest and purest
Labor for that which is wisest and best;
Labor for Hin who of friends is the surest
Labor till Death brings thy guerdon of rest
Labor is earnest thy work is around thee,
Labor unweariedly on to the end:
Labor is worship, and angels surround thee,
Labor to cheer thee and fly to defend.
Love mid aspersiou, neglect and disaster
Love in the sunshine, but more in the storm
Love, above all thine EXempar and Master,
Love Him with constancy, tender and warm
Love not of Sorrow her vesture to borrow,
Love in the layspring of Heaven to roam;
Love not Self or Sin, and i'll Earth's glad to
morrow
Love everlasting shall welcome thee home.
The Republican journal., 1873-04-03
The Hay Crop.

One OF the most paying crops in our To-
cality the past few years, for the farmer
mas been the hay crop, as prices for this
staple have ruled about S25 per ton, baled
and delivered at the railroad. OF course,
it has been our study how to increase the
quantity. 1t is universally admitted that
we do not, for some reason, obtain as heavy
crops as formerly, especially on our up
lands. Our seeding does not ''catch" as
well, and then the occasional drouths to
which we are liable, seem in a certain de
gree to kill the grass roots; and then, per
haps, we have acquired the habit of apply
ing our manures too much to our hoed
crops, and not giving proper amount to
the grass, which, as general rule, is of
course very poor policy.
Again, we are accustomed almost eXclu-
sively to seed with some grain crop, and
not to sow the grass seed alone. AS this
subject is being very fully and properly
discussed just now in the columns of the
Country Gentleman, l will not hazard an
opinion; only presuming to say that it is Il
subject Of much moment, and trust 1t will
be fully ventilated
Another reason has been whispered,
which is this That on account of the great
competition among the different moving
machine manufacturers, as to which ma
chihe snail shave-yeS, literally shave-the
surface OF our meadows the closest, the
roots OF the grass are really and perma-
nently injured in leaving them bare, and
thus very liable to be frozen out OF course
| shall not be presuming enough to attempt
to point ont a remedy for these failures, my
only object being to get your readers to
put on their thinking caps, and see if really
there are any grounds for these formidable
allegations; and my object is then fully
gained.
One thing is certain, the time is forever
past when we can hope to cope with our
western brethren in raising the cereals
their rich soils and cheap lands give them
an advantage over US which it were useless
for us to try to compete with in any degree.
And even now quantities of hay are being
brought from Canada to our own markets,
and sold so as to compete successfully with
our own crop. VIM. j. PETTEE
The Republican journal., 1873-04-03

Prof- Tyndall illustrates the value of a
single potato by supposing that every po-
tatO in the world were destroyed; that one
would contain the possibility of again stock
ing the world with an invaluable article of
food. Ii one potato would produce, when
planted, only crop of ten potatoes, in ten
years the total product of the produce of
this one potato would be equal to ten
thousand millions, which would be suf-
ticient to stock the whole world with seed,
The real value of that single potato, then,
would be such that it would be better that
the City of London or New York should be
totally destroyed than that tuber should
be lost to the world.
The Republican journal., 1873-04-03
Hanged by a Mob.
Salinas. CAL, March ~ Correspondence of Il


ment as the shocking murder Of Mrs.
Sarah Nicholson, ut her house near Wat
sonvIllc, by Matt Tarpey. ,Farpey holds
considerable property here. but, on ac-
count OF his Character and habits. has al-
ways been more feared than respected. In
person he IS short, stout, of fair COM
pleXlon, ana is about IS years old. He is
Irish by birth He is a man with fierce
ana un9oyernabie temper. In 1854 he
was accused of numbering an old man in
Santa Cruz, and then only escaped the
stern justice OF a vigilance committee
through the efforts of one man. He is
likewise credited with having been the
ringleader in many mobs which wreaked
vengeance upon Indians, Spaniards and
others who had committed murder In
all such cases he was the very first to ad-
vocate lynch law, and always the prime
mover in executing it. He always went
armed, even when in prosecution OF his
everyday work Sometimes he carried
one revolver, and sometimes two. To his
trends he was liberal and even generous
10 his family he was kind and attentive
giving his children, three in number, all
the advantages of education his condition
would allow.
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The farm, is ohouf ac,,a, ,,;Inu f,o,,, IVot-
sonvile. Tarpey had some land adioin-
ing it and this was the cause of the trouble
Tarpev alleged that the Nicholsons were
backward in paying the interest Of the
purchase money, and has been trying tor
a long time TO regain possession. Not
long ago Tarpey moved an old frame
| house across his line on to the land OF the
Nicholsons, and Quilt Il fence around, and
rented the house with all the Nicholson
land to German named Peterson, intend
| ing thereby to freeze out Mrs. Nicholson
| from her house, quarter OF mile away.
| The lady heard of this the first part OF last
week, and, her husband being away, she
rode into town and consulted j A. Bar
| ham, a lawyer there, rs to what she should
do. He told her that she held the deed
and that she should not be put out of pos
session OF the property without legal pro
cess, and that If Iarpey had moved a
house on her land she had right to take
| possession or 1t. Acting on this advice,
The Republican journal., 1873-04-03

Steamer Grace Irving has been found
where she sunk, off Duxbury. and will
probably be raised
The Republican journal., 1873-04-03
TARPEY GIVES HIMSELF UP.

He carried the muzzle of his gun point
ed toward her, and by his own account
he brushed her hair back and Scrutinzed
her face. The appearance of her eyes
told him that she was dead. He left the
body of his victim lying there in the road
way, went back to his ambush, and got
his Henry rifle Che used the shot gun to
commit the murder) and started on foot
toward Watsonville On the way he be-
gan to realize what he had done, and
thinking that he could make it appear
that the shooting of the woman was ac-
cidenta, he resolved to give himself up
to Justice. He stopped ut the house of
Joseph Fillizer, who, Tarpey supposed
was constable, he having held that
office once, and said that he had ac-
cidentally shot woman down on the
road, and wanted to be taken to Justice
of the Peace. Filler knew Tarpey well,
and laughed at the idea. Tarpey insisted
that it was SO. Fillizer then told him that
he was not Il constable, but that Schade,
who lived few yards further on, and
who was then in 81 4ht ut work in his field,
was a constable To Schade, therefore,
Tarpey went and told the same story.
Schade received his surrender, but did
not take his arms from him, though Tar
pey promised to leave them behind when
they got to his own house in Watsonvlle
together.
THE PEOPLE INCENSED.
party of citizens went out and found
Mrs Nicholson's body and bought it into
town. and al this public Indignation ran
up to the highest pitch There was the
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1873-07-19
The Cinnahar Mines.

The cinnabar, sulphuret of mercury
mine, at New-Almaden, in California,
has had, in some respects, curious
history. Long before the Spaniard S
possessed the land, the Indian came,
even from as far north as Oregon, to
obtain the red ore, which they used
for war paint, the su distance being a
natural or native vermiiion The
earliest settlers dug in the mountain
for gold and silver, but found none.
At last an ecclesiastic from the neigh.
boring mission, and a Spanish captain,
detected the presence Of cinnabar, and
obtained the first sample by rude
process of smelling, or rather of
sublimation. The apparatus was
original and unique. 1t consisted, so
the records tell, of only an old
gun-barrel and tub of water. But it
is easy to imagine how, by placing the
pulverized ore In the metal tube, heat
ing the main length, closing one end
and placing the other in the water, the
mercurial vapors could be driven off,
condensed, and collected in metallic
form. The great mine at Ipria, in
Austria, owed it's discovery to the
presence of globuies of quicksilver in
the sand of small mountain stream
A poor cooper having placed some
pals In the rivulet to swell their seams
close before taking them to market
filled them with sand to keep
them from floating away, but when he
tried to empty the pals next morning,
he could not lift them. He attributed
this to witchcraft, but the parish priest
was wiser, and from his counsels the
search, successful after much tribula :
ton, was instituted. The third great
source of quicksilver is the renowned
Almaden mine in Spain, after which
that IL California was named. This
was worked 1000 years ago, and is
still extremely profitable. Its workings
have reached depth of 1900 feet
San Francisco Her0Id.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1873-07-19
Tobacco.

The recently published report of the
State Chemist OF Connecticut presents
some interesting statements of the re
suits of tests upon tobacco leaves.
The Hartford Post thus summarizes
them:
1.-The most highly valued leaf ia
New England is the thin, tough elastic
leaf, which burns readily to ashes.
Those leaves that contain the most car
Donate of potash in their ashes, burn
the most freely and suitably. In some
combinations potash does not favor the
burning, and Schloesing, the tobacco
manufacturer, is enabled to improve
flavor and burning quality by artifci-
ally impregnating the leaf with acetate,
citrate or tartrate of potash, applying
the latter in solution and then drying.
Chlorine Injuries the tobacco, as does
also nitric acid. Sulphuric acid, united
with potash, soda. or lime, favors the
burning of tobacco. The best tobacco
is produced on well drained, warm,
sandy lands. The chemist understands
that heavy manuring increases the
quantity of the crop generally at the
expense of quality as regards texture. >