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Daily Kennebec journal., 1878-12-17

NEW YORK. Dece mbcr l6. Information is re-
poi d TO have been received at Washington mat
over 200 negroes have been whipneS - an act OF
terrorism to prevent them from .stiy'ns to the
bnlldozrng and murder OF negroes prior to the
Daily Kennebec journal., 1878-12-17

The grammar school is TO occurv one evening
of the monument fair, in giving the stage exhihi-
tion. There is decided talent in that school, and
the people may expect something Of first class
order.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1878-12-17

The Col ecior and Treasurer has close up his
collection of the taxes of 1876 and balanced the
books.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1878-12-17

Mr.. Charles B Chander, who recently in
jured At Wymans factory bv the bursting OF a
wheel, has fully recovered and is again at work.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1878-12-17

One of the best lighted stores in the city is that
of Psrtdge Brothers. who have recently put
10 kerosene fixtures. Broad Wight is almost
entirely thrown into the shade, and unsur
passed illumination is thrown upon the elcgsu I
stock of holiday goods now ranged for sale by
this most excellent ana enterprisrg firm.
We enclose in to days issne Of the journal,
our annual circular announcing the prospectus
Daily and Weekly kennebec jour in the new
dress which it will take on the beginning OF the
new yesr;a calendar for 1879; an the official
list of members elect of the Incoming legislature
Our readers will find it worthy place in their
counting rooms Offices and homes
Daily Kennebec journal., 1878-12-17

Prof q. T. Fletcher of the Eastern State
Normal School, is in the city.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1878-12-17

The office Of the ticket master at the depot was
entered on Sunday morning after the Pullman
train had passed by, the money drawer pried
open and some $50 taken therefrom.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1878-12-17
Nora! ann State Mems.

Meeting of Augusta Lodge this evening. Work
Daily Kennebec journal., 1878-12-17

"If had to walk from here to Baltimore for
IL would not he without DR. Bulls Cough Syrup
in he family" is wi "t we besrd lads Say yes
lei day. Price only % cents bottle.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1878-06-07

In the town Of Pelham, Mass. q rugged
rocky territory, with u very poor soil, as your
correspondent can stfy from actual obsor-
walton. lives man who. after various misfor-
tunes became the owner Of farm contain
ing about fifty acres Of some Of the poorest
land in the world. This hand had been so
completely run out that it is said to be u fact
that not more than three hundred pounds Of
hay could he obtained from the whole fifty
acre farm. OF course no stock Of any amount
could be kept II seemed almost impossible
for a man 10 stay. But this owner determined
to make the land worth something. lie cut
of the bushes with which the mowing-lots
were covered, cut wood and timber from the
wooded land. and went TO burning coal The
large quantities of charcoal dust which were
made in the prosecution Of his business were
carefully saved and applied to the farm. Year
after year this course was continued, and year
after year the products of the farm increased
As he cut more hay the owner kept more
stock The manure obtained from this stock
was economically used but the coal-dust was
still saved and applied as before. After sew
eral years repetition of this course. the land
has become productive Two or three horses
and six on eight cows are constantly kept,
good crops of grain are grown, and from the
mowing-lots two good crops Of hay are taken
each year In short this farm which few
years ago was SO utterly unproductiye and SO
miscmbly poor, has become one of the best
of its size in town. And let it be remembered
that this change has not been effected by
means of commercial fertilizers nor with pur-
chased manures of any kind. BY means of
the charcoal dust the land was improved. so
that little stock could be kept The ma
nure which was made by this stock and the
coal dust were then used together. As the
farm has improved, more stock has been
bought and, consequently, during the past
few years the proportion Of manure to the
coal dust has been largely increased. It is
not claimed that coal dust has made all the
change but it is true that it brought mp the
land to n point at which it could produce
enough TO enable the owner to keep some
stock and that after this it was a very effect
i've aid to the manure in improving the land.
1t hardly seems possible that coal dust should
possess such a fertilizng power; but there
can be no denying of the fact that it has on
this farm accomplished wonderful results
The theorist. will, very likely, try to prove
that charcoal is an inert substance, and the
unbeliever may hint that your correspondent
is too credulous But l have been dealing
with facts, and, as has been well remarked.
facts are stubborn things" And it may with
proprety be added that when such subjects
ms fertilizers for worn out soils are under con.
sideraton, facts are just what farmers want
f. in Practical Fd1mcr.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1878-06-07

Much unnecessary commiseration and sur
prise are manifested in various quarters at
what is called the enormous sacrifice Of sheep
in California. Whole flocks. numbering thou
sands. have gone TO the kettle to be boiled
down into tallow. This fate is considered
pitiable, and great loss On the contrary.
where sheep are kept for wool alone, and NUT
ton has no sale, this is the usual end of the
sheep. When past the profitable age for
shearing it renders up itself for tallow. In
Australia millions of sheep are thus disposed
of, and sheep-growers have become wealthy
in the business. The chief end of sheep keep
ing is profit and there is profit in boiling
down an old eve or ram for its fat this. and
the pelt, realize handsome profit The ket-
ties necessary for this operation are of i'm
mense size, holding several hundred sheep at
one time. After the fat has been skinned
from the kettles the flesh and bones are fed
to hogs, so that there is no waste: the long
boiling softens the bones, so that they are en-
silly crushed. The pelts are sailed. and pack
ed for shipment to market for tanning.
-1merjcaH iqyiculturiN
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1878-06-07

INrrHEsr THEM-A gentleman went into
store i'm Russia and was waited upon by lit
tie son Of the proprietor. only seven years Of
age. The baby salesman lad all the suavity
of manner and readiness to oblgc that mark
the older merchants. lie showed perfect ia
miliarity with the business, knew the place Of
every article, opened case after case for the
inspection of the gentleman, and when he as
certaintd that he was seeking mainly for in
formation. impaired it with the greatest
chccrfum,ss and dtiiuitou1ss He knew all
the miuuia Of the business, which would have
hardly been expected from growu-up son Of
the house. The traveller saw in this not at
all uncommon instance. the possible secret Of
many great mercantile houses, having the
same name from generation to generation.
The sons took up the fathers business and
carried it on with increasing success. The
very little boys were carly interested in their
fathers business They were given little ven
lures of their own, involving considerable
sums Of money, ut an age when our children
are hardly trusted with pennies. May not
other parents in other lines Of life take hint
from this business custom: If farmers took
more pains to truly interest the little fellows
on their knee in the details of the business
il they employed their knowledge of figures
from time to time ia computing the value Of
crops. and the cost Of producing them. and
all these little particulars pertaining to the
calling, would they not take TO it, more
readily and naturally; But where all they
hear concerning it is one continual growl over
'the hard work and no pay Of the business,
no wonder they come to believe it and cor
daily hate it, and determine to wash their
hands of it the hour they are free Inter
est the little boys. then, and you will not find
it so hard to keep your hold ON the big ones.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1878-06-07
Farm and Household.
Mn,nnn,.n nu,,,r Krcr. SO wen.

Having secured a superior supply Of milk,
the next question is, how the latter can be
turned commercially to the most advantage.
Denmark has furnished the information. For
a long time Continental agriculturists were
puzzled as to how Danish butter could be
shipped to China, Japan aud other warm
climates, while Normandy butter always melt
cd ON the route The mystery lay in the pro
cess Of preparation. Denmark churns the
cream ut a degree above the freezing point,
aud scientifically. as well ms practically, her
plnn is sound In milk, the caseine consti-
tutes the cheese and the fatty particles the
butter. When the milk contains more butter
than cheese it Is said to be rich when these
matters are equal it is of average quality and
when the cheese predominates the milk is
poor The butter can vary in the proper
tions one to four, and the cheese from one to
two. As a general remark, the last milk, the
"strippugs." taken from IL COW, is twice as
rich in butter as that contained in the first
milking, A drop Of milk consists of forty
five millions of globules, so the size Of the
butttry atoms floating therein may be imagin-
ed. Ordinarily, the temperature of the cream
is raised before being churned; in Denmark,
it is uniformly kept at the temperature where
ice commences to melt. Cold contracts bod
les. aud under the same volume augmcnts
their weight heat expands them, but their
volume Is less dense. low temperature
must promote the rising of the creamy parti-
Giles, since the serum in which they float he
comes much heavier. Place the milk taken
from the same COW in two different vessels,
and that one exposed to the lower tempera-
ture will throw up more cream in given
time Thrust n metal rod into the fire, and
the heat will gradually progress, till the rod
becomes too hot for further holding; try the
same experiment with a morsel of earthen-
ware, and the heat will require a longer time
to creep before paining the hand. Hence
milk will cool more rapidly in metal pans, be-
cause the heat is conducted away more rapid
ly than in porcelain ones, and that is why. in
Danish diaries, tin-plate dishes are employed,
narrow and deep twenty inches high by siX-
teen wide to afford greater metallic surface
for cooling down. Iron makes n bad PAN rs
it rusts zinc is acted upon by the sugar of
the milk Copper produces verdgris; tin is
expensive so tin-plate is selected. When the
farmer makes no provision of ice, lie can cool
the cream by means of well water. Cold con-
serves the milk. Heat turns the milk by
changing the sugar of the milk into vinegar
preparing thus "A medium for the existence of
those animalculp ever floating in warm air
That is why diaries cannot be kept too cool
and too far away from manure pits and cattle
sheds-in word, too sweet BY churning at
the Denmark temperature the time is reduced
by one-third and less butter remains in the
milk. -Pdrs Letter to Neir EHgiaRd FdrmCr.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1878-06-07

A lady writer to the New York Times says
Without giving any receipts for making soap,
| wish to tell the hard-worked farmers wives
how much labor they may save by not using
such vast quantities of this article For near
ly five years l have used milk only for wash
ing clothes. In all that time l have not used
one pound of soap for washing dishes and
other kitchen purposes. My family has rang
ed from three to twenty-five ! have used
cistern water, limestone water, as hard rs pos
sble and hard water composed of other in
gradients beside lime. and find with all these
my plan works equally well. 1t is this Have
your water quite hot, and add very little
milk to it. This softens the water, gives the
dishes fine gloss, and preserves the hands ;
it removes the grease, even that from beef,
and yet no grease is found floating on the wa
ter, as when soap is used. The stove vessels
| always set on the stove with "A little water in
them when the yictuals are taken from them
thus they are hot when | am ready to wash
them, and the grease is easily removed.
find that my tin-ware keeps longer when
cleansed in this way than by using soap, on
securing"
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1878-06-07
You NIn.t Curr ,hnr Cousn.

With Shiloh's Consumption Cure you can
cure yourself. II has established the fact
that Consumption can be cured, while for
Coughs, Bronchitis, Whooping Cough, Asth-
ma and all diseases Of Throat and Lungs, it
is absolutely without an equal. Two doses
will relieve your child of Group, it is pleasant
to take and perfectly harmless to the young
est child, aud no mother can afford to be
without it, You can use two-thirds of bot
tie, and if what We say is not true We will re-
fund the price paid Price 10 cts, 30 cts,
and Sl.00 per bottle. If your Lungs are sore
or chest or back lame use Shiloh's Porous
Plaster. Sold by II. c. Willard Il Co., |. n.
Thorn d Sons, Brattlcboro.
Have you Dyspepsia are you Constipated,
have you yellow skin, loss of appetite, head
ache? If so, don't fail to use SHILOHS
SYSTEM NIrALIZER. 1t is guaranteed to
relieve you, and will you continue to suffer
when you can be cured ON such terms as
these. Price 10 cts. and ~ cts. Sold by II.
G. Willard a Co., l. n. Thorn 4 Sons, Brat
tleboro
Wells Persian Perfume "HACKMETACK'
is rich and fragrant. Try it. Sold by II. c.
Willard Co., !. N. Thorn Il Sons, Bnttle
boro.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1878-06-07

Barley has, since the failure of the DAT crop,
gained in reputation as II good and substan-
tial food for horses, and many farmers are
now growing it for this purpose 1t must be
confessed that barley contains in high de-
gree, the principles for forming fat and flesh.
1t largely abounds in albumen, gluten. sugar,
gum, and phosphate of lime, or in other
words, barley contains sixty-ive per centum
of nutritiye matter, while oats, weighing for
ty pounds to the bushel, contain only about
twenty pounds. Inferior barley in some
parts of this country is fed to horses, instead
of oats, with the best effects. In this connec-
ton it would be well for horsemen to remem-
Der that two parts of barley are worth more
than three of good oats. -JOura0l Of tie
EnL1n.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1878-06-07

Tie experience of many thriving farmers
all over the country proves that better run
of animals is obtained by breeding them ON
the farm than by purchasing them. More
care is bestowed in selecting the likely OF
spring of tried animals they will go on fatten-
ing more rapidly and uniformly than stran-
gers picked up here and there for it takes
some time before these get acquainted and
kindly in their new home; and moreover,
the tendency of prices for young stock is up.
ward, and the probability is very strong that
ere long it will not pay farmers to go into
market for young animals Iu any case, it is,
rs a rule, more profitable to breed the stock
one handles than to purchase it.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1878-06-07

The making of good butter depends more
upon the skill of the one who makes it than it
does upon the method adopted. A thorough
ly good butter maker will make good butter
under very unfavorable conditions, while u
careless and Indifferent butter maker win pro-
duce poor article with the most improved
methods. Good butter can be made from
shallow pans, from deep cans with the use of
spring water, or without the use of spring
water, and poor butter can be made by the
same means 1t is not any particular method
or apparatus that insures good butter, 1t is
the one who manages the dairy who deter
mines the character of the product, The
making of good butter is not a difficult art,
Any intelligent person with care and atten-
ton can learn to make good butter, yet there
il an immense amount of poor butter sent to
market - LeiniStOH JOurHdL
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1878-06-07

We have Il story from Middletown. Conn,
that eclpses the mavels of oleomargarine.
The people of that place have accidentally
discovered how to utilize bull-frogs by con-
verting them into churners Of butter. The
discovery was thus reached A farmer in the
neighborhoud having placed a pail of milk III
spring of water to cool over night. went
there the next morning, and found, it is sol
emnly asserted instead of the pail Of milk, Il
large bull-frog sitting in contemplative mood
upon a roll of fresh butter. The sole cNpla-
nation is that the frog had jumped from the
water into the pail, and, in trying to cNtri,atc
himself, had, by diligent and continuous
strokes Of his long legs, churncd the milk
into butter. Such a thing might happen in
rustic Connecticut. but we will venture to as
sert that no bull-frog, however energetic and
trained or however agricultural in instinct,
could in any given time convert the aqueous
kind Of milk we get here into butter. or even
into tul"rable huttormilk Therefore, Us wr
can receive no benefit from the discovery, We
shall not attempt to put it in. practice We
shall continue IN our usual barbGrou5 fashion,
to eat the hind legs of frogs and leave it to
Middletown to employ them IL, natural, ,pou-
taneous, self-ncing chumers.--N. J. Times.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1878-06-07

81 DEEM II MY DUTY TO TELL THE WOELD' what
"Dr. SwHyues Compound Syrup Of Wild Cherry" has
done FOR l had a violent cough, night sweats,
throat, great weakness with severe attacks of
hemorrhage gave up all hope Of recovery. am now
cured, sound and hearty man. Edward H. Hanson
engineer at Sweeuey's pottery, 1884 Ridge avenue,
Philadelphia over twenty-five years have elapsed
and still remain healthy man. In order that all
may test the great virtues of Dr. Swayues Compound
syrup II Wild Cherry have issued trial bottles at
IS cents No family should be without this valuable
medicine, Ofen-times a single % cent bottle will
cure recent cough or cold and thus prevent much
suffering and risk. II also cures asthma, bronchitis,
liver complaints, and enriches and purilcs the blood
giving tone and strength to the entire system. Trial
bottles IS cents large size, 81. Sold by leading drug
glss. Prepared only by DR.. Swayne Son, Philadel-
phia II. G. willard Co.. agents for BrattlebOro.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1878-06-07

hog is no more inclined to put his for
ward feet in the trough than horse is wont
to put his feet into a Manager. The great fault
is in the construction Of the hogs trough.
Almost always il is so deep, and the front side
so high, that the feed cannot be reached by
either large hogs or pigs until the fore feet
are planted in the middle of the trough.
Small pigs are required to mount into the
trough with every foot before they can reach
the feed These are the reasons why hog
puts his fore feet into the trough. Let the
front side of the trough he made so low that
the animal can walk up to it and reach the
feed without resting his throat on the edge OF
the trough, and he will stand up to it rs a
horse stands to his manger.-SOUthern Fdl.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1878-06-07
He.t Food FOR Hore..

In answer to inquiries rs to the best food
for mares in foal, and for stallion, the veter-
mary surgeon of Pikess Spirit gives the fol
lowing: "We consider good oats and hay tho
safest and best food for mares during gesta-
ton. No bran mashes, corn meal, carrots or
other vegetables should he allowed, as they
are apt to disturb the bowels and induce col
ic Dat straw is highly Objectionable, owing
TO its tendency 10 accumulate in the bowels
and produce indigestion, There is no better
diet than good hay aud oats, given in suffi-
Client quantity to keep the horse in vigorous
condition, aud lac should have sufficient regu-
lar exercise to prevent his becoming too fat. "
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1878-06-07
Don't discourage the Boys.

One reason why boys do not remain on the
farm is because they have received the i'm
preston from the remarks of their parents
that almost every other pursuit pays better
than farming. Hence they conclude that it is
better for them to try something else for earn
ing livelihood. If farmers habituated them
selves to taking a more hopeful view of their
calling, and mingled enough thought with il
TO render it profitable, boys would regard the
farmers life with more favor and prefer u
remain on the farm. Leloist0n JOnr7,aI.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1878-06-07

symptoms of which moisture, like Precipitation
intense itching, particularly wh-n undressing or al
ter getting in bed, increased by scratching,
might think pin worms crawling in and about
the rectum, ofeutmes shows itself around the private
parts. A pleasant and safe cure in every case Is
"Swaynes Ointment II allowed to continue very
serious results may follow 1t also cures letter bar
bers itch, scad head, ring worm, bloches all crusty,
scaly, Itchy skin eruptions. Sent by mail to any ad-
dress receipt Of price, 80 cents box three box
for sl25, by DR.. Swayue Son, Philadelphia Sold
by all leading druggists II. c. willard Co, agents
for Bratteb1ro
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1878-06-07

Since the introduction Of the London Hair Color
Restorer" into ils country it has been the wonder
aud admiration Of all classes il has proved to be
the only article that will absolutely restore the hair to
its original color health softncss vitality uster and
beauty, and produce hair on bald heads Of it, original
growth aud color. As hair dressing it !. the most
clean!y and lasting entirely void Of al sticky gum
my properties II imparts TO the hair 4 gloss and
silken sOfucss, removes all scurf dandruh, cures
itching scalp and keeps 1t clean, cool aud healthy.
Ask your druggist FOR "LOnduu Hair RestOrer," aud
have other. All sell it at Is cents bottle For
sale in BrattieborO by II. c. willard s Co.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1878-06-07

Coustpated bowels, inward piles oostiycness feyrrs,
torpid liver, yellowness Of the skin and eyes ndl
ton, dyspepsia, and all arrangements Of the internal
yiscera cured by "swaynes Tar and sarsaparilla
Pills. Unlike many other pursatyes, they do not ir-
ritate the stomach aud bowels 10y frequent use They
keep the system in a healthy condition by arousinp
the TORPID liver to healthy action aud e1relling by tn,
bowels aud kidneys the matte, that poisons the foun
dation Of life. BE particular TO obtain swaynes Pills
Price % cents a box at all lridiug druggists. H.
willard 4 Co, Brattle bor0 agents.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1878-06-07

THIS PATENT is now owned by
JOHN GORE and S. M. WAITE,
and right to use it must be secured
from them, or its infringement will
be prosecuted TO the full extent of
the law.
Address JOHN CORE or $. NJ. WAITE, Brattleboro,
Vermont tlg
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1878-06-07

OF the Truusy yana route Is admitted 90 be uusur-
passed in the world for grandeur beauty aud variety
superior reircsAmrut facilities are provided. Em-
rly,s courteous and attentive, and It is newt
able result that trip by the Pennsylvania Railroad
must form pleasing aud memorable experience.
Tickets for sale az the lowest rates at the ticket OFF,
IT the Company 10 all important cities and towns.
FRANK THOMPSON L. J.. FARMER,
Gtnrgli Htndlcr GEN. Pass .lg't.
c. s. HALDEMAN, New England Agent
213 sud 2g5 Washington street, Boston. Mass.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1878-06-07
Business Notirrs.


The main cause OF nervousness h. Indigestion, and
that is caused by weakness Of the stomach. No one
can have sound and good health without using
Hop Bitters to strengthen the stomach, purify the
blood, and to keep the liver aud Kidneys 81 tive, tu
carry un all the poisonous and waste matter # the
sNsinm. See OF her cmLmMn.