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it is placed n
a tub, and clo
a fortnight it Is ID q.
and a little more salt added.
After it has laid two or three
weeks longer in the pickle it is
taken out and hung up in the
kitchen to dry. II possible. it
is hung on poles placed across
the ceiling; and in two months
it is cured enough to eat, but
is better in three months.
Early in the spring it is sewed
up in cotton cloths, and brushed
over with a thick whitewash,
to preserve it from flies.
Hams and bacon are usually
smoked in houses built TOR tbat
purpose, but they can also be
smoked in large, old-taslioned
cllimneys, by burning corn on
the cob in the fireplace. In
Hamburg, Germany, the smok-
ing is done in upper rooms of
large buildings, and the smoke
is carried through tubes from
fires in the cellar. The smoke
being dry and cool when it en-
tiers the room, the meat is Of a
much superior favor than when
hung near the fire. The cele-
brated Westphalia pickle is
made with six pounds of rock
salt, two pounds OF powdered
loaf sugar, and three ounces OF
saltpetre, dissolved in three gal.
Ions of water and boiled till all
scum is removed. When quite
cold it is poured on the meat,
aud every part must be kept
under the brine. In four of
FIVE weeks the hams are ready
for the smoke house. This
pickle can be used several times,
by boiling it over to remove all
scum and adding a small amount
of its Ingredients.
Hams should be thoroughly
washed before being picked i'll
order to remove all the blood,
and then be wiped dry. After
being smoked they can be kept
for several years, if, after sewing
them up in old cotton cloth,
they are closely packed in ashes
or powdered charcoal. They
can also be kept in chests filled
with bran or oat chat. A two
year old ham makes much
finer dish than one recently
smoked.
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TYPHOID Fever-Typhoid few
er is now regarded by our best
physicians as filth fever, and in
many cases the immediate cause
is to be found in the access of filth
to the well or spring from which
fhe water is obtained Tor domes-
tic purposes.
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APPLE SAUcE.-Pare, quar-
ter, and core the appels boil in
just enough water to cover /; do
not stir them when cooking ;
keep covered when tender
drain of the water, and when
the cooked apples are dry rub
them through a fine sieve then
sweeten a very little with white
sugar; sprinkle on more sugar
when serving if desired.
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CStdOlC iiidllcl III iiS sui.
ever he its function whether
mechanically improving the tex
ture OF the soil, Or increasing its
power of absorbing gases and
moisture, or furnishing solvents
OF unavailable compounds, or
directly suplyiny food to growing
plants. or whatever 1t may he
experience amply demonstrates its
paramount Importance. No ro-
tation of crops should be adopts
ed, therefore, which dos not
keep the soil filled with humus.
This should never be lost sight
Of and more especially is the
warning needed because the pre-
ponderance of hoed and plough
ed crops in our husbandry, and
our long hot summers, both tend
to consume and reduce the veg
etable matter in our soils far
more rapidly than in cooler lat
itudes. A cotton crop holds an
unacceptable prominence 10
this respect; the frequent plough
ings late in the season, when
chemical changes proceed most
actively, gives free access OF air
to the soil and hastens greatly
the decomposition of vegetable
matter. As a consequence, more
bare fields, with soil destitute
OF Eunus, are to be seen in the
cotton States than elsewhere.
Make it then the first aud most
controlling feature of your plans
to arrange crops with reference
TO this point-intorducing small
grain, or grass, or rest, promin-
emily in your rotation.
DEEP PULvERIzATIoN AND MIXING
OF THE SOIL.
The next most important
condition Is, 70 have a deep layer
of soil loose and finely commin-
uied that the roots OF plants
may ramify and extend without
obstruction. All recognise the
Importance OF this but some
think they have secured it by
ploughing two or three inches
deep, and some suppose they
have ploughed a foot deep when
If a level is struck, and the fur
row properly measured. four in
ches would be the maximum
Five inches should be the mini
um: the maximum we are not
prepared to give. Gardeners
generally stir the soil one foot in
depth, sometime two or more.
Their experience shows that
plants are benefited by such
deep breakings-the farmer adj
hitting this, asks will it pay him
That will depend on circumstan-
ces. 1.-The proposes to pursue
the intensive system and will ar
range to incorporate vegetable
matter and manure as deep as
he breaks the land, we have no
hesitation in saying it will pay
to 60 at least a foot deep. but, if
he is dealing with a thin soil, and
and a heavy subsoil destitute of
vegetable matter,it Is very doubt
ttul. The best plans is to use
the turn plough, running it one
or two ienhes deeper every year,
and have a heavy coat of vegeta>
bic matter to turn under every
time. This will eventually make
a soil ofuniform character to the
tull depth it is broken-one
through which the tertilizing ele-
ments are thoroughly mixed and
readily found by the roots with
out a long and weakening search.
This is also the most inexpen-
sive plan, requiring little add |
bional strain on the taam to run
the share only one or two inches
deeper in the unbroken subsoil
each year.
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L1NES.-Stains in linen can Of
ten be removed by rubbing them
with soft soap, after which a
starch paste is put on, and the
articles are dried in the sun. This
process may need to be repeated
several times. The soap and
starch are to be washed off with
pure cold water,
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Hoe CHoLERA.-An Indiana
farmer lost two OF his fattened
hogs by the cholera. As soon
as he found that the cholera
was among his hogs, he began
to give to all those that seemed
sick strong garden pepper tea,
and 10 every gill Of tea he ad-
ded two tablespoonful OF coal
oil. All his sick hogs have re-
covered, and are now doing
well,
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FARMERS write for the BANNER
draw forth the experience of
Others BY giving your own. DO
not take trouble to re-write and
Six upr-we will attend to that.
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r AND SCRIP No. 21-s53, for $40
~ acres, issued to the San Antonio
and Mexican Gulf r. r. by S. Crosby
Commissioner of the General Land
Office, dated March 26th 1868. Unless
intelligence of it be received at the
General Land Office within months
from this date, will apply to the pro-
per officers for duplicate
WIN. T. CAMPBELL.
January 1lth, 1878 wSw.
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r. B. OGLEsBY.
GIN
HEAPSTEAD, TEXAS.

Takes pleasure in announcing that he
is now prepared to apply TO gins his
new Patent Gin-Dress at reasonable
rates. My mode of dress is superior 70
the briar-point, or any other in use; in
asmuch as it does not nap, cleaus tn.
seeds. makes better sample and gins
faster.
have also procured, at a heavy ex
Pense. new patent cumming ma
chine" with which am enabled 70
repair WORN OUT GIN-sAws, providing
new teei h and making them do as good
work as new gin. Satisfaction guar
anteed in every instance. am now
ready for business.
All orders sent to me at Hampstead
or left at the BRENNAN BANNER offiet
will receive prompt attention.
sept3ly T. B. 0GLESBI.
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Transient and Legal ADJ
i7scrtad as $50 asIuare of one u
f-si Insertion. and Ssvsnty-ave c-nisS>
.oaare for each insertion thereafter.
AL quarterly AMI ysarly advertise'
h.slts must be paid quarterly in advance
tlas.iage and OBITUARY notices exceed
iag eight lines. charged as advertise
In-ais. Editorial notices of a purely
fasiusss character, sncii as remarks up-
or business houses; the r-cer'inn OF
9 - IL. etc. viii be charred at % CENTS
d line. each insertion. No snch notice
asserted for legs than 0,e Dollar.
ANNOUNCEMENTS
VIII be ins-rted at the following rstes.
State aud District Offices, $1,000 !;
county, 5000; Precinct $500 Tue
money to accomoany the announce
mes, in each and avery instance.
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To PREVENT BL1sTERs.- A
plaster composed of ground mus
tard, mixed with white OF an
egg in place OF water, will pre-
vent a blister upon the surface
OF the skin.
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WHITENING THE SKIN. - A
mixture OF lemon juice and
powdered borax is a fine white
ner of the skin. but should be
used only in warm weather.
This is admirably suited to
those ladies whose general
health is not good, and who
have, consequently, Blush
hands, in which che blue veins
show too strongly.
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BRENNAN GRANGE meets the
saturday before the first and
third Sunday in each month at
2 o'clock P. NJ. in the Opera
House. JAMES NJ. PREsLER,
Master, o. ii. GARRETT. Sec.
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Il =
SICK ~, Coiic, Depression of
Spirits ,os5lr stomach. Heart Burn. &c.
This uarivslIed Southern Rem, DIV is
warranted not 10 contain single par,i-
Gle of Mercury, or ANY injurious miner
| al subs ancr. bal is
PUREYE-YEGETABLE.
i>coni airing those southern Roots and
Herbs, which an allwise Providence,
has placed in countries where Liver
Dis. asses most pIeynil. 1t will cure all
diseases caused by arrangement of the
Liver and bowels.
TIE symptoms of Liver Complaint
are u bitter or bad taste in the mouth:
pain in the back. side or joints, often
mistaken for rheumatism; sour Stom-
ach; LOSS of Appetite, bowels alterna-
tely costive and lax; Headache, Loss
Of in,.u DRY, with Il painful sensation of
having failed to do something which
ought TO have been done; Debility, lsw
spirits. thick yellow appearance o. the
kin and ewes. I dry cough often mis-
taken for consumption.
Sometimes many of these sympt ons
attend the disease, ut others very few:
but the Liver, the largest organ in the
body, is generally the seat of the dis
ens-, and ifnot regulated in time, great
suffering, wreichedness AID death will
cnsue.
can recommend rs an etticscicus
remedy for disease of the Liver, tirart-
burn and Dyspepsia. Simmons Liver
Regulator.-Iewis G. Wunder, 1925
Master Street; Assistant Post Master,
phiiadelphis.
I'VE have tested its virtues, person.
ally, and know that for Dyspepsia,
Biliousness, and Throbbiug Headache,
it is The best medicine the world ever
saw. We have tried forty other rene
dies before Simmons Liver Regular,
but none of them gave Us more than
temporary relief; but the Regulator not
only relieved. but cured US. Ed. Tel
egram and Messenger, Macon, Ga.
Manufactured only by
j. ii ZeiIin & Co.,
Macon, Ga, and Philadelphia.
II contains four medical clements,
never united in the same happy proper
ton in any other preparation, viz: a
gentle Catliartic, wonderful Tonic, an
uuexceptionable Altera i've and certain
Corrective nj all impurities of the bn-
dy. Such signal success has attended
it's use, that il is nov regarded as the
EFFECTIVE SPECIFIC Tor all iiseas-
es of the Liver. stomach and spleen
AS a remedy in malsrious fevers, bow
Ell lnplainis, dyspepsia, mental de
preston, restlessuess, jaundic-, nausea.
SEX headache. collie, consultation and
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Dissolution.

The co-partnership heretofore ex-
listing between Woehler & White. las
this dag been dissolved b. mGtua,
consent, Mr.. Woehler retiring aud A
NJ. White continuing the business
Parties holding claims against tine
late firm are requested TO present them
for payment, all persons indebted to
US are also requested to cali and make
int ediate settlement.
C. F. W0EHLER,
A. NJ. WHITE.
January LIST, 1873.
7 undersigned, who will continue
the business 4, the old stand feels
thankful for the liberal patronage
heretofore extended and soliciting a
continuation OF the same.
A NJ. WHITE.
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Hlaa, Farm and Crane.

THE State Grange have re-
s.inded their contract with the
Esanainer and Patron.
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Chocolate CARAMELs. One
cuptul smeet milk, two of sugar,
one enpiul molasses, one-halt
eupful Bakers chocolate, grated;
ilavor with vanilla to suit the
taste; boil for one and a quar-
fer hours ; cool on buttered
tins.
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vered dyspeptics, B lious
ms OF Fever and Ague
srased pari. mt how they
IN, cheerful spirits and
the, will tel You by
Liver Regulator.
lHrrst and best family
pr'd! FSr Dyspepsia
kndicr, Bilious attacks,
Eniir nrnrnsainn of
St. Landry democrat., 1878-06-01
Natural Selection.

Investigators of natural science have
demonstrated beyond controversy, that
throughout the animal kingdom the "survival
of the fttest" is the only law that vouchsafes
thrift and perpetuity, Does not the same
principle govern the commercial prosperity
of man? An inferior cannot supercede a SUI
perior article. Illustrative of this principle
are the family medicines of r. V. Pierce, II.
D., of Buffalo, N. Y. By reason of superior
merit, they have outrivaled all other medi-
cines Their sale in the United States alone
exceeds one million dollars per annum, while
the amount exported foots up several
hundred thousand more. No business could
grow to such gigantic proportions and rest
upon any other basis than that Of merit, 1T
is safe to say that no medicine or combina>
ton of medicines yet discovered equals or
can compare with DR.. Pierce's Golden Medi-
cal discovery, for the cure of coughs, colds,
and all pulmonary and blood affections. If
the bowels be constipated and liver sluggish,
his Pleasant Purgatiye Pellets will give
prompt relief; while his Favorite Prescrip>
ton will positively, perfectly, and perma-
nentiy, cure those weaknesses and drag
ging down" sensations peculiar to females
In the peoples Common Sense Medical Ad-
wiser, an illustrated work of nearly one
thousand pages, the Doctor has fully discuss.
ed the principles that underlie health and
sickness. Price $50, post paid Adapted
to old and young, single and married. Ad.
dress r. V. Pierce, NJ. D., Worlds Djspens-
airy and Invalids' Hotel, Buffalo, N. \.
St. Landry democrat., 1878-06-01

quittal. During the five days while
the trial was in progress Kate Southern,
who had lost more OF her beauty from
confinement, sat in the courtroom with
her child (about six months old) in her
arms. The child, unconscious of the
terrible reality CT her surroundings,
smiled at everybody, and played and
teyed with Hates hands, rings, etc.,
almost incessantly. The scene was an
affecting one. The father of the MUIR
dered woman was in the court room most
of the time, and toward the close of the
trial seemed to sympathize with Kate as
much as any ones When the
SENTENCE OF DEATH
was pronounced on her, he wept immod-
erately. She is now under sentence to
hang on the 2lst of June. A motion for
a new trial will be made on the 18th inst.
The case will thin 60 to the supreme
court. In case the supreme court at.
firms the decision of the court below, she
will be re-sentenced to hang some time
in October. Here comes another serious
complication. 1t has been discovered that
Mrs. Southern is now pregnant, expect
ing confinement during the latter part OF
October or the first of November, and
the laws of this state declare that no
woman shall be hung while quick with
child. Hence Il delay must necessarily
be made. 1t is safe, think, to say in
advance that she will never be hung.
Gov. Smith, our last governor, dug his
political grave by allowing Susan Eber-
hart to hang, and if Gov. Colquitt is not
impressed with the justice of commuta-
ton Or pardon, he is too much of
politician not to interfere. A young
married lady told me to-day that if
Colquitt refused to pardon this woman
every married lady in the state would
use her influence against him if he was
ever candidate for Office again.
You need not be afraid Of giving too
much, the old colored pastor said. off
any OBJ you know of any church wat
died oh liberality, jes tell whar it is, an
I will make pilgrimage to it, an by de
soft light oh de pale moon I will crawl
upon its moss~covered roof an write
upon de tcpmost single, Blessed am
de dead who die in de Lord"
St. Landry democrat., 1878-06-01
a Guinea for ID $lxpenee.

4 firm in New York seems unfamiliar with
the London story of the man who offered to
sell real guineas at tritle but could find no
buyers. Geo. P. Rowell & Co,,-the News
paper Advertising Bureau" propose, for one
hundred (?) dollars, to put tenNljne adver.
tlsementi in some thirty standard weeklies,a and
to slide it into thousand other weeklies free.
Do they expect people to take the offer? ANY
one acquainted with the high rates OF these
standard weeklies can see that the thing Is
ridiculous. RowelI e. Co. must know very
well that acceptances of the offer would be 50
many items to charge to profit and loss We
retract our insinuation about their ignorance
of that London story. They probably know il
too well and are shrewd enough, by taking ad
vantage of that hlman trait at which the story
hits, to make stroke for fame as men Of
startling liberality, and at the same time run
o risk Of pecuniary loss.
St. Landry democrat., 1878-06-01

of seven per cent, Memphis appearing
to be the worst of all the cotton ports in
respect to this grievance. Planters and
cotton brokers in the United States must
be prepared to receive what is called Gan
earnest remonst1ance," which will be
addressed to them in order to give it a
stronger official and important character,
through the American chamber of COM
merce, the United Cotton Association,
and the Liverpool Cotton Brokers
association. Moreover, Lancashire spin
ners will be required to report weekly to
the Manchester committee all cases of
damp cotton that come under their
notice. The Pail Msll Gazette says:
elf the Americans damp unmanu-
featured cotton with view of increasing
its weight their conduct is inexcusable
What would be thought of British firms
who adopted artificial means for increas-
ing the weight of manufacted cotton
goods; such, for instance, as heavy
sizing p If we were guilty of trade tricks
of this description we should be ashamed
to look any other nation in the face"
The conclusive answer to this is that it
is notorious fact that especially in the
eastern market, British cotton goods are
outrageously and regularly weighed and
loaded with dyes and chemicals.
St. Landry democrat., 1878-06-01
Bermuda Grass

A Texas correspondent of the Southern
Farmer says:
If I had a cotton field taken prisoner
by the Bermuda grass while I was trying
to prevent it, I would value it more
highly than any cotton field in Texas. A
hundred acres of cotton does not yield
but very little after the expense of tillage
and gathering is paid; but do know
that a field of Bermuda needs no cultiva-
lion and no gathering that cannot readily
be done by flock of sheep or herd Of
cows and calves. The rain and sunshine
does not cost cent. It makes the grass
grow, and the COWS and calves do not
charge anything for gathering it. There
is really a clear profit from the grass
crop, but ON the cotton side of the ques-
ton there is not enough left, after pay
ing expenses, to talk about.
St. Landry democrat., 1878-06-01
About the House.

SOFT BIscuIT.- One quart sweet milk,
half cup of butter, two tablespoonful
baking powder, salt -four for stiff batter.
GRAHAM GEMS Two eggs, one cup
of sour milk, one teaspoonful soda, salt,
one cup graham flour; have the irons
hot. @
SCOTCH CAKE One pound of brown
sugar, one pound -four, half pouna
butter, two eggs, one teaspoonful CHINA
mon roll very thin and hsaks.
APAqUINIMIEs. y olks of two eggs,
one pint -four, one half pint milk, two
teaspoonfuls butter, a little salt; roll
very thin, and bake.
TRANSPARENT PrE.-Three eggs, two
tablespoontuls sugar, one teacuptul thick
sweet cream, two tablespoonfuls jelly,
one of butter. Bake with one crust.
BREAKFAST CooKIEs.--One cup OF
brown sugar, one egg, half cup butter,
wo tablespoonful sour cream, half tea
spoonful soda, nutmeg, salt, mix soft.
Eco BREAD.-One pint of milk, two
eggs, butter size of an egg, one.half cup
full of sugar, three teaspoonfuls OF sea
foam, flour enough 10 make a batter !;
bake. This makes one loaf.
WAFFLEs.--One pint sweet milk, four
eggs, one large cupful cold rice or hons
my, little salt, -four to make q stiff
batter, baking powder in the proportion
of three teaspeonfuls to quart of flour.
FRENCH LOAF CAKE.-Two and a
half cups sugar, one and half cups but
ter, one cup raisins, one cup warm milk,
five cups sifted -four, three eggs, half
wineglass wine, little nutmeg, small
teaspoonftll of saleratus. Mix butter
and sugar to cream, add part of -four
and yolks Of eggs, then the other part OF
-four and whites of eggs.
SoFT GINGERBREAD.-Stir two tea.
spoonfuls of soda and one tablespoonful
of ginger into one cupful Of good New
Orleans molassess, and let it stand until
it foams UP we'll; then add one-third
cup of butter and one cup warm water
in which one teaspoonsul of cream-tartal
has been dissolved; add two and one
half cups Of aour, and bake.
The @. Fl. N. SPICE CAKE.-One and
q half cups sugar, half cup butter, two
thirds Of q cup oil sweet milk, two eggs
spices Of all kinds, salt, raisins or cur
rants one cup, two cups -four, two tea
spoons Of baking powder.
BuTTERMILK MUFFINs.- One quar-
buttermilk, two eggs, butter the size 0
an egg, two FAT spoonfuls soda mixed il
alittle water, or enc spoonful aaleratus
two teaspoonfuls raIt, Hour TO make
thick batter. Bake in rings in no
even.