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Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-04-08

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Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-04-08
LEGAL.
Administrators Sale.

TNHE UNDERSIGNED. AS ADMINISTRA-
i tor of the estate of William Craig, de.
ceased. ON Thursday, April 18th: 1873, at room
No. Ayres Building, No. 276 Second street,
Memphis, Tenn, will sell at public auction the
following personal property, to-wit;
A Lot of Law Books,
ONCE Furnlture, etc.
TERMS CASH. Sale to commence at 10
o'clock am.
1874 LEO ENRICH. Admir-.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-04-08

Prices Of admission as usual. Extra accom-
modations for ladies. who are specially in
vited. JOHN DONOVAN. President.
O. STONE. Secretary pro TEN. 20-eod-55
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1873-05-17
A Good Farmer,

One of our best and most accurate
farmers informs us, says the County
gentleman, that when a boy, as soon as
he had learned bookkeeping at school.
his father employed him to keep the
farm accounts-the cost of labor,
amount of work expended on each field
tune of performing operations, blowing
sowing, cultivating and harvesting,
amount of crops, prices at which sales
were made, etc. He sooa became much
interested in farm operations, and thor
oughly acquainted with all the details Of
work, IN n more complete manner than
he ever could have been in anv other
way, and was early placed on the track
OF farming regularly and systematically.
Let other farmers follow this example
with their sons, and we should have less
OF random, hip-skip husbandrv, and
more of order and success.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1873-05-17

There is hardly family which does
not throw away enough table scraps to
feed at least half dozen hens; and
many that keep a nuisance in the shape
of dog, that does no good, but costs
more than dozen good hens, COM
plain that they cannot afford to keep
hens. One dog in the neighborhood is
generally create trouble to the neigh
bors than a flock of hens would be: for
If hens are well fed at home they will
rarely go away. But. whoever saw a
dog that was not Il pest, running across
the newly made garden and sticking his
nose into everything? Kill off the ours
and give the food to the hens, and YOU
will find pleasure as well as profit in SO
doing. We wish there was a tax of 800
on every dog in the country. Those
that are of value as watch dogs should
be retained, while the host of snarling,
dirty ours should give place to some
more useful and less troublesome pet.
Country Standard.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1873-05-17

No estimate can he made of the value of human
life. 1t is beyond appraiscmcut. The wealth of
he world weighed against it would kick the beam.
willingly. The laws of health simple enough,
but they not generally understood, and even
when understood are too often disrcgarded At
this season for example, when it is expeGient that
the physical system should be toned, rcgulat cd
and purified to ei able it to endure without injury
the intense heats of summer, how many thousands,
of the fcebls and delicate, neglect to fortfy
themselves in this way against known danger.
Who is so ignorant not to be aware that Hostel
ter's Stomach Bittcrs If when taken regularly, are
tents, and all epidcmics engendered by the vapor-
laden atmosphere of SPRING Who does not know
that the same wholesome tonic and Alternative, if
taken at proper intervals throughout the summer,
will prevent fevers, bilious attacks, headache,
collie, nervous debility, indigestion, and all the
long catalogue Of ills to which heat and malaria
give rise: Whoever wants -lean bill of health
for the most enervatinR season Of the year, should
take time by the fOrelock and commence course
Of this unequaled vegetable invgorant now.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1873-05-17

WHEN Congress passed the bill au-
thorizing the laying of the Geographic
wires from California to Japan, it did
what may result in the required termina-
ton of grand scientific circle. All
portions of the earth are now bound
together and kept in prompt communi-
cation by electric telegraph, saving the
gap occasioned by the Pacific Ocean.
This once spanned, and the circle of
information will be complete, and Puck S
tabled girdling of the earth in forty
minutes will be literally and easily out
done. The undertaking is mighty
one, and will require deep pockets and
powerful scientific combinations. We
presume that years must necessarily
elapse before even the Sandwich Islands
are reached, and that difficulties will be
developed which are now not even sus-
pected. The Great Eastern, or some
huge peer of that marine monster, must
be brought into requisition, and chart
of deep sea soundings constructed on a
plan faf in advance of what the present
day can supply.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1873-05-17
GreNsing Horses, Feet.

writer in the Canadian Fuyp,fy
says; had an excellent opportunity of
observing the effect of grcasing the feet
whilst working in n shop where horses
We're shod for large undertaking es-
adjustment. The treatment of the
horses by the horse-shoer was the same
as that of other horses shod at the same
shop, but the feet of the funeral horses
were creased every time they went out,
to make them nice and black and, as
the fruit of this practice, the hoof
almost ceased growing. The sole was
not hard and glossy, as after pairing, but
of dry nature, and in many cases could
be crumbled by the fingers.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1873-05-17

A JAoKAL who had pursued a deer all
day with unfagging industry was about
to seize him, when an earthquake,
which was doing little civil engineer
ing in that part of the country, opened
n small chasm between him and his
prey. NOW here" said he, els dis
tinct interference with the laws of ma
ture. But if we are to tolerate miracles
there is an end to all progress SO
speaking he endeavored to cross the
abyss ut two jumps. His fate would
serve the purpose of an impressive warn
ing if it might be clearly ascertained ;
but the earth having Immediately
pinched together again, the research of
the moral investigator is baffled.-
Fabics Of Zanbri, the Parsce.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1873-05-17
BETTER THAN GOEGH.

week or two since little incident
occurred at Cape Girardeau, Mo-, an
account of which, it is hoped, Mr.
Cough will incorporate i'll his lectures 4;
it will point discourse and add effect
to the moral. A character, noted some
what for loafing around bar-rooms, was
sitting in his usual place of resort, with
several compatriots, about the card
table, killing time with the pasteboards.
Suddenly his wife entered the room,
bearing a large covered dish, which she
deposited on the table, with the remark,
Presuming, husband, that you were
too busy to come home to dinner, I have
brought yours to you," and departed.
The husband invited his companions
to share his meal and removed the lid
from the dish, revealing no smoking
roast, but instead slip of paper, only
this, and nothing more, on which was
written, 81 hope you will enjoy your
dinner it is of the same kind your
family has at home"
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1873-05-17

LIBELS THROUGH POSTAL CARDS
A person was recently convicted in
London of "gross, vile and most
atrocious libel" on his own niece, he
sending her a postal card containing an
accusation of immoral conduct, for
which he was sentenced to two years
Imprisonment and fine of two hundred
and fifty dollars. The young woman
was one of eleven children, and Mt the
time, on account of the ill-health of her
father, was supporting herself by work
The uncle had written her an ordinary
letter on the subject, and afterward sent
her postal card, thus maliciously and
cruelty conveying to her associates and
employers his own unjust suspicious.
The result was that the girl lost her
place, was brought into disestecm, and,
if the charge had been true, would have
been prevented ever after from ASSOC
ciating with honest women. The Judge
who passed the sentence compared the
act of the prisoner to robbery with
needless violence, and regretted that the
law did not permit him to order the ras-
cal to be logged.
A general abuse of the postal-car,l
system in this way would make it nm in
tolcrable nuisance We do not believe
that its adoption in this country will
lead to many similar violations of its
purpose Here and there, however,
some malicious person will vent his
spite in this way, just rs now persons
are found base enough to print and sell
indecent newspapers. Against these
isolated and exceptional outbreaks of
libelous vulgarity we must look to our
courts of justice for remedy, to whose
attention we commend the English case
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1873-05-17
sheep Eating their Wool.

Instances of sheep eating their wool
are quite common, especially during the
latter part of winter and the early part
spring. Some have thought the cause
resulted from the the presence of small
parasites-as minute as the red spider
of some Towering plants-which pro-
duce an irritation, and to allay this, the
sheep acquires the habit of biting it's
own skin, and thereby eating its own
wool. 1t is generally believed, however,
that the habit is analogous to that of
hens eating their own feathers, and of
the abnormal appetite of cows for old
bones, WOODEN rags, ETC.; and is caused
by an exhaustion of the phosphate in
the soil Old pastures aud fields. that
have been long cropped, are deficient in
these elements, and there is want of
them by the animals. As a preventive.
mix small quantity of bone meal with
corn meal, and give them an occasional
feed. Sulphur also has been found to
be preventive of the habit, and many
farmers keep their stock constantly sup
piled with it. 1t no doubt assists in
giving healthy tone to the system.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1873-05-17
1,3SI, gJg, I53
The following is a statement of some

Sugar is the only article in this list
of domestic products whose yield is suffi-
cient to supply or own demand. The
domestic crop was 1908 hogsheads,
and the crop of maple sugar and honey
was equal to about 800 hogsheads.
These amounts seem large, but they are
really small proportion of the sugar
we consumed in 1870. The statistics Of
imports for that year show that we i'm
ported over 200, 900 pounds, or ~, 553
hogsheads, in addition to what we pro-
duced at home.
The estimated cash value of farms in
the United States is 80, 262, S04, S62, and
the estimated value of farm products,
live stock and implements for the year
was 1909, COB, 544.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1873-05-17
EREEZLNG TO NEA I'LL

That to be frozen to death must be a
frightful torture many would consider
certain from their own experience of the
effects of cold. But here we fall into
the usual error of supposing that the
suffering will increase with the energy
of the agent, which could only be the
case if the scnsibility remained the
same. Intense cold brings ON speedy
sleep, which fascinatcs the senses and
fairly beguilcs men out of their lives.
The most curious example of the scduc-
tive power of cold is to be found in the
adventures of the bontanical party, who,
III Cooks first voyage, were caught in
Il snow-storm on Terra del Fucgo.
DR.. Solandcr, by birth a Swcde, and
acquainted with the destructive deccits
of a rigorous climate, admonished the
company, in defiance of lassitude, to
keep moving on. Whoever sits down, ="
said he, twill sleep, and whoever
sleeps will perish" The doctor spakc
as sage, but felt as man. In spite
of the rcmonstranccs of those he in
structcd and armed, he WIS the first to
lie down and die. The same warning
was repeated thousand times in the
retreat from Moscow Allison, the his
torian, to try the experiment, sat down
in his garden at night, when the Their
mometcr had fallen four degrees below
zero, and so quickly did the drowsiness
come stealing on, that he wondered how
a soul of Napolcon's unhappy band had
been able to resist the trcachcrous i'll
flucncc.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1873-05-17
SING ULAR CA USES OF FIRE.

We extract from an old paper the fol-
lowing causes of the origin of fire.
Although discovered seventeen or eight
cen years ago, they are worth reprint
ing at the present time, and may be as
valuable as they are interesting
A gentleman observed that the tassel
of his window shade was badly burned
from some cause which he could not dis
cover. Sharp inquiries failed to bring
him information. No person in the
house could explain the mystery. A few
mornings after, the maid was attending
the room; she ran down in great haste,
cxclaiming that the chamber window
was on fire. An examination solved the
mystery. In front of the window which
looked casterly stood shaving glass
affixed to movable stand. A magnify
ing glass on the back reflected the suns
rays, bringing them to focus on the
window-frame. Wherever they struck
the wood they charred it, When first
discovered, the frame of the window was
blazing. Had the fire extended, its
origin would probably never have been
discovered, and it would have been
grouped among those incomprchensible
causes which can find no other solution
than willful mischief or spontaneous
combustion.
Druggists and chemists know, but
probably the average warehouseman
and mariner do not know, that chloride
of lime and spirits of turpentine, when
they come in contact with each other,
result in combustion. In October, 1856,
schooner lying at dock in Buffalo
caught fire, us was supposed, from Il
lamp in the cabin, and was nearly con-
sumed. A chemist, who was called
upon to nppraise some of the cargo
saved, found lying on the dock a num-
Der of casks of soda ash and also chic
ride of lime bleaching POWDER, all of
which has been invoiced as soda ash
With these were large number of bar
rels of turpentine. Inquiry developed
that the bleaching powder had been
slowed in the hold of the schooner and
the barrels of turpcntinc slowed on top.
This explained the mystery. The chic
rine had escaped from the casks of
bleaching powder, and, being heavier
than the air, had occupied the lower
part of the vessel, gradually rising and
driving the air before it until it reached
the barrels of turpentinc. Here it came
in contact with the vapor of turpentine
escaping, more or less, from the barrels.
Chemical union took place, producing
heat, smoke, and finally combustion,
which resulted in the destruction of the
vessel The fire when first seen showed
thick, black, impenctrablc smoke issu-
ing from the hatchways, which upon
meeting with the air turned into a bright
flame, precisely as experiments with
chlorine and turpentine would indicate.
This is an important item to mariners
and marine writer's, us well us to ware
housemcn and fire underwriters.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1873-05-17
FARN PRODECE EOR 1870.

The st. Louis Repubiican condcnscs
from the last census some interesting
statistics i'll regard to the agricultural
products of the country for the year
1870. The census reports the number
of acres of land in the farms of the
United States at 1873, 02l 500 number
of acres of timber land, 159,310,177 !;
number of acres of other unimproved
land, 50, SOB, 765.
The area included under these three
heads constitutes that which is incloscd
and embraced in farms. Less than one
half the inclosed area is under cultiva-
ton, and the whole inclosed area con-
stitutes less than one tenth of the ma
tional territory. The yield of the prin-
cipal grain crops in bushels in 1870 is
set down as follows
"neat Zoi, i4o,bZo
Rye, barley and buckwhcat. ...,... $500, 2S1
batS ~ lOi, l5i
INDIAN corn '6o,344,549
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1873-05-17

WHAT NEXT? -The May number
reaches us on time, and is filled with an I'M
usual variety of the choicest reading for young
people. The publisher announces G,I50 cash
received during the month of
April Its success is quite wonderful. but is
no more than its merits deserve. Thirty cents
a year, with choice of two fine 81 90 Chromos
to each subscriber, besides splendid induce
ments for clubs. Specimen, cents. JOHN b.
ALDEN, Publisher, Chicago.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1873-05-17
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

FOREIGN GOSSIP.
DIsRAELI pronounces his name SO that
it rhymes with Bailey"
THERE were $50, 900 arrests of drunk
and disorderly persons in England last
year.
THE death of the Countess Guiccioli
leaves, it seems, but one of Byron's
celebrities of the gentlcr sex, Mrs.
Black, the Maid of Athens. The others
have all gone-Mary Duff, Margaret
Parker, Mary Chaworth, Lady Byron,
Ada, sole daughter of his house.
THE Chinese protect their pigeons
from the attacks of birds of prey by at
taching to the back of each three or
four light bamboo whistles. When the
birds are in flight, the wind, rushing
through these reed pipes, causes them
to give forth a sharp sound, which repels
the nssailants.
ROME, rs "a city of the soul, is fast
passing away, and giving place to
modern improvements. The authorities
are cutting new streets, laying out open
squares, building fine new palaces, and
propose to repair the city, and light it
thoroughly with gas. A few years hence
the pilgrim will seek the Eternal City,
and find-another Paris.
WHILE Generals who conquered France
are dividing immense sums, and invent
ors of guns and other instruments of
destruction make fortunes, Germany
ignores her really great men. The last
days of Senefelder, the inventor of lith-
ography, an art only second i'll import
ance to printing, were passed i'll penrry
and obscurity, and his descendants are
now in actual restitution.
The utter inefiiciency of unframed
levies in contending with regular troops
is strikingly illustrated by Marshal Mac
Mahon's report on the siege of Paris.
This siege lasted from the beginning of
April to the end of May, but, though
the Communists lost ten thousand killed
and twenty thousand prisoners, the
besicging army had only seven hundred
and ninety -four killed, all told.
By the last census of Canadn, recently
published, the population of the four
Provinces of Ontario, Quebec, New
Brunswick and Nova Scotia is 3, 1876, 761.
Ten years ago it was about 5000, 900,
which shows an increase at the rate of
only twelve and n half per cent. while
in the United States, during the CORE
spending period, the rate of increase
was over twenty two per cent.
THE British navy costs about $50, 900,
600 year. 1t contains III fighting
ships, while France, Germany, and the
United States added together have not
quite 100. 1t shows twenty-three iron
iron-clads in commission, against eleven
of France, Germany and America united.
1t claims twelve ships which are of IA
strength so great that all the other
maritime countries together cannot show
as many of equal strength. The type of
naval monster on which chief depend
ence is placed is huge mastless sea-
going monitor, of which a fourth is
about to be built. 1t is not yet settled,
however, that these mastless ships will
not go bow downwards to the bottom
under the continued beating upon them
of the great waves of the Atlantic, but
careful experiments are to be made oft
the Irish coast" The number of sailors
in the British navy is kept up to about
| 10000.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1873-05-17
Farm AND HONF.
Bench and Tools.

An exchange says that on every farm
there should be shop room, with Il
work bench and set of tools, suitable
for repairing houses and mending all
kinds of farm Implements. Having
them, learn to use them, and permit
your boys to use them. If they do de-
stroy little lumber, or spoil tool, you
are preparing the boys for the business
of life. And many jobs can be repaired
at home in less time than it would take
to go to mechanic, and frequently
much better, and money will be saved.
With a few bolts of different lengths,
plows, harrows, corn-planter, reaper,
or wagon, can frequently be repaired.
With small roll of harness leather,
and copper rivets, the harness or halter
can be mended. With soldering iron
and little solder tin pail or milk pan
can be repaired, or a can of fruit be
sealed. With saw and plane, at leisure
time in winter nice ornamental chicken
coops can be made, which will not look
30 much like a nuisance about your
premises. With tools, your stable doors
can be repaired and fastened with a
good wooden latch, and thereby relieve
that rail that leans against your door.
The same implements will be useful in
repairing that gate that is leaning over,
hanging by one hinge. Tools are also
convenient in making suitable frame
for that nice rose bush your wife has
been nursing with so much care, in your
front yard. If the farmer had few
tools he could make new roller for his
sled, and thereby have no excuse. for
neglecting t, haul up his summer wood.
Farmers should never go to a mechanic
to buy doubletree, neck-yoko, or OK
yoke, ak handle, hoe handle, rake or
any of the simple wooden implements
on the farm. But i'll order to be thus
independent, he must have tools, and
learn their use A bench and set of
tools always pay for themselves in one
year.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1873-05-17

HAVE You inflammatory sore throat,
stiff joints, or lamencss from any cause what
ever: Have you rheumatic or other pains in
any part of the body? If 30, Use johnson $
.Anodyne Imminent. Our word for it, it is the
best pain killer i'll the country. Com.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1873-05-17

TIE PUREsT AND SWEETEST Cop LIVER
On is Hazard e Caswel's, made on the sea
shore. from FRESH selected livers, of the Cod
only. by CAswELL, HAZARD d Co., New York.
1t is absolutely pure and s'rtct. Patients who
have once taken it prefer it to all others.
Physicians have decided it superior to all other
oils in market.-[Com.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1873-05-17
Food for Chickens.

Thomas Heathwood, successful
breeder of game fowls, gives the fol-
lowing as the proper food for young
chickens One egg, with the shell,
beaten into quart of raw oatmeal, and
wet up with new milk. Feed them from
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1873-05-17

The Late Gov. Geary wrote follows
EXECUTIVE CHAMBER, HARRISBURG, Feb. 81 1871.
CDR. SHALLESBERGER:
Dear Sir:-I regard your Antidote
as public benefaction.
In the fall of 1854 it proved itself in my case, as
well as in many others that came under my OBJ
servation, most invaluable remed y for Fever and
Ague, not only prompt and powerful in curing the
disease, but singularly pleasant and beneficial in
its general effects upon the system"
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1873-05-17

A WRITER in a late number of the
Rcruc dcS DcUr l(OndcS estimates that
the total cost to France of the war with
Germany was ten billion fr'ncs 1.-TWO bill
lion dollars).
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1873-05-17

PUBLIC SPEAKERS and Singers will find
" B,o,rn's Bronchial TrocheS" beneficial in
clearing the voice before speaking or singing.
and relieving the throat after any exertion of
the vocal organs. For Coughs and Colds, he
TrocheS are effectual.-[ Com.