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The Bloomfield times. [volume] (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1867-187?, 1874-06-09
Drink for the Harvest Field.

A farmers wife in Montgomery county
sends us the following receipt for a
Wholesome Field Drink" and as the
season is now approaching when it can
be used we publish it that all may make
it who choose The excessive use of cold
water during the sweltering heat Of sum-
mer often results in serious and alarming
illness. 1t is therefore advisable that some
beverage should be substituted for it of
which those oppressed can parrake with
safety. For this purpose am aware of no
better or more refreshing drink than the
following: Take of the best white Ja-
maica ginger root carefully bruised two
ounces cream Of tartar, one ounce water
six quarts, to be boiled for about five min
utes, then strained to the strained liquor
add one pound of sugar, and again place it
over the fire, keep it we'll stirred till the
sugar is perfectly dissolved, and then pour
it into an earthen vessel, into which you
have previously put two drachms of tartar
ic acid, and the rind Of one lemon, and let
it remain till the heat is reduced to a luke
warm temperature; then add teaspoonful
of yeast, stirring them well together, and
bottle for use. The corks must be well Sc
cured. The drink will be in high per-
fection in four or five days. This is very
refreshing and wholesome beverage, and
one which may be largely partaken of
without any unpleasant results, even in the
hottest weather.
The Bloomfield times. [volume] (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1867-187?, 1874-06-09
Tnrtle.Egg Butter.

One of the peculiar productions of Brazil,
described by Mr., Fletcher, was "turtle-egg
butter" There are innumerable turtles on
the sand-bars of the Amazon, and the ma
tives make it a business, at the proper
season, to collect their eggs, which are
deposited in the sand. These are thrown
into boat, and when a sufficient quantity
has been collected, they are trampled by
the feet of the Indians. After short time
an oily substance rises to the surface, and
is SKINNED off, and this is Turtle-egg
butter" Many millions of eggs are de-
stroyed in this way every year, and the
article is largely consumed. But Mr..
Fletcher confessed that although he had
partalSen of many strange dishes in the
course of his travels, and had learned to
relish them, he never could taste turtle-egg
butter. lie didn't exactly like the manner
of churning.
The Bloomfield times. [volume] (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1867-187?, 1874-06-09
To Destroy Insects.

Hot alum water is recent suggestion as
an incectcide. 1t will destroy red and
black ants, cockroaches, spiders, chintz
bugs, and all the crawling pests which
infest our houses. Take two pounds of
alum and dissolve it in three or four quarts
of boiling water let it stand on the fire
till the alum disappears then apply it
with brush while nearly boiling hot, to
every joint and crevice in your closets,
bedsteads, pantry shelves, and the like.
Brush the crevices in the floor of the skirt
ing or mop boards, if you suspect that
they harbor vermin. If in whitewashing a
ceiling plenty of alum is added to the lime,
it will also serve to keep insects at dis
tance Cockroaches will flee the paint
which has been washed in cool alum water.
Sugar barrels and boxes can be freed from
ants by drawing wide chalk mark just
around the edge of the top of them The
mark must be unbroken or they will creep
over it but continuous chalk line half an
inch in width will set their depredations at
nought. Powdered alum or borax will
keep the chintz bug at a respectable dis
tance, and travellers should always carry a
package of it in their hand bags to scatter
over and under their pillows, in places
where they have reason to suspect the
presence of such bedfellows.
The Bloomfield times. [volume] (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1867-187?, 1874-06-09

( ALL KINDS OF Printing neatly
executed at the /" BLoOMFIELD
TIMES" STEAM JOB OFBICE.
The Bloomfield times. [volume] (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1867-187?, 1874-06-09

EQUALLY GOOD FOR MAN OR BEAST.
This Liniment has earned for itself reputa-
tion unequalled in the history of external APP
plcations. Thousands who now suffer from
Rheumatism, Neuralgia, &C., would find i'm
mediate relief from all their pain by using this
certain remedy. 1t is equally effectual in Cuts,
Burns, Scalds, Stiffness of the Neck, Sore
Throat, Swellings, Inhammations, Frost Bites,
Pains in the Side and Back, Bites of Spiders
or Stings of Insects. One rubbing will in all
cases give immediate relief, and few applca-
tions complete a cure. On account of its pow
erful penetrating properties ii is beyond doubt,
the SUREST REMEDY for the most trouble
some diseases to which horses and cattle are
liable. 1t cures Scratches, Old and Fresh Cuts
and Sores, Chafes produced by collar or sad
die. Injuries caused by nails or splints enter
ing the flesh or hoofs, Bruises, sprains, swee-
ney, SPAWN, Thrush, and all diseases which
destroy the hoofs or bones of the feet. Fnll
directions accompany each bottle. Prepared
only
BY Crawford & FObes.
141 Market Street,
29b1y PHILADELPHIA.
The Bloomfield times. [volume] (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1867-187?, 1874-06-09
A Valuable Recipe for Calls.

An intelligent and experienced farmer,
rising seventy years of age, residing in
Allen township, Cumberland county, has
assured us that the following ointment, if
applied two Or three times day. will cure
the most obstinate windgalls Take ono
pound of the leaves of Stramonium,
Jamestown weed), bruised two pounds of
fresh butter or hogs lard, and one gill of
the spirits of turpentine; put the whole Of
the ingredients into a clean earthen crock
and place it with the contents over live
Goals for twenty or thirty minutes, stirring
it occasionally then strain it through q
coarse cloth or canvass, and it forms con
sistent ointment, with which anoint the
windgalls two or three times day.
Fifty dollars had been offered for the
above receipt. SO says our informant who
kindly furnished it.--LaHeaster Farmer.
The Bloomfield times. [volume] (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1867-187?, 1874-06-09
FARM AND HOUSEHOLD ITEMS

We invite communications from all persons who are
interested in matters properly belonging to this de-
partment
The Bloomfield times. [volume] (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1867-187?, 1874-06-09

PRINTING
The Bloomfield times. [volume] (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1867-187?, 1874-06-09
THHOMPsON's
FOR THE
PERMANENT CURE OF CHILLs AND FE
YER, DUMB AGUE, OR ANY FORM
OF INTERMITTENT FEVER!
The Greatest Discovery Of the Age


TTNHERE are no diseases so debilitating in
their effects upon the constitution as the
above, and none more difficult to cure by the
usual modes of practice. The Fever and Ague
Powders will effect a cure in cases of the long
est standing, as well as prove a preventive in
the forming stages of disease. Being purely
Vegetable, they act with certainty on the dis
ease, totally eradicating it from the system,
and preventing return at any future period
Why waste your money and health in trying
every medicine you hear of, when Thompson's
Fever and Ague Powders have never failed to
cure the Chills in any case.
REASONS WHY THEY ONLY SHOULD BE
USED:
Their Reputation Is Established. - Thousands
of testimonials have been received, showing
that these Powders have performed miracles in
curing cases of long standing, many of them
considered hopeless.
There is no Risk IN Taking Them. = They
contain nothing injurious, and, therefore, cause
none of those lingering diseases so often the re-
suit of the many nostrums of the day. Physi-
clans recommend them as far superior to Qui-
nine, or any other known remedy, for they leave
the system in healthy state, and the patient
beyond the probability of relapse.
BEWARE OF COUNTERFEITS. = The
genuine are put up in square tin boxes, with
"Thompson's Fever and Ague Powders'
stamped on the lid, and the signature of
"Thompson & Crawford, - on the wrapper
No others can possibly be genuine.
The Bloomfield times. [volume] (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1867-187?, 1874-06-09

rsg- There is nothing so tends to shorten
the lives of old people and injure their
health as the practice or sitting up late,
particularly winter evenings This is es-
pecially the case where there is a grown-up
daughter in the family. We publish this
item at the earnest request of several young
men who are directly interested in the
matter.
The Bloomfield times. [volume] (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1867-187?, 1874-06-09
Ne1U Pension LnqC,

TTNDER an act OF Congress approved March g.
died OF disease contracted In the service. are now
entitled TO S2.O0 per month for each of their chill
dren.
The guardian Of minor child OF soldier who
heretofore only received $500 per month pension
isnOw entitled to $40. permOth.
Soldiers who receive invalid pensions can now
have their pensions increased to any sum or rate
between GS. and SlS per month.
Soldiers who have lost their discharges can now
obtain duplicates.
Fathers and mothers who lost sons In the sery-
ice upon whom they were dependent for support,
can also obtain pensions.
The Undersigned having had over 10 years ex,
perience In the Claim agency business will attend
promptly TO claims under tile above act.
Call on or address
LEWIS POTTER,
Attorney for Claimants,
New Bloomfield,
2Otf. Perry Co., Ia
The New York herald., 1874-05-31
The Scientific Outlook.

Wendell Phillips said in recent speech
that the time was coming when we might COM
municate instantly with San Francisco with
out either wire or operator The audience
laughed at him. Perhaps his statement is not
so extravagant as it seemed. Had the ordi-
nary work now done by the magnetic tele-
graph been predicted forty years ago it would
have been received with the same increduity.
The truth is that science, like politics and
love, always develops in unexpected direc-
tions. No sooner are men fixed in their scien-
tific opinions than some startling discovery
reveals their ignorance and shows the world
that all things are possible under the sun.
Ever since the invention of the use of steam
men have agreed that only hot vapor had the
least power: but quite recently Philadelphia
machinist exhibited an iron globe no larger
than gallon jug, full of cold vapor, showing
pressure of twenty thousand pounds to the
square inch, and neither time nor temperature
diminished its tremendous power. The dis
covery is said to have been accidental The
inventor was experimenting with ar engine
run by compressed air and vacuum. when
to his profound astonishment he stumbled on
the cold vapor secret and it was some time
before he could make gauge strong enough
to test its power. Until then he had not
imagined such discovery possible
Nature seems to coquet with the inquiring
intellect of man until he is sure of some great
secret, when she confounds him with dis
appointment; but in his less inquisitive
moments she reveals what he never dreamed
Of Modern science il q paradox. Water.
The New York herald., 1874-05-31
The Pulpit To-Day.

This in the Catholic and Episcopal churches
is Trinity Sunday, great day with these de-
nominations Their regular services are so
selected and arranged as to be reminder of
the doctrine of which the day is commemo-
give any more heed to it than they do to any
other Sunday in the year. This fact may
easily be inferred from the themes chosen by
the pastors to-day for their meditation. DR..
Fulton, not satisfied with last Sundays talk
about the baptism Of Christ takes up the
will present the lessons that 1t teaches. His
evening subject we judge to be Of peculiar in
terest to ladies'" Few of the Perils
Threatening American Womanhood." OF
course the few implies that there are many
more but he will consider only the most
prominent perils to women. and will, doubt
less, give them such advice as they should hear
and heed DR.. Samson believes that lack
of faith is the chief cause Of spiritual failures,
and will so instruct his people to-day. He will
also explain the physical cause and the moral
end OF the Deluge, SO that readers OF the Scrip
lures may have more intelligent understand
ing OF chat event. Mr.. Gordon, of Chicago,
will portray the christian Rest and present
it as motive for Christian work. He will
also urge the Christian duty OF caring for the
souls of others. 1t will be Mr.. Hepworths
pleasing duty this morning to present sorrow
in its disciplinary aspects, SO that those who
are called to mourn may not sorrow as those
who have no hope. They need not if the will
Is consecrated to God, and the conservation of
that power is the important theme chosen by
Mr.. Hepworth for his evening discourse. The
"Minor Moralities," about which Mr. Clarke,
of Harlem, will talk, may become elevated in'o
major moralities by the Baptism of the Holy
Ghost" about which Mr. Davenport will
preach. We gave an account some time ago
ofthe Church Of England s mimicry Of Catholic
EMISSIONS and to which its advocates gave
the high sounding title of ''great awaken
ing" Later reports make it appear to be q
poor imitation of the original thing. But
such as it was, great or small, Mr.. Borham,
who has recently come hither from Great
Britain, will give an account Of it this even
ing and it may result in similar awakening
in the United States.
Birthdays and decoration days have their
uses. Every family and household has more or
less Of the former, and the patriotism Of the
Americans has taken on the form of the latter
Mr.. Mitchell will say some things wise and
witty about birthdays and Mr.. King will
draw from the churchyard floral decorations
such lessons as no doubt the people will be
glad to learn and to remember Other
pastors will present to their congregations
topics Of more or less local importance.
The New York herald., 1874-05-31
The Religious Press ON MILL RivsH
and Chicago.


Two principal topics engross the attention.
of the religious press this week, the Mill
River disaster and the trial and acquittal Of
Professor Swing in Chicago. For the former
the Christian at Work. asks, "Who is responsi-
blep" and, in its own incisive style, divides
the blame between the engineers who planned
the dam and the contractors who put in cheap
material OF too little of it and the capitalists
who screwed engineers, contractors and ma
sons down to the lowest point at which any
thing that looked like dam could be con-
structed. It declares that New England is
thick with such dams as this Mill River one.
and they all need looking after.
The Christian Leader, commenting on tho
same sad accident, thinks the owners and con-
structors of the dam were to blame for not
building better, but it acquits them Of inten-
tional wrong-doing in this matter They
would not and they did not willingly jeopar.
dize the lives Of their employees. It therefore
emphasizes the lesson for all future dam
builders which this terrible experience makes
so patent.
On the trial Of Professor Swing the EU0s,.
gelist the leading Presbyterian organ in this
city, gives first review of the proceedings,
and then comments on the spirit of DR..
Patton, who, having been defeated by moro
than three to one in the Presbytery Of Chicago
appeals the case, and thus drives Professor
Swing out Of the Presbyterian Church. To
lose such man at such q time as this, It
says may appear to some gain to the purity
and efficiency Of the Church, but the great
mass of sober thinking men will not share their
sentiments. 1t thinks the legitimate effect Of
this trial and withdrawal of Professor Swing
will be to hinder young men from entering
the ministry of the Presbyterian Church.
where already far too few seek to enter.
The Independent regrets that Professor
Swing should have declined to fight the good
fight and Withdrawn from the Presbyterian
Church. He has missed, it thinks, one Of the
best opportunities that ever came to any man
to liberate thousands Of his ministerial breth-
rem from the bonds Of old time creeds. The
PRESBYTERIAN Church would not have VEN
tured to expel such q man from its COM
muniou, and he should have stood fast in his
lot and defended the right of less fortunate
men to believe and preach religion which
consists not in the letter that klleth, but IN
the spirit that giveth life.
The New York herald., 1874-05-31

nificent and commodious docks, fine roads,
broad avenues, bridges, river Improvements
and other splendid and remunerative enter
prses. the full benefit of which would be
reaped by those who come after us. This
would be only justice, and it would be enough
for us to bear the burden of interest and to
contribute our genius and our labor to the
common cause. But our present debt is
swelled by mismanagement, by financial in
capacity, by useless and spiteful litigation;
by gross extravaganza in some instances and
ruinous parsimony in others; by discord, in
efficiency and dishonesty in most of tho city
departments; and while we are driving of to
future day the payments we ought to make
at the present time, We are leaving legacy OF
desolation to those who come after us. With
an increasing debt we have stagnation in all
our public works and an entire stoppage of
great public improvements. Our progress is
not only checked. but we are driven backward
by the dead weight of senility, stupidity, OBJ
stinacy and incapacity that presses so heavily
against us. 1t is doubly unjust that we
should be crowding our indebtedness on to
the next century while we are doing our best
to destroy the magnificent prospects of the
metropolis, or at least to give shock to its
progress from which it will not recover for the
next ten or twenty years. Yet this is just
what our ']bridging over" financial policy is
doing.
We need at the head of our city Finance
Department q bold. honest and capable
fnancier, who will tell the people Just where
they stand and what it is necessary to do. II
We are to consolidate and fund our present
debt it should not be done in driblets and in
covert, sneaking manner. but as bold
financial policy. We have no right to be pay
ing six or seven per cent interest on our city
bonds. They are first class securities under
any circumstances, and should not bear over
five per cent interest at the outside Our
honest debts should be paid and paid
promptly. At present many of our city's
creditors, however just their claims. are
driven to the courts to get their money, and
legal expenses add thirty per cent to
our indebtedness. The floating debt of
the city is purposely concealed. and the
although it is known to be from twelve to
fourteen million dollars. An honest and
capable Comptroller would make public every
fact connected with our financial condition,
propose some plan for the consolidation and
gradual liquidation Of the debt and take tho
responsibility to ask all the taxation needed to
meet our necessary expenses But our pres
ent financial policy is one Of concealment
deception and trickery. and it's only object
seems to be to drive of the crisis which must
sooner or later come, until the objects of the
been accomplished. Such policy cannot be
too speedily brought to close.
The New York herald., 1874-05-31

The CoLoREp West PoMY CANDIDATES
FALLING BEHIND. OF the ninety seven
candidates for admission to West Point, thirty
two couli not pass. None OF the colored can
didates were successful To go through the
ordeal brain power is necessary as well as pre-
paratory training Supposing the colored
candidates had equal advantages with the white
for preparation, their failure would indicate
an inferior mental capacity. The colored
young men must wake mp if they would JUS
tify the claim of their radical trienos to being
Intellectually equal to the whites.
The New York herald., 1874-05-31

PROGRESS OF PREsBYTERIANIsM. The Pres
byterian General Assembly at st. Louis has
been considering the subject of home missions,
and in the course Of the remarks made it was
missionary work in Kansas and the Indian
Territory. Six years ago the Presbyteriahs
had only forty three churches and thirty-four
ministers In Kansas. Now there are hum
The New York herald., 1874-05-31

The able and scathing review of French
politics, which we publish this morning from
the pen of Monsieur Henri Rochefort, throws
new light on the Commune and the
actors in the terrible scenes which
followed the capture Of Paris by the
party of order. Although the accusations ore
SO terrible that for the sake of humanity we
should like to be able to doubt their correct
ness, the evidence on which they are based
is SO overwhelming that it is impossible to
refuse credence to the revolving details.
Whatever sympathy may have been felt with
the men who made the killing Of Arch
bishop Darboy an excuse for the whole
sale slaughter of the Parisian people
will be likely to die out when the
cruelty and bloodthirstiness of the Versailles
party comes to be fully realized. There is
something appalling in the thought that in the
boasted centre Of civilization, in this most ad-
vanced century, when light is supposed to
food the world, and the millennium to be
at hand, the lives of thirty thousand men
should be sacrificed to satisfy the vengeance
and the hatred of political party. Yet
the fact remains that the slaughter
was done, and done, as time has proved,
uselessly. What the French Army sought
was to strike terror and crush by the fire of
the mitrailleuse the liberal aspirations Of the
French people. In this they have signally
failed The slaughter only resulted in dis
gusting the country and rendering the politi-
Cal coreligionists of the slain irreconcilable,
and implacable enemies. The power which
the white demagogues seized under the
pretence of saving France they used
ruthlessly in the endeavor to advance
their own interests and secure the
return of ridiculous king, or rather the
coronation of ridiculous person who would
like to be king But Notwithstanding the
bloodshed and the state of military terrorism
under which France groans, the people will
again. 1t is in vain that the press is bribed or
silenced, the people only proclaim with more
distinctness by their silent votes their undy-
ing opposition to the reactionists. Thus
crime defeats itself and the massacres COM
mitted in the name OF order will only serve to
unless the definite establishment of the
Republic should prevent any sudden
outburst of popular passion. The un-
stable condition of the present French gov
ernment daily grows more critical, and the
temperance of NJ. Rochefort on the
political stage at this moment augurs
i'll for the continuance of the Mar
shalate. Personal and public griefs will
combine to make the escaped prisoner
even more bitter and unrelenting in his oppo-
sition to MacMahon than he was to the gov
ernment Of Napoleon ILL.,, and the circum-
stance OF his romantic escape will renew and
strengthen his popularity with the republican
party in France. His power for good and evil
has been tenfold increased by his sutferings
and the prosecutions of which he was the
object, and the victim of New Caledonia re-
turns, a power that may well be feared even
by Marshal President, whose power rests
as did his former masters on half million
Of bayonets
The New York herald., 1874-05-31

The CoTToN CRor.-Much interest is shown
in the condition of the cotton crop. Reports
from the Carolinas, Alabama and Georgia
show that the prospects OF the crop are back
ward, Considerably less acreage has been
planted than last year. The general impress
sion is that the yield may reach about three
and quarter millions Of bales This is not
as good as we had hoped, being three-quarters
Of million bales less than the crop of last
year. Something of this is attributed TO the
poverty OF the planters, who do not have
money enough to buy fertilizers and who ex-
psrience much difficulty in obtaining money
on future crops. There is good deal of po-
liticaI disquietude arising out Of the angry dis
cussions occasioned by the Civil Rights bill
and the misgovernment Of SO many of the
States. This, Of course, disheartens the peo-
pie and prevents that cheerful energy and in
dustry without which . people can raise
neither cotton nor corn.
The New York herald., 1874-05-31

dred churches and hundred and sixty minis
ters. Important assistance for this work in
the West was given by the East Let churches
ana schoolhouses keep pace with the rapidly
extending settlements westward, and that will
prove effective both in checking the bar
barlsm OF the Indians and advancing the
civilization OF the white people.