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Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1880-07-15
FARM, GARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD.

Prosafc Kitchen Rules Poefized.
Veal outlets dipped in egg and bread-crumb,
Fry till you see brownish red come.
Roast pork, sans apple-sauce, past doubt,
Is Hamlet with the prince left out.
Your mutton chops with paper cover,
And make them amber-brown all over.
Broa lightly your beefsteak-to try it
Argues contempt for Christian diet
The cook deserves hearty cutting,
Who serves roast fowls with tasteless stunning
Egg sauce-few makeit right, alasi-
Is good with blue fish, or with bass.
Shad, stuffed and baked, is most delicious;
'Twould have electrified Apicius.
Roasted in paste, haunch of mutton
Might make ascetics play the glutton.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1880-07-15

Remarkable Facts Concerning Cente-
narians and People but Little Younger.
After living a century, Bridget King,
of Cooperstown, N. T., was burned 70
death.
The sole occupants of house in Bel
fast, Me-, are three persons whose 8
are ninety, eighty-two and seventy
eight years.
In Albany, N. Y, Simon Frazer cele-
brated his l03d birthday. He is
Scotchman, and still vigorous
Benjamin Barton. of Flushing, L. T..
aged nineuy-one years, says that. having
never married, he is PROBABLY good for
1875.
The mother ofJohn G. Sake died re-
Gently, aged ninety-one. Her faculties
remained bright, and her hair had not
turned gray.
Statistics sho Y that ia,ssI persons
living in Europe are over ninety years
of age. Centenarians are not uncOm-
mon, Italy having 4U2, Austria 4l2, and
Hungary l,050.
The mother of the Rev. Samuel May
was present in his home in Boston on
the SEVENTEEN anniversary of his birth.
She is enjoying serene old age. in
which nineI y two years have been num-
bered.
In Hartford, Conn, Mrs. Bridget
Farrel, native of Ireland, departed
this lite. after ENJOYING l06 years. She
was never i'll, and came to her death
through fall downstairs
The first rector OF St. Paul's parish,
Charles county, Md. still lives in the
person of the Rev. Robert Prout, VINO
is in the ninetieth year of his age. He
has been recently very i'll, but is i'm
proved again in health
Mrs. Jane Brinkerhof, who died in
Jersey City recently, aged ninety nine
years, danced on her knee the child ola
fifth generation. She could name ex-
actly the ages of her grandchildren and
eat-grsndchildren.
Il have lived with my infant son
for many years. said Mrs Elizabeth
Bennett, Of Genoa, Ohio, referring to
Thomas Bennett, a citizen OF more Than
threescore years. This lady has Just
celebrated her lO3d birthday
More than century ago Mrs. Creger,
of Sharon Springs, Va, was . babe if
the cradle, when the mass aaccre .slof ia
Sluss family by Indians took placs
She died recently, at the residence oil
her son-in-laW, aged l03 years.
Colonel John r. Brooks, Of Cherokee
county, Ca, is ninety years nt age, and
| was born at sea on the Old Volunteer
| He has filed every civil Office in thc'
community from constable up t0 lAgis
4 lator. His descendants pumher aNn
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1880-07-15
NO. 46.
The World as l Find II.

They say the worlds weary place,
Where tears are never dried,
Where pleasures pass like breath on glass
And only woes abide.
1t may be SOL cannot know
Yet this 1 dare to say,
My lot has had more glad than sad,
And so it has to-day.
They say that loves q cruel jest;
They tell Of women's wiles-
That poison dips in pouting lips,
And death in diInpled smiles.
It may be SOL cannot know
Yet sure OF this 1 am,
One heart is found above the ground
Whose love is not a sham.
They say that ife's bitter's curse
That hearts are made to ache,
That Jest and song are gravely wrong,
And health vast mistake.
1t may be SOL cannot know
But let them talk their I'LL;
like my life, and love-my wife,
And mean to do SO still.
-Fredsrfck Langbrtdgs, in Good Words.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1880-07-15
VOL. II.
In Harvest Day.


Thro' Farmer Gale wide fields passed
just yestereve;
My week of holiday was spent,
And idly on the stile leant,
Taking my leave
fall the fair and smiling plain,
Wood, vale and hill,
And all the homely household band,
(The warm grasp of each kindly hand
Bides with me Silly;
And was sad. The stricken grain
Around me lay;
could but think of silent glade
Of buds and blossoms lowly laid
The harvest day.
"And this is all !' I sadly said
"These withered leaves
This gathered grainl Springs hours OF bliss
And summers glory turn to this
Some yellow sheaves''
Then Farmer Gale-that good old man,
So simply wise
Who overheard, and quickly turned,
Said, while spark Of anger burned
In his gray eyes,
" Lad, thou art town-bred, knowing naught
Whereof thou pratest!
For, be the flower as fair as May,
The fruit ii yields in harvest day
Is still the GREATEST
" And thou-thy spring shall quickly pass;
Fast fall the leaves
From lies frail tree. In harvest day
See that before thy Lord thou lay
Some yellow sheaves."
He went his way; mine; and now
I hear the flow
OF busy lie in crowded street
OF eager voices, hurrying feet,
Yet cen while flashing factory looms
My hands engage,
] see that far-of upland plain
It's long, long rows Of gathered grain,
Its rustic sage,
And hear them say: Let pleasures fair,
And passions vain,
And youthful follies, fade and die;
But all good deeds, pure thoughts and high,
Like golden grain,
"Be gathered STILL" Blest harvest store,
That only grows
In hearts besprinkled with the blood
MI i
From Calvary flows!
Lord, when thou callest, when this worlJ
My spirit leaves,
Then TO Thy feet. oh, let me come,
Bringing in joyful harvest-home,
Some yellow sheaves!
Sunday JMagasint.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1880-07-15

A man threw a gun across his shoul-
der at Pineville, Indian Territory, and
said he was going hunting. His way
led past neighbor's house, on the porch
Of which some children were playing.
He took quick aim at little girl and
fired, killing her instantly. The only
explanation he can give for the deed IS
inst no felt an irresistible impulse to
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1880-07-15
RIPE OLu AGE.

Remarkable Facts Concerning Cente-
narians and People but Little Younger.
After living century, Bridget King,
11f Coorcy.ct0ru run NJ v roc burned IA
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1880-06-19
Gar Nicholas and His Doctor.

On the I'd of March, 1855, when it was
known that the Gar Nicholas has died,
a wild excitement, increasing from day
to day, burst forth against his favorite
physician, DR.. Mandt, the more readily
suspected because he was a German.
Busy calumniators spread the news
abroad in all circles that the guilt of the
Emperor's death lay at the door of his
Prussian Doctor. Mandt's family, who
were then at Frankfort, were in the
greatest terror, when their fear was re-
moved by a dispatch from St. Peters,
burg, stating that the present Gear Alex
ander had taken up the d tense of the
illuminated man, having called him
into his presence, thanked him before
the Court for his care of his father, and
presented him with a magnificent gold
snuff-box, richly set with diamonds.
The Doctor, it appears, has left be-
hind him detailed account of the last
days and hours of his Imperial patient.
Almost his only friends at Court besides
the Gar himself were the heir to the
throne and the Grand Duchess Helena.
He was an object of violent dislike to
her husband, the Grand Duke Michael.
When the Gar was taken ill Mandt's
meaner foes whispered about that he
would poison their master. The Grand
Duchess Helena warned him of the plots
against his reputation and person. Her
husband called him into a private room.
81 found him in the highest excite
ment," says DIR. Mandt. ssI thought he
would seize me by the collar, but my
GOODNESS seemed to make some impress
sion upon him, and he contented him.
self with shaking his fist in my face, and
exclaiming 'Traitor y" An excited
conversation passed between them, and
the Prince ended by saying: son the
day upon which the precious health of
the Gear is endangered by your treat
ment, your learned head shall hang upon
your neck by the thinness of single
thread"
Nicholas himself was worked up into
a temporary suspicion of the fidelity of
his Doctor. One day, upon feeling HIM
self better, the Gar said: "Mandt, do
you know that 1 believed yesterday that
you were bent upon poisoning me?" 81
knew it, SIR" replied the Doctor.
"Then do not forget" observed the
Emperor, "that you have enemies here,
and many of them" On the night of
the I'd of March, Mandt had to tell the
Gar the fateful news that his recovery
was impossible. Nicholas received the
information with great calmness. He
ordered the sacrament to be brought,
took leave of the Empress, his children
and grandchildren, kissed them, and
blessed each by name with firm, clear
voice. To the Empress he said: 81
shall send for thee when the last moment
draws nigh. "-London Globe.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1880-06-19
A Milky Sea.


THE phenomenon OF milky sea has
been known to occur in certain parts,
but has not been very thoroughly scru-
tinized. Some have considered the
luminous appearance in question an
electrical effect in thunder storms;
others have attributed it to cadavaric
decomposition of marine animals and
plants; others to abundant spawn, with
fishes moving about in it. But the truth
appears to be that it results from an ac-
emulation of animalcul@ capable of be-
coming phosphorescent, spontaneously
or by friction. Some interesting in
formation on the subject (of an exact
character) has been lately published by
Lieut.. Pornain, of the French iron-clad
L'Armide, which in February last met
with q milky sea in the passage from
Point de Gale to Alden. The nights of
February 9, 10, II and - were charac-
terized by the phenomenon in all its
splendor, the ship during this time ira
versing $50 miles Q,100 kilometers) in
mean latitude of twelve degrees north,
between the meridians of sixty-one de-
grees and fifty-one degrees east longi-
tude. There was no thunderstorm, the
sky was clear, the moon new, the baro-
meter, Thermometer and hygrometer
were regular, and gentle northeast
monsoon was blowing. The tempera-
ture of the surface of the water was con-
slant at twenty-five degrees. The sea
was like snow-covered field in clear
night, and all trace of undulations was
lost sight of. The milky look was hard
ly disturbed by the motion of the ship
and working of the screw (Which shows
that the layer had considerable thick
ness). By day all disappeared; but the
hue OF the sea was somewhat altered.
Looked at attentively over the ships
side at night, the water was seen to con-
tain an enormous number of luminous
particles pressed close together, and
more brilliant close to the side (where
disturbed). Some four hundred of these
corpuscles--one to two centimeters long
could be counted in a bucket holding
ten iters of the water. Drawn out, these
were seen to be of gelatinous substance,
which quickly dried and disappeared,
leaving a dark globule one millimeter in
diameter, which, in the microscope,
present transparent ovoid animalcule,
hhOu Will CSSos anu llOfluS lIS Ills dllu
tentacles necessarily. A drop of water
added to the dark globule brought back
its luminosity; and when the creature
was bruised in the hand it gave bright
mark, which was quickly extinguished
and which had no smell. The milky
water, kept all day and looked at in the
dark, shows no luminosity, even though
agitated; nor does the water procured
by day and brought into darkness. 1t
remains to be determined what causes
the luminosity of these animalcul@, and
information is also desirable as to the
position of the various milky seas on the
globe, the times of their appearance,
whether they persist in the same place
or not, etc. Several of the officers on
board lArmide had witnessed the phe-
nomenon before, but never so brilliant
or so continuous. The Armide, on 60
ing out, had passed thirty leagues further
north in February, 1878, without en-
countering any thing of the kind
London Times.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1880-06-19
THE CAREER OF APRAIRIE FARMER

WHEN the farmer first went upon the
prairie he was lily-faced student fresh
from college, very glib in his Latin and
Greek and fond of demonstrating to
open-mouthed rustics an ingenious
algebraic problem in which one from
one left two.
The prairie was at that time a rolling
wilderness of sedgy "slews," grass,
flowers, rosin-weed and rich black loan /;
sea, with only two or three small arks
of houses within its horizon; whist
ling, shrubless plain, with wonderful
sky shifting over it. The sky comes
very close to the prairie, as if it pitied
the poor bald-headed thing and wanted
to cover it. The prairie strongly infiu-
ences sensitive nature: it either intox-
icates with a sense of vast freedom or
smothers with sense of utter desola-
ton. 1t may represent the dumping
off place" or a reduced map of eternity.
1t exhilarated the farmer.
He paid his inherited cash for quar-
ter section of it, built plain frame
dwelling, fenced his premises, planted
trees and broke sod for his first crop.
He also bought sheep, and turned them
OuI W ULOWSo vi bu6 plenUeOuS I'M
claimed pasture. Perhaps the farm
er saw with prophetic eye the
whole sloping plain of Illinois,
with its wooded stream-courses
and tufted groves, turned into stock
paradise, the pasture-land depended
upon by half continent.
His young bride and his sister found
the situation novel. They watched the
spring prairie flush-there is no other
word to express its sudden overspread-
ing with tender shades of green-curdle
with white, and make solid banks of
yellow, margins of purple all around
the slews, and pink acres of Wild rose
bushes. Indian moccasins were there,
growing mouth downward on the stem
"a golden-colored shoe, now extinct or
very rare-and miles of pule-yellow
sensitive-plant with black stamens,
which at touch laid the fernlike fingers
of its leaves together, curled up and
closed its eyes as if swooning. The
newcomers drove at hazard off the road
through pillows of rosin-weed and
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1880-06-19

THE oldest lawyer in the United States
in active practice is Azgill Gibbs, of
Rochester, N. Y, who in a few weeks
will be ninety-three years of age. He
is hale and hearty. He has had six
sons, all of whom have been admitted
to the bar, and three of whom are now
in practice.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1880-06-19
TO COssREspoNnE,.

All communications for this paper should he accom-,
panied ~ inc name of the author; necessarily fo
part OF the writer. Erlte only on one side OF the M
per- be particularly careful in giving names and datc
10 letters and figures pla and distinct Prom
er names are often difficult to decipher because of III
careless manner in which they are written. -
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1880-06-19

THE "gem puzzle" has reached Ger
many, Bismarck has tried it, and in the
German Reichstag one day recently al
most every member was working at it,
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1880-09-24

attention ot the audience from the
beginning to tho close of his speech,
and gave proof of oraterieal powers
which many might maeel envy,
while Mr., Doyle, with keen wit and
convincing argument subjected the
record II the Republican party and
It's leaders to Il severe criticism,
The meeting was from the he,
ginning 10 the end a grand success,
The thanks Of thc Democracy Of
the district are due IL the people of
Muscoda, who so agreeably and
pleasantly cntcrtaiLed their guests,
and To MIR. Daggctt, President of
the Museeda Hancock and English
club, who with the assistance Of
other citizens, 81 admirably ar-
ranged and carried out the pro.
gammc for the OCCASION
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1880-09-24

All the howling that the radical
press can do on the subject Of rebel
claims, will not wipe out the fact
that the only raid yet made on the
treasury for Southern war claims,
was successfully accomplished when
Morton and the truly loyal con-
trolled Congress. More than $780,
100000 of the peoples money was
then handed over to Southern elai-
mants, and the radical leaders bold
" admitted that this was done 10
build up the Republican party in
the South. darlington Democrat.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1880-09-24

A correspondent writes to the
Prairie du Chen Courier from
Grant county, last week, said:
"Judgc Cothrenn will be elected to
Congress. ifnominatcd, and thereby
fill the vacancy that has existed in
the third congressional district Of
Wisconsin for 80 many years. the
Judge il very popular all through
this county, and in the event of his
nomination he would cut down Mr..
Hazelton's majority considerably.
But George Is sharp. The Wiscon-
sin river improvement having gone
back on him, he is now going to
have railroad run right through
our town "in less than two years by
the watch;' and some Of our folks
believe II,
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1880-09-24

The Republicans Of Maine have
been predicting for the past month
that Maine would surely 50 Rcpub-
lican. The only question was as to
how large the majority would be.
Republicans here feel more disap-
pointed over the result because they
have been led TO believe otherwise
by those That ought to know, more
than because they care particularly
which way Maine happens to co.
Warren Sentinel.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1880-09-24

"words to that effect will carry
conviction home to dormant minds.
ignoring the fish story and
accepting the statements of the
several eases of seeming severity
10 the men, justice nevertheless
demands that these he not inn
putcd e. cruelty, but rather 70 Gen,
llancockS desire to maintain the
efficiency Ut his men, and to avoid
surpries of his troops 10y the enemy.
1t he wcrc ever III fact cruel to his
men, of which ovcra years service
under his command gave me no
knowledge, should regard II rs an
error Of the head, not ot the heart.
hut it need not be denied that
Hancock was n rigid disclpmarian,
and that he regarded discipline MS
the highest test Of the efficiency OF
soldiers, II nee, : no saying that
raw troops require persistent per
haps severe, drilling to bring them
up to this high test; and, as drill
ing is Mtigumg, Hancock : men
were doubtless often htigucd. Still,
we can afford to admit thas severe
drill and strict discipline fall far
short OF cruelty
| Let it bc noted that doing Justice
to an opponent is not advocating
his success, llancocks abb .,ucs
and good qualities rs . soldier
boiug conceded, no good reason ap.
!, ars why hc should be taken from
y nns;t;oN that he has earned, and
for which his qualifications are UNI
doubted, and he placed III the
highest Office within t,',e gitt Of the
nation, and for which ho .Nae slnWh
no special fitness, On the oeh'.
hand, il is the settled conviction VI
thoughtful men that the best pro-
tessional soldiers, from their educn-
ton, habits of thought, and military
methods, are specially untitled to
be the chief rulers of Il FREQ people;
and the chief magistrate of this
nation should be thoroughly verscd
in craftsmanship and practically
acquainted with the details of civil
government, a qualification not
claimed for Con, Hancock,
After all il said about the per-
sonnl traits and characteristics Of
the candidates, the present great
contest does not lie between the
men Garfield aud Hancock, but
between the parties they represent.
Aside from special fitness, IL might
be matter of indifference whether
the one or the othor should be the
next chief magistrate, were IL not
that Hancock represents party
owned and controlled by the Solid
South arrayod againsts the moral
sentiment Of the Nation; and III this
crisis solid South means either II
solid North or sickly submission
TO corruption, fraud, and violence.
Arc the people ready 70 thus sub
nit? Gro. ID, WiLnER,
Late Surgeon Fifth Wis. Infantry
Volunteers.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1880-12-17

Hilo road from the old Bullock's Head
to where it turns down into the big
Kipuka above Halealoha at the foot of
the descent mot far from where we find
the ohelos SO thick. We crossed the
old flow for about 1000 feet and then
stood on the very edge of that flowing
liver of rock. Oh, what a sight that was!
Not twenty feet from us was this i'm !.
mense bed of rock slowly moving for
ward with irresistible force, bearing 'on
its ,urface huge rocks and immense
powders of tons weight, as water would
carry toy boat. The whole front edge
was one bright red mass of solid rock in
cessantly breaking off from the towering
mass and rolling down to the foot of it,
to be again covered up by another ava
lanche of white-hot rocks and sand. The
whole mass was at iit5s front edge from -
to 30 feet in Height. Along the whole
line of its advance IL was one crash Of
rolling, sliding, tumbling red-hot rock.
We could see no fire or liquid lava at all, /,
but the whole advance line of red-hot
stones and scori@. The latter would
frequently run down the slope like
water, only all separate in red-hot
grains. There were no explosions while
we were near the flow, only
A TREMENDOUS ROARING
Like ten thousand blast furnaces all at
work at once. The flow here was only
''aa, /" and was so as far as we could see
1t. What tremendous heat arose from
it's surface. The whole mass was, on top
where no red-hot rock could be seen, a
dull brick color. Its advance was verY
slow, but sure. I do not think it will
get over on to the fiat where that koa
grove is, near where we turn to go to
Kipukaallina, for at least four days.
Afuer that it will run much faster down
the KipuiSa above Halealoha. Well
after we cot through looking at it for a
while and setting our stic--s on fire, we
started bach for Kaleeeha and Waimea,
where we arrived the net Wednesday
morning, in time for breakfast, having
seen sight which is seldom seen.
iAnere VII not be much danger of the
flow ever reaching Hilo if it should keep
on running the way it is now, as it will
have that immense valley TO fill up be-
low Puu Oio and WailuLu Swamp. But
I am afraid that the Pahoehoe flow viii
start out on the south side of the ssaa"
and then it will of course follow the
1856 s flow to Hilo and go quick too. So
there is
STILL GREAT DANGER
For our beautiful town. The two "a
flows, this one, and the one Of '556 run
side by side Tor miles ani if the 1856 one
prevents the panonoe flow from running
out ON that side and press it out on the
north side of the new al flow Hilo viii
be safe, T think. There is no diminu
ton Of the fire, and the smoke is getting
thicker, showing that the flow has got
into the large Koa forest at the end of
the middle ground" If the flow had
noG been hemmed in on the middle
ground, p but had followed the old flow
OF 1856 down, it would probably have
been now within Is miles of Hilo. 1t is
now about 21 miles from there. I ex-
pect it will gobble up Halealoha if it
keeps on, but it is not probable that it
will run down the Kipukaahina fiat. /
feel anxious for Hilo and shall watch
further developements very anxiously.