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Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1874-01-27

N5R1y-Order, ps>sscd equn.izing
State Boun,ie>; in relation to lee, oi
ShcriiIs. and to laws iyr the protection
Of Moose Credentials were received
from the Representative o. the P,>.am1
quadly tribe of Indians.
UolHesdl1-A Committee o1 Couau
Estimates WAS appointed
Taurs'sy-Tnc Representative from
the Penob,co, Indians, prr,ea,cl hi, cr-
dent.als An order WAS passed euqujr
nc into the Stale Prison management.
Fri3ay Tie Committee reported Q
bill for tue protection oi inmates OF tLr
Ii,ane Hospital. and To pi,,rrt design
iag person, from combining >uuc persons
iu the A~y um Educational Committee
reported bill to establish au Industrial.
school tor Girls Mr Foster ot Oxford.
presented a minmily report
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1874-01-27
ReUieiU of The Ueek.

The past week has not been marked 10y
any events of great public interest. Con-
gress and our State Legislature have beer
engaged upon matters of very little i'm
porlance to the general public. The
Railroads have met with no severe acct
dents. and no large vessels have beer
sunk. Fer all these things let us be truly
thankful
We report the following items of gen
eIal interest:
Fourteen business houses in Charles
ton, W. Va, were destroyed by fire last
Monday.
Two slight shocks of earthquake were
lelt in San Francisco Monday, but nc
damage was done.
The Knitting Mill at Bennington, Vt.
was burned Tuesday afternoon. The fire
was caused 10y leakage in gasolin,
pipe. The gas iguitcd from a boiler fire
aud exploding, demolished the adjoining
sewing room Nine women at work
there welo instantly killed by the ex
plosion OF burned TO death in the Tire
which ln'owed. anl many Others were
Injured. some shockingiy. Tne card ant
sorting room were saved from destruc
lioa Loss about 100000; partly in
surcd.
Last Tuesday. Judge Dickerson sen
teNccd Gordon, the Thorndike murderer
to Ice hanged.
Wendell Philips lecturcd in Portland
"Wednesday evening
Madame Puepa Rosa died in London
hast Thursday evening. she was born in
Ednburg IN 1889, but has made America
her home for So long that We may mourn
The loss oi oar noted singer.
The warm weather OF the past week
caused the ice ia the Buffalo River 10
move out on Thursday. causing consider
able damage TO property in It's course.
The ice caught ten large vessels and car.
ried them against the Michigan Street
bridge, DESTROYING several grain eIe, @.
tors aud MI The sheds OF the \. Y. {. K.
K. rs they passed.
The Du,c OF Edinburg was married TO
the Grand DJche,, Maria OF Russia. al
81 Petersburg at one O'Clock las, Friday.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1874-01-27
IEGISL1TI gE.


SENATE.
HoHdag.-A communication WAS TO-
ceived from the Governor showing that
the sales to liquor agents dating the past
year amounted to Slo6 300 10.
Wednesday. Mr. Martha in,rod ced a
resolve requiring returns from Savings
Banks.
Thursday. Tho Senate received the
Reports of the Commissioner, 81 Fisher
lesand Immigration. and referred lhcu
TO the respective committees. A gcnerll
railroad bill was referred to The Ja,'ciary
Committee Order passed 20 supply the
Senate with tso copies OF The acts aud re-
solves OF -; and the Board oi As'icul
lure with the h.uuebec journal during
the session.
Frduy %, dcrs TO enquire whether
the Cumberland aud ONf,ri Canal had
not ceased to be OF public use 20 enquire
into the cXpediency OF requiring Deputy
Sher1s TO make their returns To tie
County Commissioners. aud adj mes
-enge;s and officers OF court 10 present
their bills TO The presiding Judge; 10
assess taxes on property held ON the iir-,
OF January instead OF April. rs nov; uo
prevent gambling ou railroad cars; To-
q l1w labotcrs upon bark TO pace "a lien
IA same; to pro,cc, sheep hu,bandry
lrom dogs.
Friday seems TO have been busy day
with the senators.
The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1874-08-14
Use Of the Golden Egg.

The farmer who works to the last limit
of daylight, and then hoes his garden
moonlight nights is poor manager. He
does not get the most ont of life. 1t is
not worth while TO herd up the golden
eggs, which the good goose lays, until
they are stale. Better use them. day
by day, as you need them. In other
words don't be so greedy of gain that
you deny yourself all comfort and pleas
ure as you go along, in the hope of Sc
curing the means of taking a long rest
by and by. When the capacity for en-
joying it is gone, how worthless will be
the means of securing it, What is a
gallery of fine paintings to a man who
has lost his eyesight?
The young farmer should quit work
early enough to wash up, change his
soiled clothes, and put ON fresh linen
coat, or, better still, good dressing
gown, before he sits down to supper. He
Will enjoy it ten times as well, and so
will his family. 1t will have an eIeva-
ting influence on the whole family. Let
the supper be early enough to insure
good sound sleep, even for the children
If there is time after supper, often take
the tired wife and little ones for a
ride of an hour or so, or drop into "a
neighbor's and spend a social evening
When at home, make the evening hour
pleasant by some cheerful sport or en-
tertaining reading. 1t is these little mat
ters that makes the difference between
an intelligent, refined and happy house
hold, and one where its members are
little more than mere slaves and drudges.
Don't hoard up for the winter what
you like or need to make you comfort
able in the spring time or summer.
Don't harden your children's nature by
a close-fisted policy, that shall make
them unloved, unhonored, and wretch
ed through life.-RurGL Near Yorker.
The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1874-08-14
StaV on the Farm.

The Rural Ne1J Yorker talks to the
farmers and farmers boys as follows:
If discontented farmers, and farmers
wives, sons and daughters, who think
the delights of city life something worth
realizing, could walk through our streets
to-day and read one-thousandth part of
the misery and apprehension that haunt
the hearts of all classes and are making
lines on their faces, they would thank
God for the peace and seclusion and
abundance gathered in the gardens of
their homes. Thousands of men and
women are at the beginning of winter
suddenly thrown out of employment!
Few, comparatively, of these have aught
laid up in store. Young women flock
through the streets with restless, eager.
anxious eyes, with lips quivering with
fear lest they fail to obtain employment
that shall give them food and shelter.
Boys and girls of the country. be CRATE
full for plenty of shelter. You will. per-
haps, never know how to value it until
you want it and cannot get either. How
many of these in the city are country
born; and how many would gladly 90
back to the homesteads for refuge, and
yet may not have the means TO get there!
Farmers, thank God for the harvests,
and that you have unsold food for your
families. You have reason.
The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1874-08-14
Exceptional Production.

Not unfrequently the space of our ag-
ricultural papers is devoted to a record
of what may be called exceptional pro-
ductions. These are sometimes in the
line Of agricultural or horticultural
growth, sometimes in the way of fertil-
ity among the animals of the farm. As
a record of what Nature can do, they are
undoubtedly of interest, and are worth
all the space they occupy. But we should
be careful that they are not allowed TO
pass current for more than they are real
ly worth.
Too much cannot easily be said of the
importance of progress in agriculture in
all its branches; of the necessity of in
ducing by means of natural and artificial
cultivation the highest productiveness of
the soil, and by careful breeding and
management, developing the most per-
feet animals. But while all work in this
direction is laudable, the danger in lay
ing too much stress upon the exceptional
productions to which we have alluded,
is that they will create for us false stand
ards by which to labor; standards whose
measurement will make what has been
accomplished seem unsatisfactory and
deficient. 1t is well to bear in mind that
exceptional productions are only the
possibilities of agriculture, not the re-
suits of the working of its daily laws
In some measure all these things of
which we speak are the result of acci-
dent; the same arrangement of circum-
stances not only may not, but will not,
occur in a hundred times. Their recur-
renee is as uncertain as it is certain that
they who SOW with toll shall one day
reap the increase.
The only point which we wish to i'm
press in these paragraphs, not only upon
inexperienced men, but upon farmers
themselves, is that agriculture in the long
run can only be relied upon to yield a
fair average return upon the capital and
labor employed. Each branch of this
great industry is subject to change, and
at times even to dullness and depression,
while there may be from some unknown
cause, corresponding enchantment in
some other direction. But the man who
is always ready, with every turn of the
wheel, to forsake an older branch of his
calling for the aIlurements of the new,
can hardly fail in the end to find that he
has been pursuing through the marshes
jack o. lantern that has led him to de-
struction.-Am. Farm Jour. for August.
The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1874-08-14
Psper Flour Barrels.

About the coming -four barrel, which
is to be Of paper made from the straw
Of the grain. the RepuJlican, Of Decorah'
Ioa.. at which place a factory l. estab-
lisbed. sav.. This paper barrel i round
cylinder Of heavy compressed water
proof paper, about one fourth Of an inch
thick wooden head and bottom. There
are two paperhOops at the ends Oh which
the barrel rolls. The barrel has no
belly" and weighs ten pounds less
than the wooden barrel, and coIise-
ouently about five barrels more than
at present can be loaded in a car These
barrels are also-air tight and waterproof,
and they stand more humping and
rough usage, we varily believe, than the
best oak stave barrel that was ever made.
But the paper barrel will have to hur-
ry up or their barrel will have head
put on it by an article made with only
one stave. which its inventor expects l.
going to be a staving good thing The
stave is procured by turning a steamed
log the length, Of a barrel against a knile
of the same length and cutting from the
log a continuous sheet CT vessel OF the
proper thickness. This sheet Is cut into
lengths of the circumference Of barrel,
and by machinery, is crozed or champer-
ed, and by means of gang of saws,
saving Sits into the ends, of unequal
lengths the size of the ends is reduced
for the heads and the proper bilge pro-
duced. The barrel, when bound with
the usual number of hoops, appears to
be quite as strong as the ordinary barrel.
The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1874-08-14

WATERMELON CROP IN GEORGIA.
The watermelon crop is getting to be an
agricultural feature of considerable I'M
portance in Georgia. The returns in the
tax receivers office show that there are
twelve hundred acres devoted to the
cultivation of this fruit in Richmond
county alone. Allowing four hundred
melons to the acre, very low estimate,
and we have total product of $50, 0lo.
One-half of this immense number is aUn-
sumed in the North. At fifteen cents
apiece the annual melon crop income
of Richmond is upward of $50, 900. 1t
may also be added that three steamers
carried away from Savannah in one day
of last week 10000 l.telons for the New
York market.-N Y: :Bulletin
The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1874-08-14

n NKATLY-KEPT cellar is a pretty good
guarantee of health of the family whose
members are breathing the air from it
day and night. Everybody believes in
having pure air to breathe; but we are
very sorry to tell the truth, that there
are thousands breathing impure air on
account of foul cellars. What are the
essentials of good cellar2 1t must be
dry; it must have stone walls outside
and division walls of either stone or
brick; the floor of cement. upon a
foundation of cobble stones previously
imbedded into the earth by means of a
heavy maui, handled by two men; plas-
tered ceiling an dwalls; complete ventila-
ton by means of large windows. If
these points are secured, the cellar be-
comes the most important room in the
house.
The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1874-08-14
Mango in Horses.

Wilkes Spirit Qfthe Times pronounced
the following to be safe and most efTec-
tive remedy: Whale (spern) oil, 6
ounces; oil of tar, 3 ounces; lac sulphur
2 ounces; mix thoroughly, and apply by
means of hair brush. The skin should
be thoroughly washed before the remedy
is applied. At the end of the second or
third day the animal is again to be wash
ed, and the remedy re-applied, as it is
very possible that all the ova Cof the
mango insecD are not killed by the first
dressing.
Mango being contagious disease, it
is essential that all animals suffering
from it should be issolated, and all OBJ
jects with which they may have come in
contact purified.
The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1874-08-14

WHAT CONSTITUTES A CAR LOAD
Some one, who has been investigating
the subject, says that in general, 20. 900
gounds is a car load, 40 barrels of salt,
20 of lime, 80 of flour, 60 of whiskey,
200 sacks of flour, 6 cords of hard wood.
z of soft, Is to 20 head of cattle, so to
60 head of hogs, 50 to 100 head of sheep,
5000 feet of solid boards, II, 900 feet of
siding, 1900 feet of flooring, 10000
shingles, one-third less hard lumber, one
fourth less green lumber, one-tenth less
of ioists, scantling and all other large
lumber, $40 bushels of wheat, $50 of
corn, $50 of oats, 400 of barley, 800 of
fax seed, $50 of apples, 1000 bushels of
bran. The foregoing table may not be
exactly correct, for the reason that rail-
roads do not agree in their rules and es-
Inmates, but it approximates so closely to
the general average that shippers will
find it a great convenience as a matter
of reference.
The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1874-08-14
AnnIes for the OF Var

One of the most successful agricultur-
lists in the country is Robert PeII, who
has ], ,2OO-acre farm in Ulster County,
Ny, al in the highest state of cultiva-
ton. One feature is an orchard of 200
acres, planted exclusively with the New
ton Pippin, and the produce of this Or
chard is famous in England and Europe,
as well as at home. To attain his pres
ent perfection in fruit-culture Mr.. Peu
studied the art of pomology and learned
how to assist nature IL her efforts to SUD-
port mankind. Commonly speaking the
apple-tree bears every alternate year.
MIR. Pell determined to have an annual
harvest, and to give his orchard hand
some start he sacrificed the crop of a
bearing year. All the apples were pick
ed while green. He discovered that the
germ of next years fruit was in existence
at the time of the apple harvest, but that
the tree would be so exhausted that this
germ would fail of development, and a
year of rest would follow before another
crop could be prodnced Having stop
ped his trees from fruiting in the manner
have mentioned, he was sure of crop
on what was generally the off-year, and
determined to follow this up by a treat
ment which would abolish tho
tenn He learned tb~' A.
variety of f." -. 'leeS ieq
fourS ID, lhe ellieA VI "iiOI
~ In potash, lime and soda, and his
orchard has been thus fed with all the
success that could have been anticipated
The potash is found in wood ashesi lime
is obtained from oyster shells at low cost
(stone lime being undesirable, while So
da is supplied by common salt. Orchards
thus fed and judiciously pruned cannot
fail of success, and although this season
is generally short of apples, Mr.. Pelrs
crop is of usual abundance .-Ne1c-Y YORK
Tribune.
The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1874-08-14

The clothing isto be boiled witha So
luton of soap and sarbOlic acid, and the
harness, and grooming utensils washed
with warm water and soap, and dressed
with a solution of arsenic or corrosive
sublimate, in the proportion often grains
to the ounce of wafer. After being so
washed .and dressed, they are TO be kept
forseEssal days exposed to dry air, wash
ed again with soap and water before they
are used, and before they are again put
on the horse they should be sprinkled on
the side next to the horses skin with sui
phur These may seem useless, pre-
cautions. but in many cases the harness
and clothing are lined with Thick, scabs,
containing the ova of the parasites, the
vitality of which is so great as to almost
defy all efforts to DESTROY it.
The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1874-08-14

POTATO YEAST.-Take ten medium
sized potatoes, wash clean and boil in
their Jackets. When cooked to bursting
in plenty of water, mash with potato
masher, and pass through a cullender.
Mix in one cupfuI of brewers yeast Tor
two of potatoes; one tablespoonful of
brown sugar and one of salt. Fill
crock two thirds full and set by the fire.
When it rises to the top it is ready TO
use
The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1874-08-14
aome, GARDEN and farm
TIE BALE OF CLOVER
BYYLEoD SoYEs.

The morning sun had canted
Der the cornices and slanted,
And men and horses painted
As they slowly plOdded by;
And still the day grew hotter,
Till It seemed TO reel and tOtter,
And never a sign Of water
Was in the smoky sky.
Ard as wondered whether
Would New York be rolled together
In one final burst Of weather,
Like scroll, and whirled away
was very near run over
Ry a Jcrseyman OF dTOver
On a bale Of mOldy clover
That was perched upon a dTay
/ had turned 10 talk II over
With the Jerseyman or drovcr,
When q single whif Of clover
Brought transformation bright
Straight ] heard the cattle lowing
And the meadow bTecZes blowing;
/ saw the grain fields turning,
The spOtlcss lilies burning,
The lusty robin Drawing
The cataract and laving,
And all the landscape waving
In a shifting sea Of light.
Low drOncd the gardens sunny
With the brown b,cs stealing honey;
And never a thought Of money
Disturbed my vision blcst;
But with marigOld and tulip
Come, in fancy sweet, the cool Ip
OF a Saratoga julep,
And envy filled my breast;
For / thought with pain and d0lor'
As sweltered in my collar,
of the limp and ragged dollar
Within my rumplcd vest.
And so banned the breeZcs
That were born, like lands and leases,
For Dives sons and Crgsus,
Till the sun was fairly down;
For though his darts he level
Across the cornicc bevel,
He loves to stop and rcvel
Above the fainting town.
Where the summer sOlsticc poiSGs
And the street sends forth its noises
In hundred grating voices
Like a wall of agony;
Till it's oh, TO be a-sailing
Like a finny trout or grayling,
Or lazy clOudlet trailing
Its fleece along the sky.
Hearth and Homc.
The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1874-08-14

Hop 1EAsT.-Take two handfuls of
hops to two quarts of boiling water;
boil one hour; strain and thicken with
-four to the consistency Of cream; add
one tablespoonful of salt and one of
sugar, and set by the fire to raise in a
high crock, which should be filled up
two-thirds. When thoroughly light set
in a cool place. This will keep fresh
about ten days.
The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1874-08-14

GRAPE TRELLIS.-lA correspondent of
the Fruit Recorder makes a wirs trel-
lis, with contriveaee for compensating
for the expansion and contraction from
changes OF she weather, by simply at
taching g. spiral spring to the wires,
which pequires no attention or adjusting,
b6t always regulates itself We do not
see why this spiral spring may not be
made of the trellis wire, the only care
required being to make the coil short
enough to give them stiffness, and sutti-
GENTLY numerous to allow considerable
expansion or stretching
The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1874-08-14

An hhGD'.I = gardener catches ants in
tii'- greenhouse by laying here and there
Jumps of soft putty; when these are
covered work them over, ants and all,
and reset the traps. Another catches
ants by placing fiat stones near the scene
of operations, and when they have
sought the shelter thus afforded he turns
the stones up and deluges them with hot
water.
The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1874-08-14

II little lime is dissolved in the water
applied TO the soil, nearly every species
of worms that Is found will be killed, and
the plants not injured. Tobacco will
also destroy most kinds of worms; but
lime is preferable, because it aids in dis
solving the plant-food in the soil, thereby
stimulating growth. Watering the
plants with lime-water, once a week.
will be sufficient 10 kill the worms in the
soil and stimulate growth.
The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1874-08-14

VALUE OF TIMBER--As an illustration
of the increasing value of walnut lumber,
the Indianapolis Journal notes that
the standing walnut trees on half-sec-
ton of land on Eel River, in Miami
County, Ind, were recently sold to
lumber dealer for 81, 900 There is a
large amount of other timber on the tract
which is not included, only the walnut
timber being sold. Walnut lumber is
coming more and more into use through
out this country and Europe, and at
present a very large business is done in
preparing and shipping it from Indiana.
The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1874-08-14

\ GENTLEMAN familiar with such sub
iects declares that the best mixture for
the renovation of an old lawn SCOT and
wood-ashes applied in early Spring sat
the rate of half bushel to two rods of
ground" Lawns should receive more
attention than they do
The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1874-08-14


SOAP WASH FOR FRUIT TREES Many
persons, for no well defined reason. give
their fruit trees an annual springwashing
with lime-water. 1t is not only insight
ly, but of no benefit. The only possible
benefit it can be to the trees is the dis
truction of such larvae as it may come in
contact with, which is but few, since
they are concealed under the rough scales
of the bank which the whitewash does
not reach.
a better plan is to wash the trunk with
strong soap suds, in which a little carbol-
ic acid has been dissolved. This de-
strOys all insect life with which it comes
in contact, and the soap opens the pores
of the bark, and induces a glossy green
appearance. When the trees are of such
an age as to form much rough bark,
this should first be scraped away, but
not to such an extent as 10 expose the
inner layer; only just so as to remove
the dead scales which form from year to
year.
The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1874-08-14

To make pretty, graceful screen for
the front of CRATE, take yard and
quarter of white tarletan of quite coarse
quality and sew one end. of it along
strip Of muslin; then begin at the oppo-
site end and cut the whole piece into
lengthwise strips three inches wide, up
to the end where the muslin strip is.