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The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1875-11-26

On Wall Street.-The character OF
Wall street business may be understood
by reading the reports OF what has been
done OH Wall street in the last week.
We learn that in round numbers nine
hundred and forty-fiye thousand shares
were bought ard sold. OF these shares
seven hundred thousand represent what
are called fancy stocks is, stocks
of nominal value, the trade in which
cannot be considered as sound express
ion of business The buying and selling
OF these stocks, as reported in the tables,
as SO is misnomer. They are not really
bought or sold, hut tsputs'' and s'calls''
and other contracts for their delivery
have been the staple OF trade, ard many
of the sales, too, have been nomllal
between agents of some stock -jobber
anxious to give false value to the mar
ket. The two hundred and forty thou
sand shares of honest stocks which have
been sold are gratifying indication Of
the real revival in business. During
the Summer the whole burden of shares
IN wall street were these fancy securities.
We can understand the exact value Of
Wall street as we mark the dinlinution Of
the sales Of the fancy stocks and the in-
crease in the sales of the real stocks.
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Pc. HARPER & CO.,

PC. HARPER e. CO.,
Dealers in
ID II V GOO - - /.
GR0ehHDg. KseOGs and shoes. Hats, 9sFOee-
raes. Fancy Goods. Notions, Sh0GgunS
@m@ Pistols, Nails, ROpes Mirrors
Wallpaper, Wood and willow
ware, Trunks and yRHtsess
Pocket Cutlery, 6c.s &e..
Sold very low either for cash, or to prompt pay
mss ing customers on time. Vi
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There were only twelve hundred
speeches made in Ohio during the late
cans ass.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1875-11-26


Turkey is afraid Russia will take
Constantinople and kick the Crescent
ont of Europe. Russia is afraid Prus-
sic will take Finland and Poland.
France is afraid that Germany will take
the province of Champagne as Won
Moltke's soldiers got such firstclaes
taste Of its sparkling wine during the
1870 campaign. England is afraid her
scattered provinces will take themselves
and leave her only nutshell to crack
in her own little isle. Spain is afraid
the United States will take Cuba, and
Don Hamilton Fish is afraid Cuba
will take the United States.
SALT LAKE, Nov. 18.-Thc case Of
Brigham Young, hela in custody by
Marshal Maxwell for contempt, ON order
of Judge Boreman, of October 10Th,
coming before Chief Justice White on
labeas corpua, it was decided by him
to-day that the judgment of Judge
Lowe. Of May 10th, discharging the
prisoner for the alleged contempt and Of
disobedience TO the order Of February
26th, By Judge Mexican, requiring him
to pay alimony to Ann Eliza, was Gnaa
and conclusive, and that upon Che adj
journment OF that term il became beyond
the power Of the court; therefore, thas
tie decision OF Judge Boreman in c-ra-
mitting Brigham Young for contempt i
void; that he is wrongnlly imprisoned
and should be discharged.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1875-02-13
Origin OF the COrOner's Inquest.

A GENTLEwOMAN in London, after bury
ing six husbands. found gentleman
hardy enough to make, her a wife once
more. For several months their happi-
ness was mutual, circumstance which
seemed to pay no great compliment to
her former partners, who, as she said,
had disguised h,r by their sottishness
and infdelity. In the view of knowing
the real character of his amorous mate
the gentleman began frequently to absent
he did return to appear as if intoxicated
AT first reproaches, but afterward men
aces, were the consequences of this con
duct The gentleman persisted and
seemed every day to become addicted To
his bottle. One evening when she mag
ined him dead drunk she unsewed "A
leaden weight from one of the sleeves of
her gown and having melted it she ap-
preached her husband, who pretended
still to be sound asleep, in order to put
ii into his ear through pipe; convinced
of her wickedness the gentleman started
up and seized her, when, having procured
assistance, he secured her till the morn
ing and conducted her before Il magis-
trate, who sent her to prison The bod
les of her six husbands were dug up and
as marks of violence were discerniblc
upon each of them the proof of her guilt
appeared so strong upon her trial that
she was condemned and executed. To
this circumstance are we indebted for
that useful regulation by which no corpse
can be inferred without a legal inspec-
ton. -Lpadon Paper.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1875-02-13
Practical Advice In Case Of POISONING,

If possible have the stomach pump
applied, then let the patient drink freely
and use the stomach-pump again, SO as
to wash out the poison as much as posi-
BILE. II a stOmach-pump is not at hand
give the patient ground mustard and salt
dissolved in water to produce vomiting
We mention this as these articles are al
most always on hand in every house
Then give the white of a few eggs In
regard to special antidotes: For acid
polsons give as quickly as possible large
draughts of chalk, magnesia or a cream
made of soap and water; for alkaline
poisOns, such as soda, potash or am
mOnia, give lemOn,juice with water and
sugar, and if this cannot be had give
vinegar; olive oil, also, will relieve such
cases. For arsenic the hydrated ses-
quioxid of iron is the special antidote.
in doses some thirty times larges than
The amount.of poison taken; for baryta
give sulphate of magnesia or soda; for
anthony or tartar emetic powdered
Peruvian bark or the infusion of the
same is the specific antidote. For cor
rosive sublimate the hydrated protosul-
phuret of iron is the antidote If admins
tered within twenty minutes; if later,
give unboiled white of eggs, then warm
water. For salts of copper (verdigris,
blue vitriol, etc. sugar and white of eggs
For nitrate of silver the same. For Paris
green (arsenite of copper pcroxid of
iron and sugar mixed with white of egg
For phosphorus, ditto, and also lime
water. For sulphate of zinc (white Wit
rob, solution of carbonate of soda,
cream, butter and chalk. For salts of
lead (itharge, white and red sugar of
lead, Gunlard's extract), give sulpllate of
magnesia, of potash, or of soda or phos-
pate OF soda; for lead poisoning of long
standing, iOdid of potassium, five grains
three times Il day. For opium and NOR
Prime, tincture of green hellebore or pull
verified ipecncuanha. For prussic acid,
diluted ammonia and inhaling its fumes
or carbonate of potash with sulphate of
iron. For strychninc and nux vomica no
antidotc known; rely on stomach pump
and emetics. For poisonous Mushrooms
take fannie acid. For poison ivy or su-
mach, paint with tincture of lobelia or
extract of gclsemium. For carbolic acid
olive or almond oil with castor oil or
sacharate of lime (made of one part
Stacked quick lime, three of white sugar,
and eight of watcr) For carbonic acid
gas, fresh air, cold water, friction, artifi-
cal respiration. For chlorin gas, fresh
air, inhale vapor of warm water,
wine, ether or ammonia For the
sting oil wasp or bee,
rub with an onion. For bites
ot insects, wash With borax solution
For ordinary snake bites, wusk with
liquid ammonia For ra,tlesnake bite
suck OF cup the wound so as To extr-c,
the poison as much as possible, then give
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1875-02-13

ought to be necessarily using. We
mean clover. Any growth of vegetation
even thick crop of weeds turned
under green before it goes to seed
will decay and restore certain
amount of mold and gases to the soil
on which it grew; but red clover is bet
ter for this purpose than any other green
crop that has ever been tried. 1t grows
rank and luxuriant, and contains an I'M
usually large amount of sap, which, in
decaying, generates fertile gases. 1t has
large, strong roots, which burrow deep
into the clay subsoil and then turn into
mold, making the soil porous as well as
fertile To get the full benefit of it on a
thin nearly WORKOUT soil, it ought to be
turned under green and when it is most
luxuriant; but if it be not convenient TO
do this it may be graZed with stock,
whose droppings will convert it into the
more concentrated form of manure, and
thus return it to the land, or it may be
cut for hay and stored away in the barn
for winter use. 1t is the best of all hay
for cattle, particularly mich cows, and
will yield nearly twice as much per acre
as timothy. 1t must be stated, however,
that where clover is cut for hay and re-
moved from the soil the chief value as
Il fertilizer is lost; there is nothing left
to be restored to the ground but tue de-
caying roots.
Good farming consists in getting as
much from the soil in the shape of crops
as it can be made to yield, but the cOun-
,erpart and prerequisite to this is to give
to the soil all the nourishment in the
shape of fertilizers that is at the farmers
command. Everything in the shape of
decomposing matter that he can rake to-
gether-stable manure, pouliry-yard ma
nuIe, wood ashes, swamp-muck and heaps
of rotten vegetation-if gwen TO the land
will invigorate it, and if he lives near
enough to town it will pay him in the
fall of the year to haul manure to his
farm. A great deal may be saved in this
respect by feeding his grain crops on his
fields to cattle or hogs and selling the
fatted stock instead of selling the raw
grain, for this process restores to his
farm a large portion of the refuse of his
consumed crop instead of removing it to
some distant region for the fertilization
of other farms.-St. Louis Republican.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1875-02-13
Replenishfng the Soil.

IT is one of the principles of good
farming that as much should be restored
TO the soil as is taken from it. The re
turn cannot be made IN kind, of course !;
it would not do to restore the Identical
crop of corn to the field from which it
had been gathered, for this would leave
the farmer no profit for his labor. But
the return should be made in some cheap
matter that possesses all the elements
which the corn crop has drawn from the
soil. To crop field year after year, and
look for good yields from it, without
Civ ing it the elements which the exhaust
i've process demands is like consuming
not only the interest on sum of mon
ey, but a part of the principal as well
every year-Or. TO use a homelier figure,
it is like expecting hen to lay an egg
every day when she is not fed, or a COW
to give milk that is not fed. 1t is not
more certain that q hen or a COW will die
that is not fed than it is that soil
cropped year after year, without being
fed, will perish. The vast areas of
worn-out land in Virginia and some
other Eastern st ties, and the bald,
naked hill sides to be seen too
ness to this truth A farmer
ought to regard his farm as his permanent
fixed capital, whose annual interest
acne he may use, and whose inherent
powers he should maintain unimpaircd,
and, if practicable, increase, year after
year by careful tillagc. The cheap
matter to be used in maintaining these
productive powers Is manure and fertil
izers. Manure is the best of all matter
that the farmer can use in replcnishing
the soil, and no portion of the limited
quantity of it to be had on n farm should
be wasted but the supply of it is com
paratiye1y small and for this reason re-
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1875-02-13

iodid of potassium four grains; corrosive
sublinate, two grains; water, teaspoon
full bfomin, five drachms ten drops Of this
mixture in two tablespoonful of brandy
or wine is the dose, which is repeated if
alarming symptoms show themselves.
DR.. Hammond testifies in regard to the
reliability of this mixture, as tried on a
recent expedition in the Rocky Noun
tains. For hydrophobia no positive an
tidote known as yet; suck or cup the
bitten part, then cut it out all around,
and scarify with nitrate of silver. Mr.. J.
w. Woolston, of Philadelphia, recon.
mends, according tc his experience, to
give elecampane root well boiled in milk !;
two days alter one and half ounces of
the same, and again two days later two
ounces. DIR. CarnOchan, of New York.
recommends the calabar bean, and all
unite in recommending to promote pro-
fuse perspiration and ease of mind-Neu
York GrdOhir
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1875-02-13
Earth.WOrmS.

A PARAGRAPH is going the rounds of the
scientific and agricultural press to the
effect that if grass pla's, garden beds and
SO on be sprinkled with clear lime water
in damp weather the earth-wOrms will
be destroyed and the vegetation bene-
fitted. This may be true for all we know
to the contrary. Indeed, an application
of lime-water may very probably be of
direct temporary advantage to the grass
or what-not over which it is sprinkled;
but if it kills the worms it ought not to
be used. These apparently insignificant
and certainly unattractive creatures are
of the greatest benefit to the fields which
they inhabit. They are very humble,
but are efficient servants of the agricuL
turist; and, far from iniuring his meadow
and his garden, they devote themselves
with the most praiseworthy assiduity to
turning over the soil to IA greater depth
and more thoroughly than can be done
with the best appliances known to
science. These animals-for so they are
classified by the naturalists cannot
claim to be much more than animated
tubes. They seem to live by taking
earth and earthly substances in at one
end and passing them out at the other.
This simple process of digestion is
aided, however, by mucous secre-
ton; and the worm has most praise
worthy habit, when he has filled himself
with earth, of ascending to the surface,
turning round and working himself back
again into the ground. This operation
has the effect of unloading him, and the
process, infinitely repeated by millions
of his fellows, cannot but have a highly
beneficial effect upon the quality of land.
1t is said by so careful an observer as
Mr.. Darwin that these worms have been
known to cover a field to the depth of
thirteen inches in the course of eighty
years. A slow process, to be sure, but SO
are all the processes of nature. This,
however. is not all they do They carry
their shafts and galleries to depth of
several feet, and cross and intersect in
all directions, loosening the soil, opening
it to the penetration of air and water,
and, in short, doing all that they can to
help vegetation, without preying upon it
or injuring its roots in the slightest de-
gree. For all these services they are
doomed to be dosed to death with lime
water, if we are to follow the suggestion
of the paragraph referred to.-ChriSttan
Union.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1875-02-13
EcOnomizing Heat In Animals.

WE published last week a short article
on the economy of heat in the human
body, subject which is worthy of
special attention in cold weather. This
subject, in its application to animals, is
taken up by a correspondent of the Nao
England Farmer, who justly criticises a
remark by correspondent of the COM
try Gentleman, that "rain does strong,
healthy sheep good" The farmer makes
out clear case against the latter as fol-
lows:
These long-wooled sheep shear a
fleece which weighs all the way from six
to sixteen pounds. Now we have in No
vember and December very cold rains,
by very low temperature
The lightest clad OF these sheep will
have upon them at this season a fleece
which will weigh three pounds; now let
us imagine this fleece first saturated with
water and then frozen. Now bear in
mind that it takes 14O degrees of heat to
dissolve the ice thus formed on the wool,
and after it is thus converted into water
it takes $50 degrees of heat to convert
that water into vapor, or in other words to
dry it. Then, again, consider that the
only source of heat is the food eaten by
the animal and burnt in it's system.
Then, again, consider this taking place
not only during the winter months, but
IN March and April, when the fleece Is
double the weight it is IN the fall. Now
this is exact science; the
amount of heat required for the purpose
described is always the same, though the
whence it is derived may differ.
In the months of May, June, July, August
and September the sun aids in drying
the wool, but remember in these months
the fleece is light 1t is when the fleece
is the heaviest that nearly all the heat
for drying the fleece is absorbed from
the body; and remember the tempera-
ture of that body is to be kept up to %
deg. 1t is an exact science. and it re-
quires an exact amount of food to fur
nish this heat; and if the food is not
furnished the animal must fall back upon
its own resources, the fat accumulated
in its cells; or, if none is SO stored, it's
muscles must be sacrificed or the animal
must die."-N. y. O5sercer.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1875-02-13
Bleeding from Lungs, Calarrli, BrOn-
cIftfs, COnsumptfOn-.-A Wonderful

ROCHESTER, n. IL, 18Th
II. V. Pierce, NJ. D.. Buffalo, n. Y:
Dear Sir have suffered from Catarrh in
an aggravated form for about twelve years
and for several years from Bronchial trouble
Tried many doctors and things with no last
ing benefit In May, ~, becoming nearly
worn out with excessive editorial labors on a
paper in New York city, was attacked with
Bronchitis in Il severe form, suffering almost
total loss of voice. l returned home here,
but had been home only two weeks when |
was completely Frustrated with llemorrhage
from the lungs, hdping to,r sece,e bieeding
spells 'rthin tsro ceehs, and first three inside 81
mine days. In the September following i'm
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though in a very feeble state. My Bronchial
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fold worse than before. Every effort for re-
lief seemed fruitless. l seemed to be losing
ground daily. | continued in this feeble
state, raising blood almost daily, until about
the first of March, '13, when L became SO bad
Us 10 be entirely confined to the house. A
friend suggested your remedies. But | was
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began to look upon medicine and doctors
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which | came to the conclusion that you I'M
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American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1875-02-13
Initiation Cashmere Manufactures.

IT is an acknowledged fact to the pres
ent day that notwithstanding the we'll
nigh perfection of skill and mechanism
now applied to the production of every
class and variety of textile fabrics, no
art has yet proved equal to that by
which the shawls of Cashmere are made
to possess such singular purity, beauty
and value. The French approximate
nearest, perhaps, of any people in insur-
ing these qualities to the imitation prod
ucts which they call by the same name,
rect from Thibet, and wrought into
shawls in the factories of Paris, Lyons,
Nismes, etc. The Paris shawls are of the
kind known as French Cashmere, in
which, by the aid of the draw-loom and
of the jacquard, a surface is given which,
so far as appearance goes, is precisely
similar to that of the Oriental article /;
both the warp and the welt are the yarn
of pure Cashmere down, the figures and
colors OF the Eastern shawl are faithfully
copied, and the deception would be com
plete did not the reverse side show the
cut ends.
But, as already remarked, the genuine
Oriental shawl is yet without rival in
its absolute beauty and perfection, and
no attempts are made or needed in the
way of improvements. The wool, the
choicest raised in Thibet and Tartary, is
first bleached to rid it of grayish hue
which naturally belongs to it, then spun
into yarn and dyed of various colors.
The manufacture of q remarkably fine
and elaborate shawl will sometimes oc-
cupy shop for a whole year, two or
three, perhaps four, persons being con-
stantly engaged on it. In some of the
richest specimens scarcely a quarter of
an inch is completed by three persons in
one day. Sometimes, in order to hasten
the process, a shawl is made in separate
pieces at different looms, and the pieces
are afterward sewed together, this latter
being done with such dexterity that it is
not Immediately detected. The shawls
are exquisitely soft and warm, surpass-
ing in these respects every other cloth
ing matcrial.-St. Louis Republican.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1875-02-13
A Blind Glrl's Faith.

The Paris correspondent of the New
York Times says that not long ago the
Captain of one of our great ocean steam
ships found, just after passing Sandy
Hook, that he had a young blind girl
among his passengers. Her whole APP
pearance showed him that there was
some mystery in the case, and he asked
her how she came to be there, in the
steerage, alone. The young lady told
him her story. She was a Miss Kane,
from New England, who had unfOrtu-
nately lost her eyesight. She had heard
of the wonderful cures performed
through the agency of "Our Lady of
Lourdes," and for many long, weary,
half-hopeful, half-despairing months she
has been trying to raise the means for
taking the trip. AT length she could
not bear to- wait any longer, and, unbe-
known to her parents, she had slipped
away to New York, where she had ar
rived with sixty-nine dollars. She had
taken the cheapest steerage fare, and felt
assured that God would help her ON to the
Grotto of Lourdes, and that she should,
by virtue of prayer and the Intervention
of Notre-Dame de Louders, be once
more restored to sight. The sailors
heart was touched by this simple story,
and had he been on shore he
would probably have given his purse
to the girl on the spot Her faith was
sublime. Her religious fervor left no
shadow of suspicion respecting the pu
rity of her motives or the truthfulness of
her intentions. The weather beaten
sailor brushed his fingers several times
across his eyes AS he repeated the story
in his own rudely eloquent way, and
every one was interested. There was Il
French surgeon on board who served in
the Federal army during the war, and he
mi Itss 70. La nk ffar
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the country they are found with the
"therevidences of industry, perseverance
and skill of the ancient people who lived
here. Who and what they were, none
can tell. The ruins of great houses,
canals and immense water-tanks still ex-
list, and have changed but little for the
past 800 years, when they were old ruins
as described by Spanish explorers and
Padres the same as we now find them.