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The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1878-04-13

KILLED BY A PUFF OF TOBACCO
SMoKE.-On Sunday afternoon,
while John Connolly, of 2OG Van
Buren, street, Brooklyn, was playing
with his little son, aged fourteen
months, who was in his lap, he play
fully blew puff of tobacco smoke
into it's face. The child coughed,
gasped for breath, and fell back un>
conscious. In few minutes it died
from suffocation. The physician
who was summoned said that the
child had probably sucked the
smoke into it's throat and been
unable to discharge it. The father
became almost wild with griof.-
Ne,o lo,.k Sun.
The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1878-04-13

William Marshall, boy sixteen
years old, picked up an old she'll on
the Antietam battle field lately, and
took it to his homo. The next
morning he fired the end Of stick
and thrust it into the shell. There
was q prompt explosion, and he has
one hand and one eye less than
before he began his investigation.
The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1878-04-13
TIL E TERRIBLE FAMINE IN CHINA
From The Spectator.

The dearth in China, which is
perhaps the widest spread and the
most fearful scourge that has be-
fallen humanity for the last two
hundred years, began first in the
autumn of 1875. It's immediate
cause was tho long absence of rain,
but the phenomenon to which it was
and still is primarily due is the
gradual desiccation of the vast
plains Of Chilli and Shantung,
process which, commencing in the
table-lands of Central Asia, has
now reached the densoly populated
northern provinces of China. For
tho last two years 1 have been in
constant communication with the
famine stricken districts, and the
letters I have received from day to
day can only be described as sick
ening.
Fancy tract of country larger
than thirteen Switzerlands prey to
want that it is we'll nigh impossible
to relieve. The peoples faces are
black with hunger they arc dying
by thousands upon thousands.
Women and girls md boys aro
openly offered for sale to any
chance wayfarer when I left the
country respectable married wo-
man could easily be bought for six
dollars, and a little girl for two
dollars. In casos, however, where
it was found impossible to dispose
OF their children, parents have been
known to kill them sooner than
witness their prolonged sutforings,
in many instances throwing them
selves afterwards down wells, or
committing suicide by taking arr
senic. Corpses lay rotting by the
highway, and there was none to
bury them.
AS for food, the population SUBJ
sisted for q long time on roots and
grass then they found some
nourishment in willow~buds, and
finally ate the thatches off their
cottages. The bark of trees served
them for several months, and last
July I received specimens of the
stuff the unhappy creatures had
been by that time reduced to. The
most harmless kind was potato
stalks, tough, stringy fbres, which
only the strongest teeth could
reduce to pulp, and which entirely
defed all my attempts at degluti~
ton. The other description of
"food"-I have seen it myself-was
red slatestone. This substance,
when rolled about in tho mouth and
chewed, will eventually split into
small splinters, which can bo swal-
lowed after practice. TO such
frightful extremities have the
famine stricken people in China
been put.
The chief assistance which has
hitherto been proffered has como
from foreigners in the open ports,
the missionaries, both Protestant
and Catholic, acting as their almo-
ners. Many wealthy Chinese have
also given literally but tho misery
increases, and more help is urgently
required. The sight of so much
self-sacrificing labor by the miss
sionaries throughout these troubles
has filled the Cinnamon with
astonishment. It has opened their
eyes entirely. It is we'll that their
friendship and gratitude should be
cemented by further deeds of mor~
cy. FREDERICK H. BALFouR.
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JOB WORK.

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TOTAL ABSTINENCE SAVING WISB TILL II
RIPENS.

There Is a curious story about some native
wines which are extensively advertised nova
days. and have only recently been put upon
the market DR.. Underhll. the wcl-known
grape-grower Of Croton Point, died in 1871.
Some OF his heirs entertained temperance
unwilling to allow the stock Of wines then on
hand to be sold or any more to be made.
The grapes have sometimes been sent to
market, and sometimes left to decay upon
the vines. Itis only now that the other heirs
have succeeded In arranging for settlement
hand. Among these Is wine Of tho vintage
Of 1864, described as Sweet Union Port"
but suggesting the Imperial Tokay more
than any other European wine, and being
wholly unlike any other wine Of American
growth. Its purify. age and mclowness are
remarkable. and both physicians and vine
fanciers have special interest in it as the
Oldest native wine now accessible In any con-
siderable quantity. The whole stock is in the
hands Of the wcll-known wholesale grocery
house Of the Thurbcrs.--W. Y. 7,i6me,
Nov. I9, 1877.
The above speaks for itself. but we would
add that this is the pure juice Of the grape,
neither a,wggsd. Hqxored nor 7uatt,sd;: that It
has been ripcncd and mellowed by age, and
for medicinal or sacramcntal purposes 1t IS
unsurpassed. 1t can be obtained from most
Of the leading Druggists throughout tho
United States, and at wholesale from the
undersigned. who will forward descriptive
pamphlet. free of charge. on application.
Respectfully, etc.,
d. K. & F. B. THURBER g. co.
Wtst B,uadstay, Reaae and Haatoa IS,ssts
NKw-YoRx.
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MOUNT ZION INSTITUTE

n URING thecontinuanco Of tho orod.
H. cd school in connection with Mount
Zion, students in tho Ancient and
Modern LanguagesH ighor Mathematics
and tho Sciences will be received into
tho Institute upon tho payment of
$3.50 per scholastic month of four weeks
advance.
R. MEANS DAVIS, :.
ssS E-txs4 PsAsipAl.
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GANTZ'S Sea-Foam Yeast Powders, at 35
cents per box, or three boxes for 81. 90.
l have for sale, Ye,st Powder of NV
own, at 60 cents per lb, or s cents per
ounce by the single ounce.
nnAxoh We AIKEN.
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PENCILS.

A lot Of good soft Cedar Pencils, for
"a salo at the Drug Store, at rs cents
por dozen or two for five cents.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1878-06-22

horse-railroad horses, and that was
twelve pounds of hay and ten pounds OF
Indian meal per day. In that way a
railroad horse was kept up to his highest
condition, and they were enabled to do
their work more satisfactorily than
under any other system that had been
tried. Oats had repeatedly been used as
an article of food, and their cost WAS
carefully compared with that of Indian
meal. 1t was found at the time that
during hot weather the feeding of this
amount of meal would be injurious but
the result of their experience was, that
Indian meal, on the whole, for railroad
or omnibus horse, was the true thing.
But they have one very curious practice
which ought to be stated in connection
with this, as possibly bearing upon the
subject They invariably water all their
horses at o'clock at night. They have
an idea that watering their horses al night
adds greatly to their power of digesting
food, aud prevents injurious conse-
quences.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1878-06-22
A National Sanitary Precaution.

A sanitary measure of more than or
binary Importance, not only to the
southern seaboard states but to the
country at large, has recently been
passed il the form of bill to be known
as the "National Quarantine act of
1S78," the object of VIII ch shall be, by
means of an efficient, uniform, national
system of quarantine, to prevent the in
PRODUCTION of contagious or infectious
diseases into the United States. It is to
be understood, however, that while it
may assist, it shall in no wise interfere
with, the present or future rules, regu-
lations, or workings of any state or mu-
nicipal boards of health. The diseases
against which the provisions of this bill
are more particularly designed to guard
the people are those two scourges to
humanity-Asiatic cholera and yellow
fever-the ravages of which have fire.
quently been 80 appalling. The hope
that the measures proposed in this act
carried out, and aided by the
cooperation of local state ohicials-may
in time succeed in shutting out these
two diseases from the country, is
encou ragged by the fact that science has
demonstrated that both are
of foreign origin, and that there is no
place within the United States where
they have been naturalized.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1878-06-22
The Cincinnati Organ,

The organ just erectt in the Cincin-
natl Music Hall was but by Messrs. E..
& G. G. Hook g. Hasngs, of Boston,
Mass, and is the largestpne ever built
in this country, aad nks about the
fourth or fifth in size ID the world. It
is fifty feet wide, thirtJeet deep, and
sixty feet high. There re 6,2s7 pipes,
and ninety six steps. y are informed
that the design of the ca was drawn by
some of the most talent2 pupils of the
art school. To give anidea by COM
parison of the size of ts instrument,
we append the numbenof pipes and
stops in some of the verylargest Euro
pean organs. That in Il Albert hall,
London, is the largest the world.
Albert hall organ, one hundred and
eleven stops, 1879 pipesst. sulplice,
Paris, one hundred stopae,7o6 pipes;
Cathedral at Ulm, one lndred stops,
1864 pipes; St. Georges hall, Liver.
pool, one hundred stops. The interior
of the Cincinnati Music hi is of tulip
wood finished in OIL. It iDne hundred
and ninety.two feet long, me hundred
and twelve feet wide, and seventy feet
high. The stage is one andred and
twelve feet wide by ffty-si3feet deep.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1878-06-22
Thinning Fruit.
qu6nceS.

An orchardist who makes his trees bear
a moderate crop every year of larger and
finer fruit than when crowded, gives the
following directions for doing the work:
A light ladder is used to give ready &C.
cess to any part of the tree. The branch
is held in the left hand, while with sheep>
shears in the right, every bunch of apples
is cut off, leaving part of the stem of
each fruit. This is done as soon as the
blossoms have fallen, and before the
young fruit has attained any size. When
this branch is entirely cleaned, the next
branch is skipped, and the third cleared
of the fruit like the first, and so on until
every alternate branch is Invested of its
fruit. This work is not done on the
small limbs here and there over the tree,
but on main branches, and equally on
both sides of the tree. Or medium sized
trees, an active man will go over Is or
90 in dav.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1878-06-22
FARM AND HOME.
Hints on WORKING Ru++e,

DO not work too much nor too fast
Work slowly until all the salt is thor
oughly and evenly absorbed. Otherwise
the butter will not be of uniform color.
working it too fast will destroy the
grain, and the butter becomes salvy and
lard-like in its texture. Let it stand or
put 1t away in the tray for twenty-four
hours. Then work it enough to remove
all the buttermilk Or surplus brine, SO
that the butter may become dry or like
pie"e of cheese. Mould into rolls, and set
these away for twenty four hours, or
until they become hard and firm. The
cloth should now be put on, go as to
cover one end, while the other is LETT
open for the stamp. The cloth should be
cut in pieces of exact size and dipped in
brine, and the butter rolled when the
cloth is dripping wet. Butter should
never come In contact with the bare
hand. When in bulk it can be easily
handled with a ladle and fat paddle.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1878-06-22
American RscaIs and German
shstice.

The German Newspapers have accounts
of an extraordin,y criminal trial which
took place in Bern at the beginning of
April. The priripal defendants were
four Americans, no showed American
medical diplomasand who called them
selves DR.. St. Maj DR.. Van Dusen, DR..
Balleau and DR.. ampson. They came
to Berlin in 1876 md opened in Louisa
street place with they called "Tne
Lying-in Institutie." Suspicious were
excited that it was place tor malpractice,
and the police mad a descent upon the
house. They arreed Anthony Ward,
alias DR.. St. Mari John Williams, alias
Or. Van Dusen Jemiah Preston, alias
Dr.. Balleau. and Gl Niattzberg, alias
Or. Sampson. SsWal young women,
oae of whom was a hool girl OF a noble
family, and a Mmt Durivage was in
attendance On then The trial of the
Utility parties lastedome days, and the
fury rendered veiict against them.
Ward and Niattzberwere condemned to
death, Williams anPreston to impris-
ment for life, an age1 named Kraushaar
to fifteen years, Nine Durivage to eight
years, and two assisnts to five years
zach. This is the WI German Justice
treats criminals of thssestell profession.
It would be interestin to get descrip>
lion of the America diplomas that
;hese rascals practicet UNDER Phila-
lelnhia Rulletin
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1878-06-22
Fertilization of FIovers.

There are signs that what we have
regarded as extreme views about this
matter, are weakening. Some two years
ago, the general one was substantially
that of Sprengel, who had three. quarters
of century ago declared that nature
does not intend any plant to be fertilized
by its ewn pollen. This view has been
held by many of our distinguished bot
anists. In the fall of 1876, Prof. Asa
Gray spoke on the subject at the sixth
semi'annual meeting of the Holyoke
seminary, and is reported by the scien-
tific Farmer to have said: "All plants
with snowy, fragrant, honey bearing
flowers, are arranged for cross fertiliza-
ton. Nature abhors in-and-in breeding,
and like wise teacher shuns the prac-
tice." So widely had the idea taken root,
that in all plants, hature Stunned the
practice of in-and-in breeding, that fail
ure to produce seed became generally
attributed to lack of certain insects !;
and because the first crop of clever in
this country, and all crops of clover in
New Zealand were thought not to pro-
duce seed, it was supposed the lack of
insects was to blame. Last year humble
bees were shipped to New Zealand, be-
cause the tongues of the honey-bees
were thought not long enough to
penetrate to the bottom of the red clover
oorolla tubes The writer of this, so far
as he knows, stood alone in pointing out
that many of the supposed facts were
erroneous, and that the Interpretation of
the others was doubtful. In the January
number of the American Agriculturist,
Professor Ass Gray has another paper on
this topic, from which we take the follow
ing: "Cross fertilization, we may well
believe, is the best thing, but it is risky.
Cross fertilization, tempered with self
fertilization (which is the commoner
case) is practically the best under ordi-
nary cases; is the compromise between
the two risks, viz: Failure of vigorous
and fertile posterity on one hand, and
failure of immediate offspring on the
other. Get fertilized, cross fertilized,
close fortified If you must, is natures
golden rule for flowers" We Gee that
DIR. Gray no longer believes that nature
sshuns the practice of self fertilization
but practices it (and practices it extern
sively) when cross fertilization fails.-
Gardeners Monthly.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1878-06-22
Clover and Timothy Hay Compared.

Many of the best farmers in the north.
ern states sell their timothy hay in cities
and villages and feed clover to their own
stock, because it is found by experience
to be more nutritious and to produce the
best manure made on the farm. Clover
cut early is rich in nitrogen and album.
noids, being nearly equal to wheat and q
little better than corn. Boussingault
makes the nitrogen $40: while the av-
erage OF timothy is 1.50. If clover or
timothy be allowed to ripen seed, the
nitrogen in hay (leaf and stem), is greatly
reduced. This is why corn blades on
ripe grain are poor fodder.
Taking nitrogen as representative of
nutriment in the best clover and timothy
hay, clover will stand twenty-four to
timothy only fifteen. Hence it follows,
that two parts clover will Represents
forty>eight in flesh forming material,
while three parts of timothy will repre-
sent forty-fve of the same nutritive SUBJ
stances. The same remarks apply to the
solid and liquid excretions of horses,
cattle and sheep that may be fed on clo-
yer or timothy hay.
Glover is equally rich in phosphates,
and requires soil strong in the mineral
food of plants to produce large crop.
Salts Of lime: potash and magnesia do
the needful for clover and timothy.
The last named needs ammonia or nitric
acid as manure more than the former.
Wood ashes rarely fail to greatly
improve meadow and pasture which
contain both clover and such grasses
as timothy, redtop, orchard and rye
grass. A mixture of chver and grass
makes the best hay. Meadow foxtail
deserves far greater ATTENTION than it
receives in this country. There are sevs
eral species of fescue and at grass, hardy,
perennial and nutritious, whose value is
little known. Hay prediction is too
little studied by all farmers.
It is the backbone of manure and
growing fertility. Corn pants are worth |
more for hay than for grain at this time,
because their forage benefits are gener-
ally neglected. Some tanners who can
grow only two tons of timothy hay on
an acre raise ten tous # corn fodder
equal to timothy pound or pound. In
a rich permeable soil crn is a grass
feeder and a rapid grove, sending its
roots tar into the subsoil. n this respect
it resembles clover, lucene and COW
peas. The peculiarities of Ill the plants
cultivated should receive attention that
all may be turned to the bet account.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1878-06-22
Coal Tar for Flesh Wounds.

have made discovery in the healing
art which I will give the readers of the
Tribune, provided they will agree to
practice it, and do missionary work, by
4rying to enforce the bible injunction
that "a merciful man is merciful to his
beast" It Is now the common custom
among farmers, whenever they castrate
any ANIMAL unless it be horse or large
bull, to apply either salt, ashes, or the
spirits of tu-pentine to the raw flesh. Ali
of these applications are but so much
torture, and if any one don't believe it,
apply either of them to your own raw
flesh, 2and if you don't hop and dance and
cry out with the pain, then I am miss
taken. | have seen young pigs run
around and squeal piteously on account
of the pain these cruel things caused.
Now promise me never to let any person
put either of these things on any
animal of yours, and also promise me to
preach and pray against their Use, ev>
erywhere, snd | will tell you the best
application for any and all flesh cuts
and raw sores. It is gas coal tar, which
may be had at any gas works where gas
is made of coal. A barrel of it, costing
two dollars, has been in use at the Kirby
homestead for ten years, and is not half
gone yet. Coal>tar, when applied to a
fesh-cut, shuts out the air and thus
stops the smarting it will also keep off
the flies; it is very healing, and it is
antiseptic, that is, cleansing, and will |
prevent the growth of proud-fesh. 1t
is the cheapest, most healing and best |
application we have ever used, and every
farmer ought to have it at hand to use
on all castrated animals. When Lambs
tail is cut off, put it on. 1t will make
complete protection. An animal may be
castrated in "fy>time," and with two or
three applications of coal,tar, maggets
will be prevented. I have tested this
remedy for several years on all sorts of
cuts and sores with the most gratifying
and successful results. It was an exper-
iment at first, but now it is necessity.
1t ia an excellent paint for trees where a
limb has heen broken off or where the
bark has been peeled. F. d. Curtis.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1878-06-22

cocoanut; add three eggs and one an
one-half cup of sugar; beat well; ad
the milk of the nut, one cup Of swee
milk and piece of butter the size of
Walnut.
The great English agricultural write
and practical farmer (Jethro TulD, liv
ing and writing one hundred years age
held that frequent blowing and stirrin,
the soil was equivalent to liberal Goa
of manure.
| IT is stated that 500 new cheese facto
ries are to be put up in the state of low,
this sprlng. Other parts of the west ar
also increasing the number of chess
factories. In New York the same ten
dency Is evident.
CoRNs.--Soft corns can be cured by
this com-salve: Boil tobacco down tc
an extrsct, then mix with it a quantity
of white pitch pine, and apply it to the
corn, renewing it once week until the
corn disappears.
Worms in horses are caused from hard
work, poor food aid general neglect.
For ordilary cases of worms, common
salt, nutritious food and pure water will
prove satisfactory. Salt should always
be kept in the stalls of borses
PORTABLE EMONADE.- tar
taric acid 'ne ounce, powdered sugar six
ounces, essence of lemon one dram, let it
dry thoroughly IN the sun, rub together
and divide in tv7enty-tour papers. One
makes gl.ss of good sweet lemonade.
EXPERIMENTS have lately been made
IN Germany to determine the value of
the comDau nettle as textile fiber.
The weed hving been treated the same
way as hem yielded fiber as fine as silk,
and as srong as hemp fibre. A
considerable area of ground is now
planted will the nettle in the Prussian
province of Nassau.
GOLDFISH ND EGGs--Shred fine and
properly soal some Goldfish. Press it dry
as possible. To one cup of fish add one
cup of eggs rmeved from the shell; beat
the two well ogether and drop in spoon
tuls into no pan and try light brown |
on both sides
CoRN-STAEH CAkE.--Two cupfuls
of powdered agar, four cupfuls of corn
starch, ene>qurter efa cupful of butter,
three eggs, tablespoonful of cream of
tartar mixed 18th corn~starch, one-half
o. soda dissolved in one
third of a cupfl of milk.
To WASH thwool on the Sleeps back
is not a proftble practice. The wool
is not half waskd, and the difference in
price will not ~ for the loss of weight,
to say nothingof the trouble and risk
Tor both men I'D flock. IF the sheep
Ire kept reasonbly clean, and the wool
rec from rubbil, it will be found better
han having to ash them to get rid of
filtl