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The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1879-01-16
A Model New England Farm.

Mr.. Burnett, the owner of the three
hundred acres in Southboro, Mass.
known as Deerfoot farm, makes a spe-
cialty of breeding, raising and fattening
hogs, and converting them into various
articles OF food, and of the products of
the dairy. The conversion of the car
casses into hams and bacon, and the
manufacture of sausages and lard are
carried on in the most systematic man
ner and on an extensive scale; extra
pains being taken to produce for the
private consumption of customers in
Boston, New York and Philadelphia,
the choicest and most palatable articles.
MIR. Burnett raises about $50 hogs an
nually, and purchases from the farmers
Of Vermont 1, 500 fat Berkshires, which
make the best pork. After being dress
ed, the hogs are kept in a refrigerator
for forty eight hours, when they are cut
up, the hams and bacon cured in the
most approved manner, the lard tried
out and canned free from adulteration,
and the pork packed in kegs of fifteen
and twenty pounds weight; the sausage
meat chopped by machinery and sea.
soned with the best quality of sage and
pepper that can be obtained, and then
made into sausages. Mr.. Burnett's
bacon has taken the place of imported
English bacon in the Boston market,
and has become 30 popular in Philadel-
phia that one dealer has offered to take
the entire product of Deerfoot farm,
which amounts to 800 sides day, while
5000 hams are cured annually. The
product of sausages averages about
1000 pounds day. Another speciality
of Mr.. Burnett is the canning of pigs
feet, which are sold largely in the sea-
son to yachting parties. The piggery at
Deerfoot farm is an extensive affair,
located at some distance from the main
buildings, and consists of a building
eighty by forty feet, with a wing sixty
by twenty feet, containing pens, in
which were seen about $50 swine of all
ages, from the sucking pig to the hog
ready for the scalding vat. The animals
are fed twice day, on cooked mixture
of two-thirds corn meal and one-third
ground oats, which Mr.. Burnett has de-
monstrated to be the most profitable
food for fattening hogs. In the dairy,
the Devonshire process of producing
clotted cream is used. New milk, .scald-
ed, is placed in long, large pans, which
are placed under refrigerator, where it
is cooled rapidly, the temperature being
reduced in three hours from 100 degrees
to thirty-two degrees, and cream raised
to the thickness of three-fourths of an
inch, which ordinarily rec Tired forty
eight hours. This cream will keep
sweet several days, and is sold for sixty
cents quart to Boston families. Mr..
Burnett also manufactures from $50 To
800 pounds Of butter a week from the
milk Of fifty COWS, of which twenty-five
are thoroughbred Jerseys, The butter
readily sells at Seventy-five cents 9
pound. Boston Transcript.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1879-01-16
Toad Poisoning.

The following singular account of the
action of toad poisoning on the human
body, is reported in the last number OF
the London Chemist:
A child of six years old followed a
large toad on hot summers day. throw.
ing stones at it. Suddenly he felt that
the animal had spurted some moisture
into his eye. There suddenly set in
the siightly-injeoted eye, but two hours
after coma, jumping sight, desire to
bite, dread Of food and drink. consti-
patton, abundant urine, great agitation, |,
manifested themselves, followed on the
sixth day by sickness, apathy, and a
kind Of stupcr. but with regular pulse
Some days later. having become com.
paratively'quiet. the boy left bis bed
his eyes are injected, the skin A dry. the the
pulse free from fever. He hoWis and
behaves himself like q madman, sinks
into imbeoility and speechlessness, from
which condition he never rallies.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1879-01-16
Good Resolutions in Chicago.

The Inter- Ocean bestows the follow
ing good resolutions gratis upon its SUBJ
scribers. Every one can easily be O
little, if not a good deal, better than
during the preceding twelvemonth. Set
the mark high, and live as nearly up to
it as possible. Resolve, among other
things, that during the coming year:
1. You will curb your temper and
your passions. Violent pleasures, arti.
fetal excitement, or free rein to a
temper easily provoked, consume life as
we'll as render it unhappy.
2. That, if addicted to profanity, in
even the smallest degree, you will aban-
don it, Aside from moral and religious
considerations, swearing is degrading
and vulgar. and betrays a poverty of ex-
preston.
the temptation to do otherwise, you will
tell the truth. Lying grows upon a
man, and is contemplate, as well as
odious, habit. Reform it altogether. q
4. Resolve to speak i'll of no man or
woman, except under proper provoca-
tion, and to the persons face. The
slanderer deserves place in that lake
which burneth with fire and birthstone.
5. Swear off from alcoholic drinks,
and put the dimes, quarters and halves
you have been accustomed to spend for
liquid lightning into savings box. You
will stand on your head with surprise
and qualification when you come to count
up the accumulation at the end of the
year.
6. Be eindustrious, keep your promises,
pay your debts, be charitable; in short,
take big stride ahead in a wiser, better,
more intelligent and useful life, and the
year will not only prove happier one
to you, but you will emerge from it
more successful, more honored, and
richer in everything than on the day
when you began the work of reform.
TRY IL
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1879-01-16
TriclliuOsis.

This is parasitic disease, caused by
eating pork infested with minutest hair
like worms, called trichine. 1t is OILY
since 1860 that the disease has been
fully investigated and understood, but
it can now be traced back, under other
names. at least two centuries. Since
the above date it has been recognized
wherever pork is eaten raw or imper-
fectly cooked; and there have been
many epidemics of it.
The trichine. after passing through
the stomach, rapidly multiply in the
intestines, and thence they work their
way into the substance of the muscles
generally and of the internal organs,
where they soon roll themselves up into
coils, like worms of the earth.
Ifcomparatively few trichiu@ are taken
into the stomach, either because the
pork is but slightly diseased, or is eaten
sparingly, or the meal is not repeated,
the disease is light and soon over.
In severer cases there is vomiting;
diarrhea. followed often by obstinate
constipation; profuse sweating; fever;
great pain in the limbs; difficulty of
chewing, swallowing and breathing:
hoarseness, often with entire loss OF
voice; neuralgia attacks and sleepless-
ness, except in children, with whom the
opposite condition of stupor prevails.
In the milder cases the patients begin
to recover in five or six weeks; in severer
forms, convalescence is deferred for four
months, while the full strength is not
restored for a much longer time. A
fatal termination is very common. gen.
orally from paralysis of the respiratory
organs: In children, recovery is the
rule. No means have yet been found to
destroy the trichin@.
American hogs seem to be especially
liable to the disease. They should be
sold for the market, home or foreign,
only after legal inspection. Butthorough
cooking kills the trichin@, Lard, oi
course, having been subjected to high
heat, cannot contain them.- Youths
Companion.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1879-01-16
Items OF Interest.

"Anti-fat y"-Killing the hog
when young.
Winter is the season best suited to
freeze speech.
A hotel bill may be called indebted
ness.
Why is a healthy tree like q dog
Because the bark is sound.
Look out for the girl who throws her
whole soul into rair of slippers for the
parson.
George W. Matchett, of the arkansas
Traveller, has been sticking type fifty
eight years.
Woman's capabilities are great, but
hardly sufficiently developed to allow Of
her driving a nail without hitting her
finger.
A man who bought box of cigars,
when asked what they were, replied,
"Tickets for course of lectures from
my wife,"
Nothing can exceed the intense affec-
tion which girl deals out to her father
for a day or two before the time when
she's going to ask for a new dress.
Old buttons are in demand in Paris as
articles of parlor ornament, and large
prices are paid for those in steel, jasper,
silver, pebbles or Alencon diamonds.
He that is found reasonable in one
thing is concluded to be so in all; and
to think or say otherwise is thought so
unjust an affront and so senseless CEN
sure that nobody ventures to do it.
In Belgium, if a candidate dies be-
tween the day of his nomination and the
day of the election, his name still re-
mains on the list and must be voted for.
At Ste. Mary, Luxembourg, dead man
has thus been elected to the communal
council.
The st. Louis Republican says: The
correct way to pronounce the name of
this State is as though it were spelled
Miszouri, and that of it's southern
neighbor as though it were spelled Ar-
kansaw. Dictionaries and gazetteers
often give other pronunciations, but
these are the ones which the people of
the respective States generally follow.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1879-01-16
Cost OF the Yellow Fever.

Loss of life by yellow fever in the
South last year is estimated at about
15, 900 persons, and of money and trade
at from $l75. 900, 600 to 5000, 600, ,OOO-
as great as the loss from the Chicago
fire. But some good is likely to come
out of this calamity. 1t is Thought that
henceforth quarantine regulations will
be more thoroughly established than
they have ever been. Apart from death
and human suffering, negligence is the
worst kind of political economy. Ex-
penditure of one-twentieth part Of what
the fever has cost might have prevented
1t altogether. Scientific american.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1879-01-16
VOL. VIII.
The Song OF the Stream.

The Song Of the Stream.
Over the mosses and grasses
The white cloud passes,
Silent and soft as dream;
And the earth, in her shy embraces,
Oonceals the traces
OF the secret birth of the stream
Till my threads are braided and woven,
And speed through the cloven
Channels, and gather and sink,
And wind, aud sparkle, and daily,
With song in the valley
And shout from the terrible brink
Then the whirl of the wind divides me,
And the rainbow hides me,
As midway scatter in air;
And bath with endless showers
The feet Of the flowers,
And the locks of tie forests hair
Till proudly, with waters welded
My strength is bedded
BY meadow, and slope, and lea;
And the lands at last deliver
Their tribute river
To the universal sea.
-Baydrd Taylor.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1879-01-16
" Fever-over-workl /"
4" Josie-Josie |"

Josie-Josie |"
If ever Fred Holman spoke, he spoke
then from an inner room, and the LITTLE
wife, seeming to forget her strange visi
tors, answered, quickly:
I'm coming, Fred"
She went at once to the room from
which the voice came, and again the
two, listening intently, heard Fred''
husky voice.
"Bring the last cordial, Josie. Tel
is faint"
A moment later the same CHEEKY
voice spoke again Drink this, ole
fellow. So See, here is Josie Don''
you know Josie2"
Then another voice-oh SO very
faint said
Josie-little wife p
A moment of utter silence followed,
and then Josie said
"There is a gentleman and lady in
the other room, Fred, who want to see
Frank. Will you see them ?"
And Fred, appearing in compliance
with this request, found his uncle Wig.
orously tanning Maude Chesterton with
a newspaper to bring her out of a faint.
ing fit.
Before he could frame question, his
uncle said, quickly:
"Get me some water |" And he
obeyed.
Then, Maude's blue eyes opened with
bewildered stare, the old gentleman
continued
"We were sent here to see your
domestic felicity, and we seem to be
misinformed."
"My domestic felicity !" cried Fred.
"Read that" said his uncle, handing
the anonymous note. And Fred com.
piled.
"Humph yes" he said. $50 you
came to see Mrs. Frederick Holman
Well, that lady has made me happy
man )" and his eyes flashed merrily
upon Maude. "But I will introduce
you to my cousins wife, Mrs. Frank
Holman. Maude," he continued, with
gentle gravity, "since you have come
here, it will be an act of Christian
charity to remain, for and his voice
sank very low" we are afraid the poor
little woman will be widow before the
morning."
"Poor fellow |" said James Ruther-
ford. "What is the trouble?"
Over-work. He thought he could
increase his small salary by toiling over
fine engravings i'll the evening, and he
broke down, 1 never knew of his mar
riage till last week, when he wrote me q
painful note, begging me to care for his
wife if he died. I came here at once,
and was fortunate enough to win poor
little Josie's sisterly confidence and
affection. Maude, if the great trouble
We fear comes -
81 will be her true sister, Fred
interrupted Maude.
Here was deep silence of several
minutes; then Josie, very pale still,
crept softly into the room.
"He is asleep n she whispered.
"The doctor said if he slept he would
livep
And when she broke into hysterical
weeping, Maude held her close in loving
arms, whispering that she must let hel
stay and comfort her, for Fred's sake.
Nearly eleven o'clock came, and still
Harvey rockingham waited, half.
frozen, in the dark courtway, to see the
discontinue of his rival. Then his pa.
tience was rewarded by seeing Fred and
his uncle come out of No. %, arm-in.
arm, evidently the best of friends, and
enter Miss Chesterton's carriage and
drive away.
Not until the day OF the wedding,
when he saw Josie an honored guest,
and was introduced to Mr.. Frank Hol-
man, did Harvey rockingham under
stand the slight mistake he had made.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1879-01-16

To the perfection of true friendship il
is necessary that there should be one
particular Individual selected from the
rest of mankind, who may be considered
as another self, to whom We can unbosom
our most serious thoughts; before whom
we are not ashamed to lay open our
weaknesses and foibles; or, in the ex.
prsssive phrase, to think alone.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1879-01-16

Instead of leaving flowers and wreaths
on the graves of dead friends, custom
expects the people of Madrid TO leave
visiting cards.
The daily gazette., 1879-12-10
From the Press.
IXtree-Per- Cent Bonds.

There are financiers who believe that
considerable portion of the public debt
can be refunded into permanent annuity
bonds bearing three per cent interest. A
scheme has been submitted to the Presi-
dent for refunding $500, 700, 900 of the
five.per-cent, 'ten-forty" bonds which
are payable in 1881, into irredeemable
three-per- securities, thereby affect
ing saving of interest of $4,000, 900
per annum. 1t is claimed that these
bonds would be readily taken by men of
large wealth, and that they would be a
popular investment for estates. The ex-
emption from taxation would make them
equal to a 6ve-per cent. bond TO holders
who reside in Philadelphia, New York,
Baltimore and other cities in which the
rate of taxation equals, or exceeds, two
per cent.
Those who hold that national debt is
a national blessing would regard these
irredeemable bonds with particular favor.
1t Is true that the sum contemplated
($5OO, ,OOO,O only represents about one
fourth Of the funded debt, but it is prob
able that is quite as much as the people
Of the United States would be willing to
see reduced to permanent form, even
for the sake of efiecting q saving of $10,-
100000 per annum In interest. What
ever merit there may be in irredeemable
Government securities, the masses OF the
people do not like to contemplate bond
which by its terms is never to be paid.
Even if the day of I, demption be remote
and beyond the lives of the youngest of
The bondholders, yet the fact that there
Is day named In the bond gives it great
er value in the popular estimation.
II it be found practicable to refund the
same amount of 5-per-cent into 3.65-per-
cent. bonds, redeemable in thirty years.
the annual saving in interest wonld be
SO, 75O, 900; or, If 4-per-cent, bonds were
substituted, So, 0O0, 900 per annum would
be saved. There seems to be a concur
renee OF opinion among financial men that
the 5-per-cent. United State bonds can be
refunded at lower rate of interest, and
the particular form which the new bonds
shall take Is the main question TO be de.
termined by Congress. The fact that Mr.
Vanderbilt sold $25, 600, 900 of dividend
paying stock in the New York Central
railroad and invested large part of the
proceeds of the sale in Government bonds
bearing A per cent. interest, shows thai
the largest capitalists and boldest specu-
lators are willing to take low rate o.
interest, for the sake of absolute security
The exemption from State and municipal
taxation is also consideration which, in
some cities, make even 3-per- cent. non.
taxable bond desirable investment.
The daily gazette., 1879-12-10
"a, TIME TABLE.
1r WILMINGTON

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SG, le@' n On sundays, 2.2l. $40.
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a BALrlAoom a m. !: il.52, 1.OA, OILS, 7.os,
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b, n,uARE WESTERN II. RIB
s pELs.S~eHn w w. m. No sunday trains.
,sa ,,n.' aRRlvE IN WILMINGTON
blSs Ssn.nv,puIA.-i2.is, n 2.03, $50;
s m lgOi. l2i2, i,VS' 80 iiays' 80 70 S' 40
w m.: 7.S5. lilo p: m. ,o,o
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hh h,,uriMoRE.-2.l5. ~ 9.3o, s.oI. n; III. !;
BY ,.s7 r. 5.g, 9.56, p. m. On sundays
M m;WyI,ssnts0roS.--2.l5. w. a. m.; l2o3.
~ w irsrLE $50, 8 %, ll.50a. M:
" NJ" w No sunday trains.
W bRsiAwARE X. X. -s.oO, ll'oo a. m !;
pnN IN day trains.
D. wIlMISGroS 4 NORTHERN II. II.
p,s pA a. m; Gas p. IN. No Sunday
,.,,wARE WESTERN Il. R.--s.t0,
ian p's soj p. m. No Sunday trains.
,ss | roR WILMINGTON LEAVE
y" PHILADELPHIA.
,,o,p STREET AND WASHINGTON
peo 800. 1879, II Is II. m; l.D
,n II; 800 100, 9.i5. ll.30 J.. IN. On
w ", Si A. IN. 800, 9.i5, il.O p. IN.
Ss"TaIRrY SECOND AND MARKET
In. ll.3j IA. m; ~ ID, i.OO, p.
rms m. ON sundays, LOO, 7.D a. nj.
Ln-rne black figures represent rex, ae 1.-THE the
isd Express ON when an extra
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The daily gazette., 1879-12-10

A year ago the Treasury held over 63t
millions, and New York had about 40
millions in bank. Now, 1t is difficult to
get hold Of sufficient Government cur
rency to make the daily settlements be-
tween banks, and gold is getting to be
quite largely used in the absence of the
more convenient medium. AS it is truly
said by the Boston Advertiser, theories
are of little value in attempting to ac-.
count for the scarcity complain ed of
There is no doubt that great deal has
gone West and South, where it has
found a resting place IN the pockets of
the people to a greater extent than for
merly. The West is no longer poor, and
the South Is improving in prosperity,
and 'he more prosperous they become
the more use they have for money at
home and the less they are obliged to
send it away. 1t does not go as rapidly
into the stores in payment of deuts or
for necessaries and does not find its
way so rapidly into banks to swell the
financial stream which turns the wheel
of business and for the time it is absorb
ed.
The daily gazette., 1879-12-10

1879 Prizes, amounting to.......... 1922 500
Gen. G. T. Beauregard, OF La.
Gen. Jubal A. Early, Of Va. 0o"ihis'rs
Application for rates to clubs shou,d
only be made to the Office of the Company
in New Orleans. Write for circulars or
send orders to M. A. DAUPHIN,
New Orleans, La,
or same person at
No. 3l9 Broadway. New York.
nOyl2.WSs&W5t.
The daily gazette., 1879-12-10
BulL-DOSiaO In Louisiana De-
MED,

New ORLEANS, December 9.-The
following despatch has been received by
the agent Of the Associated Press:
DELTA, La, Dec. 9.-Reports of vio-
lence on Peck and r. II. Brown are lit
orally false. Both are well and have not
been troubled. The election passed of
quiety.
W. A. PRICE.
Colored Republican candidate for Dis
trict Attorney.
The daily gazette., 1879-12-10
Joe Jo1uston ana the Arn.v.

WASHINGTON Dec. 9.--General Joe
Johnston of Virginia was to-day made
chairman of the sub Committee of the
Military Affairs Committee to consider
the army reorganization, and the compo-
sition ofthe committee shows that it will
not favor any reduction of force. Sparks,
Lefevre and McCook were appointed a
subcommittee to consider the Fitz John
Porter case.
The daily gazette., 1879-12-10

DEC EMBER 81, 1879.
These drawings, authorized by act OF
the Legislature of 1869, and sustained by
advertisements ofother lottery companies
who claim the sole ownership of call the
grants in Kentucky" to the contrary not
withstanding), occur regularly on the last
day of every month (Sundays excepted),
and are supervised by prominent State
officials.
Every ticket-holder can be his own
supervisor, call out his number and see II
placed in the wheel.
The Management call attention to the
grand opportunity presented of fobtaining,
The daily gazette., 1879-12-10
THE FOLLOWING PRIZES

1850 Prizes, Sll2,I00
Whole Tickets o.. Half Tickets, IL.
q Tickets, $50. S. Tickets, 500
All applications for club rates should be
made To the home office.
Remit by bank draft or express. Orders
of s. and upwards, by express, can be sent
at our expense.
Full list of drawing published in Louis.
willie Courier Journal and New York ii err
aid and mailed to all tick ct holders. For
tickets and Information address II. j
COMMERFORD, Courier Journal Build
ing, Louisville, KY.
tu,thu&sat- d&w3w,
The daily gazette., 1879-12-10
TO StCl A N B
AND
CONSUMERS OF
GOD LIVER OIL.

knowing IRON experience the dls satls-
faction 50 often attending the isiensing
of many OF the en- ulsions In The market
would call your attention to soiac of the
features of the emulsion which have pre-.
pare and dispensed for years with an
Varying satisfaction, The OIL used IL the
finest Norwegian and the most scrupu
maieriaI and in every detail OF It's manu-
facture. BY careful manipulation this
en- ulsion is made with the smallest pos
sibie amount of gum. and by the very mi
mute division OF the oil siobuies Is rehuet-
ed very fluid and perfectly paiataole.-
zach tables poonful contains 90 er cent;
OF OH and 5 grains of Hypophosphite y
Lime. samples will be gladly fIrnisneu
10 all Physicians who may desire tnenn.-
PM up In pint bottles, price II. Manu-
factured and sold Wholesale and retail by
w. <, WILLIAMS,
DRUGGIST.
apIa.tf Ninth and Market Sts.
The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1879-10-18
Esther A. Perkins.

We were inexpressibly grieved
this morning when the news came
that Esther a. Perkins, the
daughter of our sesteemed friend
j. Scu,lday Perkins, of Lafourche.
was no more. Born beneath the
tall mighty trees of the old planta
ton, reared upon the banks of
the lovely Bayou Lafourche, it
was meet that her Young lie
should take its flight there in
tie Old homestead. while the
great trees about shed their
bright colored leaves for a more
solemn garb, and the waters of
the bayou flow slowly and noise
lessly, lest the last sleep of their
darling should be broken.
Let death snatch the infant
from its parents arms or take
away those whose sands OF life
have been almost spent, and the
PARTING Is Il grevious one, but
when he comes to rob our homes
OF those whom we have watched in
their childhood, and whose years
are just bordering upon wOman-
hood, then, oh then, is the hoase
hold torn asnnder and cold ashes
strew the hearth. -Picay,hee.