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Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1874-08-31
Qfericillfllral department.
IMPROVING MEADOWS.


Just after haying is finished every
farmer knows exactly where he cut the
heaviest grass, and just where the IN
productive acres are, and then is the
proper time to improve them. 1t is too
generally believed that when meadow
has become sod bound and unprOductiye,
a course Of blowing and cropping by 70
tatlOn and seeding down is necessary,
in order to obtain heavy growth of
grass.
This method is good, providing too
difficulties are overcome; first, when
only portion of the field requires re-
newing, it is difficult to remove crop
of corn (Which is almost invariably
raised frst) from the ground in time to
secure the seed on the balance Of the
field before the frost has injured it, as
the meadow becomes too wet and soft to
allow cattle and horses to tramp upon
it.
Second, when soil is once turned,
farmers are apt to keep it under the
plow too long; hence so many acres of
poor land upon the farms of Ohio hus-
bandmen. Land should always be stock
ed down before the old sod has entirely
rotted away. The two above named
difficulties have kept hundreds of acres
of meadow land lying in almost useless
condition for years.
Experience has taught many, however,
that to renOvate meadow land. blowing
is not required. The partly barren
places should be marked out, and in the
month Of September receive good top
dressing Of manure and be thoroughly
narrowed up, dragging until the old sod
is entirely broken up and torn in pieces,
then stocked with one peck of pure tim.
Othy seed per acre, and drag lightly.
The trouble is, the grass roots become
so eompaeted and interviewer that they
cannot ramify, and foreign matter works
in A coat Of manure, thorough har
rowing aud seeding will cause sufieien
increase Of grass the first year to NOR
than pay for labor bestowed. If in tn,
fall it is discovered that by reason o
drOuth or any other cause the seed ha
not grown. it should be restoeked with
out dragging in the latter part of March
We have had the best luck when stock
ing in spring by sowing upon a ligh
snow.
There is another thing that too man,
farmers neglect, and that is the puttinl
of meadows in proper shape for tn
moving machine The time spent il
moving around stumps, hillOeks, log
and trees, with hand scythe, amount
to more in season or two than wOult
be required to move them all, and max
the meadow forever aftsrward clear anc
smooth.
We have noticed that farmers VIII
apply all their barn manure to thei
meadows in the fall produce the heavi
est crops Of all kinds upon their farms
The reason is this: Manure lying in
pile until oil becomes decomposed anc
more valuable, and it being all applies
to meadows, there is none for plowe,
ground. So but two or three crops vii
be taken off, then sown TO clover an,
the second crop plowed under, then stock
ed down and new piece plOwed. l
makes easy tillage and large profits
Ohio Farmer.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1874-08-31

The rotation Of crops in Ireland, of a
farmer OF a large estate, is precisely as
follows: Suppose field Of three humid
red acres properly prepared for tiIlage,
planted the first year with potatoes, is
In the second year prepared for wheat or
barley; IN the third year for oats sown
broadcast; IN the fourth year for peas.
The fifth year the same field left untiII-
ed. the grass grows spontaneously, and
aPrOper place for grazing one thousand
sheep for many years to come. is opened.
30 the land in Ireland is in fair tilIable
state at present, as it has been for 4
thousand years
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1874-08-31
Buckingham's Dye.
FOR THE WHISKERS

As our Remover in many cases
requires too long a time, and too
much care, to restore gray or faded
Whiskers, we have prepared this
dye, in one preparation which will
quickly and efectually accomplish
this result. 1t is easily applied,
and produces a color which will
neither rub nor wash off. Sold by
all Druggists. Price Fifty Cents.
Manufactured by n. p. HALL, & CO.,
NASHUA, NH.
For Sale by Il. +. Button.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1874-08-31

By the following method we may have
tomatoes all the year round. which can
scarcely be distinguished from those
picked fresh from the vine Dissolve a
teacup Of salt in gallon Of water.
flek ripe tomatoes, but not over ripe,
leaving little Of the stem on. The
tomatoes must be kept well covered with
the brine, and they win keep till spring.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1874-08-31

Dear the schOol-boy spot, We ne'er
forgot
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1874-07-23
party took leave of the delightful mountain

party took leave of the delightful mountain
embowered resting place.
On Friday the trip was made to Weirs, by
the way of Littleton and the interval country
of the Penigewasset valley, where we embark
ed upon the elegant steamer Lady of the
Lake." and sailed down the smiling waters of
Lake Winnipessukee, getting our last glimpse
of old Mt. Washngton-to Wolfboro, where
we tarried at the Pavilion Hotel over night.
This house, delightfully."- situated on the Lake,
is kept by Mr.. +. Stanton, formerly of the
hotel in Winthrop, who has also winter
house, the Hotel Berkeley, in Boston.
The next day, Saturday, the various men,
bers of the party, after reaching Alton bay by
boat, and Dover, N. H., by cars, began to
break up, some to sojourn over Sunday with
relatives and friends along the route home
ward, but the most to spend the Sabbath in
the midst of their happy homes.
Pleasant, indeed, would it be to narrate
many of the little incidents of the tramp, of
nature specially interesting to the party
such as the celebrated dog sale case, Rich
VS.. Stickney, before the dgnifed Judge Ho-
man, nth Emery and Drsko as counsel, and
the final attempt to bride the judge the fauz
pas of Frank Rich while attempting TO exhibit
to q party of ladies basket of trout be-
longing to another party: the fishing exploits
of Chick who was constantly found by the
most prolific streams; the farming back Of
Shaw, Butler and Moody, the arstocratic
members of the company, just because the
Governor did not come; the learned disqui-
sitions of Gilman upon the geography and
geology of the country and the expenses of
the trip; the undivided attentions of the COM
mittee of arrangements, railroad officials,
and hotel managers the success of Wood in
heroically maintaining his position on the
front seat of the coach the pleasant compan-
iopship and intelligent conversation of Pills
bury, Philbrook, Davis, Rowell, Snow, Mutt,
and others, and the agreeable manner in
which the ladies bore their part. But these
are matters for the future historians Of the
ever-to- be remembered editorial excursion Of
1874 III. o.
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UP TO THE HILLS.

DEAR JOURNAL On Wednesday morning,
ct eight o'clock, the editorial party after par
taking Of hearty breakfast, babe reluctant
adieu to the Glen, and started in stages for
Glen station, going by the smooth road on the
southern side of the mountain range, that
leads through the tangled wildwood and in
meadows that retain in a remarkable degree
their primitive loneliness. For many miles,
the road is about the only thing the hand OF
man has interfered with.
After an hours ride, the murmur of falling
water mingled with bird-song, and the ap-
pearsnce Of woodland path, tempt us to
pause, especially after being informed that a
few steps into the woods will bring us to Glen
Ellis Falls. This natural curiosity is alone
worth coming this distance to see. The
beautiful cascade is on the Ellis river. You
may stand at the very basin, open only ON one
side, and look up at the narrow fall of seven
~ feet, the water rushing down its bed be.
tween very steep and precipitous rocky cliffs
You come suddenly upon this magnificent
revelation of nature, as you have wendell
your circuitous way down the rough steps
that lead into the glen below and here would
you like to sit for hours in silence, meditation
and rest, communing with the Creator amid
these grand works of his hand; but the
hoarse voice of the stage driver breaks the
charm: IF you don't hurry up we shant hit
the train and we all "Ret."
Proceeding on through the valley of the
Peabody and Ellis rivers, that are roaring and
rushing At our feet, We continue through the
Pinkham Notch to the pretty villages of Jack
son and Goodrich Falls, that have many neat
hotels and large boarding houses for tourists
and come to Glen station, where the cars o.
the Portland & Ogdensburg Railroad are taken
for Bartlett, . short distance, and which II
also the half way station between the Glen
and the Crawford House. Here another IF.
teen miles of staging stand between the hun
cry printers and their dinner. But this has
it, compensation, especially as we came to
sss, and not to eat. The route leads through
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1874-07-23

At thirty five the average American discov-
ers that he has an "Infernal Stomach" and
goes into the hands of the doctors for the
remnant of his life. Prevention is better than
cure, but DR.. Walkers Vinegar Bitters will
both cure and prevent dyspepsia, diseases of
the skin, liver, kidneys, and bladder, and all
disorders arising from an "infernal stomach. "
july 22-+4w
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Dtrb.

In Hallowell. 18th inst, a. the residence of hel
brother, Miss Johanna r. Coughlin, daughter o
Dennis and Mary COushlin, parish Of Havelock
3 months.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1874-07-23
INTOxlCAN1S

By The eXercise OF the Valuable properties It Stops
the morbid Unsuitable craving for liquor, which al.
ways operates as serious obstacle to reform, gives
lie and stimulus to the enfeebled organs Of diges
tion warns the body, and creates natural and
healthy flow of the gastric juices the proper SOL
vents Tor food. Thus, this preparation fills all the
conditions required of a remedy for habit which
it is difficult to abandon when the system has been
ia xed to the farthest point to sustain, and both
mind and body are unequal to the struggle. Not a
single objection can be urged against it, while
are outspOken in its praise.
De
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1874-07-23
Musical Notice!

Prof. M. q. Mtll11ko11
Will be In Augusta the second week in August, to
attend to the tuning of Pianos.
Orders may be left at the music store of J. FRANK
PIERCE, Augusta. juy23ftf
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1874-07-23

Renne's Pain-Killing Magic Oil is not a
sticky, nasty compound, but clean, sweet and
pleasant to use, and wonderful to cure any
kind of pain. Try it on bruises, or bilious
headache, or kidney troubles, or sore throat.
july22t&w1w.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1874-07-23

The dispatches which we were obliged TO
omit yesterday morning, contained letters
from Mrs. Titon, Beecher and Mou!ton, pub
lished by Mr.. Tilton to substantiate his state
ment. The substance of them appeared in
the papers some time since.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1874-07-23
HI ALE9S
FOR CASTOR OIL.

The most reliable and safe vegetable substitute
for castor oil ever compounded. Instantly relieves
Colo, Cramps, DarrhGa, and all diseases of Child
rem Teething. Causes natural and healthy sleep,
gives rest mother and child, regulates the cow.
els, assimlate the food, and builds the child right
square up from suffering puny weakness, to strong
and robust health. perfect medicine chest for
our little ones. Only 25 CENTS, by all dealers.
Gcn0 will be paid FIR any case of Dyspepsia,
OJUU Bliousness, Liver Complaint or Impure
blood that Or. JOB SWEETS 8TkANGTHEN-
ING BlrrERS will not relieve cure when all
other remedies fail, il directions are followed.
Sold by all dealers. shN gEsa5 junesAt Sw3m
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1874-07-23
REPUBLICAN, NoMINATIoNs.
FOR GOVERNOR,
NELSON DINGLEY, JR.

FOR REPRESENTATIVES TO CONGRESS,
First District, JOHN Fl. BURLE1GH.
Second District, WILLIAM P. FRYE.
Third District, JAMES G. BLAINE.
Fourth District, SAM'L F. HERSEY.
Fifth District, EUGENE HALE.
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SANFORD'S
JAMAICA
GINGER

Must take the front rank. Apart from its agreeable
flavor, in which it surpasses all similarly named
its power quench thirst, open the
pores and stimulate the languid during the heats
of summer must win for it the admiration and
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1874-07-23

The eDomsstic" Sewing Machine will do
ordinary sewing with band of single
thread of No. GO spool cotton. Try yours
with one, then with two or more, and you
will have the relative power required to oper-
ate them, and perhaps comprehend more
clearly what in meant by an 'easy running"
ing machine. july2ttf
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REMOVABLE. C. Foote has removed her
stock of hair goods to lao Water ST., over
Perce's Book Store, where she will be pleas
ed to exhibit to old and new customers her
large assortment of switches, braids, natural
curls, &c. Work Of all kinds done to order.
iune6- ftf
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STIMUIAHT

And Tonic in a remarkable degree, possessing a
flavor but little inferior to the best French cordas
purely medicinal in every sense of the word. II will
be found most refreshing stimulant and tonic for
the are.worn, the overworked, and the weary in
valid. 1t is free from every injurious property; il
strengthens and invigorates the stomach and or
glns of digestion, and creates glow of warmth
and health and leaves the brain in full possession
of Its powers, the organs of digestion in full actv
ty, and the entire system benefited and rejuvehat,
eli. 1t is therefore capable Of destroying morbid
fnr
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Lost.

4 BLACK satin fan with painted ngur es thereon
IA was lost on the street yesterday. The finder
will be suitably rewarded by leaving the same at
this Office.
July p.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1874-02-27
The Last DAYS of Dickens.

The third and concluding volume of
Mr.. Forster's Life of Dickens has Just
been published. It presents a melan-
choly picture of decaying powers, NOR
bid unrest, and corroding discomfort.
It may be doubted whether Dickens,
who is supposed by many of his readers
to have been one of the most genial and
jovial of men, was ever happy man !;
but it would certainly appear that in
his later years he was supremely wretch
ed. As q younger man, his animal
spirits and vanity helped to take him
out of himself. He was satisfied only
when he had an admiring company
around him. He was, in fact, essen
TALLY an actor, and miserable without
an audience, and his gayety was forced
and histrionic. There was no repose
abo1t his character. He could never
endure to be simple and plain and ma
tural he wanted to be always fire
works. At home he was seen at his
worst, suffering from the reaction of ex-
element in company, and weary with
his elaborate efforts to amuse and star
tie. Mr.. Forster passes as gently as he
can over the domestic misadventures of
his hero. It is not p easant page, and
one is glad to turn it. Dickens was al
ways fond of the hustle and change of
travelling, and after 1860 his restlessness
become almost a mania. He had no
tiOns of burying himself for a whole
six months in some of the recesscs of
the Pyrenees, or of spending a winter
in some elevated and secluded convent
in the Alps. His work had evidently
begun to tell on him. His invention
was less fertile, his composition less
spontaneous. I6 had become an effort
for him to write, and he vas haunted
by the fear, which was partly true, that
his prime was over and that he would
nev,r again lie what he had been. He
had, in fact, lost his elasticity of mini.
All this necessarily gives rather a bad
tone to this concluding volume but
Dickens, though he confessed himself
to his friend, was the more resolute in
showing bold face to the world, and
his l tiers are full of dash and humor.
He went about a good deal and used
himself mercilessly. The fit of paraly-
sis which finally killed him had appar-
emily been impending for some years
before his death. The railway accident
from which he narrowly escaped with
his life must also have shak n him
more than was suspected at the time
Ne1C York Times London Letter.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1874-02-27
The Chief Of the Snakes.

The plains correspondent of the Phil
adelphia Press writes: 'The buffalo
eating Snakes, or those which inhabit
Wind River, are Washakie's band, and
it is of them wish more particularly
to speak. A remarkable Indian, their
chief is, man of great intelligence,
and the finest looking Indian on the
plains. His face closely resembles that
of Washington, as seen in Peale's
paintings, and his form is as noble. He
is six feet three inches tall, grayhaired,
broad-chested, and of the most dignifed
and pleasant manners. His face is oval +,
the features regular, and his eye beams
constantly with kindness and good will
to men. He is sixty years old, but still
unbent by age. His address is slow,
and he weighs every word he utters.
This chief dresses and acts like white
man, and is greatly beloved by his tribe.
He is famed for his wisdom, and had
he been born white man, he would, in
all probability, have become one of the
greatest men in America. Years ago he
ceased from war, and since then has
kept his treaties with an exactitude
worthy of the most civilized ruler.
When some young men went to war
against his will, he declared them reb-
els, and kept them out of the tribe for
a whole year. At length, when impor-
tuned by the whole tribe, he consented
to receive them back, but only upon
condition that their chief should be re-
duced to a warrior and another chief
appointed over them"
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1874-02-27
MesOpOtamIa.

It may be exaggeration to represent
an old woman saying that she found
great support in the comfortable word
" Mesopotamia, - but the spirit which
animated her is really very widely diff
fused in other old women, and young
women and men too. Inde ed. so much
in quotation depends upon pleasant
sound, that we firmly believe that these
nonsense verses might be recited at the
Preside without being at once detected
lust for the reason that we do not al
ways pause to think whether We attach
any importance to what we hear. At
any rate here they are
lis sweet to roam when mornings light
Resounds across the deep;
When the crystal song of the woodbine bright
Hushes the rocks to sleep;
When the midnight sky has a sombre dye
OF pale and inky hue,
And the wolf rings out bis glittering shout,
'-Tu whit -Tu whit ia whoo J"
When the pearly wings of the wintIy trees
Dashes across the glen;
When the laughing lights of the moss-grown
cliffs
Haunt the e: hereal fen;
When at noon the bloOd-shot moon
Is bathed in crumbling dew,
And the wolf rings out his glitterIng shout,
''Tu whit-Tu whit -Tu whco!
Not a few persons will cry, ''How pref
ty I" when the words are read fast.
They have the true MesOpotamia :"
ring about them. It cannot be denied
that people who make point of inter
Harding their conversation with quota
tions are an intOierable nuisance.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1874-02-27
a Waste of Eighty Millions.

Our 500, 600 dogs furnish one of the
most important economic considerations
now affecting the state In the first
place, they initiate against the mutton
crop annually to the extent of at least
50, 600, 900; secondly, they cost, at an
average of % cents a week each. Sc. 500. =
600, enough to run all our common
schools and leave large stealable sur
plus; thirdly, they slay annually
through hydrophobia, at least 100 per.
sons, which Cat s., 900 each-the aver
age price paid by railroads for the very
poorest grade of brakesmen) amounts
to further sum of $500, 900 Here Is
a direct expenditure of nearly seven
and three-quarter millions for dogs. rot
TO mention the fines, costs and more re-
mote and sentimental damages result
ing from lawsuits about dog-fghts and
consequent severance of friendsbips
between the owners of the combative
ours. Add to this the annual expendi-
ture IN the city for old boots. chamber
crockery, paper weights, bootiacks and
such other articles as may be most
readily util zed of moonlight nights.
and it will occur to the most preiudiced
friend of the dog that he is an animal
wherein retrenchmtDs could be prac
ticed to advantage in these economical
days. Capitalized, our dogs represent
waste OF $50, 600, 600, and invested at
compound interest, one year of their
aggregate worthlessness would pay off
the national debt before 1900.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1874-02-27
INTO THE SUN.

Caloric potentatei Thy rise is opportune-
A sentimental mammal claws his Tyre;
He will, in haste, fife high his adolescent Groom,
Nor stop for decency or hire.
Unchanged Sun of myriad suns-aren-boss abovesi
The warmth Of thy fierce gaze this world upon
Doth even shame the ferver of the manly love
bear my mothers only son.
Tbou art versatile: yet this machine hath run,
Since gassy times that I'll not try to spell.
And thou has proved to all that tho1 eanst be the
By simply doing Sone thing well.
Thou chairman of committee on celestial light
Compared With thee our brag lamps seem mess !;
Even with stock of 50 brass" co1coct we naught
so bright
: We've not the recipe, guess.
We don't cut up such shines, with poor earthly
might,
Or we a portionof thy disk would fix
High in the fasts of mosquito breeding night
To teach the moon and stars soma tricks.
Alack Black cloud-hulks coast the sullen west,
and morn
An all-day wetest hatcheth out, ween,
To dsnk this facile air and spur each drowsy
And make my trusty toys feel mean;
Therefore will no longer thrash my bowling muse,
It's sweetness dogg'rels clutching greedily;
I'd steer me homeward speedily;
For If a man doa't quickly seek the inside dry
sWhen outside dampness is a certainty,
Then should passioned kick with hot repeat apply
And telescope his vertebrse.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1874-02-27

over the Central Pacific railroad, and
one Joe Mason, have discovered of late
that they were both on board a certain
pirate'xessel about thirty years ago, and
we're eye-witnesses to the burying of a
vast amount of gold and diamond jewel
ry. JEFF says that his life was spared
on account of his being cook, and Ma
sons on account of his youth-being
then but ten years old. When first
told, the story was not believed, but
after awhile persons we're found of sufi-
Gent gullibility to accept the whole
story and enlist in the enterprise"
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1874-02-27

OPEN an oyster, retain the liquor in
the lower or deep shell, and, if viewed
through a microscope, it will be found
TO contain multitudes of small oysters,
covered with shells and swimming
niubly about-120 of which extend but
one inch. Besides these young oysters,
the liquor contains variety of animal
oula and myriads of three distinct
species of worms. Sometimes their
light resembles a blush star about the
centre Of the shell, which will be beau
tifulIy luminous in dark room.