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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1875-09-09
POLICEMAN SUSPECTED OF BRUTALITY.

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Isabella Jones, woman who was arrested
for Gsoraerly conduct Ivy Officer Beard Of tie Fifteenth
P--cint On Thursday night OF last week, committed SIT
eide by hanging herself her cell in the Mercer Street
staonhc,se Extensive bruises. found the head AMI
body led to a suspicion that she hal been treated with
unnecessary harsAness by the officer who arrested her.
Yesterday Coroner Eiekhof held an inquest. officer
Be- ard testified that she had been vicious woman and
that she was arrested for drunkenness and disordery
Conduct She would abuse and fight with all who
came In contact with her. The officer said
he used no more than necessary 20 take her u
the station house. DoorInan Flynn testified that when
TIC woman WA brought 10 the station she vas violent.
and that shortly before / q. IN. lie FOUND hef hanS
ing piece of her dress from the ventiaoF ne wit
uCss Thought bruises On nef forehead We're Tt
ceved from with the door her head beng close
10 the door when discovered Ar.- Hanngar or
No 1866 TnempsOnst- testified tlat she Lad caused the
arrest OF deceased for threatening her life and
taa; OF her daughter sue heard her Ial while on tho
way IL the Station John Moore or No. 81 North
MuOrest testified Lat he two officers In Thompson
AZ drag WOMAN along the street Of the officers
alarmed her TO make her get up the woman got and
westled 9th the Ocers who threw her to the ground
and nct on her breast and struck her In the face The
witness identified officer Beard one OF the officers.
Coroner c.oH then adjourned tue case untu further
notice. in order to summon other witnesses.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1875-09-09
G!aticueru.

CLOTE e. JAMES, STATE0NkRS, 80 FultoI
- ST. Niia,n.PsttieH REQUIRING sAsh1 DUMAS 40
q.e-ied ~ cal aud EXAMINE our stock
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1875-09-09

TIE BROOKLYN CITY TREASURY DEFALcATIoN.
In the suit of ex-City Treasurer SpIague
against he City Brooklyn and others, TO recover Ae
property assigned to tie city security against loss
from Treasury dealca:ions the Corporation Counsel
hes procured written opinion from Supreme Justice
Barnard, with view to entering Judgment szainst
sague whose stay Of proceeding. granted for 30 days,
Ass exnfrsd Justice Barnard dismsxes tho suit. ssns
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1875-09-09

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Ar,a,,r.l III alvancts o. CONTRACTORS aud nta.ers
ON yorAs ~ prugrcss t.ie asses ,incnIs Tor
w.sel IA. 80 hi yet been U1 he, W..
Tor L. .levarJ aic kiliIv. Hoas.-- -,
FOR srliicry rtl-.of i.u iir,gcn.-i'e sgci IS reg
ulutilc grading, pdviug -,~srlng, LAt5hg
and cura aid 64tL-141s 81 lis A.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1875-03-19
Arsenic am Hogs.

The Sacramento, Cal, Union gives
IN account of the feeding of arsenic
to hogs, pretacing the statement with
the partially accepted belief that hogs
are innocuous to the effects of poison
of rattlcsnakes. The case in point
relating to feeding arsenic will, per-
haps, prevent those who believe that
arsenic will not kill hogs from using
it. The statement is that Il ranch
man named Burke, residing on the
Frceport road Il few miles below
Sacramento, who was the owner OF
eight or nine hogs, including two
that would weigh 800 or 400 pounds
each, found that one of the latter was
aillng, and was advised to give it a
dose Of arsenic. He came to the
city, purchased four bits worth Of
the poison, and, returning home, gave
the animal large dose-a dose so
large that the porcine could not keep
it down. Another dose was admin
istcrcd in Il trough full of food, and
after the sick hog had been satisfied
the trough was placed in the next
pen where the other animals were.
Our contemporary remarks that,
singular rs it may appear to some,
the effect of the arsenic was to kill
every hog the man had, but the sick
one died last, which may show, per
haps. that the sick hog was too near
its end to be affected with the arsenic
and so died from disease in spite of
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1875-03-19
How to Eattcn Cattle.

\ correspondent Of the Drocers'
./ournoi furnishes a few useful hints
on the above subject. He only con-
firms the experience of others in re-
gard to the care of stock, especially
during the first year No amount of
after care can make up for deficiency
here; it would be just as easy to
build a substantial house on a poor
foundation. Men who have devoted
L lifetime to buying and handling
stock understand this matter, and
you can't deceive them. Under their
hand the care that has been given an
animal is revealed, and no extra stuff
fling or bloating can hide previous ne
glect or abuse.
The price of cattle tattened for
market depends upon the symmetry
OF the animals, as well rs the ''fat''
style, as shippers termit. Good blood
is important, but not absolu!elyncces-
sary to make what is termed a good
seller. In order to tatten Il steer to
bring the highest market price, he
must be kept in growing condition
from Il calf, and Ill no case allowed
to go hungry. 1t is the starving the
first and second winter that willis and
shrivcls up a steer, that causes him to
be sold at reduced price. No
amount of feeding will make him
first-class seller, no difference sMhat
his color or blood. An animal well
fed, of any blood, from calf until
the spring he is three years old, will
be smooth, with bones well covered,
and will sell at profit; while half
starved animal becomes crooked in
the back, bones projecting and shriy-
cled up, takes the best part of the
summer to get in condition to live,
and will not be in condition for mar
ket until he is four years old, and
then will bring price which is
satisfactory to the prod Accr and to
every one that handles him. This is
no theory, but fact deduced from
close observation, rs / have tested the
pan for several years. 1t will and
does pay to feed corn to calves and
yearlings. They start out on grass
in the spring strong and vigorous
You are then able to market your cat
tie IN the spring, they are three years
old, weighing l,4oo pounds, which is
heavy enough to bring the first price.
The best steer | sold in 1872 was a
common native. He had all he could
cat from y calf, and was never hun
Cry. He was a handsome animal,
and was worth more per pound than
any shipped in 1872. He weighed
in Chicago 1850 pounds, aged three
years. l now have Il steer calf, IL
months old, from very ordinary
COW. The calf now weighs go
pounds; l think it will weigh at three
years old, 1900 pounds.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1875-03-19
Butter Packages.

The modes of pr cking butter at
Herkimer, n. Y, and at St. Adams,
VT, are very similar At both places
the packing and shipping are done
mostly in what are called Welsh
tubs. These are constructed ofspruce
with top wider than bottom, and
large enough to hold fifty or sixty
pounds. Acover is made Of half-inch
boards, with hoop around it that
projects and clasps the top of the tub,
and resembles closely the lid of a
cheese box. When shipped a circu-
lar piece of muslin is laid over the
top of the butter, a little salt spread
over the muslin, and the cover put on
and strapped down with three pieces
of tin or leather. The advantage of
these tubs consists in their conven-
lent size and cheapness. Spruce gives
less taste to butter than most other
kinds of timber, and hence butter is
often packed in them without proper
preparation. A taste is soon impart-
ed to the butter next to the wood,
and the insufficient protection from
the air on Top renders them unsuita-
bic for long keeping or long trans
portalion. The tirkins and halftir-
kins SO much in vogue in other mar
kcts are little used in either of the
places named, nor are the machinery
md apparatus for packing butter in
the West employed .-Ne'e York
Tribune
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1875-03-19
Plant Cora.

As the season is at hand when our
rural friends must be not only consid-
cring what crops they wish to put in
for the coming season, but getting
ready to plant them, it will be in
place to say word or two concern
ing the great Western staple, corn.
Whatever views we may entertain OH
the subject Of a diversity Of crops,
and however profitable the planting
of flax, tobacco, and other unaccus-
toned crops may prove to be, it is
nevertheless certain than corn must
continue to be the main reliance of
the farmers Of Illinois, Missouri and
Kansas, if not of the States lying
north and south of that belt. Espec-
tally will this prove true during the
coming crop season. For the last
two years past the corn crop has
been quite small, not only in the
aforementioned States, but general
ly throughout the country. The yield
Of 1873 WAS hardly more than two
thirds, and that of 1874 hardly crop.
As ! consequence, corn and pork
have ruled high, and are now very
scarce. The granarics Of the country
are about emptied, and there will be
no old crop on hand to compete with
the crop that is to be gathered III
1875. No matter how favorable 4
season we may have, and no matter
with how large crop the operations
Of the year may close, the supply
Of corn is not at all likely to exceed
the demond, and the f,rmer may be
sure Of being well rewarded for his
labor, whether he sells his crop in
the sack OF in the hog.-S. Lonis
Giobe.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1875-03-19
Sow Clover Sc d Early

Do not delay securing supply of
clover seed, and then SOW it immedi-
ately. 1t is useless now to wait for
Il decline in the price. 1t You would
have the plants get good start, the
seed must be sown early. Now, at
any time when there is a light fall Of
snow, it is the best time to SOW it.
1t sometimes happens, but not often,
that after the seed is terminated, a
heaving frost, the sun and drying
winds will kill the tender plants. Ii
sown early, the chances are that the
plants will grow readily, as the spring
rains will soften the ground, SO tina,
the clover roots can penetrate it deep
enough to get it well established be.
fore the hot, dry season sets in.
The following preparation of the
seed previous to sowing is highly
recommended to us by one of the
best farmers in the State, and is
worth trying: Put the seed into a
tub and wet the whole thoroughly
without floating it, and mix it will
twenty-five pounds of dry land plas
ter (gypsum, or sufficient to dry i,
properly, and SOW the usual quantity
Of seed per acre. The importance o.
securing a good start Of clover Cal
hardly be over estimated. Therefore
SOW the seed early-thc earlier the
bctter.-Rurai World.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1875-03-19
Value Of Grass.

What can be done with grass may
be illustrated by a few figures com.
plring the products of England and
France. In France SO per cent OF
the cultivated land is under cereals;
in England but 25 per cent. France
produces five and half bushels per
head for her 100000 people; Eng
land produces five and one-ninth
bushels for each Of her 22,OOO,O0O.
This immense disparity in the pro
,lucc of each acre is due to the manure
furnished by the English grass lands
for the cereal crop. In England there
are three acres of grass to furnish
manure for every one acre of grain;
in France less than one acre Of grass
to make manure for one acre OF grain.
The whole grass question, and a
great many other questions, are sum-
med up in the pithy aphorism put in
the mouth Of an old farmer:-"No
grass, no cattle; no cattle, no manure
no manure, no crops; no crops, no
farmers; no farmers, no nothing"
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1875-03-19
Farmers wives.

A very sensible remark it was, that
was male lately by an old man, that
many farmers wife is literally
worked to death in an inadvertant
manner from want of reflection or
consideration on the part of her hus-
band. None can understand better
than he, in blowing or sowing, or
harvest time, that if a horse gets sick
or runs away, or is stolen, another
must be procured that very day, or
the work will inevitably go behind.
He does not carry the same practical
sense into the kitchen, when the
hired help leaves without warning, or
becomes disabled, although he knows
as well rs any man can know that
''thc hands" will expect their meals
with the same regularity, with the
same promptness, and with the same
proper mode of preparation; but, in
stead Of procuring other 'help" on
the instant, he allows himself to be
persuaded, if the "help" is sick, she
will get well in day or two, or in a
week at farthest, and that it is hardly
worth while to get another for so
a time.
Meanwhile the wife is expected not
only to attend to her ordinary duties
as usual, but somehow or other to
spare the time to do all that the cook
or washwoman was accustomed to do
that is, to do the full work of two
persons, each of whom had already
quite as much labor to perform as
she could possibly attend to. The
wife attempts it. BY herculean eff
forts all goes on well. The farmer
perceivcs no jar, no hitch in the
working of the machinery, and be-
cause no complaint is uttered, thinks
that everything is going on without
an effort. Meanwhile, time passes,
and (ntinitc shame Oh some Of them)
they begin to calculate how much
has been saved from servants wages,
and how much less food has been
eaten, and, because no complains is
made, the resolution quietly forms in
the mind to do nothing until she
does complain; but, before that takes
place, she falls victim to her over
exertions, in having laid the tounda-
tons for weeks and months of illness,
if not of premature decline and
death. Sincerely it is believed that
these statements ought to be written
in large letters above the mantles of
half the farmers IN the country, and,
if over the other half, also, it would
not be labor lost in favor of many a
heroic and accomplishing but out
ragged farmers wife and daughter
Des Holmes Register.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1875-03-19
A HindOO Clock.

A strange clock is said to have once
belonged to Hindoo Prince. In
front of the clocks disk was gong
swung upon poles, and near it was a
pile of artificial human limbs. The
pile was made of the same number
of parts necessary to constitute
twelve perfect bodies; but all lay
heaDed together in apparent confu-
sion. When the hands of the clock
indicated the hour of one, out from
the pile crawled just the number of
parts needed to form the frame of one
man, part coming to part with Il quick
click, and when completed the fig
ure sprang up, seized mallet, and
walked up to the gong, struck one
blow. This done, he returned to the
pile and fell to pieces again. When
two o'clock came, two men arose and
did likewise; and at the hour of noon
and midnight the entire heap sprang
up, and, marching to the gong, struck
one after the other, his blow, making
I twelve in all; then returning, fell to
pieces rs before.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1875-03-19

We frequently hear of contlagra-
tons caused by the spontaneous com.
bustlon of hay. The prevention in
such cases is simple and cheap
Combustion in hay can arise from
only one cause.-the dampness there
of. This may arise from the condi-
ton of the hay when put into the
barn or warehouse insuificiently cured
or BY being wet by exposure to rain.
The precaution is Il liberal quantity
Of coarse salt, sprinkled through the
NOW, which will invariably prevent
the heating which causes combustion.
The same method will save hay put
on board = ship, partially wet. This
experiment was tried on board the
ship Lancashire III ls47 with perfect
success Traveller.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1875-03-19

a correspondent of the London
Fanciers' Gazette writes that 81 drop
of linseed oil put on the ends Of
perches in the cages of Canaries,
where the red mites sometimes breed
by thousands, will instantly kill them
and, applied occasionally, will keep
others away. They can be easily
kept out of the nests by dredging the
box or basket With quicklimc inside,
and then making a nice nest with
clean moss" Another correspondent
"Fringilla," writing upon the same
subject, says: 81 paint my cages
with caibolic acid, pure or mixed
with water; to dip the edge in q So
luton is simpler. Don't let the birds
in till the cage is dry. Six months
have elapsed since l doctored my
cages, and l have not seen mite
since. My birds are allowed to battle
frequently.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1875-03-19
GRANGE DIRECTORY.

WINTHROP GRANGE, No. 611.-Meets at Win
throp on Friday on or before the full moon of
each month.
s. G. PIERCE. Master. 8. w. RICH. Sec.
WEST BUFFALO GRANGE. No. 12l6.-Meets
Tuesday, on or before full moon.
j. ID. RUSSELL Master.
MIDDLEFIELD GRANGE. No. 52s, Meets on
Wednesday, on or before full moon.
B DU BOiS Master. L. j. WIGG. Sec.
SUPERIOR GRANGE. No 352.-Meets Saturday
on or before full moon. at No. School House
Hazleton twp I. MESSENGER,
+, b. Fill MORE. Secretary. Master.
BYRON GRANGE No. 267. Meets ut Justus Dur
KEGS, on Tuesday evening, on or before new
moon EDWARD GLEASON, Master.
A. KNOWLES Sec.
PERRY GANGE. No 3ls.-Meets at the Center
School House. in Perry Township, OF Tuesday
evening" on or before full moon.
L. LITTLE Sec.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1875-03-19
The True Economy.

The question is now how cheaply
we can manage to keep soul and body
together, but how can we bring both
body and soul to the highest condi-
ton OF vitality and power? TO live
is something more than to exist.
How can we live most and best?
How can we feed intellect and affcc-
ton, conscience, sympathy, magma
ton, reverence, as well as the physi-
cal system? All pinching and re-
stricting OF diet is injurious in the
long run. The bean-man, the bean
bread-inan, the ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS,
the man who goes housing about the
world intent on cheapness never
makes the scales Of power kick the
beam. He wastes more than he
saves. lie checks an income instead
OF stopping an outgo. The men who
make che most ado over The petty
prudencies Of life and perpetually OBJ
trude their parsilnonious practice on
public notice never amount to any
thing, or do anything Of acco Mt
Man wants all he can use, asslmilate,
organize, reproduce. The things
that strengthen and bcautify his es
sential manhood, that enrich his SEN
timents and refine his sensibilities,
that ennoble his intellect and enlarge
the scope of his being and the horri-
ION of his possibilities, belong to him
by right, as the crown and purple be-
long to royalty.
Every man ought to aspire and la
Dor to live generously, and have Il
comfortable and tasteful home, and
surround himsclt'and his family with
everything that tends to increase
health and happiness an create an
atmosphere of intelligence and re-
tincment. Beauty, elegance, art, So
ciety, music are our birihright. 1t is
not waste to spend what one has for
things tnat foster noble pride,
heightcn seli-respect, beautify the
body and cultivate the mind. 1t is
true economy that spends something
for books and pictures, tor OCCASION
al glimpses of nature and the enter
tainmcnt OF the stage. The charities
and humanitics are not luxuries that
the poorest man on earth should de-
ny himself Of them. The loving,
trusttul, adjoining sympathy that for
gets his own wants and meager re-
sources and breaks the costliest thing
it has on the head of the one beloved
is not Il recl,lessncss to be censurcd,
but devotion to be commended for
its divine nobility. Saving may be
ant-like and bcaver-like, but sacrifice
is God-like.-Xerod Of Uealth.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1875-03-19

Cracking, halt-hung farm gates are
nuisances and amnoyances. Any man
with ordinary intelligence can make
Il good gate of rough boards, and
hang it SO that it will open and shut
conveniently. Bars arc old-fashioncd
nuisanccs, difficult to construct, diff
cult to open and more difficult 10
shut. A good farmer nowadays dis
cards them.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1875-03-19
Aarifnltnral Column.

The reading columns on this page will be devot rot
HOUSEHOLD. The farmer readers Of the BULLETIN
are reuuested to write for Il,
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1875-03-19

Cuba's sugar crop is u weighty mat
teri 6O0,0O0,OOO pounds. Enough
to sweeten about q fourth part Of
elis very sour world.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1875-03-19
Geo. p. Roweu &Co's Ads

rE n o-The choicest In the world. Jim
] 6ASporters prices-Largest company
In America-stsple article-plcascs everybody
Trade continually increasing = Agents wanted
send for circular to ROBERT WELLS, 40 Vesey st
Il. Y. = O. BOX 1887
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1875-03-19

@DAA month to agents everywhere. ADDRESS
%~"V EXCELSIOR NJ FIG Co. Buchanan Mich
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1875-09-17

4 LECTURER IN LIMBo.-A person
dressed after the Turkish fashion, calling
himself Rev. A. L. Experidon, and calling
himself Bulgarian priest, stuck up a
light against well corner Of Augusta and
Beverley streets Saturday evening and
prepared for lecture on the Eastern
Countries, attracting such crowd as to
block the sidewalks completely. Chief of
Police Parent ordered him to move On,
but only getting a refusal and saucy ans
wer started with him for the Jail. On his
way down the Bulgarian divine made such
a startling theological comparison of Capt.
Parent with other men, so much to the
depreciation of that officer that that func-
tionary, in the language of bystander,
sstook him side the head.'' The lecturer
was committed by Justice Waters, but
next morning refused to leave Jail or pay
fine, saying that the Turkish Minister at
Washington would see that he got repara-
ton, SO there seems now nothing ahead
of us but war with Russia and the con-
sequent slaughter of the West Augusta
Guard, accompanied by the Stonewall
Brigade Band.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1875-09-17

REUNION OF THE STONEWALL BRI-
GADE AT RICHMoND.-A proposition,
which seems to take like wildire, has been
made that the survivors of the old Stone
wall brigade shall have reunion at the
State fair, at Richmond, at the Inaugural
ton Of the statue of the great commander,
in November. The brigade was composed
of the End regiment, recruited chiefly in
Jefferson and the lower Valley counties;
the 4th. recruited in Pulaski and other
Southwestern counties; the 9Th, with two
companies from Winchester and the other
eight from Augusta; the 9th, from Rock
bridge, Allegheny and adjoining counties,
and the 33rd. from Rockingham, Shenan-
doah, Page and adjoining counties, making
altogether as superb a lot Of soldiers as
went from any State in the Confederacy.
Among the survivors will be the Old Stone
wall Brigade Band, of Staunton. Gen.
VIM. Terry, the last commander of the
old brigade. approves the reunion, and has
written letter, in which he says:
AS this movement must be set on foot,
I suggest that at the County Courts in
September and early in October in each
county where companies were organized,
meetings be held for the purpose of taking
this matter into consideration. and that
the senior officers Of companies and regi-
ments take an active part in seeing that
due notice be given of these meetings; and
that these meetings appoint such commit
tees as they may deem necessary to secure
concert of action between the various
companies and regiments of the brigade,
in. aid of the proposed reunion.