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New-York tribune., 1874-08-01
ALLEGED OFFICIAL CORRUPTION IN CHICAGO.
CHICAGO. July 31.-The bribery which The

Times has distinctly charged on the members OF the
Common Council In the recent election OF architects for
the new Court house building, will be investigated, and
A. /, affirmed that n number or the Aldermen VIII DC In
dictel Tor corruption III having sold their votes.
New-York tribune., 1874-08-01

Ladies suffering from Rupture nssintY segat All
O53 BrosIgay PVle Rl.aN Ltiy
seIaEs Meal pnng pngerpli nlihy spons pads
New-York tribune., 1874-08-01
CATTLE MARKET.

CHIca1o Jnly S1-cRrTrE-Receip 2s0 bead nrtN Inis,
prices easier no, qao,sb bncher ~ 50o3 75 e'm"oa
70 fair naive 81 7jSti sOcke, $@ti %, it - cloves
80 l2l2nS5 S7ic. sh.pments 600 bCsd
H0GsRreipts 5000 he for e1ree
Others hade medium 90 5 ~ TO-
zood o cbo.r s6 d,s7 20 sapnsbt.. 200 s.sd
saEgP du receipts 100 hess prices nO3insiy 5ct,
Arrha
New-York tribune., 1874-08-01
I)IED.

AH Notices Of Marriages mast be iRi9rsed 9th FIJI
aQn,e aud address.
New-York tribune., 1874-08-01
TIE STATE or TRADE.
nANANA EXCHANGE
DOaEsTTC MARKETS.

B.r.s. Jay sl-spau.b coS, 2iia242 Aueno.u Gold. "a,
12t4. EEetange noanaL
New-York tribune., 1874-08-01

PRINTING CLOTH MARKET
FnovDrvcs L. Juy3l-Pr'-tug Cloths dur ~ s.. ses
64rdi.
New-York tribune., 1874-08-01
To-DAY'S RACES AT SARATOGA.

SARATOGA, July 3t.-There are three races
on the card The first j. free handicap
for all ages mile. the entries dni the prices they
sell for in the pools being "a follows:
New-York tribune., 1874-08-01

The tIrl and last Tor purse O sl,2ro.
running s72O the first 300 20 the second $3.50 to the
third; dash OF two miles. There were nine entries.
rirnr of Mhicn .tlrted. spendthrlft Doing drawn.
New-York tribune., 1874-08-01

Besides these, according to Mrs. TitOn's statement
nearly all OF her relatives heard the story.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1874-12-11
IndIsputabIe Evidence.

ST. ELMO. H., July 8, 1874.
r. V. PIERCE, NJ. D.. Buffalo, n VI wish
to add my testimony to the wonderful curative
properties of your Alt Ext, or Golden Medi-
cal Discovery. have taken great interest in
this medicine since first used it. was badly
afflicted with dyspepsia, liver deranged and an
almost perfect prostration of the nervous sys-
tenn. So rapid and complete did the Discovery
elect perfect cure that it seems more like
magic and a perfect wonder to myself, and
since that time we have never been without
bottle of the Discovery and Purgative Pellets
in the house. They are a solid, sound family
physician in the house and ready at all times
to fly to the relief of sickness-without
charge. We have never had doctor in the
house since we first began the use of these
medicines in several severe and complicated
cases arising from. as l thought, an impure
state of the blood. and in no one case have
they failed to more than accomplish all they
are claimed to do. / will only mention one as
remarkable (though could give you dozens).
Henry Roster, a furniture dealer of this
place, was one of the most pitiful objects ever
seen, his face swollen out of shape, scales and
eruptions without end, extending to his body,
which was completely covered with blotches
and scales. Nothing that he took seemed to
affect it particle. I finally induced him to
try few bottles of the Golden Medical Dis
covery, with daily use of the Pellets. assuring
him 1t would surely cure him. He commenced
its use some six weeks since, taking two Pei
lets each night for a week. then one each
night, and The Discovery as directed. The re-
suit is to day his skin is perfectly smooth,
and the scaly eruptions are gone He has
taken some seven or eight bottles in all, and
considers himself cured. This case had baf-
fled the skill of our best physicians. Messrs.
Dunsford & Co., druggists of this place, are
selling largely of your medicines aud the de-
mand steadily increases, and they give perfect
satisfaction in every case.
Respectfully, W. H. CHAMPL1N,
Agt Am. EXP. Co.
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How Good Stock Pays.

A correspondent of the Dixie Farmer
says will give recent occurrence OF
two that has dollars and cents in it. A
Kentucky breeder recently offered a
live proposition to neighbor of mine
thirty five dollars for all the calves on
his place, from weaving to twenty
months Old-and he declined the offer.
On the adjoining farms he could have
bought calves of the same age at from
two dollars 10 six dollars per head. He
said he would not drive them to Ken
lucky if they were presented to hims
Why? The improved breed of calves
could be made to gross /, 700 pounds at
three years old the Others, If ever, at
i've or six years ; one consuming as
much grass and requiring the same care
as the other. Comment is unnecessary.
I sold last fall, at the fair at Murfrees
boro, a one-year old FLY for four hun
bred dollars she was thoroughbred,
and cost me no more to raise her to that
age than mongrel or mule-the only
additional cost being the first produce.
I refused $3.50 for her second foal at five
months old. I paid 1926 for another
mare sold her two-year and one-year
old FLIES for $500. paid 81, 125 for a
fine iennet, in foal to fine jack, and
sold the colt at two and a half years old
for 50, 600. All the we'll bred pigs can
raise are in demand at ten dollars each
at from two to three months old. All
the improved varieties of sheep pay
their lambs selling from ten dollars to
twenty-five dollars per head at weaving
time. The improved breeds of poultry
pay. What is it that don't pay, of the
best of it's kind and well cared for?
What mopgrel stock does pay? If any,
1 have to find it out.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1874-12-11
How to Produce More on Less Land.

To secure good crops in defiance of
drouth, the farmer must prepare his
land early, deeply and thoroughly, and
fertilize it well. Il Is sheer nonsense
to plant an acre of land that will not
produce at least bale of cotton-on
five acres make five bales, instead Of
taking twenty acres to make the same
amount.
That,this result can be accomplished
without difficulty, We cite the example
of the young man near Byram, Miss,
who, Notwithstanding the uDpreceden-
ted drouth of the past summer, had
made three bales of cotton on two acres,
and $50 bushels of corn upon three
acres of land. The common sense view
he took of the matter was-as he had to
rely wholly upon his own skill and
judgment ''I have to do all the work
myself, how shall I accomplish the best
results with the least expenditure of
money and muscle?" Upon mature
reflection, and in answer to his own
questions, he arrived at the following
conclusions
l. Manure thoroughly and cultivate
a small surface of land. 2. Prepare
the land we'll by blowing and subsoil-
Ing dSeplSS duN CaLSIullJ pIdIU bho
seed. 3. To cultivate shallow after the
first working, keeping the ground al
ways clean and the surface well pulver-
lied.
The result of his good Judgment and
skill was one bale and a half to the
acre of land, instead of making the
same amount on twelve or fifteen acres.
Any young man of common industry
and energy can, by the use of brains in
his management, do as well, and soon
be independent and self-sustaining-a
producer, instead of a consumer.
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How to Avoid Taking Cold,


A cold is simply developer of dis,
eased condition which may have been
latent or requiring only some favoring
condition to burst out into the flame of
disease. That this is usually the cor
rect view of cold as a disease produ-
cling agent under all ordinary circum-
stances may be made plain by reflection
upon personal experience, even to the
most ordinary understanding. When
the human body is at its prime--with
youth, vigor, purity and a good consti-
ton on its side-no degree of ordinary
exposure to cold gives rise to any I'M
pleasant effects. All the ordinary pre-
cautions against colds, coughs and
rheumatic pains may be disregarded
and no i'll effects ensue. But let the
blood become impure, let the body be-
come deranged from any acquired dis
order, or let the vigor begin to wane,
and the inGrmities of age, be felt
by occasional arrangements in some
vital part, either from Inherited or actual
abuses, and the action of cold will ex-
cite more or less disorder of some kind,
and the form of this disorder, or the dis
ease that will ensue, will be determined
by the kind of pra-existing blood-lmpu-
rity, or the pre-existipg fault of the or
ganic processes. It follows from these
facts and considerations that the secret
of avoiding the unpleasant consequences
thought to spring wholly from the &C
ton of cold upon the body has very lit
tie dependence upon exposure, but a
great deal upon an impure and weak
condition of all the vital processes. In
other words, with an average or superior
constitution and an intelligent observ-
ance of all the laws of health, men and
women could not take cold if they wan
ted to !; they might be exposed to the
action of cold to a degree equal to the
beast of the field, and with like impu-
nifty. But in case of persons with feeble
constitutions, and who disregard know
ipgly or otherwise the conditions of
healthy existence, no degree of care
will prevent the taking of cold, as it is
termed. They may live in houses regu-
lated with all the precision of hot
house, they may cover themselves with
the most highly protective clothing the
market provides, and yet they will take
cold. I don't think the consumptive
person lives, or ever will live, even if
kept in a temperature absolutely uni
form, and clothed in wholly faultless
manner, IN WHOM InS well hhO"u slSuS
Of one cold after another will not be ap-
parent. But, on the other hand, there
are those who, like the late Sir Henry
Holland, of good constitutions and liv-
ing in accordance with the laws of
health, may travel as he did from the
tropics to the arctics again and again,
clad only in an ordinary dress coat, and
yet scarcely know what it is to have q
cold or sickness of any kind. The truth
is, to avoid taking cold from ordinary
or even extraordinary exposure the vital
processes must be made strong enough
to rise abovesthe untoward influence Of
external conditions
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1874-12-11
How to Make Narrow Gauge Rail
roads Paw,

Whatever railroad men may think
about the comparative advantages of
the ordinary and narroW-gauge tracks
for freight exclusively or general bust
ness on great routes of travel, there is
no doubt that roads built on the mar
row-gauge principle can be used to
great profit in new and in mountainous
regions where it would not pay to build
railroads on the old plan. The Monte
rey and Salinas City railroad in Califor-
MIA affords an excellent illustration of
this fact. The farmers along the line
butt the road themselves and put it in
operation. They had previously made
calculations from which they learned
that the people who would be accommo-
dated by it we're paying $3.50, 900 per
annum for the transportation of their
crops to tide water. They ascertained
that for less than this sum they could
build a narrow gauge road from the
Salinas plains to Monterey, a distance
of 49, miles, together with q wharf at
Monterey and suitable warehouses. The
result of their enterprise is that they
get their grain carried to the tide water
for 1926 per ton instead of paving
S.. so as they had been doing, which is
a saving to them of $195, 900 the first
' ear of the roads existence. The expe-
renee Of these California farmers proves
that under favorable conditions mar
row-gauge road can be and has been
built and equipped for less money than
would have been paid by the people of
the district through which it runs for
freight alone in a single year.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1874-12-11
Russian Salad.

Take about eight medium-sized pota-
toes, nicely boiled and mealy; and
while hot, with a silver fork break them
into little pieces about the size of small
nuts. Boil hard five or six eggs, chop
the whites and yelks separately; take
about half large tumblerful of best
Lucca oil, a little vinegar, pepper, salt,
CARERS; a couple of chopped anchovies,
If for fish salad, or the liver of fowl
bruised in the sauce, if for fowl, is a
great improvement if the latter, chop
the meat into small pieces, or If fish.
shred it into little bits Take half the
eggs and mix with sauce, place it in the
dish YOU intend serving it in smooth
the surface, cover it lightly with the re-
mainder of the chopped eggs, and
garnish with pickles and beet root cut
into shape. with tiny bunch of flowers
in the centre. The great advantage of
this dish is that you may put with your
uotatoes any scraps of meat or fish You
happen to have cold, and it makes very
pretty supper dish. You must regulate
the quantity of oil by the meat you put
in the salad, as some meats and fish are
much more dry than others. The OBJ
iect in breaking the potatoes while hot
with a silver fork is that they'are much
more light than if cut when cold with a
steel instrument,
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For full information, price-llst,
n ~ etc, address with stamp REV.
D. Il. Il. CHILDS. Troy, Ohio.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1874-12-11

PRovIDENTIA1 MAN.-This title now
Justly belongs to physician who has
added to the list of medicines a new
remedy, which appears to include all
that is most valuable in the old phar-
macopeia, and not to include any of
the drawbacks with which the so-called
specifics of the faculty are chargeable.
The providential man is DIR. Joseph
Walker, of California, whose Vinegar
Bitters have achieved, in the short
space of two years, a degree of popu-
larity never before attained by any adj
vertised preparation in this country.
We have too much confidence in the
American people to suppose that this
sudden and surprising celebrity is the
outgrowth of a delusiop. Indeed, we
have reason to know that it is founded
on innumerable and we'll authenticated
cures of almost all the bodily ills that
flesh is heir to. Not the least among
the merits of the famous Tonic and Re-
storative, is it's entire freedom from al
cohol. as we'll as from all mineral drugs.
It is composed exclusively of rare vege-
table extracts.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1874-12-11
Winter Care of Trees.

When trees are purchased in the fall,
many of them are lost through want Of
proper care during the winter months,
and for this reason many wait till spring
before buying. If trees, especially small
ones, are properly cared for through the
winter, it is better to get them in the
fall /; or, if they are grown on the place,
and to be replanted in the spring, they
are better to be taken up at the approach
of cold weather, and heeled in. This
operation of heeling is simple, easy, and
puts the trees in the very best condition
for keeping through the winter; as,
when they are thus treated, there is no
danger Of heaving out by frost, and the
ends of the roots become well calloused,
and are ready to begin fresh growth
at once, when planted in the spring.
To heel in trees properly, dig q. trench,
say three feet wide, and deep enough to
cover the trees, foot or so above the
tops of the roots. Before the trees are
placed in the trench, the roots should
bedipped in what nurserymen call grout,
and other people call thin mud. This
gives each root and fibre q coating of
fine earth. This done, place one row Of
trees against the back side of the trench,
leaning against the edge, and as thlckly
as they can well stand, then carefully
sprinkle fine earth from in front of the
trees, among and around the roots, TAX
ing pains that no air holes are left !;
pack the earth down frmly-there is no
danger of it being too solid-and when
this row is finished, the trench for the
next row is ready. The great point is
to have the earth filled in closely around
every root, and well packed down. If
this is done, the trees will be in better
condition for planting in the spring than
if they had been allowed to spend the
winter where they grew. If we were
purchasing trees from a distance, we
would much prefer to get them in the
fall, and have them heeled in through
the winter, so that we could have them
ready at the earliest possible moment
for planting in the spring. Rotro1
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1874-12-11
Economizing Food.

It is trite, but true, that for fatten-
ing animal shelter md warmth are equi-
valent to so much food. The fat of
| hog is carbon mainly, the walls of the
cells in which the fat is stored consist
ing only of heterogeneous matter Car
bonaceous food is therefore mostly re-
quired for fattening animals. Starch is
| carbonaceOus substance as much as
oil or fat. The composition of starch is
twelve atoms of carbon, ten of hydro
gen, and ten OF oxygen. Oils and fats
(the latter differing from the former
only in the degree of solidity) differ
very little in their composition from
starch. In the process of digestion
starch is decomposed, and its carbon is
made available, first to sustain respira-
ton and the animal heat, and second to
increase The store of fat. Oily food
serves the same ends in the animal pro-
cesses, but it is found that rich food in
oil is enabled to add more rapidly to
the store of fat than that rich in starch.
A very considerable portion of oil from
food rich in that element is directly as
simulated, and it is found in practice
that to give the best results a food rich
in fat or oil must be mixed with the
starchy food. Thus corn is a food
which fattens more quickly than wheat
or barley, and cotton seed or inseed
oil cake produces fat faster than corn.
The choice of food for fattening hogs
depends, however, mostly upon its re-
lative cheapness and convenience. But
it is more TO the purpose here to notice
the fact that no fat is made until the
needs of the animal to furnish its ami
NAL warmth, and the carbon to be used
up in the process of breathing, are sup
piled. When these needs are met, the
surplus goes to make fat. If there IS
no surplus, no fat is made. If the de-
mands upon the animals physical sys-
tenn are excessive, by reason of expo
sure to cold, and the waste of heat IS
great in conseque nee, the production OF
fat is proportionately lessened 1t may
be then either very small or stopped al
together, or it may be that the animal
is obliged to consume more food to
supply the greater demand upon its
system. Herein lies the secret of the
waste of food by exposure to the cold,
and the economy of warmth and COM
fort. The pref ent year corn is scarce
and dear. It will therefore be more
than usually necessary to see that fat
tening hogs, as well as store hogs, are
comfol tably housed and kept warm.
The earlier, too, that hogs can be fat
tened, the less will be the waste of food
in maintaining the animal heat.-Ne,O
York Tribune.
No Norwegian girl is allowed to
have a bean until she can bake bread
and knit stockings and as conse-
duence every CIR! can bake aud knit
long before she can read or write, and
she does not have to be coaXed into
her industry either.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1874-12-11
Pineapple Preserve.

Slice the pineapple rather thinner to
preserve than to eat, and take one pound
of loaf sugar 20 one pound of fruit !;
powder the sugar, and place in the ket-
tie alternately layer of sugar and a
layer of fruit. To each pound of fruit
put three tableSpoonfuls of water. Let
it remain over a slow fire until the
sugar is all melted then boil it slowly
until the fruit looks clear take out the
fruit piece by piece and lay them on a
dish, until the syrup is boiled nearly to
a Jelly. Put the fruit in jars, and pour
on the syrup hot. Cover the jars care
fully with paper. which has previously
been dipped on both sides in white OF
egg; this will secure their keeping and
preserve the flaver of the pineapple.
The addition of two or three lemons
may be considered an Improvement.
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ON THE TERRACE.

The stately lady, the grave, calm man,
Stood on the terrace together;
Mid the bright rose thickets the revelers strayeu
From lawn to fountain the children played,
And hidden music sweet melodies made,
At the fste in the July weather.
With careless, Ianguid courtesy.
She bent to hear him speak
or the newest book and latest play
Of The keanest move in the statesman's fray,
of the freshest topic of the day,
OF the marvel Of the week,
LIGHTLY, with his practiced tongue,
He touched on all and each,
with here a sneer, and there Jest,
And now grave word, as to attest,
" give you the foam on the top-the rest
No passing hand can reach
Yet once, all me, how long agoI
Each one was all to the other,
When every whispered word of his
Woke her young heart to dream of bliss
Does the ghost of first loves trembling kiss
Still lingering round them hover?
The measure of the music changed,
GA the summer breeze there stole
A low, sweet, simple homely air,
Such as one listens to everywhere
To the two who lounged on the terrace there
1t spoke as TO heart and soul.
Her proud head dropped, his low voice ceased
For moments in thought they stood,
Young, eager, fearless, happy and true
As when no cold wisdom claimed her due,
when love was fresh and hope was new,
at the tryst in the old oak wood.
vivid flush on the stern bronzed face,
tear in the large blue ewes,
Then--back to the world and its talk again.
custom closed chill DER the instant's pain
For thought was folly, and memory vain,
In the path that before them lie.
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Pare and slice six medium-sized ap-
Piles. Place one-third on the bottom of
the pudding pan scatter over few
slices of ounce, peach, pineapple, or a
few strawberries, and a few raisins cut,
a tablespoonful of uncooked rice, two
tablespoOnfuls of sugar. Add two or
more layers in the same manner, a little
salt and bit of nutmeg or mace. Fill
mp the pan with rich new milk and bake
slowly from two to three hours.
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Cream GRkea.

One pint of water, one cup and 6 half
of butter, four cups of sifted flour,
eight eggs, Boil the water and butter.
Stir in the flour slowly while boiling.
Boil one minute, and when the dough is
cool, add the eggs, which have previ-
Ously been well beaten. Drop in shape
ly tablespoonfuls upon buttered tin /;
bake in a quick oven.