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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1876-03-09
Hints About Meat.

THE leg of mutton is the most profitable
joint, containing most solid meat. The
neck is an extravagant joint, half the
weight consisting of bone and fat. The
shoulder has also much waste in bone
The breast does we'll for kitchen dinner,
nicely stuffed; it is much cheaper than
the other joints. Sirloins and ribs of
meat are very extravagant joints, from the
weight Of bone. The roasting side of the
round part of the bullock, and the part
called the "top-side," are the most profit
able family eating. The mouse bullock
is used for stewing; shin is used for soup
stewing. The quantity of butchers meat
consumed in family is, on an average,
three-quarters Of pound day for each
person; but when the family consists of
women and children, half a pound per
day is about the quantity consumed one
with another, Independent of hams, bacon,
poultry, fish and game. Meat should be
wiped with a dry, clean cloth as soon as
it comes from the butchers; f1yblows, if
found in it, cut out, and in Joins the long
pipe that runs by the bone should be
taken out, as it soon taints; the kernels,
also, should be removed from beef Never
receive bruised joints. Meat will keep
good for long time in cold weather, and,
If frozen through, may be kept for months
Frozen meat must be thawed before it is
cooked by plunging it into cold water, or
placing it before the fire before setting it
down to roast. II never will be dressed
through if this precaution is not taken
not even when twice cooked. Pepper is
a preventive Of decay, in a degree; it is
well, therefore, to pepper hung joints
Powdered charcoal is still more remark
able in its effect. 1t will not only keep
the meat over which it is sprinkled good,
but will remove the faint from already
decayed flesh. A piece of charcoal boiled
in the water with "high" meat or fowls,
will render it or them quite sweet. A
piece of charcoal or powdered charcoal
should be kept i'll every larder. Hams,
after being smoked, may be kept for any
length Of time packed in powdered char
coal.-Ihe HouSekeeper.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1876-03-09

IT is a question with many farmers
whether it is better to husk corn in the
field or III the barn, and many expert
ments have been made the past season to
test this matter. 1t does not appear that
these experiments have shown any deci-
sive result either way. One farmer who
has had his corn drawn to the barn and
husked there, the stalks being put away
In the NOW at the same time, has con-
Cluded that with three men in the barn, he
can husk as fast as the corn can be drawn
with one team. The gain in time by rea-
son of the greater comfort Of doing the
work under cover, he finds is equal to
One-third. We have ourselves tried sew
eral plans az promising improvements
upon the old one of husking in the field
The corn when cut has been tied up in
small sheaves that could BE- easily handled
with hay fork and pitched rapidly upon
a wagon. Before being bound, the
sheaves lay and wilted half day They
were then bound and shocked up much
in the same way as small grain, with the
butts wide apart to admit air. In this con
dition the stalks and corn cured very rap
idly The crop was then put away in the
barn in the same manner as wheat or oats
1t was husked at leisure, during the win
ter, the job not being finished until Jan
uary. All the soft corn was moldy. and
in some places one or two rats had got
into the NOW and had spoiled good
many bushels of corn. We never cared tc
repeat that experiment. Afterward the
corn was cut, bound and shocked in the
manner mentioned, and drawn to shed
near the corn crib. Here long bench OF
planks was fixed upon which the corr
was husked as it was drawn. Each huskel
threw the bundle of stalks out OF the sheo
to the rear through sliding windows
where they were stacked up. Eacl
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1876-03-09
A Village Destroyed by a Prairie
Fire.

PARTICULARS of a terrible prairie fire
given few days ago. About the same
time, according to other and later adj
vices, the town of Cottonwood Falls, fur
Their east, was scourged with flame. A
fierce gale brought in devastating prai-
RE fire from the south. Everything in
its track, including numerous ranch
buildings, haystacks, and even horses and
cattle, was burned up, and the inhabit-
ants themselves bareK escaped with their
lives. The flames fairly bounded into
the south part of the town, and so sudden
ly, too, that the people were appalled, at
the sight, and in an incredibly short time
the fire was roaring and cracking among
the small dwellings, stables and fences
Wagons were employed to haul furni-
ture and valuables from the endangered
buildings, and the women and children,
wild with fright, were huddled together
in the Court House, many Of them pray
ing so loudly as to be distinctly heard
in the streets. When the southern half
of the town had been laid waste, the
gale abated suddenly, and, at the same
time, shifted around and turned the blaze
back over it's track of devastation. This,
together with the superhuman efforts of
the men, averted any greater calamity
than had already befallen the place
While the fire was at its height, accord
ing to the statement of an eyewitness
the 1eat was so intense along the front
of the blaze that no one could walk with
in 200 feet of it, and the whole space
above was filled with whirling smoke,
tongues Of fame, and burning shingles
and other finder fragments caught up by
the gale A Mr.. Williams, Coroner OF
the county, in racing with the flames,
had the hair burned off his head, and he
escaped from this taste of Tophet with a
charred scalp. The fire caught up with a
teamster named John O'Byrne, and licked
the OvercOat off his back, and he only
saved himself by rolling over and over on
the ground. A colored man at work in a
quarry south CT the town lost his hair,
and saved himself by crawling under a
ledge of rocks. The cause of all this
was spark from farmhouse chimney
three miles south of the town. enUe1
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1876-03-09
How to Break a BaIky Horse.

BALKY horses may be divided into three
classes:
l. Such as do not like to 90 from pure
laziness, or stop when tired and refuse TO
go any further This is a balky horse in
very mild form, and can generally be
cured by any good horseman.
2. Embrace such horses as are really
stubborn and refuse to go from head
strong disposition to have their own way
This class are generally the most trouble
some, but, IN fact, are the easiest to
break, and when once broken seldom
make any more trouble
3. Are timid horses combined with a
stubborn disposition, and often refuse to
90 from fear as we'll as stubbornness.
This is the worst form of the balky horse,
and the hardest to manage, but can be
broken so as to work good, but can never
be considered really safe.
One important point should always be
remembered in breaking horses; always
speak kind and pleasant, though you may
use commanding tone and even harsh
Now, suppose we are to commence to
break balky horse of class second, and
that he is sufficiently gentle to know what
is wanted of him. Put on your harness
and hitch him to anything you desire,
either single or double, as you feel dis
posed, and give HIM the commanding
word to go ahead. If he goes you have
nothing to do or say but let him go on
and do your work but if he refuses to go
take him out Immediately, take all the
small rope the size of a pillow line and tie
one end to the bit on the right hand side
and pull it through the ring of the left
under the chop, pull his head around to
his left side and slip the rope under his
tail like a crupper, and make it fast,
keeping his head tolerably close to his
side. Now all is ready, so let him go,
and take good long whip and make him
90, talking kindly to him all the time.
He will travel like dog after his tail, for
while he will fall down, when you will
Immediately let loose the rope and let
him get up; now talk kindly to him and
caresS him.
Your work is now half done, for YOU
| have only to tie the rope to the other side
OF the bit and pull his head around the
other way and make it fast like crup-
per the same as before, and start him off
again and let him go till he falls down a
second time; let him get up Immediately,
and hitch him up, and you will probably
never have any more trouble with him.
have tried the above many times, and
have never known it to fail.-L. Jag
! LACY, in Our Home Journal.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1876-03-09

THE BEST BORDER BOOK YET OUT.


The publishing house of J. c. McCurdy &
Co., have lately brought out Our Western
Border, One Hundred Years Ago." by Nc
Knight, author of sold Fort Duquesne." 1t
is large, elegant octave, of nearly 800
pages, filled with the stirring deeds and
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borderers-such dauntless worthless as Boone,
Kenton, Brady, Logan, Harrod,' McCulloch,
Mcclellan, the Poes, the Zanes, and the Wet
zels. 1t contains strange and thrilling mar
ratiyes of daring deeds, desperate conflicts,
exciting adventures, toGching captivities
and is the best, fullest, most complete, and
most reliable portrayal of border life, strug-
gle and adventure ever yet published.
Although sold for So, it is equal in extent
of contents to the ordinary S. book, and is
meeting with remarkable popular favor. 1t
is most warmly Endorsed by leading Divines
and Historians, and is the most complete
work of the kind we know of. Sold only by
agents: Address, J: G. McCurdy d Co.,
Publishers, Philadelphia, Pa, Cincinnati,
Ohio, Chicago, ILL.,, or St. Louis, Mo.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1876-03-09
A Few Words to Feeble and Delicate
WOn,en.
By r. V. PIERCE. NJ. D., of the Worlds Dispen-
Common Sense Medical Adviser - ETC. ETC.

By r. Y. PIERCE. NJ. D., of the Worlds Dispen-
sary, Buffalo. n. Y. Author of The Peoples
Common Sense Medical Adviser" etc, ETC.
Knowing that you are subject to great
amount of suffering, that delicacy on your
part has strong tendency to prolong it, and
the longer it is neglected the more you have
to endure and the more difficult of cure your
case becomes, l, as physician, who am
daily consulted by scores of your sex, desire
to say to you, that am constantly meeting
with those who have been treated for their
ailments for months without being benefited
in the least, until they have become perfect
iy discouraged and have almost made up
their mind never to take another dose of
medicine, or be tortured by any further
treatment. They had rather die and have
as they have. They say they are worn out
by suffering, and are only made worse by
treatment. Of anything more discouraging,
We certainly cannot conceive, and were there
no more successful mode of treating such
difficulties than that, the principles of which
teach the reducing and depicting of the vital
forces of the system, when the indications
dictate treatment directly the reverse of
the one adopted for them, their case would
be deplOrable indeed But, lady sufferers,
there is better and far more successful
plan of treatment for you; one more in har-
mony with the laws and requirements of
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such as common-sense should dictate to
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its use be kept up for reasonable length of
time, the special cause of these pains is per-
manently removed. Further light on these
subjects may be obtained from 1.-THE PeO-
pies Common Sense Medical Adviser" in
which have devoted large space to the
consideration Of all forms of disease pecul-
lar to your sex. This work will be sent
(post-paid) to any address on receipt of
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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1876-03-09

-Paschal Lloyd, of Raleigh, n. c.,
who died the other day, aged 70 years,
was buried, according to his dying re-
quest, with his everyday shoes and hat
on, his cane by his side, and with the
coffin lid unscreWed.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1876-03-09
Mr. Moody saws that a mi

Mr.. Moody says that a minister who
breaches a long sermon is like a fisher
man who leaves his big net in the water
until all the fish get out; and that prayer
meetings are killed by stiffness, stereo-
typed phrases ard long prayer.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1876-03-09
What Disease Have IL

How often do We hear this question asked
by persons suffering from dizziness and pain
in the side, back Or shoulder, a heavy load
on the stomach after eating, a faint, all-gone
sensation ct the pit of the stomach that food
does not satisfy, a cold, clammy feeling in
the hands and feet, with hot flashes at times,
a bad taste in the mouth, with foul breath,
attended with great depression of the nerv-
Gus system and evil forcbodings, and with a
tired weakness that sleep don'trelieve, urine
scanty at timcs, with a sediment after stand
ing. One physician calls the disease liver
complaint, another kidney disease, another
dyspepsia, and still another impurlty of the
blood. But none succeed in effecting a cure.
The fact is that these symptoms indicate
that all of these diseases are present to-
gether, and to remove these symptoms we
must take a remedy that will act upon all of
these organs at once. The best article that
we know of is made by the Shakers, and is
called SHAKER EXTRACT OF RooTs, OR CURA-
TIVE SYRUP mot a patent medicine). Sold
by Druggists ard A. j. White, New York.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1876-03-09

EXCELLENT ADvICE.-The School Journal
says: For rapid, thorough instruction we
commend our young friends to the School
of Individual Instruction, Evanston, Ill.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1876-03-09

ECoNoMY.--You will save money by using
Proctor d Candles Original IMottled German
Soap it VIII not waste DOR become soft
like ordinary yellow soap when used in warm
water, nor is it cheapened with articles inju-
rious to clothes. Remember, you obtain full
0ne-pou'td bar if you purchase their brand.
To protect their brand from imitators
Proctor 4 Gamble patented it, and the patent
was sustained in the United States Courts.
E1dnejno "te stamp on the bars wlaeFs you
bug. Take t5sir az enly.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1876-03-09

PRUssING's celebrated White Wine Vinegar
has b cen before the public twenty years
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1876-03-09

AMONG the passengers on the steamer
Wieland on its recent arrival at New York
from Europe, were Mrs. Thomassen, the
wife of the author of the Bremenhaven
dynamite disaster, and her four children.
She expresses her unwillingness to talk
about the cause of her unpleasant promi
ncnce particularly in the presence of her
children, who as yet are ignorant of the
whole affair. She proposes to seek re-
tirement in her own home in this country.
The time to conquer any disease is when
the first symptoms are noticed. This is par
ticularly true of Catarrh and diseases of the
mucous membrane, yet these are most fire.
quently neglected till the system is COM
pletely undermined. Whenever these symp-
toms appear, Forest Tar and Forest Tar in
Solution with the Inhaler), should be imme-
diately and persistentIy used. Mrs. Perry,
of Winchester, Mass, writes of it, What
l have taken has done me great deal of
good. Have not been so free from Catarrh
for three years" Ask your druggist for
Forest Tar, prepared by the Forest Tar Co.,
Portland, Me.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1876-03-09

< 900 AGENTS WANTED to sell the Oriental
o3ooo Stationery and Jewelry Package, the largest
most complete and best selling Package in the World
Samples with complete SETS of GOLD plated sleeve
buttons, shirt studs and collar button BY mail 2 cts.
Catalogues Of Chromos and Novelties sent free ORR
ENTAIL NOVELTY CO., Ill Chambers St., N. Y.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1876-03-09

4 ousekeepers rejoice. AGENTS make money Will
III our 5NEw articles. CAPEwELL & Co., Cheshire, CT
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1876-03-09

d.1 q a Uarr at Home. Agents wanted QUIT and
oil Eterm: fl ee. Address TRUE & CO. Augusta, Me-
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1876-03-09

GCAA AYEAR to Agents, at home. Male Fe-
DCUU male. Address GREAT WESTERN AGRICUL-
TURAL Tool Co., $50 Dearborn street. Chicago, III.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1876-10-04
KILLED FOR mrs MONEY.
| A Mysterious Murder In an Old md Lonely
| House-No one suspected.

WORCESTER, oct. IA mysterious muir
der was committed last evening IN Shrewsbury,
about 1--WE miles east Of this city. Charles and
John Bul ard lived alone in the remnant OF an
old dwelling on the stage road to Marlboro.
which was built about 1720 by the grandfather
Of Artenus ward. II was formerly public
house, and known as Doyd's tavern, was after
ward the property Of Jason Billiard, and Is now
known as the Buird place. The main portion
Of the house was pulled down some years ago.
and Charles and John, sons OF Jason. lived 10
the l.. They we're unmarried.
About half past seven last evening Charles
went to the store OF c. .. Green, at South
Shrewsbury, about 1JO rods from his house. lie
WAS In the store about an hour, and then went
home. flo returned to tho store a few minutes
after. and reported that he had found his
brother John lying murdered the floor.
Green. the storekeeper, at once accompanied
Charles back to the house, and notice was sent
10 the seiectmen Of the town.
The house In which the murder happened has
but one ROOM about 10 10y 10. which Is entered
by door at the south ana door at the west.
In the east wall are two windows.
The room was scan'ily furnished, table
OF ndins between the windows. stove opposite
and to the north Of the door on the west side,
and two chairs being against the north wall.
Charles said that when he left nome his brother
wa sitting near the stove. aud on tue table was
a lantern kept burning. When he returned his
brothers body was ed out dead upon the
floor, he he d lying toward the stove, aud the
7
Sarge pool Of blood, freshly spilled. aud on the
back Of the head was a large wound. aud the
head WAS nearly severed from the body. Hang
ing over on the right shoulder on the table was
found small Ratchet. Identified as one wnich
/ belonged to the house, and the Ratchet was
covered with blood and pieces Of flesh On the
taole was also found the wallet OF the murdered
man, Ouened and empty. BY the side Of tue
wallet were wO keys.
John is known 10 have had about 800 on his
person, he nsyiug been paid some money Ia the
morning by a butcher for calves He also sold q
COW Last week for $50. John was about forty
i've years OF age.
The superstition Is that the murderer entered
the house 10y the west door, and struck Mr.. Bal
lard down where he Law bv the blow on the back
OF the head. aud then, by repeated blows. sew
cred the head. he axe was laid carelessly on
the table. md the wallet, from which the money
was taken, ourc marks OF bloody fingers. 1t
would seem that the murder was committed by
some one acquainted with the house, the man.
and the fac OF his having money, or was done
by tramp who was proving around aud saw
the murder man counting his mopev.
y brother named GEORGE lived auout quarter
OF a mile aw y. IA the three brothers have
never agreed well. George and Charles were at
hrst suspected; but people soon became con-
WINGED OF IT innocence. So far guilt has been
IN M
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1876-10-04
DIED.

Il. SRAiG ~ 800 Madison T.. on Tur-day, oct .. Tr
sS4't 5 S5s Sss 90 orn,u.
Oct. ). Are Douglas, Jr.
Tue frieno. VI tse family ere respectfully invited 20
st9nd ne lanera from ne late reaiielce AZ az.
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the American Meter CO.. IN the ttd year oi his ase.
invited aitcna The funeral from h late re.idsns
pop West *is st on ihursua,, 5n inst n O'Clock
HAaiL On TSe.dsy oei T. sef p ionr nsd pain
ful illness. hooert haiili. sandy Hlok Pilot, aged "a
Relatives and friends and New York SANDY Hook pr
lots, are respcctu ~ invited 10 attend his funeral
jsek;onstr " iliiamsSarss " Wv '''' ''''D'"''' 'O'
ana painful illness. Which she bore with perfect resg-
nation Mary vile Of John Kelly In c 351h year Of
,n TGe reatyes and friends Of III; family
4ence i,h g., between Central anu West avenues On
la LEss.-On Monday. Oct = 1874 Anna Maria
L,Sss. e asst =, daush,er Of Thomas ana M.rsare,
Hse rcs fsH s 1sar fcn. o1! a"a 20 ds'
fuzzy invited TO atteni her funeral hei late rect
eencc ~ Ren@ick o., Oh 1hur.du. oct 3, al 1
MANIiSGi ON Mondsy oct :. Mr.. Mary Msnning.
Friends ~ her orothers. Ilon,. md Patnck linch.
are requested to seni he, funeral from ~ ION av
PosT.-oela g William II. Post. aseo 81 years, 10
nd he funeral from the resdence u Mr. Egbert Poet.
and Al the bapNst church at L, NJ On Thursday, 9th
SMITH the residence u his son. Or Henry ".
Smut. suu,ten Duyvil, Tuesday, oct 3, john T. 5.
5 IN aseI y years
NiLCH In9 Tag.d,y nct %ay Am we,h wife
on thursday. oct S, - oclocS : ii 81 ibi java II.
respectfully invited 10 atcnd Without further
PrrN.M IoioE, No. 1913, r AND A M.-Tne officers
aud membc.e are hereby sunnoued 10 attend special
10 A. NJ for the purpose aifcndiug The funeral u
our late brother William II l{y,,gE =, w,,vp. !,
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