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Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1875-01-13

THE VIcKsBuRo WAR.---ln puisn-
ancc of . resolution, recently adopted
by the lower House of Congress, pro
viding for the appointment Of u select
committee of five members TO visit
Vicksburg, for the purpose Of ascertain
ing and making report as to the nature
and cause Of the recent disturbances in
that city, the Speaker appointed the
following gentleman members of said
committee Hon. Omar d. Conger Of
Michigan, Hon. Stephen A. Hurlbutt
of illinois, Hon. Charles G. Williams
Of Wisconsin, Hon. r. Milton Spear Of
Pennsylvania, and Hon VIM. J. O'Brien
of Maryland. The first three named
members OF the committee are Rcpub-
licans-thc Democrats being represent
cd by Mcssrs. specr and oBrien. We
hope the committee viii give the mat
ter thorough Investigation, and see
that the guilty are exposed to the
world and punished for their henious
crimes. w
Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1875-01-13
Jennie juno has thc f0llowIng good

Jennie June has the following good
counsel for girls Z e arledcgg r'
c "tiirls. take hold of the first work
that comes TO your hand---no matter
what il is. You will soon find ont Y
Il is the thing you want 70 do, or can
do best. The most promising young
actress IN America to-day commcnced
by being . cnurss-mAid, and . we'll
known artist only found ont she conld
paint by .ombroidcring for . liyipg.--
The exercise Of tho faculties m aht
useful occupation n god, ahd excsl.
lencs IN h onndblcs ~ Y But khstevtr
Il s,bnns III thesc isI good in ysn V
bear upglis that the record may, in
no way he discreditable 20 you" :
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1875-02-17
FARM AND HOME.

s.eounsl ya- WheIe Grain for Horses.
The Irish Farmers Gazette, in rela-
ton to the difference between ground
and unground feed, and whole or cut
fodder, quotes the following fact:
The London Omnibus Company have
lately made report which discloses
some interesting information, not only
to farmers, but to every owner of a
horse. They use no less than 5000
horses; 5000 of this number had for
their feed bruised oats, Is pounds; cut
hay, II pounds; straw, 81 pounds, and
the other 5000, unbruised oats, 10
pounds; uncut hay, ID pounds. The
horse which was fed on the former, and
consumed 26 pounds per day, could do
the same work as well, and was kept in
as good condition, as the one receiving
32 pounds, thereby causing saving of
6 pounds on each horse. amounting to
EGO per day, or go, 800 per annum on
the company's 5000 horses.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1875-02-17

j. B. Root, of Rockford, H., tells in
his Garden Manual how he succeeded
last year in raising Lima beans without
poles. One-ffth Of an acre was planted
in hills, six seeds to each, eyes down,
and when the runners were three feet
high, if Strengthened up, the tips were
nipped off, thus inducing the prompt
development OF all blossoms, and set
of side shoots which chung tc each other
and formed a sort Of cone.
No more pinching IN was practised,
for fear Of too late growth. The re-
suit was the plants seemed content with
less stature, and a large proportion of
the. settings mat1lred. The crop was
fully one-half greater than ever before.
and more than half greater than that
on poles the same season.
Hereafter he will confine himself to
this method, with the difference that a
lath, set deep, will be used for each
hill This viii furnish something for
the cone to cling to IN a wind, and the
top of the latin will be good point at
which to nip the vine. It is added that
if the crop is raised for ripe beans there
should be several pickings, as some OF
pods touch the ground. and In wet
time the beans become stained. While
others are advised, on the strength OF
this experience, to try the plan, it is
* recommended that with this, as with
all new things, to hasten slowly, and
never risk all entire crop on ali expert
.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1875-02-17
A Military Head Stone.

On headstone in West Virginia
cemetery is the following inscription
capt Oliver Brown, of the artillery of
the Massachusetts line, revolutionary
war-born in Lexington Mass, 1922.
He stood in front of the first cannon
fired by the British on the affray at
Lexington Witnessed the tea party at
Boston harbor-was at the battle OF
Bunker Hill-commissioned by Con-
gross 10th of January, 1776-command-
ed the volunteer party that bore off the
leaden statue of King George from the
Battery at New York and made it into
bullets fer the American army-bore a
conspicuous part in command OF artll-
lery at the battles of White Plains, Har-
lem Heights, Princeton, Trenton,
Brandywine, Germantown, and Mon
mouth. After serving his country, he
enlisted in the armies of the Son OF
God, and surrendered to the last enemy
on the 18th or February, 1916, IN the
full assurance of "a never-endlne
peace"
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1875-02-17
A COrDse ARRIVED in Ball Dress.

Mrs. Lowden, who died recently in
College avenue, in that part Of the city
formerly known as Mott Haven, made
a singular request on her death bed.
She was passionately fond Of dancing,
and her death was fastened by an over
indulgence in that amusement. When
she realized that she was about to die,
she requested that her remains might
be laid out on board instead OF in a
coffin, and that she should be dressed
in her new ball dress of fesh-colored
satin, with white slippers. She also
asked that a fashionable hairdresser
should be employed to dress her hair IN
the latest style, and that her head should
be turned to one side after death, to
show the hair to advantage. Her de
sire was complied with, excepting that
casket was substituted for the board.
After the remains were arrayed for the
grave, the corpse was placed in a chair,
the head turned to one side in life
like position and the picture was per
petuated in photograph. The circum,
lance of her making such a request
drew large number of curiosity seekers
to the funeral III addition to the mourn
ers,-N. y San, 3D..
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1875-02-17
Business Notes.

IHE savings banks of Maine show an
increase of deposits during the past
year of 81, 100000.
This years annual dividends on the
stocks and bonds of the various corpora
tions at Hartford amount to $2,519, 69S.
IT issssaid that train will be run
through Hoosac Tunnel next Saturday,
the track having been already laid from
the east end to central shaft.
The warden of the Massachusetts
State Prison has made a contract for
the labor OF thirty convicts at seventy
cents each day, to make cotton ties.
The printing machines of the Coche-
co Print Works, at Dover, n. H., are
to be speeded so as to print eighteen
thousand pieces week, which will be
large increase over the presen5 pro-
duction. --
THERE are now stored in the cellars
Of the White Oak Vineyards of Keokuk,
Iowa, sixty thousand gallons of
native wines, twenty thousand of which
are marketable, being of the vintage of
1871.
GLOUCESTER, Mass, is making active
preparations for the fishery business.
Her fleet Of fishing vessels already num-
bers three or four hundred, and more
are being added this year than almost
ever before.
A NUMBER of Philadelphians have
contracted for the construction at Bath,
Me-, of a wooden ship that will have
from 2, 100 to 1900 tons carrying capac-
ity, costing from $4,000 to 800, 900.
Her name will be the Chief of Phila-
delphia. .
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1875-02-17
The South Wales Miners Lockout.

The great lockout in South Wales
has been announced by telegraph. The
trouble between the miners and then
employers is Of long continuance, and,
whatever way it. may end, will be pro
ductive of great pecuniary loss to en-
ployers and employed, and, doubtless,
much distress to the miners and their
families. The London Post, in com
menting upon the position of the
strikers before the matter had
assumed the present phase, re-
marked as follows !: eve scarcely
know whether to be pleased or disap-
pointed with the course of events in
South Wales. It is probable that the
next few days will be days Of anxiety
and Importance Deserted by their
colleagues of the Rhymney, Dowlais,
and Merthwr districts, the Rhonnda
men, with the comparatively few ire
concilables who still cling to them, will
have to fight alone, and will have to
make up their minds whether it is adj
visable to fight alone. They are very
stubborn, and affect to be very determ-
ined; but it is scarcely likely that they
will be able to resist for long. They
will have to contend against odds. The
masters are far more united than they
are, and as prepared for obstinacy.
The futility of any hopes which the
men may nourish of sowing dissension
in the camp of the employers must
soon be apparent. The men have no
money, OF very little. They can get
but scant assistance from outside THEN
own ranks, and what they can get will
not avail them much. Last, but not
least, they will fight utterly without
sympathy. The action of their neigh
bors show sufficiently clearly the feel
ing of the Immediate locality, and the
outer world will merely see that those
who were eager to grasp at
high wages when prices we're up,
spending those high wages in anything
but commendable manner, and wax
ing fat in their prosperity, are reluc.
tant to submit to reduction when the
market is against them. It is to be
wished that they will see the hopeless:
ness of the struggle. Though a small
minority only of the men who originally
belonged to the union, they are numer
GUS enough to entail loss upon the
masters, risk of ruin upon large body
Of small tradesmen, and great misery
upon the women and children OF theil
families
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1875-02-17
The Work of the STERN.

Mr.. Derwin, a prominent stock raiser
OF Colorado, says the Omaha Herald,
lately met with a very severe accident.
A number of his sheep had strayed from
shelter in driving snow storm, and Mr..
Derwin set out to drive them In. The
storm increased in fury and the sheep
huddled together, and were so blinded
by the falling storm that it was we'll
nigh impossible to move them. He
first tried to hurry them to lis own
rancho, but, finding this impossible,
changed his plan and endeavored to
bring his sheep to another shelter that
was situated on neighboring farm,
few miles distant. He was the more
encouraged to do this because the sheds
to which he now aimed lay in the di-
rection toward which the storm
was drifting. In this direction
the sheep would run, and they pro-
ceeded as fast as the rapidly falling
snow would permit. Mr.. Derwin fol-
lowed On horseback, and though expos
ed to the severe cold, he didnot realize
his danger. Finally, as the darkness
came on and the snow grew deeper, he
first realized the futility of his efforts
to save his sheep, and took the precau-
ton to save himself. He felt that he
was growing numb, and rode with all
the speed he could to the nearest house.
Arriving there he was surprised to
find that both legs were stiff. Cold
water and snow were applied to thaw
them, but the flesh cracked open and
gave signs of falling off as it grew
warm. Surgical aid was called, and it
was decided that the only hope of saw
ing Mr.. Derwin's life would be in the
amputation of both legs below the knee,
and this was done.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1875-02-17

ted oil, and five cents worth of chlor-
ate of potash Whenever any soreness
appears in the throat, put the potash in
half tumbler of water, and with it gar
gle the throat thoroughly, then rub the
neck thoroughly with the camphorated
oil at night before going to bed, and
also place around the throat a small
strip OF wooden flannel. This is a
simple, cheap and sure remedy.
CHowDER. Fresh cod or paddock,
four slices of pork, potatoes, onions,
six or eight hard crackers, milk, flour,
salt, pepper.
Put the pork into a frying pan. Fry
it out; then take the dry pieces and put
them in kettle. Put layer of fish
over hem. Sprinkle it with salt, pep
per, and flour. Then add layer of cut
potatoes and three or four slices of
onions; then another layer of fish, and so
on. Cover with cold water. Put the
kettle on the fire. When the chowder
begins to boil, let it boil twenty min
utes. About five minutes before it is
done dip the hard crackers in cold
water and lay them on the top. Just as
it is taken from the fire add little
milk
BRAN BISCUIT. cups of -four, 1 cup
OF bran, pint of milk and water, a
little more milk than water, the water
not very cold: cup of yeast, 1 small
teaspoonful salt, and ] teaspoonful of
soda. Set this to rise over night. In
the morning heat ironclads very hot,
then butter them we'll. Pour ia the
mixture and bake III quick oven.
When these biscuits are cold they are
very nice cut open and covered with
boiling milk. To be eaten with butter.
ADMINISTRATION CAKE.-5 cups of
flour, 6 eggs, 2 cups of butter, 2 cups
Of sugar, l cup OF molasses, l pound Of
raisins, q pounds of currants, pound
of citron, Il teaspoonfuls of soda, Glove,
nutmeg, | glass of milk. Stone the
raisins and rub them and the currants
in a little of the -four before adding
them to the cake. Cut the citron in
small pieces. Crate the nutmeg. Rub
the butter and sugar to cream. Add
the eggs, milk with soda, molasses,
-four, spices, and lastly the fruit
CHICKEN CRoQUETs. Cold chicken,
chopped parsley, little cream, grated
| cracker, lemon havoring, salt, pepper,
and mace. Add good deal of chopped
parsley. Moisten with cream sufficient
to make a paste. Mould in wine
glass, with grated bread or cracker on
the outside of each croquet. Fry them
quickly in hot lard, brown them hand
somely. little lemon, we'll mixed be-
fore molding. is an Improvement.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1875-02-17
The Farmer Feedeth All,
BY CHARLES G. LELAND.

By CHARLES C. LELAND.
Nv lord rides through his palace gate;
Nv lady sweeps along in state;
The sage thinks long on many thing,
And the maiden muses. on marrying:
The minstrel harpeth merrily;
The sailor ploughs the foaming sea;
The hrlntsman kills the good red deer,
And the soldier wars without cen fear.
But fall to each whate'er befall,
The farmer he must feed them all
smith hammereth cherry red the sword;
Priest preacheth pure the Holy Word;
Dame Alice worketh broiderv we'll;
Clerk Richard tales of love can tell;
The tap-wife sells her foaming beer;
Dan Fisher tisheth IN the mere:
And courtiers rufie, strut and shine,
While pages bring the gascon wine;
But fall to each whate'er befall,
The farmer he must feed them all.
Man builds his castles fair and high,
Wherever river runueth by:
Great cities rise ia every land;
Great churches show the builders hand;
Great arches, monuments aud towers:
Fair palaces and pleasing bowers;
Great work Is done, be it here or there;
AID well man worketh everywhere;
But work or rest, whate'er befal1.
The farmer he must feed them all.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1875-02-17
The Stone for the New Lock OF the
Sault Ste. Marie Canal.

The stone for the building of the lock
of the Sault Ste. Mary Canal, the larg-
est lock in the world, is of Canadian
production, and cut and dressed ON
Canadian soil. The contractors, under
previous orders of the Treasury Depart
ment, have received the stone, the prin-
cipal value of which was in the mechan-
ical labor, free of duty. The contract
is for $500, 900, and the duty would thus
be about $4,000, which is lost. The
government order admitting stone free
of duty was reversed by Secretary Bris-
tow last week, but owing to appeals
from the War Department rehearing
has been ordered by the Secretary.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1875-02-17
WFay Does Honey Sour 2

In your remarks on my article on
outdoor wintering, you express your
opinion that small swarm would &C
cumulate mold where a large swarm
would not, and that large swarm
would get along with unsealed honey
when you would fear for weak one. [
differ with you, and shall try to give
the points, wishing TO be corrected if /
am wrong. ] have told you that the
top protection of my hives in winter is
a straw mat. My combs don't show
any mold whatever. I pay no attention
TO my combs being capped or uncapped,
and [ can show any one that no mold
accumulates with the weakest one of my
swarms Ny honey does not get sour
in the cells nor in open vessels in my
store. But 7 have cellar, in one damp
corner of which stood since last season
a two gallon stone jar filled with honey,
well covered up. Barrels had been
rolled in front of the jar, and when it
turned up again, few weeks ago, the
honey was completely sour. If this jar
of honey had been standing in well
ventilated room, it would certainly not
have soured. Don't You think SO? Can
not we apply the same rule to bee
hives?
The weakest one of my swarms may
eventually freeze out, but, l am sure
40 mold will accumulate, no honey will
sour in the hive. even if every comb was
q,ncapped, and I may add, l will have
no dvsenterv anon, my bees. The ne
cessitY of an upward ventilation is
shown very plain if one lays the cover
OF the hive fiat on the straw mat. In
less than two weeks the mat is SO moldy
when the swarm is strong) that one can
not see the sewing twine. The mat Is
moldy all through, and smells like foul
straw. The combs are moldy, and the
bees are in a fair way of getting dys'
EMERY If it only keeps cold little
longer and they have not plenty lower
ventilation. The air of the hive is I'M
healthy for the bees, and their honey is
sOurlDg for tho same reason my honey
soured III the cellar; only that the sour
ing process was fastened on in the hive
by the heat created by the bees. The
unhealthy ely IN the hive is generally
the cause Of dysentery, in my estima
ton, but not the cold weather nor the
late collected honey. And the straw
mat is good for nothing if you dom
allow an air passage above it.
India-rubber is much better non-con
ductor than WOODEN cloth, and clothing
of the same stuff would keep us ver1
warm, but it would be an unhealthy heat
because India-rubber is no absorber
The straw mat liz on absorber and
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1875-02-17
Household Matters.

How TO CURE SORE THROAT. -"One
who has tried it, communicates the
following seasonable item about curing
sore thrOats to the New York Herald :
Let each one of your readers buy at
any drug store one ounce of camphora-
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1875-02-17
TvE Rev. Mr.. NJ. of Ba

The Rev. Mr.. M, of Bathgate,
came up to a street payer one day, and
addressed him, "Eh, John, what's that
you're at?" "Oh I'm mending the ways
of Bathgate!' "Ah, John, I've long
been a trying to mend the ways O
Bathgate, an they're no weel yet.
"Weel Mr.. NJ, if you had tried my
plan, an come doom to your knees, ye
wad maybe haze come mair speed
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1875-02-17
Do Cats Strangle Babiese

A few days since the wife of Captain
J. Boyd Espy, of Espyville, left her
baby boy lying in his crib while she
busted herself about her house hold du-
ties. Her attention was attracted
shortly after by the child making a
strange noise, and on going to his crib
found their cat with its mouth and
nose pressed into the babes mouth, and
his paws on either side of the child's
head. 1t was with considerable diff
Guilty that the cat was removed. Mr..
Espy, who is known as one of the most
respectable citizens, furnishes us these
facts, and vouches for their correctness.
-Conneaatt0ille (Po.) Courier.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1875-02-17
Making Coffee.

Les Causeries Scientifques states
that M. Doyen has been Investigating
the subject of making coffee, and has
proposed the following method, which
is simple and can be easily tried by any
housekeeper He uses fifteen CANNES
about half an ounce ayoirdupois( for
two cups. The berries are to be pow
dered just before they are used. Three
fourths of the powder is thrown into
cold water, which is made to boil, and
kept boiling for ten minutes. Then the
remaining fourth of the powder is cast
in, the pot is removed from the fire,
covered up, and allowed to remain five
minutes. The liquid is now ready; but
may, if desired, bepassed through linen.
So prepared It's brownish, Lot black, and
slightly turbid from the fatty matter,
Of which coffee contains twelve per
cent. When coffee has been carried on
a journey, as by an army on the march,
NJ. Doyen has the roasted berries
ground in a impalpable powder, which
is then slightly moistened, combined
with twice its weight in sugar, and
pressed in tablets like chocolate. These
are dried and wrapped in tin-foil, and
the coffee ration thus prepared may be
used very speedily for If cast In boiling
water, the coffee is ready. Precious
time and the necessity of having coffee
mills are thus saved.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1875-02-17

poor conductor; with it on top of the
frames and an air passage above, the
air of the hive is continually renewed
without admitting cold draft.-C. f.
Muffin GleoaaiHgs.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1875-02-17

AN American girl won the gold medal
at the recent examination at the college
of Brazil, Rio de Janeiro.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1875-02-17
About Rosewood.

It has puzzled many people to decide
why the dark wood so highly valued for
furniture should be called rosewood.
It's color certainly does not look like
rose, so we must look to some other
reason. Upon asking, we are told that
when the tree is first cut the fresh wood
possesses a very strong, rose-like fra
GRANGE hence the name. There are
half dozen or more kinds Of rosewood
trees. The varieties are found in South
America and the East Indies and neigh
boring islands. Sometimes the trees
grow so large that planks four feet
broad and ten In length can be cut
from one of them. These broad planks
are principally used to make piano
fortes. When growing in the forest,
the rosewood tree is remarkable for it's
beauty, but such is it's value in manu-
factories as an ornamental wood, that
some of the forests where it grew abund-
antly now havessscareely single speci-
men. In Madras, the Government has
prudently had great plantations of the
tree set out, in order to keep up the
SlpDly
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1875-09-07

con Kimhall was we'll no wn through
-, tho State and was one OF the most
ronnlar men 10 Oxford county MS
sudden death and the peculiar circun''
stances attendent upon the same. haVe
cast a gloom upon this community anu
created feelings which time may weako"
but cannot destroy.
Being man of such note' we nave
deemed it proper that the public shou''
know so much as possible concerning Tue
sad affair.
Since writing the above, we nave
received communication. IRON whicn VIZ
make the following extract, concerning
the canses which led Gen. kimoal 10
commit this act. It is from good authority
and sbould set at rest the cause. which
has heretofore been only mater OF
surm;se:
at il evident that dependency, occaslouc" "
financial embarrassment and political disappoln'
mani. led TO the fatal result. Gen. kimbah n"u
been recently appointed Inspector oil customs ~
pastnor,. From an examination Of his papers
since his death, il appears that hi. appointment
had been re soked aud this, together with hnahcia
embarrassments, are the only causes that can 0e
assigned Tor this sad act"