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The Grange advance., 1874-03-11
The Jersey Cow.


We receive great many inquiries
which show that the characteristics of
the Jersey COW are not very we'll under
stood even among the readers of agri-
cultural papers. One man wants to
know what sort Of working cattle they
would make, and if the beef is as good
as that Of the natives. Another is 60
ing into the milk business, and wants
to know if the Jerseys are the stock he
should purchase Another is near
cheese factory, and thinks the Jerseys
possibly may be the best thing for him.
A lady of romantic turn has bought
Jersey heifer with her first calf, and
suspects she has been badly cheated be-
cause she does not get pailful Of milk
at night and morning.
The Jersey is not worker of mira
cles, and can no more make something
out Of nothing than any other breed Of
cattle. She is not even an extraordina-
ry animal, and does but one thing in a
superlative way. If one wants to raise
working cattle the Devons are beautiful
to the eye, and have been trained to
the yoke for many generations. If he
wants early maturity in the beeves the
Shorthorns have no rivals. If he de-
sires large quantity Of good milk for
the nearest village market the Ayrshires
are hard to beat. But if he wants a
pet family COW, giving small quantity
Of very rich milk for his own table, he
may safely invest in a Jersey COW. 1t
is so rich In cream that we should not
like to repeat the statements Of credible
witnesses, who have MIXED the COWS,
poured the milk into he lactometer and
F measured the thickness Of the cream,
and churned and worked the butter
with their own hands. Five quarts OF
milk have been known to make pound
Of butter. Heifers with their first
calves sometimes make five or six pound:
r Of butter week, and COWS ten or twelve
5 pounds week. In extreme cases, nine
teen pounds have been produced in ;
$ week from one Jersey COW, Of course il
t flush feed, aud with as much meal a
e she COLD digest. It is not reasonable
8 to expect that COW giving milk s.
rich in butter will give very larg
g quantity. The average of Jersey herd
e probably does not exceed eight to twelv
d quarts per COW daily in good pasture
d The milk is very palatable, and childre
It once accustomed to it are apt to be dis
r gusted with the thinner fluids furuishe
It by the milkman. The butter mad
l. from it is of the deepest yellow, yer
e solid and waxy, and of the richest favo'
I, It is unlike any other butter that come
Re to the table, and the initiated woul
el not fail to detect it among a hundre
r samples made from the milk OF othe
ic breeds. The cream is so highly colore
9r that the milk Of single Jersey COW
$, q herd Of a dozen natives will iuoreas
{, the color Of all the butter made from ii
il dairy. There is steadily increasin
q demand for Jersey butter ID the Bosto
The Grange advance., 1874-03-11
From the Rural New Yorker.
Sheep in the United States,


tricts to discontinue the keeping Of
sheep; bad fences prevent many from
raising this valuable variety of live
stock; and a system of farming which
admits Of no pasture for some parts of
the year, and nothing to keep them
in fine, healthy, growing condition
through the winter, puts it out of the
power of others to do any good with
flock; consequently there is no general
kind Of sheep husbandry, and there are
hundreds of benighted beings who actu-
ally believe that sheep are injurious to
the land.
The Merino is the breed which an
swered best under former management in
those parts where sheep were regularly
kept, because they bear being kept alto
gether without separating the different
ages; but the low price the carcass
makes for mutton justifes a good deal
| which is said against the profit Of sheep.
The Down of several varieties are in
different States, but are rarely kept in
numbers sufficient to prove their value
for increasing the fertility Of the soil
and those who possess them, or indeed
any Of the pure; long-wooled varieties,
instead of systematically keeping the
females to pass through a regular course
and disposing Of them as they arrive
at certain age, advertise to sell any
time, and allow purchasers to pick out
as they please:
Doubtless the time is not for distant
when the best long wool, and all sheep
excepting focks where rams are raised
as a speciality will be raised and
brought round to certain age and
sold for mutton, and the wool and the
mutton we'll be regular stated income
while, at the same time, the good food
grown and fed on the farm to produce
so much wool and mutton will go back
to the soil and increase the yield of
every crop.
j The continual selling of corn anc
grain, and keeping little live stock, and
the few animals there are eating naugh'
but the less marketable produce, will
as matter Of course, soon bring tht
soil to the lowest depths Of poverty
but if instead of sending away the hear
Of the land in the shape of the product
mentioned. it were eaten with otbe
fodder, the meat and wool made, owe
and above former quantities, woul.
bring more money, and a good dea
a more after the increased fertility of tn
q farm had forced heavier crops, which il
9 turn would give greater weight to tn
e sheep, ard also allow of great man
0 more being bred, reared and fattened.
This is how sheep would help agr
$ culture in the United States. Shoe
e all the hateful race Of useless ours, max
,. good fences, and crop the land in sue
n studied rotation that there would b
): abundance of seasonable nutritious foo
d all the year round, then, by judioiousl
e placing the flock in such way as ,
J make the dung and urine tell on SUI
:. ceeding crops, and parting them in'
IS flocks Of young together and old tt
d gether, those of one sex by themselve
q aud those of the opposite sex would q
}. better as we'll. All sheep require sue
d attention as this, and likewise caref'
q consideration of their comfort in evel
e respect Thenfsheep husbandry woul
le 60 hand in hand with the best syste
g Of farming in every part Of the Unite
n States. ] A WoRK1Na FARMER.
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1874-07-30

A SHOCKING OUTRAGE. - The Associate
Press dispatches announces horrible rape and
murder case in Vermont, asdollows:
A horrible case of rape and murder was re-
vealed in ST. Alban's on the 18th. The victim
was Miss Marietta N. Ball, teacher in the dis
-trict school, three miles, east OF this village
After the closing of her school, on Friday aftef-
noon, she set out to visit a friend, living mile
Distant her course being over lonely road
partially through the woods. She was missed
by her friends on Saturday evening and search
was made for her. Her body was found on
Sunday morning at l O'Clock. 1t had been con-
veyed about forty rods into the woods, leaving
traces of blood ON the way.
Miss Ball was Il girl of uncommon muscular
power, and appearances indicate that she made
a desperate resistance. Two men have been
arrested on suspicion, but the real perpetrator
is still at large. Intense excitement prevails.
POLITICAL BRIEFs.-Hon. Will Cumback;of
Indiana, addressed an anti-license picnic at
Circleville, Ohio, Oh Thursday
Ex-Governor G. j. Jenkins, Of Georgia, has
been selected as umpire by the arbitrator APP
pointed to settle the Maryland and Virginia
boundary line.
Senator. Morton has yielded to request from
several Republicans to take the stump in the
coming election in Indiana, and will make his
first speech at Terre Haute at an early day.
The Connecticut Legislature, after a session
of two MONTHS in which the only notable thing
done has been to infiict w. w. Eaton upon the
country as United States Senator, has now adj
journed.
The Rev. A. L. p Green, d. D.. of the M
E. Church, South, and Treasurer Of the Van
derbilt University, died in Nashville Tenn, on
the 18th inst.
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An Era Of Crime.

There is an old ecclesiastical superstition
that at certain periods his Satanic majesty,
with a goodly portion of his imps of evil, is
permitted TO walk the earth and kick up all
manner of deviltry on this globe OF ours. The
present state of society, the occurrences Of the
last few months, not in one particular section
OF the country, but all to this old idea. The
newspapers have not for years been SO full OF
sensations, horrible accidents and crimes as
they are at the present time. Take, for in
stance, the Beecher scandle. Morning after
morning, for the last two weeks, the columns
of the public prints have been blackcned with
story Of alleged crime upon the part Of the
most famous preacher Of his generation, whose
influence is felt on two continents, who has
done more to shape the religious or moral con-
viction of his time than any living man. Now,
in his old age, in the last decade of the years
which the nsalmist has allotted as the sum of
human life, we are asked to believe that for a
quarter Of century he has been worse than
the worst sinner he summoned to repentance.
We do not pretend to condemn Mr.. Beecher !;
on the contrary, we trust that he may be shown
to be entirely innocent Of the terrible accusa-
tons made against him; that he is. as his
friends claim, the object of dark and foul cons
spiracy to destroy him. But, supposing that
this theory is true, the fact that an assault OF
this character should be made upon his reputa-
ton is only another evidence of the demorali-
cation Of the times, a crime only second in a.
trocity to that which has been laid to his
charge.
| The abduction of the Ross child in open day,
| and in the centre of crowded city, is an Of
fence which has scarcely parallel in the Grim
| inal annals Of our country. For weeks and weeks
his abductors have been able to defy the law,
and at last to compel the parents to yield to
their infamous demands. Wi1hin short peri
cd the whole country has been Mortified by the
publication OF the atrocities of two youthful
murderers, one in the East and one in the
West, who have shown degree of fiendnish-
ness in the preparation of crime and almost
| incredible in persons so young. The lesser
| crimes-wrecking Of railroad trains. political
assassinations. dcfalcations seductions, which
go to fill up the dark and disgusting picture,
are almost innumerable. OF course, it is i'm
possible to account for this epidemic of sin and
villainy. The duty of the journalist is dischar-
ged when he points them out and warns the
innocent to beware Of how they too may be led
| into temptation.
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Office.

commissioners Office.
" STANTON. VA, July 25th 1874
To M. Harvey Efinger, Trustee for Mrs s. j.
Woods and her children, Plaintiffs and VIM Z. Now
~, Sheriff OF Augusta county, and such, Admin
istrator de bonis A. of Braxton Davis de-
ing Trustee in deed OF trust executed by Braxton
Davis to himself and John B. Baldwin, Ro. G. Davis.
John ]. Davis, Susan Jane Woods wife of George NJ.
Woods, Livingston W. Davis, and Margaret f. C,uo-
tbs, wife OF - Curtis, Defendants and to all lien
creditors of James M. Harris
TAKE NOTICE.-That in pursuance of DEGREES of the
Circuit Court for Augusta county, rendered June
sh 1874. and June 18th, 1874 in the ehancerv cause
OF Efhnger, Trustee. &C., vs. Harris and Davis Ex-
ecutor. shall, at my office In Staunton,
On the 2sth day of AUGUST, 1874
proceed to take, state and SETTLE
lst. An account OF any fund in the hands of VIM
subject to the payment of the plaintiffs debt
End. An account of the real estate belonging to
James NJ. Harris, together with it's fee Simple and
annual rental value also all liens bindino the same
in their order of priority
3fd. The amount OF the trust fund which went in
to the hands OF Baldwin Stuart either of them,
as Trustees in deed of trust executed by EraXton
Davis deceased in his lifetime also an account of
the debts secured in said trust deed their prior
tiles, and
4th. Any other matters deemed pertinent by my
SELF OF required by any party in Interest to be
ted:
;; At which time and place you are required to at
sena anq an lien creditors OF James NJ Harris are
required then and there to attend and f'e proper
proof OF their claims,
Given under my hand as commissioner in chan
Gerry or the Circuit Court for Augusta county, the
day and year first aforesaid.
y3o-at J.W. GREEN SMITH, comr.
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The National Scandal.

In The Beecher-Tilton filthy quarrel the Chron-
scte mas at no stage given evidences Of sdueam-
ism nodesty. The facts of the case, The cur
rent comments, and the various shades OF opin-
lon Drought out have, so far as practlcabie5
Deeh given to Ouc readers. We have, in 2
measure, refrained from expressing decided
opinion In the sckening moral atmosphere,
and have only made such comment as might be
easily set aside by subsequent revelations Or
ssstatements''
we confess, at this point, that the cause OF
Triton seems to be gaining ground, which may,
however, result in q disastrous sort OF land
slide to that gentleman. We say this presum-
ing that the statement Beecher is to make this
afternoon OF evening may sweep, away utterly
the not very strong props upon which Mr. Hilton
rests his case.
In this matter no one can deny that, while
Tilton is celebrating himself as complainant,
Beecher is managing the defence with great
shrewdness. The committee to decide upon
his guilt or innocence in his committee; the
court in his own selection-every member a
warm personal friend, each one of whon1,if not
sitting as member OF the court, would have
been engaged in assisting Beecher either by dl-
rect personal advice or warm sympathy.
This should not be lost sight OF, nor other
important phases Of the case, among which is
the employment OF such bold and unheslta-
ting cross examiner as Gen. Tracy, who es-
pouses Beecher's cause; neither should the
fact that Tilton is almost single-handed in the
struggle Beecher almost a demi-god backed
| by one of the wealthiest and most influential
churches in the country, having the free run OF
the press. and the full control of not small
portion of it, can any one deny his preponder-
ance Of advantage over Tilton?
| The report of Tilton's. cross-examination by
Gen. Tracy, as printed in the Brooklyn Eagle,
is simply an outrage upon Journalism and the
intelligence of the public. 1t has been suppo-
sed that no one was present excepting the com
mittee, Gen. Tracy, Mr.. I'ilton, and the off
cial stenographer. If the latter. furnished the
report to the Eagle we can easily prepare our.
selves for the final report as one of the worst
cases of whitewash that ever beslobbered a
criminal. While the report pretends to give
Gen. Tracy's questions and Tilton's replies
the major portion of it is taken up with silly
and exceedingly unfair description of Tilton's
manner Of answering, with the evident purpose
to make him appear as ridiculous as possible
| If it be true that Gen. Butler will appear IN
Mr.. Tilton's behalf, there is little doubt but
that there will be an increased liveliness in the
affair; and should Gen. Tracy insist upon
questioning TFlton as to his dealings among
certain women, there is little but that Gen
Butler will, in some mysteriously way, become
possessed of a few names that he may find easy
to connect with that of Beecher.-Wash. Csron
icle.
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1874-07-30

RAILROAD MATTERs.-Maj Conway r.
Howard, late division engineer on the G. &. o.
R. R. has been directed by Col. HI. D. Whit
comb, formerly chief engineer of the same -os d,
but now in the employ Of the U. S. government,
to begin reconnaissance Of the country between
Clifton Forge, Allegheny county and Lynch
burg, with view to ascertain it's practical adj
agitation to the purposes of a double track
freight railway. The government wishes to
ascert IN, by comparison, the value to the coun-
v of such double track freight railway, and
the James river and Kanawila canal. No doubt
the item of cost will be a chief consideration in
any attempt to develop further the internal re-
sources of the country, either by canal or rail-
road. MAJ. Howard passed through Richmond
son the 21st on his way to the discharge Of the
duties assigned him.-Whtg.
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DISTRICT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES,
L. for the Western District of Va
iy so-4t

VXTESTERN DISTRICT OF VIRGINIA, TO WIT
w In the Clerks Office of the Circuit Court of
the United States for said District at
in said District the 22nd day of July a. d., 1874
George w. Berlin Complainant,
VS.:
VIM. Ward and Thomas J. Ward, Defendants
IN EQUITY ON AN AMENDED BILL.
The object the above suit to annul and set aside
bond and deed OF trust executed by the plaintiff to
the defendants, ON the ground of fraud and failure
of consideration, and usury-as set forth in said
bill.
And affidavit being made that the defendants, VIM
Ward and Thomas J. Ward, non residents of the
Stete of Virginia it is ordered that they do appear
here on the first Monday in September next; and
the Plaintiffs Bill, do what is NECESSARY to
their interests and that copy of this order
be published once week. for four successive weeks
in the Valley Virginian, a newspaper published in
Staunton Va, and another copy thereof posted at
the front door of the u S. Court Rooms of this Dis
trct the first day OF the next term of the Circuit
Court of said District. Teste:
WIN. ]. POINTS, Clerk.
Shelly Woodson, p. al jy 3O-4t
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1874-07-30

PROCLAMATION BY THE MAYOR OF PHILA-
DELPHIA-TwENTY ToHUsAND DOLLARS
REWARD.
MAYORS OFFICE PHILAD'IA, July %
At the instance of citizens of Philadelphia, I
hereby offer reward of 1000 for the arrest
and conviction of the ahductors of Charles
Brewster Ross, son of Christian Ross, of Phila-
delphia, and the restoration of that child to his
parents. The child was stolen from Washing
ton lane near Chew street, Germantown, in
| the suburbs of Philadelphia, on the afternoon
of the LIST of July last.
| At the time when the child was stolen he an
swered to the following description Age four
| years, dressed in brown linen kilt suit, short
skirt, broad brimmed unbleached panama hat
with black band, laced shoes, and blue and
white striped stockings, The boy has long
flaxen curly hair, hazel eyes, clear skin, round
full face, and no marks except those made by
vaccination on the arm. His appearance, as a.
by cutting off his hair, or changing his dress to
| that Of a girl or by some other way.
The child was decoyed by two men into
buggy, and carried away by two men who, as
nearly as can be ascertained, answer to the FOL
lowing description: No. l was a man OF rather
large size, probably five feet eight or nine inch
es high; he was only seen sitting; age believ-
ed to be from thirty-fve to forty-tiye wears !.
moustache and full beard or whiskers. rather
long on the chin, of brown or sandy brown col
or, and brown hair, wore ring on the little
finger Of the right hand. No. was a man
five feet eight or ten inches high, about twenty
five years OF age, Of light, or with tendency
to sandy complexion. sandy moustache and red
nose and face, having the appearance of a
drinking man.
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1874-07-30

Colonel Thomas P. Mittheil, Of Liberty, Bed
ford county, shipped on Tuesday last, to Liver
pool, England, thirty-two hogsheads OF tooacco
The shipment was made through well-knoWn
Norfolk house, and will be followed by others
in very short time.
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1874-07-30
4 ssignee's Sale of Real Estate.

AS the Assignee of James E. Broy, bankrupt, ard
in pursuance of decree of the United States Dis
tr1ct Court, for the Western District of Virginia,
held at Hairsonburg, will sell at public auction, to
the highest bidder, in the village of Sperryvile, in
the county of Rappahannock,
On the 18th day of SEPTEMBER, 1874
the following real estate viz:
Two Houses and Lots in the village of Sperryvile,
parcel of land CONTAINING thirty five acres one
rood and six poles, lying near the said village, and
one-half of tract of Two Hundred and Ninety live
Acres of land, lying about mile from SperIyville
TERMS OF SALE.-One-ioulth of the purchase
money in cash. and the balance credit of 6, IL,
and l8 months in edua1 Instruments with interest
from the day of sae the purchaser to execute bonds
with good security for The deferred payments. and
the legal title to be retained until all the purchase
money is paid. II. g. MOFFETT, Assignee
iy 3O-tds of James E. Broy
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1874-07-30

Miss Rose Pc, the last surviving sister OF
the late Edgar A. Poe, died i'll Washington
Wednesday morning, after lingering Illness
at the Epiphany Church House, in the 9th
year Of her age.
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1874-07-30

THE VICKsBURG TROUBLE. = Adjutant
General Platt, of the Department Of the South,
writes to the War Department with reference
to ordering troops to Vicksburg, and expresses
the opinioa that acting Governor Davis Will not
be able to make out a case sufficient to warrant
the Interference Of Federal authority.
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1874-07-30

c. Bonknight, of Columbus, S. c., has pur-
chased from Mrs. Alice Payne, 400 acres of land
known as the ''Phiiips Farm, - Immediately on
the railroad, mile east of Warrenton, for the
round sum of ST., 600.
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1874-07-30

In the primary election held in Richmond,
on Tuesday for candidate for the coming
nominating convention for Congress in that
district, ex-Gov. Gilbert G. Walker received
an overwhelming majority over his competitor
Col. John H. Guy. His majority will exceed
2, 200.
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1874-07-30

BURNED TO DEATH.-Miss Ida Short, aged
eleven wears, was burned to death on last Sat
urdav evening, at Mechanicsville, in Chester
field county, by her clothing taking IRE from a
can of kerosene oil, with which she was kind-
ling fire. She was fatally burned before as
sistance could reach her.
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1874-07-30

The Gulf cities Of Texas, are growing with
remarkable rapidity. Great car loads of grain
and other products, are being shipped from
Kansas and upper Texas, and with the con-
templated railroad Developments in that sec
ton of the country, the trade will increase ten
fold
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1874-07-30
" aluable Farm for Sale.

will sell at public auction, if not sold previously
at private SALE on
SATURDAY, the 22d day of AUGUST, 1874.
the valuable little farm which I reside, situated
one mile and half from Staunton, the Spring
Hill road.
CONTAINING 1853 ACRES
The improvements are good, the farm III d hhe
state OF cultivation, with ample front, &c.
TERMS reasonable, and will be made known ny
application to the undersigned, who lives on The
premises. :.
By application, bargain can be had.
jy % ids F. H. HOUGHTON.
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build monument to his memory, and if they
do not, the magnificent proportions of the met
ropolis will constitute his monument, as the com
prehensiveness of his plans are consummated
in its beauty and ornamentatich,
a ~ ~
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1874-07-30

Mr. Henry G.. Davis. aged about % years, and
a merchant by occupation, fell through the
hatchway of his store, distance o fifteen feet,
and so injured himself that he died from the Ell
fects last week, at Charlestown, W. Va.
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1874-07-30

CONVENTIONAL convention of the general
agents of life insurance companies, doing bust
ness in the South, will be held at the Bath
Alum Springs, Va, on Wednesday August 10.
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1874-07-30

The death of Mrs Admiral Pennock occur
ed at Yokohama, Japan, ON the 9TH OF June.
She was sister Of the late Admiral Farragut.