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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1879-02-05
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VEgJGIINE.
HEB OWN WORDS.

Baltimore, I'D, Feb. 18Th, 1s77.-Gr. 81. 4.
Sio7ora: rear :r-Since sevaral years have
sot o sore and vc!y painful foot. l had some
nkys;ci.ns. tut they couldn't cure mo: Now l
hryc hesrd Of your Vegs,ine from lady who
5ns sich fer . Iorg tins, eLd became all well
frcu s"u- Voae.ino and vent and bought me
oso L@I:e cf Vego!ine; sid after Lad used one
bot;!s. the psi-s left ne, and it began to heal,
and .hen l hough! ono ether bottle. and SO take
it yet thank Gcd Tor thl: remedy and youf.
salt; ard wishing every sufferer may pay Haen-
ton i. Iii blessing for health.
Mrs =. kRABE. G3S West Bait. st.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1879-02-05

P. F!CHLIN & SONS BELMONT
10 xxx SEST EXTRA AID FAMILY
FLOUR; so.o b. ali grocers.
jsD 2. G Il TAYLOR, Jr.. Agent.
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Special contracts will 90 made with yearly al
vertsers. o.:..,
Marriage snd Death Notices fifty cents. Ooltu-
aries will be charged at advertisement rates.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1879-10-29
Hints worth Heeding.

Never leave out your clothes line over
night, and see that your clothes pins are
all gathered into basket.
A bit of isinglass dissolved in gin, OF
boiled in spirits of wine, will make
strong cement for broken glass, china OF
sea shells.
Court plaster is made of thin silk,
first dipped in dissolved isinglass and
dried, then dipped several times in white
of an egg and dried.
1t is said that the oil that exudes from
orange peel when bent between the fin
gers viii check the progress of carbun-
cles in their ineipient stages. Perhaps
the oil may also be useful for other GU
taneous eruptions.
Have all the good bits of Vegetables
and meats collected after dinner and
minced before. they are set away, that
they may be In readiness to make little
savory mince meat for supper or break
fast. Take the skins off potatoes before
they are cold.
The lemon syrup bought at stores
can be made at home much cheaper.
Take a pound of Havana sugar, boil 1t
in water down to q quart, drop in the
white of an egg to clarity it, strain it,
add onequarter Of an ounce Of tartarir
or citric acid. 1lIfgyon do not find 1t
sour enough after It has stood two or
three days, add more Of the acid. a
few drops Of oil Of lemon improves it.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1879-10-29
kitchen Recipes.

HAM BAILs.-Chop fine cold cooked
ham, add an egg for each person, a little
flour, beat together, make into balls and
fry in hot butter.
PoTAToEs-A L'ALLEMANDE. Prof.
Blot says that nice way to cook pota-
toes is to steam, peel, and then slice
them Next, cut some bread IN thin
slices, and fry bread and potatoes with
little butter, and turn the whole IN a
bowl, dust well and sugar, pour a little
milk all over and bake for about fifteen
minutes serve warm.
CHARTREUsE OF CHICKEN AND MAC
ARoNI.-One large fowl boiled tender;
one-half box gelatine; one cup OF liquor
in which the chicken was boiled Greed
from fat; one large cup of cream; salt
and pepper to taste; fourteen ounces OF
macaroni. Boil macaroni about three
minutes; place on a board and cut into
pieces about two-thirds Of an inch long.
Butter a two-quart mold and line with
macaroni to within an inch of the top
fill In with chicken, seasoning each
layer with salt and pepper; then add
the liquor and cream. Steam one hour.
TO be served cold or hot. The gelatIne
should be soaked in cold water enough
to cover it one hour, then dissolved IN
the cup of boiling liquor. The ends OF
the macaroni should point towards the
sides and bottom of the dish--trom
Miss NJ Parloas. Recipes.
BRIDES PUDDING One quart of milk,
six table-spoonfuls of corn starch, the
yolks Of six eggs, one teaspoonful of
salt Put the milk in a basin, and set
the basin into kettle with boiling
water, and when it comes to boil stir
in the corn starch and the yolks of the
eggs, which prepare in the following
manner: Wet the corn starch with one
cupful of cold milk, and then stir into
it the eggs, which are well beaten. After
the starch is added to the boiling milk
it will cook in three minutes. Beat well
to make smooth.
Butter a pudding-dish, and turn the
pudding into it (do not fill within three
inches of the top of the dish), and bake
thirty minutes. Then take from the
oven and let it stand in a cool place
twenty minutes; then cover with me-
ringue. Set in the oven ten minutes,
and serve with cold sauce.
Tomake the meringue, beat the white
of eggs to a stiff frOth, and then beat
into them gradually one cup of sugar.
This pudding is quite nice made with
four eggs, but it will not look so hand
some.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1879-10-29
PIT ON Flash.

The Chicago Prairie Farmer has con-
sistently held that the prime integer In
the fattening Of cattle, is to put on the
utmost muscular development-in other
words, the greatest possible quantity OF
lean flesh, consistent with an uniform
and constantly increasing daily growth.
This can only be accomplished by tax
ing the steer calves, and feeding from
calf-hood up, giving plentyof flush pas
ture in summer, and keeping them
going right along during winter. Thus
at three years old they may be turned
off as heavy and as fat as they would
be at four years old on what might be
called good winter keeping, and as heavy
as they would be at five years old on
fair keep, or such as is usually given
summer and winter with one winters
full feed.
Here is just where improved stock
breeders have the advantage. They
know full well that it will not pay to
breed improved stock and starve them.
The man who imagines that improved
stock will grow fat where common stock
will starve, is vastly mistaken. Yet
this is the presumption that many igno-
that there is no money III anything but
scrub stock. Reading men know very
well that this is not true, but on the
other hand that high feeding Of improv
ed stock pays far better than the same
feeding on common stock. The improv-
ed animal has greater powers Of assimi-
lation, but is more delicate in cOnstitu-
ton, has not so much hair as lily bred
stock, and consequently pays well for
warm shelter. We do not propose to
argue the question of shelter for either
common or scrub stock of the country.
That it will pay, and man can satisfy
himself of, by taking two similar punches
of steers feeding both alike as to guam
tity, one sheltered, and the other allow
ed to take storms winter and summer
as they come. The one will make mOny
for the feeder, and the other will as
surely lose money if a correct account
of debit and credit is kept.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1879-10-29
When to Sell.

Every one who is engaged In any de-
partment of agriculture or manufacture
is supposed to have from time to time
something to sell or exchange. On the
disposition of this surplus depends the
supply of all articles that the person
does not raise, embracing all implements
and improvements of every kind that
require an outlay. Hence it is a matter
of moment that the sale of these things
be made at the time the best price, all
considered, will be obtained. Is it
possible to be certain of this time In
general, no. There are many articles
that constitute exceptions. Those that
cannot be conveniently preserved, must,
of course, be thrown on the market at
once. Others that are in demand in
certain seasons only will be governed by
the season trade. But the most common
and valuable products of human indus
try are always in market, and yet are
subject to frequent fluctuations in price.
Such are the leading products of the
farm and most of the useful manutac-
lures. As to these no fixed rule can be
given, but the following suggestions
will commend themselves to the prudent.
One should keep himself informed of
the state of the market, especially in
places accessible to him, and as far as
practicable in places whose trade affects
directly his local market. The best way
to secure this is to take and read good
papers, that give not only the tabular
market statements, but also intelligent
and impartial comments and counsels.
When necessity compels one to sell, he
can only submit, regardless of price !;
but in all other cases, he ought to
govern himself consistently by reasona-
Die probabilities. Unless in the face of
a comparative certainty that there will
be no advance, economy plainly forbids
the disposal of a commodity at price
that is not more than Its cost to the
producer. Business cannot live on losses.
A certain farmer who always prospered
made it a rule to sell everything he
could spare as soon as it was in a mar
ketable condition He never made
much at one time, but he avoided all
risks of rogues and fires, all injuries by
vermin and weather, all the trouble
and expense of protracted storage, all
the reduction of shrinkage and inciden-
tai waste and he was receiving money
now and then, through the year. 1t is
safe advice to say that every one should
be content to sell at reasonable profit.
To wait for very large prices is danger
Gus policy, and, especially as to the
necessaries of life, very bad morals.
What man must have, his fellowman
should be willing to furnish at rates that
are not exorbitant or oppressive. Bust
ness should never violate the principles.
of magnanimity and true charity
Rural New Yorker.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1879-10-29
The Japan Persimmon.

DIR. NJ. w. Philips sends us a letter
from Mr.. G.. ID. Subway, Of this city,
relative to the Japan persimmon. The
Doctor says this is the first he had heard
Of the fruit in Mississippi He has
two trees three years old, and few
seedlings:
Jackson, MISS, October IS, 1879.
DIR. PmLIPs-DEAR SIR: In response
TO my enquiry, Dr. Harper, the veteran
scientist and pomologist of Natchez,
sends japan PersimmOn and it Is a
beauty; it measures 103 inches, weighs
8 ounces, is a very deep orange color,
slightly hattened on top, in shape some
what like tomato; the skin Is more
like a Malaga orange, certainly the most
beautiful fruit | have ever seen it
grew in the doctors garden. The tree
in its fourth year from the bud, was say
four feet high when | saw it in May.
The garden is on the edge Of the bluff,
over the river, although / do not think
situation has anything to do with early
fruiting Of the persimmon, as | have
trees one year younger but look as
thrifty and have grown as large as DR..
Harper's / think the variety is Toxic.
So far as | have heard this is the first
tree that has fruited east Of San Fran
cisco, but believe it will be a success.
] have four trees, all different exposures,
that stood last winter well; the very ter
minal buds we're not hurt.
Very truly yours,
G.. ID. Subway.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1879-10-29
A 1nINr RESOLUTION
To Propide 5y Constitutional Amendment :
BieHidl Elections.

To Propide 5g Constitutional Amendment for
Bietial Elections.
Rescued By the Legislature Of the State Of
Mississippi {two-thirds of each House agree
ing thereto. That the following Amendmentte
the Constitution OF this State substitute
for Sections Six and Seven, of Article Four of
said Constitution be submitted TO the quail
fed Electors of the State at the next general
election for adoption or rejection, namely;
Section 8. The political year shall begin on
the first Monday in January; the Legislature
shall meet ut the seat of Government on the
first Tuesday after the first Monday in Janu-
airy. A. D., 1852, also the first Tuesday after
tn first Monday in January, 1888 and Bien-
niallv thereafter, unless sooner convened by
the Governor. The time and place of meeting
may be altered by law.
SECTION :. A general election, by ballot,
shall he held on she first Tuesday after the
first Monday in November, A. D. 1850, ard
Biennially thereafter. All officers who go
into office on the first Monday in January,
1882. shall he elected at the general election
in 1880 All officers who go into office on the
first Monday in January, 1880, and all officers
who 90 into office ON the first Monday in Jahu-
ary, 1852, shall hold their respective offices
for three years but the Constitutional terms
of their successors. shall not be hereby Affect
treason felony, aud breach of the peace, shall
be privileged from arrest during their attend
ance at elections, and the going to and return
ing therefrom.
approved, March 9th, 1878.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1879-10-29
Raising Radishes.

A correspondent, in reply to the ques-
ton: How table radishes can be success
fully raised in the garden says: 81 find
no difficulty in raising nice crisp ones
in my garden, and having them IN rota-
ton during the entire season. What
the radish needs is fertile, sandy soil,
that does not bake on the surface. The
soil of my garden fills the bill. Mois-
ture, the sun and quick growth does the
rest. | undertook to improve one OF
my radish beds by filling it with heavy
black loan obtained from the river
bottom. 1t was failure. One or two
Of nv friends were not successful III
raising radishes until they formed beds
of sand wheeled from the road. Ia
heavy or clayey soils radishes are apt
to be tough. pungent and wormy, I'M
less the ground Is kept well pulverized,
and the weather is favorable to a rapid
growth | think the quality Of soil
alluded to, a rich sandy loan that will
not bake on the surface, Will generally
produce nice crisp radishes.' If it should
lose its virtue by planting the same crop
for number Of years, change to anoth-
er location"
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1879-10-29
FACTS FOR FARMERS.
How to Water Horses.

In cold weather give one pailful at a
time three times a day. This isenough
unless you are working them regularly
then give them little more, but not to
exceed four pailfuls day. In warm
weather when they are brought in, first
sponge out the mouth and nostrils well
with cold water After few spongings
they will wait for it to be done Then
give them not to exceed pailful apiece,
and after feeding give one more pailful
before you commence work. Don't let
them 90 without long enough to make
them want more than this. Ifallowed,
thirsty horse, when warm, will drink
too much. A common twelve-quart
pail is the size referred to above.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1879-10-29
A Sucking Cow.

I wish you would, in your next issue,
give me good way of breaking a COW
from sucking l have looked for some
time but have not found anything on
the subject. | have tried everything
have heard Of. The last heard of was
n hollow bit, but do not know how to
make it. The COW is No. l mixer,
and do not like to kill her. L..
PLAINvILLE, Kansas.
The most successful means we have
seen used is light framework about
the cows neck, extending well down to
the shoulders, and wide enough so that
the COW may not turn her head suffici-
emily to reach the teats. 1t is evident
that bit will prevent an animal from
eating. The habit once fixed, it is diff
ficult to prevent a veteran sucker"
from fulfilling her mission by any means
that will insure proper and regular
feeding. Hence the animal should be
fattened.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1879-10-29
Raising Colts.

There is a crude notion prevailing
that hardships make young stock hardy.
A colt that is weaned in the fall, as is
commonly the case, should not be
allowed to become poor in the first win
ter 1t is true that it will often inn
prove so rapidly in the spring that its
wretched condition in the winter will
seem really to have been an advantage
to it, but this is a grave mistake. If
the same condition were imposed during
the whole period Of growth the effect
would be very perceptible.' Although
the summer may in some degree remove
the effect of the winter, no animal so
treated ever becomef what it might have
been in size, symmetry of form, and
usefulness by generous treatment.
There is profit in breeding nice carriage
and draft horses. As a general rule it
costs no more to raise a good colt than
a poor one, while the former will bring
two or three times as much as the latter.
A dark Stable is Il poor place to keep a
colt.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1879-10-29
Good Cultivation Pays.

A good soil rarely fails, even in a
poor season, Of returning paying in
come for the labor expended upon it in
the cultivation of any crop adapted to
it. The idea that the number of acres
in crops indicates the farmers income
must be abandoned, and the number of
bushels per acre must be looked for
instead. There is certainly less profit
in blowing fifty acres, to raise l 900
bushels of grain, than in blowing but
twenty-five to grow the same amount,
and trusting to good seasons for fair
crops will not be thought of by the
improved farmer A rich, well cult
waited soil, will usually make fair returns
in what we call bad or unfavorable
seasons. What the farmer on a poor
soil would call a good season seldom
Farmer.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1879-10-29
Hog Cholera.

We find a great variety Of theories in
regard to the cause Of hog cholera ;
among them we have seen the following:
Worms, filth, exposure, too much corn,
too early maturity, continued breeding
to young sows, blood poison, etc. Doubt
less all these theories are in part correct,
or have basis of fact. Why go out
side of natural and well known causes
to account for hog cholera? In the hui
man family we have epidemic from diff
ferent causes and in different forms !;
we do not undertake the impossible by
seeking after one cause for all disease,
even all epidemics. Sometimes the cause
may be exposure, at others gorging with
improper food, and again the influences
may be malarial. The symptoms at
once indicates typhoid fever, at another
putrid sore throat, and again dysentery !;
we do not seek for common cause, nor
a common cure. Why pursue differ
ent course with swine?
We have in the hog a combination of
dangerous elements, a vigorous appetite,
rapid eating, small muscle compared to
size of animal, inclination to keep quiet,
etc. Take the people of Iowa, give a
constant supply ol choice 1oou, 1et GIleHI
eat and go to bed, take no precautions
against extremes of weather, and how
long would it be before cholera, dipthe-
ria, consumption, ETC., would sweep
them off by the thousand? Let us APP
ply the same to our hogs, Only healthy
animals should be coupled, and not till
they have reached maturity, or nearly
so. While plenty of good food should
be constantly restrained until short
time before marketing; concentrated
food should be fed cautiously and ample
time given for digestion; pure water in
abundance should be furnished, and all
the precautions to health taken that are
known to the human family. We do
not say that disease can be absolutely
avoided in this way, but we are well
satisfied the larger portion can.-West-
ern Stock Journal.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1879-10-29
A GOOD PLAN

Anybody can learn 10 make money rapidly
operating in Stocks by the Two Unerring
Rules for Success, in Messrs. Lawrence (
Cos new circular. The combination method,
which this firm has made successful en-
ables people with large or small means 10 reap
all the benefits OF largest capital and best skill.
Thousands of ORDERS in various sums are
pooled into one vast amount and co-operated
as a mighty whole, thus securing to each
shareholder all the advantages of the largest
operator Immense profits are divided month
w. ANY amount, from s. to 5000, more.
can be used successfully. n. 7. Baptist Week
lv, September 26th. 1875, says, BY the combi-
nation system SIS would make S75. or per
cent; $50 pays $50 or per cent; 500 makes
81 GOO or 10 per cent. on the stock, during the
MONTH according II the market. Frank Les
lies Illustrated Newspaper, June 18th: The
combination method of operating stocks is
the most successful ever adopted New York
Independent Sept. 18th: The combination
system is founded upon correct business prin-
ciples, and person need be without in
come while it is kept working by Messrs
Lawrence s. Co. Brooklyn Journal, April
18th "Our editor madea net profit of $I01 %
from so in one of Messrs. Lawrence & Cos
combinations" New circular (mailed free}
explaining everything. Stocks and bonds
wanted. Government bonds supplied. Law
renee &Co-, Bankers, 81 Exchange Place n Y
iuly30i 79-3m.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1879-10-29
Cattle Raising in Texas.

As showing the cost and profit of
keeping cattle in Texas, the Henrietti
Journal of that State says: "The cost
of keeping cattle per year is about 81 so
per head, or 81 800 per thousand. Four
men with twelve to sixteen head of
horses will tend heard of 800. The
profits are about as follows Beeves
per head, cost SIS, running expenses
$3.50, sell at S22 with profit of 80 per
cent. Profit on cows costing S13. so per
head, cost of keeping $3.50, or SIS.
Increase of calves, 10 per cent, worth
So per head. Net profit % per cent.
On mixed herd the beeves sold, will
pay expenses, and the increase will
double itself in three years. A discount
is made on a mixed herd of 10 per cent
for losses. The profit ON a mixed herd
is about 20 per cent" 1t says there is
a total of cattle in the Pan Handle
country of about 100, 900 head, and that
it is fair to calculate that the increase
this year from the present herds will
average not less than 80 per cent of
the entire number This will give
$4,000 calves; the number that will
stop this season from the Texas drive
will be about 30,000 head. This will
leave in the Pan Handle for the next
years round ups about Dos, 900 head,
and yet this does not begin to fill up
the country, as it is estimated that it
will hold l 100000 head. The present
average prices for mixed herds per
head, are: Texas stock, 1881; do
mestic stock, SIS; beeves alone, S22.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1879-10-29
TRUSTEES SALE.

1879 fys. ri. Fa. for s24e az in
J Il B2 Ssx;.a and 'erest and costs o. m
FINDER AND BY. VIRTUE OF THE
- above stated writ to me directed from the
S SLre3 court for the LIST District of Kinds
County, Mississippi, l will, FI-1-F
On the Sd Day Of November, 1879.
within legal hours, at the front orIeasterr H.
OF the City Hall CoAFt~House, in jackson
Mississippi, expose for sale, for cash, at pubEc
auction, to the highest bidder. the following
described lands and tenements, being and lyi- ?
In said county and State, to-wit: The VII ~
n n W =, and q of = of 4 of section
3D. lying north of theJaekson and Clinton dir
ROAD. Inc ofn1e Il and a part of W = of
n e 4 and all that part of S u of section 80.
5o"nshIp o, range east, lying north of said
JAG kson and Clinton road, and east of the line
o. lard formerly belonging to A. NJ. Foute, all
IN township s, range 1 east. The same heinz
me LANDS heretofore Conveyed by H. c. Daniel
and wife TO Mrs. Julia Bowman The same
with the tenements and appnrtenances thereon
naSIng peen levied on the property of Mrs
una Bowman, will be sold to Satisfy said fs
and all COSTS s.. B. THOMAS, Sherias etc 90
Oct. g. At. AZ sS'
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the same time they require strong feed
ing, but are well adapted to shirk for
themselves where there is plenty of
range. In relation to pasture, the more
clover it contains, the further it will go
in feeding swine of any creed When
lighter, quick fattening hogs are desired,
one can not well go amiss with the
Essex.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1879-10-29

IT is related that Mr.. Leonard
Jerome, upon the occasion of his first
visit to Rome, was shown the Coliseum,
and was told that it was the most mag
nifcent ruin in the world. 'You
should have seen the Pacific Mail" he
replied, with groan, to his astonished
interlocutor