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Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1874-12-02
MIX FEVER IN COWS.


We are glad TO believe that the past
few years have witnessed great i'm
provements in the winter management
of cows, but there is evidently room
fhr u great deal more. Some farmers
practice uryiiS ,iloi. Vows ia s-..i,-
winter and then feeding them on poor
hay until within week or two of
their calving, when they begin TO stuff
them with meal, and continue this pro
cess until the calf is week old or the
COW dies. Under such treatment il is
not strange that somany cowsare every
year lost or ruined. From the time
a COW is dry until she drops her calf
she should be kept in good condition,
and il when dried she is no better flesh
than cows usually are, should be kept
gaining. Ii this is done and she Is
properly tended at the time, she is al
most certain to "comc in all right.
Let her loose for time before she
drops her calf the longer the better,
Feed her upon food that is opening
and cooling, such as bran, oats or roots,
but keep Indian meal, which is heat
ing, away from her. When she has
dropped her calf see that she docs not
become chilled, and make her food
light. Give herallthc drink she ewants,
but have il warm. Do not be in too
much of hurry to make her give a
large mess of milk, and IL you feed any
proyender during the first week Il
should be very light, say two or three
quarts Of oats per day. Treated in
this way very few cows would have
milk fever; but il, through mismanagc-
ment, the feeding of Indian meal, the
giving Of cold water, or allowing her
TO stand in wind and get cold fever
should come on, give the COW mild
opening medicine of lard or oil, and be
sure to keep the bag cool by rubbing
it with cold water. Keep her in light
food, and take good care Of her and
nature will soon bring her out all right.
Except something to keep her bowles
loose, little medicine is needed,
Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1874-12-02

An Irish girl on applying for n siiu-
alton, was asked by a lady If she was
used to early rising. "ArmhW ex.
claimed Biddy, ois It airly rising ye
wants? Faith, ] always gets up an
has the breakfast ready, and every bed
in the house made, before there is a
soul in the house awake. An is that
airly enough for yeY" Tho lady
thought II was, but she also thought
that making a bed while the person
was asleep was novel experiment,
and one which she did not care to try,
Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1874-12-02

A smile costs the givcr nothing yet
il is beyond price to the erring and re-
penting, the sad and cheerlcss, the lost
and forsaken. II disarms malice, sub
dues temper turns enmity to love, rc.
venge TO kindness, and paves the dark.
est paths with gems Of sunlight.
Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1874-12-02

The Queen of Portugal, morganatio
wife of Don Ferdinand, in late visit
to a friend admired a beautiful antique
cameo in his collection Of gems, and he
gave it TO her She took from its
place the brooch she wore, covered
with precious stones, threw II out of
the window and replaced it by the
antique gem. With tastes that have
this effect II is fortunate she has king
on hand, even if is the left hand.
Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1874-12-02
Gossn-Me condemn rossip.-


Gossp-Wc condemn gossip---scan-
dals twin sister-yet il is fault easi-
ly committed. We begin by gentle
deprccatory reference TO somebody's
in6rmity OF temper, and we find our
selves specifying q particular time and
scene, which straightway the one who
hears tells some one else with, addi
tions, slight, perhaps, but material
Before we know IL, we have stirredup
a hornets nest. This may be done
without any more potent motive than
mere love of fun; and half the gos-
sip in the social world IL Of the un.
thinking kind indulged in D merely
from spirit of drollery. Far worse
Is that other sort 81 talk which ends
in SANDER and begins in malice, and
which separates friends and sunders
the tics Of years Of intercourse with
its sharp and jarring discords. The
only way to avoid this evilisto refrain
from making the affairs of our friends
staple article Of conversation in the
household. There are plenty Of sub
jects at hand---let MS avoid pcrsonali.
ties. iri .1t1lfh Ora 3 qqiiarI "a
Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1874-12-02
Figaro reports a little game Of III,

Figaro reports a little game Of the
Paris tailors. The tailor says to his
customer "sir, ! had the honor TO sec
you at the marriage Of Mr.. So-andso.
The coat | made for you needs little
change" Naturally the gentlemen
sends the coat, and few days after
the tailor returns it but no change has
been made, only it has been worn by a
gentleman who had to have q coat for
that night, and there was not time to
make one. itg d hl1 lINl
Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1874-12-02
A Fitchburg man developed q I

A Fitchburg man developed q fine
strategic talent the other day. He
was paying a hack fare, when he
dropped three bank bills, and the wind
whiskcd them swiftly away. After
unavailing search for an hour bright
idea struck him. lie folded n piece Of
paper and dropped il where the bills
fell, followed its fight, and whore II
rested, there hc found also his money.
Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1874-12-02

II|I . II|..|
A WICKED BUSINESS PARTNER.
Washington county, IN. W merchant
had son who was rather fast, and to
encourage him 70 do better the father
gave him an interest in his store. The
young man at once devoted himself TO
business, and the success of the firm
was marvellous. At the end of two
months he was intrusted with one
thousand dollars to 90 to Troy and
purchase goods. In that wicked city
he unfortunately fell in with some con-
vivial friends, and together they made
several days and nights of it, all at the
young merchants expense. Meantime
the senior member Of lhe firm received
q letter from complaining friend in
Troy, that his one thousand dollars
was fast running down the neck of his
junior partner. Furious, he dashed off
these lines ,n B. ssI rralarIf 70.
NY Dea, Soa unlsss yoa return tomorrow
with the goods. will dissolve the partnership
and close up the stors.' iIlil sHnf' .ffasI y
The Junior partner received this just
as no was tossing off gin-cocktail in
the Troy House. He read it, and then
walking across the street TO hard.
ware store, ordered a hammer and
keg of ten-penny nails. Then he tele-
graphed to the senior partner
my Dear Faher. scnd you, per express,
hammer and kcE Of ten penny nails, which may
be useful In closing up the store"
Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1874-12-02

Tho Cincinnati Times is greatly
gricved Mt tine advice in an agricul-
tural paper, Make manure Of your
old fodder" This evidences, il says, a
great lack Of filial affection ON the part
OF somebody.
Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1874-12-02

Washington Irving once alluded 10
a man of superior pomposity as IA
great man, and, in his own estimation
a man of great weight. When he
goes to the west he thinks the. east
tips up"
Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1874-12-02

A San Juan miner who has been
prospecting in southwestern Colorado
has found q whole forest Of pctrifcd
trees, with petrihed birds sitting on the
limbs singing petrified songs 'f'vsl III
Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1874-12-02

y APennsylvania seven year old girl
was reproved lately for playing 0ut- !
doors with boys, she WAS 700 big fcr
that now but with all imaginable in
noccncc she replied "W6y, grand
ma, the bigger we grow the better We
like EN-" Grsnd,hA took time 10
think. elf1alr,urf 9re rnsoiilr
Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1874-12-02
ACHING FOR A ROW.

As policeman was leaning against
the walls of the Detroit and Milwaukee
depot, at Detroit, he was approached
by man aboutthirty years old, whose
red face was a good match for his hair.
He was a little sprung and he felt
like steer turned into clover field.
"Mister" said he, speaking very
confdentially to the officer, Il don't
want to get locked up, and have my
name in the papers, and be fined, but l
am in from Iona, on little blow out,
and I'd give clean ten-dollar note TO
have a little scrimmage with some
body" "You mean you want to
fight?' asked the officer. .sThats
what l mean. I'm just aching for
row. want to stand before about
three good fellows and have some one
to give me the word to go in.a The
officer asked if he was heavy on the
fight and he answered: aIieavy? I
should say | wasl Why, Tn terrible
They call me the Russian bear at home,
and the full town stand up or down,
just as | sayl" The officer said il was
his duty to discourage disorderly con-
duct but in a case ike that, where a
man had come one hundred and twenty
miles TO get up row, he felt it his
duty TO extend indirect aid. He told
the Russian bear to go to the corner Of
Beaubren street. enter some saloon,
talk in a very loud voice, and he d soon
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1874-04-11

A wRLGoSiE BY MIR. ALFRED TENNYsoN, THE
POET LAUREATE.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1874-04-11

eial dispatch announcing the discovery of a
horrible murder three miles south of Center
vile, st. Clair county, ILL.,, the victims being
Fritz Steltzereide, Senior, aged about eighty,
his son and daughter-in-law, and two chill
dren. The two men were found with their
throats cut, and the wife and children had
their skulls broken. The youngest child was
an infant, and was found lying on its dead
mothers breast. The other child was about
three years of age. There was apparently
no clue as to the perpetrators of the crime.
Judge John W. Fox, ofthe Eleventh Judic-
ial Circuit of Arkansas, was shot and killed at
Forrest City on the 21st, by lawyer named
j. r. P. Aldridge. The cause of the murder
was unknown. Aldridge delivered himself
up to the Sheriff.
The detective calling himself Allen, who
was shot in the recent encounter with the
Younger brothers and badly wounded, is be-
lieved to be Louis j. Lull, an ex-captain of
the Chicago police force. The wounded man
was taken to Roscoe, near the scene of the
fight, and it was reported on the 22d that he
was likely to recover. His wife had arrived
to nurse him.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1874-04-11

remarkable character. So extraordinary was
this conduct, that a confused and ominous
murmur ran through the crowd. Boeltz was
thoroughly searched. Every particle of his
clothing was inspected to see if blood could
be found On his boots, about the toes, were
found red streaks as if blood had been there
and s.raped off. Several said it was blood.
Under such striking evidence his arrest could
not be avoided, and Sheriff Hughes made him
his prisoner. BoeltZ is small man,
about thirty-fiye years of age. He has
chin whiskers, but no mustache, and is not
a powerful man by any means. He married
in Germany, and came here five or six years
ago. His features are rather on the delicate
order, and he has meek expression. He has
been a strict member of the church, and
teaches a Sunday-school. 1t is said that he is
a little crazy at times ON the subject of reli-
gion, and it is argued by some that he might
have committed the deed under the influence
of religious fanaticism. Two other circum-
stances pointed to Boeltz. His farm is two
miles from the farm of the Stelt-
zereides. About half way along the lane,
for a space of one hundred and fifty yards,
DROPS OF BLOOD APPEARED,
as if they had dropped from wounds or a
bloody garment. Along the same space were
found several tobacco leaves with which
blood had been wiped. 1t was shown that
this tobacco came from the house Of the mur-
dered people, and the fact that it was on the
direct road to the farm of Boeltz was regard
ed as significant When the house of Boeltz
was searched, pair of boots was found which
corresponded with track at the end of the
Steltzereide house. 1t was a heavy mud
boot, and the sole studded with large num-
Der of broad-headed nails. The prints Of the
nails in the track were plain and the lengths
exactly the same. The boots were taken pos
session of by the constable making the search,
and will be used in evidence on the trial.
John Afkhen at the time of the murder
was working for neighboring farmer. He
it was who first carried the news to Boeltz.
He was a witness for the jury of inquest, and
his examination was rigid. He is a powerful
man, weighing about one hundred and eighty
pounds, and as strong as giant. He has fair
hair and skin, and blue eye that looks at you
fierce and straight. Before the inquest and
previous to his arrest he was taciturn and
scowling, and looked to all as if he were suf-
fering an unrest of mind.
LODGED IN JAIL.
Boeltz and Afkhen were discharged from
custody by the coroner, but afterwards rear
rested by the Sheriff and lodged in the Belle
villa iaiI
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1874-04-11
POETRY.
THE DUKE AND DUCHESS OF EDIN-
Il BURGH.


A WELCOME BY MIR. ALFRED TENNYsoN, THE
POET LAUREATE.
L. Es
The son of him with whom we strove for power =
Whose will is lord thro' all his world domain
Who made the surf man, and burst his
Has given our Prince his own Imperial Flower
Alexandrowna.
And welcome, Russian flower, peoples pride,
To Britain, when her flowers begin to blowl
From love to love, from home to home, you go,
Frem mother unto mother stately bride,
The golden news along the steppes is blown,
And ae thy name the Tartar tents are stirred;
Elburz and all the Caucasus have heard;
And all the sultry palms of India known,
Alexandrowna
The voices of our universal sea
On caI,es of Afric as on cliffs of Kent,
The Maoris and that Isle of Continent,
And loyal pines of Canada mtrmur thee,
Marie Alexandrowna
III.
Fair empires branching, both, in lusty life!
Yet Harold's England fell to Norman swordss
Yet thine own land has bow ID to Tartar hoTdes
Since English Harold gave its throne wife,
For thrones and peoples are as waits that swing,
And float or fail, in endless ebb and flow:
But who love best have best the grace to know
That Love by right divine is deathess king,
Nv.
And Love has led thee TO the stranger land,
Where men are bold and strongly say their says
See, empire upon empire smiles to-day,
AS thou with thy Houng lover hand in hand,
- AIexandrownai
So now thy fuller life is in the West,
Whose hand at home was gracious to thy poors
Thy name was blest within the narrow door;
Here also Marie shall thy name be blest,
Marie Alexandrowna!
".
Shall fears and Jealous hatreds fame again?
Or at thy coming, princess, everywhere,
The blue heaven break, and some dIvlner air
Breathe thro' the world and change the hearts of
men,
Alexandrowna ?
But hesrts that change not, love that cannot
cease,
And peace be yours, the peace of soul In soull
And whosoever this wild world may roll
Between your peoples truth and manful peace,
Alfred -Alexandrowna,
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1874-04-11
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.

Z During the voyage of the Great Republic
from Hong Kong to Yokohama, Lieut.. G. Ella,
of the United States Navy, committed suicide
by jumping overheard. Cause of the suicide
unknown.
In personal alteration few days since at
Lewisburg, Conway county, Ark, Proseeut-
ing-Attorney c.. c. Reid shot and killed an
other lawyer named Hill. The dispute arose
in the court room over the trial Of case.
The eoroner's inquest discharged Reid, re-
turning verdict of justifable homicide.
Reports from Saline county, ILL.,, state that
an organized gang of robbers are committing
outrages in Harrisburg and the neighberheod.
Several murders have recently been commit
ted by masked gang of men, and also num-
Der ofrobberies. The Circuit Clerks office
had been entered by means of false keys and
a large sum of money belonging TO the county
stolen. The County Clerks Office was also
entered and seventy indictments, principally
issued against saloon-keepers, stolen. During
the last few days one murder and two rob-
ber1es were reported.
Reliable information concerning the recent
fatal engagement between the detectives and
the Younger brothers in st. Clair county,
No., on the nth, gives the names of the par
ties engaged as E. B. Daniels, late deputy
sheriff of St. Clair county, Mr. Allen, of
Pinkerton's detective force, Chicago, and
Mr.. Wright, a detective of st. Louis. Daniels
was killed instantly. John Younger was
mortally wounded, but fired several shots be-
fore he fell. Detective Allen was wounded
and thrown from his horse, and it is stated
he saved his life by feigning death until
James Younger hadIeft. 1t was subsequent
ly reported that the latter was also wounded.
The st. Louis Globe of the 21st had spe-
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1874-04-11
MISCELLANY.
A HORRIBLE TRAGEDY.

The Murder of the Steltzereide
Famfly-Five Persons Butchered--
One of the Most InhumaR Deeds
Ever Recorded.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1874-04-11
NEWS SUMMARY.
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

The Oregon Democratic State Convention
has renominated Lafayette Grover for Gov
ernor, S. F. Chadwick for Secretary of State,
and for Congress G. A. Loudon.
The President has nominated Miss Ada C.
Sweet as Pension Agent at Chicago, vice
Blakeley resigned. Miss Sweet is a daughter
of the late Gen. B. j. Sweet, First Deputy
Commissioner of Internal Revenue. The
Senate confirmed the nomination without the
usual reference to committee.
The District of Columbia Investigating
Committee have announced a ruling, in sub
stance, that they, in their discretion, issue
subpenas daces tecam to compel the pre-
duction of private papers, provided there be
first filed with the committee an affidavit of
some person, or a professional written state
ment of counsel, averring to the best of his
knowledge the existence of such papers, and
showing they are material evidence in the in
vestigation with which such Committee is
charged. The Committee will then decide as
to the advisability of issuing the subpenas
asked for. 1t is also announced that the Com
mittee will not be restricted to such charges
and specifications as the memorialists may
choose to submit, but will take such action
and send for such persons and papers as may
be necessary and proper to secure a thorough
and impartial investigation of all matters en-
lbraced in the resolution of the Senate and
House of Representatives. creating the COM
mittee.
Senator Schurz has been selected to deliver
the Sumner memorial oration in the Senate.
Judge Dent, brother of Mrs. Grant, died at
his residence in Washington, D. c., on the
22d, of tumor in his stomach.
A Washington correspondent having tele-
graphed to the New York papers that the
President had recently expressed himself to
the effect that g any legislation tending to in
fiation must run aground on his veto," the
agent of the Associated Press telegraphs de-
NAL of the alleged statement, expressed by
the President in a conversation with lead
ing Senator. The President said that g he
had conversed with no one on that sub
ject at all, and that if he were himself mem
Der of Congress he should regard an intima-
ton of the veto in advance of legislation as
an unbecoming threat"
The Democratic State Convention of Rhode
Island has resolved to make no nominations
for State officers this year.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1874-04-11
NUMBER 81.

tomorrow he would offer it as a substitute for
the pending financial bill to equalize the distrihtI
ton of national bank currency. Mr. Sherman
said the bill was compromise meas ure and was
the result OF great labor on the part of the COM
mittee. Some of the features were not approved
of by all the members of the committee, and he
himself had given his adhesion to some of the
provisions with reluctance. The Senate
then resumed the consideration of the
bill to equaiize the distribution of the currency
Senator Morton addressed the Senate at length
thereon. He said that the issue of United States
notes should be declared legal up TO the aggregate
sf 500, ,000, 600. An increase of currency to
meet the demands of increasing business is not
imitation in any reasonable sense Mr.. Schurz
entered into debate on the question with Mr..
Conkling, pending which discussion the Senate
adjourned. House.-The bill fixing the amount
of legal-tender notes at S400, 000, ,eD0 was taken
up and passcd-ayes, l6S; noes, II. Crhe full
text of the bill is appended to this day proceed
ngs A Dill making appropriations for the
removal of the Kickapoos and other Indians
from the borders of Texas and New Mex
leo to the Indian Territory was passed
An amendment was made to the Leg
islative Appropriation bill providing that
no civil officer OF the Government shall receive,
In addition to his regular salary, any compensa-
ton or perquisite from the Treasury, or prop
erty of the United States, or shall make any pri-
yate use of such property or labor of any person
in the eraploy of the United States. Adjourned.
ABuL TO FIX THE AMOUNT OF LEeAL-TENDER
NOTES AT $i00, ,OO0, ,090
Whereas, The existing uncertainty as to
whether the amount of legal-tender notes now
authorized.by law to be kept in general circula-
ton So 10000 or 500 030, 600 is calculated to
derange the business OF the country and unsettle
values; therefore,
Be ii enacted, etc That the provisions of the
law existing prior to the passage of the act ap-
proved April u, 1866, entitled an act to amend
an act to provide ways and means to support the
Government, approved March g. 1855, be and
the same hereby declared to be in force, so
TO authorize the amount OF legal tender notes oil
the United States to the amount of $400, 900, 600
to be kept in general circulation, and the fetal
amount of the United States notes Issued or to
be issued. shah nevereXeeed 500. 600. QUO.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1874-04-11

4 CINGALEsE postmaster must lead a
joyous life. These are the names of few
villages: g Galliappocondurraci
hera.'' ollepoodama, y
g Ousekllapcokamakanda,o and 8 Boodo-
geykonkegamoWa.' y iD
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1874-04-11

In some natures the loftiest unselfish-
ness is often strikingly manifested. There
is Brooklyn man, says the Argus, who
keeps his family at a cheap boarding house
in order to spare the means for his moth
er-in-law to travel abroad.