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Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1878-10-23
Mullen as a Cure for Consumption.

A correspondent writes as follow:
about the flower of well-Known plants
| have discovered remedy for con-
sumption. 1t has cured number Of
cases after they had commenced bleed
ing at the lungs, and the hectic flush
was already on the cheek. After trying
this remedy to my own satisfaction, !!
have thought philanthropy required
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1878-10-23

An Omaha man named Toft writes to
the Sioux City, Iowa, Journal demand
ing the retraction Of the statement that
he has become the happy father OF a
girl-baby weighing twenty-five pounds.
He Says the child weighs only twenty
four pounds and fourteen ounces.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1878-10-23

A. T. STEWART would never have his
portrait taken, but one has been painted
from a cast made after his death.
Connecticut western news., 1878-05-23
Salt for Stock.

The use of salt for dairy COWS varies with the season and the flow of milk. The larger the flow aud the more imma- ture the feed the greater the amount of salt required. In June, for example, when the flow is abundant and the grass tender. mora anlk ia Ea4uiHetl than In Mo- vember, when there is less milk and the grass is better supplied with mineral matter. In the former case the COWS want salt where they can have access to 1t every day or oftener in the latter twice week will answer all demands. The best way I have tried for salting COWS is to keep little salt in the man. ger, where they can have access to it every time they come into the stable to be milked. They will lick little every time they come in when the grass is very tender. Salting twice week is then not enough, as tests made upon the quantity and quality of milk have proved. Later in the season they will take it less fre- quently. If salt can be had ad ibitum COWS will never eat any more than is re- quired for their good, but if fed only at long intervals they often eat to their in- jury. For salt1ng young cattle the best arrangement know of is to place rock salt in a suitable box or half barrel, where they can have easy access to it, and under cover so as to protect it from wasting by rain. This avoids both excesses and defciences, and requirea the least labor and attention.
Connecticut western news., 1878-05-23
Parallel to the TichbOrne Case.

Recently was begun in the court at Butler, Pa., parallel to the celebrated Tichborne case. Some thirty years ago Emily Ward left her house on the Ward farm, near Petrolia, and was not heard from until about two years ago, when 8 person calling herself Emily Ward ap- peared at the old homestead, and was received as the long-lost sister. The farm, in the meantime had become valu- able, and she was heiress to quite an estate. At the time she left her home she was nineteen years of age, and in possession of all her faculties. The family, however, subsequently, became suspicious that all was not as represent ed, and they refused to recognize her. She did not evince the familiarity with the scenes and associations of her infant years that was expected, and she was discarded as an impostor, hence the suit. The family will endeavor to show that she is one Mahala Hill, who has been a resident of Meadville for @ number oi years, and who, some time ago, married man named Gray, from whom she has obtained divorce. She afterward mar. ried man named Danforth, who is now urging the prosecution by the "family. , It should not be understood that all the members are opposed to the claimant
 On the contrary, George Ward, the younger brother, believes in her identity
 and favors the prosecution. Altogether it will be a most interesting suit, an6 will, no doubt, provoke recitals iron which novelist could write book.
Connecticut western news., 1878-05-23
Matrimonial Advertisements.

With view to matrimony." These words are the ending of good many ad- vertisements- principally under the head of " Personals"-in the New York papers, and there are quite enough evil results therefrCm to justifya legal enact ment for their suppression. To adver- tise for husband or wife may seem to be quite as legitimate as to advertise for man servant or woman servant, and there would be less trouble if all tue world were honest and wise, but there is the hitch. Some young people indulge in this advertising, and the correspond ence which likely follows 1t, for amuse- ment, and some are simple enough to find romantic element in it, and are led to their own ruin. Instances have been known where girls have married men who already had wives and families. But few days ago the story was told of the marriage of young lady of good family with plausible but hashy man, with whom she had had correspan- dence, brought about in this way. He turned out to be gambler, and in few weeks she was forced to return to her fathers house. Another story is told of widow who was thus woed by ''hotel proprietor" She went some hundreds of miles only to find that, her Adonis was waiter. Advertising is glorious in- stitution, but it is quite as liable to abuse as any other.
Connecticut western news., 1878-05-23
Murdered by Harsh Words.

Tine Providence Journal says: GA curious and painful case occurred in New Bedford, Mass, which may raise the question whether manslaughter may not be caused by threat and demonstra- tion of violence, and the consequent effect of fear on feeble constitution, as well as by actual bodily harm. As to the moral guilt of the criminal there can be no doubt. One Frederick Jenny, g middle-aged man, addicted to liquor, had been maltreating and abusing his wife until she had been compelled to ask the interference of the Police. She was in feeble health, and her mother, 8 woman of nervous temperament and 70 years of age, was in attendance upon her. One evening Jenny came into the house and addressed the old lady in such abusive and threatening language that she left the house and fled to neigh bor's for protection. She returned at g later hour in the hope of attending upon her daughter unmolested, but the man attacked her again so wlckedly with threats that, although neighbor was with her as 8 protector, she was seized with a tremor of terror, and in short time fell to the floor dead, her thread of life having been undoubtedly snapped by fear and excitement. The violent brute was arrested, and although such an extraordinary case is probably not included within the provisions of the law of manslaughter, he'is undoubtedly as guilty as if he had struck the feeble woman with his fist and she had died from its effects"
Connecticut western news., 1878-05-23
An Obedient Wife.

The late Chief Justice Chase's mother once bore her part in a little comedy which was almost Shakespearean. With her husband, she was visiting two of his brothers, who were also married. The three gentlemen sitting and talking to- gether, made some playful wagers on the subject of their wives tempers, and agreed to test them. So, walking into the room where the three ladies were seated at the tireside making caps, which at that tune were fashionable, the trial began. The first brother, after some sighting remarks concerning caps in general, and his wife's handiwork in par ticular, commanded her to "throw it in the fire" Naturally, the indignant lady paid small attention to the order. The next brothers attempt met with the same result; but no sooner did the Chief Justices father command his wife to toss the cap in the fire than the cap went into the flames, and in the most prompt, sweet and serene manner. Ii may, perhaps, be unnecessary to add that, of the three husbands, he was the most thoroughly we'll managed.
Connecticut western news., 1878-05-23
Sanding a Clay Soil.

MT. Jotham Weston has a farm in Skowhegan, Me-, which thirty-five years ago was "stiff, hard clay not producing weeds and foul grass enough to pay for moving" Now the soil is "commonly called clay loam,' and yields good crops. How he effected this profitable he thus tells in the Maine Farmer {:
 After ploughing the hardest and poor est acre in my field. which I did soon after having, I told boy and French horse that when they had nothing else to do it would be their business to haul sand on to this land. do not now recol- lect, but think we hauled one hundred and fifty or two hundred one horse loads. The next spring with heavy cultivator I thoroughly mixed this sand with the clay, and without 8 shovelful of any kind of dressing, sowed it to oats and grass seed. The result was beyond my most sanguine expectation, yielding an aver age of two tons year with the exception of the first and last, for the next eight years, after which l ploughed again and applied the same remedy to the other side of the furrow. Now after the liberal application of sand for so many years, my hard clay has dissolved and I have in the place of it good mellow loam. And instead of cutting eight or ten tons of hay, as formerly. now cut in good seasons, forty tons. For the last twenty years have sold as much hay on an average each year as the farm cut when I commenced, and yet I have never pur. chased $50 worth of manure.
Connecticut western news., 1878-05-23
Saving Liquid Manure.

The best way to SAVE LIQUID MANURE is to do it in the stable by absorbents. Any fine dry material will do, such as muck, chaff or road dust. It will, be- sides, make soft bed for the animals to stand and lie on. Use 1t freely and mix liquid and solid contents with it. Keep under cover as made, or temove at once to the land and spread from the wagon or sleigh what is made in the fall and winter. In this way all the benefit IS obtained--the manure in condition to spread finely and evenly, and hug close ly the ground. It will serve as stim- lant and protection to the plant during the winter. Such manure, or rather compost, can be applied almost any time and to any crop, belng in measure soil itself, mellow and clean, and not the common nuisance, SD objectionable to handle. And it will keep and become more mellow with time, the absorbent fastening the gases so there is no loss.
Connecticut western news., 1878-05-23
Irish Moss. .

Salt marshes invade the vicinity of Marshfield, Mass, the home of Daniel Webster, and the creeks and coves are left covered with trailing sea-weed at low tide. This weed is the famous Irish moss. Dories are tloated to the rocks at low water and filed with the moss, which is gathered by means of four-pronged pitchforks. Before it can be fit for use it goes through careful drying pro- cess, being bleached with sea water, and turned from time to time, until from @ deep velvety green it fades to white. About five hundred people are wholly or partially supported by the business, which begins in May or June, and lasts through the summer. yielding in good seasons nearly fifty thousand dollars, or five thousand barrels of moss. It is sent chiefly to New York and Philadel- phia, and is used for blanc-mange, sig ing, and Tn the manufacture of lager beer.
Connecticut western news., 1878-05-23
Furnished Rooms in Paris.

The rents of furnished lodgings, says a Paris correspondent, vary consider ably according to the quarter of the town and the story on which the rooms are situated. Ground floors and entresols for single men fetch about twice the pr1ce of fifth and sixth stories. The in tervening floors are generally let out in suits too large for single gentleman, but this again depends on the quarter ]; for recently architects have begun to build large houses parcelled out into bi- jou suite, well-adapted for single men or families of two or three persons. Some model residences on this pattern are to be seen in the avenue between the Parc Monceaux and the Triumphal Arch. Each suite comprises two bedrooms, @ drawing-room, dining groom, and bath room gas and water are laid on all the floors, and lift mininmises the labor of ascending to the upper stories. Taking them at the lowest rates, however, apart ments on the Western side of Paris are fifty per cent dearer than those at the other points of the compass, and really there is no reason, except custom, why foreigners should consistently flock to- ward the Bois de Boulogne, when the Bois de Vincennes and the neighborhood of the Luxembourg Gardens offer attrac- tions quite as great at an infinitely cheaper price. The Bois de Vincennes, with its lakes, copses, shady walks, and picturesque v1ews of the valley of the Marne, is 8 charming place, and on week days it is almost deserted. A fami- ly living on the outskirts might fancy they had royal park of their own. It is only on fine Summer Sundays, when the Faubourg St. Antoine pours out it's legion of working men and factory girls, 1 and the forts of Vincennes and Charen- ton their hundreds of soldiers on leave, l that the Bois is overrun with holiday makers, who picnic under the trees or dance about to the strains of military bands and countless barrel-organs.
Connecticut western news., 1878-05-23

TRIoHINosIs IN PHILADELPHIA.- other case of trichinosis is reported from the dissecting- of the medical de- partment of the University of Pennsyl- vania, making the second case of this disease which has been brought to mo- tice within a few weeks In the first the trichine were so abundant as liter ally to give the infected muscles a pep pered appearance, and as far as a thor ough examination showed they were all encysted, while in the last case very few of the worms could be found in the cysts, while many existed free in the muscles examined, evincing 8 more acute stage of the disease.
Connecticut western news., 1878-05-23

So IT GoEs.-We know not the truth or falsity of the statement, but an ex- change says that when it became known that the Teutonia Savings-bank was on who had friends among the directors, was allowed to draw out $10,000; while a poor Aower-woman who presented a check for $1O was shown the door," The chief suffering in connection with the failure of savings banks falls upon poor depositors who have placed their little all in what they regarded as ,safe-keep- ing, and find their trust betrayed and their hopes ruined.
Connecticut western news., 1878-05-23
Theory Borne Out by Facts.

The theory that lack of vigor is the underly- ing cause of disease is receiving daily confirm ation of the most positive kind in the cure of dyspepsia, liver disorders, and kidney, bladder and uterine complaints by Hostetter's Stomach Bitters, the ruling remedy for maladies attrib- utable to weakness. This superb tonic is never employed without the most beneficial effects. The liver the bowels, the organs of urination, and indeed the entire system acquires both vigor and regularity through its action, since it gives a healthful impetus to every failing function. It is an incomparable specific for chills and fever, and other maladies of mala- rial type, prevents their attacks, is a reliable means of counteracting the effects of undue exposure to fatigue, and soothes as well as strengthens the nervous organism.
Connecticut western news., 1878-05-23
Gen. Grant at the Paris Exhibition.

cable despatch to New York .Hernd. May f4tir, oays -Jnat ten. Grant was placed upon a square American platform-that of the Howe Scale. The General in fact was weighed, and for the first time in his life "found wanting, " having lost seventeen pounds by his Egyptian trip.
Connecticut western news., 1878-05-23
The Grand Central Hotel, nr New York,

The Grand Central Hotel, nr New York.
 The largest and most centrally located house in the city. Was the first to break down high prices, and as it is as good as it is GRAND and as cheap as it is CENTRAL, it has become the most popular with the travelling public. One can live there as well for $2.50 and $500 per day, as at most of the other tirst-class hotels, where from $400 to $500 per day is charged.
Connecticut western news., 1878-05-23

Mothers! NIOthers!! NlOthers!!! Don't
 fail to procure Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup for all diseases incident to the period of teeth ing in children. It relieves the child from pain, cures wind colic regulates the bowels and, by giving relief and health to the child gives rest to the mother. It is an old and well-tried remedy.
Connecticut western news., 1878-05-23

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Connecticut western news., 1878-05-23

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Connecticut western news., 1878-05-23
WITHOUT GRANGE.

And to all principal points in the far West and South with but one change of cars. Connections are made in Union Depots, and are assured to all important points.
Connecticut western news., 1878-05-23

Stands confessedly at the head of American rail ways. The track is double the entire length Of
 the line, of steel rails laid on heavy oak ties, which are imbedded in foundation of rock bal. last eighteen inches in depth All bridges are Of iron or stone, and built upon the most approved plan Its passenger care, while eminently safe aud substantial, are at the same time models of comfort and elegance.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1878-05-09
The Population of Jerusalem During the
Siege of Titus.

Many persons, especially those imper-
fectly acquainted with Oriental habits,
have found it difficult to believe that
nearly three millions of people could
have assembled within the walls of
ancient Jerusalem, and one distinguish
ed writer has characterized the state
ments of Josephus upon this point as
$50 childish that it is surprising any
one could ever have repeated them, -
and has given $50, 900 or 20, 900" as the
''eXtreme estimate" of the number of
persons in the city when Titus came
against it.
Some years ago it occurred to me that
a reasonable and practical way of ex-
amining this question would be to ascer-
tain the number of square yards to
each person in the houses of the modern
city, and to compare the result with
the statements of historians respecting
former times, making allowance for the
changed condition of the city and the
circumstances Of exceptional pressure
under which Jerusalem was placed i'm
mediately before and during the seige.
Measurements were accordingly taken
of three houses in the present Jewish
quarter, which may be considered as
fairly representing the dwellings of the
three classes of which the Jewish com.
mlInity is composed, and of the native
residents generally.
In the first lives one of the most re-
spectacle Of the merchant class of native
Jews, with his family, consisting of
nineteen persons. The house has a
ground floor, now, like most ground
tloorsin Jerusalem, partly subterranean
first floor, with courtyard, kitchen,
etc., and an upper moor, with two more
chambers, courtyard and a small
kitchen. The building is quadrilateral
and measures 531a feet by 1872 feet,
outside measurement. giving 54.S square
feet to each inhabitant.
The second house chosen was that
of one Of the principal rabbis of the
Scphardite community, a member of
the Bethdin, holding high and influ-
ential position. His house is one of the
best in the Jewish quarter, measures
3l16 feet by 22l6 feet, outside measure
ment and gives accommodation to sixteen
persons-4S.5 square feet to each. A
house in the poorest part Of the quarter
was next sought. 1t is inhabited by
Polish aud native Jews. In one room
a tailor lives with his family and works
at his trade, in another school for lit
tie boys is kept. The house has court.
yard with staircase to the upper story
and gallary running round three sides
1t lodges thirty-ninep persons, and meas
| lures 5G1a feet by sos feet, outside
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1878-05-09
CLEVELAND, TENN, MAY 9, 1878.

measurement, giving seventy-seven
square feet TO each inhabitant. Put
ting these three houses together, we
have, % 1913 square feet with nineteen
persons; ~ 776 square feet with six
teen persons; (3) 1904 square feet with
seventy-four persons, or about seven
square yards to each inhabitant. None
of these people complain of overcrOwd-
ing; and it is remarkable that the poor
est have the largest space.
If now we take the area of the city
az tile time of the great siege to haye
been S,5O0,00O square yards ("The city
OF Herod and Saladln," Besant and Pal
mer, page %, note), and deduct one
half for the space occupied by the streets
the temple, Antonia, and Nystus, the
synogogues, etc., we have 100000
square yards for dwelling houses,
which, if populated only as thickly as
the average Jewish houses of the pre-
sent day, would have contained 25O, 900
persons, living In comfort according 10
the requirements Of Eastern habits and
when it is recollected that the houses of
the ancient city were, in all probability
several stories high, that the streets, or
at least some of them, are known to
have been very narrow; that in conse-
quence of the disturbed state of the
country great many Jews from other
towns and villages had taken refuge in
the capital; and that it is never pre-
tended, even by Josephus, that the
immense influx of people at this time
was not productive of great discomfort
and eventually of great distress-there
will not, perhaps, appear any strong
reason to doubt that the statement of
the Jewish historian may be nearer
the truth than has sometimes been