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Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1874-08-15
Farm, Garden and Household.
Improving Meadows.


Just after haying is finished every
farmer knows exactly where he cut the
heaviest grass, and just where the un-
productive acres are, and then is the
proper time to improve them. 1t is too
generally believed that when a meadow
has become sod bound and unproduc-
tive, course of blowing and cropping
by rotation and seeding down is neces.
sary, in order TO obtain heavy growth
OF grass.
This method is good, providing two
dlhoultles are overcome; first. when
oply portion of the field REQUIRES re.
newing, it is difficult to remove a crop
OF corn (Which is almost invariably
raised hrst) from the ground in time to
secure the fall seed on the balance of
the field before the frost has injured il.
as the meadow becomes too wet and
soft to allow cattle and horses to tramp
upon it,
Second, when soil is once turned,
farmers are apt to keep it under the
pillow too long hence so many acres Of
poor land upon the farms of Ohio hus-
bandmen. Land should always be
stocked down before the old sod has
entirely rotted away. The two above
named difficulties have kept hundreds
of acresof meadow land lying in almost
useless condition for years.
Experience has taught many, how
ever, that to renovate meadow land.
plowlng is not required. The partly
barren places should be marked out,
and In the month of September receive
a good top-dressing of manure and be
thoroughly narrowed up, dragging until
the old sod is entirely broken up and
torn IN pieces, then stocked with one
peck OF pure timothy seed per acre, and
drag lightly.
The trouble is, the grass roots be-
come so compacted and interviewer that
they cannot ramify, and foreign matter
works III. A coat of manure, thorough
narrowing and seeding will cause sufii-
cient increase of grass the first year to
more than pay for labor bestowed. II
IN the fall it is discovered that by rea-
son of drouth or any other cause the
seed has not grown, it should be re.
stocked without dragging in the latter
part OF March. We have had the best
luck when stocking in spring by sowing
upon light snow.
There is another thing that too many
farmers neglect, and that is the putting
of meadows in proper shape for the
moving machine. The time spent in
moving around stumps, hillocks, logs
and trees, with hand scythe, amounts
TO more in season or two than would
be required to move them all, and make
the meadow forever afterward clear anG
smooth.
We have noticed that farmers whC
apply all their barn manure to thei
meadows in the fall produce the heav
lest crops of all kinds upon their farms
The reason is this: Manure lying in
pile until all becomes decomposed ant
more valuable, and it being all applied
to meadows, there is none for ploweC
ground. So but two or three crops vii
be taken off, then sown to clover an,
the second crop plowed under, the
stocked down and new piece plowed
Ii makes easy tillage and large profits
Ohio Farmer,
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1874-08-15
4 SerIons Calamity.

The New York Herald, speaking of
the Beecher-Tilton case, says: We
cannot regard this scandal in any other
light than that of a serious calamity,
not alone to the psrtien concerned in it,
but to the entire community. A popu-
lar and powerful preacher has been
stricken down before the flock by whom
he was revered, and his usefulness is
not only impaired, bat utterly destroy
ed, unless he can explain the accusa-
tions which are really based on his own
letters. A wife and mother is pub
licly dishonored by the husband who
had condoned her fault. The husband
has shown that he could tssely forgive,
and then, mere basely still, turn upon
and seek to destroy those whom he had
forgiven. Ladies and gentlemen of high
social standing and professed moral
worth have busted themselves for years
as common seandalmohgers, all the time
discussing the shame of these three as
phrase of social life. The saints seem
to have been turned into very devils
and to have been bereft at once of
everything like moral understanding
and all sense of social decency. In a
certain sense the community has shared
in this shame, and it is no wonder mo-
rality and religion suffer. But it is now
too late to sit down and grieve over the
wrongs Of the past. They have become
matters of impartial investigation, and
in the end they must become matters
of solemn judgment. Unfortunately
the inquiry so far has been without
good results. The tribunal itself was
not of kind to commend it to the pub
lie. In conducting the Investigation the
committee has made serious mistakes,
especially in the latitude allowed in the
cross-examination of the accuser and
principal witness. Instead of confn-
ing the inquiry to the simple issue of
the guilt or innocence of Mr.. Beecher
upon the charges preferred against him
and to ascertain the value of the proofs
bearing upon the case, extraneous mat
ters were permitted to be introduced on
both sides, and hired attorney was
allowed to practice the pettifogging
tactics of the police courts. The pub
LEGATION Of Mr.. Tilton's cross-examina-
ton destroyed the committees useful
ness, and this imposes upon it the
necessity of dissolution. A calmer and
safer tribunal tribunal having Judi.
cial authority-must hear and deter,
mine the case but Heaven forbid that
it shall be police court, with Marx
NEEDLE as the master of ceremonies
The time for pistols or policeman was
in the beginning, but now a different
course must be pursued, while the
busybody who has caused Tilton'i
arrest ought to be bundled out of cour
for the trouble he has taken.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1874-08-15
The Best Sewing Machine.

The best sewing machine for all purposes
made is, beyond question, the Remington.
1t will do a greater variety Of work, with less
noise and physical exerJion, than any in the
market 1t is so simple that child can man
age it, and 30 durable that we can see no
reason why one, with ordinary care, should not
last lifetime.
This point we desire to call especial attention
to- The Remington is made by the Rem
ington Arms Co., of lion, N. Y, whose arms
are known the world over.
They have the entire confidence of the
governments of the world, for the reason that
they never turned out a poor weapon, nor,
indeed, any but the best. Quality is what
they pride themselves upon, for it was their
capital at the beginning. The same rigid
honesty that they held TO in the manufacture
of arms, they have carried into their sewing
machine They are made of the best material
attainable, and no labor or expense is spared tC
finish them in such way as to make them dc
great deal more than is claimed for them
The name Remington" is sufficient guarantee
to any one who knows the Company.
The Company desire Agents in every county
in the United States. Wo can say that the
machine, because of its excellence, is gooC
one to handle, and of the Company that theil
employees are certain of fair and liberal treat
ment. Write to Remington Arms Company
| Ilion n. Y.-CoRJ.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1874-08-15
A BOnaparte.

There is a narrow, ugly street in
Baltimore, where woman rarely comes,
but one is often seen there. 1t is the
shape of a little old woman, that sallies
from clearinghouse on the corner,
less often recently than it used to-a
feeble, tottering frame, and wizened,
wrinkled face, wigged and specialized.
The old lady uses her attendants arm
as support, and passes, apparently
without notice, the groups of takers
that stare or point her out to stranger.
If some of the more deterrent salute
her, she straightens for moment, and
returns it with touch of the old grace
that wrought her fame and her MIS-
fortune. She is not a celebrity of to-
day her story stretches back full sixty
years, to the days when handsome,
pusillanimous exile married her on his
own caprice, and repudiated her at the
beck of a brother for she is Madame
Jerome Bonaparte, as she has always
proudly styled herself, once the wife,
now the widow of Jerome Bonaparte,
King of Westphalia. Beautiful, bril-
liant, and aristocratic, Miss Patterson
married him, then an unknown stran-
ger, against the wishes and counsel of
all her friends. She is now old and
peculiar. Her son Jerome, who never
saw his father, is dead, but his widow
and child-a third Jerome, with I'M
mistakable Bonaparte face-are living
in Baltimore"
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1874-08-15
Incidents of the Elnnd.

The first sacrifice of the Pittsburgh
disaster was that of W. Fl. Humbert,
Familiarity called Willie Humbert, q
young man of great promise, aged %
years. He resided in Ohio street, Sc
cure and far from danger. Hearing of
the food he hurried to the scene, and the
first that caught his eye was the form of
Policeman Hess struggling in the water.
The young man plunged in, and with
the aid of plank rescued him, pulling
him in through window in the house
of Peter Bolster. If they had stayed
there they would have escaped. The
flowing In so fast that they had scarcely
time to reach the upper story when they
missed little August, Squire Boil
ster's five year. old son. Humbert
ran below, and, catching glimpse of
the boys struggling form without, he
sprang through window and grasped
the child. He began to sink, and Hess,
seeing his companions danger, sprang
out to save him; but the water swept
him off his feet, and both, with the
child, disappeared beneath the walls OF
& floating building.
Perhaps among all those who were
employed in the noble work of saving
lives none were so successful as si1
young men of the Duquesne Boat Club
whose names are George Shot, JOIN
Straub, Frank Bremen, Frank Gre
mart, and Charles Metz In theil
staunchly-huilt skif, the Baby Anne
they rowed around rescuing struggling
victims wherever they could see them.
One heroic act, which stands promi
nent among the rest, was the rescuing
of Mrs. Hoerr and her two children
The lady resided in that Inflated por
ton of the town near Centre street
where so many lives were lost Thu
children were twins, aged five months
Early in the evening one of them ha(
taken sick, and fearing it would die, til,
husband started for minister to hav,
it baptized. While be was gone tn,
flood came, and the water rushing il
the two-story frame house containiu,
his wife and children, turned it owe
partly on its side. Realizing her grea
danger, the wife with her darlings as
cended to the attic. While clingin,
under a cornice of the roof, holding OF
fast to her children, the Baby Ami
came along. The young men tried t.
reach her, but the height was too great
A moment more and they would hav
persisted. In an instant Straub an,
Brennan had mounted the roof of a
adjoining building, and moment after
wards had the mother and babes i
their arms. They were carefully low
cred into the skiff, and in few nc
ments safely lodged IN the house of
neighbor. The joy of the poor mothe
was doomed to be short-llved, for on
of her infants died the next day.
There are many other acts of heroisn
but the heroes do not all survive to te
of their perilous deeds. The grave ha
claimed the greater part of them, an
the joys of those rescued are embittere
with the knowledge that their savior
were lost.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1874-08-15
A Mammoth DiSpensary,

"Among the notable physicians of this coun.
try, DIR. r. V. Pierce, Of Buffalo, N. Y, stands
deservedly high. He has obtained profess
sional eminence through strictly legitimate
means, and fully deserves the enviable repu-
tation which he enjoys. thorough and care
full preparation for his calling and extensive
reading during long and unusual large prac-
tice, have made him extraordinarily successful
in his private practice, and gained the COM
mendation even Of his professional brethren.
By devotiDg his attention mainly to certain
specialties. he has been rewarded in very
great degree, and in these lines is recognized
as leader. Not few of his preparations
compounded for these special cases have been
adopted and are used in their private practice
by physicians throughout the country, and his
pamphlets and larger works upon these sub
jects have been welcomed as valuable addi-
tions to medical literature, and placed among
the regular textbooks of many medical schools
Acknowledgment of the services which he has
performed for medical science has been made
by presentations of degrees from two of the
| first medical institutions of the land, and by
| the translation of several of his works into
| German, Spaniah and othel foreign languages
| The increasing demand for his specifics some
time since necessitated the opening of regu-
lar dispensary for their preparation, and from
small beginning the business of this estab-
llshment has now grown to mammoth proper
| ClOnS. 1nus uuIlnB tue Ju-6e uOHIn5 oHuluS
March 81, 1874, the sum expended for postage
alone, not to speak of that paid on newspapers,
amounted to $2,0S0.70. Over hundred per-
sons are employed in the various departments,
and corps of able and skilled physicians are
retained as an advisory board in difficult cases.
Elsewhere in to-day's Republican a whole page
is devoted to communication from DR..
Pierce, setting forth something of the history
and details of this vast establishment which
will be found not uninterestng reading. st
| Louis Republican.
If you would patronize medicines, scienti6-
cally prepared by skilled physician and chem
list, use DR.. Pierce's Family Medicines. Golden
Medical Discovery is nutritious, tonic, altera-
tive or blood cleansing, and an unequaled
cough remedy; Pleasant Purgative Pellets
scarcely larger than mustard seed, constitute
an agreeable and reliable physic; Favorte
Prescrption-an uneqnaled remedy for debili
tated females Extract of Smart-Weed, 8
magical remedy for pain bowel complaints
and an unequaled liniment for both human
and horse-fesh; while his DR.. Sage's Catarrf
Remedy is known the world over as the great
est specific for Catarrh and Cold in Head
ever given to the public.-Com.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1874-08-15
The Strength of the CarIIst Army.

A correspondent of the London
Times, in letter received by the last
mail, says: son modern computation
the number of the Carlist troops in all
Spain-in the Basque provinces, Navar-
re, Catalonia and Valencia-cannot be
less than $4,000 or 10000. Spaniards
hostile to the Pretender, and in posi-
ton to judge, have recently estimated
his numbers at 10000. Among these
there may be percentage of pressed
men who care nothing for the cause,
still less for fighting; but the great
majority are volunteers in the true
sense of the word, who have their heart
in their work, and accordingly do il
we'll. Your correspondents with the
national and Carlist armies lately bore
witness to this, and to the fact, also
that a great many of the Republican
soldiers engaged on June 81 were
understood lads, quite unfit for the
work given them to do. The noun.
taineers of the three Biscayan provinces
are as good fighting men as could b.
easily met with, and the war has nov
lasted long enough to convert them into
seasoned veterans-at least as compared
with the almost raw lads brough
against them. Zabala and Morione
must do their best if they would avoit
further disasters"
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1874-08-15
THE CENTENNIAL.
an Appeal 90 the People of the United
states for Funds.

An Appeal 90 the People of the United
States for Funds.
The Centennial Commission issues
the following address to the people Of
the United States:
arrangements are steadily progress
ing for the Centennial Celebration and
International Exhibition. The princi-
pal buildings are in course of erection.
The President of the United States, as
requested by Congress at its last ses-
sion, has extended a cordial invitation
to all other nations to join You in this
work, and large number Of these have
already signifed their intention to ac-
cept that invitation. Exhibition space
is being applied for from this and for
eign countries, and every manifesto
ton on the subject seems to indicate
eminent success for our Centennial dis
play. But to carry out this undertak-
ing on a scale due to the glorious event
to be commemorated, additional funds
will be needed; for while Congress has
cheerfully thrown around the patriotic
work, the national prestige, and prompt
ly promoted it by appropriate laws, it
did not furnish the necessary capital
that part was left for you. And not
doubling, that inspired by the memo
ries of the past and the blessings of the
present, you will cheerfully perform it,
and to the end that it may be con-
venient for you to do so, we have adopt
ed plan for raising revenue, which
will be brought before you by the
bureau created for that purpose, and
acting under the general direction OF
Hon. William Bigler, member of this
board, who is commended to your re.
spectful consideration in the perform.
ance of his arduous duties. In addition
to the use of this plan, any person can
subscribe for one or more shares Cen.
tennial stock at $40 each, by RENTING
payment for the same in Post-office
draft, or by check, to Frederick Fraley
Treasurer, No. 904 Walnut street, Phil
adelpAia, for which certificates will be
promptly returned.
JOHN WELSH,
President Centennial Board of Finance
PHILADELPHIA, July %.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1874-08-15
Attacked with HydrOphObia,

The Liverpool Daily Albion says A
remarkable case of hydrophobia has
occurred at Robert Town, Liverpool,
near Dewsbury. On the 18th of last
May mare, the property of Edward
Walker, farmer, was bitten by small
black and tan terrier dog, which was
seen to run into the stable in which the
mare was located. Mr.. Walker drove
it away, and, although he followed it,
lost sight of it in one of the lanes of
the village. Half an hour afterwards
the dog returned to the stable and
again snapped at the mare, whereupon
she kicked it. On July I'd the horses
lower lip became very much swollen,
and Mr.. Sumner. veterinary surgeon,
having been called in, he treated it for
disease known as the ".straggles. -
On the night of July 9th, however, the
animal became very violent, and snapped
and bit at everything within her
reach. Ultimately she exhibited all the
symptoms of hydrophobia. The veteri-
nary surgeon pronounced that she was
suffering from this disease, and conse.
quently she was shot.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1874-08-15
Fooled Him.

A story is told of verdant youth
who went to buy the practice of a
country doctor. The doctor said his
patients were SO numerous he could not
remember them all, but his horse knew
them and always stopped at their doors.
The next day the country doctor drove
his customer through the town, and as
he said, the horse stopped at nearly
every door. The bargain was concluded
and the money paid. The purchaser
remained in town, and for several days
wondered why no patients came. He
ceased to wonder, however, when he
found his predecessor had borrowed his
mllkmap's horse in showing him around.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1874-08-15
Curing Nervousness.

An eminent French physician, says
Max Adeler, claims to have discovered
that fddling will cure nervousness, and
that a trumpet solo will cure catalepsy.
I have not yet tested the accuracy of
these statements, but [ know q man
who is learning to play the ACCORDION
who has SC completely cured everybody
in the neighborhood of inconsistencies
that they are perfectly willing to re-
main away from home for any length
of time while the ACCORDION fiend is
practicing. He is also curing the house
rents in the vicinity by driving them
down. I have also known singing to
relieve acute attacks of rheumatism.
Old Jones who used to live near me,
was disturbed one night by q glee club
which was serenading his daughter.
He suffered great deal from rheuma-
tism, but he managed to hobble to the
front window with his gun, and while
he was leaning out to take aim at the
man who sang bass, he lost his balance
and tumbled out on the pavement. He
never suffered again from rheumatism.
He was buried on the following Sunday.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1874-08-15
What Brigham Did.

In q recent interview Brigham Young
said that tie Mormons were the first to
suggest the idea of building railroad
from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and
that as far back as 1852 the Territorial
Legislature had memorialized Congress
on the subject. Before the days of the
railroad he erected cotton mill at
Salt Lake, the machinery of which was
transported across the pains and noun
tains by ox-teams. The cotton used in
the Mormon factories is grown in South
ern Utah, and is fully equal to that
raised in Tennessee. Mr.. Young added
that he is now experimenting on the
propagation of fish and o. sters in the
river Jordan, and hopes to succeed.
The first information he had of Utah
was from Fremont's book, in which the
General described Salt Lake, stating
chat it was salt at the northern end and
fresh at the southern end. This was 6
mistake, caused by the fact that Ere
mont, in going westward, passed the
northern extremity of Salt Lake, ani
in returning passed Utah Lake, which
is further south, and fresh. From Ere
mont's book, aided by information givel
by Indians and hunters, Brigham YOUNG
was enabled to find the lake, near tn,
shores of which he founded great city
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1874-08-15
An Astonishing Story.

Here is story which may we'll as
tonish all naturalists In Murrays-
vile, Cooke county, Tenn, a Mrs. Ken
nedy has for some years suffered great
pains and "felt something running up
and down her stomach" So at last,
after some hospital treatment, she went
for Perriam Gyles, M. d. This physi
clan having summoned two of his
brethren, an operation was undertaken.
Surgical particulars are unnecessary.
The result was that two living rattle
snakes, one Sc, the other 80 inches long,
were removed from the woman, and she
is now perfectly well, while the snakes
Gn stuffed state) adorn the museum
of Col. John Stephens. Mrs. Kennedy
says that several years ago "she swal-
lowed two small, soft, white eggs
which she found in field, "supposing
them to be partridge eggs"
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1874-08-15

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THE EXPOSITION.
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els Most Easily Managed by the operator
Length OF stitch may be altered while running,
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which allows easy movement Of needle.bar aud
prevents injury to thread ..4
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