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The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1873-06-19

FIGHrING OF FUTURE MEN.oF-WAg.
The following page OF future history b.,
from the Nautical Magazine. The tw.,
fleets having sighted each other rs We
have supposed, will, probabIy-tot hrlr
we must enter into the region Of co9i r-
ture-Yapilly near each other. A. thry
approach, fire will most likely he oprr.I
from those guns (With which all eflir.r"r
ships are now provided) that are mouu.-l
ON the bow, so is tn fire ahead The -l.'
that can be fired win not be nuiheruu-
The hostile squadrons will soon be juo
close for ''how-lirr' to br Of any further
use, and rs they get very near cach olhr.
captains will, perhaps, not care to h.e
their view of the foe impcdcd by clouI~
of smoke hanging about their ship
Each vessel, still maintaining its speed
will not improbably look for an opponcut
in the encnly's force upon whom TO thy
ram The enemy, on the other hauit
will most likely be preparing to do thr
same, and between each pair OF Shu'-
will begin Il game of skill in mantsuNl.
ing, TO avoid not only the hostile prov,
but also the torpedo, which will inevitably
be towed alongside. In addition to the~.
man,euvreS of defense, there will bee
those by which it is attempted to deliyryr
deadly thrust with the PROV, to pour in Z
concentrated broadside from the hest po>i-
ton, and also to plant the terrible torpedo
beneath the opponents bottom. Suppo>-
ing the skill on both sides TO be nearly on
an equality the fleets will at first pas
through each other, then they will have to
turn round necessarily with circumspcr-
ton, to avoid being caught in flank whilr
so doing, and perform the same evolution,
over again"
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1873-06-19
Homemade Horse-Powers.

lie cheapest and best way to make a
horsepower for dairy and other light use,
j. TO put light drum on centre post,
high enough to have the belt clear the
horses head. Attach a sweep ten or twelve
feet long TO the centre post so that the
track in which the horse walks will be
from twenty to twenty -four feet in diameter
il possible. Let the track be soft ground
The whole arran ement may be made of
white pine, except the sweep, which should
hr iard wood. Let the drum be about ten
feet IN diameter and six inches face. Use
a two-inch rubber belt. Make small
pulley from four inches to foot In diam
eter, according as you want fast or slow
motion. If yOu want the motion still
faster, gear up with a second belt and set
of puleys. The direction of the motion
may be changed by quarter twist in the
second belt, or by passing the first belt
over idler pulleys.
This arrangement will be almost noise
less, while the clatter and jar of a circular
platform would be enough to drive sensi-
tive or nervous person almost crazy. Be-
sides, it is much easier and safer to teach a
horse 10 follow a circular path than to keep
his balence on a revolving platform. Cor.
Country Gentleman.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1873-06-19
Adaptation of Grasses.

At the late farmers convention in New
Hampshire, Prof Gould read a paper on
grasses. He said that grasses vary In
character, habit and nutritive value Some
flourish on dry, sandy soils. while they
speedily perish on a wet one. Others
flourish on wet soils while they perish on
try ono Some will grow on alkaline,
while others demand 4 soil which abounds
in potash, while others need lime, another
~oda and 81 IN. Some flourish in the
brightest sunligh-, while others flourish
best in the shade. Many thousands of
acres of land in this country are devoted
70 kinds of grasses which are not adapted
To their capacity. Yet it is impossible in
our present state of knowledge, to say what
kinds of grasses are in all cases best adapt
ed to all our varieties of soil In wet
meadows, out of thirty plants four were
found TO be useful and twenty-sX are of no
value. In dry meadows, out of thirty
eight plants, eight were useful and thirty
useless. In moist meadows, out of forty
iWo plants, seventeen We're useful, and the
rest We're of no value. The upland thin
soils are the poorest grass lands. The
noor clays give fifty per cent, the rich
loans $50 per cent, the flooded meadows
go per cent, and the Irrigated meadows
400 per cent. more than the upland thin
soils.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1873-06-19

A MASSACHUSETTS THUNDER STORM.
The extraordinary meteorological phc-
nomena of the present season do not seem
to be confined exclusively to the West, aS
appears from the following report in the
Springfield Republican of storm in the
neighboring new city"
''Holyoke was visited, about ) o'clock
Wednesday afternoon, by thunder storm
which, for violence, surpasses anythia&
ever witnessed by the oldest inhabitants.
For time the air seemed fairly ablaze,
and each flash of lightning was almost
instantly followed by terrific crash "t
thunder, which shook buildings to their
very foundations. Men who had unllinch
ingly braved many battle turned pale
and fairly held their breath; hats seemed
to sit little higher on the popular head,
and when the storm subsidized every one
gave an involuntary sigh of relief. ,Dur-
ing the thickest Of the electric battle a
horse frightened by the unusual disturb
ance, dashed through the street, and no
one cared to venture to the rescue. A
noise rs of crashing glass was heard above
the roar, and it was at first supposed that
the church near by had been struck but
it was afterwards found to be uninjured."
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1873-06-19
On the Beach.
BY PHILLIP USHER.

The moonlight santed DER the beach
And leapt across the glancing waves,
1t made the night too pure for speech,
Aud saddened with sense of graves.
We had been rambling all the day
Breathing the sea-air, she and 1,
And as the sunlight left the bay
We climbed the rocks to see it die.
Then waited for the rising moon
To cast the glamor of her light
On cliffs too commonplace by moon.
And the long sea-line left and right.
So all our talk to silence grew.
Unbroken by word or sign,
Till nearer to my side she drew,
And laid her little hand in mine.
The stars came out and in the West
The last FAINT glow of glory died,
And night, in jewelled sables dressed,
Came on us sitting side by side.
Then when the moon with rounded light
Stepped queenlv o'er the horizon,
A long the coast. inc stretching white,
With arms entwined we wandered on.
And many creek and winding cove,
And charming prospect did we miss,
Our eyes and thoughts were all for love,
And lips We're surely made 10 kiss
Boston Globe.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1873-06-19

SUNKEN TREASURES. In various local
tiles about the lakes, says the Detroit
Free Press. there are lying on the bottom
Il number OF vessels, many of them of the
better class, laden with railroad iron and
other property of great value, among
which may be included both iron and
copper ore. With some of the new appli-
ances for raising wrecks from great
depths, nearly all of these vessels with
their cargoes can be recovered without
much difficulty, should no storms inter-
vene. The weather thus far this season
has been unusually favorable for such
undertakings, and possibly may thus con-
tinue during the summer months, and,
from what can De learned of those en-
gagged in such enterprises, the experiment
will soon be entered upon. One of these
lost vessels is the schooner Saltillo, laden
with railroad iron, which sunk in the
River st. Clair some twenty years since.
Parties are now engaged in recovering
the cargo, but as the vessel was well
along in years her hull has doutless be-
come broken by ice. and is of little value.
The amount of property thus buried be-
meath the waters has been estimated at
upwards of $3,000,0O0, which is probably
below the actual figures.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1873-06-19

The Litchfeld Conn., Sentinel gives a
little colloquy between parson Elliot and
Lawyer Andrews, some time ago. They
were talking about which way the wind
was, Andrews said, 1--WE 60 by the Court
House vane." "And we," replied the
parson, ''go by the church vane." well"
said the lawyer, Sin the matter of wind
that is the best authority" and the par
son went home.to cOgitate.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1873-06-19
From the first to the twentieth of June.

IUIII lIIt HISN 10 UIIt IWtHlItJH OI JUHt,
say the Maine Farmer, is the only season
of the year when bark lice on apple trees
can be destroyed by a simple wash that will
not injure the tree. At this period the shell
which covers the insect becomes loosened
from the bark Of the tree. wash of lime
or strong soap suds will destroy both the
lice and the eggs. If applied later in the
season, after the shell becomes hardened
over the insect, no liquid can penetrate
beneath the shell, and the insect is not de-
strOYed.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1873-06-19

CosT OF ABUSING Mich Cows Harris
Lewis, the eminent Herkimer Co., N. Y,
dairyman, said lately, in an address to milk
producers, that he had known COW which
uniformly gave eighteen per cent. of cream
to her milk, to decrease her yield to six
per cent. in the short space of twelve hours,
merely from the excitement caused by the
bad treatment of brutal mixer 1t was
not guess work, because he used graduated
glasses to test the matter. This shows
pretty conclusively that it does not pay
dairymen to allow their cows to be i'll
treated. And in ill-treatment is to be in
cluded anything that will alarm or excite
them-fast driving to and from pastures,
worrying by dogs, yelling at them and
threatening demonstrations by boys, &C.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1873-06-19

l have great hope of wicked man,
slender hope of mean one. A wicked
man may be converted and become a
prominent saint. A mean man ought to
be converted six or seven times, one right
alter the other, to give him fair start
and put him ON an equality with bold, :,
wicked man. GBeecher.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1873-06-19

turkey, beloning to Oliver Cromwell of
Mercer, astonished its owner, recently, by
presenting him with an egg, which, on be-
ing broken, was found to contain another
perfect egg, shell and all, the inner one,
occupying the place of the yolk, being sep
arated from the outside shell by the white
of the outer egg.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1873-06-19

A man counting young woman was
intelrogated as to his occupation. II am
a paper-hanger on large SCALE" he re-
piled. He married the girl, and turned
out to be bill-poster.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1873-06-19

How PEOPLE GET SICK. Eating too much
and too fast, and swallowing imperfectly
masticated food. By taking too much fluid
during meals. Drinking poisonous whis-
key and other intoxicating drinks. Keep
ing late hours at night and sleeping too
late in the morning. Wearing clothing too
tight so as 10 relax the circulation. Wear
ing thin shoes. Neglecting to take suffi-
cient exercise to keep the hands and feet
warm. Neglecting to wash the body suf-
ticently to keep the pores of the skin open.
Exchanging the warm clothing worn in a
warm room during the day, for light cos
TUNES and exposure incident to evening
parties Starving the stomach to crafty
a vain and foolish passion for dress. Keep
ing up a constant excitement, fretting the
mind with borrowed troubles. Employing
cheap doctors, and swallowing quack nos
trums for every imaginary i'll. Taking
meals at irregular intervals.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1873-06-19

TIME FOR PRUNING. In 1866 | had a
young orchard that l began to prune in
February, and continued at intervals till
August, and those pruned in June, did
better, healed over sooner, than any pruned
either before or after that period. In 1871
began to renovate an orchard ten years
old, that had been trained according to the
absurd fashion of low heads which pre-
vailed at that time. 1t took great deal Of
cutting and trimming, but l was deter
mined, and persevered; the result was that
every wound made in June-the time the
work was done, at once to heal
over, and by the time growth stopped in
the fall, every place where a branch had
been cut off, had a beautiful ring of new
bark and wood, Of from one-third to one
half inch in width all around it, and still
they are doing well. [Cor. Gardeners
MOnthlV
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1873-06-19

The Chronicle says that Stephen Robin
son of No. Vassalboro, recently sold a mare
for $500, and the buyers paid him 800 to
secure for few days, the refusal Of two
Knox colts at $4,000 for the pair
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1873-06-19
phineas Field of East Claremont. Mass

Phineas Field of East Claremont, Mass,
writes to the New England Farmer as fol-
lows d" If you admire Pond lilies, (and
who does not y and have springy place
in your moving, by digging q hole so that
the water will stand from six to twenty
inches deep in the sand, and by setting
roots in the bottom, you may have a sup
ply of fresh ones through the season of
blooming. Old roots will blossom the
first season. One-half days digging four
years ago, has supplied me abundantly, and
now | have hundreds of Young roots.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1873-06-19
The Cost Of Raising Horses.

l commenced eight years since with two
superior mares to breed from, and have
raised twelve colts. OF these l have lost
six of different ages, some of them I was
offered six hundred dollars for, but did not
see fit to sell, hoping to get more. l have
now six out of the twelve on hand, all of
which are very promising, but whether |
shall ever realize dollar from them or not
is to be proved. Under the circumstances
| am not able to say whether horse raising
is profitable or not. | hope it will prove
so; but to get what mine have cost me, |
must sell them for about three thousand
dollars, for no man can raise a horse up to
six years old for less than five hundred
dollars, and that does not include the ser
vice of the stallion. | do not mean in this
estimate to include common horses that
are put to work at two years old, and made
to earn their living and become worthless
at five or six years old. H. G. Abbott in
Maine Farmer.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1873-06-19

The Fairfield Chronicle says that DR.. N.
r. Boutelle has recently sold from his
Jersey herd three choice heifers to f. L.
Hibbard of East Franklin, Vermont
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1873-06-19

A DoCToR's DIARY pocket diary
has been picked up in the street, and now
is in the finders possession, awaiting its
owner. From the following extracts, it
would appear that the owner is medical
man:
"kase 230, Mary An Perkins. Bisness,
washerwoman. Sickness in her he'd
Fisk sum blue pills a soaperifik age 50.
Ped me one dollar, l kuarter bogus
Mind get good kuarter and make her take
mo fisk.
Kase 231, Tummes Krnks, bisness,
Nirishman. Lives with Molonny whot
keeps dray-Sikness, digg in ribs and
tow blak eys. Fisk to drink my mixter
twice a day of sasiperily bere and jellop,
and fish lie, with asifetidy to make it fast
fisiky. RUBBED his Ease with grese lini-
ment, aged 10 years of age. Drinked the
mixture and wuddn't pay me bekase it
tasted nasty, but the mixter'll work his
innards, | reckon.
Kase 232, Old Misses Boggs. Amt
got no busnis, but plenty Of mummy
Siknes awl a humbug. Cav her some of
my celebrated 'Dipsefiorinkon,' which she
sed drank like cold tea-wich it was too,
Must put somethink in it to make her six
and bad. The Old Wommen have got
the roks,"
Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1873-1877, 1873-03-13

Dispatches from Boston say that
Boutwell's chances seem good, still the
Dawes party keep up show of fight.
Whitney has withdrawn and advised his
friends 20 60 for Dawes.
One Putnam, in behalf of his relative
and namesake who was murdered by
car-hook Foster, is strenuous for the
hanging of the convicted man.
II is now believed that the New Hamp-
shire Gubernatorial election will have to
be decided by the people This insures
the election of Straw, the Republican
candidate.
There is no general news of interest
from the East or the West.
Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1873-1877, 1873-03-13

IT being fact that amidst all the
charges and counter charges, criminal
tons and recriminations which have
gruw:l out OF the Credit Mobilier inyesti-
CATION, not one syllable has been uttered
against Pacific coast Senator, is it not
pretty near high time that their accusers
abandoned their unwarranted attacks
upon Senators Stewart and Nye? Let
what will be said, Nye's uncomfortable
and indubitable poverty gives the lie to
the gratuitous and mean insinuations
that have been flung upon his name and
by such reckless villifers as the
San Francisco Chronicle.
Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1873-1877, 1873-03-13

TaEATER.-There was good audience
and some excellent acting at the Theater
last night. Miss Mordaunt gave Us Judy
O'Trot in "Ireland as it VAS with
srea. vivacity and faithfulness of deliu-
cation. Nothing that she has done here
equalled this. Certainly in some of the
more animated of her characters she dis
plays unusual power and adaptability.
Mr.. Edmonds' g Ragged Pat Thayer's
Dan O'Carolan al Barry's Mons. Voy-
age were excellent, and Mrs. Beatty sus-
tanned her accustomed vivacity in
Honore. Betsy Baker, for an after
piece was all that could be desired. We
are glad to chronicle this very success
full engagement and trust that it precedes
others no less successful
Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1873-1877, 1873-03-13
STATE PRISON TROUBLES.

Day before yesterday, Attorney Gen.
Buckner as one of the Board of State
Prison Commissioners went to the Peni-
Tertiary with view to giving the guards
and other employees there notification
that Mr.. Linn had been placed in charge
Of matters, temporarily, by the said
Board. This notification after having
been made to Denver, was, as We are
informed, made to McSweeney, the Cap
tain of the guard: but that funct;onary
not only declined to receive any orders
from General Buckncr but was disposed
to treat that gentleman in the light of an
intruder upon the powers and premises
there, and some sharp words ensued,
following which both Buckner and Linn
were formally elected from the guard
ROOM The Interpretation of all this is,
we suppose, that Lieutenant Governor
Denver objects to being dispossessed of
his position as Warden before the time
set by the new law for the appointment
of a Warden in his place, and that Gen
erai Buckner allowed his zeal to outru2
the lazy formali:ies of the business III
hand Anyhow, the State Prison is the |
source and scene OF no little botheration |
md vexation to the minds of several |
worthy gentlemen, who, we hope, will
straishten things out and set them at
rights before they get SO irretrierably at
oggerheads as to make bad matters
worse Mr. Linn still continues TO reside ,
near the Prison-that is to say, at the .
springs Hotel Meantime we are sorry !
o witness any inl,armony amongst our !
Democratic friends, /
Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1873-1877, 1873-03-13
THE SACRAMENTO ELECTION.

The tremendous agony is over and
Adams. the man who had the narrowing
Presumption to run for the Office of
Third Trustee in opposition to the pref
erences of the Sacramento Union, is
elected. We are very glad to learn that
the colored voters of that city cast a
solid vote for Adams. HeCleery made
his miserable bed with Sam Seebaugh
and that horrible old man, Jim Anthony;
and now let him lie fhere-naked and
hungry and paralysed, SO far as the eff
fects of decisive political fat can make
him so. The victims of the political
scald-head in and about Sacramento
chose to marshal their shabby hosts and
rsis., the war cry of ''anti railroad" and
Stanford and his friends and allies Just
buckled on their armor, wade; in, and
made the scabby- pates to w that
there il balm in Gilead. These Rail
readers saved Sacramento from growing
up to pig-weeds and tules, and naturally
they tire of the eternal, senseless attacks
made upon themselves and their acts
and motives in the city where their bust
ness relations are chiefly felt. We feel
that the charge is just when We say that
the Sacramento Union has forced the
Railroad people to take hand along in
politics. There is no doubt of it.
Moreover, why should not Stanford and
Company take An interest in the affairs
OF their city, county and State? Is there
anything illegitirate, indecent or I'M
natural in their SO doing? We hope
they may keep on, now that they have
got their blood up. and fail not to utter
ly destroy and wipe out all such pusil-
luminous parasites upon the structure
of politics as the Sacramento Union-the
nature of whose attacks upon the c. P.
Company have developed into persecu-
tons of a sort SO palpable and venomous
that even the least observant of the !
people have come to regard them in that
light. The very plain fact is, there has
Cont popular and natural reaction in
t:ror OF the Railway people. Not even
the onion can lie forever and not be |
found out.
Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1873-1877, 1873-03-13

TIE CASE OF BURNs.-The young man
who was yesterday found guilty in the
District Court upon an Indictment for
the crime of an assault to commit muir
der is the same who, on the 10Th of last
month, got into a fight, in Winston's
saloon, with a youns fellow named Frank
Wilder, and in the course of which
scrimmage shot was fred and a bullet
hole made in door frame. Ii as We are
informed, this trouble grew out of a
spree, Burns VIII pay dearly for his
froiic He will be sentenced next Sat
urday. One year. We believe, is the
c,.e-.ost term. contemplated by law for
this crime.
Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1873-1877, 1873-03-13

DISTRICT COURT PROCEEDINGS. -Har-
ris, Judge, March Il. State of Nevada
VS.. Thomas Burns ; assault to murder !:
tried and found guilty-to be sentenced
on Saturday. Harriet p. Hunt VS..
Amelia NJ. Chase, Administrative YER
diet for defendant. Treadway vs.. Viii
der ; Judgment pursuant to verdict or
dered and stay of execution for ten days;
(the verdict was for the defendant) .
Court adjourned to Saturday the 18th
Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1873-1877, 1873-03-13

CAPTAIN JACK, shockingly nasty Jeenas,
ct al seem to have signifed their willing
ness to accept the terms OF the peace
commission merely to gain time; and it
is now thought that they have folded
their tents like the Arab and silently
stolen horses enough to get into the Pit
River country where they will proceed
to carry on the arts of war and peace in
their own sweetly anomalous and abo-
riginal manner. That is an illustrious,
not to say immense, Peace Commission
Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1873-1877, 1873-03-13

VICTOR EMANUEL police and soldiery
Seem to think il necessary to the preser-
walton of Italian unity that the admirers
of the dead Mazzini should be inhibited
from visiting his tomb-which shows
that the ghost of a Republic possesses
the power Of adding to the uneasiness
which besets the head which wears a
crown.