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Litchfield enquirer., 1873-08-21
MISCELLANEOUS.

Hirrm Crosby, of Norwich, has bought the Pequot mills at Montville, for $50, ,25O
 Fl. W. Collender, the billiard table manufacturer, is erecting large factory in Stamford.
 An excited female harangued crowd in Elm street, Bridgeport, recently, for over two hours, from an upper window. A horse of Mrs. E. D. Stepney was kill ed by lightning while standing under shed in Stepney. Itwas insured for $lOO. 1 A couple of verdants at dinner in Bridgeport hotel took their dessert, which consisted of ice cream, for frozen pud- ding. ... .,. f..s6
 The New Haven Palladium says:-"Gov- ernor Ingersolls portrait, for the senate gallery of governors, is now being pant ed by the artist Flagg of this city.
 The contractors of the Howe sewing machine manufactory, Bridgeport, con template reduction of twenty or twenty five per cent, on the present scale of wa ges. r....4 s-. ..,... A horse on the line of the Housatonic made fruitless attempt the other day to impede the progress of an engine that was running at the rate of forty miles an hour. ,...,s .,s-.;s,i... On the 2d of October, the Knight Tenn plars of the District of Columbia, to the number of 400, will visit Washington l CommandeTy of Hartford, returning the visit made by the latter last fall.asa.uo4
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CLIPPINGS.

The cheese is mitier than the pen. How to keep up in the world-Never get down.
 Impecunious animals s- Those who | haven't a scent.
 Moving for New Trial - Counting second wife.
 The man that ''sticks" to his business The drummer.
 1 A man can not see the point of joke when he is the butt. l Strange yet trEe-the mouths of rivers are always larger than their heads.
 Smith says, that during his late sea sickness, he was very retched being. | Problem for Financiers.-To convert floating debt into a sinking fund. .-PHnch.
 Can gentleman who sees young lady 1 home under an umbrella be fitly desig mated rain beau? A man in New York has watch which he claims has gained time enough to pay for itself in six months.
 Little fish have good notion as to the commencing of life: they always begin on small scale
 1 Justification. -sfSee here. Dick. hear l that you are in the habit of taking my jokes and passing them of as your own" Shouldn't a man always be willing to take joke from friend?" responded Dick.
 ''Let go that jib-let go that iib, ,quick!'' shouted the captain of down east sloop, to a raw hand in a squall. '1 'aint touch ing yer old jib!' replied Jonathan indig- nantly, as he iammed his fists deeper in- to his trouserloons.
 Seruples. English tourist (having ar- rived at Greenock on Sunday morning): ''My man, what's your charge for rowing me across the frith? Boatman: "Weel, sir, was just thinkin' canna break the 1 Sawbath day for no less than fifteen shull n'si'-PUnch. l Laziness. -''When a fellow is too lazy to work in this section" writes a cores pondent from village in Canada Beast, Che paints his name over the door, and | calls 1t tavern, and makes all his neigh bors as lazy as himself" A negro witness on horse trial in New Jersey, was asked to explain the differ ence between box stall and common stall Strengthening himself up, he point ed the square enclosure in which the judge was seated, and said, "Dat ar's what I call box stall, dere whar dat old hoss is sittin''' It took the sheriff some time to restore order.
 Washington Irving, once when pick ing up an apple under tree in his own orchard, was accosted by an urchin of the nejghborhood, who, not recognizing him as the proprietor, offered to show him tree where he could 'fget some better apples than those" ''But, said the boy, ''we must take care the old man doesn't see us. '' sI went with h1m, !" said Irving, "and we stole dozen of my own apples" sra y-l
Litchfield enquirer., 1873-08-21

by one, that we heard how, when the boats were all full, and there was only one passenger to descend, one of the crew cried out in despair, 'sOh, my little wife and childi' and the passenger, tall, dark-eyed young man, turned to him and said, s'Take my place; there is no one belonging to me at home, and had stood by the captains side at the last moment, and waved his hat to his friends in the boat in cheery good-by. @
 found out that sailor, and he gave me a scrap of paper, which he said the gen. tleman had torn from his pocket-book and given him as he went over the side 1t was to Helen, and contained these words:
 God bless you! have earned my right to meet you again-in heaven at least.
 7 H. F. DUc1E''
 Two years later Helen left us, to keep that meeting; and when she was dead I saw the first smile on her pale lips which had ever shone there since she sent her lover away to prove that man may die a hero's death, though in life he has been once a coward.
Litchfield enquirer., 1873-08-21

Rufus Porter, the original editor of the Scientific American, who is now living 1n West Birmingham, and is apparently in his dotage, has constructed an air vehi- which he thinks will make fifty miles an hour and carry five persons. He has spent about $2, 900 on it already.
Litchfield enquirer., 1873-08-21
Agricultural.
MY ACCOUNT WITH A ooRNF1ELD.

l MY ACCOUNT WITH A CORNFIELD.
 Says correspondent of the Country
 Gentleman: ''If western farmer be ask
 ed which is the most productive crop he
 raises, in nine out of ten cases he will re- ply Indian corn. Why? Because in his
 mind he associates the corn with his facil-
 it1es for marketing it. Hogs and cattle
 fatten on it, and walk off to the depot for l shipment.
 ''The Miami Valley, latitude 4Oo north,
 is the heart of the corn-growing region of l Ohio. This Is shown by statistics made 1 from sworn returns of the product for
 many years to the Auditor of State. Tax l ing this point for the centre of a circle
 having radius of fifty miles, an approxi-
 mate estimate of the yield is 40 bushels
 an acre for the year 1871. The exact av-
 craze for this county was 40 S-1OO bush els; and looking down the page of the re- port, over other counties, it will be seen
 this is high average.
 ''But we often hear of fields yielding 60, 70, even 90 bushels an acre. Is there all ! ways evidence of that If so, was 1t not due to special maturing and tillage, and should not the crop be charged with the extraordinary expenses attending it's cul- ! tivation? Neighbors have walked through our field of standing corn, whose iudg-
 ment as to the weight of g. bullock I deem almost unerring, and in good faith have placed the yield 9 per cent too high. sl may as we'll acknowledge that my
 account with the cornfeld was not opened
 for the benefit of agricultural science. It
 was to determine question of dollars and cents-of the relative value, not only of investments in land as compared with oth- CT investments, but of the value of it's diff ferent products to the owner. The inqui-
 ry on my farm has been made in other di- rections, as yet incomplete. But we give the results of the corn problem herewith: i: ''The field selected contains 20 acres;
 soil deep, black loam, resting on gravel. For more than sixty years it was titled in the old-fashioned, wasteful manner of
 western farmers, until run down to yield of three-fourths of ton of timothy hay
 per acre, when purchased the farm. Our first attempt to raise corn resulted in q crop of @ bushels an acre. Disguised with the undertaking, thoroughly ,an deTdrained with tile, and hauled 500 loads of manure from town upon tha field. A fair crop of oats was raised; but we made ] failure to get it back into grass, on &C., count of the friable nature of the soil, or by reason of drought. Then We applied 15O two horse loads of manure, intending to try corn in the spring of 1871. And here begins my account with that field:
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vvno1e NO. 2515.

is anxious that the liberals shall not throw I away seats in this way in the coming gen. eral election, and proposes kind of eau ! CTS system. He proposes to closet to- sether body of delegates appointed by the proposed candidates, an equal num- Der by each. Let each delegate have as ! many votes as there are candidates less | one, and then ballot, the candidate re- l ceiving the least number of votes at each
 ballot to withdraw. There will finally be
 one left who vii represent the party. Such complicated system would hardly prove popular with us, where, after all, the trouble is not so much the caucus it- self, as the practical abdication of the
 right of nomination to professional slate
 makers:-Springgeld Repu6licGn. ggss.s5 ANoTETR OLD MEMBER OF THE FAMILY.
 A discovery, quite as interesting as that l of the "Neander Man, 'is reported from
 Kansas, which, if verified, will give the believers in mans antiquity a new stand ing ground. The announcement is that human skull, embedded in solid rock,
 has been brought to light by blasting
 near the western line of Osage county,
 Kansas. Dr. J. C. Weibley, of Osage Mission, thus describes it eE
 ''It is that of the cranium of the human species, of large size imbedded in
 conglomerate rock of the tertiary class,
 and found several feet beneath the sur
 face. Parts of the frontal, parietal and occlpltal bones were carried away by the explosion. The piece of rock holding the remains weighs some forty or fifty pounds, with many impressions of marine shells, and through it there runs a vein of quartz, or within the cranium crystalized
 organic matter; and by the aid of mi
 croscope presents beautiful appearance.
 A NEW CAVE AT NIAGARA FALLs.-A re |.
 cent number of the Suspension Bridge Journal contains the following:
 1.-Two men named James Mumford and Thomas Conroy, who for many years have
 acted as guides through the Cave of the
 Winds on Goat Island, determined to as-
 certain if there was not another cave un-
 der the American Fall They repaired to
 the first of the ferry stairs provided with
 ropes and ladders. After getting beyond
 this sheet of water without much difficult
 ty, they found it necessary to use their
 boats in order to reach the desired locali-
 ty. MT. G. W. Simms, an eyewitness,
 says the mon were out of sight for some
 time, and he gave them up for lost. They
 soon, however, made their reappearance and pronounced the new cave one of the
 wonders of the world. It was pitch dark in the cave, and in one place they stood
 between two walls of water. They were prevented from going further for want of some more tools and some means of light ing the cave"
Litchfield enquirer., 1873-08-21
Total Expenditure,
 T-
Net balance for use of land,

Bearing in mind that fully two-thirds of the year was required to make and har- vest the crop, and that m the meantime ! our place was 2 boarding house for hired men employed on this and other crops, neeessitating the employment of..more fe- male help, and causing the overwork and | discomfort of all the members of the fam l fly during harvest time, concluded on striking balance as above, that when l next wanted load of corn I would buy 1t delivered by some neighbor, at the usual autumn price of thirty or forty cents a | bushel.
 ''This showing is fairly made for the field. It produced above the average of good, sound corn for the year. The price obtained was also above tho average price for the crop of 1871 in Central Ono, as any farmer or produce merchant will cer- tify; and there were no drawbacks for shrinkage or Fattage, nor any charges for handling twice. Its return for invest ment in the land was also determined, to wit:
 Cost of 20 acres in cash, s2.4O0 l Board fencing, 250
 Underdraining, 500 - 8, ,250 OC The interest on which 10 per cent, is, 325 0C 1 The actual income was, 138 24 Ten per cent. return per acre is, ld 25 The actual receipts were, 9a Or only four and one-fourth of one pe1 cent for the best crop raised in the Mis- sissippi Valley. ,.s Somebody will say, What are you go- ing to do about it? will reply by tell ing what have done about it, We have discharged the laborers. and our home is no longer an Irish boarding-honse. There is not an acre of anything but meadow and pasture on the farm. Last winter the dIaymen and others came from town, and hauled our hay away from the stack, pay ing $15 per ton. They will do it again. We are now harvesting fully two tons all acre. and if hay should not sell for more than $12, the cost per acre does not ex ceed g. 50 for placing the hay in the stack, and the investment certainly pays more than ten per cent on the cost of the land with Improvements, and for the fer tilizers used in keeping up it's productive ness. g s5 eas @ grs4
Litchfield enquirer., 1873-08-21
The Crops and the Fall Trade.

We have taken some pains, from time to time, to ascertain and report the con- dition of the crops throughout the coun- try. Business in general depends upon the crops, and an early indication of the prospect greatly assists in making up the estimate of tho demands upon the mer- cantile and manufacturing community for the coming season. These reports have been necessarily imperfect and un- certain, sometimes differing with the changing weather and the approach of the harvest. Now. however, the time seems to have arrived when we may conf dently speak of the prospect of most of the crops, and our information is very en- couraging, marked improvement hay ing taken place in the last two or three weeks.
 Contrary to all expectations a month ago, the cotton crop IS very promising. Good judges estimate that 1t will exceed four millions of bales The grain crop, too, all over the country, of course always exceptin a few remote points affected by local causes, will be large. In view of the rapidly increasing facilities for nov ing the crops, 1t seems reasonable to ex- pect very large increase on the amount brought to market last year. The ap-
 
 be set at rest; for the most part the yield will be heavy, if no extraordinary event shall interfere, and the cases of failure
 will be very rare. The tobacco crop is promising heavily everywhere except in
 Maryland, where the drought severely af- footed It. The potato crop will be large
 lg increased. Hay and vegetables are generally good. The only failures are in fruit, and 1t Is probable that these are To- cally limited, many sections reporting more than the average returns. On the whole, we believe that that the crops of the country will be increased this year
 even in greater proportion than the in
 crease of population and wenlth. With this prospect in view the retail trade is already beginning to look up,and
 lively fall business is anticipated. Re ports frora all parts of the country show 1 that the retail stocks are much lower ] than usual, and, therefore, no panics or
 disturbances can probably arise from false 1 calculations on that account. Indeed, l business has baen reduced to hand-to-
 mouth system under the late prevailing uncertainties There Is no account of general failures, and the prospect is of steady business. The only irregularity anywhere reported IS in New Orleans, where a few commission merchants have become embarrassed on account of too large advances to the-planters. They are not failures, however, and 1t is likely that
 when the crop is in market things will be restored to their former condition. It
 may be remarked here that this tempora- " embarrassment is the result of a return 1 in part to the old system which held in l the cotton states before the war, when al-
 most the entire cotton crop was pledged
 to the factors for advances. It is 9 pity
 that the system was ever adopted, for it
 opens the door very wide to fraud and gambling.-N \. EUeHiag Post.
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Temperance is becoming an issue in Maryland as we'll as in states of more Pu. ritanical tendencies. At the fall elections senators and members of the house oi delegates are to be chosen, and the re. suit will depend on whether the friends oi the present license system carry the day or not A modification of it is wanted, and the executive committee of the tenn perance alliance of Alleghany county have issued a call to all friends of temperance to unite on candidates.
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wish that I could tell you my feelings during the two minures that followed. I do not believe any audience ever found themselves in so miserable a. position. Even now when think of it feel the old hot, sick sensation, and see the whole picture rising before ms-the old fashion ed paheled room, with the wet wind rat ting at the huge diamond paned window and pale watery moon glimmering be- tween drifting masses of cloud over the ancient elm trees in the park; the red glowing fire in it's carved oaken frame :; the tall graceful figure of the man stand ing before it in his dark velvet shooting jacket and muddy leathern gaiters, and with the pale shadow of irrefrievable re- morse on his handsome face; and the tall, beautiful girl sitting with bent golden head and clasped white hands before him with the scarlet fire-1ight kissing her fair round arms, and fnrking in the shimmery folds of her white dress etsi=ael T's97a
 Can any of you tell me the length of time comprised in one minute9 Sixty secondse No, rather six hundred. It seemed double that time to me that I
 stood longing for Helen to speak, long ing to say something myself, and yet un- able to find single word between horror at the story and pity for the man who told it. It was Ducie himself who broke that terrible silence at last. His voice had been harsh and determined before:
 now 1t sounded sad. weary, almost appeal ing.
 ''This is all. I never told any one be-
 fore. I don't think I could act in the l same way again; but God knows; only vou gee cannot hoar ofhor mon condemn. ed while I remember- He broke of with a sort of gasp, and added, hurriedly, stI wish to heaven | had never needed tC
 tell you; for of course. I know what you think of me now. 5ss- He iaokAd at Helen, but she never rais ed her eyes; and answered. quiekly:
 r. '1 wish you had not, Ducie. There
 was no occasion; but \ am very sorry fo1 you-from my soul am. old fellow.
 I would have given him my hand: but
 though he said, ssThank you, Fred, as i
 he meant it, hiseeyes never left Helen''
 face. She had never moved or looked up
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1873-08-05

This is the way they Gagged rhinoce-
ros at Ithaca, according to local paper:
q cable chain was attached to each OF
his legs. and one around his neck, and
these were coupled to locomotives on
each of our railroads. The engines were
then started. Pulling in Eve different
directions, his behem othship had no.
thing left to fight with but his tail, aud
that was lashed to church spire by
wire rope Being rendered harmless by
these guys, new wagon was built
around him, and Tins lie was secured"
The New York Erening Post, whioh
has supported Grant in almost eyery
thing. argues that the Presidents salary
cannot be changed during his term, but
mildly suggests that there is nothing to
prevent his returning the Increase to the
Treasury, should he deem it advisable.
But Grant is not going to return any of
Ills salnry. He is one Of those who take
and keep all they can get.
THE QU1cKEsr TINE ON RECORD The
race which took place at Saratoga, N.
T.. on Thursday, for the $500 purse,
two miles, for all ages, is declared as
having been very exciting and the fastest
on record. The time of the two miles
was 3. 32i9. tLe fastest ever made by one
second and three quarters. the next best
time bring that OF L!ttleton, which was
3343a.
Daniel Webster is not the only bright
boy born in New Hampshire. The Bos-
ton Gtobe has heard of another-a youth
residing iii Dover, who refused to take q
pill. His crafty mother thereupon Sc.
cretly placed the pill in preserved pear,
and gave it to him. Presently she asked:
Tom, have you eaten the pear?" "Yes,
mother, all but the eed."
Mr. James Barton, aged eighty six,
one OF tho oldest citizens OF Lancaster
County, died July 24;h, after protract.
ed illness.
a woman's ailment-The stitch.
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Board Reduced to So Per Day!
c0Lu MIRZA HOTEL,
COLUMBIA. 5. c.

TIL PElrRIE1OE o! tli4 weil-known
FIRST CLASS HOTEL respectfully Informs
the travelling pnb ;c. that he has REDUCED
his RATES OF BOARD from 81 to 80 per day,
aud inte:,is, by an increased business, to
makc up for the reduction. He claims that
at present IA. has The largest and best con-
struc:e! Hntci ~ the city; that he has the
largest nu,ob.r cf rooms, which are "GeH.r
HJh'ed and centiI'ei;" that his house is in
every respect ae we'll kept, his servants as at
tentive, hi- clerks as courteous, hi- table as
we'll supplied, the fare ~ abundant, the qua
Ity az good. ami that in erery respect his 10
tel i, not erceNrd jy any No!el in the city.
The friende ot the Proprietor are assured
that nc eff ,rt will be wanting on his part to
make his uotc! at lels: equa! to any other
fl -st c!a-s Ho:el in the city.
Aug5. WM GORMAN. Proprietor
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1873-08-05
HEINITSH'S
STANDARD FAMILY MEDICINES

STANDARD FAMILY MEDICINES.
YNIlE reputation uf DR.. HEINITSH'S ME.
4 DlClE ES is becoming world wide. Our
old friend, Mr. t,lhard,, has introduc cd
BLOOD AND - az PILLS in Europe, and
says they a:e,..r h-st medicine for the Blood
and Liver lis is what everybody says.
The Bloc! ani Liver Pills Tor the Liver,
Queeu's Delight :,r tho E.o ,d, Rose Cordial
for Bowel C"ulplsiut, Quaker iiniment for
Pains aud Acne, Kina Chill Cure for Chills
and Fever Ar. :or ssea, SIrSH'S
Aug Cheap f.miiy pras S:o-e.
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1873-08-05
OBITUARY.

Died. on SupIay morning, August 8. in
Columbia, S. C.. ". Il. BKANHAM, infant
son of W. h. aud Mrs. Matte V. Noel; aged
three months.
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700.
CSI received, 700 bushels PRIME OATS,
- Will be sold low for cash by
u. y. PEIXUTTO l. SONS,
Aug 81 Comnlies sion Merchant5
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VERY SENSIBLE ADyICR.-"Can't fnd
time to read!" It is all gammon-no-
thing in the world but an excuse for
stinginess, that little despicable thing in
a man which will always keep himself
and family in ignorance and want. There
is no excuse for ignorance in this coun-
try. Facilities and opportunities for a
liberal education are right ut the hands
OF every one. The press and the com
mon schools afford advantages for ac-
quiring an education and a knowledge
Of the institutions, events and achieve
ments Of the past and present which any
one can avail himself Of, and he who
ignores and neglects them is destitute OF
those aspirations which distinguish man
from tho beasts of the field. II the
masses would devote more of their time
to newspaper reading, the demagogue's
occnpation-that of hood -winking and
humbugging the people-wonld be gone,
and our public Offices would be filled
with men of qualifications and merit.
Ii newspapers were more generally taken
and more thoroughly read, excuses in
legislation, executive assumptions and
usurpations of power OF every species
and magnitude would bo recognized ut
once. condemned and checked by the
emphatic protest OF patriotic people,
whose love Of liberty and independence
is unquenchuble, though often inert
The great trouble is, the masses are wo-
fully ignorant of their duties, and are
not familiar enough with the origin, the
authority, the jurisdiction and opera
tons of the institutions and tribunals of
the country. II they were better in
formed, they would not be so quiescent
under the frauds and outrages which
their servants in Office and power have
perpetrated, bnt would rise in their
wrath and demand redress Of their
grievances, and the restitution OF those
rights and immunit:cs which have been
destroyed or restrained. in voice which
would not be resisted. Then subscribe
Tor papers, and keep yourself fully in
formed upon the topics and events OF
the day, and never whine out that ab-
surdty, II can't find time to read"