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Vicksburg weekly herald., 1877-07-20

Purifies the Blood, Rene
Yates and IHvigOFates
the Whole System.
TTs NRDI0AL PROPKRTIEs ARE
.AIterGtiUe, TOhto, SoTve1ss
AND DIURETIc.
Reliable Evideuca.

m. II. n srEvEtss
Dear SlF-I win most eheeEfullg
add my testimony 70 tho great
number yon have already reeeivse
In favor q your great and goo
medicine, VHdETINE, for DO nae
think enough can BE- eald IN -
praise, for l was troubled over
thirty years with that dreadfuz
dlSease, CalaFFh, and haa such be-
c0uahing spells that lt would eeeas
as though I never eoald breathe
any more, and VBaBrfB1 ha4
eufed me; and I do feel 70 thAak
IlGOd all the time that there u ao
good Q medicine as VEaEfINgI
and / also think u ons o. the best
medicines for coughs and WoaHs
sinking feelings AZ the stomAehs ,
land adVise everybody 70 take The
'IVEoETNg, for ! can assure tne@
bt ls one of the best medicines
3lthAt ever Wa1.
/ Mas. L. GORE,
! Cor. Magazine and Walnut sts.,
't' Cambridge, MaaAs
Vicksburg weekly herald., 1877-07-20
Train Thrown from the Tack.

OswEGo, July 25.-The Erie train
which was thrown from the track near
here this morning, consisted Of q bag
gage car, two passenger cars, aud Que
sleeper. II was detached, and partly
overturned.
Vicksburg weekly herald., 1877-07-20
onlat ID Raltimora.

BALTIMORE, July 25.-All quiet this
morning. The passenger trains of the
Philadelphia, Wilmington aud Balti-
more, the Northern Central, and Balti-
more and Potomac roads are moving
regularly. The regular passenger train
which left Camden yesterday morning
for Cincinnati, arrived.
Vicksburg weekly herald., 1877-07-20
GIVES
HeaIeh, Strength
AND APPETITE.

Nv daughter has received great
bonsflt from the use Of VEaEfIhm-
Her declining health was . eOurea
of great anxiety 70 all her fFienas-
A few bottles OF VE0ETTNE re-
stored her health, strength an4
n. n. TTLDEN,
Insurance and Real Estate Agt.s
No. 20 Sears' Building,
'E@ Boston, Mas3.
Vicksburg weekly herald., 1877-07-20
CNTTON IN NEW ORLEANs.

Futuiss opened easier, aud closed
weak, with sales Of 80 600 bales.
Vicksburg weekly herald., 1877-07-20
ARaira AZ Albany

ALBANY, July ZJ.-0engraI Carr tel
egraphs all is quiet at West Albany.
The troops are in possession Of the
round and freight houses, and freight
can be sent without trouble. Every
thing 10 the city is quiet, aud no fur.
ther disorder is expected here. The
Governor says his dispatches from all
parts of the State are satisfactory, and
he expresses the opinion that the strike
ls now entirely under control.
Coal Sale Postponed on Account OF the
Vicksburg weekly herald., 1877-07-20
AaalEI at BE REanelseo.

WASHINGTON, July 25.-Roughs con-
tiuue their demonstrations against the
Chinese In San Francisco. Half 9 dozen
houses burned In different parts of the
city. Crowds are clubbed from one
point only to gather ct another.
SAN Francisco, July 25.-All quiet
since last night. 5000 have subscribed
aud 10000 men ere ready to put down
disorder. A Committee OF safety was
Organized at Oakland.
Vicksburg weekly herald., 1877-07-20
RIVER NEWS.
MINIATURE ALMANAo.

MINIATURE ALMANAC. ,
Sun rises. sun sets, Moon rises
July B--6:i0. 1908. S:l4 eve
Days length, l3h sem.
MOONS PHAsEs.
July 3-Last quarter, Sh, l5n. A.
July I0-New moon, Al. 60m. A,
July l7-Flrst quarter, 7h. Sem. II.
July 25-Full moon, Oh. 03m. II.
SIGNAL SERVICE REPORT.
Vicksburg weekly herald., 1877-07-20

NEW YoRK, July Is. President
Sloan, Of the Delaware, LackawanA
and Western Railroad, issued the fol-
lowing: lowing to the unsettled con-
dltion Of transportation, the coal sale
of 10000 tons advertised for to-day, IS
postponed" President Hoyt, Of the
Pennsylvania Coal Company, notifies
the public that the coal sale advertised
to-day, won't take place.
Vicksburg weekly herald., 1877-07-20

.NRAPEs.-One case Native GEapes-
Iy2S -. CULLET's.
Vicksburg weekly herald., 1877-07-20

In answer to Q series OF articles IN
the New York Herald from the pen OF
Mr.. Edward Atkinson, on the culture
aud manufacture Of cotton, Q writer for
the Columbus, Georgia, Enquirer, who
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1877-01-24

There is much nonrisment I'm fish,
little less than in meat, weight for
weight, and in effect it may be more
ncurishing, considering how, from its
fibre, fish is more easily digested. More
over. there is in fish substance which
does not exist in the flesh of land ami
mails, namely, iodine, substance which
may have beneficial effect on the
health, and tend to prevent the produc-
ton of scrofulous or tubercle disease,
the latter in the form Of pulmonary con-
sumption. one of the most cruel and
fatal with which civilized society is af-
flicted. Comparative trials have proved
that in most fish the proportion of solid
matter-that is, the matter that remains
after perfect digestion of the expulsion
of the aqueous parts little inferior to
that of the several kinds of meat, game
or poultry. If we give attention to
classes of people, classes as to the quail
ity of food they principally subsist on,
we find that the ichthyophagous class are
especially strong, healthy and prolific.
In no class except that of fishermen do
we see larger families. handsomer
women, more robust and active men,
or greater exemption from the mala-
dies just alluded to- Boston Transcript.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1877-01-24

The Horse Hotel.-There are several
large horse residences in New York.
They each have beds for hundreds of
horses, and the dining g-tables are hun
dred times larger than those of the
Fifth Avenue and Windsor" put
together. The Horse Hotel. the largest
one of all, is on Third avenue, between
SIxty-fifth and Sixty-sixth streets. Ii
is one vast iron building, SIX hundred
feet long and two hundred wide, and
covers an entire block. 1t is three
stories high, with basement, and two
thousand horses belonging to the Third
Avenue Railroad Company reside there
in style of splendOr and luxury quite
unknown TO horses who have never
travelled from their native farms. There
are waiting and reception rooms, nice
quarters for horses who happen to have
a cold or a headache; there is a fine
hospital fOf those who are very sick;
there is house surgeon and shoe
maker, to say nothing of a cObbler To
put on new heels or otherwise repair
their shoes and there u a hOusekeeper
and whole army of walters and cham
ber-maids also, chief cook, with
dozen assistants. Altogether. the hotel
is unsurpassed for horse luxury and
elegance; and If the horses could tell
what they think about it, doubtless
there would be a mass meeting of the
guests. with vote of thanks to the
managers, or at least a committee of
three to wait on the housekeeper and
chief cook, with an appropriate set of
resolutions expressive of their "kInd-
ness and attention and full of words
like elegant apartments" ''choice
viands,n ''politeness," "urbanity," ETC.,
etc.-St. Nicholas.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1877-01-24

Bleaching Cotton.-SOme of our read
ers may tind it great convenience to
be able to bleach Il few hanks or short
pattern warps, in order To get samples
round quickly; therefore, We give the
following safe method:
Boil well your twist, having first put
in the water 2 oZs. of soda ash to the
gallon of water; wash off in cold water.
Mix lb. of fresh chloride of lime in .
pints of water. crushing all the Jumps,
aud then add 43 pints more water. Af-
ter allowing time for the lime TO settle,
pour off the clear chloride liquor, and
immerse the yarn for about seven
hours, in cool place. Care must be
taken to keep the chloride solution and
the yam from contact with iron.
Wiring out and wash in cold water, and
do not allow the yarn to remain in the
air very long. Then immerse in a well
mixed solution composed of 26 drachms
of double oil of vltriol to 4J pints of
water. Allow the yarn to remain in
this acid solution ten hours, then
wiring out and wash OFT in cold water.
In order to thoroughly remove the acid,
work it well through good white soap
bath, and to this add little marine
blue to give the yarn any desired tint.
Finally wash through warm water to
clear away the soap. These proper
tions will do the least possible injury
to the strength of the yarn. The sOlu-
tons may be used stronger if 1t is de-
sired to shorten the length of time of
the processes. II soft mule yarn has
to be bleached the solution may be
used about third weaker; but if
doubled yarn. the strength of the So
lutions must be increased. according
to the perfection required in bleaching.
fertile Fabrics.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1877-01-24
COnversafiOn.

Among home amusements the best is
the good old habit of conversation, the
talking over the events Of the day, in
bright and quick play of wit and fancy,
the story which brings the laugh, and
the speaking the good and kind and
true things which all have In their
hearts. 1t is not so much by dwell
ing upon what members of the
family have in common, as bringing
each to the other something Interesting
and amusing, that home life is to be
made cheerful and joyous. Each one
must do his part to make the CONVERSE
ton genial and happy. We are too
ready to converse with newspapers and
books, to seek some companion at the
store, hotel or club-room, and to forget
that home is anything more than a
place TO sleep and to eat in. The reviv-
al of conversation, the entertainment Of
one another and aroom full of people who
will entertain themselves, is one secret
of happy home. Wherever it is want
the tree; there is want which is felt
with increasing force as time goes on.
Conversation, in many cases, is just
what prevents many people from re-
lapsing into utter selfishness at their
firesides. This conversation should
not simply occupy husband and wife
and other older members of the family,
but extend itself to the children. Par
ents should be careful to talk with
them, to enter in to their life, to share
their trifles, to assist in their studies, to
meet them in the thoughts and feelings
of their childhood. 1t is great step in
education, when around the evening
lamp, are gathered the different MEM
bers of a family, sharing their occupa-
ton with one another-the older assist
ing the younger, each one con tributing
to the entertainment of the other, and
all feeling that the evening had passed
only too rapidly away. This is the
truest and best amusement. 1t is the
healthy education of great and noble
characters. There is the freedom, the
breadth, the joyousness of natural life
The time spent thus by parents, in the
higher entertainment of their children,
bears harvest ofeternal blessings, and
these long evenings furnish just the
time
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1877-01-24

USEFUL HINTs.-A saddle put on
loosely with slack girth is very irrita-
ting to horse, and soon produces d
sore back.
A harness kept soft and pliable with
neatsfoot oil will last almost life
time. 1t is stronger because slightly
elastic, and will seldom wear off the
hair.
A horse left uncovered when not in
exercise will soon grow heavy coat of
coarse hair. This becomes hindrance
to rapid motion, and should be pre-
vented by judicious blanketing.
A horses shoe will hold much longer
if the clinches are not weakened by the
file in finishing. Insist that the file
does not touch the end of the nail
where turned down.
Some horses have a habit of stepping
on one side of their feet, perhaps TO
avoid pressure of hidden corn. That
part of the shoe exposed to severe wear
should be protected with steel.
All carriage shafts of right construc-
ton should allow the body of tire ami
NAL perfect freedom, and only touch
at the well-padded saddle and full col
lar.
An over reaching horse, one whose
hind feet is frequently hitting the for
ward shoes, should wear heavy shoes
forward and light ones behind. The
theory is that the heavier hoof will be
thrown little further ahead than the
lighter one.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1877-01-24
Parental Folly.

"
That all sensible parents truly desire
the welfare of their offspring is a prop
Osition that will not be disputed. This
point being conceded, it cannot but be
matter of surprise that so many pur-
sue course which results, if not in ut
ter ruin, in great and irreparable injury
10 those sacred gifts committed to their
charge
From close observations made In ref
erencc 10 this matter, extending through
period of more than twenty years, the
writer has noticed two extremes of ac
ton. In the one case, parents seem to
entertain the notion that for some mex
plicable reason, their children are more
highly gifted, or in other words, are
''mOre clever" than the other children
of their acquaintance. Such parents
seek every opportunity to display their
children'ss superior intellect and acquire
ments, and habitually boast of their
transcendent abilities in their presence.
The result is, the children soon become
egotistical and disgust all who cannot
view them with parental eyes.
1t not unfrequently happens that re-
suits of The most serious character en-
sue, which can be directly traced TO tie
foolish idea entertained by parents that
their children are possessed of unusual
wisdom. One fact out of many of a
similar nature that have occurred with
in the scope of our observation will il
lustrate this point.
We were once visiting in neighbor-
hood where dwelt a man of ordinary
abilities and more than usual business
tact. His youngest son was the name
sake of an eminent statesman, man
whom the people delighted to honour.
The fond parents, from the first dawn
ing of the child's Intellect, conceived
the idea that he was possessed of supe-
rior intellectual powers, and predicted
for him career that would eclipse the
renown of the great man whose name
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1877-01-24

The Place rhere the Days are Bora
A question came up in one of our
schools, few days since, as to the part
of the earth where the sun first rises
on a new day. Not a scholar nor a
teacher in the school could give a cor
rect answer, and strange to say it is a
question very few can answer correct
ly. Tourists going around the world
while crossing the Pacific towards ia
pan, on arriving at the 1s0th degree of
longitude, drop day from their calen-
dar; the ship returning adds day
there to its reckoning. A well known
divine crossed this meridian on Sun
day, and as the next day was Sunday
he enjoyed the novelty of two Sundays
in two successive days; one was the
Sunday of Asia and the other was the
Sunday of America and Europe.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1877-01-24

A Touching Incidental nobleman,
who died a few years since, had a
chest all locked up. but marked. ITO
be removed first in case of fire." When
he died, his friends opened that chest,
suppOsing, of course, that some valua-
BILE document or deed of property, ricn
jewelry, or costly plate would be found
in it. But what did they find? They
found the toys of his little child, who
had gone before him. Richer to him
were they than all the worlds wealth,
richer than his coronet. brighter than
all the jewels that sparkled on its crest.
Not his estate, not his jewels, not his
equipage. nothing glorious and great
in this world; but the dearest objects
to him were the toys of his little child.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1877-01-24
NCTEyfIFTC.

improvement in Ielegraphy.--An En-
glish engineer has invented new tel
egraph joint, which. it is claimed, pre-
sents a simple, cheap and efficient
means of dealing with one of the prac-
teal difficulties of subterranean tele-
graphy-one, in fact, that seemed al
most insuperable. ~ -'.--
This new joint is formed by removing
the coating from the two ends to be
united and joining the cleaned wires
by what is techinally known as the
"bell hangers twist" no solder being
necessary. The twist is then warmed
slightly and covered with a rough coat
ing of insulating compound, somewhat
thicker than the original diameter of
the wire. The joint, while warm, is
placed in the lower half of a small
wooden block about three inches long
and one inch wide, fitted internally
with a groove for the wire, widening IN
the middle into a niche about one and
one-half inches length for the reception
of the compound covered joint. While
the compound is yet warm, the upper
half of the mould-in shape cores
ponding exactly with the lower one
is placed on the top, and by means of
a clamp, screwed down until the two
wooden surfaces are pressed firmly to-
gether.
While in this position, they are per-
manently fixed by half dozen ordin-
airy brass screws. and, the compound
having hardened, the clamp is remov
ed and the joint complete. The cavity
in the interior of the block In which
the copper ends meet, being complete
ly filled with the compound. the insin-
ulation is all that could be desired.
numerous experiments having satisfac-
torily tested the electrical qualities of
the arrangement-the wooden cover
ing obviatiug all danger of "leakagen
or separation of the wires through
bending.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1877-01-24

Elasticity of ice.-Professo BiancO-
nj, of Bologna, Italy, has recently
made a series of experiments with re-
gard to the cOmpressibility and elias
ticity of ice. Granite pebbles, placed
on an ice surface, were pressed with
constant and measured pressure for
six, eight, or ten hours, at a surround
ing tempature of 81 TO 81 degrees Fab.
The impression was deep bat it was
surrounded by a raised brim, and this
again by slight external cavity. Nj.
Bianconi considers the central cavity
to be the effect partly of strong COM
preston, partly of fusion, produced by
the heat proper of the pebble. The
external cavity was probably due to in
itial ealoritic irradation of the pebble !;
for. if the pebble had previously been
placed IN Ice, this cavity became very
small, or almost nal. The raised brim
is the swelling of the ice, produced by
the pressure, the ice being expelled in
virtue of its Elasticity. This appears
very clearly when, the pressure of the
pebble coming obliquely on point of
the Ice surface, certain prOtuberance
is seen at an opposite point. Among
other experiments, an iron plate, with
square hole IN it, was strongly press
ed ON plane surface of ice. After
eight hours the ice had risen an inch or
so through the hole, in the form of an
unequal crest, and turned over on the
plate. while the ice at the outer edges
of the plate had similarity risen and
turned over. Again, bar of IRON
plane below and convex above-was
pressed for ten hours on plane ice
surface. The ice expelled below rose
up on the sides, and became applied to
prove that ice has a manifest compress
sibility or Elasticity, though slow and
very limited.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1877-01-24
HOPES VICTORY.

Dark clouds had spread across the sky
AZ / roamed DER the old-loved ways.
And through the trees the breezes sighed,
While sunbeams hid their golden rays.
"Oh. all is dark and sad around.
And in NY heart no Light is found
No more will brightness o'er me spread;
For joy is gone, and hope is dead"
Fen as spake the sun shone forth
One heavenly smile from out the sky,
That shed balm within my breast.
And from my heart sad thoughts did fly.
"Oh in the gloom that gathers round,
Let trust within the heart be found;
Then. when the sunbesms gid the lea,
Sweet Hope Will gain victory"
-Tinsley's Magazine.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1877-01-24

RAPID MILKING.-The question has
been asked how long it takes to draw a
quart of milk from cow, and il ii can
be done at the rate of a quart a minute.
L was talking with my nearest neigh Dor
about it recently. He had never timed
himself at the work, but thought a
quart a minute was little more than
he could do. He would try it with his
three year old heifer in just twelve
hours from the time he milked her in
the morning. l was to milk my four
year old the same length of time after
morning milking; the pals TO be
weighed when empty, and allow two
podnds of milk to the quart; one to hold
the watch while the other did the milk
ing of his own COW. The result of it
was that his heifer, two months from
the time of dropping her calf, gave
twenty two pounds; time of milking
eight and one-fourth minutes. My four
year old, five weeks from calving, gave
twenty-seven pounds, ten ounces; time,
ten and one-half minutes. Our respec-
tive ages ere sixty-two and sixty-six
years. At the morning milking my cow
gave twenty five pounds, fourteen
ounces; for the day, fifty-three and
one-half pounds. .-CorespondeHt.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1877-01-24

The annual report of the Commits
sioner of Agriculture shows that there
were distributed during the past year,
500, 900 packages ofvegetable and field
seeds and textiles, including nearly
300. 900 of vegetable, 372, 900 of flower,
$4,000 of wheat, 81 600 of tobacco, and
500 Of cotton. These seeds, the report
says, were collected fiom all parts of
the world, selected because OF their pc
culiar excellence, and put into the
hands of thousands of individuals, who
make them the germs from which is to
grow a quantity of product that is to
characterize the future operations OF
the farmer and gardener.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1877-01-24
YOUTH's coLUIy.

Mothers Way Is Best.-Charlie want
ed to go out and play; but it rained,
and mother said NO. He had toys
enough, one would suppose, to amuse
two boys but his Noah's Ark had been
pitched across the room, and the poor
animals were sprawling all over the
carpet, while Noah's wife, with her arm
broken, lay under the elephant. His
paint-box and pencils were pushed in
to a corner of the closet, his scrap-bOOk
was rejected when Aunt Caro- brought
it to him, and he stood hour after hour
by the window, fretting, whining, and
crying -,
me. l wish it would clear off!n
Mamma said his sister Grace, Il
wish you'd make Charlie behave. It's
very uncomfortable to have child act
"Lucy,r said his aunt Caro- to his mo-
ther, IL wish you'd let Charlie go out
in the rain. Perhaps that would please
him.
'.I would if / were sure he would not
take cold" said she. 81 am very tired
of SO much crossDess. L have quite
headache. Charlie dear, won't you try
to be a good boy 7"
Charlie had heard his aunt's request,
and it had given him a new idea. Moth
ing now would please him but to go out
in the rain. So he pleaded; and at last
with boots on. thick coat, and an UNI
brella, out he sailed.
Down fell the rain. No other chill
dren were to be seen on the sidewalk.
The Frosts and the Feverfews clapped
their hands from their nursery window.
"Wbat can Mrs. Dane be thinking OF
to let Charlie go out in such a storm Y"
said the ladies'.
Little boy. you'd better go home"
said the policeman, as he paraded past
In his Oil-skin cloak.
Charlie found it cold. lonely, and
shivering out in the wet street. When
he returned, the fire in the crate looked
bright and cheerful, and he was glad to
sit by it and warm his feet and hands.
"My way is better than yours, dear"
said mamma. 81 try to like whatever
sort of day God sends. III | have to
stay indoors, l am contented and thank
tul that have a nice house to stay In.
Rain or shine are welcome, for God
sends both"
"Your way is the BEST" said Charlie.