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Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1873-04-03

ACCIDENT EDITOR OF TIE ELIZABETH
TOWN PosT, SHoT. To-day a party,
composed=of Messrs. John Liberty, Edi-
tor of the Post, Orlando Kellogg and
Joseph Emnott, duly equipped with
dogs, fancy fowling pieces, snow shoes,
ETC., ETC., started for the mountains,
intent upon the destruction of various
rabbits. At the first shot, Mr.. Emnot
succeeded in killing rabbit and infict-
ing a buck shot wound IN Mr.. Libertys
leg. The ball must have been unruly or
eccentric, as Mr.. Liberty was quite out
of range. Liberty insisted on killing
rabbit first, and then returned AID visited
Dr. Hall, but while the Doctor was
getting ready to probe the wound, Mr.
Hiram Buck, who was present, discov-
cred the ball in Liberty's sock. The
ball struck the sharp front of the bone
midway between the knee and foot, and
was split nearly in two. The wound,
though troublesome and painful, is not
serious. \.
PoRT HENRY, March 25, 1872
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-08-01
Feed for Producing Milk

The Practical Farmer says: cit is
well settled in the opinion of all our
best dairymen, that bran greatly pro-
notes the milk secretion in cows, and
1t is fed almost universally. About
equally mixed with corn-meaI is the
usual proportion. The mixture seems
to promote both quality and quantity of
milk. From several sources we hear
that buckwheat bran is great milk pro-
Queer, and it is now being used consid-
erably among our Chester county dali
rymen, in about the same proportions
as the other" Thomas Gawthrop, near
West Grove, Chester county, also by re-
peated trials with his own COWS, has
fully satisfied himself that they do as
well with corn and cob-meal and bran
as with pure corn-meal and bran. The
amount of nutriment in corn-cobs is
so very small that this result will have
to be explained on the supposition of
the ground cob, acting to promote di-
gestion by distending the stomach. The
presence of bulky material being neces-
sary to promote distensiOn and fill up
the stomach of Eliminating animals be-
fore perfect digestion can be accom-
plished is frequently lost sight of
Hungarian grass is also found for mich
COWS to be rather superior to the ordi-
nary run of hay. The last year or two
Hungarian grass has doomed up wonder
fully in the estimation of our dairy
farmers, and large scope of land will
be sOwed with 1t the coming season. It
natures for cutting in about sixty days,
and produces two to four tons per acre,
the latter, of course, on good soils.
Three pecl1s to the acre is the usual al
lOwance of seed. Where a good hay
market is convenient this substitution
of Hungarian grass for common hay in
home feeding will be clear additional
source of profit.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-08-01
The Wear and Tear of Life.

The cares, anxieties and msfortunes of life have
as much to do with shortening 1t as disease. They
are in fact the source of many ailments and physi-
cal disabilities. Nervous weakness dyspepsia, af-
fections of the liver. disturbances of the bowles,
headaches. hypochondria and monomania are
among these distressing fruits It is therefore, of
great importance that persons whose minds are
oppressed with heavy business responsibilities, or
harassed by family troubles, excited by specu-
lation, or perplexed by ia multiplicity of enter
prises, or in any way overtaxed or OverwOrked,
should keep up their stamina by the daily of a
wholesome tonic. Thousands of persons thus cir
cumstaneed are enabled to bear up against the dit
fculties in which they involved. and to retain
their strength health and mental ClearneSS by the
eases which are prone to attack the body when de
bilitated and broken down by over much brain
work, exhausting physical labor are kept at bay
by the resistant power with which this inCompara-
BILE tonic endows the nervous system and the vital
organs. At this season, when the heat Is evapor-
ating the elements of strength from every pore,
an invigorant is absolutely essential to the
and comfort of the public, and is required even by
the more robust ifthey desire TO keep their athletic
capabilities in status quo. Hence course of Hos
letters Btters is particularly useful at this period
OF the year a defence against the invisible dis
ease ahOat in sultry atmosphere. It is the most
potent of all preventive medicines, and for all
complaints which affect the stomach, the liver
gestion and assimilation of food it is the tandard
remedy.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-08-01
A Creditahla Corn Crnn

Mr.. VIM. NJ. Large, near Newton,
Bucks county, Penn, raised last year
on one acre 104 bushels and thirty
quarts of shelled corn. He recently
detailed his treatment of the crops at
meeting of the Bucks county agricultu-
raj society, reported in Bucks county
Intelligencer, and to those desiring to
do likewise the particulars may be of
service. The land was a timothy sod,
sandy loan, moved twice since being in
wheat, and lined for wheat. MANFRED
the wheat after sowing at intervals du-
ring the winter following, up to March,
when there was q heavy coat upon it
but he omits to state how much, which
is a chronic weakness of most farmers.
Began blowing May LIST I; depth five
inches was careful not to turn up any
subsoil. Every evening he rolled the
land plowed during the day. Next he
pulverized thoroughly with a Kelsey
harrow marked out one way, four feet
apart planted one grain every fifteen
or eighteen inches planted May Sth
and 9th. After sprouting, cultivated
once, then plowed from the row with a
Phifer pillow; cultivated again, then
plowed once more, reversing the fur
row, and cultivated next q third time,
and leveled the two burrows made by
the pillow. Went over the field twice
after that to hoe and weed by hand.
Had seventy-three shocks on the acre,
measured. Yield of whole field (siZe
not stated over one hundred bushels
per acre. As an additional experiment
he planted twenty rows at one end of
the field in hills, four feet each way,
with four stalks per hill, fertilizing
with hen manure and ashes. Result !:
more ears by count, but less grain in
measure than where planted in drills
without manure in hill, as detailed
above; difference about three quarts
per shock, which evidently was nearly
seven bushels per acre.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-08-01
Railroad Statistics.
The Business for the Past Year.
from POOr's Manual

The total cost of the railroads, the
operations of which are given for the
past year, as shown by the preceding
table, is s., 159, 423, O57, made up of
81, 647, S44, 113, of capital stock, and 81
511 ,578, GA of various forms of indebt-
edness, chiefly of bonds maturing at
distant periods. The capital stock
amounted to 52.15 per cent, and
the debt to 1875 per cent. of the
total cost. The cost of these roads per
mile was $55, 116. The gross earnings
for the year were $473, al, 055, of which
1892, 300, 270, or % per cent, was re-
ceived for the transportation of passen-
gers, and $34O, 931, 785, or 70 per cent,
for the transportation of freight, inclu-
ding under this head the small amount
received from miscellaneous sources. 3"
The receipts per mile were So, 256. The
ratio of earnings to population was
$11. rs per head. The operating expen-
ses for the year were 1907, 4S6, 6S2, or
IS per cent. of the gross receipts, leav-
ing $165, 754, 373, or 35 per cent. as net
earnings. The percentage of gross re-
ceipts to the total cost of the roads was
Is per cent; of net earnings So per
cent. The amount paid in dividends
was GA, 418, 151, or 3.91 per cent. of the
aggregate capital stock. The balance
of net earnings, $1O1, 333, 222, was equal
to 6. 70 per cent. on the aggregate in
debtedness of the roads. The divi-
dends in New England were 6.64, in
the middle states 100, in the western
2.S3, in the southern 1.5.
The earnings from the transportation
of freight were nearly three-fourths of
the gross amount. The ratio of freight
to passenger earnings is constantly in
creasing, most favorable feature, as it
indicates a very rapid development of
the industries of the country. The to-
tai number of tons transported the past
year will probably exceed 200, 900, 900.
The tonnage for the New England states
exceeded Is, 633, 800 tons, or 1850 tons to
the mile. The tonnage in the middle
states equalled SO, 100000 tons, or
S,041 tons per mile. The tonnage for
both groups equalled 110,033, 800 tons,
or $3.50 to the mile The immense ton
age for the middle states is due largely
to the anthracite coal trade of Pennsyl-
vania. With regard to the future in
crease of receipts, it is probable that
they will double themselves in the next
ten years, that is to say, in 1881 their
receipts will reach 81, 900, 100000. The
total mileage of the railroads in the
United States has more than doubled
since 1863 1t is fair to presume that
the ratio of increase in receipts has been
one-half greater than in mileage. The
earnings therefore for 1868 may be fair
Iy estimated at $19O,OOO,OOO, against
$437, 241 ,O55 for 1872, showing an in
crease in ten years of $28O,OO0,OOO, or
$2S, 100000 annually. Further COM
parisons are shown by these tables
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-08-01
Coal as an Industrial Agent.

THE Importance of coal as an agent in
advancing our industrial interests is adj
mirably set forth by the secretary of
the West Yorkshire association of
miners when he says: GA man who is
a good, strong, practical miner in some
of our thick seams will, by an extra eff
fort, produce five tons of coal in day,
and what will these five tons do? In
the first place, they Will realize for him
self 81 cents per ton for getting them /;
secondly, they will bring to his master
nearly $3.50 in profits. Then if we
take them to the factory door, they will
turn the engine, and find one days en-
ployment for over 1000 factory opera
lives, whose average wages at IS cents
each, amounting in the aggregate to
about $500, will be distributed into
every channel of trade, besides realizing
to the owners of the factory $1,000 more
in profits Then, probably, they may
be the means of producing from 5000 to
1000 yards of calico or other fabric,
which may be used to the warmth and
comfort of 1000 people, and this may be
done from the work of one miner by
one days hard work. "
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-08-01

AN ACT OF JUSTICE. castle
was sad stumbling block in the path
of Bunyan's Christian, though it
couldn't bar his way to truth. We can
sympathize with the pilgrim, for doubt
always besets us when we are asked to
believe anything particularly extraor-
binary. Consequently, when we heard,
some eighteen months ago, that a ply
stefan in California had compounded,
from the juices and extracts of certain
herbs found there, a medicine that
cured almost every variety of blood
disease, we were incredulous. Since
then we have had opportunities of test
ing the accuracy of the report, and are
free to admit that our doubts have van
ished Seeing what we have seen,
knowing what we know, it is impossible
for us to question the remedial proper
ties of DR.. Walkers Vinegar Bitters.
That this famous vegetable tonic, alter
ative, and antiseptic is a specific for
dyspepsia, liver complaint, chronic con-
stipation, fever and ague, bilious inter
mittents, scrofulous faint in the blood,
incipient consumption, local and gen.
eral debility, rheumatism, sick head
ache, and diseases of the kidneys, seems
to be a matter beyond the pale of con-
troversy, fixed fact in medical history.
The statements of friends, in whose
veracity and intelligence we have full
confidence, corroborated by our own
personal observation, compel us to adj
NIT the surprising merits of the prepar-
atiOn
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-08-01
THE PUZZLED OTTOMAN

I'm proken-hearted Deuthsher,
Watts villed init grief and shame /;
1 dells you vot der drouble ish;
1 doesn't knOt0 my name.
You drinks dis very funny, eh!
Ven you der story hear,
You will not wonder den so much.
1t was so shtrange and queer.
Mein mOder had two little twins,
Dey vas me and mine broder;
We lOokt so very much alike,
No Won knew yich vrom toder,
Won ov der poys vas Yawcup,"
And Hans der oder's name,
But den it make no tifferent,
We both got called der same.
Veil Won ov us got tead;
Yaw, Mynheer, dat ish SOL
But vedder Hans or Yawcup,
Mein nodder she tont know.
And so am in droubles,
CANT git droo mine head,
Vedder I am Hans Uots lifting,
Or Ydlocup DOT ish tedd
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-08-01

-Henceforth, every man who enters
the British army may, if he will, learn
trade, the choice being left to him !;
and thus, at the same time that he is
subiecting to himself to discipline, and
acquiring habits of obedience, he may
cording to his capabilities. This will
go far to remove that enforced idleness
which is the curse of a soldiers life i'll
the times of peace.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-08-01

To MAKE TOMATO FIGs.-Pour boil
ing water over the tomatoes in order to
remove the skins then weigh them
and place them in a stone jar, with as
much sugar as you have tomatoes, and
let them stand two days then pour off
the syrup and boil and skim it until no
scum rises. Then pour it over the to-
matoes, and let them stand two days,
as before, then boil and skim again.
After third time they are fit to dry, if
the weather is good; if not, let them
stand in the syrup until drying weather.
Then place on large earthen plates or
dishes, and put them in the sun to dry,
which will take about a week, after
which pack them down in small wooden
boxes, with fine white sugar between
each layer. Tomatoes prepared in this
manner will keep for years.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-08-01

BLACKBERRY JAM.-To six quarts of
ripe blackberries add three pounds of
brown sugar, mash altogether with a
spoon. Put it into a kettle and boil
two hours, stirring frequently. Spice
to suit the taste. When cool put it
into jar, covered with branded paper,
and seal, and it will keep two years.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-08-01

WE copy the following from an ex-
change, which is important, if true-Chronic
diarrhea of long standing, also dysentery,
and all similar complaints common at this
season of the year, can be cured by the use.
of Johnson's Anodyne Liniment.
We know whereof we affirm.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-08-01

SYMPTOMS OF CArARRH.-Dull, heavy
headache, obstruction of nasal passages. dis
charge falling into throat, sometimes profuse,
watery, acrid. thick, and tenacious mucous,
purulent, mucopurulent, bloody, putrid, often
sive, etc. In others dryness, dry, waterv,
weak or inlamed eyes, ringing in ears,
deafness, hawking and coughing to clear
throat, alterations, scabs from ulcers. voice
altered, nasal twang, offensive breath, i'm
paired smell and taste, dizziness, mental de-
preston, tickling cough, etc. Only few of
the above symptoms are likely to be present in
any case at one time. No disease is more
common or less understood by physicians
The proprietor of DIR. Sage's Catarrh Remedy
will pay $500 reward for a case of catarrh
which he cannot cure. Sold by druggists at
so cents $40
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-08-01

Joaquin Millef has accepted the
challenge to ride to the hounds against
a noted English sportsman. He says he
will break the Englishman's neck if he
can find country rough enough.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-08-01
Rockbridgc Alum Springs, Va.

TT,HTs CEIFBRAT WATCHING PLACE
Il is now open to receive guests. Those WHO are
a niicted with scrofulnt glandulhr dwellings ana
cutaupous eruptive diseases, erYhlpilnH, letter,
eczema, etc. Chronic diarrhu'n and dN.entery,
dyspepsia. bronchitis chrome thrush, drupsy ana
pllcs should lose no time In coming % THIS tuuu-
lain Of health to be healed. For the cure ~ many
on The above diseases, this water stands unfiNh cd
among the mineral water Of the United states.
JAS. A. FHAziEU, Proprietor.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-08-01

CHAPPRD HANDS, face, rough skin, pimples,
r1ngworn, salt,rheum, ana other cutaneous
smooth, by using the JUNIPER TAR Soar, made
by CAswELL, HAZARD & Co., New York Be
certain to get the Juniper Tar Soap, made by
us, as there are many limitations made With
common tar which are worthless.-COm.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-08-01
FEMALE INSTITUTE.
Marion, Alabama.

uyHIRTY-sIxTH ANNUAL SESSION begins
lst of October, with full faculty. This is the
Oldest, best equipped, most roomy, and cheapest
in the college, a splendid new 500 piano as prize
for scholarship; seventy college boarders last se3-
sion without a case of serious illness. For GAIA
IoVue address R. H. RAWLINGS, NJ. A., President.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-08-01
Kenmore University High School,
Amherst Court-House, Va.

DREPARAToRYt to the University Of Va W a
L strobe iMath Mednllist u Va PRINCIPAL and
Instructor ln Mathematics. ~. q. Book, u, ~,
U, Wa. frecently Asst lrut; laln' ". va ~,
Boiany This Is one OF tie leading high schools OF
virginia and presents many advantages incnm-
paTHble with those Of Others. students also re-
cetyed for the summer. New scr sion begins sept.
18TH 1879 For Catalogue, address the Principal.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-08-01

"A Massachusetts postmistress has
resigned her office, as a matter of hon
esty, because she cannot find time to
read all the postal-cards and attend to
her other duties beside.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-08-01
King Of the Blood.

DANGEROUS JUNIORS. -Case-It is with
pleasure / write, on behalf of my mother, who
has been taking your medicine, King of the
Blood, for tumor, and can say she is most
entirely cured. She has taken four bottles of
the medicine. The tumor was as large as a
only about the size of grain of corn, and
rapidly disappearing. She has doctored hum
dreds of dollars away without benefit, until
using your medicine, for which we shall always
be thankful, and can recommend the King of
the Blood to any one needing it. My mothers
name is Sarah Dulin.
Yours respectfully,
SARAH MCMINIs, Kenton, Ohio.
Write for circulars to D. Ransom, Son & Co.,
Buffalo, n. Y.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-08-01

ALL articles we think that are packed
and sold Full Weight should have the
patronage of consumers, also of dealers.
We are glad to notice in the article of
SOAP that PROCTOR & CANDLES EXTRA
OLIVE Soar is always packed actual
weight.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-08-01

For fifteen years I have suffered
from dsordered liver; but since used one
package of Simmons Liver Regulator, to this
dav, which is now several years, have been
a sound man. Maj A F. Woolley, Kingston,
PENNSYLVANIA,
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-08-01
Talleyrand and the Garrick.

When the Garrick club was formed
in 1881, Talleyrand was French minis
ter at the court of st. James, and took
much interest in its Inauguration.
Though then seventy-six, the "volup-
tuOus hypocrite," as one of his detrac-
tors not unhappily calls him, had as
keen relish for entertaining society as
most younger men. He was born lame,
and his legs were fastened to his trunk
by an iron apparatus, on which ever
and anon he was accustomed to strike
with huge cane. One who met him
every day for several months describes
him to me as having piercing gray eyes
peering through shaggy eyebrows, his
face marked with deep stains partly
covered by a shock of extraordinary
hair, partly by an enormous white cravat
which supported large protruding lip
His pulse, which rolled a stream of
enormous volume, intermitted at every
sixth beat. This he used to boast of as
a rest of nature, enabling him to do
with little sleep. Nature, he said,
sleeps and recruits herself in me ten
times during every minute" His habits
seemed to warrant the truth of this.
He would sit at play till three in the
morning, return home, go to bed at
four, and at seven send for his secretary
to write dispatches. For fear of apo
plexy, he always slept sitting upright
Talleyrand's great power lay undoubt-
eddy in his impassibility He would
listen for hours, even to inferior men,
without uttering a word, and out of all
he heard make up those webs in which
his opponents would get entangled.
They settle domestic difficulties in
Kansas City sensibly, without the aid of
the law. At least, one such difficulty
was settled a few days since. A police
man heard the rumpus, he ran in and
found husband and wife engaged in
lively fight He fourished his club
and shouted for peace, when the woman
replied "Pd have been glad to see
We five minutes ago, when he had my
neck across the stove-hearth, but Tn
all right now, I've shut one of his eyes
and am popping the other " And she
popped" it before the officer could
stop her.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-08-01

The cathartics used and approved by
the physicians comprising the various medical
associations of this state are now compounded
and sold under the name of Parsons Purga-
tive Pills.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-08-01

"A 19-year old chambermaid in a
Chicago hotel has gone TO prison for
stealing articles to the value of $500
from the guests,
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-08-01
They settle domestic difficulties in

"A Sioux chief, after following sur
veying party on the northern Pacific for
some days, mildly remarked that they
might go on, for he'd be id if he'd
freeze to death for what hair there was
in that crowd.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-08-01
A FAMILY FRIEND!
FEVER AND AGUE

Prevails, there is no remedy held in greater es-
TEEN.
aa Directions accompany each bottle.
Price, 25e., soc, and 5 90 per bottle.
Sold by all medicine dealers generally.
For sal by all Nashville, Memphis, Louisville
and other southern druggists.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-08-01

Why is blind mans buff like SYM
pathy? Because it's teller feeling for
Teller crittur. Another teller says the
same would apply to the tow-headed
boy who scratches his head.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-08-01

TRUTH, like light, travels only in
straight lines.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-08-01

An observant of the world remarkt
that when a young widow resumes tighs
corsets it is to show her admirers that
she is so-laced.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-08-01

"A milk-pitcher thrown by his wife
at Nelson street man, on Monday
noon, missed the aim, and ruined a
handsome frame which enclosed the
words, "God bless our home"